Cramps suck. 
That would be so great, though! I couldn't imagine not having to deal with healthcare costs while pregnant!
I hope you Od, it sounds like you might have to for both you and me this month. 
FX for you, and good work on the BDing!!! We DTD 
)) last night, but I'm really frustrated about my lack of EW! I don't use OPKs anymore, just a Fertility Monitor first thing every morning. It still gave me a "High" reading this morning, so I haven't even made it to "Peak" yet (which is when O happens) and my EW is already drying up. Grrrr!!!
Do you use the opk sticks or the digital ones girls? I still haven't been to get any but it's only CD2 so I have time. Do the normal ones just show a line like a hpt would? And then when it gets darker it means you're closer/ovulating? And how many do you normally get in a box? Sorry I'm clueless! Never used these before
I guess it's a good perk of being English 
move here girls!!!!
). You have to set your CD on the device at the beginning of every cycle and then around CD8 it starts asking for a test stick, which you pee on just like an HPT. You also have to set a 4-hour test window, preferably in the mornings, and you must put the stick in the device sometime within that 4-hour window. I set my testing window for 5:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. because I wake up at 5:00 on weekdays and later on weekends.
in there when the egg decides to show.
so you pee on the sticks, then put it into the monitor? does it have to be a certain stick or do any work? you will end up stressing yourself out like I did, but I know it's so hard not to read into it too much! I do it ALL the time about every little thing. Next month always seems too far away but you have as much chance as anyone else 
atleast we know we CAN actually get pregnant which some poor people have much more trouble with all we have to do is the easy bit now, watch this space! we will all be there before we know it 
Is the fertility monitor reusable Kim? How does it work?
Yeah haha it was really strange being out there actually, it is so different to here!! Like, you have different things in the American McDonald's even! I couldn't believe that, you'd think it'd all be the same.
And yep, we have literally everything free health wise/pregnancy wise! The only thing we have to pay for is 3D scans but other than that we don't pay for anything. We even get prenatal vitamins free
. Free healthcare is an offer you just cant refuse. As far as the OPKs, I bought them from Walmart for 7 in a pack for $12, and they work exactly how you described. With an HPT the faintest line means a positive, but with an OPK for it to be positive your line has to be just as dark as the test line in order to mean your O'ing in the next 24 hours.
Oh I get it, i think
I saw the title and only read the first few posts before I responded.
wow, the technology we have these days is just crazy isn't it! I sound like my grandad right now but it's so true. ) we literally have a choice of just coke, lemonade or fanta for the drink but in the Miami one we could pick really strange ones compared to here! Dr pepper etc. and the supermarkets in miami and Orlando were SO different to here aswell! The way you guys have like 7392873 flavours of jelly (jello?) and the slush puppy machines inside the supermarkets?! We don't have anything like that here- and we have like strawberry, orange and lime flavour jelly! Me and my bestfriend at the time who came with us use to spend so much in there! I think the only shop we have that America have too is Costco and they look identical to the English stores too
I don't think you're a stalker at all. You're cracking me up lady. Its okay the girls over there are pretty nice but they don't post as much
And certainly no cell phones. I got my first cell phone when I was a sophomore in college, and even then, it was literally just a phone with number buttons that you could make calls on away from home. No texting, no internet, no camera... Technology has DEFINITELY come a long way!
See, isn't this fun? It certainly takes my mind off worrying about my CF!
mine as a kid was literally a brick. The only game I could play on it was the most BASIC game of black and white snake! and now you think of the iPads, tablets!! and wow, I can't believe those grape and watermelon flavours, I would of been in love!!!! although it probably would of been a bad thing if I had of set eyes on it. About 2 hears ago, I got OBSESSED with pink lucozade to the point where if I didn't have about 5 bottles a day then I'd physically get upset about it and start lashing out! I became SO addicted to a flipping drink that my mum made me go to the doctor and now I have to be so careful with drinks!! How strange?! It's not even as if it was alcohol or anything bad! I've never smoked or done any of that stuff in my life and I'll only drink socially on occasions but yeah that was a weird stage I went through. The doctor said there's an ingredient in the lucozade that works exactly the same as an addictive drug does.. Never touched it since, he scared the life out of me! 
We have elementary school, middle school and high school. And I think what we call college you guys might call university? Not sure about that, though. 
I do enjoy alcoholic drinks, though, especially wine. 
I've cut back, though, because of TTC.
Hahaha shara, does hubby like an English accent?! God, I've never heard anyone say that before! We really don't have an accent do we?!
Shara, remember how we said we want to keep it interesting in the bedroom since the SMEP requires so much BDing? Fake an English accent!!! Australian accents are awesome, too. To Shara, I'd probably have a Southern accent, but mine isn't nearly as bad as other Southerners I know. My city is a larger one, but some of the little country towns in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, the Carolinas, etc.? Whoa. Some accents are so thick, you can't understand some of the things they say!
