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Conception

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Mid 30's TTC - you're my BESH mate you are..... <hic hic>

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extremesitting · 26/08/2009 14:35

OOOh - Hope this'll do! Emergency!

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skihorse · 29/08/2009 12:34

PS raving bitch mode: I caught EE for the first time this week in about 6 years. After the episode there was an "ad" for Sam Mitchell to come back. Holy cow - how old does she look? Given she's our age!

skihorse · 29/08/2009 12:31

extremesitting We all have weird dreams - I wonder of the sanity of telling those we dream about - I told a friend earlier in the month I'd dreamt she'd had a little boy - didn't know her hubby was "blocking" her attempts to conceive as it were. As far as conception goes - we're always getting told "it only takes once" - and there are plenty of women all over these boards who've had miserable once-a-month sex and still managed it - maybe you can. I dreamt about a month ago that I "met" the baby from my mc when he was an adult - odd, but I'll on this instance, choose to believe it.

Your hubby has been wonderful by giving you a good DVD and running off to fetch chocolate. As for the job, I don't know what to say - I'm not in that position yet, but in '92 when I finished my A-levels I wanted to take some time out before uni - the arse fell out of the market and I had ONE interview at a "proper" place (British Horseracing Board) and then spent 2 years working in Tesco just to eat. So yes, I understand the frustrations and fears.

I'm off to the stables soon but I'll be back later if you fancy a chat. You could always give your Dumbo dog a good cuddle - she's GORGEOUS!

extremesitting · 29/08/2009 11:27

Morning Kiddos!

Its Saturday morning and I am sat in front or the darn computer again. I'll explain why in a minute, but I have another couple of head fugs to share with you before I whine about that bit! I'm warning you! This is a long one!

Firstly, although you all (along with a glass of wine) managed to jolly me out of daft depression yesterday, things soon spiraled back into the depths of despair by the evening.

I was secretly waiting to hear the outcome of a string of interviews for a company I have loved for a good while. I was told the results would be in yesterday. I was papping it all day. In the end I called the agency to find out if there was any news. Turns out I won't hear back until Wednesday at the earliest now

Then, after that disappointment (and several calls from family and neighbours to find out the result) my friend who had a little baby only last week skyped me for a chat. I haven't seen her or the baby as they live so far away, aside from FB pics. She was proudly holding him up to the camera, was staring at him the whole time we were talking and she said it was the best thing that had ever happened to her.

I am really happy for them but it did feel like someone was plucking the arteries to my heart out one by one. Of course at all times I had to be "WOOHOO" because I could never let on that her extreme happiness was causing me even a morsel of heart pain. She asked if I had any news, I told her about the interview scenario and she said I was not to get my hopes up, that her OH had been for amazing interviews and had even been shown his seat. Then they didn't give him the job.

Needless to say the compounding of no job for long time now and no baby despite ages of trying hit me with the force of a very fast train. Managed to get safely off the line before I went into dramatic meltdown (literally wailing for approx. 2hrs straight) I ended up settling myself with "Girls just wanna have fun" on DVD and OH ran to the offy for some choccy provisions (alcohol avoided).

Weirdly, another lovely friend who I haven't seen for ages called me up this morning to say that she had dreamt of me last night. She dreamt that I had had a little girl called Niamh (Neve if you are american). She said she thought it was Niamh because she read the announcement card and she couldn't make it out because it was in irish, so she decided it MUST be Niamh

Niamh was born prematurely but was fine and we had a HUGE catholic christening with incense and everything. Having typed this I'm guessing it reads like the most boring story in the world, but its freaked me out totally.

Have since done a due date test and it turns out that the conception date would have been around the time we went at it hammer and tongs. (You may recall OH was banned from sex for SIAC at precisely the time we were supposed to be desperately humping).

Having had a joyous no SWI month I am now completely freaked out that we might have done it by NOT trying. Of course I have no symptoms apart from the wailing yesterday. It appears I will now be putting myself through the TWOOFLIng just in case

I now have to prepare a report to present at interview to another company on Tuesday. Was hoping to avoid said report by bagging the other job that I really really want. Gotta keep trying I guess.

Anyhoo, I'm about today if anyone fancies a BESH chat! x

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Ponymum · 28/08/2009 22:28

I have a cold and DH keeps topping up my 'medicine'.

SkaterGrrrrl · 28/08/2009 22:23
idealcamel · 28/08/2009 22:16

Just driven from Lahndahn to Oxford. Now my eyes hurt from peering at a dark road. Where's the gin? The correct response to this q is "it does, doesn't it?"

Cheers for the boozes, lovely honey.

SkaterGrrrrl · 28/08/2009 21:57

Stupid croissant/ maternity lady!

Where's the gin from honey?

skihorse · 28/08/2009 19:49

I've just escaped from 4 years of living in a French community - believe me - it ain't all that and a bag of croissant flakes!

Thank you honey, aren't you?

I was like this earlier in the year when I met a woman from Alabama - we were at lunch and she was one of these orange monstrosities, married to a lawyer but absolutely no class. She asked "'arv read etiquette books but I can never remember how to eat noodles" - I nearly peed myself.

CurlyCasper · 28/08/2009 19:29

test, even

CurlyCasper · 28/08/2009 19:28

But can she eat a Jaffa Cake properly, I ask?

Scorpette · 28/08/2009 19:23

See, this is why women should rule the world: men do drive by shootings, women do drive-by compliments'n' gifting! Cheers Honey - you're, erm, a honey!

Good job none of us are getting an invite to Madame OCD's house - as well as her croissant-psychosis, she is also stipulating exactly how to eat salad. I bet her home is a barrel of laughs. My parents used to let us eat soup with our fingers if we wanted to. Bloody hippies

ski - TYF has big green eyes too... mmm... oh damn, don't know if that's FFJ or mere excitement now!

CurlyCasper · 28/08/2009 19:07

Ooo ski an external admirer. Nice one honey.

My God she is really loving being queen bee on the croissant thread. And they're all bowing down to it

New girl moved into my office today, so less scope for MNing at work now without having the 'diff plans discovered.

sorry to see so many of you being dragged through the doctor stuff.

HoneyPetal · 28/08/2009 18:44

Ladies, dont want to rake up 'the past' but am doing a drive-by in your thread to congratulate Skihorse and others on their handling of the Maternity Leave thread nonsense (dont even get me started). Ok, as you were...

skihorse · 28/08/2009 18:00

I have decided that I probably don't have ovarian cancer because I've realised that they probably would've mentioned it when I had dildocam - don't you think?

trig you're right - I deserve some gin. Beware - drunken ramblings may follow later.

Scorpette jailbait doesn't look like a famous model/actor type - I don't pay attention to his looks - I just fall in to those green pools he calls eyes...

triggerhappybaby · 28/08/2009 17:51

Hmm that didn't work

triggerhappybaby · 28/08/2009 17:50

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Trig's gut

triggerhappybaby · 28/08/2009 17:48

Are any of you feeling any better yet? With it being tea time on Friday?

Come on everyone!! Get your glad rags on and flip the lid on the gin!! We'll be giving each other big BESHie hugs thumps in no time...

Scorpette · 28/08/2009 17:41

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Poor laurie Eggfail is a living hell. I do hope your Nana makes it all better - nothing like a lovely Gran

Incidentally, my Dad thinks I look like Nana Mouskouri.

Talking of lookalikes, I love how we all have hunky sleb-lookalike menfolk... although I notice that only mine looks like a cartoon character (Shaggy) and everyone else's resembles actual human beings. He calls me Scrappy Doo in revenge, cos I'm a bad-tempered midget. He wore a beige fleece on our first date. He never wore it again.

And talking of mens, I feel sorry for them having to do the SIAJ (spunk in a jar) - but then I remember dildocam and all the other horrible things we ladeez sometimes have to go through (like poor chEGGS stuck in hospital) and my sympathy disintegrates. Although TYF would be too shy to SIAJ, even at home, as it would mean people would know something about him (all that Astrology stuff about Scorpios being secretive is clearly guff then ).

Ladies, me and ski couldn't involve you in the emails because we were slagging off the rest of you in them.

Nah, we were just moaning about the bitch who was giving ski grief via the magic of FB messages and saying a few personal things.

Loving punches to trig (avoiding stomach area whilst noting distinct lack of gut), cosmo and vag for their cycle-nightmares, laurie for the evil R2D2, and.... ooh, lots of violence for everyone!

And a special 'pshaw!' punch in the throat to ski who clearly does not have ovarian cancer. Although I'm glad to know am not only one descending into BESH-hypochondria: I've been worrying I was born without eggs and all sorts of insanity.

triggerhappybaby · 28/08/2009 16:17

\O I've just undergone a medical procedure too!

I've had a mole (actually a skin tag as it disappointingly and slightly humiliatingly turned out to be)cryogenically frozen off. And let me tell you - I have a high pain threshold but it fucking hurts cos it's come up as a whopping blister and is right smack bang in the fold of my gut overhang. Jeez this getting older lark is a bag of stinking dog-bobs.

Cosmosis · 28/08/2009 16:15

When I had dildo cam I was very relieved that the found my ovaries, I was convinced I had none

skihorse · 28/08/2009 16:14

Cosmosis If it's any comfort I've managed to convince myself I've got ovarian cancer.

VeryAngryGusset · 28/08/2009 16:04

Leaving early for a pedicure - I really do lead a life of frivolity! Have great weekends all!

extremesitting · 28/08/2009 16:04

I've just dared to look elsewhere and noted the mental post. I don't like it out there....

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Cosmosis · 28/08/2009 15:31

wails; it's not fair and runs out of palace, slamming door. emailing without us? sob.

wee prolactin is a hormone produced in your pituitary gland, it's to do with milk production apparently. thyroid not working properly I think affects hormone levels, so can hinder conception.

Need to google, I think, although that will no doubt result in me finding I have some form of hideous incurable and previously unkown disease.

VeryAngryGusset · 28/08/2009 15:29

cosmo your doc sounds lovely and well on top of things. I've got thyroid issues too and suspect have PCOS (due to beard and acne). Not sure what effect it has technically but I think thyroid issues can lead to mcs.