Waiting to TTC part 2!

Is summer an arbitrary date Florin, or have you and your OH actually sat down and worked out your finances? I've been through ours with a calculator and worked out exactly what we need to pay and what we need to save. Based on that, it will be another 14 months before we can afford for me to take maternity leave - so we're waiting until December to TTC to give us a bit of a savings buffer zone, and because ideally we wouldn't want our DC to be the youngest in the school year.

I feel the pressure is on as slipped up this month and didn't use the condoms but dh is saying that won't happen again so know that when I get my period this month (as very unlikely I'm pregnant from one go) I am going to be super dissapointed (I'm expecting tears!) as know he won't let it happen again until the summer when he has agreed we can go for it. I so want to have a baby can't think of anything else. Nagging him to bring it forward doesn't seem to work!

I've already gone mad Florin, that's why I'm here! We'll make it vix. At least we're not waiting alone, we've got someone to natter to at the bus stop!

I've only just started my 2ww so a while to go for me. I so want to be but dh thinks we should wait a few more months it would be such a happy "accident" if it did happen! I am thinking about it 24/7. Hope u don't get too bad symptoms tanmu. Rest of u glad we have each other to keep each other company without this board I think I would go mad!

congratulations TANMU thats great news... i have only been waiting to TTC for a few weeks, but i have no idea how i will manage a whole year of it!!! i am soo impatient. a halloween baby ...i look forward to hearing how u are getting on! x

That must have been such an incredible experience, waiting for the digital test must have been mental! I can't congratulate you enough, and I'm so excited for you, it's been on my mind all afternoon. It can be strange to be part of this waiting thread, can't it - it would be really nice if you popped in from time to time to remind us what a wonderful miracle it is that we're all waiting and saving up and preparing for. Don't tell us any birth horror stories though lol.

Big congrats Tanmu thats fab a halloween baba, ya can dress ur boys up as midwives do come back from time to time tell us how ur getting on xxx

Thanx florin I have had really itchy skin, even though it is not actually dry, mild cramping, light headedness and dizzyness, as well as on and off nausea. I've also been really tired and getting out of breath very easily. I just put all this down to impending AF, but I took another strip test and I thought I could see a really faint (almost invisible) line. I fished the strip I'd done that morning out of the bin and there was a faint line there too. SO I did another, and the faint line appeared again, but much quicker. I got fed up of the faint, barely there lines and went and bought a digital test. Waited for Hubby and lo and behold, it said that I was unmistakably PG!

How about you? When can you test?

Lovely to hear from u tanmu and that you won't be a abandoning us completly! Have u got any symptoms yet? I keep trying to symptom spot like crazy even though far to early!

Thanks all! - I don't want to leave this board This is the first board I have actually been a regular on!

I think I daren't get too excited at the moment as it is still such early days. I keep looking back at the (ridiculously expensive) digital screen and feeling a bit like reality has been suspended. I've booked and app with the doctor to confirm dates etc - according to due date calclator I am due 31st Oct.

I keep thinking of all the extra money we would have had if it'd not happened so quickly, but I can't be unhappy about it because it is something I've wanted for a long time....

We are not telling family yet, so I'm glad I have MN for an outlet....Good Luck to the rest of you! I'm going to take the liberty of popping back in to say Hi now and then and to see how you're all coming along...

sorry for long post

Ooooh! Congratulations tanmu !! When are you due? Now, see..that's why I'm going to be careful for a bit longer, cos that'd be me...pregnant instantaneously and right now's not great timing.
come and tell us how you feel once the shock's worn off.

You'll have a beautiful baby by the time Bebe and I start trying!

Congratulations Tanmu!!!!

Congratulations tanmu that is fab news. So excited for you.

Good lord! How do you feel about it?

AmandaCooper that's what I told myself and here I am just over a month later with a.......BFP!!! - just got it this evening and am still in shock So I have disqualified myself from this board!

Back again to haunt the ttc board as the black mood takes over again.

Still, love and hugs to all, hoping that you've got a little sunshine in your life at the moment.

Another reason for coming off the pill early to start tracking my cycle is that it will feel like I'm making some progress earlier. I've done a pretty bad job on the debt repayment front this month though, so maybe not!

Pipoca, I know EXACTLY how you feel - I seem to swing between "more babies, more babies" to "how could I share myself with anyone except my son?". I work in a designer clothes shop and have got to the point where I'm asking every woman with two or more children in tow how they manage it!

aaah Florin I am soooo tempted to join your new thread... I might saunter over for a look Having another broody day today...having had a OMG, NO! day yesterday. Think i need my own shall I, shan't I ttc number2 thread!
Hope treatment goes OK next month bebejones.
xx

We can keep each other company then! Have you started that course of treatment? Isn't it boring being sensible!

On the plus side, ten months is about the amount of time it should take me to work out what all these acronyms are - like Florin says you seem to need a degree in TTC before you start. Before I came on MN I just thought that come December we'd just come off the pill - and my doctor had said that was the best plan! Now I've got a shopping list of things I will need to help me TTC and the plan is to come off the pill before December so I can start temping and charting and goodness knows what else!

I think I'm probably not alone in never really being able to sit down and spend much time writing on here, let alone to write one of those monster posts you often see! If I'm not at work, or reading the thread on my phone on the train, DH is looking disapprovingly over my shoulder to make sure I'm not doing anything that might feed my baby obsession!

Anyway I've finally got a day off and some time to myself between washing machine loads, so I thought I'd chip in and say hi and observe how nice it is to see people progressing from the eternal waiting to actually TTC. I'm sure you can all relate to this: it seems like our time will never come - and so it does cheer me up to find that people who've been in the same situation are actually coming out the other side.

Ten months to go!