Elderberry Pavlovas Unite - the over 30s TTC number 1

[Bunnygirlie]

Hi y'all, Welcome to our new meeting place :-) Let's refresh as usual -

Bunnygirlie - 32, married, TTC since June, due to OV this week according to app

Where is your original country Hazle? I may relocate!

How are we doing today ladies?
Sorry to hear about AF Zombies

DH has been feeling poorly so our idea of DTD EOD has failed at the first hurdle. However the CBFM, henceforth known in our house as a 'baby gameboy' says low, so I'm not too worried.

Sorry zombies... Here's hoping the next 2 ww comes around quickly & you get a Xmas bfp!

Pip hope DH feels better soon.

I'm a week away from af / bfp and feeling just the same as last month at t minus 7 days.... Really bloated and gassy (nice), slightly crampy, and boobs hurt- specially when walking round the office in my heels. Darn those heels. Ho hum....

Rach, Estonia. I probably shouldn't mention that it also offers full time, free childcare from the age of 1,5 years? Bit too cold for my taste though.

Sorry zombies..

Sorry Zombies, fx for a festive bfp.

Sorry about AF Zombies but how nice would a Christmas BFP be?

Aquarius when do you think you will crack and POAS? I was determined to wait until 14 DPO but caved at 12.

Hazle I think I could live with the cold in return for 18 months full pay followed by free childcare. It's not exactly tropical here after all

I can safely say that I am now in the grips of pregnancy-induced nausea. From the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep I feel sick to varying degrees and the most worrying part is I have a feeling it's going to get worse. I can smell absolutely everything x100 and the worst part is the smell of my cute little puppy makes me feel especially sick. He thinks his Mummy has gone off him

Thanks guys yes a Christmas BFP would be pretty bloody special so fx

rach I was thinking Sunday with my expensive FRER test but might have got my maths wrong... I got a on the 31st and 1st with a CB digi test so might not have o'd til 2nd... So Sunday would be 10dpo .... Poss too early but I'll prob give it a go anyway...

Hope your puppy starts smelling better for you soon. my friends chocolate lab wouldn't leave her side during her first few months - so adorable

Sorry she got you zombies :(

Sorry to hear that Zombies - and FX for a BFXmasP.
Poor you Rach, that must be really hard with your puppy sad

Hazle I am considering moving to Estonia too! Sounds amazing.

I've just had an expensive blonde moment. So I need a new passport, nearest embassy is in Paris - 3,5 h on the train. A friend is visiting soon, so I suggested that while she's here, we could go to Paris for a couple of days. So bought the train tickets, paid for the hotel..and then realised that I'm flying to London just 2 days after that and could just go to the embassy there. Gah. Can I blame this on the pregnancy brain?

Scan tomorrow morning. Worried, of course.

Excellent hazle. Still, am sure you'll have a lovely time en paris...

Good luck for tomorrow. How many weeks are you again?

I've got the doctors this afternoon. I think I'm going to ask for a resassurance scan after last time - I've now started to worry about going to Dubai for six days with the girls, and then Thailand for 17 days with DP, without knowing if things are going to plan so far, think it would drive me mad. I'm hoping they're sympathetic. I'm already spending £200 on a private nuchal scan when we land on 24th in the hope that all is OK and we can tell our families at Christmas, and don't really want to have to pay for another private one. Even if the doctors say no, I read online for the hospital I'm going to be referred to that if you've had a previous miscarriage you're able to refer yourself to the early pregnancy unit for a scan, and they were lovely last time, so I wonder if they might just see me...

Fingers crossed for tomorrow Hazle...

Oh, sorry, and zombies - sorry that evil cow AF has shown her face again

As everyone says a Christmas BFP would be pretty damn special though....

I should be exactly 8 weeks tomorrow, if we count from the mc.

Fingers crossed for you too, they really should give you the scan considering the circumstances.

So interesting with all the scans coming up, I wonder if we get any twin Elderberries?

Oh, does anybody else have cravings? I sit at my desk and suddenly I absolutely need something. And not jsut in a normal "oh would be nice to ahve that for dinner" way, but so badly I can't think about anything else. Last week it was egg salad sandwich, then chips, yesterday green curry. Just waiting what's next, probably something really difficult to find here.

Hazle I get like that without the excuse of being PG!
Bunny we are clearly living some kind of parallel life. We can hold digital hands in the 2WW though, which is nice.
Zombies sorry about AF.
Pip you'll just have to DTD double when when he's better

Good luck for your scan Hazle and hope docs goes well Janey. I've got mine tomorrow.

I am definitely starting to feel nauseous today - just low-level but it is there.

DP and I sat down with a calendar and plotted all work/pg/home milestones for the next 9 months. Realised if we are to have any hope of moving into a new house before May when my work gets very full-on, we need to find our house and get an offer accepted by the end of January really. Eek. I may have cried a small amount at the idea of going into a stressful work period with all my stuff in boxes and 7 months pregnant.

Oh of course you cried quod, sounds rubbish. But worth it in the end...

Don't feel sick still, and i know it's odd, but I really really want to. Having said that a couple of times smells have made me want to vomit on the spot (eg fab-breath lodger) so I'm hoping that was something. I know if I did get morning sickness I'd immediately regret wishing I had it, but I'm just so scared of it all going wrong in two month's time, and want some more symptoms to reassure me. I do still have ridiculous boobs still though, bit tender but weirdly solid, really think it looks like I've had an unnecessary boob job.

captain and bunny - you can be like me and quod. We were on the exact same cycle and got our BFP's on the same month - hopefully you will too.

janey we are so cruel to ourselves!

I went from being desperately hungry all the time to not wanting food at all in a matter of days during my last pregnancy. Two days before I lost it, I was in a seriously couldn't face food day and suddenly felt nausea sweep over me while I was speaking to a member of the House of Lords.

I have no idea what he was saying, was too busy trying to quell the feeling! Managed to force some soup and bread down me (the smell of the bread was making me gag cos it was cheese-topped) but literally the minute I got it in my mouth I felt totally fine.

I remember feeling like 'wow, I really am pregnant - kinda sucks, but I kinda like it' Lol.

I had the same last time, even though I only got to 5 weeks, I actually threw up a few times, nausea just appeared out of the blue, no warning.
So I guess we can all conclude that having morning sickness is not necessarily a guarantee that everything is well.

My extensive googling yields the result that symptoms don't mean anything and lack of symptoms doesn't mean anything. Oh and that every pg is different even with the same woman. I am trying to be grateful for the days I don't feel too sick. Luckily my quease is still quite faint and intermittent.

I have got a night out tonight at a gig where there will be loads of people I know and where I will have to style out not drinking. I cried off something else earlier in the week with 'cystitis' so I'm hoping to give that old chestnut another go around. Hope I stay awake!

TMI
Lots of brownish discharge. More than spotting. No full blown AF yet. And wouldn't have expected AF till 12th anyway.
Are Zombies' hopes dashed or could this be the start of a beautiful thing?
Tune in to future instalments to know what happens next!

[we all know the story probably ends in tears anyway so might as well have a laugh in the process ]

Sorry earlier when I said AF was here it definitely looked like it was here.
I'm the boy who cried Wolf, aren't i?

It's not funny Zombies but you definitely raised a smile just then! I guess you're not out til the AF sings, right?

Hazle and Quod I know symptoms/lack doesn't mean much, but it made me feel really pregnant and ergo reassuring. Logic doesn't figure at all tho.