Brooking No Argument for Positive Pee Sticks, Healthy Pregnancies and Home-made Cakes!!!

[TheLittleFriend]

And so it begins again.....

I agree with the pronounciations above!

Hope all well with everyone.

DH and I went out to dinner last night and scared ourselves silly trying to work our nanny costs and nursery costs - scary!

I am a bit of a worrier/forward planner (sure you can tell!) - I know this is silly but carried along with all the brooking, I am sure I may be preggers already!

I would like to go back to work 3 days a week but I am sure my firm will push for 4 but I think we might agree at 3.5.

My parents live in Scotland and DH's live in Harrogate so not near us at all as we live in Cheshire. My DSis has just gone back to work 3 days a week and put her 1 year old DS in nursery. He has been sick a lot. My mum has been able to provide emergency childcare but she wouldn't be able to get down here very quickly if I had a baby that was sick.

I just can't keep missing work at short notice and DH can't either (as patients get pissed off and he is self-employed).

I was thinking that we will need to get a nanny but that costs tonnes (looked on a few websites. My sister also costed it out and decided not to go down that route as too expensive)!

I'm all worried now. DH keeps telling me not to worry and we will sort it out but I can't see how and I'm really worried that it will end up being me that has to keep missing work and that my work will get really pissed off with me and that will be so stressful and awful.

And. Breathe. I feel so much better for writing that down now. I feel crazy to be worrying about this now but I just can't get it out of my head. Does anyone have any words of wisdom to make me feel better?!

Shiny - have you though about an au pair instead of a nanny? I think they are cheaper?

Off out - catch you Preggos later xx

Oh and marvellous baby news Imps - and a lovely name too - will be I retested to hear what the pronunciation is. I had to ask a friend of mine when I wasn't sure - I don't know if they minded my asking but I figure they would have been less happy if I had just mispronounced the name for the next 20 years :)

Not 'I retested'' - interested

shiny also childminders can work out cheaper than nursery. Plus I think work people can be very understanding about sick babies!

imps thanks for boob related reassurance ! No idea how to pronounce that, sorry

I have a cold. Still. I have had it for 20 days now. This is not on feeling particularly sorry for myself today

cake! Stuffy noses and sore throats are pg symptoms doncha know :o

Ah, Shiny my DH and I had that chat too. But, as I am sure many people will say, if you sit down and think about how much everything will cost, you will always say you can never afford babies. But, everyone manages somehow I too am a forward planner, but this whole TTC business has made me realise I can't control everything!

Poor you cake but as Popcorn says, deffo preggo symptoms

How are you Biscuits?

I just spoke to the GP.....All results A-OK

Decided to see what happens in next few months, and see how we are getting on in the new year, and then go back if any other strange happenings have occurred! So, it looks like the OPK told me the truth after all

Off to the market now to pick up yummy things for dinner and baking ingredients. Think my arms will be a foot longer by the time I get back!

Yay for results possible!!

imps what a lovely name!

Fannycam at 3pm for those who asked, I am bizarrely really looking forward to it!!
Will update afterwards if I can, please Brook for my ovaries and womb being normallish.

shiny don't worry about childcare, you will muddle through somehow, everyone does. I agree the costs are unbelievably scary though!

I really want to see We need to talk about Kevin but I daren't because I don;t want to put DH off having sprogs!!!

Hurrah Maybe That must be such a relief! You can clearly just put the last month down to being one of those WTF/Mother Nature is a Bitch cycles.

Glad you're looking forward ([hconfused] !) to your fannycam Far. There have been a lot of positive results on this and the PSEPP thread recently and yours will be no different. That is the power of Brooking No Argument.

Shiny, costs freak me out too! But I always tend to forget about the money we'll be saving when we have our sprog - not as many meals out/weekends away etc etc plus we have loads of things that we could easily cut out on without it having a hugely detrimental impact on our lives. You will be fine - don't let it worry you in the slightest!

shiny, this is a total cliche, but your views will change totally when you have a baby. I loved my job. Past tense. It's still a good job, I think I'll still enjoy bits of it, and I know if I don't go back and resign I will actually never get it again- they're not ten a penny, but my priorities have changed so much I don't recognise them!! In a good way. Nurseries are bug breeding pits and all kids get sick a lot going to nursery. You could go for a childminder, or look into an au pair. If they go to lots of playgroups with either, they'll still get some bugs, but my DD has not been sick that much- only once, and that wasn't picked up a a group, I think. She's had coughs and colds, but only once so ill I wouldn't have sent her to a childminder says she who left her for one full day for the first time this week aged 13 months But I also haven't had to, I took a years mat leave then added on annual leave and got ages off. And went down to 2 dys a week when I thought I'd be lucky to get 3. So you never know. There actually isn't any point worrying that far in advance.

Yay maybe, that's really good! ALl go go go in the maybe household then

Good luck with fannycam far, In know what you mean. Is this what ninja had then her BFP?

Hi dream no I think ninja had the HSG which is a bit more invasive but can clear a small blockage apparently.

BUT with the power of this thread I am sure an ultrasound will do the trick instead :)

surely!!

oh, and I'm feeling calmer today, if still a bit crampy

Hi all

Sorry I will forget something, still a newbie! But..

Dream glad you are feeling better
Far will be thinking of you at three
Imp congrats for your pal!
Maybe hurrah for good results! That is excellent
ninja how are you today?
Biscuits wow you are blooming! Looking good!
Cake hope you feel netter soon
Popcorn are you testing soon? Good luck
shiny try not to worry, remember you can get childcare vouchers as part of your pay. I wanted to go back for four days but I am going back three and a half.

I hope I haven't lest anyone out.

Fantastic news here, after the Docs telling me I wasn't ovulating according to their tests, I have two fat dark purple lines here on my OPK!

Had a look at POAS.com and decided, after your advice too to test twice daily. So have just tested now and there is a big old dark line! Will test again tonight as well though.

Won't be able to jump on DH until about ten tonight though, that works in with the timings though?

AHHH!

Also wanted to say thanks for making me welcome here, is hard when you arer TTC but you can't really talk about it in RL.

Today I bring aero biscuits, only 99 calories. I haven't had time to bake, going to do more banana muffins tomorrow.

Oooh, do you know what Munk - I may well PIAR (pee in a ramekin, in case you're not familiar with that acronym yet!) for OPK purposes today too! Why not, eh? Really pleased that you've got a positive - it's always nice to see two lines come up on something isn't it??

Just been speaking to former boss about employment potential with him and it's all moving forward marvellously! He wants me to go to his office in the next few weeks to meet the rest of the partners etc etc - fingers crossed they don't think I'm a moron! Best of all, the role is going to be 50% chargeable work, 50% business development - I like business development lots more than actually advising clients so that suits me right down to the ground! It's still not all definite yet but it feels like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders - at last I can see that the end of my current job with my current shitty employer is in sight!

I may do some extra baking this afternoon in celebration!

Good luck Far your insides are going to look b-e-autiful

Imps that's great news, well done you. What are you baking this afternoon? I have a busy one lined up. Caramelised onion focaccia, fruit scones, chocloate victoria sponge, strawberry cake, and I have just lugged a whole pig back from town to roast. Nom nom.

Hurrah for positive OPK Munk, great news. DH won't know what's hit him

Glad you are feeling slightly calmer today Dream

Glad you're ok dream.

Imps loving your theory on different boob aches = pregnant

Great test news too maybe

Did someone say aero biscuits?! om nom nom :d

That's excellent news, munk!
Yes these ladies are loooovely, and they make ttc so much less painful [hsmile]

Excellent news imps!

Hello. little!

i knew I would miss someone out.

Oh my god Maybe - that list of goodies sounds amazing!

Not decided what to do yet - I am cooking for my friends' daughter's 2nd birthday party on Sunday (friend is the one who had the difficult birth yesterday) - so going to do a quiche or tart of some description, maybe a pear and almond cake seeing as though it's pear season, and perhaps some savoury biscuits. She's also requested hummous so I will make some of that too.

Not to worry Munk!

Can I please nominate Maybe and Imps to cater at our brooking no argument baby reunion at the end of next year when we all have our babies.

I am most definitely up for that Little

That sounds yummy Imps

I am most definitely at my happiest when cooking, it's the best

Oh, and I am more than sure there will be leftovers Popcorn