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Brooking NO ARGUMENT that those BFPs are on the way

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SweetieTime · 27/01/2013 09:23

Not started a new Fred before but hope it is successful for us as we are going to get our BFPs, either by traditional rat smacking activities or using the power of medical science.

Ladies I do declare WE WILL GET THERE - FACT !!!

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keepitgoing · 04/02/2013 08:16

face what news? Are you losing your mind?

cartoontrickster · 04/02/2013 08:17

so does anyone have a kindle? (i know I'm slightly behind) I've always been against this idea as I love books and the fact that kindle versions seem to be no cheaper. but storing books is becoming an issue. the basic kindle has £10 off it today only. or do I save my money get some form of tablet and get the kindle app Hmm

cartoontrickster · 04/02/2013 08:21

yes keep completely lost it here. on the plus side bleeding seems to have calmed. I am spending my days wondering where my nausea has gone but it arrives most evenings which is a nice comfort to me.

NewYearNewBoo · 04/02/2013 08:23

I have a kindle, I luffs it! I was a complete book snob but I have been converted. There are lots of cheap and free books to download too. It depends on whether you want a tablet or not too, I don't see the point in having both unless you are a gadget geek like me

BeedlesPineNeedles · 04/02/2013 08:25

I'm here

cartoon are you in our Fb group? we had a little discussion on kindles a few weeks back. If you're not I can come back and summarise it later

Off to a meeting, back later

cartoontrickster · 04/02/2013 08:30

beedle no longer on fb so I've missed that.
boo I really can't decide how much I'd use a tablet, I mean my laptops ok and I'd need WiFi if I was out and about it make full use of a tablet. I think I'd end up only using it as a kindle once the novelty had worn off. dh reckons I'd be suprised though and that if I had a tablet I'd be surgically attached to it.

CruCru · 04/02/2013 08:31

Hello everyone

keepitgoing · 04/02/2013 08:37

I love my kindle, esp living abroad. When living in Zambia English books were like gold dust, but now it's so easy! I have a nexus tablet too, which I love, but wouldn't use it to read from, tbh.
Yes, there are lots of cheap or free books, but it does annoy me how expensive new books are. And how you can't lend them.

Glad the bleeding's stopped. Bring on the nausea, hey? Is dh being good?

cru any more lines to report?

Love how it's always busier here in the week. We brookers are hard workers... Wink

cartoontrickster · 04/02/2013 08:44

ooooo yes cru any news to report?
keep why would you not use ur tablet for reading?
I really want a Samsung galaxy note but I won't pay that much for a phone and my upgrade isn't due for ages. I really don't need all 3 gadgets though!
yes blob seems to think its evening sickness rather than morning.

CruCru · 04/02/2013 08:50

Hi, I am not going to test again until Wednesday. I'm using those digital Clearblue tests which are fiendishly expensive. Also this will probably be our final child so I don't want lots of pregnancy tests hanging around.

Have you all had nice weekends? I work Tuesday to Thursday so it's still my weekend.

cartoontrickster · 04/02/2013 08:55

they are! but I do love a written word conformation. any symptoms?

keepitgoing · 04/02/2013 08:58

Face, just because it's so much easier reading on a kindle. Like reading a book rather than a computer screen.

I agree three gadgets may be OTT :)

CruCru · 04/02/2013 09:03

Pretty much just extreme tiredness. However I have a toddler, quite a hard job and am on an enormous cocktail of drugs so perhaps it is to be expected. I have the odd moment of nausea but as I'm on oestrogen and progesterone, that could also be the drugs. Ugh. I'll be really glad when I don't have to take the drugs any more.

CruCru · 04/02/2013 09:05

I'm being a bad parent this morning; letting DS watch CBeebies while eating the switcher. However I took him to the Science Museum yesterday.

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SweetieTime · 04/02/2013 09:15

Morning all, I am back from a very luffly weekend in London with dh. We had a very spendy meal followed by show and yesterday very cultural visit to the National Gallery. Shock

I will have to read back this evening when on proper computer as I am only on my phone.

face i have a kindle which I really luff. I download all the freebies and cheapie books. I only ever pay full price if it is something I really really want. But I have read stuff I would never have considered before. I got a free Samsung galaxy tablet when I got my new phone. I am not surgically attached to it, but I do like it.

Right better do some work. But will pop back later.

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NoMaybeAboutIt · 04/02/2013 10:33

Morning all!

Sounds like you had a lovely weekend Sweetie. Special occasion?

Face I'm glad you are having symptoms. Always good to have reassurance. I have a kindle and love it. I also love books but have run out of room to put them!! I also have an iPad. And an iPhone. And a laptop. What was that about too many gadgets?! Wink

Cru hope Wednesday gets here soon

How you feeling Keep? When is MrKeep back?

It's MrMaybes big 30 tomorrow!! So exciting. I feel like the bad wife as I'm so poor I can't afford to get him a big present. But what he doesn't know is that I am throwing him a surprise party on Saturday. He has no idea. I've been arranging it for months. Cannot wait to see his face Grin

keepitgoing · 04/02/2013 11:20

maybe what a lovely idea! I love surprises, we did one for my dad and it was so much fun! That is your present, so don't worry about that, he won't care :)

I'm OK thanks, have iui scan on Thurs, and iui prob on Fri. MrK back on Wed night, so not long. Am getting a bit mental about if I must say. As in do I really want a baby etc etc. Am losing it, and just going to ignore myself.

Am jealous of your weekend sweetie.

cru how long do you take the drugs for?

NoMaybeAboutIt · 04/02/2013 11:37

Oh Keep I know what you mean. Sometimes I sit here and question whether I really want a baby. But I really do. And so do you. It's just incredible crew helping sometimes. Especially when we nees assistance. But we are going to get there

CruCru · 04/02/2013 12:03

Keep - good luck for the iui. So exciting!

Dunno when I get to stop taking the drugs for. I just mindlessly take whatever I'm told to.

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SweetieTime · 04/02/2013 12:10

Aw keep and Maybe i have been feeling exactly the same. I am really having a wobble if we are doing the right thing. I am not sure I want, or can cope, with a baby. I question how I feel about it. To be honest it is the pregnancy, giving birth and lack of sleep that I worry most about. DH says we but means I will be fine when it happens. I think long term ttc just gives you too much time to think of every eventuality. If it had just happened month one we wouldn't have had the time, we would have just got on with it. You have reassured me because I thought it was just me that thought this.

Maybe dh will love the party I am sure. You could always give him you with a strategically place bow Shock Blush

DH is away skiing with his buddies for valentines so this weekend was to make up. Plus I had been a bit down with everything we are going through. I am not sure if it is the meds or what.

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keepitgoing · 04/02/2013 12:14

You're goddamn right we will, maybe!

It would be easier in some ways for me to do nothing for six months. But there's clearly an issue. So then we'd be home, and looking for jobs, and moving. I will MTFU. At least I can recognise the crazy part of me, and ignore it. It's not taken over yet...

Of course we blooming well want babies. In fact we're rather obsessed with the idea. What are we like :)

CruCru · 04/02/2013 13:00

Hi Sweetie

I worried about that too. You may get a child who is a good sleeper. DS goes to bed at 7 and gets up at 7. He also has a 2 hour nap at 1ish. I get lots of sleep and have since he was a few weeks old. The thing I found hardest was sticking to a routine - and never being able to decide to go out and just putting my shoes on and walking out the door.

You do want kids. But have something else to concentrate on at the same time or you will drive yourself crackers.

Sorry, I hope that doesn't sound patronising.

ControlGeek · 04/02/2013 13:23

Just adding my voice to the chorus of do-I-really-want-this-itis! I think it's perfectly normal when you've been TTCing for more than the standard length of time. There is definitely far too much time to think about everything, obsess without having any end result to show for it. I put it down to the body's natural defence reaction to protect you mentally. Just the other day, before I got my op date, I was looking at my mat leave savings and mentally totting up what I could get for the house/what loans could be paid off with it and semi-seriously considering jacking the whole thing in .

Over the years I've been through the whole gamut, including being convinced that I didn't want a child of any description by any means, to being adamant that adoption was the way to go. In fact it was when I was looking at my LA adoption route that I found that I had to have exhausted all avenues open to me via assisted routes, and have undergone infertility counselling. That's what kick-started my need to have my own baby again.

Sorry not to name check, am struggling to keep up with dink boss's dinkiness today. I know I need to get him back in check when I get emails starting 'I was poking around in the admin area'...

keepitgoing · 04/02/2013 13:38

That sounds very odd, geek, surely people should be able to adopt who aren't infertile...? Why should you have had to try all AC? Some people don't want to do it. Crazy councils..

ControlGeek · 04/02/2013 13:53

keep I think it was more that all avenues had to have been explored, even if it was just to say 'no this isn't for me', and that you had to be fully at peace with your childlessness. The one thing they are absolutely adamant on with my LA's adoption process is that you use contraception for at least 12 months after a successful adoption so I think they need to have confidence that you aren't adopting just because you've been trying for six months, then fall pg within a month of a child being placed with you as that's very hard on the adopted child.

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