We're taking the train...some now boarding, some delays, some still standing on the platform! TTC 'Waiters' IIT!

[bebejones]

Old thread here

Welcome aboard, make yourselves comfy I have a feeling it's going to be a bumpy ride!

*implied I mean, not inferred!

Strawberry I am veggie too. I think if anything it's a safer pg diet, as the risk of food poisoning is much smaller. DH is convinced the DC will be small and weak but I am not, I am perfectly healthy. That's not to say I wouldn't compromise immediately if it seemed the baby was deficient in any way, of course.

AC - Oh how confusing :(

For the veggies out there, if you are taking preggie vitamins I don't see any reason to think that the LO won't get everything they need. Just need to make sure you get lots of protein & calcium, so munching on cheese & yoghurts! :o FWIW I'm not veggie, ate loads (in the last trimester after I stopped puking quite so much) and DD was 9 days late and still only 6lbs 13oz, so quite little for being overdue! I don't think what/how much you eat has a bearing on weight of LO!

Also rememeber that a growing baby is basically a parasite (sounds horrid but it is) and they will literally suck everything they need out of you!

Lol thanks Bebe - yours is nearly as bad! How's he holding up at the moment?

I get the impression that DH is angling for an "accident" but while I should probably jump at the chance of getting what I want, there's a little niggle of worry that an "accident" will make the DC my "fault" whenever suits.

AC - DH is stressed out of his eyeballs but bearing up, and fighting off suspected manflu as well apparently

Maybe the approach with your DH will be one of, wait until the time is as right as it can be & just NPP but don't call it TTC/don't tell him you are 'trying' and when you get PG he'll just have to deal with it then rather than all the panic/what ifs/mind changing. Does that make sense?! DD is my fault when she is naughty & when DH finds her 'difficult'. This is apparently because I lured him into fatherhood with the promise of lots of TTC sex...it took 3 goes! :o Not my fault he has super sperm :o

Bebe you have a point. DH could sign a contract to breed in his own blood and still blame me if it turned out badly!

Man flu, eh? Poor Mr Bebe!

OH and I were talking over tea and I mentioned again how hard I am finding the wait, he said well at least you can count in days now not months!!! Flip, erm...... days...... tried not to get over excited, and sorry to those who are still waiting with no end in sight.

100years it's mumsnetters like you who are turning my head with these crazy breeding ideas!

Think I may have found the train's padded room - Strapping myself into the straightjacket and throwing myself in for a few days, anybody care to join me?!?!? 48 hours and counting until my interview (yep, another one!) and I am freaking out because i really really need it to go well!!

AC - I totally get the conflicting message thing from your DH and know what you mean about being reluctant to actually go ahead and engineer an accident because of the potential for "blame" when the resultand DC is being a PITA ir things are tough!!!

Bebe - poor MrBebe....... mine had manflu a few weeks ago..... I swear that it almost killed him! Point out that sex is good for stress and also preventing colds and flu (aparently true) and you'll be upduffed before you kow it!!!

100years - I am ovulating today too. MUST NOT SWI!

no idea on the veggie front as I am a meat lover. Not sure how I am going to cope when i have to start eating my steak well done when I am PG...!!! :D

Toddler Confessions - hilarious!!!

JS - I love the toddler confessions too. DD added a few of her own the other day! I think I need to join you in the padded room, feel like I'm going out of my mind, even with a stroppy potty training toddler in tow!

Well I didn't take my preventative tab last night decided to alternate the days I have them as opposed to going cold turkey as my oh called it. Does mean another step in that direction :) he knows as I told him what I was doing and there was no it's too early to stop them conversation.

Sorry if I'm not helping others by being excited. I'm trying to keep a check on it.

Will have to have a look at that thread later when I'm home.

Hope you're all ok.

That's my migraine preventer not the pill. Sorry should have clarified

You sound very excited 100years!! I couldn't quite believe my DH was on board with the idea until we actually started ttc! Not long to go for you now :)

I love the toddler confessions thread - I think it's making me far more broody than any other!

Anyone know whether removing the mirena would alter your cycle? If not, I think I probably ov'd over the weekend, so now I just have to wait and see

Sorry to hear about all the manflu going around. My DH said this morning that he thinks he has a cold, but it hasn't got to the stage of being life threatening yet. I did read on another thread how someone cooked a lovely roast dinner and insisted that her DH was too I'll to eat so sent him off to bed.

Hi all - thanks for the lovely welcome
Finally somewhere I can be broody without criticism

Having said that, DH is as broody as I am, but as our conversations tend to go round in circles it's nice to chat to others!

Oooh interviews - good luck JS.
I'd like to get a new job too before TTC. My current job is good and interesting but very long hours, lots of stress and business trips...DH is in the same line of work and we've agreed that 2 of us with uncertain hours is not good when there are children! So I'm looking around for a new job. However we have also agreed that if I don't find one "in time" then we go ahead with our TTC plans anyway.

hello all

im back, after a manic week.. been a bridesmaid at best freinds wedding and traveled 600+ miles so been a bit busy but am back now.... until i go on holiday again on friday!

JS good luck for interview tomorrow
welcome fluffy donkey to the train
hope Mrbebe recovers soon.
AC sorry to hear you are back on pill, i think an accident sounds like a plan

Im off to the Drs in a min for a pre ttc appointmeny=t and also to find out if i can have the flu jab before pregnant as i do NOT want it when pg.

Been discussing things with OH and we have decided that we have put TTC forward to December . Decs period should be due dec 7th (i think) so SWI weekend before Xmas so would have a sep 12 due date so fingers crossed should be the eldest as opposed to the youngest in the year, which is all i want. which means as of Nov 25, no more contraception of any form at all .... which suddenly seems very very close, but i cant wait.
although not looking forward to an alcohol and caffeine free Xmas!!!

After our incident 2 weeks ago, i can conform that i am NOT pregnant , and im pleased i do charting cause other wise i would have wasted another pg test.

I love that fact that by charting you can at least, be pretty sure you are not pregnant a few days before due on

Will let you know what GP says about flu jab and about pre TTC stuff, though im pretty sure i / we already know it!

Nanny - "fingers crossed should be the eldest as opposed to the youngest in the year, which is all i want"

I was speaking to a friend the other day, saying I want a child born between Jan & Aug so that if we move back to the UK, the child would be in the equivalent school year and not in the year below. She said I was overthinking things!!

Glad to know I'm not the only one who plans like this

Must be so exciting to be so close to TTC!

To those who are charting ovulation - I'm assuming you're not on the pill? Feel like I'm missing an important step...

Then again, we're looking at TTC May 2011 at the earliest so maybe I shouldn't be charting yet.

Argh! The frustration!

Hello
just thought id update you on my Drs appt.

Well, the Drs ONLY have funding to give flu jab to at risk people and / or pregnant people.

therefor if you are not at risk, then you have to wait until you become pregnant before being eligable under the NHS (but can have it privately and pay)

Dr was fab, and she said "the official government advise" is to have the flu jab when pg.... BUT her own personal opinion was that she herself would not have such jabs while actually pregnant either, and even as a pregnant GP, the past couple of winters has opted for her own personal reasons not to have the jab while pregnant.

Obviously she cant advise that, but says as a healthy adult, she would not have that jab while pregnant (and didnt)....

so i will NOT be having the flu jab when oregnant either.
And im not going to worry about it any more

Other TTC questions were are you taking folic acid, (yes) and i also said i was giving up caffine / alcohol and liver, and she was happy

also said once i find out im pg i do NOT need a Drs appt, and to just make an appt with midwife straight away, (but also, if i get pg when i want to (told her months ago of my plans) that she wants me to pop my head round the door to tell her personally

squirrel, I really am excited, like a small child waiting for christmas, though it can't come soon enough!!! LOL No idea about the mirena coil, when I had the coil in the past it was the copper one without hormones so I could have got pg straight away after removal had we(me and Ex) been trying. I love the story about someone sending the DH off to bed because he was too sic to have a roast dinner!

fluffy, yep no criticism in here at all :o

Oooh Nanny, I like it when others are having their date moved forward too, I don't like it when it's going backwards for people. I'm technically at risk due to job and my work would offer it me when they start coming round, but I didn't want to wait in case something happens before then.

I too have thought about the school year thing, but tbh the broodiness in me has overwritten a lot of the ideas re waiting that I previously had!!!

Right this charting malarky, is this through TCOYF?

Away again this weekend :o Then it's only 2 weekends until I get whisked away woohoo.

Feeling quite tired still after last weekend and the plan to exercise tonight when I got home has gone out the window as I was just too hungry and tea won't be ready for aaaaaages! So a cereal bar to fill the gap has been my saviour

That thread is freakin hilarious.

Yep I still want one... :)

Nannyl I am so so pleased for you! What lovely news. Fingers crossed for a swift conception! Your doctor sounds really nice.

Fluffydonkey you are not the only one planning to the nth degree! And it is nice to have an outlet to express all your broody madness. I don't think I can agree to lay off MN for a while. DH thinks it's "causing my madness" (by which he means wanting to have a baby after a year and a half of marriage and eight years together, at age 33, good jobs, supportive families, nice flat, etc) whereas I think it's the only thing keeping me sane!

I don't know what to advise about charting now for May next year. If you're both feeling broody and you start charting then I'm off to the bookies now to lay a bet that you conceive long before May! Have you bought a copy of our conception bible Taking Charge of Your Fertility yet? We really ought to have a reverent reading from it of a Sunday, it is our holy book !

My OH has just said something along the lines of 'is it wise being on a thread about waiting, isn't it just putting it in your face' I said, no because it's helping me realise I'm not the only one and it means I get to talk to others about it. He then said he thought it was a good thing.