We are all jolly well going to smack the rat this month and grow a baby and we'll brook no argument. And probably eat some cake too.

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Ladies....begin.

X-posts with Scrambled. Get to bed and take a bucket, dear brooker.

fire service! Such a good idea but my brother is a fireman and if he turns up he'll just moan at me for not having any cakes in and my house being a tip. Im not in the mood for any firemans lifts today either :( I must be proper ill.

at selling DD on ebay! I think I'd have SS round quicker than you can say 'bad mother'!

imps have you actually been googling 'smack the rat'? Love it!!

Right day one of my pregnancy today gals, even though I knew we could not possibly have nailed it this month, I am still a bit depressed about it :(

Still at least the timing is going to work for a lovely baby conceived in India, plenty of rat smacking on holiday and no excuses! And a 12/13 day LP so I am not complaining, well I am complaining but it could be worse.

DH has just asked me what I want to xmas and literally all I can think of is I want a baaayyybbbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Boo Far - that's a bummer, as they say (back in the 80s perhaps) - but next month is looking like a corker for you for all sorts of reasons. A Christmas babster coming your way. How gorgeous.

Gosh raspberry and scrambled I hope you both get better soon. I came on here to catch babies not lurgies!

I hope it wasn't something someone baked?

Oh farfalla lovey. Of course you're a bit depressed, just wallow and eat chocolate today. And then enjoy your wonderful trip to India and all the beautiful memories you'll be making.

One little thing though - be careful what & where you eat! Even friends of mine from Indian families get 'Delhi Belly' when back home. It's not the main dishes, normally, it's the rice and the water it's cooked in .

Thanks bean, I'm taking your advice, although staying on the sofa with bucket as lying down is unwise at the moment. Work are being arses - I have to make up the time I've missed by coming in on my days 'off' :( Great, have to find and pay for extra childcare. Think I might hand in my notice tomorrow instead waiting till the end of the month.

Oh little that's pants! I do hope you get better soon

Bean my DH is not especially romantic, and we decided to get hitched over a pint in a not very nice local pub one Sunday afternoon. The conversation went thus: DH ?shall we get married??, me ?yeah why not?? :o But in all seriousness, why not ask him? :)
You'll have to post photos of the Dennis jumper, it sounds cool! I am knitting socks at the moment.

I actually always thought it was moles that got wacked more regional differences perhaps though I did live in the US for a while

raspberry DH has a tash and beardy bit already, and has done since we met 12-ish years ago. He shaved it off once and I cried, and I have never lived it down

Gosh cupcakes 2 hours a week is nothing. I was doing an OU diploma and I'd spend aaaaaaall weekend doing ?the sodding thing-- it. And on top of work too, you should be so proud of yourself just doing it all!

Sorry to hear AF got you, far - but I'm sure this'll be the last time, now you know about the injections. I rather hope expect I'll end up with a xmas baby too, as the thought of my longed-for DC being ever being thought of as a ?christmas accident? makes me so irrationally angry I turn pink at the thought of it

Getting well fudged off at the excessive water CM, ladies. If I was sure I had OV'd I might think it was a pg symptom, as it's quite unusual for me, but maybe it's just symptomatic of an anovulatory cycle. As it is, I feel like I'm on AF but with CM

Haha, no whimsical! DD threw up on me yesterday, so I guess it was inevitable! You know how it is.

Um, Popcorn, how many dpo would you have been if you had ovulated at the normal time?

Major congratulations to me please. I have sourced an aero and am now drinking my tea while watching one born every minute. It's like my guilty secret whenever I'm poorly, I watch obem re-runs and mybirth.tv :) How sad am I but really I need to decide what behaviours get on my nerves so I know not to do it when I give birth.. I am going to be silent and of a cheerful disposition at all times while in labour. Bed of roses and NO drugs and all done in no longer than 5 hours :)

far a baby conceived in india would be amazing. If it's a girl you could call her India!

scrambled hope you feel better soon! Being poorly is so rubbish without the pressure of work being awkward. I've always been very lucky with employers who are very 'go home and get well, nothing that can't wait' kind of attitudes. in fact I said to my boss yesterday that I had been really poorly on my day of last week she said 'well make sure you claim it back then if you were poorly' so I can take my days leave back!

lol, I just had to answer the door to the electoral register lady in a T-Shirt and pants! Poor lady but I really couldn't have run up the stairs and back down again in the time that she would have waited for me to come to the door. I think I would have died.

Boo to AF Far but yay to India and a Xmas BFP!! is it this weekend you go away?

Thanks for the encouragement everyone, I really should stop procrastinating & get on with work!

Scrambled have I missed something? Have you got another job? Or are you just at the end of your tether? If your sick you shouldn't have to make that time up. That's not fair.

Right I need some rat smacking advice we have so far DTD on fri, sat and last night. I've just got a positive OPK (my first ever real one-it come up within seconds) now I was not going to smack that rat tonight in order to give the swimmers time to regroup. However due to working late tomorrow might not be able to do it again until thurs. What do you think? Should I smack the rat tonight?!

I am utterly incapable of making my own decisions

Have just read the last part of your post Pop it's very confusing I agree. Is it any thicker than usual? I have seen on 2ww website people mentioning excessive (often thick or yellowy) CM before getting a BFP. when is AF due?

Smegs I'm a whopping 5dpo, which is too soon for symptoms anyway :o

Wha-? Having to make up time you're off sick? That's not right

End of tether, Cupcakes. I hate my job, need to find something nearer to where I live but haven't got the time to do so. In my industry a short career break won't hurt too much, and whatever job I get I won't earn any less than I do now.

No it's not thick at all cupcakes it's like water, with a teensy tiny bit of EW on the odd occasion. When I temp fanjolly in the morning it's literally running down my hand (sorry, waaaaaay tmi ) which is very unusual. Maybe I have a fanjo infection?

SMACK! SMACK! SMACK! [a la Harry Hill]

Or try to DTD early am tomorrow?

Bear in mind last night's spermies should last at least 2 days...

IKWYM about making decisions. Still prevaricating about tests....

Cupcakes I'd say you should try and DTD tonight. Otherwise you might feel disappointed if in 2 weeks you don't get a BFP. I hate regretting something like that, makes AF so much worse.

As far as I know you should DTD 24-36 hours after the positive OPK, so try and work out if you can fit anything in in that time, perhaps a quick morning DTD before work?

Last post was for Cupcakes.

Scrambled - good luck, hope you find a better job soon.

Popcorn - does sound v odd. Could it be a bit of candida (but usually porridgey). Or else you haven't been having enough of the old in-out? Infections usually give you thick mucus not watery...

At 6dpo I can usually report very little CM and thicker than midmonth. I used to suffer with weird CM when I wasn't very well and did a big clean-up re' diet/caffeine/booze. Do you eat a lot of carbs/sugar. (Sorry Cod Doc Bean does get carried away sometimes...)

As an aside, it temping other-than-orally better?

I'm using two thermometers atm, as I bought a more accurate one half way through this cycle, and wanted to have both sets of results to see if they gave similar results.

Sorry Stasi - don't know much about this.

Hey Popcorn - that CM might be a sign of early pregnancy said gurugoogle, no? How exciting.

Sorry, Popcorn, I'm totally at a loss now! Have you POAOPK just to make sure you aren't ov'ing ridiculously late?

Stasi I don't know about better, but temping fanjoly seems to give more reasonable temps for me. Probably because I'm a bit of a fly-catcher while asleep?

Hmmmm no, I've cut down on sugar and alcohol drastically since last Wednesday beans as I've re-started weight watchers. I suppose I eat a lot of carbs, but I always have/do? It's not thick, it doesn't smell of anything at all, and I've no discomfort. I suppose it's just back to the old "wait and see what happens" :o

Rotfl @ the "old in-out" :o
FIL has just left, so certain "services" shall now resume as normal in the Popcorn household :o

stasi I find temping fanjolly more reliable just because I was finding my temps skewed depending on whether I slept with my gob open sexy or not :o

Good thinking smegs, I will go poaopk to make sure I'm not oving now (it'll be a bugger if I am, after this weekend' sex-famine :( )

Afternoon brookers

Just popping in, back from the hospital and sadly I have definitely miscarried.

Will be back in a few weeks.