Waiting to try for a baby

[AmandaCooper]

A continuation of so many threads spent waiting to ttc that I've completely forgotten what number thread we're on.

If you're waiting to ttc, stop by and say hello!

Oh, and I'm a bit sad dying to try out the strikethrough gizmo

Hah hah!

Dammit - how do you join thm all up like that?

to join them up you put and then start typing with no gap between the and the first word. at the end put -- (with no spaces before hand) and then a space afterwards.
I'm crap at trying to explain stuff like that so it probably makes no sense what so ever!! simples!

Yes, gluten intolerence. Very tedious and boring but lickily there is none in wine or chocolate!!!

luckily not lickily!!

I preferred lickily :-D

Let me know if you want my divine gluten-free chocolate cake recipes

Now I must go back and lick out the bowl from finish making the brownies

Can I join? Dd is now 7 and dp is still not up for ttc (although, to be fair, he is her step dad!). I'm just fed up of having to say 'ok, we'll wait', when one of dd's friend's parents has had a subsequent 4 dc's! It has now got to the point where the excuse is that we have given away all her baby stuff, so it would now be too expensive to re-buy, yet he still maintains that he wants another two eventually. I'm fed up of being the weirdo parent who goes crazy over other people's children, and everyone now thinks I'm barren . Is a baby REALLY too much to ask .

Welcome Paintinmyhair You've found the right place to go slowly mad wait here!

Hello all, I'm still here! Well done on your half, JS.

Nothing to report anymore in the TTC camp here though as we're back to 'waiting' not starting. Have decided to start charting my cycle after reading TCOYF, just to make sure I'm ovulating as my periods are pretty light. It's not as much hassle as I thought it would be.

JS I was out with my coeliac friend the other day for dinner, trying to find somewhere to eat out gluten-free is a nightmare!

Right, must get back to my work emails and stop fannying around on here

I'm on my pill-free week atm and I just realised that the next packet will be my last, um,

That's kind of scary, that is :-D

Welcome to Painty just grab one of those nice white coats with the long arms and strap yourself in make yourself comfy :)

I am very glad it isn't just me that is ever so slightly eager! Hurrah for us all!

ROFL at nice white coats. Are they McQueen?? I imagine that's the kind of thing he would have designed!!

Glad to have you back Quod but rubbish that DH has changed his mind. Any chance you could 'forget' the conversation where he changed his mind .

Argh! The MN book is scaring me...however, it's still funny and a good read...i think i'll get the babies one...i figure that one is possibly even more important...ha ha...how is everybody??

Quod...that sucks about the TTC. So sorry!

I still don't have an answer and the need to have a child in my belly is growing ever stronger...i honestly don't know what i'll do if he says no!

I keep on meaning to buy the MN books but am trying to resist until we are actually TTC as am sure that DH woudl freak out. Have started taking my Folic Acid though adn am hoping that I can remember to take it every day.... I am so bad at things like that!

Astro what a pain that you still don;t have an answer from DH. Is he likely to say No?

Keep the folic acid next to the toothpaste?

And yes, I'm resisting buying the books because oh - wait - yes - we have no money.

I'm going to wait till I'm upduffed then ask interested parties to buy such stuff, or use birthday book vouchers.

We have some Christmas Debenhams vouchers we're saving for baby stuff (because what else can we get from there that's for both of us? We have all the furnishings stuff we need).

Not that I'm planning it all out yet or anything... ho hum :-D

ps - Justshagging - I figured out the microdata. I now feel very geeky and impressive, and apparently my boss thinks so also :-D

I used to have to set a reminder on my phone to take it! Now it's just habit!

Have got the lurgy! Feel rubbish! :(

Cakes - I feel you on the no money! It's miserable! We have some argos vouchers sat doing nothing...just a shame they don't do food!

Oh and well done on being a Geek!!!

hi bebe we've missed you on here! Rubbish that you have the lurgy :( I woke up feeling a bit gfrotty too but am mainlining Day nurse and can't possibly feel crappy when it's such a beautiful
day!!

What are everybody's plans for the weekend?

I've been a bit lurky lately, just don't have much to say!

Was supposed to be going to a fairtrade fair at church on Saturday but if DD is still contagious I won't be able to go! (Conjunctivitis) :( That being said she looks alot better today. I'm trying really hard to be proactive about going to church as 1. My mum is a vicar & is disappointed if I don't 'make an effort' and 2. The school we want DD to go to is the church school & it helps if we actually go!

I know there's something I'm supposed to be doing on Sunday but can't remember what?! If the weather is nice I might do... a little gardening!!

I know what you mean about not having much to say at the moment. I sometimes feel that this forum would be better in Chat as I neve have any exciting TTC news at all!! I feel like everybody else is graduating and I'm stuck here..... :(

Was chatting to a good friend, and yoga teacher, last night and she knows a bit about my wanting to TTC soon and was asking how I was going to manage with DH living in London for 60% of the week. It hadn;t really dawned on me until then but unless I'm OVing around the weekends then it's going to take bloody ages to concieve! This might call for some emergency trips to London for a night of SWIing!! some quality time with DH

and I hope your DD gets better soon. Conjunctivitis is so horrible and uncomfortable poor little thing :(

Very good of you to go to church each Sunday. I am really bad at that..... but try to compensate by being a nice moral person most fo the time!!

Haven't been every Sunday , just to the family services with DD (she's a handful & doesn't understand that she shouldn't run around & shout like she does in Granny's churches) and I go on my own to 'special' services!

Lol at 'special trips to London'! I'm sure it'll work out fine, are you still planning on starting on holiday?

I really neeeeeed to talk to DH again. Just there is never a good time. And with all the stress of tax credits renewel looming we've both got alot on our brains trying to work out what the hell we are going to do!

I am but I've not really brought it up with DH..... Think I will just get on with it and if he questions why we are not using contraception then I will throw a massive strop have a bit of a grump and hopefully he will give in. After all he did say that the only reason we aren't trying now is because of the india trip!! and I think that the pregancies being announced left right and centre at the moment are making him realise that it's not the end of his life! He's mentioned the possibility of twins several times recently too (we'd both love twins and they run in his family so you never know!!)

It must be so hard to talk to your DH about it when you keep getting such negative vibes from him I would be having a serious sense of humour failure in your situation and would quite possibly have issued an ultimatium. You are a much better and stronger woman than me!

How is your DH coping with the work and family stress at the moment? My BIL has just started in CBT after a pretty rough few years. I had to almost march him to a therapist in December as he's a bit sceptical about them but he has 6 sessions with her and found it really useful to get everything off his chest. He is now seeing a CBT specialist in order to help him deal with everything and move on. I know your DH isn't keen on therapy but can you force him persuade him to go?

LOL at mini bebe running around and shouting in church.... am sure she's not the only one doing it though :)

She is (or at least was this last week) by far the worst behaved! They are always so lovely & tell me it doesn't matter, but I'm always so embarrassed (DH doesn't go so am on my own) so it matters to me!

DH just doesn't have time at the moment to go. He leaves for work at 6.30 (although has been later over the last couple of weeks coz FIL is having some issues at home) and doesn't get home til nearly 6 in the evenings & has work to do at home.

I think if I issued an ultimatum he would throw the towel in on our relationship. He is that stubborn! He always makes a huge song & dance about we always do what I want to do! We SO don't! If he doesn't want to do something we/he won't do it...end of discussion! Just feel so fed up about the whole thing being what he wants & not actually being about what is best for us as a couple or as a family. Everytime I look at DD it breaks my heart imagining her as an only child. He doesn't see how she is with other children & how much she would benefit from a sibling. :(

In your situation I would definitely be 'jumping' DH on holiday! Maybe he'll be so relaxed & in holiday mode that he won't even question it!

No idea what happened with the italics there!