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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

The Grapefruit drinking knicker checking ttc brigade

861 replies

yellowflowers · 27/10/2008 17:35

Hello,

As Nelix has a bfp (yay!) and she started the last one I thought I'd start this one as a continuation of this thread

Here's hoping we all get BFPs this month but if not then let's continue the thread until we all graduate

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smileycat · 27/11/2008 11:54

I'm getting quite a bit of pain in my hips today the sore you get when your having a really bad AF & it hurts all over that area & a wicked headache. I'm not symptom spotting this month so I'm NOT taking it as a sign but its bloodly horrible. If it is a sign I hope its not a taste of whats to come & it'll get worse before it gets better, but I'd gladly suffer it if it means I get a BFP out of it, don't men have it easy

Heebychick · 27/11/2008 13:09

ooooh sounds promising!

Elliegant · 27/11/2008 13:23

Thanks heeby and yellow

Am feeling bit better today deeja thanks, its just so frustrating month after month. Will try best to get back into positive mood as soon as possible.

heeby hope your feeling better soon

Pezzina · 27/11/2008 13:27

Hi all,

What a lot to catch up on. Sorry AF got you Ellie ? come and join me and Yellow at the bottom ? our AF will be due Christmas day ? I can?t think of a better Christmas present than a BFP can you?

Bigbaubleeyes ? Smiley is right ? step away from the tests ? it really does you no good testing early. Patience my dear ? I know it?s a nightmare!

Smiley ? your cramping and headache do sound promising ? too early for AF so I have got my fingers crossed for you sweetie!

Hello to LovelyMonster. Sorry to hear about your MC but glad you?re back ? good luck to you and your DH and his lovely bottom

Hello to everyone else [waves]

I had my second reflexology session last night. I?m really enjoying them. She picked up on a tooth ache I?ve had this session and the first session but I hadn?t mentioned anything about it to her. Was very impressed about that. Have got sessions booked next week and the week after ? leading up to my fertile time. She will be concentrating on my uterus ? making it bean friendly .

Just want AF to be over so that I can get on with DP again. Have been in quite a grump today and yesterday ? my poor DH is steering clear at the moment ? will have to make it up to him this weekend

Deeja · 27/11/2008 13:58

Hey,

I think we may need to update the old list...I don't think I have seen it recently:

Mylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
Whitebeaches AF due 17th - 21st
Elligant AF due 27th Nov DP
Yellowflowers AF due 27th Nov
JClaire AF due 28th Nov
Sans04 AF due 28th Nov
BoosieBoo AF due 30th Nov DP
Cindy AF due 1 December DP
spats due 7th-? nov
Smileycat AF due 1st Dec DP
Bigbaubleeyes AF due 2nd Dec
Queenie1 - AF due 2nd(ish) Dec
Pinkie08 due 5th dec
Deeja AF due 9th Dec DP
Wasabi AF 16th dec
Wanabemum AF due 18th/19th Dec DP
VillageMum AF due 23 December DP
Funtimewincies AF due 23rd December
Pezzina AF due 25th December DP

Deeja · 27/11/2008 14:00

Mylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
Whitebeaches AF due 17th - 21st
Sorry! Missed off BFP's

Elligant AF due 27th Nov DP
Yellowflowers AF due 27th Nov
JClaire AF due 28th Nov
Sans04 AF due 28th Nov
BoosieBoo AF due 30th Nov DP
Cindy AF due 1 December DP
spats due 7th-? nov
Smileycat AF due 1st Dec DP
Bigbaubleeyes AF due 2nd Dec
Queenie1 - AF due 2nd(ish) Dec
Pinkie08 due 5th dec
Deeja AF due 9th Dec DP
Wasabi AF 16th dec
Wanabemum AF due 18th/19th Dec DP
VillageMum AF due 23 December DP
Funtimewincies AF due 23rd December
Pezzina AF due 25th December DP

Heebychick BFP
Becky McG BFP

queenie1 · 27/11/2008 14:03

Hi to everyone, especially lovelymonster - hope you're all having a good day.

Elligant - really sorry to hear about AF. Maybe better news for you, yellowflowers and pezzina on Christmas day? My fingers are crossed for you.

Smiley - agree sounds a very promising set of signs and I have my fingers crossed for you too.

And then me: I'm not sure if I have any signs - welcome your thoughts...I had what felt like sharp twinges from around the time of OV to a couple of days ago but now all quiet down there (AF due Tuesday). This feels a little unusual as usually I have a lot of twinge / cramp activity in the two week wait. Can I take this as a sign? I also have a bit more CM than usual for this time in my cycle. The only other thing is that I dreamt last night that I got a BFP. It was a pink line which is strange as I normally use Clear Blue but had been thinking of using another brand as I find CB's quite ambigious and can often see the faintest of faint lines, get my hopes up and then along comes AF. So clutching at stupid straws or can I be an insy, wincy bit hopeful?

So sorry, usual ramblings of the 2ww!!!

nappyaddict · 27/11/2008 14:15

smileycat sorry to hijack but what's the temperature in gibraltar at the moment? I might be visiting next week

smileycat · 27/11/2008 14:17

Had a big storm last night, lighting knocked out the electrics for the fresh water supply so on bottled water at the moment. Its better today but overcast & abit windy, but when its nice its still around 15-18

Elliegant · 27/11/2008 14:54

Mylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
Whitebeaches AF due 17th - 21st
Sorry! Missed off BFP's

Yellowflowers AF due 27th Nov
JClaire AF due 28th Nov
Sans04 AF due 28th Nov
BoosieBoo AF due 30th Nov DP
Cindy AF due 1 December DP
spats due 7th-? nov
Smileycat AF due 1st Dec DP
Bigbaubleeyes AF due 2nd Dec
Queenie1 - AF due 2nd(ish) Dec
Pinkie08 due 5th dec
Deeja AF due 9th Dec DP
Wasabi AF 16th dec
Wanabemum AF due 18th/19th Dec DP
VillageMum AF due 23 December DP
Funtimewincies AF due 23rd December
Elliegant AF due 24th Dec DP
Pezzina AF due 25th December DP

Heebychick BFP
Becky McG BFP

Thanks queenie1 lets hope we get our Christmas wish

yellowflowers · 27/11/2008 16:20

I've put me at bottom. Yes bfp great xmas present, but pain in bum if a bfn!!

Mylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
Whitebeaches AF due 17th - 21st

JClaire AF due 28th Nov
Sans04 AF due 28th Nov
BoosieBoo AF due 30th Nov DP
Cindy AF due 1 December DP
spats due 7th-? nov
Smileycat AF due 1st Dec DP
Bigbaubleeyes AF due 2nd Dec
Queenie1 - AF due 2nd(ish) Dec
Pinkie08 due 5th dec
Deeja AF due 9th Dec DP
Wasabi AF 16th dec
Wanabemum AF due 18th/19th Dec DP
VillageMum AF due 23 December DP
Funtimewincies AF due 23rd December
Elliegant AF due 24th Dec DP
Pezzina AF due 25th December DP
Yellowflowers AF 25th December DP

Heebychick BFP
Becky McG BFP

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yellowflowers · 27/11/2008 16:26

every time I type bfp I think of BFG. anyone else? oh.

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LovelyMonster · 27/11/2008 18:55

Hi all you lovely ladies!!

Thankyou for welcoming me with open arms!!! Have had a good day - although did start to freak a bit about just how quickly christmas is sneaking up on us (again).

Pezzina - reflexology! will be interesting to see if it works for you. I had it done once and swore I would never again. It really hurt!!! Does it hurt you?? I would consider doing it again if the practitioner was nice and gentle (or maybe that defeats the purpose?)

Queenie - Never underestimate the power of dreams.... fingers crossed!

Smiley - Where do you live? Sounds very interesting..

BFG - so true!!

I have added myself to the list. Bring on the BFG's oops I mean BFP's!

Mylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
Whitebeaches AF due 17th - 21st

JClaire AF due 28th Nov
Sans04 AF due 28th Nov
BoosieBoo AF due 30th Nov DP
Cindy AF due 1 December DP
spats due 7th-? nov
Smileycat AF due 1st Dec DP
Bigbaubleeyes AF due 2nd Dec
Queenie1 - AF due 2nd(ish) Dec
Pinkie08 due 5th dec
Deeja AF due 9th Dec DP
Wasabi AF 16th dec
Wanabemum AF due 18th/19th Dec DP
VillageMum AF due 23 December DP
Funtimewincies AF due 23rd December
Lovelymonster Af due 23rd December
Elliegant AF due 24th Dec DP
Pezzina AF due 25th December DP
Yellowflowers AF 25th December DP

Heebychick BFP
Becky McG BFP

BoosieBoo · 27/11/2008 19:16

Evening everyone,
So having promised myself not test till sunday morning... I have a stash of ten cheapies from the internet and I thought what the heck - i have NO willpower. So I do the test and see nothing on the strip at first glance, then go to run DS's bath for bedtime. Come back about 5 mins later to put it in the bin....

and there is a line! Not as strong as the control line, but a definite don't have to squint to see it line. I'm still in shock. It's way, way too early to get excited and I can't even think of myself as pregnant yet. I'll do another test on sunday morning as planned and if the line is stronger, maybe I'll let myself get a little more excited, but even then it will be early days.

Just wanted to share with you all. Even though I haven't been on very much I do try and read the posts and wouldn't have had half the enthusiasm to stick with the DP (and more!) without all the messages, so thank you x

yellowflowers · 27/11/2008 20:17

woooohoooooo boosieboo
xxxxx

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Heebychick · 27/11/2008 21:51

boosieboo wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwooooooooooowwwwwwww!!
thank you for sharing your news, a line is a line! well done!

smileycat · 28/11/2008 07:28

boosieboo OMG fantastic news well done you I hope you have set the ball rolling for this month congratulations

My temp is still up this morning, wishing away the wkend already so that Monday hurries up (what are we like) I'm going to take my temp over the wkend & if it hasn't dropped by Monday morn then I'll test then, but if I get a drop Sun & Mon then I wont waste a test as AF will probably be on her way..good luck to all comming up this wkend & early next wk

wasabipeanut · 28/11/2008 09:41

Boosie ? congratulations! 1st one of the month, lovely

Hi everyone, sorry I haven?t posted in ages ? work have moved my blardy desk so that my monitor is highly visible to passers by and having ?Grapefruit drinking, knicker checking etc. displayed on it for all to see isn?t great so I can only post at home now.

Yellow ,Elliegant & Pezzina, I?m so sorry that you?re out for this month.

C1ndy ? I?m sorry you are feeling down (or were at the beginning of the week). This ttc business makes crazy women of us all at times. I hope you are feeling more happy and positive now.

Jools - hang on in there honey. Anyone would have some wobbles after a mc as late as yours. Hopefully you and dp can relax over the weekend and bd or not to your hearts content!

Deeja ? ov sticks have worked for me in the sense that I have caught a surge (although I only realised last month that you shouldn?t use FMU on them so I reckon I was picking things up a day late. I am CD10 today and will pee on my 1st stick of the month this pm!

Hello Lovelymonster ? sorry to hear about your mc but happy that you are feeling positive about the future.

Smiley I have my fingers crossed for you ? sounds promising

Welcome bigbaubleeyes !

Interesting posts re caffeine and vino. I decided at the beginning of the week to quite caffeine because I was drinking more and more coffee and I wondered if it played a part in what I am fairly sure was a very, very early mc last month. It won?t do me any harm anyway and apart from an evil headache on Wednesday it hasn?t been too difficult ? am already feeling better for it actually.

I?m a little reluctant to quite the wine but I only have one glass usually of an evening, maybe 2 if I stay awake long enough. If we aren?t successful in another 3 months or so I?ll reassess.

I?m CD10 today ? would have started DP on CD8 but said headache and feeling like death put a stop to that. I have told dh to consider himself on a promise tonight!

Sorry about long post! x

iggylou · 28/11/2008 10:01

hello everyone - can I join you?

I have no idea what I am doing but am def ttc

I sort of started ttc this time last year.. then stoppped (for wedding) and started again in Sept... Came off pill in Oct 2007.

So have started taking Folic acid... but not much else - any advice greatly appreciated

Jools1 · 28/11/2008 10:01

Many congratulations Boosieboo Has it sunk in yet ??

Good to see you again Wasabi I have similar issues in some offices, but most people work from home on Fridays, so I can get on with work mnetting in peace

I had a strange night last night - was woken up with pain in my abdomen that I'm sure was in the ovaries I don't know if this was a post MC ovulation, or just everything gearing back up - hopefully gearing up as I was too tired to BD this morning, so if that was the egg, then I've missed it

Am having a strange week - most of it I felt OK and the post mc hormones behaved themselves - went away on business to be confronted with a colleague who has announced she is due in April, another colleague whose wife had an mc last month, told my new boss and then in the hotel was served by a lovely lady behind the bar, who made a mistake with my order, apologised and put it down to pregnancy brain, at which point I noticed the bump and just had to leave the bar The emotion hits at very unexpected times - I couldn't eat the chicken satay DP had ordered for me last night because I was in the middle of the same meal when I first noticed a bleed and the association was just too much

Oops sorry for long post / rant

Good luck to all the imminent testers

smileycat · 28/11/2008 10:07

Jools your hormones have an hell of lot to answer for, give it time your body is still not your own & will take a little longer for you to get a grip on your emotions again, don't blame yourself just let it out, its the best way to heal, big hug ((--))

Welcome Iggylou ask away any help you need we have a fountain of knowledge on this thread, you are very welcome here

Sans04 · 28/11/2008 10:36

Hi to all

congratulation BoosieBoo a line is a line that is geat well done I am very happy for you big huges.
Yellow ,Elliegant & Pezzina I am joining you too as af arrived. I hope the beatch won't visite anyone elss anymore.

iggylou · 28/11/2008 10:39

thanks for the welcome

Are there any good websites or places for info?

also - I don't understand some of the acronyms... what does CD mean?

I also have no idea when AF is next dues cos the last one was really early and really heavy (sorry if TMI!) so not sure what going on with cycle as is normally predictable...

anyway - am looking forward to joining in with the threads on mn - it seems v. friendly

smileycat · 28/11/2008 10:41

I'm not religous or anything really in that way but I real spooky thing just happened to me. Last night I was laid in bed & had a few things drifting through my mind & I whispered a sort message to anyone out there if it was possible I'd love a sign to tell me if I'm pg or not, like I say I'm not religous but like many people wonder if anything is up/around us.
Well I was watching a program on tv & switched over when it finished & just caught the end of another program & it finished with the lines (girls with the same name as me) did you know you were pg & she said no & they said well we just did a test for you & its +ive
I nearly fell off the chair...what do you think????spooky hay

yellowflowers · 28/11/2008 11:17

maybe it's a sign smiley?

Hi sans04 - sorry you're back at bottom but you're in good company.

xx

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