Feisty Fabulous Forty somethings - part 2

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woohoo over here

oh yes Hippy i really want those

Yeh BB we are full of optimism for this month.FEB is our month.

Hippy no probs i ll diagnose regularly for a fee!!!!! I ll start my private practice here i think!!!!

Oh Jolls I hope your son is better soonXXX Hopefully you ll have swi enough for this month and it ll be a nice birthday pressie in light of a bfp for you!!1

BB shredding sounds good .I might have to look in to it.Oh, i see about the au pair!!!!

With Georgie we were going to have put her in to full time creche care at £650 per momth.Its not cheap is it???

Curly we too, do the egg meets sperm plan!!! Did with Georgie also and obviuously got brillant results with that .Will be doing that again asap swi from cd8.

Oh, been out had 3 glasses of rose!!!! HIc!!!! Nice.Told Ant get used to this but soon i ll be on the diet coke at the pub and i ll LOVE it!!!

blimey, go away for a couple of days and you all move!

Love to all.

yes Lou I pay my au pair £90 a week and do pay for nursery for ds2 too 3 days a week, but still the most cost efficient childcare for 5 children. New au Pair is fantastic and children love her. I do wish she would stop baking cakes though...

still cramping here and no af. I didn't test this morning as I needed to pee at 5am and did it quickly before I got the stick out. Will test tomorrow though if no af and then stop the progesterone if there is a negative.

I would like to do the SMEP too, but will have to talk to dh.

Hi all AF arrived this morning! Almost 6 months to the day! I am delighted.

Lou well done on raising so much money for your charity in Georgie's memory, what a lovely tribute to her. and to her.

You have all written so much I can't keep up! I have not ordered in the bistro but we are having real Thai curry tonight so no worries!

Hi Italian am very proud of how much money Georgie raised.Its a fitting testament to my darling girl that she was loved so ver much[and still is].Of course of all the people who contributed including my sister,s colleagues,sergents etc.....The only person who didn t give a penny was my MIL.This was the main reason for our big fall out over xmas and is the reason i ll never talk to her again.The old witch.

Phewee....Anyway!!!!

Yeh on AF.....I m telling you FEB is our month.We re all good to go , well kind of!!!! What happens now then Italian whats your next step?

BB your au pair sounds fab with her baking..

smep is good i like it .I think its having a structure that helps.Still not out yet????

Hope everyone is ok?

Yay for italian what great news for you. So do you think it has anything to do with your thyroid medication and what happens from here on? lou has been speading her positive vibes and I believe February will be a good month for at least one of us on here.

hi all, no not out yet...

but think maybe progesterone is stopping me spotting when I normally would be. which is good i suppose if I eventually do fall pg.

dh read my post before and has suggested doing the smep next time too. I hope some of the intensive swi falls at the weekend though!

have been to gymboree today - ds2 loves it. We go alot! It isn't my favourite way to spend a saturday. Now got Grazia and a coffee for half an hour or so.

hippy any signs?? of anything?

BB the square of the church hill? On a Sat? are you mad?

BFN this morning - surprise surprise. The spotting has turned red so hope AF is coming soon. How strange italian - the need to all menstrate at the same time is soo strong we even made your AF come back.

Managed a quick SWOI this morning (before the spotting increased) - so the old man is happy and doesn't feel like I only want him when I'm ov'ing - .

italian you cannot order food on a Saturday - have you not read the sign on the Bistro door?????

Oh blimey, I might have to try the SMEP too. If I'm gonna give up trying soon I might as well go all out. And it does come highly recommended.

Is it too early for a ???

oh yes jolls grim indeed. ds loves it there. every day he asks if he can go.

(on the plus side I did manage to pop into Zara and it was empty - of course it blmmin was they were all in gymboree!).

Aye aye!!

Found you! Just a very quick one from me. I've decided to shell out on the smiley faces kit, but I'll use them to help me interpret the normal lined sticks too.

Lou I'm getting it from amazon, can you buy smiley face refill strips or do you have to keep buying the kit when you run out of sticks? I couldn't find any replacements on amazon .

Am still trying to keep up with you lot and I missed the Bistro last night. Seems like you had a great time. I'm particularly gutted that I wasn't part of the dancing. I quite like to rock out when I've had a good ole V&T. Ah well, next time!

I'll be back for a proper catch up. Sending you all good vibes! x

BB we haven't been, though I've been inside, my best friend with older childen loved it. As a former retailer I try and avoid the square tbh!! Prefer B&HGym and ZT for bouncing about :)

No bouncing at the moment though, DS still under the weather, he slept on and off most of the day :(. Watery eyes, runny nose, and very lethargic. Temp dropped though. But he's never been ill this long, it's very disconcerting.

Hippy sorry about the BFN. V impressed at the SWOI though! SFF, what's that about??!!

Italian what welcome news - you must be relieved.

Can't help but feel a bit left out of this synchronised group cycle ... .

Off to bed soon, exhausting work this nursing lark. x

No idea why, could be thyroid, or just the influence of the sngug! Spooky!

I'm gonna have to try the SMEP? what is it and where do I get these OPKs (and what is an OPK??).

Love to all.

PS How many of us are actually on our af at the moment???

You, me, lou diege, possibly gum and think hippy nearly there? The SMEP is:
"curly have you seen the Sperm Meets Egg Plan??

Maybe it's time for hard core....

(not for the faint hearted, basically you swi every other day from the end of your period or day 8 (I can't remember which) until you get a positive on an opk. and then you swi for 3 days running. Miss a day, and then swi one more time). My dh would faint at this, but Tank and others have had success with this. )" suggested by BB.

Re the OPK - ovulation predictor kits, from what I gather you can either get cheapy ones (sticks you pee on aka poas) off Ebay, Access Diagnostics or Homehealth UK and or the more expensive ones that show a smiley face instead of a line (cheapy ones) to confirm that you're about to and/or you are ovulating. Anyone please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, would hate to give out incorrect info.

Jolls hope your ds gets better soon.

Curly sounds exciting, must give it a go.

Count me in! AF finished a couple of days ago, and already I've managed a couple of SWOI's. THing is, because my DH is completely in the dark, he thinks every time is SWI. Perhaps I'll tell him the fertile window is over before it starts so he'll be more relaxed and think I'm hot for him...I am most of the time anyway, but YKWIM?At least there has been no more talk of pulling out or condoms, thank goodness.

Anyhow, Italian that is GREAT news about the return of AF. SO pleased for you! Get some ovulation predictor sticks so you can catch the next egg.I use the cheapie ones off ebay, and they seem fine, but I don't always catch the surge - I think it is because they say test in the afternoon/evening and my surge is usually in the morning. I often have ovary pain, then I test and it is usually positive.So I do waste many tests testing morning and afternoon. It's all for a good cause though!

BB, any more news on the testing front? Hippy, how about you, is RTD here? Do you feel okay about it? You seem to be in a really settled place about TTC.

Jolls, sorry to hear your LO has been so ill. I hope he is on the mend soon. He must be very close in age to my DS? My DS had his 2nd birthday in August.

I can't believe how easy the weaning has been. He's hardly asked for it at all. It really was time, and it makes me feel better about getting pregnant. I found it quite hard to keep BFing DS and got so irritable about it.

Lou, well done on raising so much money with Georgie's charity. What a lovely thing to do. And at your MIL. The way some family members behave is unbelievable. I read Susan's blog yesterday and it was about her parents. Bloody mind-boggling. It's here

Yes Curly thats it!!! We swi every 2 days from cd8,start opk testing on cd10 but we ALL know i ll be testing from about oh now!!!! .Then bd every other day to pos on opk then 3 nights,night off then one last go!!!!

OMG we are ALL going to be up duffed with the smep this month!!!!!

Its a growing group our cycle buddies isn t it?

Italian come join us I get my smiley face opks from Amazon currently £29.99 for 20 tests.

Nicole Hi ....We re look foreward to your "bopping" next week!!! No, its a swiz but you can t buy the applicator.Every month you have to buy the pack with it all!!!! [they certainly know how to make money out of us lot!!!]

Jolls hope your son gets better soon.X

BB oh i have a little feeling for you.My fingers are so tightly crossed they re dropping off!!!! Good luck XXXX

Hippy smep, smep,smep!!!! I sound like i bloody work for "it" !!!!

Hope Much is swi while we talk!!!

Hi Gum and everyone else.Diege XXX

Just seen "Black swan" anyone seen it? ok a bit odd....

Af tapering off.Good.Like it when its ending.Now the fun starts.I m in dh good books as let him have loads of x box time to keep "relations" in harmony for the next 2 weeks.1 good turn deserves another.[whoever said marriage wasn t a bargaining relationship!!!]

X posts Gum .Glad all has settled with dh.All looks good for you this month.

I m going to keep spreading my positive vibes as they seem to be working.

Thanks about Georgie's charity.She did very,very well.As for mil well shes the one suffering and missing out.

Anyhow i m not wasting any energy on her.

Chink,chink

bfn for me this morning - not unexpected, and I feel ok, just sad.

so I am going to stop the progesterone I think, even though the dr said my af would come anyway - I want it to come as quickly as possible. I'll also have the consultation with scary clinic boss and see what she suggests.

Gum glad you and dh have reached an understanding of sorts. Good luck to everyone this Feb. March is more my month - 2 of my dcs have January birthdays (poor things).

Still shredding away here, 5lb down in one week v pleased. Today I have to go into work for a bit, but will be shredding again later on. I am also dabbling with the dukan diet after someone at work told me how well it worked for her sister. Have been eating meat and fat free yoghurt for the last 3 days which isn't pleasant, but has had results.

Whose up for testing next? muchlove?

jolls what's ZT? (couldn't work it out!). My girls like to go to B&HG, but ds hasn't really gone recently.

BB ZT is soft play behind Hove Station (so not that far from you I would have thought?), you know in that stretch between Newtown Rd and the railway line? £3.95 for 90 mins. Small cafe. DS loves it.

Such sad news about Amanda Holden; to go through that must be terrible, but in the public eye must be extra hard :(.

Hope all is ok with everyone.

Morning All

Yes LOU I have been SWIing like a bastard have completed my SMEP for this month....
Feel a bit isolated on my cycle with you lot all in sync... Oh dear its gonna be messy this 'shagfest' that's coming up...I will be coming up to testing whilst you lot will be in the throws of passion ......
BB Sorry bout the BFN sweet but at least you know all is okay inside and its just a matter of time until......

I gotta theory on timing (for me personally) I think for me to achieve PGncy I have to dtd on day of OV and day after.....I dont think the sperm can hang around in me long (as they did when I was younger) so may have to just go for that nxt month ..... Do any of you remember your timings for your PGncys

ITALIAN Yay for AF - you back in the race girrrrl......

LOU Lovely story about Georgie girl.....your MIL sounds like a total 'twit' but as you say it's her loss [she gotta live with herself] x

Now its my nightoff tonight and have to give it another bash tomorrow......phew.......

Love to you all xxxxx

Poor,Poor Amanda Holden. feel very sorry for her.The only silver linning i can see , selfishly, is hopefully in time she will talk about her experience and late mcs/stillbirth will be out there.

Evens out really in a horrible kind of way!!! Earlier in the day i was chuntering to Ant about posh "yes, of course shes having a girl!!!Why wouldn t she????? She lives a wonderful life and gets everything she wants......blah,blah,blah..." Then this happens.Wonder if she ll post on MN at some point????

Hi Much well done you XXX
I think when i concieved Georgie we swi the day before ovulation and the day after

BB Sorry...X Can t believe you re loosing so much weight.Well done.Fabulous XXXXX

Hi Jolls and Hippy and Italian and Gum hope you re all well.XXX

Off for a bit of swimming then a nice chicken dinner i think.Yummy X