2ww and the bit in between. BFP's we're waiting!

[Bucky2008]

Maybe a nice shiny new thread will get us all enthusiastic again. I am on my rubbish diet so I only have nuts and beans to put out on the table. Oh and gin of course ;o) Anyone got any cakes to tempt me with?

Ding ding....let's...go

Do you think I have gone a bit mad

hi ladies
BFN for me last night so im waiting for a few days to see what happens! as i have no clue when i Oved or when AF is due i have to just wait as i may have oved early or really late as my temps in the middle werent high or low so i dont know really!! im useless this month!! (look what being too relaxed does to you!!)
bucky im intrigued as to who my mystery angela is now!! i have a feeling i know aswell!! but i have never met anyone off here so it will be interesting top see if i am right!!
MOB sorry AF got you hun xx hopefully the tests will clear things up for you and you will have that elusive BFP
hi to SH PnM GG and all our preggy lurkers
xx ei xx

soooo...ladies how long after BFP is it reasonable to go out and buy things as 'cravings'???
xx ei xx

Ei posted for you on the Emmsy thread too - does this mean you got BFP then.....? I sooooooooooooooooooooooo hope so !!!

wooohoooooo Ei just got your confirmation that you have a teeny tiny bean growing in your belly - yippeeee congratulations missus, you so deserve it as you've been on these threads for a while now and you have always been a wee ray of sunshine ! So what was different this cycle ? More chilled about it ? You seemed to obsess less this month - anything else to report ? and what about symtpoms ? Oohhhh this is such a good start to the week - let's hope there is a wee domino-effect and we have a run of BFPs
p.s. did you dream about your own BFP ???

Just a quickie as am work to say HOORAY for Ei!

How very exciting. I do hope this is the start of a long run of BFPs!

EI Woohoo!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy for you! What lovely news to start the week . How are you feeling? Never too early to start cravings..

I have only just admitted to myself that now I no longer feel quite so sick I should probably stop eating chocolate/crisps and croissants so much.

I am 12 weeks today! Hurrah!

MOB great about the doctors trip - hopefully it will be all positive news.

Scary I'm secretly hoping for suprise BFP for you too.

Bucky ow and ouch for the dog-related injuries!

Waving to all - far too sunny here today to be stuck indoors working

im not having cravings yet i just want an excuse to gorge on lovely food!! i have actually had a bit of a penchant for tomato sauces and i had this in early preg with DD and im not usually a fan of tomatoes but i ate a raw one when i had MS with DD aswell im goin out to buy another test later on cos i want to get a nice dark one before i will get too excited or graduate on the TTC thread i havent worked out when i will be due yet but thats my next mission today
xx ei xx

just checked fertility friend and it says my EDD would be 16th feb 2009
xx ei xx

Just a quick post cos am doing Jury Service all this week so am on my mob but just wanted to say a huge CONGRATULATIONS to ei - thats the best news i've heard in a long time , genuinely really very happy for you.

Hi to everyone else - will catch up properly tonight xx

Ei Congratulations Eat what you crave and want! Really really pleased for you.

Hello to everyone else, I hope this is the start of many BFP's to report.

Ei Many congratulations! Satisfy those cravings as soon as possible, in case the nausea kicks in! I'm really pleased for you .

I?m back home again and I feel the need to say CONGRATULATIONS again to ei!!!! Keep us updated on how you?re doing ? so pleased your relaxed attitude paid off!

Thank you to you all for your words of encouragement re going to the Dr?s. Tomorrow I am going to go and register with a new dr and get myself an appt with them I think?. This has been somewhat prompted by the fact that I am on CD23 and I have been spotting for the last 4 days (getting heavier by the day though). According to FF I have not ov?ed so I thought at first it may have been ov bleeding (never happened before), but it?s lasted for too many days for it to be that. The last time I had this I was pregnant and just about to miscarry so I?m deffo hoping it?s not that! I have NO other symptoms ? my boobs are not sore (quite a rarity for me!), I have no cramps, no spots, no crabbiness, nothing. I started taking EPO again this month but I?ve googled and it doesn?t say it can cause midcycle spotting.

I am confused!!!!!!!!

MOB how is the expectant guinea pig?! Do you have any mini guineas running around yet?! . Very sorry to hear about af arriving, horrible for you but pleased you?re talking things through with DH and he understood your POV ? did he call the GP today?

Soooooo pleased to hear about a happy good scan Abby! And also that your back is feeling better! Hope the GCSE marking isn?t proving too stressful?

SH can we swap DH?s for holidays?! I quite fancy a high maintenance holiday ? my DH is very tent proud and trained, he does a mean cooked brekkie and even washes up after! How are the symptoms doing??!!

Hope you?re having a fab time wherever you are GG!!

So sorry to hear about af Sparkly rubbish rubbish rubbish?.

Bucky! You poor thing with all your doggy related accidents!!! Hope they?re behaving themselves today!! Correct me if I?m wrong but is it your appt today? If yes, how did you get on?

Hi, I've not posted on any boards before, but I've been lurking on here for a while.

We've been ttc #1 since January and I really thought last month was our turn, I was symptom spotting like a mad thing, we had timed things so well...so I was crushed by AF's arrival on Sat (not helped by finding out a friend who started ttc at the same time as us is now pregnant). I feel like I've spent most of the last couple of days teary and depressed. My poor DH thinks I have rather lost the plot!

I just wanted to say that I find it so helpful reading about all your experiences, and I shall inevitably be sympton spotting again this month!

And a big congrats to you Ei - reading about your good news makes me start to feel hopeful again!

Just a quick post from me to say CONGRATS to Ei. xxxxxxxxxxxx

Evening all,

Hi and welcome to Caitni sorry to hear ttc is taking its toll emotionally on you - double whammy when you get af and a pregnancy announcement from a friend. I've found this thread to be a Godsend in terms of allowing me a place to 'offload' all my ttc worries - I hope you'll find it just as helpful!!

Although, saying that, it is rather quiet around here these days hope you all come back soon to help me with my spotting issues

I'm here!

Well done for getting to the GP Picknmix. I think it is a brave step, and you know it is the right thing to do. Now if I can just persuade myself to go... I have no idea how to explain the spotting issues. Do you take Vit B6? That's supposed to be helpful for lengthening the luteal phase.

Welcome Caitni, sorry it's been so quiet right away when you joined the thread. Sometimes it is a bit livelier but I rather suspect some of this lot are spending their time hanging out in the sun instead of on MN!!

Hope Finn and Molly are behaving Bucky. Are you ok?

I hope work isn't too hideous GG.

How are those cravings Ei? Has the news sunk in yet?

Hi also to Sparkly, MOB, Mibbes, MTW lurkers and the rest!

Wierd fake symptoms are continuing. I have heartburn, a sore left boob and twinges low down in my tum. And I am cravng eggs, although that might be because they are so high in folic acid which was depleted by the drugs they gave me for the ectopic. There have been lots of times that I have suspected that I have endometriosis, and I can't help feeling that the twinges may be soemthing to do with that. I always back out of any proper investigation because it involves a general anaesthetic, but maybe now I have to bite the bullet. Ectopics can be caused by endometriosis, which is what has set me thinking. If it's not that, it appears from my research (!) that lots of ladies go a bit barmy after an ectopic and imagine all sorts of aches and pains. I'm hoping it is all in my mind. Either way, will get to ttc again in a couple of weeks - Hurrah!

I'm here. Still lurking. Still secretly hoping for a BFP without trying too hard and getting obsessed.

Still getting a little down about what might have been, difficult with pg colleagues due around the same time.

Hey ho, af due in the next couple of days so fingers, toes, everything else is super crossed.

Hi to all - SH, hope you get those symptoms sorted. Must be messing with your head

x

Hi Ripmacwinkle. Good on you trying to avoid getting obsessed, it certainly seems to have worked for Ei.

It is pretty hard not to obsess though, when the longing for a baby is so very strong.

I have heard that two neighbours are pregnant with babies due the day mine would have been. Sometimes I feel like kicking something very hard, the whole thing is totally unfair. That was definitely my low point.

(But am mostly quite cheery and promise not to depress you all too often!)

Hi PicknMix, I think I will be finding this thread helpful, so nice to know you all know and understand so much! And well done for deciding to register with a new GP.

ScaryHairy, wow those are some symptoms! And what news to get about your neighbours, I think kicking something hard is a pretty understandable reaction...

RipMacWinkle, I'm also aiming to not obsess this month - my fantasy is zen like calm about the whole thing. Of course, am only on CD4 so there's plenty of time for me to get obsessed yet!

And hello to everyone else too, am looking forward to getting to know everyone's stories (and how do people come up with such great nicknames?!?)

Hello ladies and newbies !

PicknMix your spotting does sounds strange - could it be imp bleed ? How long are your cycles usually ? I had a 3 day imp bleed from about 9/10 dpo. I also used to have 5-6 days of pre-AF spotting which I was convinced was all manner of fertility problems - but whatever caused it didn't stop me getting PG

Scary hope you get back to the ttc business soon and the phantom symptoms stop messing with your head. I took vit B6 to lengthen LP - what I was hoping for was that it would reduce pre-AF spotting but after 3 months it had made no difference. If you want to lengthen LP it is defo worth a try though and take VitB Complex too as it aids absorption of Vit B6

Gosh its hard this ttc malarky isn't it?!

I can fully empathise with the wanting to kick something SH and thinking 'what might have been' RIP - my friend was due pretty much the same day as me, last Saturday I spent the day with her 7 month old daughter and it HURT. Alot.

Have everything crossed for you RIP for the next few days though

SH I think there is probaby quite a lot of truth in what you say about imagining a lot of symptoms having suffered an ep - must be such a worry to you

Caitni good luck with staying calm this month - if you work out how to then please let me know, I desperately need to calm down about it all

Thanks Mibbes and SH for your comments on my spotting - my usual LP is 16 days so I don't want to lengthen it. FF finally put my lines in today, put me at 11dpo. Then I spoilt it all by entering that instead of spotting I had a 'light' flow (is that the right word!?) and FF took them away again and said I was back to cd1.

My usual cycle is anything from 30 - 50+ days so getting af at cd23 is wrong wrong wrong. I just don't understand!!! I also don't know if it is af - (apologies in advance for tmi but....) its only there when I wipe, never appears on pad and is only happening in the evening. When it is there its quite a lot of brownish boody mucous stuff (again, apologies). I would love to think its implantation but its been happening for 5 days now and I have no other symptoms.

Crikey, me me me - and not even very nice me me me!!

Mibbes how are you doing at the moment?? How did your scan go?!

Hi Ladies

Just popped in to say CONGRATULATIONS to Ei. . How great is that?

Absolutely nothing happening ttc-wise here. DP has been away for ages he is back briefly today CD12 and then working late till Friday so not sure what will happen this month.

My appointment is on Thursday, thanks for asking PnM. I am really scared of going to the hospital . I have kind of given up on on having a baby. I truly don't believe it is ever going to happen. I am not depressed about it, although it probably sounds like it, I am just kind of resigned to the fact that its not meant to be. I think that is why I don't check in much anymore. I feel really detached from ttc. Anyway, enough about me.

Hi to the new people, Hatty, Abby, Mibbes, Scary and O7MTW....MOB where are you and GG come back I am .

Hugs for everyone else.

xx

Bucky, hi! I know it seems like you're trying to acheive the impossible at the moment but I am really hoping that this trip to the hospital will start the ball rolling for you and give you the boost you need to feel like things are moving forward.

I have my fingers crossed that whoever you see is just as proactive as the consultants who dealt with GG - big hugs for Thursday. I know you don't feel like posting much but do drop back in and let us know how it goes xx

Just a quickie to send (((hugs))) to Bucky.

I really hope seeing the Consultant does the trick for you. If anyone deserves to conceive it is you after your long wait.

(And when you do finally get pregnant I will cheer my head off.)

PicknMix (((hugs)) You needed them on Saturday but you're getting them now I really feel for you my friend had her baby two wks before my first mc'd baby was due in March then my second mc'd was due on Monday 9th and my other friend had hers last Weds. The blow is softened for me as I'm PG but I know how difficult it can be when you're not. As for your spotting/bleeding is sounds very strange

Bucky Maybe being resigned to it never happening might make it happen, I do hope so.

Scary Glad you're back! Your situation is very complicated too I hope you are successful in TTC in the next couple of weeks.

As promised I'm reporting in. I do hope this gives you all hope and I'll sprinkle it with baby dust ***I had my scan yesterday and all is well, it is amazing to see it all on the screen. We don't know what the sex is so a nice surprise in October.
My consultant has referred me for a growth scan at 34 wks due to the fact my DD was 9lb 2oz (ouch!) to check I don't grow big babbies I'm only 5'2" and normally 9st so I'm hoping this one isn't going to be quite so big.