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So here is our new home, hope you all like it!

Only since September Generic although it took me nearly a year to convince DH to start. Plus I came off the pill in January and we used the withdrawal method for months and every cylce I hoped. Still I do appreciate it's not long really. I tell myself it doesn't matter if it takes months but then so many people I know in real life get PG instantly and I get a bit down. I feel that my mum is always expecting news too and quite often starts a converstaion with 'So ... how's it going?'

I think I need a Stern Talking To now.

My glands are uo. Is that a symptom?

Oh yes bartlet will know :)

Golden sounds like you've had a long wait. I know what you mean about other people getting pregnant instantly - always seems that way. Have you been to see the doctor as it's been nearly a year now? Sorry if I've missed all this detail. Having said all that - glands could well be a symptom!

Sorry Generic that should have said only since May! Don't know why I wrote September (probably because it is September). So hopefully not ready for the doctors for a good while yet. Thanks for your kind post though :)

Oh well in that case, you have nothing to worry about and will be up the duff in no time! You won't be needing the doctor - well only to tell him/her that you're pregnant and need to be referred for a scan!

Yes Generic I have also just given myself a stern talking to - I will be confirming the obvious at the end of the week! No symptoms today although a little crampy feeling on the right hand side this evening.

Regarding the uterus/womb difference I thought they were the same thing too and have just asked my DH who is a medic and he has said that womb is just the lay-mans term for uterus, so there you go.

Golden I have been ttcing for about 17months now, so have told a few people in RL but that has only happened in the last 4months or so, they include my brother & SIL, sister and two really good friends, but I think most of the people we know just assume we are. I don't mind that now but initially I did feel the pressure, perhaps the lapse in time has made that easier to deal with but then I think I put pressure on myself more than anyone else does!!! Some people have just come straight out and asked me and that's been quite hard but they have been people who have had issues themselves and have told me their stories and given advice which has been really nice actually! Anyway, glands is surely a symptom!

Hello! Just a quick visit to say "hello" - it's waaaaay past my bedtime - have been at IKEA tonight and just watched James Martin's Operation Hospital Food (or whatever it's called) on iPlayer. Lovely way to spend an evening!

Late - BOOOO poor you! I will send extra brooking no vibes your way to ward off the evil cystitis. That cow is of the same ilk as AF and has no place in your life.

Right, bed beckons. Night!

Not been around for a few days and not had time yet to read through properly as there's too much. You lot don't stop talking.

Generic cycle buddy, really sorry to hear AF turned up. A June baby will be lovely though.

Any of you guys seen Scream lately? I noticed she's not posted on either thread since Saturday morning. Hope everything's ok Scream

I'm on countdown to my 8 week scan now which is a week today. I was 7 weeks on Monday. Still only told 1 friend, it's actually getting easier to keep it secret than harder. The longer I go without saying anything the less I want to say anything.

Morning All

Sorry AF got you Generic Welcome to the June bug club. It's the place to be!

Not long till your scan now Scarlet

Is Scream busy with her exams? I remember her saying she had a couple more to go.

Golden we don't really talk about it in real life either, seems to make things even more complicated! Our parents and siblings know we are, but it doesn't really ever get mentioned. But I quite like it like that. Feels like there is a little less pressure that way.

How is everyone? Any exciting news to report?

Thanks Scarlet and great that you have a scan next week - I really hope everything goes well - let us know, won't you?

Ta Maybe as well. The June bug club is certainly growing and it'll be great when we're all sunning ourselves on our maternity leave with our lil June bugs sleeping soundly next to us - aaaah!

Hope Scream is just busy with exams.

I've just eaten an entire garlic bread, and now I honk. Not sure we'll be SWI tonight after all. Didn't think that through, really, did I? Whoops.

Surely the trick Sn0w is to make sure DH has something garlicy for tea too - then it's all square?

Yes........ I was planning on pouncing on him when he gets home from work, maybe I can just hold my breath?!

A garlic bread appetiser as he comes through the door to give him the necessary strength to perform his duties?

You never know Sn0w - perhaps breathing garlic fumes on the rat will be as effective as smacking the rat :)

Yes, hope all's well Scream if you're out there - do let us know how things are going.

Wowzers, only a week to go until your scan Scarlet - that's really flown by!

I've only told one friend in RL that we're TTC and I'm sort of wishing I hadn't tbh. It's almost all she wants to talk about now, and because she's been trying for ages and thinks that I've only just come off the pill, she's trying to impart her TTC wisdom on me at every available opportunity - telling me how I'm going to feel about it, how long it's likely to take me (?!), that I should get as drunk as possible while I still can, that when I do get pregnant I should tell everyone asap so that they can support me if things go wrong, what buggy I should be looking at to buy, that when I have had the baby I should use a bottle rather than breast feed so that I can get drunk without worrying about it (), etc etc etc. All in all, she's being a bit too know-it-all and bossy for my liking. Hey ho, I'm sure it'll all die down - I've only really just told her. I think I'll carry on humouring her and changing the subject for the time being.

Oooh, I could well go some macaroni and cheese right now - this must surely me that I'm deffo up the duff too. Hurrah!

That's my lunch decided then - macaroni and cheese! And since I am pee stick endorsed, it MUST be a sign :)

How frustrating for your friend to be so know it all about it Imps - you are very patient to keep humouring her!

Hello all

Good luck with the SWI sn0w cycle buddy my opk was negative again today and I was supposed to ov yesterday. I think perhaps they do lie little rascals.

imps I have also told one rl friend who asks about it ALL the time. Her first was a"happy accident" so I just feel a bit of a failure for actually trying and not managing it hmmm anyway positive people get positive pee sticks damn it!

cake yes, all the people I know seem to have had "oops" children or "weren't even trying" children or "it happened the first time" children. These are also the most angelic, butter-wouldn't-melt children in the whole world, so tbh absolutely anything we do from hereon out will be abject failiure by comparison, so it's sort of fitting it starts pre-conception :o

hello, I feel like i've not been on here in ages. How are we all? We all look blooming!
late poor you for the cystitus, that's horrible, hope it clears up soon.

sn0w I think long term ttc is quite humbling in that you learn so much about the problems others have getting and staying pg. I was one of the 'happened first time' brigade for ds (although i really really hope i wasn't smug about it) but this current ninjababy has been gestating for 17 months now so i think people shouldn't count their eggs before they're hatched (or whatever the saying is). I wouldn't say my ds was quite the angelic, butter wouldn't melt type though (more the cheeky, slightly dirty, likes poking slugs with sticks and climbing on things type ) so maybe that was my downfall! Hopefully the wait will make me a better person for it? Theres nothing worse than a smug parent.
cake don't ever let yourself feel a failure for not getting an endorsed pee stick yet. Its just a matter of finding the right stick.
imps i'm surprised you haven't actually punched your friend or given her a sharp reply at the least. You must be very zen!

biscuits how are you doing? Are you cultivating a nice bump yet? How many weeks now?

Its been quite liberating not shagging this month. I have been drinking beer and relaxing instead.
Must go and do some work, hello to everyone else! try to get back on later.....

hello everyone, lots of catching up to do for me!

Sorry about the AFs and cystitis! I also have an unwelcome visitor in the form of awful thrush! Not suprising given the marathon we have had this month, every day for 9 days! I MUST be preggers this month or ELSE (although I hope the thrush does not thwart my plans!)

CD19, have to wait at least a week before testing.

Ninja I'm sure you weren't smug and tbh new mothers have every right to be (and I throughly intend to be infuriatingly smug :o ). I'm just being beaten over the head with it atm, there's a 2-week old in the family... I know I shouldn't be or :( but I am

I know exactly how you feel sn0w, ds got a cousin back in feb and we get beaten with it every time we see the in laws. strangely its much more relaxed when we actually see sil and bil! I'll allow you the smugness if you promise not to be one of those parents who thinks they are the first person to have a baby. dp does it sometimes and it makes me cringe to the point my teeth hurt

Evening All!

Hopw everyone's well? I have a head cold and I feel rubbish :( Plus as it's the first week back there's no way I can take a day off school

Thank you for all the sharing posts about telling / not telling people in real life. TTC for more than a few months is indeed a humbling experience. I do feel much better now that my friends don't know. It's so much easier and I know if when I get my BFP this month I will be keeping it quiet for a while too.

Snow and Ninja - I don't know if I was smug with DS but I seriously doubt it as I'm a bit of a worry wart and much more likely to appear flustered rather than superior. Plus I always feel that any kind of showing off is ver bad form and cringe inside horribly both when other people do it and espcially when I occasionally do it without thinking.

I also want to know if any of the PEE STICK ENDORSED posse have experience any bumpage yet? :)

Did I hear a call for a pee stick endorsed person?

I am indeed exhibiting some bumpage and am only 11 weeks . Although I think I am still in that 'is she just fat' stage rather than having a proper bone fide bump.

(I am assuming you mean showing a bump rather than bumping into people? DS did bump into me earlier if you're after the other sort of story but he did have a bean bag chair on his head at the time so can't be blamed... )

Am having to almost avoid people who I don't want to tell until after the scan. And have to keep wearing the same few outfits that hide it the best