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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.

Emmsy's onwards and upwards part six - sticky icky babydust BFP central!!!

987 replies

Curlywurlee · 05/07/2009 12:32

Here's a shiny new thread named especially for 4ever, let this be the one where we get lots and lots of new BFPs and everyone's pants get bigger

Ever onwards and upwards for all of you lovely ladies

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hopingalways · 14/07/2009 14:59

weirdly I was fine after my first mc, I kind of expected to have one over the course of the 4 or 5 lo we intended to have, just pleased to know we could get pg, and reckoned that having had one mc the odds of having another were so small I could just enjoy the 2nd pg from the word go.

When I lost the 2nd the whole world ended.

Since then haven't dared expect there will ever be a baby hopingalways in the world as I can't face feeling that way again.

this helping people with MCs would be so much easier if we all felt the same way when they happened!

(hugs) to you all ladies

MrsKate · 14/07/2009 15:22

hi girls

gracie give Mrs J a bit hug from me when you see her xxxxxxxxx

just a thought does anyone no any info on ttc and swine flu as dh has it just been to get his meds for him

still no ov i bloody bloody give up this game .

VJaybigpants · 14/07/2009 15:27

oh mrskate your poor dh, I hope he's ok. I don't know about ttc and swine flu, or with any flu to be honest, but I'm sure he won't feel up to it

MrsKate · 14/07/2009 15:42

im not sure hes had syptoms this whole week so if i get a bfp this month hes had swine flu

GracieGirl · 14/07/2009 15:44

MrsKate has he got symptoms or just been exposed to it at work? My guess is it won't effect his sperm anymore than any other flu, though he's unlikely to be in the mood if he has flu.

GracieGirl · 14/07/2009 15:48

x posted Mrskate - has it been confirmed as swine flu or GP just guessing? Remember you can't take Tamiflu if you are pregnant.

MrsKate · 14/07/2009 16:02

he is taking tamiflu went to get it earlier

GracieGirl · 14/07/2009 16:20

Just spoken to Barbie on Facebook, she says to say hello to everyone and she'll be back on Friday for lots of talking. She says she feels very pregnant!

hopingalways · 14/07/2009 16:27

mrskate check this page lots of useful answers.

I do business resilience for a living, so been following swine flu since it broke in March. If you do not have symptoms after being around someone who has probably been infectious for 10 days or more, chances are you will be OK. It's still early days as far as judging the impact of swine flu, esp on pgs, but generally the risk with flu is fevers - the link should help better than I could

MrsKate · 14/07/2009 16:39

thanks hoping xxxxx

mermaidspurse · 14/07/2009 19:29

mrskate oh blimey your poor dh I so hope he feels better soon Is that why he was soo down maybe kate?
My little sister has been told to keep her kids at home this week as staff at her dh office have the flu. They are just waiting and hoping for the very best. I think I will just stay in my greenhouse.

VJaybigpants · 14/07/2009 19:33

Your greenhouse does sound so lovely mermaid, when we have a new thread, lets make it in a greenhouse, with watering cans full of sparkling wine juice, and lots of chocolate

Well I've decided to go with reusable nappies this time round, and I'm going to use the classic terrys, wish me luck

VJaybigpants · 14/07/2009 19:34

Plus my greenhouse seems to make my plants very fertile, so there's a plus.

Joolsiam · 14/07/2009 19:42

hmm - needs to be special choc Vjay or it will melt Perhaps we should have a fridge full of rose and choc in there

MrsKate - Mermaid has seen the bright side - perhaps the illness brewing was causing more issues than you realised and once he gets over this, it will all be sorted (fingers crossed)

Thanks for the Barbie update GG I log on to Facebook so infrequently, I completely forgot it was an option for communication !!

mermaidspurse · 14/07/2009 19:44

vjay hi round lady!
thats brave, classic terrys mind you the shaped ones are expensive. I did get a little ott about mine for a while lovely white nappies on the line, earth mother ltd and then it went a little pear shaped!
I found them impossible when ds started walking cos they were so bulky but I guess you have a little while to go before your bump does that
I bet you are glad its a bit cooler too.

mermaidspurse · 14/07/2009 19:46

jools still feeling iffy? You must be thinking about testing soon.... maybe... just wondering....

VJaybigpants · 14/07/2009 19:48

Yes it's been raining today...bliss! There are loads of lovely reusable nappies out there but they are so expensive, terrys are cheaper, and I'm determined to make it work.
jools a fridge goes without saying, plus maybe a freezer too for some yummy icecream like the one on the Vicar of dibley, filled with icecream...bugger now I want an icecream...

MummyLovesSadie · 14/07/2009 19:52

MrsKate try not to worry too much, it really is overplayed by the media. I know that people have died from swine-flu which is a tragedy but people die all the time from normal flu & it doesn't make headline news. Also loads of people have recovered from swine-flu, some of them not even realising what they had.

Hoping I felt the same after my 1st mc, even though I didn't think it was going to happen to me, I thought there was no way it was going to happen a second time. I guess we just have to keep trying & hoping (always).

Vjay you should be ok with your trip.... thinking back to having a 6 week old dd, don't they just sleep & poo lots??

Jools, you testing tomorrow? Good luck lady.

Iggy same to you too.

4ever horrible, awful story from you re number 3. Surely it is your turn this month. I'm trying not to think about my 1st edd which is coming up in Sept & will not calculate how many weeks but I'm quietly desperate to be pregnant again before then.

Blue I'm with you on the hard heart after number 1. I hope I can get back to how I was before but at the moment I feel like a shell of my former self.

Right would you all like a laugh?? Of course you would. I went to see my gp today about something non mc related but he ended up asking me about my mc's. He was actually very sympathetic & helpful but said the most mind bendingly stupid thing - he said "Look, just relax & really do yourself favour, don't even think about testing until you have two missed periods, you'll save yourself a lot of heartache." Two..... TWO is he freaking crazy?????

mermaidspurse · 14/07/2009 19:57

I might have to put an extension on the greenhouse then and foot spas I think we need those.

If anyone can make terrys work it will be you vjay you can get those really good liners now and pads to put in as well. But basically you just need loads of buckets and a tonne of bicarb

Joolsiam · 14/07/2009 19:58

Are you lot psychic !!

I was going to write in my last post that I am testing tomorrow, then deleted it as I thought I'd be better off keeping quiet Why, I don't know

Nausea returned with a vengeance early evening, I'm REALLY dizzy if I get up too quick and things are starting to smell odd. In theory, tomorrow is the first day that a First Response could pick up HCG, so will give it a go as I'm working from home.

Agree with all the comments about the subsequent MC's not being such a shock to the system - my first CP didn't really register, other than to make me determind to really TTC. The second one was the single most devastating thing that ever happened to me and the last one - I hadn't even accepted it as a pregnancy, hadn't got attached and it was a lot easier to move on from.

I wonder what feelings tomorrow will bring Symptoms are stronger than they ever were before the last mc and the nausea I've had today is as strong now as it was at 7 weeks with the previous one

VJaybigpants · 14/07/2009 20:03

Fingers are firmly crossed for you tomorrow jools
mermaid I will do my best and that's all I can do. I do have a bucket that someone gave to me, unused, so that's something. I really need to get organised. I got my bag down on Sunday to start packing, so far I've put my slippers in, do you think that will be enough?

mermaidspurse · 14/07/2009 20:04

jools you are turning me into a nervous wreck so god only knows how you feel Yopu had better get on here pretty sharpish in the morning or you will be able to hear me bellowing test all the way to your house.

mls lol at your dr

VJaybigpants · 14/07/2009 20:07

mls your doctor makes a lot of sense, but as if that's ever going to happen, wait 2 weeks , only a male could suggest such a thing

VJaybigpants · 14/07/2009 20:07

2 months even! I'm tired

MummyLovesSadie · 14/07/2009 20:08

Mermaid can we have one of those massage chair thingies in your greenhouse too please?

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