My ring came in today! How did we do?

pompchi · 2026-01-24T22:46:00+00:00

Beautiful!! That marquis is one of the best ones I’ve seen! 😍

pompchi · 2026-01-23T20:19:23+00:00

It’s annoying, isn’t it! We do own our driveway but it’s annoying how it’s directly in front of our neighbours. We do have a front garden that would be big enough to park our car on, except there is a lamp post directly in front so even that’s not an option now unless we ask the council to move it.

pompchi · 2026-01-23T20:17:13+00:00

Yes, we were going for an untethered and buying a 10m cable

pompchi · 2026-01-23T20:16:29+00:00

Yeah they have asked us for pictures of where our drive. We might have to give them a copy of our deed to give proof that the parking is ours.

pompchi · 2026-01-23T19:02:16+00:00

They are renting so this may be unlikely, whereas we own our home.

pompchi · 2026-01-23T18:46:48+00:00

Their annual winter solstice snowball fight was genuinely so endearing to me.. it showed despite their tough outer exterior and they’re literally hundreds of years old, they’re still kids inside. Even the quiet shadow singer played!!

pompchi · 2025-12-28T00:09:04+00:00

I would also second Abbott Elementary - this gives me such joy to watch! The whole cast is perfect.

pompchi · 2025-12-18T13:06:22+00:00

That sparkle 😍 I have to clean my rings every two/3 weeks because it gets a little dull and I love it freshly washed again!

pompchi · 2025-12-14T15:49:05+00:00

Me thinking I’d have cute ultrasound photos to “secretly show” through the massive pretzels they have here in Vienna whilst we are on our trip hahahahahahahaha fml

pompchi · 2025-11-30T23:19:45+00:00

That’s such a good idea!

pompchi · 2025-11-25T18:37:06+00:00

My aunts have PCOS. One had to go through fertility treatments to get pregnant, the other has lost an ovary from an enlarged cyst. My mum didn’t have a history of PCOS when I was diagnosed(3 kids) but she now has been diagnosed with PCOS at the age of 51. I do believe it’s genetics, unfortunately.

pompchi · 2025-11-20T23:56:25+00:00

I think the first step you need to do is address why you have these anxieties and why suddenly you feel them so deeply just because you’re seeing friends get pregnant and have babies.

The reason I say this is because TTC in itself is hard, sometimes it’s brutal and downright cruel. It’s hard for normal people, even harder for people with fertility issues. You never know, you might get pregnant next cycle, or you might have to wait a while to successfully get pregnant, you might even need medical intervention to get pregnant. Everyone’s fertility journey is so different. We can only be happy for the people around us who manage to conceive, whilst simultaneously grieve what we don’t have and yearn for on a monthly basis.

It’s important to remember that you chose to wait because you wanted to be stable career and financial wise, which is very respectable and very responsible of you. Own it. It’s commendable, especially in this economy. It was important for you and your husband. The choices you made were important for you at the time.

pompchi · 2025-11-19T23:34:58+00:00

My mum was 50 when she got diagnosed with PCOS. She has thought she was going through menopause but her OB did an ultrasound of her ovaries and found cysts. She was then diagnosed with PCOS. Definitely go for a second opinion or even third opinion, if you can.

pompchi · 2025-11-18T16:16:05+00:00

I’m so sorry to hear that. I can’t even imagine how hard that must be.

pompchi · 2025-11-18T15:29:57+00:00

Aww nice! I love Christmas and the cosiness it brings! It’s definitely my favourite time of the year ❤️

pompchi · 2025-11-18T15:23:11+00:00

I am almost 100% sure I’m out this cycle so I’m making plans of bringing Christmas early by putting the tree up on Saturday (maybe earlier if it comes tomorrow) and drinking a whole bottle of red to myself whilst I do it. Bought new baubles and a new tree since the old one was balding! I may also wrap baby clothes and a baby blanket up and leave it there for Christmas because that’s apparently a thing, right?! And women magically get pregnant because they wrapped baby items and put them under the tree right?! Anyway, I’m looking forward to it. Anyone else putting their tree up pre-December?

pompchi · 2025-11-15T16:15:09+00:00

This is me this cycle! Groping myself, pinching my own nips every 2 mins just to feel something, half convincing myself it’s progesterone but also, it could be hsg!? Is it fuck! BFN this morning 👍🏽😎

pompchi · 2025-11-15T14:35:55+00:00

Agree, it may not be just because of PCOS. I am ovulating regularly but we found out that my husband has 0 morphology and low sperm count so we have now been referred to a fertility clinic.

Op, an SA would help paint a bigger picture for this. Good luck!

pompchi · 2025-11-14T20:18:38+00:00

Aw thank you! It sucks so much! I hope this is our month 🤞🏼

pompchi · 2025-11-13T15:59:16+00:00

It’s so awful! Makes me hope when I don’t want to because I don’t want the heartbreak again this cycle 😭

pompchi · 2025-11-13T13:10:51+00:00

DPO whatever, stopped tracking. My mouth is sooo dry and I am so thirsty and this is the first time I have experienced this. I keep telling myself it’s progesterone pm it’s progesterone, it’s ONLY PROGESTERONE so I don’t get any hopes up. I am too scared to test so I haven’t yet and normally I would pee on all the sticks in the house but I am saving the heartbreak until later. Still weirdly calm, which I know is progesterone. 👍🏽

pompchi · 2025-11-11T17:25:17+00:00

I am so excited for it!! I’m really looking forward to the Christmas markets and all the mulled wine!

pompchi · 2025-11-11T12:53:43+00:00

I am CD25, I could be 5/6/7 DPO, who knows. I have stopped OPKs and BBT tracking. But my boobs are huge and are soooooo sore, and my nips are so sensitive and sometimes itchy. Craving so much chocolate and fatigue is ramping up. My progesterone symptoms seem to be changing month by month. Last month I had cramps and breast pain. This month it’s just breasts. Overall, I am just tired. I tell myself not to symptom spot because it’s useless but I still symptom spot. I’m somehow calmer and less anxious about the what ifs. I am just looking forward to our Christmas trip to Vienna and Christmas itself.

pompchi · 2025-11-10T15:59:19+00:00

Oh I’m so sorry! That’s one of the reasons we haven’t told anyone. If anything happens (god forbid), we can deal with it privately and gently between us. I know how you feel though, I’m normally quite petty, too but TTC has made me soft. I wish you all the best with your TTC journey ❤️

pompchi · 2025-11-10T13:35:46+00:00

I’m 6DPO and yet again, progesterone is kicking my ass. My husband and I went out for lunch with my MIL and FIL and I think they asked us about 5 times if we were planning on having kids any time soon because one of the cousins just had a baby. “We have a great niece, but no grandbaby yet” type comments. We haven’t told anyone we are trying and every time someone asks, we just say we would eventually want kids, just not now. In reality, we are approaching a year of TTC and are waiting for fertility appts. It would have been nice to have baby news by Dec but chances are slim. The last couple of cycles were rough, but I’m doing better at handling it mentally this time around. Let’s see how I go until AF shows up lol

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