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[CelticNiamh]

Jaimie :wave: great to see you back hope you had a great time

Soph ooooooohhhhhhhh so excited now, when are you going to test! I hope this is it good luck with the car hunting and boat!

Tanikit LOL I would so be the same checking out stuff like that if I could, glad to see things are improving as well for you


Honeybee how are you haven't seen you on in a while

Hello to all I have missed

 

[honeybee28]

hey niamh im good thanks lovely, how are you? i just painted my nails, trying to type without smudging them lol.

good day everyone?xx

 

[SquirrelGirl]

hang on soph, you get a day off for the Queen's birthday over there!?!?! we have the same Queen right?!?! How come we don't get a day off here? grrrrrrr.

I am thoroughly amused that there's not one single "Queen's Birthday" throughout the British Empire. So, does the "Queen's birthday" holiday change whenever there's a new queen? (granted, I think the current queen has been there a very long time!)


I wonder if US territories celebrate the same holidays we do in the states.... I've never thought to wonder that before! Like Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Thanksgiving....

Probably all dumb questions!!

 

[Jaimie2Eyes]

Tanikit -I would totally use an animal ultrasound to check myself out if given the opportunity! Probably for the best that neither one of us have access to such a thing : )

Howdy Niamh! How are you doing? How is taking a break going? I love not temping anymore. That and going away for a couple of weeks really helped this month! Hope I can keep up the tthf as CD 29 looms large...

Honeybee - did you succeed in keeping your nailpolish smudge free? I never manage to do that so I only paint my nails about 3 times a year!

Squirrel - I really need to know what the deal is with the Queen's birthday! I guess I could just assume that LuckyD is right and the kiwis have the only correct day ; )

Speaking of which, I definitely agree that Crowded House is mostly kiwi, but what on earth is pavlova? Is it like vegemite? Because if it is I don't want to know anything further!!!

By the way, one of my favorite memories of kiwi land was listening to "Always Take the Weather with You" in Fijordland on our guide's truck radio...

 

[SquirrelGirl]

Tanikit -I would totally use an animal ultrasound to check myself out if given the opportunity! Probably for the best that neither one of us have access to such a thing : )

Same here!!! .......*wonders how much an ultrasound machine costs....

 

[soph77]

Lucky, I cannot believe you think that Pavlova and Crowded House belong to New Zealand!!! Sooooooo Australian! hahaha
You can have Russell Crowe though - we don't want him!

And Jamie, Pavlova is only the single best desert EVER! First made by an AUSTRALIAN man for Anna Pavlova the famous ballerina on her visit to AUSTRALIA!!!! Basically made from sugar and eggwhites topped with cream and fresh fruit. yummo! Pav is our standard Christmas dessert.

Oh yeah and vegemite rocks baby!

 

[soph77]

hang on soph, you get a day off for the Queen's birthday over there!?!?! we have the same Queen right?!?! How come we don't get a day off here? grrrrrrr.

I am thoroughly amused that there's not one single "Queen's Birthday" throughout the British Empire. So, does the "Queen's birthday" holiday change whenever there's a new queen? (granted, I think the current queen has been there a very long time!)


I wonder if US territories celebrate the same holidays we do in the states.... I've never thought to wonder that before! Like Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Thanksgiving....

Probably all dumb questions!!

Can't believe there is no Queens Bday hol in UK!

Squirrel, we don't celebrate any of those here, but we do have our own days. Australia Day, Anzac day, Labour day, Queens bday, We also have a holiday for the Royal show for our city i.e The royal Brisbane show day or the Gold Coast show day. Then we also have remembrance day (not a holiday) and some others that are not holidays.

 

[soph77]

Soph ooooooohhhhhhhh so excited now, when are you going to test! I hope this is it good luck with the car hunting and boat!

Oooh soph triphasic sounds interesting!

Stupid triphasic chart got my hopes up, tested this morning bfn
Next month for sure

I was bored at work today (I am a veterinarian) so decided to do some fertility tests on myself the only thing is I don't know quite what normal is and am now trying to find out. I did a pH test and seem to have acidic cervical mucous (ph=5.5) , but the trouble is that the vagina is supposed to be acidic and can't that affect things? And also does pH change with the time of the month cause I think I will only ovulate in another day or two. Nonetheless I will pretend it really is acidic and try to fix it. I also did a smear and stained it and while it all looked normal (the cells and sperm) we do not have the right stains to see if the sperm is healthy and motile and it may have been too late to do that so am also going to look up a few things about that too. Anyway, I stopped myself being thoroughly bored and no one knew what I was doing cause it was so quiet.

Its probably a good thing we have to refer dogs for ultrasound scans cause if I was pregnant I would spend my whole work time scanning myself.

This is so funny, lucky no-one there caught you doing it or they would have thought you were crazy!
As for the acidic vagina, from what I understand the vagina is supposed to be acidic because that kills of any germs and nasties that get in there and keep it clean. Your fertile cm is alkaline and sperm friendly so when you are heading into your fertile window conditions in there become more hospitable. There are some things that you can do to increase the alkalinity if you are very acidic though, not sure what they are of the top of my head but I know you can find them on the in gender site. Alkaline vaginas are supposed to favour boy sperm so you could search for 'swaying for a boy'.

Actually it would be a good experiment for you to do to track your vaginal acidicness or alkalineness leading up to ovulation and through ovulation for us!! Just make sure no-one catches you doing it!!

 

[CelticNiamh]

Soph ahhhhh pooo on a stick!!!but hey on wards and up wards still in with a chance for the June .

Honey, I am not bad as all!

Jaimie, the break going ok, it going to be for longer than I thought as I had high cholesterol and waiting on results to see if I am diabetic. but I'm ok with it think I need to lose 2 stone get healthier and I am sorted! Ive been very sloppy temping and its great not to be stressed wondering how they will go but I haven't tried so no TWW for me LOL Pavlova is a lovely cake https://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/pavlova


There is murder here today, yesterday a girl came out about how she was told her baby was dead, she was booked for a DNC 3 days later, but her instinct was her baby was alive as she had MC in the past. she went to her doc and her baby was alive and well born in March just gone. but the hospital was found to be at fault through shoddy work practices bad equipment which was out of date! no follow up scan or checking HCG there were just going to DNC after one scan!!!! now there are more women coming out of every were with similar stories!!! so scary and very worrying! always demand a follow up scan.


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[LuckyD]

LuckyD - I bet you £2 she arrives on my birthday! (friday! grrrr) nothing nice planned at all... 24 is kind of a rubbish here nor there age and I don't feel much like celebrating! lol I'm getting grouchy in my old age lol

ooh I'm so jealous of your land space! I still have to think twice about your winters being our summers! its true that the internet makes the world such a small place!

Nooooo...AF better not arrive on your birthday! I am banning her

Aw, hope you do something nice...even if you don't want to be 24 ('24 and there's so much more' as Neil Young says...). You are worth celebrating!

well girls another night of sex and i am still not bleeding yay, but i am on CD 40 which is confusing as i am not sure when i will be on now, soooo i dunno weather to test when i get over the last cycle lengh i was on or test early, i am just soon confused right now

anyway Jason is getting better now all the spots have come though and started to heal, skye has no spots and me nither, and now she is begging me for a sister for her.

so glad that your son is getting better, chicken pox are no fun at all. That's cute about your daughter..I remember being the same with my Mum.

LuckyD - days off are great, returning to work not so great. Its freezing here too and I keep worrying that I am heating things up too much for ttc since I am using an electric blanket (not all night but definitely at the beginning) What are you doing for DH's birthday - have fun.

My DD and I are watching kids movies while cuddling up on the couch. Feeling quite tired today so trying to take things easy.

I hear you Tanikit, going back to work is never fun! I think we are going to go out for dinner on the night of OH's birthday, then he is planning a get-together with one of our friends whose birthday is the day after his - kind of a combined birthday party/dinner thing. Maybe with a bonfire on our land!
Cuddling up on the couch with DD sounds lovely....hope you feel a bit less tired soon xx

hang on soph, you get a day off for the Queen's birthday over there!?!?! we have the same Queen right?!?! How come we don't get a day off here? grrrrrrr.

I am thoroughly amused that there's not one single "Queen's Birthday" throughout the British Empire. So, does the "Queen's birthday" holiday change whenever there's a new queen? (granted, I think the current queen has been there a very long time!)


I wonder if US territories celebrate the same holidays we do in the states.... I've never thought to wonder that before! Like Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Thanksgiving....

Probably all dumb questions!!

I like these questions Squirrel...yeah, it's funny that we get Queens Bday holidays but the UK doesn't! What's that about?
I think the Queens actual birthday is another time of year altogether....it's all a bit weird!
I wish we celebrated something like Thanksgiving here...my Dad's ex is American, we used to have Thanksgivings when I was younger - yum!

Squirrel - I really need to know what the deal is with the Queen's birthday! I guess I could just assume that LuckyD is right and the kiwis have the only correct day ; )

Speaking of which, I definitely agree that Crowded House is mostly kiwi, but what on earth is pavlova? Is it like vegemite? Because if it is I don't want to know anything further!!!

By the way, one of my favorite memories of kiwi land was listening to "Always Take the Weather with You" in Fijordland on our guide's truck radio...

Yes...that's the one Jaimie, Kiwi's have the right day!

Pavlova is delicious! The others have explained it so I won't...only to add that it is definitely a classic KIWI dish and we have it every year at Xmas - so yum! And it makes me laugh how Americans always thing vegemite/marmite is so disgusting...we were reared on it!

Aw, that's a nice NZ memory....

Lucky, I cannot believe you think that Pavlova and Crowded House belong to New Zealand!!! Sooooooo Australian! hahaha
You can have Russell Crowe though - we don't want him!

And Jamie, Pavlova is only the single best desert EVER! First made by an AUSTRALIAN man for Anna Pavlova the famous ballerina on her visit to AUSTRALIA!!!! Basically made from sugar and eggwhites topped with cream and fresh fruit. yummo! Pav is our standard Christmas dessert.

Oh yeah and vegemite rocks baby!

Ha ha - they're totally Kiwi! And we don't want Russell Crowe! It's so funny, NZers used to complain about how Australians claimed Russell Crowe was an Australian actor...until the phone throwing incident..then we didn't want him any more!

So funny how this debate goes on so often between Kiwis and Aussies...

Stupid triphasic chart got my hopes up, tested this morning bfn
Next month for sure

Oh, so sorry love hope you are ok. Next month for sure xxx

There is murder here today, yesterday a girl came out about how she was told her baby was dead, she was booked for a DNC 3 days later, but her instinct was her baby was alive as she had MC in the past. she went to her doc and her baby was alive and well born in March just gone. but the hospital was found to be at fault through shoddy work practices bad equipment which was out of date! no follow up scan or checking HCG there were just going to DNC after one scan!!!! now there are more women coming out of every were with similar stories!!! so scary and very worrying! always demand a follow up scan.

Oh my god, this is scary! How awful, and thank god she followed her instinct! I guess at least now this won't happen any more...hopefully.



Hope everyone is doing well! All good here, except it is cold! Snow on the hills/mountains today! Very beautiful. About to go eat dinner then watch movies with my OH and my brother!

 

[honeybee28]

mmmm i love marmite!! YUM YUM. and pavlova. a similar dessert is Eton Mess, its like a pavlova, but it's all crushed up and served in a sundae glass mmmmm foooood.

lucky hope you had a nice dinner and watched a good movie

soph nooooooo to the bfn - how many dpo are you?

jaimie - yess thank you they're smudge free. they're the colour of strawberry icecream and i want to eat them a little bit.

niamh that's a scary story.

my friend brought her 2 week old baby into work yesterday, such a cutie. i really wanted to eat his feet, she said that was weird. is it weird!? i mean, i dont really wanna eat them. just have a weird urge to bite them?! lol. am i crazy?!

 

[Annamumof2]

well girls we worked out what makes me bleed when i am in a postion and i must be putting pressure on something so i have banned him from using it on me lol

and i am still not showing signs of a period i would like to know when it is showing up though as i am now very confused

 

[Tanikit]

Anna - glad you know which position to avoid - while it sounds weird, I hope AF shows soon so you know where you are.

Honeybee - little feet are so cute, so I understand what you are saying though I think I'd prefer to kiss them.

Celtic - that is scary. There is a site called www.misdiagnosedmiscarriage.com that speaks a lot about this. I don't think I'd ever get a DnC - I think I'd just wait and have a natural miscarriage if they said that unless they could prove my life was at risk.

Soph sorry about the BFN. How many dpo are you now? Its never over til AF shows.

I was rather stressed and grumpy this morning - too much to do in a hurry, so I am wondering if I have ovulated has that tends to make me more grumpy than I am preovulation. Guess time will tell, but DH and I have done what needs to be done and I feel more hopeful about this cycle.

The soccer world cup starts here on Friday evening and we can hear vuvazelas (I don't even know how to spell that) making a big noise around the corner. People are going to see the South African team for the last time today before the World Cup starts. Its at least a good atmosphere now and there are flags everywhere. DD is only 2 but knows how to recognise our flag and all the flags of her relatives living in different countries. My brother arrives this weekend as he is going to some of the matches so we will have a busy time this weekend.

 

[Annamumof2]

well i acording to the clearblue calendar i have it says i was due on yesterday but i dunno it might of been a rough guess

 

[Jaimie2Eyes]

jaimie - yess thank you they're smudge free. they're the colour of strawberry icecream and i want to eat them a little bit.

my friend brought her 2 week old baby into work yesterday, such a cutie. i really wanted to eat his feet, she said that was weird. is it weird!? i mean, i dont really wanna eat them. just have a weird urge to bite them?! lol. am i crazy?!

I don't think that is weird at all Honeybee - I think babies and strawberry ice cream nails sound perfectly edible and delish! Your post cracked me up.

Pavlova sounds really good too! Especially with kiwi fruit I wish there were a canadian on this thread so that we could dish american and canadian rivalries - especially with the hockey as the stanley cup finals are on. When I lived in Buffalo it was super fun to rag on canadians - but I secretly love them because canada is a gorgeous country and they seem to be more peace loving than americans.

Soph - I'm SO sorry about your bfn! I hope it is just too early to tell for you and that AF stays away

Tanikit - I'm really feeling for you on the BD issues with your husband. I sincerely hope the therapy continues to help and that you feel less stressed in general

 

[parkgirl]

I've been working 12 hour days the past few days and I've missed so much. Hope everyone is doing well. Yesterday or today should be O day for me, so DH and I have some playing to do tonight.

 

[soph77]

well girls we worked out what makes me bleed when i am in a postion and i must be putting pressure on something so i have banned him from using it on me lol

and i am still not showing signs of a period i would like to know when it is showing up though as i am now very confused

Well that is great Anna that you have figured out which position is a no go, so now you just have to avoid it!

Anna - glad you know which position to avoid - while it sounds weird, I hope AF shows soon so you know where you are.

Honeybee - little feet are so cute, so I understand what you are saying though I think I'd prefer to kiss them.

Celtic - that is scary. There is a site called www.misdiagnosedmiscarriage.com that speaks a lot about this. I don't think I'd ever get a DnC - I think I'd just wait and have a natural miscarriage if they said that unless they could prove my life was at risk.

Soph sorry about the BFN. How many dpo are you now? Its never over til AF shows.

I was rather stressed and grumpy this morning - too much to do in a hurry, so I am wondering if I have ovulated has that tends to make me more grumpy than I am preovulation. Guess time will tell, but DH and I have done what needs to be done and I feel more hopeful about this cycle.

The soccer world cup starts here on Friday evening and we can hear vuvazelas (I don't even know how to spell that) making a big noise around the corner. People are going to see the South African team for the last time today before the World Cup starts. Its at least a good atmosphere now and there are flags everywhere. DD is only 2 but knows how to recognise our flag and all the flags of her relatives living in different countries. My brother arrives this weekend as he is going to some of the matches so we will have a busy time this weekend.

Tanikit, I totally turn into a moody bitch after ovulation!! I always know that I have ovulated because everything started to annoy me. I think the world cup would be so exciting, my boys both play soccer but they are not that excited about it but I guess it would be a different story if it was in their own backyard!

I've been working 12 hour days the past few days and I've missed so much. Hope everyone is doing well. Yesterday or today should be O day for me, so DH and I have some playing to do tonight.

Get busy girl and have lots of fun!


My RA has really been playing up a lot the last couple of weeks, probably because I ran out of my tablets (oops). They are not safe for pg so I thought I would wait for af to come before I get the script filled again and i always stop taking them after ovulation just in case. My doctor wants to put me on some better drugs for it but I have to be finished making my family before I can start those and apparently pregnancy can cause RA to go into remission, so I am hoping that will be the case for me!
Anyway, I decided to strap my wrist last night because the pain has been waking me up a million times a night and I had the best night sleep ever! I think I will be strapping my wrist every night from now on.

And my stupid triphasic chart just keeps looking better and better! It is 14dpo now (or 12dpo if I Oed later) so it should be going down by now for af, but no it just keeps going higher! grrr

I am teaching lovely grade 2s today. I like the 2s they are so sweet and I had a beautiful grade 1 class yesterday. On tuesday I had the prep class from hell though, omg!! They were climbing the walls!

 

[CelticNiamh]

Soph That chart looks excellent! fingers are crossed for you!!!

 

[parkgirl]

FX and tons of for you soph77

 

[tryforbaby2]

Hiya Girls! I am popping in to say that I love you all and I am thinking of you all everyday (if not two and three times a day).

It would be nice to close down this thread this month as you all will hopefully be moving on over to first tri. I am sending you all loads and loads and loads of super eggy dust, super spermy dust, great sex dust, and loads of sticky baby dust for the eggy to stick.



I miss you all!

I will update you all on my appointment. I don't think it will be much of anything but bloodwork and my family history. I hope my blood pressure has gone done so I don't have to be considered high risk or start meds. We will see girls. Fingers Crossed for you and me!

Psssst......Soph.....Gosh I am getting excited over you fabulous chart!