Feisty Fabulous Forty somethings - part 2

[Curlylox]

woohoo over here

jolls pissy crappy buggery news about AF arriving - boo hiss. But, what a lovely day with your DS . I think he was good in the shop cos Auntie Hippy told him to be .

I think I should ov today. Have pains but they could be hunger as I have not been eating much the last couple of days due to concerns about a dodgy tummy. We will also continue sex after I think I've ov'd. Blimey these men are soooo bloody lucky - how many men in their 40's get this much sex ??? (Not including you ladies with toy boys )

I set my DS1 up on facebook yesterday, he is only allowed to be friends with a small section of his friends from his class and if ANYONE asks to be his friend he is to alert me immediately. Plus I must know his password at all times - he was ok with all of that and explained to me, "Mum, we've had the internet safety talk like 3 times already at school!!"

Ho hum - the joys of having an almost 11 year old.

ps. Hippy repeats to herself, I must not go on to his facebook and say that he is wearing ladies knickers to school or somesuch rubbish.....very tempted though!!

hi all. panashe I think it's normal to feel up and down after a mc - I did for a long time after mine last year. I also wondered whether my excessive eating over Christmas last year (I ate cheese and whatever I wanted really) contributed to my mc, but agree with hippy I think it is more likely just to be a bad egg.

Anyway smep started here, and dh is fully on board for once which is good! got a high on the monitor this morning too which means that ovulation probably isn't too far away - sometimes I have had to wait for day 20 which means alot of swi!

dh less sure about moving jobs today but still seeing recruitment man tomorrow. My alternative plan is that we both jack in our jobs for a year and travel round the world. would love to do that. Of course small matter of whether our jobs would be open for us to come back to and mortgages and things like that. But I'd do it in a shot if dh agreed. (with a tiny baby of course!).

oh hippy my 10yo has a facebook page. I have full access to it and know who her friends are too. She doesnt' use it much actually - she prefers to email her friends incessantly.

Morning :)

Jolls you ok ? you sound quite upbeat, I think having a lo does keep you preoccupied. Your day sounded lovely. I had a glass of wine or 2 last night, dp big Arsenal fan so was over moon with result last night which lead to more swi....

Thanks lol and BeattieBow don't you just hate hormones and how much they control you.

Half term here next week which I love, a break from the school run, netball,football,after school classes etc etc Cups of tea in bed made by my lovely dc

Hi all.

BB my brother and his "horrible" wife have just set off to travel the world for 7 months they sold their house.He is a copper and they have let him have an unpaid sabbatical where as the witch [she is a lawyer] had only been in her job for a year wouldn t give her sabbatical so she left her job1!!!! All this 11 months after they bought their "dream" home to raise kids in !!!!![They ve no kids!!!].To me it seemed a nightmare haveing 1 rucksack to take 7 months of clothes!!!! 23kgs isn t enough for me for 2 weeks

Arh buggeration Jolls back to it.....come on ems plan XXX

Hi Hippy ok? start of plan yeh.....

Panashe hope you re ok?

Hi to all....Much,Italian and Gum XXXX

Feel pissed off today....woke up feeling i m fed up of where i m at .I want the life i should have not this crap ....its so hard to remain positive....but what choice do i have??????

Today is the last day of swi.....So want to be pg [as i know we all do].

lou ((())) You WILL get the life you so justly deserve and one day you'll look back at these posts and smile and think of Georgie and how far you've come and how much you're life has changed.... whooo spooky just how right Hippy is

hello everyone.

Jolls, sorry about the bfn.It sucks.I hope next month is the ONE!

Lou, sorry you are feeling crap.Perfectly understandable. I do hope your bfp is soon,soon,soon.You are doing all the right things, so rest assured,you'll get your little one soon.

I spent the day emptying the linen closet. So full! So I chucked a great deal out, packed a heap of it up for charity, and dedicated a shelf to all the baby stuff and tiny clothes.I'm not getting rid of it yet, and if it has a place in my closet, it feels like it will happen eventually.

My pregnant friend had a "show" today, so it won't be long til her little boy is born. I feel okay about it now, but I don't know how I'll go when I see him for the first time. I just have to believe it will happen really soon for me too.

I had heartburn today and remember having it very early on with the last pregnancy (it started at 3 dpo and I never get it any other time).I'm hoping it's a good sign, but don't want to get my hopes up and come crashing down if/when AF turns up.

Ahh ...just so looking forward to us all having a beautiful baby bump,trouble free pregnancies and healthy take home babies.

oh lou you will get the life you deserve, i know you will. ((((hugs))))

gum sounds promising! You are supposed to be more fertile just after a mc.

as for me, all my tests (thyroid etc) came back normal. so no explanation at all yet for lack of getting pg or disappearing periods. Quite frustrating because I really do feel that something is wrong and that I won't get pg until it is fixed.

Envious of you all having ovulated already!

Hi Girls
Sorry not been around much but have also had a family bereavment this week so its been a bit sad round these parts....... AF here today but its okay i have my head round it and will just muddle on with things......will be back here soon when feeling up to it......
Good luck to all the SWIers and hello to all the new girls and TTT is quite correct make sure you do day before day of and day after OV.....I think thats the best chance you can give yourselves.....I did that last month and will do it this month again....

Speak soon xx

lou life seems so unfair sometimes, I haven't got the life I thought I would have(exdh had affair for 5years and now lives 6000 miles away) and its really f**king hard sometimes.I know your situation much harder but you will get through it :)

muchlove sorry to hear about your family bereavment. panache sorry also about your ex. But you have a lovely toy boy now - hooray!!

muchlove crossed posts sorry about family bereavment x

hippy

Hello! Still in the thick of it work-wise I'm afraid, but wanted to say hi
SME plan amounted to the grand total of 2 swis for me this month, with dh being away - so that's the day before ov and day after . Have stopped takling the B6 as per BB's instrcutions, but just wondering why you have to? Anyone know?
Have been reading through but not having the chance to post. Very quickly, sorry about af Jolls ,but as others say you do seem to be taking it well (well, as well as anyone can) x
Lou stay strong my love. As Hippy says your time will come for sure x
Gum fingers crossed, and so glad that you and dh resolved things. I had a feeling you would
BB are you def starting the clomid then?
Hippy agree, scarily synchronised! I appear to have ovulated on the day of the pos opk, which is actually usual for me. Are you still swi?
Great to hear from you, she who cannot be named. I'm sure your scan will be fine x
Big hello to everyone else - Italian, muchlove, Curly, Tina, Lol, panashe and anyone else I've inadvertantly missed x

Thanks girls XXXXXXXXX

You always make me feel better or give me a kick up the arse!!!!!!!!![One or the other]

I will just write today off as a shitty day,tomorrow's another day.

Much sorry for your loss XXXX

Panashe sorry X Glad you ve got your good outcome XX.My counsellor said "it s the not knowing we live with" As she said if i 'd had known how last year would have turned out would i still have gone through with Georgie."Oh YES" most definatly.

Diege you re still "in" !!!!

BB When you back at the drs? Thanks it's a long time since somone has envied me!!!!!

Oh Gum sounding good XXX Thanks

Hippy thanks ....You are right i know....Whats the lottery numbers????? oh Mystic Hip!!!!

Sorry to hear about your family bereavement much, can relate to how you feel as also had a family bereavement, I'm sad of course but really feel for my cousins and my Grandmother (she is now the last of the siblings).
Again just popping in as off to the Dr's shortly, feel a bit about what to say really, silly isn't it?!
By the way, I don't feel it will be a bfp for me this time, yes I've been swi, had a positive on a opk but just feel it was a hit and miss............might be me still on a downer I don't know. Anyhoo will catch up with all your news later.

muchlove so sorry about your bereavement and your rtd too.

curly hope your trip to the doctors is productive. Are you asking about fertility issues too?

diege no I am meant to be taking clomid next cycle, so I'm kind of secretly hoping I'll get pg this time and won't need it! But I have to go back on day 2 of the next cycle and take it then. I haven't really don't any research on it yet, but have heard that it can actually cause your lining to get thinner, so I am a bit apprehensive. Also I think there are mood swings, and an increased chance of twins, so I'm not 100% sure about it! Will think about it more at the time though I think. It's easy for me to say because I'm coming up to ov, but I do feel ok at the moment about the thought of not being pg. But will probably feel differently if AF arrives of course.

BB I thought clomid was for people who don't ovulate?? You do, don't you??? What's the thinking behind it all.

Have serious Ov pains and am wearing a vest top - bloody freezing

apparently it can lengthen luteal phase or summat too.

ha ha vest top! it's only 6 o clock aren't you still in the midst of tea/bath/bed?

PMSL at hippy doing bedtime routine in seduction gear .

Another lovely day today with DS who is behaving really well at the moment . But a few moments at easy pregnancies everywhere I look :(. Trying to say positive, rational and realistic about what the future holds. Shit isn't it?

Hope everyone ok xx

Jolls, it is shit, you're right, but on the positive side if we all carry on going like the clappers as we are doing there are more chances of it happening than not. I was thinking as I was walking home from the station that I'd be quite smug and pleased with myself if I was a teenager and wanting to avoid pregnancy (ie. all that shagging at the 'dangerous' times and still no pregnancy...)
Hippy, hope you are gearing up and that you're not too cold. Could you put a cardigan over the top or would that spoil the effect?
I am also getting ov pains and loads of EWM too, but ovulation has def been and gone (by temps and opks). Maybe a bit of a delayed reaction - wouldn't surprise me..I'm sure everyone will be pleased and relieved (for their own sakes too so I can shut up about it )that I have only 44 scripts left to mark OH and get thinking about bistro orders for tomorrow!

Hi!

Is anyone using wild yam cream? I've just heard so much different stuff about it - that it is great for a natural progesterone boost, then I've heard it won't make any difference at all. I bought some from the health store yesterday, but when I got home saw that it also has sage oil in it - and I've heard that sage is a herb that can cause uterine contractions, so best to stay away from it during pregnancy! Argh! Did I waste $20? I don't know if I want to use it now!

I think I'll get some progesterone testing done next cycle if this one is a bust.It'd be better if I know for sure. I have a 12 day LP, no spotting, but my temp does drop about 3 days before AF and that can indicate LP defect (I think I might read far too much!)

Hippy is the dodgy tummy feeling better? I think it shows true dedication to go ahead and SWI when you both felt a bit unwell! True Grit!!

Much - sorry to hear of your family bereavement.

I must run - have to do the taxi service to school today.Usually DH does it on his way to work, but he's still on camp.

Oh Deige - I won't be at the bistro tonight - have got a harbour cruise hen's night - will be such fun, but don't know if I'll drink much.Maybe one glass of champas. I'm 4 dpo today.

I was wearing it early to ensure a good result later - it worked . I did think that the boys might wonder why mum was wearing a vest top with her jeans in the middle of Feb - just shows they don't take much notice.

DS2 was spectacularly sick at 2.30am The poor thing didn't get much warning and was sick on the floor between the bed and the door hence he ended up trapped in the room and unable to get to the bathroom. DH passed a bowl over the sick (sorry if you're eating). Unfortunately the bowl he passed had been in the bathroom and was full of the little spacers he's using to apply the tiles to the wall. So a bowl of sick with plastic spacers floating in it - DH joked, "Who fed him those?" Ha Ha.

So DS2 is ill AGAIN and has to miss the school disco tonight and DH needs to go to B&Q for more tile spacers.

I had chronic heartburn (so i defo was ovulating) and had to bend over and clear up some stinky sick - Is Anyone ??? ANYONE??

gum I'm sure your progesterone is fine. You got preg and sustained it for weeks - all signs of good progesterone.

I know you love your suppliments but would be wary of the yam thing. I've read it's not a good idea (I think ) Check it all out with your doc won't you?

diege so glad to hear you are nearly back in the real world. (the real world being here in cyber space )

I'm off for some toast and - gotta eat in secret so DS2 doesn't see me and start asking for food - not a good plan right now!

oh what a lovely night you had "hippy" !

It's very useful having ov pains isn't it? I wish I did. One of the main signs I get is that I start fancying random men on the train on the way to work. That happened today, so I'm guesing Ov is not far way now, but no smiley face yet. (our bodies are very clever aren't they? I also worked out that even without swi in mind I start wearing skimpier clothes and feeling like I'm some kind of goddess at that time of month - I'm not looking foward to the menopause in that respect).

we shredded last night, will be swi tonight (dh can't manage both bless him!).

who's the closest to testing now?