Hi everyone Waves! I've been offline for a few days but (think) I have just about caught up.
CONGRATULATIONS to Carlton and Wizard (hope I haven't missed anyone off). That's amazing - you must be thrilled! How are you both feeling? Have you had it confirmed at the GP or anything? I don't know what the process is once you actually get the elusive BFP 
. Best of luck for the coming months.
I know this was a while back in the thread, but all your comments about the "just relax" brigade put a smile on my face. I am so sick of hearing this! It's one of the reasons we're not really telling people we're trying. Although I actually find the general ignorance about TTC quite irritating. Whenever I get questioned I always say to friends "Oh yeh we'd like to have kids one day, assuming we're lucky enough to be able to have kids" and they ALWAYS say something along the lines of "Of course you will, there's nothing wrong with you, don't be ridiculous" (err...try telling that to my duff reproductive organs). I also got annoyed at work the other day because people were chatting about how it's "not great to have a child with an August birthday because they'll always be struggling to keep up"...then some of the guys started saying "Yeh, well it's in your control what month your baby's born in so just work backwards and have sex in the right month. Why would you choose that month to have unprotected sex if you knew the baby would be born in August". It just annoyed me a bit because these guys probably actually DID manage to have a baby from their first attempt and were just soooooo clueless. Obviously I laughed along because I have SOME level of self-awareness and appreciate I am an absolute basket-case when anything TTC-related is brought up.
Vap - how's it all going life-twin? Ha ha. Again, all your posts are like my own internal monologue; the latest being "what if I can't get pregnant with this level of stress?". I'm sorry to hear that AF turned up 
. As you said, it probably feels even worse this month as your hopes were, understandably, raised . As for OH being reticent about the shagging, I think 3 times (if well timed) would be more than enough. If you can space it every other day then it gives him time to, ahem, replenish his supplies. Is there anything that might help him get in the mood? Like putting on a raunchy film (I don't mean, like, a "two girls one cup" type film, but some sort of mild/mainstream 18!).
That's interesting about the cream! I had no idea such a thing exists. It's really sad, when you think about it isn't . Tbh, I don't think it would work as the pain is quite high up internally. Hopefully when I see the gynae I will get a bit of help and it can be sorted.
Violet - your comment made me laugh! I do that too. If you know you've ovulated but say "Oh we'll try again in 2 days time in case" it then brings the 2WW to 1.5WW.
Pulpi - I hope you're having fun in Croatia. It's lovely! I bet the weather's fantastic right now. We went a few years ago and I made the mistake of wearing a tightish viscose top while doing the city walls (one July afternoon). WORST MISTAKE EVER. It made me sweat even more and then stuck to my back the whole time. VILE. Have a lovely time 
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So...update time...v.little to report. I'm not having a particularly stressful 2WW as there's less expectation than normal. I don't know if I am 6DPO or 8DPO which is frustrating. Basically I got peak OPKs on both CD13 and CD14 so I assumed that I ovulated on CD15. From the temps though, it puts my ovulation date as CD17. I don't know whether I should trust these though, as on CD15 I took the temp at 6:20am; CD16 at 7:00am; CD17 at 5:15am; and CD18 at 4:45am. From what I have read, however, it seems like my temps would have actually been higher on CD17 & CD18 if I had tested an hour or so later (in which case, the 'spike' on CD17 would have been even stronger). Any temping/charting experts?