Tthf

[CelticNiamh]

To all the darling lovely ladies who try MACA.... How does it work and what does it do??
And what does it taste like, also! LOL

I'm considering maybe taking it.... Not sure. I don't do well with tablets, and could probably only handle taking the powder if it was actually soluble... but if I can find it in a liquid somewhere then maybe... I'm just starting to be very put out by my stupid cycles. Cycle Day 31 and no ovulation has been seen. My temps have been crazy erratic. I mean, I know having thrush sucks, but surely it couldn't be doing this to my cycle??? I really doubt thrush can affect a womans ovulation! But otherwise, I don't know whats going on.
Should ring the doctor and find out if my swab tests are back yet. I am so confused and starting to become really discouraged by this whole process because my body is being so stupid its making me feels like its entirely my fault that I'm not pregnant yet.

MOON huge hugs love, the thursh will deffo not effect your ovulation apart from making you feel crap big time, here I had to use cream like that the last time as well pain in the bum, put it in at night when you going to sleep its not so bad then, but It will all come down when you get up in the morning and use the loo and then shower carefully no water up the snatchSnatch it just kills me !

On MACA you can take it in tablet form or powder any one who takes the powder form make smoothies and they have said they are yummy.
Benefits that I have found
Increased libidio (i deffo want to do it more)
More intense orgasims (this has to be the best one so far)
increased energy
Second month taking it:
no spotting
no mad PMS
easier AF
more EWCM
OV on CD15
easier cycles all round
will see how my LP goes this time round as well
ooh no thush so far in two months whoo hoo as I was getting that all the time so bloody annoying. I did get DH the tablet so may be thats the reason as well.

Would I recomend MACA HELL YES!! there is a thread on it here is the link lovely ladies as well https://www.babyandbump.com/ttc-gro...nning-collect-those-bfps-516.html#post5970395

yeah jaimie his SA is on 21st July, but that's around when i'll be ovulating so he'll have to move it.

im 13dpo today niamh, expecting af tomorrow or at the weekend, i think this will be one of the months that i cry when she shows but I'll get over it and by next week i'll be looking forward to ov. it's a waiting game isnt it? im waiting for af. then i'll wait for af to go. then i'll be waiting to ov. then it'll be the 2ww. grrr.

on the plus side, i have a new ice cream to try today, cinnamon caramel waffle yum. welcome dee!! My real name is Emily and i am addicted to ice cream.

Julia how are you today my love? Did i tell you im loving your choices for names? i certainly thought it! They rock.

lucky ive started saving for our trip to your land already lol.

xxx

OOH Honey, Im still hoping for you hun. I tested on CD12 and got a BFN and then on CD13 that night and got a very faint BFP retested and it was still faint on CD14 so you never know its not over till it over and we are hear for you as well
The Icecream sounds yummy


Soph to you too hun, I was wondering how you were

 

[Titi]

Watch out kootchcakes, I was more worried of making a volcano in there! (7th grade science experiment involving baking soda and vinegar!).
SOPH-I know it sounds scary but keep in mind at 34 and ttc 20 cycles I would actually probably stick a real actual firecracker up there if you promised I'd have a baby 9 months later!!!!!!!! And don't worry Squirrel-I did it two cycles and got itchy one cycle. And I went CRAZY with it that cycle-I did it a zillion times and used way to much BS.
I WAS itchy and a little sore (could have been mild thrush, IDK) about a week later but oddly enough really tight (sorry tmi) at the same time which was very strange side effect?!?!?!?

Titi, I need to apologise hun. I am sorry, that was totally insensitive of me. After my bfn today I am already willing to change my stance on the bsf with my toxic vagina! I am now officially willing to stick a firecracker up my clacka too! And on second thought, if the bsf did cause a swollen fat vajayjay and a pregnancy, wouldn't that make labour easier? The baby would just fall out! No need for pushing.

Soph-no need to apologise-it wasn't insensitive at ALL! And you know what? After our chatter few posts back about grumbling when pg women complain, I was thinking that, if you think about it-truly anyone in the world could find anything insensitive at the right time. I mean-I was complaining about my 90 hour work weeks last month-not even thinking that could be really insensitive to people who have lost their jobs-see what I mean........?? So heres to just TTHF (exclamation point! : )

And I'm really sorry about your bfn..........even worse the evap.....that is a mean trick : ( I bet you will get a bfp soon though!

 

[soph77]

Honey, that stupid effing biaatch!!!
All I can think of is singing that Philadelphia Grand song to the witch

'I'm gunna kill you, I'm gunna kill you dead!'


Niamh, sounds like you are getting some pretty good benefits from the maca! I've been taking it too, but haven't go that much from them

All I want to do is find something, anything, that will give me ewcm!!! Nothing is working for me :growl:

 

[Titi]

oh no Honeybee : ( I'm sorry about that FREAKIN WITCH!!!! She got me in my sleep last cycle too...........I woke up temping all excited that my temp had risen and stupid me she'd already come and made a little mess.

 

[Titi]

Soph-have you tried grapefruit juice and or EPO? Both work WONDERS for EWCM. I tried both but the grapefruit juice alone works so good I didn't need to continue with the EPO. Every month I start cd1 with about 2 8oz glasses a day of non-from concentrate pink gf. until I ov. I've been doing this since Nov. or Dec. I also tried wild yam this month-I don't know if that is supposed to help but I had the most and longest stretch of ewcm to date!

 

[soph77]

I have been taking epo from af to o for the last 4 months - nothing. I think I will cancel that this cycle coming and I have been eating grapefruits and drink the juice as well, but i think I will up the grapefruit intake and see if that make a difference, I don't think I was having enough. I even quit taking my allergy tablets because they supposedly dry up your nasal mucus and your cm.

So now I am going through the torture of being constantly itchy EVERYWHERE and sneezing and being all gross and there is STILL no stupid cm to speak of! I think I'm broken

 

[LuckyD]

Ok, here we go again with the long replies...I wish my time zone was a bit closer to all of you (except Moon and Soph - we are fairly near to each other!)

Yeah, didn't mean that it's not good to be healthy and stuff, I just meant that surely the priority should be keeping your baby healthy instead of not putting on weight, which is kind of what Heidi Klum was saying. But then again, I have read of women in New York paying Drs to do (illegal) early c-sections so they can skip the last couple of months of pregnancy weight gain. Absolutely insane.

That really really makes me mad! How stupid and selfish can people be?!??!!? Freakin' early C-Sections?!??!!! Those are the types of people who should have a hard time having a kid, or they should be banned from having kids if they are going to be so selfish. Why do those of us who would be wonderful, caring moms have such a hard time!

I know, right? To me that says something pretty sad and extreme about the pressure that society places on women to look a certain way...why would you sacrifice the health of your child to look a certain way. It's pretty sick.

Hope you are having a lovely time away!

Hi Ladies,

May I join you? Titi pointed me your way and what I've read so far is hilarious!

I'm 34 and DH is 36 we've been TTC no. 1 since March 08. Hope you'll have me.

Welcome Dee! Nice to have you here!

LuckyD - glad you'll have us for that awesome day when we all have gorgeous babies, plenty of free time, and the money to visit you in New Zealand : ) I can definitely see how your line of work would lead you to want to raise a child in a loving, stable home. Can't wait to see you achieve that goal hon Same with TryFor, I'm so glad she is raising her children much differently than what she grew up with.

Oh stop it Jaimie, you are gonna make me cry! That is very sweet, and I feel the same...I am going to be so freaking happy the day I hear about your BFP!

See, you fit right in Titi because LuckyD has a self-described exclamation point problem. The other funny thing about TTHF with exclamation points is that in my mind, when I read that, it sounds like we are trying TOO hard to have fun but we are really just super duper TTC obsessed freaks. That cracks me up, because it is very true for me at times. But overall this thread really has made it all much more amusing and does remind me to chillax...

Yes, I have a serious exclamation point addiction!! I can't stop using them every time I write something! It's even spreading over into my work now....

I know, sometimes it makes me laugh as it sounds like we are TRYING SO HARD to have fun, and therefore negating the whole point of TTHF...but in reality it doesn't feel like that at all. This thread has been such a saviour for me - when I first got on BnB I spent so much time reading all the different threads, but I found it was way too easy to obsess doing that. Now I just stick to a few favourites and it works so much better for me. Plus the fact that we talk about lots of different stuff...and everyone is so supportive....aw, I just love you girls!

Sorry hun I caved this morning and tested too, got a bfn of course. Was gutted. I actually did a htp 2 days ago because I couldn't resist and got an evap which I had never had before and fooled myself into thinking that that was the start of my bfp. ME = IDIOT! I did get some ultra sensitive tests in the post today so, of course will keep testing, but yes, I am totally gutted today

So sorry love stupid evap, that must have been really hard. Hope you are ok xxxx

so guess who got me in my sleep!?!? STUPID WITCH!!! [inserts plenty of swear words] I HAAAAAATE HER SHE'S RUINING MY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!! I dont want to go to work and listen to old preggars whinge that shes fat because im scared i will like you know erm PUNCH HER IN THE HEAD. grrrrrrr. (pregnant tthfers, dont take that the wrong way, you know it's just coz im jealous)

I need a plan. who's on the bd every 3 days plan? might try that, i think every day is too much. maybe less is more?

Oh no honeybee!!! So sorry love Grrrrr stupid stupid AF!! Sending you lots and lots of hugs right now

In terms of a plan...me and my OH are doing every 2 or 3 days...am finding it way more relaxing. We will probably try and do a few in a row when I get a positive OPK...but am enjoying the feeling of less pressure xx hope that helps

Soph-have you tried grapefruit juice and or EPO? Both work WONDERS for EWCM. I tried both but the grapefruit juice alone works so good I didn't need to continue with the EPO. Every month I start cd1 with about 2 8oz glasses a day of non-from concentrate pink gf. until I ov. I've been doing this since Nov. or Dec. I also tried wild yam this month-I don't know if that is supposed to help but I had the most and longest stretch of ewcm to date!

Totally agree Titi - the grapefruit worked awesome for me too. I ate real grapefruits and it was almost an instant change!


Moon - so sorry you are having yucky times with thrush - hope that clears up real soon!

Ejay - mmmmm, yay for food from the garden! Love it. How did your feijoa research go?


I am soooo tired but sooooo happy it's Friday night! Wooooo!!! Had such a busy week but tonight I collapsed on the couch and we had Indian takeaways and watched TV - plus a sneaky glass of sav blanc - perfect end to the week.

Me and my friends were talking about milestones in our lives the other day, and got talking about our first kisses and when we lost our virginity. Anyone got any stories they want to share around that??

I remember my first kiss like it was yesterday...first kiss was when I was 10 and it was with a boy I had been 'going out' with for a couple of months...it was so sweet and innocent, and I really believed I was in love with him. No tongues though!
First pash (as we Kiwis and Aussies like to say) was when I was 12...a bit of a disaster. It was both of our first times and it didn't really work very well...luckily I've had a bit of practice since then!

 

[LuckyD]

I have been taking epo from af to o for the last 4 months - nothing. I think I will cancel that this cycle coming and I have been eating grapefruits and drink the juice as well, but i think I will up the grapefruit intake and see if that make a difference, I don't think I was having enough. I even quit taking my allergy tablets because they supposedly dry up your nasal mucus and your cm.

So now I am going through the torture of being constantly itchy EVERYWHERE and sneezing and being all gross and there is STILL no stupid cm to speak of! I think I'm broken

Oh Soph you are not broken! Some people don't get a lot of cm...I remember Nessicle saying that she never got ewcm and she got pg after three months. I know it sucks but I am sure that your body is working fine

 

[Dee7509]

Thanks for the welcome everyone! I'm having a painful af but I think the painkillers are finally taking effect.

Ice cream & cup cakes yummy .... I indulged in both yesterday!

The grapefruit juice works for me too, LuckyD, the fresh fruit would be even better.

Soph77 - feel better hun.

Honeybee - I'm on CD2 . Stupid witch! We're planning every 2/3 days too so I'm with you.

Lucky D that food sounds delicious - now I'm hungry but it's breakfast here so off to have some.

Hi to anyone I missed out.

 

[Annamumof2]

ok sorry i havent repled to anyones post this is a quick post as i come out of hospital yesterday and i started CD 1 yesterday, as i was spotting sense last friday and then yesterday got the proper bleed, anyway looks like im off the TTC for a bit as Andy's brothers wife is 8 weeks pregnant now, all i wanna so is cry as i so want a baby and its a year on the 5th that i have been trying, i feel so down and im on 2 diffrent anti b's because of bad toncelitus thats why i was in hospital and i had to have a needle in my throat but i will maybe explane all another time just so tired and what not at the moment

 

[Moondance]

ok sorry i havent repled to anyones post this is a quick post as i come out of hospital yesterday and i started CD 1 yesterday, as i was spotting sense last friday and then yesterday got the proper bleed, anyway looks like im off the TTC for a bit as Andy's brothers wife is 8 weeks pregnant now, all i wanna so is cry as i so want a baby and its a year on the 5th that i have been trying, i feel so down and im on 2 diffrent anti b's because of bad toncelitus thats why i was in hospital and i had to have a needle in my throat but i will maybe explane all another time just so tired and what not at the moment

OMG, Anna, that sounds terrible.... So sorry chicky...

I'm feeling sick right now.... Just spent an hour feeling nauseus and wanting to throw up.... not sure why. Then did a vomit burp, which induced a coughing fit, which almost made me vomit. Don't know whats wrong with me!!!
Still feeling a bit nauseous, I have that weird "want to throw up" feeling in my throat... IYKWIM?

Also found today that I have had a major pimple breakout on my cheeks (near my hair)... Last time I had a pimple outbreak like this I was 17! And my hair, omg, so weird... I wash it and it just flops like its dead, has no life in it.... and a day and a half later, its dirty!

cd31 for me and no sign of ovulation either.... don't know whats going on!
Honestly, if I hadn't had a period at the beginning of June, I'd wonder if I was preggers, but theres no way!

 

[Annamumof2]

right i can type now lol

i was in alot of pain wednesday morning, Andy called the on call doctor and they told him to call the surgary around 8:30am to get me an appointment anyway i couldnt handly it any longer so i endded up taking the kids to my parents so they was off school that day, then i saw a doctor and he said i needed to go to the JR in Oxford, anyway i got there in the morning and was moved to the ward 1:30pm that day and found out i needed to stay there the night as i had very bad toncelitic and i needed to get it checked over and on drips and things because i couldnt eat, drink or talk, anyway i was on 2 diffrent anti b's and parasetamol and siline (dunno how to spell it) and that day the doctor come and stuck a needle in my throat to see if they can get some puss out because the back of my throat was full of it which was stopping me from talking, and it bloody hurt, anyway i am all better now and i can talk yay

an Andy's brothers misses is pregnant she is 8 weeks now which means i cant try till shes almost had it, makes me so bloody depressed which is not fair so now all i wanna do is cry and i know i sound mean seeing as its her first and i'm on my third but oh well, i started my CBFM yesterday, so its saying CD 5 because i was spotting sense last friday, and then i started bleeding proply yesterday, so im leaving it and seeing if i do ovulate if i dont then i will go to the doctors and demand a test or something to find out why im not pregnant yet, can't believe its soon a year ive been trying and i havent fallen because of that damn depo, anyway i will shut up now lol

xxx

 

[Annamumof2]

ok sorry i havent repled to anyones post this is a quick post as i come out of hospital yesterday and i started CD 1 yesterday, as i was spotting sense last friday and then yesterday got the proper bleed, anyway looks like im off the TTC for a bit as Andy's brothers wife is 8 weeks pregnant now, all i wanna so is cry as i so want a baby and its a year on the 5th that i have been trying, i feel so down and im on 2 diffrent anti b's because of bad toncelitus thats why i was in hospital and i had to have a needle in my throat but i will maybe explane all another time just so tired and what not at the moment

OMG, Anna, that sounds terrible.... So sorry chicky...

I'm feeling sick right now.... Just spent an hour feeling nauseus and wanting to throw up.... not sure why. Then did a vomit burp, which induced a coughing fit, which almost made me vomit. Don't know whats wrong with me!!!
Still feeling a bit nauseous, I have that weird "want to throw up" feeling in my throat... IYKWIM?

Honestly, if I hadn't had a period at the beginning of June, I'd wonder if I was preggers, but theres no way!

go do a test if your not sure, when was your last period and when you due next?

 

[honeybee28]

Thanks ladies! dee im sorry she got you too but yey you can be my cycle buddy!! HOw long are your cycles? mine are 33-38 days normally, might do a sneaky test on 30th july coz thats my birthday though.

soph, hope the witch stays away.

ok so you know what im gonna do this month? tthf. lower case. no exclamation mark. no softcups, no cbfm, no epo no grapefruit. nothing. will carry on with the maca and multi vits, and will use a bit of preseed but only if im a bit dry. basically gonna ntnp for a month. that's it. I'll think i'll get pregnant when the big guy upstairs decides the time is right, and not because ive taken a certain vitamin or anything. ive got 2 exams this month for work, thats stress enough for me without thinking that i *must* have sex coz my cbfm says. ha. (wonder how long this'll last!?)

im going out for a curry and drinks tonight yessssssss.

mmmm lucky, NZ sav blanc is my fav wine in the world!!

i bet all of you in America are getting excited about 4th July celebrations.

hope you feel better soon anna , you too moon.

now it's the weekenddddddd!! Lets P A R T yyyyyyYYY!!

xxx

 

[Annamumof2]

Thanks ladies! dee im sorry she got you too but yey you can be my cycle buddy!! HOw long are your cycles? mine are 33-38 days normally, might do a sneaky test on 30th july coz thats my birthday though.

soph, hope the witch stays away.

ok so you know what im gonna do this month? tthf. lower case. no exclamation mark. no softcups, no cbfm, no epo no grapefruit. nothing. will carry on with the maca and multi vits, and will use a bit of preseed but only if im a bit dry. basically gonna ntnp for a month. that's it. I'll think i'll get pregnant when the big guy upstairs decides the time is right, and not because ive taken a certain vitamin or anything. ive got 2 exams this month for work, thats stress enough for me without thinking that i *must* have sex coz my cbfm says. ha. (wonder how long this'll last!?)

im going out for a curry and drinks tonight yessssssss.

mmmm lucky, NZ sav blanc is my fav wine in the world!!

i bet all of you in America are getting excited about 4th July celebrations.

hope you feel better soon anna , you too moon.

now it's the weekenddddddd!! Lets P A R T yyyyyyYYY!!

xxx

thanks hun, hope you have a good time and i will keep my fingers crossed for the BFP for you when it happens

 

[Ejay]

Anna - sorry sounds like you have been having a really rough time, I do hope the anti biotics clear things up for you quick. Sorry if you have already said but why do you have to stop TTC because of Andy's brothers wife?

 

[Annamumof2]

Anna - sorry sounds like you have been having a really rough time, I do hope the anti biotics clear things up for you quick. Sorry if you have already said but why do you have to stop TTC because of Andy's brothers wife?

because its her first and she will get all the attention and worry and stuff, and we are trying for our 3rd and i know it sounds mean but i just well i dont wanna be pregnant around the same time as her and feel left out on stuff

 

[Jaimie2Eyes]

as Soph says the vajayjay is a wonderful self cleaning oven, you will be right back to baking and icing your kootchcakes before you know it.

you've been laying out some hilarious lines lately Ejay!

ok so you know what im gonna do this month? tthf. lower case. no exclamation mark. no softcups, no cbfm, no epo no grapefruit. nothing. will carry on with the maca and multi vits, and will use a bit of preseed but only if im a bit dry. basically gonna ntnp for a month. that's it. I'll think i'll get pregnant when the big guy upstairs decides the time is right, and not because ive taken a certain vitamin or anything.

That sounds really righteous HoneyBee - deep down that is what I believe too, that when the time is right we will be blessed and there is no amount of kootchcake recipe alterations that will change that. But it is hard to resist the temptation to do everything you can to make it happen ASAP because we all want it SO badly...just gotta work on the tthf and hanging loose rather than longing our lives away. Glad I've got such great gals to do that with So sorry this wasn't your cycle hon REALLY hope old preggers at work doesn't make you want to smack her!

Soph - I've read that MANY gals have EWCM but just don't realize it because it only hangs out around the cervix and doesn't drip down so that we see it when we wipe. The only time I've found it is when I scooped around my cervix for it , and then I felt bad because I worried that I pulled it all out! Actually, I felt pretty grossed out at first - then worried

Ah LuckyD - when I read your posts on Friday AM and read about how you are chillaxin' on Friday night with some wine it makes me cringe with the thought that I have an entire day ahead of me! I want very much to be at the end of my day, especially because I have a long weekend and just want to PARTAY! Glad you knew what I meant about trying too hard to tthf - that still cracks me up because it is all too true...

Anna - really sorry about your tonsillitis and feeling like you have to wait till your SIL is far along to TTC again. Hope you feel better soon.

Moon - hope you don't have to deal with a vajayjay full of cream much longer

Howdy Titi, Dee, TryFor, Tanikit!!

 

[MyTurnYet]

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ladies! I've messed my sleep schedule all up, and a couple nights this week I came on BnB at like 2 and 4 in the morning...didn't post much, but you guys were CRACKING me up! Like I was just sitting there laughing until DH finally came to see what was going on and bring me back to bed. It was the discussions a couple pages ago about kootchcakes.

I need to go back again and get all caught up, just actually came on to find Squirrel's ice cream cone cupcake recipe that I'm going to try to make tomorrow. I just hope I can make them look as pretty.

U.S. girls, happy 4th of July!

 

[Jaimie2Eyes]

Hi Jill! Missed ya! Hope your kootchcakes - I mean Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes - come out delish : )