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[Nomio230]

Whether you have just started trying or been at it for years. Using IVF, AI, or just good old fashioned shagging, all are welcome.

Come join our crazy bus of laughter, tears and friendship on our way to BFP land.

Thanks, Woolly! I am really pleased you have re-joined us.

Yay, good to have you back, Knickers!

Let's hope this is a lucky month for all of us!

Keeping my fingers firmly crossed for you this month Nomio, hope this is your month my fellow mad twerly tester!

Ah Wooly, yes 'new cycle, new hope'
Sometimes I forget this so thanks for the reminder

Sammy, sorry af arrived, I x post with you this morning. Won't be long now until your ivf cycle

Looks like af has been visiting lots of us! Let's all get bfps this month and make her redundant!

Sorry for all the af's guys :-(

When I was TTC it felt like bfp's were in abundance and super frequent. I now realise that must not have been the case! I patiently lurk awaiting all of yours though x x

Welcome back hopes

Hey chops! How you doing lovely?

Hi Hopes.

Has anyone heard anything from Ral. If you are about Ral hope all is ok

Morning all. Hopefully Ral has had good news & is too busy celebrating to talk to us!

How are you doing, Chops? Do you know the sex yet?

Hi guys, yes I'm 24+3 with a baby boy!

Ah thanks nomio it's good to be back!

Yes let it rain BFPs for everyone!

chops it's lovely to hear your updates and thank you for keeping an eye on us all

Hope ral is okay, and eskimo and boris

CD10 today and went straight from blank to static smiley -huh?! This is why I gave up on OPKs for a bit! Thankfully we dtd CD7 & 8, trying to just do it from when AF ends as regularly as possible!

Lurking with my pom poms

Wooly sorry I forgot to reply to you. I had a a light pinky stain when I wiped yesterday so thought that was Af but nothing more. I did a frer this morning and BFN

I'm thinking Sis are delaying my Af

Still lurking! How is everyone? Any update from Sammy?

Catching up....another shot at a lucky egg before next cycle sammy fingers crossed!

Waving to knickers spinning nomio and all you other lovely ladies

Hello ladies, I wanted to pop on to say hello and give you lots of support. I always like to keep up with how you are all doing.

Happy Thursday all. I bet you're all getting ready for a lovely bank holiday weekend. Meanwhile I'm back to work tomorrow but I at least get Monday off to break up my working week!

Cd29 today, ff still hasn't confirmed ov and I'm nervously waiting to see what tomorrow's temp is as it dropped back slightly today. I usually do see a slow rise in temps and it doesn't really get high until a few days after ov, but I'm worried that it'll drop back again tomorrow which will mean I haven't ov'd yet . So far I've only got two highs over the previous six temps so I may even have to wait a few more days to see if ff gives me a line!

Nice to see you grads on here, I hope you're all doing well!

beaut you aren't out yet, I think it's sounding very positive and am keeping my fx!

woolly hurrah for static smiley! I wish my cycles were as short as yours, I don't get my fertile window until nearly 3 weeks after af finishes!

knickers it's good to see you back!

I'm thinking about going on slimming world for a few weeks. I seem to be piling on the pounds and my job isn't allowing me to run as much as I'd like at the moment. I desperately need to shed half a stone as my bras and clothes are getting tight and I can't afford a shopping trip!!

For you ladies that have tried SI's before, can these help with bringing forward ov and shortening cycles?

Waves at pikx and tessie nice to read your news too chops

Posted to soon. Hello to all my fellow Ttc-ers. Just been on a lovely holiday to near nights hometown. Had a peaceful Internet free few days but man did it rain lots. My dsc and ILs were with us too which was generally good but quite challenging. Still in the early and dull part of my cycle. No news. Yawn.

Hi Boris glad you've had a nice few days away

DizzyN thank you. I'm sure Af is just teasing me as usual. The only symptom I have is wind still haha but I always get wind near Af

I don't know if you remember but I joined slimming world. I put on 2lb in my first week despite sticking to it. All my friends have lost loads of weight on sw but I always struggle. So I joined ww as I lost 4 stone at ww after ds2. I've lost 5 lb in two weeks at ww so at least it's coming off now

Ah that's right beaut I remembered discussing it somewhere on here recently but couldn't remember who with! That's great that the ww is working for you. I've got on well with sw in the past as it only involves tweaking my normal diet slightly. I'm having steak pie for lunch then I'll work out a food plan this afternoon!

spinning I've just found a thread about soy which you are on....just working my way through it as there's loads of pages....are you still taking them or did you not get on with them?

dizzyn SI brought forward my ov by 4 days and my AF by the same.

I've decided I'm going to not take si's this cycle and take vitamin b complex instead. I think I have enough oestrogen and actually need better progesterone levels to stop the spotting and lengthen my luteal phase. So here goes my experiment!

DizzyN I searched all the soy threads on here too and for most it does bring ovulation forward. For some like spinning I believe it just messes with the cycle. Give it a go it can't do any harm. I took it days 5-9 this cycle

dizzyn I think soys time OV for a few days, 3-5 or so, after you finish the 5 day course. so if you have an early OV it can push it back or a late OV would bring it forward.

Thanks beaut/kir/boris. I'll look at giving it a try next cycle, feel like I don't have much to lose atm as my cycles always differ and are pretty long anyway. Not too sure about the headaches though :/