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[LaRockera]

Well

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AF's just around the corner. Her royal representative, Lady Migraine herself, showed up at my doorstep last night.

Which makes me wonder: why the #$%&* have I been nauseous all these days? This was clearly not a stomach bug, as I haven't been actually sick. All I can think of is that perhaps this was meta-stress caused by the wedding, or the little lovely adventure I had with my Uni, that was suppressed, and decided to express itself like this? I'm more concerned about finding the answer to this question than about AF herself tbh.

It's pouring down here today. Been raining since the early hours. Thunders are deafening! I think I'll spend today with a , my wonderful new husband and my lovely parents who are all pampering me because I was disappointed with the migraine thing, and so try and relax and have a cosy day indoors. To be honest, we needed the rain. In mainland Greece it reached 42 degrees!



PS. I decided I want to be a bit silly and change my signature every cycle Shuffle our names, and also update the list monthly Hopefully there'll be a couple of more additions in August.

Are we waiting for any more results besides CedarWood? I'm obviously out

 

[MinneGirl]

LaRockera, I would NOT count yourself out just yet...pregnancy hormones are very similar to AF hormones...so I am not counting you out yet! When is the witch SUPPOSED to show-up?

Not much going on here on the Monday morning. Jack Johnson was SO good yesterday...although a bit of an interesting croud of people, to say the least. Yikes! I am 8 dpo today (for the 2nd time, mind you), and my boobs def hurt, but that is normal. Other than that, nothing out of the ordinary. Just like every month, I'm trying not to get my hopes up..but praying it is my month!! I'm hoping we get a few in August...and September!

 

[LaRockera]

LaRockera, I would NOT count yourself out just yet...pregnancy hormones are very similar to AF hormones...so I am not counting you out yet! When is the witch SUPPOSED to show-up?

Not much going on here on the Monday morning. Jack Johnson was SO good yesterday...although a bit of an interesting croud of people, to say the least. Yikes! I am 8 dpo today (for the 2nd time, mind you), and my boobs def hurt, but that is normal. Other than that, nothing out of the ordinary. Just like every month, I'm trying not to get my hopes up..but praying it is my month!! I'm hoping we get a few in August...and September!

Thank you honey, but I'm out already. DH and I, well, you know just now, and afterwards when I went to wipe, I saw red spots on the loo paper. Plus, hpt was negative as well, and today I'm 12 or 13dpo, so a 10ml should have picked the hormone up, even with evening wee.

I have no idea what the nausea was all about I'll have to stick with stress, can't explain it otherwise.

Hope you and Cedarwood have good news for us soon
Mrs-C, the baby dance is about to begin, isn't that right?
BabyDreamer, what are you up to?
And whatever happened to winston???

 

[MinneGirl]

Sorry honey that the witch is on her way! I think next month is your month! You keep that chin up!

I'm not sure why you felt sick. I do have to say, every once in a while, I have a few days where I feel nauseous as well. You may have had just a touch of something.

No tests for me!!! Either the witch shows up, or is late! PMA!!!

 

[BabyDreamer82]

Hi guys, hope you all had a good weekend.
LaRockers Im sorry about the showing her ugly head. FX for an august bfp!
Minnegirl I would be so grumpy having to do the tww again, i have just a single one, its too long!
How is everyone else?
Well my saliva tester arrived yesterday, & i used it when I got home from work but just saw pebbles, then I had some food so tested it again (it says not to eat or drink anything apart from water for 3 hours before testing) and got pebbles & ferns (transitional). I was just mucking around with it, even tested DPs saliva - he got pebbles
This morning I only got pebbles, I dont know if i put enough saliva on it tho, but now Ive had coffe so am going to have to wait a while before I can check it again.
So far we are doing pretty good on the 'every other day' for insemination - cd7 , 9 & 11. CD 9 & 11 with pre-seed. So hopefully if I have been O'ing early we may have caught it.

 

[MinneGirl]

Babydreamer, nice work on the bd'ing ! I really like pre-seed...so does DH I wonder why it doesn't come rushing out after you squirt it in?

Yes, two tww's is a bit much. Maybe the second and real O produced a power egg or something?

 

[CedarWood]

LR
Boooo to the I was hoping the same as minnegirl - that preg hormones caused your migraine....
Hope you had some nice quiet time earlier today

Baby dreamer - that sounds interesting - I never tried a saliva microscope!
Your BD sched looks super I think if you did O earlier you had spermies waiting in the wings

Well same as have been for me - just ticking off time. AF should be here this coming weekend. I think the wet cm is good but nothing else really sticking out at me. In the past I felt RL pain early on and so far no. A wee teeny tiny bit of nausea and light headness from time to time but it is super hot and I may just be low on electrolytes or dehydrated. So will see as get closer to AF.
Went out for a quick bite - bad idea - ended up with soggy chilli cheese fries - feel yuck now I am hoping the chilli is gluten free but probably not I went to a US style diner restaurant so it was all burgers/fries and shakes... Not much I could order... But a pleasntly cool night. LR moscow is trying to catch up to your temps we have 40 predicted

Well going to hop in the shower and read a bit. I am reading 'The girl who played with fire'. I bought the first in the series "The girl with the Dragon Tatoo' over Christmas and took me a bit to get into but it is a nice light read. Am on the 2nd now and find it helps pass the time from thinking too much about what my body is or is not doing

 

[Mrs-C]

I dropped 15 lbs from September to June. I had been at the same weight for a long time, just maintaining, but I knew I needed to lose some--so worked on that this year, and managed 15 lbs before we got preggers. So far haven't put any back on. I'm not gonna pretend like I couldn't have stood to lose another 10 this year, but my goal was 15 and that's what I did. Figure those 15+ will come back on with pregnancy but hope it's easier to lose after baby since I lost it before baby. I sort of took it in 5 lb increments...would lose 5 lbs and stay there for a couple months maintaining...then work on another few lbs. I think it helped that it came off slowly for me. And that I spent time between increments just maintaining that weight. GL! I hear the Wii Fit is fun. I've played around on my friend's before. Right now SO and I are just walking every night...last night we tackled some hills and got the heart rate up. He wants to do a 12 mile hike this weekend...up and down lava rock. I told him I'm still in physical therapy for an injury, I don't think that's wise to just start off that big. Course that's nothing to him...what's a 6 hour hike, no biggie. Geez. Not to mention, my energy is not at it's peak right now! But I'm trying to keep moving.....

Well done for keeping it off!

Well

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AF's just around the corner. Her royal representative, Lady Migraine herself, showed up at my doorstep last night.

Which makes me wonder: why the #$%&* have I been nauseous all these days? This was clearly not a stomach bug, as I haven't been actually sick. All I can think of is that perhaps this was meta-stress caused by the wedding, or the little lovely adventure I had with my Uni, that was suppressed, and decided to express itself like this? I'm more concerned about finding the answer to this question than about AF herself tbh.

It's pouring down here today. Been raining since the early hours. Thunders are deafening! I think I'll spend today with a , my wonderful new husband and my lovely parents who are all pampering me because I was disappointed with the migraine thing, and so try and relax and have a cosy day indoors. To be honest, we needed the rain. In mainland Greece it reached 42 degrees!



PS. I decided I want to be a bit silly and change my signature every cycle Shuffle our names, and also update the list monthly Hopefully there'll be a couple of more additions in August.

Are we waiting for any more results besides CedarWood? I'm obviously out

LaRockera, I would NOT count yourself out just yet...pregnancy hormones are very similar to AF hormones...so I am not counting you out yet! When is the witch SUPPOSED to show-up?

Not much going on here on the Monday morning. Jack Johnson was SO good yesterday...although a bit of an interesting croud of people, to say the least. Yikes! I am 8 dpo today (for the 2nd time, mind you), and my boobs def hurt, but that is normal. Other than that, nothing out of the ordinary. Just like every month, I'm trying not to get my hopes up..but praying it is my month!! I'm hoping we get a few in August...and September!

I'm hoping we do too!

Thank you honey, but I'm out already. DH and I, well, you know just now, and afterwards when I went to wipe, I saw red spots on the loo paper. Plus, hpt was negative as well, and today I'm 12 or 13dpo, so a 10ml should have picked the hormone up, even with evening wee.

I have no idea what the nausea was all about I'll have to stick with stress, can't explain it otherwise.

Hope you and Cedarwood have good news for us soon
Mrs-C, the baby dance is about to begin, isn't that right?
BabyDreamer, what are you up to?
And whatever happened to winston???

Sorry she got you. Maybe we'll both get our this cycle and we can be bump buddies!

The baby dance started yesterday - and we are going to try every-other day until AF is due. IF I can muster that much energy.

 

[LaRockera]

Hey guys You're all so very lovely

It's all right. I suppose I'm a bit disappointed because I broke my golden rule of not testing before I miss a period, but the nausea thing was quite misleading... Other than that, I think I know my body only too well I know when my PMS swings will start, as well as when I'll probably have a migraine. In that respect, I guess I'll always know beforehand.

At the end of the day this was only our second month of trying properly. April and May was just a NTNP thing, so I need to be patient.

I'll stick to my no charting, no temping, no nothing plan though.

Let's see who's next in line

BTW Guys, here's a question. My periods are always more or less on time (27 to 29 days), and the flow is always the same. That means that, in general terms, I'm ovulating normally, isn't that right?

 

[Mrs-C]

Hey guys You're all so very lovely

It's all right. I suppose I'm a bit disappointed because I broke my golden rule of not testing before I miss a period, but the nausea thing was quite misleading... Other than that, I think I know my body only too well I know when my PMS swings will start, as well as when I'll probably have a migraine. In that respect, I guess I'll always know beforehand.

At the end of the day this was only our second month of trying properly. April and May was just a NTNP thing, so I need to be patient.

I'll stick to my no charting, no temping, no nothing plan though.

Let's see who's next in line

BTW Guys, here's a question. My periods are always more or less on time (27 to 29 days), and the flow is always the same. That means that, in general terms, I'm ovulating normally, isn't that right?

I think that's right. I'm not sure on all that tbh. I'm trying everyother day to be sure we've done what we can!

 

[LaRockera]

It's every other day for us, too. Anything from two to four times a week, really.

 

[MinneGirl]

Basically, we are all a bunch of STARS! I never in my life could have imagined so much of it! We are getting pretty darn good at it!

Cedarwood, are you originally from Russia? My best friend is from Moscow, but lives in the US now. I am hoping to get there with her next year to visit her family and see Russia. I have heard Moscow is extremely expensive.

YUM, hubby just brought home sweetcorn, tomatoes and peaches from a little farmers market in northern MN. Our dinner is going to me amazing. I'm also making sokeye salmon with a shallot garlic glaze on the grill. I love cooking!



Oh & just went for a short run (it's HOT here), and my boobs were killing!!! Hopefully its a good sign!

 

[membas#1]

your dinner sounds YUMMY! I also love to cook and garden I've got brisket cooking right now--mmmm...smells good! We had some fresh broccoli from our garden the other night...otherwise we are pretty well still early in our season--we don't get tomatoes until late August and this year the weather has been so weird that we aren't holding our breaths for a huge supply. Last year I preserved 12 Quarts of tomatoes in our freezer for cooking this year, in addition to all the fresh toms we ate....I wanted more this year so we planted 6 extra plants...but they just aren't doing fantastic with our weather. Oh well...we'll get some! Enjoy your dinner!

 

[membas#1]

STARS made me laugh

 

[CedarWood]

Morning all, another smog filled day here and thinking about the implications for TTC. apparently, pollution is 8 times above normal levels due to peat fires burning on the outskirts. And Moscow has bad airpollution to begin with. No nice pollution controls on cars etc. Yuck.

Minnegirl - yummm - that sounds wonderful I am from the US originally and yep it is expensive. I try only to think in terms of rubles while I am here. Otherwise, would probably never buy a cup of coffee Or anything really - in dollar terms it is shocking. I buy most of my clothes in the US - sometimes a few things here, if needed or elsewhere in Europe when traveling. I did get some nice things on a buy one get one free sale at Debenhams in Edinburgh this year - it was great as all prices were already marked down - I got two coats


LR - I have reg cycles and they stayed that way after I became annovulatory and it was not considered right away that I was not ovulating, as my cycles were regular still. But in most cases regular cycles mean you ovulate normally. I think most women have one or two annovulatory cycles per year and that is normal. I use opk's now - they confirm what I expect from tracking cm but it is just nice to see the LH surge. I think they are ok and not too over the top, as I keep bding as normal (when can...) I just like the extra confirmation. I have never temped but have heard it is the only way to positively confirm O.Though, I think though CM and an OPK are pretty on.

Well off to begin my day with my (gulp) 9 dollar cup of coffee

 

[BabyDreamer82]

Minnegirl, that does sound good. I love cooking too, but I do it for my job, i dont get very adventerous at home at the moment. Im roasting a chook tonight, dont know with what yet, but it is COLD & wet, we have thunder & lightning (I love that at night!) so comfort food I think.

Well girls I need your help, please talk some sense into me: its DPs birthday on sunday, I will be cd17 of a 25-27 day cycle. Now I KNOW its too early to test, but I keep talking myself into the idea that if I have ovulated early, say CD10, then it could be 7dpo, so if I use an early detection test.. well it could be possible?
I know its stupid, i would be fully prepared for a BFN but if i could give DP a BFP for his birthday - it would be so awesome.
Oh please tell me something that will change my mind!!!

 

[BabyDreamer82]

oh yea, update on the saliva testing, I was so good all day, had an early lunch so I could test straight after work & then I forgot, I was on 'drinks' at work & had some leftover blueberry smoothie & a couple of marshmallows, CRAP. Will have to wait till the morning to test again.

 

[MinneGirl]

Mornin' Gals!
Cedarwood, how long have you lived in Russia? Are you there for work? I cannot believe how expensive a cup of coffee is! Yikes! But like you said, you have to still live your life without worrying about the cost of everything... is VERY necessary in life, as far as I'm concerned

Babydreamer, I love your idea of giving your hubby a BFP on his birthday, but 7 dpo is nearly impossible to get a BFP, even if you are pregnant What kind of chef are you? You must be an amazing cook!

I am now 9 dpo and my boob are very sore! But this is normal, so I'm not symptom spotting AF is due on Saturday (IF I ovulated when I think I did), but I'm not testing until Monday.

 

[LaRockera]

Hi guys

Officially CD1 for me today. Nothing much happening here, sun's back up, but since I can't swim, I'm trying to work on my novel a bit, or do a bit of reading.

Cedarwood, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is actually on my reading list this summer- how did you find it? I'm currently reading Angela's Ashes.

Babydreamer82 your idea is wonderful, though as the ladies say, it may still be too early. I suppose you could get one of those super-sensitive hpts, but always keep in mind that it's early. Let us know what you decide

Minnegirl- good luck hon, we're still hoping for a third July CedarWood, same for you too

Back to the novel. I've been stuck on the same page for weeks. If this isn't writer's block, I don't know what the #$%^ is

 

[MinneGirl]

Where are all my girls?! I love waking up to some posts!

Not much going on here....10 dpo and not feeling much of anything other than sore boobs...which is pretty normal. AF would arrive on Saturday (I think) so testing date for me is Monday! I am SOOOOOOOOO hopeful she isn't coming!!!

Hope you are all having fantastic days so far!