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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.

We're all in this together - Mool and the Gang's magic flying mattress ride to Switzerland!

475 replies

festiemum · 19/03/2012 10:59

Right, I bit the bullet and started the new thread. Hope it's OK. Here's to mucho more laughter, tears, support, tea and biscuits! xxx

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chipsandmushypeas · 10/04/2012 11:16

Thanks moo Congrats on the move too! I did read it up-thread. How exciting, but very exhausting

MooleyWooleyShamaLamaDingDong · 10/04/2012 14:39

Cheers Chips yes, managed to pack 8 boxes on my own yesterday. Had to sit down for a long time afterwards and that has only scratched the surface of what is needed.

chipsandmushypeas · 10/04/2012 19:00

You'll get there, moo!

Let's hope our temps keep up, can feel myself getting obsessive again. I've done so well this month too Angry

alexeliza · 10/04/2012 19:51

Hi All

Well that was difficult having to get up this morning for work - I really enjoyed my lie ins over the Easter break!! still, only 3 days to go until the next weekend! Grin

Chips - hello there! I had wondered where you had got to. I agree with Moo though - I don't think anyone can blame people for disappearing for a while as it can get all too much at times. Your chart looks good - long may the high temps last!!

Disco - Definitely FX crossed for as many Xmas babies as we can!! Our walk was lovely - it's nice to get out for an hour or two and I find it's the best time for DH and I to chat as there's no distractions from the tv etc.

Moo/Purple - hoping the temps stay up high and the BFPs show up, the earlier the better (to fit in with relevent trips Grin).

I am on CD10. Assuming that ov will be around CD17 again -but keeping an eye on everything just in case. At least my temps have lowered to a normal level pre-ov - that was really confusing me for a while!

MooleyWooleyShamaLamaDingDong · 11/04/2012 08:36

Just a quick one ladies to see how we are all fairing. Has gone very quiet in here again.....it's either a feast or a famine Grin

Temps still way up, boobs still sore. But that's it. Absolutely nothing else to report. Have made an executive decision to test at 10dpo as I have heard a lot of women get positives (albeit faint) at this point. Only 2 more days to go Smile

How is everyone else doing?

Purpledragon · 11/04/2012 09:16

Not much to report here. My kid sat on the pavement of half an hour on the way home from nursery yesterday...cars stopped to watch, great fun.
Moo 10 dpo hey? Better than 8! You leave Monday right?

MooleyWooleyShamaLamaDingDong · 11/04/2012 09:23

Oh poor you purple must have been a nightmare. I have all that to look forward to.......hopefully Smile

Yeah we leave on Monday so if BFN on Friday will try again Sunday and Monday morning. If still BFN I'll have to take some tests with me and try on Tuesday if AF has not got me by then (it's due on Tuesday). Monday night I'll prob just have a couple of wines. Can't put life on hold for this, but don't want to ruin any slight chance especially as this is the 2nd month of ovulation.

I'm supposed to be packing.......I'm still in bed Blush

chipsandmushypeas · 11/04/2012 09:43

Hey moo, great news! I'm tempted to temp tomorrow at 10dpo too if my temps are still up. Temp shot back up today, really hope yesterday was implantation dip

Purpledragon · 11/04/2012 09:48

chips dip and rise, wow that's great news, hope it is implantation. Fingers crossed.

coveredinflour · 11/04/2012 11:57

Hello everyone!

Moo and chips that sounds very promising! Fingers crossed.

I posted a massive rant of a post this morning which my phone deleted for me. It was basically just saying have not a single symptom to "spot" and am sick of living in a building site and am stressed about work and freehold crap.

Off on hols next tues so will be testing then at Cd 30 but am sure am not pregnant. Its a wine tasting trip so perhaps for the best.

Purpledragon · 11/04/2012 12:04

Hey there flour I have no symptoms to spot either. As I mentioned up thread, I had so many fake ones last month that I banned myself from having this month...mmm. It worked, nothing. Nothing to do but bother poor Moo 'bout her early testing plans. :) oh yeh, I'm banned from that too. So many rules!... Sorry you live in a building site, I do too, it's called Beirut.

coveredinflour · 11/04/2012 12:11

Purple, is it wrong of me to think that given we had symptoms last month and no pregnancy, its logical to assume this month we must be pregnant as we have not even a whisper of a symptom? That works, right?

My only "symptom" was feeling queasy after eating about 10 easter eggs...

And yes, building site is crap. Am convinced my body doesn't think its a suitable environment for a baby and so is withholding eggs for foreseeable future.

What is Beirut like?

Purpledragon · 11/04/2012 12:28

Oh yes yes, that works. You're right, totally right. Going to buy baby clothes.

If bodies can tell if you live in a crap environment then I'm fucked (in part answer to your question). It really is a large building site (full of annoying people who don't mind their business). This also explains my lack of luck with the whole making babies issue in the past 'cause Beirut is kind of a step up in crap environment location ranking (which clearly exists as a thing) for me.

I'm sticking with you flour ...for the insights.

coveredinflour · 11/04/2012 12:44

Oh yep, i'm full of those - well, full of something. Can pretty much over analyse anything to twist it into something meaningful.

I know a few people who didn't conceive when they were in a stressful environment but did later (when they changed jobs).

I'm naturally on the higher side of the stress spectrum so am now also, helpfully, stressed about that. Amazing.

Still, have the symptom-free pregnancy to worry about in the meantime.

Purple, are you stuck in Beirut for a long time? Or is it a temporary situation?

Purpledragon · 11/04/2012 12:49

Likely another 18 months to 2 years. I haven't been in the UK for 15 years though, lived all over, in truth I love to moan about it. Have to run...

chipsandmushypeas · 11/04/2012 16:29

Thanks purple and flour

I haven't had any symptoms either this month, I had loads last month but I was obsessing a lot more Smile

Purpledragon · 11/04/2012 20:28

Hey chips what about the temp dip and rise? That would be on my list of things I would be 'allowed' to obsess over. Hopefully that's a good one, my fingered are crossed for you on that. All the little cramps, feel a bit sick or sleepy and want not - just too subjective. I want to see something I can put on a god damn chart! Anyway whatever we see or don't see doesn't make us less or more pg, just part of the process....

MooleyWooleyShamaLamaDingDong · 11/04/2012 20:37

Wow purple 15 years outside of the UK Shock have you lived in many different places? I have lived in Italy and Ireland.

Well disastrous day. Went to pick up the keys to the new house and pay everything but wanted to pay on my credit card but the estate agents would not accept cards and asked for either a cheque or cash Confused well I could get neither Sad and needless to say we are without the keys. Did manage to do a balance transfer on my phone but that takes 1 business day so am hoping it's in first thing otherwise we are screwed. To make matters worse, Sky is due to be installed tomorrow. It's all gone a bit tits up!!!

Still no symptoms apart from a MASSIVE spot on my chin.

Chips the dip and rise has to be a good thing......right!?!

Grin at Flour and eating 10 Easter eggs!! That's hardcore!!!

Purpledragon · 11/04/2012 20:37

flour on stress levels you mentioned, who knows? We are who we are and not going to change by trying to be less stressed right? My son is adopted and I remember my Dad (who was super supportive about the adoption and loves this grandson like a crazy person) said when we adopted him, "hey it would be great if you got pg now...you hear about that all the time, people adopt then they get pg right away". Like you said flour 'bout friends getting a less stressful job then getting pg, yeh these things happen. My response to my Dad was "think of all the people who have adopted without biological children and still don't have biological children" you are not going to read that in the Daily Mail right?

Purpledragon · 11/04/2012 20:44

Cross posted with you Moo, sorry to hear of your crap day. Sucks, god I hate those dumb details that are trying to get us...

Yes, been in a number of places, most of which are only on the news for bad reasons (me and better half work in conflict-related stuff), Somalia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Chad, Bosnia...you get the picture.

coveredinflour · 11/04/2012 22:18

Wow, that must be interesting Purple - and slightly terrifying. Mind you, I have a friend who spent part of her childhood in Bosnia and loved it, says its beautiful.

Where did you live in Italy Moo?

I grew up in Belgium and lived in New York for a bit but otherwise have been UK-bound.

Oh and you are, of course, absolutely right Purple. Think of all the women who get pregnant in refugee camps and in very stressful conditions.

I'm pretty sure we'd be extinct if stress was that effective as a contraceptive.

coveredinflour · 11/04/2012 22:22

Sorry Moo, meant to also say, sorry for your crappy day. Hope you manage to get the keys before Sky turn up. Have had a similarly annoying and stress-filled day and am also sporting a giant zit on my forehead. Sexy.

In other news have eaten yet more Easter chocolate to replace the bottle of red wine I would like to drink... Am wondering if it's a contributing factor to the giant spottiness of my face...

MooleyWooleyShamaLamaDingDong · 12/04/2012 08:03

Flour I lived in Pisa. Beautiful place. Had an amazing time. So interesting to hear that people have spent time out of the UK. We have friends in New York, one in Switzerland and another has just moved to Australia. My brother also lives in Hawaii. It is an amazing place. DH and I really want to move to San Francisco but don't see that happening for a while.

Chips how you doing? How're the temps looking?

Purple any news from you?

Temp dropped further today Sad just have that feeling this is not going to be our month. I have nothing to SS......at all. No more or less CM than usual, no nausea or dizziness or fatigue or anything. Just the sorely breasticles.

Sometimes feel maybe it's just not meant to be. Although I am being more snappy than usual and this makes me Sad because poor DH is taking the brunt of it all.

Rusulka · 12/04/2012 09:00

Moo and Flour I have a massive spot on my face too. Well... I did. I squeezed it this morning, so now I just have a cross red lump. But hey, it's better than a big yellow head, even if I am staying in all day with a tub of polyfilla and then hiding under the bed while the thunderstorm 'attacks'.

Chips FX for implantation dip!

Disco glad to see you back in the saddle, and hope ovulation comes soon!

Moo when my parents wanted the keys for their current house, the owners dithered all day (we were supposed to get them directly from them in the morning), so in the end, my dad marched down there and practically wrestled them off the guy, lol.
Also, remember that the month we did it, I had no symptoms apart from the sore boobage and then eventually that 2nd line. Fingers crossed, you soooo deserve it! But to be honest, I think you'll be better off getting settled in the house and unpacking your boxes first- the minute you manage it, nobody will let you lift or carry anything, and that's a total PITA when you've got boxes to hump and dump. DH won't even let me up a fucking ladder- and I only want to screw little hooks into the ceiling! Gah.

Purple sounds like you have a busy job in a busy place!

I have to say, on the stress and conceiving front, once I'd left the school I was working at as a higher level teaching assistant (where the teachers did no prep for me for the lessons I was supposed to be covering- how does an arts graduate teach geography and french? Poorly, that's how!) and I got the bedroom done as I'd wanted to for months, and got my smear out of the way... it just happened.

I'd told myself I didn't deserve a baby if I was going to procrastinate over health issues and getting work on the house done, so it didn't happen until I'd sorted those out.
So my advice would be, if you can't avoid a stressful work situation, at least try and find something you've been meaning to do for ages, but putting off because you couldn't be arsed, and once it's done, maybe the relief and euphoria of actually getting something done will be enough to tip the balance in your favour!

In my neck of the woods, MiL has been gone for 3 whole days and we're pretty relaxed now, apart from sleeping in the dodgy spare bed while I fanny about with the bedroom again. Today I'm going to polyfilla round all the bottoms of the walls where they look like a cat had chewed them, and then tonight when the neighbours are out, I'll sand the woodfiller and polyfilla, clean up, and tomorrow I can do the 3 coats of varnish on the skirting boards and paint the polyfilla'd bits. THEN I can put the new bed frame in, and hopefully get the bedroom back to normal ready to sleep in by tomorrow night. Then put the cot back together and actually attach the mobile, which I haven't let myself do. Grin

Then I just have to build the wardrobes...
Going to do the long wall of storage in the living room with Ikea Billy shelving, which will be quicker, easier, cheaper, but ultimately far less satisfying than building it myself (grump)- but at least it's something I'll be 'allowed' to do.

On the Peanut front, I'll be 20 weeks on Sunday- one week off 5 months- and I'm still in my normal clothes (!) so grateful, since I haven't got clothes rails up yet, lol- and it's the anomaly scan on Tuesday morning, so FX for that. Hopefully will have my suspicions about Peanut being a girl confirmed, though I honestly don't mind either way.
Oh, and did the budgeting for last month, and it turns out I spent £500 on baby stuff. Shock... and that didn't even include car seats and the travel system, because other people bought those! I've tried to be relatively sensible, but I do have a whole armpit full of Lamaze toys, and now I have to be strict with myself and say no more toys or clothes until I've got the important stuff, like the sodding cot mattress and bedding! I like to be prepared, that's my excuse. Blush

Right- must go find rocks in the garden for the bottoms of my troughs before it honks it down.

Hope no-one else is having thunderstorms, especially if you're out and about!

chipsandmushypeas · 12/04/2012 10:23

Hey everyone.

moo stay positive! Even if this isn't your month look how much better your chart is than last month! Amazing.

My temp went up a little, tested at 10dpo bfn of course. Meh