DING! DING! The February bus is departing - destination Preggsville!

[PurdeyBirdie]

Are you trying to get pregnant this month? Are you sick to the back teeth of sex? Would you give your right arm for a BFP? Are you spotting symptoms like an anoraked geek spots birds? Then this is the bus for you...FEBRUARY CONCEPTIONS AHOY!

Yes, I've seen those obscene ribbons of courgette masquerading as spaghetti. Ugh! Be gone, you tasteless green interloper!

Hi hideandsqueek welcome!!

surferchic hi! I'm also due a sparkling BFP around then too.. Fingers crossed for you!!!

Welcome surfer!

Purdey you want that Maca sweat though don't ya?! Courgettes make me happy. It doesn't take much...!

Sparkly are you able to tell us what your health issues are or is it personal? I'm sorry if it is.

Welcome surfer and hide, good luck to you both

Sparkly, ooh yes we can decorate the bus with courgette ribbons

I want that maca sweatshirt almost as much as I want a baby

Spinning, please don't encourage her..

No I don't mind, it's just a bore for lovely healthy people isn't it!!.. I have a neuro-immune type illness that they are not 100% sure about as yet.. Basically been chronically ill for many years now, bedbound/housebound a lot of it. Have to pace my life around my health really. My immune system is basically useless! Alongside a heart condition called POTS which probs not many people know about and pernicious anaemia. Told you, you didn't want to know..!! Ha ha

Purdey you are so getting that sweat.

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That sucks Sparkly POTS is horrible!

What do your cardiologist and neurologist say about getting pg?

night how on earth do u know about it! No one ever does!!!

Ps I feel I am dominating this thread tonight between my veg addiction and now my health woes.. Sorry!!!

Wth is quinoa? (I'm obvs on the lower deck of the bus eating chips and curry sauce! )

I manage a neurology service and help out with cardiology Sparkly. I'm not clinical but learn a lot just by being around it all :)

Ooh I want a chia sweat

Well I have a - quite frankly- terrible neuro.. Who doesn't seem to think with all my health issues having a child to look after would be of any prob at all.!!! Cardiologist on the other hand is great, it can go either way.. It just depends how my body reacts.
Because they seem to think I have endometriosis, they advised me to start trying around 30 if I wanted children. We have always always wanted children, and it took us almost a year to research and decide whether to go for it. In the end it came down to- taking the risk or not. And we can't imagine not trying. And if my health did deteriorate for a period of time we have family support in place. Which isn't ideal, but that's worst case scenario.xx

Bloody hell, hard keeping up with the convo here haha!

I'm trying to multi-task & not doing very well! Watching 'The Good Wife' on Netflix (brilliant btw), knitting a blanket & trying to keep my toe dipped in here.. Fail..

Just trying to remember key facts from the last few pages:
courgette ribbons
spunk
Game of Thrones
pomegranate
quinoa

Think that sums it up nicely

Riceicle awww chips and curry sauce!!! It's been a while. I'm jealous!

Sparkly, that's the same as Ella's got isn't it? (As in Deliciously Ella)

Winter, that sounds like a good sum up

Winterbaby yeh I think you have it down! I always wondered about good wife.. Recommended then?!
Ps you forgot creme eggs

Spinning yes I think so alkaline all the way really need to stop now or I will actually get thrown off....

My mum has sensory neuropathy Sparkly, and although that's different to your issues I know how dire anything 'neuro..' is, and immunes stuff is so complex and scary. I think you're amazing to be so buoyant and, well...sparkly all the time