TTC Hysterics thread!

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Hi a wierd Idea but I've browsed through threads and seen that some poster feel sometimes that complaining about i.e not being pg after 2 months is insensitive to people having problems.

I can see their point , but we all need a place to let off steam without being made to feel guilty. So......

I made this thread as a perfect place to spout off any worries how silly they may seem.

Please be honest about what you think!

I could literally be writing any one of these posts - glad I'm not alone in the madness!!!

In a 'it won't happen this month' slump today. Trying not to get hopes dashed in a week or two.

At least I can keep drinking and proper for the mo if AF turns up...

Having said that, I was drinking proper coffee multiple times a day & sharing a bottle of wine a night right up until about 3days before I got my BFP first time round (& was 5wks by then) and DD is absolutely fine!!!

chunkychicken.....I am the same- I say things like- 'if it doesn't happen this month then at least I can have that bottle of wine' etc. but I usually don't have the wine & buy myself something pretty instead!
Are you testing soon?

Not til 10/2 at the very very earliest

You?

Hi everyone,

I'm have dd 4 and ds 2 and this is 2nd month ttc. I'm sooooo impatient this time

Have had positive ov test and dtd as much as life allows so fingers crossed.

Sorry about Xmas name can't figure how to change on the phone

chunkychicken....I have just finished AF so have a while yet & weeks of dtd before I get to the testing stage again.

Hi everyone

Well, as I said yesterday (I think) I have 2 dc (both concieved without really much effort-just 1 and 2 cycles).... ds 5.11 and ds 3.9. Have been ttc this time for 13 months. Im in a situation where I dont know how many cycles I have had as they are all over the place, cannot track when I ovulate without breaking the bank as I would need to test EVERY day. Make me very but....

Next week the investigations start . Blood tests and a scan then referal to gynae and possibly fertility clinic

In the mean time we will dtd daily

I am feeling pretty positive today though. I'm thinking this will be the month trying not to get my hopes up but got a good feeling about this month/cycle!

Fingers crossed for you this time Wifey, seems like we are both at the same point IYSWIM

Sorry for what you've been through goldril :(

I've unchristmasnamechanged

morecoffee I got positive poas the day I was got appointment for fertility clinic!

Hi fish :)

Like the new name, will you be changing to suit the various foodie events of the year?
fisharefriendsnot... pancakes/eastereggs/pumpkins/toffeapples etc

Could be good, might do the same with mine

Hope the same happens to me, if not before seem to spend my life poas at the moment. Was that with your dd or ds? Dont really know what to expect with all these appointments. It's all new to me. I cant even seem to work out how I can optimise our chances and predict ovulation days

Thank you morecoffee....wishing you luck too!
!

morecoffee it was ds. Got pregnant first try with dd, was referred after 6 mths ttc ds because I've had bad endometriosis. Fingers crossed for you

Re the name, my dd has a nemo obsession, and it's a line i giggled at the first few times...has worn off now

Ah yes Fish, love nemo too, although we had over kill of it last year and cant seem to get them to watch it anymore. Cars and Cars2 here at the moment :)

I have been told by previous crap gynae in other county that I may have pcos, but was never confirmed as scans were unclear. I had no trouble concieving first 2 either.

I do a good virtual choc cherry brownie can I join in?

TTC no 1 (can't find hash tag on a mac after MC in Nov. Been trying to explain the need to POAS to DH way before AF is due but he doesn't really get it but it sounds like you guys do?

Now is anyone else taking preconception vitamins and is it wrong to wash them down with a glass of red wine which I found myself doing the other night

Have heard red wine aids absorption! :)

As does white wine

Hi Sazzel by the way, how long have you been ttc?

That's good morecoffee - I've been merrily finishing a bottle of white wine the last couple of nights, washing down the folic acid, probiotics & cranberry extract & assuming if it was good enough for my DD's embryo to be bathed daily in alcohol, then why not this one??!!!

Of course, that's assuming there is a little DC embryo...

Hello fellow desperados, room for me? Great thread, have been lurking here for a few weeks and was about to take plunge and start one similiar. TTC DC3, and after shotgun conceptions with the first two, am surprised (how arrogant I know) to have just got another BFN on cycle 2 - using a CBFM this time and everything! DH is already afraid of my single-mindeness and says he feels like he's 'being milked'. Ho hum, nice to meet you all.

One month TTC this time and 11 months before MC. Chunkychicken cranberry extract? Is this something else I should add to the list to aid TTC?

Already got DH on the mens vitamins poor boy

Yes tell us more about cranberry extract please chunkychicken!

Sorry Sazzel I missed you had MC, so sorry :(

Hi mummypirate Ive only just joined too :) I have felt like the only one struggling to concieve #3.

oops posted too soon-

meant to say I have felt like the only one trying to concieve number 3 until I found this thread

Cranberry extract isn't to help TTC as such but last month had a really nasty UTI (obviously not used to all the shagging) and think I missed ov due to feeling ill etc. Read that cranberry extract is really effective at maintaining the health of the urinary system so have been popping the pills!!! Don't want to miss ov again (& be in bloody agony obviously). :o

Thanks morecoffee one of the things that people have said to me is "at least you know you can conceive" but just because you've made one or more doesn't mean it's easy making another. That's why this thread appealed. That and the talk of eating

mummypirate I love my CBFM, apart from the month when I set my testing window too late in the day and had to hold it in till 8.30am every day DH was not amenable to me leaving pots of wee in the bathroom until the correct time to test.

Do you think it is better to fit life in around TTC or TTC around life. DH and I are planning on visiting some friends but when they want us to visit I've worked out I will possibly be OVing. We've had the weirdest conversation debating wether it was acceptable to DTD in their house "if we were really quiet!" , not bother this month, or not make any plans so we can stay in and DTD like mad

Sazzel I think we would DTD at friends house You cant miss out on things because your ttc... we are experts at multi tasking after all .... and you did say you would be quiet!

So today I have ordered 100 ovulation tests on line The reason for the amount is that my cycle is so irregular I will need to test every day (I think), plus, sorry but this may be TMI, but I have random in between bleeding and sometimes its hard to know whats AF and what is just breakthrough bleeding so I would need to test on these days as well incase I am ovulating on one of these days sorry end of TMI! When is the best time of day to test. All this stuff is new to me and I dont really know what I'm doing Does anyone else have ovulation pains? Does anyone do the temp testing thing to predict ovulation and what time of day do you check your temp?

We are trying to DTD every day this month. Anyone else getting to the point where they feel a bit like a sperm bank and its all becoming a bit 'functional'?!!!!!!