Two week wait - any other mad symptom spotters to test 16th June?

[Momdeguerre]

Anyone else fancy two weeks of crazed symptom spotting?

Come obssess with me. . . . .evey twinge might be a step closer BFP!!!

So far I am 2 DPO - ready to allow my imagination to run wild and persuande myself that evey new sensation may be a sign. . . .

good excuse to sit out the back and sunbathe then bells. if the it ever warms up enough!

can anyone recommend a cheap good thermometer for temping?. dont want to pay to much as hopefully wont need it for long
x

Love the sunshine theory [wonders if she can persuade DH to book us a short break??].

I used the boots kithey sell for tempi- comes in a very discreet black case with charts and a thermometer - don't thnk it was expensive.

I ended up browsing the maternity section of TopShop today - really hope I fall pg again soon they have so much cute stuff!!!

i will have to take a trip to boots tomorrow i think.
have no idea what i m doing with regards to temping. going to spend the evening googling wish me luck

Hi everyone.
Still hanging about here.
DH has agreed to take multivits next month, which is good as he's been pretty stressed and run down recently.
If AF arrives and it all starts again I'm going to try acupuncture I think. Not sure whether to take a recommendation from a colleague (male, not fertility related) or go for the guy conveniently located at the end of my road (who was interviewed on Radio 4, no less!)

I had a fab maternity top from TopShop last time - I get far too excited about maternity clothes!

hello ladies!!
just a quick update as all my threads have disappeared, the witch got me on Saturday so CD4 today. really going to try and relax about it now, 6 years TTC can be exhausting!! a close friend just went for her 12 wk scan but there sadly was no baby there, she is devastated.

oh god lucygrif. thats awful
hope you get some good luck soon. miscarriage is a real shit.

fertility friend is saying im on cd 6 so im going to go by that for now.

well off on my hunt for a thermometer now, and to stock up on the old vitamins!

hope you are all well.
xx

Thell - I really love buying maternity clothes - I know they are a bit pointless and you wear them for such a short time but I don't often get the chance to dress like a girl (sounds odd but I am a police officer so in uniform at work and then at home I never seem to make the effort) but when I am pg I love having a great excuse to wear skirts and dresses!!

Lucy - good luck for this month - am pretty much on the same cycle as you, best of luck for this month.

Been out enjoying the sunshine today and spent this evening planning my little boys first birthday party - DH wants to dress up as a pirate for it!!!

Got my thermometer at last.

Thell and mom- with you on the mat clothes thing. Well pretty much any clothes shopping really.
I'm even worse when it comes to baby clothes shopping. My bf is having her first baby soon and
I have bought sooo much stuff. Little girls things are so cute!

Good luck with the birthday party when is his birthday?
Hope the sun stays out for it
Xx

Hi all, am CD 15 and the BDing is going ok, about every 2-3 days - is that enough? Even if it doesn't work this month it's been a lot of fun! Not sure if I'm on 2 or 3 week wait as have a feeling I ovulated last week.

Momdeguerre hope your son has a great Birthday!

Thanks Thell and Maisie - his bday party is on the 12th July - so around the time I will be testing this month - might be a good pressie?

Have loved planning his party - DH hired a fancy dress costume today - a cowboy - and is going to be chasing all the kids about. I really can't wait. We have hired a hall and have about 30 kids and 60 adults coming so it is going to be mayhem!!

Maisie - I think 2-3 days is fine - think some people recommend every other, some say every days and others every 2-3. I think it is as much about luck and timing as frequency - only takes one little swimmer!! Good luck!

So sorry Lucy, that's really horrible.

Hope you're managing to relax in the sunshine a bit before girding your loins again

I'm trying really hard not to carry on the frenzied symptom spotting - I've been really tired, with crazy hay fever and feeling bloated...but I can't dwell on it too much 'cause if AF turns up it will just mean I am putting on too much weight and not fit enough!! No AF is good news, but there's still plenty of time for her to turn up.

MDG - that sounds nuts!! I went slightly mad planning DD's third birthday this year and there were only 6 children and 4 adults there! Sounds like you will have a blast though.

Hello girls..hope all is well with you all.

Not having a good time of it this week. Me and the mister can't seem to agree on anything.
I always make a point of telling him the best days to bd. Don't make a major deal of it, just I'm passing.

His response was 'if I can be bothered, I will'
P**sed me off big time. I know performing on demand is not nice but that's something we just have 2 put up with surely?
He wants a baby more than I do!

That's just one of many probs at the month, or so it feels.

Sorry for the rant...just needed to off load! Xx

Hope the party plans are going well mom.

Should read 'just in passin' sorry..postin from my phone and can't always read before posting.

Shyla - Really feel for you! I have a super chilled DH - he is great but totally opposite to me - I like to plan/organise/prepare and ttc can be a bit of a sore point for both of us.

He says he wants us to be relaxed, no pressure, just dtd when the mood takes us and see what happens. All good for a few months but I find the pressure builds when I know we are missing the relevant dates.

I know when I ovulate and sometimes (because we both work shifts) it means that in order to hit the relevant dates we might need to stay up late or dtd before work etc. This clashes with DHs 'relaxed' theory and has caused a couple of terse chats! Much more, in my opinion, than if we just accepted that certain dates are important to dtd on and planning them in??

Same as you, DH mad keen for another baby but I do sometimes ask him how he thinks we are going to conceive the next one??

Luckily the stress is minimal but I really sympathise - it makes me feel a bit like we have 'wasted' a month when we miss all the fertile dates!

Anyway - on the party front - things are going well - trial cake made (giant cupcake with yellow icing, blue ribbon and decorated with fondant icing satrs and moons), decorations have arrived and look cool and nearly everyone has said they can come. . . scary but sooooo exciting!! Can't wait!

Thanks mdg. Just feeling really low. Got a feeling this isn't going to be my month.
Af is still lingering, usually long gone before now. And I feel sooo hormonal.
All in all feeling crap!

I think I'm taking it to personally when he says he will 'see how he feels'.
I mean aren't I utterly irresistable ALL THE TIME??! Lol

Just going to try and relax, go with the flow and if it happens this month it happens.

See if I can get him to take me on a date around estimated ov day. (Wink)

Did you say it was ds' 1st birthday? Sounds like you got your hands full this month
Should take your mind off poas for a while though.
Xx

Poor you - hopefully it is a good sign - lots of hormones and therefore firing on all cylinders!!

I do really empathise - I just hate the feeling that I am nagging/begging for sex!!! Really not good for my self-esteem!

It is my DS 1st Bday - am totally loving being able to channel all of my crazy baby planning into his party! Very good diversion. His actual brithday is the 15th which will be test day for me this month but is party is on the 12th so hopefully this might assist me in avoiding early testing. . . . . well, maybe!

CD 11 for me today. Next week will be the important one for us this month so fingers crossed. . .

Ooh, MDG, CD11 already?
When do you ovulate? (sorry, tried to skim thread to see if you'd already said,...) If it's CD14, then I'd start BD tomorrow, or even today and CD13
It's good to get those swimmers in there beforehand, as the egg only survives 8-24 hrs after ovulation.
Sorry if you know all that already - I'd just hate you to miss your window! DD was conceived from BD on CD12 (probably the one and only time I've ovulated when I should have

I know what you mean about the BD. DH has even less of a sex drive than I do (used to be good when I was a bit younger...think he's dampened it down!), so I try to be relaxed about planning around the fertile days. Every 2 or 3 days...I try to aim for every 2 so if we don't really feel like it we can give it a bit longer. But I don't force him to go on and on, so if my cycle is long we probably stop doing the deed before I am fertile. (God, am I ever fertile?!)
I don't know about you, but here some months are definitely better than others. DH has been really sweet this month, others he's just a bit tired and fed up with it all, but then so can I be.

BTW looks like i am going to have to start temping, and force feeding DH vitamins. Big FAT Negative this morning. Still no AF, but really I think that's it for this month (CD35 today, long one again).
Feeling pretty about it too.

Sorry you got a BFN - I hate the months when I am late AND I am still BFN - just seems to pur salt in the wound. Is your cycle different every month? Can make it harder to track your ov etc so temping might help and at least (I feel) it is something positive to do.

We are just about to have a romantic dinner so fingers crossed one thing will lead to another. Think I will ov about day 14/15? Not sure yet as my cycle length vaires so, as you say, am going to try to have everything 'in place'.

Any chance of you still getting a late BFP???

at you having everything in place!

Yes, my cycle is different every month. And ridiculously long. I was encouraged that things may have begun to settle by a 33 day cycle last month, but that day has come and gone (CD34, still no sign of AF yet).

I've just been looking in my diary, and unless I've accidentally forgotten to write in a BD, it's not looking good for a late +ive.

Oh well.

Bum, always make me wish AF would just hurry up so I can start again.

Well, so far so good, BD last night and we have another night when we both homw tonight so fingers crossed. . . .even DH seems a bit impatient this month - he even asked if last night was a good baby making night! Maybe even he is getting tired of being so relaxed about it all!!

Feeling loads better today
Had a good talk with dp, don't think he really understood
very much about bd'ing. He seemed to think that women ov
on the same day evrymonth, irrelevant of cycle length etc.
He just wanted to know THE day that we should do the deed.
Showed him a bit of fertility friend and he seems to understand
A bit better. Just told him instead of me havin to tell him
repeatedly the poss best days he can just go through my chart himself.
Think he may start feeling a bit more involved.

Back to feeling a lot more relaxed. Let's see how long that lasts shall we.

Cd 11 today so going to start bding on tues.
Apart from that had a very busy weekend decorating. Not so good in this weather.

Hope the rest of you are well xx

Well, AF arrived Sunday morning, and I was really pleased! So surprised, as I normally get various aches etc, and there was no warning, but a cycle of 34 days is really good. If it's starting to settle down then hormones must be normalising and I must be ov around day 19-20.

Not sure whether to try acupuncture yet - I'm worried it will all cost a lot! And maybe all I need is to get exercising

Shyla - at least everything will dry really quickly in this weather - and you can enjoy the new look!

Hope you're all having fun with the BDing! I've got another Two Week Wait before we get round to it again

Hi, hope all are well. We're busy decorating too, hopefully nearly finished in a few weeks (then only doors to gloss but if I ignore it then DH may take on that job!). Am on CD 19, still BDing every 2-3 days. Probably going into two week wait now as cycle usually 32-34 days.

Love how cheerful evryone is - am certain that all this sunshine helps.

Anyone fancy coming to decorate my place for me??? Ours is is need of re-decorating but seems no point till we get out of the baby stage or it will all get covered in sick/carrot/rusk etc etc

CD 14 for me today. We dtd the last two nights and plan to again tonight - DH really very keen that this month is the month too and we aiming to dtd every day for the next week - even in this bloody heat!!!

No positive OPK yet (although I know they can be a bit unreliable) hoping that will get one tomorrow - helping me with my poas addiction anyway.

Party plans now in overdrive! Have spent my all day meeting looking very hard at work while I have actually been writing long lists of ingredients for all the food!!!

Not so cheerful really but trying to think positively. Feel like I want to cry all the time, think I'm a bit of a wreck emotionally. Very pregnant friend who's also a work colleague is about to go on mat leave and had things worked out for me I would have been too. Think I'll feel better when her leave starts as although I'm very happy for her and she's a lovely person, seeing her is a reminder I don't need. I know this sounds selfish but work feels a lot more stressful than it should be the mo, not helped by mad people saying mad things. However onwards and upwards.

Not going to symptom spot this month as had such a wild range of symptoms last month. But just so you all know, I have no symptoms at all at the moment.

Sounds like it should be your month Momdeguerre, and you're doing really well in this heat. Going to try to BD a few more times myself this month just in case. Was convinced I'd ovulated early in cycle as had a 'show' and low pain on left side, but then had really bad pain on right side this week and I think EWCM so I really have no idea. After pain went to centre it's gone now.

Felt really guilty at weekend as went out and had too much too drink, wasn't intending to but there you go. Now decided am going to pretty much give up alcohol as hopefully it will be 'the month' soon and I'd rather give my body the best chance. May just have the occasional shandy.

Sorry for the rant on such an upbeat thread, needed to vent, hope you don't mind. Will try to be more cheerful in future.