TTC THREAD 16--THE BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER!!!

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OH MY GOD

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT GIRLS, MONDAY NEGATIVE, TUESDAY NEGATIVE, I HAD GIVEN UP HOPE.

THURDAY 16TH DECEMBER BFP

here it is girls for give u a giggle - I'd be lost if my work bud didn't keep sending them to me! lol

Miss Bea, the church organist, was in her eighties and had never been married. She was much admired for her sweetness and kindness to all. One afternoon the pastor came to call on her and she showed him into her quaint sitting room. She invited him to have a seat while she prepared tea.

As he sat facing her old pump organ, the young minister noticed a cut-glass bowl sitting on top of it, filled with water. In the water floated, of all things, a condom! When she returned with tea and scones, they began to chat. The pastor tried to stifle his curiosity about the bowl of water and its strange floater, but soon it got the better of him and he could no longer resist.

"Miss Bea," he said, "I wonder if you would tell me about this?" pointing to the bowl.

"Oh, yes," she replied, "isn't it wonderful? I was walking through Fortitude Valley a few months ago and I found this little package on the ground. The directions said to place it on the organ, keep it wet, and it would prevent the spread of disease . and you know . . . I haven't had a cold all winter."

hello girls

just checking in on my way back from a party...had a lovely time but found out two of my friends are pg. One has PCOS and one has very bad endo and has had 2 mc and STILL I can't help feeling . Am I a bad person? I want them to be pg, it's just that I want to be pg too! God doesn't ttc make you selfish???

(((hester))) hope the choc was Green & Black - mmmmm best chocolate in the world!!

jb - love the jokes - keep them coming!!

Tania - how were the board games??? Sounds like my perfect evening!

off for some shuteye. catch you all later.

Hi girls bit quiet last night!!
Welcome back sweetfudge best of luck to you.
Colin do you normaly get any spotting b4 af i do most months it gets really frustrating. is af due?
Morningpaper and hula best of luck for you 2 hope you get a bfp for the new year.
Hester how was your choc and wine?
Jeddah good on ya girl hope the letter really gets at your gp and she changes her ways B*#CH
Well dh and i tried to get pissed last night but cause ds didnt go to be till 10pm (cause it was so hot and he slept on couch till nearly 7pm after the big day) we were so tired by then that after a wine or 2 we were strugling to stay awake. Sad cases we are BUT we all slept in till 9:30am and i had visiters coming around at 10am for morning tea and lunch. Had another prexmas lunch with 6 kids running around heck what a busy w/end i have had.
Question if my cycle last month was 26 days when would i be oving this month??? not that it really matters anyway not much chance of getting pg with blocked tubes hay.

Hi Tania! I don't know the answer to when you might ovulate on a 26 day cycle but someone else will with the combined expertise on here-It is great isn't it?

Hester, we'll be thinking of adoption as the next step if this doesn't work in the next six attempts. Would you have any similar plans with dp if you don't mind my asking or will it be too soon to think about something like that? Please tell me to p* off if it is too personal a question.

JB, I'm in Borneo at the moment and so the times I can log on are erratic with time zone differences, etc.

SF - is that naturally TTC or ivf ur going thru? (fingers crossed thou we'll all be PG by the summer)

Rudy - you're def not a bad person, ur only human. hopefully it won't be long for u either and then u cn all sit and chat/have ur morning sickness together! lol.

tania- my cycles have been 26 days since coming off the pill (apart from last month on the Angus Catcus) any how, I have concluded that I OV somewhen around CD 11-14, (I say that cos it seemed to vary slightly each month, but last month was the only time I had a def O with persona and a def smiley face with Clear Blue that was CD12/13. hope that helps. I did notice as well (first time eva on CD 12 I had a really bad cramp (but only when I sat down and ddidn't last long.) I put this down to my body doing it's thing as it were, and did the clear blue smiley when I got home, and it was smiling as well!

anuhow gotta walk my dogs so c u all l8r.

SweetFudge, yes we'll be looking at adoption as our next option. tbh, if I'd known five years ago that it would end up like this I would have gone for adoption straight away. I have to admit that I am now so exhausted that the thought of going through a long drawn-out process to be approved for adoption makes me want to cry... but if that's what has to be done to become a mummy and have a family, I guess I'll find the strength from somewhere. Mind you, I'm horribly aware that we're not prime candidates for adoption - too old, no parenting experience, live in a flat with no garden.. . The only thing we have on our side is our ethnic mix, which is particularly sought after for children in London.

JB thanks thats the dates that i thought iam currently on CD9 but really wondering if i should even bother working out dates and that since finding out about my tubes really seems like a waste of time (not the sex part of course)
Hester if you dont mind me asking where do you both come from?

Morning girlies!

cd9 for me with a green light!

Interested to hear the answer to Tanias question hester?....hope you don't mind us being nosy? What does the adoptions services think to same sex parents? would that go against you?

Hi Rudy.

sweetfudge.........Borneo! my broyher was there for 5 years!....lovely place!

Hi JB what you up to?

Off to Harrogate shopping with dh....wish me luck!

i've heerd the adoption process can take anywhere between 6months - 6yrs, alothough I dont' know how true that is. (wonders quietly.... does it matter what the personal circumstances are as long as the child will be looked after and loved etc...) I believe thou babies are hard to come by as it were but again I don't know how true that is. would you consider adopting from adroad if that was an option? (of course we all hope u'll get PG on ur own, but playing devils advocate here)

Tania - u never know hon, one of ur eggs might just squeeze thru so keep on bd just incase!

harrogate shopping - hmmm I never went there myself, althou I was parcial to york and the designer outlets all aroung it, is it cliffton moor as well? the one with the big cinema? - you can do all ur shopping in that lieelt retail park! is the opther one makartha glen? (ponders it... actually that could be the one down here) hmm, the white rose isn't too bad either for a change nr leeds.

Today, i've finished my stair case, (well it needs another coat so will do that tomorrow - yay that's done, i'm about to gloss the hallway upstairs - then yay that'a all done, then i'll put another quick coat of paint on the bathroom, (one tonight, and tomorrow - then yay thats all done) on tuesday i'll be doing down stairs hallway - then yay that's all done (gloss only there) and packing my bags to go home, weds it's off out with the girls in town - YAY! he he (can't drink too much thou as am up at 8.30 on thurs to take the dogs to the park then drive home) should be at pompey by about £.30 at the latest on thrus avo, and I can't wait! - no house work for 10 whole days!

hope everyone else is doing OK today.

meant to be 3.30 pm thurs*

Hi all

Sorry for my gloomy late night post. In the cold light of day am feeling much more positive about things and really am just happy my friends are pg. No matter unlogical it is I seem to have a pavlovian response to hearing that someone is pg and to hear of 2 on the same night - well...

Anyway, I've had a really lovely day just hanging out with DH and DS - mooching around some shops, went to the park and had a lovely pub lunch. All very relaxing. Hope everyone else has been enjoying nice weekends too.

How was Harrogate Jeddah? I've only been a couple of times but seem to recall it was very nice and had lovely teas at Betty's. Did you get all your shopping done?

JB - you exhaust me just reading about all the stuff you've done to your house! Glad to hear you're going to have a good break from it all over Christmas. btw do you support Portsmouth?

Very interested in the adoption conversation. I have an enormous amount of respect for people who adopt - I think it is a wonderful thing to do. I know if you went down that route you may have some battles on your hands hester but you seem to me the sort of person that can do that if you believe in what you are battling for and I think you would be a wonderful parent. (and I'm sure your DP would be too but I have even less info to go on for that!!) It may be too much to even think about or not at all the right way to go about things but if it were to take a long time would it be possible to start the process alongside still trying for your own?

Must go, a huge pile of ironing is calling me...

Hester, I'll email you re adoption.xxx

of course I do Rudy! ask a silly question. at the mo, I'm locked inside my house hiding from the mob squad! debating wether or not to open one of the kids pressies so I can eat the selection box!

Just nipping in to say quick hello - should never have laughed at DH and the fact that the sick bug we had hit his bottom end, after 48hrs of feeling better am now having problems myself , catch up tomorrow , lol x

hi girls - sorry i havent posted for 2 days.computer has been down and impossibl to get connected again

hay, any news ur end?

Evening everyone. How are you all? Seems quiet today - guess everyone must post more when at work!

Feeling sore today - fell over last night Slipped ont he limaniate floor and landed heavily on my side. No bruises but woke up sore and achy on my hip and upper arm. How come it hurts me so much yet 2yo DD falls over all the time and recovers within minutes????

DD is also poorly, which she so rarely is.She's red hot to touch and was a little sick last night. Has slept a lot today but calpol not cooling her dow. Has a nasty rattly cough too. Might take her to GPs if till poorly in the morning. Poor thing. She's just not herslef and so quiet - she is normally talking all day non stop.

twiga sorry to hear you're worse again. Hope you're fully recovered for next weekend.

And for you and dd hula. hope dd is better in the morning and you don't have too bad a night. Oh, and that your bruises clear up. Hate to say it but I think it hurts more cus we're older and more knackered than the young things! DS fell off the bed last week, saw something interesting on the floor and just carried on playing as if nothing had happened!

Thanks Rudy; sadly I suspect you are rigt. I am just getting older!

Twiga; hope you feel better soon.

Good morning girls,
Jed green light you go girl happy bding. I broke my ov fern test this morning
JB you work too hard i have been living in my house for 3 yrs this feb and still havent painted my bedroom. But yes we have done major reno's knocked out 2 walls in september to make open plan living completed it in 9 days just me and dh.
hula ouch! hope your recovery is quick & dd is feeling better soon.
hope you & your dh is feeling better soon too Twiga.
CD 10 here didnt bd last night just too tired may ask dh too come home after lunch when ds is asleep for a quicky. have a little cm this morning but still slightly bleeding from the op so cant tell how ewcm it is there is proberly not much chance anyway seeing my gp that refered me to gyno this morning to get stiches removed will ask his opinion. or if he knows where i can get some info about the proceedures.

BBC has an article on here about having babues later in life. I know some on here are interested int his. From scanning it the article seems very favourable and gives the advantages about doing so, and dispells myths. Hope it is okay to post this - just though some of the poster smight fnd it inteesting.

morning all, not had chance to pop in 4 few days & just can't keep up with you lot, lol. Tania, hope you' re recovering from op & that you get goo dnews soon, anyone asking about adoption? MY bf adopted a little boy (aged just under 2) last year after trying for 6 or 7 years unexplained infertility. nowt
apparently wrong with either Anyway, from start to finish took less than a year & he's gorgeous.

..I.'m. o.n sry ds 3o0helping, cd 23/25, so maybe I might get Christmas/// pressie safter all. hope everyone's feeling betterxxx

Hi everyone,

Sorry for not replying sooner- It is about 2 in the afternoon here and 6 a.m. back in London.

JB, like Hester and Feelingverylucky (who got a BFP last month (grin)) I'm ttc using the home insemination route. Like with Hester and her dp, the inseminations are wearing us down with the energy we put into co-ordinating it, etc.

I'm still waiting for AF to arrive but I refuse to get my hopes up since my body clock goes haywire when I travel. Also, I told DH over the phone last night that it was CD35 and he pointed out that my cycles can be as long as 45 days when I am abroad. He told me that he wasn't going to get his hopes up. I agree that it is the most sensible way of dealing with ttc but as I always remind DH, it is my body waiting to become pregnant. So he doesn't have to worry about what each twinge or ache might mean or rush to the loo to check his underwear incessantly like I do if I so much as feel a cramp in my pelvic area.

Jeddah- Hurray! What work did your brother do out in Borneo?

Hester - We feel the same way about the money spent on ICSI and the time we've invested into inseminations. When it failed last month, it felt like the last straw and so I called the adoption services in my area of London to find out what was involved and arranged a meeting. We found out that due to our ethnic mix, our chances of adopting a child domestically were pretty low. We were told that a child with our dual ethnicities came up very occasionally but we had to be prepared to wait indefinitely. (The social worker did cite the recent success of a couple like us who were matched with a child only a few weeks after they were approved for adoption.)

Needless to say, we were pretty shocked. We'd be told time and again by friends who had adopted that dual ethnicity couples were sought after. Hence, we attended the meeting with only one real worry ie. that we live in a London flat like you and have no garden for a child to romp in.

I think that was our lowest point. We've agree to take a break from discussing it while I am away. I know we need this break to refuel.

Lots of babydust to everyone.

I'm no expert here, but y do they put all of this importance on ethinic origins? - can the chil not be form one side as it were in stead of a mix of both origins?

Morning girls, hope you all had a good weekend....Thought I would let you all know that the progesterone pills have well and truly done the trick! AF pains started in earnest on Saturday and by Sunday af herslef had turned up......have had the worst period pains of my life by the way - but now started the good old Clomid and looking forward again!!!!

So glad to finally be able to say that Now if only I can shift these pains.......