W are jolly well going to get pregnant this month and we're brooking no argument - all rat smackers past, present and future welcome!

[farfallarocks]

Here, we go, nice new thread.
Might be helpful to have some stats so we know where we all are?

I will start, farfallarocks - TTC#2, cycle 11. 1st brooking baby DD, 21 months. Investigations reveal high FSH and potentially starting IVF.

Good to be back Imps. Yes any form of conception/pregnancy issues are shit, but I regularly remind myself that I am fortunate to have two gorgeous boys, even if they are driving me slightly insane this week! my 4 year old is so hyper counting down to Christmas Day, it's the first year he has really got what it's all about. His younger brother is clueless but copies anything his big brother does so they are bouncing off the furniture and are being a real handful this week. Just keep finding myself thinking that we should have had a newborn in October and how things might have been, and then try and snap out of it and focus on what we have instead.

Fingers crossed that 2015 is the year the brooking thread runs out of brookers ttc and turns into a 100% preggo thread!

merry Xmas brookers (incase I don't have time tomorrow) especially to those who are having their first Christmas!!
here's to a fertile new year!

Merry Christmas to all my lovely Brookers.

DH woke us all up at 5:30am getting a present out the loft so if it wasn't for the fact that he is cooking lunch I might have had to LTB

Hello Brookers! Merry festive season to you all. I hope you've had a fab Christmas. Mr Imps and I got back to ours today after spending the past 5 days with our families - we're just sitting in the lounge in peace - no music, no tv, just enjoying the sound of the fire and the quiet. I love our nieces and nephews to bits by my god they are loud. For the uninitiated, 5 days of under-10s has left me feeling exhausted and a little shell-shocked . Silence really is underrated.

Hope all of you are well and have managed to put TTC out of your minds for a good few days. Onto to 2015 - this is our year and we shall conquer it!

I haven't been on MN for ages and what do I miss only a bloody BFP for Cups OMG, I will repeat OMFG!!!! OMG I think this has made my Christmas. I am so pleased for my love, words don't really sum it up. I am so chuffed for you and MrC. OMFG.

hey sweetie! hope you had a lovely Xmas. how are the twins? they're one now right?

yes twins are 1!!!! how did that happen? how is N?

The twins are ONE?

I can't believe sweeties twins are one already, where has the time gone? I'm now potentially in the 2ww but trying not to get my hopes up, haven't taken temperatures at all this time and haven't been at it like rabbits. But do have a double pack of frer just in case...old habits of itching to POAS are lurking lol.

Just popping by quickly to wish you all a happy new year - thank you for being lovely and supportive this year - I've really appreciated it especially as I wasn't around for lots of you when you were having your treatments etc.

I have a feeling that 2015 is going to be immense for all of us!

Just popping in to wish all of you lovely brookers a very happy new year. I am absolutely brooking no argument that you will all have your brooking babies in 2015.

I also can't believe the sweetie twins are one and my own brooking baby is two!

happy new year all

imps not long till your appointment

far if you're there I hope you're doing OK

cups how's things? x

Hey generic, long time no speak! Happy New year to you too, will you be rejoining the brookers?

Happy New Year to everyone else. Hope it's a good one all round.

Tentatively getting excited here as pretty sure I think I have fallen pregnant first time of trying again. With the exception of my first pregnancy I've always been able to feel things from implantation onwards, and have had the same sensations this week too, along with tender boobs. I'm not entirely sure what date I ovulated though, I had ovulation pains from midday on the 24th Dec and so think it was between 24th-26th that I ovulated as cm dried up after then but I can't pinpoint the exact date because I didn't take temperatures. So I'm somewhere between 8-10 dpo today, which I guess is a bit early to risk wasting a FRER? I can't remember how many dpo I have tested in the past, what's the earliest anyone got a BFP from one?

This is likely to be our last child, so we were hoping to sway our odds in favour of a girl, although after losing the last two pregnancies a third boy would be loved too, and if I get the BFP that I expect, I really hope that it's a very sticky bean and stays put until September....but we BD 1am on the 21st, and had cleared out Dh's tubes several times the previous week, and having read that boy sperm apparently die within 3 days, am secretly hoping that this means only the girl sperm were left hanging around by the time I ovulated...as they would have been 3 1/2 days old at the earliest and up to 6 days old at the latest. How soon does cm dry up after ovulation? I have never really monitored cycles enough to know if it drys up the day of ovulation, the day after etc...

Couldn't tolerate waiting any longer as was driving me mad.....just used a FRER and got a very faint BFP

Please god let this one develop properly and stay stuck till Sept!!

congrats loopy

I posted yesterday encouraging you to test but it seems to have been lost in cyberspace

Happy new year everyone!! Sorry I've not been around, had a pants christmas thanks to my crazy grandmother. We spent the full week with my family and to say she tested everyone's patience is an understatement.

Loopy welcome back and congratulations on the BFPS! Really hope this is a extra sticky one for you

Imps not long to go now at all, I'm ridiculously excited for you

Sweetie hello! Thanks so much. I'm 16+2 now and counting down the days to my 20 week scan.

I wish I could say the anxiety gets better but it doesn't. I worked myself into a right state the past few days as I had convinced myself something had gone wrong. I spent most of yesterday ringing around trying to get a private scan but everywhere is fully booked for the next week. I then bought a Doppler in a panic and wasnt able to find the heart beat. Have finally found it just now after 4 attempts. I'm officially a nutcase and feel terrible as I've really stressed MrC out.

How's everyone else doing? I hope everyone had a nice christmas?

Happy New Year brookers!!

I had a bit of a break from all things TTC over xmas and it really helped and I am feeling a lot more positive. Thank you for all your kind thoughts and I just know that 2015 is going to be our year, especially for imps!!

cups the mentalling really never stops I am afraid, it does get a bit better when you can feel the baby move but then that becomes the new worry! Those dopplers are very difficult so try not to freak yourself out, it can be common to not be able to able find the heartbeat but just because the baby is hiding!

loopy congrats!! Here is to a lovely and uneventful 9 months!

Brookers, I have had the oddest few days, was totally convinced that I was pregnant, did a few tests quite early and they were negative, went on a total booze binge over New Year and this morning realised my AF was late and just got a very very faint BFP. First time in over a year but its so faint and should be a lot darker at 15dpo, I fear this is going to be another chemical and I am kicking myself for not testing earlier and starting all the drugs. Gah!

omg far!!!! it will NOT be a chemical. I am brooking no argument. you may have your dates wrong, and my bfp at 14dpo was quite light. can you get the drugs today? remind me what you need?

congratulation loopy

cups I know the feeling. I agree with far that movement helps but esp at the beginning it's very sporadic. I was quite crazy between 12-20 weeks but kept repeating I had no bleeding, boobs were sore, could feel the uterus moving up... are you considering an additional scan pre 20 weeks?

I am back to work on wednesday so setting kip in at nursery. I know I'm so lucky to have had 14 months off with her, but I just feel so sad. I actually can't imagine not being with her all day

Thanks keep I have the drugs at home and took them immediately, am also going for a blood test later this morning to see what the levels are. I am just feeling guilty about all the booze!! I have also (grossly) kept the tests from DD and they were so much darker at this stage whereas my chemicals all look a bit like this one does (I have it in my bag at work and keep peering at it).

Poor you, the bit before you go back to work is always worse than the reality but it does take a while to get used to :(

p.s. its clexane and progesterone that I take. Eeeeeeek. So much for forgetting about TTC for a while

Sadly I think my gut instinct was right, HCG only 19 although progesterone is over 100. Doc said to come back in 48 hrs to see what the levels are doing but its unlikely to be viable unless I ovulated much later than I think which is unlikely as I track it quite closely! Bah, I thought this was our time at last!

Far I have to admit those numbers mean nothing to me, what numbers should you have? Is there any chance at all that you ovulated slightly later than you thought? Would taking those drugs not make it stick now or do they need to be taken from the off?

I took the other FRER today and the line wasn't as faint as the day before, which is a good sign so I shan't take any more tests now, and just hope for the best, not a clue as to what the systems are like up here but will call the doctors this week and book an appointment as I still need to do their new patient appointment anyhow and deal with this at the same time.

Well the progesterone is great but HCG should really be over 100 unless as you say I ovulated a bit later which is possible!
But I got the usual positives on my monitor and ovulation sticks so I am not sure. The drugs need to be taken asap really, I did test last Weds and it was a negative and I gave up after that! DH is trying to convince me a couple of days won't have made a difference. I was just so sick of seeing negatives I did not want to see another!
Will know for sure in 48 hrs but its all a bit cruel really.

Best of luck with the booking in, I know once you have had a MC its hard to really relax and enjoy pregnancies!

Will keep my fingers crossed for you that it's not too late for the drugs to work their magic and that the numbers increase for you. I think you had your dd a couple of months after I had ds2? and from memory didn't you get pregnant several times but it was only when they gave you drugs that your body stopped rejecting them and you had her? Fingers crossed you caught this one in time, my ovulation and cycle lengths are all over the place so will hope on your behalf that it's just wrong dates...and forget about the booze, it doesn't do them any harm in the early days, plenty of people don't go teetotal just because they are ttc x

Morning brokers, barely there positive this morning so I think it was a proper chemical and nothing that the drugs could have done really. Bah, never mind, its the closest we have got all year so perhaps this is a positive sign! Here's to many more sticky BFPs for 2015.

loopy that is great memory you have there, had 2 chemicals before DD and the drugs did help me but I think this one was just a duff egg (of which I have many!) Here is hoping you have better luck with your September baby!