More ongoing and continuing conceptions and follicling ahead of Feisty, Fabulous Forty somethings

Thanks HIPPY and GG god I'm so glad I got you TTC friends otherwise I most definately would have cracked up by now x

Good luck at the hospital Hippy hope you get some answers regarding the 'thyroid' issues

Thanks for the cake GG you are kind

x

What kind of a numpty can't spell Carrot????

Thanks for the list GG. You are a good girl.

I'll just grab a bit of that carrott cake before I head off to the hospital for yet another blood test to see what my poor old aged thyroid is up to.

baggy pants
muchlove Age 43 CD 3
40someMum age43 cd
Curlylox age 43 CD8

vest and shorts phase
??? curly soon????

Slanket phase
Hippy aged 44 2dpo
Diege age 40 3dpo
BB age 40 6dpo
GG age 42 8dpo
10000ff 11dpo
Gum Aged 43 14 DPO (no recent update)
jolls age 42 cd28 (no recent update)

italiangreyhound age 45 - cd ?? waiting for May

Alba - still doing well!

Muchlove - does sound like you need to snuggle in the snug, while hippy gives you a hug, I will make you a hot chocolate, and a delicious fresh carrot cake.

muchlove (((((()))))) Big hugs cos you sound like you need 'em, honey.

I hear everything you've said. I also think things like - i should have a 6 week old baby or be over 20 weeks preg. It's hard not to think like thnat isn't it?

I also started thinking about a 3rd baby in 2009 and wonder where the time has gone.

I totally understand how you feel. I also agree about sas - her situation does bring it into perspective, doesn't it?

Take care, lovie. X

Morning Girls

Just checking in - not much to report here.

Am in Big Pants stage - CD 3 and just chillin ......

DH has been ill the last couple of days so trying to avoid him (it seems there is a lot of virus's going around at the mo guess it's the time of year) praying I don't catch anything ....

Hope everybody is well......

GUM It seems we are round a bout the same time in our cycles ????

I think I'm gonna give it a big effort this month and then if nothing maybe start turning my head away from TTC I just sort of feel like I'm getting futher and further away from my goal and each month (and the 4 losses) is taking its toll on me..... I have been fairly lucky in my life where I have never suffered from PMT or heavy periods infact no probs at all .... but now I am like a raving lunatic in the days leading to AF ... all the symptom spotting and then the negative tests is getting to me. I didn't temp or test last month and it did give me a bit of freedom BUT then I got all angsty bcoz I was'nt sure how many DPO I was and when I could do a PG test. I usually test on DPO 10 or 11 as they have always been the best times at showing a line.

Anyway I don't feel down I just feel a bit lost and I guess a little bit jaded with it all and TIME is tick-tocking a -bloody - way .....grrrrhhhh..... I started in 2009ish and now it's nearly 2011 !!!! How the hell did that happen......?

I should be holding a 6 month old baby now ...or be about to give birth .... or be 4 mnths pregnant but instead I've got my period .........

Then I think of the place that SASSY is in and scold myself for thinking this way ..... if you are checking in on us at all SASSY then I hope you are ok and getting thru the days x

Muchlove to all of you and may god bless us with a healthy egg/embryo/baby to love and cherish oncemore.......

xx

Phew thank goodness I missed all the eggy jokes!

Hippy - I think I will take the camel coloured slanket for myself, if we all took different colours our snug would become very rainbow looking..

Well I am on day three of a three day diet, jumped on the scales this morning (was expecting nothing as in the 2ww I always put on weight with the water-retention,) but today, I found I had lost 8lb's!!!!! It is a special enzyme based diet given to people to lose weight rapidly prior to having surgery. Well I certainly hope I keep the weight off.

Alba - how great to have Lia as your doula..... thing is can she type updates on mn, on your progress during labour, while still encouraging you ?!

alba Wow, that's strange huh.

So many questions:-

1. Are you going to go ahead with her then?
2. Have you met her in RL?
3. How did you work out it was her?

You've got me thinking actually, how are all our preggie ladies? lunatic, mslucy, doubleshot liaghen - I think they are the ones that were preggers but my addled brain could have made a mistake - sorry if I have.

I read your advise to the lady on the grads thread who had the stillborn and is approaching 40 - you told her to come and join us when she's ready. You also said that you found it hard to stay away from us - ahhh bless ya

BB Are you ok?, you've been a wee bit quiet and I know you were stressed out. I did laugh at your envy at my DH's ability to do 'it' 2 days in a row. If you saw him you'd probably be even more surprised, he doesn't look like he has it in him!

Have chosen my slanket and seeing as I now know how to add a link - here it is (watch the people change) - I like the purple one

Something else to make you smile this evening Hippy, talking of bump buddies.... I've found a lovely doula through a chain of RL recommendations... And it turns out she's none other than Liahgen, just like you recommended to me from the start .

Hippy I see - you were only yolking

Oh I see. I get it now. She meant to put a * 0 I'm sure she doesn't think you're 840 really

diege and I have stopped the egg jokes now - you can all come back, we need some egg-stra company - haha.

lol Italian referred to me as 840somemum!

Yes, you're right. The yoke's on me, I must drink more!

egg-sactly diege - it is not enough. Get some water down your neck next month. (Hopefully you'll be all duff-ed up by then and wont need that advice ). x

Arghhh!! I can't think of any more egg jokes now , egg-cept to say that I have serious mucous envy (SME) Not to be confused with the other SME of course. Yes, I had copious amounts with the dds and ds, but I should say that I drink very little water, indeed very little fluid. Two cups of decaff tea and a decaf coffee a day, that's it . Though I have added a cup of grapefruit juice with my vits. Not really enough though is it?

I have heard you should drink lots of water as well. Did you have egg whites when you conceived the others???

I don't want to sound like I'm showing off (showing off about my cervical mucus there's something I thought i'd NEVER do) but I had loads again this month. It's what made me think I was gonna have to make up with his lordship .

Still i had loads last month and I think the month before so that means nothing really.

My cycles do seem to be getting much more text book now (27 days and oving about day 14) so much better than the one which lasted 20 days and i ov'd on day 8!!!

diege you are my egg-stra bezzie mate today! Sorry jolls - love you too. xx

Egg-actly my sentiment!!! I'm not holding out much hope for me though; it's the whole lack of egg whites that's concerning me, give or take the odd glob or two (sorry )...I've tried the grapefruit juice this month but am predicting the pre-seed for next if nothing happens this month

diege I am so eggs-cited - I want us to be bump buddies sooooo much!!!

Anyone else joining us????????

Egg-cellant! Now, I am temping, but have run out of opks at the crucial time . I still feel quite 'ovulatory' in that I'm having weird cramps and pulling sensations (which could of course be my one day old embryo implanting )but if tomorrow's temps are up too I'm assuming ovulation has happened.
Dd3 is hard work. She's 4, 5 in Nov, has a wicked sense of humour but the tantrum stage has come to her late (age 4 onwards) and she delights in putting on public performances complete with ear piercing shrieks. Better than dd2's vomiting on demand in Morrisons's though . Remind me why I want another? .
I meant to say too how heartbreaking that thread about the stillborn baby was . I was on the same thread (title) a few years back, and it's always so sad to see the pain that some people go through esp wth recurrent m/c. I am so very glad I just have my dds tantrums to deal with!

egg buddies is great diege. They can become embryo buddies and then baby buddies . I'm not temping at the moment so don't know for defo when I ov'd but am going by the OPK, pains and experience

LOL at your feet sticking out of the bed making your DD wail. How old is she???

Hi Hippy . DD3 was a lightweight and only managed 30 mins of x-factor. She woke up several times in the night, wailing because she could see my feet sticking out of the bed (my feet are always hot in bed, freezing at other times)/there was a shadow in the room/the cars were too noisey . I did enjoy x-factor, though it does seem a lot longer a show than in the past . Oh and I think we might be egg buddies . If my temps go up again tomorrow and weds I will consider that I ovulated yesterday . Thanks for Sassy's link too x

Sassy has posted about MN on her blog -

sassy's page

I've posted a message but it has to be checked out before it will appear.

Hippy looks smug cos she's never added a link before!!!

I'm guessing I am about 1/2 days post ov - whoever does the list can you count this as 1 day post ov just to be on the safe side - ta!

italian Sorry to hear your Dh is grumpy. They are buggers arn't they???

I think quoting the miners to him is probably pointless. I totally see your point but unfortunately when you're feeling down about stuff it doesn't always work to think of people in a worse situation IYSWIM. But it is,of course, great news that they are out .

diege why was your DD wailing all night, not happy with the performances on X factor perhaps???

There was a still birth over on the post MC grads thread. I popped in just to see how everyone was and the person at the top of the list (just behind TFLS) had a still born daughter. I don't know the lady and haven't been following her pregnancy but i did leave a short message. How cruel to work your way up to the top of the due list and then lose your child at 41 weeks. I am so very sorry for her and can't begin to imagine her pain. Life can be so harsh . I think Jolls probably knows her better than me???

40somemum why do you think italian is looking at you. Do you feel like someone is spying on you from behind the sofa?

Thanks GG have just filled in form so hopefully should get my 2 free tests!

Hi all,,,,

For UK residents: www.duofertility.com/metro free pregnancy tests.... !!!!!

Anyway I am on a diet and feeling very very hungry, people promised me I would not feel hungry on this diet . Oh well, it is only a 3 day diet!!!! So I am halfway there

gum - sorry to hear that af is headed your way.

diege - you can have your slanket soon hopefully.

Italian - well done on not going to the fridge, and hope your dh snaps out of his grump soon.

Well I better get on with the rotten ironing, it is big pile right now and will take me all day - arggg!!!