Just MC and ready to try again? Pack your leathers, black nail polish, air guitar and jump in the mosh pit for some serious metalling. All welcome! (Part 18)

[Summerbird73]

New thread for some serious metalling. We are ramping up the amps and churning out some Metallica, Nirvana, ACDC, Stone Temple Pilots... with the occasional 90's rave music!!

If you have miscarried and are ready to TTC again, come and join us in the WTF cycles with the odd VIP ticket to the padded cell for some serious mentalling (now known as Metalling)

Welcome!

Marking my spot! Back later...

I'm busy for a few days and you start a new thread......can't catch up properly now as finally feeling tired and must sleep when this happens but when I wake up at 1am I will catch up with all the goings on and update you all on IQ life!!!

Love to you all xxx

Hi All,

Hope everybody is well! Sadly I am on a real downer today, TTC is all getting a bit much emotionally and I don't know how much longer I can cope with the crushed hope every month :(

My CD21 progesterone results were crap again this month (23 = ovulation unlikely) so i'm beside myself really. I'm only 10dpo so am out for this month if my progesterone is that low :( :( My GP said I will have to get clomid from the ferility clinic but I'm still in a huge queue so weeks away from an appt and I suddenly feel like i'm hurtling full speed towards my due date and then, my 40th birthday next year. I feel like just curling up and crying all day but have so much to do for my friend's wedding tomorrow that I need to stay focused and positive on that.

It's just so crushing and I feel like my life now revolves around how many days until AF due. I can't even go and see somebody privately as that isn't an option for the first appointment so just have to have a very long wait. It's been nearly a year since we started TTC no.2, I can't believe that amount of time has gone by!

I'm so so sorry for the me, me downer post.

On a brighter note I hope all of our ladies with bumps or bumps in waiting are doing well!

pebs hope the accupuncture goes well. I go to and do really think it's helping my cycle.

eve so sorry to hear you are having a tough time. Am sending lots of virtual hugs to you xxx

pixie sorry you have found yourself here but it's the most amazing and supportive thread and a lovely bunch of ladies!

summer so sorry to hear the beatch got you! who does she think she is anyway, swanning in unannounced like that! You are still in with a June hoodie chance next month :) :)

manda sorry to hear about the explosive nappies!! DS did an explosive poo in the bath 2 nights running, bleurghghghggh! Mind you DP cleans those ones up! Are you going to have a scan at 8 weeks?

blue hope the cold is easing up a bit! How are you feeling today?

Big wave and hugs to missg, shimmery, IQ, marathon wishing poppy and anybody else i've missed !xxx

Morning all...think I might have another nap in the nice comfy padded room today as fell fast asleep at 10pm, woke up at 1:30am and theeenn was awake and still awake until my alarm went off this morning so feeling very bleary eyed today and have my first 'party' for my new direct slaes venture tonight (oh the timing...a bfp the day after I launched as a Consultant!!). But my cold is easing off which is good!

pie so so sorry to hear about your CD21 test results...my friend who was trying for her DC1 for 2 years got her bfp the first month on clomid - the only other bfp she'd had in the 2 years ended in MC and the docs think that may have been the only time she'd ov'd in that time too...what I'm trying to say is that hopefully if you can get the clomid it will hopefully do the trick! Grrr for the long waiting list though...so frustrating!

summer how are you feeling? Hope AF not too heavy or painful and that you guzzled some last night?

shimmery have you POAS yet? Hope work has calmed down a bit for you?

eve how are you today? Hoping you don't have a visitor today!!

IQ, marathon, missg, baby, manda, pixie, poppy, wishing, pebs

Hi all (waves welcome to pixie).

I haven't needed to POAS unfortunaely. AF came round bang on schedule. . It wasn't a surprise though. DH has been informed, dates have been checked, and everything is set for the next round!

Sending PMA to you Pie - as that sucks. Do you have an appointment or are you on the waiting lit for getting an appointment? (if that makes sense).

eve - sorry things are lousy right now. I hope it gets easier soon.

Blue - things are still mental, but in a good way (my current case is excellent, both for experience and for entertainment). Good luck with the party :)

Good afternoon everyone.

Hope you all have lovely w.e.
Pixie

Sorry about AF shimmery liking the hoodie transformation though Not really sure how I'm going to manage the party tonight... I am SO tired, work has been manic today and after my 4hours sleep last night I feel as though I'm running on adrenaline which I'm sure can't be good for the bean But trying to stay PMA and not stress...somehow everything coinciding together has to be a good thing as it's taking my mind off the full on metalling!!

pie really hope the wedding goes well tomorrow and is a lovely day!

Must get back to work...

Hi Peeps,

Sorry AF got you shimmery I'm also doing a blue peter job on my hoodie and joining you in da July crew! I'm on the waiting list for an appointment so god knows how long that will take

Well today has been full of emotions. I was down when I left the house this morning (after my earlier post) and was waiting at the bus stop (in the rain) and the bus just drove past and didn't stop. I felt like crying :( It was a wait for the next one which then took 45 mins to get me into town. It sounds so minor but it really got to me!

I then got a text from a good friend saying she had just miscarried at 11 weeks. This is her 2nd miscarriage. Her first was in April, about a month before mine. I burst into tears when I got her text. It's just so so unfair and just so fucking (can we swear on MN?!) crap! I had french manicure and hair appt this afternoon which was nice though but the whole time was thinking of my friend and what she must be going through just now :( :( My hairdresser was saying 'oh so when you going to have number 2?'. I hate these questions as I just have to smile and say 'not sure if we are, need to wait and see'. Ho hum.

The forecast is for sun and blue skies tomorrow for the wedding! I have never been so beautifed before! I have also arranged for a box of fancy cupcakes to be delivered to my chum's flat in the morning so we can enjoy those with our champagne :)

Have lovely weekends everybody! xxx

Hello everyone! I am terribly sorry for my lack of posting in recent days, I have been up to my ears with either dog walking or DIY!

Hello to all the newbies, as I said before on the other thread. Shall I take the plunge and post the stats list...?

Summerbird73; TTC#2; cycle 5; AF due circa 23 Sept
Eve34
PieMistress; TTC #2, cycle 4 (?); AF due circa 25th Sept
ShimmeryPixie: TTC#1, cycle 1 post MC AF due 22 Sept
Poppyjen TTC#2 Cycle 3 post mc AF due ?(4th October ish)
Babysaurus: TTC#1, Cycle 1 (?), AF hopefully NOT due around 11th October.
Pebspop: TTC#1, Cycle WTF??? AF due sometime in the next decade!!

BFP: (insert your due dates etc here)
BlueCrane TTC#1 EDD 31st May 2012
MandaHugNKiss TTC#4 EDD 18th May 2012
MissGiraffe TTC #2 (1DD, 15yo) EDD 10th May 2012
MarathonMama TTC #2 (1DD, 25mo) EDD 17th March
InsomniaQueen TTC #1 EDD 18th March 2012

Shimmery and Summer sorry to hear that AF arrived for you both. However, I reckon yourselves and myself may well be jumping on the July bus. Positive mental attitude an' all that! I also hope you are now nicely sozzled!

Poppy how frustrating for you having the stupidly long cycles. I know I find the 2WW (not that I have really had one yet since my mmc) horrid and my cycles are fairly predictable.

Pie I can relate to what you say about feeling as if your life revolves around potential BFP's or AF's. Its a load of old bollocks I have to say! Personally, and I imagine many others feel the same, its hard to switch off from it. I have not told my DH this, but I think that this may be my first OV week since the MMC and therefore have that in the back of my mind all the time if we DTD. I don't want him to know as I don't want him to feel the pressure to, and I also know he would be far more relaxed about it whereas I am not. And, sadly, am unlikely to start being relaxed till at least week 16.

Pie I think I would feel similar if it was a very good friend of mine going through what I went through in July. I hope this doesn't sound utterly self obsessed, but it brings up what I went through back to the surface as well as it being shite for someone else to go through it, and all that it entails. A friend of mine was telling me about a friend of her's who had six, six, missed miscarriages which must have been fucking (yes, you can swear on MN!) horrific!

The posts where you were talking about having babies in March made me fill up a bit. Before we TTC I had an idea that it would have been great to have a bump, a big bump, when it was winter and then have the baby in the spring - and March would have been great. My EDD was the 17th Jan so I would have been quite early for that, but still... Now any EDD at all would be nice! And yes, huffing and puffing through the summer looking like the back of a bus would be okay - it's amazing how less fussy you become isn't it?!

I shall give a brief and more detailed update now, to fill you in, on any 'developments' (please don't expect anything exciting!) My cousin and J, who had the baby 3 weeks ago, have moved (with greyhound, who I have been walking along with my own dog) and I thought it was going to tough seeing the new baby, esp after my wobble a few weeks back, but it was fine. Like one of you said on the other thread, you don't want their baby you want your own. Also, I have to say, seeing how knackered they are does make it seem less appealing in some ways! They are also, and this is not a criticism as everyone does things in different ways etc etc, putting him to bed at 6pm / 7pm at the latest so seem stuck in the house a lot too. Personally, I reckon I'd have mine in the Moses basket next to me in the evenings till I went to bed (the baby is currently waking up every two hours to be fed) and would also not rush home to be back for 'bedtime' for the time being. They seem so portable at that age and you have a small window where you can be more flexible with routines etc so would want to make the most of it. Ha! Say's she with no kids...

Morning all...might I indulge in a bit of 'me me' for a small moment? I'm SO tired and SO emotional this morning, work was so busy yesterday and I was so so bloated and in a lot of pain with trapped wind when i got home I struggled to find anything I could bear to wear to the party last night (which did go really well which is a good thing!) but I didn't get home until late and then DH wanted to chat as we'd not seen each other which was fine but I just wanted to sleep. Then this morning DH has to work and his alarm didn't go off so he woke up at the time he was supposed to be getting the bus, I was awake (again...so tired but can't sleep at the mo!) and offered to get up and give him a lift but all he seemed to do was moan and we had a bit of an argument on the way and now I'm just feeling crappy and v tearful about it all, so tried, too much going on and to do and worried that me being so busy and tried is going to affect the bean! Trying to stay PMA but last time we didn't get past the 5-6w mark according to what they measured at the 12w scan and worried that if I overdo it then it might just happen again...I know the chances are slim but it just sits at the back of your mind like some big ogre!! Grrrrr...

But on a different note I hope all goes SO well today for Bridesmaid duties pie and that you feel suitably pampered with all your beauty treatments!

shimmery, summer hope you're ok and AF not being too mean to you

Small wave to everyone else... mabe be and toast will help?!

Sorry for not name check yet.
I'm just getting used to the size if padded cell& where everyone likes to sit hide .
Hope wedding/party goes well.
Someone is having accupuncture today.Bonne chance.
EDD dates are hard. What have been your coping stratigies?
Mine is at beginning of Nov. So really hoping I'll b pg by then...
Not sure if Its a good thing to do or not, but I'm trying to carry on life 'as normal': doing every day things I normally do. I.e. sport,carrying (heavy-ish) things, gym, having a few glasses of wine/rum, eating prawns, soft cheese, drinking caffeine coffee,etc... until I get those two pink lines ... as last time I changed lots of things & had a m/c anyway!!!!!
Anyway enough me me...
Hope you all enjoy w.e.& those who r sad/pissed off/down I hope things perk up x
Pixie x

pixie it was me having acupuncture today!! it was nice and relaxing and the needles didn't hurt at all. the guy said i should try to go every week for one/two months to get the full effect. hope it starts my cycles again. he said i should keep charting to see if i ov whilst having the treatment.

blue glad your party went well but you need to relax. can you call in sick on monday? i would hate for you to blame yourself if the worst did happen.

pie enjoy being a bm today! i have only done it once but i really liked it! hoping to do it again next year if my friend gets married.

i am going to my mils tomorrow for tea and dh's step brother will be there his girlfriend is pg and due at the same time i would have been - i hate these kind of things. i don't feel jealous of them but i hate the pitying looks people give me.

sorry for your reasons for joining us but you seem like you have your feet under the table in the padded cell already so good to meet you.

eve i am so sorry you are feeling this way, i second the idea of sharing a childminder, that is quite popular round our way are you okay? did AF get you or are you waiting to POAS?

shimmery i am loving your military precision with DH! I read your post to my DH and he had a i might try on one of your custom made July sparkly hoodies, any left? I am thinking it will be 28 June but who knows..

pie and baby i am having similar wobbles. i am thinking WTF is the point as all i am doing is counting down days, wishing my month away and biting my nails and symptom spotting through the 2WW only to be crushed by one spot of AF blood i know i will be back on it soon, but i was convinced i will be PG by my EDD of 10 October but that is shot to the ground now

Oooo and my - erhem - 'liberation' on Thursday was rather uncomfortable by the end of the day, i also had someone job shadowing me in the afternoon and i was paranoid it was all a bit too (god this is embarrassing) er - whiffy i dont think it was but i was constantly at the disabled loo giving myself a wash sorry for the TMI ladies! it was just another inconvenience coupled with disappointment

anyway i took DS shopping today and bought myself a new bag and two tunic tops from New Look onwards and upwards!

blue have a and a sit down love, take it easy in your first few weeks. so how DID the party go then?

Afternoon all...I'm feeling a bit better and have taken things easy this morning and cancelled what I'm supposed to be doing tomorrow so that has helped a lot too. My party was good fun last night and there was over £200 sales, £40ish commission for me which is great too though suspect I may spend it all on more goodies for me from the catalogue. But mainly my friends were great 'first hosts' guinea pigs for me to practice on and it was fun! DH now home from work and all is well with him, think we were both just tired this morning.

summer so sorry to hear due date looming so close to AF etc that really is pants! Glad you treated yourself with some retail therapy though!

pebs I hope tea tomorrow isn't too difficult, it's only this week that I've been able to ask the girl at work who's due when I would've been due how she's getting on, I just couldn't bring myself to ask beforehand.

pixie your carrying on as normal approach sounds a good one!

Think I might go and veg on the sofa and possibly have a nap in front of the rugby DH recorded this morning and now watching...

Sorry ladies more lurking - the drama of child birth has put everything out of whack....SIL had a beautiful baby girl 48 hours after her waters started to trickle and had to go for an induction - she gave birth naturally as she didn't like the gas and air (bloody trooper) and produced a teeny tiny 6lb 2oz of loveliness.....I can already tell that aunty IQ will be spoiling this one!! She had problems with the placenta which was scary and horrible and so she wasn't able to get some special bonding time with the baby early on, then the baby refused to suckle (the latch was perfect but she just didn't seem to want it). We went to visit them on the ward....bloody hell hole only allows an hour visit for anyone but dads she took one look at me and burst into tears. After 72 hours of not sleeping, induction worries, possibility of having to go into surgery to have the placenta removed, not being able to have anyone stay the night and then not being able to feed she was at the end of her rope. I just wanted to steal her away and bring her home.....didn't sleep well that night as I was worrying about her in that horrible place alone!! Thankfully she managed to 'escape' and has been home for a few days...the little one is exceptionally well behaved and not fussed by noise, lots of people or anything else. She sleeps most of the time and has to be woken for feeds.....lucky SIL - I bet my little baby cries all day....oh well after all the drama getting here I will happily put up with it!!! Been coaching my SIL with her breast feeding and helping her massage her boobs with warm flannels - she made me laugh and was like "once you've had 6 midwives looking inside your fanjo and a dr with her hand up there, showing people your boobs is nothing"....I just love her!!! Been signed off for another week and then will be going back on reduced hours which will hopefully help.

So now were on a new thread.....lots has obviously happened. Will just catch up from here as I can't possibly go back to the old thread - too much chattering from you ladies!!!

summer and shimmery - sorry the dreaded AF got you but glad your all keeping up with the PMA and have altered yourselves to July hoodies - wine sounds fab!!

marathon - I totally didn't realise how close we were dates wise, I think you tested a week before me though so I suppose I thought you were a week before me......starting to get nervous now as I approach the 16 week mark!! How are you coping?

blue - I'm really sorry for this but....have you had any big jobs lately? He he he glad to see someone is suffering alongside me...current sleep pattern 9pm to 1:30 am, then awake until 5am and falling back to sleep to wake up around 8am so it still feels like I've only been sleeping for 3 hours!! Glad your party went well and that you and DH have made it up.

pebs the advise given to me by the dr after I got pg straight after an mc was that your body simply wouldn't do it again if it wasn't ready. The main thing is to have had a negative test then your not worrying about a new pg being just hormone left from the one before....IYSWIM! Its hard when all you want to do it get back on the TTC bus...all I can say from my experience is to treat yourself for a little while and see how it goes! Xx

manda - I went in for an early dating scan and at 6 weeks there was the flicker of the heartbeat....but the sonographer did say it wasn't always that clear for all women. Our private scan at 9 weeks was much better as the placenta, cord ect was all up and running plus the baby was moving around and we got to hear the heartbeat.....its a horrible waiting game though so sending you huge iq land hugs!! Xx

Hello to the new ladies - pixie and wishing - it is a great place to be after such a terrible experience!!!

poppy - really hope all this waiting is for a good reason...keep your chin up!!

eve so sorry things are going tits up at the moment...feel so bad for you with DS not settling and DH being away. It is bloody rubbish them being away at times because they always seem to go away when you need the most help with the kids/dogs/PIL ect but hopefully things will ease up with your DS - he will get the hang of things eventually.

pie - sending lots of hugs from here - my fabulous 40 friend had the same problem has had 3 mmc's and clomid each time but she got pg this time naturally and without even trying so I will be keeping my fingers crossed that clomid is the kick start you need and then that you can join me and marathon as pg metallers with your head still a bit in the sand!!! Xxx

baby - glad that you are doing well with your cousins little one - fully agree on seeing how knackered they are thing. Feel like my little one should take their sweet time and make no hurry into this world...but I suppose I've not been 2 weeks overdue so I may change my tune if that turns out to be the case!

missg how did your weekend go? Any more symptoms to report? Hope all is well!!

Right now who have I missed - I think I actually got everyone...whooo hooo!!

One last update.....have the other BIL here this weekend who I can't bare - oh woe is me!!! He tried to tell me I was being unfair to my DH because he does most all of the housework and apparently were not working as a team. I explained that my DH has 4/5 days of regularly between his trips away and as I work full time and have been doing 3 peoples job I have no intention of doing it when I get in from work. But once I'm off on maternity it will be different as we will share it more if he is home and when he is away I will do it like I have always done....apparently that is not good enough - why does he think its ok to judge how I do things in my home but get shitty if anyone comments about the way he does things....argggg !!!! Then he was trying to tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about becuase I don't have any kids as if he is the expert on childrearing all of a sudden - SIL is waking during the night with the baby and is watching her OH like a hawk - now I can understand where she is coming from. He has no experience of babies AT ALL and she has loads and so is obviously worried plus she is a new mother! Apparently she is wrong and should get BIL to do more - I said that I would be the same and whether it was right or wrong to do it all, that is what I would do with my PFB regardless of what other people said. Once she is totally knackered and BIL is more experienced she will start to loosen the reins so everyone getting on her back isn't going to help. But no as I don't have kids I have no idea and so can't possibly comment even though out of all of them I speak to her the most and we are very open with each other about things!! So bored of him now!!!

just a quick one from me.... hope the accu went well pop & you are feeling the positive effects?

IQ - naturally??? Your SIL is more than a trooper! Jesus - after my MC experience I had decided that any birth plan of mine will involve the maximum legal limit of drugs. Wow. Glad she's OK and they are both doing well. I can understand what she means about showing her boobs - I used to be a lot more self conscious than I am now...

Pixie - I mostly carry on as normal, aside from caffeine and alcohol (which I decided it would do me good to avoid anyway, and I've never been a big drinker). I do love my brie... On coping strategies, I'm not there yet (January) and am hoping to by pg again by then), but I was feeling down about things recently, so went to the cathedral and lit candles. It felt important to acknowledge that there had been two lives, even if they never got to birth. It made me feel a lot calmer.

I know what everyone means about counting time by reference to AF and OV. It does get a bit much depressing. I manage it via the military precision :) and experimenting with different options (e.g. my two positives resulted from DTDing every day for 7 or 8 days - but neither worked out, so we're on the OV sticks and sperm-meets-egg-plan for the next two months). If nothing happens, I might switch back to every day (and so it goes on). It helps me to feel a bit more in control than I otherwise might.

pebs - glad the accupunture was OK. Hope it kick-starts things for you.

Updated stats:

Summerbird73; TTC#2; cycle 5; AF due circa 23 Sept
Eve34
PieMistress; TTC #2, cycle 4 (?); AF due circa 25th Sept
ShimmeryPixie: TTC#1, cycle 2 post MC AF due 18 Oct
Poppyjen TTC#2 Cycle 3 post mc AF due ?(4th October ish)
Babysaurus: TTC#1, Cycle 1 (?), AF hopefully NOT due around 11th October.
Pebspop: TTC#1, Cycle WTF??? AF due sometime in the next decade!!

BFP: (insert your due dates etc here)
BlueCrane TTC#1 EDD 31st May 2012
MandaHugNKiss TTC#4 EDD 18th May 2012
MissGiraffe TTC #2 (1DD, 15yo) EDD 10th May 2012
MarathonMama TTC #2 (1DD, 25mo) EDD 17th March
InsomniaQueen TTC #1 EDD 18th March 2012

Morning all

It just gets better in the Eve camp - my son has broken 2 bones in his foot so won't be going to school At first I thought great he can go back to the childminders (who does not pick up from the school he got into) but now I am just back to being worried sick about him not being at school.

Pixi and wishing I was lucky - Sorry you have had to join us. Hopefully your good news will soon come. As you can see from the stats we have had a few bfp since mc. So it does happen.

Pie - hope you are ok, we all get those days that it just feels to much - I am having a month of them. Hope the wedding was wonderful and you enjoyed the day.

Shimmery - I like your style. Fingers crossed for a July baby :-)

Baby - how is the house looking now?

Blue - hope you are getting some rest and looking after yourself.

Summer - you made me smile after a few really rubbish days. Hope you are ok and now have some pants to keep you warm.

IQ - how exciting for you all, although it sounds like it has been very traumatic. Glad mum and baby are home and well.

As for me my stress levels have gone through the roof. DP has been horrid to me all weekend, he is fed up and I am fed up and we just piss each other off. He doesn't understand how this school thing is affecting me. Just tells me to get over it!

We can't agree on our after school care options. He wants the club, but that doesn't help if DS needs us and we are away working. He reckons the school should suck it up!. Keep trying to explain it is about what is best for DS not the school!

I could go on but I am sure you think I have lost my mind already. Just a real shit time.

And no period although i know it is stress related. So not getting my hopes up. To be honest it is the last thing I need right now. Sorry to say.

Off to sit on the sofa and drink tea all day.

well.... guess who came to visit yesterday??

don't know if it was just coincidence or if the acupuncture worked but i don't care, either way something worked!

i am going to carry on going to acupuncture as i don't think i ov'd before af came so it might help to regulate my cycles.

Morning all?

pebs I wouldn?t normally say this but yeah for AF for you?at least you have a bit more of an idea where you body is up to now! How did your lunch at MIL go? Hope it wasn?t too difficult.

pie how did Saturday go? How are you feeling today?

IQ huge congrats to your SIL ? impressed at her stamina though!! So glad you have another week to relax and that work have agreed to reduced hours for you!!

shimmery glad your trip to the Cathedral helped. When we conceived in April we used the SMEG plan but this time we just SWI 6 out of 8 days around/leading up to Ov when we were on holiday and that seemed to do the trick?

missg hope all?s well with you ? how was the hen weekend?

manda hope you?re doing ok? Are you feeling any calmer?

poppy how are you ? hope the 2ww is treating you well and not driving you totally nuts!

eve so sorry to hear about your DS?what a pain!! When is AF due? If it?s ?that time of the month? no wonder your stress levels are going through the roof ? either PMT or early pregnancy hormones with everything you?ve got going on will make it all the more difficult to wade through it all. Hope the helps?would you like a homemade choc chip cookie from my nice canteen lady as well?

Well, I had a lovely nap on Saturday afternoon after out first post-bfp DTD which was nice and felt like the world was a distinctly better place when I woke up! Had quite a relaxing day yesterday too and even managed to stay awake through Jurassic Park at the cinema (it?s been re-released for 2 weeks and DH was desperate to go!!) This morning I seem to have a new and irritating symptom though?my left eye keeps twitching?very very annoying whilst trying to drive or work!! On the ahem ?other issue? IQ there seems to be some fluctuation in symptoms ranging from definitely needing prunes, to definitely NOT needing prunes IYSWIM! On the sleep front I?m very similar to you though and am shattered as a result! But to symptoms...determined to keep up the PMA and enjoy this rather than last time when I felt as though I was moaning the whole time!!

Hi ladies!

Eve so sorry to hear you are having a rough time of it with DS and school etc, and poor him breaking bones in his foot hope he's doing ok!

Pebs Hooray for AF (see sometimes she is welcome ) and for acupuncture - something clearly triggered it

Blue no 2ww yet CD 36 and no ovulation detected. My temps have been taking a steady downward trajectory for the last week and this morning it was a bit higher so hoping (again!) that this is the start of the temp rise and I can finally relax and go to bed with a good book

Hi to everyone else! I'll check back in later, eating sneaky lunch whilst DS is napping!

Sorry poppy I remember now...memory lapse re. your irritatingly long wait for Ov and AF...

Hello all! Happy Monday(s)

Pebs that's great news, hopefully it's the acupuncture working. I've heard so many people rave about it, let's hope this means it's working for you.

Poppy how frustrating, hope you ov soon and are back on track.

MissG how was the weekend? I never came back to your point re. exercise. I'm a big fan of exercise in pregnancy and am sure that's why I had a really active birth (didn't lie down once) and a relatively short labour with DD. I'm not half as fit now but I'm going to try to keep some exercise up throughout this pregnancy if I can. How are you feeling?

IQ Congrats to your SIL and to your BIL. Just ignore him, you do what's right for you and DH. I can't believe how close our dates are, I'll race you to the finish Saw the MV for my 16 week check today, all ok and she found the hb immediately, another phew moment. Will we ever relax and enjoy it I wonder?

Manda how are you feeling symptom-wise?

Blue glad you're feeling more chipper and hooray for symptoms (even if they do involve, or not, prune juice!)

Eve sounds like you're having a total mare, come and vent a spleen here, we're full of and sympathy.

Shimmery you go girl! We tried the SMEG but I found it all a bit of a stressful and DH hated having to DTD when I wanted him to. He wanted spontaneity (a la MissG's shower scene!) so I had to pretend it was spontaneous!

Summer retail therapy is ALWAYS the best plan in my humble opinion. Hope you're feeling more on form soon.

Pixie sorry you're here but welcome, nice to meet you

Hello to everyone I've missed, I'm off to have some lunch now. I seem to be craving dirty meat so it's corned beef and scotch eggs for me today.

Hi Peeps

Hope you are all well! How are our new bfp additions? Hope everything is okay and you're not mentalling too much!

The wedding was FAB! It was such a gorgeous day and I feel on a bit of a come down now! :( My best chum is moving overseas now so it was also a bit sad :(

The EVIL WITCH also got me today but that's my longest LP ever at 13 days! I think the acupuncture must be doing some good as it's normally 11 days? I am getting despondant at how quickly 2011 has gone though and most of it in a TTC haze . I am actually getting very scared now that DS will be an only child (but I do know how fortunate and blessed we are to have him) and that it will be a miracle at this rate if another one makes it along! Why oh why do I have to be 40 next year just to add to my stresses!

marathon man hope the corn beef and scotch eggs did the trick (blerugh!). And yay for 16week heartbeats! I remember hearing mine with DS and recorded it on my mobile phone (it's still there!!)

poppy have you been getting plenty of SWI in? Ovulating on CD19 feels long enough to me! Hopefully you will get a temp rise soon!!

peps I think the acupuncture did the trick. I wish i'd know how effective it can be beforehand as AF took nearly 8 weeks to appear for me after my m/c. I go every 10 - 14 days now and do really enjoy it. It's nice and relaxing!

blue oooo I remember naps after nookie! Sadly those days are long gone now although in saying that we have been grabbing the odd lunchtime opportunity when DS has been down for a nap on the weekend!

eve sending you lots and lots and lots of hugs xxxxxx

IQ congrats on the SIL's new addition! sorry to hear about other family hassles, they seem to be sent to test us don't they! grrrrr! how's mini IQ these days?

shimmery & summer* budge up gals, room for one more in the July crew!

Rightyo need to get dinner on! Dark already up north, seems like summer is over

Have updated my stats:
Summerbird73; TTC#2; cycle 5; AF due circa 23 Sept
Eve34
PieMistress; TTC #2, cycle 4/5; AF due circa 25th Oct
ShimmeryPixie: TTC#1, cycle 2 post MC AF due 18 Oct
Poppyjen TTC#2 Cycle 3 post mc AF due ?(4th October ish)
Babysaurus: TTC#1, Cycle 1 (?), AF hopefully NOT due around 11th October.
Pebspop: TTC#1, Cycle WTF??? AF due sometime in the next decade!!

BFP: (insert your due dates etc here)
BlueCrane TTC#1 EDD 31st May 2012
MandaHugNKiss TTC#4 EDD 18th May 2012
MissGiraffe TTC #2 (1DD, 15yo) EDD 10th May 2012
MarathonMama TTC #2 (1DD, 25mo) EDD 17th March
InsomniaQueen TTC #1 EDD 18th March 2012

Sorry if i've missed anyone! Love PMXX