Shh! Don't tell anyone, but the whisky-sodden, foulmouthed, Silk Cut smoking, 30 something etc TTCers are hiding from babydust under a mound of wine bottles - come & join us!

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And there we go...

Shiny, winy (but never whiny) new thread!

Come on in then, settle down and pass the gin. No baby dust, no huns and no fecking glue, just lethal combinations of dodgy duty free and the confidence to use the word PERIOD required.

I have had a quick scan through a few posts to try to get to know you lovely ladies.
Desperate I hope you aren't sick to the ginnels with people telling you stuff like this but just in case it is a good thing for you to hear...
My sisters' friend had 3 dcs and all were conceived and born in her 40's. So I think it is worth some tiredness, and I'm impressed you cou;d rustle up some sexyness at that time of night - you are more of a siren than me!

HOW mature is mature???

Getting jiggy is a big wake up for me. He, of course, being of the male persuasion, falls asleep afterwards almost instantly. Me? Well, it's like a big ole caffeine injection! So sex late at night for me is generally a no no LOL!

Well Mr. Desperate and I have been together long enough now for the "I want to jump you every minute of the day to have worn off" (well, for normal people...). Unfortunately, I ain't normal, so I still want to jump him every minute of the day - sad, but true

I've managed to have two chemical pregnancies in the last 6 months, the last one was over Xmas...and, like you, I had the period from HELL when the bitch arrived. So I've got another appointment with my GP next Monday where I shall throw my toys out of the pram until they give me some proper help. Gah! STILL prevaricating as you can see

Thanks Snow - we cross posted. Well it wasn't so much a case of rustling up sexyness, as just jumping on the poor guy! Bwahahahaha...

weeelllll please don't shoot me but I'm a whippersnapper of 35... but 36 in one month. I can still claim mid-30's though so will skulk back off to the immature corner.
I'm jealous of your high sex drive - just exactly what is sad about that?

think I am far more staid and stolid. oh dear poor dh. We too have been together way past honeymoon (10+years)
Think many GPs expect their patients to doff the cap of respect and gratitude. Maybe go in armed with research on where you are at and what you want and why that's a good idea. Slap it down on the table and challenge GP to fob you off again.

x-post again. :)

Bet he didn't put up tooo much of a fight... unless that's your thang of course.

actually I don't think we do too bad on the lust front but certainly more in the normal range than you describe!

He should be grateful I take my medication (most of the time), cos when I was manic, my sex drive was waaaaaaaay more than anyone could or would want to handle! I'm just on the "slightly over the top" side of normal now (ish!).

I've got all the stuff I need printed out, and for good measure, I did a letter of complaint about the woman I saw last week who fobbed me off with "just take folic acid and keep trying" (at 44). What a trout she was!

Don't knock being 35/36! Although if you get knocked up, they still call you a 'geriatric mother'. How insulting is that? At my age they probably call you a 'mummified mother'

Hope the prevaricating is going well. I knocked off for lunch! Not sure what the netiquette is as new to this whole malarky so maybe I should say bye? But that would make for a dull post in the thread?
A mummified mother! like that!

Glad you aren't going to take the gp advice lying down unlike the rest of the ttc process

How long have you been trying for? :)

The prevaricating is going swimmingly thanks (though I keep hoping Mr. Desperate's swimmers are going better than my prevaricating IYSWIM ). Stupid thing is, the busier I am, the more I prevaricate...I just can't be arsed.

No need to say bye...while all was quiet, I (you may wish to sit down for this...) actually did some work! LOL

Been trying for about a year, getting a bit fed up now with nothing happening. Anyhow, will pester the doctor and give them a hard time until they help me get knocked up. Still, all the 'practising' is SUCH a trial hahahahaha....

GASPS

OOOO yes! I know about that. my jobs list is hoooge.

If I was your doc I would jump all over it to at least rule out ishoos with swimmers and eggs etc then if all looked fine tell you to relax. hmmm

isn't 1 year the magic 'lets sit up and take notice' threshold for docs? Lets hope so - and doc can't blame friday feeling for being pants, monday is the up-and-at-'em day.

I do have one concern however - I found one thing about being preggers (I have 1 ttc 2nd) was it made me extra-horny, something to do with all the extra blood-flow down-there - if that happens to you y'might just kill Mr Desp with your love-machine and your lo will be semi-orphaned before you even begin

Extra horny? Blimey, I think Mr. Desperate might have something to say about that!

Yup, in fact 6 months is supposed to be the cut off for aged women such as myself, but I thought I'd give it a bit longer due to general ineptitude on my part...

Sorry about the w-word...I shall endeavour not to use it again!

general ineptitude??!! - you sound like a pro-fumbler!

Hahahaha...well it was the whole, "am I ovulating yet?" "what about now?" "and now?". So I invested in some sticks to pee on, and now at least I know when I am...thing is, it was when I thought I was, so technically, we have actually been trying for a year. Aaaaargh!

Yes I'm pretty sure ovulation happens whether you supervise it or no therefore all your yearlong rumpypumpy defo counts! Good grief love - your doc owes you 6months worth of close care and attention!!!!

Hahahaha...fair enough. Except DP works such long hours, I have to 'schedule' the shagging as much as possible so as not to kill the poor chap!

Well, none of the doctors at that particular surgery seem to be any good as yet, and I've seen 4 different ones over the course of the last 2 years. All shite!

How hard is it to switch surgeries where you live? I have finally found one who employs some non-numpty doctors but soooo many are just poor and have far too high an opinion of themselves.

ahhhh I see, the schedule needs to consider rota and egg, hence needs skill. Hmm. Tricky one.
Well, I saw programme on BBC called something like 'the amazing human body" and one of the episodes was showing the latest cutting edge info on fertilisation. (Sadly it has now been removed from iplayer which is pity cos it was suuperrrrb). Anyway they have recently discovered that sperm which is arriving too early go into 'hibernation' in the fallopian tube and then when ovulation occurs some hormoney type enzymey thing 'wakes' them up to meet the egg. So even a bonk too 'early' increases your chance of conception. It was a revelation to me tho' i am happy to be told this was old news to anyone else and I should just go back under my rock.

hello my lovelies! hello to the newbies! Nice to see some new faces, now hand over yer gin...

jewels it ain't over till the fat lady sings? Has she sung yet??? I got consistent nos until 15DPO???

I have zero news to report and a GIANT workload hence my lack of posting this week - my boss is such a turdburger.

fish/jars where the bloody hell are you???

right, who want's some wine, I'm bloody gagging....

Wino...dahling! How are ye? (Apart from suffocating under a giant workload). I SHOULD be having one of those, but I just can't be arsed with any of it at the moment. I have MASSIVE motivation issues. I basically don't have any!

Bit rude to frisk the newbies for their gin as soon as you sashay in dearest...

Wine would be lovely (tequila would be better!), but I'm having to make do with a cup of tea at the minute. I really need to win the fucking lottery. This working lark ain't all it's cracked up to be!

The fat lady is currently singing all over my sodding knickers.

Since my ERPC it?s been like a massacre every month. Slow coming (so I secretly get my hopes up every month, particularly this month because I really wanted to be pregnant again before the date that would have been my due date) and then maaaan, it really goes for it. Normal sanitaryware is thwarted in minutes.

We?re all class here.

I already have my ultrasound appt for mid Feb though, so hopefully they?ll be able to work out if anything?s actually awry there. And I can get my day 3 bloods done on Fri. Come on, FSH!

That's OK ladies - brought the gin for sharing, provided you don't mind I am providing non-diet tonic only, to go with it. Can't stand the skinny stuff.

Feeling optimistic today cos it feels all spring-like out there so despite all reasons to the contrary I'm in a great mood.

Turdburger - I looked it up:
"noun close relative of turd-burglar but comes flame-grilled as so many associates like to give it a good roasting due to lack of relish."

Waves back to jewels and wino.

Hi everyone! Sorry I've been AWOL. Am having shit time at work and I'm totally knackered in the evenings and at weekends (I don't think I'm getting a second trimester, just a double-length first one). Still, the proto-fish is already giving me a few kicks so that's all good. Consultant appointment tomorrow where we will no doubt discuss the grimness that is the possibility of pre-eclampsia recurrence.

Welcome beetle. You're the age I was when I had DS (currently my one and only). The phrase used on my notes was "elderly primigravida", I seem to recall. They seem a bit more polite now that I am knocked up again at age 38!

Wino sweetheart, I'm sorry to hear about your GP. The caaah. The lovely jewels has given some good advice. Pester, pester!

Jewels, I had a mysteriously mega period some months ago (before ERPC) and ended up using one of DS's nappies during the night - held in place by massive pants. It worked a treat. I commend this action to the house.

Right: here's some Scotch Bonnet chilli vodka, iced. Fill yer boots.

I will remember the nappy trick - for all my dying days and not cos I need it particularly but just for the sheer ingenuity!

Well, when not even leftover maternity pads are doing the biz, one has to do SOMETHING! Mind you, twas grim when I got up in the morning....