STOP! Yammer time. 🍠

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New thread!

On the subject of yams 🍠... I was told by a dr no less that cough syrup improves cervical fluid... so I found some with the required ingredient and take it once a day. It does actually increase it a little bit but not enough to counteract the taste. Anyway it's sat at the back of the cupboard for ages and now it's on the counter...

My OH has cold and I haven't the heart to tell him he's drinking my ttc experiment!

Hi Sock! I re-read that thread recently so I remember you.

Interesting find regarding the cough syrup Star, maybe I should try that? I'll admit I'm rubbish at tracking cm.

Anyone else currently suffering with hay fever? I've stopped taking antihistamine in case it messes with conception but now I'm itching like crazy!

Also marking my place for the new thread.

I get terrible hay fever most years Fairy but it hasn’t kicked off yet this year - I would have been carrying on with antihistamines though, why can’t you take them when TTC? My hay fever has been so bad in the past that my whole face swells up and I can’t see so I’m not sure I can cope without them!!

I heard that antihistamines can mess with cm when TTC. You can counter this with lube though.

Place marking. LOVE the name.

So much to catch up on from last night- I was too busy eating sweet potatoes and taking my new Maca powder pills. All delusion power to the last month before ivf!

Ignoring the thread 7 lark sticks fingers in ears lalalala

Checking in again! Today is finally moving day!! Can't wait to be in and settled, although when the move was confirmed in november I really thought I'd be pregnant by moving day (especially as it's been delayed by an extra 6 weeks!)

CRAMPS. I am cramping. And I had a few dots of brown spotting this morning. Hallelujah. Come to the conclusion that I didn’t ovulate. There’s no way I ovulated late so that’s the only other explanation.

Anyway, last cycle now before IVF so throw all your ttc stuff at me. Things to take, things to do etc etc. I’m going to go all out for the last month.

I got my static smiley this morning on cd13 after so many god damn flashy ones! I think it’s fairly accurate as Ive got O cramps, sore boobs and EWCM. Luckily DH isn’t working this evening so I shall jump him after the small person is in bed.

I hate the ‘oh, you have one child so you should be happy with what you have’ mentality. Yes, I do have a daughter, but she isn’t my husbands ( instead from a horribly abusive relationship) and my experience with her was the opposite of what it should have been. I’ve sctually made an appointment with my hospitals birth afterthoughts service to discuss my birth because I honestly don’t remember a second of it and my GP thinks I might be suffering from PTSD.

@Bubblegum89 have you thought about yams? And relaxing?

I’m not the person to ask as I seem to conceive ok but just not stay that way. But to be honest I don’t think there’s anything we can do other than have regular sex, ideally front loaded before ovulation. But you all know all this!!

@Justwaitingforaline I get that too. DD is 4 and would love a sibling, she loves playing with the babies in nursery and asks for a baby brother all the time. I know having an only child isn’t a disaster, but I’d just love one more.

In the EPU, when I had a bad infection in the middle of my MMC (my 3rd) which dragged on for weeks one of the gynae doctors actually told me I needed to be more positive. I almost smacked her!

Hi ladies! I have introduced myself on a previous thread, but need to moan this morning. Did a test this morning and it was negative AGAIN! Lots of crying AGAIN! I also keep getting told it shouldn't matter as I have 1 ds. But I'm 39 and I don't want him to be an only child. I feel like I'm letting him down and my DH because I can't give them the perfect family. DH says it doesn't matter and gives me hugs every month when my period arrives. Plus everyone around me is pregnant! (Crying again now).

Paranormal my DD is 3.5 and is exactly the same. Her endless ‘I’m having a baby’ role play is no longer something which brings me joy, it just makes me sad. Ive gone from answering ‘am I going to be a big sister one day?’ With a yes you are to a ‘you might be, maybe not for a very long time’ and it’s just so sucky. I have friends who have given birth to two children in the time we’ve been trying and it’s rubbish!

Gynae doctor sounds awful! I’m so lucky my GP is a Women’s specialist and just the loveliest woman alive plus, and get this, I went to the GP for a boob lump issue and she knew what exact CD I was on by examining my breasts

Love the new name :-)

I'm feeling a bit I have fertile looking cm at the moment (who knows with PCOS though!) We were supposed to have sex last night bit DH conveniently fell asleep on the sofa! I'm really worried that we aren't having enough sex :-( Sometimes we are managing every other day but a lot of the time it's every third day. Is every third day a total just?

@LG93. Good luck :-)

@FairyAnn. I have a grade 3 grass allergy :-( which sucks this time of year! :-( I hope you manage to find some relief.

@Justwaitingforaline. Wow, I didn't know boobs could tell you that

Ahhh thanks Silver. I've had to take one this morning after getting into work so if this keeps up I might have to use some lube next week.

Good luck with moving day LG! I know what you mean about these timepoints. I thought I'd be pregnant by Christmas, then Easter, then by the my friend's wedding and nope... Now it's "will I be pregnant by besties baby shower, or by the time her baby arrives, or now by the time SIL has her baby, or next Christmas" You just watch all these events pass by and think GAH.

Just that's amazing! My boobs literally feel the same all cycle so they are useless ovulation/FP predictors. Can you ask your magic GP if she can cop a feel of mine?!

Bubble just go on holiday - my aunts cousins nieces wifes sister in laws cats god mother was trying for AGES and she got knocked up as soon as they went on holiday. And it was triplets. (but in all seriousness good luck for your last cycle - I found grapefruit juice the only thing that's improved my distinct lack of CM if that is of any help)

Justwaiting that’s awful :( my DD is from an abusive relationship too. Luckily mine was more emotional/mental abuse rather than physical but there was some physical abuse too. My pregnancy was nothing like a pregnancy should be. No dad rubbing your bump, wanting to care of you while you put your feet up etc. Once I had a fall in the shower when I was heavily pregnant and had reduced movements and I asked him to take me to the hospital and he refused because he was too busy playing Xbox. After I’d given birth, he kicked me off the bed and made me sit in the chair because he was tired so went to sleep on the bed. Little things like that don’t seem much but when you see how other people’s pregnancies are so lovely and full of joy and then you look back on your own pregnancy, it’s really kind of sad. So screw anyone who says “at least you have one” because they’re morons. Sorry you had to go through that, it’s just horrible :(

Paranormal I was actually considering becoming a heroin addict and/or sleeping with half of my village. It seems to work for people that go on Jeremy Kyle. I’m actually tempted to just not ttc this cycle anyway. I just don’t see the point, it’s not worked in 18 months, why would month 19 be any different? May as well cut my losses and go straight to IVF. We’ve just been accepted for Universal Credit (we both work but our incomes are fairly low at the moment) and have decided that we are going to use some of that to save for IVF. Probably not the correct use of it lol the other half is going on rent so that makes it okay

miserablemouse ooh I’m going on holiday in August! I’ll definitely get pregnant there because you’re more fertile while you’re abroad, science says so

I've just booked hotels for a holiday in February next year hoping to induce sods law. Hasn't worked yet but I refuse to put my life on hold.
In other news another day another negative opk. Waiting for my ovusense monitor to turn up so I can feel like I'm trying properly

Bubblegum89 you’ll definitely get pregnant on holidays. Sure all you need is to relax, drink and stop trying too hard.

I just need to relax and be positive to avoid miscarriages too. It’s all my own fault for worrying. And sure in my grandmothers time they’d just have assumed they were late periods (I’m sure they weren’t that dim witted really!) so I’m silly for being upset about them.

Of course paranormal it’s stressing so much about getting pregnant that’s causing your miscarriages, pull yourself together will you!! The “advice” from people who have never been through infertility honestly astounded me sometimes.

Is Lexie about yet? I have some questions about abc fertility!

Just scanned through the new thread! Can’t catch up properly as at work. Had another baby bomb, just feel so sad. Sat at my desk wanting to cry.

Yammer time! Love it 😊

I always wondered how you got on, Socks, as you see your moaning really took off!

Bubble, Just, I think I've told you before that my ex was a mentally abusive twat and cheating bastard, and I so understand the desire to experience this with someone who gives two shits.

Having yet another scan just before my hen on Saturday. I just cannot relax at all and am constantly waiting for a bleed or something. Knicker checking for 8 fucking weeks is exhausting.

Jumping on the new thread. Love the name!

Hi @bubble 👋 ask away.....

Still have everything crossed for you @limp

@june baby bombs at work are the worst, hide in the loo for a blub?