Anyone else on CD1 who wants to join me?

[nelix2000]

Hi....cycle 2 just started so back to the begining....just wandered if anyone esle was back at the start of their cycle who wants to join me?

Hey all - loving the team hug

Had a fun packed weekend potty training DS . Am beginning to wish I'd never started!! But on the plus side, it did mean lots of hanging out at home with DH and DS which always makes for a nice time! How was everyone else's bank holiday?!

Heeby how you feeling hon? Have you got a date for your scan?

Jools - had a similar panic about timing - actually we just did lots of BD-ing before and upto OV - hoping that they will hang about and do the trick this month! I've not cut caffeine out completely this time - just trying to stick to one cup of tea at day, and more often than not a can of diet coke (it's like an addiction!!) Other than that I drink decaf (and off to have some 'relaxing' herbal tea!)

All the other stuff, I keep eating until that BFP (almost the first thing I did when my MMC was diagnosed was drink an enormous GnT and eat a lot of soft cheese )

Telling people is tricky - I told more people with my second PG - whilst it was then awkward (for me and them) having to tell them about the MC, it was great to have the support of friends...but - fingers crossed and assuming there's a next time, we're not telling anyone in RL until we get to the 2nd trimester (so I hope I'll be spouting all my worries and excitement to you all - if you'll listen!!)

How's everyone doing this evening?

Hi Guys, I am loving this thread I also feel a sense of belonging x My AF is a guess as last month was my first Af since having DD. So not sure when to test? Thinking the 10th is about right. I am feeling lots of AF pains at the moment so hoping its a good signs that something are happening in there.

AbstractMouse, CD5 AF due ??
MakingaFamily, CD14, AF due ??

Sparky, AF due 5 Sep
MyLittleBubble, AF due 10th Sept?
Heebychick, AF due 10th Sept
Funtime, AF 13 Sep
Jools1, AF due 17/18 Sept
Yellowflowers, AF due 19/20 Sept
Nelix AF due 16 sep (ish)

Good morning ladies,

Nelix i shall be thinking of you next week (not in specific detail tho!!) when you come home from your donor, i have a good feeling for you all this month.

sparky thanks for your message, i feel ok, still very queasy tho and really off my food, no word from hospital yet re scan date so will call them tomorrow if nothing in post tonight when i get home. Last night we were Bd-ing and my tummy was quite sore, i felt pain in my side as well - this is a common occurence now with me, hence the scan. I feel quite upbeat about things and much more relaxed but i am a little concerned about the scan. I am def not right and hope that it can be sorted easily.

i agree with you that we probably won't tell people until we are past the scarey dates, it will be lovely to share them with my new friends on here tho!

Have any of you ladies had a cyst before? what are your experiences about them?

Hi funtime how are you doing this morning?

AbstractMouse, CD5 AF due ??
MakingaFamily, CD14, AF due ??

Sparky, AF due 5 Sep
MyLittleBubble, AF due 10th Sept?
Heebychick, AF due 10th Sept
Funtime, AF due 13 Sep
Jools1, AF due 17/18 Sept
Yellowflowers, AF due 19/20 Sept
Nelix AF due 16 sep (ish)

Thanks heeby never had a cyst so cannot help! my other half is a radiographer and does all the scnas etc though so if you have any questions I will pass them on for you

is it just me or is grapefruit juice actually tasting ok the more I drink it???

Nelix - YES to the grapefruit juice question - I'm guessing my taste buds are learning to block it out !!

Tee hee, yes i thought the same last night! the Grapefruit juice is actually quite nice now!

Thanks nelix i'd be very gratful for her advice, when i go for a scan will they scan my uterus or just my painful area i.e. right side only)? also is the scan external or internal? What would they class as a big cyst i.e one needing treatment? and (lastly) if the cyst is big does it affect other parts of you, for example pushing your tummy or bladder ?

wish you hadn't offered ??? xx

Ooh - just seen this thread. Am on my second cycle (didn't ttc last month) and now on CD 14...fingers x'd for a bfp on 10th Sept!! Not having much ewcm post DS though - am having a very very light show - tmi but very very pale brown. I had the same last month around ov days too. Anyone else had this?

hi puss i haven't had experience of a show during ov but have heard of it before, i had a strange af this month, a few very light days then stopped then a few days later one or two brown spots, strange. Am due to ov around now so am watching for signs (no cm yet depsite the grapefruit juice!)

HA lol jools and heeby so glad its nit just my tastebuds that are wonkey!.....will pass on the info heeby, what kind of scan is it?CT?
puss cant say I have had the show like you, but like you any EWCM after my DS, hence grapefruit juice.....seems to be working for me though!

How much grapefruit juice is best - does anyone know ?

I've just been drinking a small wine glass of the stuff every morning for the past week

hi ladies! can i join you? i've been watching for a while to try and figure out the acronyms or whatever you all use!
I'm on CD16 so have started "trying" again. my cycles are very weird so not actually sure when im due to ovulate. is it bad that im totally obsessed?! my poor DH can't take much more i don't think, so i try and keep quiet about quite how neurotic i am!!
keeping my fingers crossed for all of you. oh and does grapefruit juice really work? any other tips as we are trying for our first so kind of a newcommer!

hmmn jools I would say I am verging on between half a pint and 3/4
of a pint. A decent sized glass of the stuff anyway. Also make sure you drink lots in general, try to stay away from coffee as it dehydrates and you want your blody to make EWCM not draw essential fluids away from that area if you are dehydrated in general. Your body wont consider it a high prioroty to make enough CM if say, your body is dehydrated. Drink lots and lots of water.

Welcome wannabe you can feel as free as a bird to be as neurotic as you like on MN(mumsnet), we all are at times (read my previous messages on a thread last month!!) and that's what we are all here for, you are bound to be excited, it's amazing and believe me being a mummy is the best thing in the world. Totally life changing, and although i had fears about all sorts of things, as soon as i had my DD all those fears disappeared, it was all so worthwile.

Anyhow enough of my soppy talk! As for hints, try to be relaxed about it (she says!!haha!!) watch your body and look out for signs that changes might be happening, you will OV (ovulate) around 14 days before your first day of your period so try and guage when this might be and get active! every other day is supposed to be best (sperm can live for up to 7 days whilst the egg only lives for a max of 24 hours) and those little swimmers take a day or so to reach the ideal place to have a 'date' with the egg.

As for Grapefruit juice, it seems to be working today! i have even progressed from pink to normal grapefruit juice, the pro that i am! And we were BDing last nite and we wished our swimmers good luck afterwards! (weird couple we are!)

Thanks nelix i'm not sure what scan it is, she said she would ask for a scan of my right abdomen and pelvic area if that helps?

Forgot the list!

AbstractMouse, CD5 AF due ??
MakingaFamily, CD14, AF due ??

Sparky, AF due 5 Sep
MyLittleBubble, AF due 10th Sept?
Heebychick, AF due 10th Sept
Funtime, AF due 13 Sep
Jools1, AF due 17/18 Sept
Yellowflowers, AF due 19/20 Sept
Nelix AF due 16 sep (ish)

heeby I asked the questions and got the following answers

"when i go for a scan will they scan my uterus or just my painful area i.e. right side only)?"

It will be an ultrasound (she assumes), but thats not my area of expertise. They will very likely scan the whole uterus including both overies.

"also is the scan external or internal?"

It will start off external, and depending on what they see and the quality of the pictures, they may decide to do an internal scope, but that can only be decided on the day.

"What would they class as a big cyst i.e one needing treatment? and (lastly) if the cyst is big does it affect other parts of you, for example pushing your tummy or bladder ?"

I have not much clue I am affraid(she does CT scans and xrays etc not ultrasound)

"wish you hadn't offered ???"

Glad to be of help!

Hope this is of some use!....really sorry i couldnt be of more help! x

nelix thank you so much, this really is very helpful, it puts my mind at rest and i now have more of an idea of what to expect so it is a real help, please thank her for me!
xxx

no worries x

Hi Wannabe.......you'll enjoy reading and contributing. I am a neewbie to and am enjoying it. You can talk about babies and conception all you want without people suspecting you're obsessed / boring / vaguely psychotic!

I have a quick one - what's CM? and why must I not get dehydrated?

becky hiya how are you?
CM is cervical mucus. Dehydration causes the body to hydrate places it needs and making CM is not high priority in the grand scheme, hence the more you drink the more you make.......?!?!....this is not fact, just info I have gathered and have experienced

Thanks for your advice heeby and becky, it is really exciting but have been TTC for the past 5 months with no success. This month I am determined!
i'll try anything so keep the advice, as quirky as you like, coming!

Ooh also, is it true that you should only "try" every other day due to a reduction in sperm production? i keep reading conflicting information?! probably should stop reading so much stuff about it huh?

I'm good actually thanks nelix.....am feeling much better today. Even though it was an early MC it realy took it out of me for longer than I thought! I guess I expected that it would be just like a heavy period but I've just been exhausted. Everyone at work kept telling me I looked awful - thanks guys

With so many of us on this forum someone should get some good luck next month. I have fingers crossed for everyone. I have decided that I'm not going to actively try this month, of course I'm not going to use contraception either but I think we all know the chances of an "accident" here. I don't think I could try anyway as my cycle is all wrecked and I can never tell when I'm OV anyway. Then after I've AF next month I'll get back on the bandwagon as it were.

Hi to all those who've joined since I last checked. Getting to be quite a little group now!

Heeby - just to add that if they want to check your ovaries, it's likely to need an internal scan to get a good clear picture. This is especially true if you've got a retroverted uterus (tips backwards rather than forwards) like I and about 20% of ladies have.

Although I'm not charting my temp. this month I'm sure that I'm ov. at the moment, so AF might be expected 11th rather than 13th (or am I just giving myself an excuse to test 2 days earlier .)

Hope that you're all feeling good today and it sounds like sales of grapefruit juice are rocketing .

Evening ladies, thank you for that funtime i didn't know that 20% of women had that, i remember my midwife saying something about the way my uterus tipped when she gave me a 'sweep' last time and i also had a difficult birth, so i wonder .....

Feeling yukky tonight, sore throat and tickly cough, and a bit blue as i was supposed to be meeting DH at a concert but our lovely DD decided not to go to bed and played up so much i sent the babysitter home and decided to give up on the idea of going out. This is after i'd spent a small fortune on the ticket and parking! ho hum, the joys of parenting.

oh and on the sperm lifespan thing, i'm not sure where i read about it but i agree that you can read way too much!!

Arghhh, I know that I'm trying to be more relaxed about things this month but I could scream! Dh went for a drink (or several) with a friend after work yesterday and subsequently decided that he was 'just too tired', knowing that it's that busy time of the month. Now I know that he rarely gets to go out, but as I only have the one tube, we realistically have six chances a year rather than the usual twelve.

It's completely irrational to be so annoyed but I am, damn it !

Heeby - bless 'em, health professionals like to make these comments. At my first smear, the nurse made a comment about my funny cervix. It's only now I realise that the position of my uterus means that my cervix is slightly lower. If it's any consolation, the uterus usually moves into a more 'normal' position by aroud 12 weeks of pregnancy, although I never got that baby-on-bladder thing at the end, so maybe there are some advantages.

Ho-hum, better go and do some work .