We laugh in the face of OPKS and stomp on our thermometers! Don your customised shag capes, ladies; it's Just Shagging Thread 15

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Ladies, Fred title says it all; we are the ones who shag as much as our men can cope with in order to get upduffed without the stress of scientific whatnots!

Fred rules (copied from previous Fred)

1. Thou shalt shag as much as humanly possible in order to get upduffed.
2. Thou shalt not partake of OPKs, temping, or charting.
3. Thou shalt keep symptom spotting to a minimum.
4. Thou shalt share and with your fredmates where needed.

JSing lingo;

ERTD = Evil Red Tide of Dooooooommmmmmm. Or AF to most others.

Pant snot = Egg white cervical mucus.

Doing a kitten = Getting upduffed soon after joining (warning: may induce in other posters).

Viroid = This is you, dear poster. This is from the first JS thread when someone tried to type 'ladies' and it autocorrected to 'Viroids' - so there you go!

POAS = Pee On A Stick (of the pregnancy detecting kind, not from a tree). Also known as PIAR (Pee In A Ramekin - cos we're posh birds innit). Or PIATLH (Tea light holder) PIAWG (Wine glass) or anything else you care to pee in!

Shagging like something = JSing like a teenage nymphomaniac.

Giving a hooya = Giving a much needed slap to a fellow poster in danger of slipping into ttc obsession.

Contraband = Of COURSE none of us EVER partake of any silly OPKs or temp charting. They are Contraband.

The link to Part 14 is here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/1674505-Out-with-the-OPKs-ban-the-body-temping-heres-Just-Shagging-thread-14

The link to the latest grads thread is here:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1699553-Shagged-Out-Viroids-7th-Thread-From-conception-to-birth-living-proof-that-JSing-really-does-work

Happy shagging shaggers!

Oh well Dr goofle has put me on the straight and narrow it said to disregard the 2nd line hmmm will just have to wait for af!!

Dr Goofle's an ass...

Cookie & Rock - sounds like some very good news is round the corner!! Deffo go for a standard pink test, First Response are supposed to be the best - even a faint line is a BFP on those!!! Ooh, how thrilling! Crosses everything
I am officially confused by my body. (TMI ALERT!) I'm on cd31 today, yesterday had some brown smearage going on with a few tiny red bits, so thought, ok here she is. Expecting full flow today, but not a drop, not even a faint bit of colour down there... Got a BFN on day 29. Do I need a hooyah, or should I be cautiously hoping?

Bfn this morning with fmu and ertd due, but actually, overdue, depending on how you work out my average, my app just calculates the mean average which is skewed by one freaky long cycle. Boobs hurt, tons of spots. Feel really peed off. Going to a(nother) wedding today so will take advantage of the free flowing wine!

Good luck viroids, hoping to come back to some firm bfps! Xxx

Tested again this morning still a bfn. Still a blue test. But still no af

Nessa I think its best to wait and see. No hooya's here

Sorry cookie I feel your frustration! Hugs x

Tested this morning too as its my hen do this weekend so it was the responsible thing to do! BFN of course. Cocktails it is!

Hoping yours all turn BFP soon!

So ERTD decided to put in a very silent appearance overnight, which is all well and good but I'm more confused about the fact that only since TTC have my cycles been a little off - things like spotting which I NEVER have and then arriving 2 days early without any side splitting cramps!

I'm usually 28 days on the nose - has anyone else noticed they've had AF changes since starting? Periods being inexplicably early, late, heavy, light etc?

I've had just the same Stroke, used to be regular as clockwork, but since TTC it's been pretty random! I used to come on lightly on cd28, just spotting, then very heavy day 1-3 and a weedy day 4-5. Since TTC I've had a 33 day cycle followed by a 23 day cycle, and now I'm on cd31 with spotting that started and stopped. It's just darned confusing! I guess it's all pretty new for the body, I know you have an egg fertilised that then doesn't implant and that can throw you off, and as others have said, worrying about it can make you OV late or early, so I'm trying really hard to just not think about it too much (failing miserably!)

Oh Cookie, how frustrating!! 6 days over though, it's definitely not to be counter out!

*counted

Dulcet have a fab hen weekend!!

Ness well i still think i may be in with a shot, just feel a bit miffed and cross with myself.

Bought some more pregnancy test, all with red dye will probably test on tues now

Dulcet have a fab hen do! What are you doing/did you do?

Good luck cookie.

I PIAR on Thursday and had a BFN. If I have a 28 day cycle that was when I was due but that's a bit up in the air. So testing again tomorrow. FX

whoo people keeping everything crossed for you so many teetering on double lines as was said further down; exciting!!

Oh good luck the Am-I-aren't-I?-BFP?-gang! How very exciting for you all! A bit frustrating too though, particularly for you Cookie. Hope you find out soon. Months of no action and suddenly loads of you are potentially upduffed. Hurrah, I hope!

Thanks for all your kind wishes and success stories about the uber-long wait. It's really sweet of you all and I'm sorry if I bring the Fred down a bit sometimes. I sometimes just feel so and I know feeling sorry for myself doesn't help anyone, least of all me, but it's just really hard to stay positive as it is for everyone having problems too, I know.

Our appointment is at the end of July and I'm scared, but I also want to get it over and done with. However, I know that it's going to probably be the start of a very long road too. I wish with all my heart that we didn't have to go down this route, but it isn't happening on its own. I'm sitting here now with tears running down my cheeks wishing it was different (I've had a tough few weeks being around lots of newborns and family who are clearly wondering but don't want to ask) and wishing I was stronger and could just take it all in my stride. Hopefully though, the referral will give us some answers at least and then we can move forward

Anyway, I didn't mean for this to be so emotional, so sorry, but I have no one else I can tell. DH understands and is sad too, but I don't want to burden him with it all the time. Plus he's asleep!

Tomorrow's a new day and Ertd is nearly over I hope so maybe there are brighter things on my horizon. . .

bear you are an amazingly strong woman. its OK to get emotional, and right that you should let it all out. I know I speak for everyone when I say we are all here for you. that's what makes this thread so cosey! Try and forget all the issues until your appointment. who knows, maybe that's when it will happen. but whatever roads you have to go down, you will get your baby, and the long road you've walked to get there will melt into insignificance when you do. hugs

Thanks lil. I really hope you're right. X

Bear

Two BFNs for me

Oi oi viroids!
I'm back from muy caliente Mexico and am very excited for all the maybe BFPs.
I'm a bit jet lagged so hus hand popped out for a sausage sarnie so will update properly later, but I've managed 10 full days of JSing, sometimes twice a day, so much fun and all on the week I'm hopefully fertile so fingers crossed. I got the OV pains so hopefully I was right about the right time... Eeek
Anyways I'm gonna get head down a bit soon and catch up later.
Min x

Name: Floatyflo
Any DCs?: 1 Ds
TTC since: 'Not preventing' (as I saw someone upthread say) since April 2013.

Hi all, may I join?

Checked out this thread a couple of times now but haven't read all the way back so apologies for anything that's already been asked/answered!

Hope your all well!

I had the mirena removed end of Jan, but gave it a few months for body to settle and get back into sync.
Then out the window went the Willy tents and lots of shagging proceeded.

All very new to me is this. My ds was a surprise accident so first time in TTC. On my third cycle, dtd lots over the week ovulation due to occur. Don't worry no contraband!
Have a fairly short cycle of 23 days. ERTD due 30th June according to my calculations. Although I have womens calender app thingy on my phone which says due 27th. See what happens!

What have I done. Dh asked me to cut his hair. I did a fab job until I did his ear and cut it to close to the skin so he had a small yet hardly noticeable patch. He's gone and and cut it all off number 2 so now he looks like lets face it a thug!! And if that was enough he's done number 1 up to certain point around the bottom to try and blend it.

Hello all, I would also like to join

I'm newly married and me and my Hubby are now officially TTC!! We have been waiting for this moment for about 8 months due to various health problems that have delayed it, and so to now be at this stage feels amazing!!!!

I had my Mirena Coil removed 4 weeks ago and am currently having my first post-removal period.

I'm trying my hardest not to obsess over ovulation charting and temperature plotting etc and have told myself not to do it....but I'm worried that I won't listen to myself as I'm so, so desperate TC quickly!!!

x x

Oh dear cookie Hopefully it grow back quickly!

I had a hair disaster of my own the other day. Trimmed it myself and messed it badly! Emergency trip to the hairdressers as a result. But I told them a mobile hairdresser had done as I was too embarrassed to tell 'em I did it to myself

Hi writer I am a newbie too!

I'm planning on not focusing on ov and all that too, no matter how tempting. And I dont even know what the whole temperature thing is but think I prefer it that way else it may be another thing to obsess over.

Welcome Floaty (or is it Flo? My dog is called Flo.) and Winter

Cookie My mom once forced my dad to #1 his hair. She had taken the guards off the clippers to do his neck and noticed a hair that she had missed with the first pass of the clippers (on a #4) so she clipped it....with no guard, big patch on top of dad's head. Dad nearly cried.lol. It'll grow back though.

I was all ready to post you all a self pitying message about asking DP to DTD last night and him saying no only to stay up an hour and a half after me but then he jumped on me this morning so all is good. Working with preggos and new moms and babies every day is increasing my broodiness. Also, this morning, an ex became a dad for the first time. It's a bit weird because when I left my exH this ex made it clear her had feelings for me but I said it didn't work once so wouldn't work again then two months after I started seeing my DP he was with another girl and today they had a baby. I'm a little massively gutted that they've had a baby first. Pathetic right?

Not pathetic at all!!! No matter how old adults get I think they will always have a childlike competitive side to them. Prior to my husband I'd only really had 1 serious partner and that ended 6 years before I met my now-husband. Me and my Ex had always stayed friends and there was always an under current of me thinking, "Who will get married first, me or him?" Thankfully it was me and for some reason I seem to think that makes me the 'winner' of a childlike competition we weren't even having, lol.

Even when me and my friends were younger we would always be thinking, who will get married first? Who will have a baby first? And when the first one of our group did get married, I think the rest of us all felt a little jealous. When she then went on to have a baby we all felt even more jealous. I think it is because all of us deep down just want the perfect partner and the 2.4 family and that some part of us thinks that to achieve it somehow makes us 'better' than those who don't have it.

It is all very bizarre. You are human, not pathetic.

I also work with pregnant women and new moms and I am surrounded by babies every day and it makes that longing for one even stronger doesn't it?