Ready, Aim...HANG FIRE!! Waiting to TTC (and some too impatient)

Kayzr, thats a reall mean thing to say, bad DH! I dont think being pg is dangerous if you are overweight, just obese. It can make it a little harder ttc but not more dangerous. Sounds like he is fighting for excuses to delay it, I am sure he will come round, men can take a while be normally get there int he end!

the marketplace is great for kitchen bits and bobs and dont forget meatballs, chips and gravy always make a trip up worthwhile . On a more serious note, I had an Ikea bed for about 7 years, which was great but we had to get rid of it when we moved to the cottage (2 house moves ago) as it wouldn't go up the stairs. We now have an Ebay steel bedframe (still kept the Ikea Matress) which is not too squeaky under 'normal conditions' but particularly vigourous extra-curricular activites can make it squeak a little, more so then the Ikea bed frame which made no noise at all. Our spare bed is also an Ikea Day bed (I think its Hemnes, its white and wooden, has storage drawers and can be either a single or double bed) but we actually bought that from ebay as well as it was much cheaper

Just brought up the subject of ttc in the next couple of months. Dh has gone into lecture mode, "isnt it dangerous if you are overweight, shouldnt we save some money we have a pram to buy"
I hate to think what that big, grey and spotty thing under the stair is. I always thought it was a pram!!!!
So it looks like ds will be an only child as he doesnt seem to interested.

Sorry I really cant type today!!!!

I used to have an Ikea house, much of it I like, some of it was simply chea. Over the years (and houses) we have replaced bit and I now have an ebay house, think that may be worse

We have a metal framed thing, it is steel, it squeaks like buggery, however it is also erm.... a few years old, about 6 I think...

Would you not be btter with a divan type bed if you are that worried?

well i just had a closer look... it is £105 for the frame, mattress and slats thingies would be extra, but its stell so i reckon thats strong...

thanks, i was gonna order off the online service, teuch was your metal fram one a more expensive one? i saw one and it wasnt too expensive but DP and i are not small persons and we dont want to ahem do the deed and have the bed collapse!!!

Ikea is one of the those shops where when we are looking for furniture we go, spend hours looking, have lunch, spend more hours looking then come home empty handed! I think the only thing we have bought from there is lightbulbs, and some salad tongs! Highly overated if you ask me, but I have no idea on the quality of stuff, so maybe you just have to like 'that kind of stuff'?

I get all of my furniture from here. My living room, dining room, and down stairs hall way is all in that type of furniture, I absolutely love it, can't tell you how much!! Just need to do our room out in it, tis next on the list

lol i was gonna say dont make me panic!whats everyones opinion of ikea for furniture, particularly a bed?? me and DP need a new one (ahem )just dont wanna buy one and have it break???

Well when DH agreed to TTC'ing for deffo on Saturday, he said then that it makes no common sense to have a baby now, we are reasonably comfortable money wise, just got to the point where we can sit down in the evenings and be alone, just got to the point of lovely long sleepful nights, and we are going to crush it all. But, then he said, who cares?

It's been said before, if you wait to have a baby until everything is absolutely perfect, you'd never have one. Tis true.

BB - your right, I just cant type!!

playing where'd you get £102? i thought it was £112? i know what you mewan about waiting tho, if i had sense i would wait til may but...i dont my rationales are that if i get pg quickly i can still work till i pop and thus save.... thats what im telling myself anyway!

All you people moving your dates! No matter how contagious this thread is (and there is no doubt about that) I cannot ttc earlier than Sept and to be honest it would be more sensible to wait till Dec as if I had a bad pg I may need to go on maternity leave early but I am not sure I can do that! We have a couple of loans that finish next year, one in March the other in May which we need to no longer have for me to be able to survive on maternity pay (the 6 weeks of 90% is fine, its all the rest on £102 a week!). So working on the assupmtion that I get pg on Cycle 1 (which is not going to happen) but you have to assume the best/worst, I cannot afford to be more than 6 weeks into my maternity leave until June 09, so I am not safe ttc till Sept 08. I will be strong and I will stand by this...

Meant to say as well, thanks for clearing up my cycle for me Teuch.

And Kay, I think the docs say to wait 3 months so it is easier to date the pregnancy, there is no health (or unhealthy) reason why you can't TTC straight off the pill. Though with your history, I expect the thought of not being easy to date would send you running away, waving your hands in the air, screaming, loudly!

BB maybe some people are just more prone to it? Might be worth looking up if you should try avoiding certain types of food or something? Or if there are any vit's you can take to try and provent it?

We used to stick raw spaghetti sticks into butter then into the sugar pot, was bloody lovely!! And real butter on weetabix is one of the only good things my dad ever taught me! Mmmm getting hungry now! Maybe hanging out with you lot is bad for me, got me hankering after wine and buttered weetabix.....

Teuch, sadly my impatience is just going to have to stay impatient, there is no way we could have a baby before March next year, really April 09 or even May would be much much much better, but I can't wait till July, May seems a good compromise, especially as both of mine went well overdue, so might just squeeze into April anyway!Oddly enough though if I hadn't have miscarried, I'd have been due beginning of Sept and that would have been fine in the grand scheme of things!

you ladies are leading me astray from thwe waiting however april isnt far is it? but someone else go first.... cos then i can folow behind discreetly!

lol teuch i love that phrase i shall use it!!

i am constantly carryin the cystitus sachets in my bad, i got quizzed on them at customs!!! its passed now but i do seem to get it every fur months or soo arg

Playing you are so right about all of that!! I could quite merrily live on a variety of cheeses breads and cured meat... all the bad stuff tastes sooooo nice!! Real butter is another weakness, infact when i was little you know what my fav meal used to be??

this is gonna gross you out.. Spaghetti with big huge globs of butter and cheese...god it was gd he he

Mmmm wine I do love like my wine, worst thing about ttc'ing/being pregnant/bf it is off the menu.

PMSL at Mycock, Have a good day Mr. Mycock Poor bloke!

BB don't know about the cystitus thing, don't think I have ever had it, try drinking lots of water? See GP? Can't you get tablets for it over the counter?

Got to go and get DS1, it is chucking it down, DS2 is grumpy, and mums and tots leader is going to tell me off for not going this morning. Oh well, it must be done.

MMm cheese, pate, salami, palma ham, bread, butter and wine, yum yum. All good healthy options

i just dealt with a person whos surname was mycock!!! that ahs made my tuesday much better

I love cheese its my biggest weakness. I just cant help getting some when I go into the fridge

hehe me too playing.. dairy is my weakness!!

taking full advantage of our never tmi... Soes anyone else seem to have probs with cystitus flaring up, for no apparent reason? im feeling it atm and cant think of any reason it hurts!!