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 :-)

[winkle2]

I'm on CD30. How about you Pip?

[Bunnygirlie]

Sorry to be a thicko but what is CD?

[winkle2]

Cycle day. Cd1 is the day of your first period.

[Bunnygirlie]

Ah I still have so much to learn lol

Don't hold out too much hope for this cycle, cycle 6. DTD cd 13 14 19 20 but ov positive was CD18 :-(

I'm on CD21

[Quodlibet]

Where is Bravelilbear? Wasn't she POASing today?

[Pipbin]

I'm on CD 20. Feeling far more relaxed about it this month. Despite being surrounded by pregnant women at work I've not actually thought about it too much.
Today we actually DTD for fun! at 4 in the afternoon!

[winkle2]

Yay for fun sex :)

[Lolcbcblemonlime]

Oh balls winkle. Was so hopeful for you
I've just returned from our second northern lights trip and tonight they were amazing! On ttc front I'm on cd26. Generally 31 day cycle. No symptoms.
Is there nobody poas ???

[ZombiesAreClammyDodgers]

Sorry to hear that winkle. Is it CD1 for sure then? Onwards and upwards to the next cycle.

[Bunnygirlie]

Morning! I'm off today to buy a water filter and organic milk :-) and nuts, they are good for me and hubby too apparently!

[captainmoll]

Hi all - sorry for my sporadic interruptions.. I lost the old thread, just found you all again. Sorry to hear about AF winkle best of luck for next cycle. Who else is poas soon?
I've gone the whole hog this cycle - OV sticks, temping, charts etc. amazed to discover I ov'd about 5 days later than I thought I did, so am hoping this explains why we've been ttc for so long. Only just ov'ing now on cd18/19 when I thought I was a cd15/16 cycle! Poor exhausted hubby managed to dtd yesterday morning (tmi alert!) with conceive plus which certainly helped him have a better time.. so now I'm in the 2WW gang. Who's with me?

[BraveLilBear]

Hello everyone

Sorry for radio silence Quod - it's not easy for me to get online at the weekends as I don't get much alone time - and I do work very hard, honest! I just find that sporadic checking of MN helps me through the day, esp when I'm in the office all on my ownsome like I am (again) today.

Anyway.... Didn't POAS yesterday. Have been having mild AF pains since Thursday, much worse yesterday and seem to be actual AF pains today, even though still no visible sign.

It is totally doing my head in. Very different to the pains I got when I was (briefly) pg, so I'm convinced I'm out. Even had half a bottle of wine on Saturday (oops). I hate that the witch is dragging this out like this. Normally it's just bb agony that crescendoes to the day before AF, cramps on first day, sometimes second day.

This time? Pah. Bit fed up of it tbh. Feels like I'm having my nose rubbed in it.

If still no visible sign by Wed, I may have to POAS to double check. But I know I'm not pg. Officially CD 35 (of usual 31.5), but only 15 dpo. I ov'd late due to early mc last cycle.

Sorry you got hit as well winkle

Bunny according to another thread somewhere on here, if you dtd a few days before ov, you can still get pg and it's supposed to be more likely to be a girl. And cd 19 and 20 might not be too late either. There's always hope!

[BraveLilBear]

Oh and BTW Hazle checked bb measurements over the weekend. 29 under and 33 over. Just found small boobs thread. Think my life might be about to change! Thanks for sowing the seed in my mind

[Bunnygirlie]

captain I'm on the 2ww although I don't hold out much hope Both my apps say evil witch due 30th!

So just preparing myself for next month - ov sticks, concieve plus as usual and now reflexology, filtering water, organic milk, more oily fish and nuts in diet etc

Fun fun fun!!!

P.s. brave small boobs thread?!?!?

[captainmoll]

Right, I need some advice from you wise ladies. This is my first cycle using OV pee sticks and charting etc. I got an OV stick positive on Sunday morning (after having DTD sunday AM, in a coincidence of good timing) and my temperature was normal. I totally forgot to do my temperature this morning, but got another positive on the pee stick this evening. No other signs of OV at all - EWCM etc all none existent. So does this mean I'm still due to OV or have OV'd already? I thought the LH surge was quick thing that you only got once - but does it go on for a couple of days? This is all so complicated!

[Quodlibet]

Are you using the cheapy ebay ones or the smily ones? I would get a positive on a couple of consecutive days with the cheapies, and then my temp would rise the day after. The normal advice is to consider yourself fertile until temp rise confirms ovulation.

Brave I think you are still very much in the game.

[Pipbin]

When I was using OV sticks and temping I found that I would OV the day after I got a positive.

[captainmoll]

Thanks Quod & Pip - still no temp rise this morning. DTD again last night just to make sure.. I'm now on CD20 and apparently still not OV'd, which is unexpected. Really thought I was a CD 16 cycle.
If conception happens, does the LH level stay high, or will it drop regardless?
Also, I read on another thread somewhere that a long LH surge may mean both ovaries are releasing, which means twins! Not sure how scientifically proven that is

[BraveLilBear]

Captain now twins could be fun!

Bunnygirlie this is the small boobs thread. Hazle is a total expert and evangelist and if it works, I will become one, too. Small boobs

Basically, the whole bra measuring thing we've been forcefed by everyone from teenage years is a load of baloney - it's outdated and no longer applies. I am ordering a load of new (rather nice) bras from Figleaves to test the theory out... Genuinely lifechanging!

Quod am now starting to get hopeful. Which means she'll fly by any minute, I know it! If still no sign by hometime, will buy some tests on the way home and POAS tomorrow morning.

[Bunnygirlie]

I'd love to have twins to get it all over and done with lol

I may have to have a look at the small boob thread, I have never been blessed in this department :-(

[janey1234]

Haven't read the small boobs thread, but have glanced at it, and think this is something like what happened to me a few years ago in Selfridges. I love underwear and buy loads of it, and for years have been a 36C.

I picked up a bra but they didn't have it in a 36C, so I asked an attendant to get me one. She said of course, but was it for me, because I certainly wasn't a 36C. Confused I said yes, and she asked me to undo my coat (it was winter) and said in a totally confident fashion "yes, you're not a 36C. I'd say a 32E but it will depend on the style so take these three in". Sure enough, 32E, and the most comfortable and flattering bra I own.

Having said that it no longer fits. I must have gone up one or two cup sizes in the last few weeks and hate my new boobs!

badleg - the month before I got pg I had a smiley face for two days running and was completely confused. So it can happen, but I've no idea why or what it means. I can't tell you if it happened the next month too (second month I used ov sticks, and month I got BFP) as I forgot to pee the day after my first smiley face. Sorry to be so useless!

[Pipbin]

Captain are you still getting a positive?
I once got a positive but didn't actually ov until a week later. I got a second positive then.

[Rache1S]

Hi Ladies, how is everyone doing?

I'm keeping my eye on you 2WWers as I need a distraction from my nausea and constant desire to sleep. The prospect of a few more Summer babies is very exciting < imagines us all meeting up with babies in a cyber beer garden >

I too have perused the small boobs thread and as a result will be going to try on new bras tomorrow in a gulps 32C or D!!! Not that impressive I know, but after years in an A or B cup this could become a momentous day!

[BraveLilBear]

I feel a revolution coming on Rache!

AFM... still no sign of AF, which makes this 16dpo today and CD36 so in a retort back at the, frankly now rudely late, witch, I'm off to buy a pg test on my way home, which will definitely kickstart things.

Not that I'm tight or anything, but, I'm genuinely annoyed at having to splash out a full ten days before payday just to hasten her arrival.

Will report back on findings in the morning. Providing that (a) witch doesn't land overnight and (b) I get the braves on and actually POAS.

[Rache1S]

Brave I don't know how on earth you've lasted this long without POAS! I didn't even make it until AF due day but if I had I would have been POASing when she was even an hour late! 16DPO surely means a BFP is very likely? Oooo, I do hope so!