Just MC and ready to try again? Pack your cake, wine and tightie whities and join us for more ranting, weeping and most of all, laughing. All welcome (Part2)

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Nice clean thread for us - may there be many a BFP on here

Wonderful news LadyBee. Massive congratulations.

I am impatiently in the 2WW, not sure about chances this month but must stay positive. It'll happen eventually.

Morning morning x

ladybee - any news, m'dear? Same goes for you digi and lucy?

BTW - our 'villa mates' on holiday will be my parents, and my sister & b-i-l so I hope they won't be doing any 'awwwww-ing' if me and DH disappear...

Oh, and day 8 this morning. Got up. Had a wee. Switched the CBFM on and the bastard thing asked me for a stick, despite only ever asking me for the first one on Day 9 previously. Obviously my bladder was empty. What a way to start the new 'week of fun'

Hope you all have good days xxx

SCREAM ladybee - what a cross-post and a half that was! Congratulations honey. Aces news all round. x

Congrats LadyBee fantastic news. Doing a little skip for you

Hairy good luck with the tests today

Viv have a busy holiday

digital sorry you're in a limbo at the moment, it's so frustrating.

Sorry for you Lucy

Hi to everyone else, got masses to do today so trying to be good and not faff about on MN for too long

Yayayay ladybee! Have a little cry if you want to.

woot woot ladybee have been just about managing to keep up readin with not much time to write but that is defo worthy of a big shout

viv hope you are having good time bless your DH for conserving his little swimmers, thats dedication for you.

Well I am now beginning to be abit frustrated about not TTC, third cycle now am on CD11 and the temptation to chance my luck and say f*ck it on CD15 is quite high! If I arrive at new job 6 weeks prego not the end of the world - and thats assuming I concieve right away which I probably won't but holy cow what if I did .... - I guess I can wait one more cycle - that will be 3 post ERPC and at least then if I get pg next cycle I will have started work at the new company before I would know. Am guessing once we start trying it could take a couple of months but scared of sods law. Then there is the whole house move and high stress levels to contend with, and having had 3 mc's could easily have 4 ..... gah, bah, why is it all so complicated

is it obvious I am a control freak!!

freezing how you doing babe

Congrats Ladybee! how exciting.

DP has a cold, but I have informed him that this will not exempt him from SWI duties this evening

Urgh, having a massive internal debate about whether to keep DS in childcare. Anyone with opinions on whether children are better off at home or in childcare please go and offer them here and help me decide.

congrats ladybee that's wonderful news

Am feeling really depressed. We worked soooo hard to catch the egg this time round. And now my body is refusing to have a period. 'Hello? Let go! There's no baby in there, time to have a clean out!'

Have ordered a PCOS book - will also book some expensive acupuncture. I'm sick to death of 8 week cycles.

Hurrah ladybee!!! welcome to the rollercoaster!!! I thought ttc was bad but being pg again is a whole other bag of fun! Wishing you (and me) a quiet 9 months x

Fab news Ladybee!

Ah Cheepz feel for you so tough waiting, know exactly how you feel but be strong! I was so tempted while still on antibiotics and had my dressing on (attractive). Common sense prevailed thank god. It will fly especially with the move and new job. Hang in there chicken!!!!!!

Hopefully just read your other post. Moi aussi a childminder with x2 20 month old boys. Maybe drop one of his days? Or perhaps he could just go in the morning? Still gives you a little break and keeps a little of the routine for DS. I quit working in law having just qualified to earn literally fuck all so I could spend every waking minute watching DD1 grow up and it was worth the MASSIVE pay cut. I have LOVED being at home (and being a childminder) but I needed to work too or I would go out of my brian with boredom. He will have plenty of time to be social once he turns 3 and gets a free nursery place Your childminder will understand If you can still do your job too it will give you something other than just being a mum which is fab but will avoid mush brian.

Stay positive Muser for a positive

Hi Lucy freezing Viv!!

Hang in there digi

Amazing news Ladybee - fantastic!

Afternoon everyone am back from cyprus and am just catching up on the action. Firstly big congrats to ladybee - well done you. Empty I hope you are feeling a bit better and using your rage to a positive effect ie. I WILL damn well get pregnant x.
Hairy hope all the tests go well today, and your levels have dropped.

Hello to everyone else, and esp those in the 2 WW.

I decided in my wisdom not to take to OPK with me on the hen weekend as I thought it would just stress me out as nothing seems to be happening, so I left them at home. All I did was stress that I had left them at home and now have no idea if I ever going to ovulate again!I POAS this morning as soon as I got in and no surge, and just to depress myself further a also had a bfn too( am not even at the end of 2 WW) I am slowly torturing myself, and am going to invest in a CBFM. Good news is that DP is back from germany this weekend and for the next 6 - loads of SWI coming up!!Scuse me whilst I go off internet shopping, CBFM here I come xx

Quick update from me - had my Day 2 FSH blood test results back this afternoon and everything is absolutely as normal as normal can be.

Hurrah.

Am v relieved, obv, but also stamping my feet like a toddler as this means there is no discernable reason at all why I'm not getting upduffed. Need to speak to the docs tomorrow to see what potential next steps may be, but for now, it's a bit of a weight off my mind.

xxx

Hi Ladies, big congrats to ladybee woohoo

Nothing to report, back to swi for me. See a friend at work yesterday who's just had her 12 wk scan for some reason it really hit me.

I felt happy but sad at the same time. I know she wasn't being smug but something inside me wanted to screem that should be me.

Onwards and upwards! literally

Hope your all keeping well x

Hello Viv... just wondering how long your DH has been 'preserving his supplies'... only I read that a couple of days abstinence can indeed build up supplies, but longer than that is a bad thing (one reason why the every other day SWI strategy is generally recommended), don't recall the exact science, but essentially, the supplies get a bit stale...

As for the top tips for holiday... we managed to escape from 2 year old DS and teenage DSD on the first afternoon as we were all exhausted from the journey and needed a nap... no funny looks from DSD later either, so we must have succeeded in our attempts to be quiet .

Good news on the blood tests -- I find just the confidence of knowing all in working order can help. Stops me worrying.

Waves to all

ladybee how wonderful BIG congrats to you

viv well, that's good news in itself, about your hormones being normal - hang in there, glad you're seeing docs again to have more 'investigations'.

welcome back Battery (((Digi))) (do you do hugs on mumsnet?)

In my news, THANK YOU GOD (if you are there) my hcg is down to 56 which is an almost 50% drop!

I had another thorough exam today, and they think my horrendous wind and pain when 'opening my bowels' (sorry if you're squeamish) is just a side effect from methopoison. Everything looks and feels normal.

No more bloods til Monday

I had acupuncture and it was very relaxing

and yesterday my sis officially announced that she's 13 weeks pg (following IVF) which was lovely (my sis is my best friend and oracle on fertility/reproduction/fannys/conception) - she's been through a hard time, and I'm so so so SO pleased for her and her hubby

Hi Alba lovely. How are you doing?

Funny you should say that - I said EXACTLY the same thing to DH! I told him we shouldn't go too long as he'll get stale - to which he just laughed and took it as a small dent to his pride...

Seriously though - after a week or so of abstaining, we'll be doing the 'every other day' thing. Tomorrow's CD9 so we'll start then, but I fully don't expect to ov until day 14 or 15 so we should be fine.

Onwards and upwards indeed...

xxx

ooh more cross-posting

linda - I believe Amazon to be the cheapest for CBFM, but I was impatient when I got mine so took the financial hit at Boots. Daft really as I could have got it cheaper online, but I wanted to get cracking.

And lovely to hear from you hairy - what fab news about both your hcg levels and your sister. One of my colleagues is undergoing her third round of IVF and (I assume) should be getting close to finding out whether it's worked. I really feel for her, and really hope it works for her this time.

Ladybee congratulations!!!! Fantastic news.

Hello again Lindalinda nice to see you. I spent ages looking for your stray apostrophe before I spotted it. I always do that when people correct typos.

Congrats Ladybee and hairy for your climbing and falling hcg levels respectively.

I am mid SWI phase and I also go for the every other day strategy. Like Linda I also don't move too soon afterwards, and make use of wads of tissue, but I was worrying the other night about whether or not I was "wicking" it all away, if you see what I mean? There's no alternative though, is there... can't leave it to just go wherever it wants. And why does so much come straight back out? Has it no sense of direction at all? While I'm on this rather bizarre topic, I will also pass on from my research that you should avoid pelvic floor exercises post-SWI, as this can squeeze spermies out of the cervix. Apparently.

I finished the thread!

I'm a thread killer!

I'll start the next one too.

You didn't kill the thread, but I'm going to. Last post!

Just wanted to say don't worry about sperm coming out after SWI, enough of it goes up to work.