The Elderberry Sausage Wangers (thread 5) and the hunt for immaculate conception - a frightfully good thread for the over-30s TTC their first baby.

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Our new home, hope we will all be very unhappy here and leave soon ;-)

Hey qazxc welcome back!

I have a small tub pee pot that used to be used for taking nuts and seeds for snacks to work. Keep it in the cupboard under bathroom sink and rinse it out with hot water and antibacterial hand wash each time. It's perfect for holding in the right place. Agree about the stopping being the hard bit, especially if I've been holding it all night!
pip , is that the elderberry pavlova on your page?

Pip ha ha ha ha!
When i'm in my POAS (real stick not an OPK) week I often keep the pee in case (overly optimistic) I get a line and want to test again with FMU. I am generally in the house on my own during the day and therefore leave it in the bathroom to chuck out 10 mins later. Often forget. On a couple of occasions I have had a friend call round and had to make a rapid dash to the bathroom to flush the evidence before they think i'm going mad!

Do we really have nobody due AF before next weekend?? I need the excitement. Oh and my claim of having S.E.X every day for 21 days (or something equally preposterous) has not so far got to a good start! However I am determined to not fall asleep get on with it asap!
Welcome back qazxc

I'm eating too much sugar this week. Biscuits and cakes in the main! Bad for ttc?

Gü ramekins all the way for me because it is a good excuse to eat more of them and yes, I just wash it with warm water. Urine is sterile anyway and I won't use the bathroom one for anything other than pee. It's kept well away from the other pots!

Re SiL's - mine is on the whole lovely and supportive but did make a really shitty comment last time I saw her. I already posted about it, but yes, Barking it really sucks when everyone around you is PG. I had 9!! babies turn up in my life this summer!

Anyway, I'm having a cosy night in with DH as he's away with work for the next week, so I will love you and leave you to it ladies!

cats I am gonna try and give up choccie in march, not sure it will last long!!!

Just to clarify I only use aforementioned ramekin for peeing in!! It is kept safely in bathroom cabinet. Not that much of a minger!

In other news the Robitussin seems to be having the desired effect and only been taking it a day.

bunny Give up chocolate! are you alright? why would you do such a thing?

Thank you for all the understanding replies. DP just didn't get it. And when I asked him to do me a favour and just not tell me all the updates about SiL he looked as if he was going to accuse me of being anti his family or something, but fortunately he seemed to think better of it and said nothing. I might have been ok if I hadn't had the double whammy of colleague then SiL in the space of an hour!

I have a couple of spare don't have any Gu ramekins so must go and buy some Gu desserts this weekend :).

Yes barking you should, maybe one for every day of the week

Yeeeeeah! Finished all my work! Need to go to bed though as my eyes are burning. However, just wanted to throw something controversial into the mix...

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I've never had a GU pudding!

Boodle if you weren't so tired i would insist you drive to shops and purchase forwith. I will bid you all a good night, time to go and pounce on DP.

I've only ever had one Boodle and that was because it was reduced. They are about a gazillion pounds.
I've just had a load of lovely dried fruit from my Graze box.

I'm not sure I've ever had one either I'm more of a cake person myself

So what is this robitussin stuff again? Cough syrup? And what does it do? And where does one buy it?

Anybody tried raspberry leaf tea?

I know qazxc I must be insane!!!! I have also given up bookface for lent, I am crazy!

Bunny I know nothing but dr google gave me this

What the hell is book face??

Facebook. It's full of other people and their sodding babies. Far too depressing.

Oh my god I must be getting old to not realise that! I just block baby friends from my newsfeed. Luckily none of my 4 best friends are at that stage so its not 'in my face' with friends.

Yes Bunny what Merkin posted. I'm probably being neurotic and this is waaaaay TMI but feel my EWCM is very thick and not at all stretchy as we are alwsys being told it should be. Taking medicine when I don't need it doesn't sit comfortably with me though so this may be a one off experiment!!

hi girls, can I join? I've just turned 33 and TTC since 2009, or is it 2010? I've lost track. I had 3 mmcs, all at about 9 weeks and this week is my edd for Mac no 3. my boss announced her preg about a week after my Mac and has just had a baby girl - now everyone in the office is cooing.
desperately want a bfp but going to doctors to see what investigations are available - they never offer anything until you shout loudly do they?

mmc no 3, not Mac!

Morning ladies and hi tallyra- sorry to hear about the tough time you're going through-well done for keeping your chin up with your bosses bfp. Same thing with lots of ladies at my work
you'll find lots of support and understanding in this thread.

So I think af due smack in middle of my hol next wk :( currently cd23 and I always have a shorter cycle after a long one. Hey ho - cant complain too much as at least I'll be on hol and all the fun and wine will hopefully take my mind off it

Hi Tallyra, I feel your pain. as girl i share office with has just had a baby in midst of me having 2mc. Doctors here will not entertain looking into anything til i have had a third. I have generally found that the only way to get anything done is to be a right pain be assertive.
WIBU to ban a friend/aquaintance on facebook, whose daily updates are only about her DD (every little sniffle, how much she sleeps) and also changes her profile pic to baby pics (about twice a week). It's as if she has disappeared and i am her child's facebook friend.

Ah I see happy I never notice any EWcM of any type so maybe I should try it!

Sorry to confuse you merkin Bookface is also called gimp ok by my colleague, is that any better? Lol

Tallyra welcom to the gang, sorry you've had a tough time TTC. Two of my close friends have had babies since we've been trying, I also work with them bth so they like to pop in and show off their little darlings too!