The Rat Smacketeers will all get BFP's this month and we are Brooking No Argument!

[TheLittleFriend]

See a Rat. Smack it.

I'm just really surprised Sweetie - pretty much all of our friends have been breeding for years but this is the first time that anything like this has happened. Oh well, shit happens.

step by step for maybe

1. get up

1. PIACC

1. under no circumstances should you empty said CC for at least an hour.

1. during that hour, dip as many peesticks as you want into said P which will still be in the CC.

1. log on here pronto to confirm your BFP so we can all go about our normal business.

1. when you finally believe it, you may then empty the P from the CC

(and yes, like sweetie said, what time will you be getting up??!)

Oh Imps :( we've been getting a lot of that from friends and family over the last year. It's so hurtful and sad. I just can't get my head around some people :(

I remember you saying about your friend Pops and thinking "wow, her friends sounds a bit weird - I can't imagine any of our mates doing that". Clearly I was wrong

I second Loopy's plan!

Hi everyone

Happy Birthday whims. I hope you're having a great day xx

maybe, I hope you've taken note of loopy's schedule for you. C'mon, you must be feeling the urge to poas by now?!!

Pop good luck for your scan, I hope you've got a nice early one, so you're not waiting all day!

Good to see you too far. Glad to hear it's still all going well for you. I was thinking of you today (weird internet stalker alert), and hoping all was fine.

secret, I know i'd be obsessing over my chart if I started temping, which is why I'm avoiding the lure of starting it!

Imps great pressie choice Sorry to hear about your insensitive friends. I can maybe understand why you wouldn't go to the soft play party, but why would they think you wouldn't want to go to the christening? Surely that's for all friends / family?

CD1 here today. Boooooo. Gutted that the "oh you'll be really fertile straight after the mc" thing hasn't come true.

Oh Little I'm sorry the cow got you. A nice Chrustmas baby though

I promise you all, I will piacc in the morning. But I am warning you now, I am 99.9% sure it will be a BFN. I just have no symptoms that I would have thought I would have now, like the sore boobs and sickness

Tonight I have repotted some seedlings, and have baked vanilla cupcakes. Still waiting to ice them though, so am watching the Tube, hoping to get a glimpse of DH again

Just nipped in to advise maybe I will be leaving the house around 7.30 tomorrow morning, in case you wondered, and can't log on in the office to keep updated during the day

Short me me me post

i got more brown stuff last night, which has stopped as it should as I'm only 11do, but temp lower and BFN this morning. Not sure what's going on, I wasn't expecting AF til Thursday.

Anyway need to finish my breakfast and get on a train

And maybe you still have to follow the instructions from loopy

Really sorry little :(

Has maybe PIAR yet? And is it sad that PIAR is in my phone's autotext? :o

Implantation beedle?

Sorry to hear that Beedle

BFN from me too. If FF is right about when I ov'd it makes me only 9DPO though. But by this point my norks should be really sore and they aren't. But I am really really tired. Ah well. Off to the GP for hopefully a referral for some tests. I knew it would be too good to be true to get a BFP this morning

Sorry for the me me me post, am feeling very sorry for myself. Will snap out of it soon though, brooker style.

Good luck for your scan today Pop, what time is it?

Little sorry to hear of AF arrival, hope that rat gets smacked this time.

Beedle we are cycle buddies and seem to be doing that same thing, I had a few pinky browny wipes yesterday and my temp plummeted.

Pop good luck for the scan later today, can not wait to hear all the news when I get back from work.

This morning temps have jumped back up, I am now thinking I might have read it wrong yesterday in a early morning haze - will see what later today brings not AF obviously

x-post Maybe - so sorry it was a BFN, but if you had late OV then it would be too soon. Is this a really long cycle for you? Perhaps been so ill recently has thrown things off slightly.

Good luck at the Drs later, be tough and insist on that referral. Brooking very hard for you my dear. {{{Big squeezy hugs}}}

Oh no to these BFNs and AFs. So sorry.

Pops good luck for scan this morning and Maybe take no crap from the GP - good luck.

Aw, disappointed for the BFNs/AFs this morning and sending some hot cross buns your way.

But also excited for popcorn's scan.

I got cuddles with a 10 day old a few days ago. It was just lovely. The mum has had a really hard time with a traumatic delivery and then her baby ending up in SCBU, but she still thought of me amazingly. When she asked me to get him dressed and get him to sleep, she said, "I hope this isn't too hard for you." It was both upsetting (had a wee cry with DH when I got home) and just so lovely and not upsetting, all at the same time.

Little sorry about AF Keep your chin up lovely!

Maybe sorry about BFN, I was sure we were in for some good news today, but maybe it is just too early. Good luck at the doctors later.

Beedle and Sweetie I'm brooking hard for you two!

Pops Good luck for scan, will check back later to hear how it went.

I'm looking after my nephew for the first time this afternoon while my sister is at work. He is 19 months old which is roughly the same age that DC2 would have been if I hadn't had my first miscarriage. DS will be at pre-school for some of the afternoon but when I have them both together it will be a little reminder of what might have been I'm secretly hoping that it's really hard work so I can be relieved that I actually don't have a 2 year age gap! Can't believe that now the age gap I'm looking at is 4.6 to 5 years - time does fly!

Bartlet x-posts - You are a very strong woman and I hope that very soon you get cuddles with your own snuggly newborn

Thank you for your kind words everyone. I'm really starting to struggle with this whole TTC thing. I'm sure it will be ok though. I have never had a cycle this long Sweetie it must be cos I was so ill. I def think I have ovd though as my temps are still high.

Bartlet you really are amazing. And so strong. You will definitely be having snuggles with your new born soon

Maybe so sorry re BFN - I agree you probably ov'd later due to illness, so could still be in with a chance this cycle. Brooking that you will get a referral and tests, which will of course lead to an ironic BFP and snuggly New Year baby.

Sweetie I am excited again for you now if your temp has gone back up!

Beedle you are still in the game too.

Little I'm sorry re AF and I understand the disappointment re not getting pg straight after mc. I heard the heightened fertility lasts for three cycles, which I have now used up, so back to normal fertility for me, which feels like a blow. At least you had a decent LP and you will get preggo next cycle, I'm sure.

Bartlet I think I understand how that would be both nice and upsetting all at once. You are coping amazingly well, I can't imagine what it must be like. How are you physically now? I remembered that I was prescribed tranexamic acid for my prolonged bleeding last summer. I was hesitant about taking it, but it did break the cycle of bleeding and I soon got back on track after that.

Olives you are so brave too. I understand that feeling of 'my baby would have been X years old by now' as well and I hope you have a busy/fun time today and don't feel too sad! I try to look on the bright side re age gaps as well. If When we have another child, she will be at least 3.5 now, which I suppose will make it easier in many ways and will mean that she is in (free) pre-school by then - every cloud eh?!

Imps your friends are silly to exclude you from things, that's just out of order. Don't know what else to say really.

Pop good luck for scan today - can't wait to hear how it went!

That was really brave Bartlett I think I would have been a state. Well done, and - it will be you soon.

Back from the scan, and the verdict is that I am in fact pregnant, did POAS correctly, and haven't just eaten too many pies!

Dragon Baby had a little beating heart and waving arms and legs, and even managed what looked like a little yawn for us. I promptly burst into tears (and got told off for making the baby move in the wrong direction ). At which point the scanner asked if we'd been trying long, I said a year, and she commented how it really wears you down - and though it was just a passing comment it really touched me and made me feel like less of a loon. (In the car, DH said when she'd said "it really wears you down" he'd thought "yeah, all that sex was really tough..." typical man :o )

Then was in such a daze I forgot to collect my 20 weeks scan appointment on the way out, d'oh!

Oh Pop that is fabulous news and how lovely that you got a sympathetic ultrasound person. Hurrah for kernal with its waving arms and legs and yawning! Today is a good day for the brookers.

Excellent work Pops!! Although I still can't believe that you're 12 weeks gone - was I abducted by aliens for 2 months or something? Enjoy telling people and getting proper excited about the arrival of the littl'un!

Maybe, Generic, Little, Sweetie, Olives, Beedle, Sparks, Bartlet, Cupcakes, Stasi, all Smacketeers across the world, repeat after me:

I am jolly well going to get pregnant this month and I am brooking no argument.

Pop that's fantastic news! Well done kernel!

Thank you for your kind words Generic. I feel really teary today. It's pathetic really.

Hope everyone has another nice sunny day

Pathetic? No. Not at all. This horrible experience known as TTC breaks everyone at some point. Nothing pathetic about being teary at all.

What time is your appt Maybe?