Home of the very brave TTC after MC-ers. Advice, understanding and a variety or food based euphemisms. Pull up a pew, ladies!

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The Rules...

(1) A lady may only POAS on a Friday.
(2) Friday means the day that everyone calls Friday in the time zone where you spent the night.
(3) Rule (1) does not apply to POA-OPK-S, UNLESS they are being illegitimately used as surrogate HCG detectors, in which case Rule (1) most definitely does apply
(4) Rule (1) does not apply following a BFP because if you want to waste £25 a day POADigiS that's your prerogative
(5) Rule (1) does not apply if a lady is POAS in an attempt to get a BFN to prove she can start DTD with intent
(6) Rule (1) does not apply if a lady wants for unknown reason to pee on an actual stick, like a twig or some such, if that lady is unexpectedly caught short whilst tramping in the forest looking for bears.
(7) These rules (including Rule (1)) are subject to the change at any time if the ladies of the Posifrickentivity thread decide on a whim come up with empirical evidence to prove that it is luckier to POAS on any other day of the week
(8) Violators of Rule (1) shall be subject to fish throwing.

And as a grand finale, why not pledge to NEVER POAS before 14DPO?

Oh Seb that's a funny number. What are you going to do now? Could you try calling the EPU and see what they advise?

We will get there one day I'm sure of it xx

You haven't got any cramps or backache or anything? X

Good morning from Dubai.

tranquillity sorry you are going through this, it really is the pits when you can't try again. People use to tell me that 6 months will pass so quickly and in hindsight I guess it did but it certainly didn't feel like it at the time.

Sebs glad that you have finally got your results. I hope your HCG level continues to drop. It is just really crappy when your body still thinks it is pregnant. I remember still suffering from morning sickness after I had my d and c, sometimes our bodies can be sooo cruel to us.

Sun is shining, im not pregnant so going to make some afternoon cocktails and chill in the pool :-)

Tranq - I'm going to do nothing. I'm sure if it was ectopic I would have had symptoms by now and I feel fine. I suspect there was left over tissue that was giving out hcg and I just need to bleed it out.

Afternoon all, or to those that need it.

Not much to report here, cd14 and totally shattered for some reason. Nothing else to add as not taking temp/peeing on sticks, just rolling with it for now.....

Really struggling to shift the weight I have gained with the last 2 mcs, put nearly a stone on and faithfully running and doing weight watchers but it's not shifting, starting to get me down . Something different to moan about during the 2ww

Sorry you're feeling a bit blue today tranquillity, it really sucks that you'll have to wait for 3 months to ttc again. But maybe it will be good to have a bit of a break, I know I actually quite 'enjoyed' my month off between the mmc and first proper AF.

sebs I hope your lunch with your friend was ok and you managed to forget about all the ttc crap for a while. Sorry your hcg levels were still quite high, hopefully you'll get your next AF soon and then things will go back to normal.

50degrees I'm jealous of the cocktails and pool!

As for me, I got an even darker line on the IC opk this morning, so my guess is I'm going to ov tonight, which means I should really try and persuade DH to have another quickie tonight. I'm really not in the mood though, this is the third night in a row... I'm getting too old for all this TITH!

Hi Ladies, does any one know how to create a new thread? Looks like we need one shortly and I'm in my phone abroad so canne do it. Xx

Okay cancel that it's gone back to normal, the thread looked like it was about to close as the pages were gone, it's now back. Weird.
AF got me this morning, bums

Viper - sorry AF arrived

Hey Ladies,
Sending those who need a hug a big fat squishy one.

Bythesea - i've also put on some weight - moving back to the UK next week so once i'm settled its operation Summer Bod! At least it might take my mind off this shitty ttc business!!

Started spotting brown yesterday - not much on a pad today, but very def red blood there when I have a poke around. AF definitely imminent. Just hope this next cycle is a normal ovulatory one! Got a drs appointment booked for when I get back, so feeling a little more positive.

sebs hope it starts soon so that you can move in bit it sucks waiting doesn't it.

Sorry to hear AF is here viper

Thanks 50 xx

Thanks Metal think it was 3 months or 2 cycles whichever is sooner but we go on holiday at the end of Juky so will hold off until then x

Hi everyone really depressed. Two pregnancy announcements today sigh. Why does everyone else just get pg at the drop of a hat? Sorry about the me me post. But just when I was feeling more positive and bham I get hit by two announcements.

Hi all

I mc at 14 or 15 weeks last week. I will wait at least two months before trying again. Just feel really incomplete.. Want a baby soon. It's hard waiting to try again but I have to move on. Any advice much appreciated. I'm worried I might not conceive quickly and if I do the same thing might happen again.. I feel so empty.

triple there's nothing like a preg announcement to ruin a perfectly good day, I can totally sympathise. In my job it's made even worse by announcements of number 4 and number 6 in families where they 'just don't know where they'll put them or how they'll afford them!'

Advice needed please: I'm thinking of having a go with the opk's now we're back in the ttc cycles. If money was no object which brand do you consider to be the best? Also when is the best time to test and do people do all the: no weeing 2 hours before, test at inconvenient 2pm in the afternoon etc

Thanks all

Just popping in ladies, this thread moves so fast. to all who are feeling low today, what a bloody rollercoaster this is, very un-mn hugs from me x

sebs here's hoping things get moving soon, the waiting is just so crap isn't it.

viper sorry the witch turned up x

triple hand holding for you, no need to apologise about me me me stuff, that's what we're here for. I seem to be okay around newborns and pregnant women but it's the pregnancy announcements that are a killer for me to handle

hope so sorry for your loss but welcome, you will get lots of support from the fabulous ladies on this thread and some laughs along the way. Be kind to yourself, you've been through an awful experience so if I were you I'd relax and take some time off ttc, you got pregnant before so you will again, just give yourself some time and start again when you and your oh feel up to it. In the meantime enjoy some and pull up a chair on this thread x

florence I'm no opk expert but having used an internet cheapie and a superdrug own brand on the same day with same sample the cheapie showed almost nothing and the superdrug one gave a strong positive. Bizarre. But there are plenty of people on here with much more experience so I'll butt out

Tha m you cakebaker You are right I shouldn't stress and just go with the flow.

Florence I used the clearblue ovulation test sticks with dual hormone indocator. I get them from amazon and they are the only kits that give you your four most fertile days not 2. I conceived in four months due to those and pregnacare conception tablets helped as well. They are pricey but definitely worth buying. Easy to use. You have to test the stick with your first morning pee. also, if you get a circle it means low fertility, if you get flashing smiley that means high fertility so dtd and once you get a solid smiley that means you are ovulating and that solid smiley will stay for two days so its best to dtd then and the days leading upto ovulation. Honestly they save so much time and effort trying on random days.

Thank you, just looked and they're on offer on amazon so I'll treat myself and give them a go.

use them along with pregnacare conception tablets. Buy the 20pack it will last you two three months but I'm hoping you won't have to use them for long. Hope to hear good news soon

Hi all!

hope so sorry about your loss! I know there's not much I can say that will make you feel better so take care of yourself, focus on any positive things around you and best of lucj for next time!

seb I recognise your frustration from my CP/early MC - it's sucha rollercoaster of emotions - down and up and down again...

metal I know how you feel, DTD every day can be hard when you're tired and not feeling like it, but if you don't, you feel like you're wasting the cycle... catch 22!

I struggle with weight too by the sea and english - in the dark period of MCs1 and 2 when I didn't care what I ate, I put on nearly 10 kgs - I'm the heaviest I've ever been and it's so hard to shift. Also, while TTCing, I don't want to undertake any drastic diets like intermitent fasting, so trying to cut down a bit overall... hard for it not to get you down though.

triple I hate pregnancy anouncements too and thankfully haven't had any recently but a colleague of mine was returning after maternity leave today. I found out she was pregnant very shortly after my MC2, so still have bad associations, but obvuisly I can't mention that to her...

CD3 for me today and had my first acupuncture appointment of the cycle - this one is meant to bring the temperature down in the follicular stage, so will see how it compares to last month's chart!

Morning ladies,

Hope, I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope you have some people around you in rl that can give you support and a hug.

Still waiting for af to kick in properly. Onwards and upwards and all that

Thank you English. Yes I have a very supportive family. I wanted to ask I've been bleeding for a week after surgical when will it stop and after how long after this bleeding stop will I be expecting for my period to start? Also what does AF mean? I'm not used to these abbreviations thanks

welcome Hope so sorry that you find yourself here on this thread but you are very welcome among us.
From what I've seen the amount of bleeding seems to vary a lot. For me, my MC was at 12 weeks, I bled for about 10 days, and got my next period 5 weeks after the MC. I think your body needs the pregnancy hormone to go back down to 0 before your normal hormone cycle kicks in so its unlikely you would get a period or ovulate until a pregnancy test showed negative.
We have a lot of acronyms!
AF = Aunt flo = period

Am struggling today. Am at work and both women I sit with have announced they are pregnant. I really do want to be happy for them but am struggling. I feel like such an awful person for not being happy for them

hope I bled for 2 weeks following the procedure and got AF just over 4 weeks later, but as gail said it varies a lot. I was told to take a preg test once the bleeding had stopped to make sure it was negative/to be sure it was all over as those pesky hormones can stay around for a while.

ellis for you, that's really hard, I'm not surprised you're feeling low and you are not an awful person, pregnancy announcements give me the total rage at the moment. I am happy for people but equally angry and pissed off for me. X