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Hey ladies! I'm back. Will post the cookie recipe tonight, I promise! And Now I've completely forgotten everything I was going to reply to.... I hate when that happens! :dohh:

I'm Oing today or tomorrow. Keeping my hopes slightly elevated though not too high. The fertillity yoga dvd I have been doing is giving me some PMA.

The luck of this thread has GOT to lead to a massive burst of BFPs soon. We've been too quiet for too long!
 
Monster Cookies:

12 eggs
6 cups packed brown sugar
4 cups white sugar
1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon corn syrup
2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups butter
6 cups peanut butter
18 cups rolled oats
4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
4 cups candy coated milk chocolate pieces


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)
In a very large bowl, beat the eggs
Add the remaining ingredients in order mixing well.
Use an ice cream scoop to put on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes.


Personally, I do regular sized cookies rather than the "monster sized". All a matter of personal preference. You can put whatever type of candy you want, or add nuts if you wish.
 
It looks like I am out. Temp has dropped again and I have got cramping so pretty sure the witch will be with me by the end of the day. On a positive note my lp has increased from 9 to 12 days with no spotting!

I have decided that I am going to take a break from ttc, charting and sadly bnb until my next fs appointment at the end of November. I need to get my life back and stop obsessing about ttc. At the moment it is all I think about. We've booked a holiday and go away on Thursday for some much needed relaxation, sun, food and drink!

I'll miss the support from you guys and I wish you all the best. When I come back in November I look forward to seeing how many of you have got your BFP's.

Good luck and to you all and lots of :dust:

PS - the cookie recipie looks AMAZING!!!!!!!!
 
Thanks for the recipe Squirrel. I should try to make those cookies just to totally freak out my husband. If you remember from an earlier post I don't cook since I do things like leave the stove on :blush:

By Hoping and we'll see you in November!

I'm set to O too but I ran out of sticks for my cbfm and am not motivated to go out and get more. I don't really need them at the moment.

Conina - what's happening??
 
Ah well AF got me before the test did :growlmad:

At least now there's no worry about the amount of wine, shell fish, soft cheese etc that I consumed on holiday!!

That makes a 33 day cycle, after the last one which was 27 days. I have no clue... :shrug: Back to testing!!!
 
Maxxi - good luck with your IVF. Sending you hugs and positive thoughts.
Hope4 - sorry you're going but good luck and who knows, you might have some good news on your return.
Squirrel - thanks for the recipe; they look amazing! x
 
A break is always nice. I hope it treats you well, Hope4!


Pretty sure I'm Oing today. Ready for this TWW to be over with. Our luck just HAS to turn around in here!
 
Just stopping in to say hi and baby wishes! I will have to take sometime to read back through the thread to see how everyone is doing and if there were any BFPs. :)
 
SquirrelGirl said:
A break is always nice. I hope it treats you well, Hope4!


Pretty sure I'm Oing today. Ready for this TWW to be over with. Our luck just HAS to turn around in here!
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It will! I have a good feeling about you Squirrel!
 
Hi ladies, mind if I join?

I'm 32 and DH is 28, I have PCOS and type 2 diabetes. We have been ttc for about a year but we weren't trying to prevent before that.
I just started charting this cycle, my doctor said it wasn't necessary but I want to know what is going on. I also decided to try soy this month as I don't always ovulate on my own and my cycles are very unpredictable.
I've been lurking here for a bit getting to know you all (and now craving cookies :blush: lol) and just wanted to introduce myself .

I also have a silly newbie question.... what is smep? I understand that it means sperm meets egg plan but I don't get what it means... isn't that generally this whole thing works?
 
Hiya Mrs Boon! Welcome!!!!


SMEP... oooh boy, SMEP is tiring! I did it a few months. On CD 8 you start having sex every other day (ie, CD8, CD10, CD12 etc). On the day of your first positive OPK test, have sex that night, the next night, skip one night and then have sex one more night.

I basically do SMEP now too, just without calling it that and putting the pressure on us, we just "try" to make it a bit more relaxed.
 
SquirrelGirl said:
Hiya Mrs Boon! Welcome!!!!


SMEP... oooh boy, SMEP is tiring! I did it a few months. On CD 8 you start having sex every other day (ie, CD8, CD10, CD12 etc). On the day of your first positive OPK test, have sex that night, the next night, skip one night and then have sex one more night.

I basically do SMEP now too, just without calling it that and putting the pressure on us, we just "try" to make it a bit more relaxed.
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Thank you for the welcome, and for the explanation! I don't use an OPK test, so I guess we basically do SMEP following symptoms. I actually had what seemed to be ovulation spotting a few days ago but no temp spike yet so I'm having trouble even following symptoms this time. I'd link my chart if I knew how, but I'm still learning.

Fx that this thread continues to be lucky and that there are more BFP's soon!
 
Yeah, if you don't use OPKs, you could just look back at your past charts and make an educated guess and use symptoms.
 
Hi Girls,

Sorry for being absent, I didn't have a subscribe to this thread so it wasn't popping up in my CP area.

I am in the 2ww of my first CBFM cycle and boy did I lose it today. I was trying to have such a laidback approach to TTC and needless to say it did not happen.

Just want to wish us all some :dust: for this cycle, lets hope we get some more :bfp: soon :dust: :dust:
 
Hey all,

Hello to all new people! Good luck!

On CD 6 today so getting ready for the usual malarky. x x
 
You'll see Squirrel. The luck from this thread will hit you soon.

Today or tomorrow is 1 dpo for me. I got a low reading in CD 13, missed testing on CD 14, got a peak on CD 15, missed testing on CD 16 because I didn't know that my monitor would want a test and I ran out of sticks :dohh: I had pains yesterday that really felt like O pains so we'll see. I'm not expecting much and am a little relieved that I don't have to stress it this month since I'm prepared to do the ivf in November. Would be nice if I got lucky this month though so then I wouldn't have to spend all this money on ivf!
 
MrsBoon said:
I also have a silly newbie question.... what is smep? I understand that it means sperm meets egg plan but I don't get what it means... isn't that generally this whole thing works?
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Welcome MrsBoon! This made me laugh my arse off - not at you but with you :thumbup: Absolutely, this whole TTC thing is trying to get the sperm and egg to meet. But it seems for many of us gals they just don't want to play nice. So we've taught each other various tricks to help them get to know each other better. These include (increasing with level of TTC mastery):
- having lots of BD (baby dancing aka what normal folks call sex) just before, during, and for a day or two after ovulating
- raising hips after BD for twenty minutes
- taking various supplements that everyone swears by (soy, vitex, EPO, vitamin B, etc etc etc)
- acupuncture
- using wacky lubes you never dreamed of till TTC (preseed, etc)
- using softcups or sperm trampolines so that the spermies can't hide under your cervix (like little boys that reach the age where they want nothing to do with girls or our eggs)

I've gotten to the point where I'm willing to hire a professional to formally introduce them (aka seeing a fertility specialist). I think they've been playing hard to get for long enough. Hee!
 
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