Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Conception

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.

30s TTC The Loch BESH Monsters

1000 replies

CurlyCasper · 22/10/2009 12:50

Welcome along women of a certain age. The new palace has a post modern water feature, spouting forth gin from a serious of suspicious looking humps...

OP posts:
PollyPoo · 04/11/2009 23:13

Evening slaaags. Hows it hanging my lovelies?

Just wondering, seeing as I'm on day 14 and not OV'd yet - who gets OV symptoms? Is there anyway I can spot when it is imminent?

I'm on my 2nd month of using a persona, and before that used countless opk's, so I've never had to symptom spot before. But the persona tests are about to run out (you get 8 per month and I've got one left for this month), so I'm wondering how I will know if I have OV'd late/not at all.

Any ideas? Cheers me dears.

PollyPoo · 04/11/2009 23:16

Curly maybe you is having implantation pains?!

longwee · 05/11/2009 06:44

Morning laydeez

Well I have been defeated - the droid got me this morning. Honestly, I was really a bit - I was sure something was going on. Well that'll teach me to be 'sure' (yeah right, until next month...) I'm not so much pissed off at the babyfail as the fact that my body is totally fucking with me. How dare it give me proper symptoms and everyfink and then have the droid turn up five days late with not so much as a by-your-leave. Huh.

However it's clearly my own fault as last night I booked us in for camping this weekend, so I guess imminent droid appearance was inevitable... I didn't think it would count tho as it's not proper camping - it's a big safari tent with a proper bed and an ensuite

Ah well. ...

idealcamel · 05/11/2009 08:19

WeeWee, we all thought you were diffed as well. Let this be a lesson to you, young lady. NO TENTS.

Poo. That Persona device is annoying; it often can't tell if you've ovulated or not until it's learned your cycle off by heart. Earlier in this process, I knew I'd laid an egg because I'd have mid-cycle spotting, but that has departed.

CurlyCasper · 05/11/2009 08:29

Shit - sorry longwee, I too was convinced for you. NO CAMPING - however luxurious!

(Of course, I reckon the fact that I'm staying in a swanky hotel this weekend will also bring doom...)

Meanwhile, I think the baton has to go to cosmo, for her leg in the 2WOOFL race is ahead of mine, and she is gaining much more momentum...

OP posts:
PollyPoo · 05/11/2009 08:33

WeeWee so sorry about the droid. I was sure you were diffed I know what you mean about your body fucking with you - I had the same a few months back, all the symptoms and droid was late. I had really started to think 'yay, this is it!'. I POAS, and literally as I did it, the droid arrived - how about that for timing. Gar...

Camel the persona thing is annoying me in that all tests are used by day 15, but what if you Ov late? (My cycles are not exactly like clockwork) Maybe we should just keep SWI, just in case. I've got a funny 'heavy' womb feeling, but not the kind of 'I'm about to bleed like a stuck pig' feeling. Does that make sense? I'm hoping it means my womb is engorged and welcoming ready for little egg that I'm about to lay... [deluded emotion]

How is everyone else today?

givecarrotsachance · 05/11/2009 09:12

Morning all.

longwee soooo sorry . And no, that kind of camping doesn't count . Even tho it did IYSWIM. Where are you going? I've not been on safari there (yet). Would love to. How are the rains BTW? I get updates from my relies in Kenya but is yours getting enough? Also, are you taking anti malarials? YOB and I considered moving to Moz for a year but I wouldn't want to go without them and wouldn't want to get pregnant with them. I think there's quite a lot where you are? What's the sitch with them and TTC?

I'm on about day 20 or 21, trying not to count. Temp still low, but new thermometer on order. Convinced, though, that I didn't ov so trying not to wish my life away to the next go.

Boobs still feeling a bit tingly but not as uncomfortable as just after the pretend ov signs. Otherwise I'm completely fine, just normal. Not really stressing unless I think about it too much.

poo This month I got severe abdo discomfort for about a day and a half, on the main day real tiredness and slight dizziness and nausea. This was just about the same time as an OPK+ so presumed it was an ov, but as temps didn't spike I don't know.

skihorse · 05/11/2009 09:25

I'm sorry for being a cross, crabby old lady - whomever it was who (Pollypoo) likened us to two squabbling sisters had I think, a valid point.

In addition to going off my nut here yesterday - I cried during an emotional TV programme; Taggart, and then screamed in pain when jailbait touched my nipple. Am I WOOFLing or simply entering senility? No Wombles yet - I think it's just gas - of which there is plenty.

There was a massive stand-up row at the stables last night too, complete with tears and threats to leave etc. Thankfully I can play the "me no understandee" language card but I was thankful for being able to hide behind my big horse. n.b., not a euphemism.

longwee · 05/11/2009 09:28

Carrots we're going to South Luangwa National Park, which is actually in Zambia but not too far away. Tis supposed to be v good so can't wait. We're self driving as well so I'm bloody terrified v excited

On the anti-malarials they can affect bone & teeth development later on, ie third trimester, so if I do get knocked up I'll stop taking them. Have been meaning to find out whether it's better not to be on any at all or use a different sort when you're preggers... (go on, set SS on me for not knowing...)

CurlyCasper · 05/11/2009 09:38

longwee one of my arthritis drugs is also used as an anti-malarial (hydroxychloroquine). I came off them all, but have heard of this one being reintroduced in pregnancy if the mum is really struggling with pain etc. It also makes your hair blonder!

Nice to see you back ski. OFL OFL OFL...

OP posts:
CUNextTuesday · 05/11/2009 09:40

Man alive, peace has broken out

Welcome back ski. Now just sit there quietly for a bit with this tanqueray and lime. That'll sort you right out.

skihorse · 05/11/2009 09:40

longwee I'm so sorry to hear of your babyfail. I too had high hopes for you this month - although conception outside the limits of the M25 is harder. As for going to Zambia... tsk!

As for the anti-malarials - isn't that why our colonial fathers drank so much G&T? The quinine in the tonic? You're in the right place!

Scorpette · 05/11/2009 09:48

WeeWee NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I really thought you'd won the prize this month. Mind you, I though I had too I know exactly how you are feeling as everyone's just witnessed my bumper crop of primo updiff symptoms only to have the droid piss on my chips (the imagery that conjures up is priceless). I've even been wondering if they were all in my head, but you can't imagine things like your breasts getting so huge that none of your bras fit properly and said breasts get big stilton veins all over them and other people comment on it (everyone kept asking me if I'd bought some some of wonderbra).

It's becoming clear now that even booking camping trips, however luxurious, equal babyfail. In fact, I'm now scared writing the very words c*ping and tnt. I think there is a horror film in all this about a baby-eating demon possessing camping equipment. BESHploitation - the new genre du jour

Poosmell, I get a lot of Ov signs (though not as strong as when younger, grrr): sometimes I get mittelschmerz, which are like period pains on one side (the eggy side - always the left with me), I have a lot more FJ, wet at first then egg-whitey and stretchy, I have more energy and I feel horny but often a bit sad, like 'I need a fuck but who'd touch me with a bargepole?'. You need to check your FJ - after wiping, have a look at the bog roll: is there a lot? If it looks sticky, get some on your fingers and see if it will stretch. If it will, then get SWIing!

I hope that's not patronising in the form of 'try using the foofoo hole'

ski

longwee · 05/11/2009 09:53

Actually one of the (lesser) reasons I was hoping to be diffed this month is that I got a mooncup while I was back and am not feeling the love. Now I don't mean to start the are they great/are they mingin debate again - I know we've done that a couple of times already - but how do you get the feckers out? I am coming out of the loo looking like I've slaughtered a pig. Tried the squeezing, turning etc to break the seal but it ain't no good...

Having said that I do think I might have a special sucky fanjo - it used to regularly rip the ends off condoms back in the day (hmm => should be good for sucking spermiez to the right place...)

iggypiggy · 05/11/2009 09:57

weewee that is bollocks about droidage

I have a sore froat

longwee · 05/11/2009 10:00

BTW, cheers all for the sympathy and the conviction that I should be diffed. Can I be pregnant by consensus?

Scorpette · 05/11/2009 10:02

WeeWee, couldn't your vortex-snatch just suck in a baby whole then?

I can only picture you as blood-prom Carrie now, screeching to your DH that he WILL give you a baybee...

Iggy hope your froat feels better soon (and no, it's not a symptom)

idealcamel · 05/11/2009 10:13

Just wrote a lengthy post and computer ate it.

In summary: mooncups. You have to be firm with them. I thought I was going to have a prolapse the first time I removed mine. If you push down (good labour practice) and squeeze at the same time it might work better?

Because I am having the same brain as scorp toda I made the Carrie and symptoms references in my lost post. So if she could just carry on posting for both of us, that would rule.

iggypiggy · 05/11/2009 10:14

Scrope I reckon I could find sore froat as symptom on internet

Anyway - I am NOT 2WOOFLing - NOT, I REPEAT.

I expect I has already mentioned that droid is due on what would be the ickleangelbaybee due date.

Hence thought was best to write this month off and not to try/ 2woolf etc.

iggypiggy · 05/11/2009 10:15

meant to say... ski there is nothing like a yard for of horsey women to cause a bitchfest - sounds like a shocker

iggypiggy · 05/11/2009 10:15

*full of

who knows what 'for of' would mean

Scorpette · 05/11/2009 10:23

Am off to work now, but just wanted to say: Gin, am thinking of you today

idealcamel · 05/11/2009 10:28

I have googled sore throat and early pregancy symptoms every month (I have a lot of sore throats).

I am ashamed. Please someone beat me up?

idealcamel · 05/11/2009 10:30

Today is Gin's Bad Day ?

Also sad, also thinking of you.

Though frankly, all this lesbian hugging action is starting to worry me.

Frejya · 05/11/2009 10:35

weewee i'm sorry re babyfail. I really thought you were updiffed. Here take a shot of tequila.
scorps I will let your voodoo baybee--doll- snuggle into my heaving bosom until the droid arrives, then I will stab it with knitting needles (is that allowed).
The 'contraption' aka CBFM is now unpacked and just there, looking at me, everytime I go to the loo. I have not read instructions yet, cos I am scared it may just tip me over the edge. I have NO symptoms today. None at all. My body is playing cruel evil tricks and I am not having it. It is now CD22 and I demand symptoms NOW.

PS. I have moved my tnt and any other cmping implements into my neighbours cellar just to be on the safe side.

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

This thread is not accepting new messages.