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 :-)

Evening all. Seem to have missed all the excitement - excellent news brave !!

Makes me feel more hopeful -I'm in month 8 now and was feeling a bit hopeless :( feel like its really not my month but that cant be rational,

Also am on cd9 and getting some EWCM already - whats that all about? Anyone else had that?

Yes Aquarius. I'm only on cd10 and already had some ewcm. Usually OV on cd12 though so guess its not that far away??

If you've got EWCM get to it ASAP ladies!

Ooh happy that's interesting... I OVd on cd17 -ish last month but do have rather irregular cycles...will get testing (and dtd'ing - thanks janey!)

Congrats brave! Great news :)

Happy birthday captain!

Welcome navis

Aquarius I get EWCM from about cd9 onwards. I get tiny amounts for a week or so and then an indecent amount for a day or two before ov.

Hope you don't mind me dropping by briefly to say hello to Pipbin (we were on an earlier ttc thread together). Pip, I was thinking of you earlier this week, and just wanted to wish you well.

Hope this is a BFP-full thread!

Interesting chart here for all you upduffed elderberries..

oh zombies I'm such a wally. I might be upduffed but have absolutely no idea what that's all about

Think I'm starting to be influenced by my hormones: came into work this morning early as I'm under a lot of pressure from my MD and FD to get a project finished this year, which basically means I need to have it done by the end of play next weds due to all my hols. Anyway long story short is I couldn't do ANY work yesterday as IT broke my pc trying to fix it. Promised me solemnly there would be a working pc at my desk by 7.30am. Came in especially early this morning and it wasn't there, and very nearly burst into tears at my desk... Really struggled to contain it!

hazle I think you might have been asking a while back about travel insurance? Well I've spoken to my insurance company and they said pregnancy does count as a pre-existing medical condition. As such you have to prove you've spoken to your doctor to get the OK to travel. So I'm having a telephone consultation later today to (hopefully) get the OK...

Oh and hi lime!

Hi limeleaflizard - love your name btw.
With my irregular cycle, I am becoming increasingly more convinced that the CBFM is a gigantic waste of money for me. I'm going to eBay it and start using the cheaper daily ovulation test sticks off Amazon plus continue to use Conceive Plus and track my cd with My Days.

Morning all,
Zombies - I've been using a chart booklet by the Natural Family Planning group, I'd really recommend it, it's very thorough: temp, CM, cervix position (news to me!) and a whole bunch of other stuff, and laid out very clearly with lots of good advice and explanations. Left to my own devices I would have dtd about a week too soon. I've been using Internet cheapie dipsticks too and adding those into the chart.

Hello everyone Thanks for all the congrats Nice chart Zombies tho now I want to know what my score is!

Did cave and buy some CBDigital last night and this morning got a 2-3 weeks which I was over the moon about Last time, I never got above 1-2 so feeling very reassured. So score-wise, I think that makes me somewhere between 200 and 2000 which is ok for 4+4 I reckon.

Still don't feel very pregnant, tho do have a very dry mouth and feeling a little delicate (like a bile-y hangover mouth) - but I swear it's psychosomatic!

Hi to the awesomely named LimeLeafLizard and Navis

Hope the namechange is lucky Lol and hope you have a better day Janey - remember you're an elderberry - when elderberries are under pressure, they make fabulous tasy cordial

And Captain, when I was in (Catholic) sixth form, we had a demonstration from the Nat Family Planning people as a way of telling us not to get pregnant. The overriding memory is of them saying you can measure how far the CM stretches as an indicator of fertility.

Was fascinating and grim all at once, but I remembered it. They also said that you don't get spots from chocolate, you get spots from hormones telling you to eat chocolate.

Then the afternoon degenerated as they also brought in a Pro-Life movement and some of my fellow students were somewhat feisty. Talk about being held to account! Yikes! Those were the days...

Janey it was me asking about travel insurance. I asked my Midwife last week and she interestingly said that it is not a pre-existing medical condition! However it is not her I will be chasing for money if something goes wrong so I will not take her word for it.
I allowed our annual travel insurance policy expire due to me getting up the duff, so I think I need to scout around for a decent single trip policy and then probably give them a ring to see what their stance on knocked up travellers is. I have to make sure I get it right as I am going to America and that's the last place in the whole world to be without sufficient medical insurance!
Also, did you say you were going to Dubai before Thailand? Have you been before? I went for the first time this year and absolutely loved it! I think it's an ideal holiday for a mum-to-be. So relaxing, the food is out of this world and everywhere does loads of mocktails and booze alternatives. I wish I was going again

Haha! Thanks brave! I just got sent the charts etc by a friend - hadn't looked into the group behind them. They are really good charts though - and yes, stretching the cm is one of the tests. I bet that went down really well with the teenage girls!

BraveLilBear I have had that hangover mouth thing too so not sure you are imagining it!

DP is home today (for 24 hrs) for his birthday; we are pretending it is a weekend and spending the day in our pjs! Lovely. That is the benefit of self employment! It is lovely how excited he is about the pg.

Definite morning sickness has arrived here. Yuck. Not pleasant. Not feeling sick when I eat but I can't eat constantly, will be the size of a house!

Mood also a bit funny but that's probably just work. Took a week off, but for my boss, "holidays" is just another name for "working from home".

So I'm flying to London for the weekend and need some help from locals: my 15-year old French niece will have a school trip to London soon, so I want to get her some clothes that are currently considered, as we oldies say, "hip" or "cool" by London teenagers - I remember how important it was to fit in at that age. Any suggestions what brands are considered popular nowadays?

As for insurance - better safe than sorry, so whenever I have a question, I both read the contract and send an email to the insurance with the specific question, so I have a written confirmation.

Hey everyone :)

I've been lurking (again lol) on various threads and some of the ones I was on before are just a tad obsessive for my liking, so I think I'll park my bum here if that's ok? Must admit, I may have gotten a teeny weenie bit obsessive with peeing on PG tests, even when there was no point, so NO MORE!!!!

Have been TTC since beginning of the year after coming off Microgynon and we got our BFP in May... All was well, had the 12 week scan at very end of July, (when should've been almost 13 weeks) only to be faced with a tiny blob measuring about 7 weeks :( ERPC followed and have been trying again since then :) Just turned 32 and I should be over 7 months now and it kinda hit me today, so feeling a bit pants... Due AF tomorrah, so we shall see! Well, I was due from around 19th-23rd (cheers WTF cycles!) so not going to pee on anything and let what happens happen :)

Nice to 'meet' y'all, and hello to some familiar faces and congrats to those with BFP's :) I'll add myself to stats once AF shows/doesn't show if that's ok!

Jeebus, too many emoticons in that post... XD

Hi Sazza nice to meet you, sorry to hear about your mmc, what a traumatic experience that must have been. It is the nightmare scenario I keep playing round my mind I have to admit (especially with my 12wk scan on Xmas eve). You will find the Elderberries very welcome I think, there are a few people either pg or TTC after a MC too.

Hazle I am feeling a bit yuck today too - trying to see every day where I'm not incapacitated with nausea as a bonus at the mo as I am only top aware of how it can suddenly ramp up.

In terms of shops how about Urban Outfitters? There's a huge one on Oxford st or one on High St Ken, or Westfields. You are bound to find something there.

Welcome Shazza

Hi LimeLeaf, it's nice to be remembered.
How are things with you? Have you come to join us here?

What a friendly thread!
Pip, things are going ok with me... I haven't come to join the thread, I hope everything continues to go well with this pregnancy.
I was searching the Conception topic for some info for a friend (who is considering cbfm and I remembered you and some of the other sleighers discussing it), saw your name as the last poster on this thread, and stopped by to say 'hi'.

I've heard a couple of really positive stories lately of people who've conceived after quite a while trying... hope you will soon be one of them. And all the lovely ladies here... good luck x

Hazle, Brave and Winkle - ta for the welcome - looking forward to some thread-generated luckiness! Brave - massive congrats, the CBD result sounds really positive Hazle - hope the sickness isn't too bad.

Zombies - I used the internet cheapies for the first time last month - seemed to work in that I got a strong line when LH peaked. But then didn't get upduffed so who knows....!

Sazza - hiya! know exactly what you mean re POAS obsession - got waaaay out of control with it last month...this month I am going to be a chilled and rational human being... (yeah, right!) Sorry to hear about your mmc - completely sympathise as I had exactly the same with my first mmc - such a shock Best of luck for tomorrow though

Hi sazza! Welcome.
Sorry to hear about your mmc - exactly the same with me at 12 weeks, it's horrendous isn't it. Had a healthy private scans a couple of weeks before so was a complete shock. BUT what we have to remember - and you navis too - is that it's no more likely to happen to us again than anyone else. In fact to my mathematical mind, it's pretty much less likely, as we've had our fair share of crap already. In fact, I think we've had enough crap for all us elderberries, with the other early mc on this group too, so I reckon from here on in there's no bad news at all, only lots of BFP's and healthy scans.

(oh, to newcomers though, absolutely no baby dust allowed. was agreed early on that the phrase was vom-inducing and banned).

rache - sorry I confused you with hazle. I'm blaming baby brain (although it's obviously just me being an idiot). Had a telephone consultation with the doctor to get my 'ok' to go abroad which went something like this:

?will you be drinking a lot of alcohol?? me ?no, not even a drop?
?what will you be drinking then?? me ?a lot of water?
?what about if it?s hot? me ?yes, I know not to have any ice?
?what will you be eating then?? me ?we?re staying in 5* hotels so I think we?ll be eating decent food mainly?
?and have you had any discharge ?down there??? (urm, do doctors really call it that?!) me ?no thank goodness?
?and are you planning to be snorting anything? ? WTF?!!!!!!

Weirdly didn't think to ask about travel jabs or exactly where I was going (re malaria) so I brought both of those up.

Even more reassured that my GP's are completely bloody useless - and a little offensive!!

Janey is it wrong that I just had a snort of laughter while reading that? Seriously, the medical pro in this country can be hit and miss!

Hi Sazza and welcome - really sorry to hear about your mmc. Must have been a terrible time. But the gals here are amazingly friendly so come join the party!

Boo at proper ms Hazle what are you grazing on? I think high satiety index stuff is good as it makes you feel full for longer - like popcorn, IIRC. Another friend grazed a lot on nuts and seeds - low in calories and full of essential fats.

Re fashion, I'm too northern these days to be considered 'hip' but big bird's nest hair seems to be very very scarily in vogue right now. Seriously, I want to cry for them at the thought of untangling the mess they spend hours creating! Lots of shorts over tights/leggings - American Apparel is always good for that, as is Urban Outfitters

Good luck in your mission to be chilled and rational navis rest assured that the ladies here will be the first to encourage you if you seem too laidback