Let's make some May babies

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The end of July is drawing near; SWI with DP hasn't been as frequent as hoped; and I've decided to err on the side of caution.

So. Here's a thread for anyone else hoping to make a beautiful May 2012 baby.

I am 27 and TTC #1. Been on pill for an age so unsure of cycles. Only been trying for a couple of weeks - the more I type the more I note my wild optimism!!

Anyone else who knows more about this business than I do? Please come and give me some hope that a May baby might be at all possible :)

Hi there and happy Friday! I've been pretty quiet this week, mainly as I have still nothing, nada, niente to report. How boring!

Have been trying to force myself not to SS (symptom spot - thought I'd try to coin a new acronym like :) ) like crazy, so have stopped myself from posting around on here too often but that doesn't mean I haven't been obsessively lurking.

Only reportable TMI issue is CM- had some which was very thin and slightly pinkish a couple of days ago - lasted two days now is gone. No other symptoms apart from being horrendously bloated still. Is that an ov sign? Did think it was AF arriving but doesn't seem to be. Might do a test over the weekend, just for the craic - as I still don't know where my cycle is at, looks like I'll have to keep SWI reguarly and testing maybe every week or so.

Soo any news today people? I agree, the mood does seem to be a bit down in here. I for one will be indulging in a nice glass of tonight down the pub and maybe some chips - what are your plans everyone? Oh and it's a bank holiday weekend. Hope the weather shapes up soon - it's pissing it down here at the moment and am meant to be going for a lunchtime run. Get the feeling that the day will end in frizzy hair :(

hmm gtr it's maybe not what your DH wants to hear but I'd SWI just one last time! If not tonight then maybe in the morning.

Then you can truly feel you've done everything you can. Obviously i'm not an expert or I wouldn't be on this thread i'd be preggers already! and you know your body best.

I do agree that if you've already OV then there is no need to carry on now, but what if theres a chance that you didn't OV yet? day 14 of a 29 day cycle is exactly when I'd expect your fertile time to be.

Ooooh chips - might to indulge! Well as of 4:30pm today i have 12 whole days off to enjoy, starting with a lovely week in Wales (hope the weather picks up) and then back home to finally tackle the house and make it sparkly clean :)

Hopefully by the time i return to work i will be upduffed but not really holding out too much hope, as my body likes to play tricks on me and not actually ov some months - crossing everything that the cramps i have at the moment are a sign of impending ov and not just my body doing its own thing. Sigh..............why is everything so complicated!?!

loulou, i SS and i am not even in the 2WW yet

Many thanks Heidi i will instruct DH to get down to it one more time! We have to do it tonight, because he's working this weekend!! It's a hard life sometimes :)

Hello everyone, I'm still here and still feeling very unpregnant, no promising symptoms whatsoever, totally bored of the 2ww now. Anyone testing soon? We need some more BFPs!!!

Hi everyone!

Had a lovely anniversary yesterday just snuggled up on the sofa watching back to back episodes of Lost from the beginning- DH has drawn up a diagram so we can chart how everyone is linked in their back stories as we progress. (!)
No SWI though, as DH's leg hurt and he couldn't. (...)

Sorry to hear people have bad news-
Kveta the same thing happened to me last cycle, but I'm seriously doubting now whether I ever got the faint positive I thought I had... FX things work out for you. I'd go to the doctor's maybe in a couple of weeks, then if there was a baby, the heartbeat would be there, right? That would put your mind at rest.

Badger whether you want to TTC knowing about the huntington's is your business and nobody else's.
There was a good documentary about someone wanting to have a baby who had treacher-collins syndrome- www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010n37y
They had the same options you were talking about, and though it's about a different issue, you might find it useful to watch. I think there's 4 days left to watch it through this link, or you could download it through the BBC iPlayer.
Hope it helps.

Meanwhile, I've been tracking temp, weeing on sticks, checking on cervix in less squeamish moments, and no OV as yet (CD12 today)
This morning when I got out of bed I nearly fell over I was so dizzy. Had to clutch the bed for a good 5 minutes before the room stopped spinning enough for me to go downstairs to the bathroom...

I'm never dizzy.
Unfortunately I know it's a pg symptom.
And with all the talk of breakthrough bleeding, now I'm wondering if maybe that's what I had last month, which would mean I might be pg, and then I could wee on another stick and ARRGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGH!!!!!
I don't need this!

Or maybe the ham I put in our sandwiches yesterday was a bit dodgy. DH was ok this morning though.

I've convinced myself that if I don't do something to encourage good karma I won't get pregnant... and I know I'm going to have to start eating sensibly and exercising to do it. It's so hard for me- I make all these great plans about what I intend to do, and it just never happens. I'm an emotional overeater and I automatically turn to sweeties and whatnot- my 5 food groups are sweets, chocolate, crisps, biscuits and cake, lol. I guess I should just break out the Zumba and get on with it. Sigh.

Whoops, wrote an essay.

puzzle i'm on CD 18 and also bored already of the 2ww! its too early to have any symptoms (and I don't) so I can't even obsessively SS cos there are none there!

The HPT's are just sitting in my drawer waiting to be pee'd on!

Rusulka - sounds like one good evening to me! Lost diagram = genuius but make sure it's on one big piece of paper!!

I guess health drive could help take your mind off waiting to POAS - although it sounds like you should do it tomorrow morning with those symptoms! Even if it's a BFN that kind of dizziness sounds bad - you should get it checked out! Keep us updated when you've P'dOAS

puzzle and heidi.. feel the pain. I'm a seemingly endless wait for BFP/period/symptoms - anything! I've turned to to take my mind of it which is really the worse timing possible isn't it...

Morning all. We've hit some doldrums here haven't we? Where are those BFPs?

I still haven't given up hope for this month. I've got a horrible headache today, you know the kind you get when you're about to come down with something? Had it on Thursday too. Could be hormones...? And I'm not sure what my boobs are doing, there's PMT-like pinching, but also sort of throbbing above the nipples, which I only experienced before when I was pg. I think. I'm probably just kidding myself. I can't shake the feeling that I should know I'm pregnant, like I did last time. But every time can be different can't it? Oh who knows!

Will definitely be indulging in a tonight. And chocolate.

Rusulka - I got 1 faint positive, 1 much stronger, and one battery operated '1-2 weeks pg' (on tues). then yesterday after 2 days of bleeding, took a sainsbos one again and it was very faint. so god alone knows what's going on. bleeding has stopped today, so will wait until sunday i think and try another battery operated one (had a 2 pack). gah, this is so tiring!! got a stomach upset too, which is just adding to the delight...

if nothing seems to be happening by next week, and i get a weird test result, i'll be contacting my GP. have left it too late to do anything this week

hope there are some more BFPs over the weekend!!

Can I join too?

I have no clue whether it would be a May baby or June, July, but we've been TTC for 2 cycles now.

I am a plan-aholic too and the thought of having a baby is sending my planning tendencies in overdrive ... it's not good ...

We were planning on taking the whole TTC easy and not freak out too much about it. As if. I NEVER realised that this whole process is SO emotional!

I don't think DH understands how it throws your life around as a woman. He's puzzled by me already researching names and schools and I am not even remotely pregnant yet!

In other words - I need your emotional support! You know, the people who do actually understand what I am going on about! ;-)

x

Kveta if you were pregnant but are not any more (obviously hope this is not the case) wouldn't you still be getting BFPs for a while? Or does it not work like that in the very early stage?

Could well be breakthrough bleeding, is it still red or just brown/reddish brown now? I had one brick red and one bright red bleed a week apart, followed by brown spotting up to at least 12 weeks last time.

Hi Dildals welcome to the May yacht. Good luck coping with TTC madness.

Hi Dildals, if it makes you feel any better, within a few months of meeting DH, we'd picked out 4 sets of names (2 of each) and by 6 months I was hoarding childrens' books. Around the point when we got married (year ago) I bought a baba sling... in my defence, it was reduced in TKMaxx for £22 and they're supposed to be £40!
I buy stuff when I see it, not when I need it...

And sorry ladies, I peed on an internet cheapie just to set my mind at rest, and big fat nothing. WTF? Minor moment of excitement in an otherwise drizzly day.

Better go bash out the off-key plaster. Polyfilla, here I come!

Well, my pizza boobs are no longer especially sore although I'm still more aware of them than I usually am... Meh. I feel very much like AF is on her way but no dice so far. I don't really feel like anything might've happened after all.

Saying that I keep feeling 'oh fuck, she's already here' feelings and rush off to the ladies'... but she's not... it's just fluid. Very strange sensation.

If there's no BFP this month I think I will have to book a seat on the July bus, as Mr Duck is away with work right bang smack in the middle of my good days. How very rude.

Sorry, also grumpy and hormonal here too. Can't help feeling resentful that my antenatal friends are pg, as is my cousin whose DD is younger than mine. Things I struggle for always come easily to her I know this makes me sound like a bitter old cow.

I suspect I'm PMTish. Due any time now. Hopefully I'll prove myself wrong but.no signs whatsoever.

kveta, would EPU see you? Perhaps you can say you think you're further along. Might help you to relax.

Bloody I phone keeps losing signal and dumping my messages. I'm just checking in so I don't lose you all again - have been searching for two days! Hi everyone.

Tarty i know exactly how you feel, my DH's cousins wife is pg with her second, their 1st only turned 1 in July!!!!!!!!!! Then when we went to visit, he was boasting about every time they try they are successful!! Argh drives me mad!! So don't worry about feeling bitter, i know i do!!!

Have done another OPK at lunch and this one was definitely negative, making me think that yesterday's positive means i should ovulate any time between yesterday and tomorrow, so unfortunately DH will have to endure another night of passion

Hi notnow - two days searching for us, aw I'm impressed

I'll check out for the weekend now (trying to control SS obsession - yeah right). Probably won't resist urge to POAS but then again I have about 30 of them (ebay moment of madness). Will update with my BFN on Monday - and will return with some more positive vibes, promise!!

hello notnow - nice to have you back on board!! :)

Blimey O'Riley!!! I've only been absent for half a day and now I'm struggling to keep up. Actually, I'll be honest, I'm not making much of an attempt. How are we all this pissy wet afternoon? :)

Crabby

Me too. I have that 'feck it, I'm going to get pished' feeling going off in my head at the moment...NOT good for a Friday night.

Right ladies, I am currently experiencing a sharp stabbing pain in my lower left abdoment, just a little above my pelvic bone; could this be signs of ov??? Please let it be signs of ov!!!

I'm going off for a pray!!! :)

GTR that's what ov pain feels like for me. Get yourself on the job lady!

Have good weekends everyone. I'm off camping next week so hoping for good weather.

Happy SWIing, SSing and OVing to all.

And me GTR... get shagging honey :)

Hope the weather stays nice for you Quenelle. My friend is camping this weekend and it's going to piss it down :(