What do we want? Positive pee sticks. When do we want them? NOW (and we are Brooking No Argument)

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The last couple of threads got lots of people pg. Let's hope this is another lucky one.

Oh cartoon, you don't know the half of it. Between tock's pill-popping regimen and getting stuck with needles regularly, and my weird inter-cycle bleeding and bad test results at a fertility clinic, I think we've earned those BFP's!

Wow it sounds it. Dead pleased for u. After all that worry. And wondering who will be next!

Can I be next please??

Yes you can! ahem after me! :)

Smegs! That's absolutely amazing! Congratulations! How lovely that the baby waved at you. How strange about the period - though the same happened to me! Was it an odd period in any way? Mine was shorter and a bit lighter (though I attributed it to my body still not being used to come off of the pill).

Tock, congratulations too! How wonderful! So so happy for you :)

Connection pretty ropey here but just had to come on to congratulate smegs. Good skills! That's fantastic!

Hi musicalmrs! Just for you I opened the app I use to track my periods (yes, I am that geeky) and checked out my stats!

The 'fake' period was basically exactly the same as a normal one. In fact, it was more normal than some of my real periods, if that makes any sense. I'm just going to have to move past it, I will never make sense of it if I dwell on it!

Thanks to everyone who congratulated me. Thanks for making me feel better, I was so shocked earlier but am doing much better now. I should go to bed now!

Should be asleep but too excited. Dang.

Cartoon - Smegs and I could probably bore you to death with the joys of our TTC DC2. Basically if anyone at the NHS/fertility clinic tells you you're unlikely to get pregnant naturally based on tests (my DP's SA in our case) then you're onto a winner.

Quite willing to divulge all the tricks and tips garnered here but don't want to be tedious.

Dying for all of you to have much deserved happy outcomes. TTC for more than a couple of months is crap. Full. Stop. Then you've got the worry of stickiness once you're diffed and so it goes on. My old ma says she's never stopped worrying about her kids and her oldest is 49!!!

We all gotta brook like billio for each other. Thanks so much all of you for being so sweet. It is all good karma for a tonne more of those pos pee sticks about to appear on this fred.

I promise I'll shut up now.

tock I'm so happy for you, congratulations to you and Mr Bean :o

So am I right that you waited and only dtd once?

Morning all, just popping in for a quick post before pottering off to work where I will not be able see what you are all up to .

After such an exciting day yesterday I think it will be difficult to live up to that. But who knows

Just wanted to say a massive congratulations to Bean and Mr Bean

And Smegs 11 weeks already, positively glowing my dear

Bye for now, see you all at tea time xx

Tock has there been anymore poas action this morning? I am so pleased for you lovely x

Sparks it ain't over till its over

Hope works ok Sweetie

Hello to all brokers on this miserable miserable day

just a quick popping in, the biggest congratulations to bean/tock (you will always be bean in my mind!) on your BFP!!!! look forward to seeing you on the preggo thread :) and also yay to smegs, maybe by losing 4 weeks of the risky first trimester, you will now be able to enjoy this pregnancy without as many worries, you've clearly got a super sticky bean there. The pair of you just go to show that doctors don't know anything really when it comes to fertility, its all about chance and being in it to win it lol.

Looking forward to a few more rat smackers joining the other thread soon, as there should be another 3 babies popping out very soon, and we must keep the numbers up!

Brookers! Le CBplus - il dit wee, wee, wee oui, oui, oui! BFP. Deffo thick-lined positive. Have put up piccy on profile . Still can't quite believe that we smacked a rat... Still slightly reeling. Have two really impressive spots so am obviously glowing already - hahaha.

Sweetie - thanks so much. Mr Bean quietly excited and being cautious - quite right too. Hope your day is ok and flies by.

Beedle - we tried to wait a week before first peak on CBFM (but only lasted from Monday to Sat ). I did get a high on CBFM but ignored. We also had entire family staying here (two big brothers, 3 clickity nieces!) and somehow with military precision managed to get some SWI time together. We also DTD on second peak but I don't think that was the rat-smacker!!! How are you getting on with DH and tests - wishing you all the best with him and a positive outcome asap.

YAY!!! bean/tock you are a PSEPP! And that's with a posh pee-stick too! You are definitely glowing m'love - you and the dog Such brilliant news

Am very impressed at you managing to smack the rat with le famille tock en residence (je parle le franglais excellent)!

Smegs - oui, ma petite canard, franglais parfait!

Apologies to any native french speakers for my previous post!

YAY BEEEEEEAN! I'm so chuffed for you, great news :) :) :) Well done for sticking with it despite ttc being thoroughly crap.

Wow, we're really on a roll in Brooking Towers, aren't we? :o

ah im still trying to get over yesterdays excitment i love how everyone here is so happy for eachother x

Wow what a day yesterday! smegs you bloody numpty, that's fab news though, here's to 8 month pregnancies

and bean!!!! I'm, sooooooooooo happy for you, really I am xx

Maybe glad the GP was postive.

Waves to everyone else have a on me [of the fully alcoholic variety or the schloer variety depending on your current diffedness status]

As maybe said, yes I had clinic yesterday, am not sure how I feel about it all, my stupid consultant didn't send through a report of what I'd had done already so the doctor wasn't much help. Plus she was 30 mins late so I felt she was rushing us grr...

OH has to do another test to check the good result he got last time is consistent, I have to go and have a load more blood tests, scans & swabs this Friday too, already sick of the poking and proding! They also want me to consider paying for an AMH test [£75] to see how many eggs I've got left, not sure if knowing that would just do my head in?? Doctor said that then they could decide if IUI was a viable option or if we should go straight to IVF. Advice gratefully recieved on the AMH ladies

Then we go back 2nd week in June to go through all the results and decide on course of action, she wants us to consider IUI first as we get 3 attempts foc on the nhs. Got to be worth a shot but I'm struggling with the whole clinical ness of it all at the moment.

They offer free counselling to anyone in the system and I might try a session as I'm having difficulty getting my head round it all.

Had a bloody nightmare last night with the pupster too, he had his second injection yesterday and it made him really sick, bless him he was sick 3 times, shaking all over and soooooo floppy, I was on the verge of taking him to the emergency vets [£125!!] but I made him some scrambled eggs and he perked up a bit, slept like a log and totally back to normal this morning, scared me silly though!

Sorry so mememe but am a bit like that in life at the moment too lol, OH had a go at me last night for taking TTC 'too seriously', he actually told me to to realx and stop thinking about it . I told him I'd had every intention of doing just that but the bloody appt came through after 3 weeks instead of 12! And how am I supposed to forget about it when my life has become an appt book of scans swabs and blood tests? Sorry more ranting on an otherwise happy thread

What a miserable day out there again after yesterdays respite!

wow i seriously had no idea how complicated all this can be till i joined the brookers!
feel a bit silly that im just worrying about ttc after my mc when i dont have any evidence that it will take forever or that i will mc again and all these thoughts that i just cant shake

cartoon I hope I haven't made you feel silly! The only reason I'm immersed in all this testing malarky is cos I had an ectopic years ago and so have no tube and a deid ovary on one side I could probably conceive naturally if I was more patient lol keeps telling self that

oh no not you its just reading everyones journeys to their bfp youve all been through loads

Scarlett - sounds really tough and hard to come out of that feeling positive. I'm afraid I rarely found any of the support I was offered helpful - although it did mean that we got DP diagnosed and took action which had a good outcome. You could pay to get your AMH tested but as Smegs illustrates perfectly - it won't make a damn bit of difference knowing if it's high or low. You still want a baby. I think they decide what level meds to give you for IVF based on FSH and AMH levels though - so that's perhaps why they requested it.

Your DH doesn't understand how hard it is on you. I'm really sorry - the guys just don't get it.

Brooking for you that it all calms down a bit, though totally understand why you are frustrated and . Indulge yourself in these feelings then get back in the ring for more fighting - determination will get you there. And why not give DH a Chinese burn next time you get the chance, the bugger?

Cartoon - I would say perfectly normal to feel anxious about TTC after MC. That's what we Brookers are here for.

tock that is absoslutely fantastic news!!! woo hooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Was it the more relaxed approach that did the trick then?

Keeping everything crossed for you :)