Any ideas on how to make time fly ?

Anyone else in the dreaded 2ww and want to join me? I'm only 4dpo and I'm going crazy already!!

I really want a BFP this month, not another BFN!!! It's been way too long!! :(

Why not join in on the TTC Buddies threads....

Haha how funny I was having this discussion with Dh last night.

We wait SO long for that :bfp:, then you begin a whole other waiting game!

It never ends :(

LOL so true Danni! It's a wait for the next scan, then a wait to feel movement then a wait for birth. After that it's a wait for the first smile etc etc..... It's a never ending waiting journey in the life of a mum :D

At least then you're waiting for something different each time... a smile, a word, etc...

It gets so hard when you wait for the same thing, month after month!

I just want to move on to the next waiting stage.....

I am with you there Samrus. I am also 4DPO today. FF says 5 but I am pretty positive it is 4DPO. The waiting is hard. Wouldn't it be wonderful if you knew instantly if you were PG or not. I am :pray: that we both get a BFP this month. Sending lots of :bluedust: and :stickyvibesboy: :stickyvibesgirl: around for us. Kepp me posted on how you go.

Hi Ktgirl,

It would be wonderful if we knew instantly if we were pregnant!! What a great thought! Instead the reality is that the symptoms of pg are exactly the same as AF - what a cruel thing to do to us!

I hope we both get BFP's this month!! GL in your 2ww... at least it's almost the weekend - they go so quickly!

Have a great weekend.

have you checked out the TWW activity list? here :)

Hi Samrus. How are you going. Hanging in there for a little while longer I hope. Are you temping at all? I find that temping helps me because I know if I am going to get AF a couple of days before she actually arives that way it gives you a couple of days to get over the fact that you are not pregnant again and move on.

Keeping my fingers crossed for both of us.:p

Hello, I can relate to the need for time to fly - here are my suggestions:

Read a really really good book
Get the 7 movies for $10 deal at the video store - all soppy ones - and watch as many back to back as you can handle
Clean out the cupboards
Go on an op shop tour - visit all the ones you know about
Pull out the recipe books and have a shot at mastering some recipes that you've never been game to try before
Ring up all your friends you haven't seen for ages and have a really long natter.

:crossfingers: for you that this is your month for a :bfP: !
:-)

hehe good tips marydean!! :p im going to be busy when i hit my TWW lol oh you know what i also find good. i went on a painting all the rooms in the house spree! i still have stuff to do lol just too lazy. And also cleaning out our hutch/buffet thing, there is sooo much junk in there that needs to go in the bin. Or sorting all yur dvds and cds into alphabetical order, then changing your mind and outting them in order from favourites to least favourites. Will come back when i think of more hehe

Hi Ktgirl, I'm not temping anymore, it was stressing me out too much. I did it for about 8 months I think. I just check CM & use OPK's now.

Thanks for the tips to make time fly... the biggest problem seems to be work, where I can spend way too much time on the 'net reading these websites & obsessing!!! How do I stop myself from doing that?!?!?!?

I hear you Sam! Im 7 days away from POAS (assuming af is late or a no show), so im right in the middle of the tww and i am going nuts! I am feeling waves of nausea and some mild heartburn (which I had last month with early failed pg) and I have had some cramping. Sometimes I think its all in my head, but who knows? I just wish there was a miracle 'time killer'! Hope your tww ends with a bfp!

I think I might go swimming over the next week - something to do and its relaxing I suppose.

I 2 in the TWW...DP and I bd'd quite a bit around, on and after O, so hopefully caught a little eggy.......:crossfingers: I have had waves of nausea and a little bit of white CM, havent noticed ne bb change but they are sore @ times (considering my drama's over the last 2 mths, i dont know how to trust my body atm :confused:, it plays tricks on me.) The TWW is torture, the constant thinking, worrying and wondering is driving me NUTS!!!!

GL with every1 ttc....here's hoping for SUCCESS!!!

Ne way praying for :bfp:'s all round. Dropping another big load of :bluedust:!!!

Take care every1!!!

bye bye

Hi LisaL & malimum,

I'm 9dpo today and going slowly insane!!! I've got cramps today, but not sure if it's just from something I ate last night, I had cramps & bloating last night too. I was out for dinner though, and another girl also complained of the same thing.

I can't see any signs this month that are different from any other month... not making me feel confident about it.

I hope you both get BFP's this month!! How many days past O are you malimum?? We did heaps of BD'ing around O this month too, so I'm sure we would have caught the egg. There's just so many other elements to it. Fingers crossed!!

Hey girls

I'll come and join you...I'm 8DPO...

Not really feeling anything though...except IMPATIENCE!!!!

This month was our first month since charting that we actually DTD on the right days...nice to get a conception probability rating above "low" for a change!

Obsessing over my chart...overlaying chart on chart...but really not seeing any change...

Oh well!

Just finished one good book (Zadie Smith - On Beauty), now onto another one!

Doesn't help that my SIL had a baby a few days ago...he's totally gorgeous and I love him dearly...but it's a big reminder of what you don't have...

LisaL...sorry to hear about your loss...if you are comfortable in letting me know, when you say an early failed pg, how many weeks were you? It's just that I think I've had quite a few very early pregnancies that don't seem to last to the point that I get a BFP...I have all the symptoms (spotting, implanation dip, sore BB, metallic taste, cramping, etc) and then the symptoms suddenly disappear...and AF arrives a few days later

Has anyone else experienced that?

Wishing you guys all the very best this month!!!

Hi Monnie,

How are you? I'm 10dpo today and getting scared...scared of another BFN!!! I don't think I can take much more. I'm trying not to obsess but of course I'm obsessing! It's a wonder we're all still sane.

I've never experienced what you talked about, but I'm sure others have. It would be very disappointing.

Hope you're enjoying your new book, what is it? I just went & bought 3 so I better get reading!!

Wishing us all lots of good luck for this month!! :)

Hi Monnie,

My first pg was an ectopic so I knew I was pg from the word go with a bfp on a hpt but sadly at 7wks I found out it was ectopic and had to have surgery to remove the pg and the right tube. This most recent time I was pg, I had all the symptoms you describe and I was vomitting at the drop of a hat, so I felt pg but it was not registering on a hpt. Then about 1 week after af was due I went for a bt, which confirmed a pg but with low levels of hcg. Went back for more bt's - levels rose slowley but dr told me I would get my period as implantation didnt occur (egg fertilised but failed to implant). A day or so after getting bt results confirming a pg I registered a bfp on a hpt. So in all in all, I got af 2 weeks late, and it was heavier than usual and contained lots of clots (sorry TMI). Another girl on the ttcaml had a failed early pg at the same time and her af came a week lateer than normal, and just got pg again this cycle!

Have you noticed a change in your af after you experience all those symptoms??

Counting down gals....6 days to go in this tww! Im having heartburn and nausea so fingers crossed it means I am pg! How is the tww going for the rest of you??

Speaking of books - has anyone read the Rain Queen?? Its great and i highly recommend it to help get through the tww!

Hoping your all having a great day

Hey Sammi-Jane

I so know what you mean...it is scary...but here's hoping this time is different...

As our GP said...every new month is exactly that...a NEW month...just because it was negative last month, does not mean it will be negative this month...they are totally separate events...

Having said that though...the TWW is AWFUL!!!

Just tell me now whether it's a BFN or BFP!!!!

My temperature went up today and so did my hopes...I hate that!!! Makes it harder...

Start feeling my BB non-stop..."are they sore...think they're a bit sore"..."do they look bigger?"...so sad...I even asked my dog that today!!!! ROFL!!!!

Any little stomach twinge becomes a "cramp"!

"Is that a headache? Yeah...I think it is!!!...YIPPEEE!!!"

All a bit silly!!!!

Anyway...

The book I'm reading is so not baby-focussed...it's wonderful!!!

Called "in a million little pieces" by James Frey...about a guy with alcohol and drug addictions...strange that I would read a book like that...but it's just good to keep my mind off my life for a while...

Anyway...wishing all the best...

Take care!!!

Ah Monnie we posted at the same time!! I had a massive headache yesterday - so whoo hooo to you and me. And the nausea this arvo is driving me mad - but then again it could all be in my mind LOL!! And how funny are you asking your dog - hey I might do that tonight when I get home :D

Hey Monnie,

I know what you mean, but it's so hard after so long... you start to feel that it will never happen. I'm already scared about doing IVF and that's not till December, IF we have to at all! We've still got this cycle & 1 more before we start looking at that... please God give me a BFP!

I've read that book, it's brilliant!!! I also read the 2nd one - My Friend Leonard. Both really good. It's a pretty horrific story isn't it? It will definitely take your mind off TTC! I'm reading 'We Need to Talk about Kevin'. Not sure if you've heard of it but it's all letters from a woman to her ex-husband about their son who went on a shooting spree at school. It's her looking back from before he was born, how she felt, what he was like growing up. It's quite depressing, but very interesting.

Here's hoping that our 'symptoms' are real and we all get BFP's!!!!! :)

Hey guys

Yeah...LisaL we must have posted at same time!!!

Sorry to hear about your losses...I often complain about never having a BFP but then to have had one and to lose your baby...that would be so hard...I hope you are doing okay...really feel for you...

My AF's generally came early on the times that I have thought I was pg. There were a few clots as well (TMI too!)...and a little heavier...but I've also come from a background of massively heavy periods due to some nasty fibroids...so nothing seems that heavy in comparison to those times! Thankfully they were embolised and I don't have to experience that any more...my record was a 16 day AF!!!

I always said after that "I better be able to get pregnant after all of this"...and alas...here I am!!!

But...I have a great life apart from the horrible LT TTC...so I really can't complain so much...

Yeah...here's hoping our symptoms are real!!!

Sammi-Jane...that book you're reading was recommended to me by a friend the other day...I work in mental health for kids...so it seemed a little too close to home...but I should check it out...

I've only just got back into reading...I have been an absolute crossword addict for the last 12 months...so I'm trying to break that addiction so I can read again! So embarrassing...crosswords at my age!!! Shouldn't I be 60 or something before that desire sets in!!!

Anyway...so hoping there's some good news soon...for us all...

Take care...

Can you recommend any books Monnie? I've always been a reader, just been a bit slack lately. I'm off on holidays next week so would love to take some good books to read. Was the Zadie Smith one good??

I've never been any good at crosswords, hopefully I will be by the time I'm 60! :)

Yes, here's hoping there's some good news for us all!! :hug:

Hello, ladies, I'd like to do two book recommendations, probably the two best novels I've read over a five year period:
Cold Mountian by Charles Fraser (yes Nicole Kidman and Jude Law did a movie and it was fabulous too)
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (a holocaust novel but very moving and with a surprise at the end).
I'm not in the TWW right now but hoping you all get your :bfp:s and H&H pregnancies :bellyrubs: soon!!
:-)

Hey Sammie Jane

The Zadie Smith book was really good...took me a little while to get into but then really enjoyed it...

It's called On Beauty

Worthwhile read!

Thanks Marydean & Monnie, I might have to go shopping!

I hope you both have a great day! :)

Well...temperature has dropped again...guess it's not a particularly good sign...trying to remember "it's not about individual temps., it's about the pattern"...but when I overlay my charts they are now starting to look very similar...

Such is bloody life!!!

Sorry to hear that monnie. I hope you're wrong!

I POAS this morning, 11dpo, and got a BFN. I'm devastated. I've had a bit of a cry, but I think I need a big cry. I'm getting closer to IVF, and I never wanted to get anywhere near it!! I just want to fall pg like everyone else. It's so unfair! So, 1 more try, then IVF. How scary!!!

I really need this holiday!!

:hug:

Oh Sammi - its not over yet lovely - it may just be a little early for a +ve hpt, given its 11dpo. Sometimes O doesnt occur exactly when we think so you might still be in with a good chance. Its not over til the af witch arrives!!

Sammi, I've been ttc since nov05 as well. I read earlier in the thread about you no longer temping. My dr told me to stop temping also, just for my own sanity!.. I havent taken his advice for this cycle but will stop if this month I get a BFN. Im due on Sunday, have had a very feint line on a Fortel ultra, but having said that, I dont trust them at all, and I have also had two chem pregnancies this year so know that even if it is, it might not stick...

Carys
:)

Thanks LisaL, I know you're right, but I just don't feel positive. I had a big cry last night and I feel a bit better today. I'm off to Thailand on Tuesday so I'm just excited about going away & getting away from all of this ttc.

Carys - I feel much better not temping. I did it for so long and every day before I even get out of bed I was thinking about ttc. Then I would stress if the temp was high or weird... it really stressed me out. I hope AF doesn't arrive on Sunday and it's a sticky little bean. That must be upsetting having chemical pg. I've never had one.

Thanks girls. :)

Hey guys

Well...I think I'm back to step 1 again...temp. has plummeted today...so think that's it for me this month...AGAIN!!!!

You are right about temping...it becomes a less-than-wanted obsession...I even dreamt about it before I woke up this morning. Dreamt that all these girls were talking to me about having babies (they were all pregnant with twins) and I kept wanting to get away from them to go and take my temperature...and then I finally escaped, took it and it was really high...

I then woke up...took it...and it is 0.02 off my coverline...I then burst into tears...

Might think about forgetting the temping too...we'll see...

Sammie-Lee...it's early days for the pregnancy test...so don't give up hope yet...I read on the FF website about the stats. for early pregnancy tests (ie. those done before AF is due) and even successful pregnancies have a really low percentage of registering a BFP (Percentage of pregnancy charts with a positive test at 10 DPO: 10%)

So hang in there...have a wonderful trip to Thailand...how gorgeous...I love that place!

Carys...wishing you all the best...here's hoping!!!

I'm so sorry Monnie, it's hard isn't it? I do know how you feel, and I feel for you. Lots of :hug: to you. I'm sorry your dream didn't become your reality! One day you'll get your BFP and what a wonderful day that will be! Grieve, and then get up and try again. That's all we can do isn't it?

You're right, the test was early, but I just don't have a good feeling about it. I just don't feel pg. Everything is just as it always is...I'm sure AF will arrive either Sunday or Monday. But at least I fly to Thailand on Tuesday!

Take care. :)

Thanks Sammi-Jane

You are so right...grieve, get up and do it again!

We become resilient little buggers, don't we?

Enjoy Thailand...here's hoping Aunty Flo decides not to travel with you!

LOL! Very funny. I hope she doesn't travel with me too! I just won't pack her, that way she CAN'T come! ha ha...

Look after yourself. :)

Hey Monnie,

I see that you guys are our age, there doesn't seem to be that many of us around... Also, I see that you guys have been ttc since Jan 03. What are your problems, if you don't mind me asking. It's a long time, have you tried any AC ?

Sam :)