Chart Stalkers February 2008

[Loola]

Loola your temps are still up, you're still a week of AF being due,don't get down just because you're in a mood, it could be other hormones after all

I know, Im probably just being irrational as I always am at this time of the month! My OH has pissed me off, he hasnt really done anything wrong, he was just 'too busy' to talk to me when I called him for a chat, too busy playing X-Box no doubt!

I had felt positive for so long, I hate this negative feeling which is creeping back in.

 

[choklatemunky]

oh dear no-one seems very happy today.
Claire - sorry that must be really hard - I dont suppose anything anyone can say will help that much but remember we are all here for you and there are plenty of shoulders to cry on here..

Loola - same applies to you (and dont get down as it is not over for you yet)

Sookie -how bloody frustrating for you again

ROM - hope you are ok

Kitty - how strange - I was EXACTLY the same this morning - I reached out for my thermometer and thought oh stuff it Ive been awake half the night and it wont be accurate or useful so I didnt bother either!!!

Everyone else (not read back through all the recent posts so not sure what anyone else has been saying Im afriad!!)

 

[babydust]

sorry claire, that must have been really hard
sookie please dont give up
loola being a moody cow is a good sign, i was the wicked witch a week before i got my bfp
kittykins, hope you get work things sorted and get a better sleep tonight
and here is more for everyone else

im having a shi**y day as well i took the girls to nursery today and one of the parents asked me how i was and how many weeks i was now and all i could say was i lost it and then i had to run back to the car crying, for me telling people the news is harder than dealing with it yourself, im also getting my hair done tonight and havent seen my hairdresser since my m/c so i will need to tell her as well, i just want to go away where no one knows. i could be doing with that drink kitty, wish i stayed near u

 

[Loola]

Thanks everyone I feel so silly when I get all uptight. I have made up with OH now. I only wanted to tell him that one of the parcels that had arrived this morning was a present for him! It was only a Man Utd key ring. I guess Im feeling a bit stressed as my gas and electric bills came yesterday and were extreme! I now have to pay an extra £25 per month on the Electric and £45 extra per month on the gas, which is shocking i think! Especially as my bloody fire still isnt working since the carbon monoxide incident! Sorry for my ranting! I can feel my blood boiling today! I sometimes think I couldnt possibly afford to look after a baby with all these bills anyway.

Edit - Babydust, that must be so hard

 

[CB23]

oh babydust that is so difficult I agree telling people is the worst but when its forced on you and you aren't prepared for it even worse, sending lots of love and hugs your way

 

[sally12]

Oh loola..you have been so positive this month...dont dispair! Try to remember that everything happens for a reason (I just dont know the reason yet why everyone else can conceive and I dont seem to be able to...but there must be one!)

Please stay happy

I did my temp three times last night....one at 12:15 (I thought it was morning), one at 3:20 (yes, I thought it was morning again) and once at 5.25 (It wasnt morning but I got up anyway!). So Kittykins, you can have one of my temps if you like!?

 

[Loola]

Thanks Sally - sometimes I work myself up so much about silly things! Im so much like my Mother in that way, funnily enough its what I hate about my Mother! I shall keep thinking positive I promise! Not about this month, as I really dont feel like its happened, but I will keep thinking positive about the future. My OH has lost another half stone, and is so much healthier, he says he feels 'different' like his sperm 'goes further' these days! Sorry TMI, but thats got to be a good thing surely!? If the mobility is coming back? (Not that I know for sure that he ever had a problem).

You really made me chuckle about taking your temps 3 times! The first month I temped, my OH came to bed after me, I was asleep and apparently I sat upright and rapidly stuck the thermometer in my mouth, whilst still being asleep. I remember my OH waking me and asking what the hell I was doing as it was only 12 midnight. I really thought it was the morning!

Oh yeah and Kitty - I keep forgetting to say, Cheri predicted a girl for me.

This may sound mad, but when I was last pregnant, I conceived sometime around Feb 14th, Im not sure exactly when as it was 5 years ago and I wasnt TTC, and certainly not charting. I always thought of this baby as a girl. I lost her on April 11th, 8 weeks later. Its pretty much exactly 5 years ago, Im A) thinking what if that was the baby that Cheri predicted which is long gone, and B) I dont want history to repeat itself. I know that all sounds insane but I think we all know that TTC and insanity go hand in hand. I suppose if I was pregnant now, Id have to think positively that my baby girl was coming back to me, hopefully this time to stay.

 

[CB23]

Funnily enough Loola Cheri predicted April for me which was my due month, I wondered if she was predicting the child we had lost, but then came down in favour of what she said being twaddle. Don't beat yourself up about it

 

[kmac]

Evening everyone
It's been a busy day on here.

lots of to everyone who could do with them...... hope you are all feeling a little better now.

My news today is that my bladder feels much better now! The pills are working a treat! I have almost regained control of it!

My temp was a teeny bit higher this morning.
I don't know when to wait until to do a test.
I had thought thursday - 14dpo- does that seem sensible?

DH wants me to do one now but I have drank loads of water today to help bladder situation. Plus I am already imagining the blank space where the line would be....
Will just have to wait and see I guess.........

 

[Kittykins]

Thanks for the offer, Sally, but I think your spare temp would throw my chart out a bit!


Maybe we should have a chartstalkers night out some time Or better still, we should have a virtual night out. We should all open a bottle of wine and sit in front of our computers at the same time At least then there'd be only a virtual mess the next morning. Sadly we'd probably have real hangovers...

kmac - your chart looks great. If you test before 14dpo, then I'd test only with FMU. Thursday sounds sensible to me. The thing is that at the moment you don't know your normal luteal phase - average is 12 - 16 days. The longer you can hang on for, the less disappointment you'll have if it's a BFN. The worst thing would be to test at 14dpo, and then subsequently discover you always have a lp of 16 days. That's why FF suggests waiting till 18dpo the first time. So - test FMU on Thursday, but be prepared (and prepare your DH) to find out that actually your AF isn't due till Saturday. Good luck - we'll be ing for you!

 

[babydust]

well i dont know how the whole cherri thing works but after i m/c i emailed her to tell her and she told me she could see the same child that she had predicted for me for june now

 

[reallyoldmum]

Claire

Well ladies check out my chart it appears FF thinks I have only just ovulated Actually I think so too - what I have discovered is that even if I have 1 glass of wine my temps shoot up the next morning it doesnt seem to matter whether I have 1 glass or a whole bottle! Now I am going out to dinner tonight with a very dear old friend who is having a really hard time with his wife and we are bound to share a bottle so tomorrow my temp will not be reliable I would really like to see if my temp stays high due to ovulation but I know I wont be able to resist!!

I hope everyone has the temp rises and falls appropriate to the time in their cycle

Going to wake up Josh now - he's got his driving test today!!!

 

[KayKav]

GOOD NEWS GIRLS.....

DH and I have both done our 'Fertell Fertility' tests (DH last night, and me this morning - the ovarian reserve one)....and both are FINE!!!!

I'm so relieved, and so glad we've both done them. DH wouldn't let me 'help' with his in the end - he said he felt stupid! As soon as his came back ok, I had to wait all night before I could do mine, I've hardly slept as I really didn't want to let him down - but all is OK now!

So I said i'd try one different thing each cycle (last cycle was Agnus Castus - which made me ill!), so this cycle i'm not having a drop of alcohol - none at all, which should be good practice for me anyway, probably do me the world of good, and maybe help me to lose a few pounds too!

Hope everyone else is ok.
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[reallyoldmum]

Excellent news Kaykav - you must be very pleased Now just try and relax at least you know you are both ok now.

 

[CB23]

ROM that's great news, shame you won't be able to tell easily if you're temps have stayed up but Fridays temp should tell you! 'Well timed intercourse' too!!

Hope Josh's driving test goes well!

Kaykav that is very good news.

 

[Chill]

So I woke up at 1am with the bed shaking and was just about to tell DH to stop shaking the bed (?!??) when I realised it was an earthquake [edit: and was a bit stressed].
My first was thought was "oh man, that's going to delay my ovulation"
oh well at least I know to expect it! I got a + OPK yesterday but I guess it could still be delayed? harrrumph. Oh well at least the earth moved... (I'll get my coat).

Glad to hear you are feeling better kmac

Hope you ov'd ROM and caught the egg

on your test results KayKav. I seem to be OK on the FSH one. Just need to find the time to give DH 3 days off so he can prepare for his.

:wave : everyone else

Chill
x

 

[choklatemunky]

hey peeps!

Kmac - glad you are feeling a bit better -hope it goes once and for all!

Kitty - a chartstalkers night out sounds like fun! even if it is a virtual one....its quite strange, I think ive said it before that I get a picture in my head of what you all look like when i read your posts but I bet none of you look anything like the way I think you do (I do it too with people on the radio and Im always wrong!) does anyone else do it?

babydust - how confusing for you....

ROM - I thought that yesterday when I looked at your chart but didnt mention it...heres hoping your temp stays up

KayKav - good news on the tests!

Chill - how scary! If you have had positive OPKs yesterday then you might even have ovd before the quake - time will tell I guess.

everyone else! Hope you are all ok. I had another crappy nights on/off sleep...

 

[reallyoldmum]

Choklatemonkey I know what you mean about thinking you know how people look perhaps we should all put our pictures up on here.

 

[Loola]

Yes I do the same! It would be nice to see what everyone really looks like, then when we have our virtual piss up, perhaps we can post pics of how mangled we look!

 

[reallyoldmum]

OK this was me last week when it was my mum's birthday.

Yep just after one of those glasses of wine