Getting Ready for Baby Challenge -Pt 2

Greetings girls!

Back from honeymooning... Lying on the sofa in two hoodies having a MN catch up! So much chat!

No mozzy bites for me & just one for DH which is a bit frustrating! We were just thinking f**k it, the odds of getting Zika from one bite are SO low but a bit more googling scared us so we'll book a test.

Scared to weigh in...!

See all the hearts.. totally wrong! I'm a month closer to my ideal conception date of May/June I guess

Glad you are ok unicorn

Mooncup check this eve confirms this is not spotting ..this is proper real "natural" AF - as if I hadn't guessed after a day of excruciating back pain (I'm sure equivalent to early labour but I must have forgotten how bad it was!!)
Ibuprofen has just kicked in so I can concentrate enough to post here.. counting my blessings cycle has returned so quickly. Looking at Ovia, we managed to exactly avoid the fertile window if there was one! Lol!

Thanks for all the love! I'm ok, just feeling pretty anxious about all this in relation to work things. Everything will work out ok in the end.

I like to think I have a high pain threshold but I think that might be bollocks. I would take any drug they were offering I think. A water birth sounds amazing and would be good for my joints too. Wow, can't believe we will really have to do all this one day!

Just had my hair cut and coloured. Definitely worth not being pregnant for (well.. almost) :)

Ohhh grumpy that doesnt sound nice but at least you have AF now!

Everytime i go to the toilet i wipe & look (TMI!) & I am happy that there is no blood as chance of BFP in a couple of weeks, but on the other hand unhappy that i haven't had AF yet & don't really know what's happening in there

I know red .. I am in so much pain.. I forgot that AF feels like it's in my back! Why!

Oh dancing hope you're okay ❤❤

I'm just a big pansy! i was nearly crying at normal cramps the other day I know drugs can have side effects but i figure, they are used daily so must be safe? I've had gas & air a few times & it was useless so i would want something far stronger

Oh Unicorn i hope you are ok

Everything ok unicorn?

I'm with you red - I'd take every drug going! But hoping to avoid the birth bit altogether.

unicorn oh no poor you! Hope u are ok lovely x
Confused I am just across the pond in Ireland, spent some years living in the North West in England though!
I wanted every drug under the sun but couldn't keep still during labour as it went so fast! Like oyster says could be totally fine, my friend came out after giving birth and said she didn't know what the big deal was and that she would do it again tomorrow!

I guess it's because all the drugs have some downsides Redpony , except for gas and air. But agree if you're not coping you should take whatever you need! There's no award for suffering through it and people can get too hung up on having a drug free birth.

Oh Dancing are you okay?

This TTC lark gets a bit much doesn't it sometimes..

:( I just had a crying in the loos at work moment. Stupid hormones!!

I cannot fathom how anyone would not take every drug possible to get rid of pain in this day & age, there is absolutely no way i would let myself be in pain if there was a way i could prevent it haha!

Not liking this not POAS business, not that i have anything to POAS for at the moment. I have a bag full of OPK & HPT's and no reason to use any of them for anything at the moment

You may not confused my labour was fine :) There's a lot of luck involved I think!

So many typos in that post! Autocorrect is the worst!

red brilliant!! I see a hairspray lid at home and the bit of a pencil sharpener that collects the shavings in work! Innovation amongst women of child baring age is at an all time high it seems!
confused sounds like you have him in the bag
unicorn too funny about the test ending up amongst the spiders!
grumpy yay welcome to Cd1!
So no sign of AF, please let her stay away until I least get to 12dpo! Today is 9dpo... I Kind of just know I'm not pregnant though, which I'm ok with but gonna test tomorrow and then again Friday if no AF!
Regarding labour.... I will be attempting to insist on a c section this time, I have done years of physio to work on the damage done by my first labour and have worked so hard I avoided two repair surgeries where they told me basically that should I entire natural labour it would probably happen all over again. In this country it's a mentality of get the baby out whatever the cost is to the mother which in a way I understand but surely my quality of life matters a bit! Anyway my gp says she will back me so hopefully they will consider it, they are very reluctant to perform a planned section unless there is what they consider grave medical needs yet we have one of the highest rates of emergency care sections! Anyway that's what I would like but I know from last time that the best way to prepare for childbirth is not to prepare!

red your Aldi salad dressing pot made me laugh out loud 😂😂 such a good idea though!

Happy days Grumpy - great news about AF at last. Still no sign of mine. No doubt it will land on sat at the wedding when I'm wearing a bloody hopefully not literally Saree!!

Re births - I am going to request a caesarean. It's all private healthcare over here so I'm hoping they just agree to it. I really don't fancy a labour. I just don't think I'll cope with that at all. If we end up with twins I'm 100% insisting on a caesarean!

It will be so much easier to plan if we know the date. And being abroad I'd prefer to know the timings so I can have family here accordingly. My biggest fear is going into premature labour and having no control whatsoever.

Yeh just want to know where i am at!

Is it bad that yesterday i bought an Aldi salad yesterday and it had a little pot with the sauce in it inside. I thought, ohhhh that will make a good wee catching pot!! Promptly washed it up after my lunch and put it in my drawer at work

Dancing that's so funny! It shouldn't be that hard should it

confused I think CM can vary a bit each month. It's quite unpredictable. As said yesterday I have EWCM at the moment yet my clearblue OPK came back as low. So not sure what that's all about. Carry on with the plan I reckon! Glad DH is getting in the mood.

Red fingers crossed for BFP or AF. You just need something don't you so you know where you stand.