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!

Never! Shall we try to fill it tonight with witty banter?

Bad luck boodle & pip. I think I'm also CD17 tally but with a much shorter cycle than you (average of 28 days & has been 25 before) that is not such good news for me as means LP is on the short side. Anyone tried & had any luck with LP extending suggestions like B vits & progesterone cream? Obvs I could have a longer cycle this month (BFP AF expected any day now & then LP will be fine. Fertility fucker friend has refused to give me any crosshairs tho its plain to me when O was. Maybe cos all the OPKs came up neg or my temping times were a bit erratic.

I can't think of anything witty lol

I seem to be eating everything this weekend! Diet starts tomorrow!!! About 6 weeks till my holiday, am hoping if I can manage 6/7 weeks off Facebook then I can cope with 6 weeks of healthy food and exercise!

Charming, I'm not too hot when it comes to witty banter. If you'll accept inane triviality, I'll be glad to oblige.

I can think of something to fill up the thread, a list lol

Hello from sunny Spain! .
Feel like a whole new human being after the stress of last half term!! No dtd managed in the campsite though as predicted, and it should be shag week.

That daily mail article - yep, I did the maths as well and immediately questioned possible shoddy journalism (not from the dm though, surely?!). Why did they start trying at 18 for a start, and if they had, why hadn't they gone down other avenues in the intervening 15 years?!?!

Boodle - also with you on wanting a slightly longer cycle in the hope that they'll give me sweeties and I can start taking them immediately!!

Hola barking - enjoy the holiday.

Inane is my middle name, boodle [bugrin]

Oops...having promised inane chat, we had an unexpected visitor turn up so I haven't been able to get on all evening! Sigh! Do these people not realise I want to just hide away for the school holidays!?

Barking, I am very jealous of sunny Spain! I'm glad to see some sun forecast for this week but it's still waaaaaay too cold.

A list could help fill up the thread.Or how about a little chart sharing. I had a stupendous dip this morning so I'll be interested to see what happens in the morning. Could it become my shortest luteal plase ever? Could it be an implantation dip? (Not that I think it will come to anything - spotting will start any day now, implantation or not.)

Could be implantation Boodle 6dpo is about right.
You mention spotting, I have to say that I used to get dreadful spotting, from about 5 DPO but I've not had any since my lap and dye.

As for Clomid, they talked about putting me on it but they decided to check my tubes first as there is no point oving if egg and sperm wont meet.

I've had a few charts with noticeable dips around 5 -6 DPO. Quite early for a dip though, from what I can gather. Anyway, I don't expect anything to come of it, even if it is; spotting usually starts on 6-7 DPO and I doubt that's enough time for anything to get properly settled in.

If they decide to chuck clomid at me, I think I'll ask about whether the tubes need checking first/at some point. I need to sit down and make lots of notes so I'm ready to make the most of that appointment.

That said Boodle I asked about spotting and was told that it made no difference.

I'll join in with the chart sharing. I've had a stupid morning already, Sep.ding the last hour trying to settle the dog for a bit after he shredded his bandage last night and obviously spent half the night licking his cut foot.

FertilityFriend.com/home/4321a7

Poor tallydog. Our cat was miserable with her bandage on. She managed to get out of the cat flap as the other one was coming ing, dunk her bandage in a puddle and get it off when it was wet. She left it n the garden table.

If af does not arrive this coming weekend, I will start charting. Do you think I could trick the cbfm into thinking it was cd1 too?

I love love love school holidays! But it does always mean that I have to wait in for things to get done in the house or be delivered. Today the boiler is being serviced.....

You can start the CBFM off on any day up to CD 6.
Having tried all of the things I recommend charting and Internet cheapy opks.

Thanks pip. I bought the cbfm at Christmas but still waiting for cd1! Ive since read about charting, have more faith in that too, but I'm keen to wait til my next cycle, for a fresh start, as it were. Also ff chart is massive as I'm on cd 100+!!

Ah yes, Pip, you've told me about that (re: spotting) before, but I'd forgotten! Although, what's your gut feeling about it? Do you truly believe it doesn't matter? It's just seems to me that it MUST have some significance. Something is changing 2 -3 days before AF kicks in and whatever that change is could, in theory, be a negative on in terms of TTC?

This is the problem with school holidays...too much time to think about stuff!

Here's my chart too:

[http://FertilityFriend.com/home/430fb8/]

Some promising dips no? Well they could be if there wasn't a total absence of BD on the crucial green days due to me not knowing when O would be & DP working late.

I finally conned got FF to give me crosshairs by changing the analyis method from advanced to research. I think it was getting fooled by all the negative OPKs that I wasted my time with took & lack of EWCM. Am slightly ashamed by all my open circles compared to everyone else who has a better set routine than me and/or is not as chronically lazy so sets an alarm to temp. Still despite that I don't think it's too bad for my first attempt! Must try harder next month as all you teachers might say!

Jealous of all your holidays (hola barking) - I'm at work this week even though DP & SS are off all week having fun

Arrgh I'm rubbish with the link thing. Trying again below:

FertilityFriend.com/home/430fb8/

Oh I don't do charting/temping so I feel left out (sits and sulks)

Heading back to work today was depressing, although at least it takes my mind off all this TTC malarchy! Anybodyelse feel fine one minute and then really pissed off the next?

[busmile] [bugrin] [buwink] [bushock] [buhmm] [buconfused] [bublush] [buangry] [busad] [buenvy]

sorry just wanted to use them all before they went! lol

Yep, all the time. Got v drunk (totally responsible in the 2ww obviously [bublush] on Sunday night as a coping mechanism of being at a DP's family dinner & his pg 18 year old niece being there. There was a load of joking about her getting fat & someone asked if she'd measured how round she was now (I think she's about 5 or 6m along). I thought that they did this at antenatal appts so asked her & she said that she had missed her last antenatal appointment as she forgot to take her notes so they wouldn't see her. How can someone that stupid/irresponsible be pg & not me? Cue the "it's not fair" stamping of feet when we get home.

Then yesterday we went to see my 92 year old grandad with dementia & my grandma & it made DP all soppy so that he says that one of the first things we have to do when we have a baby is to take it to see my grandad & grandma. Comments like that should upset me but somehow they don't as much.

Yep Bunny I'm totally positive about the whole TTC thing 90% of the time. But then I'll have a total meltdown over the most insignificant of things. Was literally sobbing the other night watching a program that prepares men to become dads yet I watch OBEM all the time and it doesn't affect me!
Frog my chart is all over the place at the moment - white circles everywhere as I can't be arsed setting my alarm when I'm not in work. Plus I've slept in 5 different beds in the past week as we've been out and about on our travels!

[bubiscuit]s to you all.

just got a rejection letter for a job I liked the look of. At least they wrote.

I think AF is arriving. on the last two trips to the loo, i've had a tiny amount of brownish cm. I have very mixed feelings about this. Disappointment that I'm probably not pg and joy at seeing af for the first time since December. Also slight concern that this would signal a 10/11 day lp - but could just be down to the mad cycle, no?

I'm with you on feeling up and down about ttc. It can affect every aspect of your life. I really want to change jobs, but would rather not arrive somewhere pg or fall pg quickly. But hanging on just in case isn't helping either.
I may have to have a rant about my class teacher in a bit, as I'm not sure what to do about it.... [busad]

Oh Cats, what a rubbish time you are having. I bet that job was rubbish really.

Boodle I have always had spotting, I only realised that it was anything abnormal since ttcing. A while back there was a spotters thread and all of us who have had been seen by fertility people were told it wasn't a problem, but no one really believed it. However, if we were all told the same thing then may be it is true.
Ultimately I know that my consultant has had a good poke around in there and tells me everything is in tip top condition other than my tubes, which are rubbish.

Hello people! Apologies for disappearing! I'm back (or I will be later once I've caught up). Hope you're all ok