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The caravan of crap! for those of us who are browned off but not to the extent of those over there in the hut

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Thelittlesoldiersmummy · 01/08/2007 22:32

Well welcome to the caravan sat on the top of a hill somewhere in Dorset some days its good here the weather is fine and all is happy other days the weather is crap and so is everything else!

Feel free to come in be happy, sad or just moody - Just no counting dates or charting or temping just us girls having a chat over a cupper looking out the window through the orange (yes orange) curtain x

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Thelittlesoldiersmummy · 16/08/2007 10:24

Sits down with a large glass of pimms hangs head

Bobby I know your so right I am sure if I was PG I would have got a BFP this morning it?s just my bloody boobs are killing me! I wish there was a 'NO you silly cow your not pregnant your af will arrive Sunday stop bloody testing' test

am going to buy something nice for my DS instead as he is being such an angel at the minute there is a pic of him on my profile so you can all marvel in his cheeky good looks

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bobbydazzler · 16/08/2007 10:56

TSLM

awwwwwwww. He is gorgeous!!!

Treat for him will be MUCH better way to spend your harn earned cash.

I must do my profiles page but don't know how to attach pics?

My DS is 2.6 mths.

I love your ones curls, i love curly hair cos mine is poker straight!

Is odd about your boobs I must admit but you will know for sure next week!

I had no symptoms when pregnant with DS, missed period was the first I knew and never had the sore boobs, but i wasn't thinking about it then the way i do now!

Have seen on another thread that someone is having brown stuff coming out of their boob! now that is very weird!!!!!

Thelittlesoldiersmummy · 16/08/2007 11:44

Thank you I am growing his hair even though the whole of DH family have told me to cut it and that he looks like a girl!

The thing is Max was a surprise and I cant remember what a felt at the time although I told my DH on the way home from his mum's that i thought we should stop at Tescos and buy a Pg test as i thought I was pg even though my Af was only due that day but the whole ttc is new to me also I was induced with Max so the whole going into labour naturally will be new to me too

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bobbydazzler · 16/08/2007 11:52

I was the same when pregnant with my DS.

We were trying but on the third month I "knew" from the day my period was due that I was pregnant, but i did not test till 4 days after that. How times have changed!!!!!!

This time i thought i knew in the 4th month of ttc that i was pregnant again. My period was late that month, i did a test on the day it was due but got BFN and my period did turn up till 3 days later. I have only been tempted to test twice since then and the last time was cos i was having a clamydia test and i wanted to be sure i wasn't preggers before they did it.

Testing unless overdue is evil!

I don't think you should cut his hair! Though maybe don't grow it as long as Romeo Beckham, he did look like a girl!

looneytune · 16/08/2007 15:11

TLSM - this is dc 2 I'm trying for, ds is 4.5. I'm not sure if you've seen my update on Aug thread? I'm pretty sure the symptoms are a mix of cystitus (sp?) and hormones due to just coming off the pill. So, I'm not testing unless late which I feel I won't be but hey ho. Don't want to get your hopes up but I just wanted to correct Bobbydazzler (sorry BD!)......everyone is different but it IS possible to have those symptoms. I knew i was pregnant with ds 1 week after conception. It was obvious and all my friends pointed it out too. I was eating LOADS more than usual, sore boobs, white spots on them, emotional, snappy at best mate (we were away for weekend), weeing lots and feeling sick, Thios wasn't wishful thinking or in my head because I'd just started trying again after MC and was not expecting it. Tests prior to being late were neg but a day late they were pos. Don't read too much into it but just wanted to let you know. Oh, my sister knew the day after conceiving!

Off to Dr's, catchya later!

LT xx

LoveAngel · 16/08/2007 15:13

pmsl @littlesoldier - I want one of those tests too! The 'you maniacal woman, stop hanging out in toilets pissing on sticks compulsively' test - I'd pay good wonga for it right now :-) x

mslucy · 16/08/2007 15:53

In crap mood cos just failed driving test no 8.

Beat that

But haven't been streesing about ttc - esp after the failed hsg, so that can only be a good thing.

have lots to do at work and really can't be bothered with all that "poor me" stuff.

Will feel very different I'm sure when AF shows up next week!!!

bobbydazzler · 16/08/2007 16:16

looneytune

don't mind being told i'm wrong, was just trying to save tslm sanity!

i think the key thing lies in your statement when you say that despite all those symptoms (sp?) you got BFN's until you were actually late, therefore imo there is no point in doing test after test and speculating about the symptoms you have (or dare i say) think you have, (cos i have been there myself, thinking i am feeling sick e.t.c and then magically all the symptoms disappear when AF arrives) until you are late. That is the time to wonder if the thing in the world you most want has actually happened.

Another thing is that I thought you get sickness and sore boobs and stuff cos your hormone levels are rising during pregnancy so if you are pregnant but not pregnant enough to be getting BFP's cos your hormones aren't strong enough, then surely you wouldn't get the other symptoms either?

Also the needing to wee alot one I thought comes when baby starts to press on bladder which obviously isn't happening at the 4 week stage!

only reason i am saying all this is cos in my early months of TTC no2 i thought i had some of the symptoms like needing to wee, feeling really hungry, but when i looked up signs of early pregnancy on the net it just said first sign is missed period, then sore boobs, then sickness and needing to wee comes alot later.

sorry to go on, not wanting to generate a whole debate on subject so feel free to tell me i'm talking crap! I will not say another word on the subject, promise!

ms lucy sorry about the driving test.

bobbydazzler · 16/08/2007 16:24

p.s LT hope everything goes ok for you at docs.

looneytune · 16/08/2007 16:58

mslucy - oh dear, what a PITA

Bobbydazzler - wasn't having a go and it didn't come across right as I was feeding a baby mindee her bottle at the time plus rushing as had to leave for the Dr's. I want to firstly correct one of my symptoms....I didn't mean to put weeing a lot in that bit - think my current rushing to the loo every 5 mins made me automatically put that . As for everything else, yep, it was dead obvious it was deffo pg symptoms, I was having a go at my best mate a lot and made her cry etc and we'd never fallen out before. Also, if you knew me and how little I ate until I suddenly was eating for England & craving certain foods, you'd understand I just thought I'd post this I got from the internet:

A normal non-pregnant woman is at a level of 5miU or less and from the first day of becoming pregnant the level of HCG doubles every day for the first 3 months until the level is at several hundred thousand. The average woman could, therefore, show a faint line only 1 day after conception but if the level started at 1miU then it would be 3 days after conception that the line would show. Accordingly it can vary from person to person and the actual day of conception in the cycle can vary slightly depending on the day the egg was released from the ovary and the day it was fertilised. Normally we would say that these tests would be certain to show a positive result 6 days after conception. On the 7th day the line would be much darker and so on. Having said that we have had women say they showed positive after only 2 days!! The risk of testing too early being that the test could be a false positive or the fertilised egg may fail and may turn out to be just a heavier period than normal.'

Now the weeing thing I mis quoted from my list of symptoms but I did read that not only does that happen later from pressing on the bladder but also because our body starts producing more waste. Oh, and another thing I got YES as early as a week was that dark line that goes up to your belly button from down below (not sure what called?)

Anyway, everyone is different and I think some symptoms can certainly be misread - look at me, I'm now 98% sure I'm not pg, that a lot of things I was feeling was because I had an infection starting and gradually got worse and the other symptoms to do with my crying, snapping, sore boobs with spots and leaking etc. were/are down to hormones

I agree about not testing anymore though! I've used 4 bloody tests this month but then again, they were cheap from ebay so I thought why not. Well, it's NOT good as each BFN makes you upset doesn't it

Come on TLSM, we're both waiting til Sunday - lets try and NOT test anymore. What's the point.....we get a negative and wonder if we've tested too early anyway - DON'T WE!!! . With ds I tested a couple of days before period was due - BFN, still stopped drinking as was that convinced and my friends insisted I was....either day I was due period or the next day - BFP. So, we're much better off just leaving it!!

Oh and bobbydazzler, thanks, Dr went ok. Quick in and out as had sample with me, got tablets to help clear infection (fine in pg thank god - wishful thinking though!! hehe). Also got cranberry juice and bicarb of soda to put in water. Hopefully be feeling better soon. Reckon the infection came from too much sex and not going to the toilet after (for some reason I thought I shouldn't but been reassured it makes no difference! )

newkid · 16/08/2007 17:09

Well I add faint lines on all my pg tests when pg with DD and I was almost 6 weeks pg by then (took me so long to do test as had been ttc for more than 2 years so I'd convinced myself there was something wrong other than being pg - too much reading!!). Had a blood test to confirm and numbers were really high so a bit confusing all round. As they say a line is a line.

newkid · 16/08/2007 17:09

had not add

bobbydazzler · 16/08/2007 17:35

Hi LT

Don't worry didn't think you were having a go!

Think I'm just a bit fed up with all the symptom spotting that is going on at the mo on other threads.

Kind of feel like been there done that and that all the speculating is a bit pointless as you never really know unless you are lucky enough to get a nice big strong (or even faint!) BFP, or your AF doesn't come coupled with a BFP. Those are the only scenarios i am interested in and everything else is a bit "yawn" Forgive me I am now on my 15th cycle TTC so i am a bit jaded!

That is not to say that noone can talk about their symptoms or anything else in here cos I think everything goes.

There is currently a debate going on in the Hut about why the caravan got started and the fact some of us did not understand or like the hut rules.

I am staying in here and not going over there to add my tuppence worth as I said it all before on the old hut thread before the hutmistress shut it down and then restarted the Hut with the new title!

Thanks TSLM once again for starting the caravan as a refuge from rules and regulations and a place were people are welcome to feel whatever they want!

looneytune · 16/08/2007 18:25

Good, glad you didn't think that. I worry sometimes because things can come across different when just in writing!

Oh, sorry, I've definitely been a symptom spotter this month . I wasn't thinking too much about it AT ALL as had lots of things going off this month and was just getting on with it. It was only when the sickness and metal mouth came that I then read too much into each symptom. Sorry, I'm probably one of those really annoying people, didn't mean to be, just so hard when your body plays up like that. Anyway, after 15 months of TTC I'm not bloody surprised you find it annoying!!!

Oh, and what is all this in the hut then? All i've heard is bad stuff so decided to not bother looking (and I don't qualify anyway! ). Just to be nosey....what are the rules? And did I read you say something about not being able to on there?

I like the caravan

nomoremagnolia · 16/08/2007 18:33

Peace pipe anyone?

Please let's be civil, there are different places where people feel they belong - yours is the caravan, mine the hut - but it doesn't mean we can't all be nice to each other. The only reason these two threads exsist is because we're all struggling with ttc and sometimes it's bloody hard to keep happy about it.

Friends?

bobbydazzler · 16/08/2007 18:44

Looney tune, please don't worry about offending me cos you didn't one litte bit, honest

I just personally don't want to join the thread that has just started about symptom spotting during the 2 week wait and did not really feel like i belonged anymore on the hoping for a BFP in Aug/Sept threads.

Went into HUT and found myself embroiled in a row about whether or not you could put smilies on your posts, or what feelings were ok to express so left there. I love all your smilies by the way i think they are funny!

Nomoremagnolia, sorry I should not bear grudges re my brief and unhappy hut experience, so yes friends, like impatience says (who seems very lovely supportive hut dweller) it is horses for courses. I like the caravan and don't feel the need to go back into the HUT. I am also finding support on the older mums thread so all is well in my world apart from the FTC!

And my addiction to Mumsnet which seems to rapidly be taking over my life!

nomoremagnolia · 16/08/2007 18:51

bobbydazzler - thanks for that - didn't want it to turn into a playground thing - they're talking about us talking about them etc.

I think a few months ago I might have belonged in the caravan (had it been invented) There was the tent of indifference, but for some reason no-one could be bothered to maintain it.

I get a lot of support from my 'regular' thread but sometimes you don't want to bring your freinds down with you so the caravan/hut is the place to do it. I had the worst day on mon but a really good MN friend posted her BFP on our thread that same day so I didn't want to bring her down or steal her moment with my selfish moaning.

Best of luck for ttc btw

(nomore begins to wonder about split personality issues...)

bobbydazzler · 16/08/2007 19:30

and to you too

and well done for bringing an end to hostilities! you aren't a diplomat in RL by chance!

mslucy · 16/08/2007 19:36

Just exploded at dh so obviously feeling more crap than I want to admit.

Just want something good to happen, rather than the ending tide of sort of ok but a bit rubbish that is my life!

Joking apart, have a genuine belief that failure to pass test and get pg are subconsciously connected - feel one will sort of follow the other.

At the moment it's stalemate.

dullsville.

Want to go and snoop round the hut now

bobbydazzler · 16/08/2007 20:38

ahwww Lucy sorry that you feel life in general is a bit pants, apart from the failure to make no. 2 yet I quite like my life otherwise.

I am a bit worried i have lost my focus workwise with all this TTC malarkey and that i will get into trouble if i don't pull my finger out. Used to not think about it in work but now spend too much of the day taking sneaky peaks on Mumsnet. Deffo going to ban myself from doing that. Will be enough just to go on in the evening.

Also spent quite alot of time this week during work time talking to a social worker about adoption as that is a route i would consider. Only problem with that is that you have to tell them you will use contraception and have given up TTC and that is not something i am going to be ready to do any time soon.

Anyway hope things look up for you. Tomorrow is Friday, does that help?

Thelittlesoldiersmummy · 16/08/2007 21:39

Bobby I promise I will not do no more spotting

Looney thats a bet no more testing until Sunday when due if Af doesnt arrive but by the sound of what you got of the intertent she will so hay ho for another month yes I will

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nomoremagnolia · 16/08/2007 21:43

I guess I am quite a diplomat in RL but by personality rather than career
Actually I quite like the caravan, can I pop in every now and again to make sure the power-sharing agreement is still working? I'll bring chocs and alcohol (assuming such things are welcome?) I might even bring you a camping stove so you can melt the choc and dip fruit in it...

Thelittlesoldiersmummy · 16/08/2007 21:47

Choc and alcohol always welcome no need for the camping stove we have a small oven and two ring hob over there by the pump sink opposite the 5p shower and toilet combo

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bobbydazzler · 17/08/2007 09:27

although the camping stove might be good for days when it is too hot to use the stove inside? ok i know we haven't had too many of those this summer but we are in an alternative universe in the caravan.

oops broken my rule already re no posting in worktime, aaaah!

looneytune · 17/08/2007 10:30

bobbydazzler -

mslucy - Sorry you are feeling down

TLSM - Deffo no testing!!!

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