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Symptom Spotters Anonymous (egg spotting or implantation spotting let's have your symptoms)

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digitalgirl · 04/12/2007 19:38

New 2ww thread, have brought over mince pies and mulled wine and put up some fairylights

Come in, take your heels off and get cosy!

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BuckytheRedNosedReindeer · 16/12/2007 08:15

Well AF and cramps well and truly disappeared but BFN this morning...so who knows what is going on . Obviously nothing to do with being pg though. .

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pixie04 · 16/12/2007 10:37

Good Morning Ladies!

Bucky sorry to hear about weird spotting and AF cramps and BFN It aint over till TEW arrives remember

Hi DG

Abby & MTW So sorry to hear about the BFN's.

PMSL though at Abby's altercation with the cyclist, sorry. I hate shops and shopping at xmas time. DP and I went shopping on Saturday, of course it was extreamly busy. Well The BFG thought it safest to walk behind me as somehow I manage to clear the path infornt of us hehehe I get this dont f* with me, angry pixie look on my face and people move. Its quiet comical. DP says I become a totally different person when I'm shopping and it scares him.

BuckytheRedNosedReindeer · 16/12/2007 14:21

Hey Pixie nice to see you...we miss your little shoes with bells on pottering around.

Well, call me crazy but I don't believe the test..... AF has totally gone now. I am sure I am setting myself up for a big disappointment but I DO NOT believe the test.

BuckytheRedNosedReindeer · 16/12/2007 14:21

I should say, AF never actually arrived, just a bit of spotting and cramps. Now no spotting and no cramps.

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digitalgirl · 16/12/2007 14:30

bucky bfn and no AF? how bloody frustrating for you . perhaps give it a few days, could you wait till next weekend? the only way I got through the last week of my cycle (after spotting and cramps) was to pretend that I wasn't pregnant. eat, drink and make merry. and if no AF after a few days, then a BFP might be a nice surprise .

has anyone been reading the 'i have ruined my life' thread? who'd have thought there could be so much gossip on a mothers chat room

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BuckytheRedNosedReindeer · 16/12/2007 15:28

I have been reading it a bit, but I don't know what he did originally so can't figure out what's going on..... I only read the first page though.

BuckytheRedNosedReindeer · 16/12/2007 16:12

Waiting a few days is going to drive me mad dg, today a few hours is sending me loco .

coolkat · 16/12/2007 19:32

Good luck Bucky, keeping everything crossed (bloody hard to walk!!) X

ScaryHairy · 16/12/2007 19:55

Bucky I had a similar thing a couple of months ago and kept hoping it was implantation or something. No such luck for me, but I have fingers crossed for you.

Sorry to hear about all of the BFNs. Surely someone should get a BFP for Christmas?

I am pretty much resigned to the fact that it won't be me, as I am continuing to cramp and feel exactly as though AF is coming (she's due Tues/Wed I think). On the upside, DH and I each have 2 weeks off over Christmas which would put us in the same place for a few days around next ovulation as long as nothing total unpredictable happens with my cycle. It's a start!

BuckytheRedNosedReindeer · 16/12/2007 20:20

Oh Scary I know you are right, but I did get a BFP once (I MC at 9.5wks) and this is exactly what happened. So every time it happens, and it did happen a couple of months ago and it was not a BFP obviously, I start to think its possible. You would think the very clearly neg HPT would tell me something, but I am sooo fed up of nothing happening. I feel bad even saying that where there are people who have been trying for a year or more, but I don't understand why its not happening when I have a pretty good idea when i am ov-ing and I am BDing accordingly. I can obviusly get pg as it has already happened, so why???? Its so easy for some people . Why can't I just have a baby too??? . I really think I might have to take some time out, because despite trying to convince myself otherwise this is really starting to get to me.

07Christmasistheword · 16/12/2007 20:30

Af arrived today.

Abby Sorry for BFN.

Bucky I'm thinking the same too I really am starting to not handle this TTC very well. I'm so fed up why oh why is it taking so long? We only get a couple of days a month when it could work then even when you do everything "right" you only get a 25-30% chance of it actually working. I'm quite emotional about it this month so understand how you are feeling too.

ScaryHairy · 16/12/2007 20:31

Bucky I'm so sorry that this is getting to you... I don't really know what to say, but you do have my sympathy, honestly.
When DH and I were ttc our daughter, I never believed a single early HPT - I always thought they might turn out to be wrong, and every cycle became stupidly disappointed when it really was a negative. In the end, when I finally was pg, I did not even believe the positive HPT - I didn't want another disappointment and I had had (sort of) a false positive a few months before. I wish it could just be easy for all of us.

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digitalgirl · 16/12/2007 20:32

oh bucky it's like some sort of unfair lottery, where some people are luckier than other. i really hope your luck changes soon. i know you started ttc'ing a few months ahead of me but I feel like we've been on the same road for a while now...neither of us expecting to still be on the conception boards at xmas.

I'm realistically hoping to be pg by next xmas.

you have a lovely DP, an award-winning dog and have just got a promotion at work. yet, there's still something missing and we're bloody hard-wired to want one. it's not right that our minds are ready for motherhood yet our bodies tell us otherwise. and no-one can really know what it's like to desperately want a baby unless they've been there themselves.

i wonder if we get the same pain amnesia once PG like mother's do after childbirth?

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BuckytheRedNosedReindeer · 16/12/2007 20:43

07MTW If I could come round there and batter TEW for you I would . A good kick up the wotsits might teach her a lesson, stupid old evil uninvited unwelcome unpleasant ugly disgusting old cowbag spoiler that she is . Hope she does her thing and leaves as rapidly as she arrived and doesn't come back to your house again for lots of months. Change the locks and get some burglar bars....geez, she just won't get over herself and P*ss off....

Hmm um, a bit angry tonight...sorry .

Thanks DG,hugs back at ya. I am lucky really, but I guess you always want what you don't have. You know me, I'll snap out of it, just feeling sorry for myself tonight! .

BuckytheRedNosedReindeer · 16/12/2007 20:44

and you're right we have been on a bit of journey together. I am really glad we met in RL too, you're a fab girl.

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digitalgirl · 16/12/2007 20:52

i'm glad we met too.

we really must arrange another meet up for the new year.

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07Christmasistheword · 16/12/2007 20:55

Thanks Bucky you put a little on my face as I couldn't have put it better myself.

I'm TRYING to look on the bright side, I can eat what I want at Christmas (I don't drink anyway so that doesn't bother me), I've only got short cycles (but they get less by one day every month so if I don't fall PG soon they could become non-existant ) and we may conceive over xmas or on our first wedding anniverary (30th Dec)......I'm trying!

I hope things work out for you soon too. I'm heading into cycle 9 (thought it was cycle 10 until I checked in the waiting room) so we are quite close in that respect. It seems to get tougher every month.

Please feel free to rant here.

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digitalgirl · 16/12/2007 21:10

that's the spirit mtw

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Sandies · 16/12/2007 21:17

You have moved on DG. I was reading the Aug threads whilst lurking and you were far more....sensitive You sound more pragmatic and have a great SOH. We all sob when alone, for a variety of reasons. Those mince pies look lovely......

07Christmasistheword · 16/12/2007 21:56

Just had a big cry on DH's shoulders and feel better. He said the usual - don't put so much pressure on yourself, it will happen, cheer up but he did say if it doesn't happen in a few more months maybe we should talk to someone so at least we are thinking the same lets hope it doesn't come to that.

Thanks DG you're right no one seems to understand better than fellow Mumsnetters. I'm really pleased you are feeling better, you and GG moved on very well it's one hec of a roller coaster ride this TTC.

Sandies · 16/12/2007 22:12

So you're so down 07. Dh sounds lovely and kind. Have you been trying for a long time?
I'm right there with you, spotting blood now so just want full on af Looks like we will remain cycle buddies [ not sure whether to put sad or grin face here!]

Sandies · 16/12/2007 22:30

that should read sorry you're down

GryffinGrinch · 17/12/2007 09:25

good morning everyone. Sorry I have been away so long. I have been at the inlaws without internet access all weekend and now bacj to work with a horrendours week ahead! Why does everyone want everything done by Christmas?!

Buck are you ok this morning, m'dear? I have skimmed the thread, but did AF arrive. FIngers crossed for you. As DG said, when I strated out last Christmas, I never thought I'd still be TTC the following Christmas. IT's been a rollercoaster year for all of us. Thinking of you.

hello to everyone else I am around CD12 today, so DH is gearing himself up to perform for another month. h eis ever so good

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digitalgirl · 17/12/2007 10:49

gg good luck this week

bucky & mtw how are you both today?

sandies thanks!

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