July/August baby threads, where are you now? Wishing, Sunnydale, Homeinthesun, Headfairy, Bubble, etc..

(Hi Bubble, not really here, but you did make me laugh with your 'what's the fertile window for?')

Morning girls,

HF your day at the park sounds like fun. My nan swears by fresh air for increasing the appetite. 'in her day' and all that jazz

twiglet Come back your allowed to test when your late, dont worry. i just hope af turns up soon or you get a BFP

issy glad your ok. was wondering where u had got to.

hi wishing ROFL at u snoring where are you in your cycle at the mo? how have you been?

last night was brilliant. DH took me to my fav greek restaurant. the same 1 we had our 1st date at i came home and..... fell fast asleep. he was very disappointed that he didnt get a night of passion... but whats the fertile window for eh ???

hi to everyone else. hope your all ok.

Hello Wishing, nice to 'meet' you

Issy, you poor thing, sorry about your bruise and all the intrusive stuff, but lovely to have so many scans throughout - I've got my fingers seriously crossed for you.

Hello everyone else, I'm afraid I will now have to banish myself from this thread as I poas . Am now 3 days late, but BFN, very odd for me as am normally v v regular, so where is AF?? Anyway, I obviously can't be a proper member of this thread now as I'm completely obsessed about where is AF or a pos test - sorry. I'll return when I get some perspective

(looks under the rug for a small piece of perspective. Nope can't see any)

(hangs head and walks dejectedly off the thread)

Hey everyone, soooooooooo this is where your all hiding! how did i miss this thread! ?!?!? I dont get chance to log on every day been working loads to try and take my mind of ttc so this thread is perfect!!

I dont really have much news! ive been trying to catch up with all yours posts so i know where your all at, but im afraid im not doing a very good job!

Bubble sorry you have had such a tough time recently, glad to see you positive too though, your an inspiration!!

Izzy fab idea starting this and thanks for directing me i was feeling a little lost!

Im sure ive congrats you before Gateau but another congrats wont do any harm will it! so congrats on your bfp!

how is everyone else, headfairy, sure i read you were moving or something how has that gone??

Hope no one feels like ive left them out but trying to steer clear of the ttc chat too much, dont want to be encouraging anyone too much...........

oh i have had time to fit in a bit if refelxology which was FAB!! i was so relaxed and moratlly embaressed as i feel asleep and woke myself up SNORING!! and it wasa made worse when the lady doing it said i had been doing it a while, and when i checked the closk it had been over 45 mins!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Hiyall......

Rip, I'm fine, thank you for thinking of me. I'm actually quite excited about the move, I'll probably be jaded and fed up about it in three or four months when our flat hasn't shifted!!

Bubble, I hope your date went well.

We had a lovely day today, spent hours in the park, ds ran around like a loon, fed the ducks, went down the slide about 400 times and generally had a fantastic time. He must have been famished when he got back, he completely finished his dinner for the first time since forever, and he tucked away an orange and a banana, and still had room for 14oz of milk at bedtime ! Bless him, he's now lying flat out snoring so loudly we can hear him from the living room (though we are in a flat so it's not like he's on a different floor, that would be mental if we could hear him from a floor below!)

I hope everyone else is well and enjoying our lovely burst of spring... puts one in mind for a bit of bding

xx

morning all!

how are you all today?

rip have you started reading that book? is it any good?

HF im really looking forward to tonight it will help relax us both im sure.

hi to everyone else.

Morning all - sorry I've been away.

Have definitely being "not symptom spotting". However, did get a copy of a book out of hte library, rec'd by a friend. Called "taking control of your fertility" I think. Has anyone read it? Hopefully I'll be back in teh zone next month. DH was away this month I think over OV time so I reckon we missed the boat.

Really, really sorry to hear about your mc bubble. It's a horrible time. I found it much harder emotionally than physically. Have a good night out with your DH. Very unMN ((hugs)) for you.

Also sorry to hear about your "nippy fanjo" blue but it did make me

Are you ok headfairy, you sound as if you've got so much going on just now? I remember getting a really fab post from you when I was feeling very low and angry about ttc. I hope you're doing alright....

Big waves all round to everyone else! Happy weekend to you all.

Sorry 'bout that, got sent home just after I posted that. I'm feeling good thanks, had quite a bit of time off the last couple of weeks. Spent most of it tidying up, trying to keep a house ready for viewings with a toddler around is a nightmare! I've found the easiest way is to take ds out for the entire day, poor love, on Thursday we were in the park for four hours! He was absolutely shattered when we got home, he loved it, but he was exhausted. He ate the biggest plate of pasta ever too, all that fresh air is good for his appetite

Ooh, Headfairy, sorry you are still at work on a Friday evening. Hope it goes quickly and you can mn the evening away!

How are you feeling?

Great minds blue Just pretend they're not ttc vits but just boring old vitamin supplements alright

Good to have you back twiglett....

I'm still at work getting v bored waiting for the nod to go home

Hello All, been away for a couple of days, so no internet access. So sorry that it was a mc, Bubble, but agree with Headfairy, having my early mc at 6 weeks was so much easier than my 11+ week ones as I recovered really quickly, it was like a heavy period. If it is physically ok, then it is easier emotionally. Big hugs that you can pick yourself up and try to enjoy the lurve again this month Have a really lovely night out tomorrow together.

Sorry AF arrived, blue. Hello Sif, Headfairy, Girl and everyone else.

HF - that's exactly the vits I bought yesterday - spooky.

bubble - have a lovely meal out with your DH. Its hard sometime to remember you were lovers before you were parents...

'tis now wine o'clock so I'll be off to the couch with my vino - happy weekend everyone x

That's really nice of your mum, have a lovely night out bubble, it's so nice to get out and forget all that crappy ttc lark. You'll be able to have a few drinks, get giggly with your dh and feel human again. I felt that I kind of disconnected with dh over the past few months, we went out to dinner a couple of weeks ago and it was lovely, we didn't talk about anything sensible, we planned holidays (that we can't afford) and had a laugh. It felt great.

Hi all

glad your all ok.

i was taking pregnacare conception but its expensive so im gonna go back to normal folic acid until i get 'lucky' again.

hf i am relieved that its been like this. i dont think i would of coped well if it had been a long and drawn out process.

tomorrow night my mum is going to babysit so DH and i can have a night out. it will be the first time we have been on our own in 8 months! sad eh. im hoping it will bring us closer together intime for the shag fest later in the month

sorry to hear that blue.... I did chuckle at the nippy fanjo line too.

Talking of vitamins, do you know what I do when I'm being really blase about ttc? I sometimes don't take my folic acid Talk about tempting fate eh? Actually not tempting it that much as I haven't got pg whenever I've done that

When I saw my GP last time I was pg (only about 5 weeks ago, weird to think I was pg 5 weeks ago) she told me it was important to take a vitamin supplement that had folic acid and vit D as they are apparently advising pregnant women to take some vit D every day as we don't get enough any more... Boots were doing 3 for 2 on these... I don't forget any more as I'm pretending they're just a normal supplement, nothing to do with ttc!

ROFL at 'nippy fango'

but sorry your AF seems to be coming. get those vits in you girl.xx

No need sif - think old AF is on her way as I have my usual 'nippy fango' feeling which always signals her arrival. So the box of tampons won this month but I will start taking the mum-to-be vits now(was taking general ones which had same level of folic acid).

You know my DH may just get his way, he was on 3 weeks paternity leave for the last World Cup (DS and me came home on the opening day in 2006) and low there's another one next year... If you told me then I may have to wait 4 years to have another lo - but life likes to through us some curve balls eh...

Hope all well and HF - enjoy your protein!

blue how is your non symptom spotting going??

Thanks for that sif, I'm off to get some protein

Enjoy your acupuncturist. I've only ever had it for my back, didn't really do anything for me, but was surprisingly pain free. Those little needles are so tiny!

I have saved loads of properties on rightmove now, there's about 5 in the catchment area for a primary school that's got an outstanding for it's last ofsted report so we're off to look at those next weekend I think. They're really nice houses too...

head If you're hungry eat protein! seriously - the naturopath i saw said if you eat 3 meals a day plus two protein snacks in between meals (hummous/nuts/yoghurt/cheese/egg) your sweet cravings will go down loads because your blood sugar won't drop. I have found it to be true!

I am going to the acupunturist this afternoon. bliss. i just love it.

And I love going on rightmove. it's so addictive! Enjoy!

Morning all....

Bubble, it sounds a little odd to say this, but I'm glad it's all over with the minimum of fuss. Sorry if that sounds flippant, but I found it much easier to deal with. And of course, once your hCG levels are back to normal, they no longer suppress your normal cycle, so the quicker you can get back to ttc if that's what you want to do. I hope you're feeling ok about all of this. You sound very strong and together.

Girlwithacurl... I'm not sure about the antibiotics, I know if women take them in early pregnancy they can make their babies teeth yellow. I have quite yellow teeth (hmm that makes me sound soooo attractive ok they're a teeeeny bit yellow) because my mum was taking tetracycline when she got pg with me. Not sure about the affect on men. Probably best to ask a GP or the pharmacist.

I totally agree with the whole "don't even bother trying to conceive at a particular time" line of thought. I really wanted my first baby before I was 36.... actually had him when I was 37, really want to have my next one before I'm 40 but who knows??? I did also get a bit excited when I got pg at Christmas (stupid I know, never count your chickens... etc etc) because I thought ds and dc2 would have birthdays in the same week. DS is probably secretly grateful he doesn't have to share his birthday limelight with a brother or sister (not that he knows there was a chance of that, he's only 17 months )

Well, I'm feeling in a very Thank Crunchie It's Friday kind of mood. Despite being blooming hungry cos I'm on yet another diet, I'm feeling v positive. We've had another viewing on our house this morning (cue dh and I frantically dashing around in our dressing gowns tidying up) and I can't wait to buy a new house. I'm off to browse Right move.... have a lovely day everyone x

Hi everybody

girlwithacurl i can't see why it will affect his swimmers and certainly have never read anything (and actually I think I have read everything!) to suggest that it will. I hope he gets better soon though.

Found out about ANOTHER friend who is due this summer last night. I think everyone has been sitting out a sort of grace period post MC before informing me! Actually apart from a twinge of jealously I'm kind of over it all now. Like blue and girl say at this point just getting pregnant sometime soon with a healthy and sprouting bean will be fine.

Absolutely no good can come from comparing yourself to others, from comparing your ages, to fixating on the time of year, or the ideal age gaps between siblings. I am slowly realising that it just happens when it happens regardless of our plans. All we can do is try to make lurve on certain days in the month, and in my case remember to tend to the topiary from time to time

bubble I hope you're feeling ok today.

Hi everyone!
bubble sorry you had to go through this, but glad that, under the circumstances, it was the best it could have been.

Sif i echo what blue says. I thought I wanted a spring baby, but after trying for nearly a year now I will just take what I am given and be grateful!

poor DP is still under the weather, now on two types of antibiotics. Does anyone know if this will affect his swimmers? he had better be back to match fitness by CD26 (not that I am counting though of course )

Hi all,

how is everyone?

blood test results came back yesterday and my hcg level is back to a non pregnant level so i guess its all over. dr said i dont need medical intervention and that nature has taken its course. which i am pleased about.

hope your all ok.

xxx