still TTC your first baby? want some glastonbury luck?

Have fun Fi!! - BD anyway - you never know all the excitement of running around and pink wigs may have caused you to ovulate late

I can imagine that CD2 is probably not that exciting usually - it's just it's my first of my first month of trying so I'm being a bit overexcitable

Have never been on pill properly (3 months for my wedding) so not sure what it does to your cycle but I wouldn't presume you have a 28 day cycle straight away. Mine's about 25/6 days.

I would BD anyway if doing it in a tent does it for you.

toomuch - i am CD2 too.
where is woodmouse?

Treenie - I know what you mean - we had to time coming off the pill with long haul flights but I've been gagging each month for the last few to not start a new packet!! But finally I'm there - CD2 today!! How exciting!!

PM - we are good aren't we!!

Seriously how did we get 59 posts in one day?

BB so funny that you should say the 80/20 thing - that's always been how I have thought. Great minds think alike eh?!
I apply it to just about everything. Like my obbsession with organic food. I can control what I eat in my own home so it will always be 100% organic - but I can't ask friends to do that when I go to their's for dinner or let it stop me going to certain restaurants. So I reckon as long as what I'm eating 80% of the time is organic that's OK.
Finding it very hard not to just get on with the TTC this month! DH husband just came home from work and we really had to stop ourselves - OK too much info right?! He is so keen but we really want to give it one more month cause if it did happen straight away I'd be flying long haul at Christmas when I'd be 30 weeks and I'd rather be 25w. Chickens hatching everywhere in the treenie household!
He's gone for a run now because he's doing a triathalon soon. And here I am back on MN - addict that I am! Am getting no work done these days cause if I'm not posting I'm reading the preggy threads for info and tips!

And did anyone else just watch mad May try to steal Dawn's baby on Eastenders?! don't know whether it's because I am currently baby obbsessed, but my heart was beating out my chest and I was practically shouting 'run Dawn run!' How mad is that?!
Please tell me I'm not the only one who loves Easties!
x

Love the 80/20 idea!! I may make that my new motto!!

Have heard mixed reports on reflexology and know people are told to avoid it when going through ivf. I tried it years ago (before ttc) but it did nothing for me. Have heard great things about acupuncture though...

Im wetter than the dog!!! but at least he smells better

I am a true believer in the 80/20 rule to life - Im good 80% of the time and a little naughty for 20%.

Someone has said that reflexology is good for getting PG - has anyone heard this? There is a lady in Sheffield called the baby maker because apparently alot of her clients get PG after a reflexology massage

BB - glad to hear the dress is sorted for the weekend - the dress shop where my sister got her dress from had the sample of her dress's bolero jacket stolen and they said it would take forever to get another one as shop samples are lowest prority. It seems such a shame as sis's dress was beautiful but the bolero really made it, glad your customer is sorted though. (hope that makes sense, I tend to do that stream-of-conciousnes(sp?) typing!)
Agree with being healthy, but don't really go for detoxing etc, I believe in a healthy diet and exercise with a little of what you fancy too!

Its really tough, it can be rewarding but its times like these when you feel like giving up.

I say do it as long as you really have a passion for whatever it is you choose to do. I was in Marketing from leaving Uni and I was fed up with the blame culture etc So after a bottle of Pinot to give us the courage and 18 months of planning we opened the shop. But you find alot of people think we are just silly girls playing with dresses, they don't see all the other stuff.

Im off to bath the dog now so I may go quiet but he absolutely stinks and bathing him is a task and a half. He is a staffie and I treat him like a little child sometimes.

Remain positive BB - you seem to have a really good attitude - trying all the natural things like diet - which can only do you good! I'm sure it will happen soon for you! [fingers crossed]

I'm very jealous of you setting up your own business- it's something I've always wanted to do! How are you finding it?

7 months, but I still believe it will happen and want to try all the natural ways before all the other stuff.

Plus I opened my own business last year which have increased my stress levels so that has not helped.

I have to keep believing it will happen.

I've seen Zita on the tv and she has a very good success rate so I'm sure it will work for you BB!

How long have you been trying babybrat?

Sorry no, you are supposed to do it for a weekend and then adopt a healthy lifestyle. After the detox it is only limited amounts of red meat and cheese. I can get a little obsessed when I try to do something. Im very much a control freak.

I only decided to give it a go because I have been trying for so long.

No red meat or cheese!!! Sounds like hard work! But you only have to do it for a weekend? Which weekend? The one before you ovulate?

Heavens all this talk of grapefruit juice and detox

This thread is so lively I can't keep up.
Fifi that you're off to Glasto - please do some running for me?!

Thanks Gilly. You're so right.
The Zita detox sounds really good Babybrat. Don't you find all the ttc malarkly makes you feel so healthy? Nice to feel like you are doing the best you can for yourself as well as the baby.
And good news about the wedding dress. I would have had a heart attack if someone had told me my dress had been stolen a week before! Poor you having to sort all that out.
Off up to Boots now before it shuts - want to get some OV tests.

Sorry can't type that should read "good detox herb"

Zita suggests you detox over a weekend, unless supervised by a professional, because you can become quite tired and suffer headaches as you go cold turkey on caffine and refined sugars.

She says to eat lots of veggies, which I am going to make into soups. Fresh herbs - she suggest coriander as a get detox herb. Your pulses and seeds.

You can't have any red meat and your white meat has to be organic. Any wheat has to be organic and wholegrain.

You have to cut out cheese which has upset me but I am trying to work through it.

She also suggests having your colon cleansed and brushing you body with a detox brush to help with lymphatic drainage. That is really it in a nutshell. I think I will try it for a week and let you know.

Detox the Zita West way? Sounds hard - but tell me more..

Treenie - I'm a tea-aholic too

Pirategirl - love you're story = so romantic!

Nomore - hope you're feeling better - cystisis is awful

p.s. I'm loving the new thread because the smaller the thread the more chance I can access it on my handheld which means I can post on an evening and at the weekend - yee-ha!