TTC #1 coming off the pill in December - anyone else in the same boat?!

Haha Ni I've certainly done my best, just been busy with kitchen fun.

Happy my DH is very much like that. We had a good discussion re baby names at the weekend though and he was very active in the conversation- quite unlike him. I think we now have a boys name and a girls name chosen but we really do need to get pregnant first haha.

Has anyone decided if they will find out or not? I think we will, just to make thinks easier to organise. I was all for keeping it a surprise until we starting talking about Ttc and now I'm of the opinion it would make logistics easier and buying clothes. I'm sure my plan will change when it's on the cards.

Thanks girls :) it'll be great to have other people to talk to who are going through the same! Not really told anyone in RL we are TTC and although my DH is on board with it he just wants to 'stop preventing it' as opposed to thinking we are actually trying. Think he's worried about feeling under pressure so I'm trying to be super casual about it around him at the mo! Anyone else's DH/DPs feeling like this?

#the witch not the with...obvs!

Morning ladies! Welcome to guesswork101 happy and Dr!

Sorry to hear you might be out Runner but as you always say yourself you're not out until the with arrives! What day are you now?

Bunch good to hear from you! I thought you'd died of rum and brie overdose!

Saw the GP this morning (totally unrelated to ttc) but it was so lovely to talk to someone in person about ttc! It's officially on the records now! She was young and lovely and excited about it too...only advice she gave was to not get too stressed about it "it's likely to happen in the first year of trying". A year? Does she not know we're impatient, high achievers on here?!

Welcome to the mad house Happy

Shelb I think I ovulated but my temps suggest not pregnant. I'm going to try temping later and breathing through my nose for 5 minutes first tomorrow to see what effect it has... If my temp is higher I'll put it down to me doing it wrong.

Bunch there will be no thermometer going anywhere near my foof! plus, if I did the OH would get cross with me for obsessing.

Aren't the last GoT books coming out next year? I'm waiting for them before I read the prequel.

I recommend starting Philippa Gregory with the lady of the rivers, it seems to be the first book chronologically and it's one of my favourites

Trying to get up the motivation to get on the treadmill, finding it a struggle!!

Hi! Hope you don't mind me joining! Have been reading this thread with interest so thought I'd say hi :) This is our 1st month TTC and I've been off the pill for a week now! Been on the pill 10 years so thinking it might take a while for my cycle to regulate itself but still very excited to be joining you all on the journey!

Aww Runner I hope not. I think maybe it's time to start temping from the Fanjo! Then you'll have no confusion over breathing out of your mouth etc.

I'm not going to start temping until we've had a proper month of dtd every other day and not getting caught. I've read stress can massively reduce your chances of getting caught and I know I would obsess over it and get stressed. I just aim to have lots of sex as soon as I'm around to do so.

I've not read any Phillipa Gregory though I've wanted to since I watched The White Queen. I've read all the GoT books and I'm rather annoyed by the fact he's written a prequel of sorts but not the latest installment yet!

How was everyone's weekend? I've had a busy weekend of supervising kitchen fitting and I'm painting early this week before I go away. And doing two weeks worth of laundry- washing machine finally plumbed in again. What an exciting life I lead!

Hi Dr welcome to the group.

How is everyone this morning?

I'm still worrying about my bbt. It should have risen after ovulation but instead it has consistently dropped lower than my pre-ovulation levels and I'm struggling to find any explanation of this using Google. There are plenty of people taking about temps staying the same or not raising enough but no one talking about temps dipping so I'm assuming the reason is either that I've been temping a lot earlier for the past few days or that I'm sleeping with my mouth open as the start of the lower temperatures correlates with the start of the colder weather. Either way I'm starting to think I'm probably out this month

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Hiya, can I come and join too?
Following lots of work related drama DH definitely has a job and it looks likely that I will too (although it's still not certain). Assuming my job is confirmed on Monday then yesterday will have been my last pill.
DH is abroad until just before Christmas so not actual TTC until then but hopefully my body will sort itself out a bit after 17 years on the pill.
Good luck to all those already TTC ??

Lol I'm another spook magnet but I oddly I never found anything scary in any of the castles I stayed in. They always felt "busy" and lots of feelings of things being nearby but never scary.
I only slept inside one castle, I stayed curled up in the chapel. It was peaceful and I was near a massive window aperture so I was able to look out at the stars. Some of the guys were staying below in the queens tent so I wasn't alone.

Reenactment is brilliant. If you ever get the chance do it! I gave it up in the end as it was very demanding and then I met OH and he's not interested at all. Still as a result I can hold my own with a sword and shoot a longbow fairly well so come the apocalypse I should be ok

I don't think I could concentrate through terminator either! Have you read the GOT books or just watched the TV show? now turning this thread into a book club

DH is watching terminator its shit he loves Arnold Schwarzenegger, I'm sat here like and its got Emilia Clarke in as Sarah Connor, she will never be Sarah Connor, she's Daenarys Stormborn.

And i do runner i really enjoyed the kings curse and thought it lead nicely into the others, I think it's awesome how she intertwines and uses some of the same descriptions, so you feel like you "know" the characters already.

I'd love to do reenactments! Thats so cool! Don't think I could sleep in a castle though! You're far braver than me! I'm a magnet for spooky stuff and ghosts, I'd end up a stuttering, shaking mess! I can deal with it in my own house, but in a castle where I didn't know the ghosts, I'd be freaked out! seen too many most haunted episodes! Haha

Stark I've been to both of those castles to do reenactment. The owners used to pay the club to put on shows and give us the keys to the castle!!! I've got some very fond memories of wandering round castles in full costume after the public had left very spooky! and playing hide and seek after dark also spooky! I even slept in a few of them to look after the kit. I love castles and period houses

I found the white queen much easier and more enjoyable than the red queen. Although I would recommend reading the lady of the rivers first. I really love that book and as it's about the queens mother it leads in nicely. I'm about to read the Kings Curse.
I love how her books intertwine telling different aspects of the story from different points of view

I've just finished the constant princess, I need to get the white queen. I found the red queen quite hard to enjoy though, which surprised me because I thought it would be a quick and easy read.

Been chuckling to myself all day because I watched 'the royle family' last night where Denise Royle is about 10 weeks pregnant and Dave calls her lazy and she goes " I am preparing myself for motherhood! " all outraged! Dsis laughed heartily and just pointed and went " that will be you!" My family have always jokingly called me Denise!

pink I'm 29 and DH is 37 but still thinks he's 21 he's an excersize enthusiast so in fairness to him, he does look a lot younger that 37.

I love Philippa Gregory too! I literally finished the White Queen yesterday. Went to Hever castle a couple of years ago for my birthday. Was so pretty.

I think I'll have to check out the sperm meets egg plan too.

Never = Hever

Welcome new

Ha-ha runner DH agreed as well! He's no chance really! My Dsis jokes that we are like Pinky and the Brain DH is Pinky I'm going to have another try at Reign, I didn't give it much of a chance in fairness as I was being hormonal at the time! I LOVE Phillipa Gregory books. I think my favourite is 'the Boleyn inheritance'. One of my to do list things is to go to London and see the tower, and I want to go visit Never castle too. I love a good castle visit, me! We went to north Wales on our honeymoon (which was a familymoon, we had my DP, Dsis, 4 dogs and me and DH!) And went to canerfon and beaumaris castle then.

Thanks for the suggestion Leonie. I had a look and think I'll follow it this month. I've put the dates in my diary! I just warned the OH we'll be dtd every 2nd day from day 8. He asked permission for quickies if he's tired! Bless I think he's worried about ruining his performance record!

Think someone mentioned the Sperm Meets Egg Plan earlier in the thread. Just had a look at it on Amazon Kindle. Seems sensible... Any cheap OPK recommendations? I don't want to get too bogged down in the details and take the fun out of TTC but this "plan" seems to strike a reasonable balance.

Thanks Runner! You're right. I think I need to be a bit more positive!

Welcome New don't count yourself out yet! At CD17 spotting could be implantation or ovulation bleed. You're never out until the witch shows her ugly face