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Hi ya -- just thought I'd stop in before bed. Went to the bathroom and looks like I am spotting. So I guess AF came a day earlier than expected. I told DH that I want to take a month off by using condoms, so I can get this throat thing fixed and de-stress. I need a massage and a facial! DH wasn’t really keen on holding off on baby making. He thinks that we should just keep having unprotected sex and if it happens it happens. But I think I need a break, because the 2WW stresses me out to no end… and then I am so disappointed when AF arrives. Don’t know what to do. Anyhow, DH is complaining that I am not getting ready for bed. So I guess I should bid everyone a good evening and I will see ya in the morning.

Hi girls, well had my d&c yesterday. Got advice from our specialist before we went ahead and he didn't feel there was any point in waiting and to be honest neither did I. I'm suprisingly ok. I've been terrified since day 1 of this pg and for the first time in weeks I have that weight lifted. I know it sounds tight but it was seriously too soon for hubby and I after losing Halle. If anyone can give me some practical advice regarding bleeding that would be great. I should have ov today on my normal cycle, and I should be due on in 2 weeks. I bled quite a bit yesterday (didn't think they'd let me out, but I've said it before I am a bleeder). So just rested up and its totally eased up now, still a bit bleedy and feel a tiny bit bruised but but I seem to be ok. I lost a little grey matter clot (not an easy thing to see sorry if tmi) and a few normal little clots but they seem to have sorted themselves now. Can anyone tell me what I should expect now? Will my cycle go back to normal or might it not be as easy as that? BABYTWO

Sorry - BABYTWO - I do hope things go better for you. Bleeding doesn't have to be a sign of something bad. Just breath and take each day as it comes. Fingers firmly crossed for you and yours. Our bean never made it past 8 wks it seems, when my symptoms started to go properly and I spotted brite blood. I kinda knew this pg wasn't right for a while, and was totally not optimistic about it because it was too soon, both physically and emotionally for us both. As I've said we are not gonna give the trying a rest for a minimum of 3/4 months. Don't even wanna address it until then and THIS TIME, we will take precautions to stop anything happening. Good luck to all on the tww, and sticky baby dust to all those with beans in tact.
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HOPEFULK I'm so sorry to hear your news. I hope the bleeding lets up soon. If i'm not Pg this month I'm looking forward to having next month off as we've decided not to try for a christmas Baby. I'm sick of putting my life onhold with the am I? aren't I? To scared to do something in case you are. With being a Detective it makes my job a constant worry for me. So I know how you feel about leaving it a few months. NVgirl Giving your mind an body a rest is probably a good idea but we all know that the reaility is that if we are having unprotected sex there will always be that 2ww for us. BABY2 sorry to hear your spotting. I'm hoping all will be well in the end for you. NVgirl sorry to hear your AF came.

DELTA - glad you little lamb is out and about - hope the antibiotics help - Have you named him/her? No word from BABYTWO and i am very worried. BABYTWO hope you are OK -I am thinking about you. CINDYJ - try not to worry from what I saw bleeding isn;t uncommon at O. If it get's heavy you may want to contact your doc but sould like it's streaky and in the cm - which doesn't sound like cause for worry. Thanks for starting the new thread! NV I understand wanting to take some time off. My DH refuses to wear a condom. He'd rather not have sex, so we tried charting to avoid conception - hope you are feeling better. Good luck on the interview. I hope they offer you the job so you at least have the option, but if you don't want to go back into the 9-6 thing I understand. HOPEFUL - glad your procedure went OK - I know this is tough and there are no words that i can offer that will change a thing - realize that many of your feelings are generated by hormone fluctuations - so just give yourself some time.....take care. Hopeful haven't had a d7c but i always treat day 1 of the m/c like day 1 of my cycle. The first cycle may go longer but that's the best information I can offer.

Well I'm back from my holiday got a great tan and gained 14 pounds while I was away!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah I know how? Well I retain water from flying and I normally gain about 5 pounds when my af is due. So I'm hoping it's down to that cos I really didn't eat that much and as for drink I probably only had about 2 glasses of wine a night. Well I got my dates mixed up while I was away and thought that Sunday was the27th so I got all excited and thought my af hadn't shown. Kept checking tp to see nothing what a long day and then the next day I realised what an idiot I was and thought oh no I'm not late I'm due today!!! Anyway af didn't show and still hasn't shown. I did take a test on 26th and got a very very faint line and then again on the 28th and got another faint line. It was no darker than the first and looked exactly the same. So i am pretty sure I'm not PG as I'm sure the line should of got darker so I put my late AF down to the holiday and expect it to show anyday. I put the line down to be an evap line even though it showed up within the 10 minutes. I really just don't think I'm PG. In away I'm hoping that I'm not as I've done everything wrong this time. Drank alcohol, eaten unhealthy and had no exercise! Hence the weight gain! Not sure how long to wait to test again if af doesn't show I'm 16dpo So I should expect a positive as of today. Not getting my hopes up though putting it down to the hoilday. I will have to start reading and catching up with what you guys have been upto while I've been away.

HOPEFUL- I am glad that you seem ok about everything you have been through. I don't mean to sound insensitive, but was Halle your little girl? When did you lose her and how far along were you. Sometimes I miss things on here. I think you already know that we lost our Sophia in June at 28wks (stillbirth). I still cry all the time, but I want another baby. I have been thinking that maybe I would like to take the summer off from trying and just vaca and lose some weight and tan. All of those fun things. But if I were to get pg, I wouldn't be upset about it. DD- I am still having just a tiny bit of blood today, like yesterday, but I think it is ok. I am not worried about it. Well I am going to make some coffee and I have some guys here woking on my drywall, so need to keep an eye on them. TTYL

Hey girls! I haven't been on this thread in a while since it was getting so hard for me to keep up with!! I just wanted to say hi!! I am 7 dpo and waiting to test.....my temp was a little lower than my CL on FF this morning. Although my CL is soooo high. I am not sure what is going on....maybe it just isn't the month for me!! http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/MeganP Check out my chart and let me know what you all think....I have been posting it everywhere trying to get everyones opinion!!! Hope you all are doing great! Any bfp's yet???

GINI, if AF is not here by 17 dpo, and you have any sort of positive test, it's real. Sounds like you had a great time. . . .. Hope everyone is doing well. I must run. DS wants me to play with him, and he's been sort of ignored while I was so sick. Not feeling 100% today, but not throwing up. Anything is an improvement over that.

Just wanted to say a quick hello, and let HOPEFUL know that we are here for you and I am glad that you are i alright spirits. BABYTWO, where are you? Is everything o.k.... We are here for you.

CINDY - i was thinkin of doing the same thing yesterday so glad yous tarted this new thread. the next one should be changed to Dec/Jan probably. I wouldnt worry with the spotting, im sure its from bd'ing. HOPEFUL - your cycle will start yesterday as cd1. wish it was that easy to pick up where we should have been but its not. i spotted for several days before i had 2 days of nothing then bled like crazy for about 8 days. I o'd sometimes during that bleed i am pretty sure and then got af 28 days after d&c. it depends on you as to how soon it goes back to normal, mine did but others didnt. depends on how long the hormones take to leave. Your name suits you wonderfully.. you are very Hopeful and i am so glad that you are :-) BABY - where are you? what happened? no news is not always good news.. i sure hope she's ok!! BUFFY - did ya cal your doc? try to get a blood test. at the moment you kinda are putting your life on hold by not really knowing if you are or arent, at least, IMHO. then again, i wish i had your ability to not test. DH and i kinda got into little "things" the last 2 nites cuz he keeps saying, just wait 3 weeks and you will know. why do you have to test. what is the big deal. well, he was wanting to bd and i lost the mood after that. DD - so far the anitbiotics havent helped but 1 shot rarely does. he is more active so that is a great thing. of course ive named them lol he looks like a dang camel the way his lips are shaped and his face lol his color is brownish too, im not creative with colors and when i first named them ALL lol, i gave them practical names so i (and dh when i sent him out to them) could pick them out. so.. my little guy is brownie. has 1 brown leg. lol not very creative but it is practical lol probably the only time in my life im practical lol How are you feeling? any m/s yet? SUSAN - glad you aren't sick today, hopefully it will stay that way, and glad that DH took the DS and gave ya a break. sure hope you get to feeling better. i know its gotta be rough with the horses when you're so sick. have ya heard ftrom midwife yet? i would def complain. did ya get your voice back? you are having a hell of a time arent ya? poor thing.

HOPEFUL---I hope you are feeling better. Let me say how I understand 100% about the weight being lifted off. I told my dh that I didn't want to loose the baby but worrying about every little thing had ne exhausted. Maybe it was too soon after loosing baby #1. I don't know. I think that making a baby shouldn't be so much "work" and that is why I am taking off this time. After my d&c on Friday I only bled a little bit, Saturday had nothing and then it started up again on Sunday. It seems to have stopped today. My last m/c I bled for 17 days straights and with clots. I guess each one is different. Just give your body time to heal and relax. I have you in my prayers. SUSAN---I am sorry about your m/s. With my daughter I was sick so much in the begining that I lost 25 pounds. They were close to putting me in the hospital and then it just stopped and I couldn't get enough Taco Bell. She was 7ibs 6ozs at birth so it didn't do anything to her. It sucks I know but it will pass. BABYTWO---I am praying for you!!!!!!!!

Yay! New thread. I am sure everyone will "be here" soon. NV: I hear ya on the massage and facial! Men don't really understand (and sometimes we can't expect them to) that unprotected sex for a woman TTC means that she will instictively count up, count down, and wait wait wait, test test test. It's not like you can just throw up your hands and say whatever. Because if you had unprotected sex, you know in the back of your mind, you'll be counting and monitoring. So if you truly want a month off, I say go with the condom idea. HOPEFUL: So glad you sound like you are doing OK. Did you have a D&C last time? As far as what you can expect now, I say (if you are a bleeder) maybe a little more of that. Physically, the D&C really had no efect on me. My body felt fine. It should be another couple of weeks for hormones to go back down. You might still have some pregnancy symptoms happening. I did. It took seven weeks for me to get my actual period, although I did have some minor bleeding while waiting for af. BABYTWO: I'm kinda getting anxious to hear from you. I hope everything is OK! If I don't succeed this month, I was also thinking of "taking off" for a month or two, like some of you are doing. But I just don't feel like I have the time! I know it's crazy. But I am 32 and I feel like, even if I conceive this month, I will be 33 before I even give birth. I know the older I get, the more I am going to feel I have to worry about. I honestly wish I could just "forget the whole thing" sometimes. But I can't. I just have to keep trying. Although I will say, the last two months I resolved to be less stressed and obsessive and I have been. I have been a lot easier to live with and much less anxious about all of this.

DELTA, no the midwife has not called back. But I don't mind right now as I have zero voice! Talking on the phone is totally impossible today. Talking at all is impossible. I never realized how much I talked to DS and the other kid I watch so much until I can't at all. It's so frustrating! But I sure hope it comes back by Saturday, as I have to work that clinic that day. And I'm going to complain about the failure to call back at my first prenatal appointment if I haven't had a reason to call before then; seems like I'm calling the midwife at least once a week now. I've lost 8 lbs in the last 5 days, but I think most of it so far is just water.

SUSAN - i thought you were going to start at a later time due to funds and the spotting and all. i "think" the spotting ahs stopped but didnt realize you were still gonna start now. wonder what happened? could it ahve been due to the sickness?

Hi girls... cd3 here for me. I'm off from work for a few days (yay- spring break!) so I'm painting my laundry room. Not much fun but it will be a much better space when I'm done! FRANKSCHICK - I definitely hear you about not taking a break from ttc. I'll be 37 by the time I give birth, and I really wanted 2 children, so I feel like I have to keep trying. It's party of the reason why I've been so sad some months when af shows up. SUSAN - wow, you really have the double whammy. I hope you're feeling better soon. HOPEFUL - I'm glad you are doing ok. JESSIE - thanks for your encouragement! DELTA - we usually name our sheep something descriptive also. We have one little all brown lamb named Chocolate. And we have a ewe named Eeyore because when after we bought her and brought her home, she looked all droopy. Turned out that she was pregnant! That was our first lamb 2 years ago - man, was my husband startled when we saw that little white lamb that she had! DD - weren't you scheduled for an u/s today? How did it go? BABYTWO - I hope you are ok...