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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

Conception

Questionable TTC behaviour

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Folicacid · 31/01/2011 19:08

Lurking in baby names on a daily basis, desperate to post

Checking the baby name statistics for both country and area

Surfing Amazon to read reviews of pregnancy books- but not buying any

Working out how pregnant I could be if I get pregnant this month at key events this year like weddings, holidays

5.Regularly checking the local nursery's website for information

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jaggythistle · 01/02/2011 16:48

I am so bad at the chart staring and baby names forum lurking

I didn't have much time to obsess first time around as we were lucky to conceive very quickly. The madness has totally started to consume me and I am only on my 4th cycle, how much worse can I get?

KnackeredCow · 01/02/2011 17:06

MummyAbroad no. 10 "only ever wearing white knickers"

MummyAbroad · 01/02/2011 17:06

satsuma actually I dont think starting pram research is questionable. with DS I spent more time researching that than I did with my car! You can never start too early.

SlightlyBabyCrazed · 01/02/2011 18:10

32ish: deciding which elderly member of the family you can move in as resident childcare

33ish: organising your own wedding but delaying the purchase of dress as telling everyone that you plan to be a size or two smaller by then, but actually secretly hoping to have to buy a bump friendly one!

KnackeredCow · 01/02/2011 18:23

34ish: trading your 3 door hatchback for an estate that's absolutely impossible to park anywhere near your tiny terraced house

LoveInAColdClimate · 01/02/2011 18:27

35ish: spending every motorway journey checking out family-friendly-looking cars with DH.

36ish: having worked out precisely how we will rearrange the house when we turn the study into a nursery.

37ish: symptom spotting the day after ovulation...

MummyAbroad · 01/02/2011 18:40

reading all the posts in the Pregnancy section on MN

KnackeredCow · 01/02/2011 18:55

Never having sex in anything other than missionary position again - gravity helps right?

KnackeredCow · 01/02/2011 19:08

Perusing Transport For London's website and wondering whether it's too early to order up a "Baby on Board" badge. It's the first day of AF, but according to no. 16 that's officially day 1 on the pregnancy scale

Folicacid · 01/02/2011 20:24

Fantasising how and when you will break the news to family, before 12 weeks or after?
Fantasising about how and when you will manage to fool people with no drinking. not that old antiboitics trick, but maybe a health kick, or accept drinks and throw them into plant pots hmmm?

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Folicacid · 01/02/2011 20:26

Fanasising about being on maternity leave; picking out the coffee shops that will be suitable to meet friends in who have babies.

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babybythesea · 01/02/2011 20:32

Checking out where the lifts are in the bigger stores so you will look like a pro wheeling your pram towards it in a nonchalant way.
Eyeing up the mother and baby parking spaces in the supermarket/multi-storey car parks.
Fitting holiday plans around the bump (don't want to be in the throws of morning sickness, don't want to be too huge I can't travel...)

babybythesea · 01/02/2011 20:35

Knackeredcow - no. 40 reminded me of my fave piece of useless info.
Those baby on board signals have a purpose - and it's not to get everyone else to drive more carefully around your precious cargo. They were originally designed as an aid for emergency services. If you are in an accident, and for some reason unable to speak, it is a big visual clue to them as they approach the car that they need to be on the lookout for a child in the back. I'm thinking maybe at night, it might be easy to miss a dark seat strapped in the back, esp if the infant has gone quiet, and if they are trying to get you out alive.
My fact of the day!

KnackeredCow · 01/02/2011 20:40

babybythesea that's absolutely fascinating. That makes so much sense, I never understood them before. I know with Transport for London the badges youpin to your coat are designed so that hopefully someone will give up their seat without worrying about accusing a non-pregnant woman of being pregnant, or not recognising that a heavily pregnant woman is pregnant and may require a seat

KnackeredCow · 01/02/2011 20:42

Also babybythesea love your nos. 45 & 46.

angster · 01/02/2011 21:02

Only drinking filtered water- because of one article I read linking chlorine to miscarriages. Pretending I don't like chocolate to friends - when really I read that caffeine can cause miscarriages. Passing on the peas at dinner because I read somewhere they act as a contraceptive. Mango, papaya, coffee, foods with aspartame....don't like these either now . If I have read just one article which mentions they're bad for fertility, I cut them out!

Folicacid · 01/02/2011 21:12

Angster, I just ate peas as part of dinner. Waaaaaaaaah!

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MummyAbroad · 01/02/2011 21:15

knowing more than your GP about PCOS/Chlomid/blood tests etc.

lalabaloo · 01/02/2011 23:43

Panicking that you ate peas for lunch
Having a spreadsheet with every baby item required, brand and store, quantity required, cost per item and total cost. (not me...)
Having researched several baby things e.g. weaning and then having to pretend that you only know about it from a friend who recently gave birth

Folicacid · 02/02/2011 12:39

how have I missed this whole peas thing?

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Bumpsadaisie · 02/02/2011 13:16

Making up temperatures for the following few days and putting them into FF to see what it would say about when you ovulated on the basis of those hypothetical, future temps. (I did this this morning and can proudly report that if my next two temps are over 36.38, FF will decide I ovulated on Monday - thankyou, yes thankyou all, yes, I'm just so glad to have been able to move world knowledge on in this way).
Already having worked out when the hypothetical baby you have conceived this cycle will be going to college and to be pleased that this baby and your eldest will not be at college at the same time [yes, yes, this is wrong on so many levels - both for assuming they will both go to college, and that there is any baby in there at all! [

Bumpsadaisie · 02/02/2011 13:18

PS Am only on the 2nd cycle of trying too and am already OTT compeletely.

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MummyAbroad · 02/02/2011 17:33

I am curious about the peas too. Peas info please!

Folicacid · 02/02/2011 21:41

Bumps haha at no. 52!!

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Bumpsadaisie · 02/02/2011 22:05

Folic, thank you, no really, it was an honour....

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