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

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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)

Swinging by before bedtime!

bunny Yes, I feel your pain. Bloody OH's think the world revolves around them and their fragile little libidos. on your behalf! My being on nights this week has totally ballsed up any DTD we might have managed. I tried to suggest (via text, but in what I believed to be a relatively inviting fashion) that when DH gets home from work this afternoon we have a quickie before I have to go back to work. Would have thought I'd asked if he'd mind cleaning the oven for all the enthusiasm I got in response

Tally sounds like you handled a rubbish situation with a lot of grace!

Cool thing for the day: last night (well, this morning) I delivered a baby that started crying before it was actually born. Amazing, if slightly weird! (yes, ok, my definition of 'cool' may be slightly wide of the mark).

Bed is calling. Night all!

Stupidly caved and POA ic OPK stick this morning, 5 days before AF due. Nothing. Now sitting here teary and low, and seriously considering putting DH in charge of any remaining cycles. I hate feeling like this, like my body is failing us both, all while wondering if there actually might be something wrong that just hasn't been tested for yet.

I do love my SKs but the prospect of only ever being a SM chills me to the bone.

Please someone tell me that an IC OPK stick is probably not a great substitute for a Pg test, at least not this far out. I have an appt Fri to ask about joint injections, and figured that being pg would be something to know for sure before moving forward with cortisone shots. AF due Monday.

I loathe this part of the month. Sorry to be a downer

On the positive side my exercise efforts at the gym which is crawling with mummies and babies that I pretend not to see are paying off in the form of increased energy, and at least an hour daily of not having TTC in the back of my mind, which is the best benefit of all, at least til my new bikini body appears

As sid big hugs. I'm also shortly to be in the 'resisting POAS' phase so totally feel your pain. I have absolutely no symptoms to spot so have kind of given up hope. I was moody & yelled at SS last night but no change there really as he is such a brat. Good job is not shag wk at any event as DP & I are barely speaking. SS just causes such tension between us. Was really looking fwd to my weekend away but I left it to late & now the yoga place is full. On the bright side no SS till next Tues as DP is working at the weekend.

Oh & I can't think that an OPK would be a substitute that early. Most HPTs wouldn't detect that early either so don't abandon all hope just yet. At the same time I feel bad saying that as you probably haven't anyway as none of us ever do till the fat lady aka AF sings do we?

Hey, hey! Loved the house rules thread too. Check out the one in classics that's called 'if my three year old went on aibu'. Some of it is so well written.

sid, I second frog in that I don't think the opk would have picked up anything at this stage. If they need to test you on Friday, let them do it at the surgery then. Maybe handing over the cycles to yur DH would help. Have you asked him about it?

I have no idea where I am in my cycle...again, so nothing to report relating to ttc. Hoping that af appears soon so that I can get on with the next cycle and the cbfm will get to know me a bit better.

Resisted lunching someone in the face at work today. Why do schools accept such odd bods as volunteers? Omg, this girl is odder than odd. And she's in my class (and more to the point, the staffroom), 3 days per week. She only works mornings, but has her lunch with us before she leaves. Anyway, I could rant on, but I won't.

boom. How did that baby start crying before delivery??

Hugs sid

DH better today, jumped on me after work, who knows if this is a sign of things to come, it's only CD 7 so I sure hope so! We are away fri to sat so hope to get some shags in then but it's next week that really counts and workdays aren't usually good as he's too tired, too stressed etc grrrrrrr

Of course if I'm not OVing then it could all be pointless anyway, I shall see if OPKs pick up anything this month, they have in the past so keep your fingers crossed for me!

Thunder- of course I poas but just got the usual result! I've laid my pot and test strip out ready for my fmu but not hiding out much hope!!!

sid sending hugs xxx

charming school volunteers really can be odder than odd and I have the pleasure of coordinating them at my school. One of them just won't leave me alone, always asking questions and generally stopping me getting my work done!! I was looking forward to her stint finishing (she's a mature student and volunteering via the uni) but she asked if she could continue! And she came in my classroom yesterday just to show me a certificate she got for winning 'school volunteer of the year' thanks to the reference she persuaded us to write for her! She's a grown woman! I don't need to be patting her on the head and saying well done for getting a certificate!

barking, lol at the volunteer certificate. I really hope that doesn't happen at ours! This girl is a daughter of a governor, so have the added dimension of feeling spied upon. It's the social awkwardness I can't stand. 3days a week I can't relax during break & lunch cos she's talking away about crap..... A lovely colleague was talking about her son's girlfriend losing their baby and being sectioned & this volunteer just said, 'what will she be like if she has a baby?'. What an idiot! Totally immature and clueless. Said colleague juts gave a look as she's seen this girl before, but she was talking about such an emotional thing and this girl wanted to give her opinion, give examples of something that's happened to her ( I hate it when people do that - just bloody listen to what the person is saying, don't make it about oh!) and ask stupid questions. Gak!

Oh my goodness, that's awful charming (both the story and her heartless reaction to it ). At least my volunteer is clueless but essentially harmless! Although another of my reading volunteers is the chair of governors, so I properly get the being spied on!!!

And catching up now...

sid, frog & kitty hope you all get bfps!

boom did your text have the desired result?

bunny hope you get some well times dtds in

I think I may have turned a corner. After 16 bfns I've pretty much given up. Not that I have many days post O to wait and wonder before AF or at least clear signs of her arrive, but I have no expectation left whatsoever that there will be anything to celebrate, and it's strangely liberating! Of course, if the hsg and the scan is clear and I start on the clomid in summer then I'm sure all the symptom spotting and ridiculously early pimping will return in force!!!

Ok I give up. Where do I find the 'classics'?

Barking go to the talk topic list and classics is in the 'Mumsnet Stuff' section

Hello all,

I dIdn't realise there we're volunteers in schools. Are they screened/interviewed? I guess you can't not let someone help because they are an insensitive plonker can you?!

kitty any news??

sid I know what you mean about this bring a crappy part of the month. Opks definitely no substitute though.

Well done mr bunny, keep it up! (in every sense)

boom that is really cool/weird. Not sure which but I bet the mum was reassured to hear baby that early on.

barking I know what you mean about that liberated feeling, which is great. Yeah you may lose it again but enjoy a bit less weight in your shoulders for now at least.

Morning! It's official I am married to an old man! Hope his swimmers still have some life in them lol

Is it his birthday bunny?

Or has someone popped round with a certificate?

Morning! Think my DP is older than yours bunny so I wouldn't worry! All this volunteer business sounds a nightmare. At least when we get grads doing internships we only have them for 3 weeks!

Well I pimped on an IC this morning................
BFN as expected. Don't know what I was thinking doing it 10 DPO anyway. Only did it cos DP asked last night if I was pg as I'd been moody! (And he told me about a mate's wife who was pg with her 2nd which I just let go without comment but cried inside). The announcement that I really won't be able to bear will be if his ex-wife announces she's pg with her new partner & is giving SS his much asked for sibling esp as she is older than me. I don't know if they are even trying but I dread it nonetheless.

Oh & am in the office with the unofficially pg colleague today so find myself symptom spotting to see if I can tell. Is that weird?!

No frog it sounds like fun!

Offer her some Brie immediately.

Sorry about bfn but you are v early....

Haha. Like your thinking thunder! She's stroppy & emotional at the best of times so don't think anyone will notice any difference from her temperament!

thunder yes! love it - maybe offer her some uncooked cake mixture too (although why you might have some I have no idea...)

Oh yes and haven't you got a bit of pâté in your bag?

New thyroid test results are in. Tsh is down to 4.23 (from 15.3 six weeks ago) which is great, but still not quite down to below 2 which is the ideal.
I have a telephone appointment tomorrow and I expect they might up my dose a bit.

So I think it means no bfp on the horizon for me but (clutching at straws) it's still a positive change.

15.3 - 4.3 sounds great progress thunder. At least you have discovered you have a condition that they can treat & when fixed I'm sure will result in you becoming spectacularly upduffed.

Yes you are absolutely right frog, I am lucky in that I know what the problem is and it seems relatively easy to treat. Will lunch myself in the face when I have impatient petulant thoughts in self pity!

And in the meantime I'll have a bit of that salami. Yum!