We are jolly well going to get preggers this month and keep it with some Rat smacking, pom pom waving, baking, visualising and brooking no argument. JUST FERTILISE!

[farfallarocks]

Ladies, here we are.
Let's crack on.

So who is next to test? I'm so excited! Cant wait to see the next BFP!!

cake, I LOVED my D cup BF boobs, loved them . and C is the smallest cup they do for a nursing bra so got to be a good sign. The 2 aspirin on an ironing board is disappointing, i'd hoped they might stay sl bigger!!!

and solars, don't forget scarlet who led the BFP charge, and mrsB. 5 BFP's . It has been an exciting few days.

I think the 12 week wait for your scan is almost worse than the 2ww... I'm nervous

maybe, I've taken my folic acid!!!!!

cake's next, tmw or mon

Yes I think I read about Scarlet before I was offline, but Congratulations again and also to MrsB!!!

WOW 5 BFPs!!!!!

I can imagine 12 weeks can be such a yucky wait but in the meantime you can start to make a few plans and start browsing fro all those stylish maternity wear. I'm pretty sure all will be go really well for you!

Looking forward to Cake testing - that sounds like we're going to be taking a bite out if her!!!

sorry about the typo & non sensical sentence above 'Doh - I'm pretty sure all will go well x

I am much more nervous this time for some reason Solars. I don't remember being that stressed waiting for 12 weeks.

I guess having 11 months gestation so far has given me too much time to think.

I'll have to dig out my crappy maternity wear I think, none of it especially stylish :)

Oh no I missed MrsB! I can't believe it, 5 BFPs!!!!!!!! Well done all you pee stick endorsed Preggos. This thread is actually magic there is no other explanation.

Thank you for all the sympathy girls, I don't really deserve it though as it is my own fault. I find it impossible to say no to people!

By the way I'm loving all the names of the little beans, especially spike. No one is gonna mess with that kid! I think my name is rubbish, not very easy to think of a name for my bean.

Right I'm off to make cupcakes for 20 people

And Cake you are pregnant, like all of us are of course! There can be no other option when you are part of this thread. Here's to the next BFP!

Babysade please make an extra one for me too :)

Whenever I see your name I think of Sade the singer so you could call your bean King? from Sades songs or perhaps taboo or sweetest, operator (maybe not that one!)

I made loads of cupcakes for my hen do, spent hours on them and no one ate them, I was gutted as I simply had no other option but to eat them all afterwards!

Enjoy dusting off the maternity wear jaggy how exciting!

Hello Solars glad to see you back. Right then, we and Jen as cycle buddies need to get our act together for the next two weeks of SWI. Personally, I'm going to follow Dream's lead and try to go for a marathon effort from now (last night actually) until just after ovulation.

Scream so glad you are getting positives on the cheapies - a truly brilliant sign! And Jaggy same to you - hang on baby Spike!

Scarlet glad you're feeling more positive today too - the signs are all good.

Cake how are you feeling?

Better go, meant to be doing housework, but couldn't resist confirming the obvious from Scream and Jaggy before I started the hoovering - my, what an exciting life I lead!

OK - I've lurked since the first thread, and posted occasionally, but all these BFPs are too much for me. I've got to get myself some of that action so this month I am BROOKING NO ARGUMENT!

My story: ttc #2 - cd 3 - I've been trying to get pregnant since May 27th (my birthday) so not very long but I'm very impatient and broody as hell!

The timing couldn't be worse (DH 'between jobs') so of course it makes perfect sense that I should fall pregnant now.

Ahhhh ... it's so nice to be here soaking up the pregnancy vibes on this super fertile thread :-)

Generic I also intend to be militant with the SWI this month

Hello Golden seems like you qualify for a BFP on the grounds that the timing couldn't be worse! I'm ttc no. 2 as well and we're nearly cycle buddies (cd8 here). Looking forward to your BFP shortly after mine, Jen's and Solars' - hurrah!

Welcome golden you look positively blooming!

I'm still weeing for England, generic should probably go to the doctors if I'm not preggers!

Oh my word, all these bfps are making me so blummin' impatient for mine! I so badly want to be one of those people that conceive straight after a mc without an af, I'm so aware of every little thing and comparing it with what I felt when I conceived before, I'm driving myself a bit mad!
Maybe some of you who've been there & got the mc / erpc t-shirt can talk some sense into me! I got a negative pg test 1 week BEFORE my erpc three weeks ago (when I knew pg was over I poas to confirm it myself). Straight after my erpc I got a positive on several op sticks (don't ask me why I was testing, it was a strange time ), my temps are all over the place, ewcm coming and going, a touch of nausea in the mornings... I've got mild cramps that are similar to the cramps I had just before my bfp, but also similar to pre-af cramps...!!! Aaaaarrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!!!

Well I am driving myself crazy. I wasn't this worried with DD- I was accepting of the fact that I might mc as I did first time, but knew that was a possibility and didn't worry too much. why are we so stressed this time jaggy?!

Also I was carrying DD on a walk in her ErgoBaby carrier on my back, then had a sudden flap over whether thats a good idea?? The waistband has to be quite tight, as thats what takes the weight, and the baby sits very low on your back. If you loosen it i find it just slides down, and then I started getting a tummy ache and a cramp and had a panic that maybe carrying her was a bad plan- any ideas? I carry her in a framed rucksack too- which is blooming heavy- and similar as in you need decent tightness on the waistband. Will any of you carry on carrying or do you think its best to try and pack it in soon?

late, i think it's really hard. I didn't think i had any real symptoms before i got my BFP, and now i can spot them because i dare believe it... So i'm not much help. But i've had more CM since conceiving than i would normally. And you're on this thread, so you must be preggers really

oooh, cake, i'm so lookig forward to your positive pee stick!!!!! Weeing is the key!!!

And go forth and swi generic, solars and jen, you will be the treble confirmation this month!!

oh, and golden of course

Oh dream I know what you mean, I was worrying about lifting DS in and out of his car seat earlier, he weighs 2 and a half stone and refuses to climb in and out himself.

I'm sure everything is absolutely fine, there's no way you can have done any damage at this early stage. Your uterus is so deep in your pelvis still at this stage and babydream is still microscopic. I probably would stop using the carriers now though just to put your mind at rest about it and use a buggy instead while out and about.

Obviously we can't avoid lifting our DCs when we're at home alone with them, but if DH is with me I will now make sure he does it instead of me.

I agree with Scarlet on the lifting thing Dream. DS is far too big for being carried in any sort of contraption (also just over 2 and a half stones like Scarlet's) but I worry a bit about carrying him.

About once a day at the moment he has some sort of melt down (very tiring - he doesn't normally bother with temper tantrums ) and then does that whole 'floppy' thing where he won't put his feet down and it is sooooooo heavy to hold him up, and I'm getting more and more cross telling him to put his feet down (grrrrrrr). Not so bad at home but if he does it when we're out its a real pain if you can't just put him down as he is an absolute dead weight. And I do find it makes my tummy hurt / ache.

For a while now I've been cutting down carrying him because he is just too heavy so it isn't a sudden change for him for me to say I can't carry him. But I do occasionally pick him up and it does make me ache.

Anyway, that's a lot of rambling to say I am sure it won't make much difference - as you say Scarlet when we're at home on our own with them you have no choice, but if DH (or indeed any other able person ) I'll get them to help out.

Oh, and I'm afraid I have the opposite boobage problem. At the moment my boobs are a modest H cup . To be fair I'm not exactly my slimmest (ahem). I put on half a stone on holiday just before getting pg so never quite managed to shift it and since getting pg I've put on another half a stone so I am now about a stone heavier than I was at the start of June. Can't understand how I've put on so much since getting pg as it seemed to all go on at once and nothing since I reckon it must all be my boobs! That's what I told the m/w anyway....

Even when I was 5'7", size 10 slimmest I've ever been, I still had an E cup. I'm still 5'7" obviously but sadly not a size 10, or a size 12, or even a size 14 now...... I hate it - they are a pain in the arse and almost impossible to shop for (bra wise). And as for nursing bras - gah! Last time I had to have some horrible NCT ones which were the only ones I could find to fit :(

I am really going to get in shape after this baby is all sorted and bf and see if I can't get those boobs down to some sort of commercial size :)

Well with a baby who isn't independently mobile on her feet yet, I know i'll be doing a lot of carrying scarlet, and all my friends with toddlers carried them around throughout their whole second pregnancy (except those with bad SPD or something). But the waist band round the middle on my carriers might have to stop quite soon, though you're right, uterus too deep in pelvis to matter right now. Phew. Feel better. If I'd engaged brain before panicking, I'd have known that!! This will be a dead giveaway though. I only bought a buggy 2 months ago. I am a baby-wearing addict and well known for it. I literally may as well paint 'I'm knocked up' on my forehead, so keeping it quiet will go out the window I reckon!!! Unless people are just much less observant than I give them credit for...

Now Cake, any more symptoms to report? How about you scream?

Any spare cupcakes to bring into here babysade? mmmmmm We need a bit more baking.

And jaggy, i will be joining you with the old, hand-me-down maternity clothes which were never my to taste, again. But, of course, I will pull them off with style and look blooming marvellous at least in my imagination or on a quick sideways squint into a mirror in the half light

Crikey Biscuits are you expecting your boobs to get bigger than an H with this pregnancy? Have you checked out the world wide web for large size maternity bras? I just had a quick look for you and there seems to be a few sites. You could always get measure at Marks and then order online.

Unfortunately I have the worst of both worlds. I'm about 3 stone overweight and still have tiny boobs I shifted a lot of it straight after DS through breast feeding and general knackeredness, but sadly it crept back on again as soon as I stopped. 2 weeks after I gave birth to DS I actually weighed less than the day I got pregnant. Pregnancy gave me the kick up the arse I needed to eat healthily, I put on just over a stone in total most of which went the day he was born, then BF got rid of the rest. I'm so mad with myself for falling back into bad habits so will definitely make the same effort again with this pregnancy and then try harder to keep it off afterwards.

Now off to eat my nice healthy steak and salad I've made for dinner

Dream will you be going back to work at the end of your maternity leave? That will vastly reduce the amount of lifting if someone else is looking after your DD for the days you're at work? (I'm not trying to make any assumptions there - just wondered?)

And I am sure she'll soon get the hang of this walking malarky. Is she 11 mths ish at the mo? DS was 14 months before he got the hang of it (as in took first steps) so months after that until he'd nailed it with any sort of reliability. So hopefully she'll pick that up soon and then there will be less carrying there too.

You can always say re the baby carrying thing that she's just starting to get a bit heavier? Or once she starts walking you could say that it is a hassle to put her in and out of a carrier if she wants to walk / rest / walk etc etc so easier to use buggy?

Yes Scarlet me too - I was just under my pre pg weight when I came out of hospital - bet I'm not so lucky this time . Also very sad that I managed to put on that half a stone on holiday (actually cross with myself as didn't even eat that badly) as pre holiday I was the lightest I'd been since my mega bf days. Oh well. I always said tiDH that once the ttc thing was 'resolved' (ie we'd either given up or had another baby) then I was going to Sort It Out! And I will. I found it hard to stick to anything with all those 2wws (pitiful excuse I know but I used to eat for being nervous / stressed/ sad etc etc).

Oh and re the boobs, yes I would think they would get bigger . I have to say I can't stand M&S bra measuring. Whenever I go in they look at me as if I've got massive boobs on purpose and huff and puff because nothing fits but generally make me feel as if I have done it on purpose to annoy them. And I once wanted a sort of push up type bra (when I was a bit younger and probably a mere F or G cup) and the lady in there made me feel like I was some sort of tart . Grrrrrr. Anyway, Bravissimo look after my regular needs but failed me when they reached the colossal size of my bf boobs . I actually forget what cup size they were. Possibly a K? Who knows. Anyway, I think prior to my previous preg I was a J so maybe they are a bit smaller this time so I might even fit into something that doesn't need scaffolding .

I have just been to Bravissimo in fact to get some bras to accommodate an expanding rib cage and they put me in a 38 HH. Could have got away with a 36 (which was one size up) but the 38 felt a bit more roomy (although they always stretch I suppose). And the HH cup size has room for growth too. Am going to try and eat a bit more healthily I think going forward. And trying to swim twice a week (although not this week as my sis is visiting).

In short - bra shopping makes me weep :(

dream have you thought about a ring sling? It shifts the weight to completely different areas than a back pack sling ( I have a toddler patapum and a ring sling, ds is now too heavy for both but I carried him regularly until he was 3 and a bit, plus he loved to snuggle up and sleep in his ring sling), might be worth a shot? Could you find a local sling meet and try one out? Or if you are handy at sewing you could make one?
well i had my assessment at hospital today. DP needs to provide another sample and i need my fsh bloods redone and an hsg and ultrasound scan. But of course I will confirm my bfp before all of that!