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

[Stasi]

Here we go yet again...

farfalla try orange juice and coke - looks gross but tastes quite nice

solars I'm not sure Sweden is known for its romantic cities but that's where I am. Its rather grey and murky today, but the trees are looking nicely autumnal.

My boobs are mega sore now and I think they've grown a bit - I'll ask DP later, I'm sure he'll be able to tell [hgrin]

Ummmm yum bacon, coke, OJ
I feel a lunchtime trip to Maccie D;s coming on

Ergh - in the same glass? bleh - this is why I don't drink (oh, no, that would be because I'm pregnant )

Morning all, I realise it's nearly afternoon, but I've actually had a busy morning in work today (unlike usual).

Hope all the poorly people are feeling better. I've got no sign of a cold or illness today, so I think my headache and sneeziness yesterday was just in sympathy for the properly ill people.

Scrambled very excited for your BFP announcement tomorrow morning, don't keep us waiting too long.

Hope you are feeling better today Little. I totally understand wanting to try things your own way for a while. I had a referral to a specialist over a year ago now, but decided I wanted to give nature a chance first. I didn't actually have any known fertility problems at the time, just a poor medical history. I know my body so much better now than I did back then, and feel I'll be in a better place to take charge of any fertility treatment we do get now because of that.

Good luck with the MW Musical. I'm hoping to train to be a midwife after having my own babies. I "helped" deliver my little brother when I was 12, and love to watch anything to do with babies and deliveries on TV.

I didn't meet my DP till I was in my late 20's, and after a previous failed marriage. Looking back now I realise I didn't know what love was when I first got married, and instead thought that all marriage would take was effort and stubbornness. With my current DP though things couldn't be any different. I actually found myself swooning with how much I loved him the other day - because of how neatly he'd parked the car!! I feel like a love sick teenager most of the time :)

I'm impatient for time to go quickly for the next few weeks - we're getting married next weekend, then have a lovely week of SWI on honeymoon, followed by some serious crossed fingers on a 2ww. I don't want to rush these next few weeks, but I want to have enjoyed them already, and be wondering whether I should POAS. I think I'll be giving my DH (!!) lots of giggles as I do handstands and the like to make sure this month is our month.

Should get back to work, hope everyone is having a good day. Hope your day improves after lunch far, and that you get all the grease, sugar and salt you need to get through the day.

omg scrambled please poas. My preggo bladder cant take this excitement!

Awww Stasi - that is so cute - swooning at the car parking (although I'm glad this isn't generally something required for someone to fall in love with you as I would most likely be left on the shelf!)

I didn't realise you were getting married so soon - how exciting!! Can you tell us much about it (understand if you don't want to share for fear of outing yourself, but I do love a bit of wedding chitter chatter!)

How long have you and your DH-to-be been together? I'd been with DH for something like 9 or 10 years before we got married so it was nice for the wedding and everything but nothing really changed in terms of day to day life. (and we were certainly past the swooning stage ). I do recall being a bit disappointed when announcing our engagement and everyone said things like 'oh, right, well we thought you would'.

Still our wedding day was ACE!!! All our friends (plus far too many of our parents' friends, but I didn't care because all our friends were there), and it was still amazing despite the fact it rained ALL day. Topped off with an awesome disco with all our pals dancing to proper cheesy music (which has been a keen theme throughout uni and our early work days ) - it was immense :)

I see that sitting on your hands didn't work farfalla ;)

You know I agree with you though

Actually not cross, just don't get it, at all.

Anyway, must do some work and thanks for the flowers :) :) :)

I love weddings. I wish I could do mine all over again (exactly the same, of course - twas perfection on a budget stick)

We'd been together 8 years iirc, so definitely over the swooning stage. I was so nervous I actually managed to trip over the alter (which is quite characteristic, I am a clutz) but you wouldn't know it from SIL's amazing video editing skillz.

I was nervous too Popcorn - not about the wedding but about walking down in front of all of those people and then I was worried that I might cry when it came to saying our vows.

In fact it always makes me well up when I think about it because my hand was shaking as we were walking down the aisle (as were my legs and everything else) and my Dad was holding my hand and just gave it this little squeeze :) It was so thoughtful of him and sweet, and he's not normally a hand-squeezey sort so it was nice that he clicked on that I was shaking and did something about it :)

We'd been together 6yrs by the time we got married. Was over the swooning stage, but still managed to cry (with happiness, I hasten to add) throughout the ceremony! Luckily the registrar was both lovely and hillarious, and had come supplied with copious amounts of tissues. My oldest and dearest friends were sitting very close by, and were also blubbing away, which didn't help (and didn't impress my mother, who was between us all, and trying her best not to start!).

farfalla, good for you for posting there. Completely agree with you. Hope you're feeling better too..

Biscuits, lovely to hear of a wedding that rain didn't ruin, despite its presence! It rained the entire morning before we got married - didn't bother me at all, but the reception was held at my parents' house. They have a huge garden, and the band had to lug loads of equipment to a marquee at the end - oops! I also got to witness my friends trying to put up a tent in the rain, which was hillarious! Didn't rain for the actual ceremony, until we were having photos taken with all our friends at the cermony - sudden downpour - cue screaming from all the girls with straightened hair! :D

Thanks Stasi. I'm really looking forward to it. Also eager to hear if there's anything interesting in the blood results. I think midwifery would be a tough but very rewarding career!

OJ sounds divine. Coke sounds nice. But the thought of the two together.. yick!

Aaaah, what lovely stories! See, despite all this talk of fanjos (fanjoes?), cervical mucus and perfunctory shagging, we are all still romantics at heart! OH and I have been together for 11.5 years. Not married and no intention to get married - although I do love going to a nice wedding. We're as happy as we've ever been and I can't wait to share that happiness with a little snuffly baby

Farfalla, you poor thing. My miracle hangover cure is always chocolate milk and cheap value mild cheddar melted on a crumpet. Wonder if any sandwich shops near you would do one of those??!

hello all, sorry I've been AWOL recently, it has been an emotional few days.

AF turned up on Wednesday night so that marks the end of ttc for me and DH until 2013 when my career should be a bit more stable then. We're both quite upset as we had really set our hearts on having a baby before then! I know it seems a bit odd to put ttc on hold for so long because of work but my career is very important to me and it is an 18 month period that I just cannot miss. Obviously I am tempted to keep ttc anyway but I've started cerazette again now so I can't! I just hope I can hold it together with so many pg people around at the moment I had a proper cry at an Aptamil advert yesterday so it's not looking good

I'm not going to do anything rash like cancel my mn account so I will be lurking and watching you all get your bfps until I manage to wean myself off :) think I would miss you all if I quit mn entirely!

generic I'm sorry AF turned up for you but it is great news about your LP.

scrambled so excited for you!

imps hope you are feeling better today?

far drinking on a school night? tut tut!

best of luck to everyone and un-mumsnetty hugs all round [hsmile]

Just popping in to say hello and then I see that I am just in time to witness the results of Scrambled's POAS! I will be looking forward to seeing your BFP tomorrow! You were the recipient of the Bartlet Award for Poorly SWI, which, based on its previous recipients, guarantees a BFP.

Lots of vomiting here, so I am feeling shattered but only two weeks now before we have our dating scan.

Oh my goodness, I'd forgotten that Scrambled had got that award......

Cake so sorry to read that you're putting the ttc on hold for a while but you have to do what feels right for you and your DH and I wish you all the luck in the world. Do keep hanging around though - we'll miss you xx

Oh no Cake really sorry to hear you are leaving us, hope everything with your career works out and you are back brooking in no time, you'll be missed x

Good luck for the future cake, I hope to see you around here with a BFP one day! x

Oh Cake :( Please stick around, if you can. Completely understand the wobble you had, it seems like babies and pregnant women are constantly in our faces these days, aren't they? I'm sure 2013 will be your year and wouldn't it be ironic if you got that BFP next month?! .

far step away from the thread! And . I haven't posted (don't trust myself) but I completely understand how you feel - but I also empathise with what the OP is going through too. And it seems like she absolutely loathes herself right now, which obviously isn't a good idea in pregnancy with all the hormones washing around. I had mild antenatal depression with DD, it was shit.

Hope all you ill types feel better soon (yes, that includes you far!). Dr Smegs prescribes heinz tomato soup. Elixir of the gods, that stuff. Mmm...

Oops, just noticed you're back on the cerazette Cake. Well, 2013 for sure then! Good luck with the job.

PS Am now the proud owner of two FR's .

Oh cake :(
I totally understand - you're doing it for something that is important to you, and that's the best possible reason. We will miss yoooooou thooooough :(

Where is this mysterious "I desperately want a girl/boy/three headed cerberus" thread?

We got wed in half a foot of fresh snow I wish I had a time machine so I could go back, bonk myself over the head, hide my unconscious body and sneak in to do it again :o

Sounds wonderful, Popcorn! Can't tell you much about mine as it will totally out me in rl, but it was fantastic - all my friends and family were there, we had a great time and I would looooove to go back and do it all again. Can I borrow that time machine please?!

The thread's in Pregnancy, called something like 'gender disappointment'. I don't want to link it for obvious reasons, it's quite upsetting. I'm pretty sure that the OP posted in order to get a kicking as she hates herself so badly right now :( . Most people have been kind (including far) but it's awful to see her thanking people who've been a bit blunt, or worse. I think she's storing those comments up to beat herself with later...

cake I am so sorry about that, best of luck with the job and with 2013!!

scrambed I had not thought about it from that perspective before, I hope she is ok. There seem to be so many of those threads at the moment though, and it always seems to be about a boy as well.