About to start / just started TTC No 2 (thread 2)

[HungryHorace]

Part 2 this way!

We had 6 BFPs in just over a month on the first thread, so here's hoping the luck continues.

Arh its hard work posting on a phone,keeps taking ages to show msgs! Im at work though so cant really do it on the comp. Mrs have you taken the day off for your app? When do you think you will tell work? Im going to start looking for a new job soon. One of the biggest letdowns for me keep getting bfns is i have to keep working a job i hate just to get mat leave. If it takes another few months im not sure i can bear it that long,and if i get another job ill be eligible for mat leave after a couple of months anyway. I think thats right? Hungry i wonder if it is pregnacare too for you? I have always been so regular and never this bad. Maybe its just the stress of it all affecting things,but either way im going to stop both and just relax about it! Yours does round similar to others who eventually got their bfp though,so hopefuly you will get one soon,its just a horrible waiting game in the meantime. I never knew before ttc no.2 it could all be so vague! Sorry about your dd,poor little thing,this time of year is rubbish for sickness and bugs!

Hi Lucy - you are right, yes I booked the day off work. I would have needed to finish early as my appointment is 3.40pm but I'm too excited and like you, I don't like my job anymore at all so it doesn't take much to persuade me to take a day off. I am really excited and nervous. I know it's only a midwife appointment but still. Lucy a part of me would like to tell work now as I get so tired etc but I won't until I'm 12 weeks and once/if I know everything is ok. I think it's too risky. If I were you I would get looking for a new job if you're not happy. I won't go back after mat leave. Where I work has turned into a bit of a joke. We've got a new manager who isn't very nice and she has appointed someone in our team to be team leader. The person she's chosen is a friend of hers and totally not right or experienced for the position so she's made a very unprofessional decision. I can't be bothered with people like that. Anyway are there lots of things going about? I keep hearing of sickness bugs. They scare me as DS was really poorly last year with it.

Mrs, I would tell HR if I were you so you get your maternity appointment time off. That's what I did. They're not allowed to tell anyone!

Lucy, I detest my job too. If I get pregnant this month I'll only have to go back for 5.5 days before starting annual leave before mat leave. It's partly this which means I just can't relax into TTC.

Mrs, your company sounds like mine for management skills.

It's crap when you hate your day to day stuff, isn't it?

Oh, your timescale has given me vague hope, Mrs! And Windy's.

The blood looks like it does at the end of AF now on the pad. Very brown and smudged. Does that make sense?

I'm either having the weirdest AF / start to AF or I'm pregnant. Hope it's the latter. :-)

DD has a mild virus according to the GP. Difficult to hydrate when she's off food, but the GP said she's well hydrated now, so that's good. Still worrying though, isn't it?

Hi Hungry yes it is worrying but do your best to keep DD drinking water and taking fluids. It is hard as they refuse them when they're poorly. Your job sounds like mine! Ooh not long til my mw appointment. It's at 3.40pm x I feel secretly positive that you are pregnant. I don't want to build hopes but it's a feeling I get. X

Um, windy... do I know you in RL? Did you go to a school starting with D?

You know what, Mrs, I think your first bleed was from OV, and your second IB. I'd put your date of conception at around that first bleed.

Hi ATruth! Do you know someone with mumps?!

How are you?

It is a worry isnt it. She will be fine though hungry.theyre resilient little things! Just keep her topped up with calpol and maybe see if she will take warm water from a teaspoon? Im so excited for you mrs,will the mw be coming to your house or are you going to her? bet you still cant believe you are pregnant again.i so hope its me soon,i really feel like its never going to happen. Im not doing very well with relaxing about it am i! Im the same hungry,i feel the pressure every month so i can just get away from my job once and for all. Also im secretly convinced like mrs you are pregnant! I just dont know whether to leave...or persevere. Its not fair when people choose their friends as employees is it.that has happened in my company too and i feel like im being pushed out a bit.its all changed since i first started and its not what it used to be. Yes mrs you shouldmt have to take a/l for app. I know you wanted to today but in future its extra time off work for free!!

Though that theory is a bit scuppered by the 3 week thing, although those tests aren't bang on accurate. Twins anyone?!

She's perfectly happy in herself 50% of the time she's awake and grumpy / screamy / sicky the other half. It's confusing. I've just put her to bed for a nap. I'm hoping she sleeps well and starts to shake it off.

Lucy and Mrs, don't give me hope! Part of me agrees with you in that I feel more pregnant than I do periody. But I just don't know! Argghhh.

We need a shit job support thread too, don't we?!

Hehehe, yes, I think I know Windy. I hope she doesn't mind me outing her (to only myself!) I thought it was more polite than not telling her I'd recognised her Windy, whether I know you or not, I hope you're feeling okay and not worrying too much.

I'm sorry you're still so confused Hungry. I'm only about 7 dpo but desperate to test. It's all so baffling/stressful isn't it?

Lucy - I'm doing very badly at relaxing too. I really need to because I suspect it isn't helping at all!

Um, yes! So this is freaky. I've just been scanning through the old thread for clues. So if you know me from school, based on where you now live I think I know who you are! Oh gosh, if you are I'm sorry but I didn't figure it out, I think because our hometown hasn't been mentioned and I was a bit absent from the thread when I was the only BFP.

Blimey, this is strange. I am freaked out.

Obviously you can rely on my discretion (even DH doesn't know I'm on MN). I should have thought the mumps might out me, but I clearly didn't engage my brain and didn't imagine I'd actually know anyone on this thread! I hope nobody else has busted me, we haven't gone public yet.

So, um, hi!!!!!

How bizarre is that!

You should join our private Facebook group now Windy! :-)

How funny! But lovely too! What a small world it is! Do you both live in the same place then? Id love to have a friend in rl who was going through the same thing! Im thinking i might tell my mum and sis soon. i was hoping to reveal a bump and scan photo at christmas,but think ill be needing some sympathetic words from someone other than dh by then, (and you ladies too of course).silly of me really to have hoped it would all go swimmingly according to my plans!! Yes atruth we need to just stop dont we,but its so much easier said than done!

Hi Lucy - I'm in the same situation at work . Basically I left to go on Mat leave and was off for 18 months but since going back it has totally changed.
Wow ATruth and Windy - it is a small world
Hungry - how is DD ?
Will post later, just going to give DS a bottle before I go x

DD is napping, thank god. She ate an ok amount at lunch, though threw some back up. See how she goes, I suppose.

Really hope good sleep will help.

Can't wait to hear back, Mrs.

I'm sorry Windy, I didn't mean to freak you out. I hadn't even considered the link until you mentioned the mumps so definitely don't apologise for not working it out. Now that I do know I promise I won't be looking back over your history or anything. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it, but I know I preferred it when one of my uni friends said "um, did you just put the same comment on FB? If so, I think I know you"

Also, now that I do know, I'm sorry you're going through this. You must be so excited by the pregnancy (congratulations!!!) and so scared by the mumps. I really hope you get your test results and a bit of reassurance soon x

Oh, and no Lucy - we went to school together but live in different places now. I admire gorgeous pics of Windy's DD on FB and make unfounded diagnoses of mumps on her statuses but we can't pop round to each other's houses for a and unfortunately.

Me again... great minds Lucy - I was also hoping a scan picture might make a great christmas present for some doting grandparents, but that is looking less and less likely

We did the Christmas reveal last year. No chance of that this year either. :-/

I really should be more productive while DD is asleep, but I'm struggling to get motivated. In fairness, if some blokes hadn't shown up to swap our broken cooker over I'd have cleaned the kitchen by now. Somebody kick me up the arse!

Hi ladies, I'm sat in the waiting room now at the doctor's with my wee sample feeling very nervous and a bit emotional. Don't know what's the matter with me. Feel really tired today too. So will report back soon. Glad your DD ate something Hungry x

I cried at my booking in, Mrs. Hope the appt went ok. :-)

Hi everyone. Just had my appointment with the midwife, she was nice. She has worked it out as 9 weeks but obviously this may not be exact and won't know that until my scan. My due date is the 6th June which is my mum's birthday. I've agreed to have the downsyndrome screening test like last time and now just waiting for my scan appointment which she said would be about 3 weeks time. Wee was fine xxx

Sounds like it went well :-) And yay to possibly being 9 weeks already!

We didn't do the Downs testing last time and probably won't again.

Did you have all the blood tests?

How exciting mrs! That's quite far along. Quite good that u didn't know for all that time! I went to drs and he reckons I'm 5.5 weeks and due 5 July. He thinks of I ring the hospital once they've received referral I could ask them if they would try and do scan pre Christmas. I don't know if that would work but I could lie and say I'm going away in jan...anyone got any thoughts on that? Just don't want to wait til jan! And as nobody knows but dh I wanted to do the Christmas news. Especially with my sisters news too.
Anyway can't believe people have been outed! Good sleuthing!
Hungry it's such a toughie. I think if it was me I would need to find a date where I took a test and then just went with that result. Maybe in a week or so? Maybe it's just me but I find the not knowing harder than the knowing! I really hope u are. Where's everyone else on their cycle?