July 2012 flight - continued...

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How gutted to log on and find that someone had beaten me to the 1000 post and I couldn't update on the old thread.

Particularly as I got my BFP last night!!! I'd had two BFNs last week and was expecting AF to arrive while on holiday but it never came... Got more and more convinced that I was pg (feeling a bit sick too) as the weekend went on and literally tested within 10 mins of arriving home. Poor DH was still unloading the car as I greeted him at the door with my pink line!

Very excited although a bit apprehensive too. Really want to tell everyone but obviously don't want to this early so am REALLY pleased I have all you lovely ladies on MN to share with.

I was too excited to do more than skim the last few pages on the last thread but did see there had been several other BFPs so congratulations to all those too!

Meant to say the body not the boy!

loulou I quite like the idea of my boy settling down I have my team Xmas party tomorrow night and I am staying at one of my work friends over night, so should be a right laugh! She knows all about the problems I am having at the moment, so might be able to bore her to tears with it as well!! Not really thought of acupuncture, might give it a whirl in the new year, once Xmas is out of the way and I have some money to spend on myself!!

Bigger boobs is indicative of that shiny BFP, when do you test??

I am trying to remain as positive as I can, and in a way, if no ov before Xmas at least i can relax, enjoy a drink and make a new years resolution to get completely and utterly upduffed for the new year!!!!

Rusulka wowsers, can't believe there was paint beneath the paint!! Who would do that......and green to boot . I agree with getting a real tree though, I got mine on Sunday and it looks amazing (if i do say so myself) and for me makes it all a little more Christmassy (we never had them growing up, parents preffered the fake ones, much less hassle i agree and a hell of a lot cheaper!!). Sorry that DH was tired, but at least he agreed you smelt nicer!!!

festie how are you getting along? My temp dipped again, as you can see from My Chart so i am thinking that maybe ovaries tried to ov but just couldn't be arsed!!! Might have a drink tonight to commiserate over it!!

Best get back to work i suppose........sigh

rusulka - your stories are great!
where do you live? (am i allowed to ask that? don't answer if you'd rather not! i don't know what the etiquette is!)

loulou your weekend sounds nice. Ours will be lovely but is full of 2nd bday parties (3 in 2 days). It will be great fun for DS but the constant bumps i know will upset me. Last week we were at another one and a friend (who conceived the same month i did, but she is now 20 weeks and i am 0 weeks) and i were talking about my shit job and she says "why don't you just get pg?" I was really upset as she knows we're trying (i don't talk about it a lot but she does know) but i found it really insensitive especially as she was there parading her bump in a tiny tight dress. (i know i am jealous but it annoyed me)

Anyway - i will try and get over my own and smile and have fun for DS and DH, and me!

mools definitely have a few drinks tonight! that will ease the pressure!

Well CBFM is back to low now. DTD on 3 out of my 5 'fertile' days so i tried. We'll just wait and see. Feeling more relaxed now though as i am coming to terms with the fact it may take a while and although there will be a bigger age gap between DS1 and my much hoped for DC2 it means i will have DS to myself for longer :)

notinmy how old is your DS? Was there anything significant which helped you conceive him in the end?

Hi to everyone else, sending festive greetings, oh and a BIG wave of the spermy wand!!!!!

Hi all, just checking in, I want a spermy wand for Christmas!! (sounds a bit gross actually!!)

Well, I have been hiding in a sulk all week as AF got me on Day 26 of my apparently 38 day cycle and is still in full flow (which seems a bit odd as well as it is nearly 5 days in and usually fizzling out by now - any thoughts?). But have come to terms with it now and hoping this means something positive in terms of shorter cycles - desperately clutching at straws for the silver lining!

So, now on cycle 2 of the CBFM, I have a couple of sticks left from last time and some coming in the post - is it wrong to use up the old ones if my new ones dont arrive in time? Will post on CBFM thread as well.

Glad to see lots of festive cheer going on - we're getting tree this weekend so looking forward to seeing DS' reaction!

BFP only First Class upgrades

icooksocks, TTC#4, CD1 - BFP
princessesmummy - BFP!
Bradderswantsababy - BFP
Puzzletree - BFP
Rubia - BFP
floralflora (39) ttc#3 - BFP
oggy24 (26) ttc #1 - BFP

Necking a complimentary G&T and Waiting to POAS

Joining the mile high club for lots of SWI - ED or EOD

iloveberries (31) TTC #2, AF due 22 dec
Glimpers - TTC#2 AF due 13th December (possibly?!)
Loulou (27) TTC#1, AF due 13 Dec
Liliana (31) TTC#1 cycle 20 AF due 15th December
Maisie55 (32) TTC#2 cycle 5 AF due 31 December (I think??!)
Countmyblessings (35) ttc#3- AF 17th Dec (last try in 2011)
eggandtoastedsoldiers (29) TTC#1 cycle 11 AF due 21st December
Rusulka (31) ttc#1- AF due 24/25th December (bugger)
MooleyWooleyShamaLamaDingDong (29) ttc #1 - AF due either 25th Dec or 14th Jan or whenever she bloody well feels like appearing
Discolite (31) ttc #1 cycle 5 AF due 28th December
Notinmykitchen (36) TTC#2 AF due 31st December
DeeLite (37) TTC#2 AF due 31st December
Festiemum (38) ttc#4 AF due 31st December
Bluetinkerbell(28) ttc #3, AF due 18 January

Gone AWOL / need updating

Grinningbee (40) TTC #3 AF due 5th November
TheCake (31) TTC #1, cycle 10, AF due from 7th November
Deafworm (27) ttc#4,Cycle 3, af due 15th nov
Cherrypiew3 (30) TTC#4 AF due 18th November
notnowI'mreading ttc 1 AF due 18 Nov
Signet2012 (28) TTC #1 Af due 24th November
BustAMove (37) ttc#3 AF due 27th November

Ok, I dont know if that worked with the stats!! someone more technically able may need to correct it!!

berries DS is 4, it was using OPK's that worked with him, I think I had been getting the timing wrong until then. That was the annoying thing, this time when I started trying I thought, it'll be easy this time. I fully expected to be pregnant within a couple of months using OPK's. Fingers crossed this is your month. That said there is a lot to be said for a bigger gap, my sisters two are 4 years apart and they get on really well.

Maisie another one due AF on the 31st! We can have a testing party at this rate!

notinmy - true that a bigger age gap can be better.
all i hear from my pregnant-with-number-2 friends is how great it will be having their kids 2 yrs (or less) apart but i know lots of siblings who are close in age who don't get on so i don't think age gaps indicate strength of sibling relationship at all!!

I was pretty arogant about falling this time. I fell month 2 with DS and just assumed it would be the same (that'll teach me) - it never occurred to me, honestly, that i might not be pg by the new year. silly isn't it. oh well, mother nature's having the last laugh now!

maisie sorry to hear AF got you - see you on the CBFM thread? x

stats update:
BFP only First Class upgrades

icooksocks, TTC#4, CD1 - BFP
princessesmummy - BFP!
Bradderswantsababy - BFP
Puzzletree - BFP
Rubia - BFP
floralflora (39) ttc#3 - BFP
oggy24 (26) ttc #1 - BFP

Necking a complimentary G&T and Waiting to POAS
iloveberries (31) TTC #2, AF due 20 dec

Joining the mile high club for lots of SWI - ED or EOD
Glimpers - TTC#2 AF due 13th December (possibly?!)
Loulou (27) TTC#1, AF due 13 Dec
Liliana (31) TTC#1 cycle 20 AF due 15th December
Maisie55 (32) TTC#2 cycle 5 AF due 31 December (I think??!)
Countmyblessings (35) ttc#3- AF 17th Dec (last try in 2011)
eggandtoastedsoldiers (29) TTC#1 cycle 11 AF due 21st December
Rusulka (31) ttc#1- AF due 24/25th December (bugger)
MooleyWooleyShamaLamaDingDong (29) ttc #1 - AF due either 25th Dec or 14th Jan or whenever she bloody well feels like appearing
Discolite (31) ttc #1 cycle 5 AF due 28th December
Notinmykitchen (36) TTC#2 AF due 31st December
DeeLite (37) TTC#2 AF due 31st December
Festiemum (38) ttc#4 AF due 31st December
Bluetinkerbell(28) ttc #3, AF due 18 January

Gone AWOL / need updating

Grinningbee (40) TTC #3 AF due 5th November
TheCake (31) TTC #1, cycle 10, AF due from 7th November
Deafworm (27) ttc#4,Cycle 3, af due 15th nov
Cherrypiew3 (30) TTC#4 AF due 18th November
notnowI'mreading ttc 1 AF due 18 Nov
Signet2012 (28) TTC #1 Af due 24th November
BustAMove (37) ttc#3 AF due 27th November

Sigh twinge grimace

I'm home from an epic trip to B&Q that saw me lugging 7 skirting boards home in a granny trolley like a lunatic. Was nearly home when a guy with a joinery van took pity on me and insisted on giving me a lift the rest of the way.
And he refused a toblerone as thanks!
He then made things worse by telling me to give it to the kids.
Ah well.

Berries I have no qualms in admitting where I live- I'm in Gravesend, Kent... in the house with loads of racket coming out of it!

Have to say I'm really looking forward to ripping those b*stard skirting boards off. [holding self back emoticon]

And best of all, they didn't cost a penny, since I used the capital bonds I got for referring my dad to my alarm company! Whee! And I still have a whole £2.06 credit note for B&Q. Excitement.

Loulou as much fun (and a bit of a nightmare) as it would be having my dad do the skirting boards, he's only 6 months out of a liver transplant, and he's not supposed to even lift a bag of sugar. That didn't stop him nosediving under the bath for a geg at the pipes when they first visited us though.
Besides which, they live in Norwich. It's a bit far! Hoping to borrow his circular saw though.

Better go take my twisted self upstairs to get the remaining black marks off the floor.

Will check in later. Over and out!
[festive parachuting from emergency exit emoticon]

Ah Rusulka I too have been subject to blokes helping me in the B and Q carpark. I was only trying to get stuff into the car though, not transport it home by trolley. Mind you, I used to live about half a mile away from an Ikea, and my Dad seriously suggested that I should just push my new sofa home rather than pay the delivery charge. I thought about it, then realised I couldn't face the derision of the local youths.

Not much news from me. I am still about a week away from ovulating (maybe), have some promising CM but can't get what the doc said to me last week out of my head ('It would be a miracle if you had got pregnant by this point') so am wondering what the point of bothering is! Oh well, f* him. I'm pretty sure I'm ovulating every month, so even if I spot a lot before my periods there might be a chance, right?

Ok, gotta go and feed the christmas cake with whisky

Hey ladies, sorry I've been AWOL for a while, can i hop back on board please???
DH got back from his trip away then we've been manic catching up on 3 weeks of admin type stuff. Had DD's birthday and been prepping for Christmas.
Haven't had chance to catch up on all the posts, hope everyone is ok? Any news I've missed out on?
Have kind of put TTC to the back of my mind this month as I don't think I've ov'd and not sure what my lady parts are up to after last months upset. Although my boobs are killing me and I've been über grumpy the last few days so I think AF is on her way. I hope she is actually as then at least I can get back to TTC proper.
What's everyone been up to?

we've all been bonking like mad with not a single BFP for bloody ages!!

we love you glimpers but i am wondering if this thread is cursed so think carefully before you jump back in!!!!

Hey Glimpers! [waves]

I had all the symptoms last month, but no BFP and early AF, so this month we're having a swOi month, just the two of us, getting back to how it should be, and making some serious luuuuuurve. [vom emoticon] Also I've been DIY-ing it to the max.

I had some awful news yesterday. Well, not awful, but you will be dismayed when I tell you!

A short while into ripping my crappy skirting boards off the walls, the doorbell went, and it was the man from next door, looking kind of tired. We haven't really seen them since we moved in, anyway he had a parcel for me that had been left, I apologised for all the noise, and long story short, THEY BOTH WORK BLOODY NIGHT SHIFT.

So now I feel terrible. There's me, sanding seven shades of sh*t out of my floorboards from 12-6/7 for the last few days, thinking that by stopping then the neighbours get a peaceful evening, but what's actually been happening is they presumably get a few hours sleep before I kick up the racket and I KEEP GOING TIL THEIR BLOODY ALARM GOES OFF AT 7.

Wah.

I haven't even finished!
So I've had about 3 hours sleep (during which I dreamt about sanding the floor, varnishing it, painting the walls and shouting at my dad for playing with the belt sander before 7:30pm) and now I'm up because I had the brilliant idea of finishing off the floor before they get home!

Only trouble is I forgot DH needs sleep too, lol.
He's supposed to be getting up at 6:30, so the minute he's up, I'm going to check and see if their car's back, and if it isn't, I'm cracking on.

I can't ruin my whole schedule and set it back- the next late night is tomorrow, and I don't want dust flying all over my freshly painted walls!
The only option is now.

I just hope they're not back til 8!

On the plus side, we had some lovely swOi last night.

Here's hoping we all have massively productive Fridays (it is friday, right?) so we can enjoy the weekends even more!
FX for everyone for either a swift end to AF, lots of well-timed SWI, an easy 2WW, or nice shiny BFPs for testing, depending on where you're at in your cycles.

I'm off to poke DH awake so I can crack on!

Oh rusulka firstly it's not your fault that they both work nights and I think that you have been more than reasonably and considerate in your actions! Secondly, you can't change your plans or ways just to fit in with the neighbours, I am sure that they must understand that people work on their houses, in the day, when it's quiet and can't be expected to work throughout the night, which in my humble opinion, is a time for being with the family!!! Thirdly, I bet that you can't hear that much through the walls, they will be well insulated and sound resistance will be high!!! You get on with what you have to do and do not worry about them - maybe send round a nice bottle of red and some chocs as a way of saying sorry!?!

Hello glimpers welcome back aboard!!!

berries I know it seems that this flight is cursed, but I am sure that we will all be seeing some lovely BFPs very very soon! Although, now you mention it, it has made me think that maybe it's me and my bloody cursed cyst filled ovaries that is bring bad fortune on the group!! Hmmm, maybe i will take a back seat for a while and vist mid-week to see if those testers were successful in their endeavours this cycle!!

Oh and rusulka your anecdotes just get better and better!! Loving the fact you were dragging B&Q articles through the streets and had to be saved by a joiner! Classic!! You really cheer me up!!!

Temp neither dipped or spiked today, most unusual!!! CP high, soft and open and i am out all night at my Xmas party so not even a slight chance of any SWI or SWOI!!! Ack well!! There is always tomorrow night I suppose!!

this is thread aint cursed!!!!!! no no i refuse to accept that!

hi all - yeh im still here just shattered after work and cant even read the pages that have gone!!!!! sorry!

stats update:
BFP only First Class upgrades

icooksocks, TTC#4, CD1 - BFP
princessesmummy - BFP!
Bradderswantsababy - BFP
Puzzletree - BFP
Rubia - BFP
floralflora (39) ttc#3 - BFP
oggy24 (26) ttc #1 - BFP

Necking a complimentary G&T and Waiting to POAS
iloveberries (31) TTC #2, AF due 20 dec

Joining the mile high club for lots of SWI - ED or EOD

Glimpers - TTC#2 AF due 13th December (possibly?!)
Loulou (27) TTC#1, AF due 13 Dec
Liliana (31) TTC#1 cycle 20 AF due 15th December
Countmyblessings (35) ttc#3- AF 17th Dec (last try in 2011)
eggandtoastedsoldiers (29) TTC#1 cycle 11 AF due 21st December
Rusulka (31) ttc#1- AF due 24/25th December (bugger)
MooleyWooleyShamaLamaDingDong (29) ttc #1 - AF due either 25th Dec or 14th Jan or whenever she bloody well feels like appearing
Discolite (31) ttc #1 cycle 5 AF due 28th December
Maisie55 (32) TTC#2 cycle 5 AF due 31 December (I think??!)
Notinmykitchen (36) TTC#2 AF due 31st December
DeeLite (37) TTC#2 AF due 31st December
Festiemum (38) ttc#4 AF due 31st December
Bluetinkerbell(28) ttc #3, AF due 18 January

Gone AWOL / need updating

Grinningbee (40) TTC #3 AF due 5th November
TheCake (31) TTC #1, cycle 10, AF due from 7th November
Deafworm (27) ttc#4,Cycle 3, af due 15th nov
Cherrypiew3 (30) TTC#4 AF due 18th November
notnowI'mreading ttc 1 AF due 18 Nov
Signet2012 (28) TTC #1 Af due 24th November
BustAMove (37) ttc#3 AF due 27th November

just reposting as some dates are out!

had office party no1 tonite but so tired will give it a miss - im off to bed! nite!!!!!

Feeling unusually tired count?! That's one of my first signs!

Where's loulou and her growing boobs?! Come on ladies; get your BFP on!

Come on Moo's ovaries, pop that little egg out!!

Rusulka your continuing commitment to DIY is commendable - as is your neighbourly consideration (Christ, a lot of c's there!!!!)

Well, not much to report here. CD8, and my cycle seems to be behaving normally so far..... Trouble is, since I had my teeth out and my denture fitted, me and DH haven't, you know done it. At first it was because I was in pain, but now it's simply because I feel weird about the dentures, and it has impacted on my self image etc. Oh bum cheese! I'm gonna have to get over myself I think!

Excited to see Maisie joining our New Year's Eve POAS.

Notinmy we've been trying since August. I had been OPK'ing and charting since about June but avoiding the fertile days as I wanted to wait 13 months after my DS was born before TTC but then wanted to get updiffed immediately. I thought it would be as easy as that . So, I knew exactly when I was ovulating from August so we've had exquisitely timed SWI but no BFP.

Mooley hope you have lots of fun at your Christmas party. The noobs in our place planned ours for the 23rd and I'm already gone away for Christmas then. I'm sorry to miss it. It's not the rowdiest Christmas party ever but still always good for a laugh.

Hi all,

I hope everyone is having a good weekend, Christmas parties, nights in hotels and all!

I don't think this thread is cursed, we are just building up for a load of festive BFP's, which we will all appreciate all the more because they were a while in coming!

Nothing much to report here as far as TTC goes, very busy with all the pre Christmas stuff though which is keeping my mnd off it nicely!

Had a bit of a rubbish day today. Overslept til 9, which meant I took longer getting the first coat of paint on than anticipated. Managed to whizz round town, get everything I needed and be back in 2 hours, only to realise it was going to take 3 coats rather than 2 (?!"%~#1) and it was already 5. Argh! So I painted toxic goop on the remaining floor bits, and went round the fiddly bits on the walls with a brush again. Then removed the toxic goop, which didn't get all the paint off. (?!"%~#2). Then put more toxic goop on. Then went round and did the 2nd coat of paint. I hadn't finished by 9 and I realised I wouldn't get the floor sanded while the neighbours were out (dust + paint = argh!) and so my beautiful plan to be all finished by tomorrow night was in tatters. (?!"%~#3) So I finished painting at 10-ish, and started scraping the toxic goop off again. By this point DH was on his way home, and by the time he got in, he found me on the floor in a puddle of my own tears while I washed down the floor edges to neutralise it...
He did his comforting bit, which was awesome, and I decided to stop and do coat 3 tomorrow, but then he dropped the bombshell that he needs his spare suit out of the back bedroom as he's somehow ripped the arse out of his current one. This is the room behind the room that's full of bed. (?!"%~#4)
So in we go, fighting through, where I manage to run over my toes twice, and then dissolve into a mess again. But on the plus side, we did get the suit out- and the christmas tree too, so we can decorate as planned on Monday, but the bedroom won't be finished. (*?!"%~#5)
Apart from that, an OK day, lol.

Anyway, enough about my boring rubbish life.

I don't think this thread is cursed either, we're just going to have a BFP boom. Fingers crossed!

Moo I was going to sacrifice my entire tin of quality street for the neighbours by way of apology, but I'm not sure I can part with it. I want those toffee fingers! Maybe I could take them out and re-tape it up...

Oh yeah, I just remembered- I weighed myself today, and despite not eating all week apart from at teatime because I've been sanding or stripping or painting, AND despite sticking to my regime for treats, I've still put on a bloody pound. It had so better be muscle, or the aforementioned tin of sweeties is going to get a serious denting, bugger the sodding portion control!

hi all - hope you guys have had a lovely christmas countdown weekend! whoop!
Festie - yeh tired, moody and emotional - dont know if its PR thinks its just me!
not feeling very pregnant so im just going to get on and see!!!!!
Deelite - SWi and doing when your super fertile and still no BFP its so upsetting but i believe and feel a BFP rush on its way!!!!
Kitchen - yeh thats the way not to think about it and be distracted!!!!
Rusulka - step away from the paint its becoming an obsession - your body needed the sleep and that why you slept! keep that tin you deserve it!

Moowoo - LouLou,Blue- and all of the wonderful plane family - I pray your all ok!

Ah, bless you Count, well you never know; as we always say, it ain't over till that bitch sings soprano.

Rusulka - sounds like you've got to that stage in DIY I always hate- where you've worked your arse off, but still aren't finished, even though you've just had enough. Hope you get it finished soon!

Wavey at Disco Dee Notin Berries Masie Glimpers Blue Egg Lil and of course Moo and Lou (you guys even rhyme!) and everyone else too!!!

Well, I got over myself last night and dtd, feel better for it iyswim - DH seems to find me attractive regardless of teeth etc, so back in the SWI game! Just as well, as CM and CP are starting to do fertile type things!!!

Hope everyone's had lovely weekends!

Hi ladies how's the weekend going? Im wrapped up watching Xmas movies. I've must have seen Scrooged about 200 times, still love it. It's great to finally de-stress after two weeks of rushing about. I don't know about you but this has been the hardest month with all the holiday prep. Last week during my "window "I was a complete wreak. So argumentative then crying then wanting to humph the DH. Poor guy has no idea whats going on.

Might be writing this month off.