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 ;-)

waves at Piper hi. I'm sure I recognise you from another thread, or am I confused? Have you previously been an elderberry?

Morning everyone! Alarm went off for temping at 7am and didn't get back to sleep.... I usually turn it off at the weekend if I know I'm nowhere near O but I forgot. DP wasn't very amused!!
CD13 here but not expecting O until somewhere around CD19-26.
TMI coming up, but might make you laugh!

Attempted DTD just for fun last night, but DP managed to somehow lie on my arm and trap my wrist at a funny angle provoking a scream from me and him being ordered to the freezer to fetch some frozen peas!!! After 5 minutes of sitting on the bed numbing my wrist I said "I think it's gone down now" and DP said "yes, you could say that".

that is slightly amusing :)
we haven't been TDD at all for a couple of weeks because we are holding off for some tests this week and I don't want to have to worry about the chances, but as we don't have any condoms in the house we have just left it. not a good plan. I think we are both feeling it - snapping at each other all the time. I might buy some layer and try to lighten the mood s bit.
Ilovemycats that lady sounds like a nightmare. I've given up on someone that just doesn't make an effort but I'm lucky that I don't know anyone quite that difficult to cope with. I just wanted to say though that when she felt so sick she wanted to terminate she might have actually had what I had - hyperemesis is often just dismissed as bad morning sickness but is in reality like comparing a slight headache to a 3 day migraine. I'm not defending her in any other way, but I know how that bit feels as I have been through 3 pgs that didn't work, and the first one actually made me consider terminating in order to stop feeling sick despite desperately wanting to keep it. (i was on a drip for weeks, and it's likely to happen next time we get bfp as well).
Or, she could just be complaining about nothing and be just as annoying as you mentioned before about this as other things.
I'm dreading what will happen when I do get pg again because I've gone through 3 very short ones and been hospitalised each time, so if I manage to hold on to it there's no telling whether I'll be better at 16 weeks or not even better til birth....

Lol barking that did make me chuckle!

And I do need cheering up, chatting to DH this morn and he is now so worried about things that he doesn't even get morning glory anymore! Not sure how we are going to get over this!

Morning all and welcome to all the newbies! Sorry also to those that have been having a rubbish weekend.
Cd12 here and no temp rise. I always get a temp rise on cd12. What is going on?! Didn't have any OPKs this month either so can't even tell if OV is on its way. Hope all the DTD action hasn't been in vain

at barking. Did it 'go back up again'?

Morning all and hi to newbies.

mother, how are you doing? Still no af I'm guessing. Have you poas again yet?

bunny I know what you mean about the pressure- its not good and it's really difficult. What about if he takes the lead on the dtd action and you go with the eod approach rather than centring it on a particular time/ positive opk? Just an idea as I've been faced with the same situation and I just hate it.

Hey happy, that's odd eh? Maybe it'll just be a day late and you'll get it tomorrow?

First day of poa opk here. Still cosy in bed and holding the fmu so trying not to think about running water.

Hi Pipbin yep was an Elderberry back at thread 2!! still ttc still trying not to get obsessed only trouble is I've just turned 37 and everyone keeps saying nearly 40 now!!!

hey thunder yep I did another test yesterday and it was twice as dark as the one I did on wednesday so FX all is ok.

Sounds good mother

made me feel much better about it now Im getting used to the idea Im really pleased and cant wait to start my MW appointments. It sounds daft but I was so in the ttc mindset the thought of an actual baby was initially a tad scary, sounds mental doesnt it.

Afternoon!

Wow Mother that sounds v good! fx for you. That doesn't sound mental, I can kind of imagine feeling like that too.

No fun here as I have the full-on lurgy, and OV time is almost upon me so not looking good for this month... suggested we DTD last night and just got laughed at - probably for the best. Will do my best to fake a miracle recovery this eve!

Yay mother!! Such good news!

Everything crossed for you mother , sooo pleased for you though I can imagine all the uncertainty that goes with it too!

Powder I hope you feel better soon and it doesn't turn into the full works; I'm recovering from the lurgy and it was no fun. Threw all my temps way out on my chart too. Almost thought I OV'd until it kept rising to 102 F lol.

I have never had reason to POAS yet, feel I have a lot to learn from you guys

afternoon y'all!

thunder yep the pressure is horrendous, even i don't wanna DTD now, it's no fun, it's just the means to an end!

This month looks to be another disaster so think I'm gonna just forget about it, see the doc at the end of the month when my day3 and 24 blood test results are in, see what hubby's doc says after his jizz in a cup test and then take April off TTC! Not just coz I don't want a Christmas baby but also I think we need the break. Who knew it would be this rough!

Hellooooo! How is it Sunday already? I am well under way with marking and planning for tomorrow but need a break!

Bunny, I think taking a break for a month is a very good idea if neither of you are wanting to DTD! Time to sit back, have a rest and get yourself back into the right frame of mind.

I'm hoping that my temps go up in the morning. I suspect today is ovulation day as I had a positive OPK yesterday and a negative today, but am waiting to see what that thermometer says in the morning! Mother, when you started with the progesterone cream, did you wait until you'd seen 3 days of temp rise (assuming you temped...can't actually remember and too lazy to read back) or did you just start once you thought you'd Ov'd, based on other signs?

hi boodle I waited till 4 days after my positive opk just to be sure I didnt use it too early and delay ov.

Hmmm, It's not unknown for me to start spotting a 5 dpo, so I might try to get started a little earlier. Doesn't really matter this month anyway as am sure today will be Ov day and DH home tomorrow. Might as well not let it be a completely wasted month!

I love Sundays when I've finished my lesson planning, I hate them when I haven't... It's the weighing/measuring/graphs unit, so always takes much longer to plan and make resources for than the calculations lessons. But being on here isn't going to make it happen any quicker....

I don't follow the units that thoroughly any more. I teach a low ability set so just have to keep plodding along at a pace that suits them! Have to do loads and loads of revisiting too, otherwise it all gets forgotten.

I'm crap with the weekends though - never get much done until I can't leave it any longer!

Yep boodle I am thinking time to chillax and work on intimacy without DTD pressure me thinks! Also gonna try and lose the 7lbs I wanna lose, haven't been trying very hard as a low cal diet obviously isn't good for TTC.

So we have a few teachers in our midst, funny isn't it how we know all about each others cycles, chat about spotting and mucus yet we know so little else about each other lol. How about we tell each other a little bit more?

I'm 33, work in insurance in Gloucestershire, met my hubby at work, he's 40, been together 7 years and married 18 months. We have 2 furry babies, cats.

Hi bunny sounds good, I'm 29 an work in an advertising agency, my OH is 27 an installs heating systems. We've been together 7 years an bought our first house 18 months ago, we have one grouchy cat and one mental pooch and now have a baby on the way

Ah, go on then; anything to put off more marking! Might be quite generic though as dreadful outing fear!

I'm 30, a teacher, married. Also have 2 feline fur babies. Have our own house, which is a lovely place but not a 'forever' home as I don't like the area that much.

I've got to say though, I'm a bugger for remembering random things that people say on here, so I do have a little schema built up in my brain for each one of you! Does that make you feel a bit uncomfortable?!

boodle ours isnt our forever home either but its a damn good first step

I'm with Boodle, not giving away too much! (And also avoiding the Sunday evening lesson preparation)
I'm a teacher, 33, have a dog and a house with DP. Been living with DP almost 3 years. I would like to think this is our forever home as I've moved house too many times to ever want to move again and we've done loads to this house already to make it ours, but if we ever when we have a DC the local secondary in our catchment area is not where either of us would choose to send a child, and DP is adamant that if it's the same scenario when the time came, he'd move into a better catchment area . It costs a lot more money to live in a better catchment area though!!

Evening all, am loving all the distraction going on in here tonight. I don't have marking to do but still appreciate all the banter. Keeping other details close to my chest- its not you knowing, boodle, it's RL folk!