If TTC # 2 has turned you into a nut job this thread is for you! (Part 4)

[sebsmummy1]

Hey!! We have had lots of graduates from Part 3, so let's get on the TTC bus part 4 and make this place a ghost town.

Destination Pregnancy, choooo choooooo

I'm pretty sure it was a blue dye false positive. I have got some pink dye ones for tomorrow morn but I think I shall be posting a sad face as I really am showing every normal symptom of AF showing up on Wed.

Assuming I'm still having a 12 day LP it means I'm ovulating CD12. Although my fertility monitor didn't show a peak this month which I know is common on the first month, the sticks did show the nearest to a positive test on sticks 11 and 12. So everything seems to tally, I'm temping now as well so hopefully FF will agree next cycle.

I still think a 24/25 day cycle is short!! I guess if I ov early I still stand a chance if a fertilised egg implanting.

sebs I have short cycle - 24 days av. And I have got pregnant 3 times. My sister also has 25 day cycle and has been pregnant 4 times (and has 3 kids) so short is good (plus trying comes around more) it's only when 20 days and under is norm when something abnormal

That makes me feel better fed up (and I know it's not the first time you've said that to me ). Do you know what day you ov on average? Xx

Sorry didn't make sense - anything under 20 days is when it's perhaps not quite right....

Hey all,

I've been keeping up with everything but no time to post this weekend.

Sebs, fingers crossed for you!

Fedup Well done on your Exams :-)

I use the internet cheapie OPKs, and though I also can't go 4 hours without a drink (maybe 2 hours) they have worked ok for me so far. I did realise after always getting negatives that I wasn't leaving them long enough to 'develop'.. and they really do need the 10 mins advised to know whether they are negative or positive. I was lucky though in that I was wfh for the last 6 months.. so it was easy to do at 2pm (which is meant to be the optimum time). Not sure that will work in a busy office.. I haven't quite worked out how I am going to do this yet... I can't really hang around in the office loos for 10 mins..

I also wanted a 2 year gap between DCs.. Now it will be at least 3 years, though same as you Lucy I can't imagine being heavily pregnant or with a newborn and dealing with DS..

Totally get the teary bit with other babies in public.. I have to avoid looking at pregnant strangers in case they can see in my eyes how messed up I am about it all.. angry, hurt... I saw my best friend yesterday who is heavily pregnant.. (we live far from each other so don't see each other often), and spent most of the time talking babies.. which was hard. It is her first so she was asking for lots of advice.. I also told her about my frustration at the moment about ttc, and she said to 'relax'... I love her to bits but christ I had to stop myself screaming. She got pregnant the first cycle of ttc... I've been trying since June and have now lost a fallopian tube.. my cycles are totally messed up since the ectopic.. It's not quite the same!! Today I also bumped into an old colleague who asked how many children I had now.. It hurt so much to say still just the one.. :-(

Thanks for the advice re: supplements. I have decided again to give it another cycle and see where I am. I have read that a lot of women follow the same weird cycle pattern after ectopics.. normal initially, then really long cycles until after a few months it goes back to normal again... so am hoping it will sort itself back out.

We are definitely due a BFP on this thread soon.. Sebs, here's hoping you are the first.xxx

I'm normally about cd 12 too but has ranged from day 8 to 15! If you are ovulating cd 12 then that's only two days ahead of the "average" 28 day cycle that they base everything on!

Ah that's interesting to hear fedup. My cycles are an average of 26 days and when I started getting into all this serious ttc business I was worried mine were too short too. I think my LP is about 12 days too Sebs. The past 3 months though I have been a bit all over the place so hopefully they will go back to normal now.
I had to pop out to get some more opks earlier, picked up the cheapest ones from Home Bargains I could, and got an amazing positive this afternoon on one, so that made me smile, and we will be dtd as much as possible over the next few days! I think AF is due in 13/14 days so still got the 2ww to get through.
Good luck for the morning Sebs.
Are you all done with exams now fedup?
I think I will have a red cape Cake, stick with tradition! How about you?

Ahhh I hate the questions too Punky. Sometimes you just feel like screaming the truth out to people don't you. To make them shut up and to make yourself feel better for getting it all out! There was a newborn at playgroup today. 4 days old. I didn't want to even look in their vague direction. Sorry about the situation with your best friend, and I hope your cycles sort themselves out soon it's not fair to add to the stress and chaos when our bodies start playing tricks on us.

One of my NCT came round for a cuppa this morn (I don't work Mondays) and she has a four month olds as well as her Daughter who is my sons age. She's having a very hard time with sleeping (actually the older one waking up every hour) but was sweet not to bang on about it to me about "how hard it is with two" as She knows what I've been through and would give up for months to have another baby in my arms. Wish could say the same for everyone else who seem to rub it in my face so much - more how great their older kid loves the younger one etc.

I feel quite relaxed about ttc at the mo, probs cos I've so much going on and I'm not in the 2 ww! Thinking of all of you stuck on the horrible -time stands still - period of waiting.

Got another exam in a month then done for that module then on to the next.... Fun times. Thanks for the congrats tho I'm quite chuffed with myself doing my job, being a mum and learning all that stuff!

Now.... To gym or not to gym... That is the question.

Just to say I've got a faint line this morn from a pink dye test. It is really faint though! I am going to just see if it gets any darker before I start getting carried away with myself.

Woo hoo! A line is a line sebs!

OOh yey Sebs!! Do you want to share photos??
Fed up that is very impressive! What are you studying for? I'm thinking of going back to college in september if I'm not upduffed by then.

Thank you xxxx

I put it on one of those photo sites where people give their opinion. The clearblue plus one yesterday had people saying it was an evap line, those tests are notorious for false positives apparently. This one does seem to have more people convinced, I'm just hoping in a few days it's more obvious and I can go get a digital.

I'm so scared I'm going to jinx it by talking about it!

www.canyouseealine.com/view_home_pregnancy_test.php?testID=43536

Definitely something there!

My GP told me it is highly unusual to get a false positive from clearblue so just goes to show there are so many different opinions out there!

I'm not really even sure what dpo I am as the fertility monitor gave me a month full of highs. It's still asking for sticks!!

You can tell how unsure I am as I've just had a long conversation with my Mum and haven't mentioned it to her. She knows we are trying and have been for ages, she is normally the first person after DP I tell stuff to, and yet I've kept shtum.

Yay sebs yay yay yay!!

First one of 2014!!! Hurrah!!

I'm studying to be a personal trainer - bit of a change from my current job but i want to do post natal PT! sebs can be my first client

Fed up you can see a line?

Ooooh I was just about to join a personal training gym near me do that's a bit uncanny lol

Definately

Was it within the timeframe?

Amazing. Chuffed for you sebs. Did the physic say this month?!!!

Ha ha no!!! One said between March and July, one said I would find out I was pregnant in April and the last guy could see a birth between September and December, so I guess the last guy was the most right (he was the one that was right about my sons birth so that's why I went to see him at Christmas coz I felt totally dreadful as you know.

I think, assuming this is a) a pregnancy and b) a sticky, the due date is September 25th.

Thank you for being so kind xxxx

Yay Sebs! Can also see the line.. oooh whispered congratulations and fx the line for darker lines in the next few days!!

Just want to clarify that even though I said I couldn't imagine having a newborn (or being pg) and dealing with DS I do obviously wish it was the case..

Hope you're all having good days.. I am a tad hungover, and really tired after a surprise night out with work colleagues.. Looking forward to a quiet night in the hotel tonight, and back to my boys tomorrow!

Just adding, can def see a line

DP can't.

I swear the digital tests were made for women so they can shove them in the faces of their blokes

I can also see a line Sebs!! Really really hope it's a sticky one for you.
Haha Punky me too! The thought of being pregnant or a newborn is terrifying, but also what I want more than anything in the world
Few more days of dtd for me, then the waiting game begins.

Thank you Lucy.

Ok i am going to bow out of this thread now as I know it's bittersweet when people get their BFPs.

I may be back sooner than I'd like and i will definitely lurk for happy news.

You have all saved my sanity so many times when i couldn't talk to anyone in real life xxx