We are all jolly well going to smack the rat this month and grow a baby and we'll brook no argument. And probably eat some cake too.

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Ladies....begin.

Gosh, another busy day over here.

My hair cut and mantlepiece are both RAVISHING. But urgh the dust.

If I can get children to bed appropriately we might have an inaugural fire in the stove. You never know, it might be romantic.

I'm off now for two days of academic conference. I have a new top. I hope it makes me look clever.

Oh dear Scrambled - we will all give AF a right kicking if she thinks she can drop by now.

Thanks Sweetie for info on SA delivery. I'll be cycling fast then.

D21 test strangely uplifting. Empty waiting room in hospital (unheard of). DS very sweet. Nurse, v friendly, said there was a 10-year gap between her DCs and when they gave up along came a BFP. Though this "giving up" biz does get my goat - how about everyone else's goat? The more people say you should give up the more neurotic and teeth-gritful I seem to become.

Pop - things are a bit crazy with your plumbing aren't they?! Can only be a sign of one thing... BFP.

Right better get some tea sorted.

New tops always increase the IQ Whimsi. Of course.

Work is manic. I am about to explode from stress. But I am trying really hard to stay naaaaice and caaaalm so my body doesn't freak the feck out again.

Hi maybe! How is poochy life suiting you? :)

I don't think my goat's been had, bean, as I don't really get that from people yet but if I did I'd find it the most irritating thing ever (after paid up members of the "it happened first time" brigade, of course)

Maybe!!! . You're back! We've missed you. How's Otis? Photos, we need photos!

That sounds like a lovely appointment, bean, despite the 'giving up' comment. I'd love to know how you 'give up'. It doesn't really make any sense, especially if you're still sexing. Maybe it's psychological?

whimsical your top makes you look like a ravishing genius. Fact. hope the conference goes well.

Popcorn gawd you sound stressed. Hope you get to relax later.

Thanks for brooking, everyone. I am having a Proper cup of tea in the hope that it will ease the grotty feeling. I am trying very hard to be positive, but I fear tis not in my nature .

I don't deal well with stress :o

hey ladies just thought id pop in and say hellooooo cant wait for you ladies to join me and the shiny glitter buckets yuk lol xxx how is everyone xx

Glad you're ok maybe and that it's just rl keeping you from us!

Hi Jazzy how's it going? How many weeks are you now?

I'm in the same boat as scrambled. CD14 and have had brown / pink cm for two days. Had a sob to dp last night. I am tired of thinking about it all the time.

Im good ty ladies still early days im coming up to 7 weeks but all is ok had a scan yesterday due to previous eptopic and baby is bedded in the right place with a beating heart xxx :)

How are you little & possible

ooohs and aaahs over the photos of Otis. I bet people are always stopping and asking about him in the street?

That's really great news Jazzy. I didn't realise you'd had an ectopic, you must be really relieved after this scan. I'm ok, but not much change on the erratic cycles. I'm boring myself hearing about it now!! x

little yes it was many years ago i feel while on pill and ended in a ruptured ectopic i was very very ill so i was so relieved to see the little bean in the right place just hope it sticks now xx my cycles was like that but fertility aid straightened mine out and regulated me to a 29 day cycle and 12 day lp

maybe He is GAW-JUS! Just look at the ickle face! And that pic when he's asleep between your wellies. Aw!!!

Little have a (((hug))). It's crap, isn't it? I feel grim, it's at this point I always wish AF would make an appearance, just to get some relief.

Glad to hear everything looks good, jazzy!

evening all! maybe Otis is soo cute and fluffy! I bet its difficult to stay mad at him with a face like that when he gets up to mischief.

little and scrambled sorry to hear how you are both feeling. How crap of AF to have not got the long LP and bfp message by now. and chocs for you both.

popcorn hope the stressing doesn't last too long, maybe you should joing little and scrambled with the wine and chocs?

Hello to everyone else, I have been lurking but finding it hard to keep up the last few days as seem to have a lot on!

munkiii very sorry to hear about your mc. I hope you have the rl support you and your dh need and you know where we all are when you are ready to come back.

Jazzy that's such good news!

Little they really are. Will be even more once he has had his final jabs at the weekend!

Scrambled you can borrow him if you want

Ninja how the devil are you? He is hard to stay made at, but he can be soooooo naughty

I'm good thanks maybe, ds has decided to go pull up free at night so just waiting for the 4am call of 'mummmyyyy i'm wweeettt!' Your doggy really is lovely by the way. How are things in the maybe household?
Ooh and while I think of it, since you are a cooking genius and as are many others on here what do you think of this I am thinking of asking father christmas for it to aid my soup making and general baking, does it look any good?

Oh Maybe you're back and I just had a peek at your pics, Otis is too, too cute - I don't blame you for tending to his needs rather than MNing! By the way do I need to wear white stilettos for this Essex stylee dance? any excuse for a new pair of shoes

Scream, Musical, Jazzy & Ninja so nice to hear that all is well with you all.

Scrambled I have everything crossed that this is not early AF and something much more promising

Whim how lovely to have a nice new haircut and a new mantlepiece in time for christmas. Hope your conference isn't too boring, ours always are!

I hope you have managed to relax this evening with all your stressing earlier, maybe a nice relaxing bath before bed might do the trick.

Bean well done on getting OH for SA, I had an absolute nightmare getting DH even to the doctors!! Sorry for tmi but about 4 or 5 months of us ttc we had an issue of some scaly skin on my DH's 'male member' shall we say, which hurt him when we swi. This meant we missed a few months due to that however DH refused to see a doctor about it. We were living in OZ at the time. When we came back to the UK last year he took ages in registering with a dr and then when he did every time I booked an appointment for him he'd cancel it as something else turned up, this was over a period of about 3 or 4 months, i was getting seriously frustrated by this time in the end I booked an appointment and said I was coming with him. When we got to the drs we were told it was ezcema, (phew!!!) which was easily treatable! When DH had to give SA he was a lot better about it but I did have to book the appointment and get the sample pot from the doctor, I would have had to deliver the sample myself to the hospital too if DH didn't work there!! I do remember DH being very miserable on the day he had to give his sample! However his results were pretty amazing and still goes on about it to this day!!

Sorry Popcorn that was meant to say....

I hope you have managed to relax this evening Popcorn with all your stressing earlier, maybe a nice relaxing bath before bed might do the trick.

Ninja - can I pick your brains on the night time thing? Sorry it's a bit off topic! DS is trained (ish! ) in the day. Well, we're getting there anyway (I hope). But what I wondered was what was your DS wearing at night, up until tonight?

Up until now I've been using up all the daytime nappies that were left, so we've used up some Huggies Super Dry 'proper nappies' and some Huggies Little Walkers (the pull ups that aren't really aimed at potty training? You know, not Pull Ups, more like a normal nappy just in a pull up format. But I'm wondering what to get him going forward?

Also, how did you know when to try nappy free at night?

Sorry everyone else and hello. Have been lurking but not posting as much recently (stooped RL getting in the way ). Hope you're all ok. Scrambled, Little - hope AF doesn't dare to darken your doors....

solars I think men are strange creatures when it comes to sperm and willies and such like. When dp did his sample he was all 'its difficult for me too you know' and i was thinking you just have to jizz in a pot, i've had 4 blood tests and a pelvic ultrasound and an hsg that involved basically 3 other people looking up my fanjo and into my insides and then spending 45 minutes attempting to insert dye in there. I'll take jizzing in a pot over that any day.

biscuits he told me on tuesday that he was a big boy now he's 4 and big boys don't wear pull ups so we went and bought some disposable bed mats instead. Personally I don't think he's ready but if he wants to try then fine. Lots of boys take ages to be dry at night and all his friends are still in pull ups, We used these and they've been great. Sainsburys make good nappies in my opinion. Except their eco range, they are crap.

Hello ladies, just popping in quickly to say "hello" - have been out for the evening and am knackered and want my bed.

Am completely gutted today - I haven't been selected for redundancy :( I don't know how I'm going to survive without the other girl. She is completely delighted and keeps rubbing my face in the fact that in two weeks time she'll no longer be working there. I have pretty thick skin but I really don't know how I'll cope there any longer. Arse to those stupid cretins.

Maybe! That tiny little bundle of fluff is the cutest thing EVER! So lovely to see you again.

Whimsi - new top = most erudite looking person in the room for sure. Enjoy your conference.

Jazzy so glad that the scan went well. Are you starting to believe it yet?

Scrambled, I've karate kicked AF in the bosoms for you (mean, yes, but she deserves it) so she definitely won't turn up.

Right I'm off to bed to think of some survival techniques for the next few months at work.

Night all.

Yes, I'm in no rush to go nappy free at night (I have better thing to be doing in the middle of the night than changing wet bedding!). I read a thing that said its a combination of bladder control (amd a strong enough signal to wake them i they need one), bladder size and some anti-diuretic hormone that they don't produce until some time between about 2 and 6 yrs old. So I'm just hanging on for now!

That link just took me to a Sainsburys online homepage? Are they Sainsbo's own brand pull up type things?

Hope it goes well for you all anyway - and all remains dry in the ninja household. You often hear of kids just deciding they are done with nappies so fingers crosses it works for you!

Hope you come up with some cracking survival techniques xxx

And maybe your dog is The. Cutest. No 'maybe' about it! Ha ha - see what I did there? Huh? Huh?

Lots of love all round

Mwah mwah xxx