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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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Tallyra · 29/04/2013 12:46

list, not lust!!!Shock

MrsB00Mbastic · 29/04/2013 17:05

Right berries, I shall probably be out of action for the next few days - 3 night shifts in a row, going to deliver me some babies and not cry about it

Will bob in if I get the chance to catch up on the sofa gossip! x

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Bunnygirlie · 29/04/2013 18:03

Aaaaaagh! DHs doctor called, he has to do his jizz test for the third time!!!!!!

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happylass · 29/04/2013 18:12

Happy Anniversary Boom and fx for the anniversary baby.
Bunny sorry to hear the jizz test is taking so long. Did they say why it needs repeating?
Sid I think we may be cycle buddies this month as I'm just entering week 2 of the 2ww too. You did a hell of a lot better than us on shag week though!! Cd17 here and we've only DTD a pitiful 3 times. Boo to illnesses and busy lives Sad

BlindKitty · 29/04/2013 18:15

bunny ah I bet you?ll do a great job as godmother!

Boom Hope you?re ok after the ?incident? today, hope you spilt gravy over the horrible customers and not the nice ones. Actually, I think we should regularly get you to throw gravy over the instadiffers / fb show-offs / insensitive work twats ?..

Re the anniversary present, the 1st year is meant to be paper. We just gave each other our trip to rome tickets. If you need something that won?t cost anything, what about some Boombastic love coupons haha??? You could offer ?non baby making? sex!!!!

Re the picnic suggestion, I?m just imagining you with salmon sandwiches down your knickers haha

barking what a nob on the train!! If she wanted 2 seats then she should have paid for 2! I had a situation like that a while back so I snitched on her to the conductor (I?m so hard haha) but then I regretted sitting next to her as she reeked!

My mate texted earlier. Shes also been ttc for 2 years and she had a transvaginal scan today that found a polyp. Anyone know anything about them? Shes gutted as was meant to start iui in june but then I guess if they can remove it maybe she won?t need it.

Re my cycle, still no AF (not getting my hopes up though) and go on hol Thursday!!! There goes my sex filled holiday!!!!

Frogcatcher · 29/04/2013 18:24

Boo to all doctors & tests going wrong. I'm really not looking fwd to going to see my GP but its going to become necessary next cycle when we've hit the 6m mark.

Hey sid & happy I'm also 7dpo so cycle buddy too. I don't think we did as well as Sid but 3 times in shag week so fx quietly. Helps that first time I've been able to pinpoint shag week with any certainty anyway. I'm going to avoid who am I kidding symptom spotting or early testing but think the only way to do it may be to take myself off on the yoga retreat this weekend when DP is working anyway. And not take my pot or sticks with me!!!

BlindKitty · 29/04/2013 18:38

frog if having a opk break helps then you should do it but just to warn you, I've been super anxious this month as I decided to 'be breezy' about the opks this month!

Frogcatcher · 29/04/2013 18:42

Not an OPK break blind but not take any ICs with me to tempt early POAS! I've only just got the hang of OPKs so won't be giving them up just yet!

BlindKitty · 29/04/2013 18:48

duh just re-read your post! defo don't take any hpts!!! love the idea of a yoga retreat, have you been doping it long? I've been doing it a while but still can't master a few moves

PuppyMummy · 29/04/2013 21:46

happy cd17 here too. cycle snap!!

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Bunnygirlie · 29/04/2013 21:49

Hey happy my fellow OB (original berry), how's you?

Not sure what is up with DHs jizz test, has to do it again but abstain for 5-10 days this time FFS. I can't get my third blood test in may due to holiday either, feel like the whole world is against us!

Awwww thanks kitty, had some godparent info by e- mail today, never been a religious one before, although I am kind of one as my friend had a naming day for her little girl, if that makes sense?!?

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barkingtreefrog · 29/04/2013 21:56

Sorry kitty but I'm laughing at the idea of frog doping at a yoga retreat! Never realised it was like the Lance Armstrong era of cycling! Wink

CharmingCats · 29/04/2013 22:43

Hello!
Quick question for sid, as I know she uses the cbfm too. I've had 18 days of high and today it's low...does that mean I've ov? I didn't get a peak reading, but it's my first cycle of using it. I can't confirm ov with anything else as I don't temp and I didn't master the ic OPKs. Also very little cm this cycle, compared to last month.

Night night, berries. Thinking of you all and sending good thoughts. Have a look at the thread that's a light hearted experiment. There have been 5 BFPs and all you have to do is touch a pictured of fertility statues....

happylass · 29/04/2013 22:44

I'm good Bunny or should that be fellow OB (how depressing that the other original OBs can't be that far off giving birth!). Hope time passes quickly and you get some sort of answer from your DHs next test.
OK Sid, Frog and Puppy let's take it upon ourselves to lead the BFP revolution. Roll on next week!!

Cate555 · 29/04/2013 22:45

CD18 pos OPK, yeah!
DH away on business, boo!
Hope tomorrow isn't too late Confused

SidneyBristow · 29/04/2013 23:03

Hi cats, about the cbfm, if memory serves, my first month's readings were similar to yours, but from the 2nd month on, I'd get a few days of High readings followed by optimum (or whatever the highest reading is called) for 2 days, the another High, then Low for the rest of the cycle.

My understanding is that it does read the hormone levels in your wee, but also uses past cycles to factor in to the current month's readings. I could be totally wrong as I'm not quite sure why I think this. Starting othe 3rd or 4th cycle of using it, I began using ICs in the evening, just to back up the cbfm, but am still not fully confident that I'm reading them properly. Might be bc just the aroun 10pm & someone recently mentioned they're best between10 and 4, 2pm being ideal.

Really happy to have some cycle buddies Grin & very glad you guys don't share my suspicion that we totally messed up our timing this cycle. I've had a pretty low-key 1st week of the 2ww, mainly bc I figured we messed it all up, but now I'm wondering if we're still in the running! Willie glad to lead the charge towards a bunch of bfp's, sign me up! Would be the most ironic timing ever for me, due to shag week botch-up but also bc I've joined a gym and am now working out happily every day, with visions of being tight and fit again by summer's end. Anything to take my mind off TtC!

barkingtreefrog · 29/04/2013 23:04

Wow, and some of the ladies that got the bfps were real long term ttc ers!! Thanks for the prompt cats I've been and had a rub! I'd seen it before and dismissed it but why not?!? I will try anything, especially if it's free and easy!! I've downloaded the photo so I can rub it through shag week Wink .

Thundercatsarego · 29/04/2013 23:08
PuppyMummy · 30/04/2013 06:52

you do realise that rubbing a picture or even the actual statue is ridiculous and makes us officially insane?!!

but yes I have just given it a good old rub! ha ha ha ha!

happylass · 30/04/2013 07:26

Haha I rubbed the 'fertility' picture last month but obviously no luck. Surely it can't hurt to give it another go though because I'm so desperate I will literally try anything

SidneyBristow · 30/04/2013 08:23

funny pregnancy stuff

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Bunnygirlie · 30/04/2013 08:26

Been there, rubbed that, nothing Sad

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Thundercatsarego · 30/04/2013 08:59

Rub harder girls!!

ok so anyone had the tail end of a bout of thrush just before shag week commences?

MrsB00Mbastic · 30/04/2013 08:59

Uffffff. Just sticking my head round the door on the way to go and collapse in my bed. Delivered two gooooorgeous babies last night and looked after a long-term ttc-er who had 6 failed IUIs and a MC and then got diffed naturally. The babies were fine, the pregnant TTC-er just broke me for some reason - maybe because she's made it through to the other side and I'm still weebling away on the childless side of the fence!

Random phone call yesterday from the registrar at the gynae clinic. Apparently she's reviewed my blood tests (6 weeks after I had them done!) and is concerned that there IS something wrong with my hormonal balance (after me having a breakdown at the GP because I'd been told there wasn't). So now not only do I have a pelvic scan, but I also have a HCS booked and DH has to go and get his swimmers tested. I appear to have nagged my way into fertility clinic two months early! So I feel vindicated yah boo sucks to you, bloody GP, but also slightly put out that having just come to terms with the idea that there's nothing wrong with me except bad luck, there actually might be something wrong after all. However, anything that's a step in the direction of getting me diffed is a positive in my book!

Kitty bwahaha, I can just see DH appreciating me in frilly knickers overflowing with egg butties!

Off to find a picture of a fertility statue and rub it in a totally non-mental and normal fashion. Then BED (such a shame when the sun is shining like it is today!)

Thundercatsarego · 30/04/2013 09:04

boom just trying to catch you before bed- did they say which hormones are out of balance and how?

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