Testing around the 16th Feb? Join me for some "too knackered to SWI" laughs (!) with a bit of symptom -spotting and "shall I test early?" agonising thrown in!

[KatyCustard]

Hello,

So, I've been TTC on and off for TWO BLOODY YEARS!!!!! And am going to the doctors next week. However, I am the eternal optimist and will be SWI like the best of them for the next few weeks before I start symptom spotting again.

Come and join me and lets see who gets lucky this month!

(But pretty please let me be one. I mean, I am starting the thread, those are the rules aren't they?

Hello,
Can I join you? I had a bad/sad year last year, losing a baby at 20 weeks and then mc another at 8. I have one ds, and had got updiffed very easily those three times I got pregnant, but for the last 7 months nothing. I've started seeing a fertility specialist and was meant to go for an HSG on Tuesday to make sure my tubes aren't blocked, but when they did a preliminary scan, they saw I had a nice big egg and was about to ovulate and virtutally bundled us out of the door saying 'go home and have lots of sex NOW!' So, we have been swi the last couple of nights, although tbh that's no difference to what we always do at this time of the month so I'm not any more hopeful than usual but would be glad to while away the 2ww with some other obsessive symptom spotters ladies in the same position

I'm so sorry to hear about your losses, lucylookout. I hope the nice big egg managed to meet some equally nice big sperm! Great that the scan confirmed that it was waiting there!

Lucy - you've certainly been through the ringer . I've fallen pregnant almost without having SWI- took 1 month for my 4 mc's, all when we weren't properly TTC - and then my DD took 4 mths to conceive when I was trying and now I'm on month 4 too - unfortunately I think my stress levels are so ridiculous that that does have an effect and there's f..k all I can do about it as I'm desperate for #2. Have seen a Consultant too who said there's wasn't anything wrong with me either, just to stay 'positive'. There's lots of lovely people on here all 'concentrating' on TTC.

Ah Lucy so sorry to hear about your terrible year, let's hope 2011 is your year. Can I just say that your name is the one I will be giving to a little girl if I were to be lucky enough to conceive one. I have always loved the name Lucy - comes from loving the Narnia books when I was little.

I would just like to advise everyone that I feel sick today so am definitely upduffed, no doubt about it!!

Thanks for the warm welcome ladies.
Glad your symptoms are starting in earnest BBM!

I'm 1 dpo and feel extremely tired and in need of chocolate. Gotta be a good sign right

Oooooh, I defnitely feel a tiny bit sick. Absolutely nothing to do with having eaten too much for lunch, must be the fact that, despite not having yet ovulated, I am expecting .

Oooooh, I defnitely feel a tiny bit sick. Absolutely nothing to do with having eaten too much for lunch, must be the fact that, despite not having yet ovulated, I am expecting

[nods in earnest], yep, that's it exactly. The fatigue I'm feeling right now? All about early pregnancy, nothing to do with me hacking my lungs out and running a bit of a fever. [nods sagely]

Lucy, sorry to hear that 2010 was such a tough year, fx for 2011!

Hello Lucy ! Adding my sympathies and also a welcome. Let's hope 2011 is your year.

So, lots of us feeling sick. Any metalic tastes yet? I have a very old silver plated table spoon that gives me a metalic taste when I lick it!

Seriously, I need to dial down the crazy just a touch!

Yes I definitely have a very strange chemical taste in my mouth at the moment, plus I can't stop eating - nothing at all to do with my flu and everything to do with the imminent good news.

Come on Feb 19th - actually just realised it's my older son's 9th birthday that weekend, am hosting a movie evening then sleepover for some of his friends, then we have a full-on family and friends party the next day.

Can't believe how quickly the time has flown, 9, but he's still my baby. I was saying to him this evening how 9 years ago today he was wriggling about poking me inside!

I definitely have a funny metallic taste in my mouth... which is obviously deeply significant as I haven't even ovulated yet . Looks like DH will once again be in the office past midnight, but based on how tired and grumpy he's been this week with the long hours I am not optimistic about the chances of SWI when he does get home. Maybe time to start eying up the neighbours to see who looks most fertile ?

He he - maybe we should analyse them for best potential - any Brad Pitt lookalike brain surgeons down your road?

Your poor dh - what job does he do that keeps him in the office so late?

He's a corporate lawyer, busyboysmum - it's not very conducive to conception as I tend to be asleep when he gets home and he is so tired that even if I wake up he is just so desperate to go to sleep that my advances don't get a very warm reception . Have spent the last three nights trying to convince him at 1am when he comes to bed and then again at 6am when the alarm goes off that he really does have the energy but sadly to no avail. Think will be too late this cycle by the weekend when hopefully he will be able to catch up on sleep... hopefully next month will manage timings a bit better and manage a fertile window over the weekend (that or start making a list of the neighbours in order of attractiveness ).

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, DH has just phoned and said he thinks he will be at work for at least another four hours, which will make it half past one... my already low hopes for SWI tonight have been diminished even further!

Ah bless him - I was a conveyancing lawyer before the housing market collapsed so I know all about stressed out corporate lawyers, poor things!

1.30 noooooo - OK, what the bloke next door like then???

He looked so tired this morning, busyboysmum, I felt so sorry for him that I didn't even try to pressure him into SWI (very much)! And now we're both back in the ofice (but I bet he's not wasting time on Mumsnet ). I qualified into commercial property but only lasted 6 months before changing specialism - did you have a career change after the housing market or are you a SAHM now? Always interested in stories of lawyers who have managed to escape...

Er, should read "housing market collapse"... and "office"... attention to detail much?

Well I had a very cushy job only working 9.30 - 3 and it was local so could do both ends of the school run so it was impossible to find anything similar.

So I have been locuming for the last 2 years and occasionally helping my friend out in her shop - she has just opened a pot painting cafe so that is just lovely but much more tiring than being a lawyer!!

I am really happy especially as I have long stretches like now when I have no work so can just be a mum!!

V jealous of your previous hours, busyboysmum - amazing for a law firm! Your current set up sounds great too - how easy have you found it to find locuming work?

Well I am only working for a couple of local firms who I knew before I was made redundant - luckily one of them has 4 offices all fairly local to me with a pretty heavy reliance on conveyancing so I have averaged 2/4 weeks a month work. I just fired off about 5 CVs to firms I knew and got two who came back to book me.

TBH it has been pretty perfect - I love it. I get bored easily so to be able to pop in for a week or two, fired up full of enthusiasm, work hard and impress people with your pleasant nature and efficient manner, not get involved in office politics (which I hate), not have to go to any pointless departmental meetings... then off you go very well paid and off for 2 weeks being at home.

I have no desire to go back to a permanent position - of course the downside is that your busy times can be school hols but luckily for me most of the conveyancers I cover for don't have children so book their holidays in term time to get the cheaper deals.

That sounds lovely, busyboysmum - have always liked the idea of being a locum. Glad it's all worked out for you!

Have been lurking for a little while. Would love to be TTC#3 but my DH's reluctant as I had quite bad SPD on DS2. I'm getting really quite obsessive about thinking about it, and I'm probably only fuelling my obsession by coming here! However, if I were testing it would probably be around the 18th, and I thought it wouldn't be polite to lurk much more without saying hello and good luck! Oh, and SIL is 12+4 ( but also !), so babies and pregnancy very much on everyone's minds around here at the moment!

LOL, had to come back and post because I just got all excited as definite metallic taste in my mouth. Then I remembered that I got back from the dentist 2 hours ago having had a filling ! I don't know about pregnancy brain, but I think my mind went and never came back after my first BFP 10.5 years ago!!

knittymum....you're in the same boat as me then re the SPD....I had it very bad with DD....from 19wks onwards & for the last 6 weeks on crutches and housebound, only went out for midwife/hosital appointments, travelling in the car was too much pain. :( Oh, and DD will be 2 in a few weeks' time and I still have it! Obviously not anywhere near as bad as when pg, but at certain times of the month I get it, also carrying DD heavy things and pushing trolleys etc gives me pain.... I really want no.2 but worrying how I will cope with DD while if pg again anytime soon.... am I mad to try again now? should I wait til she's a little more independent? aarrgghh.
So how was SPD for you?

lol @ metallic taste!

Hi Knittymum - how old are your other two? Mine are 9 and 6 so quite a big age gap if we are successful.

LOL at the metallic taste - no pregnancy symptoms here sadly, I have been so ill this week I think it will have put the mockers on anything happening.

I didn't suffer from SPD myself but had a friend who was very badly affected so my sympathies go out to you.