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The Elderberry Pavlovas, sausage bouquets, one giant sofa and the Gü pots of destiny! (thread 9)

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Bunnygirlie · 21/04/2013 22:56

Come on ladies, this is the one! Time for some BFPs!

The smallprint- Berries have a strict entrance criteria (TTC #1, over 30, TTC for 3+months, must have a special pot, NO instadiffers)

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Bunnygirlie · 27/04/2013 20:58

Balls! Water doesn't do anything!

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Tallyra · 27/04/2013 21:07

Idiot fc! if we need lube we need it. I actually need it fairly often, and water is worse than nothing.

BlindKitty · 27/04/2013 21:12

Not that I've tried it, I can't imagine it would! Has made me wonder whether I should try to go without though...

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Bunnygirlie · 27/04/2013 21:38

I need assistance so without lube the is no DTDing at all!

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BlindKitty · 27/04/2013 21:46

well if I made a bit more effort I wouldn't need it, but when you're dtd every other day I just want to get on with it! Maybe I should try some 50 shades or something before hand haha!

did ask the fc about it but she initially rubbished the suggestion, only to actually suggest it later on! who knows?!

barkingtreefrog · 27/04/2013 22:04

I wouldn't get through shag week without preseed and given the number of reviews on amazon from happy upduffed women I'm going to stick with it (or not Wink ).

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Bunnygirlie · 27/04/2013 22:27

It's just pure luck innit! Some people get pg using condoms, being in the pill, using normal lube, it's just us unlucky buggers that struggle Sad

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BoodIeBee · 27/04/2013 22:33

Aha, Blind, but note that her FC didn't say what kind of effect the preseed has on the swimmers! Maybe it makes them swim like Michael Phelps!? If that's the case, I'll carry on with it, thanks very much! Wink
Alternatively, perhaps her FC has shares in Robitussin and wants to try to lure people away from the magic EWCM in a tube. Smile

Charming, I use cheapy OPKs, and if I start using them very early in my cycle, I get faint lines that must be just my natural LH level. They then start to get gradually darker, usually taking 3-4 days to get to a positive reading. After that they quickly return to the very faint 'baseline'. In other words, when I see my line starting to darken, I get on with DTD, and then more often than not, Ov comes 4-5 days later.

GooseyD · 27/04/2013 22:38

Don't - a friend of mine got pg 'by accident' last year ... I mean, seriously?? at our age, do you not know what might get you pg?? Smile

MrsB00Mbastic · 27/04/2013 22:39

Ok, so I have a lube question that is going to be WAAAAY tmi, but going to ask it anyway.

I don't need preseed, because when I'm in the mood there's plenty in the way of natural lube. But don't get EWCM ever unless I'm in the mood for rudies (ie never get it spontaneously as an ov predictor), so got told to use preseed to make it a less hostile environment (hostile. huh. Not like it has teeth now is it?) But surely if I get ewcm when I'm getting my jiggy on, I don't actually need preseed? I'm very confused about this now...

GooseyD · 27/04/2013 22:48

Id never even heard of preseed (but glad I have now!). Don't think you need anything unless it's to help the mechanics so to speak... but others might know better.

BoodIeBee · 27/04/2013 23:01

Hmmm, MrsBoombastic - the EWCM that indicates ovulation is on the way isn't the same stuff as the wetness you get when sexually aroused though. I have read this online before but not from a massively reputable source... here

I don't get much in the way of EWCM, if at all but I am usually fine for DTD, as long as we put in the preparation time! If we can't be bothered, that's when the 'conceive plus' comes out!

I've been pondering this lately, as FC did mention the possibility of having a hostile environment in my uterus (oh Monica and Chandler, if only I'd known...) whether I should just squirt a load of lube up there before, and then a load more afterwards to try and ward off my potentially sperm-murdering womb!!!

barkingtreefrog · 27/04/2013 23:20

boodle I have visions of lots of little creatures with spears lining the walls of your womb and stabbing sperm on the end of their spears like they're catching fish.
Flush them all out with sperm friendly lube!!!

BoodIeBee · 27/04/2013 23:22

There's a lovely children's book in there somewhere, Barking!

barkingtreefrog · 27/04/2013 23:27

Hmmm. Working title: "How babies are made when the stork keeps dropping them in the wrong bloody places".

BoodIeBee · 27/04/2013 23:27

Perhaps I should get DH to agree to the ol' turkey baster technique. I could put a whole tube of sperm friendly lube in with it and then just go for a 'tidal wave' approach...

-only half joking now I think about it

BoodIeBee · 27/04/2013 23:29

In my case, I think the stork has permanently migrated...or been shot by a hunter...or is caught in a garden pond fishing net somewhere. It definitely hasn't been anyway near the BoodlePad.

Tallyra · 27/04/2013 23:50

Bloody faceache!!! Another diffed friend. Well, school friend who just got married but I haven't seen in years. not just the usual announcement though, oh no! she puts the scan photo up and yells us it's a girl all at once! Angry Angry Angry Envy

And I'm with you all with the SIL thing too. we both started TTC at the same time. she had a few problems but ds is now 16 months and they are talking about another one. MIL was talking to me about it as SIL lives in Africa and MIL pretty much treats me like a daughter, which is lovely, but she knows enough about me and our problems to be able to comprehend that this might hurt, surely?!Sad

barkingtreefrog · 28/04/2013 07:33

It baffles me, but people genuinely don't seem to get it at all. It's almost like they know you want a baby so you must like talking about babies and hearing about everyone else who is having one Confused Confused . I texted a good friend when I found out SiL was pg and she texted back a photo of her baby with food all over his face saying 'at least you don't have to deal with this' Hmm .
I would expect her to understand more than anyone among my friends as she had an ectopic pg (although that wasn't planned and she was younger) and then after she was married she had a mc that she found really difficult. But really? A friend texts you in distress about yet more baby news that isn't their own, and you send them back a picture of your baby???!!? Confused

Not ranting about it ha ha I'm totally over it really , just giving an example in reply to tallyra of how people really don't get it

Which is why it's so lovely to have all the berries who really do get it!! Grin although when I think about it we do do a lot of talking about babies and other people's babies but that's ok because in here you can do it with an Angry and a Envy and no one expects you to be all Grin

GooseyD · 28/04/2013 08:46

There is no getting it I think - maybe people feel they'd be patronising us if edited what they would talk about normally, that's the only thing I can think. My mum was chatting to me yesterday about my sister being TTC#2 and the difficulties (financially etc), and when I said that one dc was jolly nice anyway she said something about oh but the biological urge is so strong, it would be so hard to stop at one!!!!! This is my mum who I have confessed to about not wanting to see pg friends and friends with kids. So I have officially given up expecting people to be sensitive.

GooseyD · 28/04/2013 08:49

Barking that is a serious lack of empathy on your friends part though - I meand do you think she's clueless enough to think that that was actually going to cheer you up? You have to suppose so.

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Bunnygirlie · 28/04/2013 09:33

Ugh why are people so insensitive Sad

I'm lucky in the fact that my Sil & Bil had their two before we were married, and DH tells me they tried for a year to get their first. But if my unmarried sister who doesn't live with her boyf of one year were to say she was pg I would freak out!!!

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MrsB00Mbastic · 28/04/2013 09:52

Boodle I think the stork has been captured by Aunt Flo. She's probably keeping it in a battery farm, forcing it to deliver babies for Jeremy Kyle contestants and contravening animal welfare standards. Let's report her.

Barking bloody hell, who needs enemies when you have friends like that! I hope she at least got a sarky comment in return...or a picture of a swanky couples-only resort with the caption 'our next holiday! Bet you wish you could still do this!' because that's what I would do

Goosey inclined to agree, I think people try to pretend nothing's wrong and overcompensate. You know like when someone's got a black eye or something and you try not to look at it but end up staring? It's like that only with baby conversation.

Poor everyone with knocked up SILs. My SIL is actually on the same page as me, she's been trying for about 3 years and no joy. She never talks about it though, so I feel bad banging on about our issues when she has it worse as she's been trying longer, shame really because she's the only person I know well who's going through the same thing. That said, I think she might be of the 'take it or leave it' mentality as she certainly hasn't been to FC or anything yet - hard to know!

I have a creeping feeling that there's going to be a pregnancy announcement from one of my friends soon. She's only just had her first in Oct and when we were talking about when she was going back to work she was pretty evasive - I smell a bun in the oven!

MrsB00Mbastic · 28/04/2013 09:58

Oh and just found the post that got delivered yesterday, it seems I have a date with the dildocam in a couple of weeks' time to see if ovaries are looking polycystic. If they are I think I get a PCOS diagnosis, if not that's it until August. Not sure which to hope for! Hmm

BlindKitty · 28/04/2013 10:13

peanut I never get the stretchy cm either (I don't think). I did ask the fc but she said it didn't matter. Am wondering if I too might have a hostile environment. Am going to ask if I can have a post coital test to check I'm not murdering the swimmers!

lol at kidnapped stork!

So how is everyone today? So busy today you'd think I'd stopping chatting on mn wouldn't you Ranging from yoga to washing duvet of cat sick