The Elderberry Pavlovas who will graduate (thread 12)

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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

pip so overly excited for you it's untrue! Can't wait to call you pupo! It's a great phrase!

Barking, I'm now imagining a helicopter with BFP emblazoned on the side and a rope dangling out the bottom with all us berries in a hand-holding/clothes-clutching chain suspended from the rope. (Coming soon to a theatre near you...)

Temps still high this morning so I'm hopeful for at least a 10 day LP!

Eee Boodle! I'm quietly rooting for you from my crazy pimping corner

Bunny you'll be pleased with me this morning, haven't even broken into your shiny new double-locked safe. Have promised myself to stay away for a couple of days lets see how long that lasts eh

Right, off to hand in my pile of drivel essay! Last one of the degree, yeeee-haw!

Have a good Thursday everyone x

Lol at BFP helicopter

FX for a bunch of BFPs together!

Who's a good boom

You sure can tell what is on my mind, dreamt last night that i'd woken up to find my knickers full of spotting!!! Def loo roll watch here over the next few days!

Just a quick one to say good luck Pip. You could be pupo by the time I get back next week - how exciting!! Welcome to all the newbies .
Cd14 here and FF has given me crosshairs for cd11. DTD cd 7 9,10 and twice(!) on cd12 so should have more than covered it. Make way for me on that helicopter ladies!!

Me too, me too!

pip good luck, how exciting.

boom well done for not cracking the safe

Still no sign of af here which is unusual, no spotting either which is also unusual. Didn't bother to pimp this morning, yesterday's BFN has put me off. I'm saving my second HPT incase she isn't here by the weekend. It's annoying because shag week would have been when we're on holiday but its pushing back now

Maybe you won't need another shag week kuma. FX

Oooooh, Kuma, I shall cross my fingers for you! I'm utterly amazed that I am at 10 DPO with no AF but desperately trying and failing not to get my hopes up.

Boom - rooting for you too!

Bunny, I had a dream last night that AF had arrived with a vengeance! I was very annoyed as it woke me early and made me go to the loo to check, which then messed up my temping a bit as I took it an hour earlier than normal.

If anyone is feeling nosey, this is what my chart looks like this month - I'm so very pleased to have a healthier luteal phase, I want to show it off!

My chart

boodle I'm by no means an expert, but that looks like a good chart. Excellent that you are 10DPO! FX for you but understand you don't want to get your hopes up ....

I'm 16dpo today so doubt I'd get a BFN if it was anything other than AF running late.

Hello all..........

Been lurking on this thread for a bit - am just 34 and me and DH have been trying in a sort of half-assed way for a couple of cycles. DH has erectile dysfunction and I have a retro cervix so we have all kinds of silly complications going on.

Anywho, last night we managed to DTD like normal people for the first time since we started trying - yay!

But.... I think I ovulated early this month thereby missing the jizzwave. Gah!

So I have a pointless TWOT as am fairly sure it can't have worked but not 100%. Can I plonk myself down here for the duration?

Hi Peasant. Plonk away, though be wary most berries have been trying a long time and people new to ttc can make us nervous in case they instadiff however sounds as though you need some support. When do you think you o'd?

Hello, RP (can I call you RP?!)! Well done for successful DTD! (I lurked on your thread about turkey baster method - hope you don't mind me mentioning it! ) Although you've only been TTC a couple of months, I expect your wonky cervix and DH issues will help you fit in well here.

Berries, I've just been out to the supermarket and bought the following items. See if you can sort them into two groups.

• prenatal vitamins
• pregnancy test
• panadol period pain tablets
• pack of sanitary towels

Unbelievably, whilst I was in there, I happened to bump into the stupid person who told me I was the odd one out!!! Luckily, my basket was empty at that point but I did an awful lot of shoulder checking!

Very jealous of your clear chart and Ov on day 14 Boodle! Cd26 here not that I'm on the most obsessive countdown ever and still all unsettled as I don't know when/if Ov happened other than definitely not when the stupid consultant said it would. The trouble is, because he said it would definitely happen between cd11 and 17, and I know it didn't, I'm questioning whether it happened at all . But given I haven't noticed missing Ov in over a year of charting, I'm unlikely to miss Ov on clomid aren't I? When it's meant to make it stronger?! . Going back through my cycle statistics and seeing that I haven't once had a cycle length the same two cycle running means I am clueless as to when to expect AF. If it's coming please hurry up!!!
I'm trying not to think about going through all this again next cycle as I'll still be away so won't be able to start temping and pimping next cycle either!!!!
Looking forward to September's cycle in a failing effort to keep myself sane.

Why could we berries not have contributed to this statistic?!?!

Woot woot, last essay of the course is handed in, never to be seen again! And I'm on the wine AGAIN ...there had better not be a babyBoom in there, it's going to be pickled!

Barking, if I hadn't been temping, I would have had no idea about ovulation this cycle. No EWCM, no ovulation cramps, no positive opk. I bet you did ovulate, it's just clomid sending your ovulation spidey-senses out of whack!

I saw that news article too. Made me go 'harrumph'!

Sorry Barking, I obviously take too long to write. Hope your crankiness is short-lived. is it worth a pimp?

Boom, yippee for getting rid of the last essay! I'm sure it's too early for any lurking Boomlets to get pickled so wine away!

Not sure about pimping...maybe in the morning if my temperatures are still high, but I think I'm being ridiculously optimistic! There just seems to be nothing going on at all. I want symptoms to help convince me to pimp!

Boom there's plenty more vulgarity where that came from, believe me.......

Can I ask about retro cervixes? - my GP said they used to think women with them couldn't get pg or would have extreme difficulty. She said they are less sure about that now. But my DM has one, and she had 4 DC with no problems conceiving at all, and actuallly conceived other times as well but didn't carry to term. How much is it actually a problem?

And, crucially, is doggy style better if you are retro? (Please say yes...!)

Hello Boodle & Merkin! I think I OV on CD9ish, as I had a weird mini period that day and then only CD10 and CD11 no LH surge recorded on the OPK. Normally seem to OV on CD11ish.

I didn't have a single symptom when I got diffed boodle, not the slightest little sausage!

...But we dtd on the evening of CD11 which is why I think the spunktrain is off the rails........ :(

That is an early ovulation, RP. Do you usually get spotting when you ovulate? Do you temp? I've definitely found it the best way for me, although it drives some people mad!

Boom, that gives me a little hope again. Anyone would think I was pregnant, the number of times I've been going to the loo, but it's not to pee most of the time, it's to check for AF!

No, no spotting normally. Don't temp but think I need to start from next month. Or even now!!

Well, I can only speak from personal experience, but temping (as long as you do it correctly) has been far more reliable for me than opks. Be warned though, most doctors/FCs have no interest in charting whatsoever. For me, it just helped me see my tendency to ovulate late and have a short LP.