still TTC your first baby? want some glastonbury luck?

[fifilou]

hi ladies from the old TTC thread, time to start a new one you think? Its gone way past 500!

Right.go on then, a little bit of magic is fun!

am off to Glasto this weds, and aparantly its good luck to run around the stone circle 3 times.

I'm doing it once for myself and some of my TTC buddies, but if you fancy a little of the glasto luck your way... pop your name here!

(its only a bit of fun!)

clearbluefairy is the scariest! Just wait til she tells you off! I'm only in training
You do know we are doing this to save you the heartache of BFN, not because we don't want you to get BFP. We love BFPs, especially when they are really big and really fat !

thought you might all like to have a look at this. Can't do links so copy and paste. I'm going to give it a try I think if this month is unlucky.
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www.pregnancyloss.info/sperm_meets_egg_plan.htm

Wise words from the clearbluefairy -

By ClearBlueFairy on Tue 05-Dec-06 21:38:43

Hello ladies!! I am the ClearBlueFairy, and I have been sent to watch over all you wonderful, gorgeous ladies!!
When you feel the urge to test before AF is due, count to ten and step away from the ClearBlue !! Have a warm cuppa and daydream about Sawyer from Lost (or someone you find attractive!) and take your mind off it!! Or why not come on to MN and I will sprinkle you with some common sense dust

A very wise woman once wrote - "Remember ladies that the percentages of those who get their BFPs on set dpo are as follows:
10dpo=35%/11dpo=51%/12dpo=62%/13dpo=68%/14dpo=74%/15dpo=80%/16dpo=88%/17dpo=92% and there are some who have not got their BFP until 21dpo!!"
Armed with those percentages you should never want to test early and risk all that (perhaps)unnecessary disappointment!

I can't stand to see all those understandably downtrodden women after that dreaded BFN... and some of those wonderful ladies will go on to get their BFP and needn't have put themselves through all that angst and worry!!

Come on now... save your money... When the FirstResponseDevil is calling out your name... Just say NO!!!

Fingers crossed for lots of BFPs really soon for you all!!!! But remember, The ClearBlueFairy is always watching * * * * * * * * * * * *

I can't keep up with all the postings.

you are so right could not imagine discussing all this in RL thank god for MN.

I work in a department where we do Acu for pain and so I went on the internet and looked up good points for fertility. My work mates have given me three sessions of ACu and it really relaxes you. However my friend who gave it to me is now pregnant so I don't know if the vibes went the wrong way!!!! (only joking) I know a few people who swear by it for fertility. I feel alittle obsessed asking them to do it in our lunchbreak so I have stopped arranging it. Am in two minds as to try it again or not.

Clearbluefairyjunior - you are so right but it is so tempting however it gets quite expensive so I am now investing money in chocolate instead

Hey Fifi, just thought I'd let you know I'm looking in on your thread sweetpea. I didn't like the thought that you might think I was evesdropping, even though until I posted this you wouldn't have known anyway, but ykwim! (I'm seriously mental I think!) Also thought that you wouldn't want to discuss too much in the staff room!
And to all of you, best wishes and lots of luck x!

CD1 here for me ladies

My cycle is usually 23 days then 25 days alternate months. This month i tried charting and think it confirmed that I ovulat when I think I do, with about a 23 0r 13 day LP.

Thinking of trying accupunture now..

baby bratt - did your GP say come back in a couple of cycles to get it up to a certain number......? This is my 9th cycle starting since mc, but only 6.5 months. Not sure waht to do.

Hope you are Ok , big hug to my molar pregnancy buddy x

Hi girls, sorry for the "post and run" earlier, I was at work!
bb - fingers crossed it's good news about your cervix (see what you mean about what we say to each other that we'd never say in RL!)
treenie - I know what it's like wanting to test, but don't get too obsessed! Hope your BFP is just around the corner
fi - sorry you're not well, earache's horrible
mistlethrush - hope you get a good night's sleep tonight
kensgirl - sorry it's cd1 (didn't realise your m/c was a molar pg either )
poppy - I think spending the money on choc instead of pg tests is a great idea! I have 3 tests in my bedside drawer, haven't used one since Sept though. No choc bar ever lasts that long in my house!
ready, bella, PE, gilly - how are you all doing?
everyone else

Off to bed now, night night x

Ok here is the full extent of my madness when it comes to symptom spotting! I woke up this morning with a really achy, crampy feeling in my left leg - yes that was leg, not tummy, not boobs - leg! And have now convinced myself it is a sign after reading about leg cramps and increased pressure on varicose vains in early pregnancy!
Hands up if you think Treenie is a nutter! (She say frantially waving her hands in the air!)

Nomore - your will power amazes me and inspires me. You know I'm not bad with the chocolate - can abstain from that - but not it seems from little plastic sticks!

Kensgirl - what a pain in the t*ts about your af and being on cd 1. Feeling I maybe joining you on the af wagon in a few days.

BB - feeling any more pregnant today? How's yer cervix love?!

Hello to everyone else!
Bloody hell I have to do some work! DH gave me a row for being so preggie obsessed and not doing anything remotely work related - he is so right but I can't help it!

The only good sign I can really see (apart from the legs!) is that I burst into tears this morning when Alan Jonhon's (journo who was taken hostage in Gazza and has just been realised) parent's were talking on the bbc. Am not a crier - tough old bag me - so this was out of the ordinary and I've heard preggies cry more! So boo hoo all the way!
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hi ladies......and hello clearbluefairyjunior.......youre so funny!

treenie, i think ive beat you on the mental nutter testing front- Ive now tested 4 times (fi bangs her head with her hand...doh,doh,doh!)

ive just heard from a mn pal that she didnt get a positive for a month! Arggghhhh!

Im not convinced im preg, not at all. my boobs are fine, but no sign of AF at all and am now day cd34! feel sick still and tired, but am now worried im giving myself these symptoms! Its probably all to do with my ear problem and im getting all confused!
Babybrat- its unfair of docs/nurses to say these things but i guess they have to?

Gets the hopes up hey?

Anyway....am going to drink tea and dream of sawyer like the wise fairy told me too.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....sawyer.........!

where is evryone?!

Sorry Fi been trying to work. Poor you. You really are suffering aren't you. It's a waiting game when you come off the pill. Could take a while but I'd say if no af in a week and no BFP then you have to go to the docs for a blood test.
Try to relax. It might be better if it was next month anyway cause then you'd have had a true period which is meant to be a good thing - that's what I'm telling myself anyway.
When I came off the pill the last time my af arrived on CD34 so I'm not testing again until Tuesday, which will be CD34. If no af by then then I'll start feeling hopeful.

Really don't worry. It can take a while to get it all back to normal after the pill - you're not alone in feeling this way.
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Thanks treenie, its so hard not to think about it, its on my mind all of the time when im on my own, luckily the school hols start tomo and i'll have the boys to occupy for ten hours a day, so there wont be time to come on here or think about it, which is a good thing i think in a way!

thanks mo for your kind words xx

its all up and down and roundabout at the mo! am looking forward to being occupied all day all week with the Bananas!

Just checking in and saying hello!

Having a really crap day. I'm feeling extrememly sorry for myself, and convinced I'm never going to be a mum. This is the start of 9th cycle sine mc, and I feel old and barren. I may have to go and live in the hut for a while.

How are you, Nomore? My mmc was a partial mole (suspected} and I'm still having the monitoring. But, when we saw the 8+4 scan, there was the right sized baby with a hb, so.....

Love to everyone.

Oh Kensgirl I'm so sorry you feel so down. Don't know what to say my dear. Don't want to give you all the old 'it'll happen one day' platitudes. The only thing I will say, which I've said to others who have been ttcing for a while is that there is always help out there. I know it's the last thing you want but IVF etc are there if you need them so don't give up hope. So far you've only tried the natural route (I think?) so that's just one avenue and there are others. This door is most def not shut!
Hope that helps - big hug
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Kensgirl ((((hugs))) Been there, done that, got the T shirt(s), loyalty card, know all the staff by name.... Now look at me! (I know that I'm here and not pg and really wanting to be, but at least I've got ds, and at one stage I really didn't believe that that was possible.)

Look on the bright side - you only needed follow-ups, not chemo -and I wasn't allowed even to consider trying for a year after treatment stopped. And chemo was crap - which is partly why dh has got cold feet - it was 6 months of hell for him to as I was mostly good for nothing.

It can happen for you (although nothing is certain in this world). As Treenie says, you can always consider IVF etc (we got to the top of the NHS list twice). We had already decided that we would try to adopt if molar pregnancy came back (which, I think, is another reason that we are not 'going' for it this time as much as we might).

So, please get reassurance from me that its not impossible and don't get too down. I found accupuncture v good for helping with mood swings too. Worth considering?

On a lighter note I've been to IKEA today and chosen cot bedding for everyone here - happy thing to do, please excuse me! Probably missed the mark somewhat here and there, but its nice imagining. Fi - there is a 'hocus pocus' range for children that might tie in a bit with Glastonbury... I'm afraid they didn't do a 'mud' range!

I'm feeling a lot less stressed since accupuncture on Tuesday (having the day off today might have had something to do with it, although going round IKEA is perhaps not themost restful thing to do...)

Hi Ladies

Treenie, I have no symptoms not even the ones I normally get so I am not holding out much hope.

Kensgirl I have no words that will help you, but I have been trying for 8 months and I am really starting to believe this will never happen. I live between this thread and the Hut. All I can say is your not alone.

I love some of the ikea furniture for babies and children. I found myself daydreaming about decorating a nursery. I also found a really cute baby grow bag the other day.

We are looking after DH nephew in a couple of weeks and I love having him but he makes me broody.

BB I will not have this negative chat from you lady! It will happen - if you stop believing that you'll really get yourself down. And can I tell you that I have read loads of 2WW diaries on line and scoured the internet and spoken to friends and loads of them had no symptoms at all for weeks after BFP - no symptoms at this stage means bugger all. Hope that helps!

Mistelthrush I love Ikea! Love the pretty white furniture. My plan is to have that and then accessories with blue or pink depending what 20 week scan says. Also want a nursing chair in lovely gingham fabic for the corner of the room opposite the window so the two of us can sit and snuggle up and look out at everything. Bloody hell I'm talking like I am up the duff already! Mad Treenie!

Do have a strange dull achy pain that is coming and going today and lower back pain but don't know what the heck that means - prob af on the way. Also have niggles in my boobs - just slight twinges.
This is CD 29 for me and about 8DPO - don't even get af before CD 31 so here's hoping it's OV pains.

How is everyone today?

Treenie - so you're going to find out are you? Which do you want - I definitely wanted a girl at one stage - but by the time I was pregnant I was just relieved that there was a baby - and didn't care which, then towards the end I actually came round to thinking that a boy might be quite nice as we already have 2 nieces... and a boy's name was easier.

We decided that we didn't want to know. The nursery was decorated a lovely yellow with blue curtains with animals on that would have been fine for either sex. Just have quite an animal theme going on which is OK by DS!

It was nice looking at all the small furniture and pale colours of bedding and deciding which ones would suit you all. Of course, if we do eventually manage to get #2, they will have hand-me-downs - if its a girl it will still be dressed in blue and in dungarees quite a lot of the time!

BB - being broody is not a problem and sometimes even helps, so you never know. I know someone who relied on rhythm method very reliably, then went to see a friend with a new baby, got v broody and got pregnant on a day that would normally have been 3 days safe.

Top tip - if you do find yourself picking up 'bargains' in sales for when it finally happens, don't get too many small sizes - ds was in 3-6month clothes by 4wks and never fitted into 'newborn' size.

Come on then MT - spill the beans on what bedding you thought suited us all? I wonder if you got us right?

Just checking up on you all
I hope there's no early testing going on... (you know who you are, you naughty scamps!)

Hey ladies!! I am absolutely loving seeing the clearbluefairyjunior... I always knew that the CBF needed some help with all the early testers out there.

So how is everyone?

Kensgirl big hugs chick, I am sorry you feel down, but I totally understand that "barren" feeling. Here I am cycle 11 and it is tiresome waiting - but we have to try to stay positive - the best things come to those who wait!

nomore - I haven't forgotten you sweets, reply to follow soon. How are you doing?

Everyone else. Hope all is well?

Hi Ready
how are you? Keeping positive I hope?

I have a question for anyone really. If af (well withdrawl bleed after coming off pill) starts (ie the bleeding) in the evening at 8pm but you've been having cramps etc all day to you count that as the day it arrived?
Or should it be the following day cause it's late in the evening? Trying to work out if I am on CD30 or CD31?

Thanks guys
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Treenie, not positive at the moment, trying to be though. In answer to your question, for me, I would count it as CD1 even if it was 8pm, so long as it was full flow, and not just spotting. But that is just me, and not necessarily correct. I am sure I read somewhere that if the bleeding doesn't start before midday then it should be counted as CD1 the following day. Sorry I haven't been more helpful

Thanks Ready. That is really helpful. I think I'll go with your idea cause I want it to be CD 31 - means I'm closer to my CD34 deadline!

I really feel for you Ready. I can't imagine how hard it must be to feel this way for 11 months. This is our 1st month ttc and I'm going round the bend.

If it makes you feel any better (well not better but cheers you up for a mo) you were my insperation to start posting on here. About six months ago I startd to 'lurk' and read this ttc no1 thread and it was your optimism and positivity that made me want to keep reading.
I know it's very hard for you to maintain that at the mo, but hopefully you'll be back to your usual sunny self on the preggy threads soon. Have every thing crossed for you my dear.
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