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!

at the thought of a TTC mosh pit!

Off to the docs now for my second blood test, ouch!

So when would you recommend I start using OPKs? I'm on CD 7 at the moment, and FF estimates green week as starting on CD14, but this is what I'm trying to pinpoint, so should I start now or wait a few days? Btw, my temp chart so far is all over the place and each time I've got one that looks particularly out of place I've re-taken it just to make sure... I'll link to it if I can work out how using the work computer...

Gave up and used my phone instead...

FertilityFriend.com/home/4321a7/

Tally the OPKs come with an instruction leaflet which tells you which day to start depending on length of cycle. My shortest ever cycle was 25 days so i had to start on CD8. Anyhoo that was a waste of time as I've POAS every day, it was CD13 yesterday & no sign of a dark line!

Missed you sausage hurling, mosh pit dwelling, cat pee cleaning lot last night but was having a serious chat with mr Frog about selling house & buying another. Guaranteed to bring on a baby that I reckon when law of Sod intervenes! Anyway it put him in a good mood so we have now managed to DTD CD10 & CD13 which would be good if I knew that O was imminent but I don't yet!!

Glad your first day went well merk even if cat was being evil. At least it was only pee - DP's cat shat on his son's bed so we had to throw the duvet out.

Good luck with drs cherry

Don't worry tally mine looks odd too & it's my first month. I reckon it looks weird until you see the whole month & it gets a bit of perspective.

Oh & DP declared that Conceive Plus was the worst lubricant in the world so may have to get some Preseed to see if that is any better. However, he didn't object to me doing the pillow under arse thing so I did a few pelvic tilts & flexing of the pelvic floor for good measure & ended up actually falling asleep with it there!

Frog we have tried the Kevin McCloud method of conception by moving house but it doesn't seem to have worked yet.

I wonder if Kevin McCloud would be proud to have a conception method named after him? It definitely seems to be a trend though!

Nice going Frog Oh I'm loving the idea of a Kevin Mcloud conception method. A fairly major commitment but if it works then fab!

Hi all. The sun has finally come out down here and I'm hoping the trend continues; I've had enough of winter!!

CD9 here and am getting 'high' fertility readings from CBFM, so let the games begin ie ShagWeek2013, Take 3!

DH's semen analysis results came through yesterday, and he got high marks all around, woot Mr. Bristow! My dildocam appt is Saturday and I'm dreading it like mad. iphone app tells me that's near the start of the fertile time this month, and it just seems so wrong to be DTD the night before/morning of, even if it is allowed! I guess I'm to check my modesty at the door? Oh Lord I really, really am not looking forward to it.

Which brings the next question, if they find nothing abnormal, is that the end of it? Or do they then move on to other scans/HSG/Lap & Dye...?

Took a look at that instadiffer thread boo hoo, it took some of them a month, OMG the I felt, mostly at myself for even going there!

*Crazy cousin-in-law update, she is still eating meal replacement shakes in an effort to lose baby weight from #1, despite being preg with #2....

Sidney, I feel I must tell you that my boss, who has just given birth on what should have also been my EDD is a Bristow, and her husband is also a teacher in my school, so I am slightly disturbed at you comments, with a very wrong visualisation in my head. Not good, not good!!!!

But congratulations to your dh on being a goodun :P

I too am not very keen on the idea of dtd before an examination and have so far managed to avoid it, but if it's got to be done, it's got to be done!

Sidney congratulations Mr B! I bet he's unbearably smug now!
Just leave all modesty at the door in anything like that I think. I had to have a colposcopy last year (basically camera to examanie it all & then laser to remove a few dodgy cells from the cervix) & just had to keep telling myself that they had seen it all before. It was actually quite interesting to see inside to be honest (tho maybe that's me being a bit weird!!). I've got a follow up check in May but they said they couldn't do it if I was pregnant when i asked at the end of last year assuming without question that i would be by then

Yes, Frog, they said a similar thing to me when I had one in January (was yours a LLETZ as well?). I told them I was ttc and hopefully would be pg at the 6 month check-up time and they said that they would have to just keep an eye on me and check at the end of it all. Not so sure I will be now with all the delays I've had but we'll see. I've had so many checkups in that area and unpleasant vaginal ultrasounds now that I'm sure any pregnancy related checkups are going to be a breeze.

merkin try not to panic, you got your first line so early that even if the numbers were doubling the hcg levels would still be uber low, therefore the line stays light. For example it could have been reading 10 and that would double to 20 which is still low.

I had to wait till 3 days after af was due for the line to get any darker, by 6 days after af was due it was much darker. It happened to janey too. If you werent pregnant you wouldnt have 2 lines, also I would think that because you obviously implanted early on it should be safely nestled in by now.

I didnt really believe it till I missed af, when is she due? Think that might make it more real for you? I still dont feel pregnant, just fat and very hungry.

Thanks guys. I've had a colposcopy/LEEP (probably same as LLETZ) also; I had kind of put that out of my mind but you're right, the vag ultrasound couldn't be any worse than that.

Am I the only one, though, who feels a strange sense of loss, in relation to these fertility exams/potential interventions? I'm probably guilty of overthinking it all, but a part of me does just feel really sad that the TTC thing has had to involve CBFM, pee sticks, military-grade precision planning, now semen analysis, vag ultrasounds, potentially more exams, IVF, on and on and on - when all of us started out thinking getting pregnant would be so easy?

I just feel let down, not sure by what or by whom, that my first ultrasound won't be to peek at a baby inside me, but to look at my insides to try to find out why there's not a baby in there yet. It all sounds so silly and petty, but I think that's part of why I dread it.

On a completely unrelated note, where's Connie?

I totally agree Tally! Yes, mine was a LLETZ too. I guess I'll just have to play it by ear come May & see what is happening. Could be a bit of early PIMPing going on depending on where I am in my cycle. I hope anything pg-related is not going to hurt as much as that did unless until I get to actual labour!

Hmmm does make you wonder whether there is any kind of connection here as 3 of us have had it done. I'm sure that they tell you that there is no effect on conceiving, fertility or pregnancy unless you have to have more than one procedure or the more invasive treatments where it can cause weakness in the cervix.

Sidney, at least yours is for making sure everything's alright... I've had about 8 US so far, and all of them were for unsuccessful pregnancies, one way or another. I'm still waiting for the 'Let's see if everything's OK' one!

They definitely said it wouldn't have anything to do with my other problems though Frog... hmmmm

Sidney I think I'll only feel the loss if I end up with donated eggs or adopting. If I can get myself upduffed and produce a real live baby that's a proper mix of me and DP I'll be over the moon. I never had the illusion it would be easy. I was nervous about my age and paranoid about a couple of past health issues (like the cyst on my ovary 10 years ago) so was not expecting to be an instadiffer. Didn't stop me hoping, but didn't have high expectations of it happening easily.
Evil bitch witch still staying away merk? Have you got a digi to try today to put your mind at rest?

sidney I think she got kicked off again

merk merk where are you?

mother hope you are doing well and keeping us a seat warm in the grads club?

Was Connie an old friend in disguise? I had a feeling she was.

Another one here for the colposcopy club. Now my wonder is that they couldn't tell me, or didn't know, what had caused my tubes to be scarred. This is generally caused by an infection but I know I tested clear for all stds. However, cervical cancer is caused by an STD. I wonder if it could be the same one.
It's not the procedure that is causing us problems but the infection in the first place.

I've not had a colposcopy and had never even heard of the term -yet another new thing I've learnt on here. I've had a colonoscopy though, two in fact. They weren't pleasant but the photos they took were quite interesting!

Just posted and it seems to have disappeared! On way home, will be back later to catch up but for now my update is no sign of AF

Quick opinions needed, do I buy a digi despite believing my cheapies are more sensitive and therefore if I can't get a strong line on them a digi is bound to be BFN?