Yams, fertile feckers and what not to say.

[LimpLettice]

Part the third:

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

Our spreadsheet which includes what supplements (and potatoes) we are trying in our journey to motherhood.

Tomorrow, it’s a year to the day that I ended up in hospital with ovarian pain and was given an ultrasound to be told they had found what looked like scar tissue in my uterus and I would probably have trouble conceiving. This time next week, I will have had my first appointment at the fertility clinic. This time last year, I was blissfully unaware. Crazy what can happen in the space of 12 months, hey

Gah girl I know just posted in our parenting group she’s pregnant “by accident” by her boyfriend of 6 weeks. Literally can’t cope with this anymore

Gah! @bubblegum what is WRONG with these people!!

What a long 12months it’s been. Hope you get some progress at your appointment next week.

So I’m two days late but 12dpo as I O-d late this month. Stark white HPT. I’m deffo out.

It’s the not knowing which is shit. That state of limbo especially when AF is yet to arrive when you’re fluctuating around.

Massive congrats by the way Grumpy! We’ve been due a BFP!

God I totally agree @just I’m debating poas just so I have an answer and I can attempt to chill the fuck out. Only 11 dpo, due af Friday/Saturday.

Thanks everyone, nervous to see line progression now but got to assume the best or I'll be a wreck

I'm out too this mouth - AF/ spotting has turned up 4 days early! Randomly last December's cycle was also 24 days - I wonder why? So I'm onto cycle 21. What a soul destroying year 2017 has been!

Congrats grumpy - what fantastic news! Hope your luck is catching & everything progresses well!

Oh Ron what a fucker - really sorry you're out; why do cycles suddenly switch like that??

Sorry the road has been difficult bubblegum I so hope you get some answers soon - and accidents can fuck right off at the moment, frankly

Had a conversation yesterday with a couple who mentioned delaying TTC to avoid a work issue clashing with due date -my face was like 'oh, interesting', my insides were 'AHAHAHAHAHA-sob'. Wouldn't that be nice.

just Lexie hoping you're not out xx

P.S. I should have mentioned - above couple now expecting baby in January, as planned.

Hi guys

Congrats @TheGrumpySquirrel and fingers crossed @SoozC and everyone else.

Not been on here for a while but my goodness to I need a place to come and moan!

I am soooo fucked off!!!! My cycle seems to have flipped sodding out and is looking like doing a 25 dayer. Never had a cycle shorter than 27 before.

So bloody annoying as we have our first IVF clinic appointment on Friday and meant to start monitoring cycle on Tuesday (when I should have been CD3). Will now be CD5 (too late to test) and may miss an entire month as a result. Monday is the only sodding work day I can't cancel in next year so can't do tests then! Urgh. I just feel so angry I could scream!

Wtf. Why can't my body just do what it has done every other month? I'm not even asking it to get pregnant this month (tho that'd be nice). I just wanted it to have a bloody period at the right time. Month after month the period comes to torture me but nope, not on the one month I need it to.

Sorry for coming on here after about 6 weeks and just ranting but arrrgghh!

Xxx

I am having a seriously grumpy, people hating cycle so far. Why does FW have to Fall when I'm away from DH. I know it's just one cycle, but meh. Swinging between being really angry and wanting to cry all the time.

Don't know why I'm even posting on here as I have honestly virtually given up hope, considering just deleting the MN app. Feel stupid using it some I'm not, and unlikely ever will be, a mum.

@Micropig, felt like I wanted to reach out to you.

Please do not give up hope, and don't delete your app. I feel like this is such a wonderful support network and we all want to help and be listening ears/shoulders to cry on.

Sending you love and positive vibes

Don’t go micropig and don’t give up hope. I think we all feel crap and feel like it’s never going to happen but hope is all we have. And we’re all here for you when you want to have a moan ❤️

Thank you @quiet I’ve not poas yet, going to hold out til Friday. I cannot believe that couple got a perfectly planned due date that is so unreasonable!!!!!

@janefx this is the place to rant! It really isn’t too much to ask for you cycle to be as expected.

@micropig stay strong and hopeful. It’s all we have. I too have been teary this week, and angry, and hopeful, and reminding myself OH was away when I ov so talking myself off the ledge- it’s just so many emotions I can barely keep up.

Hi @micropig I know how you feel about MN. Sometimes I feel like I'll never graduate beyond the conception boards! I'd like to at least get as far as a "is this a bfp forum" just once!

It's shit that FW has to fall when you are away. Sometimes it feels like it's all lining up against us.

It's all shit! But you have people on here who will listen and are in similar situations. And maybe maybe maybe one day, we'll get there. Who knows. But at least we can swear a lot in the mean time. Xxx

Congrats grumpy!

Congratulations Grumpy. So good to hear a positive test isn't unattainable. I'm now 11 dpo. Feeling a bit down as this time last year I was technically pregnant, all be it briefly as it ended up being a chemical. There's not been the whiff of a line since. This cycle I've had absolutely no symptoms but can remember how I felt last Dec so I know I'm out. Hope fading fast.

@Janefx40, don't apologise! We are here for ranting, we've all been trying a long time and know exactly how you feel! hugs

@micropig, I would say please stay but I know you have to do what's best for you and your sanity, sad it will be if you do go. Perhaps a break for a month? hugs for you too.

I poas today... I know, I know, I am 10 dpo but still a bit early technically and only ic and I got a bfn at 15dpo last time with bfp on cb. I will poas tomorrow morning on a frer...

99% sure I'm ov'ing..... Buuuuttt we're full of grotty cold and I've got no hope of anything out of hubster. Dang bugger and blast.
Anyone else swing wildly from happy hopeful to horribly hopeless??

So yesterday my ic opk was nearly positive but no smiley on CB but when I took it out of the reader the two lines were both quite dark. Lots of ewcm yesterday too. Today opk much lighter and still no smiley. Is it possible I ovulated yesterday even though cb didn't show a smiley? I only get the chance to POAS early evening so maybe I missed the surge??

Today is our 1st appointment with the gp at 9am. God I hope they can help us !

@RhiBee29 yes definitely possible that you missed the surge. Lots of women have short surges so miss them if you just test once a day. Sod's law says you would have a positive the one time you couldn't test! I reckon treat it as a positive but keep testing just in case. Some people say EWCM is best indicator anyway (although am not sure about that as I seem to get at some odd times).

@WonkyDonk87 yup constant swings here. Frustrating to miss a cycle.

@Mamabooksbabynumber2 good luck at GP. Great that you are taking that step.

Thank you jane.

Jist got home. Dp had a catheter for a long time as a child after he had a kidney removed and he is unsure if they had to do something with one of his testicles. Like move them or something. The GP said that could be a possibility. He has a container for a SA and I have to get my blood test done on 27th Dec.

Feel bad for dp even though he said it isn't definitly that. I don't want him to feel emasculated :(

@mamabooks I was feeling similarly worried as FC picked up on a possible sperm issue that TWO gps missed- OH not happy at all. Tricky to handle the male ego on top of everything else I’m feeling!