TTC 10 plus months, Part 7

[lisacn]

A friendly, supportive thread for those of us who are taking a bloody long little longer time than average to conceive.

Lemon - are you partying?

Ok I am toasting with a San pellegrino limonata - kisses to all 10+ers mwah!

That actually sounds very nice kitty! For non drink month I may design my own mocktails line.

Cheers - with my cup of tea after kitty's encouragement I am thinking slightly sheepishly of the generous amounts of white wine I drank all weekend. It was very nice, chilled wine on a terrace and after a long cycle ride I felt I deserved it. Anyhow, I am not feeling different enough to be allowed hope. So shush....

Have a good time 10+ers, meeting up NOW!!

And OMG wine you have been through the mill. So sorry about the nasty results and side effects. I cannot believe how much s**t your fugitive has thrown in your path to a now more than ever deserved win!

Waves and WE NEED REPORTS :)

Hmm, pass me one kitty that is better than tea :)

Oo it's like a proper party now. someone must be checking mumsnet whilst in a group of mumsnetters?! I hope someone wore a tail feather and pee stick badge.

PS critter love your secret and dangerous hobbying :) 20 strangers writing poetry. And your DH lets you go there by yourself...

Btw the scary day for me is not Friday T-day, but surviving without a visit until then. And with the slightly more mobile bowels, I keep thinking it is starting already. Not yet. But normally due on Thursday. Of course I am on a course all of Thursday. So that will mean plenty of tampons in the bag, and emergency pad wearing, to avoid having to scuttle out in unseemly fashion...

Oh yes, wine I hope we can count on princess for the feathers. Was it not her who coined that particular phrase? Shame pout is a chicken like me, because the negative pee sticks in pockets were her idea, I think...

Haha! Yes, and a sparkly knob poking out of the pocket would be another dead giveaway!

Just popping in to say hello and wave to the meet up albeit virtually! Ginger beer is my non alcoholic tipple of choice.

Hope you're all doing well. Best of luck to everyone and hope to see you on the 6+ months graduates thread very very soon x

And lemon, I really, really hope that you don't have an unwelcome visitor on Thursday. I was constantly mistaking bowel growls for impending AF during my long months without one showing up.

I have a choice of limonata or aranciata, let me know which you'd like would go v well with a tot of vodka in I reckon

Hello all. Couldn't miss the virtual meet up! Am very of those who could make it to the real thing and not just to check that no 10+er is actually a 47 year old Scouse trucker called Dave

Here with a brew, using all my imagination to pretend it's a G&T

Adjusts ladies wig, loses scouse accent & locks up the cab and raises a glass to our TTC 10 plussers.

So nice that some of our grads are here too. Hello kitty and mini and bubbas!

So hopelemons that the squits are a good sign for you too!

Wine My God you have been through it lately and a glass of wine is the least you deserve. I hope that you thoroughly enjoy it.

Waves to artemis

Agree with lemons that we need updates and reports from the meet preferably with photos

Still no live feed???

Just wanted to pop back on to say how much of a shitty doofus I feel for not going. Please can we arrange another meet up soon so I can come [grovelling smiley]. You are all such a lovely bunch of ladies and meeting you all would mean that something good could come out of this whole crappy TTC business

X

Hello ladies! May I join the virtual paaaarty on the way home from the meet up? I bring . Yum. It was lovely and lovely to meet everyone. And we could talk about ttc as much as we wanted and everyone was normal :) Big thanks to joyce for organising. Hopefully there will be another one soon and you can all come (apart from Dave the trucker).

Hope all the lovely ladies that I met got home ok x

Oh hurrah, thanks gin for the update, glad you had a lovely time! Hope I can make the next one... If I buy train tickets far enough advance it's just possible to get to That London without having to remortgage. I agree Dave Pout it would be something good to come out of the crap.

Waves to all, fingers crossed Lemons that the squits are indeed an omen of something more exciting!

Home safe and sound!
Was really lovely to meet up and put a face to a (nick)name! Everyone just as lovely in RL as they are on here! Hopefully we can do it again with more of us soon. As gin says, thanks for organising joyce.
Waves to everyone xxx Dont mind if I do!

I'm home too :) As Frannie & Gin say it was absolutely lovely to put names and faces together and to talk non stop TTC with other lovely ladies. Everyone was totally normal and really, really nice. Another one soon please! Oh and I even managed to find a brown dinner. Get in. Better give Mr Princess (ha what a metro name!!) some attention. Loving the online virtual party, am I too late to pass round some weak squash and party rings? Xxx I'll post proper to everyone tomorrow but wine I'm so sorry to hear of your trials and tribulations post op. Hope you are healing and feeling better after posh vino xxx

Hi ya - last night was fun. Thank you ladies for coming but Dave how could you? Anyway It was very nice to see what you look like and to use your real names although a little confusing! . . I got home and mrJoy said "so was it like a talk or a seminar on ivf. What did you learn?" clearly he didn't get it but that's fine, i just let him believe what he wanted. Love the virtual party banter - and all the flowing. Our table was flowing with juice and water and diet coke although a few peeps had a glass of vino.
Will catch up later with stuff but just wanted to say sarlat I hope you are hanging on in there. I can imagine the wait is torture and very hard not to think about. And wine I can't believe you have been back in hospital. Argh! Poor you. I hope you are on the mend now and eating lots of iron.

Great you had such a lovely time. Special waves to dave-pout. And the news that the finger is pointing elsewhere this month... Spotting has started so we're counting on sarlat for this weeks win!

Thanks for all the first day queries. I'm absolutely knackered! Everyone seems to be really excited that I've filled the role (user documentation writer for those that want to know), which just means there is even more work heading my way once I'm up to speed. Daunting is a complete understatement. Anyway, the resident cat, Monty, is very chatty and everyone is very friendly.
sarlat hang in there lass, fingers firmly crossed this end.
critter loved the tea and Archers . We are here permanently so if you are ever passing through...
buzzy have a fab time in Italy. Hope the sunshine has suitable SWI properties
(MrTeu and Poppy are having a stand off in the lounge over who has rights to the paper).
MrsT we're all here for you. Hope you are feeling better.
euro at AF
princess woohoo to the positive OPK! You go girl! and yay for your Nan too. She sounds like a great lady.
carrie sorry to hear about all the pain and performance anxiety. Hope you are ok.
pout and frannie better the tears are out than in.
joycep about your ex-colleagues. I had lunch with one of mine this week and she admitted they got pg in days Bless her, she was quite embarrassed about it. She's been a great support this past year.
wine I really hope you are on the mend now. What a trial and that they want to test for pg. I guess they just have to be sure.
gin I liked the grandchildren put down. Nice.
I'm sure I've missed some people, so much to catch up on after just a couple of days! I to am jealous some of you are meeting up, hope you have an excellent chinwag.

See I'm not functioning right, missed a whole page of updates when I posted that. I'm giving up and going to bed. Another action packed brain cramming day tomorrow. Glad you all had a great time. So is pout a Dave?!

Hello all!

I enjoyed reading about the virtual party on here last night. I have a lovely evening at the meet up. As I approached the table I had the same reaction I always have walking into the waiting room at the fertility clinic ("But... they all look so normal!"). I'm not sure what I'm expecting! I had a lovely evening, so thanks to joycep for organising. Pout I am sure there will be another one. Why not organise? Then you have to make yourself go.

Glad that you all had such a good time and that it was a success! Did laugh at joycep's DH thinking it was some kind of learning/IVF seminar

It's good to hear that you/we all look "normal" and that there were no wombs dragging along the floor or clunking sounds when people stood up as another bit of aged baby making bits fell off.

Teuchter No I'm not a Dave though that would explain a lot........

Good idea about me arranging the next meet up euro. I was actually thinking how it might be nice to do a weekend meet next time and maybe have a picnic in a park to take advantage of the Summer???? Just an idea.

So bloody sorry lemons that you are spotting. Is there any hope that it isn't AF?