Hoping for a July BFP Part Two

[redstrawberry]

Hoping the luck continues here.....

V. Good effort on the ill shag- I know what you mean, sometimes before ttc I sometimes couldn't be bothered but felt a bit obliged- always felt better and closer after we had.

Winkle- when will you hear about job interview? Shall we send out a search party for Flo? We could make a missing poster!

We defo need a BFP- are any of the graduates still lurking. Tedmundo- are you around? How are you getting on?

We're on cd13- have dtd cd11 and 13- hope I didn't miss the egg before cd11 but que sera and all that. Countdown to wedding: 8 days!

Have a lovely day everyone x

Awww...8 days? So exciting! Mine is 3 months today, so if we succeed this cycle I can announce it then :-)

Good effort on shagging whilst ill!

We do need another BFP after the rush in the first week. I'm testing at 10 DPO tomorrow. Feeling weird, but must listen to kick!

fx you announce the good news at the wedding nicola

Not long to go wishful just over a week....very exciting :)

sorry AF arrived yikes :(

lost AF jokes fx its a BFP for cherry and winkle

Still no signs or symptoms at this end - just patiently waiting
2ww is not a good thing for sanity, I have already dreamed up how I would announce it, when my first trimester would end.... eeek too many hopes in one basket!

Cd35, when will she arrive?

Please don't send out a search party! I want her to have lost her passport!!

Haven't heard back from the interview but not sure if I really want the job. Spent last night job hunting.

We got tired of the DTD by cd15 so hoping we caught it. DP doesn't understand it all though, that's for sure. I think he thinks you have unprotected sex once and then a baby comes! He will ask the day after 'are you pregnant yet?' as if it is instant. Doesn't get the 2ww at all!

I have no real symptoms to speak of either red. Maybe it's a symptom in itself?! I was pretty hopeful for this month at the beginning but that is fading now.

Congrats on the wedding ladies, at least it's something to take your mind off it all!

Hi wishful .. Yes I keep up with you all daily and fx for more BFPs. I am ok, bless you for asking. Metalling big time but hope to have a scan in a couple of weeks to see if everything is ok. Just want this one to stick sooooo much. sigh

I am also excited about being a virtual wedding guest next week! you must be getting so excited. Where is the honeymoon to be?

winkle and cherry really rooting for you two to get those BFPs and that AF has got completely waylaid.

As for symptom spotting.. I can only tell you I tested at 10dpo do to feeling sick. I guess some do, and some don't!

hi ted did you have any symptoms before 10dpo?

I'm 5dpo and wondering if I should be feeling anything by now? I know I've probably not even implanted yet.

haha dulcet aw bless him! we stopped at CD15 too, just hoping we got it covered.

Winkle are your cycles regular? have you been this late before (trying not to get excited for you)

Hello ladies! This is regarding a slightly older comment but RIBS you should totally write your own 50 shades, I bet it would be tons better! Apparently they're considering Ryan Gosling to play the guy in the film, not sure what to make of that. Which reminds me a friend of mine was adamant Ryan Gosling is the same person as the kid who played Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter films. He does look similar but RG is like 10 years too old and it makes me laugh to think of him running around with the kids in the films in his 20s...

Anyway, I bought some Clearblue ovulation sticks yesterday (so pricey!) and what do you know, they seem to have changed the little digital reader thing in the 3 years that I last used it that it refused to work (it was just showing the empty circle before I even did anything, instead of showing it was ready for the test to be done). Not fair! I guess I'll have to buy another reader too, grr.

red

It's medically and scientifically impossible to feel anything related to "pregnancy" at 5dpo. :)

Remember that it takes 10 - 12 days to implant - this is after 24 hours of doing nothing, then 5 -7 days of wondering down the fallopian tubes, then another week or so implant and then another 3 - 5 days for the HCG to show up in your blood / urine

Also, progesterone naturally increases after OV to "prepare" the body for a fertilised egg. Around two days before AF is due - right up until AF is due, the progesterone will continue to increase if there is a fertilised egg - and the hormones tell your brain to not cue AF. Or it will decrease if there isn't and cue AF arrival.

Do yourself a favour and google "progesterone symptoms" and you'll see why "pregnancy symptoms" are a self-fulfilling prophecy every month. They are exactly the same as the progesterone symptoms.

The only time you get symptoms will be when the hcg hormone is high enough in your body to produce a positive pregnancy test. Also, if you google the "time to get pregnancy symptoms", they actually start at about 5 weeks pregnant. Not 2 weeks since potential conception (before pregnancy is confirmed) :)

Ahh nice to hear from you ted, I thought you'd abandoned us to greener pastures!!
Mummimania did you not get another test holder with it? Yes they are very pricey, that's why I was so keen to get on the trial and get them free lol

thanks kick I needed that to stop obsessing I don't know how I am going to survive for another 2 weeks. Its like I have no control over my mind. I find myself planning ahead and dreaming about telling people "i'm pregnant" and then having to pull myself together and say i'm not pregnant yet, it hasn't happened. Arggghhh! its insane - I keep going over stats, symptoms, twinges to build up that glimmer of hope.

I think to distract myself I need to read another book before I get too carried away!

Bless you red, it's hard isn't it, the only thing I've read is that cm dries up after ov which is depressing me as I still have abundants of the stuff! I wish I'd paid more attention the other times I've been pregnant but then that's probably why I was, I wasn't obsessing

You need one of those months where you get every single symptom and AF arrives anyway. Then you realise that there really ARE no symptoms. That they are directly related to progesterone.

Pregnant women will obviously disagree but that's hindsight. I believe in science and facts and progesterone IS science and facts. Until progesterone moves to HCG and you pick up a positive pregnancy, you're not "pregnant".

So if you think you're having symptoms, take a test. If they are true "pregnancy" symptoms - you will get a positive test. If they are progesterone symptoms (which are PMS symptoms as well), you won't.

Case in point - I never, ever get sore breasts before AF is due. For some random reason, the last 3 cycles, my breasts have been SO sore. I can't run down stairs without them hurting like shit. The first 2 cycles, I genuinely believed that it was pregnancy.

This cycle, I know for sure it's not. And it wouldn't be good if it was.

But goes to show that our bodies can react slightly differently to the same bloody thing every single month. The hard thing is to realise that the 2ww is just that. It's a two week wait until any discernible symptoms - such as a missed AF or a positive pregnancy test.

kitty

My CM usually dries up after OV but I had a few months where it didn't. Unfortunately, that's another one of those "non reliable" methods to prove pregnancy. And your body may have done that but mine may not.

It's funny because we look for comfort in shared experiences but the truth is that every body is so different.

The hospital said that they have never had someone so ill as I was discharged basically straight from critical care. Most people are in hospital for at least a week with lesser complications. I was in a grand total of 3 days. Every one is different and our bodies are so different and unique.

Sorry for the overly practical posts. I just know that when I started on here and people were telling me how I "definitely" pregnant because they had had the same symptoms for each of their pregnancies and it turned out (three consecutive months) that I wasn't pregnant.

I just figure if you are pregnant, it won't go anywhere so being practical about it will keep the sanity more. But if you're not pregnant, the fall from being convinced that you are is further and harder. And it hurts more and there are more tears than if you try and look at it from a practical perspective.

I think we need a revival of the no symptoms thread!

kitty the CM stuff is really unreliable - I tracked CM for the first two cycles and it dried up, then increased and showed all the right signs - but then AF arrived. I am going to give my body the 'reverse pyschology' treatment and tell myself i'm not pregnant. In any case if I'm not, like you say kick atleast the fall will less hard to deal with.

anyone got anything nice planned for the weekend??

Its good to be practical kick. I did exactly what you mentioned last month; noticed all these things that must mean I was pregnant and then I wasn't. I can't pretend I don't notice stuff and hope it's a sign but in reality I know it's not and I just count down the days until I can test to be sure one way or another!

The olympic torch is here this weekend red so we might pop down and have a look at that. See what the fuss is about!

We're having a duck roast!! :D

And you?

Roast chicken and a walk in the park.
Might nip into town for a bit of retail therapy to de-stress.

at least you have good weather dulcet to see the torch - meant to be a rain free weekend! We got soaked when we went to see it.

Thanks kick, it actually makes me feel better and your right we are all so different! I don't know why I'm reading stuff and expecting my body to react the way others have, the 2 times I've been pregnant I didn't expect/ wasn't looking for it and both times I didn't know til I was a) told to do a test and b) thought af should really have come now, both times was shocked with pg result, I'm just gona be glad to have a lie in, hate waking at 6 when dd doesn't even wake til after 7

Hi all. Well, I'm out: AF arrived 2/3 days early (only 12 days after OV) so back to CD1. So upset this month I can barely function which is pathetic. Thinking I should never have left it so late to decide to have kids, I'm too old and DD will never have a sibling. Not helped by having taken DD to playgroup this morning and had to look at 3 month scans and wish expectant friend (due Tues) all the best. Kick is spot on - I'd convinced myself this was the month because on Tues I started to get sore boobs, by Weds I felt disctinctly "odd" then by Thurs pm I was feeling nauseous. I never used to get any PMS symptoms but I guess these must now be they cause I'm not pregnant. Feel utterly s**t. Sorry for self-indulgence.
Chimp fx for you on Sunday and to anyone testing soon.

oh no repisa sorry that AF arrived :(
don't beat yourself up about the symptom spotting, its just human instinct to analyse the twinges and signs. please be kind to yourself. it must be awful having to look at the scans. Don't give up hope x

Sorry AF got you resipsa

kick - Thank you for the reality check! I'd managed to convince myself that this is the month, but actually I get most of the same symptoms before AF is due to rear her ugly head. I've never wanted anything as much as I want to be PG, and I think it's really clouded my judgement!