August - first month of TTC? Join me!

Hi madkatz. How you doing? SWI I trust.

Great Post Iwish, exactly how i feel!

klou i hear you about the runny eggs! me and mum stopped for a pub lunch on saturday and was really looking forward to the gammon and egg, got it on the plate, then realised i couldnt eat it and had to give it to mum but hey ho, its not for long is it!

last time when i was pg with dd, i made dh give up red bull. if i couldnt have runny eggs, then he couldnt have red bull worked well though as i think it is bad for you, and he doesnt hardly have it at all now!

Cross post klou lol. Took me ages to type this - typing it on a flipping iPhone as we havnt got Internet here. Yeh I have everything crossed for myself too, apart from my legs hehe.
I'm glad you are getting a bit more of an appetite. And at least you aren't feeling sick yet. Mmm runny eggs, I love them too. Have been slowly weaning myself off things you can't have just in case. I'm even on caffeine free coffee and tea (which is surprisingly nice)

I did have a little laugh out loud Iwish, got a funny look off DH!

I was wetting myself as I was writing it, cheered up my otherwise jealous self.
So how far are you gruffalo? Any words of wisdom of making babies? Month #5 now and the wait is killing me.
I bet your colleagues will be so pleased for you. When will you tell them?

LMFAO Iwish!! Fingers crossed the little spermies will find their way this month!!

How far are you Gruffalo

Well, bit better with the ol' food tonight, had the biggest portion of gammon, chips, baked beans and 2 fried eggs (hard fried, gutted, love runny eggs! But think it will be worth the sacrifice lol!) and ate the LOT! Totally stuffed now but think appetite may be coming back. Only had a bowl of muesli at 1:30 before that all day!

hi Iwish brilliant mental image!

I've just been trying to eat what I fancy when I fancy it. Late evenings is a nightmare so have been scoffing at work - they must think I'm a total pig. And I've got a massive belly already so they're probably wondering what the hell is going on. I might just put them out of their misery

Hi Liz and klou! hope you are both ok? Make sure you get some grub down you! Little life growing in there

I'm ok thanx Liz. Started the SWI this week and started my opks on Sunday but so far no +ve. My ttc buddy has just proudly shown her 12 week scan today. I'm sooo . I want to leap inside my own flipping body, sperm in hand and shove it into the flipping egg myself!!!!!

i find that i dotn fancy anything! if i am eating out then i am ok as teres loads of choice, but at home i just dont fancy anything i have got in the cupboard. i think i am going to have to do something liek a planner and shop accordingly. i only do the same old shop, get the same old food. think i am going to have to be abit more adventorous.

how are you madkatz and iwish?

oh Liz sorry you're not feeling good. Hope the pain eases.

I'm just not feeling hungry AT ALL! Forced a bowl of muesli down at 1:30, only because I thought I should eat something. I don't feel sick or anything like that, I just don't feel hungry. I feel I should be eating though as bubba won't be getting anything or it too early to be worrying about that?

I've found a menu planner here so going to try and do a menu and force feed myself!

aarrgghh i keep getting headaches and pains down the back of my neck. i am not sure why, i think i am sleeping in the usual position so no idea why. dont want to take tablets though

i am craving savoury things too. i usually have the sweetest tooth around, but the last couple of week i would rather have dairylea on crispbreads than a biscuit

Klou - so chuffed for you!!!! All sounds good and I hope you get your scan date soon. So excited for you I just got a bit teary! Big hugs.

Liz I'm glad I'm not the only one to have jeans problems. I've put on about two pounds - astonishing given the amount of rubbish I've been eating, but jeans and work trousers are very tight already. Am craving white plastic bread (not normally a thing I go for) and crisps (ditto). Am hoping I can get back to something more healthy soon - but at least I'm taking pregnacare so I shouldn't get scurvy.

i take a pregnancy vitamin but dont know what make it is! i just chose a middle of the road one in boots, nothing too expensive, but not the cheapy one either.

i am feeling really fat today! my jeans have been too tight all day at work, i am going to use a pair of maternity ones tomorrow from last time. it makes me feel ill to have anything tight on. i cant stand anything even remotley tight accross my stomach.

i feel like i have put on about half a stone, but i have been to weight watchers tonight (i am still going to go to keep my dad motivated as i go with him, but not really following the plan) and have put on a pound and a half in 2 weeks, which was not too bad i thought.

oooo Liz exciting!! I've just invested in some pregnacare tablets for the whole of my pregnancy. 3 for 2 at vitabiotics.com 270 tablets for £25.90-£1 first order disc.

Read good things about them esp with vit D which is what I was told to take today along with folic.

oooo Liz exciting!! I've just invested in some pregnacare tablets for the whole of my pregnancy. 3 for 2 at vitabiotics.com 270 tablets for £25.90-£1 first order disc.

Read good things about them esp with vit D which is what I was told to take today along with folic.

coincedence or what!

i have got to see the midwife on wednesday, am looking forward to it even though shes only going to be doing paperwork and asking questions

Hi all, weekend was fab, weather was a bit warmer at last!! Hope you all had similar??

Just come back from the Docs. I did ask if I should have phoned the MW direct rather than waste her time. She said they don't do that here especially with the first. She said I like to check you first and get your paperwork done, then refer you. Apparently we're 6 weeks gone

She said the MW will be in touch after Chrimbo to arrange a scan. OMG, this is all really real. We got out of the Doc and DH started welling up. Think it's just hit him we're having a baby!!

Now he's really excited and wants to tell everyone on NYE (8.5 weeks), there will be 18/20 of us celebrating, so not sure if I could handle everyone at the same time!!

Funny though as his friend phoned just after we got out of the Docs and DH checked to see if they were coming NYE (would be 20 of us if so) and said they are trying to get a babysitter for their 5yo. He said 'you've got all this to come you know!' They don't even know we've been trying and how funny he should say it when we just came from the Docs!!

hiya all, hope you all had good weekends?

klou you are so lucky having a midwife as a mother! you can ask all the stupid silly questions you want

have nice weekends everyone

Hi klou I bet you are happy you can go and get the pg confirmed at the docs, and so soon
wow your mum will be there to help you with everything being a ex-midwife (if that's even a word!). I bet your mum and dad will be so excited. My mother in law to be can't wait till we get pg as her daughter can't have children and her other son is gay.
You are such a busy little bee, make sure you take it easy and look after the little bean in there.

So madkatz me and you have some work to do this month lol. We will be SWI next week and starting with opks Sunday this week.

Happy weekend by the way everyone x

Don't worry about the long post KLou great to hear your plans. I can imagine what you mean about feeling a bit bad re your friends but not a lot you can do about that. My friends had been trying for 2 1/2 years before they got PG just before Xmas last year with their second baby boy. They're over staying with us this weekend so we'll be busy!!

sorry for the long post BTW

You won't be abandoned you 2, we're with you all the way!! It is a lucky thread!

Just booked into the Docs, they receptionist said 'I've sorry, but I have to ask if you are going to proceed with the pregnancy?' I said 'YES of course!!' and she said 'I thought you sounded happy!'
10:10am Monday morning to have it confirmed!!!

I am going to tell my parents and in-laws when we go back to the Midlands for NYE. My mum retired as a midwife 3 years ago, so I've got some great help! She and my dad I know will be ecstatic as we have always snubbed them and our other friends and family when they talked about us having kids, and said we will have them when we are ready, if we do. Everyone has now kinda given up on us, so they will be in shock!!

We won't tell anyone else for now. We spoke about it earlier and DH said we should wait for the scan and just get the picture out and surprise everyone, but I can't wait til then with the folks!! I can't really use the antibiotics thing again that I used last Saturday as it's the same friends we are seeing this NYE, but we are also staying with/going out with some other friends that night who know we are TTC and they are too, so may tell them and they can help us blag!!

We're looking at going out to Thailand in February for a month as DH Bro lives there for 4 months over Winter (with his Thai wife) and they are here from March. We did it this Feb just gone, and now we are pregnant, this is prob our last chance for a long holiday if everything is OK. They have been trying for 3 years for a BFP so I feel really bad. :(