TTC number 2, we've agreed to go ahead in a "let's just see whAt happens, no pressure" kind of way. so I'm casually charting my cycles with a fertility app, breezily checking my cervical mucous, nonchalantly scouring the conception board and definitely not compiling a list of names for dc2 
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What is so frustrating is that because I'm "casually" charting all of this I know exactly when my fertile window is and keep bloody missing it because I don't want to give the game away and look like baby crazed monster! Last month my carefully timed advances were thwarted by a five-aside groin strain. I think today was the day and was planning a seduction after dd's bedtime but he announced he was off to his brothers for a bank holiday drink.
This is lighthearted and is not a problem with communication in my marriage. I think he felt the pressure last time and I'm really trying to keep this as relaxed as possible (for him) but that's just not my style.
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BigChiefThunderThighs · 25/05/2015 00:05
I was just going to start a thread on the same thing. We (I 
) are (am ) casually TTC as well...I haven't got any charts or anything at all. Joking aside, we are 'seeing what happens', but I think I am more like the baby crazed moster you mention, he seems to take it more breezily!
Haha unfortunately no quickie this morning I'm working he's not!
Momagain - no my methods are definitely not casual but I prefer a bit of efficiency! Officially we're just carrying on as normal so averaging dtd prob every 3 days, but seem to just be missing the key days each time and I don't want to blow my cover by insisting, thus revealing my scary obsessive TTC regime
This will be me in a few months, I think! We agreed to 'think' about DC2 later this year - August/September time. I've been tracking CM etc since January.
DH was most unimpressed at being 'used' for sex last time we were TTC... I can't see him turning down the opportunity every other day this time round!
We casually TTC #2 in a very similarly casual way. Totally missed my window in Apr and only DTD once all month. (We were ill, moving house, and knackered from a non-sleeping 15 mo).
I'm currently 9 wks pg.
Good luck OP.
I'm sooo glad I've found this thread I could of written it myself! I've had to put a lock on my phone to hide all the fertilty apps 
dp is none the wiser at the min we agreed to see what happens but i want a baby sooner rather than later. everyone around me is either pregnant or just had a baby and I'm so broody. my youngest is 6. x
I know exactly what you mean BigChief! I have to witter in about it all on the Conception boards because if I talk about it as much as I think about it DH will definitely clock it's not that casual at all
I cant even bear the thought of the tracking apps at the moment, I think it they would drive me potty (and believe me, I already am, and thats without them ) Only 
helps. I hope we can keep this thread so I can report back soon with an update (maybe to tell you all that I have downloaded the tracking apps! )
Good idea alice - somewhere we can be our true obsessive selves
I might just 'casually' get some OPK tests.. ''running out of the door''
I've realised what's even harder than hiding that we are not 'casually' ttc. it's trying to hide the disappointment when you realise you didn't conceive 
Mumfairy - yes totally! I was in a foul mood first day of my period this month! Didn't hide the rage very well.
The ovulation tests haven't made an appearance yet this time round but I predict that if nothing happens this month I'll be hiding them in amongst the tampax soon!
On a positive note, my fertility app had my peak day as being a couple of days ago but some symptoms today suggest it was wrong - so I managed home at lunchtime for a quickie as dh on day off! Now that I think about it he must have clocked what I'm up to by now, as that is fairly suspicious behaviour for me!
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I think either my OH knows is quite happy about the situation and keeping quiet while it lasts 
or failing that, you are right and they are not the brightest
It's so hard not to get carried away. I've already calculated a due date based on getting pregnant this month - Valentine's Day!
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