Brook No Argument, smack that rat and eat that pie. All those seeking pee stick endorsement welcome. AF keep out, stay out and bugger off for the next nine months

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New thread ladies, pull up a pew.

Yay for your ovaries Dizzy

Now smack that rat!!

How's Late doing? Still no sign of AF? still late? Hope so..... xx

thats great news dizzy the rats will be running scared tonight!

Morning to everyone else, it's friday today so no work for me YAY!! just got to get some birthday presies and cards sorted, give ds a bath and then off to meet friends for a catch up/ play date/ cake and tea. I love Fridays!

Our cleaner is a total legend, has been with us for 7 years and cleans for all our friends so we can catch up on all the gossip through her

at that woman not knowing she was pregnant!

The barmaid at the inlaws' local pub is pregnant, she is 47 and though it was the menopause (I did mutter, FFS under my breath this weekend when I found out)

Hurrah for your ovaries Dizzy - hope you get that rat smacked good and proper.

Yes Biscuits, how is Late - hope she is still late (ha!)

Ninja I am well jel - enjoy your lovely day off. I work full time, but I've asked about doing compressed hours to get a morning off a week to spend with DD, just waiting to see if they'll let me (hope so).

Wow Farfalla 47! That's impressive!

Scan today, had lots of weird dreams about it. Hoping the growth will have shrunk or even gone - oh well, I'll just have to wait and see.

Lots of luck for your scan Generic - will be brooking hard for you xx

Thanks Biscuits!

Best of luck for your scan generic

dizzy glad to hear your ovaries are behaving themselves.

I'm still waiting to lay my egg, should be early next week so lots of weekend swi planned!

In other news, a wasp flew down my cleavage this morning as I was crossing a large road. Needless to say I had a bit of a freak out and had to delve into my bra in public to remove it what a bizarre start to my morning!

Good luck Generic! ps, your username makes me crave dr pepper every time you post, I'm supposed to be caffeine free darnit!

Minesa I'm so sorry, that's so terrible. Well done for getting back on the rat

Omg cake that sounds terrifying! hates wasps

I have noooo idea what's going on this cycle. I should OV Sunday if it's the same as last month, but my temps are entirely different and I had what could have been a dip yesterday. But then it could have been nothing lol needs to remember to use her OPKs

Good luck today Generic

Interesting wasp news cake. This might be pushing it a bit far, but do you think it could be taken as a pregnancy symptom? Maybe wasps are attacted to soon-to-be pee stick endorsed pregnant people?

Oooh good luck Generic hope all goes well.

Cake - pervy cleavage-bound wasps are the worst! Poor you.

Hehe, loving your favourite kitchen gadget far. I don't really have any gadgets, but I do love a good wok!

Also very envious of all those of you who have a cleaner, I am currently dreaming of the day - have already told OH that I will be wanting a cleaner when we have 4 kids and I'm working full time and will almost certainly be the one who's expected to clean up after everybody else, no way hose!

CONGRATULATIONS dream, very exciting news. If it helps at all my mum had to deal with a 3 year old, an 18 month old, and newborn twins - and she did a fairly good job if I say so myself . You'll become super mum before you know it! I think it also helps when the children are so close together because it means once they get to a certain age they can start entertaining each other, which should surely help. Also scientific names are monozygotic and dizygotic Generic (I'm a dizygotic or 'fraternal' twin).

It might be worth phoning your GP up again Baby, or speaking to another doctor - this one sounds a bit useless Also what's a kitchenaid?

Very sorry to hear your sad news

Didn't she realise that she was meant to wait her turn?!

Cake that sounds awful! If it was me I'd have probably panicked so much I'd have run hysterically right into a lamp post or something, you sound like you handled it quite bravely!

I had quite a dramatic day yesterday - some one crashed into the back of my car at a roundabout and the bumper is all warped and cracked, waiting for insurance company to phone me back. Me and OH also had bad news, the landlords want to move back into the house after Christmas so we've somehow got to raise enough money for a deposit, agency fees, removal costs in 2.5 months. Needles to say we're not too happy.

Keeping my fx for you Generic, hope all goes well!

And very sorry if I've missed anyone, this is a very chatty thread lol

That also should be needless, not needles!

Ah I thought when you said 'needles' to say you were doing some sort of voodoo......

Kitchenaid make all sorts of lovely kitchen gadgets, but I think this is the one that usually earns just the name 'a kitchenaid'? Am I right? Not sure - I'd like one anyway - they look fancy but not sure I can justify one of those :(

Dizzy - Poo to your landlord - hope you get somewhere lined up quickly xx

Hehe now that is a good idea Biscuits, although given that our landlords have actually been quite nice and offered us 2.5 weeks living in the house rent free I don't suppose I can justify resorting to voodoo :p Still, it is 3 weeks right after Christmas, when the car MOT and road tax is also due, so won't exactly be an easy month.

Hi all - hope it is OK to join this thread?

DH and I have just got married three weeks ago and are about to start trying to conceive. We had a bit of a half hearted attempt last month but think we missed the relevant day as it was our wedding night and I was too tired - the romance!

I've bought a book to read which has been very helpful as it said that we should be trying our hardest in the three days before ovulation in the lead up as well as the actual day.

I don't want my first post to be too personal but is that right? Also, how many times a day would you suggest?

I'm really trying not to get my hopes up too much so am mentally planning for this all to take at least a year at the minimum.

I've ordered some preseed too from Amazon. Should we start doing temperatures now too and that sort of thing? I feel like I have spent the first part of our relationship trying to avoid all of this happening so is now totally weird to have to completely change our mindset!

Hi shiny If you're only just starting it's probably best not to get to scientific about it straight away, it does kind of take the fun and romance out of things. I always found it quite exciting at the end of every cycle, waiting to see whether AF was going to come or not - you'll probably feel even worse if it doesn't and you put all this work in, taking your temps, sexing on the "right days", monitoring cervical mucus etc.

Most people suggest aiming to have sex every other day - there's definitely no point doing it more than once a day as it does take time for your man to replenish his stock. Around the ovulation period when you're at your most fertile I think many people then get to it every day. Stick with that for now and you should be fine.

If further down the line you're still not pregnant than maybe think about getting into temping et al. then.

Oh I forgot, one thing you definitely do need to do straight away is to start taking folic acid. This helps the development of your baby and reduces the likelihood of birth defects such as spina bifida. You should be taking 400 micrograms daily.

Hi Shiny and welcome :)

Congratulations on your wedding and on starting ttc - lots of fun ahead

I'd agree with what Dizzy said - really don't worry about being too scientific about it - I speak from experience when I say it kind of takes the fun out of it :(

I think by saying you're anticipating a year you are being quite level headed about it (hopefully it won't take nearly that long, but if you were expecting it to happen the first month of trying you might find your self disappointed iyswim?) Even for a perfectly fertile couple the chances of getting pg in any one month are only about 25% or something? Funny how you spend so long trying to avoid it for so long!

Anyway, as Dizzy says the general recommendations when you're starting out are to just go for every other day or so (can tell you're newly married if you're asking how many times a day )

I would say if nothing has happened after, say, 6 months then maybe think about temping or something. By hanging around here you'll find you become quite an expert in it all! Just one question (if I may - I hope you don't think it's too personal) but do you have pretty regular cycles?

Ooooh, and start taking folic acid - that's my tip :)

Other than that, relax and enjoy it :)

And the most important thing to realise is that by being on this thread, you are in fact already pregnant, so congratulations! All we need to do now is find a pee stick that agrees with you :)

Just re read my post and it sounds a bit gloomy - sorry Shiny - I think I'm skewed when I talk about ttc as it took us so long to get pg this time (baby no 2 but took us 19 months to finally convince a pregnancy test!)

Seriously, relax, enjoy it and come here for some serious brooking that you ARE pregnant

Thank you both! That is really helpful. DH will be pleased - he looked a bit worried that I may require him to perform three times a day for a week! However, I think he would have given it his best shot .

My cycles are very regular (28 days). However, in the last three months or so they have gone to about 30 days and one month was 27. However, I am putting that down to wedding stress as made the mistake of googling and it said that lengthening cycles can be a sign of early menopause?! Quickly shut that page down! I am 33 which I know is a bit old for starting out but hopefully will be OK

Hehe, men are such troopers aren't they?
I wouldn't worry about your cycle length just yet, 30 is still quite a normal length to have (even if you had slightly shorter before). Some of the ladies on the conception forum have to deal with 50-60 day cycles, I wouldn't really count a 2 day increase to 30 as "cycle lengthening" just yet . Also 33 is still plenty young enough to be starting out.

Ah Shiny you sound like you're all set to go.

As Dizzy says, 30 days is pretty typical so don't worry about that at all - and I'm sure you're right wedding stress would be just the sort of thing to make your cycle a bit longer.

Hope everyone else is doing well too xx