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Hut of Gl/Doom tercera- We hate babydust and we don't care.

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duchesse · 19/02/2007 14:19

I'm imaging this one as more of an Eeyore stick hut type thing. Maybe Eeyore is actually still in residence.

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becklespeckle · 11/03/2007 23:05

so, good weekend? bad weekend?

londonlottie · 11/03/2007 23:12

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becklespeckle · 11/03/2007 23:28

mix away! I'll stick to the baileys if you don't mind!
I would be just the same I think, very frustrating. Glad you managed it tho and hopefully it has done the trick! Is it #1 you are ttc? I don't have that problem simply because I have no idea when (or if) I ovulate so we just have to get on with it. Currently on CD63, no sign of AF, 2 neg pg tests in last couple of weeks grrrr...
Also lots of pg friends, and a couple who had babies within weeks of when the one I lost last year was due.
Average weekend, DS1 got chicken pox - loads and loads of spots, far far more than DS2 had! DH worked nearly all weekend and went out last night (ah, an evening of peace!!! ) and had friends round this afternoon.

londonlottie · 11/03/2007 23:33

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becklespeckle · 11/03/2007 23:44

I know the clock ticks loudly but at 36 I would say you have plenty of time (if that doesn't sound too cliche - hate people who try and cheer me up!). I have 2 DSs already, one of which took 18 months to conceive (but he is definitely worth it).
I don't take my temp or use OPKs or anything, I feel it would make me too obsessive about it! Besides which, it would mean peeing on an awful lot of sticks! Cycle is always terrible, always has been. This is longest cycle since m/c last year and have seen a specialist but he is not prepared to help yet, I have used Clomid in the past (which worked really quickly for me).

becklespeckle · 11/03/2007 23:47

glad you had a good chat with your friend, is very hard when they announce they pg - especially when it happens easily for them. You are pleased for them but it does make you feel sad for yourself.

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becklespeckle · 11/03/2007 23:49

was just about to post the same - off to go and collapse in a bailey's induced coma

Impatience · 12/03/2007 10:24

Good to see Beckle and Lottie keeping up appearances for the hut

Lottie, I'm pleased you cleared the air with your friend. I'm feeling much less mature. They are looking for a bigger house, and I'm wondering whether I can just avoid them until they move further away!

But woke up this morning feeling rather more proactive and positive about the world than I have in a long time. I am trying to soak up all the good things about how life is right now without any of it being contingent on any potential future. I'll let you know how it goes! (wish me luck , such attitude is not my natural tendancy...)

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duchesse · 12/03/2007 12:21

Woah, Impatience, steady on or you'll blow that optimism gasket...

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becklespeckle · 12/03/2007 12:32

Good luck with the optimism Impatience! I know I always feel resentful towards people like your friend who fall pg without even trying - grrr - especially when they go on about it!

Impatience · 12/03/2007 12:37

12.38 and still feeling good! AND have got loads done. (It's a little disconcerting..!)

becklespeckle · 12/03/2007 12:39

can I have some of what you're having Impatience! loads to do but can't be arsed to do any of it!

Impatience · 12/03/2007 12:59

I'd share, but I have no idea what it was!

(does this optimism mean I need to shift my arse out of here till I revert to my normal self?)

becklespeckle · 12/03/2007 13:01

as long as you bring plenty of booze and munchies with you, am sure no-one will mind!

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duchesse · 12/03/2007 13:33

Impatience- nah, you can stay. Just don't go spraying any of that glittery sh1te around.

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feedmenow · 12/03/2007 14:12

The frigging irritating thing for me when I hear about people who get pg stratight away is that it used to be me!! 3 "surprise" pg's from not being careful, yet now I WANT a baby and have planned the pg and am doing it properley, what do I get?? No immediate conception, a mc and an arsey dp who doesn't get the concept of "trying" all that well! And to top it all off, I don't feel like I have much of a sex drive at all Really makes me feel like this is some sort of "payback" cos of once being young and stupid!!

lissielou · 12/03/2007 17:28

i was always terrified of falling pg when i was younger didnt think that id ever feel like this!

beansprout · 12/03/2007 17:59

I know what you mean lissie! I spent years absolutely terrified of falling pregnant. I would only use the combined pill as I couldn't see the point of a contraceptive that offered anything less than 99-100% protection! And now look at me! I think the depp injection has something to do with my current situation too but that's for another thread!!

Mice still in evidence at our house. Escaped to my mum's for a night but am back now. Hardly conducive to ttc with me on high rodent alert. Bah. Pass the chocolate.

seaside72 · 12/03/2007 18:07

I know - all those years of wasted money and stress on contraception - have been with my DH since I was 21 - needn't have bothered with anything it seems!

I remember thinking that to get pg in my 20's would be the end of the world mostly cos of my job- it was like I was brainwashed? Now I can't beleive I have possibly squandered the best thing I could do in life (to be a mum) for a sodding job WTF!!!

(Have just scoffed a bar of green and blacks in RL but if there is anymore going spare I'll have some !!)

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duchesse · 12/03/2007 18:29

seaside72- as a member of the have it all brain-washed generation myself, but who opted out of a career at 25, to almost universal ridicule and scorn, I can tell that although I don't regret it for a moment, I am likely to end my life in penury. Since I have not had a job that lasted longer than 2 years since graduating, I also do not have a pension plan other than my husband's civil service one. I am glad I had my children young, but if they don't look after me in my old age, I'm stuffed and shall have to opt for euthanasia instead.

The present government, and the previous one, wants something that is not possible: a healthy birth rate, but with every woman in paid work. The long and short of it is that the women with children who work plough most or all of their earnings into childcare (eg- my sister), to pay the wages of other (mostly) women. Those that don't die of starvation at 80 (me), or 85 if they don't eat that much. Humph

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seaside72 · 12/03/2007 18:50

IKWYM duchesse - I worked really hard for 8 years after graduation - and yes I made some good money and paid loads of tax- but it is no good now - I am no better off except for some good experience.

If I knew then what I do now - I probably would have done a lot of things differently - It makes my blood boil all that stuff about making mums work as well - I have always thought there should be a statutory wage for being a housewife/SAHM.

I have spent the past 3 years setting up my life to allow me to earn just enough money while still staying mostly at home and trying to start a family ( through freelance work and property) and I wish I had tried to do it 6 years ago not three Oh well the power of hindsight I guess

mum03 · 12/03/2007 20:38

Can this be the hut of dispair too?? I am here crying my eyes out just because someone that i don't even know, has called me cruel. My stupid period came 3 days early and I have hormones running wild - more than usual and I have just had enough of everything. I hate the way I feel right now.