30s TTC - More Gin Than George BESH

[Scorpette]

Come on in ladies, the bar is fully stocked with Advocaat, Bailey's and novelty Xmas drinkies and the slaves are wearing Ann Summer 'Santa's Hat' posing pouches. Have also festooned the place with plenty of festive tat and lots of v un-eco and tacky Xmas lights and shit because I know we all love getting Xmassy dead early. There's a fireplace so you can send your wish list to Santa up the chimbley, platters of wooden spoons and coconuts on the mantlepiece and 'Mulled Wine' scented candles lighting up The Pit of Despair. Make yourselves at home!

oh btw, what happens when you take a clear blue digital test and you are not pregnant is that it says 'NOT PREGNANT, MORON'. It's not actually that great.

Clear Blue Digital tests are evil. I took one and realised it was horrific seeing the NO YOU'RE NOT PREGNANT MORON message so hid the other one and vowed to only use it if something else had come back positive. My first test was a good old First Response.

Docs appointment booked for 4.40pm tomorrow. Wheeeeee.

So, second place to Muser, we have one more updiffment place left on this thread, can I bags it? Or should we all just hurry up and fill the thread so another 3 people get a go?

Scorps I have had exactly the same as you this month, loads of FFJ and then suddenly it all disappeared yesterday, at CD13. We are on the same day, I think? Droid due xmas day.

Hey muser brilliant news!! Sounds really good!

My suggestion is, if you've the time, go to A&E or one of those magic testing centres (EVA or something - or is that a type of glue?). Tell them that you're pregnant (don't tell them you didn't know), and that you're bleeding, and they should scan you. You could say you're about 6 weeks pregnant.

This is what I did on the weekend, and they treat it really seriously at A&E (ie as full on emergency) as they were checking it wasn't ectopic and I wasn't about to bleed to death in the waiting room. They couldn't scan me as it was out of hours so try going in office hours. I had to wait until yesterday to get a scan, as they established it wasn't an emergency in the hospital.

Coz of my random and ongoing bleeds I was really reassured to find that the bleeding wasn't due to the baby, and s/he's doing just fine. And you will then know what is going on, and can either prepare yourself, or relax.

Good luck. And congratulations .

When I say don't tell them you didn't know, I mean don't tell them about random bleeds. I'd say you are bleeding today (or were this morning, even if its stopped), sob and stress and if you have any pain or discomfort, mention that.

Or, go to the docs tomorrow and see what they say

Thanks for the tips. It'll have to be docs tomorrow as I have no time. Spotting seems to have stopped anyway. Will they really scan me so early? Can you see anything?

Congrats Muser

They do do 5-week scans Muser - might be of the dildo-cam variety though!

I'm happy to join in with the naked dancing but I need to hold on to my tits because they hurt when the move and they're heavy enough to break someone's arm. They're as vicious as a swan these days.

Muser EPU is what you need. Early Pregnancy Unit - isn't the one in London at St. Georges? According to cunty, you walk in and say "scan this bitch".

Ahh - EPU. How many times have I been told that. [hits own forehead]. I've obviously been sniffing too much EVA while doing random craft stuff with LC.

ski with you on the boobs. I walked back from the cafe across the road with my lunch, and just walking Really Hurt, so new bra shopping it is, tomorrow.

Good luck muser - really chuffed for you!

Right then (rubs hands together). Who's next?

I went to the emergency gynae clinic at St Thomas', lovely nurses there. Nurse agreed it's all a bit odd. She took blood, they'll test my hormone level and if it's high enough scan me. If not I go back Sunday to give more blood. Then they can see which way my hormones are going. So I should have an idea next week what's happening.

Can I just ask those of you have had a mc what your first period after it was like if you can remember? I can't really remember back 2 years to my last, but I have a vague feeling that I had a normal period but then had weird non-period time spotting that cycle. But memories are vague.

Anyway my reason for asking is the droid has already departed, after 3 and a half days.

ooh Muser, fingers crossed it sticks!

Claire Next period was totally normal and bang on time.

Right gals... Gavin & Stacey - it was all fun & games and laugh a minute until the last 30 seconds when Stacey dropped her bombshell. What do we (the collective BESH) think? I couldn't decide whether to jaw-drop or do a cat's bum mouth!

loon it was 35 days to my first period (cycle was 29 days) then it was a shorter very red blood period, so think first cycle was annuovulatory. Then it went down to a 31 day cycle for about 4 months, eventually it got back to 29. Not sure if that helps. It does seem to be related to how far along you were before it happened, from reading about people's experiences. Mine was at just over 9 weeks. I think if it was at 6 weeks I would have been back to normal quicker.

Ski, I'm afriad my first thought about G&S was 'Meh, she's still dead young, she's got decades to get it sorted'. Aged babyfail has made me a cow... okay, even more of a cow than I used to be.

Another I am more of now is a spotbeast I used to have lovely skin that I was always being complimented on (which was smugly-fab after being a spotbeast up to my early 30s) but ever since TTC, I keep getting angry red scarring lumps. Currently, I have 2 matching symmetrical red monsters on the diagonal bits betwixt nose and outer mouth. It's either stress or some of the supplements I'm taking to help boost fertility/regulate cycle are affecting my skin.

This sounds so trivial, but I already have wonky teeth, glasses and frizzy greying hair (and am a bit overweight) - I can't handle any further uglification. On the plus side am OVing and have been receiving 'deposits' more frequently (inspired by Ski saying her and Iggy diffed after a month of ultra-sex. Not together, I mean). Not quite ultra-sex but hopefully still enough.

Bessie, you can be my 2WOOFL pal this month And that goes for others who are Oving right now.

Muser, my fingers are crossed for you

afriad? Well done me

Scorps Hmmn, I will see what the others say but we're not allowed to give away too much plot because Cosmosis videoed it and hasn't seen yet so is reading with her hands over her eyes!

I suppose it could be the supplements. I have always had these chin spots - well, from age 20 onwards. It's just supposed to be progesterone isn't it? Which is what we need...

As for your looks my love it sounds as though you're terribly down because glasses does not equal ugly in anybody's book! Glasses are not physically a part of you... unless you're one of those weird American people whose appliances (i.e., toilet/sofa) weld themselves to the host's body? Frizzy hair - don't you mean natural waves as opposed to my lank flat-as-a-pancake curtains? Grey? pfff - I've seen your photos - you're not exactly Santa and your teeth are not of the variety where it's possible to eat an apple through a tennis racket. Stop looking at bloody Vogue and go for a browse in Lidl to remind yourself that you're the prettiest girl in Sherwood!

I am glad to hear you're getting lots of action - so clearly you can't be as ugly as your current perceptions would suggestion - either that or you need to get TYF to buy more paper bags as you're clearly getting through them at a rate of knots.

Ski, what's worrying is that there is an area called Sherwood near me and there is a Lidl there. Do all my restraining orders against you count for nought?

PS Thanks for the compliments. I'm off to flaunt my mingicity to the world now. See you all later!

haha seriously, these glossy bloody magazines are designed to destroy your soul - did Susie Orbach teach you nothing? When you need a confidence boost I always find a whirl around the "cheap" shops puts things in perspective.

G&S I thought 'yeah right how come she hasn't been driven mad in the last year then'

Then I wondered - how old is Neil, The Baby?

Claire I was more peturbed by the blatent dishonesty and trickery! I was amazed that the show went public with something I believe is far more common than is publicly acknowledged. I'm almost 100% sure I've read that very phrase "speeding things up" on this site...

Wasn't Neil born at the xmas special last year? "Climb on Dave"

Now I am intrigued. Damn TGO and his trips to da big smoke.

I may have to just watch it tonight while he's out anyway.

Oh and droid due today. no sign yet.

Will no POAS till Sunday at earliest though.

POAS! POAS! POAS! POAS! POAS! POAS! POAS! POAS! POAS! POAS!

Do it for us Cosmosis, won't somebody think of the BESHies?