Relaxed TTC Feb/March/April 2016

Hi ladies, hope everyone is well. I finished my January pills on Friday. Pick a new box up on Wednesday and once they're gone I won't be taking any more! My pills will run out on the 16th of april, three days after my birthday. Works out quite nicely as it means I can have a drink if I fancy it on my birthday. Also means that even if we did conceive first time the earliest my due date would be is late January so not to close to Christmas. don't want to wish the next three months away but hard not to keep wanting April to hurry up!

Hope everyone is else is well, good luck to all those already trying. X

So I'm trying to start my healthy eating. Trying to stay hydrated (without caffeine) and eat more fruit and veg. I've had a banana, veg soup, garlic potatoes and a clementine. Not all together I promise! Hopefully a good nights sleep tonight.

Haha, stumbly, I have been scouring ASOS and GAP all weekend! Not yet bought anything as I think DH would think I had gone totally mad, although probably wouldn't really notice, to be fair...

Alice, did your colleague notice, do you think?!

I think I'm just about in the 2ww although not sure exactly whether I have O'd yet. My latest panic is that we have a holiday in Mexico in mid-Feb and all of the Zika stuff is really terrifying. I should be able to test before we leave and confirm BFP/BFN, but if BFN then trying in Feb (in romantic Mexico hotels) is out, as I think Zika can stay in your system for up to three weeks. Then DH and I not in the same country until April. And if I got a BFP this month... a lot of thinking will be needed!!

Lemon, as I live overseas I've got quite a few flights this year and am having similiar thoughts. I have a flight in early September so didn't start ttc in Jan just in case, but think I would now comfortably be in the window of time which stumbly mentioned. Then if things got more complicated for any reason I'd just ditch the trip.

Sorry my posts always seems like mini essays all!! Happy Monday :-)

Vanilla, I can see how it would be in a way a bit more difficult now you have a choice, I guess if there isn't much choice you just go with what you have to do. What are the reasons to wait til after April?

Our thread is growing , its going to be exciting when all our bfp's happen (very soon of course) 1st one happened 1st cycle, here's hoping we all have similar luck :)

latinata I had Ovia open on my tablet when a colleague walked past last week, opps, but researching certainly makes the day go quicker. I read "The impatient womans guide to getting pregnant", it took the Relaxed attitude and threw it right out the window once I realised each month there is only a 12-24 hour window to concieve in

In other news I've got tonsillitis so all my symptom spotting is well and truly null and void. I'm avoiding sudafed and ibuprofen just in case.

Had such a good day on Saturday, DH and I have finally got round to redecorating the spare room and it makes sense to keep in mind that it could be a nursery within a year so we were in IKEA looking at all the baby furniture, I was soooo excited, I know the baby doesn't exist yet but it made it all so real. IKEA do a welsh dresser type changing table, I will buy this, positive attitude today regardless of the fact that I'm too ill to sleep, its 1am and I have to get up in 6 hours for work. Bleurgh, maybe not actually..... I'd take a sleeping pill but I might be preg and I need to get used to life without medication.

Lemon, I flew short haul when18 weeks pregnant with ds, it was a high risk pregnancy and the doctors and midwifes thought it was absolutely fine.

I'm really wavering about when to start trying, April is our first chance but I seem to keep finding reasons why it should be afterwards. Need to get it straight in my head, as with ds we couldn't pick the time as I went to the preconception clinic for 10 months waiting for them to give me the ok and then just went for it when they did, but this time they have just said whenever you are ready and it feels weird having a choice.

What a lovely welcome! Thank you! I'm totally over eating and drinking lots of Coke at the moment, think my hormones are everywhere with the recent miscarriage.

Need to try get healthy though - new week tomorrow...

Happy Sunday everyone! Was out for a few drinks last night so slightly delicate today 😬

I have just had my between pill 'period' the past few days and starting my last pill pack this week. It's going to be weird next month not starting a new pack! Starting to really come around to the idea now, I bought decaf tea as I was being really good on green tea in work but was having normal tea at home so gonna start making little changes like that so fingers crossed when I get pregnant I will be already living the healthier life!

Just thought of something, we have a family wedding in Spain in October that we've booked flights for. I know you're not supposed to fly if you are pregnant in your last trimester (which I should be fine as not even starting to 'try' till around May) but are you ok to fly between 0-6 months??!

Morning all, hope you are having nice Sundays! Just needed to share the hilarity of being in a cottage with the in-laws and trying to keep DTD regularly. Turns out DH doesn't find the presence of his mother on the other side of the wall hugely arousing! So obviously I'm super chilled out, i.e. You need to get over it!

Having initially decided to be very low-key, not use opks etc, having had very irregular cycles I'm now quite keen on OPking to (hopefully) make me more sane. I got a positive OPK test yesterday on CD23 (obvs much later than anyone with a regular cycle). Had I not been testing I would have concluded that I hadn't O'd this month (and of course still might not) and probably geared up for a few rounds of cocktails!

Very amused by the number of comments about researching things like a loon- I'm exactly the same, and have given up caring what my work browsing history looks like to anyone in the IT department! Maybe they will learn a thing or two...

Nice to see more new faces.
I'm not doing any tests until my period is late. Just enjoying the erm... fun part of TTC for now!

Hello fellow newbies! I am awake and up at 3 am (haven't been to bed yet) as I've a stonking head cold that means if I lie down I feel like my head might explode! Supposed to be honeymooning it up but not so much haha! Instead trying to get post wedding stuff sorted - but instead sat here looking up baby names and daydreaming about being up at this time for a good reason (to see to a tiny little person!). I might be a bit crackers forgive me

Hi everyone! Hope it's ok to join. Hi Loki!!

I had a mmc on 5/1 and am just waiting for my first period before TTC again. It has been really tough but I'm feeling ready to look forward again now. I don't want to obsess though so glad I found this thread :) got my BFP on first cycle last time (we started TTC mid cycle and I thought I'd already ovulated that month). It was a huge shock as I had major surgery in 2011 for pancreatic tumour and my body really struggled afterwards. I thought it would take ages to conceive if it was still a little imbalanced for that reason.

Want to build my strength up again and lose a few pounds if possible!

Hope the next week goes quickly for you AliceScarlett Keeping fingers crossed!

Hi Ladies just joined mumsnet and this looked like the perfect group :-) me and hubby ttc from Feb so gearing up on the old health kick... dry Jan has been a big help! looking forward to chatting to you all. Been looking forward to starting a family for so long..I'm 33 and had a cancer scare before Xmas which turned out to be all ok so fingers crossed ☺ x

Just started proper symptom spotting, felt really sick and dizzy today...any other day and I'd ignore it.

Long cycles sound really frustrating :(

Sending sympathy firstgo, it's a royal pain having such loooong cycles. Know I'm technically on cycle 1 TTC, but can't help thinking it's going to be a bumpy old road. I know patience is a virtue, but it's not one I possess in large quantities...

planeteer can sympathise with the bonkers post pill cycles. There is a whole thread of us elsewhere. Wish I could be chilled but I am doing opks to make sure I don't miss ovulation! 38, 32, 48 and 77 day cycles so far. On cd30 this cycle and not ovulated yet. TTC since august. It is very frustrating.

Ha! stumbly love it! Suspect Planet Twee would also have a higher than average quotient of Disney-esque singing wildlife...

Hi all,

Hope you don't mind a latecomer to this thread, but I suspect it might help me from going totally nuts!
DH and I started trying just after Christmas, and have promised to be relaxed about it, so no opks or temping.
My cycles are bonkers post pill and making any sort of calculating tricky. But my brain has decided it would like to obsess about it, and I keep being tempted to POAS. Unhelpful. No sign of AF for a while (last one was late November) but am putting off any sort of test for a while longer.
Look forward to hearing more from how you're all getting on, and here's hoping more BFPs start popping up on the thread!

Yeah I think it's sensible, too much of an emotional rollercoaster otherwise.