BFP in 2012- a thread for winkling-advice and COD-avoidance!

[wishfulthinking1]

So... here we are!
In a positive move to avoid monthly heartache this is the thread where we'll ttc in 2012.

"will there be winkling?" of course!
"will there be tinkling?" too right! you filthy buggers
"will there be time in the COD?" probably- but it'll only be short lived!
"will there be BFPs?" YES YES YES!

A pledge! do you think I'm taking this too seriously?
I, wishfulthinking, promise to ttc with all my might. I accept that ttc is a long, drawn out process and I shant allow myself to become too obsessed with the process in 2012. (if I remain in-duffed at new year, however, I reserve the right to be right royally pissed off with life and everyone in general!)

Who's with me?

Wishfulthinkng1- ttc numero 1- expecting a sticky BFP on July 31st (and at 28 day intervals thereafter!) Days till wedding - 6!

Xxx

I got my fingers crossed for you too kitty hope AF stays away.

Mine's finished already - have some watery pink spotting now and then. That's very short considering I expected it to be flushing stuff out - its been a very short 2 day AF. I am still getting pulling in lower abdomen and boobs are heavy and tingly. I haven't taken another test kick - going to wait the week out and see what happens.

Even if I am still pregnant I am worried something might be wrong as I have heavily bled on Saturday. Sunday was a light bleed and almost gone now. TMI alert - my sanitary towel has a fleck of pink and thats it. WTF is going on.

red that does sound a bit odd. Maybe a trip to the GP is needed?

kitty glad you are having a good day.

Wow - congrats wishful - thread starter's luck strikes again. I am soooo you'll be sunning the bump in Thailand soon. What a great start to your married life. And DC will be an international traveller from the word go!
V pleased for you.

red I had a similar experience this month. V, v, v sore boobs which isn't (wasn't? maybe is now?) normal for me pre-AF so much so that I was convinced I was pregnant. Took no test, mind, then AF arrived; v heavy day 1 then tailed off to nothing by day 3. Weird.

kitty fx for you that all is OK tomorrow.

Thanks kick

Thinking of kitty and red.

Morning! I was just wondering if anyone else feels a pulling/tugging/stitch feeling on their right or left side a day or so later post ovulation?

I might get a superdrug test on the weekend if this carries on. However I don't think I am ... I just want to make sure that the embryo has left the building so I have a good chance in August. I dont want another WTF cycle.

You're probably not red. Any residual pain or is everything ok apart from spotting?

My cycle lasted about 10 days but that was just spotting going for ever and ever and ever!

red think you should get a test. You should feel a lot better once you know it is all completely over.

I actually thought about it when I went to bed last night and there may be left over hcg in her system. Which may potentially be picked up by a urine test.

HCG is the first thing into the blood stream and shows up in the urine 3 days later. But it leaves the blood stream first.

Your best bet would actually be a blood test. It would be more reliable than a urine test now.

Newbie I sometimes think I can feel twinges around time of ov but I'm not sure if it is what's happening or not.

Red have you been to see your GP?

Thanks kick I think I've just got to stop obsessing - I am/was desperate to get pg again after mc but I've got to accept that it's not going to happen at the moment. I did a cb dig test today and it seems to have gone up again. I guess the hcg is going to take a while to leave my system. Going to try and stop analysing every symptom - I've had a tiny amount brown discharge today when I wiped, feel really nauseous again and my boobs hurt a lot, particularly on the sides.

What do you mean "it seems to have gone up again"??

Did you get a positive?

Hi Kick would you have any idea why Nicola and I are experiencing a tugging/annoying kind of stitch feeling after we ovulate? Nicola's is on the left side and mine is on the right. Do you think it's our tubes contracting to help the eggy along? Sorry to ask you, you just seem so knowledgable! :)

I think if we all sat down and paid very close attention to our bodies, we all feel that. I think a lot of it is you concentrating on your stomach and on what it's doing and you will feel any twinge.

It's very rare to feel ovulation - only 20% of women do feel it. But the mind is a very powerful thing :)

Nope no residual pain, no other symptoms. I am going to ring the GPs and see if they will do anything. If not I will POAS to confirm its -ve. My spotting has stopped too... no discharge at all. Its completely stopped since 9am.

At the same time tugging has also stopped and no more tingly boobs. So maybe its cleared out the HcG.

kitty - how you feeling today?

I'm one of those 20%ers . but I have mild endometriosis have to say the pain is more of a red hot poker jabbing me and then twisting on and off for a few hours. (never lasts longer than a day)

Thanks Kick yeah you're right. I'm absolutely focusing too much on my stomach!!

Hi red, thankyou for asking about me, I'm abit less crazy today then yesterday but that's mainly because I didn't test this morning and decided to come to work and see what happens tomorrow, the outcome is not going to change is it?!
That said since before lunch to now I feel really queasy and sicky, that's the funny thing last time I was pg ( mc) ihad not one symptom and believe me I kept looking priding boobs etc and first time with dd I honistly could have gone to the baby kicking without knowing, yes I weed abit more often and had a few tingles in boobs and felt a touch sick once or twice but only if I hadn't eaten but this time I've felt for weeks every thing going, I honistly don't think it's in my head because I have thought oh that metallic taste must be down to x because the test was neg so I'm clearly not pregnant!
I hope your ok, it's a shitty thing your going through and there's nothing that can make you feel better really apart from time and a bfp but then all that worrying just starts again...... There's alot to be said for ignorance really xx

I'm sorry for everyone in limbo land. The worst is that we cling onto hope in the face of everything and until someone utterly proves that hoping is either going to turn out positive or negative, there is nothing we can do.

Honestly, the best thing is to go for a blood test. The simple reason is that if there has been a chemical pregnancy, there more than likely won't be HCG in the system or they can pick up that there isn't a positive increase in HCG enough to sustain a pregnancy.

Or obviously that there is HCG and it's increasing nicely and everything else was just a whoopsey.

well kick if anything this has been a rude awakening to not letting myself get carried away and cling on to any hope. From now on i am taking a ridiculous virtual oath to not day dream or build up any hopes until I get past the 6 week mark with a BFP - even then I think at the back of my mind i'll always fear something will go wrong till I have a 12 week scan.

I never wanted to be one of those women who always fear the worst - but after something like this happens its difficult to allow yourself to be completely happy because it can just so easily be taken away from you.

kitty your symptoms sound promising, hoping the line is darker for you tomorrow. it might be a late OV and fingers crossed everything is positive for you x

Oh red I know what you mean about assuming the worst. With my first pregnancy I, of course, paid lip service to not telling people till 12 weeks etc but in reality I never in a million years thought I would have a mc. These things just don't happen to me! I sound so spoiled!! however this time, I feel completely robbed of all innocence and i just assume the worst. It's so depressing!

Thinking of you xx

Its so shit but that's what i have really meant when i say you drive yourself dilly in those two weeks. Its more than the mc because then there is torture through symptoms and that can go either way too

The worst is evaporation lines! Then its just shit :(

I have finished an entire box of some posh Thornton's truffles. It's shit, but I am appreciating the fact that I still have my DH who I love to bits and we will one day have our own family.

Yes the mc and cp do put things into different perspectives..I know what you mean wishful and kick. I was one of those naive and arrogant person who thought I'd conceive in the first month of ttc, have a smooth pregnancy etc. Oh well...you live and learn!

Hope its a very sticky bean for you wishful you deserve a happy ever after :) Thailand will be an awesome honeymoon...x

And yes - kick I will not be symptom spotting in the 2ww at all, because I know now my body isn't going to tell me anything till atleast after AF is due. I didn't feel a thing until I had missed AF. No fecking point in going through that emotional rollercoaster.