Oh wow Bebe that monkey suit is just adorable, my DH would love that, he has a weird thing about monkeys. I don't know what to make of your latest conversation with your DH. How did he say "ok"? Was it a promising sort of "ok", or a dismissive "go ahead and stop your meds if you insist" sort of "ok"? It sounds like this is a horrible time for him work wise and I can understand him not wanting to do anything that would make things worse for him if things are really stressful. But what I can't understand is why he won't sit down and have the conversation about how he's feeling about the idea of DC2.
What these men don't seem to realise is that we are just going to go on bringing it up until we get a proper hearing one way or another. DH got really irritated with hearing me try to initiate the baby talk - but the only reason it kept coming up was because he refused to deal with it properly.
I would like an Autumn/winter baby, but probably just a little bit later than originally planned, as we want to fit DH's trip to the States (but not to the Far East) in first. Which should just about not bankrupt us!
There's been a few developments on this thread since I've been away. Mrswantstobeamum left just as I was setting off on holiday. I do like to see people graduate, it will be our turn soon. But she is not the only one! Fluffysparkles congratulatons to you on your decision to start ttc. It must be less than one week till your wedding? Are you all ready for it?
And nannyl what can I say? You naughty naughty girl! I can't really see you being disciplined for any length of time given your frankly quite wanton NPP this month! I predict a BFP before too long, probably best seeing as your house must already look like Mary Poppins' storeroom!
Thanks for all the product recommendations btw - I have a list on my phone of things to buy for the baby and I have added quite a few of the things you have mentioned. It is really useful to have the benefit of your vast experience.
On testing, it will be very exciting to test on your birthday but a bit of an anticlimax if it's a BFN. I am sure you had thought of that.
100years and Judypink welcome to the thread, it's good to get to know other MNs who are about to ttc DC1, quite a scary prospect isn't it?! Have you watched hundreds of hours of birth videos first like I have, trying to decide whether you can face it?!
I know what you mean about telling people in RL that you are thinking of ttc, Judy. I have kept it to just people I know on the internet and a couple of close friends I have from another website. Everyone else has a vested interest for one reason or another, I think, unless you need their moral support, such as in Bebe's mum's case, or need to know if they would contribute to the care of LO,it's better to keep it between you, your OH and people who only want you to get pg for you, not because they would like to come round and play with the baby, etc. IYSWIM. I don't want to drag my mum and dad, etc into the disappointment if it takes a long time either.
Eglu funny about your mum's views on DC3! Why does she think that? It's a bit strange, I have to say!
Jbells great news about the mortgage and well done for saving that money - every bit counts. It sounds sensible to me to have DC close together to save on childcare, I imagine there are similar savings as they get older, if they are in the same clubs etc.
Strawberry pie it's funny how you have mixed feelings about it isn't it? I suppose it helps really to balance your desire to ttc and your rational head (e.g. must go to NY first, pay off debt, force feed zinc to DH, etc. lol)
I don't know if any of the other longtimers will agree with me but the trend on this thread seems to be to actually start ttc slightly earlier than originally planned when you join. My original date was December 2010, it looks like it will now be more like Easter 2011 - but there's everything to play for over the next couple of months - we might all surprise ourselves!