Afternoon ladies, so sorry Neeko & Gracie I had you worried ? thanks so much for thinking of me, it means a lot.
Basically had a shite weekend & had a bit of a meltdown on Monday ? spending most of the day in tears. Kept thinking ?I should be pregnant now instead of ttc again?. Not helped by the fact that dd is getting over a throat & ear infection & has not been eating & has been sleeping really badly. She?s been waking up every night absolutely screaming the house down & has ended up in our bed most nights & dh has had to drive her around for two hours every lunchtime over the Bank Holiday just to get her to have a lunchtime nap. As a consequence dh has been ultra narkey & said one night ?If you think I?m going through this again in another couple of years you?ve got another thing coming?, i.e I don?t want another baby. Anyway things have calmed down now, dd has slept better for the last couple of nights & I said to dh that we need to start bd?ing tomorrow & he seemed fine about it. I hate these flippin? hormones, they make you feel so irrational, one minute you are fine & the next you feel like the world is about to end!
Neeko sorry I wasn?t around to answer your temp questions but Cupcake gave you the answer. My temp always goes slightly up & down but when you look at the whole month from the first day of your af to the day before your next af starts you should see a distinct pattern of a lower temp at the beginning of the month, followed by a dip & then sharp rise when have ovulated & then it will stay higher for the rest of thee month & drop again the day before af starts. The spotting you mentioned could be normal for after mc but make sure you note it on your graph as you may see a pattern building, like my day 21&21 day spotting every month. I went to see my gp last Friday & next week I have to go for an internal check to make sure I don?t have any corrosion & the following week I?m having a blood test to check my progesterone level.
Kate I bet you can think of nothing else but your wedding now huh?! Oh that & ttc of course! Get to it girl, sperm can live in the right conditions for 5-7 days so you should start a week before you think you will ov. On your wedding day just think that you have done absolutely everything you could possibly have done to have everything organised for your big day & there is nothing more you can do. If anything goes wrong it will only be something minor & you will be so wrapped up in everything that is going on you won?t even notice it let alone be able to do anything about it!
Barbie, sorry about the bad timing for you today. Its really hard having to pick your self up & dust yourself off month after month isn?t it? As much as you try to not think about the possibility each month that you may be pregnant, it is just not possible to erase that thought from your brain so it is a crashing disappointment when af comes.
Cupcake lol at you saying why would anyone try not to get pregnant! When I think of all the years I was on the pill & had the contraceptive injection, if only I?d known how bloody hard it is to get pregnant I wouldn?t have bothered! Also at people who get pregnant by accident, how the hell does that happen???? Perhaps they are shagging happily twice a day?
4ever you brave lady, well done for being so big & clever. Just think in a week & a half you will be bd?ing with renewed hope. Your af definitely does not sound normal & I would highly recommend acupuncture ? yes I know, more needles but nothing like the ones you had on Friday. After three sessions my af is now 3-4 days as opposed to 9-14 days. Acupuncture is so good for anything to do with cycle/af issues.
GG you could still be lucky with bd?ing on day 13 & ov?ing on day 17. If there is a chance you could get to see dh between those days though I?d definitely do everything you can to make it happen if I were you. There?s always those ice cubes though!
Jools glad to hear you are getting a referral to a clinic & you are having blood tests. One more positive step in the right direction. Oh & how does your wee smell when you are ovulating??? This is a new one on me & I think I could get used to wee-sniffing along with checking ewcm, temping, eating brazils, drinking grapefruit juice etc. etc. ad infinitum!
Mermaid please don?t ever leave our thread. Maybe your bd hat will only sit in your wardrobe for a month or two until you feel like you are ready to start again? Or maybe even whilst you are not wearing your bd hat & not thinking about it you may get an unexpected bfp?
Blue so happy to hear about your scan. I can understand why you kept it quiet, no matter now many lovely, hopeful things we would all have said to you it would have had no bearing on the outcome. So glad it is going well.
Right I?ll stop rambling on now as I have to go out & hang the washing on the line, woop-woop!
Big hugs to everyone.