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EWCM? BBT? OPK? WTF?! We’re just not using contraception!

954 replies

frakkinaround · 23/02/2010 12:29

So a slightly lighter and less scary thread for those who are chucking away the pills and the condoms and hoping for the best!

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takethatlady · 25/05/2010 20:15

PS williamsmummy Boyzone schmoyzone ... we all know who the better band are

I have loved Mark Owen since I was 11 (including dragging DH to his solo gigs ) ... now he's a big fat cheat though, it's a bit hard to see him the same way. And Ronan, too! So much for the nice boys...

williamsmummy1986 · 26/05/2010 08:36

Alas, Ronan Keating is a big old love rat - not impressed by that at all. I've had all my teeny fantasies destroyed ;-)

Hate waiting to take a pregnancy test - it's boring!!

frakkit · 26/05/2010 12:03

Alas we have no garden so no al fresco bonking for us.

Just how many euphemisms are there? Avoiding the dreaded 'baby dancing' of course.

30andMerkin · 26/05/2010 12:07

The one that always made no sense to me was 'A bit of how's your father'

WHAAAAT??

bringbackwham · 26/05/2010 12:43

What about 'hide the sausage'!!

bringbackwham · 26/05/2010 14:05

(Can I just add that the term 'hide the sausage' gives me the creeps!)

vallinnapod · 26/05/2010 15:33

My personal 'fave' (in the loosest possible sense!) 'making the beast with two backs'

Horizontal tango?

Or as my best friend once referred to it as "shoe-fund time"

For the record 'Baby dancing' ...shudders

gormers · 26/05/2010 17:29

Getting jiggy with it! Na na na na na na na, na na na na na na! Gettig jiggy with it!
A euphemism for all us late '90s teenagers!! Even has it's own dance! Although it's not particularly arousing!....

Realised today that my new found relaxed attitude this month has meant that I've think I've accidentally missed the 'fertile' window. Oops! Guess that the 2 week wait won't be so fretful this month then! I'll just practise the JSing then! 90's Big Willie Style!

gormers · 26/05/2010 17:38

OH Lordy! Just re-read my last post and that is not quite what I intended!!!

'Big Willie Style' is with reference to Will Smith (singer of getting jiggy with it) and how he used to call himself that and refer to doing things with Big Willie Style!! It was not a direct reference to DH and his personal JS techniques!! Am I making it worse try to talk my way out of it?

Am blushing like a mad thing on the train now!

I take it all back; nothing wrong with rumpy pumpy'!! Never got me as virtual-Tongue-tied as this has! Oh dear!!

BrassicaBabe · 26/05/2010 18:32

Helloooo I'm back!

And with 10 days of shagging every single day under my belt I believe some kind of award is required

...Off to read thread to catch up with news.....

williamsmummy1986 · 26/05/2010 18:53

awards BrassicaBabe first place ribbon I think you have to be this months winner, 10 days is impressive :-) bet your other half was pleased ;-)

I agree vallinnapod Baby dancing just makes me shudder. There's something weird about that saying.

I like the term - shag! nice and simple ;-)

trixie123 · 26/05/2010 18:54

bloody hell well done brassicababe. After a short burst of enthusiasm last week me and DP have sunk back into the "we really should have some sex" malaise. Oh well, maybe DS won't mind being an only child..

PinkFondantFancy · 26/05/2010 18:55

Welcome back brassica did you have a fab time?? Congratulations on the volume of JSing achieved!!

StarflowerGirl · 26/05/2010 20:47

I can't stand the term "baby dancing" mostly because it reminds me of that awful dancing baby from Ally McBeal.

Like williamsmummy I prefer the term shag. My partner jokingly calls it "nubbins" as in "alright my luvver, fancy some nubbins do 'ee?". We live in the West Country, he's originally from London and he likes to take the mick!

I must say I thought he and I were up for the shagathon award but brassica has me beat by a country mile!

frakkit · 26/05/2010 20:51

Shag wins, hands down.

Brassica that is some serious action going on there - honeymoon baby?!

NewMrsCharles · 26/05/2010 21:38

Loving the good updates and sending support to those who need it. We are in the right place!

Well I have this week discovered true joy in the form of a tent from Aldi that cost under 20 quid and a hot weekend which resulted in some top shagging! Ticking all the boxes of alfresco but not cold, a nice change of scene, no work/tv/blackberry/xbox distractions and we might get caught!
Only 1 hours drive from home= need less to say that I will be watching the weather forecast with great intent on weekends when DH is off work for more adventures!

As far as am I or not I have no idea as still not had a period and no idea when im ovulating so if it was a good time or not I dont know but a good moral booster!

30andMerkin · 26/05/2010 21:54

Welcome back Brassica - now THAT's what I call a honeymoon! Did you have a truly splendid time?!

NewMrsCharles... tents seem to have the same effect on my DH too. Forgetting the fact that the last time was FREEZING cold and I was wearing Nora Batty thermals. Didn't seem to stop him though. Maybe I need to go camping....

ljg72 · 26/05/2010 22:26

30andmerkin and newmrscharles...you have made me smile again...thanks ladies xx

30andMerkin · 26/05/2010 22:30

Anyone else giggling stupidly at 'Big Willie Style...'

And humming the song...

No? Just me then.

takethatlady · 27/05/2010 08:16

gormers PMSL at 'Big Willie Style'! Ha ha ha!!! Shoe fund time is funny, but 'hide the sausage'!!! That's so disgusting! 'A squeeze and a squirt' anyone? On the theme of one of Big Willie's 90s rivals, 'bump and grind'?, or an earlier musical shag, 'making whoopee'?
'Dip the wick'?, 'four legged frolic', 'nookie'? All of these are just so awful!

Brassica you definitely get the shag award. I was going for ten days straight but DH and I had to sort out our finances on Monday and he's so useless with figures and I'm so impatient - we didn't argue but it's not exactly the kind of thing that gets you in the mood.

Yesterday after I had a bad day at work though he took me out for a pay day dinner and I got a bit tipsy and told him he had to have sex with me because I thought it was possibly a fertile day. He asked how I could know that and I made his hair stand on end by telling him about EWCM... Again, not exactly romantic, but he did as he was told once we got in.

30 and Charles - tents! I like your style! Had not thought of that one!

takethatlady · 27/05/2010 08:17

PS ljg hope you're going okay - glad to see 30 and MrsCharles made you smile

frakkit · 27/05/2010 08:37

takethat I'm impressed that didn't put your DH off entirely! Slippery slope though...don't want to tell them too much

ljg hope you're holding up okay.

I am so never going to be able to look at a tent the same way every again! Is there such a thing as a tent fetish?

takethatlady · 27/05/2010 08:42

Don't worry frakkit, I've told him there aren't many fertile days in the month and they're roughly in the middle several times before - when I said this yesterday, it was a total revelation to him. He's a goldfish where details like that are concerned!

loopeylu · 27/05/2010 10:33

Hola

Can I join your thread? It is about the only one I can relate to (not too many acronyms - thank the lord).

Quick question for you romping ladies - I am regular as clockwork (29 day cycle). This is the second month of ditching the condoms and getting jiggy with it (na na na na na na na, na na na na na na) at what I guess to be the critical times. The first month I made the big mistake of testing with First Response and got a very faint positive..then got a wierdly heavy period (joy of joys). A mate whose biology knowledge is streets ahead of mine announced i'd had a chemical pregnancy.
Now day 32, did a preg test on Tuesday and it was definitely negative. Still nothing has happened. I seem to have gone from uber regular to all over the place. grr.

Any ideas?

takethatlady · 27/05/2010 10:55

Loopeylu welcome! And do another test, I say! Until AF comes you're not out for the count, and it's been a couple of days so your HCG levels may be up...

Let us know what happens!