Emmsy's onwards and upwards! xxx

[barbie1]

For all of us who have shared so much, tears, hopes, laughter and dreams. May our friendships stay strong and as healthy as we all our.
Here is to our happy ending...we deserve it
Love Barbie x

Hey all,

Glad your appointment went well 4ever and you had a lovely stroll round London - ooh I've not been there for years...

Jools - I know what you mean re: your old ante-natal club starting to have babies - I was on due in April and August ones but somehow the August one doesn't upset me but the April one does maybe because it was the first one I joined and I was the second BFP on it!

Met a Mum at soft play yesterday who was at her 12 week scan the same time as me for DS (her DS is 7 days older than my DS). She was there with her 5 day old DD so must have fallen pg the week before me last July - there it was in front of me, the lo I never had .

On a lighter note I've kicked ass in the garden today and have planted lots of spring flowers x

blue dear of you, so summed that one up - lol at kicking ass in the garden mine has gone mad and I don't know where to start.
jools I apologise for the number thing, don't you dare go feeling bad - our pain is no different, no greater, no less -
4ever yep a glass of wine at 4 sounds the best thing I have heard all day.

Day 27 - sensible to do a test yet?? I think I might do one anyway!

GG do it! x

Done it. Negative. I'll try and leave it till AF comes now or if I get to day 32 without AF (yeah right! Who am i trying to fool?! You all know I'll be testing almost everyday!)

GG with you every step of the way. If af comes think of it as a proper clean slate & we can be cycle buddies

Thanks MLS.

One thing that made me think with a more level head was remembering that only about 4 weeks ago I didn't know if my body was coming or going. I didn't know when my af was going to come, or if I would ovulate, when the rest of the miscarriage would come out of me or if it was going to stay in & damage any potential pregnancy etc etc etc. Now at least I know I'm ovulating & my cycle seems back to normal. It's funny how quickly our worries are erased only to be replaced by other worries.

Very true MLS. Though just think, only 2 weeks till we'll be ovulating again and who knows maybe we'll both get a baby in the January sales!

LittleBellsMum - stop lurking and join us! You know you want to!

Cheeky! ( but true!) I just can't post on two threads, I'll have no time to do anything else at all!!

Ladies - please can I join you? Feel pretty "over" my mc and keen on moving onwards.

Yes but most of us lurk and post on both threads for ages, then eventually we're on this thread more and just popping back to the miscarriage thread to answer questions and on the occasional(honest!) bad day.

True and the other thread is pretty busy right now. Having said that, need to go and do some work. One of my additional jobs/ things I do at work is to be a mentor for pregnant women or those on maternity leave. So, I need to spend the next hour thinking of maternity related questions for a managers quiz. How much am I going to enjoy that!! Oh and I have to talk to pregnant women all the time - can't wait untill I get a mentee with my edd...

Hi all,
Barbie, you're so right, it is lovely here Glad to hear you found time for a lttle bit of spontaneity (sp?!) - your post made me smile because i am queen of the late-night-snotty-mess scenario! i think it really helps though, letting everything out. Lol at your legs in the air 'stretching'!
4ever - what a rollercoaster. Really feeling for you. Hope your 4 o'clock glass of wine went down well, and glad the apptmt went well - hope the wait for the results goes past very quickly.
Thinking of you Gingermumi - it's such a wierd limbo waiting for AF without a BFP, but hang on in there!
GG - I personally would take a test!!
(AF arrived Monday night for me. Thanks to my manic testing, I was very much expecting her. I'm annoyed about the money i literally pee'ed away on the tests, so i've ordered some cheapie tests from amazon for next time. I think I'd rather start testing early and steel myself for AF than be mistaking pmt for early pg symptoms and be thinking 'maybe, maybe' til the last minute.... does that make sense or am i kidding myself?! Advice gratefully received!)
mermiadspurse - i think you hit the nail on the head, the temping def helps me feel in control of my body again (maybe my early testing too!). I take my temp under my tongue btw - i think other alternatives are considered slightly more accurate, but personally it's not necessarily the way i'd choose to start every day!! having said that, my temps are a bit all over the place sometimes and i'm not syaing i wouldn't consider an alternative if that's how i had to get my info!
sorry this is such a long post - in meant this to be much shorter!! off to bed now for me!
[waves night-night to everyone] xxx

Ooooops, really sorry guys, posted when i hadn't refreshed the page since 9pm. Rookie error!
GG - as MLS says - with you every step of the way with any more testing you decide to do. Big virtual hugs xxx
littlebellsmum - hello! i have had a lovely welcome on this thread, these ladies are great - hope to see you here lots
sorry agian about my delayed posting all - GG esepcially.
xxx

Hello girls, the sun is finally shining and i have gotten rid of my mum for an hour (she is burning sunning herself by the pool!) so i have lots of time to catch up with you all.

4ever you seem to inhabit the same world as me, im forever doing silly things like rechecking the test the next day...however i have learnt the hard way what the evaporation line is, but for one minute i really thought you were the next to have the bfp! Has your af arrived yet? and when do you get your results????

jools hi hun, glad you like it here, its my due date coming up too. 6th april and like a silly mare i went and checked the old thread and saw everyone having babies i was really at them...deep down i really thought that i would be pregnant again before the edd and it would somehow soften the blow, but alas its not meant to be for some of us. Dh says its not written into our life plan for now, but he is sure that it will be soon, he is great because he always tries to focus on the positives, ie would would of never moved here, got new jobs, got out of the finacial hell we were in back at home due to buying the house at the wrong time etc etc....I guess we just have to hold tight a little bit longer until we can get to the chapter that does include babies. Also dont feel guilty about how you are feeling, i only had one mc too and it still bloody hurts the same!

mermaid i can totally understand you only remembering one date, i think to remember all dates would leave you totally drained as there would always be something to remember however soon you will only have to remember one date and that will be your due date! my friend who is pregnant had her scan yesterday, her second even though she is 13 weeks any way she hasnt got back to me, and now im worried something is wrong, but in a way i dont want to contact her just in case everything is fine and she goes on and on about it! see i told you i was a bitch!
I also hope you are feeling sick still too

blue oh hun isnt it heart wrenching looking at new borns? i know that on my edd that the girl i used to work with will have her baby, her status says she is having the fake contraction thingys....for some reason i cant delete her as i have to see the baby dont know why we all torture ourselves so much!

gg and mls you girls make me howl with laughter, all that testing! you two are so me! ha ha
move to dubai and you wont test so much, the clearblue test are £20! i think that should help me curve my testing obesession when the time finally comes

doozer im glad you are here, i think i told you that before, but the more here the merrier, and the more support for all of us!

littlebellsmum hello and welcome to our wonderful thread! write anything, it all goes on here!

So now a question, as we finally managed to bd/have sex/ shag/make love or whatever you call it now a days the day before and day after i got the +ve on the stick am i still in with a chance? if so i have a huge party on friday shall i drink or stay off it in the vain hope that i might be??? gosh i hate all this stuff, i cant live my life thinking i might be every month but at the same time dont want to do anything that i shouldnt, does this make sense...thoughts please girls.....

Morning Barbie! Yes you have every chance! They key times are anywhere in the 5 days around ovulation not just the day you got a positive OPK (which does says you'll ovulate anytime in the next 36 hours). My fingers are crossed!! Surely you can drink, just don't go mad. Not sure what everyone else does but I'm sticking with the occasional one or two drinks until I get a BFP.

Doozer don't stress, we've all posted without refreshing the screen before! It just makes it all the more fun trying to figure out the conversations when you read the thread!

Morning all! Sorry for my deranged ramblings yesterday , thanks for making me feel better and not so mad barbie - glad i'm not alone in bin raiding for old tests! Silly me - wont do that again! Cant believe tests in Dubai are £20! No AF yet for me but def PMT(!) so any min now I reckon as Im 2 days late! Results from docs should be next tues I hope!

As for you lady barbie, I say go to your party & just have a couple, it cant hurt & you deserve to let your hair down, specially with your edd coming up.. I practically stopped any activity on each 2ww but you gotta live. I ran 5k in a Race for Life last year then found out I was 4 weeks PG with no 3 & that was the longest & healthiest PG I had so you go enjoy yourself! bTW your DH sounds great & very positive

Great to see you on here doozer & littlebellsmum! Wow Littlebell your job sounds intense! Well done for coping so well! Also MLS sounds like we are all gonna end up being cycle budddies!

Sorry you had a BFN Gracie true what you said tho, its good to let our bodies get back on track ready for next month!

Hi to Blue mermaid jools ginger vjay - hope you are all doin ok today?! Any sign of AF yet mermaid?

Well I went home had 2 glasses of wine & lay on a garden chair watching DH varnish the fence! That seemed to do the job, I was asleep on DH by 9pm while he watched the footy! Def PMT! Also legs are aching like I ran a marathon after our 'tourist' thing round london! Was a great day tho, lived in south london all our lives & never done half the parks, the palace or downing st!

I think barbie that the more relaxed you are about it all the more likely you are to catch a little bean I found wearing a sack cloth and ashes vest and being really good with everything meant that if I didn't catch I would feel really really mad and let down - go for the all things in moderation approach, except bd of course! I am going to keep my fingers crossed.x

I am stomping around cos af played a nasty april fool on me So that was on day 24 so now I am doing the dramma queen bit last month was 26 days.. spose my body is still getting back to 'normal'? That seems really short to me.

morning dozer thank you for the temp info thank gawd for that I was a bit with the temping bit, still forgot this morning anyway.

gracie thank god for cheap tests, still have everything crossed.

littlebell hello lovely lady nice you are moving in. Really really glad I don't have your job! Hope you are doing ok though.x

4ever morning honey! hope you are ok this lovely sunny morning. Are YOU feeling ok? its such a head bendering- oh I like that expression - week you are going through. Test resuLt day is getting a bit closer.x

ohh 5k? 4everwonderwoman huge admiration for that girl. You are sounding heaps better I like watching varnish dry too.

mermaid you are sooooo right, i should relax and have fun!!!

4ever im glad you dont have to wait ages for results, a week isnt too bad is it? i hope you are relaxing those legs...

gracie did you test? i will follow your advice and only have a few drinkies at the party i will be good...i will be good...

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sorry af is getting you both mermaid and 4ever, however its still not over yet! on my first pregnancy i had bad pmt and cramps, convinced i was about to bleed but it never happened...fingers crossed!

oh and well done at 5k!!!

girls all the threads are back to front, i have to flip everything to read from the beginning...is your like that? how can i reset it???

Just a quickie on the subject of raiding the bins for old tests - I can trump you all! Since mc I kept my opks & wrote the date on them until I had a neg then I threw them away. Then I repeated the process with hpt's, writing the date on & keeping them until my af came & then I threw them away! Comparing & scrutinising them for any little change is all part of my new obsessional behaviour, I think the mc has completely sent me round the twist!!!

barbie - go to top of page and click 'flip' it should change it to last post at top of page (or bottom if you flip it again).

MLS - I still have the +VE OPK and HPT from DS with the dates written on them!

barbie - agree with 'everything in moderation' mantra - have a couple of drinks on Friday: relaxed body = sticky bean

Its DH and my 5th wedding anniv. today so we're dropping DS off at Grannies and hot footing it overnight to Country House for dinner and lots and lots of bd . I will be having a few wines too. Only thing is I'm now CD14 and still not had a +ve on my OPKs... God damn it!

later ladies xx