Charter's Anonymous

[LittleSilver]

I thought I'd start a thread for all of us who worship at the shrine of Toni Weschler, spend whole seconds analysing cervical mucus, slip over in the shower checking cervical position and spend two minutes every morning flicking their heads from side to side in a valiant attempt to stop a baby pulling the thermometer out of their mouths. Ladies, this thread is for all of us, may it see many many BFPs!

Yeah I've had a faint line but I think it was just an evapo... refuse to get any hope up at all on it since my body's played tricks before. If AF isn't here by the weekend (was expecting it about noon today) I'll buy something other than an el-interneto-cheapie but I'm sick of single handedly financing the UK peestick industry after 3+ years of it!

emptyshell This is all such a headf*ck isn't it? Not surprised you're fed up after 3 years. But really, the faint line thing def seems hopeful. I guess see if your temps are still up tomorrow.

Oh empty. Please don't feel too miserable; I threw a stick in the bin once then fished it out after 4 hours to re-check (yes, yes I know you're not meant to, but i've been known to rifle through bin bage just to check once more) and found the squintiest of squinty lines which turned into DD2 37 weeks later. Hang in there.

empty have you had faint lines before on a pregnancy test?

OK so the latest in the saga... I think my chart might be looking triphasic (www.fertilityfriend.com/home/2f2124) if it works.

Did a test this morning - FMU, interneto cheapo - there's a very very faint line that came up within the 5 minutes (I could only see it next to the window in daylight - but I don't have my specs on at the moment)... can't tell if it's got any colour to it at all since it's that faint.

Still no AF (was due yesterday) - hubby's telling me my period's late cos of stress but I knows I ovulated! Not sure what to think - obsessive Googling reveals the internet cheapies are known for hideously faint lines anyway - resisting the urge to go buy more tests - last time I was pregnant it was a faint line that eventually disappeared wtih the miscarriage so I'm somewhat reluctant to jump on the dream-wagon just yet.

Why can't you just get a blue tick on your bottom or something if yer upduffed?!

!!!! You have a line!!

I really hope this is it, Empty. I really do.

Your temps sound fantastic.

Rooting for you here x

(in between major panic attacks every 6 hours or so!)

Crossing everything, it sounds hopeful! From your chart it looks like you are only about 13DPO so lines will be faint at the moment anyway. Here's hoping....

empty this is looking good! Keep poas! (but not digis just yet!)

Yeah it's all so faint (although this one you can see just about without having to take it out into daylight and cross yer eyes and stand on one leg to see)... last time I never got beyond faint lines before they disappeared completely and I mc - trying to resist the lure of the digital.

It's so faint I can't tell if it's got any pink to it at all - but it came up within the 5 minutes so I guess it can't be an evap can it?!

A line is a line! A cautious whoo, hoo. Have you checked out the gallery of BFP's at FF - some of those are real squinters i can tell you.

I'm feeling a bit hmmph. After fannying around with line placement they have gone completely and my EWCM went the day before yesterday so unless temps shoot up tomorrow it looks like I'm not ovulatating. Which means am going to have to wean DS which I'm not sure am ready for - was hoping he would go off my milk when I got pg! (He's 2 by the way so I'm not being cruel and selfish)

www.fertilityfriend.com/home/2fee7f

empty That sounds positive. I have never managed to get even the faintest BFP in either of my pregnancies before the day AF was due. If this was a chemical pregnancy then I would have thought your temps would have shown proper drops by now, but they haven't and seem to be doing what they should do if its a BFP. (So nice to have charts to cross reference everything!) So if I were in your shoes I'd be feeling very hopeful. Fingers and toes crossed for you and echoing gaga's cautious woo hoo!! Hang in there .

Another utter squinter of a line at lunchtime - still don't dare tick the + box to turn my line green.

Reckon a digi would work this early? (AF was due yesterday) - working on the internet cheapies at the moment but the lines are so faint I don't quite trust them.

Do you know empty, I swear by Superdrug own brand, they're very reliable and cheap as well! You wouldn't be getting lots of faint lines consecutively if they were true evaps. Especially not with temps like yours. Face it. You're pregnant! Congratulations! (would maybe hold off on a digi til w/end, they're 25 miu and a neg would really knock you and could well be unreliable as well)

LadyGoneGaga I had a similar issue except I wasn't trying back then, but while bfing ds2 I didn't get my cycle back till he was 28 months. I am still feeding and it has been pretty regular which is good. He's 3 now.

It might start again if you wait a bit longer?

OK who put me onto the FF gallery of peesticks? That's about as compulsory and day-killing as the chart gallery can be :D

Well I've concluded I beat some of their complete squinters (seriously it's like those 3D magic eye pictures) - shall see what the temps hold tomorrow I guess, even though I'm trying to do the human swiss roll thing all night to keep them high and cheat fate!

Flight have had cycles back for about 8 months now. But I've been reading that you can have a phased return to fertility so you bleed without ovulating. And that some, not all but some, women have to stop bf completely to conceive. You can also have a luteal phase defect. Should know more after completing my first months chart I guess. I will try nightweaning first.

emptyshell Sorry, it's compulsive isn't it? Have you tried their quiz where you have to guess the ov date - there's 3 hours i'll never get back!

There's a QUIZ?!

This is what fertility issues have done to me - I'll spend hours analyzing the cervical secretions of complete strangers and now admiring their peed on pregnancy tests!!!

I used to be normal - honest! (OK so I'm a nutter who carries around an alien puppet in her handbag so normality is relative)

This way lies madness. Don't say I didn't warn you...
www.fertilityfriend.com/igame/

But the Alien puppet, why? An audit of my handbag reveals a small police car and a donkey.

I'm a primary supply teacher - said handbag currently also contains magnetic letters, whiteboard pens and an Acme Thunderer Whistle (the kind that's blow yer head off loud)!

Empty a cautious woohoo from Chez Orchid too! It does look good!!! (apart from the alien in your handbag )

LGG I gave up B'feeding six months ago and my cycles are still not right! I'm not sure, however, that it has anything to do with that, I actually think they have always been a bit wonky.

I'm now on CD25 and am now fairly certain I will OV tomorrow. The only prob is that I no longer have EWCM, so I think this cycle is a no-goer. As far as I can tell, CD26 is the latest I have ever OV'd. Does anyone know why you ovulate later in some cycles than in others? At what point do you reckon you should be concerned by variations (I OV between CD18 and CD26).

On the handbag audit front, I have a yellow train carriage and a drum stick (a real one, not the lolly!)

Hi ladies, empty I'm following all these line shenanigans very closely :-).

Well, I thought I'd ov'd on Friday but am not charting or using opks this month so can't be 100% but today I've had more ewcm and some boob tenderness GOOD! I hear you say but NO! dh has a SA tomorrow so we haven't had sex for 4 days! why oh why oh why is mother nature so damn cruel (and yet predictable?!)

we've got our proper fertility ap on Monday so hopefully I'll be pregnant by Xmas :-)

Orchid not sure but it's bloody irritating. My cycles have gone between 28 and 40 days in past 6 months. Grr. Think stress may be a factor and stop you ovving. The 40 day cycle followed 2 perfect 28's - I ran a marathon on day 14 - reckon that messed me up and delayed ov!

Are you ovulating though following stopping? If you ov now and SWI'd a couple days ago when you did have EWCM then can't the spermies be living inside you ready for you to lay them an egg? You might be ok.

empty any news on your latest?

empty your chart is still looking really good!

Another line this morning, still faint so not getting hopes up - gonna go into town and pick up a decenter test (I cracked before the weekend) and detour via the cheesecake shop :D

Orchid I never ever ever got EWCM at all until I dropped so much weight it suddenly seems to have kicked my body up the backside and now I seem to get tonnes of it (I'm well proud of it after not having it for years) - think stress, hormones and, well, pretty much everything can make your body chuck a wobbler and decide it's taking its egg and going home and not ovulate you one month.... basically - it's flipping pants compared to blokes who just carpet bomb a bajillion spermys in the hope that one actually gets the job done properly, then fart, roll over and go to sleep.

LadyGoneGaGa I used to have perfect 28 day cycles (pre-miscarriage, they've not quite got completley un-screwey since then) and then occasionally completely at random they'd just decide to do something like that and I'd go 30,40 days without AF - just seemed to be once or twice a year they'd throw a spanner in the works.