The Elderberry Pavlovas: sit on the sofa of hopefulness and make yourself a special omelette while prescribing the vomming cat to those that deserve it and observing the lunching of the tactless.

[barkingtreefrog]

It's time for some more grads!!

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

Morning Berries!

Welcome Kuma sorry missed you yesterday, it was all about me lol

Yep last night was tough, but hey ho life is tough at the mo innit ladies!

Crikey merk do none of your friends have babies then? 3 of my hens have had babies since we have been trying! That's been fun!?!?!

Sitting around waiting for DH to get his bum into gear so we can go rockpooling!

Bunny yep I feel your pain. We're surrounded by fertiles! I do love having cuddles but a little bit of me always dies inside whenever they visit... Especially the ones that were due the same time as me

Feeling good after my reflex this morning, before that some early morning nooky, then a bit of baking this afternoon. In-laws round tomorrow to had to tidy up a bit too, now time for

waddles in wearing dressing gown and wrapped in the comfy quilt to lie on the sofa with chocolate and marshmallows.

hi girls. I have the worst cold I think I have ever had. couldn't sleep last night with all the razors in my throat.

Thank you for your well wishes...very much appreciated.

How was the christening boom? The one we went to was full of badly behaved children. My teacher face was used a few times. Ha!

bunny sorry you had hard day and evening yesterday. Hope today has been better.

Poor tally. Take care x

Evenin'!

charming christening is tomorrow, must have got my days mixed up! Dreading it really. This is the friend who can't stop references to her incredible hyperfertility and bangs on about how she's desperately trying NOT to get pregnant this year but can't promise anything...gaah. Meanwhile I'll be on CD54 and trying not to strangle her !

Tally sorry you're feeling rough. Hot toddy?

Bunny Nice moves!

Got another letter from the clinic today, apparently they've had to cancel my appt on 21st so have made me another one on the 17th instead. I'm all for moving things forward but wish the rude doctor would phone me back to tell me what to do about this sodding hycosy!

hot lemsip in the bath right now. hoping it will stop the head pounding.
I know what you mean boom about no one telling you anything, it's just rude!!
good luck with the christening tomorrow barking, it'll be hard bit you will one day be able to have a celebration of a little one some day soon.

and I clearly have no idea what is going on with whom tonight. ignore me please.

Heheh tally we could never ignore you! Am dribbling at the thought of crunchy creamy brownie goodness!

Barking I've tried to suggest to the radiology dept that waiting for CD1 isn't necessarily a good idea, but it's a no-go until I get a doctor to say it's ok - hence trying to get doc to call me back. Really is a 'computer says nooo' situation!

Ha ha! That's usually me when I'm on the app on my phone tallyra, by the time I'm writing a reply I can't remember who I wanted to reply to!

When I get my own baby I will definitely not ever be having a christening!! I just don't get it. If you're a Christian, yes, obviously, but I just don't get it when it's parents who don't go to church and have no intention to go back once the baby's been dipped. Why stand there and swear in front of all your friends and family to bring the child up as part of a certain religion if you have no intention of doing so? I can sort of see that people just like the tradition, but to me it's a religious tradition and I'm not religious, so to stand there and say I'm going to do something that I know I'm not going to do is just plain lying . So there.

Boom that is indeed a head in hands grrrrrrr situation. Sympathies. Hope the doctor gets his/her act together sharpish.

Haha Barking there will also be no christenings here! although I might make all my instadiffa friends sit through a 3 hour hippy dippy tiedyed naming ceremony in the woods at midnight. Just for payback

Woohoo! Next week's Numeracy lessons are planned and all worksheets/activities done - only took best part of 6 hours!!!

CHOCOLATE BROWNIE AND CREAM TIME!!!!!!

boom I love it!! Also no christening here, the woods sounds like a very good plan to me.

yay barking!!

head is still pounding so I'm off to bed now. enjoy the chocolate!

guess what? just got a text with a scan photo from a friend I hadn't expected to have another. her 2nd - nearly died with the first! can't be upset though, she deserves good stuff, she's battled lots of stuff all her life. Grrr all the same though

Ello!

tally oh no, feel better soon

boom christening yuck! Hope tomorrow flies by, drink lots

I read that as creamy brown goddess thought that was weird, i must be tired! Time for bed!

Well girls yet another wasted baby making hol again, I'm afraid! Yup, you've guessed it, af arrived. Felt very sorry for myself and had went on an all-day drinking binge. Ended up chatting to this lovely guy who was an alcoholic but just made a few bad life choices. Was enough to make me go home to dh and make me realise the answer isnt in a wine glass. Wish I could feel full of optimism for this cyme but think I'm finally beat. After 2years, I give up. If I concieve without assistance now it will be a miracle!

Anyway, sorry to put a downer on the berries. For what it's worth I still have loads of faith that you guys will get your bfps.

Morning...'tis the day of the christening. BLEH. Although at least it's sunny so I can wear a pretty dress.

Kitty I'm really sorry she showed up, I know how much you were hoping for this to be the one. Can't blame you for the boozy response, in your shoes I'm sure I'd have done the same and it will have done you good to burn off some steam, although glad you met your wise alcoholic who sent you toddling home. How many cycles on the clomid is that? And when is your next FC appt? (hopefully not involving nasty fc lady who was rude to you on the phone).. Have they discussed your next course of action with you if the clomid doesn't work? Sending hugs and a glass of Resolve for your hangover x

Tally doesn't matter how pleased we are for them, there's always the 'ouch' factor when a scan picture pops up isn't there! Keep on swimming, it'll be us one day although we probably wouldn't send scan pictures to people without warning

boom thanks hon. Next step is iui that's starting in aug/sept. don't feel too hungover or upset today tbh. I'll keep dtd on the right days but I'm accepting defeat that it won't happen without iui/ivf.

oh and resolve is rank! It's all about dioralyte, ranitidine and paracetamol and maybe some of last night's Chinese

Oh and for the record, I can't wait to plaster my scan and bump pictures all over FB haha! It's about time it's my turn!!

Awwww kitty sorry you felt down, getting to 2years must be so tough.

I am kind of feeling the same after getting to the 1 year mark, it was weirdly liberating getting to 12months, I didn't get upset like previous months. I'm not really fussed about this month, I am just hoping to get referred this Minth to the FC!

boom best of luck today! Hope you aren't too depressed with all the families and kiddiwinks

bunny can't see why your doc won't refer you, now you've been ttc for a year. We had to wait 3 months for our appt from our initial gp visit.

boom forgot to say, we had 4 cycles of clomid but never really thought it would work as I was already ovulating. Hope today goes ok hon x

Thanks for the solidarity guys! I've just had a massive breakdown on DH and cried everywhere. He's been very good and cheered me up a bit. I don't know how he manages to stay so positive while I wallow about in a pit of doom and despair, I always think the worst and he's a glass-half-full-er!

Off to put the waterproof mascara on, fingers crossed I can hold it together in public later...

kitty how odd that they'd give you clomid when you're already ovulating! Did they not believe you or something?

Also I now have an image of you cackling maniacally and posting a constant stream of scan and baby photos onto everybody's facebook feeds so they can't escape!

bunny hope you get your appt quickly. I'm going to demand a referral at my next appt at the gynae clinic - we've been trying over a year although they only count it from the date of mc which will be Aug, but even if they refer me straight away it will be at least Aug by the time the appt comes through and I refuse to wait a second longer than necessary! And in my current mood I am not a berry who should be crossed!

Morning ladies. Just popping in to say hello quickly before settling down to a day of reports and revision
Sorry you're feeling down Boom hope today isn't to difficult for you.
Good luck to all of those hoping for referrals. Fx you get a sympathetic GP. The first one I saw actually told me to lie about how long I'd been trying. Then when she left the practice I saw a lovely but clueless trainee GP who referred me without question
Better get down to some work now. Have a good day all.