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2ww starting now - (may 6th) - join me?

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yellowflowers · 06/05/2008 10:03

Right, not going to test until AF due, not going to obsess over sore boobs, not going to think about baby names, not going to give up alcohol. Anyone want to join me in pretending to not obsess about symptoms/lack of?

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bamamama · 12/05/2008 11:53

beanie - how exciting! fingers crossed for you.

yellowflowers - lol! the things we do, even when we're really, really, really trying not to obsess!

2GB, my ds is 2 this month, it was his due date 2 years ago today but he didn't show up for another 2 weeks. I've put him back in a grobag which seems to have curbed his cot climbing tendancies and contributed to this afternoons nap. I know I'm on borrowed time though

Well, I still feel a bit crap but I'm sure it must be all in my head. Have managed to stop counting dates from the last years cycles in my diary though. Also, read a hpt leaflet re accuracy in early testing - only 53% at 4 days before af is due. So we need to hold out as long as we can!

I decided to further tempt fate today (a la lighting a cigarette when waiting for a taxi) and bought myself a new pair of size 8 jeans. Bound to be preggers now!

beaniesteve · 12/05/2008 12:08

Well, I am just so scared it will be negative. Going to hold out until I am well and truly late. Plus I am not sure I trust the tests my BF bought as they are cheapie ones.

tousletop · 12/05/2008 13:34

Yellow, same for me at weekend! Must be this hot weather causing the milk to curdle... Anyway cup this morning was as welcome as usual
Bamamama, hurrah for temting fate. I realised I had no summer clothes (breastfeeding last year, pregnant summer before), so spent £550 last Sunday! Next we must book a ridiculous non baby friendly holiday, and get pissed every night for the rest of this week...
Beanie, give the cheapie ones ages to develop - from my experience they can take ages to develop a BFP line....

2beautifulgirls · 12/05/2008 15:35

lol, We must all be preggers as my milk has smelt off this weekend too.
I was drinking Cider yesterday and i don't even drink unless i'm having the very rare night out!!! Think the sunshine has warped my brain
Feeling a little sickky today, its nothing to do with all the mini cornettos i've been scoffing
So when will you be testing bamamama?
Excited for you Beanie, so when will you be well and truly late?
The girls are in the garden, were in the paddling pool but it got a little breezy so got out and dresed not its gone really hot again. I will never learn just sat on the swing with no cream on and now seem to have a red arm.....

tousletop · 12/05/2008 15:47

Ow ow sudden severe soreness of boobs. Typical premenstrualness, so a bad sign. Am grumpily expecting AF very soon.
2BG how lovely- ice cream and paddling pool sound idyllic from my stuffy office desk

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yellowflowers · 12/05/2008 17:19

I feel hungry all the time then bloated once I've eaten. Also very thirsty. But it is very hot. So much for not symptom spotting... But AF not due until Friday at very earliest and following Sunday if latest.

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babyignoramus · 12/05/2008 18:16

No need to apologise for not knowing when my AF is due, blowed if I can work it out either!! I didn't ovulate early this time (I don't think so anyway), think it may be on it's way today/tomorrow...

If I'm assuming a short cycle like last time, I'll be due on 24th - if not, I'll be due on 28th. Either way, I can do HPT on 24th as long as I use a FR. So I'm a bit behind you guys but I'll update you all anyway!

fym · 12/05/2008 19:14

hello all

not feeling at all pg so got a feeling this isn't my month....currently 7DPO... expect an LP of 12 or 13 making 17/18th my due date,..

good luck chaps

beaniesteve · 12/05/2008 19:32

still no sign....

tum de dum. I should test but I don't wanna!
If I have a short luteal phase is it better to wait until well overdue?

SweetieDarling · 12/05/2008 19:39

Hi fym. I'm due to test on 22nd earliest, good luck for 17/18th!!

Not expecting a BFP tho as don't feel like I have ov. this month (no ov. pains)

Yellowflowers - re milk!! that's exactly the sort of thing that would happen to me. DH unwittingly bursts my bubbles occasionally too, ie Me last week (on presumed ov. day): Do my boobs seem a bit bigger at the moment? Him: No, I've always thought that bra was too small on you

bamamama · 13/05/2008 05:03

beanie - test test test! I can live vicariously through someone elses test whilst I sit on my hands.....

I'm now on cd 29 so af should turn up anytime now really... I'm really trying to hold out on testing. I've been feeling so crap for the last couple of days and although boobs aren't sore they're definately there iyswim.

Anyhoo, hope everyone is enjoying the warmer weather. It's autumn here and the aussies are complaining about how cold it is. They really don't know they're born...!

tousletop · 13/05/2008 10:07

Beanie and PrePG any news? Beanie I don't think the length of your luteal phase can make any difference to when PT becomes positive, because if the hormones that are stopping your AF are there, then the test should pick them up, I would have thought

My boobs are no longer painful and I'm very spotty . I thought about my dates when I couldn't sleep last night and I think I'm due tomorrow or day after, not v hopeful at all now that I feel like this.

Bamamama - when are you going to test?

beaniesteve · 13/05/2008 10:10

Hiya

I tested using the cheapie sticks this morning and was negative. Still no period. I am 10dpo and 2 days late.

tousletop · 13/05/2008 10:25

Sorry Beanie. But the important thing is that AF still hasn't arrived.
When I was pregnant with DD, I had a faint pos, which DH didn't trust, so he went and bought 2 tests from sainsburys and these were both neg, then I had to buy a boots digital (which was a proper BFP) before we knew what was going on, so I think false negatives can't be that unusual.
Are you going to test again tomorrow?

beaniesteve · 13/05/2008 10:31

I'm going to wait now. Went through this the month before last when my cycle was over 30 days and I kept testing over and over. Think it's best if I just assume the tests are correct and that I'm just not pregnant once again.

tousletop · 13/05/2008 10:42

Big cyber hugs Beanie. I've still got my fingers crossed for you

bamamama · 13/05/2008 11:15

sorry to hear beanie - although you're probably right, best to assume the worst then you may be in for a nice suprise!

Well, of course despite my good intentions, I tested. BFN. Still, I thought, there's always next month blah blah. It was then I noticed the tests I bought this afternoon were 7 MONTHS OUT OF DATE! I figure this may affect their reliability [hopeful emotion] so I'm now back to square one. Will go and exchange in the morning and try again. Still feek sick on and off, boobs a bit sore and very tired - it's amazing the tricks your mind can play

How's everyone else doing?

babyignoramus · 13/05/2008 12:07

I?m a bit behind the rest of you, but what's annoying is that I?ve had no signs of ovulation this month at all (that I can spot), I?ve always been aware of a ?randy? few days in the past but that doesn?t seem to have happened. I can only conclude that I?ve either not ovulated this month (which would be a first I think ? typical!), have ovulated with no signs or am already pg - but don?t think I?ve had any pg symptoms either. Few cramps today but nothing else I can spot! No sore boobs but that doesn?t run in my family anyway ? they?re immune!!

tousletop · 14/05/2008 09:45

Was determined not to test but couldn't resist this morning and was a BFN. Feel like I've cursed myself by testing early...

Babyig - do you get any ewcm or other signs of ov?

beaniesteve · 14/05/2008 09:45

Sorry to hear that Tousletop, when are you due.

Got my period today.

tousletop · 14/05/2008 09:51

Beanie that's really crap, I'm sorry. Are you ok?
I'm due today/tomorrow, so I think it would have been a BFP if I was pregnant.

2beautifulgirls · 14/05/2008 09:51

morning everyone, how are we today?

Any more testing beanie

bamamama did you change your tests?

tousletop any news from you?

Well i've been naughty tested this morning, don't know how or why BFN of course.
AF not due until sunday.

I'm very spotty on my face, they are the ones under the skin so really sore! Nose still snotty and even a little blood on the tissue this morning Never had a nose bleed in my life!
Also my (.)(.) are huge and sensitive.

Not going to test again now until Sunday, will just have to sit on my hands

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yellowflowers · 14/05/2008 10:22

Is snotty nose a sign. I have that too, thoug thought I was just getting a cold.

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2beautifulgirls · 14/05/2008 10:47

well being congested is and i was with the last two, felt like i had a cold coming. On the other hand mine might be Hayfever not that i have ever had hayfever before.

tousletop · 14/05/2008 11:25

For those of us that are feeling despondant today, could we try starting a list of things that we think may help us to conceive next month?
I'll start with the 'pillow under bottom' thing, to help the little swimmers in the right direction...
Please, all ideas welcome....

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