Waiting to TTC part 2!

Yep pregnancy or childbirth threads are ok - weirdly not nearly as frightening. I tend to read those - and I find the childbirth ones incredibly positive. For some reason no amount of horror stories can engender any fear in me about pregnancy itself. I have long wondered why this is and still don't know!

Yes, it sounds awful, but I don't know about you bebe but I have NEVER even heard of anyone else in RL who had such awful sickness as me. I know one person who felt really queasy and that's it. And I know a lot of people who've had kids in the last few years. You hear quite a bit about HG and bad MS on here, but I don't think it's all that common at all. Not sure how likely you are to have it again, tho...quite likel I think unfortunately.

What a bummer hairy. When do you next test it? What's the next step for you?

Step away bebe...ttc thread are baaaaad. I've been known to peruse the pregnancy threads when particulrly broody.

All OK here, although DH out of work again, so pressure on a bit more re finances, mat leaves, possibility of killing my business stone dead by having another baby etc etc balh blah blah.

HCG down to 29 - needs to be 20 for them to totally discharge them.

At least it's another 50% drop. But can't have a drink yet

Ooooh, tell me about it! I started feeling so nauseous at around 7 weeks that I couldn't eat and then started abeing sick about a week later. Couldn't keep much down, puked about 4 times a day and felt like I was going to vomit every waking minute. I lost about a stone (weighed less at 4 months than when I got my BFP) and it went on til about 14 weeks, then turned into awful indigestion for another 2 or 3 weeks, then went away.

All coupled with tiredness like I'd been hit by a juggernaut. remember having to have a lie down after having a shower as the effort of lifting my arms up to wash my hair was so great! Was signed off work for 3 weeks.

Really, really hoping I don't get it like that again. It's one of the reasons to wait til Aug actually, as even if I got pregnant right away DS would be in nursery in the mornings by the time it started.

glad to hear it's only spotting hairy, hope the hcg result is OK. at pratice ttc!

That sounds really positive bebe about MrBebe! I'm on the folic acid now, will you be starting supplements when you finish your jabs or can you take them now?

Just coming to the end of AF, so one more and we can crack on with ttc.

bebe great news re: mrbebe

I am just spotting now, and am awaiting hcg test results - hope it's 'normal' as I can then have a long awaited drink and maybe even a 'practice' ttc lol.

Just excited I think but I was a bit taken aback at the time. I imagined she assumed that anyone of such an advanced age who had no DC must be utterly clueless and desperately in need of some pointers!

Weirdly it has had the effect of making DH more interested in the process as he had to find out if she was right

sounds like you had agreat time Amanda, I luuurve a good wedding!
Did the cousin know you were thinking about ttc or is she just so excited about being pregnant that she talks about it to anyone of child bearing age?

Well we certainly made the most of the not TTC excuse! DH and I are very hungover! What a great day we all had. Sis looked lovely. She better not have gone off to have a honeymoon baby!

On the downside, I had to endure my little cousin's pregnant wife (23) explaining fertility cycles to me and suggesting websites I could visit to find out about how to conceive.

sounds great bebe...grr jealous. Here I am, still slaving over European education jargon and with period pains. hmmm. Going to have a break in a bit and go out and practise some retail therapy!

Have a great time Amanda ! Use the excuse of not ttcing to have a drink or few . Looking forward to hearing how it all went.

I'm working all weekend, this time on European education framework.... not much of a going to a wedding...not.

Well girls it's my little sister's wedding day and it is fabulous weather. Just getting ready to leave. Tell you all about it later x

I asked DP to think about when he thought it would be best for him to fit in 2 children in the next 5 years (5 yr limit being mine, 2 children being his idea) and when I came home he'd (very sweetly) made a calender and drawn all the possibilities on a piece of paper! Although according to his model I can pop them out with A YEAR in between. Had to point out to him that I'm not a barnyard animal!

Though interestingly his beginning to TTC is still in the zone I'd term 'the vague and distant future where we don't know what we'll be doing work-wise yet'. Because our careers are both quite fluctuative and quite project-based, we tend to be able to see about a year or two into the future but not past that. Have a feeling that the goalposts will move again once we get closer and a whole new set of constraints/opportunities become apparent. So minipie kind of in the same boat as you I think.

Amanda I agree with you about the difficulty of over-riding the body going THIS IS PERFECT! GET BREEDING! all the time.

Yes one of the things DH says is that he wants to wait till his friends have children. I don't know quite what he means because lots of DH's friends have children! Am on target with the nagging and moaning!

Bebe so you really have been here before. A year is a long time to wait - especially when you're both keen to start trying. How did it come up in the first place, did you initiate it?

Minipie no - but I'm sure we're heading there! DH hasn't actually agreed to the December start date - he just grunts and doesn't actually say no. I'm trying to get the date fixed in his mind but I don't know if I'm succeeding!

Hi all

Just popping in to say hello (I think I joined this thread a couple of weeks ago but disappeared again).

I am waiting to TTC till summer 2011. DH was keen to wait another year or two after that, but appears to have agreed, just about. God knows what will happen when we hit that time though.

Ladies, did anyone find that their DH/DP agreed to TTC at some specific point in the future, but backed off TTC when the appointed time approached?