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 ;-)

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/duchess-was-going-to-say-dungeon-full-of-gimps-2013030661985
This cheered me up a little, I prefer this storyline :).

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/duchess-was-going-to-say-dungeon-full-of-gimps-2013030661985

Ha, I sooo wish that was for real!

barking - lol

feeling a bit better today - how are you bunny?

mavis still PoAs tomorrow???

I think it was you Mavis who said you might. Then again could have been Sidney. Shit memory, sorry

Thank you, that got more than a smile out of me :-)

Afternoon all & hello to all those who said hi to me yesterday. Sorry to miss the chat but i was at the theatre with 2 SILs & niece in law (abbv?!). Lots of baby talk as expected & asked again when we were going to have one :-( Barking I'm not here to catch you - name came about as I had just had to catch a frog that one of my darling cats had brought in. I've had a v bored productive morning at work catching up with the whole thread so I feel like i know you all a lot better now

I'm not a teacher but work for an accountants although I have 3 cats. 2 are mine & 1 is OH's so we had to combine cat families when we moved in together last year. One of my cats will definitely not like a baby & the others won't care.

Took my first temp today although think i may have got the wrong thermometer as its just an ordinary digital one rather than a special basal one - does that matter? Was v alarmed to learn from this thread that normal lube is potentially bad for sperm - might have to wait till the current tube runs out tho before buying special stuff as OH already thinks i am getting a bit obsessed! I DTD last night just prove that I wasn't obsessed as it was totally the wrong time of cycle given only at end of AF & I was v tired. Just going to have to keep DTD at alll times to keep him happy I think!!

Hello, may I join you, ladies? I have been trying to conceive for a year and am currently on my fourth round of Clomid after a two month break. I received the application form this morning for IVF as I only have one decent fallopian tube and I feel I am running out of time.

P.s. sausages are my favourite fruit.

Hi raining . Are you just starting a new cycle then? Got to admit I'm getting lost on who everyone is now we've had an influx of newbies!
frog a basal thermometer is more accurate (goes to 2 decimal points instead of one) and as the shifts in your temp can be small it helps pinpoint them much better. I think I read that the thermal shift at O can be as small as .2 therefore if your thermometer is rounding up and down this may be hard for you fertility friend to spot

frog this is mine, has the handy memory function so you don't have to wake up enough to write down the temp at silly o clock when you're still half asleep.

raining meant to say add yourself to the long list
happy not only are we cycle buddies but now I am emulating your low post O temps! FF is therefore not wanting to give me crosshairs fucker but pretty sure I O'd as have had a temp shift, just a much smaller one than usual

Welcome raining. Make yourself at home!
Merkin my temp went up a bit today to a slightly more respectable 36.82. Using FF for the first time this month. Has now given me crosshairs but dashed ones
On top if that have come down with a cold today. Does being ill in 2ww decrease the chances of conception/implantation? Don't think my chances are very good this month anyway but I'm curious!

Hi raining. . I'm a newbie too.

Thanks (again!) merkin for the advice. I'll see how i get on this month rather than shelling out yet another fiver. If the OPK says I'm about to O but I don't see any temp change I'll buy the basal one. Not sure how good lazy I'll be with the charting temps anyway.

Hi raining!
Sorry to those of you with the lurgy.
Happy I was also wondering about that - after a bit of snooping around the net it doesn't look like it's a problem. Actually read a couple of times that it may help with implantation due to having a lowered immune system?! Hmm..

happy never heard anything about effects of being ill. Could it be your body is too busy making a baby to fight off the cold eternal optimist! I had dotted crosshairs last month that turned solid when my temps stayed high, it may just be one symptom or temp throwing it off.
I'm off out tonight for food with a cousin and then a pub crawl a nice glass of wine. Tho going to be late as running around like a headless chicken in my dressing gown and wonky eyeliner makeup trying to figure out what to wear. Wardrobe now = floordrobe. Will be lovely picking all my clothes up tomorrow with a hangover

Enjoy Merkin. Hope you feel better soon happy. I think OH may have given me the lurgi too so shall be having an early night I think.

Thanks for the welcome, everyone. Merkin, I am only on CD5 (took my fourth Clomid pill today) so in that incredibly tedious limbo of nothingness waiting for shag week. Hope seems so faraway in the week following AF

Will add myself to the list.

P.s. last month my temps dropped below the coverline at 3DPO and 11DPO causing fertiltyfriend to remove my crosshairs entirely! Thankfully, I knew from my day 21 progesterone score (39.8) that I had ovulated, but I would've been pretty upset otherwise! Just thought I'd let you know that FF can get it wrong

Aquarius, 32, cycle 10/11, af due 8 March ish
SidneyBristow, 38, ttc since July 2012 (cycle 8), AF due 8 March; awaiting blood test results & appt for ultrasound
MavisCruet176, 35, cycle 5 since mmc, af due 14 March
Boodle, 30, Cycle 19, awaiting FS referral and AF due 15th March
Happylass, 35 cycle 7 AF due 17th March
PowderPuffs, 31, Cycle 5, BFP due 18th March
Merkin, 31, cycle 8, AF due between 19 and 21 Mar
Barkingtreefrog, 33, ttc since January 2012, BFP due 21 March
Twinklestar2, 34, ttc since August 2011, BFP due 22 March
Thunderbuns, 34, cycle 3 since mmc, af due 23rd March
Bunny, 33, married, TTC since June 2012, getting blood tests, hubby having tests too, AF due 27th March
CaptainMoll - 32, TTC since August 2011, AF due 27 March ish Lap and Dye in a couple of months, DH still awaiting proper test results.. *sigh
Pipbin, 37, TTC since May 2011, on the waiting list for IVF AF due 30th March
ILoveMyCats - 31 (nearly 32), ttc #1 since sept 2012, cycle 3 due to long cycle craziness AF due date unknown but FX soon!
Sloaneraver, 34, married, TTC for first time since Feb 2013
Soph 33, married, TTC #1 since Jul 11, on IUI waiting list
Haycorn, 30, TTC for 6 months
Qazxc
Tallyra, 33, TTC since 2009, 3 MCs, doctors appt on 11th to ask many questions.
cherrycoconut, 33, still on cycle #1 TTC since September 2012 OV due...? AF due..?!
Pipersouth
Frogcatcher, 36, "step-mother" to OH's 8 year old, TTC since Nov 2012, AF came yesterday & was 4 days late so had really got my hopes up :
ItsAlwaysRaining, very old, TTC one year, one mmc, one blocked tube, 4th cycle of Clomid, on CD5.

Know how you feel raining. I'm on CD3 today. I'm starting my first OPKs next weds tho (following the Boots instructions) as my cycle is a bit irregular & has been as short as 25 days so at least I'll feel like I'm doing something then even if its just POAS!

I'd love a 25-day cycle, Frog; mine are 30/31 days on Clomid

lol @ barking now that would be a story and a half. Fish paste hmm! An aquired taste... maybe it's a pregnancy craving?

Good work frog you have been busy! What Merkin said re decimal points.

Hello Raining come take a pew

How's everyone doing tonight? I've had a crappy day at work but yay for the weekend! I'm hitting the wine, chilling out and letting go of all that stress in the hope it won't effect any pending ovulation. FX! Hubby bless him cooking tea.

Interesting fact re implantation Happy so hope for you that BFP has your name on it x.

Frog and Raining swop you for mine any day, I'm on something like CD 218 at the mo of a never ending cycle after coming of the pill. Wakey wakey OV!

I did read yesterday that Vitex, Milk thistle, ginseng and inverted yoga poses are all good for post-pill amenorrhea. Anyone used or know what Vitex is cheers?

barking that's really made me chuckle!

mavis still feeling really grot here, hideous timing mother nature damn you!

CD13 here, I have lurgy and hubby had jizz test today so I can't see much happening this weekend grrrrrrr

If only a cold were a sign of being upduffed I would be delighted to be feeling so crappy!! Frog I regularly have a 25/26 day cycle. It's absolutely fine as long as your LP is a good lengt. In fact it's great as everything just comes around faster