Let's get Pregvember off with a bang! November BFP bus (thread 2)

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Time for some fireworks!!

Morning all.

spinning good luck! Dildo cam really isn't that bad. depending on where you are in your cycle they should be able to give an idea re ov.

blueberry sorry for the bfn. Hopefully now you are ov your luck will change soon.

april sorry you think AF is coming.

cd 11 here and life has been so manic we have not dtd once! but the past few cycles I haven't ov until cd15-17 so we are ok I think. ic opks are still negative too. Think I'll crank out the cb opk from tomorrow and crank up the ic opks and start dtd eod from today!

Oh and my temps are all over the place this month spinning. I had a massive spike yesterday for no reason other than I think our bedroom was too hot and I'd had a few glasses of wine the night before. It's crashed back down again today!

Hi, just a quickie to say appointment was good. No dildo cam today. Got to do 21 day bloods and then 3 day bloods. Then I'll have a scan and the Fallopian scan/flush through thing.
Dp has to drop a sperm sample off.
Everything else ok, my weight and diet are good.
She was interested to here about the soy isoflavones and said she's going to research them later.

Will read back later, off to the gym with dp and then for lunch

Morning all!

Sorry to hear about your bfn Blueberry. It ain't over til the red lady sings though, right?

Glad your appointment was good spinning!

1 dpo today apparently (according to ff, based on Saturdays + opk). Dp and I dtd Sat afternoon (cd16), early hours of Sunday morning (we just both happened to wake up at the same time) and again late last night (negative opk yesterday afternoon) so I'm hoping we did ok, though this does change my bfp due date to 17th November, so I guess I won't be joining the 14th poas party after all.

Anyway, after explaining the whole opk thing to dp (he likes details) we ended up having a long chat, the results being that we are giving up on the 'lets just see what happens' approach and it seems that opks, temps et al will now be a regular feature in our months ahead. Ordered a bbt and ov sticks from Amazon and dp is even suggesting that he should be taking some kind of vitamins to help his little guys out. So my question today is this... What's best to buy for him? Google is a little indecisive on this point so I thought I would ask you ladies.

Good luck to anyone poas today!

Oooh sorry, that was way longer than I intended it to be!

april keep the af burning fire starters for me... Skin just horrid - went on bc at 15 ( dianette pill of fat making) then others to keep on top of it but now off the pill- well Laura mercier foundation is my friend. Means that my hormones just jumped off a cliff on cd 19 (today) and af is probs on route.
That and bloating and a headache of death today.- or if am symptom obsessed this is just my sugar crash from Friday physical impact!

I didn't drink at all over the weekend- parties sat night and had people for lunch yesterday - just too scared to drink in case... Might need a painkiller for my head... Any I should avoid?

spinning glad it went well- you sound quite perky about it! Excellent!

dozy how are you feeling? Did af get you? Have not caught up entirely as so tired I could not read my phone last night .

My DH takes a multi vitamin with zinc Quietly. Zinc is supposed to be really good for the swimmers!

Still waiting for full flow to start toots thanks for asking. Brown spotting tho so I'm sure it's imminent unfortunately. At least I'm not crying uncontrollably like I did last month!! Onwards and upwards. Might try temping this month. Worth a try anyway.

quitely I just got some male conception tablets from tescos but they may not have been the best ones.

So question.....has anyone tried a home sperm count test? mrse I seem to remember u might have done? Just wondering whether it's worth it, if they're accurate etc. I just want to be doing something to put my mind at rest that the problem doesn't stem from my dp seeing as I have been pregnant before. I think it's just me being paranoid but I just want some reassurance.

toots only take paracetamol for headache. I got told by gp when I had uti's in the tww not to take ibuprofen.

I'm thankful this month that I only got the slightest hint of a UTI one day and then nothing for the whole month so I'm so so pleased about that. Have suffered so badly in the first 3 cycles so that's one thing to smile about

quietly I got my dh on wellman vits,not the conception ones as the normal ones have all the stuff for spermatogenesis in anyway. They are 3 boxes for £10 in Asda, bargain! Got my dh on them after we had a suboptimal sa in May, the re-test in august was normal in all parameters! Had to be the vits right?

dozy I wouldnt bother with the home test hun. It only measures count not anything that actually really matters like motility and morphology. See a doc if you are concerned. They might not send him for a test if you're not ttc more than 12months (or 6 if you're over 35). Can't remember your stats sorry!

Oh yeah spinning! Glad the appoint went ok. You must be in a postcode where the GP just refers u to clinic. We had to have 2 lots of bloods, 2 sa's plus we both had to be tested for std's and fill out a mountain of paperwork, including future child welfare and entire family and ttc history! All that lot took 8 months before we could see the fertility guys and all had to be via the GP before they accept referrals!

Glad it went well spinning. Interesting that she didn't know much about soy - did she say to keep taking it?

I second the normal well man vits - they seem to have everything needed. DH takes his religiously bless him

dozy I'd avoid the home test - as Victoria says there is so much it can't tell you! Best get one done by your gp if you can.

Just skimmed back quickly.

Victoria, I know we were very lucky get a referral so quickly and I was telling dp how long some of you had waited.
She did say I should take a different vitamin that has folic acid in it. Any thing like pregnacare, it has something in it that reduces miscarriage by 43%!!!! Not heard that on here before so thought I would share.

Glad your appointment went well spinning Do tell us what your doctor finds out about soy!

Paracetamol is absolutely fine in pregnancy toots. They haven't done enough research on ibuprofen to say one way or another, therefore the recommendation is to avoid it.

Dozy good to hear that you've avoided UTIs this month. I've only had a couple but it was really miserable. Keep drinking that water and peeing before and after DTD. And ALWAYS wipe front to back, ladies!

Oh and Genni, she hadn't heard of soy so was going to look it up. The concern she had was that it could thin my lining. I asked her to ring me if she thought I shouldn't take it

Sunbathing, she said take a combined pill, she said any of the brands are fine as they all contain the same thing that reduces mc. I don't want to take pregnacare so I'm off to boots after lunch to see what they have

Oh and it's the conceptions ones.

Did she mention frolicdog at all as an aid to ttc? If yes was it walking him, hugging, sleeping with him on feet etc?

Hi can I join in. We are ttc dc4, we have 3 ds's. I came off the pill last month and we were going to wait for ttc until after Christmas. I've just started a new job. We figured why wait. I've got pregnant pretty much straight away before but who knows.

I haven't lost all my weight from ds3 18 months so I'm a little worried about getting huge if it happens quickly.

Dozy, sorry it looks like af is soon to arrive

Terry and Genni, funny that our temps are all a bit odd this month.
Terry, I didn't have the scan was told on here that I might. That will be in the new year year now. Just to check everything is working as it should be.
I'd have actually quite liked it today as it would have shown if I had a nice big egg in there I'm getting a bit twitchy that it's cd11 and not a whiff of a line on an opk! Soy must be delaying it, I guess that can only be a good thing and we're dtd eod.

Not sure how dp will get on with his sperm sample! He has to pre book the time slot of 1hr and then he has to get it to the hospital within an hour of producing it. Hospital is 50 minute drive from our house so it looks like he'll be sat in the hospital toilets doing it he suffers from dtd on demand so he said he'll need my help!!
He was quite surprised during the chat at how well I know my cycles and all the information I could give her. He told the doc that he thinks I should relax more and the doc said I never say that to ladies because it's very hard and when you're keeping track of your cycles and taking pills and peeing on sticks it's like a full time job......think that's made him realise how much I'm doing to try and get our bfp.

She also told him to reduce his caffeine intake, he drinks at least 6 cups of coffee a day sometimes double that. She says it can affect implantation if a man drinks a lot of coffee!

Oh and yes she mentioned frolic dog, that was top tip of the day. Apparently he's trending on Twitter and is available to rent at a daily rate