Getting Ready for Baby Challenge -Pt 2

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Just a follow on from our 1st thread!

Theres is our motherhen, we are all just a bunch of crazy ladies either TTC or waiting to start!

I was desperate to avoid an epidural in labour and ended up with one, I was devastated. Hoping to avoid one this time. I had a caesarean at 9cm last time so aiming for a quick normal birth 😀

CD4 here and AF is almost gone. Creeping in to my fertile week soon

Its a rollercoaster journey isn't it!

Couldn't agree more red

Happy for Grumpy with af, I know a bfp would have been better but at least you're no longer in limbo.
And well done Confused mission accomplished!

Love reading these posts everyday. Makes me feel much better about things xx

Welcome back hb! Tell us ALL about the honeymoon!!

Ah thanks for the lovely welcome back! Went to bed at 8pm last night and now awake!! Need to sort this jet lag before work tomorrow!

It was total paradise! Can't recommend it enough but not during TTC! I'm totally sold on skipping out on two weeks of January!

The better & cheaper test is 21 days after exposure. Will email them today. DH will Defo have it, I wasn't going to but then we realised that we DTD unprotected (wasn't in fertile week) & I can be sexually transmitted (but might be too early for this) who knows! I'll ask if I should have it too!

Very exciting that so many of you are actually on it now!! Can't wait to catch up!

Awhhh we love having you here Seven

Oooo HB it might just be worth you having it done anyway for peace of mind!... just incase some stupid little mosquito managed to bite you without you realising!

So still a high on a CBD OPK today.... i was really hoping for a peak today but i didn't get a positive IC until CD15 last cycle which is tomorrow! I still don't think even tomorrow I will get one but we will see!

confused I would definitely recommend doing another OPK at midday or just after (if you can hold your wee) as I've never had a peak with CB with FMU. That might just be me though. My reading this morning was low despite loads of EWCM and cramping - how weird that it's not even picking up oestrogen yet!! Decided to listen to my body and we DTD last night anyway.

Hb sounds like heaven, so glad you had a good time

Morning all! Not a lot to report but thought I'd check in.

My oh did make me laugh yesterday he said so you're not quite ripe yet? I said what do you mean?? He said you're not at peak ovulation? I said how do you know that?? He said well I saw the stick on the packet in the bathroom and read up on it so from the lines we're not quite there!

He does take more of an interest than I sometimes give him credit for and so lovely and supportive. I'm super lucky.

Better get ready for work when in reality all I want is a duvet day, since coming off the pill I feel completely shattered.

Have a great day everyone

HB glad you had a fab time

AF has finished now. I will start doing OPK in a few days.
I am so tired due to a small child waking up at 4.20 until 5.40am 😫 Then snoring in my ear after that

Jupiter thats really interesting!.. i am doing an IC OPK every evening when i get in from work just to make sure i am not missing anything! I an determined not to do more than one CB as they are so expensive and i wanted to get 2 months out of it ideally =)

Its good that your DH is interested Tigger do you know when you are expecting ov?

Sorry you are tired Mummy what CD are you? Glad to hear AF has gone!

Well if I follow my usual pattern surge on Sunday ovulation Monday fx

confused I am CD5 today

Morning girls! tigger your dh is cute! Don't think mine has a clue!

According to Ovia I'm 6.5, last day of my fertile window, accidentally dtd last night with no protection, what are the chances that there's still an egg lingering somewhere? God I feel like I'm going to experience this 2ww stress!

TBH, the waiting till May to start TTC is just so annoying! I wish I could start now like you guys!

Buzz I'm technically meant to be waiting till May too but if it happens earlier I'll be ok with it. I am trying to decide if we'll avoid DTD in the feb fertile window or not.. if conceived then baby would be due start of November, I'd prefer start of December or later (ideally end Feb 2018 which means mid June conception). Seems like no guarantee of success even if you DTD at exactly the right time though! You have your hen do in May right?

grumpy that's my thoughts, seems so hard to conceive when you want to! So hopefully I'll be alright, my oh is so relaxed about it and wants a bubba more than me it seems sometimes! So avoiding the fertile window has been harder than I thought! Not that we're at it like rabbits or anything 😂

Yeah hen do in May, and wedding in July so avoiding it so I can drink on the hen do, but mainly so I fit into my wedding dress!

Is May start for you mainly for due dates?

Buzz it must be tough... especially with us all nattering on about it! ;)

Im hoping someone can give me a little perspective. I like my job, and I really like and respect the people I work for. It's a small, privately owned business. I've been really anxious about having to be off for mat leave as I know it will be hugely inconvenient timing at work. Something happened yesterday that means the timing would now be even more inconvenient. I know that the circumstances at work that makes it inconvenient are not my fault and are largely outside of my control, and I also am 100% sure that ttc now is the right thing for my family, but I just feel so conflicted as I know I'll be letting people down. (I also know there's no guarantee I'll get pregnant straight away, and the more time they passed the less inconvenient it becomes!) Am I crazy to be so worried about it? Sorry for the long rant!

unicorn I know exactly what you mean, I feel the same but then it's never truly convenient and honestly it's not your problem to deal with. I know you feel bad, but your company will have to put the necessary cover in place and don't make it change your decision to TTC! You're not crazy to be worrried about it though, I think we all feel the same

I really wanted to avoid a December baby but getting closer to those dates now... if I conceived this cycle I would be due early November, so potentially a mid November baby. Early December would be getting closer to Christmas... early January due date would probably see me delivering at 38weeks which would be Christmas. DS is a July baby

My DD is a NYE baby and it's lovely. We're hoping for another December one.

Unicorn Life is short, do what is right for you, everything else will just have to cope. There isn't really ever a perfect time to start a family i am sure, you just have to adjust and do what you can

Morning girls!
BFN for me this morning, 10dpo and IC but technically late from my usual cycle, anyway I'm not too surprised as I don't feel a bit pregnant and I'm not too disappointed either, I'm more dreading the whole AF to ov wait! But I have a fun month ahead to distract me!
buzz it's very hard to wait once you decide isn't it? I was in hell from July when we decided to start in Jan but I had my wedding earlier in the year and I loved it and am glad now knowing how all consuming this is that I wasn't worrying about ttc during it so it'll all be worth it!
unicorn I do understand your dilemma, but I think this is a strange way of looking at things but it does give perspective, the day you retire from work you'll probably never think about work again but you will think about your family every day, do what's right for you, put yourself first and work will cope!
tigger very clued in DH u got there!
mummy poor you, hope u get to sleep tonight!
confused I def was getting stronger opks in the afternoon compared to morning! So might be something to try even with a cheapo!

Hey ladies. Awk buzz I know what you mean about having to wait but the months will fly in. You'll have so much going on between now and July - it will be here before you know it.

I got really upset today in work. One of our office assistants wife had a baby yesterday - a cute squidgey little baby girl. I was speaking to him this morning to congratulate him and asked when he will be going to visit (baby was born in the Philippines) and he said he is hoping to see her "this year". Basically he can't afford to fly over (he earns a very low salary) and has to wait until he accrues another flight from work. I am so upset for him that he won't get to hold his baby girl. I actually cried while talking about it to a colleague.

A few of us want to do a whip round for him but not sure if it will rock the boat with the partners. It's horrible over here sometimes.

Parsnips that is so so sad Could you not do a secret whip round?

Oh parsnips that's heartbreaking! I'd definitely try a secret whip-round if possible?

Spoke to a few others and we are going to do a whip round and tell the senior partners about the situation to see if they want to contribute. At the same time we will make the point that it would be nice to address the issue in a policy or something for the low paid staff. Hopefully it's not taken badly. My boss thinks I shouldn't be so direct but it's eating away at me. He actually said that the workers have different expectations of spending time with their kids and I shouldn't view it from my perspective - I am so annoyed at this attitude! He says all this while there's a beautiful photo of him and his little girl on his desk!!! 😡😡