The Elderberry Pavlovas skipping down the yellow brick road of positivity, thread 13 - lucky for some?!?

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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

Oh my, this thread sure whips by.

Ha! @ "run to Waitrose for some hummus" Charming. I was wondering today what I'd do if I was actually pregnant, and I genuinely didn't know. Explode, probably.

Ack, Boodle 5 days longer LP and BFN? That's a cruel, cruel trick the clomid played on you.

So sorry about the mc anxiety Tally and Boom. Here's hoping you sail through the next few weeks completely boringly and uneventfully.

Pipbin are you IVFing? How are you finding it? I shall be following suit in a couple months (hopefully). Good luck for EC!

Waves and chipolatas to everyone else I've missed.

Well 5dpo here and symptom spotting like a maniac. This last hurrah before IVF hopefulness is truly mental-making. Ah well.

Well i've been googling and found new stuff to try, well actually for DH to try - brazil nuts and wellman tablets to help with jizz count!

Dreading DTD week, does anybody else dread it? I just hate DTD these days, no fun, no spontaneity etc, just stress, expectation, tears when it doesn't happen when it needs to etc

charming I'm intrigued.. How do you know if it's a full/half squirt? Can he tell how much he's producing? Chuckling at celebratory Waitrose hummus

bunny I do know what you mean about dtd. You want to try and have fun sex but its basically a chore and you end up initiating it when you're not even in the mood . Could you try a weekend away in a hotel around ov week? Different surroundings might help, we always shag like rabbits in hotels (don't have to clean our own sheets )

rum oh do share, we and by we I mean Merk love analysing a good symptom!

Sorry can't scroll back any more. 6am here and so far the dog has held it all in, wahooooo!

rum tell me about it. Unless I totally calculated ov wrong (opk/temp/ff) I've had a 16 day literal phase! Haven't got up yet to check if its 17!

bunny yup, yet any other time Dh and I love having sex!

Well kids, that's me out. boodle must have given me her af after all! Well that's it, day 1 of fertility treatment! Will try to book my day 2 scan when they open. For now, better try and 'body pump' the crap out of me..just what I need right now

Oooh Kitty the only time I've been pleased to hear that AF has arrived, sorry you didn't get your ironidiff but wait over and hooray for IUI! (and bleh to day 2 dildocam) Will have my fingers crossed for you this month x

Yay kitty, finally Af is here! Quick question that has just occurred to me. What if cd2 fell on Sunday, would they still fit you in?

Morning berries!

That was a very dramatic weekend I missed out on! Congrats Boom and Tally - it's really exciting when there are BFPs on here, it shows that there still is some hope.

Sorry that AF came to get you Boodle and Kitty. I don't think it matters how many cycles you go through, it is almost impossible to quell the stupid excited feelings when AF is even a minute late. I was expecting her yesterday, but no sign yet. So now I am currently dealing with internal turmoil along the lines of 'Oh yay, no AF means really could be diffed, how exciting! But hang on, late AF means not regular and might have to start taking drugs. But wait, can't start taking drugs until AF shows up. But what if the bitch doesn't show up at all and I have to spend another 6 months as a dry, shrivelled up infertile old hag while the world around me pops out babies like bubble gum dispensers. Oh my god I hate my stupid body and my stupid mind and the whole stupid world.'

And that plays in a pretty much continuous loop in my head, while I try outwardly to carry on as normal so no one realises that I am a complete nutcase and carts me off to the loony bin.

It's all fun and games this bloody TTC lark eh?!

Bunny, we've been through phases like that. They suck. It can be an effort to keep it all fun and sexy at times.

Boom it's all about the absence of PMS symptoms. Never mind it's too early for PMS symptoms anyway... Oh, and I'm farting like a trooper. Good times.

Kitty sorry it wasn't an ironidiff (lord knows I'm praying for one) but exciting to finally be at treatment day 1? Good luck with it!

Morning!

boom yep we've done a few weekends away for ov time, gets expensive lol. Have planned to take 2 weeks off work in October and go away somewhere nice during ov time too!
Did the pooch manage to hold it in?!?

kitty sorry she got you but at least you can now get on with things

haycorn sorry to hear about the internal turmoil, this whole process really is an arse isn't it!

rum ooh I read that wind is a symptom of something else

Congrats on your great big squirt Charming ;) Hopefully it will do the trick!! Or do you think it's too late in the cycle now?

It's CD17 in the Big Peasant House, and I am fairly sure I remain undiffed but stupidly just keep wondering...... We are going away for our 1-year wedding anniversary-moon next week and I will be off the booze just in case, but feels so pointless.

rum tmi alert, but I've been trumping heroically for 1.5 weeks...

Morning all,

Bittersweet yays to kitty

Just had an email back from the clinic and they can't fit me in until October, because the consultant is on holiday. How dare she!

I'm torn between waiting, or trying to find another clinic

Hi Spare, if the clinic has been recommended to you and is conveniently located I'd be tempted to wait. October seems like a long time away but time does go quickly.

Thanks guys! I'm quite excited (if not repulsed by the day 2 dildocam bloodbath scan

tally I think so, but know other clinics make you wait. I'll be having my injection lesson on sat if all goes well tomorrow

Kitty, sorry you didn't get your ironidiff, but pleased that you can now get on with the iui. Geez though, cd2 dildocam is going to be an experience and a half for you!!! Just think of all the gore during childbirth though...one day you will look back on that dildocam fondly!

Berries...I need my bum kicking; I've been sulking under my duvet all morning and am still there. Temp had crashed down this morning so was ready to see the spotting from last night had turned more to AF. Nope - spotting had disappeared again.

Gillster Booked for 8th October. Which seems like forever away. But then last Christmas only feels like a few months ago, so you are probably right that it will fly by

boodle How on earth haven't you needed food and/or tea before now? Get ye out of bed and to the sofa, where toast and daytime TV awaits. And a nice walk if it is good weather with you...

Spare, I have ventured out a few times to feed pets, fetch breakfast, go on LRW, etc but every time I do, I make my way straight back to the duvet again!!!

It's raining at the moment so all I have done is alternate between reading mumsnet and ploughing through a book on my kindle.

I AM STILL UNDER THE DUVET!!!

boodle well now you put it like that, why on earth would you be anywhere else?

I changed the bed this morning before leaving for work and had to muster up every ounce of willpower to not leap back in and wriggle around on the clean sheets.

And Boodle, I think it is very important that we establish what colour your hair is...

Spare, I changed the bedding yesterday and after I had done the 'inside out shake the duvet down thing, I just slumped backwards onto the bed and the lovely fresh sheet. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

I'm grey blonde, so not 100% stereotypical Berry!

so that's you and sid that are blonde. the exception is always the best bit of the rule I find...

Is that so, tally? Intriguing.

boodle you're making being under the duvet sound really tempting. I'm at work.

Duvet is fantastic...I'm still under it! Admittedly, I have started doing something more productive (back to school work), but duvet definitely helps make it more comforting than sitting at my desk. In fact, I think duvets need to make it onto the Berry furniture list. I'm thinking Duvet of Denial, as I still have no more spotting, which is cruelly raising my hopes again, even though my temperature plummeted down this morning. I am a fool in denial, for sure.

boodle without wanting to raise false hopes, is there any chance it could be implantation spotting?

Unfortunately, I doubt it, Spare. I'm 15dpo today and I had a slight dip and spotting around 6dpo. I really thought the spotting last night meant the end was imminent; now I just feel stuck in limbo.

This is how my chart looked this morning. Big drop = not good.