Very nervous to TTC after a miscarriage but am going for it

this is now officially the Stepford Thread. i'm gonna have to start a revolution - or at least a mini protest

heres my thought for the day - if you baked a few less cakes girls - then you wouldnt have to do all those exercise dvds

and here goes my HOT TTC tip for the day:

less baking (plus shopping and washing up) and less exercise hours = oodles of extra quality time with d/h nudge, nudge, say no more....

Hello all, my u have been busy. Hope you all have had a good weekend.

Hmmmmmm bake and conceive sounds like a good idea to me.

Just found out a cousin of ours is pregnant and am surprised that I feel quite jealous, have been feeling rather angry of late and have to work hard not to take it out on dh, don't know where this rush of anger is coming from! Perhaps hormones!

Oh and can I say that rom is not alone, i also don't bake. I am going through a phase of cooking, cooking, cooking, I mean I have brought about 3 new cook books in the last year. My dh is rather chuffed at eating home made soup etc but I just cannot bake it always goes wrong, I leave it to my best mate who is a bit of an expert, she is even making my dd's b-day cake as I am really useless.

mishi -oh noooooooo! manflu!! they are always more ill than anyone i know arent they?
'kids get colds, men get flu, women get on with it' hope hes better soon.
bella. sainsburys is shut at 9am!!! loryd i know youre keen, but please dont sit in a car park for an hour! tell me how they come out, mmmm, yummy!
george maybe i should cat you my flapjack recipe..I've taken some serious ribbing over giving our recipes here......
v excited to be on cycle day one. am pretty sure excitement about af will wear off very soon!!! but it feels like a fresh start. shes not here yet, just spotting v slightly but she'll have moved in by teatime i can tell. excited started new conception store calendar last night. have HOT fertitlity dates marked down. bella -thinking of buying dh a palm just for those... i asked him if he had a diary/filafax at work, and he siad 'nope just a wallplanner' much giggling ensued about putting fertile dates on staff walllplanner.......LOL
of course theres 'no' pressure. just getting pg in march would make that dec baby we want....aaaggghhhh!!!

bella...is sainsburys oopen b4 9 on a sunday???????

MAn flu in our house,arghhh we all ended up going to bed at 7pm last night and only sleeping..damn...will catch up later brekkie is ready

Voting for "learn to bake & conceive" thread!!

Intrigued by what strange people would look at the thread & think "yes, thats where I should be!!" (obviously apart from us (DQ, receipe for Flapjack now please!!)

Hi Heres, does that mean that the kids were up mountains whilst you were on the beach?? No wonder there was no whinging!!
Please don't tell me intermittant spotting isnt af - I'm banking on that!!

Please don't shoot yourself DQ it can't be that bad (plus, need the receipe for Flapjack!!)
I'm imagining everyone else is out for the night, so hope you have a good one. xxx

pmsl!!!ROMILLY!yes thats what we do here! learn to bake and concieve at the same time, fabulous!!! we should start a new thread called that!!
Rom -YOU DONT BAKE???! shock horror!! its the only slightly 'stepford' thing about me, actually. (tho working on jerry's bedroom manner with the required bding.) TBH dh would LOVE to come home to just egg beans and chips.....i dont think he fully appreciates thai crusted cod or similar that i make ........ hes never happier than when he gets gravy or beans FGS. LOLseriuosly tho, baking/cooking is a hobby of mine, sad as it may seem to some of you, like you may...er....knit? collect stamps? rollerskate? -i bake. and paint arty stuff (nothing as practical as walls, not often anyhow...) so i have a billion recipes up my sleeve. y'all shout if you want one i am no nigella (shes thinner, richer and far more sexy than me when covered in cookie dough...) but i'm dhs next best thing!!!
Heres- ireland sounds fab, does your firend want start B&B for us mumsnetters?? cause i'm packing at your description! welcome back, to us mad mad lot. missed you.
george am also lightweight with drink now, after being pg with dd2, then bfing for eternity....i used to be abit of ared wine fiend, now one or two glasses and i'm anyones! or more worryingly EVERYONES!!!LOL
er..your tyres sound SCARY! for heavens sake be careful girl!!
mishi i hope dhs cold is not 'man flu'- sigh. dh gets this -everytime i get a cold he has one worse. grrrrr.... tell him the last minute bding cannot wait, and you will make him lemsip AFTER!!! hope hes better for some of his break.
oooh tell me about winnie being so entracing to 16mth old, have wriggly 21mth old so may look it up and see if its coming my way.
bella hun, hope youre having a fab weekend too.
there was poss pink/brown/red tinge when i went to the loo today , can you believe i think af is here tomorrow -bang on time if so. am EXCITED by prospect (wtf??) and keen to start new conception store calendar if its not af am shooting self.

welcome back hereshoping - glad to hear someone else has been imbibing

well you know where to get your recipes from this is a multi-tasking thread, learning to bake and conceive simultaneously.

as for me, i'm with jerry hall on the domestic front (for anyone who doesnt know, her mother advised her that to keep your man you have to be a maid in the house, a chef in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom - jerry replied she'd hire the chef and the maid but look after the bedroom department herself ) oh, i just had a thought, that didnt exactly work out for poor old jerry!

Hi guys
back from Ireland - missed you all though perturbed by baking - though I have to admit to a few Aga fantasies myself though picture it warming newborn lambs rather than flapjack
Had a graet time - kids up mountains and on beaches and not too much whinging. Stayed with my friend who has 4 minus DHs so lots of girly chats and wine consumed
she had a missed m/c between 2 and 3 at 16 wks
im trying not to join the ttcing at present - saving my energies for next month as not in frame of mind at present
im 4 weeks post op on Tues dq so were about the same - no AF though still intermittent bleeding, it was 6 weeks for me last time
lol, see you all soon

PMSL
I think I have to start baking them - people in the shop give me funny looks with the amount I buy!! Surely if I buy just ingredients they won't suspect that I am eating like a horse.......(a big round sweet toothed one!)

yeah i was the same george - but by week 7 i was back to my old ways

am i the only reprobate on this thread? wicked old lush romilly who doesnt bake cakes

Whats drinking???
Honestly, 6 weeks off the booze & I can't drink more than a couple of glasses before I fall over - total lightweight now!!

mishi - typical! the cold i mean, sods law i think its called!!

george - glad you got the thermo, its quite interesting seeing how much your temps vary - especially if you've been drinking the night before, LOL, it makes your temp rise so much you look like you've just hit luteinizing hormone surge big time! luckily you need three raised temps to show you've ovulated, so unless you are on a 3 day weekend binge it shouldnt muck your chart up too much!

Definitely siding with the baking rather than exercise dvds. I'm sure baking could be considered exercise, so I can make these then feel totally justified when eating the lot!!! I'm sure I'm putting on more weight now than if I was p/g.

Had to put the painting on hold today (decorating my dads house before we put it on the market so not the nicest job in the world) as the car had a service & discovered I had 4 illegal tyres - ooops!! One was past the rubber & through the canvas and had bits sticking out of it - well, how was I to know? Been chasing round trying to find some replacements so I can actually drive to the house & paint tomorrow.

Thermometer arrived today so I have my first temperature - hurrah!! Very excitely put it in my chart. Think the novelty might have worn off by the time the chart means anything. No sign of ferning again - surprise, surprise!

pmsl...DQ i would love to bake but prefer to eat..lol

I have been out this morning with ds to see winnie the pooh live and he amazingly sat and watched it all..a mean feat for a 16mth old...was reallly good so would recommend it...dh has started hol leave for 2 weeks and is full of cold...arghh am hoping to get some last min bding in over weekend before my 2 ww but man ful of cold does not bode well for me...lol
take care all

omigod dqueen and bella!!! baking and exercise dvds - is this the stepford wife thread??!!!

hey yingers! i know, we talk alot right? well i do, the others just humour me!! travelling across london NOt my idea of fun but i hope its straightforward for you! where you going then? (sorry, nosey generally!)
bella, dq top tips!! v funny..but i will write the recipe out for you, cause i'm nice like that, and dont want ot be the only one larger than normal due to liking new recipe so much!!!
sounds like a pricey patio area!!! we got a quote much the same for leveling our large garden, thats before all the 'pretty' bits. still havent done it. always something else we could do with that sum. or even a third of that sum

ahem.......
recipe for cakey choclate/nut/cinnnamon square thingys
(pinched from good food mag, and then 'adapted', ala DQ!)

cakey part
175g butter,
200g caster sugar, pref the golden one
175g plain flour
3 eggs
3tbsp mmilk
1 tsp baking powder
topping part
100g milk and dark choc,(thats approx 100g altogether, in whatever split you prefer, a 60 dark 40 milk myself....)chopped roughly
2tsp cinnamon
100g light muscovado (or castersugar /brown sugar mix if youve run out, cant be arsed to go to shops etc...)
85g+ nuts,chopped or bashed with rolling pin. pecan/hazel/almond whatever you fancy, dont think just peanuts will cut it tho..

heat oven to 180c (gas 4)
grease square tin, the sort you make brownies in is perfect. obviously you can use round tins too!! about 30cm diameter ish, it stretchs tho.
throw cake ingredients into bowl, use electric hand mixer to whizz it all together, until creamy
tip into tin and spread across.
mix topping ingredients together and scatter across cake part. lightly press down to compact.
bake for around 40mins until risen and turning dark golden.
cool in tin before cutting into squares. and eating lot. looks alittle 'lumpy' homemadeish, but OH! i like the taste of this
apparently keeps for about four days tho theres never any around long enough in our house!
you can freeze it too,
there we go, thread officially now womans own, all we need now is knitting recipes......anyone got any? (not that i can knit mind.....)

Hello,

guys you have been busy,well have a good weekend all, am about to get on the tube and travel to the other side of london! What fun.

The email from MN sounds vaguely familiar, I may have got one in the past.

And good luck to anyone bding this weekend, baby dust going your way although am keeping my eyes closed.

oh george -what are you painting?

hey george good luck with temps, check out fertility friend website for hows and whens........help yourself to flapjack -have baked sooo much stuff the family arent eating it all anymore! got great recipe for cakey thing covered in nuts, lumps of chocolate, cinnammon and sugar......you would eat the whole tin its SO nice.....well okay maybe thats just me!!! could always turn this thread into womans own and put in recipes!?LOL
done bath, face pack, foot pampering etc tonight, theres bugger all on telly -after eastenders of course-and needed to feel good, or better at least.
well may all your sat/sun bd-ing be productive!!!

Hope everyone is OK tonight
Went mad & bought a thermometer yesterday as waiting for ferning is driving me nuts already. Not sure what I'm looking for so might miss it!

Surely I can't get taking a temp wrong ??? I'm going to be asking lots of very daft questions when it arrives though.

I think I have the record for the earliest PG test - 17 days post op!!!! Weird I know but just kinda wanted to know that I wasn't showing pg still so that I will definitely know when I get a BFP (does that make any sense or is it that I'm just going mental??) Still got a bit of (how do I put this?) brownish blood so I've decided that I've had my AF really early and TTC is officially started.

Exciting weekend of painting ahead for me and also attacking DP, just in case the ferning hasn't worked!!

Not had an e-mail here Bella - all sounds a bit dodgy.

Right got my cup of tea ready, just need the flapjack now..................(please, please, please can I have some DQ?)