Thread 21 TTC #1 - The one where all our cycles went haywire but we DID NOT GIVE UP

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Calling all clomid-ers, OPK-ers, temp-ers and anyone else on the TTC Bus.

We are long past cervix prodding (in fact we know where it is at any given time just by closing our eyes) and we have ditched the Gregorian calendar in favour of the TTC Cycle Day calendar. We don't do baby dust, or baby-dancing, we just keep legs spread and fingers crossed (LSFX) We love a baby bomb from a prior bus-mate, but if we get told to 'just relax and enjoy it' ONE MORE TIME you will get a punch in the face. You get kwick-cake if you behave, and talked down from the ledge when you need it.

Hop on board, post your stats and prepare to be dazzled by the wealth of TTC knowledge we long-timeys have to share....

Star!!!! Womble log. Love it!! Thanks ladies. That makes sense I might get a few dark days. Looking good that I might actually ovulate this cycle then. I'm happy about that.

London - softcups are really easy so don't worry. Don't think of it like a tampon i.e. you don't push it up. Just squeeze it sideways and then poke in and push back (you'll see what I mean) towards your bum and it'll pop out into a circle again and sit just above your pubic bone. When you want to take it out you just hook it down under the pubic bone again with one finger and you'll be able to gently pull out. If it seems tricky to get out first time, relax and just keep trying. I can't feel mine at all once it's in - less than a tampon even.

Yep jam I hear you: the waiting drives me insane (and panicky).

Just so you guys know my life is as follows: wake-MN-work-MN-sleep... except for a few interludes where I spend time with my nephew...

jam £400 is good for a Hycosy - mine was £550 at CRGH.

This temping malarkey sounds way too hard to me

Welcome miranda!!! FX you get your BFP tout suite!

nicky I just had my thyroid checked on nhs - I normally pay and have it done at my FC but seeing as I had to have loads of other tests I got it included.

mouse just keep doing chukka-chukka...LSFX!

LOL starmist I LOVE your folder. womble log tee hee hee!!! I burst out laughing on the bus!

Have bought some more pineapple the one I had last night was rank

Mouse - glad you are having such a nice time, sounds like you've covered yourself nicely too in the DTD department - fx for you!

Star - your folder is wonderful, you know shits about to get serious when you make one of those bad boys.

Kwick - if your near a large Sainsbury's pick up one of their jumbo Pineapples. We get our shopping online and when it arrived the delivery driver was like "having people over for dessert" and I'm just casually like "nope, it's all for me". This pineapple was humungeous, I've been eating it all week and it hasn't gone brown after being cut.

Thanks sk1pper - I got one in M&S for a £1 and I have just eaten 2/5 qnd am absolutely stuffed... hope it is working its magic will be taking 2/5 with me in my suitcase on sunday and will eat 1/5 tomorrow.

Do we have any tests coming up? I want to see a BFP and I want to see one now

Just been for an amazing meal. Omg sooooo good. Fresh pineapple was on the dessert menu. Almost ordered but I caved and got a tiramisu instead hahaha. Cream and lady fingers does the same job surely??

Kwick your chukka chukka has just made me real life lol.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

So I got baby bombed yesterday... I feel very conflicted about it. Someone who reports into me, who is extremely young, told me she is 4 months pregnant... I nearly blurted out "I did not know you were married!" But stopped myself... what has that got to do with it? Plus I am not married and here I am trying to get preggers!!! Feel confused anyway she seemed happy and I congratulated her (whilst feeling wildly jealous and thinking how the hell I will cover her maternity leave - that said in France (which is where she is) they get less than 6 months and 1 month has to be taken before the birth).
Anyway just had to get that off my boobage - hope I can sleep some more now...

Kwick - don't feel so bad, I think it's a natural knee jerk reaction to think certain things of people when they announce pregnancies. I felt really ashamed of myself a few month ago when a really over-weight woman at work (who happened to be eating a mac Donald's whilst we waited for the office lift to arrive) announced to her colleague that she'd finished the nursery. It was only then that I could just make out she was pregnant. I was instantly angry at the universe because I felt like I was doing everything to get pregnant and some people were just winging it, not loosing weight, not eating he right things etc etc. And then I realised that this meant I thought I was more deserving of it than her and I felt sick of myself. I don't judge anyone so quickly anymore, you only make a prisoner of yourself and I know my time will come.

I didn't set my alarm today, was gonna leave temping and get a lie in but lol and behold - I'm up at 7. FML.

kwick

I keep thinking if I get pregnant now, how me going in maternity leave next year will be a pain in the arse for the project I work on..... Ah well. Tough!

My first opk this morning! CD 8 so negative as expected. I'm just so happy to be back and operational again! Plus the new kitchen is almost finished! Can I be really sad and excited about having a dishwasher for the first time! Still have a week to go before we can put the house back- and so much cleaning to be done.

Lsfx to all of you. Not sure how I would have coped this year without all of you.

to all those with unwelcome AFs and baby bombs. Go team tempers! Go team opkers! And go team IUI and IVFers!

Kwick I know what you mean. There's a heavily pregnant lady in our office & sometimes I find myself not wanting to talk to her as I'm so insanely jealous. That's mean because she's such a lovely person. I hate feeling jealous, but with all we're going through it has to be natural to a certain extent.

Ah Hep that's such great news, I'm really pleased

Oh no alexia really hope you're ok.

skipper that prisoner of yourself thing - so true. You have such a good attitude.

kwick I must have missed the significance of the pineapple - what does it do??

Have a good weekend all

Hep - it's so great you get to join us with OPKs and pg tests and symptom checking again.

Talking of symptoms, my nipples look massive. I have very small breasts and they look out of place at the moment. But other than that, feel normal...

Story of my life, Sk1pper

I read somewhere nipples can get darker and larger during pg, I am dreading it! My nipple to boobage ratio is already 30-70, if they get any bigger, I'm quite sure my potential little one will gag...

Oggy - your baby will have a feast! Hmm yeah I thought as much, now I can't stop looking at them. Where are you in your cycle ATM?

Afternoon everyone

Got a temp rise this morning and a negative OPK so looks like I ovulated last night on CD11. Quite early so I'm expecting quite a short cycle, so I guess I'm now in the 2ww again! Here are my OPKs for anyone who like to see progressions!

Kwick those instant reActions your brain just does, I don't think you can help them. Sounds like you dealt with her professionally and did well to put your personal feelings to one side. Can't have been easy.

Hep hope law of sod intervenes and a lovely BFP interrupts your work project!

Skipper nipple changes are a really good sign! Lsfx

Mrsg that is early! Are you happy with DTD pattern?

I'm day 9 and no OPK s or DTD yet will sort that out today egg will be along Friday or Saturday I reckon. Nothing from my ovaries or cm so far.

MrsG, these look lovely! Fx it's your month!

Only CD6, Sk1pper. But at least AF's gone, so I can finally get some action! She always overstays her welcome (as if she is!) so, in addition to all the waiting, I pretty much turn into a nun for almost a week

Thanks sk1pper I am overweight - Lord knows what I will look like when I do get my BFP!

Thanks hep Lucky you with a dishwasher! If I were you I would get a cleaner in
So glad you are back on the bus!

Thanks star

harriet pineapple contains something which is supposed to aid with implantation - I eat a fifth, core and all, for 5 days post IUI/IVF. Bromeline I think it is.

mrs LSFX!!!!

Jam well it took me by surprise but I think we managed to cover it, we did day 5,8,10,11 so FX!

Kwick - sorry I hope I haven't insulted you. I described this woman as overweight because she was really really huge, unhealthily so. I honestly don't even know how she managed to have sex to be honest let alone conceive. Anyway, I shouldn't think about it - I don't know her life or situation. I know there are many medical and mental reasons for being that overweight too.

Hi everyone - just place marking as it feels a while since I chipped in. There's lots of LSFX action on the thread so I'm excited for the next two weeks. Hopeful for at least a couple of BFPs!

Alexia thinking of you and hoping you're okay

I had a really depressed morning this morning. Im 10 dpo and my temperature plummeted below my cover line. I then had to meet my heavily pregnant friend and her toddler don for lunch. I came home and cried for so long that dh asked me to stop.

To cheer this post up though, i just had the most far fetched symptom spotting - i went downstairs and smelt dh's stinky doritto crisps and felt sick at the smell. My first thought was ooohh sensitive to smells..... and my second thought was, no one finds the smell of cheesy processed food appealing so im back to count down to af again.

EJ 10dpo is not too late for an implantation dip. But it's annoying that all you can do is wait for tomorrow's temp Can you do something nice this evening to take your mind off it? How long is your LP usually?

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone 😊

Tenner ah it's nice to have someone at the same stage, FX for you 😊 which cycle day are you on?

kwick thanks for the info on pineapple, I didn't know about that!

Wow you ladies all seem pro at this with your charts etc, I haven't done anything like that yet. I have bought some cheap OKP's which I'll try after this cycle.

I have had weird pains this week, I went for a run on Tuesday night and about 1km in had to stop due to intense pain, felt like really bad AF pains which I thought it was, it went away when I walked for a minute but it was intense enough I thought I was going to be sick. Then today, I laughed really hard (actually at the post about nipples 😂) and felt a really strong pull on my left side. I know I'm probably over thinking it and AF will probably show up soon but I find it so hard not to assess everything my body feels! Never thought it would be this emotionally exhausting trying for a baby!

Hope you've all had lovely Saturday's

Sorry my posts seem to make no sense with the conversation, I seem to take so long to write one that new posts get written in the meantime