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.

Ps. gingerbread not long until you can start the next thread.......!

And also mrs I had to hunt out my copy of Elizabeth pantleys 'no cry sleep solution' for a friend with a 6month old (amazing book, can't recommend enough if you're a softie like me who can't leave them to cry' and noticed that it had listed she also does another book specifically aimed at toddlers and preschoolers, just if you're thinking about purchasing something to aid with your ds's sleeping, that might be a good option!

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Better - I am definitely finding out. Not that it matters one bit what it is but I or we just want to know. When I found out with DD I felt like I was able to bond with her as I knew that she was a she, if that makes sense. Also I am an organisation freak so I want to prepare as much as possible before arrival and I want to know who is coming so to speak. Also, I hate surprises and am a control freak so could not stand not knowing:)

Hello bit late to the party. I'm badgers TTC no2, dd is 15 months. Today is the first day if the tww feels like its going to be a long one!

Welcome Badgers - Never too late to join this party! This is a lovely lucky thread. How long have you been ttc for?

This is my,my first cycle. So won't be too disappointed if it doesn't happen this month but no doubt I will become a mad symptom spotter squinting at several tests by the end of the month!

Welcome badgers. I'm a few days into the 2ww. AF due 23rd so trying to take my mind off it. My DPs X are coming to see us the weekend afteraf is due so will either have good news or be able to drink when we go out for a meal.

cannot be bothered to work with this lovely weather.

Hi Badgers and welcome to our party! I started this thread at the beginning of September and can't believe it's still going strong with so many members on board. We've had white a number of BFP's so far , fingers crossed you'll nee one of those to come soon.
Hi Better - I love Ilkley too, it's a lovely place. I'm actually in Leeds but we have been to Ilkley many times. Your open uni course sounds really interesting, can you take your time in doing and completing the course and are fees really expensive as I know fees for uni degrees have gone crazy?
I don't have anything big to buy Better, we still have our cot from DS and the Silver cross pram is still fine and I like it. We've bought a new play mat from mamas and papas with the gift card I got from work when I left and one outfit. I will buy some new clothes and may need a new Moses basket as my DS loved his. Not really much else needed but I'm sure there will be lots of little things.

DS slept the wholenight in his own bed last night! First time since November or October. Wandered in at 6.45.

yay miniengels bet you feel rested this morning :)

Thanks everyone. I love seeing threads were people get there much wanted bros, was having a read last night as I had the worst night in months with dd. She absolutely would not settle.
CallAllEngels I think I am a two days behind you (due on 25th) Hope you get your bfp this month!

Hi Badgers, welcome and good luck!

Any symptoms yet, people towards the end of the 2WW?

Good luck, Engels. Fx for you. :-)

I'm soooo tired. Think I might hibernate this weekend! On the plus side, I'm really enjoying work.

Better, DD's teething is causing sleep disturbance for everyone, after she finally started sleeping through the other week. We've been giving her a small bottle to comfort her if she won't settle with a cuddle. Hopefully she'll realise night isn't for food, as she was going 11 hours without milk. Don't want to ruin that.

Good luck with your scan today. What did you decide with your DH re finding out the sex?

I actually quite like working, I'm sad to say. Hopefully having done this, going back next time won't be as hard as I imagined it'd be this time.

Sorry if I'm missing anyone out, can't scroll up on my phone.

Yes mrs the fees are ridiculous but I've already paid off my tuition fee loan for my first degree and our thinking is that this one will be worth the investment! I lived right in the city centre up by Leeds uni whilst doing my degree for the first two years then moved to headingley for the last year. When I moved out to Ilkley I was still going into the city centre every day, I used to work on East parade, which was a bit too handy for Greek street and the bars haha!! Life before children! We have quite abit of big stuff to buy really but mainly because we want to. We need a new breast pump and new monitors plus little bits and pieces but we want a new pushchair too, the one we have would be fine but a new one will be better!

Thanks hungry I'm dreading it. Finding it very difficult to get the balance between positive thinking whilst also preparing ourselves for the worst. There's something like a 60% chance of some problem for the baby and I think it's around 15% that it's a very big problem. Hopefully we'll be in the lucky 40% damn high risk :( haven't discussed the finding out the sex debate as feels too much like jinxing things by assuming all will be ok. Either way we'll know by the end of the day.

Hope everyone else is ok.

Good luck badgers the 2ww is awful!

Hi Better - just wanted to say good luck for your scan today! Thinking of you and hope all goes well!
Hi Hungry - Glad you're enjoying work. You never know how you're going to feel until you actually go back and try it. Are you missing your DD when you're at work or are you not finding that too bad? Do you think you'll have a year off with baby 2 and go back again then or just see how it pans out?
Hi Loves and Engels - my DS has gone a bit backwards with the bed time routine. No problems getting him to go to sleep or even sleep through the night but back in our bed I'm afraid but I'll keep trying. His eating is still not great either, he will only eat what he wants when he wants and sadly won't have breakfast at the moment as he just wants a bottle. He's only two though so hopefully it will all just come.
How's everyone else? We've not had a great week unfortunately as we've been having boiler issues so not hot water or heating last night and had to have a British Gas engineer out the last 3 days. All fixed now but seems all they want to do is sell you a boiler. Out of interest , if anyone knows a good plumber and boiler person please let me know as would be handy to know for future if we do ever need to get a new boiler. Companies like British Gas cost an arm and a leg!

Better good luck for your scan today
hungry glad your enjoying work how is your dd finding it all? i found it easier to relax about my time at work once it was obvious that DS was happy at nursery but I do think these things take time.
mrs at least you know he can go to his bed in his room when he chooses to that he isn't scared of it IYSWIM?
hello badgers i'm in the middle of my TWW at the moment and already symton spotting I had really bad stomach pains which could possibly maybe have been implantation - even just writing that makes me want to give myself a slap but I'm allowed to be silly optimistic because it makes me happy, right? :)

Had a giggle at writing when he 'chooses' too as DS is being a bit bloody minded at the moment, if only their choices were a little more rational eh?!

Mrs, not good re the boiler. :-/ I do know a good boiler person, but not near you, sadly.

And I'll probably only have 5 months off with this baby, 6 tops, as we can't afford any more than that, sadly.

Then I'll get back to work and qualify, then see what happens after that.

Doing the tax credits calculation, I think it's easier for DH to continue with childcare, but I need to sit and do the maths!

And I kind of miss DD, but she's with DH, so I know she's in good hands and having fun! I'd probably be different if she was at nursery.

I do enjoy using my brain though, so like working. I liked the time off too, but I've worked hard to get here, so can't waste it.

Hello everyone,
Better I have everything crossed for you today, I do so hope you are in the 40%. Is this your 12 week scan? I'm sorry I'm struggling to remember where everyone is up to!
hungry that is a good point about working hard to get to where you are now, I think the balance between work and home is a difficult one to find, so it's good if you can find a happy compromise for yourself. And I bet DD is having so much fun with DH! my DD is such a daddys girl.
Gutted about your boiler mrs! Hopefully you won't need it much soon with all of this lovely weather My DD goes through stages not eating/eating too, I remember a HV saying to me once if you looked at the week as a whole you would see that the amount they eat does balance out, some days she eats like a horse, other days only picks at things.
better your course does sound really interesting, I would quite like to get into something like that so you'll have to let me know how it goes! Not sure I have the motivation for self study though. Mrs I would also like to go back and do a psychology degree! It's safe to say I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.....
cake as long as it makes you happy you carry on! Hopefully it was implantation for you. On the topic of ridiculous symptom spotting if I had to pick I would say I am feeling hungrier these last few days or maybe just greedy, and I have been getting a few twinges. However, I ridiculously POAS this morning, only 7dpo, and of course it was bfn. I know it was stupidly early, but I'm not feeling confident for this month either. The nurse said I could ring up today to see if the blood test results are in but I think I would rather bury my head in the sand......

Oh and if no one minds I would like to start the next thread, try out my luck again as a thread starter

Also, hurray for a good nights sleep Engels!

Ginger - go ahead with new thread for sure!

Hello all, is it possible to start showing already?? My belly has certainly got a bump on it. I caught a few people looking curiously at my belly today. Think I need to start wearing baggier clothes (difficult when you work in a bank). Very early still so maybe I am just bloated but getting difficult to hide.

Sometimes this country's bureaucracy drives me up the wall. I have finally found a car to buy, organized my finance and deposit and was all ready to go, but no... Suddenly there are new regulations in place which means that anyone with a foreign drivers license (i have my UK license still) must obtain a traffic security number. So I must now go and apply for this which includes submitting passport, marriage certificate, visa etc etc. in theory this should be a fairly quick process but in this place, nothing happens quickly so I am not holding my breath. So annoyed Was really looking forward getting the car and now I have to wait, lord knows how long. Sorry for the rant. I am just so tired of always being treated differently just because I am foreign.

On a happier note though I booked mine and DD's flights yesterday for our yearly trip to Sweden. Leaving on 19 June. I am so excited. I love going home to see my family and friends, can't wait!

How is everyone today? Better how did your scan go??

Ah swede!! How annoying! After you waited so long as well deciding on which car to go for!! Hopefully they get their arses into gear and sort your traffic security number out soon, or you could always ring them and say belligerently 'don't you know I'm pregnant..!'

They do say you show quicker with your second, so I suppose it is possible. Could you not make it a habit of always appearing to eat cake/chocolate at work so they just think you are getting fat

Holiday sounds lovely, you are flying on my birthday!

Better how did the scan go?? I hope everything is/you are ok?

Hi everyone, Really annoying - I did post last night and quite a long one but for some reason I couldn't get it to send so had to disregard it. I'll try to re-write what I tried to post last night and hopefully it'll send now!

Just managed to send that little post above so I think it's safe to continue, must have been a signal issue last night.
Better - how did your scan go yesterday? I hope everything is ok. Please post soon and let us know.
Ginger - I think you should definitely start the next thread. As founder of this party, it has certainly been a lucky thread for me so I hope the next one will be lucky for you. It's definitely your turn now Ginger. It makes a lot of sense what you said about your DD and eating and how you should look at the week as a whole because at the moment my DS is tending to pick at things but when I think of the week as a whole it probably does even itself out. My DS likes a good range of different foods but I think at the moment he's suffering with his big back teeth coming through which doesn't help but normally he's not a bad little eater.
The boiler is now fixed thankfully too Ginger but it's been a real pain this week, had to have engineers out 3 days in a row to get it sorted. Fingers crossed it'll stay fixed and keep working. On the plus side, it's nice to be able to hang washing outside now that the weather has got much better but it's a real pain getting up to no hot water.
I think you should definitely get your blood test results, I'm sure it will be fine but think you should ring and find out for peace of mind.
Hungry - so glad you're enjoying being at work and that your DD is having fun quality time with your DH. Are you doing 5 days on this secondment or less than that? Do you know what will happen after you have baby number 2, as in will it still be your secondment and same days etc or will you do less days/hours?
Loves - my DS definitely has his own mind. He's really self-willed and only does what he wants when he wants.
Well I'm 27 weeks today and getting lots of lovely movement especially on a night at bed time. We can watch my bump moving as well as feel him kicking. I love feeling him move, it's an amazing feeling. I have an antenatal appointment a week on Monday at the hospital as I'll be 28 weeks. It's a standard hospital appointment because I'm rhesus negative blood type so have to go for blood tests and the standard 28 week anti D injection. Hope everyone has a nice day, will check in later to see if Better has updated about her scan.