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Thread 17 TTC#1 Follow the fallopian road ~~~○

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StarkyTheDirewolf · 04/07/2016 21:09

Hugh enjoys ISW and his love affair with Doreen. He watches out for skittle tits and weepyitis. Mrs Arseholey Fucknut (Af) shows up when you least want her but brings wine and soft cheese as a consolation prize.

We don't have rules as such but expect to be talked down from the ledge with kind and well meaning but firm words if you get too hysterical. But most importantly don't convince yourself you're pregnant in the tww That is paramount! It messes with your head and makes you crazy crazier

We don't get a lot of baby dust in these here parts. We want a fanny full of determined Doreen, not unicorn farts and gnome tears with extra sparkle. We've been going a while now so the novelty has somewhat worn off and we're slightly battle scarred and bruised in the cervix area.

Post your stats and add your dates. A more lovely, supportive group of ladies you couldn't wish to meet. We've got a few grads sticking around I won't leave and no question is too daft. We have opk experts, cervical mucus management teams and symptom spotters extraudinaire!

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Peaches8Posies · 16/08/2016 11:46

Note to self, proof read posts Hmm

LovelyFishy · 16/08/2016 11:53

Caught her being cute during her morning snooze, this is Alexis.

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HepKestrel · 16/08/2016 12:18

lovely aww!!!!

my GrumpyOldBastard cat is ginger too. he's 18, and still cute.... though a bit more scruffy!

AliceScarlett · 16/08/2016 12:42

Cuuute.

Damson9 · 16/08/2016 12:43

Morning ladies, mind if I tag along?

I'm 35, husband is 32 and this is our 17th month trying to conceive :( We've been through all the tests on offer from the NHS and they can't find anything amiss, so they've cut us loose as they won't offer IVF for another 18 months where we live, regardless of my age. Although, they're trying to reduce/eliminate the provision, so we're not even certain it will even be on offer then! (as a side note, I think it's super mean that they would just axe it - it should totally be a gradual thing, coming into force after those already 'in the system' get to see things through to conclusion...).

We've visited a private fertility clinic and are on the verge of booking our first consultation to get the ball rolling. I'm finding the whole thing decidedly wanky now; I thought this would be much more fun.

And, in order to endear myself to you, here is a picture of our two cats, Rags (short for Ragnaros the Fire Lady Smile) and Loki. xx

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HepKestrel · 16/08/2016 13:46

hi damson !
Rags and Loki look so nice!

LovelyFishy · 16/08/2016 14:07

Welcome Damson! I've been looking at all the CCG's and IVF offers recently, it's shocking how different it is across the country! Hope things with the clinic keep going well. And love the cats! Smile

liveforthefight · 16/08/2016 14:56

Welcome damson, love the heavy cat vibes in this thread!

LondonJem · 16/08/2016 15:42

Hello chaps some fabulous looking cats on this thread 😻

S1lver so sorry it's not your month, hope you're alright Flowers

How was the interview marmite?

Hi peaches are you at the business end of your cycle too? I've been symptom spotting a bit too but really tried hard to keep a lid on it this month. Not got an awful lot to go on, just more mental dreams - skinny dipping in a black lake at night and stepped on an old lizard ConfusedConfused so vivid I could feel it's soft skin. Sorry what a tangent, fx for you!

Hi damson sorry you've had such a time of it - I hope you aren't waiting much longer. I thought ttc would be fun too! It's nightmare Envy

Damson9 · 16/08/2016 16:05

I know, LovelyFishy, It's mental isn't it? On the one hand, it's great where we are - they will give you three cycles - but not until you've been waiting three years, no matter how old you are, which I'm less than thrilled about. And they remove one cycle from that allowance for each one you do privately yourselves. Sigh. I understand the need to save money but, naturally, it's irksome.

Has it been long for you LondonJem? It never occurred to me that it wouldn't just happen. You spend so many years trying so hard to not get pregnant, you just assume that the little blighters have been plotting and as soon as you let them have their way, bam, you'll be up the duff. I wish I'd known how difficult it might be.

FXSkip · 16/08/2016 16:22

amen to that Damson welcome, and your cats are lush.

Its a shitstorm mindfuck for sure and that's just coming off bcp. No-one warns you (well, you don't know till you've been through it) about the months of agonising waits, the mysteriously long cycles (even though you've been like clockwork for 5 years) the symptom-spotting, the punch in the gut of af showing up EVERY DAMN MONTH, the ache in your soul with every. single. baby bomb. Then maybe, just maybe you finally get your bfp only to find this one isn't sticky, isn't right, and you're sucked into a whole new world of pain. And then you start again.

I'm only 8 months in, one mc, and my sanity is questionable.

Jem and Peaches I've got my fingers crossed for you lovelies

LondonJem · 16/08/2016 16:47

That sums it up so well skip no wonder we are all losing it

damson this is cycle 8 for us. I can't quite believe it's taking this long, and have a horrible feeling it could be a lot longer.

Where's kwick with her positive mantras and cake...

kwick · 16/08/2016 18:24

jem my brother went to Fortismere and now my lovely nephew is about to start there (that lot, plus my mum now live in Muswell Hill)!!! I went to Hornsey and then switched to Acland Burghley when I was 13... A hundred years ago!

si1ver Flowers really sorry to hear you are down

kwick · 16/08/2016 18:42

marmite you need to have airplane sick bags to hand... I have been stock piling for about a year and seeing as I fly a couple of times a month usually I have quite a stock... Want me to send you some? Grin

Amazeballs advice on feelings fxskip I feel it is worthy of a kwick Cake

lovely go ahead with using my measurements - although word to the wise I am nearly 103 so my fertility norm ranges are not those of a spring chicken!

Welcome damson!
I hope you do go with a clinic - maybe start with IUI (which is loads cheaper than IVF)? Happy to answer any questions having done both. NHS funding is pants and it really is a postcode lottery.

jem I am here!!!
Okay here goes with today's PMA - everyone repeat after me:
I am fertile and ready to concieve (sorry is it i b4 e or not? Hmm)
I am ready to nuture a happy, healthy baby
I am in perfect time
I am a wonderful, incredible woman

Cake: am thinking will either do a ginger one or a lemon one next vut have run out of organic flour (my body is a temple)

Peaches8Posies · 16/08/2016 19:07

Welcome damson lovely pics. Sorry you have been through the ringer. Having to wait 3 yrs is really unfair! Hopefully the clinic proves to be the help you need.

kwick I before e except after c. This was drummed in to my brain at primary school, one of the few things like this I remember (because when I'm writing I still need to use it, Blush). In the mood for cake now haha. Ginger sounds lovely.

london reckon I'm a week or so from af. Cycles haven't been exact from mc back at start of May. I dreamt last night I was complaiting to my mum I wasn't pregnant and she replied well that's OK I'll just give you this one, as in she was pregnant, saying I don't want it anyway. I was about to tell her how terrible her attitude was to complain about being pregnant to me when she started trying to slice open her stomach which then turned in to some sort of scene from Alien!! I woke up promptly like what the actual f*ck? Heads is mince right now Confused

skip yes! The world is full of "oh I had sex once and here's my baby" stories. I hope if there's folk reading this they realise it really is a journey and a half of crazy shit!!

Just had an amazing salad for dinner. Now having a curly wurly with a cuppa. Guess my bodies not so much a temple Confused

LondonJem · 16/08/2016 20:11

kwick that's so funny I can't believe it Grin I love the bit about being a wonderful incredible woman the most Grin

Peaches I had fish and homemade coleslaw in a wrap all healthy followed by a Yorkie bar they cancel each other out Wink

Had a bit of a moment in waitrose earlier. Felt AF arrive in my knickers went a bit pale and faint. Walked home with DH wearing my sunglasses so I could have a bit of a cry. Got home straight to loo to find a load of cm in my pants Confused cried even more ! Think this gave DH very good insight into what a roller coaster this all is!

kwick · 16/08/2016 20:30

peaches you need to stop eating cheese late at night (they say doing that causes strange dreams)!

Holy moly I just had a fertility boosting soup of red lentils, carrot and chilli - so hot had to cool down with yoghurt! Feeling a bit peckish still so may have bowl of rice krispies - that way I can guzzle more milk!

So jem was it AF or are you still in 2ww? I have steadfastly refused to learn about CM - have not even picked anything up by osmosis Grin

Any of you lovely ladies been watching The Bacherlorette? yep that just about sums up my taste in TV how bad was it that Nick gave the game away that Andi had slept with him?!

Any of you know whatvthis symbol means? Archers

HepKestrel · 16/08/2016 20:36

Its something to do with the archers.
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LondonJem · 16/08/2016 20:57

What is hep? Archers this?

Kwick it was not AF. She is still to come Envy

AlexiaB · 16/08/2016 22:35

You ladies have such cute cats. I'm childless and pet-less. Kind of my own fault though as I have ocd tendencies.

I know I'm going to miss someone but here goes...

Lovely so sorry to read about your diagnosisFlowers That sucks but I don't believe it's a death sentence fertility wise. I hope you can get the right help now and get that bfp very soon.

Skip your words are so true. I really hope your cat comes home to give you cuddles soonSad

Peaches I'm sorry for your loss, too. That dream sounds so unsettling. Can we not even escape ttc in our sleep? Ugh.

Jem Fx the witch stays away!!!

Hep I can't wait for your update. I'm so impatient!

Welcome damson - sorry you're on this shitty roller coaster too.

Kwick I'm watching The Bachelorette too! (I watched the Sean, Des and Juan-dickhead series tooBlush). That was a dick move from Nick. I don't like Josh though (it's his eyes!). Obviously they've broken up now and I've read that Josh used that Nick comment against her and called her a 'whore' etc. Err, does he not realise he met her on The Bachelorette?! I'm peed off that the Home Town episode and the actual Final were skipped on my series link. Was it the same for you?

AliceScarlett · 16/08/2016 22:46

I am fertile and ready to conceive
I am ready to nuture a happy, healthy baby
I am in perfect time
I am a woman Grin

LovelyFishy · 16/08/2016 22:47

Some very crazy dreams going on here!! I'm on nights so I currently sleep like a log.

Had my GP appointment today, finally got a doctor who made sense and explained what's going on. The 1st blood test that I had over 1 month ago that I was told was normal...wasn't normal! One of my hormones is three times as high as it should be, and this can make you not ovulate. The original doctor was obviously a twit as not only did he miss this, the second bloods I had last week didn't even check for this hormone so they're useless! I have to have another round of 21 day bloods so 2 weeks to go. Scan showed only of few cysts on ovaries so that's not bad.

ArtOfKnit · 17/08/2016 07:52

lovely how frustrating for you...thank goodness at least that you've seen a different GP who actually knows what's going on.

Never seen the Batchelorette, but have any of you seen UnReal? It's a fabulously trashy show about producers of a Batchelor esq tv show.

LondonJem · 17/08/2016 07:54

BFN on IC. Guessing I'm out, bag is stocked with tampons. Roll on cycle 9

Glad you're getting some answers lovely. Scary first doc hadn't done their job properly - I always assume they just do.

I'll be getting bloods done when AF comes to get pcos checked too.

AliceScarlett · 17/08/2016 08:07

What a pain Lovely. I hope you get things sorted soon, I think hormonal imbalances are relatively easy to treat.

Hope AF stays away Jem

I'm just waiting for Hepscott scan on Saturday Grin