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Thou shall not tell everyone to eat Yams

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juneybean · 22/10/2017 09:42

Welcome all anti-fertile fuckers! This is our clique for those trying longer than 6 cycles and are pretty fed up.

Here are our Fucked Off TTC Commandments

  • Thou shall not arrive one day and post BFP next day
  • Thou shall not give advice to other when TTC for one month only
  • Thou shall not participate in one-up-manship and realise TTC is shit for everyone in different ways
  • Thou shall allow posters to be fucked off with the world and everything in it at regular points in the month
  • Thou shall not be offended by strong language
  • Thou shall not tell everyone to eat yams
  • Thou shall accept being called a muppet for testing at 7dpo at 9pm at night

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LovePinaColada · 01/11/2017 21:47

Sorry @helly - what a shit. No advice as never had the experience, but sending hugs.

justmeonly · 01/11/2017 21:48

dudemeister It made me giggle!

RhiBee29 · 01/11/2017 22:00

Just catching up DS 3rd Birthday today so it’s been busy. Had a meltdown at bedtime that he is going to be an only child and renamed myself “barren Karen” (my name is not Karen and apologies to all the Karen’s here).

@micropig @Si1ver your posts did cheer me up!

Does anyone know if b6 will lengthen my cycle...I don’t think I want that with a 33day cycle, I want to ovulate earlier as my luteal phase was only 12days.

Si1ver · 01/11/2017 22:20

@RhiBee29 I think that a topical progesterone cream will lengthen your luteal phase rather than your whole cycle.

My LP is only 12 days usually which seems pretty short to me, but my doctor is adamant that anything over 11 is ok. I bought a progesterone cream online.

Si1ver · 01/11/2017 22:23

But equally I might be wrong. I think I'm mainly talking shit and grasping at straws at the same time at the moment.

hellybellyjellybean · 01/11/2017 22:36

Thanks guys, I hate this! What's evening primrose supposed to do?! Got dh on soluble vitamin c twice a day, apparently that's supposed to help, he's said come February he will have super sperm 😂 here's hoping! Although don't want to wait that long argh!!

Justwaitingforaline · 01/11/2017 23:30

Helly EPO massively helps EWCM production!

hellybellyjellybean · 02/11/2017 06:21

Cheers will give it a whirl!

RhiBee29 · 02/11/2017 06:37

@Si1ver thanks, I’ll have a look online x

NimbleKnitter · 02/11/2017 10:00

Another day, another baby bomb.

She was my barren buddy - we had a conversation not that long ago about how shit it is. And she was pregnant at the time.

Unreasonably - I feel betrayed

Si1ver · 02/11/2017 10:02

I'm so sad today. I don't think I can face the thought of it taking another 18 months to get a BFP.

Si1ver · 02/11/2017 10:05

@NimbleKnitter ooof, that's got to be hard.

I had a similar conversation with a friend a while back and with hindsight I was pregnant at the time too. Is there any chance that like me she didn't know?

Have a stroke on the nose

NimbleKnitter · 02/11/2017 10:17

Possibly. She was drinking.

But by my maths she would have been at least 7 weeks at that point.

Do you know anyone actively TTC who wouldn’t have known by 7 weeks?!

LimpLettice · 02/11/2017 10:18

Nimble + S1lver it is so hard.

I am fucking fucking spotting again. 9dpo I think. Pinky brown CM, more of it than this time the last few cycles. I was at least hoping to get a bit further along the 2ww before it started this month. I have just stomped like Tina Turner up the office stairs in a rage because I know what it means.Bfn, which will always be a bfn when I keep spotting so fucking early. And if AF turns up tomorrow before our lovely night away, I will scream.

LimpLettice · 02/11/2017 10:19

Er. That is odd, Nimble. Maybe she has bizarre cycles?

NimbleKnitter · 02/11/2017 10:21

@LimpLettice have you had your progesterone levels checked post-ov?

Sounds like your levels might be a little low.

LimpLettice · 02/11/2017 10:24

Nope because I have avoided the GP. But going to make an appointment this afternoon and see if they will do it. Probably won't get an appt for some time but I need to start doing something.

NimbleKnitter · 02/11/2017 10:25

Nah. She just didn’t tell me.

Which stings, because I had been telling her everything. I thought we were on the same page.

I’ve spent the last week knitting baby things for all the newborns and soon to be newborns.

I’m a hormonal mess.

I’m also cd11 and just got my peak. DH says he doesn’t think he has ‘anything left’. After three days. Drink your water and get on with it

NimbleKnitter · 02/11/2017 10:30

Yeah — knowledge is power.

I’m frog marching the husband to Glasgow next week to jizz in a cup. Whether he likes it or not l

LimpLettice · 02/11/2017 10:37

My colleague who didn't tell me she was trying didn't tell me until quite a while after her bfp, because she was worried how I would react - not well, it turns out. Understand the burn.

I am SO bummed now. The earlier the spotting, the longer the miserable, hopeless will last. Fucked off.

Si1ver · 02/11/2017 10:38

No that's just weird. I knew the days before my period was due. And (I know this is going to sound horrendously judgy) but WTactualF? Drinking at 7 weeks. I can't imagine doing that after this amount of shit I'd been through on the way to get there. Was she drinking heavily?

Also tell your DH to man the fuck up and crack on with it. Give him some vit C.

That sounds hard @LimpLettice. There are some things you can do diet and vitamin wise to extend your LP. Have you tried anything so far?

Mrsjones17 · 02/11/2017 10:44

@nimble what a shitter. Not nice when you think you're in the same page.

@limp I had all sorts of problems with spotting and now it seems to have been solved. I take vitamin b complex and I know I keep banging on about it but also accupuncture. Done from spotting from 8dpo often to no spotting until 14dpo and then just one day before AF. Still not pregnant though but maybe thats an issue with DH?!

LimpLettice · 02/11/2017 10:49

I have been taking B6 and B Complex for 2 cycles now. I think it has bought ov forward a couple of days, but not helping the spotting. Perhaps the acupuncture is an idea. I walked past a place advertising fertility acupuncture / chinese medicine just yesterday and did pause for a second. Suppose I just wonder what the point is if I am just past it now.

Justwaitingforaline · 02/11/2017 10:53

Nimble I totally get it. Whenever I find a woman who’s ttc who I connect with, I get a stab every time they fall pregnant. The last one had been trying for 3 months in comparison to my 13 when she fell and I just felt an overwhelming sense of ‘ what the hell have I done wrong’ which made me feel awful.

I’m actually writing a piece for a parenting and lifestyle magazine entitled ‘ this is how it feels to be trying ( and failing miserably) to conceive’

Bubblegum89 · 02/11/2017 11:05

Oh nimble that sucks :( speaking with those who are going through the same is like a lifeline, I’m not surprised you feel betrayed. Had a similar thing happen in that my partner’s brother’s girlfriend got pregnant the one time they had sex in 9 months and my partner held off telling me and when he did, I tried acting positive but it just didn’t work. So when she gave birth, he just didn’t tell me. Everyone else knew almost a day before I did. So I was pissed off about that as well. When it comes to other people having babies, there’s literally nothing you can do to make me happy lol

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