Ttc#1 Thread 6. Flying through threads! The bus is going 100 mph and only stopping to drop off at the grads thread! Symptom spotting & TMI alert throughout.

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

Thread 6! Wowzers! Welcome one and all! Group of weirdos, wee hoarders, covert opk or okp, depending on what your autocorrect decides addicts with a side business in cm management!

Post your stats and add your dates. We have a register thanks to kat, a resident piss stick queen runner, loaaaaaads of bfp'ers who keep us positive! We don't have rules, we love a good symptom spot, we try to stay grounded and not be hysterical sometimes we manage it aswell

But on the whole, we're a good bunch, especially bunch who is literally, a bunch. bunch

I found that when I was a ta imp there were mums in my reception class who had two or 3 and we're the same age as me (I was 21) I'm the eldest girl in our family with no dc (at 29) both my cousins started having babies at 18/20. I went to uni and moved about a bit before settling down with dh.

I had a rant about this with dh earlier this week because I did everything "by the book" as far as my family expected; went to uni, got a job got married etc. And now I'm nearly 30 and thinking I wish I'd started earlier! I know if I'd met Dh earlier in life (been together 3 years in april) that we'd probably have started earlier.

But in fairness, it's only the last 12 months where things have fallen into place and we're in a position to start ttc. I've never been a wild child but working the nightclub lifestyle isn't one I'd have been prepared to bring dc into! It's like a weird underworld of darkness! No wonder my hair is turning white!

lara and snow moan away on here, it's good to get it out!

lisathegreek thankfully FF gave me the same FW as what OVIA changed it too and relieved as have made a big effort to have sex every day for the past 3 days, a lot more than our norm!

kat no, I left medical school at the end of the third year. I wasn't enjoying it much, I got married, knew we wanted kids, and decided I just didn't love it enough to out in the time it would take me away from my future family. There were bits of the job I adored, but just not enough. So I took a sabbatical, got pregnant, and never went back. Trained to be a teacher a couple of years ago instead. Which DH is too, and I love that we get such long holidays all together. I'm love the background of medical knowledge though, it helps me loads in my pregnancies and with my kids except that one time I went to a&e at 10 weeks pregnant with bleeding at the bastard reg made me give my own differential diagnosis and I just wanted someone to take care of it and tell me everything would be alright and not make me answer fucking questions about physiology. Although it does mean I have random family members on the phone quite a lot, and sometimes I'm left wanting to scream "You do know I'm not actually qualified, right? Some of this I'm googling, it's just I can make sense of the words. You need to actually see a doctor". But they seem to find it reassuring to phone me first. And on one occasion I did literally shriek "Hospital! Now!" And they knew it was serious I'm like a family triage service lol. It's made me realise how often people just want to vent their hypochondria and get a bit of reassurance.

Starky I totally know what you mean. I was fully expecting to do uni, job, marry, kids in 30s, but with the whole med school thing we were already living on one salary and coping, and it just made sense to have kids while I wasn't working, and then decide what I wanted to do afterwards. I didn't plan to have them in my 20s. In retrospect I'm really glad I did. But you have to do it when the timing is right, whatever you might have planned.

kat i only downloaded it today but I like glow! It has a nice screen/interface and I like how it's gives you options of what qs to answer. Can also link it to my fitness pal which I sometimes use.

That's what I wonder imp I wish I'd met Dh years before I did, and started ttc earlier. I'm a bit jealous of my cousins because they've got their little families and I love seeing them grow up. But before Dh, I'd never met someone who I'd have been prepared to have dc with, so it's all quite new to me having feeling of actively wanting a baby! I suppose my fear is if there's something wrong with me and it's a recent thing, I'd regret not starting having kids earlier.

I think you need to avoid beating yourself up about it though. You hadn't met the right person, so it just wasn't an option then. There's not really a way to tell if there's a recent problem, and 5 years ago there might have been something else. You're 29, which I think is now technically slightly younger than the average first time mum, so it sounds like you're spot on!

And remember that fairly soon your cousins will be jealous because they've got teenage slamming doors and stomping, and you'll still have a bundle of cuteness (possibly also stomping and slamming doors, but generally cuter). And by the time you have a teenager, theirs will have left home, and they'll be jealous about that too

imp you're right! Dh is definitely the only one I would have wanted to have my babies it's so weird, I always wanted to be a mam, but never thiughthought I'd hit 29 and go "right, babies NOW!" haha. I know a few girls who literally did the exact same thing at my age and I always thought it was mad, now I can completely see where they were coming from! My biological clock sounds like big Ben! I'm also anticipating one or the other of my cousins to announce a pregnancy at some point this year, I can feel it in my bones, my dsis said it the other day too.

It's a tough one isn't it? DH and I have been together 6 years since we were 24/25 although we've only been married for a couple of months. There is part of me that wishes we had started trying earlier but we prioritised work/buying our home which I think was probably the right decision but there's always that niggle of 'what if'. We are definitely in the best position in our lives to have children now (although we could have coped a few years ago) and I just keep trying to focus on that and ignore that damn ticking...

Great escape Imp. The NHS is not a nice place to work right now. I'm an AHP with an unusual role I'm bound to out myself at some point, I kind of wish I was else where right now.

So I get a text message from a friend that says 'wedding postponed' followed by baby bomb text. This is my first baby bomb since ttc. Really bizarre emotions right now.

Imp I loved what you said about age not mattering - really raised my spirits. Kx

I'm the same cosmo AHP it's a very tense place these days. Very stressful

starky I'm 29 too but no one in my family has had babies yet! I have about 30 cousins, 20+ of whom are in their twenties or older (oldest is 35) and NO babies! It's weird. Only a couple of my friends have kids and my OH is firmly of the opinion that we are young to be trying. About this time last year my biological clock suddenly went off and it's taken all this time to talk him round. We've been together 6 years and known each other for 10. Different people have such different ideas of what's normal and what's the right time. I feel like my body wants me to so I should listen to it!

Congratulations leonie!

lara and snow I'm exactly the same, had cramps last couple of days and think af has just arrived (brown spotting anyway!). Boo! So looks like my cycle has settled into 28 days (on 2nd cycle, 1st after pill was 31 days).

Was happy to see af last month but not so much this time!

Gulp! I just spent £2600 on drugs for IVF!!!

No idea what a AHP is...

Here's my 13dpo test from this morning. I don't think there's anything there at all. But I'm still having hot flashes and feel crampy and gross, so I'm clinging onto what little hope I can until af arrives!

(Plus I know how much you all enjoy looking at pissy stick pics)

Want some cake dubbya? I'm drooling googling carrot cake recipes.

I'm just about to bake a batch of brownies. Will happily share with whoever needs them!

Ooh co5mo the baby bombs are weird when you're ttc aren't they?! It's like a mixture of 'well, I'm pleased for you but also please fuck off because I want it to be me! How delightful but also please kiss my arse!'

Two of our goldfish have ceased to be alive. Rest in the wheelie bin peace Sid and Nancy Fishous. Only he-man is left now.

BloomIn 'eck, that's expensive kwick but it will all be worth it.

snow ill be honest, I don't see anything, but that doesn't mean you're out. Plus, I'm not entirely trusting of the ic's when testing early. You're not out till you're out.

starky I don't see anything either. Bummed that it looks likely I'm on the February bus... Just got to wait for the witch to arrive. In the long run this is ok. I've just been accepted onto a nursing (then midwife) program and a newborn arriving at the same time as the program starting would complicate things somewhat. Everything happens for a reason! We will keep trying, hopefully for a Christmas or January break arrival 😊

snow cake sounds like a plan! I want chocolate and cake and sweets and biscuits (normally happy to do without such foods)!!

Aw, RIP stark's goldfish

Sid and Nancy Fishous?! Brilliant names Starky. RIP fishies.

Maybe it's my phone snowdog but I see a squinter?! I'm not very experienced though to be fair....

confused the photo is a bit blurred. it's pretty white irl. I've got to say though the ovulation sticks that came with these hpt are shite. I've read lots of complaints about these too. So I'm going to pick up a proper test to do tomorrow. Spending a fiver on a proper test will ensure af arrives within the hour.