Elderberry Pavlovas Unite - the over 30s TTC number 1 (thread 2)

[Bunnygirlie]

Ladies, Time for a new thread for us oldies (well not that old) TTC number 1 and our MN friends who have their BFP but are still coming along for the ride :-)

bunnygirlie, 32, TTC since June, AF due end Nov
Winkle, ttc 15 months, BFP due 19/11
Zombies, ttc 2 cycles, erratic cycle, PCOS. Next POAS not before 15 December.
Pipbin, ttc 15 cycles, BFP due 27/11
BraveLilBear TTC cycle 1 after early mc, BFP due 18/11

Aquarius, 32, ttc 8 mths, bfp due mid dec
Happylass TTC cycle 3 BFP due 8/12
Janey, 38, six weeks pg
Rach, 34, PG 7+5. Booking appointment on Wednesday.
Quod, 33, six weeks pg
HazleNutt 8 weeks pg

Sorry if I missed anyone :-)

Oh Hazle I did tear up a bit reading your post, so glad your scan went well but so incredibly jealous!

Sorry to hear that escorpian AF really is a bitch!

I have the lurghy so hoping its all gone by next weekend for ov days, according to my apps its due on a weekend and we've taken the friday and monday off too so fingers crossed no work stress, building work nearly done so FX no house stress, just TTC stress aaaaaaagh lol

Haha Hazle glad it's not just me. Malaysia sounds perfect! Away in Bath next weekend and Edinburgh for New Year so sone potential for romance there. But to be honest, I want the ring now!!

aww Bunny it will be your turn soon! If OV is due over the weekend, you better start working on it at least mid-week!

Hi from Bangkok!
Popping in briefly to say

• hazle, that's amazing news. Am so, so happy for you both. Absolutely brilliant!
• happy, also massive congratulations, such lovely news. BFP next please!

Off to sleep, an beyond tired....

Bangkok. Want some Som Tam now..

Hey everyone
Having a lovely day off work pottering around and recovering from last night's mulled wine!!

Happy Sorry to hear AF turned up, but if it?s early at least you?re not wasting 4 days of waiting. You can get busy again sooner and booze over xmas to celebrate your engagement!

Milestones like New Year and birthdays do seem to be a big thing. I was really naffed off when AF arrived last time because it was my last chance to have a due date before I turn 37. Tooooooo much thinking!!!

Captain Sorry to hear you have an uninvited guest. Hope you manage to start the eviction process soon.

Pip Another CBFM user!! I love mine but I do need to remember to get busy from the first high, which caught me out this month. Tricksy Ovaries!!! Why can?t they just work to an agreed schedule and stick to it?!?!?

Great news Hazle. Must have been lovely and reassuring to see!

Sorry escorpion. Fx for next month.

Nothing to report here. Trying to make arrangements to do things over xmas with mates that I know I probably won?t want to do if I get a BFP next weekend. I figure that if a BFP was really really inconvenient then it?s more likely to happen! Makes sense to me??..

Just popping in to say a quick hello and congrats hazle :) Have been travelling and took an (enforced) break from MN, which helped me forget about the whole TTC thing for a bit :)

Hazle I intend to! Just need to kick this cold to the kerb so that mid week we can get down to it lol.
Am thinking this month will just try and DTD every other day rather than waiting for positive ov stick which just piles on the pressure and stress!

Talking of proposals, mine was rather nice. I never thought it was going to happen, we'd been together 5 years, I drunkenly mentioned this one night and he said just you wait. A few months later we went to London for a delayed birthday trip, went on the london eye, it suddenly dawned on me what was about to happen when I realised we were in a pod on our own (apart from guide) with a bottle of fizz and choc truffles and then he dropped to one knee, even though I knew it was going to happen I still burst into tears, not sure if I even said yes lol.

So if I ever get my BFP I will need a dramatic way to tell him!!! Ideas welcome...

Hazle - your scan sounds amazing - cannot wait until I have one of those! Really for you but also a little

One of the other threads I'm on everyone seems to be getting bfp on 2nd time of trying - grrr...stupid fertile people (well, ok, I get bfps fairly easily, but they just don't grow, grrr) Just having one of those days where it feels like it's never going to happen [takes deep breath, rant over]

Hope everyone's having a nice start to the weekend

Bunny - sorry, I'm massively unimaginative...hopefully someone else will be way more creative! I tend to be too overexcited and just run around waving a stick about

Great news about your scan Hazle. I am both excited and nervous for ours on Friday.

To all you TTC ladies using the Clear Blue OV tester, after I had a scan last week I was accurately dated at 10+3 when I thought I was 10+4 or 10+5, so it means that I officially conceived on Friday 5th October. The reason I am telling you this is because I had the smiley face on the Clear Blue on the morning of Tuesday 2nd October so I didn't conceive until 3 or 4 days later, which is much longer than I had thought. My temperature also went up on Friday 5th. Apparently it can take 12 hours for the swimmers to reach the egg so I guess the shag that did the job for us was on Thursday 4th. I just thought this might be useful information for those of you planning your shagging around that joyous smiley face ©

I have no idea why a © has appeared on the end of that!

Hmmm that's interesting. Thanks Rach. Did you keep on testing after you got the ? I tested 3 days in a row last month and only got the on the 2nd day. Assumed I'd OVd once it had disappeared but maybe not.....
Also, going to try the temperature thing this cycle but only just managed to get the right thermometer today. Will be cd4 tomorrow. Is this too late to start?

I only did BBT for 1 cycle and didn't start until CD6 because the thermometer took ages to arrive off tax-dodging Amazon. Nothing much happened on the temperature front until CD 14 so I wouldn't say it's too late to start.
I tested the next day after the smiley and got nothing so the LH surge must have been just on the Tuesday even though it seems I didn't OV until Thursday or even Friday.

Hi rach that's v interesting re smiley face and conception times .... We dtd on smiley face day but then didnt get round to dtding for a few days after... think we need to up our game so to speak

Thanks you & brave for the encouragement in the meantime

Aquarius & Happy I'm sure everyone is different and some probably OV straight after LH surge, but it is probably worth bearing in mind that maybe DTDing for a few extra days might just pay off.

We had DTD on the Monday and Tuesday but didn't DTD on the Wednesday (can't remember why), but the only reason we DTD on the Thursday is because I was in bed reading up on BBT temping and I read that if you are TTC you should be DTD right up until the temperature rise confirms OV, which still hadn't happened at that point. DH was snoring away next to me so I woke him up and insisted we needed to DTD and I am certain that's the one which knocked me up DH now refers to our baby's conception as 'the midnight rape.'

Sorry to be a thicky but what is this 10 + 3 number malarkey? I don't get it

Bunny it's 10 weeks 3 days.

Ah I see, I really am a dumbass!

Proper annoyed here, saw my reflexologist yesterday, she reckons from touching my big toe that I'm 2/3 days away from ov, unfortunately I am full of cold :-( With a red raw sore throat and full of snot I don't think I'm gonna be that attractive to DH!

Bunny The method of conception doesn't have to be attractive or enjoyable (although it's obviously better if it is). A snot-filled quickie is all it will take to be in with a chance

I we only DTD day before and day after smiley. I'm curious to find out when I cm conceived. As it stands I got smiley on sat and think ov/conception was on Sunday. Lets see.
This week will be tough for me. Last time I started bleeding around this time and lost baby at 7 weeks. I'm 6 weeks today and have scan on Friday.

Right, I'm on the two week wait now. Period due on the 18th. I'm not hopeful. I am cbfming and it looks like I ovulated later than I thought. We dtd twice on high days, but not on my peak day. Am hoping those swimmers had a long life span!
Thinking positive thoughts for you Lol.

lol will be thinking of you this wk and praying all is well

mustard I'm in 2ww too. Due anywhere between 11th &14th - distracting myself with planning for Xmas ...

mustard, belissima - joining you in the 2ww too..

Thinking positive thoughts for you lol!

Mustard - I'm due BFP on 19th Dec. well, at least i thought I was but yesterday and today I'm sure I could see a bit of EWCM so I dtd this afternoon. I thought I had ov'd in tues.