I just want to share my excitement because I can't tell any of my friends but earlier this year my DH and I decided we would start thinking about TTC from early next year. My husband's proviso was that he wanted one more carefree Christmas and to increase our family by an additional dog in the hope that when we have a baby our first dog won't be jealous! So we got our second dog a while ago and we are about to have our carefree Christmas and we have decided that as my next period starts on Christmas eve after that is over we will no longer use condoms and will just see what happens for a few months! So potentially we could have a pregnancy dated from 24 Dec if all works first time! I have been taking folic acid and vitamin D for 3 months since coming off hormonal contraception and DH has DH taking fertility vitamins too.
I can't tell any friends as most of them are work colleagues and it may raise a few eyebrows. I'm relatively junior and some may say it is career suicide as most women in my company wait until they're at the top of the career ladder and have kids after 10+ years of being in the job! (Think graduate scheme up the ranks type job). But after this year we have realised that it is silly to live to work and both DH and I were suffering from serious burn out and if we want to have a baby early on in our careers then why can't we! We will be 65+ before we retire so have at least another 40 years working...who needs to get to the top straight away?! We own a house, have good stable jobs and both feel ready!
Anyway, anyone else going to start TTC after Christmas?