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[C1NDY]

Hi All,

Hope you like our new home!

Yellow its not over till its over!!! Thanks Yellow for thinking of me... goush I was a sorry figure this morning but hey the suns out and its Lunchtime!!!!

hugs for wasabi and C1ndy

Great re hosp Jools glad they are looking after you.

fingers crossed yellow

okay - 13dpo and I am now in that compulsive knicker checking stage...

Fingers crossed for you Yellow

I think Ov day for me is tomorrow, so getting busy tonight, then sitting and hoping and obsessing too. At least I'm away on business for a lot of next week - that will take my mind off it.

have my fingers crossed for you too yellow

Hope BD action goes well Jools

I am kind of on the 2ww as is CD 21 today - but holding out very little hope as only managed to BD on CD15 and CD16 and don't know when I ovulated... Going to try opks next month...

Oh Cindy poor you on your journey to work, it is stange how it can come and bite you on the bum when you least expect it. I found it took much longer than I expected it to to get over my MC, I still think about it a year on.

Yellow fingers crossed for you, I really hope that it is your turn this month, you really deserve it.

I am glad that they are looking after you Jools at the MC clinic. I too and ovulating today I think, so we will be in the 2WW together this month

How are you Wasbai if you decide to get a scan I can recommend a private palce in Twyford (I guess that must be reasonably near to you) they have sonographers there and the main man from Royal Berks (Selenger)

DH is definately more on board with everything this month following his F Friend tutorial (now he realises that I do know when is the best time!) so plenty of BD action going on on my end. I have even been drinking Grapefruit juice for the first time in ages. I really hope we get lucky this month as we just found out that DH has to go to US for a week with work durning my fertile time next month grrrrr!

Hello lovely ladies,

Cindy I felt for you so much when I read you post about crying on the way to work I have been there and its bloody horrible. Like Jools, my 2nd AF after the mc was a hormonal storm from hell. I broke down on my dh when he came from work, it makes me cry just thinking about it. It does get better though
Have a fab time this weekend with wine and Mr Mckenna!

Iggy you may have been successful this month but if not, have you thorugh about temping rather than OPK's? Or indeed both. Temping made me twig I was ovulating about 2 days later than I thought from OPK's! It is def the mosr scientific way of figuring out you cycle - I am quite evangelical about it!

Pinky that is so funny you mention Mark Selenger - he delivered my DS! I had an emergency cs due to a failed induction and my ds had managed to get himself into a very peculiar position and the obstetrician that did the section couldn't get him out. This all sounds a bit comic now - believe me it was terrifying at the time. There was a bit of a kerfufle and someone shouted "get Selenger" and lo this bloke strolled in from the theatre next door, extracted ds in a nano second then leaned over when I was freaking out because I couldn't hear anything and said "your baby's fine". Which he was thank god.

So, in summary I like him a lot. I didn't know he worked for the Twyford place but was planning to go there for a scan as it looks like the NHS don't consider me worthy of one.

Good to hear that your dh is on board - you are going to have to put some serious effort in this month!

Well I have some good news. I had a GP appt on Tuesday as I was so panicky to ask for a scan which was refused but he took he some blood and I have had the results back - the HCG level is bang on where it should be by my dates, in fact it is a couple of days ahead. I have a follow up test in a an hour to check its going up so should find out early next week.

The fact that it measures ok at the moment is a big relief. It isn't a guarantee by any means but its a good start. I have been crying with relief on and off for the last hour!

Hello wasabi

That's fab news about your blood test - at least you know things are still on track. It must be reassuring to know that you have another test too - I think is the waiting that is the awful bit - just waiting for a scan... and not knowing!

At least with tests you are getting something to break up the wait!

re: temping - I'm not sure... DH is very anti actively 'trying' in some ways - he says 'if it happens, it happens' so I kind of worry about fertile dyas etc in my own little bubble - and just try to pounce on him at the right times (and at other times too!)

c1ndy hope you are feeling better - we are rather at the mercy of our hormones and it's no fun xx

pinky good you have DH raring to go

Great news Wasabi it is so crap the lack of scans we get in the Reading area. Selenger is worth a visit he is brilliant!

Iggy I am with Wasabi on the temping front, I realise that I was concentrating BD efforts too early in my cycle, which might explain why I have not been getting PG, it has certainly made me feel in control. DH seems to just ignore my thermometer beeping in the morning! He has also been in the lets just see what happens camp, but now he seems to realise that that approach does not seem to work!

Yellow not sure what 13dpo means but hey if your happy with it then great. I get a funny feeling that it will be your month

Jools fingers crossed for you, I can't wait to get going but am still waiting for AF to arrive. Spotted yesterday but no show of it... where the hell is it. Prior to MC I never had any spotting it would just arrive... oh well guess its the only second time after MC I will be having my AF.

Iggy I have started temping. I thought to myself its the only thing I haven't tried and goush it sounds so scientific... I thought I would give it a go... especially for at least three cycles to see if I have a common theme of when I ovulate, along with the OPk and CM checking and doing the DP... I think I will have all the bases covered!!

Pinky Thanks for your thoughts... goush it is really hard, I try to be strong but I am not happy with the loss... life does suck sometimes but it will get better and everything has a reason. Its so nice to know you are all there for me when I stumble a little

Wasbi Glad that you are thinking of having an early scan, it will make you feel a lot better! I would rather know that things are progressing than waiting the full 12 weeks. So if you can go and get one done at 8 weeks, you can then relax and enjoy. I may need to contact you regarding the temping as I am starting a full cycle this month, have been practising waking up and sticking the theromoneter (my spell is sh*t but you know I mean!) in my mouth. I guess it depends on CD1? I will let you know if I have any problems with charting.

Yellow Just while I think about it did you know that FF have people who you can contact that analyse your chart for you... so if in doubt the consultant will look at it and respond back to you on any questions you may have regarding your chart. Thought you might want to know that as I stumbled on it yesterday.

Okay have to go and do a bit.

Laters
Cindy
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Cindy - DPO is days post ovulation - if I'd got to 13DPO without spotting, I'd be 99.9999% convinced I was PG Most people have a 12 - 14 day luteal phase (the bit post ovulation), so 14DPO is the recommended test day normally

Great news on the blood test Wasabi

oh my god... really... so fingers crossed for Yellow... that sounds really good.

Jools do you take your temperature also?

Hi all. Very quick message in break from work and only had time to skim your messages but thank you all for your nice and hopeful messages. Temp dropped this am though still above coverline and had a teeny bit of pink spotting so think I'm out.

Particularly devastated as yesterday boobs hurt so much yesterday had to sit watching telly not wearing my bra and nipples were hot to touch. So I was quietly confident.

Also my dh away this weekend so won't now see him until Mon night but I just want a big cuddle.

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Sending big hugs your way Yellow, remember it is not over until AF arrives! I still have fingers crossed

but don't abandon all hope just yet

Fingers still crossed for you Yellow - the hot nipples is a really really good sign.

Perhaps the spotting is implantation ? I had spotting the day AF was due with one of my BFP's

Cindy - I don't temp as I've never really needed to - I seem to be able to predict what my body is doing reasonably accurately and know that I am very lucky in that respect.

Part of me would like to temp, just for a cycle or two out of interest and curiosity really. However, I don't want DP asking questions and feeling more TTC pressure, so will do without it if at all possible.

Thanks all. Fingers' crossed. Will keep you posted. Trouble is I have a friend's hen night tomorrow so need to know whether to drink or not... (that is where dh is - away on the stag).

Hi - read all the messages now.

omg cindy - ff really does that? How?

wasabi - fab news about bloods

jools - good luck with bd

doog luck iggy - stranger things have happened on this board

How annoying about US visit pinky

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Yellow - the FF advise thing is a VIP service - you go into their chat boards and there is a VIP area. You can start a new thread to ask a question, which will look anonymous to everyone else. Someone from FF will have a look at your chart and answer your question - really good service I think

thanks jools - that is amazing. Think I will wait a few days to see whether af comes or not though ratehr than analyse chart too much as will drive self mad.

hope everyone has a nice weekend. I am off to the south of france for a week for lots of rest and relaxation.

Yellow dont give up hope! Our cycles have been so similar. I had my normal pre af spotting last week, dead on time only af never came. Let us be scarily insynced so that you get your bfp too! fingers and toes crossed!!!

i'm not ttc yet but have noticed much reference to pink grapefruit juice can someone enlighten me please? thanks mn

Hi Kalo welcome to our thread. Do stick around. Grapefruit juice is in theory meant to help your body produce the egg whitey mucus that comes when you are most fertile. Could be a myth though...

Hi lovelymonster. I wish you were right but I think af here now. It's not heavy but is bright red. Interestingly hardly any spotting unlike most months where I have a few days of spotting first. And temp this am actually went back up from yesterday which is odd. I did cheapie Internet test this am and very quickly I could see something but it never had any colour so was probs an evaporation line or showing where the dye would be if there was hcg.

Grrr. Maybe next month.

yep, def af (or v early chemical pregnancy?) as temp nosedived today.

Yellow sorry to hear AF arrived! what a bummer.

Well, my AF started on Thursday (spotting) and then stopped and I had more spotting on Saturday and then nothing. Sunday arrived and according to FF it was meant to be the day and then no AF... so now I am worried... I am normally regular and am always an 28 - 31 day cycle. I have not bd this month so I can't be pg... so may have to go to the doctors if AF does not show

On another note, I had a great time at Paul McKenna's seminar. It was fabulous and goush he makes you feel so good about yourself. I am following his system and its day three for me today and for the first time I am not thinking of food or wondering what food I should eat... I feel the chains of being directed by food have been removed. No more diets for me, my life is going to change.

Goush, do I sound a little brain washed? but you all wait in a couple of months - I am doing a journal and will let you know if the weight comes off. I am so confident that it will!

Also, if you have any 'NEGATIVE' comments about the Paul McKenna system then please do not share them with me as I am on an absolute high and really want it to work for me.

Okay,nothing else from me today. I will pop in later to see how you are all getting on.

waving
Cindy
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