Come one, come all: hop onboard the penis dragon bus and hold on tight for your BFP in April! PART 3!!

[MademoiselleG]

Here we go - for as soon as Part 2 is fully full. Enjoy the ride!

I think I now understand addiction. I promised myself, that under no circumstances would I POAS until AF was late (expected Thursday) but I know that a force stronger than me will guide me to the chemist after work and I will poas tomorrow morning. I cannot fight it. grr!

englishgirl I did try but my doctor is on holiday for two weeks.

Ive had dealings with the other doctors up there but none of them seems bothered except her.

I asked if she could call but nooooo if she did that everyone would want a call pftttt

mslad I poas yesterday and regretted it lol but want to again tomorrow AF should come Wednesday hopefully not please bugger off so I really should wait until then

blueberry, that's rubbish! If it makes you feel any better, I had the same thing, day 3 and day 21 tests. Had to wait (not a month though!) to discuss the results. All was normal and the GP did say that had they flagged up any cause for concern they would have called me in to discuss them.

Chances are your surgery operates on the same principle.

bluberry why do we do this to ourselves? we know we'll be gutted if/when the test is negative.....yet we still can't help doing it?

Oh, and I POAS this morning because I'm cd 27 so just to check. Even though I know I wasn't oving arund cd12 like normal.

Bfn. Of course. settles down with a good book to wait

Retro They asked me to make the appointment but kept saying it was a 'routine appointment' and not to worry which makes me worry.

Ive already missed a month due to doctors appointments and now another one.

I havent even had day 3 tests yet!!!

Im at work so I must not burst into tears lol.

Im so very emotional at the moment had such a bad stomach yesterday.

Happy birthday Victoria:)!
Lovely to hear your husband's being so good Poly . I wish you a smooth pregnancy .
Get better soon Retro .
Sorry about the crap doctors blueberry I hope you can see someone sooner .
I've prob got a chest infection again after coughing for two weeks now and it's not getting better . I've managed and haven't got a high temperature but I don't nowadays seem to get one normally even if I'm pretty sick. My immune system doesn't seem to put up a fight since being on steroids. Might have to give up and see a doctor on wed. I'm injuring my intercostal muscles again like a year ago with this coughing when i felt like i'd broken a rib so have to hold my side when I cough not to hurt so much . Aaargh . Whole kids Easter holiday is being ruined . Disappointed not being able to go away but glad my parents came earlier for a week and have since tried to keep ds busy with workshops etc and camp today again so he still gets to do something . Dd has a music and a gym class and nursery mon and wed as usual so gets to run around in the garden and do crafts etc she loves . Dh went to his parents with the kids in the weekend but he's mom ended up going to the hospital with possible complications from her cancer surgery 2 y ago and more doctors app ahead this week so don't know whether we'll spend easter with them . DH is worried and I'm wrapped up in how bad I feel physically . Not good times but have to keep going for the littles ...
I realised I miscalculated my dates and am prob only 6 dpo today not 7. I don't get the half a line on yesterday's cb ?! Today nothing but it wasn't morning pee since only got more tests in the food order recently. Feel increasingly preg though . Boobs keep on hurting , around the clock nausea and have started to run to the toilet constantly in the last two days . This is once again really screwing up my head , specially that test ... I've had so many early tests that have later turned into stronger positives that if I see a hint of a line I can't help getting hopeful . What is scaring me though is that I've had some cramping and lower back pain over the weekend and on and off today . I can't help feeling doomed

Sorry to hear that blueberry :(

Thanks for the new thread, and the stats! Only 6 days till I POAS will NOT do it before honest !

Has anyone seen that programme on channel 4, 15000 kids? I want to adopt all of them. That little girl broke my heart, thinking nobody wanted to adopt her. I was thinking about fostering and adoption a good few years ago, but if ttc isn't successful this month I'm going to have another couple of months hard thinking. I've been lucky enough to have dc already and I don't do pg at all well. So wondering whether it might be a real possibility.

MrsE, the more I get to know you on here, the more I realise that your life truly is extraordinary. I strongly suspect you'd be an amazing foster carer.

It's something I'd love to do, but there's no way DH would consider it until he's experienced bringing up his own children. He has said he'd consider adopting if we were struggling, but was shocked by the fact that in the UK you can't adopt usually until the baby is around 1. Maybe in the future...

Sorry to keep moaning ladies your the only people I have to talk to.

The DH tries but he really doesnt get it at all.

Nordic Sorry your not feeling well it really doesnt help anything does it. I think our bodies do it to us on purpose.

Ive been the same this week feeling ill and it could all be pg orrrrr more than likely im just ill and need to get to the doctors that i can never get an appointment with.

Bears Thank you just the way things are sometimes aye.

MrsE no I havent seen that program sounds like the kind that I would cry a lot at.

I want to try to have my own baby before looking at anything like adopting.

Fostering/adopting is certainly not for everyone and I wouldn't pretend it's easy. I come at the idea having been a parent first, (I was very young) then a step parent. I never thought I'd be able to be a step parent. But I've done not too bad a job of it. Dss has huge behavioural issues. But he's better for being with us. I know all dc have to grow up of course but I've been lucky enough to always have one pre schooler. Dh is worried I'd want to adopt them all. I nearly melted earlier when he said, what if they'd been abused, I couldn't ever let them go to anyone ever again. He took on my 4 effortlessly when we got together. He's brilliant with little ones. I think even if we don't decide now is the right time. It's certainly something I'd like to do later on, when the older ones have left home. And there's more space. All our dc would be fine with it. My eldest is a professional big brother. I think it should go on his cv.

Everyones Thinking changes and develops as time goes by. Life changes us all. I'm not really extra ordinary retro, but I like to think out the box and probably my life is a but different to most. But that's ok, I like being a bit different.

I am the same with doctors. I have my day 21 blood test on Thursday. decided to be super organised and book a follow up doctors appointment - nothing til may and even that would be with a locum. Felt. Like. Screaming!!!

The good news is DHS SA tests came back absolutely fine which is a relief for him and me.

4dpo here but not holding my breath as only managed to dtd once in my fertile period. I'll probably poas at the weekend anyway as DH is away and I know there is no chance of him catching me mwahahaha.

Kitty just read back.

I had similar this month with my cbs.

I had 5 days of blanks then a fixed smiley with no flashing on day 6. One line was very very strong, the other was very faint, almost non existent.
I think I did ov the evening I got my fixed as I had terrible cramps. have you had any signs of ov? perhaps you'll go straight to a fixed like I did (very annoying I know).

lol Gennibugs you made me laugh.

I poas yesterday bfn but didnt tell DH lol its to addictive.

Doctors really are ass's why ask you to make an appointment if its not possible for so long.

Glad SA tests came back fine was the same with us just gotta wait now.

ive always thought about fostering/adopting if it ends up that we cant have kids. obviously I want children really badly. but if I cant I want to give some poor child a solid loving home. dh is on board as well. it was one of the first serious convos we had after ttc...
hope everyones ok today. sorry for anyone af got and congrats on any bfps. Welcome new ppl

Phoned my dm today briefly mentioned the fostering thing and out the blue had a psychic moment and asked quite abruptly why dsis never decided to adopt a Chinese baby or similar? Omg i think dsis is actually! Dm who is completely transparent said oh why do you ask that???? I can't wait to here. I'd be so completely delighted for them. They have one dc, now in his teens, but poor sis was riddled with endo ever since. She's now 40 so I think it's made her decide.

We are ttc #1 but we are currently foster parents. At the mo we just do respite fostering as we both work but we have thought about doing full time in future but we would like to try for our own first. I suppose in a way we have done it the other way round to most. We did have one full time placement (hope this doesn't out me) with 3 children as a temporary placement which ended up lasting a few months! It gave us a great insight into what parenting would be like and it was only when they left us (to be adopted) my dp said he wanted us to start trying.

I peed on my last bastardstick this morning. Naturally the bastard was a blank empty face, like all the other bastardsticks in the bin.

Happy birthday Victoria!

happy birthday victoria hope you have a great day!

Tilly that's amazing, pre and dc experience. So glad it was rewarding enough to want to ttc.

That was a garbled mess of a stupid sentence. I meant that's amazing pre your own dc.

We love it (and tbh now regret not adopting them ourselves but money/space at the mo etc made it unrealistic). I think in all honesty we hope to have 1/2 of our own(if we can) but then we would like to foster/adopt aswel in the future. It's hard work but also so rewarding.

Snuggled in bed with hot choc biscuits and ready for one born every minute.

Pretty emotional today so this will be fun

I'm the same blueberry!
Eating an easter egg... ready for obem.