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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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May we have a positive May!

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skerriesmum · 07/04/2006 18:57

I hope nobody else has started a May conception thread; April isn't going to be it for me, so onwards and forwards ladies!

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maazaa · 03/05/2006 13:44

Hello Ladies! am FURIOUS today!!!!!Angry And for no good reason. Feeling irritable and annoyed. Add sore boobs and that must mean I am pre-menstrual. ARGH!!!!!!!

laughalot · 03/05/2006 13:50

It could also mean you are pg what cd you on ?

maazaa · 03/05/2006 13:58

Going by the first day of my last period, CD 16. Have no idea how long my cycle is. Usually PMT arrives 3-4 days ahead of AF, but with halting the pill, I imagine I'm all over the place. Who knows. Am so tired and groggy. Can sympathise with Hopecat's double boobage! Have more spots than my students! All ties in with PMT!

Hopecat · 03/05/2006 14:03

CD16 is pretty early for PMT! Did you come off the pill last month? Guess you can't get an overview of it all for a couple of months. You could easily get PG in the meantime, of course Smile

Boobs are outrageous - they used to be this size when I was a slightly overweight teenager. It's quite nice having them back actually.

They're also tender, and they've got little sebaceous gland bumps that have just come up all over them. Also aureoles have got darker and veinier (sorry for TMI).

laughalot · 03/05/2006 14:11

Sounds good hopecat, mazza I did the same thing when I came off the pill I stopped it right in the middle of taking it as I had to have some antibiotics so I thought well it affects the pill so I might as well stop it, I had a period straight away though.

wannaBe1974 · 03/05/2006 14:14

hopecat keeping fingers crossed for you :)

I also have lots of vains on boobs, for what they're worth, lol.

I actually think that there's a lot to be said for not testing until two weeks after af is due. I think that by testing on the day of af, and then two days later and so on just plays right into the hands of the manufacturers of pg tests. How many posts do we see on here of people who have tested on day of af and got a bfn, only to test a week later and got a bfp. If we totalled up the amount of money that people have spent on pregnancy tests that didn't give them the result they wanted/needed, we could probably buy a nice house somewhere in the country. and meanwhile, the manufacturers are rolling in it. And testing early just makes the stress that much harder to bear.

maazaa · 03/05/2006 14:19

I had a period about a week after stopping, which was a bit odd to start with but caught up with itself. Am treating that as CD1. I had only taken two weeks worth of pill having taken a 7 month break. Decided to start again, then we made the big decision, so stopped. Body is probably well messed up!

HC - i would say encouraging signs....! :)

mummy2jake · 03/05/2006 14:27

hi feeling fine except im for feeling exhausted and sore boobs. and i suffer quite bad with period pains before and during af normally. decided imnot gonna do another test till im at least a week late as getting that bfn is so deflating. just worried as i have to lift/ push really heavy trolleys/trays at work and dont want to do any damage incase i am . a girl i work with had a miscarrage last month that started at work
sorry to go on things are looking good hopecat and ll fingers crossed.

Celou · 03/05/2006 21:08

Hi ladies I'm new here, I'm 30, dh is 31 and my dd is 21 months, I've just come off the pill (well in March) and my last period was the 4th of April.
Obviously TTC and still haven't had a period. Getting exactly the same symptoms as when I got pregnant with dd (sore, red nipples, montgomery tubercules on them, tiredness, slight nausea) but here's my problem. Because I've been so focused on it, I reckon my mind is playing tricks on me. The fact that my period is 2 days late means absolutely nothing for me as I don't know how long my cycle is going to be after stopping the pill.
With dd it took me 9 months to conceive, but I wasn't really trying, I'd stopped the pill for another reason (although was aware that I might fall pregnant), and didn't even find out until the baby was 15 weeks (that's how much attention I was paying to the whole thing).
Now it's a different thing, we're consciously trying (especially me Wink) and I tend to think about it more than I should.
I probably read too much into the symptoms and they are probably premenstrual symptoms that I never noticed before (although I have to say the last time I had sore nipples was when I was pregnant with dd!).
The best thing is to wait and see.
I did have period pains earlier at work.
So has anyone had a bfp yet?
By the way, what does af mean? I'm new to this so I'm not familiar with abbreviations.

trace2 · 03/05/2006 21:19

hi Celou, welcome, you could be but like you said when you ttc, every month we think we are.lol af means auntie flo/ period

trace2 · 03/05/2006 21:22

oh and we have had loads of bfp, we started the threads in jan and every month we change to the next, we also have a chat thread, and a sats thread, will do a link later if you carnt find then

mummy2jake · 03/05/2006 21:28

hi celou af means auntie flo i think as in your period comes in a flow.
im on cd29 or i was as af turned up about an hour ago stupidly thought i might be pregnant even though its only our first month of trying
back to cd1 for me good luck ttc
hoping hopecat,laughalot and wannabe1974 and anyone else still in with a chance good luck

Lauren2105 · 03/05/2006 21:29

Hi new to this as well. Can anyone tell me what CD means? I see this abbreviation with digits after it all over the forums and cannot work it out! Any help would be appreciated!

trace2 · 03/05/2006 21:32

cycle days, and welcome to the nut house

Lauren2105 · 03/05/2006 21:36

Thanks - so do you start this from the first day of your last period as you would normally count?

trace2 · 03/05/2006 21:37

yes first red day, not spotting

Lauren2105 · 03/05/2006 21:37

Thanks Smile

xx

trace2 · 03/05/2006 21:39

ok

trace2 · 03/05/2006 21:41

chat thread here
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Lauren2105 · 03/05/2006 21:47

what is 2ww?

trace2 · 03/05/2006 21:48

2 weeks wait, after ovulation to test

Lauren2105 · 03/05/2006 21:49

Thanks - this site is so addictive! Thanks again.

trace2 · 03/05/2006 21:49

also used on here a lot is

TMI
too much information

trace2 · 03/05/2006 21:50

yes it is it also makes you stress more when ttc

trace2 · 03/05/2006 21:51

theres a Acronym List at the top with a few on