Elderberry Pavlovas And The Eternal Sausage of Wang (Part 4): a frightfully good thread for the over-30s TTC their first baby.

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Over here, sausage-wangers!

God yes, agree with that too, Soph! It took ages for DH to come round to the idea of being ready for kids. Had to wait until a year after our wedding, by which time we'd been together the best part of 10 years anyway. Just wish we'd started sooner...hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Hindsight, such a wonderful thing!

AF not due for a week but signs are here that it's on it's way

Ha, yes Soph. In my more wry moments I smile grimly at the thought of all the money we spent on condoms. What a waste of rubber and £'s!

Just realized I got boodle and bunny mixed up earlier- sorry ladies!

Definitely not worth looking back on years of trying not to get pg - I've been with dh 9 yrs and on the pill and then depo pretty much the whole time but no point regretting it. I like to think our child will be coming into a better home now than if we'd had kids earlier - we're wiser, a bit more organized and better paid. And hopefully we'll get more hand me downs from all the people who've got pg before us!

Oh ladies, sounds like some of you have had a crappy day/night - big hugs all round! captain yes I remember the pointless panic over a missed pill... what a waste of stress!

I did notice, Aquarius, but worked out who you meant! Easily done!

Thinking back, I remember taking myself to A&E as a teenager so I could get the morning after pill because boyfriend at the time didn't withdraw very elegantly and the condom fell off in situ! How laughable I find that now! (Although knowing my luck I would have gone and got pregnant had I not...)

I'm now torturing myself by googling hypothyroidism information and natural progesterone for extending luteal plase. Don't think I'm brave enough to self-medicate using the progesterone cream.

This thread seems pretty well established, am I able to sidle in and join you or is there somewhere more suitable for me to start?

I think I otherwise qualify - I am over 30, been ttc #1 for over a year, and am currently feeling 'a little annoyed' that AF has finally arrived today 3 days late after I'd imagined all sorts of definitely positive symptoms....

Hello h313n - I see what you did there!

Over 30? Check! (Not that it matters - they were lovely enough to welcome me into the fold at the tender age of 29, but I have since "qualified"!)

TTC #1? Check!

TTC for a while? Not a criteria for joining as such, but seems to be an emerging trend for us.

Welcome aboard and sorry for AF turning up; miserable old boot that she is.

Welcome h3l3n!

Hello h3l3n come in and make yourself comfortable you are more than welcome . AF got me today too - we can be cycle buddies

Welcome H3l3n, nice to have a newby about.

Of course I'm sure that all this is going to go just right for us. We'll be in a bigger house, that we would never have got a mortgage for if we'd had only one wage, before I get pg. All being well we will be established in there before a baby comes.
If it had happened when we first started trying then we would have been stuck in this crappy house in a poor neighbourhood.

Thank you for all the lovely welcomes . I'd love to have a cycle buddy happylass but I'm a bit unreliable - next one could start in 24 days or maybe 37.....

Hi there h313n!

Boodle I have an under active thyroid - is there any wee bits of info I could help you with? X

Hi everyone, thought I'd just pop my head in now I've stopped being so grumpy.

I totally understand the pain of trying to be happy for others' pg when feeling like youve just been hoofed in the stomach. It's shit. I'm even avoiding friends who might have started ttc now just in case they're successful. Ridiculous.

bunny and happy (and now h3l3n - hi), af is due in the next few days too. Let's do better next cycle, yeah?

Welcome h3l3n sorry to hear the witch got you after teasing you by being late!

I can tell AF is on her evil way, shouldn't be surprised though as we only dtd twice on the wrong days. Hope DH gets his mojo back for march or I may completely freak out!!!

thunder are you thundercats under a nc?? [easily confused face]

bunny your 'we only did it twice on the wrong days' did make me smile a little... (especially after my single sex episode last cycle!) No wonder doctors feel they have to remind people to have more sex!! We need to get our DHs into gear this time round

h3l3n welcome, sorry about AF. Though at least you can toast the start of a nice new cycle

Yeah sorry 2cats, tis me thundercats. We had a bfp on the mc thread with a baking-related name so had to make a change...you know how it is. Not that I have any hope this cycle because we couldn't dtd at the right time either. Damnit!

Sorry af got you btw, the temps and faint lines were looking so promising....

Thunder is it just me or does your new name sound like you're a bodybuilder or you've had bowel problems [stifles childish chortle and tells self to grow up]

Based on all this lack of DTD, perhaps next time we start a new thread, we should be the Elderberry Pavlovas and the quest for the immaculate conception!

Fairy, do talk to me about your thyroid! I've had two tests (Sep 2012 then Dec 2012) and my TSH levels were 4.6 then 3.9. Doc sent me packing but I've got so many symptoms in common with it and I'm just generally feeling crap and frustrated. When were you diagnosed? How is yours treated?

ha ha Boodle - I like the new thread name

start of shagging week here - and oh not in mood already and weirdly have a whole load of ewcm far too early...hmm...

Ooh I forgot to wave at h3l too

Navis I had ewcm too early too - on cd8- and then again on cd13 . Didn't get a positive opk til cd13. No idea what cd8 was all about...

haha, love the thread name boodle sounds about right as we also didnt dtd enough this month. Its strangly tricky to have so much sex! lol

FX for the immaculate conception.

I was doing so well with no spotting or symptoms but today (7dpo) I have slight cramps and pale pinky cm, I'm hope its a good sign and not because my body is being crap again. I feel much better and the extra b6 and progesterone cream have so far done the trick with the spotting......fx.

Mother, sorry if you've already mentioned this before, but I didn't realise you were using progesterone cream. Has this been recommended/prescribed, or have you just decided to try it on your own steam? What sort of progesterone cream are you using?

Fertility appointment at 3; period started at half 1. Talk about reverse irony hey?

Bloody hell, Twinkle, it's like our uteruses/uteri (!?) are plotting against us. That's what mine did last month, turning up right on cue for the dildocam.

I hope your appointment goes well - do check back in later and let us know how it goes; I'm very interested to find out as (hopefully) I'll be doing the same thing in the 'not too distant' future, though my appointment still hasn't come through. Aaaargh!