Good things come to those who wait...and wait...and wait!!! All aboard, we're IIT!

100- ooh anywhere nice, have fun

i have been feeling the baby move loads today so much so that it was making my belly visibly move, dont think it was so definate this early on with DD

Jinglebells, I would have guessed without the post :) But that's cool, glad your passport and tickets turned up, although not in the place they should be, hope you get them back in time for what you need them for.

AC it wouldn't be having a baby as a reaction to the 'failure'(as you put it, a horrible word and having got soooooo far it's no where near even being a possible failure) you wanted to TTC before you went for the job, applying for the job stopped you trying as the job is neccesary, if the job doesn't happen then it is meant that you are to TTC. Please don't look at it like a failure.

Welcome back squirrel, glad you have had a scan and seen baby wriggling about in there :)

Nannyl how are you feeling?

bebe how are things for you?

Away again for a few days this evening :) So I won't be on here much, but will check in when I'm home on Sunday.

oh just incase u didnt guess it JBells

morning all,

Well wud just like to announce that my passport and chester race ticket turned up safely in malta, cant believe i managed to stick them in post with the xmas presents, pregnancy brain and then yest when i was at the garage i forgot my pin number, i did that the last time i was pg to. I am completly losing the plot, going to be put in a padded room if i carry on like this

AC- i am also not finished for xmas and i just cant find the motivation to do it, i am normally really xcited for xmas but this year i am just not really looking forward to it :(

Squirral, glad your scan went well, how far along did u think u were? wot EDD did they give u?

JS- how is the new job going? hope its going well for u

bebe- i saw u on the competitions winners thread, how exciting and just b4 xmas
mayb your luck is changing

Strawberry pie I kind of know what you mean about a win win situation but I worry it might not be a good thing to have a baby almost as a reaction to a failure. Are you all ready for Christmas? I've got loads to do!

Hey JS nice to have you back!

How's the new job working out? Do you think you're going to like it better than the old place? It must be worth it to not have to do that crazy commute!

Now that you've started, are you thinking about your ttc timetable at all? I have no idea what a reasonable amount of time in a new job might be before starting trying and it's on my mind in case I get this job I've been going for. It's a minefield!

Welcome back squirrel! :)

Congrats on the scan! Didn't it get 'put forward' a bit to avoid Christmas? Maybe that's why you were 10 weeks! Hope all the nasty first trimester stuff is passed soon! :)

Hi all! How are you all? I am back after a little break from this site, and just caught up on all the news :) I was getting a bit paranoid, and every thread I read on here seemed to have something about miscarriage. So I decided to stop reading until I had my first scan and could relax!

So I had the scan today, and it was a relief to see the little baby wriggling away :) The hospital reckon that I'm only 10 weeks though, so I have another scan booked in Jan for more accurate dating. I've been feeling a bit grotty, but better recently so I hope that the 1st trimester symptoms are finally passing.

nannyl - I have found that Bottlegreen's lemongrass and ginger cordial, made up with hot water, is fantastic for a cold. It's quite spicy and clears your head really well. Not so good if you don't like ginger though.

AC - good luck with the next interview!

bebe - sorry to hear your DH is still having a bad time :(

100years - sounds like you've had a rough time of it, hope you are feeling better now.

js - that all sounds very hectic! Hope the new job is going well.

Hi to everyone else!

JS - How is the new job? How exciting that you have started!! :o

Nannyl - That is rotten bad luck :( You poor thing! I had a horrid cold which came on the day before we got married. I was 5 1/2 weeks PG at the time, so couldn't take anything! Felt awful & my mum was so confused as to why I wouldn't take the Beechams she bought me! I kept saying that I wanted a 'clear head' for the wedding! A few drops of olbas in some hot water & breathe in the vapours, works really well! Hope you feel better in time to do some SWI!

100 - I love scrubs, it is probably one of DHs absolute favourite programmes. I love the new series, such a shame it's the last one! :(
So sorry you are hating work. What a nightmare situation. Hopefully if you can change your shifts that might improve things

DH is having a really shit time at work. (Strawberry don't think he would go to GP again about it!) TTC is just an issue I'm dreading bringing up. I feel like I'm treading on eggshells with him as it is! :( Things are just so tough in his line of work right now (financial services) that everytime there is a little light at the end of the tunnel it turns out to be an oncoming train!! Hoping that the New Year will bring better things, although I seem to remember saying something similar a year ago!

Just re-read that post and sorry its really moany.

Also forgot to mention my happy news...

I took a trip to my bargain charity shop today.
Came away with baby bath (£1) immaculate, as new, and when browsing mothercare last week the one id decided id probably get
a shade-a-babe (50p). Something else ive used nannying and was on my list anyway
and a car seat buggy toy thing similar to this (I LOVE tiny love baby toys) (50p) again immaculate as new.

All stuff i would have bought and has cost me £2 instead of £75. Bargain!

Last week i got a real proper gro-bag for 50p. While i will get my baby some nice new sleeping bags it will be a useful spare for if baby is sick etc

Think im feeling a little better
Have made Jamie olivers beef stew for tea, and have stuck some fresh bread on.

Also the snow has stopped, so i hope it stays away now

Afternoon all

AC good luck for Tuesday
welcome back JS... wow you have been busy. hope you are enjoying your new job.
100, sorry to hear you dont like your job. IMO lifes too short to be unhappy so perhaps temping is a good idea. Hope you have a lovely weekend.

I am feeling a teeny tiny bit better i think.
I made the trek into town this morning (my 1 and only trip) for a few bits which you just cant buy online.. and some extra stocking fillers for OH.
Also made it to boots (sounding as ill as i felt) and got some paracetamol... the lady was telling me that if im pregnant basically olbas oil to smell, normal strepsils (ie not extra ones) and paracetamol are all im allowed. .... but she let me get some cold and flu capsule things for OH

(i think i might have given my cold to OH ... i cant believe the timing... we are supposed to be TTC from well TODAY actually but if we are both feeling crap i dont hold up much hope for getting pg .

Have been looking ahead to todays date for months and months, but OH says theres always next month, and i guess he's right. Its just typical, my 1st cold this year, and OH's 1st cold in OVER a year at the exact time that we are hoping to make our baby. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Also my cold is trying to go to my chest... last time this happened i was on AB's and back on my asthma medication for about 6 weeks. All things i want to avoid if pg

Am sitting here watching the heavy snow fall. My car is now covered in snow and its laying in our garden again. The last bit of the snow only melted in our garden about 2 days ago, and it has still not even gone in the fields, yet it is coming again.

Right gonna stop moaning now.... need to wash up and think ill then go and have a nap in bed.

Hi di hi ladies :)

Well my shift didn't turn out too bad, unfortunately the food heating facilities at work last night were not working, so my meal I had taken in was wasted and I had to get a takeaway, bit shit hey. Driving home I keep thinking about changing jobs and thinking maybe I should just temp for a while so we can move, FFS I am really not happy there at the moment. :(

Got a few jobs to do this afternoon, but so far I've had the motivation to do bugger all and have just caught up on scrubs. :) Yay, the new series and I shed a little tear in my eye when it all got emotional and talking of second chances.

Found out someone else at work is pg, I knew this would happen! I want to be next....

Nice weekend planned with OH and going to his parent's house, along with an afternoon party type thing with some friends. Going to get his mum to show me how to crochet some stuff, I'm really liking knitting and want to crochet too. If/when I get pg I will make all kinds of things for baby :)

Good afternoon all!!
Sorry I've not been on here for soooooooo long. It's all been a bit manic with the last week with BFH, house move and first week in the new job but I think I am now back on track!!

Got a whopping 8 pages to get through so will be with you once I'm all caught up.

Mince Pies and Egg nog for everybody!

JS

Good luck for Tuesday AC! I suppose it might be thought of as a win-win situation though- If you get the job great! If you don't-you can start TTC :)

Has your passport turned up jbells? I hate it when things like that happen, it's so frustrating but at least it's only because of baby brainitis!

I wonder if your DH needs to get some support from his GP if he is always feeling down, Bebe. From what you have said before he has had a few minor problems in the past and soes not like getting help. It's a shame for him and you though :( You always sound upbeat though- I think you deal with everything really well- you must be a very stong person!

Hope you feel better soon nannyl!

Hello everyone else............Christmas is getting closer! Yipee!

Fourth including the vetting interview with the agent back in October. I'll be gutted if I don't get it after all the time and effort I've put in. I really really want it as well.

OMG AC.... will this be your 4th interview?

really good luck, and hope you get it. After all this you deserve to

Just been told there's me and another woman up for the role. Interview is on Tuesday morning. She has already had her final interview.

AC good luck with the final interview, that's a good sign :) Will keep everything crossed. As for who's to know this isn't my month, I just don't feel it yet, I am not at all nervous about it, because I just don't think it will happen this month, probably because I really want it to and it would help answer a few questions and so therefore I cannot possibly be lucky enough to have stuff work out for me like that. I'm sometimes just very negative and get in a tiz, this is one of those things.

bebe, hope you feel better soon. And what did you win?

Nanny, sorry you are feeling rotten, I know exactly what that is like and I hope you are let off it soon. Mine came when I was due AF and had AF on the third day of full lurgy, so there would have been no missed SWI anyway, if it had been mid cycle I wouldn't have been able to do it at all. :(

Well it's work for me tonight, I am fully prepared to be going on a sickness review and am going to ask about seeing occy health to try and get my hours changed back to what they were 6 months ago, as I swear I've been more tired, grumpy and shit health wise since it changed. We shall see. I'm also considering cutting my hours so I do a couple less shifts, 5 lots of 10hr shifts in a row is a killer. We will see what happens.

CD 16 for me now, not that I have been paying a huge amount of attention to it, other than knowing I am mid cycle, but I had to check what CD I was. Give it another week before I change my mind and start symptom spotting LOL I'm very fickle, I may not feel like it's my month now, but I'm sure I'll still start to check out my aching breasts and nausea when it comes to it next week!!!! LOL

Hello all

Hope you are well.

Well done with job AC though sorry TTC has been delayed
100y good luck wedding planning and co-ordinating TTC planning.

Well im in bed feeling poorly. Started to get a cold on Monday and it has now "got" me
It was the last day at school today (and my classes nativity play) but i made myself go in. I got there and was told to go straight home, but i begged and was allowed to watch my 3 year old do their nativity. . They were SOOOOOOO cute, and did really really well, (better than any of our rehersals) Was so proud of them all. After the play i was sent home, so am in bed dosed up on paracetamol. (due to TTC plans- this weekend) I dareent take any other medicine, so paracetamol and hot ribena and olbas oil is all i dare use)

Sadly it means i miss the staff Christmas dinner at 2pm today , but on the + side i got so many generous presents from the children in my class, and really lovely gifts that all the mums put in together for. (Makes me appreciate working at a private school, full of wealthy generous families even more )

Thankfully i have now finished until 5th Jan, and should be better by Xmas (so long as i dont give it to OH, really really dont want him being poorly at the weekend either)

Am also confused as am now using my CBFM which says i have high fertility and have had 'high' fertiltiy since day 7. Very wierd as my charting and TCOYF insist i dont become fertile until day 10 (2mo).

Hope everyone else has a good day

wow AC congrats on your next interview and gudluck, is there a silver lining if u dont get it will u be ttc?

and how exciting bebe wot did u win?

AC - So sad that you have to put off TTC again :( But a new job would be something positive to focus on.

DD is full of snot (as am I...yuk!) DH is having a really rough crappy time at work again so we aren't really talking about TTC. I think he knows it is at the back of my mind (well, not quite at the back ) I won a load of stuff on MN today (mega excited ) and we just had an argument about him coming with me & DD to Kent next week after he finishes work at lunchtime! He is just so tired & miserable all the time & it's really starting to grind me down! :(

Thanks guys. Sorry I didn't have time to reply to everyone else's messages earlier, I was at work. Good news about my next interview, but I am so sad about having to wait longer to ttc. DH and I had decided that if I didn't get through to the next round we'd start trying. So mixed feelings about the final stage. I can completely sympathise with you 100years. Although who's to say this won't be your month?

Bebe that's funny about DH's storytime! I hope dd feels a bit better tomorrow. Have you and DH talked any more about ttc? He must know by now that you are merrily proceeding with your ttc plans!

Astrozola when is the Christmas party? The mini break plan sounds brilliant. Did you get anywhere with your boss?

AC that's fantastic!! Fingers & toes crossed for you! Really hope it goes well! Good Luck!

100 - what a dilema! :( Nothing is ever simple is it?! Hope you find a solution that works for you xx

Just a quick message: I have a third and final interview!!!! Wish me luck!

Good morning all.

Well I have today off work, then I'm back for one night shift and another 4 days off work - my rota'd days off! :)

Got a few things to do today, one of which included getting stuff out of the freezer for tea tonight, I have not done this so far, So I still need to decide what we are having.

Trying to decide on a few things re the future, as I was a few weeks ago, but it's kind of getting to a point where I feel I need to make this decision. I'm not happy at work at the moment and would like a new job, we would like to be living somewhere else and in that case I wouldn't carry on doing what I am doing now, but changing work, so I'm trying to decide what to do about work, where we live and a few other things. But this depends on little baby arriving or starting it's little journey, and I don't know what to do with regards to that. I don't want to stop TTC, but if we decide to move and me change jobs I may need to take a short break from TTC. It's a case of what do we want more. I think the plan atm is to wait till March and see if I get a BFP by then, and if not then to poss change things then, but look for stuff between now and then and see if I see anything I would think of doing. OH has suggested going into childminding, which I could possibly do, but I would rather have baby first. I've been looking at driving instruction, I'm a good driver having done emergency driving course and so have no worries about that, it's whether I want to go and do something like that full time, and there is the training but it's worth it. So there is a lot of stuff to think over at the moment.

There is also the wedding to discuss properly, we have seen loads of friends who have been asking us lots about what we plan to do re the wedding and where and when and how big and stuff like that. All we have answered is it's complicated, obviously with TTC we don't want to plan a wedding then discover I'm 8 months upduffed when the date comes.

Feeling swamped with it all at the moment, and kind of dreading the going back to work tomorrow.