Easter bunnies and chocolate eggs! Jump aboard for the ladies hoping the Easter Bunny will bring a very special egg.

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Well the witch has caught up with me at last. So I have decided its time to start a new thread as I think our christmas reindeer need a rest.
So step aboard ladies and join me for a hunt for the golden egg.

Like the sound of the geeky stuff in that car!!

Treats I'm so sorry :( I hope you're feeling better and that you're headed to your holiday in a relaxed frame of mind. Try to enjoy and forget about TTC? And then you can come back ready to try again just in time for shag week? Thinking of you, hun. xx

Blackcats how are you feeling? I'm so very sorry for your CP.

Silent :( It's crap, isn't it?

Think June was a shit month for all of us. CD3 here Having a heavy day with lots of huge clots. It's just gross. Seeing nurse at GP for smear and to talk test results on Thursday. In doing some research, I think I might have fibroids. Symptoms seem to point towards it. My mother had a hysterectomy for fibroids about 12 years ago or so. I thought it'd be good to ask her the circumstances so I could bring it up with the doctor, so talked to her tonight. Of course then I had to come clean about TTC. Here's hoping she doesn't keep asking me if I'm PG yet!

Pip your car sounds fun! :)

Hello Wiggy Crazy and Lime Hope you're all well.

Oh, and a funny thing about my convo with my mom - she started to get a bit upset and said she was now nervous that there was something wrong with me (she has just had radiotherapy for breast cancer and just had polyps removed from her colon - all easily recoverable, but it's left her kind of jittery). I had to reassure her that I was fine and that if we couldn't have another baby then it's not the end of the world, we can adopt, etc. In telling her that, it did help to put the situation into perspective for me. I'd be very sad if I couldn't have another baby...but, really, it's not the end of the world, is it?

That's how I feel lastbox, I had a breast-lump scare in December, was sent to breast clinic within 1 working day, but that working day was Fri to Mon so had the most frightening weekend of my life. All was ok: I have one lumpy breast
But yes, the world won't end if I can't have another and I shall just continue to spoilt DS

No spotting from this mornings run.

This might sound harsh lastbox but just think how many women would give anything to have just one baby. Remember what you do have.

That's good news pip. I agree with you, we must be grateful we have one LO in our lives.

Pip - that's my point exactly

Oh guysres we are all down aren't we? We all need something lovely to happen!

We are aren't we? Only 6 months left of trying for me
But looking at the positives: might be able to afford to go to Florida in 2 years if I don't...

[wishes she could say something to cheer everyone up]

Hi everyone! Sorry about my absence of late. Been working very long hours for the past few weeks. It's difficult to keep track of all that has happened, but I gather a few of you are feeling blue. I am sorry to hear that.

I accidentally got drunk last night and had a smear test booked for 8:30 this morning. For the record, I do NOT recommend getting one done when you are --still drunk seriously hung over. Eeeekk. Now drinking Lucozade and eating dry toast...

ah, that made me smile squirrel!

Went to loo before leaving work and there that bloody witch was. Cd 1 again, hey ho.

Otoh, check me out with my 28 day, ov on cd14 cycle! Never been like that before!!!

No Silent no woman has ever ov'd on day 14. Ever.

Sorry Silent just read all that properly.
Evil witch. Have some extra biscuits.

Pip I know!!!! I thought it was a disempowering patriarchal conspiracy theory!!!

You can still stay on this thread though Silent no need to jump ship. If you got lucky this next cycle you would due 1st of April, still easter in my book.

Sounds good to me.much better if I conceive this cycle anyway as have loads more clothes for that time of year as dd 1and 3 are april and may!

Can't do anything to lift the general gloom, I'm afraid. Just to update you - I continued to just have spotting all day Saturday and made up my mind I would test on Sunday. However, the bleeding was fairly positively AF by then and has been very heavy ever since.

Still, I got all the upset out of the way on Thursday and Friday, so feeling OK now. It was always going to be an unlikely cycle for me, with so many things on. However, it was a funny one. I had a late ov - according to FF, although I wonder if I actually ov'd on the same day as usual - but even with that, my LP was about 3 days longer than normal. I actually wonder if we were successful in introducing a sperm to an egg this month but it failed to implant. It would explain the spotting and the heavy period and the longer LP.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it - I find it encouraging.

I've decided to stop temping for at least the next cycle. It just makes me anxious. At the end of the day, we know what we need to do and I can still keep an eye on my EWCM. Both DH and I have been so busy recently that we've had our minds on other things. I'd like to use our holiday as a way of 'reconnecting' and I've decided that we're just going to have sex every other day from now until further notice . Hopefully we'll both just feel more relaxed and more 'together' - and even if it doesn't help the ttc, it should help us.

lbot - I know you're right about appreciating what we have. I was looking at DD today thinking that very thing. I wish I knew for definite whether I was going to have another one or not. That way I could come to terms once and for all with the not having another one and get on and enjoy everything that's wonderful about my life.

When is your holiday Treates? It must be soon?

Guys, I am about to do a separate thread about this but wanted your opinions too; if I normally ov CD14, was planning to DTD CD 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15. Would you add/alter days at all do you think?

Treats, I had exactly what you describe for a couple of cycles when we were ttc. I.e. Longer LP, heavier than normal AF, and also 'implantation pain'. The same thought occured to me - that fertilisation could be happening, but not implantation.

Also, we only DTD every other day the month we conceived.

HTH. I am thinking of you all, wishing you the best.

Hi Silent - I would go with that schedule. Apparently if your man's sperm count is normal, it's fine to do it every day.

I got a + OPK yesterday so the action has begun in earnest.

Has anyone else heard of/abiding by the theory that the woman should, ahem, come after the man so the cervix dips in and out of the pool of sperm and sucks them into the uterus?? It's from the book 'The Science of Orgasm' which you can read on Google books...

Gosh, the amount of weird trivia I heave learned over the past nine months is astounding!

Squirrel I remember seeing that as a film about 15 years ago.
However plenty of women have got pg without 'arriving'.

squirrel completely unnecessary. It would be a major evolutionary flaw if that were necessary!! I'm actually far less likely to have an O when its the best time to conceive as i'm more worried about ensuring DP does and that as much as possible stays inside afterwards! Having an Orgasm and feeling horny don't always follow hand in hand for me. I definitely want more sex mid cycle.

Well, 9 months into this TTC lark and I'll try almost anything!

Will report back in approximately 14 days time to let you know the results of my scientific study...