Shandy, I am so sorry for your loss. Take time to grieve your little one.
Deige, sorry to hear you've been feeling poorly. Happy Birthday. I hope you have a lovely relaxed time in Whitby. I just googled it and it looks very nice. Enjoy.
10000 - how are you? Any little signs at all?
Italian, I think that TV show would have made me cranky too. I would really like to hear some feel good positive stuff about women in their forties who have had babies. I know it is important to remind people that our egg reserve and quality will lessen over time, but as you said, we don't necessarily know how our circumstances will play out. In my case, if you's told me at 24, when I had my first, that I'd still be ttc in my 40's, hoping for 6 kids I would have thought you were bonkers. I thought I'd have two or three. It wasn't til I'd had three that I wanted one more, and then it wasn't til I was 38 that I realized I really wanted a large family.
You must be getting very close to starting your treatment Italian? DId you say it would clash with your holiday? Where are you planning to go? I'm excited about you starting treatment .
BTW, I have looked into the trying for a girl thing and there are two ways of looking at it: SWI a few days before ovulation, stopping about two days before (I think), but another lady who had 5 boys (whilst trying that approach) swears the only way is to have swi after ovulation. I would have thought that would be leaving it too late, but she wrote a book I think.Sorry, can't tell you what it is called. I remember one of the forty something ladies trying for a girl (and she got one) using the Shettles method. I can't remember her nick-name. But I bet if you started a thread on MN you'd get plenty of response. I have two girls, but I don't recall doing anything differently to when I got my boys.
I spent all morning the other day helping my sister and aunties book flights to London. My uncle lives there somewhere (I have no idea where). Anyway, we finally found a flight that suited them all, it is British Airways, so I booked it. Then I get an email from my aunt saying how she was annoyed that BA worked in conjunction with Qantas and she "Just prays they get there and back alive"! No thanks for taking up your morning doing the booking! And it isn't even a qantas plane, it's BA. Stupid woman! Anyway, my sister thinks she'll do her own thing a bit. She's there for two weeks, then onto Italy. So what are the must visit places in London and nearby? She's going in October - will it be cold? I wish I was coming too and could meet some of my feisty forty-somethings friends.
I'm doing a lot of wavering -because my symptoms come and go - I worry as soon as I can't feel any breast tenderness, nausea etc. It is an anxious time, and I know there's nothing that can be done, I just have to try to enjoy this time and hope to make it to 12 weeks and then, of course, beyond. Any suggestions to help me stay sane?