Where there’s a Yam, there’s a way

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Thread numero four-o.

A safe place for those of you who have been trying to conceive for 6+ months and even yams aren’t helping. Come and have a good ol’ bitch and a moan without judgement.

The Yam Commandments are as follows;

• Thou shall not arrive one day and post BFP next day

• Thou shall not give advice to others 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

And most importantly...

• Thou shall not symptom spot during the two week wait and must be prepared for a telling off if they do so.

Welcome and welcome. We’re all very nice and friendly despite being horrible bitter old cows ☺️

Congratulations Limp!!! Super chuffed for you! I'm sure the bloody Mary's will have had some nutritional value though yes??

Congrats Limp!

Well done!!! X x

Thank you peeps. I won't feel out of the woods for a long while yet, last 2 times haven't stuck, but (🤞🏻) it all feels stronger this time. I just thought it was jet lag.

Unbelievable that this is the first time I've not tracked, obsessed or thought it was possible since last May, and that I bit the referral bullet. I'll stick around for a bit if no one minds, I'm really hopeful for some more good news, god knows this thread and all who sail in her bloody deserve it.

Oh, and I didn't eat 🍠 haha.

Congrats Limpluttuce, delighted to hear some good news. There’s hope for us all yet xx

That's absolutely brilliant @LimpLettice congratulations

Enormous congratulations Limp. This is fabulous fabulous news. DS was my third time lucky on the pregnancy front (after a cp and a ruptured ectopic)... I shall be keeping everything crossed that this is IT for you. Xxx

Congratulations Limp!

Whoop! Congratulations @limp that’s fantastic news! Here’s hoping it sticks and you have a healthy 9 months, 🤞for you

Whoooooop! Yey Limp!

Oh congrats, Limp! What wonderful news. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a sticky bean for you and a healthy pregnancy and birth x

@LimpLettice congratulations! Great to see a BFP on this thread. Fingers crossed for more to come...

Wishing you all the luck @LimpLettice x

Many congratulations limp! Delighted to see a long awaited for bfp.

Haha Limp I did wonder if you'd eaten a yam whilst in Vegas and maybe that is what helped! I was all ready to crack out the yams if it actually worked

Those of you that take EPO, how much do you take? Is it just from cd1 up till ovulation? I found 1000 mg in Boots that said 1 a day, and 500mg in H&B that said 3-6 capsules a day.

@soarkwood I thought EPO was a no no?

Oh hang on, I’m thinking of EPA

@SparkwoodAnd21 I take it from cd1 to positive opk. Not taking it this cycle as DH & I are trying pregnacare conception but when I have taken it there has been an abundance of cm around ovulation.

@limplettice lovely lovely news!!! Congratulations, that's so great - wishing you a boring happy 9 months xxx

limp that is great! Congratulations! Good news on this board is a thousand times better than other baby announcements :) it brings hope :)

I think I should probably just test to prove to myself I'm not pregnant. I'm now 1 day late, officially, though this is my month of not even caring and I said I wasn't going to test, just wait for AF to inevitably arrive. So I don't want to test, because I'm sick of seeing negative tests, but it's messing with my head in an unhelpful way because I just want this month to be one I had written off from the start.

Our bodies really know how to screw with us, hey.

In other news, my scan (for "not ovarian cancer") which was meant to be mid December, turns out the GP didn't even book it, so despite their policy on seeing people within 2 weeks, I'm now going in on Friday, after 8 weeks, so am in a funk over that too. I want to just be getting on with my next cycle, not messing around with this screwy cycle and having a scan to see if I have bloody cancer :(

Long rant over!

I got my appointment for my HyCoSy so that’s good. After having nothing period-y since Sunday, I had this weird light pinky brown cm stuff today, it had a weird consistency. Kind of like wet toilet paper..? No it wasn’t wet toilet paper lol. And I’ve spent like £200 on clothes to cheer myself up and now I have no money left until payday in 3 weeks time. Yay!

Holy crap. 11pm at night. Darkest test I've ever seen. Darker than my miscarriage tests ever got.

Holy crap. 4 and a half years of bloody counting and tempting and checking and testing and crying...

I'm shitting myself that it's going to all go wrong, but holy crap I'm pregnant. At least for now.

And this month, for the first time in about a year, I ATE A SWEET POTATO. #testify