Getting Ready For Baby Challenge - Part 6

Dancing you are a superwomen, so strong. Hope you feel ok today

Orange I am worried about feeling deprived! I literally do not know what to do! I started following the SW plan yesterday, but kinda tracking calories as well as syns just to see how they compare. I did originally lose 4st on SW so i know it works, but i have no idea why i am struggling! I have lost 1lb since Jan. I have put on 6lb since coming off the pill in Dec - i thought i'd lose weight!!!!!

Seven your cat must have been delighted!

Dancing ditto on DH and oregano. Not sure my DH really understands herbs :) Hope you're feeling okay-ish today.

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Seven hahaha. I'm trying to imagine my oh ever asking if we have oregano!!

dancing you are a very brave lady. Hope you managed to get some sleep x

Haha penguin that's the best feeling when DH is cooking and goes "do we have any oregano?" And I feel very smug and go and chop some out the garden!

Tigger I am so excited about your garden. Pizza oven is our dream but it's a distant one as we need to start saving for our own house first. Sounds amazing! Please post us some pics when it's done x

Haha grumpy about the fart! I can't wait to get pregnant and start blaming stuff on being upduffed. 😂

Day 2 of Easter hols and just sent DH off to work with his lunch box. Managed to knock a pot of double cream all over the floor. So hard to clean up - the cat was delighted. Raining here so today is deffo going to be a crafty day 😀

Hi all, just catching up.

Dancing glad you are home and healing. You've been amazingly strong (in place of car park daffodils - ha)

Thank you all for the holiday advice. It's unanimous for chilled out. You are all very wise so I will take your advice

Oh re the 5:2 buzz I did this for a few months and lost loads of weight - it made me really aware of how much I was eating on my non fasting days, and cut my sugar cravings right back. Buuuuut I ended up feeling so deprived and miserable with the diet (and hangry every 2 day) that when I stopped I felt angry with diets in general and put weight back on!

penguin I love a few herbs - I find it ridiculously satisfying to eat something I have grown! I keep trying to grow peas and beans on the patio but the bloody squirrels eat everything!

Morning all! Hope you're okay dancing and got a good night sleep!

Haha grumpy I hope you find cool yoga okay. I'm looking forward to joining the pregnancy yoga class at 14 weeks.

tigger your garden sounds lovely!

Hope everyone has a good day! Only 4 days till the weekend!

Morning all! Grumpy that's brilliant I've never tried Pilates, I would have thought it would have been good though! Hope the cool yoga is better today.

How are you feeling today dancing? I hope the cramping isn't too bad x

My garden is on the small side, but it's big enough that we've got some grass and a small patio area. I planted some ready-grown herbs a couple of weeks ago which I've always wanted put some of the thyme on my roast chicken on Sunday, was decent!

Hope everyone has a good day.

grumpy ha ha bet you made their day! Hope you find a better exercise class. I do a lot of classes at the moment - body combat, body pump and high intensity interval training. Hoping I can continue if I get my BFP. Is there any cautions about exercise and pregnancy?

penguin I don't think you can test progesterone at home - I had a blood test to check the levels. The OPKs are to see if you ovulate or not. Just hang in there,really hope we both get our BFPs soon!

Feeling knackered and it's only Monday. It's going to be a long week! Good night x

Dancing I hope you are snuggled up with a hot water bottle and treats

V annoyed about how pathetic Pilates was. I think it's something you are meant to do after another workout, not on its own?

Anyway I've got home and eaten cheese on toast, half a packet of chocolate hob nobs and a Belgian waffle! Aaaaaargh!

Right. Got to take control and and least eat some broccoli or something. And find some bette exercise classes until I'm allowed back at hot yoga. Trying one of my studios cool classes tomorrow.

Thanks para. Yes, lots of hand holding. I think it will be tough, but we can do it!

Thanks Jupiter, I feel ok physically. Kinda like mild period pain. I am expecting it to be worse tomorrow.

Grumpy brilliant! Hope you gave them a laugh!!

I've planted loads of bits this week! All my peas and sweet peas in guttering, French beans etc potted up and loads of flowers and plug plants. My oh is doing an amazing job getting the garden ready. He's putting in 4 raised beds for my veggies and we're designing a raised seating area with BBQ and pizza oven at the back of the garden. Although it's causing some ahm 'debate' on the best layout.

Grumpy been nauseous since week 6 went away for a few days then hit me like a brick again yesterday week 9+5 it's liveable with don't get me wrong can do everything I did before just feel crappy. To the outside world (other than looking pasty and eating way more than normal) no one would know anything was up!

Dancing you've been in my thoughts today, glad things went ok and you're feeling calm

Grumpy haha, that's brilliant! You will have made their day

dancing glad you are feeling calm, sending you lots of love!
nature you don't self refer where I am it's done by gp so think it depends on your hospital!
grumpy haha you probably made their day! Better out than in!

I'm also garden jealous, I have a huge garden but it's a big old lawn.... I Could plant but no idea what I'm doing and I struggle to keep my basil plant alive in my kitchen!

For anyone needing some light relief.. I just walked past some builders on a construction site near my work (after Pilates) and involuntarily did the LOUDEST FART EVER. I literally had to hang my head in shame!

Pilates was so boring as well.. like old lady stretches 😴

Dancing been thinking of you today.
I'm almost two weeks post-erpc so we can hand hold together. Although DH and I are still so sad, I'm feeling a bit better about it all and will be ready to try again after af.

I'm so glad you're feeling calm Dancing - physically are you feeling alright too?

I'm jealous of any kind of garden. Our housemate bought a daffodil for the windowsill. That's the extent. I've been tempted to sneakily plant crap loads of daffodils in the car park edges!! ;)

Dunno how/why I'm feeling so calm and positive. Today if officially CD1, though I have to wait for real AF before we can actually try again.

Dancing It’s done! You’ve done it! You can heal now. I’m so glad you’re surrounded by lovely people. Sending lots of love. I did indeed have more gorgeous niece cuddles and having even more tomorrow. We’re all feeling very lucky.

Penguin I would test again just so you have a clearer picture of what’s going on. You could always test with seven on wednesday?

buzz and seven I love the sound of your seed sewing and gardening. How gorgeous. Wish we had the space - we have a tiny garden but I’ve snuck some tulips and daffodils around the edges to make it prettier. I’m also a massive fan of lavender as it’s hardy and seems to grow well with little input.

grumpy and buzz I’m 32 so somewhere in the middle age-wise on this thread I think. No nausea although I have developed an aversion to sweet potato.. exciting about the booking in appointment grumpy, hope they send you a date soon.

Thanks for that @confusedat23! All true.

Glad you're ok after today Dancing

Hope you get some answers soon Penguin.

That's exciting Grumpy! You self refer here too. Wonder if there are any differences between the systems here and in UK (where I'm actually from!).

That is very exciting grumpy! I hope the nausea stays away for you... maybe it's a sign that you're having another DD??

Hi dancing, I'm glad today went as well as it could have. Take lots of time to do nice things for yourself and DH.

Otters can you get progesterone tests at home? Is that what an OPK test for? I'm a bit clueless in all of this! I'm CD33 now, you? I don't have any more tests so I'm going to buy those ICs that someone mentioned before.

Dancing!!! ❤❤❤ so glad you are alive!

Seven I just got a really excited feeling when you said you are going to test... plus you are really not expecting it this month!... sorry about DH being grumpy! Mine is just agging me at the moment! Lol

Anyone worrying about sickness i havn't had much... the only time i feel sick is after eating tbh and a doctor told me it either starts early or it wont start until after the placenta takes over at approx 9 weeks... also only 50% of women even get sickness so please don't stress!!

Thanks buzz just thinking that I should try to be prepared one way or the other..

Just self referred online to the local maternity unit how exciting! I'm seeing GP Wednesday anyway but it said online that you still have to do the online form even if GP refers you, so thought I'd get it done! I had to fill in details about my last pregnancy etc. They send a booking in appointment letter in the next 7-10days how exciting!

No sickness yet either for me! Though I'm not that young!

Haha grumpy not rude at all! I didn't think that that could have an effect? jupiter hasn't had much either but not sure how young she is :)