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.

Morning everyone!

issy hope the bruises heal quickly and that you get a bfp from it all.

how are you all.. ?

i feel sick this morn . not like im gonna be sick just queasy... iykwim... im also still getting cramps and af isnt here yet. its cd26 today and af was here this time last month im going to wait til monday to test if af isnt here before!

Positive OPK yesterday!!! yehay!!!!

bubble fingers crossed for you!
Issy hope your bruises have gone down!

Thank you ladies for your kind words- you really have cheered me up so much

Issy- well done with the injections, sending you loads of baby dust!

Head- you are indeed a kindred spirit I used to scuba dive a lot, all over, until I had DCs! Had to dive commercially for my work for a bit, though nowhere very exotic- mainly Strangford Lough. I've been working as a marine biologist for 7 years, and been doing a part-time PhD for 6 of those for my sins!! I really miss the fieldwork side of my job, as now I'm part-time I'm entirely office/lab based- but I did try some fieldwork after DS was born and went to sea for 2 weeks and it really broke my heart to be away from him for so long (he was only just over one) so I vowed to put all that on hold until all DCs are well into school. It's hard too as my DH works very full time so if I work more than 9-5 childcare gets tricky. Guess these are the compromises we make when having DCs! I am lucky though to at least be able to get a part-time job in my field. And I spend my life brainwashing the DCs about all things ocean related!
To be honest in a weird way my thesis is my solace at the moment- proper escapism!

irish your AF certainly sounds a little confusing- i reckon if it doesn't start up properly again by tomorrow I'd do another test...Bodies eh!

bubble sounds promising! This time I had the usual AF cramps starting around 2 days before I expected AF to start and was quite surprised when it didn't show- the cramps really do feel identical to AF cramps, even now. Most unnerving!

girl happy BDing

blue how was the return to work? LOL at your DH cleaning the new volvo- we had a similar reaction when we first got the vectra- now it's full of sand, leaves, sticks & plenty of rubbish (2 years on)

OMG bubble fingers crossed for you

LOL @ Head re cleaning the new car - my DH was exactly the same when we got the Mazda - although it was a considerable step up from the cr@ppy Saxo so it was kind of warranted.

Gril have a good weekend with the BD'ing - hopefully it's a good month for you.

Jumping your job sounds like fun - more fun than financial analysis anyway! :-)

Anyhow - still feel quite nauseous today and still no sign of AF - might do a test tomorrow morning just in case - was talking to my mum and apparently she bled for the first 2-3 months of all 9 of her pregnancies - not daring to get my hopes up (or poor DH - he just wants us to have a lo - nearly as much as I do) but will let you know.

By the way if I don't post over the weekend HAappy Easter - Head hope the wait for the chocolate is worth it

Hello everyone... I've finally managed to get ds off for a nap so I'm popping in to see how everyone is.

irish it all sounds quite promising, the stop start af and the fact that your mum bled so much, and the nausea.... ooh I'm getting excited on your behalf.

bubble I'm reserving some excitement for you too Good luck with the testing.

jumping hey, another waterbaby when I was a diving instructor I did my fair share of cold water diving too, lots of Chesil beach and Stoney Cove (brrrrr) I still have a ginormous dry suit somewhere up in the loft. DH can't dive as he's got ear ishooos, so I've said as soon as ds is old enough we're going on holiday somewhere where I can start getting him in to snorkelling. I think they can start doing their first diving tests when they're about 10. Luckily ds absolutely loves the water (unlike his father - who grew up on a tiny island of all things!) so I'm hoping he'll love it as much as I do. Having ds has stopped me doing all that and i'd love to get back to it. I'd quite like to go to the sea lion colonies in Cornwall too, I've dived some sea lion colonies in Mexico and they're amazing. It's like playing with underwater dogs. They even bark!

Anyway, enough of the Cousteau adventures...

girl happy bding, make it worthwhile. After seeing that great sperm race programme dh and I have been doing gourmet bding as apparently that's more likely to end in pregnancy. Even if it doesn't its waaaay more fun than a ho hum I'm ovulating lets have sex kind of thing!

blue the eye is much better thanks... still gets blurred when I'm tired which is all the time. at your dh washing the volvo. We haven't done that yet, but I did have to listen to ds whingeing for ages at the weekend while I drove down to my mum and dad's cos I wouldn't give him a biscuit in the car... crumbs in the car are not an option

Hi to everyone else... I'm going to take advantage of ds being asleep and lie on the sofa with a cuppa and catch up on desperate housewives. Ta-ta! x

oh my goodness. the Easter egg dh has bought me has just arrived.. it's a rocky road easter egg from Hotel Chocolat, but I can't open it until sunday

I'm licking the box as we speak

oooh Head - that easter egg is positively gourmet - watch that blood suger level of yours on Sunday

Irish - at your Mum and her 9 pregnancies - way to go! My Dad's Mum had 7 including twins and she was only 5 ft (but of heardy Scottish stock .

My fingers are crossed for you and Bubble - we've had a BFP lull and need someone to fire up the engine again .

Thought I'd tidy up the stats list in an easy reference stylee

TTC (but being laid back and cool

Issy TTC#1 MC Mar 08 CP Sep
HeadFairy TTC#2
Ilovebeingamummy TTC#3 MC Sep 08 MC Dec 08
Girlwithacurl TTC#1 MC Sep 08
Bubblebell TTC#3
Twiglettini TTC#4 MC/ERPC Sep 08 MC Jan 09
Bluesatinsash TTC#2 MC Aug 08 MC Dec 08
Sifuentes TTC#1 MMC Dec 08
Irishmumwannabe CD 29 (UCL 25-27) TTC # 1
Suzibhoy TTC#1

BFP
Gateau - BFP 11/2/09
Wishing BFP 16/3/09
RipMacWinkle TTC#2 BFP 30/3/09
JumpingJellyFish TTC#3 BFP 31/3/09

Hi Irish & Issy, just looking to see how everyone was getting on. Im due in October, i got past my 10 week this time, very happy. Hope you are all keeping well & dont mind me checking in

Hey everyone!

hope your all enjoying your weekend.

cd27 for me and no af. ive got a furry mouth and cramps feel icky too. wonder wether its a bfp looming or the lurgy.

xxxxxxxxxxxx

bubble, I hope it's a bfp. I'm currently suffering the lurgy and wouldn't wish this on anyone.

oh Head i hope you feel better soon... whats wrong is it a tummy upset? im wondering if thats whats wrong with me...?? i ran out of opks at day 15 so not 100% sure i ovd this month or not.

Aw thanks. I don't feel too bad actually Just really snotty. One of ds's lovely colds that he's passed on to me no doubt. I'm in work today so I'm doing my duty in passing it on to everyone else

Did you get any ov signs? I've used my final opk for the foreseeable future, not because of any exciting bfp type reasons, I'm fed up of splashing out on something I pee on that thus far has failed to get me to a full term pregnancy. I can pee on a bit of old newspaper and get the same results for free

Countdown to chocfest is almost over...

I had loads of ewcm for a few days from around cd15 then my cervix went back to a hard,low and closed (ish)position on cd18 so im assuming i ovd on cd17???

i wouldnt last a day without chocolate! im proud of ya!! and that egg your dh bought looks delish! im drooling thinking about it. (unfortunatly i couldnt actually eat it coz i still feel queasy).

have you tried freshly squeesed lemon and honey drinks? i find them really soothing when i have a cold.

but would be much better if the lemons were freshly squeezed

I reckon in that case you're probably right and you ov'd on cd17.

I love lemon and honey, sadly I'm at work so I'm not going to be able to do anything like that until I get home. However I have decided the canteen's wickedly hot curry will help and I'm tucking in now. It's the best thing they do in there and the spice is clearing out my sinuses

I can't wait for the eggfest tomorrow. I've just been informed by one of the blokes at work that we all have to bring an egg in tomorrow. Yeah, right, they'll have to prise my egg from my cold dead hand They'll be lucky to get one creme egg... between the 20 of them!

LOL can you take a bag of mini eggs and let them have 1 each!!! they arent the ones who went without for months! Its bad enough that you have to go in to work on easter sunday .

dh is going fishing on his dads boat tomorrow so i will be with the boys trying to entertain them in this awful weather. im hoping to do an easter egg hunt. if i get round to printing off some clues that is.

strangely i have just made a curry for dh and the boys tonight. i feel ruff and cant stomach it. my belly feels like ive pulled a muscle. (which is nigh on impossible seeing as i do sod all exercise)

I think the weather's supposed to be better tomorrow (well depends where you are I guess, it's meant to be better here in London) so hopefully your egg hunt will be ok.

It's not so bad working easter Sunday, I'm off on Monday and from then until Friday.

Happy Easter ladies!

Hope you are all enjoying the choc fest- especially you Head after abstaining so long- hope the rocky runner egg was a scrumptious as it looked, and helped those horrid cold symptoms too And hope work is full of chocolate-induced cheer too!

Bubble when are you planning to test? Your symptoms sound very promising. Could you stomach any choc today?

Irish any news?

How is everyone else- sif haven't heard from you for a while?

In work today, well PhD writing anyhow...Had hoped to take a good few days off but DH helpfully pointed out that I am not being very productive in the eves at the moment (the dog tiredness of early pregnancy has finally hit) so if I want to get this darn thing finished I have to go in some days when he's off. It sucks. Especially as it seems the entire university is empty. And the sun is shining too! So if I get a good bit done this afternoon I'm going to take an hour off for a wander methinks, before the bedtime madness.

Hope you are all having a lovely day xx

cooeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here I am!
Hallo everybody

Well. It's been quite a week in me-ville.

First things first - bfn - and the f does NOT stand for fat, let me tell you. I was totally convinced I was preg since about 6dpo - I stupidly tested a couple of days early and couldn't believe it when my staring very hard did not produce the required line on the test. I had been nauseous and tired and everything. So I spent the day before AF in a deep, dark hole, watching one tree hill (which for those who don't know is an american high school tv show where everyone is always in a deep dark hole).

I had invested way way too much in this month being le month. I thought that having a christmas baby would somehow compensate for the awfulness of not having my july baby. I had decided whan I would leave work, how much of a bump i would have in the summer hols. Ugh. It's embarrassing to fess up to frankly and obviously i haven't to anyone in RL. Anyway. Many tears were shed i'm afraid to say. What a shame we can't think ourselves pregnant,eh!?

I am slightly concerned though because the AF itself is still not like what it was before. Have any of you experienced this? I think maybe I should have some tests - hormonal and the like. I don't want to be any more left behind my RL mates than I already am ifkwim. And I so want to be somebody's mummy! It's like an ache.

Anyway. On the positive sunny easter side - jesus is alive!!
no
but seriously.
We had a lovely lovely week on the boat. Travelling down the thames through london from east to west at dawn on a gloriously sunny day was very spesh indeed.

And how are all of you? More sickness in Mallory Towers I see. Are you all better now, head? did you manage to get some action with post stag DH?! Are you still loving the chocolate??? oh and in response to the post about saying San. I didn't do poshy schools but to my mum's dismay i did LOVE Enid Blyton boarding school books

Blue Awesome effort my friend, [takes hat off] fingers crossed xx Just think - if it is your month you can tell the LO that s/he was conceived on the set of an 80s power ballad - kind of - That would be a pretty cool beginning if you ask me.

bubble have you tested? you must have by now... I really hope it has been a lucky month for you.

girl hope you have had a productive weekend

jumping poor you having to try to use your brain for anything more taxing than the telly. That sucks. But hopefully will make these tricky weeks pass faster.

Hi wasabs I hope all is good with you. I will be joining you on a much more low key cycle this time.

oo and issy very exciting nerve-wracking time for you - fingers tightly crossed xx

Sorry to anyone I have left off the personals but if I go back a page again I will lose this message innit!

Anyway. I must go as have a pint waiting for me in the pub.

I'm ok but not great. I have been very brave these last few months but now I just feel gutted. My body has totally let me down man.

I really HAVE to chill the feck out about the whole thing now though and I will do. I know that I will have a bambino, and it doesn't matter when really as long as it's healthy etc. I can't think anybody would ever think - god I hate having a birthday in january - i wish i had never been born it's such a shit birthday, for example, so fuck the having a month off shit as well - woops language Sif! sozzzerrrsss

Gosh sorry for a slightly marathon and morose post. I am actually fine. Saying goodbye to PMT is always a relief in itself is it not?

will have to buy my own laptop soon to get past the terrible work situation-Don't know when I will be able to post again but will do what i can.

ok I really must go and collect that pint or it will get warm
TTFN xx

Hey Sif... sorry to hear you've been caught out again this month. You know I must update those rules one day soon...

rule number 348893076693999879872387498342 section 5... thou shalt never ever work out your due date until you are actually pregnant, and even then don't bother until the doctor has told you what the due date is.

Sorry I'm being cheeky. I've been guilty of that soooo many times... ooh wouldn't a July baby be lovely (I'm a July baby)... ooo wouldn't a september baby be lovely (ds is a September baby)...ooo wouldn't a Christmas baby be lovely... ah feck it.... a baby would be lovely

That's why I like this thread so much, there's no "I'm planning an August baby" type pressure. I'll whisper this though... my sister hates hates hates her birthday, but it is the crappest date ever for a birthday. 2nd January. It's not Christmas any more, it's not New Years any more, most people are going back to work, no one's drinking, she gets joint Christmas and birthday presents. She usually goes out with her dh and eats in an empty restaurant and sulks that my mum and dad got randy that night at the end of March Luckily we've missed (for this year at least) the chance to give our future dcs the crappest birth date ever, hey hey there's always next year

Back to the serious matters at hand... when you say af isn't the same, what do you mean? I'm having my bloods taken on Tuesday to investigate my mcs (cd 21 tests plus a few others) but so far no other tests planned.

Glad you had a lovely holiday... sounds fantastic. I've sailed up the Thames but we only got as far as London Bridge as we were in yachts and couldn't get our masts under the bridge. Tis cool though sailing through the city.

dh and i did manage a couple of gourmet seshes (that great sperm race programme did emphasise the need for gourmet sex when procreating so dh and I took that at face value ) but not much, so I'm not holding out too much hope. Next ov is when we're staying at my FILs so that should be fun. Lots of silent shagging

I am much better now too thanks, and have eaten my body weight in chocolate today ... never again

Happy Easter to everyone else... this has been a bit Sif centred this post but sensibly everyone else is having a lovely Easter while I'm here at work and there's not much news I haven't caught up on yet.

I'm going to see if I can cram one more wafer thin mint in.....

Head - loving the Monty Python wafter mint aside - I used to say that at the end of every meal out with DH (cue DH rolling eyes to heaven in a that joke was funny the first 57 times way..). sorry you've had the lurgy again and you've been working over the hols - boo! But lent is over as Sif (more of her later) says Jesus has risen again and chocolate has been reinstated. Great to hear you and DH managed some gourmet sessions, me and DH did on our night away when i was relaxed enough to give it my full attention .

That's sooo true re: your sister's birthday, although she could come up to Scotland as its still a Bank holiday up here although everyone is way hungover.. I'm with you don't care when its born as long as its here and healthy... I do check the EDD every month but am good at forgetting it the minute AF comes in a 'oh well, back to the drawing board' way.

Sif!!!!! So glad to hear from you and that you had a lovely 'spesh' time sailing down the Thames but gutted that AF has appeared and your feeling floored . As you say if only we could wish ourselves pregnant.... Its sooo hard not to get royally scunnered by the whole ttc circus but don't give in girl! Are you still having acupuncture? Get that laptop pronto missy .

Hey Jumping hope you had a productive day today!

bubble any news.....?

Off to keep DH company downstairs, byee x

Hey all!

how are you this morning?

Jumping Good lluck with the phd writing. i hope the tiredness eases so you can get it finished.

Sif we have missed you!! so sorry AF caught up with you. what a biatch. Its horrible to see you so down. thinking of you and sending you

Blue when is your af/bfp due?

Well......... its cd29 and no sign of af... still have terrible nausea, but not sure if thats a bug?? its been lingering since thurs . ive not eaten a meal since then and i can only pick at food.. ive not even eaten a single easter egg .
the worst of it all is the feeling in my mouth. its awful. like a furry zingy feeling . im also getting the cramps on and off each day. like a pulled muscle. im feeling rather vacant too... iykwim like im on another planet.
Im still not convinced tho and am scared that after all this af will still show up or worse not show up and me still not be pg. havent tested yet only because i havnt got a test. i will order some and test in a few days. if i didnt ov til cd18 then ive still got a few days to wait i think.

Well ive started spotting now so i guess im out for this month.

Morning All,

My heart is beating out my chest as I write this as I'm pregnant

Been feeling strange all weekend and very weepy and irritable yesterday, also had none of my pre AF symptoms (nippy fango /spotting) so snuck off last night and bought clearblue digital as AF due today.

Did test first thing and there it was 'pregnant 1-2 weeks'.

DH and me are over the moon and as he say "we've done our bit" its out of our hands now.

So I'm pregnant today, may not be tomorrow or next week or next month but I am today and I'll take that for now .

Oh and my EDD? Christmas Day!!

Stats update!

Issy TTC#1 MC Mar 08 CP Sep
HeadFairy TTC#2
Ilovebeingamummy TTC#3 MC Sep 08 MC Dec 08
Girlwithacurl TTC#1 MC Sep 08
Bubblebell TTC#3
Twiglettini TTC#4 MC/ERPC Sep 08 MC Jan 09
Sifuentes TTC#1 MMC Dec 08
Irishmumwannabe CD 3 (UCL 25-35) TTC # 1
Suzibhoy TTC#1

Gateau - BFP 11/2/09
Wishing BFP 16/3/09
RipMacWinkle TTC#2 BFP 30/3/09
JumpingJellyFish TTC#3 BFP 31/3/09
Bluesatinsash TTC#2 MC Aug 08 MC Dec 08 BFP 14/4/09

5 down, 9 to go...

Blue yay that is such fantastic news - congratulastions to you and Mr. Blue.

I hope it's a sticky bean for you and will keep everything crossed for you that it's a lucky one. And a Christmas baby would be fab! I'm so happy for you

Hi to everyone else - can't stay too long just popped on for a peek and had to send Blue my congrats. Did another test on friday gone adn still BFN - still feeling dodgy though so might head to the docs once I get paid next week (boo to paying for a doctor here - it was so handy when I lived in Notts)

Anyway see you all later I'll post more then

Oh Buble sorry to hear that AF might be on it's way

Talk later.