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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

Mid Thirties First time TCC

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donttrythisathome · 05/04/2009 14:06

Anyone feel like joining this bus??

I'm 36, TCC 1, never wanted children and now have done a complete u-turn!

TCC 1, Cycle 2, UCL 28-33ish, CD12

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donttrythisathome · 08/06/2009 11:10

Oh and Cosmo I found it a bit freaky at first, a bit "gore fest" but you get used to it.

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triggerhappybaby · 08/06/2009 11:13

However it's a sure-fire way of getting those sexy vampires to give you head.

Cosmosis · 08/06/2009 11:19

trigger, us over 30's need the big bucket fanny size, talk about demoralising. Excellent smuttiness btw, I'm very impressed. That's taken us up a notch.

In other news, DH has to have an MRI scan tomorrow so that's this weeks worry sorted. sigh. Sorry, it's a bit all me me me at the moment.

VAM agree with donttry re the confusing CM.

donttry have a fab time in Ireland. We're off to Scotland camping this weekend.

triggerhappybaby · 08/06/2009 11:29

Cosmo re the weather - another triumph of hope over experience?!

re DH - jolly good that scan organised at least. I used to have to have those too and it's waiting for them to get their shit in a sock and arrange the bloody thing that is the nightmare. Hope all goes ok.

skihorse · 08/06/2009 11:33

Ah fuck it, if we're going to talk giant fandangos.

About 5 years ago I was in a real race to work, ran in to the bathroom trying to remove my mooncup as I went. Slipperly little fecker flew out of my hands and the bathroom was suddenly a mirror to Charles Manson's life - Jackson Pollock style.

There wasn't a square inch of the bathroom untouched.

Take care upon removal and disposal...

donttrythisathome · 08/06/2009 11:42

Jason Patric like in Lostboys can lap at my lurve cup anytime....

Good luck to DH Cosmo

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Cosmosis · 08/06/2009 12:00

ah well good ol' bupa he only had the initial appointment today!

ski loving the gore mooncup story

Aussieng · 08/06/2009 12:05

Hello everyone. Hope you all had fab weekends. Just back from a long weekend and my cousin's wedding so about to go catch up on all the posts and gossip since Wednesday. Had a fab time, enjoyed having a few bevvies and feel absolutely no guilt and now settling down for the 2ww...

VeryAnnieMary · 08/06/2009 18:18

Have been pondering all day whether menstrual blood is as attractive to vampires as arterial blood, so thanks for that, trig.

Cosmo - sorry and happy to hear about period, ie sorry that you aren't pg, but glad your cycle has come to an end at last! What's the MRI for? (think I've missed something)

VeryAnnieMary · 08/06/2009 18:26

donttry & Cosmo - thanks for your thoughts - in your "book" does it say that ov actually occurs in those instances? - (still a little worried about possibility of PCOS - will march self to quack in another month I think).

Can I refer to quacks without the chuff?

VeryAnnieMary · 08/06/2009 18:27

ps every time someone mentions mooncup I hear the godawful jingle for MoonPig. Can we call them something else? Buckets?

Moonpiiiiiig.......Mooooooonpiiiiig.....

skihorse · 09/06/2009 08:07

Thank god the romance hasn't gone! This morning as I was leaving he forlornly asked whether I "needed his manfat tonight".

I OV'd yesterday and in a moment of brilliance booked a couple of classes at the gym, so by the time I got home & showered it was half ten and I was unable to break out the sex-swing.

Nocoffeenoworkee · 09/06/2009 08:28

Cosmo hope all goes well with DH's scan - not a pleasant experience at all.

Grrrr, I have no patience! I am on CD16 and already imagining pg symptoms, it can only be that I'm not challenged enough at work.

Seeing as we've been treated to CM discussions of late, can I share? Since coming off the pill I've had a 31 day cycle, a 30 day cycle and a 26 day cycle. STUPID QUESTION ALERT I thought I was OVing 6 days ago (based on a few symptoms here and there like EWCM and pains) but had rivers of CM yesterday, which has never happened to me. I've also had period pains for the last 2 days and generally feel like AF's due. Have I been OVing in the last couple of days? Am I that out of touch with my own body after 10 years of taking the pill?! Or am I imagining pg?!!!

Talk to me ladies of the world, tell me about OV...

triggerhappybaby · 09/06/2009 08:59

I wouldn't know I was ovulating if the damn egg popped out of my mouth and introduced itself to me.

VeryAnnieMary · 09/06/2009 10:12

Nocoffee I don't have a clue either I'm afraid - hopefully someone knowledgeable will be along shortly. Have had cycles of varying lengths so far (record being 49 days) so generally rather confused about whole area. Am keeping a diary of when the old mucus seems runnier - in code obv. Could be that you've eaten something to help create more? - grapefruit juice I think is supposed to increase the stuff.

Aussieng · 09/06/2009 11:25

Hi Nocoffee there are quite a few questions on t'internet on this point - I looked last month cos I had the same thing. The answers are all bllocks and different so overall I took this to mean that I was not abnormal but I shouldn't read anything into it in terms of pg indicators. But the cramps could be implantation [fingers crossed emoticon]

I really thought I was pg last month cos I was symptom spotting all over and generally just paying more attention to how I felt. When AF arrived the worst thing was that I realised that I just generally feel a little crap a lot of the time (aches, pains, tiredness) it is just that normally I don't listen to my body much

skihorse · 09/06/2009 11:42

I'm more in tune with my OV than I ever was - but I really try to avoid symptom-spotting during the 2WW because 8 months in... all those early months I really though I'd cracked it - CD1 was devastating.

I'm pretty much now at the point where if I DO get pg it'll be such a fucking surprise I'll slip on the bathroom floor, whack my head, go in to a coma and wake up when the kid is 21.

wildfig · 09/06/2009 12:18

nocoffee there is a reason I faff about with a bbt thermometer every morning, and it is precisely because I can't face the thought of becoming an expert in my own intimate secretions. Not to mention that other favourite, ratching about in my fanjo to ascertain the current position of my cervix, and then - AND THEN! - recording it on the Fertility Friend website, so they can decide if I've ovulated. I mean, what next? Inspecting my poo for evidence of increased luteinising hormone? Slitting open a pigeon in manner of Greek oracle to see if the Signs are Right? You can take this baby thing too far. Am all for getting to know my body, but like all good friendships, there are limits. I almost certainly have mortifying cellulite on the backs of my legs, but that doesn't mean I want to have a look.

The good thing about doing the temperature thing is it can also cut the imaginary symptoms headwrecker down too - if your temperature drops, then you're probably going to be breaking out the mooncup in a matter of hours, itchy nose/strange acne/funny twitch in your leg notwithstanding. Well, technically, anyway...

Sorry for the grump. My period's due on Saturday and am getting what seems to be a prolonged trailer for the main event - which, if I were in a better mood - I'd hope was implantation bleeding, but 14 months down the line, I know probably isn't. Just to rub it in, if I had managed to get knocked up this month, the estimated due date would have been my birthday. Grrr.

But, in better news, my dog had puppies last month! Two greedy boys and a small but adorable little girl. Puppy love all round. Much nicer than children, less likely to demand a wii and private education, etc, etc.

cosmo good luck with DH's MRI scan - is it a new treatment where they read men's minds to find out exactly how much they understand the whole conception process? And ski don't worry about the vacant sex swing - apparently by the time the egg drops it's a bit late anyway. But am liking the new comatose approach to child-rearing plan.

skihorse · 09/06/2009 12:59

Puppies sound a super compromise!

Can't the sperm have raced up there anyway? I think I ovulated about 2pm give the pain in my ovary. Sex at around 11pm - aren't they going to meet mid-fallopian? Anyway, got plenty in over the weekend. Some WITH my partner! (as per fertility clinic wisdom)

Anyway, I must dash because I've got to go to the post office to post a poo to fertility friend.

wildfig · 09/06/2009 13:23

Sorry, have just re-read my own post and what sounds like weary wryness in my head just comes across as, um, extreme biddyishness. Apols, all. Note to self: refill drinks cabinet.

Also, Ski, I am going MAD. Of course sex on ovulation isn't too late. Am so used to the constant 'intercourse timing' tellings-off on Fertility Friend (they grade you from 'poor' to 'high' according to when and how often you do it, and our babyFAIL results are a hilarious comedy of mis-timings and cross efforts..). Eggs are viable for about 12 hours after you ovulate so yes, DUR, you might even be getting pregnant right now! Especially if you built up a backlog over the weekend, so to speak.

Puppies are quite a good compromise, except until they're about 4 weeks, mum has to eat their poo. The expression on our dog's face says exactly what she thinks about that aspect of motherhood.

Cosmosis · 09/06/2009 14:00

Mum has to eat their poo I hope humans don't have to to that - should we be keeping in blissful ignorance of the postnatal threads as well as the childbirth ones????

MRI scan done, he said it was horrible, but at least it's over now. We'll find out if he has a backbone on monday

I was thinking of you all as I swigged my G&T last night

skihorse · 09/06/2009 14:03

Are you saying my tubes have a "backlog of spunk" in them? I'm picturing a toddler with their first plasticine set.

BABYFAIL! That's what we really need isn't it? A fucking website telling us that our sex is crap!

I'm not even planning on eating my placenta in a pagan ritual never mind poo!

donttrythisathome · 09/06/2009 16:58

PMSL.

nocoffee and VAM can't help you with ov question. All I'd say is if you see the EWCM then get jiggy with it.

Tis amazing all the things you notice when you're looking out for them.

Off to manky work loo now to peeonastick to see if the fricking egg is ever going to drop, or is holding on for dear life until the weekend when I'm off in Ireland without DP...

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donttrythisathome · 09/06/2009 17:00

Loving BABYFAIL. Going to use this in place of AF in future

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SarahAbroad · 09/06/2009 17:08

nocoffee, I feel your pain on the whole ovulation thing.... wildfig, I don't think your post sounded biddyish at all. And it was refreshing to have someone else make similar comments about FF. As helpful as it is to have a calendar, etc, the over-recording of stuff is starting to freak me out. I try to remind myself that for all the scientific stuff, FF still includes phases of the moon on their calendar!

This month, we decided to go with the "build a backlog" in the tubes--every day since CD10. We're now on CD17, and figure we'll go until at least CD21 or so for good measure. (I'm pretty regular....) I must say, that as much as I love sex with my DH; it's beginning to get a bit, erm, organised. I want my spontanaiety back.

cosmosis--hope your husband is feeling better and that the G&T has stood you well! Sorry about your period, but I hope it means that your cycles are coming back!

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