The Elderberry Pavlovas are pimping everyday – a lovely thread for 30+ ladies TTC #1 (Thread 7)

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Newbies very welcome provided they meet the entrance criteria (TTC #1, over 30, TTC for 3+months, must have a special pot, NO instadiffers) and bring a bouquet of sausages when they join!

Hello! I never got sore boobs before TTC now I always get them prior to AF arriving, mother nature is an evil hagbag!

DP bought me a nice bottle of wine rather than an Easter egg. I keep telling him I want to drink less whilst TTC but he doesn't seem to take that in. He tried to buy some eggs for other people tho & all tesco had left were double decker ones!
I get slightly swollen boobs before AF but not really sore. I've read loads of stuff where women say that was how they knew they were pg when their boobs were sore but I don't think that will ever apply to my too flat chest.

I was reading a great thread last night on the worst household tips. One poster posted a link to ridiculous tips from magazines. I almost wet myself laughing. Have a look:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1719990-Household-tips-that-are-shit?pg=2

frog I have a flat chest too! I think most 10 year old girls have more than me! If I ever get pg and get boobies I won't know what to do!!!

cats hilarious!!!!!

I'm somewhere in between, not tiny, not big but I definitely got sore boobs when I was pg. but mine also get sore at AF sometimes so it's no use as a diagnosis tool.

Well getting to the end of my first temping cycle & despite my crap consistency with temping times I can still see a pattern. I've discarded two temps - one silly high one when I was ill & a strange low one several days post O when I could have read the temp wrong I guess. Despite OPK results it looks like I had a pre O dip at CD15 then temp went up a bit & stayed the same CD16 & CD17 before shooting up after that. Unfortunately that puts the timing EXACTLY when DP had to work late &/or was knackered from work so we managed to DTD 4 days before likely O & the day after. I'm not going to be mega surprised when AF arrives this week then. STOOPID STOOPID employers...

Oh dear frog, i know what you mean! But when I say stooopid stoopid employers I am in fact talking about my hubby as he is kind of my boss lol [bugrin]

Happy Easter all! Chocolate and fluffy bunnies to all. I'm nursing a hangover, and nursing the guilt of drinking enough to get a hangover when I should have suspended all pate-eating, wine-quaffing enjoyment on the minuscule off-chance I produced an egglet at some point! Oh well.

On the boob theme, I have slightly sensitive boobs/nipples also probably because I've been poking them lots to see if they're sore. I have inverted nipples (and when I say inverted, I mean practically poking out of my shoulderblades) but since the MC they occasionally pop out to say hello. Gets my hopes up that something mystical and pregnancy-related is going on, but then they go back into hibernation. Currently one is in and one is out, which DH is finding hilarious this morning [buhmm]

Frog I've considered temping but am too disorganised to do it, plus I work shifts so hard to know when to take it. Do you reckon it's worth it then? OPKs never show anything for me...

Happy Easter!!! I see the berries are busy bunnies this weekend, I feel like there is hardly anybody around to chat too, I have been considering cheating on you all (looking at other threads) [buwink]

Happy Easter all.

When did Easter become a thing? I'm sure when I was a kid it used to pass almost without mention. Yes there were chocolate eggs but that was about it.

Staying on the pity sofa today (metaphorically as actually got to go out to the in-laws for lunch), having a proper mid month wobble, why isn't it working, why am I not pregnant, why don't I have a baby rah rah ranty pants!!!

Life really is a bitch!

peanut the temping has reassured me that despite the OPK evidence I do seem to be ovulating. I am still hoping that the only reason I'm still TTC is that we've not been DTD at the right time. My old app used to assume CD15 & that seems to be wrong for me esp as my cycles are a tiny bit irregular. I want to be armed with as much info as poss if I do have to go to the GP.

Def on sofa of pity here today. DP is working till 4, I'm still in PJs & feeling miserable which is a sure sign AF imminent. To top it off we have to go round to his ridiculously fertile sisters for dinner tonight. She got accidentally pg in her teens and again at 40 [busad]. If I get asked about babies (which they usually do) I think today might be the day I lose it & burst into tears.

Oh and as for time to do it most people set alarms to do it at same time every day but I've just been doing it as soon as I wake up. I'm not good at waking up & an alarm might tip DP over the edge. If you work shifts I guess you just do it whenever you wake up from sleep even if that is later in the day but accept that data may not be as accurate.

bunny my DP is in the emergency services so I feel i can't complain when he is being so public spirited in his job but he should be here instead impregnating me! I hope the county appreciates what he does & what I am sacrificing!

temping and opk lead me to believe I may be ovulating today. dh wants to have a nice afternoon off as we did so much housework yesterday, and we may end up in the bedroom, but that means being careful as we are not supposed to get duffed yet. gah! how annoying!

and you are right about the easter thing pip, it's much bigger than it used to be. a friend of mine even bought an 'easter tree' ffs!!

Yep pip I saw on Facebook that someone I know was putting a carrot out for the Easter bunny for their kids!

Just had a rather too eventful afternoon that dragged me off my pity sofa - when I had a shower at 2pm a load of water started dripping through the bathroom ceiling. Cue panic phone call to DP who had to come home early from work & sort emergency plumber. At least it means we are 2 hours later for family gathering.

Hey, back from the in-laws, spent the aftie with my nephew and niece which only makes it tougher again!

Easter trees and carrots for imaginary bunnies?!? Seriously?!?

Hubby says I'm being a real narky cow, oh I can't help it! I don't think he realises that I'm never gonna be properly happy again till I get me a baby! It's the first thing I think about when I get up and the last thing I pray about at night! Why don't men get it?!?!?

Had the day with in-laws and 20 month old nephew. He's lovely. Can't quite say my name yet and it sounds as though he's saying something rude. Can't say what as it would out me, but am hoping it doesnt become my family name.

Am feeling sick and weird too. I got this when I was taking the pregnacare too, though, so may not be anything. I'm tempted to pimp tomorrow, though!!

I had an easter tree in my classroom, but more as a teaching aid for RE....

Hello, Berries! Just skimming what I've missed the last few days! Frog, water dripping through the ceiling can never be good news, can it?! Hope it's all fixed!

5 DPO for me and a weekend of alcohol indulgence means I don't trust my temps at all! We did well-timed shagging, but that doesn't mean much to me any more; I fully expect AF to be along sometime in the next few days. At least I am now only 10 days away from my referral to the fertility specialist.

Hello ladies that have made it the berry parade this evening!

Apologies, catching up and will quickly forget who I'm replying to...

peanut If I hadn't started temping I wouldn't have had a clue about my much later than average Ov or my ridiculously short luteal phase, so it taught me a lot and means I have a concern to take to the fertility clinic (16 days for me boodle!!). It helped give me a reason for no pg despite over 14 months of ttc at that point, which I like to think has helped moderate the craziness. A little. It helps me to believe that my LP is the problem and hopefully the fc will give me closed to lengthen it therefore I will immediately graduate to the state of upduffment. This is the belief that is currently keeping me sane.

This whole Easter bunny and Easter tree thing? Bloody ridiculous if you ask me. I told DP repeatedly I would like an Easter egg. Hints don't work. Apparently explicit requests don't either .

On the boobs - not a lot here either. I've always wanted to get pg just to see if I could manage a cleavage!! And to get a child. Obviously. I think there are other options if it was just the cleavage I was after.

If it is cleavage you want frog, I've got plenty to spare. The norks hurt like wotsit when I was diffed as well, which is sort-of how I know I'm going to be out this month because they don't hurt! Fertility man said we'd been timing dtd ever so slightly wrong as well, so I'm not expecting much joy this month.

Easter was never this big a thing before, was it? I didn't get an egg either, and my mum was visiting as well and she didn't get me one either! [buangry]

Hope everyone has had a nice Easter :)

Yay I have some berry friends tonight!!!!!