Getting Ready for Baby Challenge -Pt 2

Alwaystimefortea im still here. Reading everyday you chatty lot!
Lost my appetite completely otherwise fine
Got my booking appointment next friday 👍🏻
Im excited to see who the next bfp is!

red sounds right. Feels wet and reasonably firm, weird texture

I found this link, i found it fairly helpful!

Probably not safe for an open office if you are at work haha

m.wikihow.com/Feel-Your-Cervix

MrsC that's how i felt first of all! Just kinda, nothing... haha

Mummy does it sound like i have found the right thing?

red checked your cervix daily and you will learn what is high or low.

My cervix today is very high still

Tigger stay strong no more testing til Monday at least! It'll be more definitive one way or the other by then hopefully, you're def not out by today's test, too early!
red well done I had a go but wasn't sure what the hell I was feeling up there, felt like I went around a corner and then I got lost, must try again!

Oh oh oh, I forgot to say, I found my cervix! (Not that it has been missing, i just didn't know how to find it....)
Anyway, how do i know if it's high or low? TMI sorry, but I can currently reach it with my index finger at a stretch, it feels round, wet and totally not what i was expecting

Thanks red

Tigger put down the sticks!! AF not due for 3 or 5 days seems to make a massive difference from what i've read on here. You're not out till AF arrives

So I buckled and did a test... bfn theres a slight chance there was a very faint line but not certain certainly not something you'd see on a picture and I might be seeing something tbh. Please reassure me I'm still not out! It was a one step early test jobby from Amazon. Not due af until 25th according to ovia or 23rd by my calculations!

I so want a new pram with next baby but can't justify it. I have a bugaboo Cameleon 3 which cost the best part of £1k 😵 I will send it for a service and buy new fabric colour to mKe it feel new. I will be buying a different cot this time. I didn't do a Moses basket as don't like them so got a 'petit cot' from mamas and papas which was great and lasted until 8months, but will get a bed side cot (love the Chico next to me) to help with night time feeding and so I don't have to keep getting out of bed throughout the night!!

red ooh you'll have to send me his recommendations! I need a tractor in buggy form!

unicorn the tracking is definitely a help, I reckon I'm ovulating late today, don't have any OPKs left but might run out and get one after work although I may have missed, but had the ewcm yesterday a few hours after negative OPK (my last one) so reckon it was last night or today which is later than I thought and than ovia thought so it's definitely beneficial to know what's going on, it's actually quite empowering too I think to know yourself so well! I'm going to put every twinge into ovia and see if it can get to know me better for next cycle! Hopefully I can master myself over the coming months and somehow get myself pregnant!

MrsC the only buggy that DP has looked at are off road type ones he can run with! So so many babies and toddlers are pushed around Parkrun's on Saturday and around races all summer haha!

We got is officially when DS was 6months but before that the car had a base that could be strapped into the car and then u just click the seat in and out of the base much like an isofix so I know that was several years ago now but there should be some options! I always wanted that spin around seat, I'm def getting it this time! I also need an off road buggy for where we live.... Hmmmm.... All these things I need for a baby I don't have yet

That was meant to be car seat not cars

Yes you can still get non ISO fix cars although isofix was a godsend for us.. just clicking the seat in and out of a base instead of using a seat belt around it every time. Our current car seat is the maxincosi axiss which is great, spins around so easier to get fighting toddlers in.. it's not ISO fix however.

buzz our first car seat we didn't get the isofix one. Just wanted a normal car seat as we had to carry the baby from the hospital to the car and it's such a faff with a small car to attach the isofix etc. My son had several appointments to different hospitals during the first few weeks following birth as there were some minor issues. So we had to take him in and out of the car a lot and decided to have a normal car seat as it's less hassle with a small car.

We have now upgraded to an isofix one as he's too big for the normal one ( plus we had the vomiting bug where en route to the hospital he puked all over it so had to get rid of it)
We don't take this car seat out anymore as we just lug him around either in our arms or in an ergo carrier.
I am sure you can still get car seats without the isofix.
Just wanted to share my experience with you.

Plenty of cars do not have isofix buzz, there are many seats out there up to current standards that do not require isofix. which is good as how would people who can't afford newer cars be able to take their babies anywhere? I have a 2008 car, it does have isofix though. Both our cars are 3 doors so we will have to struggle until baby can get in and out on their own. (Refuse to change my nice car for a 5 door, there are just some compromises i won't make )

Hope you enjoy working from home today grumpy

I really need a new car! Don't know how we are going to afford that too!

It's a really old Peugeot 206, and doesn't have those isofix points- stupid question but you can't get car seats without now can you? And would it be safe enough??

Morning ladies!

Glad you like your new car seven I can't wait to get a new car.

I'm sounding like a man today. Taking the boy child to the childminder shortly for the day. I'm on a night shift tonight so need to rest after DS was up at 3 and in our bed constantly touching and stroking my arm 😫

CD19 and 5DPO. No symptoms of anything at all

That's a very good point Grumpy about babies only being here for a short time and then hopefully it becomes easier (from a sleep perspective anyway) when they are older a little.

Any word from holly - how are you feeling? Any morning sickness?

Oooh Grumpy well jealous. I am working from home too but have to go teach first thing and then in the middle of the afternoon so no pj's and blankets... Can Deffo do the tea and the cat part tho!

The new car is lovely. Drove it home last night and it's so smooth and quiet compared to the last one. Looking forward to driving it this morning!

CD17 here. Gave up on the opks past few days so going to try again this afternoon. FX!
No running this week. Been too busy sorting car, will get back on it over the weekend!

Can't believe that should say! Bit tipsy!

Just left a work do and working from home tomorrow in my PJs with cups of tea and warm blankets and my cats! Bliss! I think you appreciate the freedoms more when you know they won't be here forever.. but babies are only little for a very short time m.. can believe mine is almost 12 now