Hop aboard the Santa sleigh for a festive baby (late Dec /early Jan)

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Jingle jingle....anybody joining me? I figure this HAS to be my month if I'm starting the thread :o

Never mind Eleanora I'm sure you're not the first person to do this, and at least the bfn is meaningless so the sore nipples could still be a good sign!

Just to let you know (whle I have reception),I tested on a first response&no pregnancy to report.only cycle 1 so it's fine,I'll be indulging in a lovely glass of vino this w/end.good luck to all of you testing over the next couple of days-I've got fibgers&toes crossed for you all.xxx

eleanora I've been there done that - and equally given myself a bit of talking to afterwards, knowing that I've wasted a preg test. As limeleaf says so easy to do though, and I can safely say most of us have done it.

As for me, I'm symptom spotting. Twinges down below and I'm 6DPO. Hoping something is implanting. No other symptoms, though was ridiculously tired last night (but that's like most nights these days, working 4 days a week and looking after DD1 who's 2.5 seems to take all my energy)

How's everyone else's symptom spotting going?

Hi everyone ff says af due on the 6th but af always arrives on the 14th day after ov. This would be tomorrow so may test then but should prob leave til friday.

So symptoms include nausea in the mornings, need for breakfast, which I don't usually crave. Also this is weird but a really funny sensation downstairs like a dull ache / pressure. Not had anything like it before almost tingly too. Can any of you experienced this? It's not really in the stomach abdomen - feels lower.

Do I have any testing partners for Friday?

roxy your symptoms sound positive this month, I have my fingers crossed for you (and us all). I won't be joining you testing on Friday though, I need to be realistic and wait until AF is due on Tues before I crack!

Wiggy thanks for the update and have a lovely break! But don't overdo the vino just in case

knicky I've been imagining cramps all day (8dpo) but am not particularly hopeful as I've had this before but then AF has been bright and prompt the following week!

Can I join? Just got AF for 1st time since coming off pill. So CD1 for me, and have just worked out that my EDD would be my birthday which made me smile!

SilentMammoth (31) CD 1, Cycle 1 TTC#5

Morning! I've had pains both sides and a heavy feeling when I sit down since 2 dpo. I don't think this can be anything to do with ttc as it was all too early. Only 6dpo now. This month is taking forever to pass!

Any news Roxy?

Hi girls,

how is everyone? Spring, I kwym about this month. 6 or 7 dpo here (how do you tell...my temps are always a bit wonky, depends whether I get any sleep or not!) and holding out so far on the testing. I'm just not going to.

DP said last night something about if my period doesn't come, and I didn't like to put him out of his old fashioned sense of sanity by telling him we could potentially know NOW with a FRER, poor chap, I'm going to sit it out with him and wait. In total denial

I'm rubbish with being pregnant because the last two times I had very bad morning sickness and needed medication which didn't work very well, so for the first bit I just felt terrible. Stopped at about 20 weeks properly and the rest is good, I love being pregnant but I am so scared of it.

As far as 2ww stuff goes, I had proper PMT yesterday, and after a massive (but comical) argument about who was going to drill a hole in the wall (I know) poor DP ended up going to the pub while I sat here wondering what is going on with my mood!

My tits are sore, I have cramps, nothing else significant but temps still up in 37s. That's all fairly normal. So not a clue basically

Wishing everyone a good day ahead x

Oh and twice yesterday I felt really car sick - not in the car, in the house/shops - that hormonal sicky feeling, you know? That worried me slightly! But too early for anything really isn't it.

Sorry keep reading back! Wiggy...sorry about the bfn, but enjoy the wine, have a lovely time. Come back when you can!

Hi Flightty, as this is our first month trying I've not been temping. I'm guessing I'm about 6dpo because of when I had abundant ewcm. It's about right. I don't want to get into early testing 'cos it doesn't give a deck native answer. If it's bfn is could just be too early. I'm really sorry about your pregnancy sickness, do you have two children of the same sex? It might be that if you carry the other your pregnancy will be totally different. I sometimes feel sick with my period - I've started getting pre-menstral migraines so I can't even get excited about that! I had a funny dizzy moment yesterday, but I am blonde .

Oh god, sorry...

Deck native = definitive

Morning all. Welcome SilentMammoth! You must be organised, joining the thread on CD1 of cycle 1!

So I am now 9dpo and hoping that the very slight crampiness might be implantation. Then again maybe I'm just imagining it. It is comforting to come on here and read about all your symptom spotting so I know I'm not the only one.

Hi Spring,

sorry to hear you get this pre menstrual nausea too - I have had it sometimes, just, this feels stronger...but again I'm sure that is just my overactive imagination!

Both children are boys so either a girl will make it much more bearable or much less bearable...Oh dear, well, will try not to think about that but thankyou for your words of reassurance.

Trying to stay in denial as long as possible! Migraines must be horrible. I know a lovely woman who always has such bad headaches and migraines with pregnancy. She has had three girls, we've lost touch so I don't know if she has had any more children. I wonder if that's (vaguely) gender specific as well.

Lime, I hope your crampiness is implantation, too Good luck!

Hello everyone - can I join you?

Am a lapsed MNer - have a little boy who is 2.5 and was on here constantly when TTC for him. But of course, he doesn't leave much time for anything now, let alone MN or even TTC #2. but, alas, we're going to give it a shot anyway. On CD1 of cycle #3 so feeling irritable and down was so determined to just have lots of sex and calmly TTC...but, needless to say, that's just gone out the window along with an amazon virtual shopping basket full of vitamins and paraphenalia !

I'd love to natter with you all and hear all your stories and get your advice. Particularly interested - any tempers on here? If there are, do you have any suggestions for temping with children, particuarly ones who don't sleep very well?

Many, many thanks! Looking forward to chatting with you all!

Hello Last Welcome! (if as a newbie myself I might say that on behalf of everyone)

I'm temping with a 4 and 8yo and I find temping is a case of 'give it your best shot' really. 4yo recently moved out of my bed and started full time school and his nights are normally broken...he wanders in with me, and DP if DP is staying over, (we don't live together yet) and sometimes I have to getup and take him back to bed. Or sometimes I just give up and he stays in next to me. So it's either getting up or being squashed and too warm

I take mine as soon as I wake which tends to be around 5am at the moment (maybe excitement....maybe my inner alarm clock!, maybe worrying I'll forget) and so far I've had a few odd ones, but mostly there is a shift of a few tenths after ovulation and it's fairly clear even if the temps before are random. They go right down just before, then slope up after and stay in the 37s till AF.

I say this having only been temping for two cycles, well, one and a half but even being punctuated with a fever we all had, and both children being constantly ill, my charts look surprisingly sane.

Give it a go and see how you get on. The more factors that are constant, the better, probably - but I have temped when wearing different sorts of nightwear, with hardly any sleep and with quite a lot, and in a time frame of 2 hours or so, and it's still been discernable when I ovulate.

HTH a bit Good luck!

Welcome LBOT - great name! I'm trying to be 'cool' about ttc too, I'm not doing brilliantly either. What's your game plan this month?

Flightty - my migranes aren't as bad as they are for some people, I've only been having them recently so it's all a bit unknown. I didn't get one last month which was a relief. I think it might be as a result of my great age... Hopefully you will have a different sort of pregnancy this time, I have three girls and all my pregnancies have been very similar. I just feel hideously sick from week 6 to week 12 after which it tails off by week 16. One of the only ways I can ever combat the sickness is by eating so I am always vast by the end of my pregnancies. I also carry my babies really low and feel like they'll fall out if I sneeze. They never do obviously.

Lime - fx that you are having implantation pain, some of us will be pregnant this month, so there's no reason why it won't be you!

Thanks guys

Flightty - my son wakes up any time between 6:30 & 8 - though he's still in a cot, so won't be climbing in with me. I was thinking of setting my alarm at 6 just to take my temp, but not actually get up. He's been waking around 12 and 3 for seeming no reason at all so it's good to know that you can still see your pattern despite having disturbed sleep.

SpringFlowers - think our plan this month includes me temping, as I feel I've really been lost this month not knowing exactly when I o'd, and Marilyn Glenville vits plus pycogenol for DH. He had an SA when TTC for DS which showed poor morphology - I put him on those supplements and 6 weeks later I was pg. Not sure if it was a coicidence, but figured it couldn't hurt. WHen we were TTC for DS, I got pregnant first month we were trying, but mc'd ~11 weeks, we waited one cycle after the mc and then it took about 7 months after that. So we're not one of those couples who just look at one another and BFP! Tho, because I was PG so quickly the first time, we also know that it could happen quite quickly. I guess you never know!

I've also got a short LP (or used to, but haven't actually sorted out when I o at this point to get an idea of how long it is now) and lots of spotting, so I've got a GP appointment next week. NOt sure if I should mention TTC or not or just go in and say I've got a wonky cycle, sort me out! I think as soon as you mention TTC they'll say we don't want to see you until you've been trying a year (though, I'm 35 now ie "advanced maternal age" , so they might say 6 months?).

Spring, that's really encouraging about your girls, thankyou
I hope the migraines don't continue. Do you take anything?

Last, that alarm idea sounds very good. That way you know it'll be the same time every day.

Reading your post further, I have a short LP, which I didn't realise till I temped. Seems to be 10 or 11 days. I don't know if it's always been like that, but I've had short cycles for as long as I can remember - going back to before I conceived ds1. 24, 26 days sort of thing. My last was 23

anyway I think it's the low end of normal so might be alright for both of us.

Flightty - I've had the migraines for about six months. I've only taken over the counter pain killers which have no impact whatsoever. I should really go to the GP and get something stronger. Of course I won't be getting any migraines soon because I will be pregnant!!! I have a funny cycle sometimes. Last month was 25 days but it is usually 28. Based on when I think I ovulated I think that this would be a 28 day cycle. Last month it was around day 13 whereas this month around day 15. I'm feeling ropey this evening, we're flying off to Ireland in the morning and I hate flying. The ropeyness is all part of it.

Oh, that's horrid, sorry you're feeling bad. I hate flying too, I've only ever done it once...well twice if you include the reluctant journey home!

At least it's a short one, is it less than an hour? I hope you feel Ok tomorrow, remember to drink plenty if you can. (vodka/water, up to you )

My cycles were getting longer too but last month was back to the short thing again, think I o'd CD13 and this month was 14 or 15 but feeling very premenstrual now, and been very irritable and crampy today in general. I reckon I'll come on by Monday.

Never mind...off to bed in a mo so goodnight all x

Just checking in, hope I'm not too late to board the sleigh

Hello MummyNickleby I thought you'd already boarded! Good to see you here.

Updated stats:
Roxy31 TTC #1, cycle 9, AF due 6 April
QTPie (38) TTC #2, cycle 2, AF due around 6th April
YaYa OC TTC #1, cycle 2 AF due around 7th of April
Wiggy29 (30) TTC #2, cycle 1, AF due 9th April
Combatqueen (30) TTC #1, cycle 4, AF due around 9th April
Cejay8 TTC #?, cycle ?, AF due 10 April
LimeleafLizard (36) TTC #4, cycle 4 AF due 10 April
Eleanora (33) TTC #2, cycle 1, AF due 10th April
Olivetti TTC #2, cycle 1, AF due 10th April
EmpireBiscuit TTC #1, cycle 1, AF due 11 April
SpringFlowers (39) TTC #4, cycle 1 AF due 14 April
Rudawakening (27) TTC#1 cycle 3 AF due 14/15 April
FrenchLimeBlossom (35) TTC #2, cycle 3, AF due 18 April
Crazytictac (31) TTC #2, cycle 6, AF due possibly from 17 - 24 April
Coveredinflour (28) ttc #1 cycle 3 AF due around the 18-22 April
Asianbabe (35) Cycle 11, TTC #3 AF due 20th April
MrsTwinks TTC#1 Cycle 3 AF due May 1st
Happilymarried cycle 12
Pandawatch TTC #1, cycle 4
Treats (35) TTC #3, cycle 3
Pipbin (36) TTC#1, cycle 10
Pinkie29 (30) TTC #1, cycle 3
Debeez TTC #2, cycle 3
StrawberrytallCAKE
knickyknocks (40) TTC#2
SilentMammoth (31) TTC#5, Cycle 1
lastboxoftampons TTC#2, Cycle 3
MummyNickleby
and Flightty who is just lurking

Well,I have now discovered why people don't test early.I already know it's a no-go for this month&period still not due for a few days,the next cycle will seem uber long! Being reminded of awful periods when I'm not on pill,a few days until I'm due&already crampy&eating everything! I hope I fall soon or I'll be the size of a house! So do I stay on this thread now or head over to the one with those ttc as a next cycle (I.e. Due in jan not dec?)x

So with 10+ of us due AF in the next week, surely we'll see some lovely BFPs on this thread soon?