It's morning here, so "G'day".
I love Mondays - my day off. Charlie goes to school after lunch, but today I am going to let him stay home as he has a cold and is very tired. I'm looking forward to an easy-going day at home.
All those bistro meals sounded wonderful. I was imagining,as I read them, that we could all actually get together and have a meal together and talk ttc stuff all night long. How wonderful it would be to actually meet you. Of course it 's pretty well impossible as I love down under and can't see that I'll be travelling to Europe any time soon. My mum has been talking about traveling to Ireland, but my dad isn't very keen (he's Italian and travels home every couple of years,doesn't branch out much more than that). I don't know why mum doesn't suggest I accompany her - if she paid,I'd keep her company 
Despite the fact that I struggle to spend longer than a couple of hours with her, I'd make the sacrifice to travel to the UK 
I have an uncle in London, so we'd have to stop off there too.
I know I'm dreaming, my mum is actually not the generous type.
I had a sofa day yesterday too mazzie. I watched Dh Lawrence's "Women in Love" on bbc iplayer. Felt so indulgent to have a hangover, laze about and watch it. Was lovely,but so sad too. Then a friend dropped in for a cuppa after I'd had my nap. She is training to be a midwife, so we talk about pregnancy and babies a lot. She told me an amazing story about what happened to her when she was pregnant with her first child.
She had some bleeding at about 6 weeks, so had an ultrasound, which showed an ectopic pregnancy. When they went to operate, they planned to remove the tube and give her a D&C (in Australia that's the same as an ERPC). Apparently once they got her open they saw that it was a cyst in her tube, not an ectopic, and by then it was too late, as the D&C had been performed. It was a complete cock-up. She was in the Army at the time and was told by the military legal that she could sue. Then her hospital records disappeared
But the most amazing thing is, that despite all that, she kept having spotting, and then her doctor wanted her to do a preg test to see if the hcg was out of her system. It wasn't, so they had an ultrasound and her little baby was still in her uterus! Isn't that just so amazing? After an ERPC? Her daughter is a lovely girl, very bright and in perfect health.
I wonder how often that happens? And her daughter is 15, (so didn't happen all that long ago)so I also wonder how often a mistake like that could be made?
She is a lovely friend and I have always said that if I am lucky enough to have another baby,I want her at the birth. Fingers crossed that it happens for me.
Not too many symptoms here. But reasonable temps, sore boobs and carpel tunnel playing up (but that might be a result of too much alcohol).
Romaan - will you also have day three tests to check estrogen, FSH and LH? I think they are routine fertility blood tests. But you are still quite young, so perhaps it isn't necessary.
When I was ttc my DS, I was 41,and my doctor didn't feel I needed to worry about fertility or having tests until I'd tried for more than 9 months ( 3 months after vasectomy reversal for healing, then the 6 months for over 40's). As it was it took 7 months to conceive him. The other pregnancies in my 40's took about 6 cycles (at 43/44), another 4 cycles (at 44) then I think 9 cycles (at 45) - there was also time between waiting for fertility to return. All of those pregnancies ended with miscarriage. It has now been 10 cycles since my last bfp/mc. Seems to me it is about time 