Getting Ready For Baby Challenge - Thread 8

It's Friday wooooo!! 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

What's everyone got planned for the bank holiday weekend?! :) xx

Thanks mummy really hope it's a good sign. What cd are you?

jb time goes super slow in the 2WW. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with myself. Really really hope that I ovulated and caught the egg.

haribo are you testing again tomorrow?
We need more bfps on this thread !

otters sounds like if you had your appointment on the right day the levels would have increased more. Fx for you.
I'm halfway in to the TWW and growing really impatient, why does time go so slow during the wait!

mummy wow that sounds tough when DS was young.

haribo excited to see a retest

otters that's a good improvement on your bloods. And everyday matters.. you're 3 days early so I could imagine by Monday you would be around 30.

I have been getting EWCM today... but negative OPK for two days. Random

Been really nervous and anxious all day. Finally got my progesterone result and it's 21 which is a little better but not as much as I'd hoped. Trying to keep positive. Maybe if I tested on bank holiday mon as I should have done it would be >30. One can hope! Looks like it's a matter of being patient and waiting which I'm terrible at! Argh! Possibly another week or more of waiting!

Did you decide to go for it this month Red ?

I had good progress on my OPK yesterday, did it slightly later than i used to so going to try again later!

That spreadsheet is fab MrsC thank you!! Have completed my details

Long weekend ahead, yey!!

Ah thanks for the essay mummy !! Very helpful, & pretty much what I'd sussed NCT out to be, so good to have confirmation! Sorry you had a rough time when DS was a wee one, hope you get a better sleeper this time! Can't decide whether having a second is a better position cos you have knowledge or first cos you have ignorant bliss😂

mummy wow sounds like you had a tough time with DS! I hope your next one isn't and sleeps well!

hb sorry you didn't sleep well :( I'm so looking forward to getting home and having a massive lie in tomorrow and just lazing all day :)

jupes so excited for you!! Yayay! Bring on 15th May!! Only 2 weeks actually isn't it! :) xx

haribo definitely see lines on first pic. Congratulations 😀

I did NCT first time round, not because I needed to learn about giving birth or a newborn but to be a normal pregnant woman and not a midwife, also to meet women in the same situation as me. Other mums are invaluable in the first year, my NCT friends saved me. I had a really rough first year without DS, he never slept... 45min stints at night and then took hours to get back to sleep... I was like a walking zombie. I probably had PND as well but I never went to a doctor or discussed with anyone, HEalth visitor never asked how I was or how I coped with a baby who literally never bloody slept ever Even though I was at clinic every week for the first 6months (alarm bells). My NCT friends were always there and I could sit with them and not have to talk , they would entertain DD for me.. even offered to let me go and sleep for a couple of hours. Having friends with babies just isn't always enough, having someone in the same situation at the same time is important. NCT is very airy fairy and can be very closed to the fact that not everyone has the perfect labour and birth without drugs, followed by breastfeeding with no issues.. it's very dependent on your teacher though. Mine was great.. very much here is the information and evidence, you make the decision. They are expensive though, I paid about £260 I think for 6 sessions. Nhs classes are a mixed bag... some great some crap, but more able to tell you facts about what happens in your unit and the possibilities of what could happen. We get a lot of women who get angry because 'this isn't how NCT said it would happen'.

Sorry that was a long old story in the end 😂 I will probably do an NCT refresher course or something this time round to meet people again

2dpo and I'm not symptom spotting 😐

Morning all

Welcome haribo I'm rubbish with lines but looks like it's tentative congratulations! Fx

jupiter so excited that you got your scan date whoop whoop

seven good luck with your conference. Yay friday and enjoy snowdon.

mrsc jb jupiter hb penguin thanks for thinking of me today. Barely slept last night. Hope I can get the result today and also hope that it will be good. Will bear in mind that the timing is not quite right but as long as it's more than Monday's result I'll be happy. Will keep you posted.

Have a good day everyone!

Yes, good luck otters Hope the results are speedy!

Ha! I had the worst nights sleep actually!! DH was snoring and making all sorts of other weird noises 🙄
I spent some time googling jobs i can do from home & scouring ebay for things i need!

Hope it's good news Haribo (I'm terrible at seeing squinters) but I trust these gal's experience!

Wow seven good luck with the conference & snowdon!! Pretty epic!

I'm meant to be driving a four hour round trip on sat night to go to my bestie's mum's 60th (alone - DH on nights) think i might have to pull the preggo card... really not feeling up to it! We're doing a taco night for our friends monday tho 👍🏽 (This doesn't beat climbing a mountain tho...)

Argh sorry I nearly forgot, good luck with your blood test today otters! Fx for you x

And hope you're feeling better after a good night's sleep Hb

oooh Haribo Welcome and that looks very promising!!!

I remember when they were Opal Fruits too and imo they tasted better. Massive craving now!!!

Off to a conference today. Should be quite easy although I think my boss has put me down to present...after I told her I didn't want to. Haven't prepared anything anyway!! Will take some emergency bits and laptop just in case!

Yay it's Friday again...Going to walk up Snowdon this weekend hopefully!

Hi haribo, that is a definite squinter! Try again tomorrow, fx!

That's great news about the scan dates jupiter! Glad that it came the day you go on holiday, rather than the day after haha. So excited for you

I hadn't heard of NCT classes but Google says they're a charitable antenatal class? I would definitely be up for going to as many support groups as I can fit in haha

It's Friday and almost a long weekend! What's everyone got planned?

I can definitely see on on the first pic haribo - tentative congrats! Re-try in a few days maybe :) yay!

haribo welcome! That's definitely a line to me!!!! 🎉

Another pic...

10 dpo... What do we think??

Haha Hb, I'm ancient. I think the youth of today may call them starburst. Sleep well!

Hi Haribo (absolutely craving that now!)

Opal fruits Jupiter you're showing your age there😂

I'm absolutely up for NCT later on... so many of my clients have done it and made really lovely friendship/support groups that have lasted! Obvs the info will be good too but will take it all with a pinch of salt! My sister went to NCT and tried an NHS sesh too but found the NHS one scaremongery and very focused on what could go wrong so preferred the NCT outlook. These were the vibes i also got from the midwife when we discussed it too. (Having said that nothing went to plan for my sis, after NCT & all over the hypnobirthing she was two weeks over, induced & then last minute found he was breach and had an emergency C-Sec) So i'm probably going to go into it thinking anything could happen!

Anyway, I'm waffling, felt rough all day so super early night for Mr&Mrs Hb!

Oh and I got my scan date today! So despite all the "they'll make you wait until week 14" scaremongering of the last week I have been offered a date for Monday 15th May! I will be 12+4 :) Technically we go on holiday that day to Plymouth but prepared to delay that for this (of course). Will have my combined nuchal testing at same time.

Its suddenly all feeling very real