Elderberry Pavlovas Unite - the over 30s TTC number 1

Waves at Piper sorry you feel AF is on here way. She's not here yet mind.

I read another thread where people had been trying for 7 years. Have now convinced myself it's never going to happen for me.

Hi everyone AF due today but no sign and a BFN appears to be Mother Nature flicking the vs at me this month i'm afraid but the fat lady hasn't sung yet I'm still clinging to a teeny tiny hope! Congrats Hazle and hoping you could be the start of a trend!!
My DH also thought it should be as easy as just making your mind up and DTD he realises now it doesn't really work that way all the time!!

Rache1S I would have thought it would be out of your system by now? I'm no expert on these matters though! I wouldn't have thought an odd drink would matter, just as long as you're not downing a bottle of vodka!

I'm taking that as gospel too!! janey1234

I was having a dilemma too last month about it but I'm not going to add to the stress of ttc by not allowing myself a couple of drinks as well! Plus if I stop drinking then ill be faced with queries as to why I'm not esp. at a wedding... my friends will assume that I must be pregnant if I'm not drinking!

The wine dilemma has got worse! I appear to have started spotting and it's 6 days until AF is due. I spotted last month but put that down to Pregnacare (after never spotting before) which I stopped taking about a month ago. I just take Folic Acid now. Could the Pregnacare still be in my system? If it was implantation I've heard it would be more brown and this is more pink (apologies if tmi!)

Have cut down on the booze too, to about a glass every week or so. I don't think I'll stop before if ever I get a BFP but I reckon a cheeky glass now and then can't hurt.

The drinking thing is sooooo hard. I have cut right down this year. And my husband (after much nagging) has finally cut down too. I've had one large glass of wine all week and I might have one more this weekend. Oh and a glass of bubbly with lunch today as we had a leaving lunch at work. I try and save getting drunk now till special occasions, such as weddings. Wow I can't believe I'm actually saying that, I was a 'get drunk every week' kinda girl!

rache - I think it's fine to have a few. I did on my 2ww last month, and if it takes me a year to conceive there is no way I want to spend half of that not drinking. My cousin is a GP and she said it's fine as long as you don't go mental - so I'm taking that as gospel!

HazleNutt Puppy classes are on my to-do list. He is only just fully vaccinated so he can only officially go out from the middle of next week. We have been taking him to people's houses and out in the car since we got him and we have carried him around the park a few times but I can't wait to take him out for a proper walk! I will also take him to puppy classes to socialise with other dogs and hopefully learn a bit more obedience. He has mastered 'sit' and is getting there with 'lie down' but other than that he's clueless!

Yorkiebilb I have a bit of a wine dilemma this weekend because I am due to POAS around Thursday. We're just having a quiet one after a bit of a mad one last weekend and I would usually enjoy a glass or two on a Friday night, but if there's any possibility of pregnancy it makes me wonder whether I should? When we started TTC I swore that I would just carry on as normal - drink included - until I got a BFP but it seems it's quite hard to do that during the 2WW!

Sorry I meant Hazle not Hazel! Damn predictive text!

It sounds it though Hazel!

I'm off up to Yorkshire for a wedding this weekend. Going drink lots of wine seen as there is no pregnancy on the horizon!!

Hope you all have lovely weekends!

Oh honestly the life is not as glamorous as it sounds

Rach I didn't notice you put the photos up. Soooo cute!
But indeed probably keeping you busy - you're going to puppy training classes or something as well? So very important to socialise them when young and to teach to walk to heel - there as a story here on MN where the poster wanted to re-home the dogs as she could not walk them after having a baby, as they just pulled too much and she couldn't handle the dogs and stroller. Ours [smug emoticon] can be walked off leash without any problems.

So, who is POASing next?

Oh and Rache - just looked at your pictures! Your puppy is GORGEOUS. I want one!
Bless...

hazle - I think it's safe to say that we are ALL completely jealous of your French lifestyle! Getting up early for mushrooms? Brilliant. My folks have a place in the Dordogne that they use about four months of the year, but I don't think I'll get out there again this year annoyingly. It's a shame as I love it out there, whatever the season...

I've got a quiet weekend ahead this weekend. Planning gym on Saturday morning, then housework in the afternoon, then we're going out locally for a pint and a curry (good old East London!). Then on Sunday we're off for a bike ride, then cooking a massive roast. I cannot wait actually - we're constantly away from home at the weekend, and I don't think we've had a quiet weekend at home in literally six months. We shall be DTD as well: coming up to ov time so fingers crossed!

Can't believe so many of us are in London - and East London at that. It's a small world...

Morning all and thanks! Have to say that due to last month, DH and I are not getting ourselves very excited yet. Have to wait and see.

Have to try to book an appointment to get my hormones checked and adjusted - had my thyroid out in May. Doc speaks English, receptionists do not. MIght take the easy way out and ask DH to call them.

No specific plans, need to get up really early tomorrow to go to the local market. It's mushroom season, but all the good ones are gone by 8..

Dogsblog!? Dogsit!

Congrats Hazle, fantastic news!

I have got a borrowed dog for the weekend - she is asleep on the end of my bed now. She is a friend's whippet who I dogsblog sometimes, very sweet.

I am London too - wow loads of us.

We are doing nothing. We are trying to sell our house so the last couple of weeks we have had people coming to view on the weekend so we have had to keep everything super clean and tidy.
Then last Saturday night I came down with a sickness bug and was ill all night and all Sunday.
So this weekend we are doing nothing. Not being clean, not showing people our house, just slobbing out.

Puppy photos should be on my profile I'm a week away from POAS and have zero symptoms so he's the only baby in my life at the moment

Congrats Hazle interesting that the CBD picked it up before the cheapo did. I thought they were hard to convince.
I got asked the same by my boss, again I know they shouldn't but this was when he was deciding whether to give me a permanent contract or not.

I live and work in Suffolk.

ooh I'm in Belfast - but really I'd like to live in France...a pink house sounds v nice :) x

I'm a Londoner too

Huge congrats hazel! That is fab news!
I live in NW London (kind of Middlesex really) and work 5 min from home. Very lucky. Worked I various branches in the past, most in central London.

I am going to break this southern/foreign trend and reveal that I live and work in the north west, south of Manchester.

HazleNutt that is absolutely fantastic news, you must be thrilled?!!