Waiting to TTC part 2!

Maybe we can have a TTC and waiting board for the next one so all the 2011ers can learn from the 2010ers?!?!? I've not been here long but I feel like it's been forever too!!

hey everyone, I have been popping in regularly to see how everyone is Now on Summer holidays and already bored lol. Plus it means more time to concentrate on TTC #1....Probably not a good thing ! I jet off to sunnier climate week today so looking forward to that, but upon my return I know that I will starting panicking about not being preggers. Any advice as to what I can do to "increase" my chances of TTC? I have been taking folic acid and eating healthily and doing exercise.. I have a probably with stopping eating sweets at the mo though! Darn being a teacher as got loads of choccies to wade through! luckily I have a very high metabolism but know that I will sit here eating loads and feeling pants

wahoo.. i am now not the person on this thread planning to wait to longest

welcome everyone

Well you never know! Whilst I would hate to delay TTC, I'm also not that keen on:

a)being heavily pregnant in the summer
b)having to try and hide the fact I'm pregnant during the frist 12 weeks during wedding season
c)having a December baby

I may well be waiting until June, or not trying in March but also not taking precautions to avoid getting pregnant.
Who knows, whatever happens, I'm sure I'll be in here (or the equivalent TTC verson of this thread) throughout the process!!!

dammit, earlier than me then!

good luck with your arm twisting persuasion of DH.

mermummy what's your situation? why would it be more sensible to wait till January?

I'm hoping to be March 2011 but still hold out a little hope that I will be able to persuade DH to start a little earlier [wink[

Thank you kindly Just, I will certainly be keeping you company till next year - what is your TTC start date?

Amanda I just read this post of yours:

"The thing is, this whole having a child business is so fraught with risk and involves so much pain and fear and changes your life so completely and not, from the point of view of an objective, reasonably self-interested person, necessarily for the better, that it takes the hormonal equivalent of being hit by a truck to make women want to do it.

Not having been hit by the hormone truck, our DH are more cautious about the whole thing."

I couldn't agree more. Indeed I very much sympathise with DH's fear, as I am still rather puzzled myself as to why on earth I would want to have a child ... but oh, I do. I'm having to accept I am not the 100% rational logical being that I liked to think I was. Hormones are definitely winning!

Marvelous - it looks like I won't be alonew in here next year after all. Welcome Minipie and Mermummy

Afternoon ladies

I wondered if I might join as well? I was briefly on the Ditherers thread but hope think I'm now firmly in the Waiting Room.

I have finally got DH to agree to TTC next year... though exactly when next year has not yet been agreed. I say May , he says September at the earliest .

Can anyone tell me if there is anything I should be doing health wise at this early stage to help ensure speedy conception and healthy baby? I'm a healthy weight and don't smoke. Been on the Pill for years though. Any advice welcome.

Oh, and is there anyone here who will be waiting longer than me to TTC?

welcome to our thread

i too am waiting til January after Xmas to TTC #1!

am VERY excited already lol

Hi is it ok to join so late on in the thread?

Will forge on: to TTC or not TTC is the all consuming question in my life at the mo.

Sense and finances dictate waiting till Jan, hormones dictate NOW, NOW, NOW. (That loudly and insistently as well).

DH bored of subject and all i can seem to talk about. God help me (and those poor unfortunate buggers around me) when we are TTC. Will be for DC2. Got pg with DD1 by accident and she is coming up to a year now.

Reading through this thread has already made me feel so much better.

Poor you Bebe, this happened to my BIL, it was a complete nightmare.

the benefits of folic acid for women
It looks like there are some pretty good medical benefits of Folic Acid including reducing Blood Pressure, decreasing the chances of anaemia and also possibly helping prevent the cell changes that can cause cancer....... why does nobody tell us this??

Nope - am sure it can't harm us at all!! Are there any benefits for adults from taking it??

Piglet I'm planning to TTC from December at the earliest and I've been taking folic acid since January. It can't hurt!

piglet

thats why im starting early too.... just in case i got pg by mistake... not that many days left on my last batch of last ever pills.

there is half the amount of folic acid in my normal vitamin anyway but as of next sunday will be topping it up!

Hi Piglet

Don't be too about the folic acid. We're not plannign on starting until March 2011 but that's only 230 days away!! From what I remember you were talking about Christmas which is really not that far away, the shops are already bringing out all their festive stock and so you'll be there before you know it!!!

I've started early but as there is a chance that Persona might not work (Gosh wouldn't that be devastating!!! ) then I figured that it might be sensible to take it so that if an accident does happen there will be less chance of something being wrong with the baby.

So pleased it's Thursday today.... hurrah!! Have barely seen DH all week as he's been putting in ridiculously long house in the office and is off to our main home tonight as he has a golf day tomorrow. Looking forward to finally having supper together on Saturday night!!!

Have to admit, I'm a little bit about the folic acid excitement!

Ohh! Sounds promising having the folic acid already by the bed, Nanny and BBJ. When you start you should come and play over here!!