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

[Stasi]

Here we go yet again...

stasi its great that he is so positive.
I have also come to the conclusion that DHs can;t really understand, its just not the same. The tracking of ovulation, the mucus, the 'oooh are my boobs sore' the testing. They have no idea whereas we have to live it every single day.

DH is being very supportive but I do think some of the mentalling is best kept away from them to be honest (and on here thank god). As far as he is concerned, this is NOT taking over our life, like generic

He has seen the monitor once but I test when he is downstairs, I occasionally tell him when I get a positive but mostly try and engineer SWI subtly. HA!

DH has quite a stressful job and so I also have to factor in what sort of day he has had, I sometimes have to let SWI go if he has had a total shocker.

My DH is quite good. He was a bit confused by it all at the start, and even more confused by "I think I could be OVing this weekend" "Didn't you say that last weekend?!" (I had several cycles like that!). I think he had finally got the hang of things by the last cycle - AF came, he was very lovely and comforting and positive. Then when I told him I wanted to test a week or so later he was like "Why?! But you can't be pregnant because of AF!". Confused him, bless! Then again, I was just as baffled...

My ramekin of choice was a Gu ramekin, which promptly got chucked out afterwards as DH was paranoid about using it (!). Also helps that I have a huge collection of them as I'm rather partial to Gu...

you know I came on here wanting to write a great big reply to lots of things that have been written and now I've gone completely blank. Bugger.

cake and generic I'll be watching this thread with baited breath tomorrow morning.

My dp has generally been great and supportive but I know he was starting to find it all a bit difficult and upsetting by the end, there's only so many times af can arrive without you both cracking open the booze and chocolate.

oh and whoever was talking about AIBU, i love it, there are some great bun fights on there.

Oh my goodness - I lost you all and now there are 155!!! posts to read!

I have no chance of catching that up so I'll need someone very kind to tell me what important things I've missed? Pleeeeeeeease?

I was coming on to ask you all a completely not-related-to-ttc question....

I want to find some of those nice decorative logs for a fireplace. Not actual firewood logs, but those nice neat ones for displaying in a little alcove or something. Any ideas of any shops or websites that would sell?

I'm not sure if there is a place on MN for asking this, but there are so many of us on his thread I thought maybe someone would know?

Hope you don't mind my off-topic-ness??

Hope you're all ok and sorry again I can't catch up on all the posts

Hello!

Non-medical expert OH's are so clueless innocent about everything, aren't they? I went out for a nice date night with OH on Friday night, and half way through the evening remembered he'd arranged to meet up with a friend of his that night. I asked him why he wasn't out with him and he said "Well I thought I should be here tonight because you're doing your egg thing." I spent a while trying to remember what egg-based dish I was supposed to be cooking that night and then it occurred to me that he meant ovulation!! As it turns out, we both got a little tipsy and fell straight to sleep after we got home from the pub meaning that no SWI in fact took place. Still, it's the thought that counts!

Well phases 2 and 3 of my redundancy plotting have been implemented:

1. Myself and the other girl in my team who is at risk are acting completely normally and discussing our redundancy openly with everyone in the team. This is making the 3 employment partners (who are not at risk) squirm like hell - two of them won't even make eye contact with us anymore. LOVE the fact that they are suffering more than we are!

1. My firm doesn't do communication with anyone, particularly about redundancies so it's all kept very hush-hush indeed. I am of course entitled to be accompanied to my meeting next week with a colleague and, well gosh darnit, I seem to have emailed all of the firm's most notorious gossips to see if they want to accompany me. Oh, and - whoops! - I appear to have forgotten to ask them to keep my email confidential! Oh no, silly me! Unfortunately, I think that this will mean that the whole firm will know what's going on by about 9:05am tomorrow. Whoopsadaisy! [hgrin]

Cake and Generic - brooking no argument for a positive pee stick result!

Oooh POAS / PIAR action, brooking for you Cake Generic & Scrambled

My DP is a bit clueless too, we'd been trying for a couple of months, when I realised he thought that I could get pregnant at any point in my cycle (which I suppose is the right way to think about it if you don't want to get pregnant but still ). I don't tell him all the details, I've been temping for a couple of months without him noticing.

Glad the scheming is going well imps

Hope you are feeling better this evening maybe

beedle I'm impressed that you have managed to temp without your DH noticing! Once DH found i was addicted to interested in mumsnet, DH threatened to divorce me if I posted on forums about our sex life but so far so good

I'm soo excited for you Generic good luck for the morning!

Brooking hard for Scrambled and Cake too.

I generally don't tell my dp too many details about when I think I'm ovulating etc (probably because I don't know myself). He is very supportive when I do want to talk, but I think he just doesn't want me to worry. I'm a very much a "knowledge is power" kind of person, so research everything, and I think he thinks I take it a bit far!

Oooh ooooh ooooooooh, Generic? tomorrow? Tell all - I guess this must have been in the 150 odd posts I missed? Is AF late?

Tell alllllllllllllll.......

Stasi sounds like our DH's are similar. Mine definitely doesn't want the info although he gets the picture when the witch shows up each month and is very sweet about it. Nice that yours is so positive.

Lol at Popcorn's DH's approach! Well, shagging more may be the answer! But I couldn't be doing with the 'how does that make you feel?' chat!

Shiny it's nice your DH is so involved.

Ooh Scrambled - three way PIAR tomorrow with Cake and me?!

Farfalla totally agree with you re the maze of making SWI look spontaneous and fun and keeping the mentalling away from them. If DH had any idea I was on here everyday and thinking about TTC a lot constantly he would be shocked.

Imps that is v cute re your OH knowing about the egg-laying! And I love your devious plan. There are redundancies afoot at my company too, so surely that qualifies me for The Worst Possible Timing too.

For the benefit of Biscuits I am 13 dpo, little bit of brown spotting yesterday morning, but no more than that. My normal LP is around 12 days so I think I'll be brave and declare that AF will be late as of tomorrow. So I have bowed to peer pressure and agreed to PIAR tomorrow morning to use my one remaining cheapy pee stick.

Thank you generic

Well will be brooking left right and centre for you tomorrow and for any other PIAR action tomorrow

Yay for PIAR Generic!

Stasi - re: why a ramekin - they are shallower than a cup or glass so it's easier to reach the wee! Or that's why I use them anyway!

*Stasii I used to use a muller light pot for a disposable version - nice wide opening for catching purposes

Or even Stasi!

Ah heck, I'm knackered and can't be bothered to read back the thread . Sorry for not responding to everyone properly.

Anyway... the spotting appears to have stopped. I am feeling a bit AF-y if that makes sense though. Headache, general feeling of crappiness .

And I can't join in with any PIAR fun tomorrow either as I have no tests in the house! Sorry Cake and Generic! But I'm sure you both will have positive pee-sticks tomorrow, very excited about that.

Hello ladies, just de-lurking to share a lovely bit of news! I had an early 'reassurance' scan today (because of the mc last time) and it did exactly what it said on the tin: DH & I saw an odd-shaped little bean with a flickering heartbeat . Measurement has put it 2 days further along than I thought, so 7+6 - way further than my other little pip got to. we are feeling very pleased with ourselves, and much more reassured!

Good luck for tomorrow Generic

And good luck with your evil plans Imps [hgrin]

And good luck to you too Cake (iPhone app makes it hard to remember everything, esp with baby brain!)

Fantastic news Late! I'm glad the reassurance scan did it's job x

Just a quick post as haven't caught up properly tonight.

Amazing news Late so so pleased for you

Good luck with your [hwink] plan Imps

Good luck testers for tomorrow.

Off to bed now as still feel poo, but will catch up properly tomorrow

Oh Late that's wonderful news! Really pleased for you.

Scrambled so you are still in the game even if you can't PIAR tomorrow.

Hope you feel better soon Maybe

Night night maybe hope you're better in the morning

Great news late

I'm feeling AF-y

None of that wibbling Cake - we shall be confirming tomorrow and that's that.

I literally just spent AGES on a mammoth post and my phone wiped it!!! So annoyed!

The nutshell version is best of luck to generic and cake for the morning PIAR, and also to scrambled for AF to stay away. I had a grumble about stealth boasters on fb. I also mentioned that everything seems to be going fine with my pg so far, for which I feel incredibly lucky (despite the annoying symptoms like migraines). I finished up with looking forward to all you ladies joining us on the antenatal thread soon.

It was an epic post (well, i thought it was) and I'm soooo annoyed at the ridiculously crap MN iphone app for wiping it!! Grr!

Congrats to Late on the scan btw!