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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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Northey · 03/02/2012 11:12

TTC on the frontier of polite society . Shoot outs compulsory.

New joiners will be welcomed after completing the Beshtionnaire and showing us their blazing saddle.

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CaveMum · 03/03/2012 10:50

Quiet weekend in the offing here too. We've got a dance lesson this afternoon, and sechs is "scheduled" as I'm pretty sure I'm about to ov - pant snot and soft cervix (sorry tmi!), though shag dictator is still only giving me 2 bars.

jewelsandbinoculars · 03/03/2012 11:21

Hello again you lovely lot. Thanks.

I'm also not doing much of interest this weekend sinky - have plans for a bit of spring cleaning and a bit of gardening (well, sowing some seeds and planting out some seedlings in a coldframe on the roof). JJ wants to see woman in black so maybe we'll do that. Meh.

Next weekend though we mean to spend both days on a bike adventure, following the thames out to oxford. (Idle cycling is JJ and my main shared hobby - we are neither of us fast, I in particular am shamingly slow for someone with quite a fly-looking bike, but I can do a fair distance so long as no-one's timing me). So looking forward to that.

Another vote for good running socks too fee - worth the money and then some.

So...the snot. Backstory = seemingly total lack of EWCM. So for the past few months I have been taking EPO by the fistful, periodically swigging guiafenesin, trying to stay hydrated etc etc yawn yawn. And now I do seem to be making me some midcycle CM but its like, well, really thick jelly. I have to really bear down and furkle around up there to find it, and when I do it tends to be one near-solid glob. It is stretchy, but not sure its stretchy in a good way - its quite elastic, like it wants to ping back into its globule shape. (Gross, totally, but kinda compelling). But if thats the best my cervix can come up with I just don't see anything getting through/past it, let alone being sustained by it. I'm wondering if I'm better off abandoning efforts to increase CM and just using preseed or whatever.

Interested in any views, snot connoisseurs.

eurochick · 03/03/2012 11:46

It sounds like progress, jewels! I always had plentiful pant snot. Textbook EWCM stuff once a month. Until about 6 months into ttc when it disappeared. I appear to have been able to coax some back by taking EPO this cycle, but it is thicker than it should be, only slightly more "loose" than the texture you describe. But I am considering it progress!

I can't believe now that for years I had no idea that it was the pant snot holy grail and just used to think it was grim when I had loads of it coming out of me!

Your bike adventure sounds great. Where are you starting from?

Northey · 03/03/2012 12:42

Oh God I am envious of your pant snot. I get NOTHING.

I don't see why you shouldn't use preseed as well, though, of you are feeling doubtful about it.

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PhoenixFromTheFlames · 03/03/2012 14:41

I too get the very clear pant snot. When I was younger, I thought I had something akin to stress incontinence cos I feel it pouring out of me! When I started ttc -and joined MN-- and read tcoyf I realised it was normal! But it sounds similar to mine jewels, the stretchiness is there but it wants to ping back.

We're having a quiet one too. I had my gait analysed. Apparently I over pronate especially on my left and my old trainers simply weren't up to task. I have returned home with a rather expensive new pair that provide the support I need :) As I say, don't need to buy clothes, may as well spend it on trainers. Been to my gym this morning but may well go running tomorrow!

I know little about shooting but since I'm cross lateral (left eye dominant, right handed) I suspect I would be very dangerous!

Right I'm off to sort through my clothes. Therapy for free :)

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Northey · 03/03/2012 19:12

I have swum 1k, made veg soup, walked 8 miles, had sex, eaten soup and am now in bed with my phone an a box of Maltesers. I knew the virtuous healthiness wouldn't last.

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eurochick · 03/03/2012 20:52

Hmmm. My day has been a little less successful. Done the work I needed to, sorted CV, went to Decathlon to pick up bits for "active" parts of upcoming holiday, went to Waitrose and picked up yummy food, failed to fit in a run before darkness fell and failed to have sechs (top tip for KFZK telling me it might help if I "helped him" when I had been doing just that for the past ten minutes is not a way to make me feel horny. Meh. I mainly initiated so he doesn't feel like he is only being used at ov time and now he has made me feel like I am crap in bed. Twat.

Northey · 03/03/2012 21:04

What a twat! Poor euro. That was a jerkish thing for him to say, and I would be feeling crap too. Did he say it out of stress (as in he felt anxious about possibly not succeeding on the sechs front)? No excuse really though. It's so much harder to brush off potential sexual criticism than any other sort -it is such a vulnerable thing to be doing together. Anyway, you are NOT crap in bed, he has just said a stupid thing which he didn't mean like that. Can you fight it out now, then make up with loving reconciliation sex and a nice sleep?

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PhoenixFromTheFlames · 03/03/2012 22:38

Erm my quiet weekend has transitioned into night out with girls from work! Fun though :)
euro I've been there, such a nightmare where you can't do right for doing wrong. Hope you resolve things soon. Like norf says, it's not about your sechsing abilities at all, just the pressure of circumstances.

eurochick · 03/03/2012 22:55

I dunno norfy. He normally doesn't have any problems in that area. We have had the very occasional sechsfail when trying to force ourselves to do it on schedule when knackered after a long day at work but never when trying to do it for fun before.

We don't really fight, so we'll just leave it to blow over. I do feel rather hurt though.

Meh. Anyway. Off to bed now.

FriendofDorothy · 03/03/2012 23:05

I have had a weird day. Had an annoying twingey headache for most of the day but managed the sechsing this morning. The Mister is on night shift tonight. This evening I went out for a lovely dinner with my sister and two of my younger cousins. It was lovely to catch up but the diet is fucked.

PhoenixFromTheFlames · 04/03/2012 07:28

Ah dor it's just one night....back on it today or tomorrow if you have a bad hangover Glad you enjoyed it.
Well I had a fab night. The girls I went out with have a tendency to excess drinking...I managed to drink but not get drunk Smile My feet are agonising after
5 hours in heels and though I went to bed at 2 I'm wide awake now!

CaveMum · 04/03/2012 10:21

Morning cowgirls!
I'm rather a rabbit of positive attitude (happy bunny) this morning. I am ovulating! [waves pom poms]

After doing some reading up on cheapy ovulation sticks some people suggested using more than 1 per day, as LH is often produced a few hours after you've woken up. So at 10 last night I peed on another one and got 2 lines! Needless to say HWHNN and I got straight down to business Wink
Still got 2 lines this morning and Shag Dictator has kicked in with my first ever "Peak" reading. No chances of late ovulation this month! We'll crack on again today and, depending on what tomorrow morning's reading says I may make HWHNN come home on Monday night.

I know I'm being needlessly over enthusiastic about little lines on a piss stick, but it's my first ever positive reading (proving I work!) Grin

Lazy day planned here, the weather's not great so chicken is in the slow cooker and I suspect we'll veg on the sofa for most of the day.

On the pant snot front, I vary quite a bit. Some months nothing, others I get a sudden rush for about 3-4 hours then nothing. I was told grapefruit juice can help increase EWCM if you drink it regularly, that and cough medicine.

blonderthanred · 04/03/2012 10:27

Hi Cavey. I got my first ever positive opk this month too and although a few days ago I was crying my eyes out because the droid seemed to be making an appearance, it seems I may have been prematurely disappointed as yesterday I got a faint line on a cheapy pg test and this morning a Sainsbos stick seems to have confirmed it. News just sinking in. I hope very much that your positive opk bodes just as well for you.

PhoenixFromTheFlames · 04/03/2012 10:35

Ooooh I sniff a win! Let the nekkid dancing commence! Grin

blonderthanred · 04/03/2012 10:43

Yeah, trying to be a bit circumspect about it, early days, statistics and all that but TBI and I quietly smiley this morning.

It's just coming up to a year of ttc which I know is not as long as many of you so I hope it's catching and you all get BFPs immediately. Preferably before lunch.

jewelsandbinoculars · 04/03/2012 10:59

Thanks for all the feedback, snotfans, its good to have some insight. Had been fretting that I was only succeeding in glueing cervix shut but will calm it, keep with the EPO, cough medicine etc and see it as progress. I think we got timing right this cycle, so here's hoping. As to which yay cave!

And bloody hell blonder that's great news! So many congrats!

CaveMum · 04/03/2012 11:02

Woooo! Blonde Grin Grin Grin

[opens fresh packet of nipple tassles]

blonderthanred · 04/03/2012 11:10

Thanks Jewels, just fyi I haven't had any pant snot since ttc (had had it in the past but never knew what it was!). We use pre-seed whenever doing the sechs.

blonderthanred · 04/03/2012 11:15

Thank you Cave, and all for the positivity. I feel a bit Blush as I know I have been a bit of a part-time BESH due to work but I really have and do appreciate the support.

I really really hope your positive opk brings you the same result. Come on sperms!

Northey · 04/03/2012 11:25

Nice tits, jewels

And the most almighty YEEEEHAAAAAA for blonde! First nekkid dance of the fred, I think? Well done well done well done! Nice riding, cowgirl.

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KatAndKit · 04/03/2012 11:30

Oooh blondie congratulations :) :) :)

It's about time there was a win about these parts.

I understand the early days anxiety, but you have to be in it to win it, and you are most definitely in it!

blonderthanred · 04/03/2012 11:49

Thank you thank you and thank you again K&K and Northey.

Also, I don't have to pretend to be on a diet any more!

Northey · 04/03/2012 11:54

Congratulations, my fertile friend.

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