Trying to Conceive Thread . . . .3!!

[Mum2Ela]

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?

BTW, can anyone answer this. As I am fed up with all this waiting I have decided to go for plan B (plan A was "have a baby, get a new job". Because of the way teaching is, if I got a job tomorrow, it would be for 1st June or 1st September. In other words, I could accept a job not pg, but still turn up on day 1 in my second trimester. Where would I stand on maternity leave rights if I start a job at that stage?

Sorry CD for af showing up and for the loss of your friend. Know what you all mean about feeling weepy and crap. Cried when I went to bed last night thinking af would show, felt very low about ttc, the gap between ds and no.2 (if it ever happens), well you all know I'm sure. Feel a bit more positive today, not much spotting in last couple of hours. 13 days past ov today, would usually expect af to show up around now, so if nothing happens, will buy a test tomorrow. Hate the fact that I do usually spot before af, so can see why hard to get my hopes up despite good temp chart.

bad luck cd
bluestar - fingers crossed. I'm cd 27 and am pretty sure AF is gonna be today or tomorrow. Slight spotting etc. I've bought my chocolate and it's ready and waiting.
Keep reminding myself that I have a great dh and lovely dd and to be happy.

Fisil - I'm in the same boat as you at the mo. I am depserate to leave my current job as the new HoD is a disaster plus the travelling is getting me down. For the past 9 months I've been thinking I'd be pg soon and then could have all my maternity benefits from this job and then leave when the baby was 9 months or something. But it hasn't worked out like that
I'm starting to seriously consider doing supply work and tutoring just to keep the money coming in but without the stress of my current job which may be a factor in me not getting pg. A friend of a friend is getting plenty of supply work just at the schools she fancies so she doesn't have to "slum it".
I think you can still get your benefits if you move schools within the same authority. You'd still get smp (£100) anyway, but you may not get the extras that some schools give to longer-term employees. You'd have to phone your LEA.

Feel so p*ssed off today, it must be pmt, and that's making me feel even worse. AF due on Sat.

So sorry CD and for you sad news of your friend.
Bunny, thinking of you, hope this Clomid won't be needed for very long. xxxx
Bluestar, 13 days past! We're all rooting for you. Really hope your AF manages to get lost somewhere and you get good news !!
Good luck to allxx

Hi it is me still no pg. Is it better to have it in the morning or evening???

Twive last week dh can home all raring and we had it in the afternoon so i am just waiting, very confused on the CM thing i get it all through my cycle till my period.

Hi it is me still no pg. Is it better to have it in the morning or evening???

Twice last week dh can home all raring and we had it in the afternoon so i am just waiting, very confused on the CM thing i get it all through my cycle till my period.

Bluestar & Bigbird - fingers crossed.

Moomin, thanks for the advice. I'm actually looking at promotions, which might be the bit which is making me think "ugh, will I ever cope." Maybe that's the bit I should change!

Hope tomorrow is not too grim, CD.

Quacks, it is so nice to have you dropping in . How is your bump? You must be starting to show now. Any news? Bxxx

Here is a fab thread about improving that mucus
here especially for Slink

Bunny, where are you?
Ahhhhhhhh....I need an ear!

AF has just reared her ugly head. I am not p*ed off this time - it means i can start the clomid and stop pretending that it is just spotting and the chocolate is a craving, hee hee!! Phantom symptoms syndrome!

I am letting this TTC control my life! It is becoming an obssession, perhaps i need a chill pill. What do you suggest? Am glad DH is not at home at the moment, LOL.

Going nuts..

ChaCha, great you can start the clomid. Good luck. It will become an obsession though, it cant be helped!

Good night all

Hi there mateys. Thought I would 'graduate' to this thread from mc thread. Am not actually ttc at the mo since am on waiting list to se consultant about my mcs - cd take 12 weeks and doc said not to try. In the meantime I have taken Bunny2's advice and have read a book by Marian Glenville about ttc and prevent mc. It was very good. As a result I have given up coffee and booze as of yestreday. Yesterday I really missed my coffee but feel betternow. Am also trying to eat lots of fruit and veg. BTW am 34 and have one 12 month old daughter. Anyone else doing without coffee and booze and eating lots of fruit type things?

Hi ladies. Feel awful to be doing this again, but arrived at work again feeling like shit. I just want to curl up in a corner and cry and then sleep. I want to know if this is early pg or whether it is just the pressures at work at the moment. Ov was last Tues (as was BD). Today is cd23 which is my shortest cycle, longest is cd33. Can I test yet? When is the soonest I can test? I only want to do one test, so that if it is positive I can stay home for a couple of days and bring myself back under control, and if it is negative I can focus on the work issues knowing that they are real. So when can I test?

PS I love you all, it is so wonderful to have a support network like this.

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Me again....

I tested 9 days after DH & I bd'd and got a very faint positive with boots own brand tests... It was a much stronger positive 3 days later, so although it 'might' show a positive result, you'd be best to wait a few days to be sure.... I know I'm so impatient though, I'd want to do it right away.

Fisil, I would hang on till saturday at least. That's 12 DPO?? If I'm right. I have had very early positives but it's just disappointing if you try that little bit too early and get disappointed. Maybe try a Frirst resp or boots on Sat???
Bunny, Hiya, fine thank you, 15 weeks now would you beleive!!
BTW I took evening primrose oil for CM as I didn;t get very much and it did work!!!
Brunhilda!!! Lovely to see you've graduated!! Won';t be long now before your appointment!! Good luck!!
BLUESTAR - how are you today?? Any news??

Good morning ladies. CD, so sorry to hear your news . I hope today goes as well as can be expected. Fisil, sorry to hear you're feeling down - I hope work picks up for you soon. It's amazing how many emotions ttc brings. Brunhilda, good to see you here. Have your periods got back to normal since your m/c? Mine are completely up the creek (9 day cycle last time, 21 before that).

not me this time

Good luck bluestar & fisil ( fisil - i'd wait till at least Fri / Sat to test)

About the CM link there...I tried the robitussin for a few mths and it dodn't work for me but taking Starflower oil capsules from cd 1 to ov did work a bit. Though I have given that up now too ! Take nothing only pregnacare now.

Fisil, I hate to say it but it sounds to me like hormones, hopefully pregnancy ones, at work!

Come on you and Bluestar, test!

Bad luck BigBird - postitive vibes for next month. Does anyone know whether it is ok to take a regular (i.e. non-pregnancy) daily multi-vitamin supplement? I have been taking one with probiotic whatever but it says on the side to consult a doctor if pregant or ttc. I vaguely remember that vitamin A (I think) intake should be reduced when pregant - is this the reason?

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AF showed up this morning
Can't believe I had such a good temp chart. Peeved that the cycle was 40 days though and that yesterday all afternoon and evening I had no spotting at all.
Feel crap but there you go, back to bding again in a couple of weeks.
Will there be anyone with good news soon????

Poor you fisil and poor everyone else. (CD sorry to hear about your friend). We all seem to be on such a downer at the moment. Well, listen to this for a tale of woe... I don't seem to have picked up from my black mood yesterday which makes me think I'm ripe for a bout of nasty pmt with AF expected on Saturday. Last night dh went out to watch football in the pub and came home after I was asleep. In the night I woke up with such a dreadful sweat on I had to take my nightie off - I was soaked! That makes me feel it must be a huge surge of hormones as well (maybe it the bloody menopause )
And then in conversation with dh this morning he reveals that he drank 6 or 7 pints last night. We agreed a few months back that he would stop the binge drinking as we'd read it can kill up to 3 months' worth of sperm. He said he didn't think it constituted binge drinking bacuse he wasn't paralytic. I say it IS binge drinking because he doesn't usually drink at all most weeks and he had this much in the space of 3 hours. I could have KILLED him. Instead I sat crying my eyes out (after putting my make up on), thinking and saying "What's the point?" It's just made it all the worse, knowing how unhappy I am at work, knowing we don't seem capable of getting pg and now dh has probably killed off the next few months' supply because of his selfishness. I can't remember feeling so hopeless and down...

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