July/August baby threads, where are you now? Wishing, Sunnydale, Homeinthesun, Headfairy, Bubble, etc..

[Issy42]

Please don't be offended if you're not named, you're still welcome, I just have a rubbish memory. I can see a couple of you on November thread but there's a whole load of people not there. Just wondering if you wanted a little thread to keep in touch?

Headfairy - just replied to you on grapefruit thread. So sorry about your sad news. Was hoping a new thread might provide you with support from old friends.

And Sunnydale, I know you're wary of new threads, so though you might also like the company of old friends.

Wishing and Bubble having your weird long cycles and missing whole month's threads, thought this might be one for you too.

So what do you say? I'll start a list just in case:

Issy, ttc#1, cycle 14, ucl 28ish, cd 23/10dpo, mc Mar08, cp Sep08, IVF in April.

Poor Issy, I'm sure it'll happen soon for you.

And for the record, I only ever post when I'm at work... I go to work to get some peace and quiet

Hi ladies,

Been laying low this month in a desperate bid for sanity!
Was really touched to see my name has remained on the stats list though so I thought i would post and update it

Issy TTC#1 MC Mar08, CP Sep
Headfairy TTC#2
Ilovebeingamummy TTC#3 MC Sep 08 MC Dec 08
Girlwithacurl TTC#1 MC Sept
Bubblebell TTC#3
Gateau - BFP 11/2/09
Twiglettini TTC #4, MC/ERPC Sept, MC Jan
Bluesatinsash TTC#2
RipMacWinkle
JumpingJellyfish TTC#3
Sifuentes TTC#1 MMC Dec
Olivo BFP
Wishing

Think I'm around ovulation now on my irritatingly long 34 day cycle... there has been so much bding this month i think we are both dreading going to bed and conjuring up the spirit to do it again!!

Roll on sticky bean so we can both get some rest

Hi Ilovebeingamummy looks like there are a few of us who are pretty much cycle buds which is weird. Go onnnn you can do it a couple more times

Issy life can be a bloody beatch sometimes but you sound like a very strong person. You'll get there. I agree with HF. And well done for avoiding a saturday walk of shame

I still have some weird grumblings donwstairs, although they have eased off a bit. Hope nothing is amiss.

OK ladies. I am going to work properly today. Have shitloads to do!!

Hope you all have a good one

adios xx

Hello eveyone.
issy sorry that its taking so long for you, I can't imagine what it is like going though it by yourself (well you have us, but you know what I mean!) I hope it happens for you soon!

I am definitly into the 2ww now... sif how you doing with yours, any juicy symptoms? not that I am counting of course

hi girl unfortunately I am pretty convinced that I totally miss timed my shag fest this month. I think i ov'ed on Monday when I had thought it would be thursday at the latest.

so really trying not raise my hopes up - I will do though, inevitably, otherwise it's a 6ww and that's just plain boring! Might as well at least play the game!

What about you then?

well 2 days in I can't possibly have any... so of course I have loads. tingly nips, twinges in my stomach... please someone shake me.

you never know sif will keep my fingers crossed for you.

head do any better at poas this morning?

am not really here just wanted to say

mistimed !!

I was much more organised this morning girl, had stick in the bathroom right in front of me as I go in, so I remembered. Now I know I'm only using these sticks up to save wasting them (yeah yeah right ) but I'm starting to think that I should be doing them in the afternoon as LH surges are usually during the day (according to peeonastick.com). Does anyone else do them in the morning or at any other time of the day? I never go more than four hours between pees, usually much less (teeeeny weeeeny bladder) so I have no idea how I'd manage it earlier in the day...

Anyway, what do I care, I'm just using them up right?

HF i do them in the afternoon as I read that the LH surge happens during the day. However on the instructions that come with the tests they say you can do them any time! I think either way you need to do them at the same time everyday!
And of course you are just using them us, we understand

Hey HeadF I was just searching through the other threads and see that you had exactly the sorts of pains that i am having. did you also think that it felt a bit late for ovulation? Am now wondering if in fact I am going to have a really short cycle and will just have nasty achey thing til I come on. booooooo.

Which pains would those be sif? I've lost track! I've had very strong ov pains that last for about three days the first cycle after each of my mcs, I think it's either a super ov with the egg surging down my tubes and attendant pain, or I'm being silly (guess which is more likely! ) but apart from that I don't normally get ov pain.

Both times I've miscarried I've had sharp burning pain low down, centrally located, for a couple of days which at the time I put down to implantation pains, but which I think now are failing to implant pains. When I got pg with ds I clearly remember the implantation pains being in the same location but only lasting about 6 hours, then nothing. I think the last two times they went on longer because the embryo was failing to implant. Or it could just be me being silly (guess which is more likely )

oops, sorry, meant to say thanks Girl, I guess I'll just have to stick with morning pee. I got a positive surge after my first mc using morning pee and a digi opk, so hopefully using my morning pee won't affect it too much this time.

I have been obsessing racking my brains as to what it could be too (ov or imp) - I had no sensation of implantation before but I don't think it can be ovulation related. I'm pretty sure from what I've read that it's nothing to do with implantation either though.

Oh well, I'll know better depending on which day AF comes.

I have had enough of not knowing what's going on in my cycle. It's way too confusing. Hopefully next cycle will be normal again, finally. By then it will be three months, which is what I was advised to wait for anyway.

Thanks for answering!

Hi All,

Sorry to crash in when I haven't been around for so long. Recognise a lot of names from previous ttc threads. I'm sorry I haven't kept up with the threads - was trying the "nonchalent" approach (impossible!) So sorry to hear about your MC Bubble xx

I just need to tell someone that I have got my BFP! I really want to share it with those of you who have been so supportive through my ttc post-ectopic period. Obviously it's ridiculously early days (the lure of the hpt was too strong!) and main concern at the moment is to find out it's not ectopic again. I had spotting last week and so now have a scan booked for Thurs next week, but am thinking it could have been implantation (in the right place!) bleeding? Maybe it really does happen?!

Fingers crossed for all xxx

VKFAB/WTSMBOS xx

Aw, that's great news wanttoseemybean... hope the scan goes well!

Sif, I've long given up analysing every twinge. I get them at totally random times I think I'm imagining them. I wrack my brains trying to remember what it was like when I wasn't ttc (nearly 4 years now!) and periods just came when they came, and I can't for the life of me remember what it felt like. I've certainly give up symptom spotting. I used to get strange let down sensations in my boobs during the 2ww and every time I was convinced I was pg, of course I wasn't but I think my boobs have changed since bfing ds, so now when my hormones are doing their usual song and dance in the 2ww, my boobs join in.

Hello all

Congrats wanttoseemybean! Great news! Fingers crossed for you

Glad you got a clear +ve OPK bubble- really hope this is your month esp. with hopefully heightened fertility post mc...

Well AF finally got going properly 4am this morn (as I walked to comfort DD, who is still waking 3 times a night arghhh). Don't know what's going on anymore- cycle officially 26 days long this month, down from 28 last month- but unlike last month spotting from CD21. So have bitten the bullet and made apt with lovely GP for next week. Wondering if spotting so "early" means I haven't got a long enough luteal phase to allow successful implantation- but no idea why this is so different than pre-DD. Nothing else has changed except my bloomin' cycle!! Despite trying not to obsess I am getting so frustrated with TTC that I am vowing to use OPKs this cycle (didn't even open the last cycle...)- never used them before but as cycle seems a bit all over the place they might help?!

Issy really feel for you. Anniversaries must be so hard. Really hope you are holding up ok.

Got to run, boss due in any mo!!

Baby dust to all!

PS. HF my boobs also do weird things during the 2ww, which I also reckon are due to BFing (they even sometimes leak- even tho' haven't BF since July!!). They used to always get my hopes up but like you I just can't/won't pay attention to any symptoms any more!

Thanks too for all the kind words after my last rant! xx

Hey girls!

how are you today?

issy sorry your feeling low and that its taking so long to concieve again. I have everything crossed that it happens for you soon.

WTSMBOS CONGRATULATIONS

hf on my instructions it says the best time is 2pm... and reduce fluid for 4 hrs and no peeing too.. hth

my opk today was even darker than yesterdays.. what does that mean? was yesterday a positive? or do i count it as today.. i dont understand

bubble, I used to get a slow build up on the old fashioned opks, the line would get darker and darker and darker over a few days, then on the day I ov'd the line would be darker than the test line, then the next day it would go back to the faint line as before. I think it's just because your LH levels are surging, but slowly. Doesn't make any difference to your chance of conceiving, everyone does it differently.

I've started doing my opks in the morning, so I guess i should carry on. I have had a pos result in the morning, so maybe I will this month again. I'm still planning on bd'ing the rest of the week at least. I won't be buying any more opks I don't think, too damn expensive and too frustrating. If I don't get lucky this month, next month I'm going to dive in to a vat of pre-seed every night before seducing dh

Thanks HF.

the test and control line on yesterdays opk was the same colour and today the test line is darker than the control line. so hopefully it means something is going to happen.
would you say that i havnt ovd as yet coz the line is getting darker still?

I think that what ever is best for the individual is right. wether you do it in the morn or night your still gonna have more lh in urine when you surge..(u think??)

the opks i use are £3 for 20.. something like that. from babymad on ebay. they seem to work ok. i dont want to be a bad influence but if you cant resist the temptation of opks then get them from there

ive got about 10 packs of pre seed.. i dont really use it. do you just put it in anyway? does it help conception?

I've never used pre-seed but I'm willing to try anything now!

I'd keep testing until you get a faint line again, then you'll defnitely know you've had your surge.

Morning girls!

How are you all?

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Hey girlies, sorry i havent been around for a while, really having been trying not to think about ttc too much, just reg bab dancing and low and behold i think i may be ov around now and its suddenly become a lot harder not to think about it! Plus im at work and just had to have a abscence management meeting as i was off for 3 sep periods at end of last year all to do with this ttc lark, twice for mc's and once cos it all just got too much for me and i was crying ALOT, anyone its all been dragged up again now and i just left the meeting in tears and angry! its supposed to help and supprot me but i have had to go over the whole thing again how i feel why i feel like that etc and basically have it dangled in my face that no im not pregnant and im struggling to get pregnant! its always on the back of your mind however hard you try and block it out and i feel like i have just had to justif why i get upset and how it hurts.......so i apologise to you all in advance as im so upset right now and bring nothing but gloom to this happy thread!

Ive tried explaining that the fact there are at least 4 women in the department all due in around 8 weeks so its bound not to make me feel very good and youd think it would be ok, but apparantly not! And while in the toilet cryng its just hit me that this may never end, what if i cant concieve! im 27 why is this all so hard! why are my cycles gone from reg 29 dys to a huge looooonnnnnnnng 46 days! its ages between by periods and ov times etc! how is this not supposed to send me insane! I wish so much that there was somone right now that could just hug me while i cry cos all this has just come flooding back that it doesnt really matter how positive i try to be im not pregnant and nothing describes the pain i feel and im sure no one really understands unless they are goinf through this! - so i cam running to your guys cos you do understand!

im sorry i just crashed back in, i have kept an eye on you all over the last week since my accident, ( which may i add i wasnt off work for!) But you are all so busy by the time i have caught up i havent got time to post so im so sorry if you think i arent paying attention to you cos i promise i am!

Congrats wanttoseemybean! i can say that cos i am truly happy for you - hope you have a happy 9 months xx

Sorry you have been down Izzy, we all have our ups and downs thinking of you! xxx

Headfairy i would have so slapped that women at work! Well maybe not slapped but maybe thrown a glass of water at her and saced the slap till after her bean was born!

sorry i havent got a personal message for everyone and i am ttc#1 as well but i dont think anyone on here who as a dc already should think they are any better off than those of us who are ttc#1 as we all want the same thing and feel the same way it doesnt matter if your already a mother or not

love to all xxxxxxxxxxxxx thank you for letting me rant, i feel so much better already hope i can get through this afternoon at my desk! xxxxx

Hey All,

Congrats WTSABOS - finges and toes crossed... I remember you from ttc from Oct 08 thread, we're all still here ttc!

Sorry to hear AF arrived ginger and jumping - harrumph.

Silly question alert - but what is pre-seed? I've seen it mentioned lots of times and assumed its a vitamin of sorts but is it (ahem) special lubricating lotion to help the swimmers?

I've started using my cheap as chips OPKs and there are so fidly, have to pee into container and hold stick in as I fear their flimsiness would flush them into the loo. Managed to knock over container, cue pee everywhere earlier - I used to test first thing and got +ve on all three +pg occasions doing it then so I don't think it really matters .

So many of us seem to be cycle buddies on here (lots of dirty hot sex happening this weekend ), I feel some BFPs coming on...

Sorry wishing - crossed posts..

What a day your having, so sorry everything has been dragged up again. We have to go through attendance management talks like yours (you don't work for NHS by any chance?) but luckily (?) both my mc happened during two weeks annual leave.

I know it can be hard to stay positive but you say you are +ov which is great and you're only 27 and have years and years of good healthy eggs ahead of you (which I know is not much comfort when you want a baby NOW!).

It will happen, I promise x