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Mid 30s TTC - Simply The BESH... BESHer than all the rest!

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Scorpette · 16/09/2009 11:30

Come on in, ladies. I've had a widescreen telly installed and there's a big cupboard full of 80s teen movies if anyone's interested. New and more secure cages for our prey are being delivered soon. There's a big picture of a desert over the bar, a loudly ticking clock in the corner and bowls of raisins, currants and sultanas on every table; everything the discerning BESH could ask for...

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shesadiamond · 16/09/2009 15:06

VAG thanks for the raisins

"Its all about ME" Alert (I apologise in advance) but I really have to tell you all this Still spotting so another month of SWI on the agenda for me in September.

A girl i work with is coming back from maternity leave in a months time and she has been to visit with cute baybee. I tried to distract her and hide the little bundle of joy in my Mary Poppins style bag, but she was having none of it! Then she casually announces that she is up-diffed AGAIN. I nearly exploded with jealously and was actually speechless. How greedy?

However good news what do the Daily Heil know about anything, shes was trying for 10 years and is now 42. Fucking 42. Cuntycuntycunt cunt cunt

I blame hormones.

Its just not fair

skihorse · 16/09/2009 15:15

diamond Yesterday I found out that my colleague's wife is 32 weeks with #2 - despite having a BMI of 7. Grrrr. etc. 42 is well impressive though - she's probably lying and/or using donor eggs/buying a baby/stuffing a cushion up her jumper.

Btw - how does that work? maternity pay I mean in general? Because I'll get my 16 weeks here but I'll want another baybeeeee - how long do you have to spend at work before getting diffed again?

VAG You'd have been proud of me last night - my breeches were so tight the whole world could see my cervix.

diamond What do you mean by spotting? Was this R2D2/cervical erosion

MorrisZapp · 16/09/2009 16:06

An ice cold Peroni please, David. I'm just going to put a vase of Donnie Darko style gladioli on this side table - they're too scary to leave in my living room, and I'm suffering from nightmares.

Cosmosis · 16/09/2009 16:09

Oooh Peroni what a nice idea, that will get me well warmed up for Itlee next week.

So, 2 days left after today. I've emailed all my friends to let them know to use my home email from now on, I have sent to my home email anything I want to keep, I have transferred all my phone contacts to my crappy new payg phone (stop gap till I get new work phone), just need to text everyone my new number. Um, anything else? Shall I steal some pens and stamps? Anyone want a bulk shipment of post it notes??

CurlyCasper · 16/09/2009 17:21

HELP! anyone know anything about sharp pains "pulling" from under your bellybutton? It's really sore right now, especially if i sit/stand up straight... symptom or other illness?

Aerie · 16/09/2009 17:38

Huh? Did somebody mention Ben Goldacre? Love that man.

Afternoon BESHes! Been travelling around a bit and taking a break from 'tinternet, but I'm back now, and all caught up.

Nowt to report here on the baybee front. First month of SWI = baby fail. Second month of SWI and then some (seriously we were at it like rabbits all month long) = baby fail, with the added bonus if R2D2 arriving 4 days early on Friday . I am never, ever, early, so my body has decided now that I'm SWI to start pissing about on me. 'tis the way of things I guess. Either that or it was the combination of wearing white knickers and the fact that I was going camping at the weekend that brought it on. Arse.

Anyway, onto month 3 for me and I've decided to start charting to check that I am actually ovulating (ha ha let's see long that lasts). I went to the see my GP last month for my annual smear test and told her of my SWI (well not literally, I spared her the gory details). She sent me off to have my rubella antibody titre checked and iron ad glucose levels and all that stuff. Anyway, she told me to relax, enjoy having lots of sex with my DH and to go back and see her in January if I'm not updiffed by then. January = 6 months of SWI and BOD.

Blah blah blah, that's all the factual actual TTC stuff dealt with, David, make mine a whiskey sour, its been that kind of a day.

Aerie · 16/09/2009 17:39

P.S. Lyra

You're SWI !!!!!! You're SWI !!!!!!!! You're SWI !!!!!!!!!!!!

Bessie123 · 16/09/2009 17:43

curly caspar - are your trousers too tight?

CurlyCasper · 16/09/2009 17:47

nooooo bessie. They're my fat day trousers so very comfy.

Pain has moved to a few inches directly below belly button. Just walked and peed and both made it worse. Not cystitis or ought like that cause I've been struck by (and even hospitalised) by it all in the past and this feels different. ouch. need pain-numbing booze

Bessie123 · 16/09/2009 17:48

Implantation pains [hopeful]?

MorrisZapp · 16/09/2009 17:56

I was at gyno recently for polyp removal (did you catch that, David?) and told him in passing about SWI, he just smiled, referred to me as a 'young lady' despite knowing my dob, and told me I'd probably be updiffed by Xmas.

He said if no joy by January then to see gp for referral but he was v laid back about it.

Then told me to keep drinking as this would help me to get pg, but be absolutely sure to take folic acid.

CurlyCasper · 16/09/2009 17:58

I hope so bess! morris quite nice when "young lady* stops being a patronising insult and becomes a delightful compliment.

CurlyCasper · 16/09/2009 17:59

p.s. beautiful doors cosmo and of course, we now know where your MN name comes from

Aerie · 16/09/2009 18:03

Hello Curly ! And all other newbies!

....you've probably all posted more then I have though

Oi David, better make it 2 more, one for me and a medicinal one for Curly. Pulling pains sound intriguing when is R2D2 due to arrive?

CurlyCasper · 16/09/2009 18:12

Ah, the R2 saga...

Don't have a usual cycle length. last month 28 days, month before 35, month before was that first, random post-pill bleed. Day 34 now and now sign of the droid. Thought it was coming a week ago with cramps and PMT etc, but no. Multiple negative tests. But now, we have this new, potential symptom (jusy been googling. My self-diagnosis is either implantation or appendicitis )

But, as I have the biggest day of my working year coming up on Friday, followed by a weekend away (posh hotel, then camping ) and a week off work, there's a very good chance R2 will show. Perhaps I should be damned with it all and just wear my best knickers on Friday too?!

CurlyCasper · 16/09/2009 18:13

suppose I should actually leave the office and MN at home... drinks on me later

RunLyraRun · 16/09/2009 19:08

Aerie Eeeeeeeekkkkkk! Am SWI. Only once though. CD12 so I'd better do it again. Eeeeekkkkk. As predicted, I was/am totally bricking it. Missed you! Kept asking after you Sorry nothing has happened as yet, do you feel slightly anticlimatic?

Your GP sounds cool, I had to ask mine to do my rubella, and no-one mentioned iron/glucose. Wonder if there is a list of things we and/or docs should be doing at this stage, other than a) take folic acid, b) steady on the double vodka and red bull. What's with the annual smears though?

Caspar - trapped wind, perchance?

CurlyCasper · 16/09/2009 19:26

nope lyra I'm all too familiar with that one too. This feels "attached" to my skin, and is worse on stretching.

aerie so you've got the joys of annual smears too. I had abnormal result after abormal for years. Only came off six-monthlies last year after having had pre-cancerous cells cheese wired out (sorry TMI [ouch])

Ponymum · 16/09/2009 20:09

curly I had something which sounds similar to you. I had tugging in my tummy and excrutiating double-over pains. My GP sent me to hospital with suspected appendicitis but the the blood tests didn't show any infection, as it should have done. But my symptoms were so bad they decided to operate anyway, and took out my appendix. The thing was, it wasn't appendicitis, it was a very weird condition which I will call "stuck tummy bits" as they had no name for it. The surgeon came to see me after the operation with about 10 other white coats, and he said "You were the case of the day. We have never seen this before." My appendix was stuck to a fatty deposit on the outside of my bowel. They unstuck everything when they took the appendix out. It was pretty horrible at the time but it is all fixed now. I didn't want to mention it earlier as it is obviously NOT a common thing and I didn't want to alarm you, but be your own judge. As I say, very rare.

CurlyCasper · 16/09/2009 20:19

pony well, I have been getting fatter! Not exactly doubled over in pain, so no docs as yet

Being serious - sorry to hear you went through that. I've been whipped in to hospital with an unexplained illess before and I can sympathise to the extent that it's incredibly unnerving when the supposed experts don't know what's going on.

As you can tell from my last few posts, I tend to get just about anything going - sicky girl!

Let's cure that with a drink.

skihorse · 16/09/2009 20:50

Pony I can't believe you've managed to go one further than babyfail and accuse poor Casper of fat appendix!

Casper It's all sounding very promising - are you up to 100 quid on piss sticks yet this month? (OPKs and HPTs)

I have a new & shiny symptom for you all. Just back from horseriding and felt very "damp" in the pants region. Giant, stringy yellow mucus blob.

*My string can't be sex related because jailbait is still out of the country and I'm no shllllaaag (haven't got time to shag around).

I'm ahem "working from home" tomorrow so I'm free for a G&T.

Ponymum · 16/09/2009 21:10

Yes, I think the reason it was so rare is that noboday else has as fat a tummy as I do! Of course, Casper is stick-thin so in no way could be afflicted. So sorry for the suggestion.

CurlyCasper · 16/09/2009 21:15

ski at fat appendix. My dad did look at my fat gut at the weekend and jokingly ask when I'm due! Parents know of TTC plans, so he knew fine well I'm not diffed, just rapidly gaining wait each time they see me.

sounding good for you too then - cause I can match you on the pants damp with stringy cum-like goo stakes! Been like that for about a week, instead of pre period dry. Thought not much of it, but seeing as you brought it up...

Nah not spent a ton yet, ebay cheapies kept the costs down. Probably at about £25-30 quid after lastest purchase of four superdrug own piss sticks... (they've got loads on deals on PG tests by the way UK-based Beshies)

Where are you with POAS at the moment?
Enjoy tomorrow - jealous cause my days get worse till friday's over and I get a week off.

Not having the best of evenings here - stuck at home alone with a pukey dog and inability (lack of focus) to plan for camping trip

CurlyCasper · 16/09/2009 21:17

oops x-post cause I spent to long typing. wish I was still stick-thin pony! Pukey dog now trying at every turn to escape upstairs into my bed.

Scorpette · 17/09/2009 00:23

BLOODY HELL - literally! Me and TYF did the dirty a few hours ago; not the world's most boisterous shag but v. nice, lots of cuddles and silly talk after, etc. Anyway, about half an hour ago, we were just getting ready for bed and we noticed there were massive drying blood stains on his side of the bed! He doesn't have any cuts, burst spots, whatever, anywhere, and is right where his privates would be when laid on his side. He's found that his foreskin retracts back quite a lot during/after sex now we're not using condoms and it hurts a little bit afterwards to pull it back into place, but he's never worried about it. Anyway, he was dog-tired and refused to check his penis and wouldn't let me look (he's v private and otherwise annoyingly prudish outside of sexy shenanigans). He said his cock had stung slightly for a few mins after sex, but nothing weird and he had a shower before bed and it didn't hurt him when he washed it (although he had forgotten the brief pain and was on autopilot when washing, so wasn't looking out for anything). Am quite worried now that he's ripped his frenulum or something - I know him well enough to know that if it has, he will be scared to have sex for ever ages, but wouldn't see a Dr or talk about it with me. Am worried of course that it will hurt him and as well as not wanting it to hurt, poor thing, am scared it'll stop him from coming - and Ov is nigh! Cannot believe that he might be out of action just when I'm about to get my egg on! What if he needs @ a week to heal - in other words, during my most fertile time? Also annoyed he refuses to even look at it - if I had bled profusely from my genitalia for the first time, I wouldn't be able to just drift off happily to sleep!

Am worried, cos years ago, I had a boyfriend who had totally ripped his frenulum as a teen and unprotected sex hurt him so much he could only perform wearing a condom and in certain positions and quite gently. But he said he was in agony for days when it happened, so I dunno what's going on with T poor YF, as it's not really hurt him. I might've been a bit dry (used some preseed but on outside only), but how much damage could that do, exactly?!

Sorry for a long, self-absorbed crazylady rant. It's just that he is so shy and soooo pointlessly avoidant of anything that makes him feel even the slightest bit uncomfortable that I know he is perfectly capable of totally refusing to SWI because of this. And I don't mean this month, I mean for good.

Anyway, too tired now, must go to bed. I really hope it wasn't anything major. And above all, I hope we'll be able to SWI when I'm OVing. Heartless or pragmatic - YOU decide!

PS The blood also got onto my v swanky and expensive Habitat duvet cover, which I've had for years and never got so much as a pinprick of blood on, even during my heaviest R2D2s, so grrrr

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