We are all jolly well going to get preggers this month in a nonchalant non-psycho way, and hang onto it, and there will be no brooking of any argument whatsoever!

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Welcome across Rat Smackers! Glad you found the place okay. This is THE MONTH when we get those deceitful pee sticks to own up to the BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS - we are all already preggers! After all; positive people get positive pee sticks!

I hope you all like what I've done with our new home

You'll note the updated title, courtesy of farfalla. Various healthy snacks have been set out on the coffee tables, to ensure our bumps are receiving the appropriate nutritional balance

Also, my personal favourite adjustment, you'll note the strategically positioned peephole, right here, providing us with a sneaky preview of the utopian delights awaiting us in the NO BROOKING vomitorium ante-natal thread.

So let's get to it preggos! Remember: see a rat - smack it!

LOL Dream! She'll get the hang of it soon. My DD didn't want to crawl either and did a lot of cruising as well as occasional death wish walking before she was ready (resulting in scary falls). She eventually gave in to crawling for a month or so before proper walking at 11 months. She quickly got more steady on her feet and it's great when you can rely on them to walk or run in a reasonably sensible fashion and not risk death with every step. Anyway, you'll have a big bump soon and be unable to stoop down, so it should all work out beautifully.

I'm feeling the need to shake my fists and shout 'I'm brooking no bloody arguement this month'
Does anyone else feel so over ttc and now just want a baby? I've done ttc, more in the last 15 months than possibly ever before in my life. I now just need to be pregnant. I want a nice bump by Christmas time that I can swathe in sumptious knitted fabrics and wraps and to give birth at the end of spring/ beginning of a lovely warm (but not too hot) summer and then waft about being motherly for a while.

Oh Ninja that's exactly the way I feel too. I've not strictly been ttc for very long, but with a MMC and then ongoing ladies' problems, I am more than ready to be pregnant now and have a healthy baby in April (seeing as I'm brooking no argument for this month). I too have had the bump-by-Christmas fantasies and seeing as we are preggo this month, we will have nice 5 month bumps - enough to show off in lovely maternity winter wear, but we won't have reached the tired, just want it over stage. Perfect.

Snap. I have also not strictly been ttc that long, but it feels like forever anyway. and as I have grandparents who live 50 miles away doing 100 mile round trips for me going back to work in oct, i need to get upduffed RIGHT NOW or i'll have to start looking at nurseries soon... they will do it temporarily, and i really, really, really want to get upduffed so i can say 'oh go on, its only another X months' and then i shall race around being a frazzled mother of 2, but most importantly not miss DD too much...

I'm joining in with the daydream, I don't care if i'm frazzeld beyond belief, I want to win a baybee!!!!!!!!!
And yes generic a 5 month bump at christmas would be lovely, not too big to get in the way, you could still eat a decent christmas dinner and when you gave birth in april it wouldn't be too hot and sweaty. I think its about perfect. And I don't have many birthdays in April so that would be good to spread it out a bit.

Is it wrong that I have compiled a list of baby names on my phone?

Ninja - yes.

We've been at it 11 months, which isn't that long really, but it feels like long enough some days.

I think I have imagined myself pg so many times, but may join you in a wee daydream too.

Imaginary Soon to be confirmed baby no 2 will definitely be as lovely as DS, but also enjoy sleeping more at night and maybe even decide to arrive via the proper exit, rather than hiding and having to be extricated

Strangely the thing I am most looking forward to is not panicking as much as last time. Nappy changing and feeding aren't so daunting, so I feel like I'd enjoy things a bit better, even if I did need a CS again. DS's first few months are somewhat of a blur which I wouldn't like to repeat.

mine didn't crawl properly till he was nearly 1 dream - just did his commando baby thing. He was pretty quick at it as well by then...

He runs now. Into walls and stuff. We've had a minor injuries clinic visit already too after he fell on his face :( Made bf and thumb sucking really hard for him so he was really hard to settle.

Nope Ninja - I've got a girls name picked out this time, but will be snookered for boy's names again.

oh, great idea ninja, that positivity means this month is your month!!!!

I was trying to persuade dh into liking sebastian the other day. he thinks its posh, but i just think its a good old fashioned english name. And this baby isn't conceived yet! oh no, it is sorry, just awaiting my bfp...

I could eat for 3 at least at xmas with a 5 month bump... oh come on body, come on!!!

On this thread we are DONE with waiting, we are BROOKING NO ARGUMENT and NEED to be preggers now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry ninja, i'm tired today, when are you confirming?? (i know the shagathon is just beginning in your household but best get planning now)

Sebastian sounds nice dream

Some people think our DS's name is a posh boy's name, but I've never met a posh one up here.

COME ON BFPs!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not wrong at all Ninja I was compiling my list earlier today. Both my preferred boy and girl names are in the top 10 and DS's name is now in the top 20 so I was trying to find something I'd not considered before. Not too unusual but not so popular it'll be one of 2 in class. Very difficult and I've concluded that the reason they're popular is that they're the nicest names!

I'm with you wanting a 5 month bump at Christmas. I know how pathetic it sounds to say the timing would be perfect when all I really want is a baby and I don't care when, but it really would be perfect. We've been trying since last October but what with having 2 MCs since then it's not just getting pregnant I've got to worry about. Keeping it safe, healthy and where it should be will be the next hurdle....

Tis this bloody awful 2ww business, gets me every time.

jaggy, i'm looking forward to knowing what to do more- i just did not know what kind of thing to do for my 'routine' when people would cuddle DD and wisely say 'oh, babies love routine, they do need it'. Though from 3 months i felt much more confident. Boys names are harder, much harder...

scarlett, chant away! And go with that positive visualisation, your body can clearly do it ( so WHY is it being so slow off the mark to do as you're instructing?!). That's what I keep saying to mine anyway...

I agree the timing would be perfect- we DO NOT want July or August babies, far too late in the school year, statistically they struggle. And we do not want our babies to have any extra struggles. Therefore, we'll all have our bfp's right now please for happy, not-too-young-at-school children

I don't get to confirm until the end of august, probably 29th?

I only have a couple of boys names picked out this time but loads of girls ones. Good thing ds wasn't a girl as we had one boys name picked and a couple of middle names and that was it. We'd have been totally stuck.

Ooh we'll be radiant and glowing at christmas, imagine the lovely family photos....sigh...

its soooooo going to happen this month!

jaggy I totally get what you mean about wanting to enjoy things more second time around. I mean, I know I'll be sleep deprivated and sore but my goodness surely it won't be as much as a shock to the system as DC1?

I was zombified for weeks and really regret now that I didn't appreciate at the time that it was only temporary and try to enjoy it more. I'd like to be more relaxed next this time and take things in my stride a bit more. Too many well-meaning relatives on DH's side telling me what I should/shouldn't be doing and tears when they'd gone because I thought they thought I was rubbish. If only I could go back and tell myself I was doing a good job and to ignore all the "if baby wants to BF constantly for 8 hours through the night that's what you've got to do" advice.

I second and third the whole being more relaxed second time around thing, it was a blur the first couple of months. I now know how to change a nappy/ not guilt trip myself to tears about failing at bf/ clean up all types of poo, sick, dribble, wee and other stuff/ not worry so much about what type of cry a baby is doing and therefore what the hell does it want!
Raises a glass of to all our bfp's! We are soo pregnant!

Cheers Ninja and everyone else. Here's to brooking no argument. Can't wait for the next BFP.

now wheres my ramekin.....

of course you can't scarlett, because it will be yours! (and generic's, followed rapidly afterwards by mine) Though if i'd bought cheapie pee sticks i'd have joined you at that price!!! As it is, i think i will shell out a FR or CBD if no af by next weekend to confirm my already blindingly obvious pregnancy

dh, the pig, says he thinks i'm premenstrual. I'm SO not, i better bloody hadn't be earliest af could come is fri i'm just fed up after being in all day bar literally 30 min entertaining Her Ladyship....

you could be premenstrual dream, just 9 months early

oh no, bad news, think i'm out.... spotting. maybe dh is right and it is pmt... would be a 26 or 27 day cycle. argh

Am I imagining that I have had tingly nipples and feeling a bit off all day????? Also got a lot of cramping going on in my right ovary and weird sensation going down into my thigh? WTF is that?

Is 7dpo too early for symptons such as this? I can't remember when it kicked in previously.

I wish I knew if it was all in my head or really happening. Weeks usually fly by but this just feels like time is standing still. Please someone come and put things in perspective for me, I feel like I'm cracking up!

I know, I'll open some help calm my nerves.

Oh no dream cross posts there. I'm so sorry to hear you've started spotting. Are you sure (stupid question I know, but sometimes I think I have but then I haven't after all) Could be implantation bleed? You weren't sure when you ovulated so it's possible.

Dream I'm with Scarlet, it could be implantation as you think you only ov'd recently don't you? Stay strong.

Scarlet I am going just as loopy as you. I've felt weird, a bit nauseous and had sore boobs all day and am now totally convinced I'm knocked up but at most I am about 11 dpo (probably more like 9 or 10, not actually sure when I laid The Egg). I am determined not to confirm until next Weds, assuming AF not due on Sun/Mon.

Crikey, this is hard

at poor effort re cakes. "I've made some chocolate cornflake cakes today, help yourself Generic"

Any update have?