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[Sez281]

New thread for 2024 ladies 💓

For those of us still waiting on our BFPs 🙏and those of you that want to come back and update us with all of your lovely news 🌈 🥰

@Westy22
@Jadeypie
@xxcxdonxx
@SnookyPook
@Supertrooper101
@Hankthehonk
@HopeAndStrength
@DmcinT
@Strawb28
@Paws4thought

So sorry if I've forgotten anyone please add them or jump on board if you see this xx

No he's out of the country till Wednesday, thank god because I can't hold my piss! 🙈😂 I'm hoping if it progresses over the next few days I might be able to confirm it on a digital and tell him when he gets home. He'll be as worried as I am though 😕

@Sez281 didnt know if you would have cracked in the night and sent him a pic of all the test sticks haha or is he of grid.. nice nails btw lol, but all i can imagine is you pushing a pessary up with them bad boys 🙊 🤦‍♀️🤣

@Sez281 that's a great line for 10/11 dpo, hurrah for smu! I've never known those boots tests to have evap either so I'm going to call this a bfp even if you're not

@Hankthehonk I'll let you call it that but I won't allow myself to just yet 😂

@Supertrooper101 pmsl 🤣 luckily they're shorter than the pic makes them look! I was talking to him last night and this morning and it's killing me not saying anything but the dream would be to have it in writing on a digital by the time he comes home on Wednesday 🙏🙏

Morning all!

@Sez281 oh definite line there on that pic. Your nerves are so understandable but as the others have said, we are here with you for all the ups and downs! Hopefully lots of ups! The timing is so weird with coinciding with your last dates so well. I can definitely see that feeling weird. On the other hand, it would all feel weird and worrying anyway. Maybe little bean is back here for a do-over with a better ending 🙏🏼🌈💕

@Paws4thought those week predictor ones are notorious tbh! If you Google sooooo many threads come up with people worrying they're not changing correctly etc. I never did one this time as I couldn't handle the worry. Just as well because my scans have consistently measured a week behind my dates. All progressing fine but just a week behind dates 🤷🏼‍♀️ I must have ovulated/implanted late but was oblivious until my first scan at 7+2 (which measured 6+2). Have stayed on that growth trajectory. Would have been super worried if I'd used those again so I'm glad I avoided them this time!

How's everyone else doing? Xx

@SnookyPook I'm in work this morning cramps back ache feel shit. Think af is pending for me I've got loads of creamy cm so no way could I be ovulating. Am just all in my head at the moment. I think this month has been the only month since last year I have completely been obsessed ggs xx

@SnookyPook maybe I am pregnant because I just burst out crying at the thoughts of little been getting a do over 🥹🥹 im an emotional mess this morning In a good way!

@Jadeypie I really think you should test again later after a long hold. My cramps the last couple of days were so bad, plus I was convinced AF was coming even with the progesterone as for 2 days I had some cm that made me check for AF every time. You're definitely not out yet 🙏 xx

@SnookyPook I'm 36w now, got scan tomorrow to check growth and find out if he's still breech (and possibly schedule induction or section depending on the outcome). I finish up work on Thursday and can't wait as I'm really struggling with exhaustion, pelvic girdle pain and unbearable heartburn. But also just ready and excited to meet our son now ❤️

My mum and sister just took my dd out for the day and I have the house to myself until teatime (dh works weekends). Such a strange feeling! I think it's the first chance I've had to be properly selfish this pregnancy, certainly for a whole day. Running myself a bath! Don't even feel guilty as they're off to sea life centre and she will have a ball

@Sez281 your bounced to be emotional. I actually thought aww bloody he'll when I read snookys post too xx
And if I have mine would be the exact day too conceiving wise. I had these cramps in bed last night and today on and off I'm genuinely convincing myself I am and then I will look like a right tit when af arrives hahaha. But as @Supertrooper101 I've got this appointment on we'd which is very much needed x

I actually wrote "little bean" but auto correct must have changed it 🙈😂

Aww @Hankthehonk Wow you're so close now, so exciting 🥰 You definitely deserve a pamper day enjoy every second! X

@Jadeypie I'm crossing everything for both of us 🙏 You're so right though, if not you have your appointment soon and you've got to this far in your cycle which is amazing 🙌 xx

@Sez281 @Jadeypie i know how you both feel and i think @SnookyPook knows even more and well, @Hankthehonk is nearly at the end of the 'torture feelings' journey lol take your day to yourself and enjoy it. You defo deserve and to be working this close to your due date you have clearly not stopped. Have a bath eat shit and have several naps lol your girl should be shattered when she gets back too so should be an easy all round day lol

@Hankthehonkyou absolutely deserve that time to yourself, enjoy it all!

I’ve got about an hour to myself this morning as my sis has taken my wee girl out to the park and wee boy is at football club. So I’m catching up with you lovely lot 💜

@Sez281 that is definitely a line! Not quite the same but I kept my first pregnancy to myself for a day and only told my dh in the evening. I think I just wanted to sit on it for a bit myself, not really sure why was a lovely surprise.

@Paws4thought no I’ve not done any more tests, I’ll just wait on af arriving now and start again.

Had a very real talk with my dh about it all. He buries his head in the sand with things and I think naively has been assuming we have made babies together before so it will happen again. I don’t think he has wanted to accept that someone else must be at play now as for whatever reason, I can’t seem to keep a pregnancy now. I wish I had his naive brain when it came to TTC 🙈 So just having to accept that it might not happen for us again and being ok with never knowing why. I know I have given it my all but can’t really keep on like this.

@Hankthehonk that sounds like a blissful day and definitely well deserved! Enjoy! 🥰

@Sez281 oops! Sorry! Didn't mean to make you cry!! But hopefully they were sort of happy/nostalgic tears. I have thought of this one as my original loss back for another go a few times and find it weirdly comforting 🤷🏼‍♀️💕

@Jadeypie still keeping everything crossed for you. Creamy CM and AF type intense cramps for a couple of days have deffo been early pregnancy for me in the past. But glad you have the positivity regardless of a longer cycle and the appointment Weds to move things on if this is a BFN.

@Supertrooper101 how are you holding up?

@xxcxdonxx glad you've had a bit of time to yourself this morning. It's so hard isn't it when infertility/fertility struggles gut unexpectedly after previous pregnancies that were no problem. I think it really catches you unawares. Amazing how often our DPs are oblivious to it all. Sending you a hug today. 💕

I'm at that stage of feeling very surreal again about my pregnancy and a bit anxious in the run up to the 12wk scan. Not helped by the fact a couple of women on the pregnancy group have had dodgy Nuchal Translucency results and high risk etc. Sometimes I think MN is deffo a curse as well as a blessing!! Might just stick to this thread for a few days!!

*gut = hit

@SnookyPook that's reassuring thank you, I'm trying to go with pregnant until proven otherwise and hope otherwise doesn't come.
@Sez281 it's all sounding hopeful, keeping everything crossed for you 😀
@Jadeypie as everyone says on these forums you're not out til AF shows up.
@xxcxdonxx it doesn't make sense that it can happen fine before and now won't, hopefully you'll be able to get an appt to try to get more answers.
@Hankthehonk ooo you must be so excited! Have you decided on a name or waoting until you meet him?

@SnookyPook people mainly come on forums when things aren't going well so for every negative you've read recently there's probably 10 positives we'll never know about, it's even harder after your own experiences too, agree with it being a curse as well as a blessing 🙈 thankful I came across you guys as you're all fab 💓

@SnookyPook i agree that these forums are mainly for ppl struggling one way or another. I would defo stick to just this one for now. Am alright. Day by day till the 1st i ges 🤯 lol
@xxcxdonxx can see where your oh is coming from. Just reality dosent always work like that. I would love to be the male in all this ! Did you say you have an appointment soon re ur othee bloods? Will you ask for a hcg one then if af dosent turn?
@Jadeypie its a tease between the real thing or af as it all feels the same. Just try and laff at it all, for now, and focus on weds, and u never know, u may decide to do a test inbetween and boom baby lol
@Sez281 those digitals the one i got anyway. Lasted 24hrs! Thats it. Like. Wtf...the price u are and u cant hold that screen for more than one day lol

@SnookyPook i totally get that where you feel one thing is under control and a new source of worry comes along. Is it this week your scan is?

Not long for you either @Supertrooper101 , keeping everything crossed for you.

I don’t have any other appointments booked in for now. I was trying to get one to
get bloods for hcg but there’s no need for that now. I am going to call the consultant though, I need to know the results of these blood tests and what that means (if anything) and ask if there is anything else that I can have checked in the mean time. What I really need is a private, on call specialists who can give me answers…if only!!

Just trying to catch up on everyone's updates 🤞

So hopeful for @Sez281 @Paws4thought 🤞🤞 I know how nerve wracking this wait is now but we are all behind you. @Jadeypie I still have a positive feeling about you too, but as you say I think having appointments in place helps navigate through this.

@Hankthehonk @xxcxdonxx enjoy your restful day it sounds like heaven, I rarely get days on my own as OH works from home so I was up at 8am sat drinking coffee in silence googling bbt stuff whilst he was snoring away 🤣

Hope your doing well @Supertrooper101 🤞

@SnookyPook I understand why the nerves would build especially with everything you read on here but think positive ❤️

Not much happening here, I'm 6dpo according to app, I swear it's skipped a few days coz that feels like it's flown lol I had another temp dip from 36.6 to 36.18 yesterday after 3 days of steadyish temps and now it's gone back up to 36.4. After my researching I've discovered mouth breathing can affect it and I'm definitely a mouth breather (I feel like I'm suffocating taking my temp with my mouth closed 🤣)so I dunno whether to start doing underarm instead 🙃

@xxcxdonxx the whole men are from Mars thing is just so true, they really work completely differently to us 🤔I know you're probably sick of hearing it but the fact that you're getting all of these BFPs is such a good sign. I honestly think that for you it's a bloods thing and something like aspirin etc might help, obviously I've no medical reason to back this up but take a look at the recent thread on here it's very interesting. In the meantime I hope you get clear answers soon and AF either shows or doesn't 🙏 xx

@Westy22 have you got a pic of your chart? I'm
a mouth breather too. I don't know if arm pit would give correct reading and I can't face the thoughts of vaginally when I'm half asleep 🥴😂

@SnookyPook I can only imagine the fear building up to the "big scan" and agree that some other threads would scare the life out of you! 😢 Will be crossing everything for you in a few days 🙏 xx

@Paws4thought im really feeling hopeful for you, you're the new threads good luck charm xx

@Supertrooper101 I've just been to the chemist to collect my new progesterone and aspirin script. I'm jumping from 200mg cyclogest to 800mg now 🙈 thank god we have a drugs payment scheme here as it was over €200! 😨 luckily I only had to pay €80. It'll be Murphy's law that my tests will start to fade now, but I suppose it's good to have it there if I've to try again but hopefully not 🙏 I also picked up 2 digitals just in case they get darker. One for me and if that's positive then one to show my OH when he gets back on Wednesday 🙏🙏

Thanks @Sez281you are right and it is a good sign that sperm and egg are getting together and doing their thing but something along the way is stopping it. Unless my eggs are really now all old and decrepit 🥺
What’s the thread on aspirin, I’ll def take a look?

That’s what I was to take also, well 2x
400mg. I can only imagine the cost of all this if we had to do it all self funded! I’m really hopeful for you 🙏🏻

Just seen you’ve tagged me in it @Sez281 thank you lovely 🥰

No problem 😘 it's very interesting. I saw sticky blood and thought of you 😂 xx

@xxcxdonxx that would be nice having our own specilist.. them and scans on demand, like the rich and celebs! If all this goes wrong then am back to square one. No gyne no fertility help nothing for a year and given my age, just not worth it. Probably have to go private just for progesterone lol @Sez281 thats a very pro active sunday 🤣 . Are you starting the aspirn today then? Do you think ur oh will be mad at u for all this hush hush or understand why uv kept it too urself? I think your doing it for the right reason and to be 100% for when his back will be great. Plus, he would only worry for you if it went wrong and he wasnt there for you. Can you tag me in this aspirin thing too pls ha

@Supertrooper101 I'll tag you now 👌

Just took an aspirin there. I'll take first 400mg cyclogest tonight then start taking 2 a day from tomorrow 🙈

So you know the way I said I can't hold my piss? I meant literally as well as figuratively..... Couldn't wait to take the digital and it came back as pregnant 🥹

I think he'll totally understand why I waited. I have to tell him in person. Plus anything could happen in 3 days, It's still so early and my cramps are still pretty bad! 😕