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So here is our new home, hope you all like it!

Late you're post my me laugh. DH is now insisting that I add the fact that we have now done it seven times in eight days so let the competition commence.

Honestly though it's day 18 and I am exhausted now so have switched to every other day from day 1. i just hope that I didn't OV late this month.

V jealous of Bali Cake

Oh gosh ... DH reading over shoulder and saying if I really wanted a baby I'd be more committed!

musical we're going to go the every other day route, it's about quality not quantity . My P-Tracker app has me ov-ing a week on Wed, so I've drawn up a schedule based on that

Golden if your confirmation doesn't come through this month, after all yours & your DH's efforts, you need to write a stiff letter. After all that, a bfn is just not on

Hi everyone,
Just a quick message from me as I'm off on my holiday in a few hours. Greece here we come!
Hope you are enjoying your holiday Cake, hope there is wifi in our hotel too. I need to keep up with all the BFPs

I also love Ikea, I quite like going early & getting the breakfast. Can't wait to go nursery shopping

Well good luck to the shagathons everyone has got planned. I'll be doing my best to aim for every day while away but realistically I'm a bit lazy so who knows?!

I'll check in when I can and I'll be expecting some BFPs okay?

Hope you have a lovely holiday BabySade. Bon vogage, and all that stuff!

Voyage. Gah!

Have a fun holiday BabySade fingers crossed for Greek wifi!

I looooooove IKEA, though ours is a fair drive and always very very busy.

We are averaging every other, or every third, day. Not startlingly regular, but difficult with DH's shiftwork :( I'm hoping the quality-not-quantity theory rings true!

Been charting for the first time this month but my temps are all over the shop. FF reckons I should be ovulating over the next 3 days but OPKs negative so far, and the chart indicates eff all - www.fertilityfriend.com/home/ChartyWarty

CakePidgeon, how're things going with you, cycle buddy? :o

Ooo Greece! Bring us back some ouzo!! :o

Sn0wGoose - Mine's also all over the place. It also keeps changing its mind as to when I'm fertile. I have had mad cycles in the past... so I'm keeping with the every other day (and sometimes every three days) system until I have a clearer idea!

According to my temps, I've been over the coverline for a good couple of weeks, and they're still up there. Which is surprising seen as AF (apparently) arrived in the meantime. Most confused. I suspect I'm still doing temperatures wrong! Either way, I think my mad body/my inability to take my temperature correctly is setting out to confuse FF as much as possible :D

Good afternoon rat smackers! And a special High 5 to my CD 4 Posse!

Hope everyone had a nice weekend. We made huuuuuge progress with the decorating and then had friends over yesterday for a long and leisurely lunch - perfect weekend really!

All this talk of IKEA has reminded me that we need to get a few storage bits and bobs and replace some plates that we broke in the house move. Maybe we'll take a trip tonight! No time like the present, after all.

I've still got another 2 weeks til OV day - bit worried about our chances for this month as we'll be doing a lot of travelling over OV weekend/day. Oh well, will just have to see what happens!

Enjoy your holiday Baby - I very much hope that you'll come back to thousands of BFPs on this thread

Sn0w - just looked at your chart! Do you take your temps orally?

Hi sn0w! I haven't laid an egg yet so just waiting and sexing until I get my positive opk! Sorry your chart is a bit all over the place, I can't look at your link at the mo but my temps are sometimes a bit erratic pre ovulation.

Good luck with the travel sexing imps! I demanded SWI the night before we set off and the night we landed after travelling for 28 hours poor DH!

hello! how is everyone? We've been decorating over the weekend, bedroom now looks a lot nicer and will be fab when its finished!
snow I know nothing about charting i'm afraid so can't help there.
I love Ikea and their meatballs. And if I can't be bothered to drive there I can get the tram with ds which is soo handy for a little bit of browsing...

Imps - yes, orally... Consumed a bit much alcohol this week too which I suppose might be the problem with a couple of them, but not all...

Nice to know I'm not alone though!! I had expected a nice even temp level like the packet shows lol

Hello all, just back from our weekend away and getting a quick bit of MN in while DD naps.

Well done Bee on the BFP! Great to see we're collectively still brooking no argument!

Musical I am similarly confused. AF appeared to arrive late last night, but has gone awol since then. I am desperately hoping it's an implantation bleed (well I'm only 10-11 dpo and it would be early if it was AF) but I know in my heart of hearts that it isn't plus I got a BFN this afternoon

Seeing as it's most likely the evil witch back again after only 23 days, I am going to get back on the B6 in case my LP is too short. Bugger.

I can't help but fantasise hope though - has anyone else seen the 'I can feel kicks but the tests are BFN' (I'm paraphrasing) thread? I love those stories - loads on there from people who got BFNs but were 20wk pregnant etc. My sister had an implantation bleed with her first - she thought her period had come, but when it stopped, she tested and BFP! He's now 3yo. My close friend also had a period when preggo - she went for her 12 week scan and was 18 weeks preggo!

I was reading that one too Generic - I wonder what will happen!

Welcome back by the way.

Musical has AF still not shown up properly. I hope she is toying with you both and then a BFP will pop up for you. Otherwise this will be added to my formal complaint to her about her human rights record.

Afternoon Ratsmackers!

Firstly, congratulations to Bee, I can't believe that whenever I am offline for a few days someone gets a bfp!

Thank you Maybe & Baby for your birthday wishes, I had a lovely weekend :)

Baby & Bartlet hope you have lovely holidays and Cake I hope you are enjoying Bali, you lucky thing. Am very impressed Cake with your determination of opk testing & SWI!

Sorry to those of you who had af arriving! But this is your month now so keep on with the no brooking!

Generic I think you possibly tested too early on a dud stick!! Especially if AF has now gone awol, it does sound like an implantation bleed! I am joining you in your fantasy world as I was incredibly nauseous this morning and got up at 4am to use the toilet and have felt a little under the weather this morning, I have convinced myself I am indeed PG now!!

When will you be confirming this Solars

(Just kidding Solars - lovely to have you back and glad you had a nice birthday weekend - mwah mwah)

Sn0w when I charted orally I had a very similar chart to yours. Since charting vaginally (or, as I like to call it, fadgily) I get much more consistent temps - hopefully this link will work - my very first chart was oral temps but the rest of them have been fadgil temps. That said, i know that Late hasn't got on with fadgil temps at all and gets much more consistent results orally (is that still right Late?) Maybe try fadgil ones next cycle and see how the compare (not that there will be a next cycle of course given that you will be getting your BFP this month!

Generic am deffo going to have to read that thread! Part of me always believes that I am still diffed even though AF has arrived! On a couple of occasions I have PIAR the day after AF has gone, just in case

Biscuitsandtea - No, not completely! Either she's been very light in comparison to normal, or she's not here at all ,and it's something else. FF says the day I suspected AF was here was 7DPO (therefore could be implantation bleed?); I was under the impression I was nearer to 14DPO (hence being quite happy to accept AF, pleased for a normalish cycle!). Temperature has been raised for 10 days (which is why FF suspected ov), with a one day dip.

Phew.. that was a bit technical-heavy, sorry!

Generic - I am very, very tempted to take a HPT, but I think DH would think I'm going mad, as I was sure AF was here for a bit. Even if it were an implantation bleed, I'm thinking it's still a bit early. Maybe if my temperature remains elevated for a few more days I'll consider it.

I will definitely be launching a formal complaint about her if she doesn't buck up her ideas soon. I'm perfectly happy with being on day 4 of my pregnancy, and part of the CD4 clan- but at the moment I'm just a bit baffled!

In the meantime, I will be taking up biscuit therapy.

Happy birthday Solars - sorry, been away with no t'internet, so I'm a bit behind with all the news. Hope you get your confirmation soon, buddy. Your symptoms sound very hopeful to me and thank you for saying you think it's implantation! I know it isn't, but I want to hang onto the hope just another day or two before AF properly comes!

Little I missed your post - nice to see you and I hope you get your answers soon. I now have two gynae appointments for October at two different hospitals! I'm sure this is an administrative cock up - why would I need two scans 4 days apart?!

I was thinking that myself Biscuits, I would obviously be prepared to do anything for the greater good :)

I won't be confirming until saturday unless of course af arrives by the end of the week!!

Musical crossed posts - let's believe we are both experiencing implantation and await our joint confirmation at the weekend!

Imps so glad I am not alone in this obsession. I've done the same thing. Oh the shame.

Afternoon everyone!

Glad you had a lovely birthday Solars

Musical this sounds promising Keeping my fingers crossed it is implantation.

Same goes for you Generic

How are you Biscuits? Hope the bump is coming along nicely.

I too have been reading that thread. It's like watching Eastenders