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@marley: @LCTBQE: it's still early! I think it could definitely turn positive for both of you in the next day or two.

@Nutella: I didn't understand the trying for a baby part until I was ttc too. It is pretty stressful! My friends don't talk about it either. They've asked me when I'm having another baby and I said hopefully soon. But I'm sure no one wants to know the details or hear about my BD life (or lack thereof), especially since they know DH too.

@Nutella: yes to every single thing you said! Same thing over here, no one talks about anything. I'm 90% sure my sister-in-law and brother are fairly pregnant and not telling me right now, probably out of sensitivity because I told them about my MC, but it's weird to get that kind of vague evasion from my own brother. So maybe I can introduce them to some of your friends.

I'm 10DPO this morning, (yes, it's super early) but totally blank blank negative just now, my temps are falling, and Amazon Prime isn't delivering more FRERs until tomorrow night, but my luteal phase isn't the greatest so likely my period will get here Friday or so.

@Marley: I'm only going to test again if my temp spikes back up and I have no signs of spotting, otherwise I'm just going to sit grimacing and wait for my period like how people on the gulf coast wait for hurricanes. Keep thinking about how I got my BFP in late July on 11DPO with a pale but totally clear, obvious line that showed up in 30 seconds.
Your plan for Thursday sounds sane and logical and good and stuff. Also, you're right, I can't tell at all the difference between PMS and pregnancy symptoms, my symptoms are bullshit and don't you think that we should have evolved past them being indiscernible by now?

@LCTBQE: this the my first time TTC and seeing tests. With my DD I used a digital and I was already 9 weeks. whoops. Even my ob was like what is wrong with you.

Totally sucks about Prime. Not trying to condone insane behavior but what about running into good ol' Duane Reade?

@Applesandbananas: still rooting for you. This is my first real cycle off the pill and I feel the same way.

So I'm caving and buying a test today. Pretty much the only reason that I haven't tested yet is that I didn't have any in the house. I'll let you know how it goes. I think that I'm either 10, or at the worst, 8 DPO, so it may still be too early to test. But I am getting impatient!!

@Ajsmommy: good luck! I think you still have a good chance since your DH will be home on the weekend and on Friday!

@Nutella: Im so sorry about your MC. It is weird that people don't talk about ttc, and I definitely wish I could discuss it in real life. I've been frustrated and discouraged and wanted to talk about it, but I just felt like I couldnt for some reason.

@LCTBQE: hugs. Hope the PMS is better today. Still rooting for you! Oh and I totally checked out that puppies and babies thread and it was completely adorable.

@marley: good luck tomorrow! I keep checking if that thermometer is back on the US amazon site but it's still not. It has great reviews, so I'm not sure why they took it off. In the meantime, I ordered another brand to try.

@LovelyPlum:

@Applesandbananas: oy. but you're not out until you're out

@marley: @tiramisu: tonight, though I'm not 100 % sure what I was expecting. DH is relieved. I'm strangely bummed.

@Nutella:I'm so sorry for your loss It is a cruel irony that most people are the most secretive about pregnancies until 12 weeks, when in fact, it's in that most vulnerable time that we need the most support. We had two losses before DD, and it was awful. I get the not wanting to tell people, for fear of later needing to untell them (which totally sucks). But at the same time, we ended up being pretty open when I finally got pregnant with my daughter. We decided that a baby deserved to be celebrated, no matter how long I was pregnant. She gave us a few scares during the earliest weeks I was pregnant, but I'm glad we didnt completely hide it. That would have been so stresful.

@marley: because we weren't TTC this month. In fact, we were actively avoiding, bUT we found out after logging a few more days' data into my Ovia app that it looked as though we DTD on my most fertile day. But I'm not sure exactly when I ovulated, so there's that.

We were originally going to TTC this month, but then the opportunity came up for me to be in London in June for work. So, now wouldn't be great timing, but things could be switched around to go later next fall. I think it's mostly the uncertainty and unexpected possibility that I could be pregnant that threw him for a loop...well, that and the daycare costs. If I'm not pregnant this month, we will probably try again in January, so I could safely go to Europe in June.

Sigh. Who knows. I promised myself that I wouldn't get super worked up over TTC this time around, but it is so hard.

And yeah, I suck at secrets. Well, I was too sick for them the last time, and way too anxious about anot her possible loss. Anyone who knew me well could sniff me out in a heartbeat. But we chose not to say anything on FB until 25 weeks, because I just didn't want to deal with people.

@LovelyPlum: it's so hard to balance these work and baby. Going to London sounds great! But I would be super happy for you if you got a though!

@wheres_c: in November!

@futuremama: yay! Congrats!!

@futuremama: congrats!!!

@futuremama: hooray! Congrats!

@Applesandbananas: sorry for the lame will you be testing again? I hear you on the symptom spotting too..

@marley: I know exactly how you feel! But if you don't test it sort of sits at the back of your mind until you do?! Blah!

@marley: @Nutella: I have a giant pack of wondfos so I just POAllllthesticks so tomorrow, unless AF arrives. I thought I'd O'd around CD 14, which would make me 16DPO but with no AF in sight, clearly I was wrong lol

@marley: s suck! When will you retest?

@marley: noooooooo. I'm sorry It's so wild that we can write it off before we even expect our periods, but I hear you, I think it might feel better to just wait for it to show up than to look at another blank test. I'm 12DPO tomorrow and am not optimistic.

@nutella: "sort of sits at the back of my mind" !!!

@Applesandbananas: I am so confused by the symptoms that I'm just trying to ignore them and it is NOT working. I feel you, lady.

@futuremama: that's great!!! easy as pie congratulations!

@LCTBQE: when is AF due for you? Mine's ETA is Sunday. My temp dropped a bit today, and so did yesterday. Does this mean she's coming? I thought temps stay up until a day before and then there's a drastic decline.

@marley: Probably tomorrow or Sunday? I don't know when to expect it because I don't have that great of a grasp on what my luteal phase is. I thought it was on the short side, like 10-11 days, from charting a similarly unsuccessful cycle in June, but I guess it's good that that's not a problem for me. My understanding about temps is that they can typically either stay up (like way up above the coverline) and then crash in one day, or decline steadily for a few days, and then around the time they drop below your coverline, that's when your period will come.

@applesandbananas: yeah.

@LCTBQE: aww sucks - I hate seeing those!

@marley: I find my temps do whatever they want in the days before AF, but will definitely plummet the day it starts. Don't know if that helps...

I had wine last night then fell asleep halfway through our movie - Friday nights always seem to do that to me.

@marley: yes exactly - I did searches on the FF gallery until I went cross eyed so many times when I was temping and in the last few days before waiting for AF. It was a killer but temping brings out my crazy - I can't seem to just record data, I need to analyse the crap out of it...which is not useful because everyone is different! And so are each of our cycles!! Once I remember my cycles were like clockwork and then ONE TIME it was like two days longer, and it still ended in a bfn! Blah. My fingers and toes are super crossed for you guys though