All ttc or expecting their BFPs welcome. Fingers crossed for a fantastically fertile February!

I got the bfp 2 days after af was due with dc #1

I might buy a proper test later...

At what stage did you get your bfp for dc1? (I hope I'm correct in thinking you are ttc #2, hence my question ). Apparently some people only show up properly with bfp after af is due so I think you are still in with a chance.

Af is due Saturday...I feel like if it was a real bfp the line would be very clear at this point past ov!

mum2kiss go and find another stick to do another test if you can! When is af due?

Nice to see you but sorry to see you on the Feb bus if you know what I mean onelife and littlemiss. Hopefully this will be the lucky one for you both!

Kitty thank you. I half wish I had moved after the new curriculum came out to avoid the change . I know everyone must be feeling that same uncertainty over the change in Sept so I need to remember that! How are secondary schools coping with the change? You'll be busy in your dept when your line manager heads off I reckon, make sure you look after yourself!

Experience of this will be good for my career but some days I just want to tell my career to bugger off and stay at home with the cat! I've given myself until the Easter hols in this job to get my head around things a bit more and am hoping it'll feel easier. By then, the kids will have got me caught and I won't want to leave them so I'll be fine from then .

missmrs thanks, I've found some LEAs which do that. The area I'm currently in doesn't but it appears a fair number do. How on earth do you go about changing from secondary to primary teaching? I bet that hasn't been easy!

I threw the piac down the loo when I thought it was negative!!!

Im 12dpo...

I have uploaded the blurred pic to my.profile so you can give me your thoughts on it lol!

Have you got another test mum2kiss? Did you PIAC, if so save it and go get another test. How many dpo are you?

Or was it! I noticed that where the max line was there was slight pinkyness when I examined it...when I lifted the flap there was a faint pink line!!!!! I tried to get a pic but it was blurred and now the pink line has evaporated/merged with the control line!!!

What does this mean!!!!!!

Oh yes forgot to put my stats on! TTC #1 cycle 3 AF/BFP due 28th Feb!

I think it is felt in all schools at the mo I'm in EYFS and expecting an inspection so school is crazy! But keeps my mind going baby crazy!

barmy I think there are LEA 'supply pools' - try googling for that in your area.

Littlemiss good plan! I'm following the same guidelines. Don't forget the manuka honey!

So I buckled and used an ic this morning...bfn :(

Hi barmy!

I'm secondary so won't be able to help directly but I do understand the randomness of levelling. It is actually going to be scrapped (at least sub levels definitely are) soon, so don't try to stress too much. You do have the excuse of teaching before in Scotland so shouldn't feel embarrassed asking for a second opinion to check you are on the right lines. Depends on your colleagues though

Teaching does have it's 'full on' days which make TTC even crazier-total sympathies! My line manager is due to go on paternity leave any day now and there is only really two of us in the dept (you can't count the SLT member really can you !?) so when he goes, it will be just me-hope my stress levels don't go through the ceiling!

Use us to talk about your day and we will help you get through it. Hope you have a better day today

I will have been in the job two years this Easter. I must admit that I have held off TTC until now as I couldn't bring myself to do it starting a new job. I know it's allowed though so you should really do what is right for you, Kate. It can't hurt applying can it?

Morning ladies

I'm coming to join you all

Morning all! Nice to see some familiar names! I've been rudely kicked off the Jan bus :( wicked witch got me right at the end!

This month will be trying OPKs, NUDP, reflexology, soft cups, pressed, more vitamins and new positions!!

Hope all are well good luck for Feb any news hints and tips throw them my way I'm up for trying anything new!!

Kate I would check out the mat pay situation to help decide about the job.

I think it depended on the job as to what I'd do. Is it going to be longer hours, more stressful? ie. would you struggle to do it whilst pregnant? If not, and you want the job and intend to return to it when mat leave is finished, personally I would apply. I think you need to carry on life as you normally would when ttc as otherwise it can take over, and if it takes longer than you hoped, you may regret not applying. Hopefully you will be pregnant in a few weeks so that won't apply though .

Morning!

Feeling a lot more cheerful after some sleep, thank goodness for sleep! It may also have something to do with the fact I'm not working today... Although I've started on new job, I'm only in a few days a week until half term when I start full time.

Thanks everyone. I think that's the thing with teaching. On a brilliant day, you feel on top of the world, a rubbish day always makes me feel like I don't know what I'm doing and that I'm a useless teacher. It's an up and down job I guess . it has to start making more sense soon I hope!

missmrs yes, by mat leave I mean I would be choosing when to stop work and would get mat allowance or stat mat pay depending on the timing. Anything else (ie occupational mat pay) will be irrelevant for me for the next two years as we will have to move again in Dec either further south or for a 3 year stint in America, so I won't have the option to build up enough time in a job to get occupational mat pay unless we delayed ttc for a few years or I stayed in Scotland and dh 'weekly commuted' by flying home every few weekends, but again, that would mean little chance of getting preg so pointless in my eyes. I'm not sure how it works with supply in England. You do build up eligibility for stat mat pay or mat allowance provided you meet the criteria, but I don't think you'd be eligible for occupational mat pay unless directly employed by the LEA to do supply.

Is there anywhere in England where the LEA manages supply? It all seems to be via agencies from what I can work out. In Scotland you are employed by the council for supply, they manage it all and pay you, thus you would build up eligibility for proper mat leave/pay there as a supply teacher.

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kate you could check with your union about maternity pay. I've read that you can carry your experience across LEAs so in just moved bit will be entitled to mat pay.

I'd still be inclined to stay put while ttc though.

Fx for you!

Hi all. Just a reminder of who I am.
TTC #3. Cycle 6 after MMC in July. Also miscarried in April last year. BFP/AF due any day now (I think 30th, so tomorrow). I'm 39 years old. Feeling a bit miserable as get the feeling I've got PMT today... am so tense and snapping at DH and generally anxious and realise it's because I hate this time. Hoping against hope that am PG whilst dreading the arrival of AF.
Anyway, just venting really. Good luck to you all. I'll keep you posted but I'm not going to POAS until after weekend if AF doesn't arrive.

Take care all.

Both of those things are exactly what I've been thinking about! Problem is, moving might mean I'm not entitled to maternity for a year. I think TTC is my priority for now. Fingers crossed it works out!

Think of the maternity pay you'd get if you were on the higher pay!

Seriously, though... If TTC is your priority then maybe stick with your current job if it is familiar... I've recently moved and feel like the stress and upheaval of it all may hinder TTC.

On the other hand, it could take ages to get pg and you might wish you'd gone for the job!

Sorry that's no help at all x

It's coming on very soon I think - watching TiVod ones.
I love how teachers always gather around the internet - I'm secondary, in 4th year.
Found an amazing job advertised actually - step up, more pay yet I'm definitely qualified for it. Problem is, would have to halt maternity that of course may not even happen yet. Have had to decide whether to go for the job or continue to TTC as planned. So hard to make a decision when both job and TTC are worlds of uncertainty.
What would you have done?

Hi kate! Is Nashville back on?!

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Sorry - long day!

barmy sorry to hear it's not gone well. I'm in my first year of primary after teaching secondary for 5 years. Struggling to get my head round it too!

When uh said you'd hoped to be doing supply before mat leave, do you just mean not working whilst pg/having new baby? I thought you couldn't get any mat leave of on supply (which is basically the only reason I'm still in a perm job - I'd rather do supply)

Barmy I can't really help much but wanted to say hold on in there!
I've had a crap day at work and in my 3rd year of teaching in EYFS!