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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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smack those rats, sniff those drugs; we dont care how, but we will get our babies and we are BROOKING NO ARGUMENT

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keepitgoing · 19/05/2015 09:24

roll up roll up

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Imps9 · 24/09/2015 22:24

I figure the biopsy at £360 is a decent enough starting point!

Imps9 · 24/09/2015 22:30

Keep I meant to ask - what ovulation kit do you use?

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keepitgoing · 25/09/2015 11:04

Internet cheapies usually. For fet months added in the Hosp tests which are unbranded ones with caps on looking like frer.

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Imps9 · 25/09/2015 15:19

Cool thanks - I only need them for the Coventry cycle so I may splash out on digi ones for that cycle so I know fo' sho' when that egg has flown.

Imps9 · 25/09/2015 18:50

How was the presentation and interview Keep?? Bet you nailed them.

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keepitgoing · 26/09/2015 08:37

Nailed the presentation, failed the interview (but I don't mind), but Smile emby has survived the thaw so we are on for today!

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Imps9 · 26/09/2015 08:47

Yessssssssssdd Lerp!!! Go EMBY!!!!

Imps9 · 26/09/2015 08:48

Wtf "Lerp"?! Didn't spot that one before I posted!!

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keepitgoing · 26/09/2015 11:04

One hatching blast on board and I'm now tucked up while dh deals with kip

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Pastamancer · 26/09/2015 16:27

Woohoo!

Imps9 · 28/09/2015 10:28

Have you tested yet Keep? Have you have you have you?

Loopyaboutmy2boys · 28/09/2015 11:51

Fingers crossed that emby is getting comfy in there keep.

I've been tracking my bbt this cycle and according to fertility friend I ovulated on Thursday so now 4 dpo. My temp is rising nicely since then, so at least I know my body/the corpus luteum is making progesterone. Am in two minds where to use the cyclogest pessaries this cycle or not, so figured will temp this cycle to try and see what my body does and maybe decide at 14 dpo, even if I get a bfp earlier than then, unless they look like temps aren't rising ok, in which case I may start using them lol. Tired of mentalling over what to do/ not do...

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keepitgoing · 28/09/2015 13:54

Grin imps

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BeedlesPineNeedles · 28/09/2015 14:11

keep and loopy good luck, I'm hoping for healthy sticky ones

imps I reckon she has tested she just doesn't want to tell us! Oh and I read a huge amount on fertility friends about immune testing. I think I would have trouble convincing my dr about it seeing as how they don't even really believe in scratches here! I have used digital smiley face ov sticks for my FETs, when there is so much at stake it seems silly not to. Though I have used the cheapy ones at teh same time just to be sure!

QueenMolotov · 28/09/2015 20:47

Keep and loopy, got my fingers crossed for you

I'm on CD24 And have horribly swollen and sore boobs. Am also having niggly pre-menstrual cramps and light brown spotting. Gah - it's looking like pretty typical PMS symptoms for me. Doubt I'm pg.

Imps9 · 29/09/2015 07:57

Mol I will do my best fuck-off-AF dance for you today.

Loops are you avoiding TTC this cycle so that you can have 2 clear cycles before Coventry testing? Or are you going to try a bit more before taking a break?

Far I can't remember - with your current pregnancy did you take any drugs/progesterone/other during the 2ww?

Another lovely day here. What I would give to spend it in the garden rather than the office.

Imps9 · 29/09/2015 07:59

Oh, btw I went on a bit of a spending spree yesterday - 100 internet cheapie pee sticks, 50 IC ov tests and 20 digital ov tests!!!

Loopyaboutmy2boys · 29/09/2015 13:53

Imps we were going to do Coventry but DH changed my mind a couple of weeks ago lol. So we DTD on the Sunday and fertility friend thinks I ovulated the following Thursday. If this cycle doesn't work then will not ttc again until after gone to Coventry. My last 2 cycles barely got going , last one was gone before we reached 14 dpo, the one before I started bleeding at 4+3, so I probably would have been fine to go to Coventry this Friday if we hadn't DTD. As it is, I am fairly sure an egg has fertilised again this month, am 5 dpo and been feeling things for a couple of days now. Just a case of waiting to see whether it's a good one and whether my body lets it properly implant or not. If it doesn't work out then we are unlikely to ttc again until January and will give the clomid a try then. If this cycle ends before it has begun I'd probably go to Coventry first week of November, as my consultant said you shouldn't test until a week late for AF, well I wouldn't have known about my last 2 BFP's in that case! After then I wouldn't be due to ovulate next until early Dec, and I'd give that cycle a miss to give my body a break plus Dec is busy enough without having to go back and forth to the hospital for scans re the clomid even before ovulated, never mind for location scans etc if we had any success so would ttc in the Jan and would still have the benefit of the scratch then. That's the plan anyhow...

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keepitgoing · 01/10/2015 09:12

Having a lovely holiday, but hating the 2ww. Convinced it hasn't worked, but know I just can't tell
Planning to test Monday morning when home

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QueenMolotov · 01/10/2015 14:21

AF arrived in all of her bastard glory today. On time, which is good, but I didn't really want it to come and am tiring of dealing with painful tits, bloating, cramping, etc every month. And everywhere I look there seem to be tiny babies and bumps of all different sizes (lots of third bumps, too). Everyone seems to be pregnant, but I know this is just a mind trick and to let it wash over me.

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keepitgoing · 01/10/2015 18:34

Do your feelings re AF show you that you do really want a 3rd mol?

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Loopyaboutmy2boys · 01/10/2015 20:31

Have you had any symptoms keep?

Not that I can get excited anymore but I'm sure I've got something implanting this week. Boobs are sore, extremely bloated, and got fairly continuous pressure and crampy sensations happening in uterus area, plus my temp has risen again this morning, and all this is stronger than any recent cycle when I've had a bfp followed by either a mc/a chemical pregnancy. 8 dpo tomorrow....roll on the next few days.

QueenMolotov · 02/10/2015 13:36

I still have mixed feelings keep. When I realised we had The Sex the day before ovulated, I had a massive panic and wondered what on earth we were doing. But I soon I realised that we had been through an unusually stressful week (lots of stuff to do with work and school, plus waves of 'threenanger' tantrums by dd2) so my feelings were skewed. The thought of the real possibility of being pg over the last couple of weeks hasn't made me feel panic, though. I think I could handle it and everything would just have to fall into place.

However, another thing I'm not sure about is the merry-go-round of ttc and it just not happening month ... After month ... After month ... After month ... After month ... We have a history of that and I found it a very difficult position to be in. I'd love to simply have sex and get pregnant but as many on this board know too well, it doesn't always happen like that.

I know I eventually did get pg twice but it was a long, increasingly dark and lonely road, especially ttc dd2.

But I also realise that we have 2 dds already and if we did not have any more children, I would be okay with that. I wouldn't feel unfulfilled; I could live with that.

Imps9 · 04/10/2015 08:26

Morning lovelies!

Could I get my brief rant out of the way first? GRRRRRRRRRRRR and AARRRRRRGGGGG. Once again the ovulation gods are mocking us - egg is about to pop but Mr Imps came off his bike yesterday and is badly bruised and in so much pain that Sexy Time is completely out of the question. Last month he was away for work at the key time. This happens SO OFTEN. It feels like EVERY MONTH something gets in our way and we don't even have a shot at getting pregnant. It is BEYOND ANNOYING. Why can't we control things like this a bit more? I for one would like the option of choosing the date for ovulation, a bit like you can choose your delivery date with Parcelforce. It would be the only way of making sure we actually had a chance of getting pregnant. GRRRRRRR.

Anyway, enough ranting. Mol long term TTC takes its toll for sure. Did you have anyone to talk to other than DH with DD2? Am sorry AF caught you this month - but you are at least one month closer to a BFP, whenever that day will come.

Keep I have my fingers sooooooo crossed for you. Tomorrow's OTD isn't it? Any symptoms?

And you Loopy??

Hope you've all had nice weekends. Mine's been lovely despite discovering that my new slow cooker doesn't work - 10 hours of cooking and everything still cold and raw. Grrrr.

Loopyaboutmy2boys · 04/10/2015 23:02

Imps, so glad you are still here, this thread is so slow compared to when I first joined, where did everyone go??

Sorry to hear re Mr Imps, stick some deep heat on him and tell him to man up lol!

As for me, still loads of my usual symptoms and might test tomorrow, will be 11 dpo but may be too early still as I'm never fast to make hcg. Have temped this cycle, first one for ages, and i have a triphasic chart since my temps raised for the last 3 days. Had a triphasic one when fell pregnant with ds2. But even if there is a bfp i won't be getting excited unless I can get to 6 weeks and a heartbeat. 8 losses if include chemicals now. Depressing.

However, re your slow cooker, send it back and reinvest your dosh on an instant pot duo 60, you won't regret it!!!