Hia folks,
I guess I'm after advice and information :-) we've been trying to conceive now for 5 months, for the first time. I started off full of wild naive enthusiasm, with some misguided belief that the coil would pop out, I'd go home, make amazing love to my husband, and be back at the doctors the next month pregnant.
Well yes. That didn't happen!! Haha
The trouble is the more I read, the more I feel like the odds are against me and I'm not too sure if my imagination is taking over
Firstly, though I am in my late twenties, my husband is 44, so there is quite an age gap, which I have read vague unreferenced things about.
Secondly I work crazy unmanageable hours, with random all nighters, frequent traveling and heaps of stress. Which to be honest should probably be the firstly. Not seeing my husband that much isn't helping haha, knowing I'm getting a weekend at home, and finding out that matches my cycle is a major plus point, and I've been lucky enough for that over the last 5 months :-D actually I made a joke to my boss that after I got married it was a company conspiracy to keep us apart so they didn't have to worry about maternity leave, and since then I've oddly had that time off. Which I hadn't thought about before, but now makes me think my boss knows me far far too well :-/ ok... Back to the point!
We both have fairly healthy diets (I'm a veggie, he's in the habit of both cooking veggie and complaining about veggie), and though I never seem to get much chance to have an exercise routine as such, I'm reasonably active at work. And he is very fit, running and cycling. We both drink a little, but we've toned it down, (I smoke occasionally, though i am trying to give it up I get a bad few days every few weeks and have a few, but it's not so much and I am still pushing on the quitting)
I know worrying about it won't help me, and after the first 2 months of relentlessly peeing on sticks (and I tell you, when you're moving from country to country, deciphering the damn things instructions in different languages was quite a feat) I pretty much stopped bothering getting excited about it.
BUT at what point do I worry?
Many many thanks for making it to the end of this rambling post :-D that looking back on, probably points out the obvious (that I need to stop smoking entirely, not drink at all, and quit my job ;-)
Katie xx