About to start / Just started TTC no.2 (part 3)

[Lucyjojo]

Part 3 for a chatty lot!
3 is the magic number, good things come in 3s, so here is hoping we get plenty more BFPs.....

I've told DH we have to be ruthless. And moving rooms round will give us more room too by using the space more wisely.

We are lucky that we gave an outhouse which is not damp that we can use for storage.

My DD is 6 months old, purple. I got pregnant when she was 4.5 months old. How old are you? We've gone again quickly because of my age - 37 - not DH's.

Good to know metal! I do usually sit with my legs up a bit for maybe 5/10 minutes but I will be adopting your tactic this month! Probably going to get back to dtd tonight, feels like I've had a bit of a break anyway (is that awful to say!) so we can throw ourselves back into it. I'm not sure I could manage every day Mrs! EOD is even seeming a bit daunting right now. I think I will aim for every other or 2/3 days, start using opks and take it from there.I have also decided to stop eating all kinds of crap and processed food, and try and have an incredibly healthy diet. Hopefully that won't have a detrimental effect on my cycles or anything.
A walk and a sunday dinner sounds perfect Mrs. DD and I have had a quiet day at home, went for a bit of a walk but it is so cold and rainy. Going to my parents for sunday roast later as DH at work all day. DD had just gone for her afternoon nap so I am deciding whether to drink tea and read my book or tackle the mountain of dishes.....
I like the sound of a clear out Hungry, I think it is very good for the soul to have a tidy up and clear out. Sounds like nesting to me We have just rearranged our lounge and I am loving the new space we created! I am terrible for keeping all sorts of useless things, old clothes and shoes, I would love to live a minimalist life sometimes!! Glad you don't have to move, must be a bit of a weight off for you.When are you hoping to hear back from your work then?
I also think boy for you Metal!
Hello and welcome purple!!

Bit early for nesting...maybe it's delayed from DD as I didn't do it then!

And weren't you thinking of doing SMEP? That's EOD from CD8, then the 3 days from smiley, leave it a day, then the next day DTD a final time.

That's what we were trying to do. Went a bit wrong, but still worked! :-)

Work are meant to come back to me tomorrow. Bet they don't though.

Hi Hungry - that's great that you can stay in your house. And good on you for having the sort out. We need to make a bit more room too.

I'm 34 so not urgent but not loads of time either.

Don't get me started on the outside store ut seems to magically fill with junk ni matter how often we clear it.

Today has been p melt down day for ds - he must know what we are planning!

Good luck with work hungry

Hi and welcome purple!

Glad you don't have to move house Hungry, that wouldn't have been much fun with 2 babies. And I hope your work people get back to you tomorrow.

We also need to have a good sort out especially now after Christmas - the house is looking more and more like a toy shop! (Mainly thanks to Mil and Pil who seem to have a penchant for buying massive presents for DD...)

lucy I definitely get where you're coming from with the whole sex thing getting a bit much at times! We haven't dtd since that fateful night over two weeks ago, and I'm in no rush to get back into the swing of things... but as you can see from me, once can be enough, so try not to get too hung up about dtd every day or every other day. If you're using OPKs just make sure you do it regularly around peak time and a few days after.

I can join the stay at home mummy buddy club! I left work when I was 7months pregnant last time and not going back until all baby phases are over!

Hopefully good news from work tomorrow hungry

lucy I found everyday too much too, we tried eod the first cycle but that even felt abit forced. The cycle I fell pregnant we dtd 3 days before ov & 4 days after (or at least roughly when I thought of was due) which was the least by far of the other cycles and that was the month we fell. Although mrs tactic must give you a better chance!! Heroic though!!

Every day is a killer. And thankfully unnecessary! :-)

The one month we tried it, it was a nightmare and we both struggled to do it that much. Gone is the multiple times of day era!

Multiple times of day don't think I was ever in that cramp!!
Yes I did say I was going to do SMEP didn't I Hungry, I'm even losing track myself now! Not sure when to start using opks, not sure now really what a regular cycle would be for me. Do I just go with what my regular cycles were like 3 months ago, decide they are totally irregular after the last 3 months of early-early-very late, or do I take an average!! I think I will just dtd as much as possible, esp around my fertile time, and take it from there. Going to try not to plan so much as it is hard to do with DHs shifts, and just see what happens. I think I have already convinced myself it is not going to happen! It's funny that you all seemed to conceive the month you thought you hadn't put enough effort in...
We have way too many toys in our house now too Metal. I keep going to have a clear out of all the baby toys but then as soon as DD sees old toys reappearing she wants to play with them all, arghh!!
Good luck with work tomorrow Hungry, not too far in the distance now and you can write the lot of them off for good. I don't go back to my main job (I have two part time jobs) for another ten days yet, and I am absolutely dreading it.

Morning all, how is everyone today? I'm back at work and already secretly counting the weeks until my potential ML starts (though at the moment 29 weeks still seems very long, so maybe I should stop this!). My boobs are much more painful today and I'm definitely feeling queasy, so that must be a good sign.

Lucy I would work out your fertile periods using your shortest and longest cycle and then dtd as much as possible between those dates. And my DD is the same, as soon as she sees her old baby toys she wants to play with them! But we've decided we need to be a bit more ruthless and just put stuff out of sight, so DH and I will pop into town in our lunch break to buy some more storage boxes and put some things up in the loft tonight.

Any news from work Hungry?

Hi and Happy New Year to you all.

Congratulations on your BFP Metal, that's wonderful news.

Mrs, congratulations on having another boy, very exciting, I love your impatience! Sorry about your sister, it sounds like a horrible situation but you seem to be dealing with it in the best way you can and being the bigger person.

I thought I'd pop in to let you all know I had my 20 week scan today and all looks to be normal and progressing well. I can't believe I'm 20 weeks already. We didn't find out whether we're having a boy or girl. Happy with either and enjoy the element of surprise!

I hope everyone is well and working on those BFPs. I've got a good feeling about January.

No news from work, Metal, which means they've failed to follow the procedure correctly. I'm going to ask my employment sol friend how best to deal with it, as I believe it's best to just let them muck up, then challenge at the end of the process rather than put a grievance in now. But I need to find out.

Windy, can't believe you're 20 weeks already. Exciting that you didn't find out too. :-)

Metal, can you take annual leave before your mat leave and finish earlier? That's what I'm doing!

Evening everyone! I got my tests in the post I ordered on Sat, and I thought why not do a test this evening! And I can see a line! Going to wait though and not get my hopes up as AF due either tomoz or wed!

Oh my lord kt a little line in the evening is a brilliant sign, are you gonna test again first thing?!?! Finger and toes all crossed!!

I can't believe you're 20 weeks either windy brilliant that everything looks good on the scan, what a nice reassurance. Is baby squirming lots now?

Good really that they've messed up with procedure hungry although a pain to have to go through it at all!

How's everyone else?

Amazing kt

Ooh...picture on Facebook now please Kt!!!!

It is good, Better. I'm hoping it has to be 14 days, even with 3 bank holidays in there. I think it does, as if they wanted to extend time (e.g. because of that) I have to agree it. They've not even sent me the minutes yet.

Hooray Kt, that's great news! Fx you'll get another, stronger line tomorrow morning if you're retesting, but a line is a line!

Glad to hear everything looked well on the scan Windy, that must be a weight off your shoulders.

Sorry about your work Hungry, that's rubbish. I'll also be taking annual leave before mat leave, but will still have to work until end-July/early Aug.

That's rubbish, Metal. I'll finish at the end of April with mat leave starting at the end of May. :-)

I don't care about work. The fact they've mucked up means I get to be a right royal pain in the arse and can start operation pay off part 2!

Kt...definitely a line! W00t!

Remind me which cycle this was. :-)

Thanks everyone! Just scared incase it will be a negative next time I test now! Well I was about to go onto 5th cycle I think. Where my cycles were so long it seemed even longer to wait each month!
Hope you get things sorted at work hungry I can see my work being useless too, as one of the dentists is 6 months pregnant where I work, and our practice manager hasn't been very good at sorting out her book for her midwife apts she forgets to tell us till the day before!

Sorry for being about me me me in that last post! windy glad your scan went well! Can't believe either that your 20wks already!

Congratulation Kt, that's brilliant news!

hello - newbie to this thread! I'm a bit baffled by some of the jargon but I'm sure I'll pick it up

so - ttc since late Nov. Got a bit overenthusiastic today and thought I was overdue, but got BFN - then AF arrived this evening feeling a bit cheesed off, but there's always next month...

Hi everyone and sorry for being away so long. What with Christmas and no af still while we resolve weaning there seemed less point in checking in then saw exciting news for kt, congratulations!

horace if I can help re employer silliness do pm me asI ended up with a full fight w my previous ones due to pregnancy with O.

my news is only that we seem to be down to only milk before bed now, so hopefully a better chance of af/fertility now? Can anyone tell me what the latest date for conception without a due date in December is? With O being due 15th and birthday 27th December, we really want the next to be outside that month so will stop for the danger window..

Hi and welcome guiness!

utopian roughly I think the latest conception date before Dec due date would be Feb (I conceived in Dec and am due in Sep). So if you want to avoid Dec I'd say stop ttc during March and maybe first few weeks of April?

utopian - we had similar dates with DS so I've checked the dates - we'll also be avoiding March if we don't strike lucky before then, and start again in April. not sure my sanity can withstand two December birthdays AND Christmas!