BFP in 2012 Part 2 - step away from the COD and into this thread.

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We filled the last one so I thought I would start no 2.

Just make sure you book the blood test after seeing the doctor, otherwise the nurse won't know what to test for (assuming your doctor won't take the blood) :)

Am wondering if there's a link between being legal control freak in life (am also legal bod so iI'm allowed to be rude about us) and struggling with the lack of control in TTC?!! How cool to find out that we are all quite similar in RL

And i completely agree that SAHM is a career high not the poor relation (and that it's probably more joyful and way harder work than being in the office).

Well done kick!!

And well done red on the lifestyle change ideas for 2ww - I might take some of that on board.

winkle I hope you get reassuring test results.

Ps Nicola I meant to say that ginger tea helps with nausea and eating something light (ginger biscuits are magic)

No, no blood pressure check. No time to do anything about that til the weekend though. My posh CB tests have dispatched though, so maybe an answer will come soon. Or AF!

I think my doctor would take blood, Newbie, so that is OK.

And the legal control freak thing is VERY likely! :-)

I definitely have an issue with being in control. I don't think it's a bad thing though. It means I got my diabetes under control in record time :)

SAHM sounds like a dreamy career....I wish we could afford it. I think i'd be pretty good at that job.

DH and I have agreed I will take a years maternity and then part time for a couple of years. Want to work close to home and do something less taxing on the brain.

I dreamt about a complete career change last night - doing some admin work in a library! I love books so I guess that would be nice :)

woody thanks for reminding me abt superdrug! I just checked the superdrug website and they have free delivery on all orders - just bought me some pregnancy tests too :) Roll on end of Aug.

I have a busy weekend - so hoping time will go quicker and I won't obsess in the 2ww.

Yeh I would be a SAHM. We're actually looking at adopting as well so that could potentially go through in a year or so.

My DH is happy for me to be a SAHM and then work as I want - for fun.

I would be happy at home with the kiddies and in a job that gives a bit of freedom. Consulting would be ideal really

My H2B will be the one who stays home. Can't afford to do it the other way round :-( At least one of us will be there, which is the main thing.

I'm feeling slightly better now I've eaten. Will see if our canteen has anything ginger based too, to take to my desk.

I have just got soaked trying to get lunch. Got a cuppa soup and some bread. I am going to spend my lunch hour obsessing about baby stuff.

I read a website about how to cope in the 2ww and it said you can allow yourself 15mins every day to think about POAS and baby stuff and get it out of your system - AS IF 15mins is enough!! I think an hour is more like it.

Then I shall spend the whole day not thinking about what I must not think about :)

I am a complete control freak too - it really stresses me out when I don't have control over things, especially when I feel I am being judged on things that are outside of my control.

Glad you've got a busy weekend red - I do think that it helps the time go by quicker. We are off to Australia next week for three weeks - I can't wait and think it'll take my mind of ttc brilliantly! Also will be perfect time to dtd lots but for enjoyment rather than just ttc.

Glad you are feeling a bit better nicola

I haven't been able to eat anything. Was making tuna nicoise salad for lunch and I just couldn't stand the smells. I had to leave the kitchen.

We've got some ginger and lemon herbal teas so I might try one of those later.

Girls you've given my confidence a much needed boost. I always feel like I somehow have to justify myself being a sahm.

Originally it was because my dh started to work away from home and we had no affordable childcare options. Then a year down the line I realised I was loving being at home with dd, stopped resenting that I couldn't work, accepted my new life and here we are 4 years and a ds later still loving it!

I am also a bit of a control freak. I need to be organised and have a plan or I feel lost. DH says he only needs to use 50% of his brain when he's back from offshore as I have him so well scheduled :)

I miss dtd just for us and for passion rather than ttc. Ah! I am so of your trip to Australia! I have always wanted to book a trip down there.

I think we're very lucky to be trying so early on in the marriage. We still hump lots

I loved Australia and loved NZ even more!!

wee I think most people are jealous of it. It's not many couples that could afford to be full time SAHM's so I think an element of envy creeps in.

I've made it clear that I understand if we can't afford it, but I would really like to make a plan and be a SAHM mum. My mum did it, my DH's mum did it and we all turned out fairly okayish! :)

Also very of your Oz trip woody

Well I'm going to break the mould and say that I am most definitely not a control freak! It's my job to be organised on behalf of someone else, so when I'm not at work I like to be laid back and lazy :o

I peed onna stick VERY early and not surprisingly, BFN.

I know, I know, I know. I don't have any symptoms or anything but I am just interested to see now.

And since the last year has been a complete and utter waste of fucking time, I just want it to happen now! Does it mean that I am going to be like...set back. they just scratch the last year because I wouldn't have fallen pregnant anyway.

I could cry about that.

I'd love to be a SAHM! I hate my job. I'm currently job hunting. if it clashes with me becoming pregnant ? oh well! Can't put my life on hold anymore.

I've still got sore boobs, like a muscle ache but the last exercise I did was last Weds? hmmm?

Woman at work just asked me when I'm having kids. I had to say what will be will be, just letting nature take its course, blah blah blah but inside I'm screaming for a baby! She started telling me about using OV sticks etc. I just smiled and nodded in the right places! what am I supposed to say?!

Seeing as I got a peak on the monitor on CD13 I should prob take a test this weekend. I have a hen weekend this weekend so I should take it before I leave really!

winkle

Fancy testing on the same day? Based on last month plus the average day I may have ovulated, I should have AF any day from Saturday.

To be honest, I snap when people try telling me about TTC. I do tell them thanks for the pointer but I know that already and then I change the subject.

My boobs feel the same, if it's any consolation. They are sore and tender and swollen everywhere and if I raise my arms over my head, they feel like the muscles have been pulled. The sides and around - everywhere is VERY tender to the touch. I've not been this sore before :(

Fucking progesterone making me all excited now :(

I think I snap at people telling me "to get a move on" or give me advice on OV sticks.

I think we all feel like that today - earlier when I went for a walk for lunch I just wanted to scream that I want to be a mum - why is it so fucking hard??!

Sorry about the early BFN kick - wait till Sat. Although I am thinking of getting some very very cheap pregnancy tests for the next week of the 2ww. I can't bear to not find out. I am already getting so many twinges this month - its worse than last month. How am I supposed to ignore all of it?

Hope those sore boobs are a good sign kick!

I think it would be awesome if we all get BFP's this month!!!

I felt more twinges too

Can I just say that my nipples are ON FIRE!!

At least I've stopped feeling sick / dizzy for now though.

When last did you do a test, Nicola???

I asked my doctor why am I experiencing so many twinges if nothing is going on and she said that we become so in tune wih our bodies when TTC that we notice everything. That's not very helpful is it :-/

This week is going incredibly slowly. I think the muggy weather is making us all very restless!

This morning. Two types.

At least I have the conception indicator ones on the way to me now.