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.

Simon Pegg Ninja? That's an awesome dream!! Not cute exactly, but endless entertainment!

Maybe my BFP arrived at 11 DPO. I'm guessing you're further than that by now? For me it was 2 or 3 nerve-wracking days before the line was clear enough for me to trust it, so I can totally understand why some people choose to wait until later!! On the other hand, even when my line was at its faintest a CBD still confirmed the news! Definitely wait until the time is right for you (even though it is BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS! )

hooray for sun here!!!! Have had our fair share of rain though. Garden somewhat tamed. Dh mowing lawn, was going to say DD asleep but just heard her wake up.

scream, marvellous pee stick news.

maybe, i only tested a week ago and I'm already 6 weeks tmw so I'm in the hold out for testing camp although i'm dying to hear about your BFP. I just took my folic acid, thanks

ninja, good work with the heavy lifting. an ironic BFP for you.

I wonder if lugging DD everywhere can be counted as heavy lifting? she's 19lb!!!! And sadly, I do have to lug her everywhere. Though she's getting cocky these last few days and keeps letting go of my finger and toddling off. However, she seems to have forgotten the fall-over-like-a-plank issue, so tis no relief for me. If you don't want to fall over, don't let go!! And if you do, do not make your whole body rigid for maximum head impact (if mummy isn't there to catch you) child, it doesn't stop you falling over! or learn to crawl. Ha, fat chance of that...

Right off to get that baby. ANd yes, where is baby?

And are have and little still lurking until they are ready to rejoin the ranks?

Thanks for the advice Scream and Dream. Think I am only 8DPO, but could be more, could be less. Am going to hold out till September before any testing me thinks.

19lb is definitely heavy lifting Dream My niece is only 9 weeks old and is already nearly 13lbs. To think that people give birth to 12lb-ers terrifies me

Ninja really Simon Pegg??? Be careful with those heavy lifts in your condition.

DH was hot & sweaty all night but not in the way I wanted him to be :), he woke up this morning feeling worse and nauseous too (is that a sympathy symptom by the way?!). I'm brooking no argument for a June baby now (although secretly still hoping for an ironic BFP considering we have only done it once so far this month!). This thread has kept me positive so thank you girls!

Maybe looking forward to hearing of your imminent confirmation! Who is else is confirming?

Meconium & Scream congrats once again on your BFPs and the lines becoming ever stronger & how exciting Dream to be sharing the news in RL. Scarlet stay positive and hope you get your 8 week scan to put you at ease.

dream have you tried a ring sling? You were musing about giving up your back pack sling the other day?
And solars I don't particularly understand the simon pegg thing but hey ho, clearly my subconcious thought i should be married to him. I do like his films and Spaced but certainly hadn't been watching them all that recently.

Looking forward to your confirmation maybe
hope your DH feels better soon solars here's hoping for a BFP anyway!

I feel doubly reliant upon chocolate today as my pregnant colleague is merrily playing her baby's heartbeat to anyone who walks in the door. I'm feeling about it but valiantly surviving without tears, just chocolate and a no brooking attitude instead

Oh cake its so grim isn't it?
This morning there were 5 (yes 5) pregnant women in my tube carriage, one was patting her bump all the way and I actually just thought, God you look smug. Awful isn't it?
WHEN I get preggers I am so keeping it on the low down and I now realise how insensitive bleating on about every last detail is to those TTC or that have had a MC

Ah Cake you poor thing. Well done on the no brooking attitude though. Just think, that will be you very soon.

Poor DH Solars there may still be a chance for a May baby. Remember, see that rat, smack it.

Vivid dreams Ninja a definite symptom in my book

Cake, that's the spirit my love - brooking no argument in the face of adversity is the way forward! I can't bear it when people act as though they are the first ever pregnant person in the world.

Simon Pegg, eh? Nope, just can't see it myself. Daniel Craig on the other hand...

Oooh, I could murder a scotch egg.

Not had much time for MN the last couple of days, but I'm still here Brooking No Argument. It's the exciting time in the cycle for me ie the SWI so I shall be confirming in a couple of weeks.

Not got time to say hello to everyone, sorry, but glad your line was darker Scream. Scarlet hope you feel more positive now - I'm sure you and miniscarlet will be fine. Dream glad your sickness isn't too awful. Imps and Maybe you both sound very pregnant to me.

Hi everyone else - will try to write more tonight if not shagging

CakePidgeon it's awful isn't it?

SIL has just popped one out and - while I'm very happy for her - I'm sick of having it shoved in my face every 5 minutes, every FB update being about poop/barf/hiccups/general motherly gushing, endless texts about how her life is now complete/she thinks everyone should have kids/she can't wait until I can experience it/etc etc. It makes me :( (and and just a little bit wtf?)

(I hereby make a vow to never become a gushing I-have-no-life-outside-of-children mother, and not to rub everyone's nose in it at every opportunity)

Ok ok, I probably will be just as bad, but........!

I know what you mean Sn0w and Farfalla I also don't think it helps that we can detect a pregnant lady a mile off

Looking forward to hearing of your confirmation Generic

Thanks everyone, it really makes it so much better to know there are other people feeling the same way. She just has no idea we are ttc and so doesn't realise she's being insensitive to my thus far inability to conceive so I don't really blame her, I think I would have been similar but now I know how it feels hopefully I'll be able to keep my mouth shut a bit! plus I'm pregnant too now, right ?!

Oh Cake I know how you feel, last week when I was out to dinner with my newly pregnant cousin she was gushing on and although it didn't effect me so badly, as I know she can be a little insensitive & naive anyway, but really felt for another cousins wife who was also there and it is common knowledge that she's been ttcing for a few years now, poor thing was so silent all through dinner and we were all trying to change the topic but pg cousin kept gushing on and on....good for you for being so strong.

Thanks solars

It's as if these people haven't had to go through ttc - do not get me started on people who 'weren't even trying'

Absolutely, CakePidgeon, you'll be able to do your own gushing in no time :o

Yes, the "weren't even trying" brigade grate a bit, don't they? :(

Afternoon Glowing Ladies!

It's been said before, but really this is one fast thread! I had friends over for dinner last night and nipped into school today to be with the kids when they got their GCSE results (they were good thank goodness) and it already feels like I've missed a lot.

Preseed arrived this morning so I'm looking forward to trying that out!

Generic I have already begun my marathon SWI session which will continue for the next 10 days. I feel tired just thinking about it .

Solars and Cakes my SIL is ttc as of this month and I feel awful for wanting it to be me that gets a BFP first because I've been trying longer. I will be so happy for her of course, but it would make me sad too in a very, very selfish way. TTC doesn't always bring out the best in me.

Thank goodness I'm already pregnant :)

I agree golden it doesn't bring out the best in me either! Good look with your marathon SWI effort this month, I'm also not relishing the thought of it every day again! !

Ah, hello golden I was just thinking I had not seen you and here you are!
I didn't go to school with my DS1, just waited on the end of the phone. He did good! Are you going to wait til Sept to poas if things look good?

Congrats on the good GCSE results Golden seems like forever ago that was me

Marathon SWI is knackering. I am still going, just to be sure to be covering all bases. Since CD9 till now (CD25) we have shagged pretty much every day, maybe 4 days without. [knackered emoticon]

TTC is strange isn't it. You go into it thinking 'ooh, this will be fun, how exciting' then you get your bloody period every month and it is no longer exciting [bitter and twisted emoticon]

at the not even trying brigade Sn0w

Maybe you deserve a medal for that level of swi! That is truly impressive. I'm not surprised you are knackered.
TTC does not bring out the best in people I agree. If you manage it quickly its easy to be smug, if you don't manage it quickly it just makes you sad, jealous and unreasonable. So golden is right - thank goodness we are all pregnant. Otherwise we'd be right nightmares!

ninja you are so right!

I had a cocktail or 5 with a friend last night who is going through similar. We were able to really vent our frustration about it all so it was nice to have someone in real life who gets it.
I have to massively play down how obsessed I am about TTC with DH as I fear he will go off me which is obviously counterprodutive. He is of the 'relax and it will happen' mentality.

So who is going to give us the final BFP of the thread?

My DH is also of the relax and it will happen mentality, it drives me potty. He also reckons we're simply not SWI enough (which is possibly a little bit true, considering he works shifts and a daily SWI is virtually impossible, but still)...

Maybe I need cocktails too! :d

Can I just add my DH to the 'relax' mentality. It drives me bonkers too. Though I suppose if he were as worried as me, then we would make a right pair.

Ooh, I love a cocktail Farfalla