First time TTC?!! Let's get through this together!! Part 3

[summerbird]

A new thread for us to carry on.

Bring on the BFPs!!!

x

Hi Fairy and everyone else,

I'm sat here with my test in hand showing 2 lines. There is a fat red line in the test window showing ive done the test right obviosuly lol and a red line in the result window. The line in the result window is thinner and not as dark, but i certainly dont have to squint to see it!

I used a tesco test. Fairy how long did it take for your line to appear? Ive posted more info on the 'stay away' thread.

I'm obviously confused right now and going through a rollercoaster of emotions: Are We? Aren't we? How am i meant to feel etc etc.

DH is adamant i am pg for a variety of reasons (incl he has super strong sperm!) heheh I've bought 2 clearblue tests one of which i will do in the morning. There is no way on the earth i could even contemplate waiting 2 days to retest. I have to do it in the morning and know. Either way so fingers crossed please! Wish me luck [shaking as i am admittedly scared right now!]

Dawn thankyou thankyou for being so nice! I think in my mind I am i really do feel different, and as silly as this sounds (hope i dont sound mad and regret this) i have this wierd feeling deep inside me its like a knot but different its hard to describe and ive felt so sick today i'd be suprised it the test said in morning ;not pregnant' but fingers crossed.

and Dawn sorry so caught in up myself i didnt even ask how you are this evening?Im sorry your feeling blue perhaps its all just the hormones. Hope your having a lovely rest, feet up and being spoilt.

Good luck Shirley!!! I'll be thinking of you tomorrow morning

Thanks, did a clearblue BFN. confused now but never mind.

Shirley, evaporation lines are usually colourless like a watermark. Which CB test did you use? I think the digital ones are a bit less sensitive. I would leave it a doy or so and test again. How many DPO are you?

I feel awful at the moment. I have horrid tonsilitis which feels like im about 10 again. My whole neck is swollen up and i can't get comfrtable. I daren't take anthing more than paracetamol just incase. bleurgh

Oooh sorry forgot to say thank-you very much for all the temping advice and info, think i'll invest in a thermometer from ebay and see how i get on.

aww fairy you poor thing can they give you anything to help ease the discomfort?

I used a tesco test non digital just the 2 lines test. My line is definately pink. Its not as fat as the line in the test window but its there, oh and its not directly in the centre if that matters. Ive taken loads of pics but none clear enough i can fathom out dh camera!

im cd29 so we think 15dpo.

thanks. hope you feel better soon

Aww 'fairy' hope you're feeling better soon.

Shirley I've been thinking about it - I'd definitely test again in a few days if AF has not yet shown up

Hi guys, i have just had to catch up on a whole week of this thread as have been busy at work then off sick yesterday (tell you about that in a min), but my god i have missed loads - including shirley's rollercoaster of a week, like dawn i am secretly thinking you are gonna get a BFP. I got mine from a clearblue digital after doing 3 (yes 3) Boots tests which were inconclusive.

welcome to all of our other new TTCers - i am all excited about this symptom spotting business as we have been lacking in that lately on this thread.

MAF that is amazing news about your funding - congratulations!!

OK so my doc has now signed me off sick for a week as i have been getting stressed at work (for the newbies i am 30 weeks PG - have so far had an unevenful ride of it too but think that is about to change). I had to go to a case conference on Thursday and sat in an airless room for 3.5 hours with no lunch, just water and biscuits! Anyway that coupled with other stressful goings on in the office (politics mainly) i had a wobbly and had to go home at 4pm. I went to the dox the next morning and he was lovely and said that i shouldnt have to put up with that rubbish at this stage and has signed me off for a week to rest. Thing is i feel much better now but need to chill out to get myself back on track. I may go back for a week next monday but i can guarantee i will just relapse into a stress head if things havent changed. Will keep you updated.

Happy weekend everyone and masses of baby dust for the TTCers!

Hi everyone, well today is/was cd 31.
I started bleeding yesterday afternoon only medium this has carried on all day whilst ive been at work. Kept an eye on it through the day not had any cramps or anything, just got home from work used the loo and had a smallish/medium clot, TMI it was dark red and quite stringy so i think thats it for me this month. Im assuming ive just miscarried, i was def pregnant 3 out of 4 tests def positive, the one from this morning had a medium/strong blue line.

I've not had any cramps or pains and the bleeding certainly isnt heavy, ive only used 2 panty lines today. Because ive been focussing on the bleeding ive not paid much attention to feeling sick, although have had a few waves od nausea.

So questions, do i just wait and test again in a week or so just incase?
Do i count yesterday as CD1 again and start again?
I've never been pregnant before to my knowledge and working today sorry guys but its been hell, trying to work and not think about our loss. DH is ok and suggesting we get a doll for the dog to get used to for when we do have a baby, such as making him leave it alone etc etc.

anyway enough about me how are you all doing? Hope you've all had lovely days and enjoyed your saterday. I9 have tommorrow of finally i really need a days rest to get over all of this! sad

shirley i am sorry to hear that, something similar happened to me on my first month of TTC. I got what might have been AF on about day 30 and ended up passing out at work and got sent home. To this day i dont know if it was AF or a MC.

My GP advised me at the time to do a test (although i didnt want to do one in case it was a faint BFP which would have upset/confused me). Why dont you go and visit your GP for peace of mind - mine was lovely and v understanding.

Have a rest and take care of yourself. x

Hello Ladies!!

Sorry havent posted for a while cant believe how much I have missed!!
BIG hello to all the new members , you have joined a fantastic thread.

Shirlie so sorry about your af arriving, what a nightmare

Fairy great to have you back. Any more symptom spotting??

MAF woo hoo about your funding!! Thats brilliant news!! I go in for an ultrasound scan tomorrow to see if my follicles are growing ok, if they are I should be getting my IUI on Thursday!! Do you know your date yet??

Summer hope you're taking things easy. Enjoy your time off work hun

Dawn how you feeling today??

Wildfig i know what you mean about Mothers Day, i felt really down too. You just think its never gonna happen but it will , i have my fingers tightly crossed for all of us!!

Bubbap i think £100 is very good to put your mind at rest!! At least you will get to see your little bean again in a few weeks time!!

Well i got my results back for my fsh test and it was higher this time just over 10 which isnt very good for my age. So i have also paid for a private blood test called AMH but this came back good so am now completely confused about my ovarian reserve and the quality of my eggs!! Trying not to stress just gonna see what the ultrasound says tomorrow and pray pray pray that either IUI or IVF will work for me.

Big hugs to everyone ive missed and hope you have all had a good weekend!!

FIRST TIME FROLICKERS
Maf: Cycle 4 starting April/May 09
Vix: Cycle 8 CD 11
PistachioLemon: Cycle 4 CD 12
Wildfig: Cycle 12 CD5
Thandeka: Cycle 3 CD5
Linwin: Cycle 4 CD 10
Crunchynutter
Fairy:
Shirleyc: Cycle 1 CD28

FULLY PROFICIENT FROLICKERS
Flirty - EDD 24 April 2009
Hever - EDD 2nd May I think
Saz - EDD 15 May 2009
Summerbird - EDD 3 June 2009
Dawn: - EDD 10th June 2009
MichaelaS: - EDD 13 Aug 2009
heylottie - EDD 11th Oct 2009
BubbaP: EDD 18 Oct 2009 (MC Oct 08)

updated my list xx

Justed added my stats to the list

FIRST TIME FROLICKERS
Maf: Cycle 4 starting April/May 09
Vix: Cycle 8 CD 11
PistachioLemon: Cycle 4 CD 12
Wildfig: Cycle 12 CD5
Thandeka: Cycle 3 CD5
Linwin: Cycle 4 CD 10
Crunchynutter
Fairy: Cycle 1 CD 24 (MC Jan 09)
Shirleyc: Cycle 1 CD28

FULLY PROFICIENT FROLICKERS
Flirty - EDD 24 April 2009
Hever - EDD 2nd May I think
Saz - EDD 15 May 2009
Summerbird - EDD 3 June 2009
Dawn: - EDD 10th June 2009
MichaelaS: - EDD 13 Aug 2009
heylottie - EDD 11th Oct 2009
BubbaP: EDD 18 Oct 2009 (MC Oct 08)

The tonsilitis seems to have gone but my endometriosis bladder pain has flared up which never happens between periods so am a bit confused about that and am off to the docs later to hopefully rue put it being any kind of infection and check whether i am lacking in simething that is making me prone to all of these infections and things, seems to be one thing after another lately.

Symptom wise nothing much really. I was desperately trying to come up with a link between the endo flare up and pregnancy but can't really. Symptoms usually disappear when you are pregnant so perhaps not likely. Still keeping my fingers crossed though.

Morning ladies,

Fairy, sorry that you're not well hun - yuck - just what you don't want!! Although, as we all know from previous experiences - there are some odd symptoms out there - so who knows!!!

Vix, what confusing results you're having!! Hope the ultrasound goes Ok today hun. Thinking of you. xxx

Shirley, hoping the bleeding might be implantation for you, but you'll only know when you do another test. I really hope it's still a BFP, but if it's not, you know that you can do it, and you will get another one quickly, I'm sure of it!! Please keep your chin up and let us know when you've done another test.

Summer, sorry that you're not well hun and have been signed off. Your GP is right, you absolutely do not need the stress!!

Big waves and kisses to everyone else and WELCOME to Curlee!!

So, after a traumatic day at the hospital on Thursday, DH came home on Friday and that cheered me up. We had to go and pick up all my insulin and needles from the chemist on Friday and I started to use them on Friday evening. I've now got the hang of the needles and stabbing myself and DH is very proud of me - !!

Jelly is very very active at the moment and has been since Friday which is lovely. I was having a lovely dream on Sunday morning that she was kicking me loads and I was showing all my friends, then I woke up and realised it was real, it was like she was kicking and punching her way out of a paperbag!!! DH felt it aswell and couldn't stop smiling. He can even see her moving in my tummy from across the room now which is so nice. Sometimes she moves now though without any build-up and really makes me jump!!

Hope you're all having a nice day...

xxx

ahh Dawn what a lovely message im glad little Bean is kicking about lots!!
You should be proud of yourself for getting used to needles it cant be easy for you!

As for testing im not planning on testing at all this month. Midwife i spoke to yesterday confirmed it probably is a miscarriage and i can count it as AF so she said i should ovulate as normal. So we're planning on carrying on trying straight away after this bleeding has stopped. Odd as its gone brown again now and i;ve been bleeding now light/heavy for about 4 days now and passed TMI 3 clots, only had 1 cramp. Midwife said if i dont get af in 4 weeks to test again as i may be pregnant and it could be ok, and i would be more symptematic but im accepting that im not and im ok with it.

Shirley, well done you for being positive!! That's exactly what happened to me the first month (at 5 weeks PG) and although I didn't get pregnant again the next month, it was the month after and I'm sure it will be just as quick for you!! My MC did last a whole week, I started with browny blood on the Sunday afternoon but didn't actually properly MC until the following Friday when it just felt like bad period pains. Just have some paracetomol ready just in case, but you will be fine. You sound just like me, so positive!! Wish I could give you a big hug!!

Big kisses and happy wishes for you!!

xxxx

Hi ladies - can I play?

Am having a mare - last cd1 was 10 Feb, no AF, no BFP. Came off pill in January but first period seemed relatively normal so was expecting this one to be too. Perversely looking forward to AF arriving as then I can start counting/analysing gusset again. A bit in limbo at the moment.

shirleyc sorry to hear your news, your positive attitude is a credit to you. x

FIRST TIME FROLICKERS
Maf: Cycle 4 starting April/May 09
Vix: Cycle 8 CD 11
PistachioLemon: Cycle 4 CD 12
Wildfig: Cycle 12 CD5
Thandeka: Cycle 3 CD5
Linwin: Cycle 4 CD 10
Crunchynutter
Fairy: Cycle 1 CD 24 (MC Jan 09)
Shirleyc: Cycle 1 CD28
VeryAnnieMary Cycle 2 CD48!!

FULLY PROFICIENT FROLICKERS
Flirty - EDD 24 April 2009
Hever - EDD 2nd May I think
Saz - EDD 15 May 2009
Summerbird - EDD 3 June 2009
Dawn: - EDD 10th June 2009
MichaelaS: - EDD 13 Aug 2009
heylottie - EDD 11th Oct 2009
BubbaP: EDD 18 Oct 2009 (MC Oct 08)

Hi there VAM - welcome. LOL at analysing gusset. I've heard it can take a while for cycles to settle down after come off the pill but two months is a really long cycle. How frustrating. I'm new to all this too so I'm afraid I have no real words of wisdom, but maybe one of the others will know a bit more.

Welcome too to Curlee [waves]!

Hi Shirley how are you doing today?

welcome veryanniemary i wonder if it is just your AF getting back to normal after being on the pill, i know what you mean about wanting AF to arrive tho - i would be exactly the same

shirley i want to give you a virtual hug too, dawn is right - you do sound very positive, and looking forward to the future - good luck hun x

dawn glad DH is back for your cuddles! i bet you have missed him loads. i am also uber proud of you for coping with the needles as i am a complete wimp with them, not long now tho

i have just wept buckets at 'The Bridges of Madison County' - i have never seen it before and am trying to chill out on my docs orders - i think that film had the opposite effect!!

summerbird I loved that movie! Though I also cried at Wall-E recently - am a big girls blouse and like nothing more than a good weep at a movie.

Me too! It's wonderful.

Gran Torino also produced buckets of tears for me... I'm such a wet!

Welcome VAM and hello again everyone!!

I haven't seen that film Summer, maybe I should. Are you suffering a lot with emotions? Apparently it's very common at this stage of PG but I haven't suffered with mine at all, even at the beginning. The only times I've cried are when we got the high risk for Downs and when I got diagnosed with the GDiabetes last week... Other than that, no tears (even when DH went away... ), am I just completely abnormal??!! (Answers on a postcard....).

Waiting for a call-back from the hospital. I spoke to them this morning as my blood levels are still quite high even with the insulin and they just said that week on week now they will rise so I may need to increase the dosage. Anyway, going for a meal tonight with Dsis and BIL and REALLY don't want to watch what I eat and would like to have a pudding (please, just something sweet - it's driving me mad!!), so I left a message for the diabetic team at the hospital, to find out what dosage of insulin I'll need before I go and no-one's come back to me!! Thinking I may just take 4 units and see what happens. Just have to make sure I have some fast acting sweets with me if I go into hypo shock I suppose!! This is all new to me and I have NO idea what I'm supposed to do!!

Anyway, VAM, sounds like your body is just trying to get back to normal hun - looking forward to you symptom spotting with the other newbies!!

I've now worked out that I may have been having Braxton Hicks and just not known. Apparently it feels just like your bump tightening up and can feel like the little one moving around - which is what I thought it was!! Now I'm thinking it could be BH!!

Anyone else got any exciting news?!

xxx

i'm still alive lol {grin}
i'm sorry for my absence all but it has been fun catching up! I have had a really tough month! (hence why I haven't been on here!)

To summarise:
plasterer finally came (yay!)
loads of mess, cleaning and no money (boo)
My horse got into the vets for her first mini op (yay for not having a long wait!)
BUT, it is really serious and she's got to have a major op and the success rate is pretty crap (boo)
i'm in the process of being sued by a pedestrian who stepped out in front of my car and despite the fact I stopped is claiming I have injured her back (BIG boo)
and work is shit!

but there has been no AF yet (fingers crossed eh! I could do with some good news!) I've given up with all the sympton spotting as I have just sulked for the last two months when I realised I wasn't pregnant! Although if you remember my last AF was only one and a half days (barely, very slight spotting- it was REALLY light)

Any way, its lovely to know some of these little ones are due so soon- you must be soo excited- don't leave us when they arrive!! I love all the stories of moving bumps too. I remember stroking my nephews foot before he was born, it was a really clear foot sticking out of my SIL's belly- it was weird but wonderful and I can't wait til it's my turn!!

Big hugs anyway crunchy!