The Elderberry Pavlovas who will graduate (thread 12)

[CharmingCats]

Roll up, roll up for the best discussions of ewcm, opk, ic and double dying you'll ever have. Probably.

The smallprint - Berries have a strict entrance criteria (TTC #1, over 30, TTC for 3+months, NO instadiffers, must have a special pot) and def no mention of baby dust or baby dancing UGH !!! Ooh we are strict...please note your house may be at risk if you do not keep up repayments lol

barking I'd be nosey too though tbf! In fact, even I want to know now haha! We're quite lucky in that we're only children so no surprise family announcements for us!

boom barking stop chewing the clomid! Put it on the back of your tongue and you won't taste it!

So have been busy planning my friend's baby shower today (yeh I know). Oh and bought a cute little baby grow, teddy and booties for her. For a split second I just pretended I was buying it for my baby

Luckily DHs brothers' 2 kids were born before we were married so they are all done now!

kitty my folks only live 10mins away so I can shower there or we still have our bath so it's not too bad.
I cannot believe you are planning a baby shower you crazy gal! All my close friends are done with pushing out sprogs for now so no planning for me!

Spent the day at MILs with my folks, my sis and her boyf, just wish we had nice news to share

CD6 here, have settled down to 28/29 day cycles now (reflexology helped) and last month got +opk on days 13+14, so I'm aiming/hoping/praying for tuesdays and Thursday's and twice at weekends for next 2ish weeks. But as usual I fully expect stress or illness and now the heat or shower-room re-fit will get in our way!
Do i have any cycle buddies?

charming, barking, me too. Mr Boom is going to have to pull out all the stops! I'm actually really nervous...I feel like I've waited so long to get clomid, and now if it doesn't work there's nothing else. Pressure!!

I'm on CD6 too, Bunny!

lady if they'd had a kid before I started trying I'd have been very happy for them, just a little I didn't get there first. But having been the first (to my knowledge) to start trying it would kill me if they decided to try and instadiffed while we continued to struggle.

kitty I do put it at the back of my tongue and swallow, I promise! Still leaves a vile powdery taste though!

TMI alert. DP and I dtd earlier, first time since before his op at the beginning of June, so it's been a while. It hurt. I don't know why but it did. And it upset me . We didn't do masses of foreplay so I used preseed, but just with a finger rather than with the applicator, as I usually do if I know I'm not going to be producing enough lubricant myself to make it comfortable. Only it still hurt. It felt very tight, and my skin felt tender. When I had a wee later it stung. I've never had this before. I'm a bit worried about the forthcoming dtd marathon for my bfp .

barking I haven't tried dtd since starting the clomid, but I do know that the implant suddenly made dtd uncomfortable exactly like you described - soreness sort at the entrance if you know what I mean, even occasionally a tiny bit of blood on wiping (and not after particularly vigorous sessions!) I wonder if clomid can have a similar effect? I found a of foreplay and lube were the answer, and making sure that DH was aware he had to go slowly to begin with and stop if I told him to. Girl-on-top helped too because I could control everything myself.

Then again, maybe it's just because you've had a month off and your body just needs to acclimatise to DTD again!

Hope it sorts itself out xx

bunny I'm seeing as being either a 'guest but weak' or an 'organiser and strong'. I know it's weird but I'd rather stay in control. To top it off, I've got a christening the next day! Ah how I love buying presents for other people's babies! I better get some good presents when it's my turn

barking one word...foreplay!

Oh and a little more preseed as clomid can dry you up

Thank you boom and kitty, didn't consider a possible effect of the clomid. Yes Boom, pretty much exactly as you described. I told DP to go slowly, which usually works fine when there's not initially enough 'slippiness', but it still felt very tight when he pushed all the way. DP of course is just convinced that the op has made him much bigger....

CD8 here all you cycle/clomid buddies!!! We could have a huge run on BFPs in 3 weeks time!!!
I know what you mean about the pressure Boom, if it doesn't work this cycle it's going to hit me harder than the last few .

CD5 here bunny, although no idea of what cycle length I'm expecting!

I'm back from oxford after driving for a huge proporti of the weekend. I'd love to join the convo but i'm far too sleepy. which means no dtd tonight. hysteroscopy on weds, and only 1 condom left means not much dtd for us this cycle. night night all, I'm going to bed.

barking actually lol at your dh! Men are hilarious!

Don't forget this may be my last natural cycle before iui so I bound to beat you all to it with my ironic pre iui pregnancy you know...

Kitty I hope so, it's time your turn came around although I'm right behind you in the baby queue, shoulder-barging in an unladylike fashion

Tally have a good snooze, hope your punting went well!

Off to bed. Have to go and squidge lots of bumps tomorrow, hoping some of their fertility will rub off on me!

So pip has ivf coming up, kitty has iui, boom and barking on the clomid yeah? Crikey it's all happening!

barking hope things get better with the DTDing, bug hugs! And your OH is hilarious !

YAY a few cycle buds

I'm only a couple of days out - cd3! Funny how we're synchronising....
barking I went through a phase over a year ago when dtd really stung. It got to the point where I could tell DH had squirted as it hurt like hell & for several pees afterwards. Did some reading about semen allergies and the advice I found was to keep dtd to increase exposure, as it were. It worked! Haven't had it for a while. I agree that it could just be that you've had some time off and your bits need to get used to it again. Your oh's comment sounds like something mine would say, bless them!

Ugh just got on the scales, bit heavier than I thought! Now wanna lose 9lbs! Bring on the lettuce!

Maybe I can sweat off a few lbs in the sauna office tomorrow?!?

Just got a high reading on cbfm! On CD9! Had a quick look back on ff to when I was last using it and I wasn't getting a high reading until cd14 or 16. Clomid must be doing something! Now to see how many days on high before I get a peak reading - looks like I could actually Ov on cd14!!! What a novelty!!!

charming I didn't notice any difference / increase in pain when he released, I think it must just be that we've had the time off and I wasn't 'ready'. Lots more foreplay required next time!

Bunny don't forget Boodle, she's on the clomid too!! 5 BFP's please .

Morning everyone, hope you don't mind me lurking still.

It's really getting quite exciting in here with all the pills they dont sound like sweeties any more and appointments and pips ivf coming up. The thread will be completely empty in a few weeks' time. Go girls!

Morning all. First day of the holidays and I'm awake at silly o'clock sneezing and sniffling and generally annoying DP because of my stupid hayfever!
Thunder how are things with you? Are you feeling ok? Been to the GPs or told anyone yet?
Glad to see things are happening for so many of you! I really am going to be the only one here when we start trying again in a few months time, aren't I! Had a massive row about with DP yesterday as he has now randomly decided he doesn't want to stop TTC for the wedding. Whilst I agree that a baby is the most important thing I've no intention of potentially walking down the aisle a couple of weeks after giving birth with leaky nipples, carrying a ton of baby weight and generally looking like crap. He really should have listened to me 6 months ago when I said we should hold off booking the wedding until we know what's happening with TTC. Men grrrr

Oh and by the way stay away from the TV/radio etc for the next few years as the royal baby is on its way.

Hi happy thank you for asking! I'm ok thanks- swinging between in denial and petrified. Have spoken to my gp because of the thyroid issues and I'm off for a regular blood test this morning. No haven't told anyone. Won't see any health professionals til booking in time at 8-10 weeks doubting I'll make it that far it's nice to be on here tho as I don't feel like I belong anywhere at the moment.

What about having a bit less than 6 months off ttc or have you worked that out based on the size of bump you'd be happy carrying down the aisle?

Ugh the time we have dreaded is here, RB on the way, my Facebook page is littered with comments about it already!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrr

thunder course we don't mind you lurking, I've always said you must be in limbo until you get the 12 week scan and everything is ok, until then it must be very scary and weird

Oh gawd, I can't look at Facebook, twitter or read the news, what am I going to do for the next month+ ?!?!?

Glad all is well Thunder. Fx for everything going smoothly.
Not overly bothered about potential size of bump walking down aisle (although wouldn't want to be huuuuuuge!!) it more that most wedding dress shops here require the dress to be ordered 9 months in advance so wouldn't want to spend a heap of money on something I couldn't fit in to or order something last minute that I didn't really like. I'm probably being selfish (as DP lovingly pointed out) but I'm not entirely happy with being the centre of attention for a whole day so if its got to happen I'd like to feel as good about myself as possible! Feel that I've spent the last year basing my life around TTC with nothing to show for it so I'd at least like to enjoy my wedding. Also think that if we do have a problem 6 months off isn't going to make a blind bit of difference and if we don't then hopefully we'll get upduffed eventually anyway. Still going to go ahead with the FC appt so hopefully by the time we start back things will hav started happening there as well!

don't worry happy, you won't be alone in here. I'm out for this cycle at least because of the hysteroscopy on weds, and not sure what the outcome of that will be yet.
I'm thinking of deleting fb from my phone for a few weeks. not just because of the rb but also I just had the most horrible photo come up from one of the biker friends on there showing why you should never wear flip flops on a bike. I need brain bleach now, it was stomach churning.