Elderberry Pavlovas Unite - the over 30s TTC number 1 (thread 3)

[Bunnygirlie]

Hey ladies, we're over here!

bunnygirlie, 32, TTC since June, AF coming around New Year!
Twinklestar 2, TTC1, cycle 16, BFP was due 19/12
BraveLilBear,TTC
Lolcbcb,TTC
Aquarius,TTC
Happylass 34 cycle 4 BFP due Jan 1st
Navis176, 35, TTC #1, cycle 3 (this time around), bfp due around 19 Jan (I think?)
Neshie, 31, TTC #1, on cycle 9, after stopping the pill 18 months ago (took 10 months for AF to return!) BPF due 12th January Fx
MotherOfCleo TTC#1, cycle 3, 5dpo, BFP due New Years Day.
Viviennewestwould, 41, childless hag, TTC one year (mmc in March), on Clomid, ovulating today!
Pipbin 37 cycle 16 BFP due 26/12

Zombies, 32, almost 3 wks pg (by my calculation)- per standard
measurement from LMP, 6 weeks pg, PCOS.
MeanMrsMustard 31, 5 weeks pregnant.
Quod,33, PG
Purplemonster, PG
Janey 38, 12 week scan on Christmas Eve
HazleNutt, due June 21st
Rach, 34, 13+4 pg, due 26th June

Apologies if I've missed you or got something wrong

FX indeed Mother!
Viv maybe start keeping a turkey baster by the bed?

I just read this - after some talk on threads about the best time of year to have a baby, thought it might amuse..

www.newstatesman.com/sci-tech/2013/01/if-scientists-wrote-horoscopes-what-yours-would-say

captain and pip - good luck for your appointments - let us know how they go

Echoing the good luck wishes for captain and pip. Welcome to the newbies.

7dpo here and absolutely nothing to report......

captain that is actually really interesting, like the stuff about how getting more sunlight in later pregnancy affects bones etc.

One more voice chiming in wishing captain and pip good luck at their appointments!

navis sorry about your AF turning up. Funny how what makes us happy in our early 20s is the thing that sends us on a crying jag in our 30s, isn't it.

Viv that's fantastic about your appointment! I used to watch a show where Benjamin Bratt played a fertility doctor...didn't think he could be beat, but your guy sounds a definite possibility!

Bunny hope the visit to your friend goes well - it's bittersweet, I know.

Hi 2Cats! Fellow POAS addicts, unite! that's what internet cheapies are for!!

Bugger! DTD 10 times in a week and delaying peeing to get optimum OPK results have given me blooming cystitis!! Not fair!!

Rumple! That sucks. My sympathies..

MRI scan was an anticlimax - had a little snooze in a tube for half an hour while it made alarming noises and jiggled about. I didn't see any pictures, they've all been sent to the consultant. Now it's more waiting for phone calls and probably hospital trip # 4.

Hope Pip is recovering well!

Ahh rumple that sucks! [here have some cranberry juice]

So it's 2 days sice my positive OPK, although it was still positive yesterday and I still haven't got the usual tell tale OV pains.....slightly odd. I never realise how much I want this until I hit OV and the 2ww starts. Plus my evil ex friend is moaning again on facebook about how her 'childless friends should appreciate their sleep' nice turn of phrase huh 'childless' I don't get it though, all she does is moan but she is preggo with her second so some part of her must love being a mum surely? I mean I don't like walking the dog in the rain and the cold but I would never moan on FB about it as I love having the dog in our lives.

I generally find very negative people annoying, we all have the odd issue and things we want in life but negativity never got anyone anywhere. I mean talk all us MumsNetters we are so hopefully and positive, not just for ourselves but for each other.....sorry rant over. [sits down with a sign and eats a or four]

I have no problem whatsoever in wasting sperm on my knockers when I am five days away from ovulation. I do not believe sperm lives that long (so there).

Good luck, Pip and glad your MRI was uneventful in itself, Captain. Let's hope they get to the bottom of Humperdinck.

Mother, I actually fear for your sanity if you don't get preggo this month. When did you get your positive LH surge? Have you been noticing cm changes?

Rumple, I actually have nothing to say whatsoever to someone who has had sex ten times in one week. Except maybe "ZZZzzzzzzz....."

Just bought some shamefully cute frilly knickers from Accessorize which I'm going to swank around in on Sunday night (CD14, when my shagathon will begin in earnest). CBFM gave me a 'high' reading this morning but I am ignoring it completely - ovulation is at least five days away.

Mother, we crossed posts - sounds like you ov'd yesterday to me. Why do you POAS again the day after you've established the LH surge? I don't get it. Instructions tell you not to (and I always do as I'm told )

Oh, and defriend your annoying ex-mate. Why subject yourself to her banal bullshit on a daily basis?

Fuck! egg-white cervical mucus in crotch! Enough to wallpaper my downstairs loo! (Still not having sex tonight)

thanks for the sympathy ladies. viv - what's wrong with having sex 10 times in one week? Oh, yeah, now I know....

mother I'm with you on negative people. Negativity just breeds bad things in my book. We all need a rant and a moan sometimes, but I lose patience with people who constantly live in a "woe is me" mentality. When I discovered I had cystitis my first thought was "thank God it's now and not in 2 days when I'll be stuck on a plane for 12 hours! Of course as the day wore on self pity did start to creep up on me....

Well that was a load of crap.
Op was fine no pain only coming round from the anaesthetic that was a real sod.
However finds are that one tube is completely buggered and the others is sluggish. That was nothing they could do to repair either of them.
So, next stop IVF.

Oh Pip that's really pants. I'm so sorry to hear that. Does "sluggish" really mean in active? Sending you a big hug and a xx

Oh, Pip. Sorry it isn't great news. And captain too, how frustrating to have to keep waiting again.

I had to wait ages for my scans today, and I was thinking about you both as well as my insanely full bladder ; just wish it was more cheering news.

Sluggish meaning that it is connected but not a brilliant connection. A country lane rather than an autobahn.
The plus is that everything else is fine. No other problems to consider.

Good positive thinking there Pip. Give yourself a treat, some tasty chocs maybe. It is awful to get bad news but it's also better to know, so you can make decisions and feel you're doing something.
Wishing you a quick recovery

Sorry to hear it wasn't all good news Pip. If there's one small consolation it's that you've now had some answers and things are being put in to place for the future. Rest up and look after yourself.

Oh Pip I'm sorry you didn't get better news. Tasty chocs sound like a great idea, then onwards and upwards eh? I think happylass is right, the only way to look at it is that now you definitely know how to proceed.

Rumple will bear your cystitis in mind in case DH and I hit the 10x mark this week!

Viv I'm with you, I don't think it lasts 5 days up there either. I admire how you believe your body rather than what a machine is telling you - I get very sucked in to pee-stick results and then start questioning myself big-time. Was that really an OV cramp, or was it gas, or was it all in my head from the start? This cycle my goal is to slow down, with my primary job being taking care of myself and doing what's necessary to really give this a fair shot. Your stern words about weight have snapped me out of a rut, and I needed it. I could stand to lose a stone and time's a-tickin'. The hangover from my pity party has cleared, and it's time to get to work!

haha, viv im not a complete fruit loop honest! stops licking windows for a moment

I just wanted to see how long my surge lasted so thought i'd pee on another opk to see, was a bit surprised to see it was still positive. Im crap at doing what im told too!

Ive hidden all my evil ex friends facebook posts but every now and again i like to torture myself by checking what shes up to. ok so that is a bit of a crazy thing to do to myself

I have a shit load of creamy cm today, so much so I actually went to the loo to check all was ok. not sure what I was worried it was, its not like im likely to have peed myself or anything still not convinced ive OVd but im going to keep DTD till Friday just incase.

Also im with you on the 5 day thing, I like to keep my supply of sperm fresh during OV

rumple thats exactly what i think re negative people, Ive been on anti depressants before and now try to make sure I live in a glass half full rather than glass half empty world

Pip, I'm really sorry - you must feel like shit. How long have you been ttc and what have you tried so far in terms of assisted conception? Or will IVF be your starting point? You sound like a tough bird to me but here are some I just stole from a garage forecourt bought from a posh florist.

Sidney, how do you plan to lose the weight? Spill the beans please, missus..

Looking back at my charts I can see that, on the occasions I have had ewcm, I have ovulated three days later. So, I now think I will ov on Sunday, which means the shagathon starts tomorrow. I have no idea why I am telling a bunch of strangers when I intend to spread my legs but that is the bizarre lunacy of mumsnet.

Anyone else think Heidi & Spencer (Speidi) are anal, weird, deluded, psychopathic fucking arseholes? Simply brilliant.

viv yep Speidi are total retarded fuckwits. Sorry for the language but they really are. They keep going on about how amazing the USA is, an how its better than the UK, all to the british public. I really do think they are both a sandwich short of a picnic.

Hey ladies!

Pip so sorry to hear it wasn?t better news

I?m afraid I?m usually quite a glass half empty girlie so if I do moan please batter me! Lol. Trying to be more positive, maybe positive thinking will help!

Oooh Viv good idea, think I need to invest in some pretty knix and then try and rock them, I don?t feel very sexy ever so need to try and work it!

Mother you must defriend that bint!!! Nobody wants to read that!!!

Saw my friend tonight, her little boy is so cute! I didn?t freak out so that was good, just so happy for her and her hubby! I just want to join her club soon!!!

So I spent much of last night awake a looking into our options. Seems that IVF has a good success rate for women in my position who have nothing wrong other than their tubes.
Also, there is still a slim chance of nature getting her shit together.
I'm also happy that I know that there is nothing we have been doing wrong.

Also, we sold our house, did I mention that?