The most addictable TTC and waiting to TTC thread on the whole of MN - enter at own risk, I can't promise the wagoners will behave!

[NatalieJaneIsPregnantAgain]

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Hi 2BG

Glad you had a good holiday. Sounds wonderful. Coming home is always the painful bit . Weird about your AF stopping like that. Has it just done that since you've been TTC?

Thanks for your wishes. My DH is home (after a wk of being away) and is really letting me relax. Wouldnt even let me empty dishwasher which is unheard of. He's currently cooking dinner which he is bringing to me on a tray. Bless him.

Think I will enjoy it.

What a wonderful DH, he should be spoiling you as 1, he has been away and not seen you for a week and 2,you are pregnant

Yes my AF since TTC has been very light, short think the longest is 2 days and no real cramps?!?! i did have a few cramps this cycle just before it started but nothing else. Its the TTC trickery, to drive you even more insane!

thats so weird 2BG. Its amazing how minds can affect our bodies.

Have a nice evening

PS- he is even doing clearing up

CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!!! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yahoooooo! I am so SO glad for you! You really deserve your BFP. yay!

I have no idea what CD I am on, but will be getting on with the GOFing for this cycle tonight! Cal, after your success I am tempted to get some Preseed.

I have had a bit of a rubbish day as one of the kittens got bad D and V and I had to rush her to the vet. Poor little mite is now on antibiotics and the opposite of laxatives!

On the plus side I bought some v sexy shoes for the 2 weddings I am going to later this year. here (Only New Look i'm afraid!) Nothing like a bit of retail therapy! I also gave in to the NEXT sale and got some lovely things for DD.

My word you ladies are busy on here, just taken me 10 mins to catch up since my "hello" message.

Can anyone remind me how long after fertile can you check to see if you are preg?? This is only cycle #1 and am just fertile and at it so I assume it is a few weeks, I can't remember with DD1 how long it was!

Congratulations Cal!!!! Are there any of us lowly TTCers left on here?

TicTac Your luteal phase - the time from ovulation to your period - is usually 12-16 days. I think Fertility Friend says that 13dpo is the most reliable test date.

Thanks again everyone! Am still going to do another test in the morning to see if I get a stronger line than today's test...it doesn't feel real at all and probably won't for a while!

Sorry I missed you NJ, am working from home tomorrow, so will be on permanently more tomorrow .

GYo - sorry I disappeared earlier, I was in meetings all this morning so had to work extra this afternoon to get all the stuff done that I should have done last Thursday but didn't due to being so tired from doggy disaster...anyway...(sorry for the waffling!) I'm sure you'll be fine and hope you get the reassurance you need tomorrow.

LB, sorry you're still struggling with the MS, I kept a diary throughout DS pregnancy, not specifically for pg, but it does help me pinpoint stuff - we went to Poland a couple of weeks after finding out I was pg and MS was just starting to kick in (my mates all found out really earley as it was supposed to be a big beer drinking fest and I was tee-total and ordering cucumber salads as couldn't face anything else!!), I was about 7 weeks pg then so not expecting any degrees of greeness for another couple of weeks .

Diege, am very of your lovely long holiday! What have you got planned?

Kooky, I don't know if the pre-seed helped or not, but its a nice coincidence!

Thanks lastboxoftampons. A couple of weeks wait for me then given my elongated cycles. I can't believe we are trying for number 2! Our finances are up the wall...can't afford double nursery fes even if we do catch soon.

Really excited though!!!!!!!

Morning all

In fact scrap the it is too damn early!

2BG, glad you had a good time away

Kooky have heard some very good things about pre-seed since joining MN, a load of people used it on my old TTC thread (when I was trying for DC2) and they all swore by it.

Cal am sure that line will be there this morning

Well I have this MW appointment at 10.30, I'm really worried she will dismiss my worries ("the books say you shouldn't be feeling anything until x number of weeks" I don't give a shit frankly what a sodding book says, I can read that for myself, I want her to reassure me with her knowledge/experience, too much to ask?!!) See why I don't want her to dismiss me? And I'll have the kids with me On the other hand, if she takes me seriously and then sends me to the hospital for tests or whatever, DH is miles away in the lakes, and couldn't get out of it yesterday.... did I mention I'll have the kids with me?!!

I don't know if I am more worried, or angry in anticipation, or feeling stupid to be worried about probably nothing, or feeling angry because I'm feeling stupid about being worried when I know how much the MW's like to shove under the carpet, argghhhhhh

OK early morning rant over, as you were.... Promise I will be in a better mood when I next post!

Morning NJ , good luck with the midwife today, now, if she dismisses you, you could just say, "I knew you would say that but it doesn't make me feel any better, why would it be that I can't feel anything this time when I could in my last two pregnancies at this stage" and if she says "all pregnancies are different", say "really, what makes them different?" - do you remember DS1's "why?" stage - I'm sure we all go through that for a reason - training for being pregnant! Just keep asking why, even if she's being short or growly coz she can't actually be horrible - but if she is, cry! then she'll have to be nice or get into trouble!!

I've done another test this morning and it took aaaaaaggggggeeeeeesssss to come up positive and I'm a bit nervous that its an evaporation line and its just me being over optimistic about getting a BFP. I don't know how to use the digital camera, never mind where it is or how to get it on to the laptop...and I haven't got a camera phone, but I have got a web-cam which takes photos so am going to go and take it and see if I can upload it to my profile for you to see....I NEED HELP!

Wish I'd bought FR or CBD now! Perhaps I'll have to go and get one later to take tomorrow to reassure.

Right, off to attempt these pictures....

Thanks sweetie, will keep the WHY??? in mind!

Didn't you say it was a cheapie test you had left? Don't read too much into how strong/faint the lines are, all tests (even from the same multipack) have different sensitivities, to get a BFP means you are pregnant. I wouldn't get the CBD (or if you do don't actually do it for a good few days, they are well known for not being very sensitive) just get a FR, do it tomorrow and it'll be fine!

OK, have just uploaded the two MOST pointless pictures in the world, but they make a point - the point being that they aren't bright clear positives and they both took five minutes to appear. Is that OK? It did say read in three minutes on the box....grrrrr to cheap tests. This is why I bought CBD first time round coz I didn't want to sit looking at lines and not know if they were real or not.

The line on test one (yesterday) is thinner than today's line but has a darker pink edge to the outer edge - the edge the wee hits first.

The second test (today) is thicker but a more even pale pink than yesterday's test.

Right, am going to have a shower now as got caught wearing my pj's by the cleaners last week so will be back later.

Well to be fair, the photos aren't very close up, but I can see a line on both of them, not clear enough to see which has a darker edge to it, but can deffo see a line on each of them.

I don't think you need to be worried Cal, you are most deffo duffed

Oh and I haven't ever seen the Morrisons (did you say?) tests, but most tests will say 'read after (e.g.) 3 mins, do not read after (e.g.) 30 mins' I don't think there are any that say not to read after 5 mins...

Oh (again) and, evap lines tend to dissapear, where as BFP's tend to stay put....

Aha! That was the bit I needed - these are def. not evap lines then coz the one from yesterday is still there!!

Yay and even more so, PHEW!!!

Have I ever told you I love you NJ? And MN? And the world? And my DH! And my DS! And all the wagonners

Yay Yay Yay!

Right, shower!

LMAO, how much have you had?

Morning!
Cal - I didn't get on yesterday after replies arrived but WOW!!!! Huge congrats!

Off to show them the delights of Bluewater today! That's what the replies want anyway!

Will try and catch up properly soon but for now ........
Cal - wooooooohooooooo!

oops - it was the rellies that arrived and want to go to Bluewater!

morning

2bg sounds like you had a gr8 time
have you been 2 drs about af
there are definte lines cal congrats
hi nj sure that midwife will b fine
gyo good luck with scan and mw

Tested this morning. Line came up on FR and is quite a bit darker than the one I did on Sunday morning. OMG....looks like this is really happening! 4 weeks today. Am really scared about getting sickness - any tips for preventing it or is that not possible?

Hi Cosmo! Congrats! - Another one for March? Wow!

Ummm preventing sickness is not altogether possible I don't think, but there are things you can do to make it better...preggie pops, wristbands, morning well cd's, ginger (in all / any formats), lots of sleep (), eating before getting out of bed, eating high protein / low fat food, eating little and often, don't force foods you don't fancy are all things that come to mind. I found sitting in the bath eating fresh pineapple was a good respite too!

Right, I better get some work done today, but will probably not be able to concentrate at all pop back in a bit!

GYo, good luck with your scan today .

Yes GYo, good luck

Right I am off now.... Deep breath!!

See you in a bit xxx

Good luck to you too NJ, see you when you get back x