Mid-August Testers

[InHisHands]

CH -- I'm sure you'll do fine. Let us know how the interview goes!!!

Bex - YAY!!! Im so excited for you and i'm totally hoping you get your BFP this month.

 

[snowflakes120]

Bex - Hooray for + test! Sounds like you got a good 1st month of BDing in! hehe! I sooooo want twins so bad! My mom is a twin and my dad has twin sisters! Please be me!!

CH - Good Luck on the Interview today! I know you will rock it girl!

Hands - That is awesome HCG number! I bet you are happy that the 1st appt is over with! I hated those 7 vials of blood!

Bea - I soo want to see your bump!

Nic- Hooray for bloat! It will be a bump soon enough!

AFM, I had a bad day yesterday so I decided not to write. Today I am a little bit better. My emotions have def been a roller coaster lately - I am trying to remain strong! Anyways, my OBGYN called late last night and said that my HCG went down to about 2,000 which is OK considering it was at like 23,000 when we started but still not the best. She said AF should arrive in another 4 weeks based off my numbers. She said my ultrasound looked great as I already knew from the tech. I go back the Monday after Thanksgiving (11/28) for another blood test - I am really hoping that the HCG is pretty much out of my system by then as I am really anxious to get started again.

My BBT thermometer broke yesterday AM while trying to take my temp so I had to run out and get a new one on my lunch break!! I am temping even though we are not TTC - I just kinda wanna know if I am going to OV or when AF could be due... So I am not completely in the dark. It is the obsessive planner in me!

 

[NotNic]

Snow. Sorry to hear that yesterday wasn't a great day, but I still think you have loads of positives from your doctors conversation. 23k - 2k is a huge drop and I don't think it'll be too long before you're at 0 and back trying. I think deciding to temp is a good decision. Keep us posted on how you get on. Also if you have a bad day, don't be afraid about sharing it with us here. xx

Hands - So pleased that you had a good appointment. Is that a scan on the 30th? If so that means all three of us will see our babies that week. Very exciting week!

Bex - Ooh so you could now be in your two week wait? Keeping crossables crossed for you. Very exciting!

CH - Good luck for today's interview honey. Let us know how you get on.

Bea - So far I am still hiding my bloat in my clothes, and I can actually do everything up still except my skinny jeans, which were never that comfy freshly washed! Just would be nice to be able to wear my dresses to work again but the bloat is definitely visable under a jumper dress

How did you tell the people at work, who already know? I'm hoping to tell my manager and my team assistant after my scan, and then *try* to keep it to myself until the end of January - potentially until my 20 week scan if I can. My mum said that she was still in her size 8s well in to January with my sister and weeks wise we'd be about the same at that time. As I seem to be having a similar pregnancy experience to the one she had I'm hoping I might get this little perk too!

 

[MrsBea23]

Bex - I have everything crossed for you very tightly.

CH - Good luck on the interview tomorrow I am sure you will blow them away.

Snow - I am so sorry you had low day yesterday. Hopefully all that HCg will be out of your system soon and it wont take 4 more weeks for AF to arrive so you can start trying again. i am still waiting on my Iphone 4s and having to use and old phone because I treded my other phone in but as soon as it arrives i will get a pic of my bump up.

Nic - I just told my line manager and told him to tell his manager and the area manager and the other 2 folk i have told are friends so i told them. I am 18 weeks and still in all my normal work clothes although my suits are a bit tight so I am not wearing them much once the bloat goes it just becomes a hard bump which is actually smaller than the bloat, I think i will make it to the 20 weeks before the others figure it out.

:wave: hands

 

[InHisHands]

Snow - Oh dear, i hate those type of days! I'll be praying for you and your lack of HCG hun.

Bea - i dont know how you can still be wearing your normal clothes.. my bloat is so massive... im not gonna be able to hide it underneath my sweaters and jackets for much longer.

Nic - No .. it looks like based off the info they gave me that im only getting one scan at 20 weeks *sighs* Such is life.

CH - details?

Bex - tell me your tww has started!!! your could get your next BFP when i go to my next appointment. There's gonna be a total countdown.

AFM - still no morning sickness since Saturday. I really hope nothing is wrong (that it just happened thus numbers were still high).. . but im sure thats not it. I still have big boobs, sensitive nipples, extreme tiredness, mild backaches and cramps though not as common as before. Enough signs... perhaps it will come back with revenge in a few days LOL

 

[Srbjbex]

Yep, am in the tww! Plan to test on the 30th if I can hold out that long......so I will be counting days to then with you

 

[NotNic]

Yep, am in the tww! Plan to test on the 30th if I can hold out that long......so I will be counting days to then with you

That mean's all four of us have a TWW for something that week. Just as well we're good at waiting.

 

[CHDickey]

Bex so glad to hear your in the 2ww!

Hubby and me are not trying this month or next because I just signed up for short term disability and it won't take affect until January! oh well we can enjoy the holidays without baby stress!

I will definitely stick around until then!!

Interview is this afternoon so I will let you all know how I think it went later this afternoon!!

 

[Srbjbex]

Are you not trying at all or just NTNP? Defintiely enjoy the holidays and have lots of wine for the rest of us!! (I know I am not pg yet, but I have drastically cut down on alcohol - I now only have about 1 glass a week with my Sunday lunch!)

I will be thinking about you in your interview this afternoon!

Glad you guys will be waiting with me (even if for different reasons) - waiting is waiting after all. Plus Nic you are our resident waiting expert so I feel proud to have you wait with me lol. Still plan to carry on BDing though just in case. Havent got my crosshairs yet on FF, and temps not really risen yet.... maybe tomorrow.

Hands - are you starting to let some of that doubt sneak back in!! Naughty!

Bea and Snow :wave:

 

[NotNic]

Love it! I feel like I need some business cards

My ms has been much better today. I actually cooked dinner tonight. Only spagetti and meatballs but I didn't heave at the smell of the meat and I made the sauce from scratch. It feels like donkey years ago I last did that! Just hope that it's a good sign.

On the bump/bloat front, I've now put on two pounds but two whole inches around my waist! That's not even the fat bit of my stomach atm. My hips have an extra inch. I wish I'd measured that bit just below my belly button, because looking at me I'm going to guess I've got another three there! The strange thing is my face, back and chest look a bit thinner than usual. I guess baby is eating up my fat resources. . Wish it would take a bit from my thighs instead though.

CH - How did it go today? Fingers crossed for you lovely xx

Snow - How are you doing today? Everyone else, are you okay?

 

[CHDickey]

Wow. The questions were tough. I guess we will see tomorrow?

 

[Srbjbex]

I know you will have done amazingly Keep us posted!

 

[NotNic]

Happy Friday everyone. Does anyone have exciting plans for the weekend?

CH - Fingers crossed honey. Can't wait to hear how you get on!

Hands - you're an olive!

 

[InHisHands]

I'm an olive!!!!! i know... its so exciting.... but you're a big fat prune about to move on... so jealous!!!

No real big plans this weekend... planning for thanksgiving. Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins are coming in to see us. Planning on telling everyone next week.. so excited.

 

[Srbjbex]

Not got many plans - have to take my car to the garage tomorrow as this morning I discovered I had a completely flat tyre...grrrr.

Other than that, husband is away on Saturday night so I have the house to myself... so strictly and xfactor it is!!

Temps still not gone up...infact they are being sppokily consistent, what does this mean?? Have a not ovulated yet? Did my body have all the signs of ov (strong opk, cramps, EWCM) but not actually pop an egg??? Nic - were you charting when you hard your double length cycle?

I'm confused.

 

[snowflakes120]

Bex - Hmmm. Not to sure about your chart. But I am sure you OV with all your signs - they can't all be wrong! Just keep BDing girl!

Hands - I love olives! Hehe! Hooray for telling family next week. That is so exciting!

CH - I am sure you did great!

Nic - Just the 2 of us (+ my cute little doggie) are hanging out tonight and prolly watching movies. Tomorrow we are going shopping and out to dinner with our friends and their toddler. Sunday we are going to a Thanksgiving party at a nice restaurant with some other friends - free food and booze - I'm in! Another busy weekend - I really love my friends!

Bea -

AFM, my chart is a big hot mess. I don't know what to think at all. I know I shouldn't even stress about it because we aren't even TTC but my temps are still pretty high. Right now they are post-OV temps and no where near my pre-OV temps - they are a whole 1 degree away from what they should be. The temps went down fast after miscarriage which I was happy about bc it means the HCG was dropping. But the temps have gone back up again. I am so afraid that the HCG isn't getting out of my system and I'm going to be waiting a long time for it get back down to 0.

 

[CHDickey]

Well, 2 years in a row, 2 lost.

 

[NotNic]

Sounds like we've all got quite quiet weekends planned except Snow. Have fun honey!

AFM I'm trying not to well up like an idiot in front of Children in Need. Not easy! For the US girlies it's a big charity night that takes place on TV every November. People from a whole heap of shows - sitcoms, newsreaders, comedians all do silly things on TV to raise money for lots of small UK children or family charities. It's brilliant TV but the appeals are pretty emotional. Pre-pregnancy its a struggle not to cry, but being pregnant and seeing appeals from children makes it even harder this year!

Hands - you're catching me up! We are quite close in dates really. Your baby could come early and mine could be late and we could end up having babies hours apart! Enjoy your olive. I'm so ready to be a lime and stop being a manky, dried up prune!

Bex - No sorry I didn't temp. I think if / when I TTC again I'm going to do that instead of opks. It seems a lot more empowering, and if I had done I wouldnt have been so in the dark about my long cycle. Don't give up hope though. Squiffy cycles are lucky for us! They're the ones we get pregnant on!

Snow - When is your next appointment? It might sound silly, but if they're post ov temps is there a chance you might have actually already ovulated? In which case AF might be here sooner than you think. It's worth considering, especially as your HCG levels seemed like they dropped really quick.

Bea - Hope you're good. xx
xx

 

[NotNic]

Well, 2 years in a row, 2 lost.

Oh sorry to hear that, but lets face it you must be a pretty amazing teacher to have even been considered! Maybe you are just too fabulous for them.

 

[Srbjbex]

Ah CH, you didn't lose as far as were concerned!! You're our teacher of the year!!

Nic - I'm watching children in need too and I've been blubbing too!

Snow, you could have already ovulated or just not settled down yet. My AF came 5weeks after mc, so I think that's fairly average.... Hang on in there, you will settle down in no time!

Hands - so excited about your olive. Much more yummy than a prune.

Hi bea!