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Is everyone in the world pregnant but me!

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Countmyblessings · 06/06/2012 20:14

Need to rant I believe my 1st AF is on its way since my eptopic and tube removal the end of April 12!!!!!
My emotions are all over the place and I'm now crying as " Gennie in emmerdale" seems to of gotten pregnant without wanting or trying!!! It's a soap! But feel like its happening in real life too!!!!!!

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Purpleprickles · 24/06/2012 19:18

Thank you ILove, I got some from Boots yesterday but if I get on with them I'll order more from Amazon. I've just got to try and work out when to start testing now with my random cycle.

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Countmyblessings · 25/06/2012 16:17

Hi ladies! Hope everyone had a lovely weekend.
I went to stratford Westfield on Sunday!
OMG pregnant women everywhere, it's was awful!
I didn't get anything just wanted to get out of there! Blahhhhhhhhhh!
Hope everyone is well with- oving, waiting, getting back into the swing of it all, dtd, and the mad 2 weeks wait!

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Purpleprickles · 25/06/2012 20:14

Count it's hard isn't it. I took my ds to a party on Saturday and another mum was pg, I had this boiling feeling of envy run through my veins and I really hate feeling like that. When I click on active conversations on here and see pregnancy threads about being fat or feeling sick I get really Angry and want to post 'stop moaning you are bloody luck'. This is all very irrational because when I was pg with ds I was sick as a dog and moaned all the time but now I'd give anything to be in that position. I resent what not being pg and wanting so much to be is turning me into Sad

Pipbin · 25/06/2012 20:32

DHs ex girlfriend, who I am great friends with (weird I know) is due in about 3 weeks and was chatting on Facebook today about names etc.
She is lovely and we get on so well but she said she was pg at xmas, when we had got to 6 months of trying and she had only tried for 2 months.

Just sick of it, it's been 12 months now.
I would give the world for just one. I just want one baby, I'd love two but one would do, I'm not greedy.

Purpleprickles · 25/06/2012 22:07

Pipbin Sad I feel so selfish moaning when I do have one dc. I am being greedy. When a colleague went through the same situation a few years ago I did think can't you be thankful you have a dd already and of course she was and I am but it doesn't stop that longing feeling either. Have you seen your GP?

Pipbin · 25/06/2012 22:41

Sorry Purple, that wasn't a dig at anyone, just a but of self pity.

Well on the way with the GP. Now under the fertility clinic at the hospital.

Purpleprickles · 25/06/2012 22:52

No I know I just felt a cheeky cow for moaning Blush

iloveberries · 26/06/2012 07:25

purple - you are not being greedy at all!!!!! It's totally shit TTC when you have one baby or not. Having said that having 1 DC does make you totally appreciate how lucky you are so from that respect i do feel very lucky.
I recognise that feeling of envy. It's horrible isn't it. I get it as well.

pipbin sorry you're going through all this. we've been going for a year too so I know how you feel. At least you're under the fertility team now. Can you talk to anyone in RL about it?

FX it will be us soon ladies!

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Countmyblessings · 26/06/2012 19:34

Ohhhh Pip- your feeling is your feeling and only you know how to deal with it all! Whatever get you through and get to a good place!
Purple / ilove - I have dcs so the feeling I get about my losses is totally different but also I get " but you already have children, so if you never have anymore, it's not that bad"!'
I love all my dc ( adopted 2) and i like the thought of a large family!
That's why I'm called" count my blessings" as i am so very grateful!
Purple - I loved being pregnant and apart from spd that I had at 21 weeks I breezed through loving every moment as i got pregnant 3 years after my 1st ectopic!!!!!! Every ache was stressing looking back I
Wished i tried harder to get pregnant when I was much younger and in better shape! Oh well!

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Pipbin · 26/06/2012 19:47

I am lucky in that I have two friends in RL I can talk to. One is a very close friend who has two teenage children that she wanted but did get to the stage of 'trying' for.

Another is a friend who been through it all. She got as far as IVF but just before having it got pregnant. Sadly that baby was stillborn but she then went on to have two more happy and healthy. She is a great help as she has done all this before. She knows the drill as it were.

iloveberries · 27/06/2012 09:40

glad you have RL people to talk to pipbin, though sad that your friend had to go through all of that.

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Countmyblessings · 27/06/2012 11:12

I do believe it's Key to have RL friends you can talk too really and truthfully about feelings, worries, upsets etc! As although MN is great typing down everything can be hard especially if it's Your own feelings and online people don't know you so maybe not totally understand where your coming from about certain comments!!!!

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Purpleprickles · 27/06/2012 22:38

Glad you have rl people Pipbin. I've not discussed this too much in rl yet. My friend at work knows and she is supportive. My best mate is 10 weeks pg with her second dc. She had an ectopic pg earlier this year so of course I am over the moon for her. She can be quite dismissive of other peoples worries though, when she told me bout the pg she asked if I was trying and I said I had been for a while. She gave me the 'it will happen' speech which hopefully it will but sometimes hearing that doesn't help. So mainly at the moment I'm only sharing on MN- so a massive thank you for listening and supporting.

Purpleprickles · 27/06/2012 22:41

Oh and Count, I completely agree about thinking now I should have tried when i was younger and fitter. I'm attempting running at the moment to get fit BlushGrin

Pipbin · 27/06/2012 22:44

You and me both Purple. How far are you running.

It is good to have people to talk to in RL about it. I agree Count that people who have never had an issue conceiving can't really understand the problem. Just getting on with it worked for them and they can't see why it wouldn't for you.

Purpleprickles · 28/06/2012 20:47

Pipbin I'm a real beginner, just started a month ago. I'm using the phone app 'Couch to 5k' and am now running for bursts of 5mins at a time. I know it's not a lot but it's 5 times more than I did a month ago. My reasons for running are two-fold, one to be fitter for ttc but also my Mum has just been diagnosed with type2 diabetes so I'm now statistically more likely to get it-thought I'd take precautions now Smile

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Countmyblessings · 29/06/2012 11:12

Purple - well done on the running, I'm also attempting to get fitter finding the chugging the eating easy its the exercise I'm finding hard to fit in but even if its 5 - 10 mins that something right! Blush
in the famous words of Cher " if i could turn back time" Wink
Pipbin- i can't remember when i said that but if i never had loses i would still be wearing my rose tinted glasses!!!! know i so know better!

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Purpleprickles · 03/07/2012 23:22

Count I want to turn back time too Grin

Been to dr this week as I think I've got mild IBS. Dr said it sounds likely so just advised keeping a food diary. Anyway I couldn't figure out why I had symptoms at the moment because I'm trying to eat so healthily and exercise. The last time I suspected it was when I was really over weight and eating badly which would make more sense. Just had a total lightbulb moment though...I'm into my second month of taking those pregnacare conception vitamins. Googled vitamin supplements and found out they can irritate your stomach, particularly magnesium, which pregnacare contains. So I'm stopping them now in the hope they are the cause. Don't know whether to laugh or cry though at the fact that my aid for ttc is making me feel ill and not at all interested in dtd SmileSad

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Countmyblessings · 05/07/2012 01:54

Hi Purple- Gutted for you that it the vitamins your taking is causing issues
I haven't started TTC as yet as I'm expecting my 2 nd AF
And then hopefully i can see if my body is ready? I feel so unmotivated right now, can stay doing loads in Doors is just to face " high streets" etc I can't do just yet as i think my baby would of been 6 months by now or I
Would of been 16 weeks etc!!!!! Also feel sometimes just wish the world would stop until I'm ready!
Hope everyone else is ok!

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Countmyblessings · 06/07/2012 14:12

just been told my DH ex is having another boy!Shock my gosh she was the one who wanted her career rather then babies!!!!!!!

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iloveberries · 06/07/2012 15:53

I get that "i wish the world would stop till i'm ready" too....

I also find it hard to do toddler groups etc as everyone has a baby or a bump to go with their toddler.... it sucks doesn't it. But at least i have my adorable toddler x

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Countmyblessings · 06/07/2012 20:49

ohhhh and now Lizzy from Coronation Street is expecting! even the soaps are mocking me!!!!!! Blahhhhhhhhhhhh

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Countmyblessings · 06/07/2012 20:50

yes indeed Ilove - i would be lost without myds2!

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Pipbin · 09/07/2012 23:40

So today I've been asked to countersign the passport for a very dear friend's baby, watched Walking Dead where a character has got pregnant despite being under attack from zombies, during this they were advertising clear blue digital, I go to bed to get away from it all and the comedy on the radio is all about pregnant women.
Arrrrgh.

Purpleprickles · 10/07/2012 12:09

Pipbin I'm sorry Sad bet you just want to scream. We are having a crappy time at the moment here too. Dh has injured his back. Our house is being attacked by juvenile rats, we live on the back of woods and have had problems with them under the house for ages. Tried so many times to get rid of them but now the fuckers have got in so Dh with his bad back is like a rat hunter. It sounds hideous, it is hideous but I promise my house is very clean. Really everything at the moment is a complete turn off and Dh and I are too knackered to dtd.

I've been using the ovulation sticks, nothing so far but today was the day I though I'd be ovulating. Did the test, the bloody thing didn't work- didn't even get a surge line. I think I'll give up this month, what with backs, rats, ibs, conception vitamins making me feel worse and faulty sticks. What is the bloody point?

Oh I'm currently sitting in Halfords in my lunch hour getting a new tyre cos mine has a nail in it too.

All non-life threatening things but honestly arrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh Angry