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[C1NDY]

Hi everyone I have started a new thread... hope you like the new home, this is where it will all happen. (Cindy opens a bottle of champagne) Here's a drink to all and to our month ofthe BFP... .... baby dust all around ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you ladies! Will keep dipping... and BDing... and hoping!

Pezz will think about you tomorrow!

Hi ladies,

Congrats on the scan Becky that's fab news. Please stick around and keep us updated on how you're doing!

Funtime i had no idea your mc was so traumatic (obviously a mc is traumatic, but not having anything there after believing for 12 weeks is aweful!). Fingers crossed that your right boob is the good signal!

Jools hot flushes at night, sounds familiar! I'm sat here as i type too hot to have my slippers on and that is unheard of for me! my feet are always like ice but i'm actually sweating! (nice!). Plus i've peed ssssoooo many times today i'm actually sick of the sight of my own bathroom! It's weird, it felt a little like a water infection this morning but as the day has gone on it's just like needing the loo often, and i actually wee quite a lot when i do go. In comparison to what i drank today (about 5 drinks total!) it's ridiculous! BUT i'm only 5DPO so not counting my chickens just yet

Welcome to our newest member Broodzilla, what a fab name! You'll get loads of useful advice from the ladies on here, they have been like my support group and believe me, sometimes it's a lifeline! this whole ttc lark isn't as easy as it seems!

Broodzilla Welcome, its a lovely place here people are so friendly. I think you have not ovulated yet, so keep checking with OPK sticks. Which one's do you have. I brought a load from amazon, they are small little tabs but are great for just checking without feeling you have thrown a whole load of money down the toilet! When they look like they are positive, I do a double check with Clearblue or a Boots ovulation stick. I carry on testing even when the test turns pinks, to see when the surge ends - I know you shouldn't but I am sad, like that!!

Becky So happy for you, what wonderful news now you can enjoy your pg. Do keep us posted on how you are getting along.

Pezz Goodluck with your scan.

Smiley How are you feeling, what week are you on?

Villagemum if you are lurking pop in and say 'Hi' I want to know how you are getting on.

Well, I have been sticking to the DP to a 'T'... DH is so comforting and obeying all my rules and is not complaining about all the bd we are doing. Sorry for TMI.. but after we brought the preseed life has been much better for us. It becomes a chore and sometime foreplay is out of the question... especially when you are too knackered from working etc... we have a 2 yr DD so I find it even harder to try and get in the mood (sorry if I am giving all way TMI) But I read that it helps the oldies (like me!) to get safe CM as apparently we stop producing it as much as when we were in our 20s - 30s.... Just wanted to share this information.

I was down over the weekend as I have a friend who has given birth to a beautiful little girl. I was wondering if I will ever have another little bundle of joy in my arms. After feeling sorry for myself for like ever I dusted myself down and thought I can do this and it won't be long. If not I will be happy with my lot. Someone please stop me from ttc if I am still here when I am 60!! okay rant over.

Speak to ya all soon
Cindy

Jools it sounds very promising. My boobs don't hurt when I ovulate, I just get a tiny belly ache. When my AF is arriving my left leg twitches... hummm I am strange I know. Fingers and toes crossed for you.

Hi C1ndy - trying not to get my hopes up as, if I'm honest with myself, I think our one and only BD this month was probably the day after OV.

I have become incredibly hormonal though - watched the Horse Whisperer yesterday and sobbed all the way through, was very irritable this morning and am now close to tears cos there is not just one PG lady in this office due in May as I was but THREE, and they were all comparing scan pics

Had a major hot flush last night though

Trying to get on with work and just not think about it - not helped by the fact that I hurt my back at the gym yesterday, so am in pain but scared to take Ibuprofen in case I am PG so constantly in pain and not mobile enough to get to the gym, burn some calories and vent some frustrations I was just getting back a good level of fitness post MC and starting to really really enjoy my workouts again and was looking forward to losing more weight. I'm really bloated at the moment and feeling FAT and frumpy.

Sorry to be so miserable and self-obsessed but I needed to get that out - off to do some work now and try not to cry in the middle of the office ....

Morning ladies

Thank you for your good wishes but I'm not having a scan today - I think Wasabi is having hers today?

Good luck Wasabi - hope it goes well.

Just to say hello to jools because that sounds horrid. xxxx

Hi all and welcome broodzilla Becky - congrats on scan. Must feel amazing!! I'm sure if I got to 12 weeks I would be complete wreck so don't worry about it. I'm sure the docs are very used to it!

Wannabe - does sound awful. Fingers crossed you get a successful BFP soon. x

This is the first month I'm properly using OPK sticks and I'm a bit confused / unsure. I've been testing since day 7 (now on day 12) and I've been having faint lines each day and a darker line on day 10 (albeit not quite as dark as control test but obviously much darker than all the others including day 11). Then had loads of EWCM last night (day 11). I usually get EWCM between days 16 - 20. Do you think I might have OV'd early? (If so I think there's a good chance as we've BDed day 7, 10 and 11). Thoughts?

Hmmm Queenie you may have OV'd early but I thought the test line had to be darker than the control line? Not too sure though as I don't use them. You never know! even if you haven't OV'd yet, keep up the BD-ing to cover all bases.

I'm still peeing like a race horse! TMI i know but still, it's worse in the morning and has now settled but still, i've been in work 4 hours and have peed 4 times! that's not normal. i normally go twice max in work throughout the day. Grrr, if it's not a symptom then i'm not impressed

Jools you're allowed to be blue and self-obsessed on this thread! that's the idea of it try not to let it get to you too much honey, your time will come and when it does you'll forget about how aweful this bit is. That's what i keep telling myself anyway.

My turn to rant now ..... my sis-in-law has a beautiful 3.5 year old daughter who was unplanned. Her and her partner have now split and she tries to palm her off on anyone who will have her so she can go out and socialise. It makes me mad to think she is taking the gift of a child for granted when i am struggling to conceive! my DH agrees with me but obviously i can't be quite so mean about it to him as wouldn't be fair. Some people have no idea what they have.

Jools I know how you are feeling. I am feeling like blobby right now, have an awful smokers cough and I don?t even smoke!! But have not taken anything for it, just in case?. I am still running but have decided to look at my diet as I guess I lurve my chocky? I started Paul McKennon?s way of eating today and left half of my food. Looks promising but I am not speaking too soon. You never know you may have hit the spot? my first DD was conceived by us only bding once and I didn?t even know what my cycle length was or if I was ovulating!! Our bodies are weird things, so you never know. Have you tried placing a heat pack on your back?? It may ease the pain without resorting to any medication?

Queenie what is your cycle length? The test line should be darker than the control line. I get a faint line nearer to the time that I will ovulate. If you have ovulated early then it is good you have done some bd? I would continue to bd for another three days (including the day that you saw the darker line) to cover all the bases like WanabeMum suggests.

WanabeMum peeing is a sign of pg?. so fingers and toes crossed for you

Thanks C1ndy but is it too ealry for a symptom? I'm only 5DPO today (thought it was 5DPO yesterday but nope). Quietly optomistic but, as Jools knows, I had this before and a few other symptoms but nothing happened. Did think that the egg had been fertilised but hadn't implanted or something. Who knows?

I've got caught out with the peeing before because I can often get very very bloated prior to AF and then start peeing for England just before she arrives, so don't count that as a symptom

My bloating seems to have started early this cycle - feel like a beached whale and my skirt is painfully tight. What with that and my dodgy back that is making me walk oddly (or waddle !), I look very odd or quite PG - can't decide !

jools that all sounds horrible. re: your back - would highly recommend a trip to the osteopath if it doesn't get better fast - was like a magic cure for me when i had had niggling back pain for years - now 100% gone

queenie1 sounds like you might have ov'd early - keep up the BDing I reckon

c1ndy - I tried the Paul Mckenna thing once - is really good - puts you in right frame of mind. I am prob a stone overweight, but have my fitness classes starting this week again - so am hoping that I can shift the festive (and pre-festive) fat

I am thinking if am fitter and healthier - I might be better placed to get PG - so am also off alcohol this month totally... and to quote bridget jones 'am as much fun as a whelk'

Hi all,

Yeah I had my scan today and I'm afraid its all gone a bit wrong. The doc put me at 6 weeks - no heartbeat visible which at 6 weeks wouldn't be a problem in itself as the gestational sac was all fine. The problem is that I am 7 + 5 and very sure of my dates.

I have posted in the pregnancy section to see if anyone else has been there but I am pretty devasted as is dh and I've been sobbing all afternoon. They have said come back in a week if nothing happens but I now just feel numb with misery. I want to get hammered to be honest but daren't just in case someone has made a mistake.

So much for the reassurance of an early scan

Hi Wasabi - I'd just replied to your other thread.

So sorry to hear your news isn't good .

Sorry to hear that you haven't had a good scan wasabi. Don't want to build your hopes, but it might still be too early to spot the heartbeat, even at just 7 weeks.

Was the scan done with an internal probe? I can't remember whether you were one of us who confessed to having a retroverted uterus, but if you were then early scans done the conventional way are notoriously poor at spotting the right stuff.

Hugs and hope that you're able to stay sane for another week .

C1NDY - ds is also 2 and I know exactly where you're coming from !

As I said on your other thread Wasabi - its by no means over yet - loads of positive stories there and I hope you can add to them next week - here's a large box of Thorntons to pass the time

I've been starving, ravenous all day - had my sandwiches at 11.45 cos I couldn't wait any longer, snacked on fruit all afternoon and had to buy a choccie bar on the way home as I felt so hungry I was going to pass out

I actually went to bed for an hour when I got home - my back was killing me, I had a splitting headache and I was just soooooooo tired I could barely get up the stairs to bed

I'm also finding (TMI) that I'm very wet down at the business end - no discharge, just damp

Have just eaten a massive plate of food and am going back for more - goodnight all

Oh wasabi im so sorry your early scan wasn't what you expected. But i agree with the other ladies, don't give up hope just yet. Try and keep it together for another week.

Jools your back must be awefully painful and very frustrating too. I can totally relate on the hunger thing though, had to snack half way through the afternoon and just ate a huge plate of food that didn't fill me at all , nightmare. The tiredness is a symptom too but could be related to you struggling through your daily routine with all that pain i guess. Never say never though.

Well it's almost 9pm and i've visited the loo 8 times so far. It's not normal i tell you. I'm dropping a first morning sample into the doc's tomorrow just in case it's an infection brewing despite the fact that it doesn't feel like an infection and i'm actually going to toilet when i visit the loo. Very odd, but keeping your words of wisdom in mind Jools, not getting too optimistic about it being a symptom.

wasabi - I'm so sorry to hear of your scan. What a nightmare that you have to wait another week. I remember when I was PG and I started bleeding (on a saturday), didnt see doctor until the Monday and couldn't have a scan until the Wednesday. It was the longest and worst four days of my life. I kept willing everything to be okay but also, deep down, felt that it wasn't and unfortunately that was the case and I miscarried.

I do so hope your outcome is better. Do come and talk to us all this week whenever you need to. I really do feel for you.

Big hugs. xxx

wasabi - some positive messages on other thread. Hoping everything okay for you sweetheart xx

WanabeMum It is hard not to symptom spot. I am CD14 today and my OPK turned pink yesterday, so am in the middle of ovulating. DH has promised to come home early so that we can try and seal the deal, however I think I may have already ovulated as I feel hot? but am hoping the egg can hold on.

Iggy Am doing really well with the exercising, did another 3 mile run yesterday. I started the technique and if I can get my binges in control then I will sure to lose the 3 stones. I am watching The Biggest Loser on telly and it is spurring me on? I am not that big but it makes me think if I don?t do something now then I sure will be!!

Wasabi I am so sorry to read this sad news. All I can say to you is you must think positive, I know it is difficult but try and be positive ? they may have got it wrong. I have heard of things like this? so try and be positive.

You'll be busy tonight then C1ndy

Wanabe - trying not to be the voice of doom - just sensible and not get too excited about symptoms

Having said that, my headache came back and woke me up in the middle of the night - or was that hunger ... I had to get up and eat something, and had to get up to pee in the early hours, which is unusual. This morning, I keep feeling something on the left side of my abdomen and think - oh, is that a cramp, then it goes again

I look at my chart in FF for last time - it was at 8DPO that implantation symptoms kicked in and I think that is tomorrow, so I'm expecting to obsess !!

Thinking of you Wasabi I do hope you can keep busy and distracted for the week - I know how hard the waiting must be already