Waiting to ttc.... 2nd slightly pointless thread!

No one really said anything & he just carried on saying he wanted to wait until afterwards. I kept quiet as I couldn't think of anything to add! Think the conversation moved on afterwards thankfully. When I told him off this morning he just said he thought I'd discussed that kind of thing with them already.... Nope!

That's not good ttc behaviour! Hope he was suitably chastened this am on waking.

Oh no oz! I would have been so mad! What did everyone say?!

Thanks pommie!

Had a dinner party last night, later on in the evening (after a few bottles of red) DH starts talking about his 30th holiday to Vietnam - but turns to me and says (in front of everyone) "but you want to be pregnant by then don't you" in a very accusatory way! Mortified doesn't cover it wasn't in my good books this morning!

cycle day 18. As in 18 days since your period (known as af around here) started.

Not up on all this terminology... What does cd18 stand for?

Can I join please? #30 and have DD 2 yrs. Really hoping
we can start trying in Sept after m/c

I'm cd18 now and still not ovulated.. this is my first 'real' cycle since coming off pill in December and it's so frustrating! If they'd just go back to normal I could chill out and stop worrying about it :/ how are yours going buddhagirl?

Agreed its much better with your own. Well, so I've heard.
Dh said yesterday, so your not going back on the patch then? I'm not i said, just like we agreed. He was cool with that and went to buy some condoms. Gotta be firm! I'm not mucking around anymore.

BFP's
Loveyouforevermybaby , OP, due August.
amiready
Winterpansy , due beginning January
Possibly some more, including Bridget and the hairy brigands , but we need people to report back with these details!

April
Zen nudist age 34 ttc #2 April/may?
caramal ttc#2 hopefully April.
orbis non sufficit age 35 ttc#1 April
moominlike age 32 ttc#1
Frizz1986 ttc#1
duddlepuck
MrsHuxtable , age 29, ttc#2 April
Maybe again ttc#3
Fairy pants ttc#3
Johnand kymberley ttc#1

May
definately sometime age 30 ttc#1 May.
toomuchlaptop age 36 ttc#2
kate Beckett ttc#1
Suddenly squeamish ttc#1 after house move.
Miss calamity , age 33 ttc#2 when oh ready.

In a few months/later in the year
sorelip ttc#2
labourgirl
Ginger and cocoa , ttc#1 when dh ready
Pizza queen ttc#2 when dp ready

June
popsicle1984 age 28 ttc#1

July
painted cat age 22 ttc #1
iwish age 27 ttc#2

August
part1 ttc#2
Tranquilitybaby ttc#2 on hols in Mexico!

September
Porridge with almond milk
It's so fluffy I'm gonna die age 29 ttc#1
HorseyGirl1 tt#2

Autumn
twojackrussellsandababy ttc#2
Jetblack61 ttc#1 after hols in Australia, age 28
Don't squeeze the tea bag ttc#1 after a wedding and a new bathroom.
Alohomora , age 31 ttc1 after wedding party in June and in time for summer baby!
Visualise a horse , ttc#2 when dc1 is 18 months

November 2013
waiting 2wait2wait

December 2013
tigerstripes

Mid 2014
thundernlightning

September2014 (or2015)
madamelebean ttc #2

End 2014
ithinkineedahug

June 2015
lollydollydrop

Indefinite or vague
mintberry
witchesbrew&biscuits ttc#2
lindamagoo 41 ttc #3
Happygolucky in oz age 29 ttc#1 when partner back in work.
leafmould age 35 ttc#3 when partner ready.....
Buddhagirl 28 ttc #1 when moved out of the inlaws house.

Hi, there just adding myself to the list. Nice to have company in the waiting room!

I'm reading through all the posts on the board and thinking about the 3 months it took last time (and realising I was lucky!)...got me thinking that maybe ttc or at least not avoiding would be a good plan a lot sooner if I want a summer baby, rather than waiting to the 'perfect' Oct/Nov conception window.

Eek! Think we may be ttc before next month is out!

happy - much better with your own :)

Waiting ttc is quite frustrating. Not known for my patience.

Am going to get the cycle day freak out out of the way over the next few months as something to distract me!

Hi newbies!

Went over to a friends this weekend and she had a woman there that's 4 months pregnant and also has a 15 month old. Realised I'm really awkward around other children - I just can't do the 'excited baby talk'! I hope I do better with my own children . I do have a nice bruise on my forehead though, I was trying to play with him (doing 'high fives' with these big cardboard hands) got distracted by my phone but he kept going and had turned the 'hand' so it was on it's edge and properly clocked me on the head! You can't take you're eye off them for a minute!

I've found I'm becoming hyper sensitive to every little twinge I get now, a week since I stopped the pill and I'm sure I'm getting odd pains in my ovaries!

Joining, currently thinking of ttc number 3 (!) early 2014. Eek!

Hi, another newbie here! We thought we'd be ttc already, but not quite in the right headspace...figured if I joined a forum it might get me all excited about another lo (ds is 4), so here I am!

Maybe October, but if I get broody sooner there's no reason not to start ttc a little earlier...

I'm not the sort of person who can bbt temp everyday, I'd just forget. I'd rather buy a cbfm. Plus dh would be like what are you doing?

Pommedechocolat, join join!

Can I tentatively join?

Have 2 dds - 3.4 and 17 months and a termination under my belt in the last few years.

Thinking of number 3. Starting some time in 2014. Scared shitless about going back to the baby stage but love the idea of 3 older children. Would like a son but think the idea of a gaggle of girls is very cute too.

Love my career though....

Dh unsure, depends when you talk to him.

I had to come off the pill about 2 years ago after trying about 7 different ones - came to the conclusion that they just don't agree with me! I had everything from migraines to rashes with them...and such a low sex drive it was ludicrous! It did take a few months of weird cycles for everything to settle down.

I have to say, I'm not a huge fan of condoms (don't like the feel etc) but I can recommend the Durex "Pleasuremax" ones... they've got ribs and dots and stuff ... even with those ones though I can't wait until this time next year when me and DH can stop using them!!

It's rubbish isn't it Buddha?! Are you bbt temping?

Ah he will come round, it's good for you both to share the responsibility of contraception.

I assumed I'm not ovulating! As I didn't think you could ovulate a day before your period. Clearly I need to wait much longer for cycles to settle down.

Ah 14 day cycle is poo Buddha, but does this at least mean you're ovulating?!

DH and I dtd with the condoms last night, took me a while to convince him to get undressed (this boy is very paranoid now I'm not taking the pill!!!) as he thinks it's all very 'scary' now we aren't 'protected'

Don't think they'll be any accidents that's for sure, he's being ultra careful for the both of us

This is the 3rd month off sigh

I've started taking a pre-pregnancy multi vit which has folic acid in it, figured it can't do any harm! (did scare dh a bit when he saw the first pack though )

Buddhagirl - 14 day cycle?! When did you stop contraception?

Interesting. So going with 9 months before back to normal then, guess that fits with DH wanting to try after April next year, looks like he may get his way

Just googling cycles after coming off contraception, found something that may be of interest:

?How long will it take my cycle to regulate after discontinuing the pill?
?Will previous pill use impact my future fertility?
?How long will it take me to get pregnant after discontinuing the pill?

Surprisingly, there are few recent scientific studies responding to these questions. One relevant comprehensive recent study, however, is that by Dr. C. Gnoth and his colleagues at the University of Dusseldorf in Germany. In an article titled "Cycle characteristics after discontinuation of oral contraceptives," published in the journal Gynecological Endocrinology in 2002, Gnoth and his colleagues compared the cycle characteristics of women who had recently stopped taking the pill with those who had never used oral contraceptives. The cycle characteristics were determined using basal body temperature (BBT) charts.

Relevant Findings

?57.9% of all first cycles after discontinuing oral contraceptives were ovulatory (identified with BBT shift) with sufficient luteal phases (greater than 10 days).

?10.24% of all first cycles after discontinuing oral contraceptives were not ovulatory (compared with 3.44% of control group). Significant differences also appeared in the second and third cycles after discontinuing oral contraceptives.

?Cycles were longer in the post-pill group up to cycle number 12.

?Cycle disturbances (defined as a luteal phase length of less than 10 days or a cycle length greater than 35 days) were more frequent in the post-pill group until the seventh cycle.

?Cycle disturbances after discontinuing oral contraceptives were reversible but regulation took up to nine months or longer.