Who is joining me on the hideous 2ww?

[LauraM20]

Hey All!
Im currently on CD 20 so around 8-10 days until the AF arrives or I can test :D Just thought there may be some others that are waiting and driving themselves crazy! Thought we could hopefully share our BFP within the next few weeks, and keep each other sane! :D

Noy weird at all, I get really bad preg anxiety and expect the worst all the time even though my first preg was completely straightforward. It's natural I think esp as they are such wanted little bubbas!

Good luck for when you do test, hope for good news! We need some on this thread we haven't had much for a while.

Bad spotting today, red blood with tmi clots.

Don't hold out much hope this month.

Sorry pip :(

My friend got back to me, she got a bfn this morning and has the start of AF so bad news all round. I guess that faint line was an evap line or something.

AF got me today. My mantra for the next cycle is "relax, relax, relax"

Good luck the rest of you and welcome to SoozleQ!

Fingers crossed, pippilongsmurfing
Sorry pip and South :(

Lots of pips on this thread!

Sorry af got you all, fingers crossed for next month.

I'm still waiting, I went to Tesco earlier to get hpt to possibly test tomorrow morning but they had none in, not a bloody one, even the expensive digi ones gone. Grrrrrr

Although good because my resolve is in place again not to test til Sunday if AF not arrived.

sorry pip and south

does anyone else get really hopeful - like convinced that this is the month - during ovulation and then crash back to reality?

fx pipilongsmurfing

I'm convinced it'll happen this month and I haven't even OV yet.

I'm worried that bfing for so long has messed them up, I bf for 15 months, stopped last oct. I should have just not bothered continuing with the mini pill it prob wouldn't have made much difference.
I've read loads of stories about women getting preg while bfing and that once you stop taking the mini pill your periods should return v quickly as normal because it's such a low dose of hormone.

I'm thinking way too much about it all tbh, I just so want to get preg now. I feel like I'm completely ready for another baby.

Sorry to hear about all the AF's and I feel especially bad Pipbin for getting your hopes up

Desperate, I'm sure there are just as many stories of people taking a little longer to fall pg after bfing, but we just don't hear about those ones. That said, I completely get your desire for another baby! We weren't even supposed to be trying this month, but I still can't get over how all-encompassing the whole process is! I naively thought I wouldn't be so obsessive about it second time around because I'd have DS to worry about and I'm working again, but there really is plenty of time to keep thinking about it!!! I can't get over how easy it is to over analyse everything! Every time I go to the toilet, I'm wondering if this is more times than usual and every niggle gets noticed, when perhaps, I actually get all those things all the time anyway!

However, the past two days I have definitely been cramping and I had the TEENIEST amount of spotting today...here's hoping!

Thats what I thought too pip because I have ds I wouldn't even think twice about it ha! I can't think of anything else, even asking him if he wants a brother or sister

15 days to go...apparently in supposed to be OV soon but the CM is still creamy not EWCM so I'm not holding out much hope, as long as I OV at some point this month!

Welcome QT you're a few days ahead of me, it's horrible not knowing if you're OV or not, it's driving me crazy!

I had a bit of a rummage 'down there' earlier to assess the CM, slightly sticky but a bit clearer than it had been so in hoping it's gearing up for OV in the next couple of days.

After this dc I'll never have these worries again! I only want one more dc so if my body would just like to get on with it please I'd be most grateful

I know I shouldn't with everything that is going wrong with my lady bits at the moment but I'm jumping in anyway. CD 20 for me, AF should be gracing us with her presence in anywhere from 8-11 days.

Ooh welcome to one and all! Feel free to add your names to the list. I think the list may need updating actually - can anyone find it anywhere?!

I am also in-the-dark as to whether I've ov already or not thus month. I'm on cd 13 and dh goes away tomorrow for a few days with work so I'm worried we're going to miss the boat this month . We haven't dtd over the weekend either as my mum was staying and our bathroom goes off the lounge where she was sleeping. There is no way I could do my post-sex waddle right past her bed!

I'm hoping that because my cycles seem to be quite long I ov later than the standard 14 days. Dh and I will just gave to dtd like mad at the weekend and hope for the best...

Oh and dh21 you seem to be the cm expert around here so what do you make of this?... Usually I have quite runny cm but this afternoon it's gone all gloopy and sticky. What does this mean, if anything?

I'm at the end of the 2WW - AF due tomorrow. In my trying not to symptom spot (stop laughing there at the back!) I now have no idea if I feel premenstrual or not.

AF not making herself known via the usual signs, but I wonder if that's because I'm ignoring them deliberately!

Ooh chair! When are you going to test?

Ooh Chair fingers crossed for you! Hope AF stays away.

Elle if it has gone clear and will stretch between your fingers for an inch or more then that's fertile CM and I think means you will ovulate within the next 24-36 hrs. If you google egg white cervical mucus it will tell you better.

Feeling quite grumpy tonight - been lurking for a while and just thought this morning it was about time I joined in - been not trying not to conceive for past 13 months with nothing but a 5 day late period in aug to show for it, but been feeling up the duff the last few days, sp this morning at cd26 with very very sore boobs thinking my luck might be in, even went to trouble of rummaging in my drawers for a test...just now go to loo and AF seems to be here :-( 2 days early! But boobs stil hurt, so hoping it's some kind of pregnancy related bleeding...

Ooh sugar fingers crossed! I'm feeling really grumpy today too but I think it's a combination of my mum having been here, dd having a difficult day and me miffed that I might be about to ov just as dh goes away with work

rudawakening - about the cm, it's not clear, still sort of white. I'll do some research and see what else I can find out.

Just found this if anyone else is interested. Sorry if it grosses anyone out!

Stage 1: Lasting 2 - 3 days CM is Sticky or Gummy (S)
Stage 2: Lasting 2- 4 days: CM is Creamy, Milky, Lotion Like - Beginning of your fertile period (C)
Stage 3: Lasting 1-5 days: Egg white Cervical Fluid - At this time you are very fertile. (E)
Stage 4: Dry, Moist or Sticky (Infertile)

I think I'm at stage 1 so hoping that dh will be back home by the time I'm mega-fertile :)

I am cheering myself up with a glass of wine - if AF's in town I might as well!

Elle I thought I was pretty swotted up on CM, but now, after ov'ing and having dry CM as expected, it has gone creamy again. I remember creamy CM all the way through last pg, but no idea when it started...! Does anyone know about this?

I've had a bit more cramping today, but have mostly been horribly bloated. I went to work in trousers that fitted fine in the morning, then by about 9:30 found myself so uncomfortable that I had to undo them! They have a dodgy zip on them too, so I had to pull my jumper down to hide the gape! To top it all off, I'm a secondary school teacher, so flashing my gaping trews really was not an option!!!

Chair, will you poas in the morning, or wait a bit longer? I always know I should wait, but that is easier said than done!

Fingers crossed, Elle that your timings work out this week - your CM seems to be suggesting that it might. Maybe you should be SWIing tonight, just in case you do ov sooner - those little swimmers can live up to five days remember!

Sorry to hear about AF, Sugar - I always hate how much PMT and pg symptoms feel so similar - nature can be so cruel to us women at times! Of course, if AF only seems to be here, then maybe it was an implantation bleed?!

Argh pips good point! Right I'm off to pounce on dh! Night ladies

I'm hoping so - I'll know by the morning. The thing that's giving me hope is that only this morning (last time I noticed) CM was stage 3 like!