Thread 10 ttc#1 The one where we're all really bored of hormones, the tww and cervical mucus or Why is my eggo not preggo!?

I'm everyone's second favourite person the dietitian. Ha ha.

I'm a bit worried about my body afterwards but not overly so. I first got interested in the job as a chubby teenager and though I/it would then solve all my problems. It hasn't changed much still chubby! But I think I've got a lot more body acceptance now because of all the patients I've seen from 15-95 who ALL worry about their weight/body no matter what shape or size they are. I feel confident that if something went very wrong like prolapse I would be able to get it fixed.

My DH is also extremely loving I am very lucky and I know he wouldn't care either way as long as I made the same/similar amounts of effort to keep in shape as I do now.

I think I might be high on lemsip

Explodicated? Epic new word there 😂😂

Haha well I basically started up the brand after deciding I didn't like the mainstream publications on offer. Did my research and realised by 2020 80% of all written media will be read in digital format and that it's also eco friendly... it literally explodedicated and already has a fab reputation for being something different from the norm but highly popular. We currently reach 2.2 million people a week via our Facebook page too which is exciting :)

More than happy to share the name of the mag if anyone wants to direct message me lol! It's not as exciting as you'd think... starky already knows lol

*allsorts

I'm in Comms for a large national charity. We do alsorts on this thread!

choc, I'm with kat. Terrified of my body changing and getting stretch marks and putting on stones of weight I can't lose. Terrified that my vag will be huge and sex will never feel good for either of us again. Also scared of medical things like incontinence and prolapse. Saggy boobs I'm not so worried about. Maybe because mine aren't the perkiest pair in the first place, so I've learned to live with that already 😊

Choc- i really want to know what magazine, sounds v exciting!
I'm everyone's favourite person... the dentist ;)

I'm absolutely terrified about what will happen to my body... choc you sound like one of the lucky ones. a lot of people aren't though, are they? i had major stretch marks during puberty all over my bum/hips. they are gross white lines now... I'm a size 10 and about 9.5 stone so not exactly huge (I definitely need to lose about 7 lbs though to be where i feel most comfortable, but blah). i just can imagine the whole lot going to pot and having a big saggy foo and stretch marks everywhere and :'(

im not going to think about that yet though....!!!

Hurrah for fellow publishing folk! Such I'm editor of children's books at a publishing house in London. LOVE The Week Junior!

Interesting convo going on over on the grads thread... about how we naturally worry how our bodies will change during pregnancy... how do you ladies feel about it too?

This is my third pregnancy. I'm a size 4 naturally and expected to look like a road map after my first pregnancy. I barely put on any weight (ate healthy, exercised minimally etc) and I wasn't left with saggy boobs or stretch marks.

I think it's totally ok to be worried about your appearance. We live in a society where we HAVE to be perfect or we SHOULD feel bad...

I had a moment the other night where I asked my partner what would happen if this pregnancy 'ruined' my body...(this is his first child) he replied no such thing could happen, plus how could I not get even more beautiful by giving him a child.

I'm pretty sure we over think it... it's hard not to but pregnancy doesn't always change our bodies and if it does, not much we can do!?

Small world sucha ;)

I'm a magazine editor, live in the Midlands, originally from down south, work all over the world thanks to my job ☺

kat do you even need to ask!

I'm a solicitor, live in East London and work in the city.

okay, catching up so way behind i'm afraid, (cue out of time comments...)

pug fx for you the witch doesnt show!

first I'm rubbish at looking at u/s, can't really make out much in there. (we dont u/s much in my job... occasionally a TMJ or salivary gland but not seen that since i was in hospital)

choc YAY!!! but thats AGES away so will take lots of brain power to figure out who won the choc sweepstakes! (Can you remember who the accountant lady who was going to help was??) and yes - re your SIL that would mightily piss me off too. and the more ive read about it the more annoyed i am at her! also ... i HATE Those people that put their whole lives on Facebook... i dont care that your baby just shat everywhere and it was gross... dont share this stuff?!

I think i missed this talk of progesterone cream? what is this and why might we need it??

miley great to see you mate! hope you enjoyed the darts (I thought that was over new year??)

elle that run looks beautiful --- what part of the world are you in??
...lol... at a dog cafe you'd just sit there holding a slobbery tennis ball while your leg got humped.

Dubya yayyy!!! hiiii!!! (really pleased to see some faces ive not seen around here for a while!!)

Does anyone want Kat's Stats today? I think i got a bit behind as there are so many of us now! but can try my best!

Moggy No at the moment I am living abroad (temporarily), but I do know there is one in Leicestershire too because that is actually where I have been living the last couple of years but I haven't actually been to it yet, I will probably visit it when I get back there in the summer or autumn!

The cats were not super super cuddly but maybe they would be if you were a regular customer, but most of them were quite happy to get stroked and sit on a chair next to you or under your chair or on your table and things, they were mostly very confident, apart from a Bengal kitten who was a bit more skittish and sniffed my fingers but ran away when I tried to touch him, bless. They have an area in the back of the building that they can go to away from customers and things when they want to as well which is good.

Choc your SIL sounds pretty awful tbh

Morning girls, thought I'd check in! There's hundreds of people on here now!! Good luck to all and hope I haven't missed any major news (scrolled back about 4 pages and then realised I was late for everything today!!) x

Morning all - lots of reading to catch up!

jem I think Snow is testing tomorrow - I have fx for her!

choc it's a really sad situation and it must be hard to watch and not say anything. I have a similar thing happening in my DHs family and from what I've seen it seems to happen where there's been low expectations on the individual and lack of ambition as a result. it's quite sad really.

So today I'm about 4-5 dpo. Still having some cramping and sore boobs now. The sore boobs thing I think is a regular symptom this time each month anyway.
Roll on next weekend for lots of poas!!

Wow!! Putting him down on facebook?????? Outrageous. They are young yes. I feel for him

Good role model not hood

No idea and it makes me cross, my brother and sister at the result of IVF so I know it must bother my mum too... we have moved 3 hrs away now so I don't have to deal with her as much but all she does it put my brother down on social media. They are both still young 20 and 21... just think it's sad. My brother doesn't complain but even so it can't be easy...

Starky I have that conceive plus and also the preseed with the applicators  still not preggo 
Choc how the hell is your SIL finding it so easy/ being so chilled about it when us here are poas like crazy??!!! I guess life goes like this, unfair at times. At least your brother is a hood role mother for the kids, and so are you. I struggle with my SIL. My brother works so hard and she is often unemployed. Whilst she is, she goes to the gym and that's it. She wont help my brother with laundry and that because "just because she is a woman..." I said, "more because he is at work all day and you are at home doing nada"  they dont have children. Fast food is terrible, I hope she doesnt feed the kids that 

Morning all happy Friday! Anyone testing this weekend? Am thinking bfp thoughts for you all xx

She's definitely not mature enough and it's hard because I've tried to help her quite a a few times. She's also the type to plaster their business all over Facebook and believes everything she sees about 'how guys should treat their girls/princesses' on social media, i don't think that helps to be honest. She complains she's always looking after their children, has no life or identity except being a mother but on the flip side uses no contraception and then complains shes pregnant again. Just doesn't make sense to me!

Hi all.... Haven't read anything on here alllll day today so will probably have to catch up tomorrow. Did I miss anything exciting???

Sounds frustrating choc I think some people place very little worth on themselves as people and their abilities and women in particular can focus on the one thing they are able to do, in this case get pregnant and the attention that comes with that. But her own self worth and self esteem is obviously still low and you could argue is is not emotionally mature enough (whatever her age) to be having children.