The TTC DP CM GP we will all graduate before this reaches 999 messages

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Thought I'd take the plunge and begin new thread to follow on from this one thread

All welcome.
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Hi everyone,

I hope the week has got off to a good start for everyone.

Welcome Flintski It's lovely to have new members of our little gang! It's a fun place to hang out

Funtime - Well your week certainly should get off to a good start! I know what you mean about the difficulty of getting quiet time with a ds tearing around. You can see why people tend to take longer to concieve numnber 2! I am glad that you are happy at your friends news. I think we'd all understand if you had a few mixed up emotions is addition to being happy for her so if you need to vent at any point feel free!

Becky - gosh I can't believe you are 20 weeks already. You wait - the time will fly and you'll be back on the Pinot before you know it! I never really got my taste for white wine back after my 1st pregnancy but I am still extremely partial to a glass/bottle of red! My dh bought me a mini bottle to have with some lovely cheese after dh was born! It was probably a bit naughty smuggling alcohol into a hospital but hell, it was lovely!

Yellow how is your dh today? Did you call NHS Direct or anything? Hope all is well x

Well Dh and I have reaquainted ourselves with eachother over the weekend! I tested at home and got a BFN on Thursday so considered it "safe" to resume activity! It was lovely actually. This is odd because its probably the opposite of what everyone else here feels but because we have written this month off as I haven't a clue if or when I will ovulate it feels quite liberating. It has served as a helpful reminder of how much we used to enjoy sex for its own sake rather than as a means to an end......

Thanks for all the welcomes girls - am at work so can't reply properly - will later but thanks for letting me join in. have added myself to list

Lovelymonster Af due 26th January
Pinkie08 due 30th Jan clomid and DP
Joolsiam AF due 14th Feb
Kittycatcat - AF due 14th Feb (how romantic ;)
Funtimewincies - AF 21st Feb (ish)
Flintski - Af 21st Feb (ish)
Wasabi - AF due 24th Feb (ish)
Broodzilla AF due 26th Feb
Yellowflowers AF due 28th Feb
Queenie AF due 2nd March
iggypiggy AF due 4/5 March
VillageMum

Graduates:-
Heebychick BFP
BeckyMcG BFP
BoosieBoo BFP
Sn0wflake BFP
Pezzina BFP
SmileyCat BFP EDD 09/09/09
Spats BFP
WanabeMum BFP EDD 19th Sept!
Cindy BFP EDD 7 October

Hi wasabi - that is good, nice to be relaxed about it.

Thanks for asking re dh - he is off sick today but so much better than lastnight - def had a v high temp but almost normal now so don't know what it was.Did research on nhs direct website instead of calling in the end, but was mainly relieved that by the time we went to sleep and after calpol (he can't swallow pills) his temp was dropping again.

I am hoping he is well enough to do the deed later...

Maybe a spot of doctors and nurses might be in order yellow ?

Hi Girls,

Do you mind if I join you as you seem like a lovely bunch. I am TTC #3 and have been trying since I had a m/c at 11 weeks last March. It is taking much longer than I had hoped and so I am hoping that soon I will get a BFP.
DH does not always understand how hard it is TTC although he is keen for baby #3 and was gutted about the MC. I am 36 so am starting to worry that time is running out....perhaps i am just being paranoid.

It took 18 months for me to conceive my DS and only a couple of months for my to get PG for my DD and for the one that I lost. It seems so weird that sometimes it happens quickly and others takes ages!!

Anyway hopefully things won't be too much longer now I am CD10 and hope to try DP this month (but DH has been away so we have not officially started yet...oh well!

yes do join us pinkyblue123 - the more the merrier. It's great having the support of this thread.Do you want to add yourself to list? (Just cut and paste it from last time it appeared and add in your details. We're all quite into the Deanna PLan (google it - basically just lots of sex from a week before ovulation to a while after) and also grapefruit juice drinking. A lot of us chart using fertility friend too.

I love that idea funtime - made me laugh. Said it cheekily to dh while I was making dinner and I can't repeat what he said but he didn't seem to like it!!! But I did warn him that if he eats too much dinner and thenis too "full up" for sex (this sometimes happens) that I will not be happy.

Thank you for letting me join in I have added myself to list...

Lovelymonster Af due 26th January
Pinkie08 due 30th Jan clomid and DP
Joolsiam AF due 14th Feb
Kittycatcat - AF due 14th Feb (how romantic ;)
Funtimewincies - AF 21st Feb (ish)
Flintski - Af 21st Feb (ish)
Wasabi - AF due 24th Feb (ish)
Broodzilla AF due 26th Feb
Pinkyblue123 AF due 27th Feb
Yellowflowers AF due 28th Feb
Queenie AF due 2nd March
iggypiggy AF due 4/5 March
VillageMum

Graduates:-
Heebychick BFP
BeckyMcG BFP
BoosieBoo BFP
Sn0wflake BFP
Pezzina BFP
SmileyCat BFP EDD 09/09/09
Spats BFP
WanabeMum BFP EDD 19th Sept!
Cindy BFP EDD 7 October

Thanks for the advice YellowFlowers. I have just been using Persona up to now (I used to use it for the opposite of TTC ironically) I keep meaning to try temping properly but always forget to do it or have disturbed sleep due to my DS (4) and DD (3)! Also DH does not like it if I obsess and does not want us to just BD at the right times....but I have told him about DP and he is happy to give it a go...so I guess we will be busy this month!

Wasabi Congratulations on getting your BFN.... like you said your body is back to normal, so you can start again. (big hugs)

Hi everyone, I am stuck in limbo land right now... don't get me wrong its lovely to have a BFP but I keep wondering when it will be over. Tommorrow will be the start of week 6... so only another 6 long weeks to wait!!

I think we have dropped the DP off the list... and I cannot believe Pinkie is the only one using the DP... can those who are doing DP please place it after your cycle. Goush I sound like a teacher today! but its the only way we can see how well the technique work.

Pinkyblue I tried the DP and well got my BFP after three cycles, so it does work. I didn't stick to it fully and did miss days out of feeling tired. But one thing is that I never missed CD8, as I believed that sometimes I would ovulate early in my cycle. Good luck.

Welcome Flintski - I remember you

Welcome also to Pinkyblue

Yes, I laughed at the doctors and nurses suggestion too !!!

Nothing to report here really - just waiting for AF to arrive on Sat so I can hopefully get on with TTC again

I don't actively follow the DP, just try to have sex each day that I'm fertile. My luteal phase looks like it's shortened to 12 days so I've been giving up too soon!

Welcome pinkyblue, you'll find lots of support here from ladies at all stages of ttc, including many who've had mc's. I feel very sorry for people ttc #1 on this thread, as they're not as blissfully ignorant as I was when trying to ttc my ds when I never imagined that it would happen to me. Hope you enjoy our company !

On that note, I've got my appointment at the mc clinic later in the week, wish me luck .

Hi and welcome to all the "newbies"! (Not that I know if I can count myself as an "oldie"!) It's a lovely thread full of lovely people.

at all the Cosmo-talk... I guess that's a side effect of being in a long term relationship? (Not that I would tell anyone to start TTC in the first flush of luurve, but it would sure as hell mean that BD didn't require any amount of planning!)

We're going with the DP this month. Got a nearly-as-strong-as line on the OPK yesterday and this morning my temp chart was on its way up, so I guess we're easing into the 2ww.

Actually talked about the whole TTC business with DH yesterday, and I told him that the general conscensus seems to be that men should not be informed of all the technicalities. I draw the line at CM, there are some things that he really doesn't need to know! He seems to find the POAS quite interesting though, and was quite excited yesterday about the nearly +ive stick. So far, he is enjoying the BD fest, but my MIL (!!!!) has told him to make sure we don't get too focused on the TTC and stop enjoying it. (I'm so glad that I was not there for that conversation!!!)

I only realised when my mum opened up and talked at Christmas just how hard it was for her to conceive my sister There are 6 years between us and, in between, they adopted my brother because they didn't believe it would ever happen. She used to temp - was advised to do so by her GP at the time.

She also told me that the doctors wouldn't see you until you'd missed two AF's, so I guess anyone getting a PG confirmed nearly 40 years ago would have had to be at least 9 weeks - the waiting and hoping must have been soooo hard

Jools - my mum was saying a similar thing, that you had to miss at least 2 AF's and there were no scans, only x-rays which for obvious reasons were only used in an emergency. She started wiffling about 'too much information being a bad thing' and it all being better in her day, etc. until I reminded her that without this modern technology, my ectopic wouldn't have been spotted in time and there was a good chance I'd have carked it . Cruel , but she was being very annoying as she disagrees with me going to see someone about the mcs ('we just accepted our lot in my day', etc.)

Broodzilla - I'm pretty sure that I ov'd yesterday (temp. dip in a.m. and +ve poas) so shall we wait out the 2 weeks together. Ready, steady, obsess !

grrr - well dh wasn;t up for it last night. we tried but he just didn't feel well. gah! fingers crossed for tonight... temp very low which sometimes preceeds ovulation for me.

How annoying for you !

I though that men were supposed to think about sex all the time!

Oooh, funtime you've got me excited now - my temp has been erratic but I also had a dip yesterday AM and it's on it's way up now as I said but I hadn't thought about the dip being significant!! Oooh... best BD for "insurance purposes" tonight then and let the 2ww commence. I'm so glad to have a cycle buddy!

I'll go and investigate in FF (HOW did I miss the dip being important!!) but just incase you read this before I find the answer - would the dip happen just before OV (and therefore mean that the BD last night was well timed) or would we have missed the window of opportunity?

See, you've created a monster!

Also, re: modern technology... in a way, I'm sure ignorance is bliss, but on the other hand, knowledge is power (oh yes, from now on I shall only speak in metaphores...) and while it means we may be ever so slightly obsessed with POAS and temping and CM and all that lark, it also means that if something goes wrong it can be sorted. In your case it could've saved your life!

Completely echo Jools too... imagine all the heartache and the horrid 9ww!

Get bd'ing now Broodzilla ! I've gone back to temping this month, but looking back at all my old charts, there is ALWAYS a dip on mine, just before the rise for ovulation!

You might not have missed it, but you'll have to be quick and jump dh when he gets home!

Just read about you bd'ing last night, very well timed (at least I hope so, from my point of view) and we're planning on a spot of 'insurance' tonight too .

Hey ladies,

Glad to see all the BDing is going on. Took me AGES to find this thread as there's no link from the other one to this one. Just guessed coz saw funtime at the end of the title.

Anyway, I'm 8weeks tomorrow so will be starting week 9! it's amazing how fast it has gone though. Still here's hoping i keep hurtling towards the 12 week mark healthy and happy! Didn't hear from the midwife as planned on Friday, probably due to the weather and as she is only in the surgery on a friday i have to wait until this friday now. Grrrr. I'm so impatient.

Hop everyone is feeling happy and positive, glad to see wasabi is back in the race (or at least soon to be).

Take care everyone, i'm checking in on you all even if i don't post xxxxx

Pleased to be of service wanabe . Have some choccie and park your bum!

funtime, thank you! From my google frenzy it seems that "some women" do indeed have a dip on the day of OV. I've also done two(!) OPKs today, the one from mid-morning was faint, the one this afternoon was very blank. So it would seem that the BD last night was right on!

Good luck with the insurance go tonight and I've got all my fingers and toes crossed for us (it is, after all, Valentine's week and that MUST be a good sign!)

def having a shag tonight - day 11 for me so still another week of shagging to go.... Will think of you (or rather try not to!) when we are all shagging at the same time!!

Welcome Pinkyblue - lots of nice people here to enjoy chatting to and obsessing with!

Funtime and Jools - I know what yo mean about the different generations having very different ideas about pregnancy and everything that goes with it. Funtime I am amazed your mum thinks you should "accept your lot". Mind you, I read some shocking stories on the miscarriage forum about posters mothers who had lost their babies late in pregnancy. Because of the prevailing attitudes they weren't allowed to see their babies to say goodbye or have a funeral. They were deprived of their chance to grieve properly and then given tranqilisers to help them continue to function and basically lived in a daze for years. The way women were treated then was barbaric. Perhaps our mothers have forgotten how far things have progressed.

Well it looks like everyone is erm, going for it this month! You all seem to be roughly at the same point in your cycles - I'll be miles out when my cycle does actually decide to return to something faintly resembling normality.

Nothing to report really - just wanted to see what everyone else was up to but I think I got my answer!

Hello all

Welcome to Flintski and pinkyblue

Right this is my news - not very exciting actually! So we started our BD fest yesterday on CD5 (I know - early!) and we are going to try a bd-a-thon this month - cos clearly am getting the dates wrong.. Am going to start with the OPK sticks again tomorrow.

Am all optimistic again... is all up and down this ttc business!