About to start / Just started TTC no.2 (part 4)

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So, here it is, Part 4! May it bring lots of BFP's for those of us still waiting and may it bring happy healthy pregnancies for those who are fabulously pregnant.

Claude, it's first day of full flow bleeding. :-)

Hungry good luck for tomorrow! I'll be thinking of you.

How is everyone today? I've come down with another cold over night, really runny nose and sore throat, so DH and DD went swimming without me . Just had a little nap but am still feeling rubbish. On the other hand, I'm a bit worried that my nausea seems to have got a bit better since Friday... gah!

And now I want a burger and chips after watching Man vs Food...

Thank you...discovered yesterday that my appointment is at 11.35, not 11.00. Boo! God knows why I thought the earlier time!

Mrs, I think you asked if we are taking DD with us, and we are as we have no childcare. Our letter doesn't say not to either.

I think Lucy asked ages ago who's looking after DD when I go back - briefly - to work. The answer is DH and MiL.

Emailed my appeal letter to work today. I think they probably thought they'd got away with it as my deadline is tomorrow. No such luck. See when my meeting ends up being now.

I've not mentioned their cock up. I'll save that til the end. :-)

Catching up on replies from previous page first so this may be abit garbled!!

donna 33 weeks is still a nice amount of time before baby comes at least. Good news about your husbands business too, hopefully the redundancy will turn out to be a blessing in disguise. I don't think I've had any specific cravings yet this time other than just lots of food in general haha. Had to go out and buy some bigger knickers yesterday.....and the indignity begins ha!

Lovely to hear from donna & mrs re baby kicks too! I can't wait. I was about 16 weeks for flutterings last time so hopefully just a few more weeks!

I'm doing loads better thanks mrs the effects of the glutening went around Friday. Bleedings all stopped & my first trimester tired end seems to be easing so all good!! Tricky one re your little guy and his bed. We have always been really strict with little miss not being allowed in our bed but we have a blip every few weeks when she's spent the night at my mums (where she sleeps in my mums bed and generally gets her own way with everything) and the first few nights home consist of
'mummy and daddy's bed?'
'No, you never come in mummy and daddy's bed. Your bed.'
'My go in grans bed!!!!' Hours of tantrums!
It takes a few days to get her back to normal.
We're having a nightmare with her sleeping at the moment though, she's slept through from 3 months until the day she turned two and the last few weeks she's been awful. We moved her into a big girls bed last week thinking while she was already unsettled we might as well make the switch. She was improving the back end of the week but spent the night at my mums last night so were probably in for a world of pain tonight! I don't think there's anything you can do mrs other than accept it's going to be terribly hard and try once you've started to stick to it, hopefully that will ensure the shortest time possible. If you give in once, it just means he'll put up more of a fight every time afterwards. Tough one though :(

Oh no metal sorry you feel I'll, it's always worse when pregnant too :(

hungry I'm already thinking about you re tomorrow. At least it's earlyish in the day. I know people who have taken their LOs with them & it's been fine. We didn't but only because of dds fear of everything medical!! I'm sure with her age especially you will be fine, I think the hospitals generally mean toddlers who are likely to cause a fuss (like mine haha)

How is everyone else? How's everyone's weekend been?

lucy how are you?

I meant to say re your comment about lack of symptoms hungry, I know how unsettling it is and I'm not going to say I'm sure it will all be fine as I didn't really care for that when people in real life said it to me! All I can say to hopefully reassure you is it's still the same. If I hadn't tested and hadn't seen the scan, other than the lack of period I genuinely wouldn't know I was pregnant. I mean I've had the bad tiredness but that could be put down to anything, other than that, not one thing really. Last time I had sickness everyday, the metal mouth taste, a bad back and probably more. I do think a big factor, which could well be the same for you, is not having to be up and out on a morning and being able to 'rest' more (I know it's not easy being a SAHM) but you can sit down more etc. The odd morning this time round when we've had to be up & out in the car early are the only times I've had sickness like last time.

Or it could just be that this time were having boys.......!

Or both, Better :-)

The 'taste' comes back in the afternoon, which I suppose is when I start to get tired.

I think I've felt the popping bubble sensations too this last week.

But overall, I agree with you. I'm not forcing myself out of bed at 5.45, to leave at 6.30 for the 7am train and getting back 12 hours later. Life is more relaxed, definitely.

I was almost sick brushing my teeth earlier...yay! I was really sick for about 2 weeks then it tailed off. That bothers me a bit. But not being sick has go very preferable, in the long run!

Metalhead, I hope you feel better tomorrow. Hot water with lemon and honey and an early night for you. :-)

Donna, once your DH gets some work, word of mouth should kick in. Which will be great for him.

Goodluck with scans this week! Look forward to hearing about them! Three more weeks til my 20 week scan but flutterings are quite often now. I am still tired at 17 weeks but I think juggling work / ds and pregnancy means there isn't much down time!

Hi everyone, just popping on quickly to say a huge congratulations to Hazy, one of us was bound to get a bfp this weekend, how exciting for you!!! Has it sunk in a bit more yet? What did DH say?
I have been very hungover today Our party last night was amazing fun, I got exceedingly drunk and ate lots of cake and went to bed at 4am, and have been enjoying vegging on the sofa most of the day.
DH and I saw it as a bit of a final blow out too for our 'fantastically fertile February' (or as DH put it 'Fuck me February'!!!) we are going to go tee-total, cut down on caffeine and all things nasty and be incredibly healthy and positive. Maybe go for the eod or every 2 days option too as I don't want to over-do it!
Claude we also only had the one night of sickness, but she has come down with a cough/cold now. There's always something!
Hi to everyone else, mrs sorry you are having bedtime issues, I can't give much advice I'm afraid but I would agree with Engels, don't pressure yourself too much to get him settled in his own bed, they are only little for such a brief time, he will soon grow out of it, maybe when the next baby comes along he will relish being the big brother and the big boy and will enjoy all the more having his own room and big boy bed. But again I can see why you would want him settled before the next one comes along!
Swede I definately think creamy-stuff is a fantastic sign, especially if you've only had it for one day. I tell you, I've got good feelings for you this cycle
Sorry to those I've missed out, need to go and put DD to bed so I can get back to the sofa!! Good luck to all those having scans this week.

Thanks everyone, spent much of weekend swaying between freaking out (which I did last time, too) about actually reality of being pregnant, and getting very excited and having to restrain myself from buying newborn clothes in the sale. DH was a bit shocked as he was expecting it to take a few months, so he didn't believe me when I told him (did test without telling him as thought would be BFN and didn't want extra pressure).

Lucy, glad you enjoyed your party, lovely way to mark the start of Fantastically Fertile Feb. I'm impressed you stayed up til 4am!

mrs we're having similar probs, DS struggles to get to sleep at night, we have to stay with him and he often ends up falling asleep on floor in his room cuddled up next to one of us, then we transfer him to bed after. He is also still having one BF in the night, and I'm dreading cutting it out as it's usually at about 5 and nothing else gets him back to sleep then.

We're considering taking the sides of his cot bed to make hte bed seem more appealing, but I want to spend a bit of time talking it up to him first. You know - "one day you're cot will become a big bed, won't that be great!". Maybe try doing some of that with your DS before the big move - you do have quite a while til June and if you can prepare him before hand it might make the big switch easier.

morerum/donna 33 weeks sounds a great time to stop - especially if there's any change you might be early - you'll have plenty of leeway to rest beforehand.

swede I had cramps from less than 7dpo with both pregnancies, I think. Still cramping now, but was like this last time too. When do you think BFP/AF is due?

metal the tiredness thing is definitely a factor in sickness - I found last time I was much better if I rested. Hope your cold gets better soon and instead you feel bit (but not too) sicky to ease your mind.

Good luck with scans tomorrow x

Oh, and people keep making comments about twins - do any of you have them in the family?

I would love twins, though I know they are such hard work. Would be a quick way round the 'DH only wants 2 but I want more' dilemma....
But not in either of our families so would be a little miracle...

Don't talk about twins...the idea scares me rigid!

Are they in your family Hungry? I know it's one of those 'be careful what you wish for' things, but the sheer cuteness of two tiny babies melts me every time.

On my dad's side, but they don't come from the maternal side apparently.

However, being older I'm at higher risk of twins due to ovaries spitting out multiple eggs as a 'last hurrah' nearing the end of the fertile years!

My DD will be 13.5 months when this one comes along. I so do not want twins! But will cope if they happen!

Ah yes I can see why a 1yo and twins wouldn't be ideal...

Apparently we do have a history of non identical twins on my mum's side of the family. That scares me a bit tbh, as we are both pretty certain about stopping at two. we have two sets of close friends with young twins and while they're really blessed, it does look like SUCH hard work in the early years.

Hi all, I am sooooo nauseous this morning! This is really not normal for me so I am also taking this as a good sign. Still have the cm today, quite a bit more actually so not sure if this is good or not. Ahhhh, the wait, I cannot seem to think about anything else. I have so much to do at work and all I can do it try to not throw up and google pg symptoms at 6dpo:(

Holy moly hungry very best of luck today. Hope you're not too nervous (unlikely I know) let us know how you get on x x

Can I join you? Been looking for some TTC buddies (not in the literal sense of the word )

DS is 7 months old on Wednesday and DH getting increasingly broody. Last time, got pregnant pretty much first try, but early mc at 5-6 weeks. DS was conceived the month after that. However, I haven't got my AF back yet, so I expect to hang around here for quite a while.

Hi Hazle! My DD is slightly older than your DS (I know your name from your last TTC thread which I was on for a bit, but I've name changed now!) and I'm 11+4 today.

It's amazing how broody you can get so soon after number 1, isn't it?

Good luck. :-)

Thanks for the good wishes everyone...so nervous!

Morning all, and welcome Hazle!

Good luck again for later Hungry, not long now!

Swede the 2ww is sooo hard isn't it? Hope you feel less sickly as the day goes on. As for the cm, I think I've read that it's not a very good indicator of pregnancy so I wouldn't pay too much attention to that.

Well, I had a horrible night, my cold got worse and I was so bunged up that I only managed about 5 hours broken sleep. In the end I had to resort to taking some Otrivine nasal spray, which you're not really supposed to use in pg, but after some extensive googling at 4am I decided the risks are very very small and were outweighed by the benefit of being able to breathe again. Phoned in sick this morning so hoping I'll manage to recover enough today for a better nights sleep tonight.

(Oh and I think if we had twins I would have a nervous breakdown! I definitely do not want more than 2 DC.)

thanks! hungry I'm not that massively broody myself, but we want another, it would be nice to have them close together and also to get the baby years, cluster feedings and nappies over with. So might as well..

Metalhead, I hope you feel better after some proper rest. I've been awake since 4, partly thanks to teething DD and partly because I'm crap at getting back to sleep when I'm thinking about stuff!

That was our thoughts Hazel. We are tired now so we may as well just carry on being tired etc. :-)

hungry how old will your DD be when the baby is born? And did you have AF back before you got your BFP?

Hi everyone, dis everyone have a good weekend? Good luck to Hungry for today! I will be thinking of you. x
Thanks for the advice about DS and sleeping. We bought him a lovely toddler bed but he won't go in it and it is probably my fault for being so soft. I agree with you Lucy that they are only small for so long and at some point he will want to be in his own room. We've decided that we will start looking for a new bed and let him choose one, something maybe a bit more fun like a racing car bed and then when I finish work at end of feb I am going to really try getting him in his own room and bed. Gives me 3 months before new baby so hopefully plenty of time?
I'm 20 weeks and 3 days today and still tired. Got my scan tomo as you all know and am nervous and scared. As I know Hungry you are about today. It's so hard not to worry about things. As much as pregnancy is a lovely thing, I think it's a terrifying thing too!
Can I ask, does anytime think I'm silly finishing work at 25 weeks? My last day is fri 28th feb but then I've got holiday which I've saved up so maternity won't start til 2nd April so not that early. I just want to spend some good quality time with DS before baby comes.
Hungry - glad you've appealed to work. What have you said in your appeal letter? I hope you emphasised the point about it being pointless going back and I hope u don't have to. Would be a shame just for such a short time.
Metal - I hope you feel better soon.
Better - I'm so glad you're feeling much better, you had an awful ordeal. x
Will post more later and sorry if I've forgotten anyone, just got to go food shopping.