Brooking No Argument for Positive Pee Sticks, Healthy Pregnancies and Home-made Cakes!!!

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Here we go yet again...

Hi bean I don't go rooting around for the cervix but I do get the egg white stuff, I check for it but you don;t need to route around too much I have found.

I am taking 100 B6, no side effects yet. LP slightly longer one month and shorter the next but you do need 3 months for it to work!

I think clomid makes you ovulate more strongly so can hel[p with progesterone production as well but not always!

Just to set the record straight - I don't go rooting either (there's nothing wrong with it, it's just not my sort of thing!). I just noticed rather a lot of the stuff last night so I decided to show DH my boobs seduce DH just in case.

I've been told to root and I've been told not need to root - but not convinced I can tell either way. Having used OP sticks for a good while and getting a regular smiley face around cd12 pretty much every month I've decided that's as good an indicator as any for now. I was concerned that there wasn't much CM at all so keep trying to drink lots of 02 and have purchased some of the baby-friendly lubricant. Other than that not sure what to I can do to up the flow, so to speak (other than get as jiggy as possible of course).

Welcome Bean

For EWCM some people drink grapefruit juice, which is meant to help I think. At least, the ladies doing it think it helps. I've never had much CM, but really don't like grapefruit juice, so I won't be trying it.

I bought Pre-seed and Conceive Plus this month. Pre-seed is mostly an internal one it seems, and comes with a syringe type applicator (not used yet, will try this month). The Conceive Plus we've been using for a while, no babies yet, but does make SWI more comfortable.

As for rooting around, I tried it a couple of times during my last AF. The cervix is meant to be at it's lowest and easiest to find then. I think I maybe found it the third time trying, but it was only just within my reach at that point. As you get more fertile it moves further away, so I don't hold out much hope of finding it now!

I'm on CD10, with ov predicted from CD11-13 according to FF. I've got SWI planned every couple of nights. I had to plan it this month, as the wedding is on Sat afternoon, and we'll be sleeping apart on Friday. My DP is very good at the planned SWI, though I try and make things feel a little more spontaneous by varying the time of day, then I've got a few pairs of sexy underwear, and I'll make sure I'm wearing one on SWI day. Like a silent reminder, and a little encouragement for him.

Afternoon Brookers!

Welcome Bean nice to you.

DH has had two SA both came back normal, so we know the issues are with me! But even that is a step in the right direction.

Oh and I don't root either!

Hope you are all having good afternoons. I just keep thinking everytime I go to the loo I will find AF started and it will be game over....

Sorry to be me me me but thanks for brooking for me! I shall return the favour I promise.

Hmm. Will give 50mg some more time then. Thanks!

Im in a grump today and hate my job. Can anyone give me a good reason to keep doing it? DH thinks I should quit and do something else, but he's very vague about what that is!

Far is that b6 complex 100 ur on ? This is not going to be my month ladies but thanks for all the positive thoughts she is deffo here :( :( but hey alwyas nxt month lol lol how can a morning be so positive grrrrrrrrrr witch lol lol vino for me tonight so always an up side ha ha ha

Hey bean im new to this thread too :)

I think EWCM varies from person to person, and I shouldn't worry if you don't obviously get it. I personally get stupid amounts of the stuff

ooo one thing i did wanna ask im thinking bout monitoring temps this month but not really sure what im looking for any advice lol im a bit bout it all

I had a lovely lunch with a lovely lady who tried something like 5 years for no.2 then 4 years for no.3, which she's currently humongous with. It was lovely to see her looking so happy, and to have lunch with someone who knew that it's not always plain sailing (she knows I'm ttc). And I ate my not inconsiderable weight in icecream which is always nice :o

my ewcm seem to vary month to month this month i never had a lot last month loads use conceive plus it makes it a bit fun DH thinks lol lol

Jazzy sign up with fertilityfriend.com to record your temps - they have a free package so you don't need to pay (but can for extra perks).
You'll also need a thermometer that takes temps to 2 decimal places :)

pop that sounds like the perfect lunch :)

i brought the thermometer months ago just not used it yet lol

can anyone recommend any good vits for DH during this ttc process ? thanks in advance ladies x

Popcorn your lunch sounds wonderful!

Munkii keep brooking and we will too. Stay away witch - Hallowe'en was yesterday!

Re the EWCM I've started on grapefruit juice again this month . I've also got Conceive Plus to use this month to help the swimmers survive while I'm away next week.

Jazzy I think zinc is supposed to be good but Biscuits was my expert for advice for that sort of thing. Ooh and maybe brazil nuts (I'm eating them too - can't do any harm eh?)

Oh yeah, I meant to ask - someone (far?) mentioned they were eating brazils for selenium as it can be hard to absorb in vitamin form - I was going to ask how many per day? I just bought some :o

popcorn apparently 2 a day is all you need

muunki extra brooking for you here, I know how hard the shit days are and then they seem to lift as quickly as they appeared, very strange indeedy

jazzy I am on B100 and boo for AF!!

GENERIC good to see you back on here. Have decided to chill out about SWI tonight, I can't face talking about it again and am going to let fate decide I think. I will obviously try and look ravishing but the full on approach is obviously freaking him out. I want to shout, why canlt you just do me like a real man but I think that might be counterproductive

Oh God Farfalla I totally understand your frustration. I think the trick is to make them think it's their idea, but then how the heck do you do that if they are oblivious to your womanly charms?

Yay re only 2 brazils a day - my packet should last ages (but I won't need it as I will be immaculately upduffed this cycle)

Indeed. When we do it, its amazing and at the weekend its often twice a day but he is always so knackered in the week! Argh!
I thought we had got over this last month but no, sigh!

Anyway, am going home early so I can shave my legs
p.s. I am hot honest, now I just need to get my DH to think so

Anyone want to go and get ds from nursery for me?

I'll go, biscuits!

Far No idea if this would work generally, but last time my DP was too tired, I gave him sympathy, we went to bed, turned out the lights... and I quietly sighed and said I was feeling all turned on. He decided he wasn't soo tired after all...

Jazzy when you sign up to fertility friend they send you an email 'course' for a week I think. Teaches you about all the hormones and signs, and how to chart your temp and check your CM etc. I found it informative and useful, though I knew a lot of it already, I hadn't really learnt about the 'science' background - what hormones are active when, and how that influences your cycle.

I think I'll start taking multi vits again this month, and for the DP too. We took them for the first 6 months, but weren't really sure if it was making any difference, and it was expensive to buy them all. Takes a few months to work though right, so if I buy them now I should get myself an ironic BFP.

Thanks Popcorn

Retires under the duvet with the remainder of the chicken soup from earlier.

Oh Farfalla I SO feel your pain! I think OH have really moved on from those issues (touch wood). For the last couple of months I've marked prime SWI dates on the calendar at the start of my cycle (as at that point the pressure is off plus it gives him time to get used to the idea!) and then when it comes to prime shagging time I say to him in the morning "If you fancy a shag tonight, it would be good timing, but it's up to you - if you're tired/not up for it there's no problem at all. You know that I'll always be up for it however." This I find to work for the following reasons:

1. it makes him feel in control of things (the feminist in me should object strongly to this, but I want a baybee so I'll turn a blind eye for once...)
2. it doesn't make him worry that I'm so desperate for a baybee that I'll hate him if he can't come up with the goods (so to speak); and
3. he can dwell all day on the thought that I'll be up for it later...

Romance really doesn't come into TTC, does it

Jazzy - hello! Welcome! Congratulations on your automatic pregnancy!

Sorry to all you poorly folk. My sickness last Thursday only lasted until 6pm - an hour later I was starving, ate the huuuuuuuuuuuuugest dinner which stayed down. By Friday I was absolutely fine. Odd.

Redundancy consultation meeting went well - I really wouldn't have wanted to be the partner who was in there running it - I spent quite a lot of time slagging her off and questioning her input into the team. Awkward. Mwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!