Pink swayers' September thread

[XXdreaming]

Fingers crossed

thank you

[rainbowflower]

I am famished today... counting down the minutes until lunchtime

weighed myself this morning and I've gained a lb since 1.5 weeks ago, so still a couple of lbs down on what I was when I started the diet 2 weeks ago, but the drastic weight loss has stopped!

[Mochagirl]

I'm glad you stopped losing weight too quickly, rainbow.

My plan for yesterday didn't work out so well. We did dtd in the afternoon, thankfully, but dh went out with a friend in the evening, and I stupidly popped 2 Benedryl in addition to the Zyrtec since I had lots of EWCM. Fast forward to 11:30pm, when he got home, and I was passed out in bed with the book I was reading still open. I woke up enough to acknowledge he was home, but I didn't have the energy to even get out of bed to pee, much less dtd. Damn that Benedryl! I really wanted to get 2 attempts in yesterday!

Oh well, I still don't think I O'd anyway. Temp was still down today and I still haven't gotten a true +OPK. Cervix is still SHOW, though not nearly as open as it was last evening when I swear I could have fit my whole finger in. My new higher dose of SP must be delaying O since today is CD14, and I always O on CD13 or CD14. I wonder if I should go back to taking 1 pill (half dose)?

[rainbowflower]

perhaps today is OV day and you just missed the surge on the OPKs?


I know this is a long way off, but what's everyone planning to do around Christmas? I will almost certainly still be TTC then... and that means a lot of roast meals and tasty food will be around

[Mochagirl]

I think it's possible my surge happened in the middle of the night 2 nights ago since I had my darkest OPK yet first thing that morning. The OPKs got lighter as the day went on, then I got a slightly darker one in the early evening. I did one with SMU this morning and it was darker than the lighter ones I had yesterday, but not as dark as the one from yesterday morning. Do I even make sense anymore?

As for diet over Christmas, personally I would go ahead and eat the special meals and enjoy them, but maybe only choose a couple of cheat days like Christmas Day and New Year's Eve or something like that. You can't put life completely on hold when you TTC. I'm going to a wedding in 2 weeks and have already pre-ordered the prime rib. I'll either have just gotten a BFP or will have just finished af, but I'm going to eat that steak either way! I'm also planning to eat turkey on Thanksgiving if God forbid I'm still TTC then.

[zanacal]

What a confuddle mocha! If I were you and I was second guessing the hormones or wondering whether O was being delayed by the pills I'd stop taking them 2 weeks into my cycle, so now!

I so hope I'm not on this diet at Christmas but I would definitely 'cheat' on Christmas Day at the very least!

[rainbowflower]

mocha - I think tomorrows temp will be key for you, try to keep busy and not worry about it now!

zana - I hope both you and mocha are well on your way to dating scans/bumps come Christmas-time!

[Mochagirl]

Thanks, rainbow - I agree. I was hoping today's temp would be high, but it wasn't. I still have lots of O signs, so hopefully it'll happen today and my temp will rise tomorrow. I just need to figure out a way to get another attempt in tonight. I'm going out with some girlfriends before the kids are asleep and won't be home till late. DH tends to go to bed early and is very grumpy if I wake him up. Would it be terrible to suggest to him that we put a movie on for our big kids while the youngest naps this afternoon, put up the baby gate at the top of the stairs so they can't sneak upstairs and catch us, and have a quickie? DH seemed quite happy with our afternoon delight yesterday, and this way I can make sure I don't miss O if it happens in the early evening.

[zanacal]

If you think it'll work then go for it mocha!!

[tweedledeedum]

Mocha - I'd go for the afternoon session! I find OPks very confusing - I never got a positive this month but I know I Oed by temps.

As for Christmas - I would eat holiday meals for Christmas Eve, Christmas and maybe New Years and I wouldn't feel guilty! You have to enjoy the holidays.

I still haven't gotten out to get any more HPTs. I took another dollar store test today and it was a darker positive and my spotting has stopped but I won't believe it until I see it on a "real" test. I have been having horrible pain in my cervix too - I have never felt anything like it. And still cramping like crazy. In my previous pregnancies I felt nothing in the early days, maybe the odd cramp, so I'm confused.