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.

ginger is from my other thread..

I am not really here as i'm being a good girl today, but I couldn't resist a quick post.

Blue rofl at your post. I think there is only about a week between most of us. Perhaps this thread is like some sort of online convent!?

oh and i believe that preseed is fake ewcm.

wishing poor you. What a total headf*ck you're having. Of course it will work for you. And you are lucky that you have years and years ahead of you to make sure that it does. (Although I imagine people say that to you all the time and that it doesn't really help much). Have you considered seeing a naturopath/acupuncturist? they are supposed to be good at regularising periods. Post MCs crazy AFs seem to be the norm. 46 days is very long. It does sound like you might benefit from some assistance geting them kickstarted again.

Naturopaths are also good at detecting possible causes. You may not believe in any of that stuff but my approach is that you never know unless you try, and anything has to be worth a go.

wtsmy congrats on the BFP and fingers crossed for you.

As for me, well last time I 'knew' I was pregnant and this time I am pretty sure I 'know' I'm not, so I am not really getting my knickers in too much of a twist. As stated above, next time I will be better prepared. That cheeky little egg will not be able to sneak out without me noticing twice in a row. oh no!

HF hope all god with you today. Are you playing with DS? I looked at your profile. He is an extremely sweet little boy! And yours too blue. Beautiful pictures!

bubble hope you are well and have been enjoying your week of lurve. I imagine your surge must be nearing an end now?

hmmm so much for my speedy post...

TTFN xx

Hi all!

Wishing im so sorry that you are getting grief at work.
I cant give you any answers but can you try talking to your gp? How long have you been ttc? I know my gp will listen and explain things to me and try to give me answers. Have you tried seeing a medical herbalist? have you had blood tests? hormone levels checked?
sending you hugs xxxx

lol blue at you dropping the cup. ive dropped the container down the loo before now.

sif you must have magical powers, my opk was negative today so i guess its all over and im officially in the 2ww. I think DH is pleased its all over.. for this month atleast.

Hi all, thank you so much for your kind words - still haven't told anyone else, kind of feeling like I'm not really pregnant 'til I know it's not ectopic.

wishing so sorry you've had a terrible day, how horrible when you are trying to deal with it all anyway. I know it can feel lonely when it seems no one else understands (and I think they truly don't unless they have had problems too) but you do have MN, and people here do know how you're feeling xx

BSS/bubblebell Pre-seed is indeed lubrication . We used it in the last 2 cycles ttc. Think it is meant to help as a "swimming" medium, it is not the most glamorous of processes as you have to insert it with a plastic dropper thing but once that's done you can forget about it. I found it helpful for the slightly more "businesslike" bd moments . I got mine from here and thanks is the current 5/ off code.

Enjoy your "active" weekends!!

xx

Evening all...

Wishing, so sorry you've had a rotten time at work, here's some very UnMnet (((((((((((((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))))))))) for you. I hope the unsympathetic bastards see how hard it is for you and cut you some slack. It's nice to see you back though, we missed you

Blue, I pee in to a cup too because my aim is rubbish, never spilled it yet but come very close, DS is fascinated, he's wondering what the heck is mummy doing

Pre-seed is indeed sperm friendly lubricant, it's just about the only thing I haven't tried so it's got to be worth it!

It is wierd isn't it how we're all oving around the same time, they do say that women who live together often end up with their cycyles in synch. I bet we're all synching up together I'm due to ov on Sunday, but we're already at it. I worked out for the first time today that I conceived ds on cd13. Totally odd cos I always thought I ov'd on cd 15. Must have got lucky that month as we started bding early!

Anyway, off to cook dh his dinner xxx

Hi everyone, thanks for all the good wishes and apologies for the self-indugence.

Congratulations WTSMBOS - took me a while there to make the VeryKeen connection. So happy for you, good luck with the scan, sending lots of thoughts for a sticky one.

Bubble - of course I don't mind you filling in my details - flattering that you remember them. Glad you've made up with dh but really sorry about Max . Congrats on your first positive OPK. I read somewhere, that I now can't find, that ov happens on the downside of the LH spike so if your line is getting darker you need to keep going a little while longer.

Headfairy - hope you enjoyed your trip to the Maldives . Well handled with the annoying woman at work. Are you looking at any houses this weekend?

Re OPKs - You can miss your surge if you only do OPK in morning - I sometimes would get -ve in morning, +ve in afternoon and -ve next morning, but I drink loads of water so I sometimes didn't get a positive at all (despite the not drinking/peeing for two hours - my clinic said ignore the 4-hr thing) and I knew I was ov'ing because had monitored cycles for the IUI - I learnt to take the darkest line I got as the positive. Also, I know there is at least one MNer (not on this thread) who always goes on about them being a waste of time, but if the hospitals use them to time IUI and natural IVF cycles then they can't be that unreliable.

Sif - like the sound of your cafe/bakery. Sorry about your confusing pains. I've some stabbing pains tonight and know I'm not pg so try not to read too much into them. You've probably had them all your life, just never noticed before. I've read in several places that sperm can survive for 2-5 days, but my friend who is a nurse told me that a gynae colleague of hers told her last week that they now thing healthy sperm can survive for as much as 10 days.

Girl - Good luck on 2ww.

Bluesatin - glad you enjoyed your girls' night out. Do you have either of the other two this weekend?

JumpingJellyfish - Sorry you got AF but glad you're going to the docs. How old are you? If you're under 35 it might be worth saying you've been trying for 12 months as that's the guideline for referral to fertility unit. If you're over 35 then it's 6 months. Re the ttc#1 vs #2 or more, I don't think it makes any difference. Yes, you can console yourself with the fact you have a dc, but it doesn't take away the desire for another. Similarly, we can console ourselves with long lie-ins, nights out whenever we feel like it, jetting off on last-minute holidays and more disposable income, but it all becomes a bit meaningless in comparison to ttc.

Ilovebeingamummy - hope you managed to keep going

Wishing - ((hug)) - what a horrid day. You have an ace up your sleeve anyway, since men can't have a miscarriage it would be sex discrimination for you to get a warning about your absence, so let them carry on and throw that one at them at the last minute and watch their case disappear (we're not evil in HR ).

I've struggled to post recently and really should be in bed now. My dept is having a cake sale as part of its comic relief efforts tomorrow so was up until 1am baking last night. Was up early yesterday for one of my scans too and had to get up early this morning to do some interviews for a maternity cover. Shame it's not mine . Promised myself an early night tonight but here I am ...

Good luck everyone on the 2ww and enjoy yourselves those a little behind.

Hi all. Thank f* its friday. And the sun is out! yehay!

wishing I am so sorry you are having a hard time at work. I just wanted to say that after my MC i had a cycle of 56, and now they are around 40 (they were about 32 before the MC) I have no idea why they havn't settled back as its been 6 months, but just to let you know that you are not alone, and perhaps it is normal. Izzys advice about sex discrimination is good though! i would try that and see them run!

Wowee it's very quiet in here today.

issy thanks for your lovely post. I am not getting my hopes up this month. On the contrary. Although I would like some phantom symptoms in a way otherwise it's just plain boring. I have absolutely no idea when i'm going to come on either, so it could be a 2 or 3 ww. AND it's only a wait for AF - FUN!![zzzz emoticon] Think i might befriend fertility friend in the meantime. well...it's something to do isn't it?

It seems like crazy post MC cycles are the norm. I miss my old cycles but don't really mind, just need to keep tabs on them now.

God I am suddenly so tired. It's the mid afternoon sugar dip. Might have a snooze on my desk before posting some more
doing some work.

I hope you are all well and enjoying being in RL instead of on MN.

bon weekend tout le monde! oh and lucky nooky to those who are gearing up for a weekend of lurve.

xxx

Hi All,

Quick post before I log off and leave work for the weekend (yay!).

I've ordered a truck load of baby dust which is being tipped over the whole lot of us over the weekend so apologies if you get covered in soot .

Head - that's soo true re: girls living together getting in cycle sinc. I also read that the 'alpha female' has her AF first (I guess so she can use up all the good tampons). So we're in sync over cyber space - old ma nature's presence is strong!

Off on my playgroup Mum's night out tonight, Tapas bar in town and probably me getting drunk and doing my 'longing for a baby' talk.

Happy shagging/2ww/sticky thoughts and gearing up for IVF (izzy) to all x

Evening all...

I'm off work today so that's why I haven't been posting. Never get a chance with ds, if I turn my back for a second he's throwing himself off the top of a wardrobe or some other nightmarish scenario!

Thanks for the top tips about opks Issy, I'm only using them up so I don't waste them, if I was really serious about it I'd do it twice a day, but as I'm only playing.... If I get a positive then it's a bonus.

Sif, I hope your cycles settle down soon. I've been very lucky that mine seem to have settled back in to their normal routine straight after my mcs but of course I'm not really examining them that closely so I'm not exactly certain if I'm oving at the same time any more. It does seem like Mother Nature takes the piss sometimes. If only we had a proper advance warning when we were about to ov... I don't know, perhaps our bums could turn bright red like monkeys On second thoughts.....

Blue... ooooh I wonder who among us is the Alpha female? First one to get af wins... oh hang on a minute, that's not what we want

Hi to everyone else, hope you all have a lovely evening... ttfn xx

Hello everyone, thank you for the lovely support, im much better today but i have suffered ever since thursday as after such a rubbish day i drank far too much when will we learn eh!!!

Headfairy i could cope with my bottom turning bright red if it meant i knew one way or the other! im not sure when i ov anymore, and do to my drunken antics we didnt bd thursday, not that i really blame dh for that! but we did bd mon tue wed as with these 46 day cycle i should have ov wed! Lets hope that enough and hopefully i am on the 2ww!!x And if not then im waiting another 6 weeks till i ov again! Might have to go visit docs i think. I lknow its the norm for cycles to go awol after mc but i just want to make sure im doing everything i can!

anyway hope we all have nice weekends baby dust to all xxxxxxxx

Hey wishing - sorry to hear you've had the hangover from hell but sometimes you just need to let your hair down.... Did your DH have to put you to bed? .

LOL at red monkey bum, I've got a +ve this morning and hope the outcome wasn't affected by the 3 5 x glasses of wine I had at my night out last night . Sooo looking forward to couch potato-ing tonight, need to keep my strength up for all the bd .

Glad to hear you're feeling a bit better wishing. I hope that 2ww wait is nothing more than two weeks... ooh hang on though, you want it to be a 9 month wait don't you? Fingers crossed it is

Issy, lucky you getting a +ive on your ov sticks... I didn't get one this morning and that was my last stick so we're just going to keep at it for the next few days. I'm on nights next week so I won't be getting any action then, so I'm making this week count!

Just a quickie from me as ds is trying to smash his hands on the keyboard! Have a lovely saturday night everyone x

Hey girls!

just wanted to say hi. Hope you have a good weekend.

Wishing im so glad you are feeling better.

HF i hope that you ov before u go on your week of nights.

blue congrats on your +ive opk... grab your dh and start bding.

how are you sif and girl ?

well i had a +ive opk for 2 days tues and wed and was neg thurs and fri so have stopped poas. i am now officially in the 2ww.

oooh, I'm sooo excited - opened Sunday Times this morning and Bruce Springsteen is playing in Glasgow on 14th July, tickets duly bought and I can't wait - he rocks

Will I be pg by then ?

Good morning ladies!

Issy thank you so much for your post about OPKs (and the kind wishes too)- I've decided to break open the packet tomorrow, which is probably waaaaay to early (only just finishing AF) but as my cycles seem quite short atm then figured I may be ov'ing before I realise. I don't actually know what CD I'm on though, and can't remember the date AF started, as determined not to get so obsessed!

wishing glad you are feeling a bit better- I would definitely seek another medical opinion about your cycles though, for peace of mind if nothing else. Good luck on you 2ww- bubble and all others too!

I think I'm bottom of the hierarchy as only just finishing AF!

Off to GP on Tues about my changed cycles, which is kind of good timing as having a thrush flare up again (sorry TMI ). I ended up needing the tablet for it last time, but apparently you shouldn't take it while TTC Creams don't seem to help much It's quite strange as very, very rarely had thrush while on the pill or BFing but since TTC seem to get it very easily- reckon I must be allergic to DS - and bless him he has to use cream now too Wondering if thrush can interfere with TTC- any one know?

Hope you are all enjoying a relaxing sunday? I'm in work- well writing thesis- walked in through glorious sunshine so hoping I'll now be in a super-productive mood!

ooops didn't mean DS of course - but DH!! brain is not engaged!!

Morning girls!

How are you all?
Did you have good weekends?

Morning everyone.. hope you've all got some sunshine. It's a lovely day here in Sarf London.

Sorry to hear about the thrush jumping. I'm afraid I don't know anything about thrush creams and ttc.. I've been very fortunate with thrush, very rarely have it. I hope the doc can put your mind at ease and perhaps find something you can use when ttc.

blue - I hope you enjoy the boss... I'm sure you will be pg by then, you can get the little bean rocking from an early age

bubble - don't tell anyone but sshhhhhhhh I'm on the 2ww with you Hope it goes well for you.

Well I can report on my findings of the effects of grapefruit drinking.... OMG! Flaming tons of ewcm yesterday! Let's hope it does it's job effectively!

Have a lovely day everyone, nights start tonight so I'm going to try and get some kip today. Have a good 'un x

Hi everyone, hope you all had a good weekend?

I am in the middle of the 2ww and symptom spotting like mad! patience is not my strong point!

one of my friends just had a huge 9 and a half pounder... phew! thats gonna hurt!

Hello everybod

Girl i am failing very badly on the no symptom seeking spotting. Despite my protestations that it is most unlikely this month. I burped this morning and I immediatley thought 'ohmygod. A burp! i was so burpy last time! maybe i AM!' DOH!

Darth Vader is very persuasive. I think I might well join the dark side.

HF reee-spect for doing nights AND looking after a toddler.

Blue I hope you had a fun time out with the girls.

OK sorry not to HI 5 you all individually but must must must get back to work.

Will check in properly later tomorrow.

Afternoon all,

I'm also on the 2ww after stoic bd sessions all weekend, poor DH is quite worn out . We even managed a sneaky one this morning by giving DS a 'treat' of going downstairs a bit early "while Daddy has his shower" and DH snuck back to bed for ten five minutes . DS was happily tucked up on the couch, watching Fireman Sam and eating his banana .

Jumping - sorry to hear you have thrush. I have had it before and used the cream which worked a treat. I wouldn't have thought it affected ttc though

Head - hope you get some sleep and your nights aren't too tough this week.

sif - LOL at burping. I have a huge appetite today and am thinking - ooh hormones already? (No just greedy guts).

Have my first acupuncture sesh on Wed so will be asking for 'successful implantation' option .

Have a good day y'all x

Hello everyone. Sorry not had time to catch up but thought I'd better just pop in and say hi. Would catch up now but have an early start tomorrow - interviewing for another maternity cover in my office.

Hi everyone - Well this morning I woke up singing 'there's nothing preg about me' to the tune of 'there's nothing sweet about me'. I have zero symptoms but have that lovely pre AF anxiety thing. Strangely I feel relieved as now rather than getting my hopes raised and wondering I can just chill a bit and then invest in a bit of kit for the next turn on the old ttc merry-go-round. This time I mean technical kit rather than stockings!

I might even try temping, though I am dappy and forgetful at the best of times, so I am not sure how well I would get on with it. OPKs should be ok. I just quite like the thought of regaining a bit of control over my cycle.

No idea when I am due on - sometime this weekend I think. Does that make me the Alpha?!?

Good luck to all you lovely ladies currently on the 2ww. I hope you are not obsessing too much. I have got a good feeling about this month, I think a few November babies might just hatch out of this batch!

oh and i must just plug my uber vits (biocare multivits) I know that they are the reason that my PMT is actually so much better this time. Normally I go nuts around now. I think it's cos there are loads of B vits in there. I really recommend them. My skin is better too. There are upsides to ttc.(aside from hopefully the obvious one I mean!)

xx

Actually I have gone from relieved to feeling a bit blue. Only month one, so i shouldn't really be getting my knickers in a twist yet, but there having almost reached the 3 month stage before Christmas only to lose it feels so much like slipping down the big snake on square 99. I just really want to be getting on with it again. It's not like it would be physically possible to catch up with where i was obviously, but this limbo phase is actually totally doing my head in now.

Sorry to rant. just had to get it off my chest. bloody PMT! Hmm., might retract what i said about the vitamins...[grrr]