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.

Hi everyone,

Sorry I've not checked in for a while. I've had a stressful few weeks with family problems. I also had a car accident, it was only minor but I've been so worried it would affect the baby. It's been a long wait for my scan after that happened! I had the 20 week scan today and all is fine. We are having a boy! I'm feeling so excited and relaxed for the first time since getting pregnant. I really can't believe we are finally going to be parents. I can scarcely believe that we started ttc in april 2009, it feels a lifetime ago.

Loopy I'm so so sorry to hear your news. I can't believe that this has happened to you again. I really hope you get some answers. Thinking of you

Imps hope you and MrI are having a lovely holiday. I can't believe how close your ivf is now!

Pasta you must be getting ready to sneeze soon! Hope everything is going ok?

Hi hawthers welcome back

That's fab news Cups. I had a van hit me early on, it was the same week I got my BFP so I understand the worry of being in an accident and waiting for a scan.

35+5 today and was up in the night with d&v. Our new kitchen is being fitted this week and as the fitter turns up at 8, I can't even have a lie in so will be knackered. Got Guides tonight so no early night either :(

On Cups, that's the best news ever!!! A boy!!! . I'm so pleased you are feeling a little more relaxed now. It's been a long journey. How scary about the accident. But babies are strong little things. So pleased for you and MrC x

Hope you feel better soon Pasta

Hope you're having a lovely holibob Imps and that stabbing is going ok x

Hello Brookers. Just thought I'd say hi while I've got some signal. Having a fabulous holiday and feeling bloody great. Is it wrong that I look forward to doing my injections?

Catch up properly soon. Hope you're all okay.

Alright my lovely brookers? I'm in the game this month for sure with some well timed shagging but it's been quite some time since its been on the cards so tell me what am I looking for?

Had a bit of cramping on my right side earlier today but due to be ovulating today I think so pretty sure it means nothing!

Symptoms = diffed
No symptoms = diffed

Hello, may I join this thread, please? (Waves to hinky )

I've been deliberating whether to ttc dc3 for just over a year now (I have a big long thread on Larger Families, if anyone is interested). I'm 32yo and we already have 2 dds aged almost 6yo and almost 3yo. Dd1 was conceived naturally after 9m: dd2 took 2 years and 6 cycles of Clomid.

I'm worried about having another ELCS (had one with dd2 and dd1 was VB) as it was textbook last time and I recovered really really well - body is in good shape and I don't know if I'll be as lucky again.

Also, we would absolutely need to move house.

But dh has now explicitly said he would like just one more, if we could. He is very sensitive to how difficult ttc was for us (especially me) last time and I know we would be okay if we didn't conceive, but I needed to hear him say he wants another. Does that make sense?

I do feel broody. Dd2 starts nursery 5 afternoons per week in September and whilst a part of me is looking forward to having that time to work, I feel sad that my days of wheeling a bundle in a pram up to school are over.

I think about having another on a daily basis and change my mind a lot, too: worried about rocking our little boat and making the wrong decision.

But then I worry I'll regret it if we don't at least try. I'll happily give it a year because if we conceived straight away there would be 3.7y between dd2 and dc3. One year would give a 4.7y gap. I wouldn't want more than 5y between dd2 and dc3 as there's just over 3y between dds 1&2.

So, I got AF yesterday and am due to OV again around Feb 18th. Just need to get the courage to try but not 'try'!

pasta Happy days totally diffed then!

Recruited another to the brookers hi molotov

Pant snot ahoy today but can't remember what that means apart from tmi and clearly I'm diffed. Will get on with it this weekend and then need to hurry up and wait for a couple of weeks (boring). You'd have thought that pg testing would have moved on a bit from peeing on a stick. If blokes got upduffed they'd have invented a jazzy x Ray camera to check instantly I'm sure. Roll on 20th...

Well done Hinky, your commission cheque is in the post :o

Haha, hinky, you poached me off my own thread (Mind you, couldn't keep that one rolling for much longer.)

Also, dd2 played with my friend's 18mo toddler today and I kind of saw her as a big sister and it suited her

If I am brave during my mid-cycle this month, I would want it to happen sooner rather than later (as would we all, I'm sure). I'd love to have a pg that just happens in the first 6 nay, 3! months.

But I would not and could not go through fertility investigations again. So as far as I'm concerned, we'll either conceive within a year, or we won't. And I don't know how I'll feel if we try and it doesn't happen. I'd like to think that I could accept as we already have 2 amazing dds.

I saw this in active and have been lured back in.

cups hugest congratulations ever, I'm so so pleased for you

imps I do hope its first time lucky for you with the IVF, enjoy the rest of your holiday

loopy I hope you get some answers next month

AFM, i have just started downregging for IVF no 3, we could have done it last year but neither of us felt strong enough to cope with the disappointment if it had failed again. I can't say that I have much hope that its going to work now, but I would definitely regret not trying. I'm just hoping that my ovaries haven't shrivelled up and died, since our last full treatment over a year ago. The clinic don't seem too worried though, as everything has been sorted out over teh phone and I won't have to see anyone until after I have started with teh injections!

Beedles! Fab to see you here and you know what they say, 3rd time lucky.

beedles you won't believe it but I was just thinking about you this morning and wondering how you were getting on. Hope you don't think that is too weird of me!

Beeeeeeeeeedles it's lovely to see you again! I'm so glad you've come back. Do you have any particular reason to think your ovaries have shrivelled up? Oh I am brooking my absolute hardest for you lovely - this time around it WILL happen . Has it really been a year since your last treatment? Or did you have the FET more recently than that? And remind me - do you have male factor issues or are you unexplained? And lastly - what have you been up to since you were last here? Any exciting trips/job changes etc etc??

Molotov, welcome buddy . Now that you have joined this thread you are definitely pregnant - it's now just a matter of finding the pee stick that agrees with you. Sorry to hear of previous troubles - do you have PCOS? Will you start on Clomid right away? And what sort of house are you after? I am bloody obsessed with quite like looking on Rightmove and will happily be Phil Spencer for you if you like.

Cups - how exciting, a boy!!!!! Have you chosen a name yet? I chose the name for our future daughter on holiday . Bloody terrifying re car accident - thank god all is okay. And Pasta you were hit by a van??? I don't think I knew that. We Brookers are hard are nails

Maybe how are you, chicken? And the gorgeous A? And how is your housing situation coming along .

As for me, got back from hols yesterday so feeling a bit fed up. Stabbing is going extremely well, although am a bit concerned about total absence of any side effects. Wondering if I have a duff batch of Suprecur or if they accidentally just put water in the bottles or something. Should start stimming next week. I don't feel remotely positive about this cycle, but I don't feel that negative either. Which actually makes me worry that it won't work because I'm not spending every waking moment visualising me diffed and with an actual baby, and when it doesn't work and it will be ALL MY FAULT. Gaaaaah this stuff turns us into over-analytical fruit loops, doesn't it?

Hi Imps (my first MN hi5 after 3y here! Ace )

No, I wasn't diagnised with PCOS when we were struggling ttc last time and all was found to be fine with DH: it was a case of 'unexplained secondary infertility'. When we finally! conceived dd2, nothing was ever said about how to go about things if we decided to ttc again. So, I don't think we have the option of Clomid now. Tbh, with how stressful everything was back then, I've never ever regained the strength to go back.

I'm a stress-head with a history of an eating disorder ... my pg with dd1 helped me to get over controlling my eating so much. However, the thought processes that govern eating disorders seem to manifest in other areas and I often wonder if the way I internalise stuff affected me getting pg last time. Maybe it was just 'one of those things'? I don't know.

The good thing is that as I'm getting older, I'm getting better at working all this bleaker stuff out (and talking!!!); and am not as affected

MN helps. A lot

Welcome Molotov! Now you're a brooker, a BFP is a given. Fact. Sorry to hear about your troubles. But we are good listeners here

Beedle, so lovely to see you again. How are you doing? I am keeping everything crossed for this cycle lovely. You deserve it x

Imps my love!! How was the holibob? Amazing I hope. Don't worry about the lack of side effects, it's all good still. When do you go back for your first Scan? A is amazing thank you. She started properly walking unaided today and she has been in the paper. A very busy bee . Am desperate for another one now.....

How you doing Pasta? And Cups?

Hinky, I didn't say welcome back before, but hello!!

Hi all, I stopped posting on here many months ago (a year even? - I might have been a bit too addicted),
but I had to return when I saw Cupcakes tagged in her hubby's announcement on fb. I am SO bloody happy for you!!!!! Congratulations!! I actually said 'Yes!' aloud and did a fist pump when I read it. You really deserve this good news.
Lovely to see so many familiar names, love to all xxx

Thanks Maybe, nice to meet you, too

Coming on to congratulate Cups!

I just can't keep up with MN these days, but was chuffed to see the status update on the other time sink. Hope everyone is well, you're all still in my thoughts often.

SPARKS!!!! LITTLE!!!!!! STACKS!!!!! It's like a proper trip down memory lane, this

Well you are here now so not only will you get your BFP imminently, but the doc will realise she was wrong and that there is no need to lose any pounds whatsoever as you are the perfect weight and look gorgeous.

First day back at work after holibobs today - I haven't got a clue what I'm doing this morning - have totes forgotten my morning routine!