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. . . .

Don't be so silly maisie! You can vent whenever u want! That is what we are all here for. To support each other through the good times and the bad. (How cheesey!)
Seriously tho, we all go through similar emotions. I know myself this month has been a nitemare of emotions and the 2ww h*snt even started yet!

I tell myself everymonth that I will not symptom spot, but we all know that is rubbish!

Just relax as much as poss, stress really isn't going to help.
And as for the drinking..I'm sure most of us can say we have had a few 2 many while ttc. I defo have.

Hope you feel better soon. Xx

Absolutely Maisie, don't worry! We are all here because we need somewhere to vent sometimes without having it spill too much into 'normal life,' and we cheer each other up because we can understand what each of us is going through.

And without being too sappy, a virtual {hug} can be just what we need!

DD brought tears to my eyes this weekend, in a sort of happy/sad way. She was talking about one of her toys and saying 'When my brother Henry is born and grows bigger then we can play together...'
So so sweet I was a blubbering wreck for a while!
But I have warned her, we will not be calling him Henry!!

I've taken my temps three times now, and it's reassuringly stable, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a visible change that will confirm my body is at least working and we will know whether or not we will have DTD at the right time.

Thanks, feel much better tonight. Have been on nights and I think being overtired hasn't helped. Been out for tea and doing some more painting, and gardening in between the rain. Think TTC really puts you at the mercy of your hormones, spend far too much time worrying that I'll ever get pregnant again when I haven't really been trying long enough to need to worry about that. Positive thinking ahead.

glad you are feeling better maisie.
we all have our down days. ttc is such a rollercoaster.

thell- my dd is always asking when our baby is goin to be ready to come out. i told my dc just before i mc the first time. ds (8) understands but dd (5) just thinks that the baby is poorly
always make me a bit teary.

anyway...cd13 and bd'ing starts today lucky mr shyla

decorating almost finished just a bit of flooring to lay and waiting for new sofa to arrive. cant wait!

think i'll take a rain check on helping with your decorating mom
sick of the sight of paint brushes and dust sheets!

Hi All,
Maisie - this is just the right place to come and vent! Hope that you are feeling a bit better, I agree that TTC can be so emotional/stressful. Amazing the pressure we out ourselves under. My sister knows we have been TTC for a while (she fell pg first month she tried for all of her DC) and at the weekend she asked me if I was pg!! I had no idea what provoked it other than she says that I was not drinking (driving) and I had a soft style bra on (wrong it is just a built in bra in the dress). I ended up feeling both offended (am only a size 8/10 but still made me feel fat!) and depressed because I then had to persuade her that I was not and because I felt upset and wanted to cry I kept smiling in an effort to stop the tears so she kept on and on because she was convinced I was fibbing. She did stop when she realised she had upset me.

She is lovely but she just has no idea at all.

Anyway, we have dtd every day from 11 - 15 and plan to dtd again tonight and then probably every other day from then. Had a positive OPK on morning of day 14 so I hope we have given ourselves the best chance we can. The heat is killing me and poor DS has had a terrible vomiting bug but hopefully he is now over the worst of it.

When should everyone next be testing? I should be holding out till the 15th July.

hey ladies, not been on for a while. CD12 today (thought it was CD11) so plenty of bonking coming our way!! not that we haven't already

no clomid this month (end of the road for me) so have no idea what my cycle is going to be like as it has been going to CD33/34 on 100mg, normally a very regular 30 days.

hope everyone is well and not too hot!!!

Day off for me so more painting. By chance DH came home for lunch so thought it would be good to BD, he escaped back to work afterwards though...

CD 21 for me, think will try to BD for another week just in case. Thankfully, don't feel at all miserable today so will blame yesterday on hormones. Actually am really pleased that this is the first month I've had for a while that I haven't had thrush, giving us a real chance to TTC. Last two months we only managed a few times.

Our cat is enjoying the nice weather but won't eat anything. I guess she will when she's good and ready.

Mom I think it's really hard when people know you're trying to TTC. Much easier when no one knows as there's no expectation.

thell I wonder where your DD got the name Henry from?

shyla01 sounds like your decorating is going really well, I'm painting the kitchen and I think there's more paint on me than on the walls!

lucygrif Good Luck for this month, I think it's great when we're all BDing as much as possible and still enjoying it! I've made sure that we go for at least every 3 days this month, just pretending to DH that it's all spontaneous, or even better his idea!

maisie decorating has gone well, but like you said, think the dog has more paint on her than the walls!
mom I have tried to keep the ttc to myself as much as poss but one of the few people who knows everythin I have been through is reaally insensitive. She is pg and keeps updating me on all her latest aches and pains.
lucy not too hot yet, had quite a few showers here so its not unbearable yet!

Glad the bding seems to be goin well for everyone. Defo goin to be a good month for us all!

Xx

I agree with pp that all this sunshine is good for us - our moods if nothing else! Am very impressed with all the painting - I struggle to get anything more thean the basic housework done.

It is sooooooooo hot here. Almost unbearable!

Bit fed up - got assaulted at work a few years ago which really damaged my teeth - they look fine but I get endless probs with them and today I have woken up with yet another abcess which is just excruciating. So, am taking pain killers but trying really hard to take as few as possible in case it effects anything. Dentist tomorrow morning, again, third time this month which is impressive even for me!!

Ouch mom dp suffers with his teeth. Really feel for you. Hope oit doesn't get in the way of bding to much.

I take it back about it not being to hot! Sooo stuffy here this evening.
Really puts me off dtd

shyla - DD knows a boy at nursery called Henry. She often brings home names from there, even with children she doesn't seem particularly friendly with. She's called one of her teddies (and, incidentally, her future daughter when she is grown up!) Darcie !!

Good luck with all your BDing - I still have AF! Testing not til 1st August

thell dd is the same she ecently named mil's kitten after her new best friend in school.

still got a few days of bding left. hopefully the weather will cool down so we can enjoy it a bit more!

not sure what day i am testing this month.
probably around 18th. if i can hold out that long lol.

xx

*recently

Oh, and DH told me yesterday he'd been reading an article about conceiving, and the doctor's advice was,

Have Lots Of Sex!

Every day, was his recommendation.
I was expecting DH to give a weary look and say he couldn't be doing with that, but actually he got a glint in his eye and suggested we give it a try! I'm not convinced that notion will last, but we'll see in a week or so when Shag Week comes round

Okay...any ideas wha is goin on with my body??!!

Last month arond cd14\15 I got this really bad ache in my lower belly and back
Seemed like quite bad period pain. Had it a few times in the past. Never really thought much of it.

Since I have been looking into charting etc more closely I have read about cervix position being an indicator. Had a go and I haven't got a clue what I'm feelin for!

Anyway cd 15 this month belly ache is back.

After bd tonite dp say's ' don't know if you could feel anything but it felt like something was in the way'
He said the same last month.

Could this be my cervix closing? Would I even feel something like that??!!

Also if it is I haven't had much ewcm so does that mean i prob haven't ov this month?

So much for just symptom spotting AFTER ov lol.

Driving myself nuts with this. Please feel free to give me a good hard slap for being an idiot!!

Xxxx

Well, I'm no expert, but if it felt like something was in the way, that could be a good sign that your cervix is lower because of ovulating.

If you're feeling for your cervix, it's a little nobble, about the size of your finger tip, about a finger's length inside...to me it feels like it's on the roof of the vagina, because the whole thing is tilted backwards. It's got a clearly distinguishable dimple in the middle of it, which is the opening. The opening isn't very big even when it's open... hence 1cm (roughly one finger's width) would be the start of dilation in labour.

EWCM is such a great acronym - ewwww!
Anyway, a friend of mine told me she always had trouble finding cm - never enough about to just check underwear, so she gathered it from the cervix itself by giving it a little squeeze. HTH.

Also, taking basal temp is a good way of finding out if you are ovulating (I discovered about two days ago trawling the web!). It's the main reason I've just started tracking it for the first time - to see if I really am ovulating! If your temp doesn't rise at all, then it means no ov.

But I reckon an ache in the belly around day 15, two months in a row, sounds pretty convincing to me!

Good luck Shyla!!

thanks thell

still cant feeel what you describe but will keep trying throughout the month so hopefully will notice the difference.

been trying to take my temp but ds has been ill all week and had to get up once or twice just before temp time to see to him so dont think will be accurate enough this month.

well at least we have managed to bd tues wed and thurs. going to keep it up at least over the weekend see how we go.

hope everyone is ok

xx

Ooh, another thing I found was that checking cm in the mornings after bd the night before was nigh on impossible! so I tried to check it in the evening before going to bed.

lol..i have found that too. just try to keep an eye on it during the day.
thanks foe all the advice though. much appreciated! x

Hi All,
Hope everyone well? Sounds like we should get some BFPs this month! Good work ladies (and DPs!).

I had to admit defeat on CD16 - bit cross with myself but poor DS has been very ill for days with a vomiting bug so no sleep for us, it was soooooooooo hot and my mouth was killing me. I told DP he was welcome to dtd but if he could avoid waking me up then I would be grateful!!!!!!!!! He felt this was beyond our 'relaxed' approach to TTC!!

Either way, I fell asleep and it did not happen. Bit cross because I feel like I might have messed up our chance this month but I know we have had a good effort with managing to BD days 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15. Hope it is enough. Got a negative OPK on morning of 17th too so hopefully it would not have made any difference.

We shall see. . . .two week wait for me now and symptom spotting officially commences!!! Wonder what my amazing imagination will give me this month??

We haven't managed every day, that's some stamina you all have, but have BD'd on CD's 4,5,8,10,13,15,17,18,21, hope that puts us in with a chance. Saying that I have no symptoms.

Have had another emotional fit of tears this am, although do save these for when there's just me and the cat in the house! Again feel better tonight, think chocolate is the answer, especially flakes. Not sure why so tearful this week, am on nights but sleeping ok. Do have some stresses but nothing that I can't cope with. Blame it on the hormones again. In the last two weeks of my cycle my hair always grows quicker and I do like this, so that's something to be cheerful about.

Hope all enjoy the w/e, I'm working some of it but will fit in more painting and possibly BDing (practice for mext month!)

Hello all. hope all is well with you all.

Cd 17 have dtd cd 11 12 13 14 15 missed lst nite but plan on doing it tonight...one more for luck as it were!

Still in a bit of pain (as mentioned above) no idea if it's ov pains or what. Hope they are.

maisie bit teary here too. Shed a few tears over extreme makeover earlier. Althoughnot sure its hormonal with me. Got a feeling I'm a big sap!

X

Oops didn't actually dtd cd11, getting a bit carried away !....wish we had now though

Wonder if I could persuade dp to do it EVERY night next month? Hmmm wishful thinking perhaps?? X

I know someone who took four years to conceive their first, and the month they did, they dtd every day for the whole month!
I'm pretty sure we couldn't manage that without being able to sleep all day!!

I was hoping to try every day, but my window for ovulating even with a more settled cycle is a whole week (too nervous to start too late, so must do it at least once before CD14), and not sure we can realistically aim for that. Oh well, have to see !