Hi everyone
Apologies if I miss people on personals but this thread has always moved on so far in the few days between me getting on mn that I totally lose track.
OMG littlepea I am so chuffed for you!! What fantastic news. How are you settling in in Germany? DH found out today that we've been given Netheravon near Bulford for our next posting - not impressed, we were hoping for something closer to Scotland this time. Another guy on the course got York but doesn't wanna go up north so DH is now frantically trying to get a swap but I don't hold out much hope.
girl I'm sorry you're feeling so down. I do know how it feels. Before I had DD I remember bursting into tears in my GPs waiting room when I saw a gorgeous little toddler playing. I was convinced it would never happen for me. It took a while but it did in the end.
Sorry AF got you wishing, but at least if you know theres a 46 day pattern emerging you have something to work with. I've used preseed, I prefer it to things like KY - although that may just be their marketing working on my subconscious - I can be pretty gullible, an advertisers dream!
I can't recommend Persona highly enough. After over a year trying for baby #1 I bought a Persona and got pregnant on the 2nd month using it, now have a beautiful 3yo DD. I shoulda held onto it for this attempt but was pretty certain I knew my ov signs and wouldn't have any prob this time around - and now here I am on cycle 5!
bubble my GP wants me to have a day 21 test too, she is a charter and is happy to do it 7 days from when I tell her I think I ov'd. I'll be basing that on a combination of OPKs, saliva ferning, temping and cm. According to ovusoft I'm due to ov day 19 but going by past 6 mths I ov anywhere from cd17 to cd20.
Congrats hackneybird. Really hope it all goes well for you this time.
My GP was fab when I saw her last week. Although we've only had 4 cycles of trying she was very understanding. I told her I had concerns about my luteal phase, and she was sympathetic and understood why I don't want to wait til I've been trying longer before having some investigations done. She herself had a 6 day LP, and took agnus castus to help with it - she's now 6 months pregnant. Unfortunately she wants me to steer clear of the agnus castus because of my diabetes - she doesn't know what kind of effect it could have on blood sugars, but she said to keep going with the B6 and in the meantime she'll do the day 21 test. She suggested DH get his swimmers tested sooner rather than later as they won't refer me to a specialist at 6 months of trying unless he's been tested. DH went to see one of the army docs the other day and they gave him the necessary forms and collection jar to take a sample to the hospital when he can.
I'm expecting to ov next week, probably wednesday or thursday, and wouldn't you believe it - DH won't be home now til next Friday night coz he's stuck doing some adventure training thing this weekend. I've asked him to look into whether he can borrow a car from one of the guys on his course (I have our car and he gets a lift down to Blandford Sun nights and back Fri nights) to make a quick trip home on Tuesday or Wednesday night. Otherwise I'm going to have to do the drive down there with DD again (about 1h 40m each way). I really don't like doing that because it means leaving her asleep in the car while I run up to the singlies block for the quickest BD on record. I know she's going to be fine for 5 minutes - especially since it's inside an army camp with armed guards all over the place - but I'm still not comfortable with it. I can't wait til this course is over and we can have some semblance of normal family life again. Only 3 months to go thank goodness (of course then he'll probably get a 6mth tour in Afghanistan!).
Good luck everyone still waiting!