When the going gets tough, the tough get Yams

[SoozC]

Thread five!

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 shalt not arrive one day and post BFP next day

• Thou shalt not give advice to others when TTC for one month only

• Thou shalt 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 shalt not be offended by strong language

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

@Milknosugar1 I'm just not convinced, won't be until 12wk scan.

@Milknosugar1 I've got 25 ic's in the cupboard

That’s a line @rhibee congratulations 😀

Thanks @MynameisJune scary times! I'll be on pants watch until 12wks.

@RhiBee29 congratulations! What lovely news. I'm so pleased for you.

@rhibee congratulations! That’s great news! 🤞 for you for the next few months, I hope it all goes well.

Here’s to marvellous March yammers- maybe it’s more false hope but I feel very good about March for us all!

Seconding @Milknosugar1's post - am also still here quietly watching and wishing you all well.

Looks positive @RhiBee29! Can you grab a FRER and hold your wee for a bit?

That definitely looks like a line Rhi. Enormous congratulations! Xx

I'm off to Asda when it opens for a FRER. Why do we have Sunday opening hours?! Just worried that no bfp until 15dpo might mean hcg is low and it won't stick.

Here’s to marvellous March, except RhiBee who is having fabulous February because that looks like a BFP to me 🤞

Hope you’re doing ok today Limp , thinking of you x

@RhiBee29 could just be late implantation or ovulation!

@RhiBee29 Congratulations! Maybe you ovulated later than you thought?

Echoing everyone else's Marvelous March wishes ... though I'm not out for Feb yet! 10/11 dpo here and total lack of any symptoms of any sort so far. Been spotting since 4dpo which is normal for me but always makes me think I can't be pg. Think I'm going to try B complex/ vit B6 next cycle as someone mentioned it might help with spotting and I feel the need to keep trying new things (inspired by @SoozC 's list!!) x

Congrats Rhibee :)

Congrats Rhi.

Not sure what to think here: bad af cramps yesterday and had two days of pink spotting and a day of brown spotting. Dtd last night which I felt sure would bring on af but just brown spotting again today. I am confused but as I don't know exactly when I ov'd I guess I might not be late yet. I would have said I'm 14dpo today. God, I hate my body.

I was late too Sooz should have started af yesterday morning but I’m only getting my proper pre-af brown spotting today. But I’m also getting some niggly cramps so she’ll be here soon! I’ve put my mooncup in ready lol Must have ovulated a day later than I thought. I need af over and done with so I can start ttc again. Hopefully yours stays away :)

Sorry your body is mucking you about @SoozC. I find all the wondering at this time of the cycle totally exhausting, really wears me out mentally. I would never have imagined prior to TTC how tiring it is (makes me worried about how tiring actually being pg or having a child is!!)

Chooklass I can confirm that ttc is WAY more stressful than raising a child. I’ve had more sleepless nights this last 18 months than I had the whole time my daughter was a baby

That's sort of reassuring @Bubblegum89! Sometimes I think if 'I can't cope with this part should I be doing this at all?!'

Congrats @RhiBee29 🎉

Chooklass if anything, this whole nightmare will fully prepare you to easily deal with a child lol

@Bubblegum89 Oh great! (runs away to by condoms...) lol

@Chooklass I didn't get a positive opk this cycle, not even a tinge on the stick just blank white, this happened when I had a bfp with DS and last time I had a bfp...so weird!

Definitely reassuring, Bubble. DH will find it less stressful too, I imagine, without me obsessing day and night and constantly inputting whenever we dtd into my apps!

I don't spot brown before af, but occasionally spot pink. That's why I thought my two days of pink spotting were right on time. But just brown. I'm thinking the acupuncture has something to do with it; clearing me out maybe. I'm cramping again now, FFS, I never have two days of cramps!

*just brown now