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Congratulations, Ratata!

Vegemite - welcome! I love your username, I have now got the Men At Work song Down Under in my head...

Congratulations ratata maybe we should stop TTC!
And I agree vegemite is a great username.
I am CD8, but not feeling very amorous tonight....had the type of Monday that makes you dread the rest of the week - aka, just finished work, haven't stopped running all day and shudder every time I think about what I have to do tomorrow (and the day after that..)...
The weekend feels like a long time ago!
Josie hope your scan goes well tomorrow.

we watched Rambo last night, never seen it before and DH feels an obligation to gently educate me - apparently the Godfather trilogy is next Rambo was better than I expected to be honest....not sure what that says about me!

Massive congratulations ratata! Praying it all goes well for you! Did you get pains like AF pains when you got brown spotting? If you don't mind me asking?

Shucks glad that youse all like my name and now I'VE got Down Under too and I don't thank you for that

Shucks glad that youse all like my name and now I'VE got Down Under too and I don't thank you for that

Massive congrats Ratata

Welcome Vegemite I hope your stay is a short one, in the nicest way

MrsMellow I detested Sly Stallone until DH made me watch all of his films, yes all of them, and I actually really like him now, although I am very about admitting it

fl0b0t that sounds incredibly painful! I hope you're feeling better soon

My scan went well, apart from a slightly sore cervix as she couldn't find my left ovary at first and had to dig around a bit but the meds have worked enough for me to start 'stage 2 - stims' tomorrow Learned how to do the next injections that's a sick face, I'm not looking forward to it, but after tomorrow's 2 injections, we're halfway through and on the downhill stretch, yippee! God don't you just know your life is s**t when a good day is finding out your ovaries have stopped working Anyway, onwards and upwards lovelies!

Congrats Ratata maybe we all need to take a leaf out of your book, Vegemite I agree one huge conspiracy! Well I'm on cd31 due on thurs 15th, still not had the sore boobs which I usually have week before af had some twingy pains left an right the last few days which feel like ov pains? Not my usual dull ache in the middle of the womb though... Hoping and praying this is all a good sign!

glad the scan went well Josie! all sounds really positive :)

good luck Pinkie hoping it is a good sign!

I'm bleeding again today! 2 weeks after my last bleed (have bleed the last 3 days a little bit), haven't got a clue whats going on! no idea if its AF! :(! getting a bit worried & confused!

Apart from that I'm packing like mad, we're moving house next fri! eek! :)x

Feels weird, almost like a pulling/tickling in the middle :/ pleeeease stay away af lol!

picklestar I got the spotting mid cycle with no pains and then again about 3/4 days before period was due and then the next day I had mild AF pains but with no spotting. Spotting was only after orgasm though strangely enough. Think it's something to do with the contracting which got rid of the old blood in there and caused the spotting.

Basically we went back to having sex the way we used to. When we felt like it, usually at the weekend and just enjoyed it :) No ov sticks like we had been doing for 2 months. And we booked a holiday. I've heard a few people say that when they booked a holiday they got pregnant after and couldn't go on the holiday lol. Luckily ours is only about 40 miles away, I will be 5 months pg hopefully.

Been thinking of you josie x

Thank you all for the good wishes and congrats :)

I'm so absolutely exhausted today, I'm struggling to keep my eyes open at work. I had to drag myself to bed last night I was so tired, and I woke up just as tired. And with my first stim injection tonight I'm hoping I'm not worse tomorrow! I worked out that if everything goes to plan, this time in 2 weeks my eggs will be fertilised and growing, almost ready to go back in! I'm trying not to think that far ahead. I want to get next week's scan out of the way (fingers crossed I respond!) then start looking at the end result as we're more likely to fail at this stage than get to the next stages

Hi all, you fell off my active threads again!

Congrats to ratata, well done you!

Josie, hope you're feeling a bit better. Hang in there!

Got my Day 21 blood results back this morning, a healthy happy reading of 67.9 for my progesterone so it's just watch and wait time. AF due on Monday.

Well it's D day for me! Imminently awaiting af!

Fab news Cave I'm officially halfway through the injections so I'm running (well, maybe ambling) towards the finishing post, phew! Had my first stim injection last night, didn't feel any worse than the ones I've been on the past 3 weeks but I'm quite sore and stiff today, apparently that's normal. I think I might have to swap sides every night, although my right side hurts more Anyway, it's 10 seconds of my night in all, I can manage that surely

She's not here yet... Wondering when is best to test? My colleague just had fish and chips for lunch and the smell almost made me vomit! Normally I'd be pinching a bit! I'm due today day 33 but cycle can be irregular and it's been a stressful month which I've found can prolong my cycle :/ don't want to get my hopes up!

Ooo fingers crossed Pinkie...

Still nothing, I'm too scared to test incase it's a bfn :/ x

Gave in and got a bfn gutted. No sign of af either day 35

Sorry to hear that Pinkie, don't give up just yet though. It ain't over till its over and all that.

My temp has dropped slightly this morning, though it's still anime the baseline. If it falls again tomorrow then I'd be pretty certain that I'm out for this month.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

I'm ok thanks had a little cry now going to enjoy padded day have gum everyone :) x

Temp fell through the floor this morning so I'm expecting AF imminently.

Cycle 5 of Clomid here I come.

Hi gang, sorry not been around much, not feeling brilliant at the moment so am sort of half in half out if you know what I mean.......finding mothers day quite difficult - I really should have stayed away from Facebook! Just had a good cry and heading over my mums now for lunch.

Sorry to hear about your temp drop cave :(

Hope you are getting on ok with the jabs josie

Waves to all else xx

Me too, Cave - saw my temp drop like a stone yesterday morning, then again today, and AF turned up at lunchtime. Here we go again, eh?

Raspberry - it's hard, isn't it? I don't remember feeling like this on Mother's Day last year, although who knows, maybe I did! I had a mini cry on DH earlier, but as we had my parents round over the weekend I had to pull myself together and get on with it. I think I might end up having a proper cry later, I'm so tired from getting up early for the F1 this weekend it's hard to think straight.

I have my ultrasound rescan on Wednesday - hopefully AF will have died down enough that if they need to do an internal probe thing again it won't be an issue. I just want to get on and have the next "infertility" appointment now though - I want to know what we do now, seeing as every sodding test keeps being "normal". I can't help feeling like things would be easier if there was actually something definitely wrong - both of us being theoretically normal just makes me feel like a complete failure.

Sorry for having a whinge, guys, but I figure I'm among like-minded people here :)

Hi guys. Time for a tiny... whinge? Not sure!

Just found out today that SIL is pg. 6 weeks pg.

In many ways, I am of course very happy for them. SIL is a few years older than me, though younger than DH, and they've always wanted to have children. They can (TOTALLY!!) afford it, and are at the right place in their life.

I also have a huge number of issues.....I am also mortified that they've felt they needed to tell us so early, and I'm going to be stressing for them until they reach the 12wk scan. I know that it doesn't mean that nothing can go wrong, but having had a large number of friends recently have a mc (most before 12wks, but a few after at 14 and tragically 24wks), I worry that they're telling people too early.

I am also scared that they're setting a precedence that when (if?) I get pg that we'll be seen as "hiding it" or "lying" if we wait until after the 12wk scan or whenever suits us (if poss we plan to not tell ANYONE until 12wks, but I know that's really hard).

I am shocked because (no matter how rubbishly) we are also ttc, and this is the first "pregnant friend" since we started ttc. We also didn't really know they were ttc because of other decisions in their life about moving and stuff like that so it was pretty surprising.

I am stressed because I'm being super-selfish and worrying about how it will affect us. The reason it will affect us will be that DH's family live abroad. I hate visiting them, and avoid where poss- SIL and husband are nice, FIL is ok, MIL is a joke. A mean one. The family NEVER visit us- when they have over the last few years, it's been a stop-over on the way somewhere else- our wedding was the ONLY time that the family have actually come to visit US because they wanted to. And now I just can't see it happening. In 7 years I have spent 2 christmas's with my family, and only one in my own home. This coming year was going to be the one that they came to us. First time in seven years. They will now have an 8 week old baby, so no way would I expect them to travel, and DHs parents will of course want to spend baby's first christmas at home. So looks like it's our turn again to do the travelling, to sacrifice our nice at-home christmas for someone elses' stuffy idea of christmas. And if we do get pg in that time, I'll be travelling and spending a stressful christmas away from home again whilst pg. Grr.

I am just gutted for the change in dynamics and plans for the year ahead, and it's made me go all babycrack which I never was. I've never been competitive and I'm (very!) happy for other people to go first when it comes to having a baby- but I am starting to understand how a lot of you feel about the awful feeling when someone else tells you that they're pg when you're ttc.

So all that alongside being incapacitated because I broke my shoulder, and waiting to have some dental work done.... plus no idea about my fertility..... I feel like I'm in a massive rut. I know I'm being selfish and irrational, but it's good to have a little vent. And if you read all that and don't have a BFP, pour yourself a sunday glass of wine as a reward......