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Trying to Conceive Thread . . . .3!!

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Mum2Ela · 23/01/2004 14:30

Right oh.

I thought the TTC Thread no. 2 was getting a bit depressing and we all need cheering up with extra sprinkles of babydust, so I thought I would start a new thread.

I also have a motive - having looked back at the last 4 ttc threads I have noticed (being the sad person I am) that the thread originators all became pg during the life of the thread.

So . .

Here's me:

24 years old, DD 16 months, ttc since September.

Anyone joining me on this nw, happy thread?

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fisil · 02/02/2004 20:14

Ooh CD - how exciting. Have you done it yet? Glad to hear you're better.

Had a bummy day at work and really wanted to cry and felt overwhelmingly tired. Same first signs as last time. But then again, work was really tear provoking and tiring today, so I guess there's probably another explanation. The great thing about knowing exactly when I ovulated is knowing more precisely when af should show up, so I'm not getting all the concerned right now.

bunny2 · 02/02/2004 20:24

Wow, CD, get a pissy stick now and do a test! Good luck, I really hope you have good news.

Bluestar, I understand why you are cautious but there are some interesting signs - the spotting and the dip post-ov are very promising. Fingers crossed tightly for you.

I have had a crap 24 hours. Clomid makes me have some terrible mood swings, it is like bad PMT and I had it last time before I ovulated with Clomid. Hopefully it means ov is imminent (no pissy stick surge yet though). I have been shouting at dh and ds, totally out of character for me. I feel really bad now, I had so little patience with ds today. . I want some chocolate.

fisil · 02/02/2004 20:30

Here's some virtual chocolate - just as satisfying, much fewer calories!

Kay1 · 02/02/2004 20:40

Bluestar, I don't want to get too excited for you either but that all sounds really positive to me.

When i was pregnant with ds, i had lots of spotting and cramps about 2 days before AF due. I was away for weekend on a canoe trip!, thought there was no way i could be pg and that AF was coming early so got very very drunk, spent a lot of time upside down in not too clean river and basically had a great weekend, spotting carried on for about 3 days then stopped and AF never came - by the end of the week, i had other pg signs - nausea, huge breasts(!) etc etc and eventually did test which was positive. I then spent next 8 months worrying about effects of alcohol etc but he was fine!!

Good luck for tomorrow and hope its all positive for you.

bunny2 · 02/02/2004 21:01

Thanks Fisil, your virtual choclate was delicious (but not as nice as the Mars bar I ate aswell)

CountessDracula · 02/02/2004 23:06

Damn thought had pissy stick in cupboard but box was empty. Forgot I had awful indigestion last night and have it again tonight, oh god oh god!

Is prob psychosomatic though

hana · 02/02/2004 23:13

ohhh Cd that's rather exciting, haven't been any graduates for at least a week!
Glad to hear your gf is gone too

fisil · 03/02/2004 08:14

Get a pissy stick, get a pissy stick, get a pissy stick.

I am sooooo excited! Let us know the news as it breaks!

Azure · 03/02/2004 08:30

Hi all, now getting excited about CD and Bluestar. Virtual pain au chocolats for breakfast for all of us.

bluestar · 03/02/2004 08:52

Last night thought af was coming and was convinced that af would be here this morning but not yet. Still spotting though. Feel really drained this morning but partly due to feeling that af will turn up (don't think I'm a lucky one who spots and then is still pg) but will wait and see.
Hope you get good news CD, sounds promising.

hana · 03/02/2004 09:21

just want a moan about the scheduling of smear tests - have to be done mid cycle, fair enough, so that's about day 14 give or take.......and you are supposed to refrain from intercourse for 24 - 48 hours before!! That's prime time for me in terms of ov'ing. I've been going mad trying to schedule the right time for my appt - . Grrrrr. There's another month. But I really need this done so it has to come first.
Still optomistic though. If not now there's always March. That was a lucky month for me last year so you never know.

Waiting for everyone to pee and post....!

Quackers · 03/02/2004 09:26

OOH CD, when are you testing!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bluestar, I know just what you mean about getting hopes up! The waiting bit is so hard and when you temp you have such a close insight into what is happening. I saw a dip when implantation occured but just would not believe anything until a test confirmed as that stage is so critical. You can have spotting for a few days with implantation and that's why some people think it's AF coming. Like you say no point getting hopes up but it is very promising for you. When do you think you will test if your AF doesn't show up??? What day are you on now??

CountessDracula · 03/02/2004 09:26

AF arrived this morning. Stupid old cow.

Oh well, back to the drawing board...

Come on Bluestar, will send all my vibes over to you now!

fisil · 03/02/2004 11:01

Sad Sad Sad Sad

CountessDracula · 03/02/2004 11:02

Thanks fisil - are you feeling better today?

bunny2 · 03/02/2004 11:04

CD, bad luck, I was expecting great news from you this morning. So sorry.

Bluestar, it sounds soooo promising. How long do you plan to leave it before doing a test?

Hana, cant you have a smear around day 9, then you'll have the green light for bding by day 11. I didnt think it had to be right in the middle of a cycle (I'm sure mine havent always been). How are you apart from that? I am tentatively taking baby aspirin (still convinced I have a blood disorder, there was an article on "cyberchondria" in the Indie on Sunday, I could have written it myself).

Still no surge for me

fisil · 03/02/2004 11:18

Thanks for asking CD. I had a crappy morning. Gave up half way through breakfast and went back to bed to cry (left ds eating rice cakes and making very cute noises all alone!). Had a word with boss-of-choice when I got in to work and she agreed that work is really tough for me at the moment and we talked it all through. So feeling a bit happier, knowing that I have support here. Bit less happy knowing that there are very good reasons for me to be tired and tearful, so the hormonal explanations are less likely!

bunny2 · 03/02/2004 11:22

Hi Fisil, you poor thing, you and me both feeling crap. I am a bit better today but still feel very weepy, I blame the clomid. Hope things get better as the day progresses.

bunny2 · 03/02/2004 11:23

Hope things get better for you, I mean.

CountessDracula · 03/02/2004 11:25

Oh poor all of us snivelling wrecks - I've been v tearful too but did find out yesterday that a v good and old friend has been killed in a motorbike accident while we were on holiday last week, couldn't stop crying last night as can't believe will never see him again (other than in box at funeral tomorrow )

fisil · 03/02/2004 11:27

Thanks.

I told DP last night that I "feared" I was pg, and that I was alarmed out how much it worried me, and should we stop ttc? We talked about it and decided that there is never an easy time to have no.2, it just isn't going to be easy full stop. And we decided that for ds' sake the sooner the better, so on with the shagging!

fisil · 03/02/2004 11:28

Oh CD, you poor poor thing.

bunny2 · 03/02/2004 11:29

I hope it goes ok tomorrow CD, how tragic.

Well, I' better go and fetch ds from pre-school. See ya later.

CountessDracula · 03/02/2004 11:33

Yes it is tragic, he was such a wonderful and interesting bloke, was on a motorbike in Goa at night, got to a T junction but didn't see it and there was a brick wall in front of him. Luckily he died instantly. Had been good mates since we were 13

I hate motorbikes. That's the third friend who's been killed on one but no-one this close before

fisil · 03/02/2004 11:36

Wow, really puts moaning about having too much work to do into persepective.

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