The Grapefruit drinking knicker checking ttc brigade

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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

Thought I would update the list now AF has arrived and am back to CD1:

Mylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
Bubblebell AF due 25th November ttc#3 on cycle 1
Whitebeaches AF due 17th - 21st
JClaire AF due 28th Nov
spats due 7th-? nov
Bigbaubleeyes AF due 2nd Dec
Pinkie08 due 5th dec
Sn0wflake 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
Sans04 AF due 26th December DP
Queenie - AF due 28th / 29th Dec
Smileycat AF due 28th-31st Dec DP
C1ndy AF due 1 Jan
Pinkie08 due 1st Jan clomid and DP
iggypiggy - AF due 2nd Jan

Ilovebeingamum BFP
Heebychick BFP
Becky McG BFP
BoosieBoo BFP

anyone else due AF in next few days? I don't do testing before AF is due so wait until i am late. With ds#2 i was a week late before tested. Not sure when due, probably tomorrow will be a smear and mon and then full flow tues. Fingers crossed but not holding out much hope as don't think will happen at all. Don't mean to sound like control freak but i hate that this is something you have no control whats so ever over. Each month you get that first smear and think "here we go again" . Mind you at least this month i can enjoy xmas parties with alcohol!

Have upadated myself oMylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
Bubblebell AF due 25th November ttc#3 on cycle 1
Whitebeaches AF due 17th - 21st
JClaire AF due 28th Nov
spats due 7th-9th Dec
Bigbaubleeyes AF due 2nd Dec
Pinkie08 due 5th dec
Sn0wflake 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
Sans04 AF due 26th December DP
Queenie - AF due 28th / 29th Dec
Smileycat AF due 28th-31st Dec DP
C1ndy AF due 1 Jan
Pinkie08 due 1st Jan clomid and DP
iggypiggy - AF due 2nd Jan

Ilovebeingamum BFP
Heebychick BFP
Becky McG BFP
BoosieBoo BFP
n list as was sill last month

Boosieboo - that is a challenge i think for this month!! x

Snowflake, snap - I bought the same Preseed deal on Amazon. Let's hope it was worth it!

Think I ov'd on cd15 this time, a couple of days early, so I've updated myself on the list:

Mylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
Bubblebell AF due 25th November ttc#3 on cycle 1
Whitebeaches AF due 17th - 21st
JClaire AF due 28th Nov
spats due 7th-9th Dec
Bigbaubleeyes AF due 2nd Dec
Pinkie08 due 5th dec
Sn0wflake AF due 9th Dec DP
Wasabi AF 16th dec
Wanabemum AF due 18th/19th Dec DP
VillageMum AF due 21 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
Sans04 AF due 26th December DP
Queenie - AF due 28th / 29th Dec
Smileycat AF due 28th-31st Dec DP
C1ndy AF due 1 Jan
Pinkie08 due 1st Jan clomid and DP
iggypiggy - AF due 2nd Jan

Ilovebeingamum BFP
Heebychick BFP
Becky McG BFP
BoosieBoo BFP

Just to let you know I have miscarried again. Exactly as last time (in sept) - positive hpt day 34, heavy bleeding 5 days later.

Am convinced my body is rejecting pregnancy due to me letting ds (22mths) still breastfeed once in a while. Or maybe that is a) a reason, any reason that I need and b) something I can control for 'next' time.

Am devastated x

Oh Ilove I'm so so sorry... many many ((hugs)).

ILoveBeingaMummy I'm so sorry for your loss. It's so sad. I really don't know much about breast feeding and pregnancy but it seems unlikely to me that would be the cause. Take care of yourself tonight. Hug.

Just to say re breastfeeding, shouldn't be an issue, I breastfed DS1 while carrying DS2 for at least 5 months, not sure if that helps you or not - sorry!

Lots of positive thoughts your way xx

oh, Ilove .......that's not good news :-(

I'm so sorry - this is just not the one for you, not a stong enough bean. When you get the strong, "right" bean - it will stick!

Get some rest and I wouldn't beat yourself up about the breast feeding thing. It just wasn't meant to be this time xx

ilove i'm so sorry for you honey, sending you lots and lots of love and hugs (((())))

thanks for the messages. I just have this feeling my body won;t do both feeding and pregnancy. I guess i will never know. Feels like a dreadful nightmare.

I suppose i will be back next month ttc again...

Ilove, when and if you feel you need some support from those of us who have been there too, come and join us on the emmsysangels thread - the girls there are wonderful and kept me sane during my mmc back in September. Thinking of you and sending you many ((hugs)). x

just got back after a weekend away and caught up on posts

ILove - I am SO sorry to hear of your MC. . All my love and hugs to you. I know from personal experience how shit you must be feeling. My heart goes out to you. xxxxxxx

Ilove big hug (((hug)))

ILove im so so sorry to hear of your loss. big hugs

how are you all?

STILL no AF for me and a BFN yesterday morning. i am baffled. this has never happened before. i can only assume im not ovulating. i have a drs appointment this afternoon but i am not holding out for many answers... prob be told to just wait for af.

is there anything i should ask??? tests i need.. not got a clue what to say really and scared i will just burst into tears and not tell him what i want.

good luck to you all...

So sorry to read about your loss Ilove

That's very confusing bubblebell1

I have an exciting party tonight, so that will distract me for the rest of the day Ihope. Can be hard not to think about ttc... am finding...

iggy I also have a night out tonight that I'm really looking forward to, 1st of 3 this wk Xmas is comming & as I'm only on CD5 I'm going to relax all wk & have a few drinks then start ttcing early next wk when I'm due to OV
bubble fingers crossed for you that you will get an answer to why your AF is late....some women don't get a +ive test result until a couple of months into the pregnancy, don't want to get your hopes up but you could be one of those!!

enjoy your parties smiley and iggy Bubblebell - very confusing. Frustrating as it is, I guess all you can do is wait for a few days to test again. I know what you mean about bursting into tears on doctor. Hope you have a sympathethic one!!

I'm feeling completely shattered this morning after a massive row with DH last night. It was all over whether or not to bother ttcing this month. After 18 months of this, 3 MCs and a lot of heartache all this is really taking its toll. His line of the night (out of many) was that there was no point in going for it this month 'cause I never get pregnant

Thanks queenie1

sounds like the stress of ttc is taking its toll on you both have a virtual hug from me x

Have been thinking - can anyone help me with this.... On the fertility friend chart it has listed 3 fertile days before predicted ovulation. This confused me... surely ovulation is when you are fertile?

when is 'crucial' time? is it just ovulation - or the days running up to it too?

Hi Iggy

No expert but I think that the idea is that sperm can live for up to about five days (usually three days though), but that an egg once released can only live 12 - 24 hours unless it is fertilised. So hence sex before ovulation means there is sperm present and waiting should you ovulate but that once you have ovulated, you have a max of 24 hours to fertilise it.

Does that help / make sense?

x

iggy It's pretty much the three days leading up to ovulation and 1 day after. Basically because the sperm can hang around for a while waiting for ovulation to occur.

Queenie That sounds awful. I'm sure your partner didn't mean to be so hurteful and just said it in the heat of the moment. I think he just probably wants the two of you to have a nice Christmas together. OK I'm reading a lot into what you wrote. Anyway I hope you are OK now.

Hi all,

Havent been on in ages as had dd home from school with head injury. Shes ok thank goodness.

Anyway

Ilove so so sorry for you, sending you lots of hugs and dairy milk.

iggypiggy I wasnt sure but everything i read suggests that the most important time is before ov have a look at sperm meets egg plan it seems to explain things quite simply.

I am only at the beginning of this cycle and am still fed up from last months BFN.

I just need to dust myself off and get the grapefruit juice out the fridge.

thanks queenie1 and sn0wflake

that does make sense

I love the way my brain has melted when thinking about all the ttc business - am so worried about getting stuff right I completely forget any previous knowledge...

honestly - they teach you that in sex education at school and in Biology - ha ha...

Queenie I think sometimes our other halves don't realise how much ttcing takes over our lifes & how hurtful they can be when they say stupid inappropriate comments, its such an emotional rollercoaster for us, building ourselves up to start again for another month, all the worring of timing, then worring during the 2WW that we are doing everything right, not eating the wrong thing, taking the vitamins, not drinking the wrong thing etc etc...then the dreaded AF signs as well as the symtom spotting only to find out it didn't work & you have to pick yourself up again, give him the smile that says you are not really heartbroken & are ready to give it another go the next month when all you want to do is shout & scream that its not fair................
Sorry rant over, deep breath, hormones must be pumping today

sorry pinkie08 cross posted

Thanks for link - will have a read... is annoying that next week I am out at various things - as is DH - and that will be the key time for BDing - will have to make sure we find time.

No worries,

enjoy those quick stolen moments over the next week, it might make it more fun.