Come and join us on the brand new, rather fabulous, and very slightly notorious (or so we'd like to think!) JUST SHAGGING PART 19!!

[Nessalina]

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 with your fredmates where needed.

JSing lingo

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

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!

Pant snot = Egg white cervical mucus.

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

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.

Icing = ovulating. Another autocorrect development!

Getting your Cape on = planning some serious pouncing on DH/DP

TWOT - Two Weeks of Torture!

The link to Part 18 is <a class="break-all" href="http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/1843945-Put-on-your-capes-and-rub-the-Unicorn-belly-aka-my-dear-please-pour-baby-gravy-on-my-egg-JUST-SHAGGING-PART-18" target="_blank">here</a>

The current Grads Fred is <a class="break-all" href="http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1817751-Just-Shagging-Grads-Fred-8-Roll-up-roll-up-all-Viroids-welcome" target="_blank">here</a>

The rather nobbish article in which we become a little bit notorious is <a class="break-all" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/the-dark-side-of-mumsnet-my-shocking-tour-of-the-websites-nether-regions-8905055.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> <img loading="lazy" class="inline-flex mumsnet-emoji" alt="Grin" src="https://www.mumsnet.com/build/assets/grin-D7Eg_B6y.png">

Happy shagging shaggers!

whoop whoop wagga

huge congrats

xxx

What a good way to start the year, congratulations wagga

Hello. Can I join in?

Yay congrats wagga, great news. xxx

Thanks everyone. There's a line for sure so I must be preggers . I'm completely over the moon but trying to rein it in as I know a bfp doesn't always mean a baby at the end, got to 9 weeks last time. I will splash out on a digi test when I go out to buy pregnancy vitamins later.

The law of sod has worked her magic because we spent a huge chunk of our baby savings fund recently thinking it wasn't going to happen anytime soon, I drank far too much in the tww and got a lovely fancy coffee machine for Christmas and I will now have to cut down on caffine!

I hope you all get your 2014 bfp too.

for Wagga congratulations!

Welcome Oddsocks tell us about yourself, and settle in.

Bear bummer for you, is it definitely ERTD?

I'm still in TWOT, launching into the second week in full symptom spotting mode. Had to persuade myself again not to POAS - damn those internet cheapies for making it so easy! The only 'symptoms' I have are a sore throat and sore boobs that feel like massive water balloons. But I always get this before ERTD, just usually a little later in the cycle though.

I've allowed myself a faint glimmer of hope this month because we DTD lots and I think timed it really well. But given that we don't even know whether DP is firing blanks or not, it could all be futile!

DP is having his sperm test next week and. I. Am. SHITTING. MYSELF. We will finally find out if his VR worked.

2013 was a very emotional year for us, we briefly broke up last Christmas because he didn't want kids, he realized how stupid he was and agreed to the VR, we had it at the beginning of the year but have been too scared disorganized to get the test done until now. And next week the moment of truth will arrive.

On NYE Dp made me cry when I asked him what he hopes for for 2014, he said he hoped we'd finally have our 'Little Sproggle' ...

Sorry for the brief pity party there, just needed to get it out of the system!

Damn you cosy! I started with a sore throat yesterday and worse this morning which wasn't a symptom until you just said it! Hope your DPs new year wish comes true. How sweet of him.

Loving law of sod for you wagga, we know she works better than anything else!

Oooooo I've got a sore throat too!!!!!
I've also had cramps since I got up this morning & the badly timed shagging this month pretty much guarantees AF's on the way. Time to crack open the foot long Jaffa cakes & wallow in cocktails self pitty!

Hello newbies, nice to have some new shaggers!

Oh wagga what wonderful news! our first 2014 BFP!
I'm praying for a sticky on ex

Yes I'm deffo out Cosy. Got cramps and everything. Noobs were clearly just sore. (Ha ha- I like noobs typo! Suggests maybe 'new boobs' but these are definitely old ones. Well loved. )

Fingers very tightly crossed for you Wagga.

I had a bit of a cry this morning, so I know how you feel Cosy. It did help to let it all out. I think I needed a goid sob after the stress of Christmas and dodging the children, preggers women and tactless questikns left right abd centre! Fingers crossed on my other hand that your VR has worked.

Bear you're killing me with the autocorrect typos

Noobs is brilliant

As for questikns.. can we make that Questikins = all those bloody annoying questions you get asked when TTC such as 'ooh it will be you next eh?' and the lovely 'but why did you leave it so late'?

I'm with you on the preggers women everywhere. Made the mistake of going to Tescos on NYE (don't ever do it people, it was carnage) and it was full of bouncy young preggo women, and frazzled looking new mums with their bundles. My coping strategy is not to look, at all. Had to venture down the 'baby things' aisle to buy nappy bags (to use as dog poo bags, they're much cheaper!) and literally walked the rest of the aisle with my head in the air looking at the ceiling!! For some reason it's the scratch mitts that get me, I adore them and want to buy them... :(

I was wondering what was the average age of all of us is? The why did you leave it so late thing always makes me laugh , you can't win ! I am 37 (for 3 whole days) and having the question thrown at you I can sympathise with , I now say we are getting one from the internet so it can't blame me when its ugly! ;)
I've yet to notice in the supermarket but sick of all the preggers girls on jezza Kyle! X

I'm 39 for another 3 and a bit months... bugger! I don't feel grown up enough to be 40.

I tell people I'm too busy having fun to bother with children. That shuts them up.

I'm 36 in 2014. That's the magic 'geriatric mother' threshold passed then! you know what winds me up is that no one bats an eye when my 36 year old friend has her second DC, she's a 'lovely young mum'. But a 35 year old TTC for the first time gets plenty of concerned looks.

I'm 34 for another week. Been at this shit since I was 32 sod off anyone who says we left it too late. FWIW my friend had her first at 40, no problems at all.

Love the 'questikins' Cosy- hadn't even noticed! it puts a nice diminutive slant on the saccharine sweetness with which such questions are asked.

Your right cosy, first timers are frowned upon ! I found lots of chats with people trying for number two or three but found myself feeling a bit left behind! I just lost my dog right before xmas which made me think I have to do this and soon , if not I'm def going to be the crazy animal lady and start rescuing any strays going!
My period has got stuck - I'm never late but from period pains a week ago today I'm spotting (internally) but it is refusing to make an appearance ! I know I'm not up the duff as I took a test three days ago so it's just making me cross! Feel like a bottle with the cork stuck ;) god men have it easy ;)

Hello newbies

Gonna read and run. Be back later for a natter/update!

I am 31!

congrats wagga what an exciting start to the new year!

beetle could it have been a false negative? how many do are you? fx!

I'm 28 for another 3.5 months. dh is 31.5 and weve been together 9 years, married 2. everyone was convinced I'd be pg when we got back from honeymoon. as I've always been the first one to help out with the babies in the family. I have a loft full of baby stuff I was given after our wedding. so now I feel pike everyone is talking about it behind my back. I imagine them saying "odd they don't have one yet, do you think they're having problems" grr also probably in my head.

My mum knows we've been trying for a yr now and ive tried to talk to her about it since finding out sil is pg with no 2 but she doesn't seem to know how to talk to me about it. I'm 1 of 5 kids and she had my half siblings at 39 and 41. and I think the first of those was an accidental pg. grr

icing seems to be holding off as usual. want it out the way so I can book my day 21 bloods and dhs sa!

hi zing hope Ur not struggling with the morning sickness. how many wks are u now...I like to know how time is flying!
cookie enjoy your twotting. we r hear if you need a hooya!

c'mon girls find that PMA! a bfp on day 2 of the year means the jsers are starting as they mean to go on.

Glad you outted yourself as under 30 first lil. I'm 28 as well but similar story: with DH for over 11 years and still been trying for about 16 cycles now. Sometimes I feel like I shouldn't be here complaining about struggling with TTC but Problems conceiving not limited to age at all. Even at 28 I wish we had started earlier!

I'm with you there dulcet. I was so naive. i thought with so many of my family having 3+ kids and being 1of 5myself I'd get pg instantly so I focussed on being the right time in my career, being in my job long enough etc. now I'm jobless and basically starting again career wise so I so have some regrets. especially as I've had undiagnosed issues down there in the past. I've had 3 internal ultra sounds in my life and they have never been able to look at one of my ovaries properly because it was so painful for them to do it. I hoped being at the year mark I'd finally be able to have the hsg and know what's going on in there but no. its 2 years here. I may pay for it privately though. not being able to have kids has been my biggest fear for as long as I can remember, like since early teens. bonkers really. time will tell, and all I can do is stay positive, keep trying and deal with what gets thrown at me. I'm lucky the Dr is letting us have day21 bloods and sa

Hi Everyone!

I've been hovering but know this is where I'm meant to be!

I echo some peoples comments about waiting for the right time!
Been with OH since 2002, knew within weeks we would get married and have kids when we were "older" - 10 years went by and I thought I might as well wait till we were married, which took him a while to get round to as I said we were having kids asap after so he had to be ready for that too, now we're into our 2nd year of trying with 2Xmc under our belts!

After reading what feels like all the advice in the world my head is spinning! Yesterday in a Zita West book I read that using my electric blanket may have been the cause of mc

I want to try and chill out and just dtd and keep fingers crossed for next time!

lil1dy - It's the same for me, I've been the vocally broody one for years and years! Everytime I hold a baby people say "Ooh, you're such a natural" Everyone has just been waiting for the announcement since we got married last march. My Mum said "You'll drop on Honeymoon, I was pregnant within weeks of deciding to have a baby" - she seems to forget that she was 19 and 22 when she had my brother and me!

It's all horribly frustrating!

Hi dulcet I hope you didn't think I was being disparaging about anyone under 30, it sucks at any age x
I haven't really planned any of this , I never assumed I'd have children and keep waiting for my biological clock to clang and make me start feeling some profound desire. For me it's more like , hell my choices are vanishing , and I love children and don't want to miss out. Also it took us a while to get a house as we live in the south. All these little things led to 37 so entirely my own fault in many ways.
I also have a younger sister who popped out a couple in super fast time, she seems to like doing everything first and now I get the ' they want cousins ' chats !
Lil I don't think it can be, I have pain and ( sorry tmi warning) if I push tissue around up there there's red blood. It's gonna happen I feel like a bloated whale!

On a sep note has anyone tried preseed or similar? And how do I learn what all the abbreviations mean?!!
What is 21 day bloods?

Evening all.
I will be 33 this year and started when I was newly 30. Ugh. 3 years sounds a lot longer than 2.5!
I mostly avoid the questikns as after the rather catastrophic molar pregnancy (which most close friends & family ended up knowing about) people are a bit terrified. That said, some of my friends do the "are you trying again?" thing as mentioned upthread. YES, it's not an instant thing for some of us thankyouverymuch.

Still no icing here. GRRR. Oh well. Zita says you should aim for 10xdtd per months so we are working on practising. Dh is very happy.