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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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hi everyone, I was out on Thurs and Friday on hols and forgot to take my laptop. So will do my best to catch up on posts!

I am on CD 12, so am bd every other day from day 10.

Bubbles definitely drink!! Don?t put your life on hold. Enjoy the party?I agree with Mummy2Olivia and Pinkie

Snowflake Congratulations!!! Great news!

Yellowflowers Thanks for the link. I will give it a try in a moment or two?

Heebychick You are our lucky charm? you can never leave us

Villagemum I am fine. Just heard a friend is 9 weeks pregnant? its making me feel glum. I am happy for them but hope that it will happen to me soon. The 2ww will go quickly? fingers crossed for that BFP

BeckyMcG Oh how wonderful, glad you have seen your bean. I am a little emotional today so have shed a tear of joy for you. My fingers and toes are crossed for you?roll on week 12!! :0)

SuiGeneris Welcome? DP means Deanna Plan? some of us are following the plan to get preganant

Wasabipanut I know its hard sweety to pick yourself up and start again, but lets wait till AF arrives

JingleJools after my MC I had bad ovulation pains? it will get better over time. Fingers and toes crossed that it will be something else (wink)

Hi Ladies,
My AF arrived Saturday so unfortunately I wont get to join in the mass xmas eve testathon. Good luck for those still in the race!
I have updated the list with my predicted new AF due dates and this month me and DH have decided to take the DP seriously and give it a go.
I'm very confused that my cycle can seem to be stable on 33days then all of a sudden i get a 28day cycle like this month, which means we totally missed ovulation.

Any news on the outcome Wasabi?
Hope everyone elses is ok, very strange and heart wrenching for you Jools but I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

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

Wasabi AF 16th dec
VillageMum AF due 21 December DP
Mummy2olivia AF due December 23rd 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
Suigeneris AF due 1 Jan DP (intention to)
Pinkie08 due 1st Jan clomid and DP
Ilovebeingamummy AF due 1st Jan
iggypiggy - AF due 2nd Jan
Wanabemum AF due 9th-14th Jan DP

Heebychick BFP
BeckyMcG BFP
BoosieBoo BFP
Sn0wflake BFP

Wannabe so so sorry that the witch got to you this month, enjoy your xmas parties if you have any comming up & have a few drinks to relax & get in the right frame of mind for the DP next month (((hug)))

Well as for me I've just done my OPK for today & no smiley face yet....its still early for me as it should be +ive tomorrow or Weds at the lastest so not tooooo worried just yet, although I did re-look at FF for dates that we BD'd & we didn't manage CD10 (Sat) as we didn't get back in till 3am so we did yesterday x2 just incase it was OV pains on Sat told DH we need to keep going until we are sure its over...& he's more than up for it

Smileycat you and i are right on the same dates and ov patterns.

Our DHs sound similar too, they say men dont like it to be planned but i dont see mine complaining when i tell him keep your energy up this is the marathon week

FF has confused me slightly as when added CD8,9 and 10 it has turned them green and ov not due til thursday

hence the bd marathon continues til after oved.

Sorry to hear about AF wanabe

smiley and pinkie - good luck with the marathon this week. I too will be at it, fingers crossed.

sorry wannabe. x

Thanks for the support yellow and cindy... wanabe, really sorry AF is here for you, may this next month be the one!!

jools, everything crossed for you!

wasabi, how are things??

Not sure if AF is about to make an appearance or not now. Tingling cramping has definitely gone but that doesn't mean that it won't start up again... argh.

villagemum - sounding very promising!!

As I begin to approach ovulation time and the 2WW, the madness begins again. So in that spirit, I'm wondering if any of you can help me. Apart from EWCM, what are the signs of ovulation? For example, I ams suddenly very concious of my boobs which have gone very achy. Is this a sign of ovulation or impending ovulation?

(if there was a symbol for nutter I would be including it here...)

Sorry Wanabe and hope you're OK Wasabi.

I'm about 7 or 8 days post ov at this end and trying not to symptom spot. I'm peeing for my country (no pain so not an infection I think), sore right boob and feeling pretty grim and 'hung over' this evening, very similar to how I was with ds.

It couldn't have implanted yet, could it, so it must all be in the mind ? Almost no symptoms with the last 2 mcs, so really trying not to let it do my head in .

Could I have a good slap for Chrismas please, Santa?

I'm feeling sooo pi**ed off this morning, my temp was high again & OPK -ive FF has now put me down as OVing on CD9 (Friday) stupidly early. We were both so keyed up for going all out this month & bding every day leading upto OV, but now that I've OV'd early we only did it once in the fertile window. I know, I know it only takes one but I can't help feeling down today, I drank quite a lot on Fri & Sat at my Xmas parties ready to start fresh with ttcing on Sunday for the marathon wk...ahhhhrrrr mother nature really gets to me sometimes.
If FF is correct I am now DPO4 & due to test on 26th Dec but I wont update my dates until tomorrow to make sure temp is still up & final OPK is -ive

I forgot to take my temperature this morning and am ill so wouldn't count anyway. But did have ewcm last night, though it was tinged with blood again. too ill to bd yesterday or today anyhow - will have to hope Sunday's lot made it through.

WannabeMUm sorry to hear AF has arrived, at least you can now drink and be merry?

Smileycat Could the temperature thingy be wrong? Can't you carry on until OPK go positive. I heard for temperature charting you need have slept for 4hours at a minimum and then you must not get out of bed until you have taken your temperature - sorry if I am telling you something that you already know. Bodies are a strange thing.. If in doubt can't you bd one day and miss the next?

I had a positive OPK yesterday but did not test on Sunday - so was thinking that the positive could have been on sunday and monday was my last day before ovulation?? Anyhow I am going to keep on bding everyday until Thursday - just in case my FF says that I should be ovulating today, wed or Thursday!!

Question: Okay, the only convienant time for me and my DH to bd is in the evening at around 10 - 12 ... DH comes home sometimes late from work but wants to be fed and watered before he does the deed (yes, it is getting a little bit of a chore to him... and he hates the routine - but if this is what it takes. Don't get me wrong he does the necessary as he wants a bambeno as much as moi!) Is it okay for us to bd on fertile days and when the OPK go positive, once in the evening? or should we be bd more regularly??

Another question, I have stopped putting my legs in the air as I find it really uncomfortable... is it okay to lie flat? or should I be laying on my side?

Goush, I know I sound obsessive but really I am not... just want to give myself the best chance possible and perhaps one of you lovely ladies out there may have the answer or a trick to help!! over to you all...

Smileycat - I feel gutted for you - FF did the same thing to me a couple of cycles ago - I thought I knew what my cycle was going to do but then my body tricked me and we had started BDing too late. But as you say, it does only take 1 little swimmer.

FF confirmed my OV day - I ov'd on Saturday, which is what I had expected. So I'm 3DPO. Although we hadn't managed as much BDing as we had hoped due to lots of family being around. But we've done all we can for another month now. Just got to sit back and see what happens.

Thankfully, the next week and a half are going to be busy busy busy so I'll hopefully have little time to symptom spot

How's everyone else doing? Any news Wasabi?

Pezzina Hi there, I am in the bding stage.. its nearly coming to an end. So I will be all wrapped up soon and be doing the long stretch of the 2ww wait... Where does the time go?

Oooh Wincies and VillageMum - my money is on both of you

The jury is still out on whether I'm having a very wierd, light AF or a big implantation bleed

Boobs not sore, which makes me think this is just AF, but still diarrhea, gas, excess saliva (was drooling overnight - lovely ) very sensitive achey teeth - gums were bleeding earlier (either that or I just have a metallic taste in my mouth !) and, even when I'd told myself not to be silly, this is AF and I should tell Fertility Friend I'm on CD1, I then came over all nauseous and actually threw up around 30 mins ago

This is just maddening - I've been in total limbo for 2 days and it feels like 2 years !!!

Could it be that my body is so used to HCG as I only miscarried 5 weeks ago that my boobs are not getting sore ?

Anyone else got similar experiences of a wierd AF after mc ?

I'm pretty sure that, if this is implantation, I have to wait at least a week to test, so will stick around wishing, hoping, obsessing and waiting for all those BFP's the grapefruit massive is going to get before Christmas

C1ndy we are going to carry on bding for the next couple of days just incase, but I did get very uncomfortable low down on Sat eve & told DH that I though I might be OVing early, we were out on Sat eve at a party & didn't get in till 3am, tried the deed but DH had too much to drink so did it the next morning & eve just incase it was OV pains, so if I did OV early I'm hoping that FF got it a little wrong & it should have been Sat (my pains) & not Friday (its date)that means we would be in with a better chance of getting a +ive
At least if I have OV already I will be due AF earlier & can have a drink New Year if its -ive

A little question I got a sharp pain in what I think was my cervix area last night, it happened a couple of times during the eve & when we did the deed the 1st push (tmi) gave me the pain again, but since then it hasn't happened again???? any ideas? anyone had something similar

Morning everyone

AM FEELING ALL CHRISTMASSY!

anyway... have started my BD-a thon - yesterday on CD10 - was having odd twinges - so was wondering if was sort of getting ready to ov rather than actually ov'ing - cos that would be very early... and I would have started bding too late... opk was -ve yesterday too.

Not sure what the pain could be smiley unless is somehow a little senstive from lots of BDing?

How frustrating for you jools I hope is all a good sign tho xx

Hey ladies,

Thanks for the supportive messages but honestly I'm ok and actually feeling quite positive about next month and so is DH.

Funtime & Villagemum your symptoms sound positive!

Jools are you sure that you haven't got that Norovirus that's rife at the moment? Diarrhoea and vomitting could explain the sypmtoms you have (sorry to be negative but i work in a hospital so see this all the time!). Hopefully it's just weird symptoms but you may want to keep an eye on your symptoms just in case and drink lots of water!

Hi everyone else and good luck with the marathons and 2ww! sorry if i don't mention everyone but my brain only retains small amounts of info at a time!

Hi Cindy - I agree the time does indeed fly by during the BDing stage but then seems to grind to a halt in the dreaded 2ww.

Hi Wanabe - good point re the virus, but I'd be very surprised as I'm actually pretty fit and full of energy - even my aerobics instructor commented on it last night !! Since Sunday, I've also been in a fantastically good mood for the first time in a very very long time

I would obviously love this to be the start of something, but if not, it just gives me another month to regain even more of my pre PG fitness and lose more weight plus I can enjoy a few Christmas drinkies, so am frustrated but quite OK about it I think

Bleeding has stopped again

Hi ladies,

Crikey i have been gone so long when i logged in it told me i had 'no threads i am discussing on' !!! i had to search for this thread again!

Sorry am mega busy at the moment what with 2 jobs (i work PT but am also running my own business) and it's a really busy time for me at Christmas. So if i don't get here a lot it's not that i'm not thinking of you all - i am - and i will of course be looking in on the Christmas eve test-a-thon!!

cindy i would think once a day is fine but do it more if you can, we did it every day for a block of 5 days over OV but only once a day, mind you i did 'feel' my OV this time and had plenty of CM which would of helped the lil' swimmers live a bit longer. I would be worried about quality of sperm if you did it more than once a day? not sure if there's any science behind that comment or just my thoughts.

wannabe shame about AF honey, like the others have said tho at least it's a nice month to be able to drink and eat all that lovely pate! tut.

smiley hi honey - i had a similar pain but it didn't hang around for long, i put it down to over worked muscles!

((((hugs to everyone)))) sorry to have been radio-silent for ages!

ps just going back to becky's comment on the 'baby manual' i was made to laugh by a teacher friend of mine who said it took her 5 years of training, exams, supervision and police checks to learn how to look after young children for a few hours a day - when you become a mum you have 2 hours of classes then 'off you go, have fun!'

I searched DD for the instructions but couldn't find any, although i have to say instinct does a great job - even though when newly pregnant i didn't believe the whole instinct thing!

Smileycat funny you should say that but I have been having a little very very mild pain down below. I thought it could have been me testing my CM - sorry for TMI. But it is not a sharp pain. Have you... sorry again this is going to be embarrasing but have you checked for infections, they say that if your CM smells that there may be an infection?? (someone please correct if I am wrong!!). Lately I have been having pains near to ovulation time and thought that this could be the MC that I had around September time and that my body was still healing. If in doubt you should speak to your doctor.

Iggypiggy If you OPK are negative then you have not ovulated yet, but the little twinges can be your body getting ready to ovulate. I would continue bding - not sure if you are following the DP - but everyother day should do it. Until you get that postive and then bed for three consecutive days.

VillageMum HOWDY!! howz it going?

I am off to do a 5 mile run today gulp

Speak to you all tomorrow with aching muscles

Ta-ra
Cindy