TTC Thread 15...........a thread full of babydust.

Awww. good exercise too!
Thinking about taking lil man to the park later for fresh air. Hope it keeps brightening up!

well after i've tidyed my house then I will be! gonna have a rest today from working/painting for a change, Have just walked the dogs.. 3 bloody miles! lol, but they mad some new friends along the way.

Morning jungle!
I got into it years ago (somehow after researching N.Americans, I'm part Cherokee).
Ohhh i wish today was a day where I could be a net junkie all day lol.

back for ickle bit. mopped, cleaned house fed babba now i'm relaxing here while he's sat next to me watching me type lol.
He's got a new fav food. Fruit and malt loaf lol

I drank alot of camomile t at one point... is that of any good for fertility?

how about t hester? i drink about 3-4 cups a day, no coffee thou

Helcat/fastasleep, I have looked into wiccan quite a bit, but am suffering with a lapse of faith at the mo.

morning all. hows every one doing today?

Will keep you guys informed of course, diet pretty balanced in general normally so it'll be interesting to see if this makes a difference.
I guess we'll mostly try anything won't we.

Mind you i would normally drink about 3 to 5 cups a day

Hester my natrapath told me that you increase your chances if you drink black tea with no milk or green tea as they are antioxidents i drink tea but cant have it with out the milk but mind you i have been lucky to have 2 cups of tea in the past 2 weeks just dont feel like it.

It would certainly make sense to ensure you are getting enough good protein. I think I probably get loads - of everything, including chocolate! - so am probably OK. But be careful that you don't cut out too much - I really believe a balanced diet is best - and don't lose weight too fast... Other than that, enjoy your cheese!

It just seemed really co-incidental that they one time I ovulated in 5 months was when I had been on atkins for about 3 weeks so was getting an awful lot of protein. Luckily we caught it and dd resulted. Started atkins number 2 yesterday.

Just to add - I did take one glance at my new book last night and saw a line saying, 'Just one cup of coffee a day can halve your fertility'. Now, my reading of the literature is that the link between moderate caffeine consumption and depressed fertility is NOT proven, and the general advice is to keep it under three cups of coffee a day. I did feel momentarily very cross; it's hard enough ttc without feeling stressed out/guilty about every single thing you put in your mouth! And some of these nutritionists are so fanatical... But maybe I'm just in denial because I've cut my caffeine down to one a day but just can't seem to give up that last one!

Oh blimey, CGT, that's a bit of a blow for us veggies, isn't it? Though I have to say that I ovulate regularly and my prob is probably age rather than lentils...

I've been trying to resist getting too obsessive about diet, but have finally cracked and got an optimum nutrition for conceiving book. Will look at it tonight and let you know any interesting bits.

PS. They are VERY small sample sizes. I wouldn't get too bothered by this.

hi all, seriously can't keep up- just got back from few days away.

managed to spot bonkerz's great news - congratulations

I'm not expecting much this months as dh away. Got confession - needed new jeans - and went & bought 2 pairs of maternity jeans thinking they were ok now & no point in buying normal ones cos hoping to get og soon. Now hoping dh doesn't spot it. omg how mad & depserate is that?? Now probably jinxed my chances & will never get pg. [rolling eyes at own stupidity]

Mariella, ru there?

wow - what a lot of chatting since yesterday it is so hard to keep up.
I found these articles the other day which I thought was quite interesting and might explain my lack of ovulation (1 in almost 2 years) although there was a pregnancy in there.

What do you guys think?
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Hi girls iam back....not for long thou as i am off to bed in a min.
Cockenzie iam in Australia so time difference is 11 hrs infront of you guys so that explains why i post at ungodly hours and of course why i miss out on all the sex talk cause iam fast asleep damit!! Its nearly 10:30pm here now.
Thanks hellkat for telling me your story hopeing that because iam still only 27 that i am in for a great chance to fall pg not long after the op. But then again i still havent got my af yet been getting sharp pain in my left ovary tonight dont usually get it in my left only my right hmmm???? Just reading into things i know its not possible this month as everything tells me that i havent ov at all this month and we only managed to bd once over the time that i was meant to be oving (does that make sense??)
any how i must get some sleep had another bad night with ds took him to the Dr today and he has a really bad right ear infection and bronchitis feeling like a bad mummy atm cause i had no idea it was that bad he has only been waking in the night and i thought that it was because he was getting his 2yr old molars and thought that he was all stuffed up cause i tried him again on cows milk (been on soy since he was 14 mths old). My poor angel it will be so much easier when he can tell me where it hurts.
Good night girls and i will try to pop in in the morning to say hi and of course let you know if af has arrived yet if it doesnt come tomorrow i may have to consider it to be on border line late

Ooh Hellkat, in my pre-teen years I was into all things witchy, I'd be interested in spells :o lol although my mother called drunkenly when I was pregnant with little Theo and said 'You throw your tarot cards out right now, they've got the devil in them and they'll curse you both (you evil satanist you)'!

No idea hun (never used one before).

Morning all, Tania are you still up? CD15 and blissfuly on a weeks holiday from work - hurray! Hoping the Christmas rush of having to organise various things will keep my mind occupied over the next couple of weeks - af due on 22nd Dec, might yet manage an extra christmas prezzie for dh! Gonna spend the morning get my living room tidy, have invested in a beautiful nativity set and want to get it out today - tree going up at the weekend.

this time i am off

how long hav u ttc hellcat?

yes that was a good prog.but if thats just b4 ov why isnt my stik detecting the hormon?

Yep i am and yep to cramps before ov. Did you see that programme a couple of years back (with the dr who did that human body programme?). they said the reason why we get cramps and aches when we ov is cos the ova sac actually bursts to release the ovum (about a millimetre split or so). Looked awful when they showed it! Yuck!

very quiet this mor here.so will go to Boots for thermometer and send the few xmas cards i got left.will pop bak later.ciao