Just want AF to arrive so new cycle can begin...

[CaribouCarafe]

AF due in 3 days.

Am sure I'm out this month - negative FRER today and I have the usual PMS acne.

Just want my period to come already so that I can get this useless cycle over with and have a commiseration beer.

Just frustrating as have been taking pre-conception vitamins for months, cut out caffeine, no alcohol during TWW, have DTD every other day, tracked ovulation and with no success.

Anyone else fancy a moan whilst waiting for AF to show up?

Ugh caved and started Googling 9dpo symptoms and convinced I have them all 😂😂

@LS2020 AF arrived yesterday for me. Ragin but at least I know I'm out 😤😂
Still got my fingers crossed for you though! x

@mrswilso sorry to hear that, hope you’re treating yourself to lots of wine ❤️
Thanks, my body is massively messing me around this month - swear had more positive symptoms than the month I was pregnant 😂 got them all - sore boobs, really nauseous, gassy, cramping, bloating, backache, super exhausted (Fitbit average sleep is 10 hours this week) and a few headaches. I feel horrendous! Plus my RHR is trolling me as up for two days in a row now. I’m not due til next Thursday though so this is going to be a longggg week 😩

I’m really sorry it’s not been your turn this time @mrswilso 💐

Keeping fingers crossed for you @LS2020 the wait is the worst!

Thanks @Ughmaybenot honestly is, AF is due any point from this evening (based on last few cycles) or Thursday on what is my normal pattern so who knows!
Had some cramping last night so thought might be AF today but normally lose my symptoms and haven’t so god knows what’s going on!!

How is everyone doing?

@Sunbird24 good thanks how are you?
Feeling confused by my “symptoms” this month, was feeling super positive until yesterday and most of them disappeared and started cramping so thought was out but today cramping has subsided and all my symptoms are back so no clue! Only down now is my RHR has flattened so not a great sign. Need to try hold out til Thursday to test but as I’m off tomorrow, not sure I’ll be patient enough to wait all day 😂

I’m still fretting that my embryo was measuring 5 days behind when it should have been 6+5, but I have another on Monday when I should be 8+1 so can only hope it’s caught up a bit.

I don’t know anything about RHRs, but you’re never out until the fat lady sings...

@Sunbird24 I’m sure everything is fine, hope the scan provides you some reassurance though! If I was in your shoes I would probably be booking in a private scan every week! Drive myself loopy. You did have the negative HPT first so maybe just took a bit longer to implant so you’re not as far along?

Hahaha read that as ‘until you sing fat lady’ and was like why do I need to sing 😂

Did I? I can’t even remember! I know I got my first v faint BFP 7 days after transfer, so that would be 12 days after the nominal conception date as they were 5 day embryos, and 13 days after I ovulated. I’m clearly massively overthinking this 🤭 Whatever will be, will be...

@Sunbird24 yes it will be but I’m sure this is your time ❤️ Hope it goes well Monday

AF arrived for me this pm but not too sad as I’ve finally had a normal cycle and can have my day 3 bloods redone Friday so means I can move on with my fertility testing too ☺️

@LS2020 that’s a positive step then, hopefully you’ll get good results from that

Thanks @Sunbird24 you excited for your scan tomorrow?

Got my bloods done on Friday so hoping will get results before bank holiday 🤞🏻

Can’t get excited @LS2020, too nervous!

Hopefully your results will be quick, waiting sucks.

Bad news, I’m legit back in the group

Nooo. Oh @Sunbird24 I’m so sorry lovely 😞 sending all the love in the world 💐

Oh @Sunbird24 I’m so sorry lovely 😔 sending you a massive virtual cuddle and love

@mrswilso

Had a fantastic talk (and a good cry) with hubby this afternoon and I'm currently in the bath with a laaaarge glass of one of the last (savoured) bottles of white wine from our wedding and a suspicious smelling cigarette 😏 feeling much better than I was earlier.

Thank you all for being there 🥰 I feel like this community in particular is one of the most supportive I've ever come across - you girls hear the absolute worst of what goes through my mind and I'm truly grateful for the outlet because I'm clinging onto my pre-TTC positivity levels by a thread these days and it's getting so so hard to hide that from "the rest of the world" ❤️

Also...we are getting dangerously close to 1k now 🤩🥳 time to start coming up with our witty next thread title??

@CaribouCarafe how are you?? How's that adorable little kitten?? 😍 ...not a euphemism btw 🤣🐱

Wow this thread moved quickly since last time I checked in! Wish we had a status bar somewhere on the side so that we could track everyone's cycle/progress - is that a creepy thing to say? Maybe... (!)

@Sunbird24 I'm so sorry to hear the IVF didn't take - I have my fingers crossed for you for the next cycle (if you have one planned) or that you have a sneaky unexpected natural pregnancy (this happened to a friend). I can't imagine what you're going through right now.

Sorry girls for dropping off the radar - bad mental health and just so, so fed up. In particular, I just can't deal with the threads on Mumsnet where people are considering terminating because the baby is arriving sooner than planned/didn't use contraceptive etc. It just feels so, so unfair.

It's now another anniversary of actively trying for me. What's worse is that I've just started a new job so TTC is off the tables technically for the next 3 months (although at this rate, sod it - probably won't get pregnant anyway!).

On the plus side though in KITTEN NEWS, we got our boy a little friend - he is an absolute marshmallow of a cat and the two of them are absolute best buddies. Favourite past times include:

• racing around the flat at 4am
• eating out of the same food bowl even though they have their own separate ones
• competitively pooping in the litter tray at the same time
• snuggling up to one another
• both demanding to be picked up by me at the same time.

Am feeling very blessed in this respect - 7 years of asking DH for a cat and he agrees to 2!

Oh my heart @CaribouCarafe I love your kittens! 😍
No chance of a surprise pregnancy here, not been that close to a man for the last 3 years! 🤭 Not completely averse to the idea, but unlikely to meet anyone in current circumstances, never mind getting them to agree to having a baby.

[quote CaribouCarafe]**@mrswilso* if you were going to imagine heavily pregnant women hunting the fields for men to use and abuse* which of the following would you go for:[/quote]
@Sunbird24 I'm guessing you can't relate to these women bravely hunting men in fields then .

Not gonna lie, part of me always assumed I'd have an immaculate conception - the Nativity story properly freaked me out as a teen!

I forgot to mention my favourite detail of the littlest kitten - he snarfles his wet food so quickly he gets bits in his nose that I then have to dig out for him (not envy) while he purrs like a little maniac. What he doesn't have in brains he makes up for in fluff .

Oh look at those two @CaribouCarafe 😍 little beauties 👌🏻

Sorry to hear you’ve been struggling lately, sending loads of love and strength 💐

@Ughmaybenot thank you! How are you doing? Things seem to be going positively for you? Tell us everything!

I’m, touch wood, great thanks @CaribouCarafe. According to the midwives I’m 9w+4 but I think it’s less than that due to when I ovulated, but either way, I’m just on cloud nine really. Cannot stop throwing up, and been this way three weeks, so have lost a load of weight, but I don’t mind so much. First midwives appointment on Thursday but no date for my first scan yet, that’ll make it more real I think.

@Ughmaybenot wonderful (the pregnancy part, not the throwing up bit)! So happy for you. Hope things get easier for you - the second semester is just around the corner . Let us know how the first scan goes!

Thank you lovely 😊 honestly tho @CaribouCarafe I’d take being sick like this for the whole time if that’s what it took. Of course I will, I feel good about it but can’t help feeling a bit nervous here and there too!