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!

Oh bless your DH, that's lovely re the pram comment, shows he's really hopeful and interested in it all. :o

I think he is more broody than me! (thats a lie- few people can be more broody than us lot!)
He's had real probs with his family over the past year (only 4 of them speak to us now) so I think that this is a new start fr him.
Anway I'm off to work now will be back tommorow!

LOL at your comment in brackets, yeah the thread is really containing the broodiness!!!

Will try & reply to peeps later when DD is in bed! Am at holiday house but broadband signal is crap!

If I don't get back later I shall hopefully be back 2moro...we are going to get a different dongle!!! :o

i 2nd bebe will try and chat properly afta put DD down shes just going to sleep now :)

DD still awake & internet keeps crashing...will be back 2moro! :)

Hi everyone! Anyone still about? Quod good news that it was the news you wanted. Can't have the magical fertility powers of this thread taking over the decision making process. Too weird! I have no unusual symptoms by the way. Probably for the best.

Bebe I am toasting the Last Jab now with a large glass of red. Can't believe that the whole course of treatment has now been and gone! Day by day it seems like time is standing still but when an event like this comes round you realise we are actually getting somewhere.

Speaking of time passing, I just spent the afternoon with my grandparents. It is my grandad's 84th birthday. He was telling me his experience of losing his memory. It sounds awful, but he was quite matter of fact about it. He was saying he couldn't remember what the house and garden were like when they first moved in, or things from his children's early years. Can't imagine ever being 84... actually I shouldn't worry, I doubt I ever will be with all the punishment (booze, partying, lack of sleep) my poor body has seen in its time!

Hope everyone's doing well and having a nice weekend.

Oh according to the Stephen Hawkings Universe documentary I have just watched on Channel 4, if we can only get this train to go fast enough, so as to approach the speed of light, then time on board will slow down relative to time off the train, so that when we get off it will be the future!

Oh driver?

Amummyinwaiting lovely news about your DH. Did you find that him being supportive and really for it made you feel more comfortable with the idea yourself. i.e. do you think you feel less nervous about the whole thing? I'm so excited for you!!!

Morning AC !
Yep I feel a lot more comfortable with it. Still nervous as its a huge thing that I have never done before but very excited. I still get scared whe I think about money and also that I wont like it when it is a teenger (stupid I know!) but am incredibly excited too.
I'm having a bit of a shit time at work with them messig about with my hours. Have gradually built up over 5 years from working 12hrs a week to 22 now. used to work as and when needed but 6 months ago it was decided I would work three set days a week and then anything else would be up to me if I wanted to do on a casual basis like the rest of the team (like working last night) in the meantime I have got another job for the other two days a week in an area I would like to move into. Now original work are kicking up a fuss that I should be available as and when they need me and that they take priority. Annoying as they implemented three day week which uses up all my hours and because I never got it written into my contract. So I'm thinking if I get pg now then I can push them into having to give me set days due to chidcre and everything and if it takes a while hopefully other job I'm doing will become more permanent (there was talk of it when I went for interview) and I can get rid of first job. Sorry for the rant- just went into work last night, first time after week off and found out that people had been bitching,backstabbing and lieing about me. Just really want to leave.
AC how are you feeling now? Have you decided what to do contraception wise? It wouldnt be fair on you to have to take m.a.pill again so do you think maybe pill would be better?and if you take it with vitamins in the morning might not feel like you are actually taking a contraceptive as such?

That's a shame about work, it seems like quite a few of us have hit a wall at work for one reason or other. The situation doesn't sound ideal - having to be available but most of the time not being needed and not getting paid presumably? Hopeyou manage to get them to agree to some better arrangement, or failing that that the other job works out.

I've still got hat stupidly expensive Persona monitor sitting in the cupboard in the bathroom gathering dust. I bought it brand new over two months ago and still haven't been able to use it. After taking any oral contraceptive, you have to wait three months before you can use it, so the MAP has set me back by three more months.

Got any nice plans for today?

Yep fingers crossed work will get sorted. But yes they want me to hang around just incase. Then they keep muttering about council cutbacks- dsperate to get out!
Thats sad about p.monitor, they are a bit to technological for me-I dont understand any of them but it must be incredibly frustrating knowing its there and not being able to use it.
I am having an incredibly lazy day today. Didnt get back from work until early midnight and dh at work so not up to much.
Going to pop to supermarket in abit get some nice stuff for a curry- bought some kashmiri chutney on hols and want to try it out with poppadoms! :)
Then will finish clearing out fitted wordrobes in spare rooom that we are ripping out as want to make it into a bedroom space rather than a junk room (have got tiny box room for that!)
What about you?

Yes I don't particularly recommend Persona. First you have to wait two full natural cycles (i.e. withdrawal bleed after coming off the pill, followed by 2 visits from AF before you can start using it, then it takes a few cycles for the machine to get used to your hormone pattern and start being useful. If you need to take oral antibiotics or contraception then you have to start over again! And lots of people on MN report getting pg while using it even after following all the instructions to the letter. I thought it would be a good back up system for FAM though, rather than our only method of contraception.

Today is housework day, although I am currently in the bath with a packet of hair dye on my head, so not really got very far. I've done the veg and Yorkshire pudding mix for dinner and I've knocked up a batch of choc chip cookies!

It sounds a bit crap to me. You could always sell it on ebay-get your money back and buy somthing nice for yourself :)
Do you think you will use it? If you are not happy with it/its stressing you out then dont bother with it.
I'm back from supermarket now- going to hav a go at bombay potatoes for the first time to go with the curry banquet I'm preparing. Going to try to woo dh just once more while I'm in the right section of cycle :)
Choc chip cookies sound yummy!I bought a profiterole pyramid so I dont think I can pass it off as my own!
I bought leggings for the first time since I was about eight today to go under a short dress I had for my birthday- still not sure whether I look good in them or like a fat slob :(

Am impressed with the curry banquet plan! Our attempts as curry so far have all been a bit meh.

Now I've got the Persona I might as well use it. In my excitement upon its arrival I got it out of the box and took the labels off, so I'd have to sell it second hand and I'd lose most of the money anyway, so I may as well give it a go. Once I've got over the teething problems it could turn out to be really good, so we'll see.

Might it be a fertile day? Better give DH a flash of those sexy leggings!

Hello all... just checking in

am back from a weekend away at friends wedding which was just lovely, despite driving nearly 600miles this weekend!

all went perfect apart from (grrr).. we have been very good and very careful this month after last month... anyway i had +ve OPK on Friday, and Saturday, and Saturday afternoon, in the hotel, just before we went to wedding, umm our contraception broke ... I think we realised in time, and definitely do NOT feel pg at all, but it would be just my luck to one super sperm made it through, grrr, so another 2ww, i think, but refusing to stress this time (so i say now)

JS so sorry you didnt get the job lets hope something even more perfect comes up soon

bebe very excited about last jab... makes it all even more real now i guess?

Oh dear!

The magic thread strikes again!

it took me a few minutes to understad what you meant when you said contraception broke!
Sure you will be fine although super sperm does make me laugh! You could bottle it! A family I work with, the men only have to look at women and they get pregnant. We call them the superspermers!
Curry was good although think sauce could have been a bit thickrer- bombay poatatoes scrummy. dh just washing up then I think we will be snuggling up in bed to watch tv.... we are getting new sofas delivered on tuesday so are sitting on coushions on the floor at mo....well thats the exscuse I'm using to dh anyway!

welcome starlight

we are waiting until we are allowed / the time is right / we have convinced our OHs that we want to have a baby.

ie we know we want a baby but for whatever reason are not trying yet!

please join us

sounds like you are the perfect candidate to join us!!!

welcome