The Elderberry Pavlovas who occasionally sausage wang – a fabulous thread for 30+ ladies TTC #1 (Thread 8)

Afternoon berries, new and old! Slow day here in the Bristow household as we're battling our umpteenth sinus infection/stomach bug of the season.

re: Baby on Board badges, a lady in a lift had one and I was secretly envious, thinking I couldn't wait to get one of my own, til DH informed me they were 'naff' and hideous I'm outvoted!!

Trying to get ready for GP appt tomorrow, first priority, get HSG! Thanks for the info puppy. Is my logic correct? Radiology dept at my local hosp told me they're required to handle all appts within 6 weeks. My CD7-10 would be next week, too early for a referral I would think, so would that mean the HSG would have to be done next month, to be within the 6 week cutoff? Is that an NHS thing, or a local hospital thing?

Wim really sorry to hear you've been messed about. I often wonder if I have complete naivety in believing everything the docs say and I should be pushing more than I do. It's difficult to know where the balance should be.

Christ peanut when you said that it was a clip of your backside I actually thought you meant you had your bare bum showing on national tv!!! God knows why I thought that. I was really impressed and [shocked] that you seemed so pleased about it!

Thunder - wonder what the reluctance is about? It's a very safe and cheap drug. Did yr GP say why? Mine just said to recheck in a year - helpful.

Hi bomb - not dim at all! Started on thyroxine, retest blds in three wks. In mean time having tubes etc checked with a hycosy... Whatever that is. He will keep upping thyroxine dose till my TSH level is less than 2. Nothing else till then. My DH said - aren't those slimming pills?! I'm hoping a few pounds shed could be a helpful side effect!

Hi all,

Still haven't allowed myself to read the whole Toni thread. Absolutely hilarious.

wim I too have been aggressive assertive with docs recently re thyroid. Got me a 4 week blood test instead of two months after starting in the thyroxine. Have had to be very pro active!

Impressed at your fame peanut even though I didn't watch it

Sorry wimwom, X threads. Must be so frustrating knowing the GP has messed you about. Sorry for being dim, but what is being done now then, have they given you thyroxine?

Oh and my claim to fame - there's about three seconds of me standing at a desk in my fetching white uniform, chatting with a midwife and yes, drinking a cup of tea (it was a slow day, honest!)

The yoni thread is hilarious - who on earth thinks it's a good idea to advertise for business for such a thing on MN?!
Just in from first apt, and for any out there with thyroid issues take note! My clinic won't start any treatment until TSH is under 2.5, and preferably 2. Mine is 7.89! He said GP's often won't treat until symptomatic, but that is actually wrong as you can't have healthy ovulation with that thyroid level and that the criteria for treatment is going to be dropped to 3 (currently 5)
Am annoyed I've been to GP twice about thyroid in last 6mths, and my wallet is significantly lighten by the clinic today (also testing ovarian reserve and tubes) but felt more hopeful might get there naturally.
One final thing - common cause of miscarriage is low thyroid. He didn't think if I'd got pregnant at that level I'd have made it through. So - anyone in any doubt go and do a sit in at the GP till they give you thyroxine!!

Bwahahaha! Oh deary me, how have I survived this far in life without yoni-based poetry?? Can't say I'll be looking Brian up any time soon though If I were brave enough I'd be changing my name to Yonicantbuyyoulove HA

barking hope it wasn't too traumatic being near the baby clinic.

That's exactly what I think peanut about those bloody badges. I didn't even like them before I was ttc. ooh tell us more about your one born starring role!

Started reading the yoni thread too until the gas man came round and then it didn't feel quite right reading it whilst he was there! I shall return to it after work when I get bored in 5 minutes as it is v funny. When I searched for the thread I also saw a thread on the baby name section from ages ago where someone was asking what people thought about her naming her kid Yoni! Someone had to break it to her what it translated to!

Yes, peanut, prepare yourself to laugh a lot. It's not so much the op, but the very witty responses and name changes and the very good response from mnhq. The fact that it's still there raises mnhq even further in my estimations.

That sounds great, barking. I'm about to meet a colleague who has given me the 'enjoy practising' speech before...I think she may give it again today. She has 3 grown up children and was an instadiffer. Lovely. Im meeting her cos I want to talk about the teacher thing, so hoping to steer the conversation that way....

Happy that's made me chuckle, only members of this thread could be annoyed for managing to actually wee in the toilet instead of all over their hand elsewhere! Better luck tomorrow

Boodle, Bunny - I too am regularly convinced that I shall be shortly featuring on 'I didn't know I was pregnant' (which is the most loathesome awful anti-Berry programme that could ever exist)

Speaking of programmes, someone mentioned One Born a bit ago.. Guess who was on it! (Only my backside actually, and very briefly, but still! Fame! )

Hello yorkie! Seriously, Baby on Board badges? I would get TTC rage. Why not just 'Ha Ha, my ovaries work better than yours and I'm a smug fertile ***' badges? (I'm in a very, very PMT-psycho bad mood today. In case you hadn't noticed. Sometimes I'm nice, honest)

Katniss totally feel for you, ttc-failure is crappy no matter how many you already have. That said, I'm not sure this is the best thread to find the support you need, none of us have had babies yet so as the others said the entrance criteria are so we are all coming from the same place. I do hope you find the support you need on other threads though

Barking stupid waiting rooms! and cafes full of postnatal groups and teenagers with prams and facebook updates and pregnant work colleagues and having to stand up for pg women on buses

Right, off to find out what yoni is/was/means... do I need to prepare myself?

That's weird, I keep missing posts and it makes it look like I'm ignoring people! I don't think it's refreshing properly on my phone .
Back home and heading to the lesson planning, but sorting out that pile of paperwork first....

Those badges sound hideous. The one consolation of my pg collegue who is always in my face talks a lot about her pg is that she's always been on the large side so it's still not obvious she has a bump and I can still pretend she's not actually pg!

I'm waiting at a health centre for an appointment with the podiatrist (about my flat feet causing shin pain when I run or walk up hills) and it happens to be the same waiting room for the baby clinic. Lovely.

Hello ladies. tally, sorry for apparently ignoring your post last night in favour of the yoni thread. I must have crossed with you and didn't read back. I'm sorry you've been given the run around. You may have to wait until the secretary gets back next week as they seem to be the guardians. But how about trying your GP again in the hope that you get someone else on the phone? If all else fails, cry on the phone! Btw, we also don't get along with condoms, if it makes you feel less alone. I was quite relieved when I saw your point about that, as I thought it was only us.
I'm afraid I have to agree with barking and bunny about our entrance criteria, katniss. We are all ttc #1 and finding it hard and emotional. We may say things that could come across as offensive to you, which are not intended that way at all. This may not be the best thread for you, but totallly agree about how great mn is for support. I hope one of the other threads is more appropriate and that you get some support, as it sounds as though you're going through a difficult time. There are threads about ttc #2 and fertility clinics. I wish you all the best.

Ahh hey thunder! Sorry I abandoned the mc thread for a while as had too much going on. Nice to see you. How are you doing? sorry to hear you're not sleeping well.

Hey yorkie

Am only on page 2 of the yoni thread and have had to strictly limit myself do I can get done work done.

My hormones are all over the place here- started waking at 3am extremely hot and not being able to get back to sleep. Not amused.

hello frog! clearing out your wardrobe sounds far more productive than lesson planning.

Yep those bl00dy badges are everywhere, supposedly so pg women will be offered a seat on the train/tube and there is no confusion over whether they are pg or just have a big belly. I seemed to have developed some kind of radar that can spot them a mile off!

Hello yorkie! I'm on here again as I'm supposed to be on the computer planning lessons before school starts next week but am blatantly on here or fb instead, and am seriously considering spending the afternoon clearing out my wardrobe...

Baby on board badges?? wtf?!

Hello hello can I join/rejoin? I think I was on here a while ago for a short period but didn't post an awful lot at the time.

I'm age 35 ttc no 1 since September 2012. Had mmc in Dec and been trying again ever since. Hoping that it is just stress that's been preventing us from conceiving - went on late honeymoon and had to come back a week early as FIL suddenly got diagnosed with cancer and died 4 weeks later and we moved house at the same time.

Like you all I'm surrounded by my lovely friends getting pg with ease. My old housemate got pg by accident and didn't even know she was pg until 4 months old - she keeps calling herself sonia from eastenders! Anyone else live/work in London and hate walking past all the women wearing those baby on board badges which seem to be everywhere!! - I feel bad because my automatic reaction is to give them evils - I'm a bitch aren't I?!

Currently sat waiting for British Gas to come out as our boiler is broken. They were supposed to come out yesterday and cancelled on me because I was not deemed a high priority - high priority are those with young children apparently! Thanks very much British Gas for rubbing my nose in it!!!

Oh oh I do have my own special pot which I'm hoping DH will never find!

Katniss we are a friendly group but we're all desperately trying for our first child, none of us are lucky enough to already have one . I really don't want to sound like a bitch but without wanting to speak for everyone a lot of us are here as it's bad enough in real life having women with children everywhere, and we know we're all in the same boat on this thread, hence the entrance criteria.

I'm really tired and grumpy this morning and it's all merkin's fault for drawing my attention to the Yoni massage. :0p

Thank you 'Notwithout', mad bunches are the best!

You seem like a friendly group .