Feisty, Fabulous Forty somethings

[galwaygal]

This is a continuation of the "More ongoing and continuing conceptions and follicling ahead of Feisty, Fabulous Forty somethings"

I thought I would keep the title short as there are so many long ones out there.

I thought I would start the new thread so that you don't forget me

Oh and gum get me some strawberries and raspberries would you please? I can have them with a large dollap of acidiphilus to help clear the itch..

diege very personal question here:- when you treat yourself for thrush do you treat your hubbie too? It's just that they can harbour the thrush under their foreskin and keep giving you thrush back. Sorry if that is just too much info at dinner time I'm just thinking of you,matey. Cos thrush is so horrid.

We ended up not doing it last night cos DH was tired and wanted to move it to this morning. I decided to do what italian always recommends and do it when the man is most keen as this means he will gve the best donation. So we did the deed this morning and I'm happy that it was still within the window. Will do it again tomorrow morning as well just to make sure there are loads of troops. He is definitely a morning person

I am a lot more relaxed about TTC now and am slowly adjusting to the fact that our family may now be complete (I know if it is I will be fine and am lucky to have 2 healthy happy DCs). I am trying to think more about IOW move and weight loss. Still no chocolate or cakes or crisps for me. Every time I am hungry I eat fruit and drink a mug of tea to fill me up. Bloody hell it's killing me...

gum that market sounds brilliant. I LOVE LOVE LOVE halloumi. Can I come live with you, honey??

muchlove how goes it with you, my love?

lou where are you? Daft question - we all know you're shagging!

jolly (((())) bIg hugs for you - cos I think you're feeling a bit down.

Hey Hippy i m here....Waves .No swi today dh not "fancying it" so we gave ourselves a day off!!! But i ll be wanting a bit tomorrow.Still no smiley face so we all know i ov'd way earlier.

Been to the gym,watched a film then awaiting my folks who are staying over and going out for a meal.Well done you on your fruit and tea.I m not doing well had chocolate every day but reason i m going swimming so that will be ok.Yeh swi!!!!! More tomorrow fab

Gum your life does sound pretty idealitic.Do you want to swap? I , too, love halloumi, especially fried!!! I ll have EVERYTHING from your farmer's market, ta.

Jolls hope you re feeling better?

Hi Italian hope you re well and still loving your hamster.

Diege bistro lovely , thanks.Hope you got your swi done!!! Do you have oral fluconazole for thrush? I ve found that works the quickest for me.

Hi Muchlove you ok?

BB also hope you managed to swi....

Ah yes hippy, dh all caneston-ed up , but we do seem to be passing it back and forth . I am going to start taking probiotics too (acidophilus?)and generally cutting back on wheat and sugar as tgis is really the only thing that has worked (long-term) in the past. Good going on the morning shag! I am now getting ewm, and thrush seems to be abiding (twas only mild) so I am going to grit my teeth and go for another swi tonight (faint line on opk so have def 'peaked'.
Louise sounds like a lovely, busy weekend - I'm sure swi/swoi will feel ike falling in love for the first time after yur day off
LOve to all!

OH and Hippy I have told dh that you have been asking after his foreskin - he looked very shocked but also mildy pleased

OH and Hippy I have told dh that you have been asking after his foreskin - he looked very shocked but also mildly pleased

OMG - did you really tell him????

I do worry about the sexual health of all the men on here - we do make such bloody demands on them

lou Sounds like you have a good week-end planned. Yes yes yes we all know you ov'd early - yawn yawn Stop wasting money on those sticks, Mrs!

Oh yes . He also made a filthy comment that even I would typing . I think you have got him in the mood for tonight anyway

glad to be of assistance diege

hi all. No I didn't dtd last night either - we went out and I was really pissed! we had an encounter and then i went to sleep - (had it been the other way round I would have been slgging dh off so much on here!).

anyway, managed today which was a better day anyway as the line is quite dark on the opk now. will try tmorrow or Monday too. I'm also just doing it when dh is the one making the first move, and it's making the whole thing much more relaxing.

I'm envious of your farmers market (and beach) gum sounds very idyllic. Every so often I try and persuade dh that we should live in the country, but he grew up there and thinks that I am too much of a town person. maybe he's right (Jolls I would like to move to L though which is a bit of a half way house maybe).

Very impressed with the healthy eating/exercise going on - I crashed in a bit way yesterday, huge meal, too much wine, cocktails etc, and then had to eat throughout today to combat the hangover!

Just a quicjk one girls - I'm taking off in a little while - road trip with my sis to see long lost rellies. My Uncle has come over from London to catch some sun for a couple of weeks and is staying with my aunty. They live about 4 hours drive from here, so we'll continue on to the city and stay over and shop in the morning! It'll be the first time I've gone away from my DS. Ihope he'll cope, but actually will put it from my mind because I need a night off and he needs to be weaned. I worry that it may contribute to miscarriage(due to my age and not enough nutrients etc) so I am endevouring to wean him. I mean it this time!

Just wanted to say I've finished the washing up in the bistro, and have picked up strawberries and raspberries and haloumi for all. Deige you get to have a big dollop of creme fresh on your berries as it is loaded with good bacteria, which is just what you need right now.

Must run, don't wan to leave too late, need to get there in time for lunch!

Oh - and yes - I do realize my life is pretty idyllic but don't forget the close encounters with the likes of very. very large spiders and venemous snakes.

Sorry about all the spelling errors, have to run!

Eeek.....Gum i ve now gone off living with you.Arh....big spiders i 'd die i can just about "get rid" of our spiders here and they are only a fraction of the size of yours!!!!Enjoy your trip XX

BB sounds good.Well done on your dtd even with a hangover.

Diege hope yours and dh's little problem is sorted.Yes, we ve just had a shag don t know if it was like falling in love again but fun and spontaneous!!!!!Forgotten what that feels like.

Hippy I think you can charge for the service you re "giving" Diege and "Mr Diege" .....LOL.Louise whispers "still nad opk" only 1 opk left to do for fun!!!!! I know, I know .....Louise creeps away before getting told off!!!!!!

Been swimming again today and nice catch up with the folks.Nice meal last night.Off to the gym again early a.m.

Hope everyone is ok XXX

Hi Girls

Sorry I've been MIA but have been ill (sore throat, cold...blah blah) had birthday Saturday turned 44 (FFS) and got AF on Sunday so had a total SHIT last 4 days.

Noticed there was a bit of a shag-a-thon going on here so didn't like to be a 'downer' to it all....... my god LOU you must be bandy legged by now (you put us all to shame ....... lets hope there are some results in a few weeks for you all .......

I am standing staring at ALL the vitamins in my cupboard thinking 'what's the bloody point'.....grrrhhh

I feel like I'm at the 'midway' point in a long race and I can't seem to see the the ending.....just running and running and getting more and more exhausted........I need to give myself a pep talk or something...... sigh....

Love to all

xx

Bas*d post lost again!!!!

Been swimming then just had reflexology.Lovely.

Muchlove Happy belated birthday XX hope you re feeling a bit better physically.Know what you mean about a long race.When Georgie died i felt , amongst other feelings, that i had run a marathon to end up back at the start.In fact minus about a million miles and i ve got to run all that distance again.

Only you know if you want to be in this race,For me its not an option but you may think differently.Hope you feel a bit brighter soon. XXXX

Hope all are well? XXX

Hello! Sorry to hear that you're feeling rubbish muchlove - the race analogy of Louise's seems very apt. How many of us would embark on a maratahan with all the physical and mental toil it entails, if there was no guarantee that we would complete it? But we still do, so it's hardly surprising that we feel rubbish and directionless from time to time. Take some time to be kind to yourself and of course happy belated birthday Did you do anything nice?
Louise sounds like a nice, positive day you're having . You are good with your swimming! There's a lovely pool at my gym but I'll admit to being one of those people that doesn't like to get my hair wet . It always looks fun through the glass though
Well I'm in slanket mode, though the most unhopeful I've been re: my chances this month still starting ttc. My temps finally rose this morning, but I am convinced that I ovulated a few days ago and not yesterday (my version ties in with opks too). So on the swi front I peaked too soon if temos are accurate, plus I had pretty much zero ewm too, thanks to the songbird . Anyway, what's done is done, and I'm taking a welocme resat for a few days..(well, as long as I can get away with it).
Hope everyone is ok - my fellow shaggers (BB and Hippy) are very quiet?

hi all. happy birthday muchlove sorry you've felt crap over the last few days. I just always feel horrible for a couple of days when rtd arrives. it's shit.

Anyway, last dildo cam here today which showed ovulation has just occurred. Like this afternoon! apparently it's v unusual for this to show up in a scan like it did. Womb lining looking good too.

so I have a dliemma. Unusually, dh and I have swi (on my part anyway!) for the last 2 nights running. That's unheard of for us - dh has tiredness issues . I have not spoken at all of anything ttc, I have been charm itself to him, let him have lie ins, made coffees, worn thongs (sorry tmi), and have been rewarded. So now i'm on the day of ov and it would be good to dtd again. dh is knackered, and feeling a bit ropey apparently. So should I be open with him? That risks performance issues.

otoh it might be difficult to seduce him.

oh the difficulties of ttc.

Hi all just wanted to tell you I am pregnant again. I'll be forty three in April and this is my third pregnancy since last march(one suspected ectopic one mmc at 8 weeks).

Am suitably nervous and raking a day at a time!

Congratulations Hairy! How many weeks are you?
BB that's a tough one...chances are the swimmers are well in place, so you wouldn't have anything to lose by coming clean and admitting tonight is the night. Having said that, yesterday was a pretty good day chance-wise...hmm not helped much have I

Thanks Diege I am four weeks and 3 days. I have po about 6 sticks - the latest (clear blue digital ) says I'm 2-3 weeks post conception, so that looks ok.

I had an ERPC on 22nd Nov so it's a bit of a shock to be pregnant again so soon.

I have HCG test weds and then scan on Friday 4th, and am literally taking one day at a time at the moment. very up and down empotionally but hope this is the one!

Good evening All.
Thanks hippy for the explanations, all makes sense now.
I am in the baggy pants phase as of yesterday. .

hairy congratulations!! That is such lovely news, and hope for us all. Really hoping this is it for you.

I saw all my pre-natal group last week, we went to the house of the latest recently given birth. One was chatting about her hair, which she had had cropped from a bob, saying that it made her 'look really old, like she was 40', at which point she realised her huge gaffe and apologised to me profusely, I just said, don't worry about it, its fine.
I WISH I'd said, 'I don't know why you are apologising to me, I'm not 40' and looked at her in a puzzled manner (as I'm 42). I was quite upset though, as I know that one reason I was am the only one without a second child is my age. I'm beginning to feel really isolated.

gum - DD has just weaned after 2yrs and 2 months, she just graduated to a bed so rather then me bringing her into our bed in the morning, she is loving the freedom of knocking on the door and then practically vaulting into the room. In the back of my mind, I worried that bf wasn't helping conception, and that it may have contributed to MC a few months ago so know where you are coming from. I did love it though but always said I'd let Dd choose when she wanted to stop.

Has anybody heard that you should TTC early on in fertile period as mature sperm have a much better chance of fertilising the egg?? I read it in a book and wasn't sure if it was accepted wisdom or not?

Thanks for the birthday wishes ladies......

BB Well how brilliant you got to see that you had OVd that is just so cool..... I would go for it again tonight if you can if not then don't bash yourself up about it.....
When I had my monitered cycle even though we had covered 4 nights in a row before OV we went for another 2 nights aswell.....(I think hubby realised how much it was costing and wanted to get his moneysworth so he gave it his all.....so that was 6 nights in a row and OVn was night 5.....well we got PG that time sooooo....

HAIRY Fab fab news please god you have a problem free 9 mnths ...........

Oh LOU you gotta keep on running missus I'll be there making sure ur getting enough water.........

No I didn't do anything special for Bday as too ill but I don't mind it's just another day i spose.......

I may go for another Monitered Cycle next month again just so I can get an idea of what's going on in there and if the fibroids are any bigger.....

Love to all xx

Hi ladies. I'm back. Put a fair few kilometers onto the car, and talked,talked,talked, with my sister.It was good. We had fun at a lovely hotel on the water and then some well deserved shopping in the city.

But glad to be home,missed my family and was getting a bit sick of all the sordid details of her affair.

Hairy - big congratulations. I hope all goes well. I know how difficult (even more so for you) those first 12 weeks are, so try to relax and enjoy as much as you can.

I'm very excited to say that I have weaned Charlie. Hurray!!! He hasn't had the boob since early Sunday morning - so two whole days.When I got back last night it was the first thing he asked for,but I have stood firmly and will not give in. Even if it didn't make any difference to my pregnancy and miscarriage, I found it hard to do with sore nipples and felt really irritable, which isn't very nice for either of us. I will miss our special time breastfeeding, but I think we'll both sleep better too. He only woke twice last night and his daddy managed to settle him the first time and it wasn't so hard when I did the second time, though he did get cross with me!

I've had some cramping and a temperature drop. I"m 9 dpo so it could be implantation or a short l.p and RTD might pop up today or tomorrow. I'm hoping for the former but don't really have any reason to believe it is. Time will tell.I could test tomorrow a.m or I might wait and see.

Sorry to hear you are feeling awful Muchlove. You'll know when you are ready to throw in the towel and we'll always be here to cheer you on whatever you decide.

I lurked around this thread over Christmas but wondered if I could possibly keep up with it, since you get so many posts each day, so never posted anything. Haven't had time to read all of this thread at the moment.

Louise - I remember your postings when I lurked at the end of last year - you have been through every woman's nightmare. I really admire your strength and I really hope you get a BFP soon.

I'm a week past my 44th birthday and have been TTC#2 for about 7 or 8 months now. I really think I must be kidding myself and now I cry every time I get my period. I think I'm finding it difficult to accept that there won't be any more.

I had DS (who's now 12 months and lovely) a week before my 43rd birthday and conceived him really easily so thought that I could get pregnant again relatively easily, despite my age, but what a difference a year or so makes! I had a miscarriage @ 5 weeks in December last year. I think conceiving DS was just a massive stroke of luck, but desperately would love him to have a sibling, particularly as I and DP are getting on a bit.

Is there really any hope for me? Or should I just face facts and give up?

I hope everyone is having a good day and hope you all have good luck this year!

PS can I please join this thread? I'm also on the CBFM one.

Happy Belated birthday muchlove and hope you feel better soon. Missed out on the bistro AGAIN, yes I have only myself to blame. Fingers crossed for Gum louise and BB this month. Congratulations hairy I do hope it's a positive outcome for you. Ooh hippy pass some of your willpower this way please, as am hopeless at resisting chocolate and cakes etc . Waves hello to (bella)Italian Diege porth gg Jolls Nicole lia cereal and anyone else I may have forgotten. Have ordered a basal thermometer to start temping when Rusty arrives. Am really feeling pms this month, my mood has been truly awful. Could have swung for DH yesterday and this morning and anyone who saw me in the station car park this morning would have thought I was a loon!!!!! I was one step away from a Fawlty Towers sketch, the one where John Cleese tharshes his car with a couple of branches. Dh had put brolly in the boot but could I get the flaming boot open??? Could I heck, was darting from the drivers door pressing the boot button to the boot to see if it was open did this numerous times, called Dh to ask why/how the f* is the boot not opening called him useless then hung up. Was cursing very loudly whilst spending over 5 mins trying and very nearly missed my train.....and breathe 2,3,4,5,