The Rat Smackteers will get their BFPs and they'll BROOK NO ARGUMENT

[BeedleTheBard]

I hope this thread is as lucky as sparkle's

What do we want?

Positive Pee-sticks

When do we want them?

NOW

Ooh Geek I meant to add my drinking advice- I'm not pg till my pee stick says so!! I don't drink much any way, but I will enjoy myself guilt free until I find an agreeable pee stick :)

Whim I hope you enjoyed your party. When do you move?

Alright my lovelies??? Happy Sunday to you all! Sorry have been not posting much - have been super busy.

Whims leaving party already?? Seems like only yesterday that we found out that MI6 were transferring Agent 00Whims to the US. On a scale of 1 to 10, how prepared are you for the trip?

Cartoon - brooking arguments (as opposed to not brooking any) is perfectly allowed. Give yourself time to adjust lovely - you can't expect yourself to get back to the PMA when it's all so raw. We're here for you whether you're brooking or not - please don't be afraid to post about feeling down when you're feeling down.

Geek - favourite beer festival planned for the day AF is due = classic preggo sign. Top stuff, I shall start to practice my next routine...

Sweetie I'd be surprised if a private appointment just to ask questions and get advice on further tests and stuff would affect your entitlement to NHS IVF treatment but it's well worth asking. I think it's a top idea to spend more time finding answers to your questions - it must surely help if the process makes more sense to you, IYSWIM.

Ooooh must just nip off - OH has put the rest of the film we half-watched last night on... be back to finish my post in a bit...

Hi girlies, just back home so won't stay long. Just to say solars am keeping my fingers crossed for your bfp and hope af not got you. cartoonbig hugs and we are brooking on your behalf. geek I'd test then drink.

Had good chat with dh in the car of all the qus we have for our appt on Tuesday, and our plan for the next year should we not get lucky. Love him lots, we are a good team.

Will be around tomorrow, my last week at work before Thailand. Eek.

Hello, am back again - who missed me??

Keep - wahhhoooooo to Thailand!! I keep dreaming of emigrating to far off distant lands - I don't think this weather is helping. Deffo won't be doing a Beedle though - difficult to find sausages ? The horror!

Maybe how is Operation Prove Twatfink GP Wrong going?? I imagine you both doing your superhero outfits, flexing your muscles and flying off around the world to achieve your various missions each day!

Well things are very good here in Impsland. We've taken our foot right off the TTC accelerator and it is fab. I have to say that I find that I am increasingly becoming less committed to the cause - things are going so well in my and OH's life and we've got so many nice things in the pipeline that I keep questioning why we would want to try to do something that has the potential to end up going so badly wrong that it would taint our happiness forever. To be totally honest, I'm not sure if I'm TTC because I want to TTC, or if it's because it's all so drilled into us that Having a Fulfilled Life = Having a Baby that I'm just doing it because, well, everyone else is.

OH and I have agreed that we're deffo going to need some sort of help to get updiffed, which we're totally fine with, and in the last few weeks we've been coming up with a Plan B (a bit like you Keep!) to follow if baby making doesn't work out. Strange thing is, I find myself feeling more excited about doing those things than having a baby and all that comes with one. I've raised the possibility of stopping TTC forever for a little while with OH but he is v keen to keep going for a while longer before we admit defeat and turn to Plan B. Don't get me wrong, if I do get a BFP and a successful pregnancy, I can't imagine that I be anything but over the moon and wonder why the hell I had ever got cold feet. For the moment though, my cold feet seem to be ruling my head.

This could all just be hormones talking of course - ovulation is imminent (and so it damn well should be - I'm on CD 22!) - I'm sure that in a couple of months I'll be back to normal!

Right, sorry for off-loading - if any of you are still reading this post, thank you for your time!

Night night lovelies, have a nice sleep.

Imps I missed you :o glad to hear you are doing so well. Of course, this new laid back attitude will surely help you get diffed!!!

Can someone look at my chart and tell me if I've ovulated yet? I'm assuming not, as FF seems to have had a bit of a freak out, before my first peak I think I was 3dpo, then I went to 1dpo, and now I'm ovulation not detected :( promised myself that I wouldnt get wound up or stressed but I'm struggling a little to keep a lid on it. I guess I shall have to carry on bonking until further notice!!

Morning all, just logged on for news of Solars - is AF now late? Hope so!

Imps it sounds like your life is going very well and it's good to have a plan B. We had a plan B for if this pregnancy hadn't worked out. We had already decided that this would be our last attempt and it felt good to have some other ideas to focus on. I can confirm though that I am/was delighted that the scans were OK and it looks like everything is going to be all right, but if it hadn't been, then it would have been nice to know that those other things were options. I'm sure eveyone gets cold feet re TTC - having a baby is such a huge commitment. I'm sure things will all work out in the end.

Can't remember what anyone else is up to now and I've got to get on with some work - will be back later!

Morning all.

Imps it is so good to hear you sounding so positive about life in general. You are much braver than I am, I don't know what I would do if I couldn't have a baby. But Sparks is right, now you are relaxing, a BFP is surely yours. Operation Prove Twunt Wrong is going well thanks, 2 accupunctures down, wheat free sugar free diet is actually great, and feeling a bit better about it all.

Keep glad you had a good talk about it all. I am brooking for you for Tuesday.

Sparks how was the wedding? I hope you had an amazing time and that your bro had a lovely day.

Beedle how are the aches and pains?

Face how are you feeling lovely?

Boo did you manage to get DH home from the pub?

I have copious amounts of pant snot, still no temp spike yet. Maybe the accu has helped with all this? Not sure if it can work so fast.

Hope you don't have too busy a day Gen

How is it only 10am? I am starving hungry already

Morning all. Our leaving party was lovely, thanks. We don't actually leave our house until the end of the month, and then fly Aug 10th, but it was the only date we could get the venue we wanted.

My amazing mummy friends made me a bag out of harris tweed, and then got about 10 friends to knit/ crochet flowers for it. Pics on FB.

imps I love your preparedness-o-meter. I think we're getting there. We get packers, so it's just a case of deciding what to take, what to keep in storage and what to get rid of. I think our local charity shop is going to do rather well.

Hope you're all well. Sounds like there's lots going on for everyone!

A happy Monday to you all, and some lovely cold sausage sandwiches. Not a euphemism, but leftovers from the barbecue.

Whims so pleased your party went well. I love love love your bag, what a lovely group of friends you have.

Are you all set up in Washington? I would love a cold sausage sarnie, ta very much.

Whim I love your bag too, but will have to pass on the cold sausage front, any kind of food at the moment is making me want to properly vom (diffed or 2 day hangover )

Maybs It went really well, the rain held off after the ceremony and the group photos, long enough for the kinds to play on the massive lawn, blow off some steam!! I spent most of the day looking at my nephew, who is by far the cutest child I've ever know (well equal to my other neices and nephews) but he did become pretty obsessed with me, and then threw a tantrum sunday morning when I was saying goodbye!!

Pant snot you say? OV just round the corner then? is mrmaybs ready for some action? good to hear your feeling better about things though! Ive got an acupuncturist lined up ready for when I can convince DH to come with me!!

My Nan is in hospital having her surgery today, so mega super worried!!!

imps glad that you are chilling out about ttc. are you going to get the tests rolling, as they do take a while. I was actually talking about our plan for next year as in when we would start to think about IVF etc, rather than a plan B with no babies. That is not an option for us, we def want a family, and I would adopt if that was the only way. In fact, I have thought for a while I would adopt a third child anyway. But anyway, I think you are still young so there is no rush for you to make any decisions, and leave it to fate for a while :)

sparks what op is your grammy having? Keeping fingers crossed for the sparkly family. Sorry I have no idea about your chart. Any reason for funny temps earlier in the month? I would have thought you have most likely ovulated, but keep doing it EOD for a while. your dh will therefore not think you are just in it for ovulation, so it's a win-win!

maybe glad to hear you'll be ov-ing soon. i am going to do acu when we get to thailand, and even dh (a very sceptical doctor) said he'd do it if there's some evidence so I'd better scrape around on google to find something pseudo-scientific at least.

whim our leaving do is - errr, we'll be in the park/pub all day on the 28th. Join us if you can... It's all getting a bit soon now. I feel a little overwhelmed sorting everything out - job, house, cars etc - can't imagine for you with 3 1/2 kids!!

Sparks brooking for your nana, hope she is ok.

Maybe Mr Boo got home at a loverly early time last night to find his ever loving wife in her best lingerie fast asleep better luck tonight eh!

Gen hope you are having a good day at work.

Imps I am glad to hear that you are relaxing.

Whim the bag sounds lovely, I am not on the D+FB group so cant have a good nosey peek at it.

Sorry can't remember what else I have read, sorry if I have missed you out. Well I am off to find a dress that will do for 2 baptisms and a 40th birthday (same day as one of the baptisms father of the baptised baby) I have 2 weeks!! wish me luck, and link if you have seen something suitable.

Sparks am brooking for your nana, she will be just fine. MrM is off this week, so he will be raring to go I really do like the accu. My craniosacral therapy took an interesting turn this week though, she was trying to manipulate my pituitary gland through the inside of my mouth. Luckily I don't really have a gag reflex

Keep are you getting excited yet? You will have a fab time in Thailand. There is evidence that it works, I shall try and find you a link.

Boo Monsoon have a huge 50% sale on. I got a few dresses at the weekend, and there is some lovely stuff in Warehouse too

hi maybe and other brookers im doing ok thank you. got me an appointment at the miscarrage clinic in surrey. so hopefully ill be all sorted soon.
imps on that bombshell im sure ur already preggo hehe.

That's great news Face I hope you get some answers. When is your appointment?

at the moment on my birthday she offered us two dates and i said the 9th of aug not the 2nd. but when my conformation came throu she'd booked it on the 2nd. d'oh!

does anyone know anything of dr shehata?

I have heard of him Face though I know very little about him. Is it an NHS appointment, or is it private (if you don't mind me asking)? My accu lady wants me to have my NK cells tested, but it is so expensive!

im going private because although my nhs doc is very good hes limited on what he can do for me untill i have a 3rd mc which i dont want to go through if i dont have to.
im wondering about these nk cells.... im going to ask about it

Hello everyone!

Sorry, I'm always mega busy on a Monday so this will be very brief and a bit me, me, me!

Thank you Keep & Gen for thinking of me, no show of af at the weekend but i've had a little spotting today so I don't think it's my month! Also we heard back from the hospital about IVF and we've been told were not eligible due to being too old :( we've decided to go private but not yet discussed how far we'll take it! Will try and catch up properly tomorrow!

Waves to all x

Solars Old? old my arse you're old. How are you feeling? Good for you for going private. But I am syill holding out that AF stays away.

Face I know what you mean about the GP. Their hands are tied up until a certain point. I looked on one clinics website, and it was over £700 to have the NK cell tests. And that's before any treatment for it. Really just not something we could even consider at the moment.

god it is expensive isnt it! im happily in the dark about how much treatments cost at the moment untill we have our intial app

In all honesty Maybe not feeling too good, but i'm trying to be really positive about everything, also heard some sad news at the weekend that my SIL had a miscarriage recently and they're trying for their 3rd! IVF just seems so expensive too but we feel we have to give it a shot at least once. By the way that NK cell testing is a lot!

Oh Solars lovely. You are so very brave. And your poor SIL.

IVF is expensive, but it will be so worth it when you get to hold your baby. We are all here brooking for you lovely Solars so can lean on us whilst you build your strength again.

It really is Face the clinic I was looking at apparently send the samples of to the US for in depth testing. I think it is a far more researched area over there than it is here

really suprised they dont do it here. im feeling postitive about the app thou looking forward to finding out what they can do