Ready, Aim...HANG FIRE!! Waiting to TTC (and some too impatient)

[Teuch]

Here we are ladies...roll call please?!

BB I'm 13st 6lb and have been told I should be about 9st for my height 5ft 7. But I was told by mw when expecting ds that I was a little underweight at 9st 5lbs. I wish all doctors read off the same page!!

God, by the time I write my post (ok it takes a while as I keep getting interupted with work) the conversation has moved on!

I really should loose some weight, technically I am 2-3 stone overweight according to BMI. I know it would probably benefit me to loose some of it (no way I will loose it all, big boobs, big hips, big appetite ) but it doesn't really bother me personally and food and wine really is my fav hobby. So, all I am doing at the moment is making sure I get lots of the good stuff (veg, fruit, multi vits etc). I figure if I try and eat as much of the good stuff as possible then logically I will eat less of the bad stuff as there is only so much you can eat in a day. What I really should do is exercise, thats whats missing, but with my medical history plus my chronic laziness its not that easy .

I am being very good, staying well clear of all MIL chats, I hope you all appreciate how much moaning and swearing I am saving you all from reading by keeping my mouth shut!!

I hate trying to ring people. Its awful music. Just found out there is a blood test available to find out if ds has muscular dystrophy trying to find out if its available on nhs but all I get is shoddy music!! I want a baby now, why does it have to last 9 months and go through labour. Where is that damn stork we were told about as kids??

The only downside to that philosophy is I get a bit too carried away with the healthy ingredients! For example, roast chicken with potatos and 3 veg sounds pretty healthy. And it is until I cook the potatos in goose far, the roast parsnips and carrots in loads of olive oil and the cabbage with herby butter!!!

hehe me too playing.. dairy is my weakness!!

taking full advantage of our never tmi... Soes anyone else seem to have probs with cystitus flaring up, for no apparent reason? im feeling it atm and cant think of any reason it hurts!!

I love cheese its my biggest weakness. I just cant help getting some when I go into the fridge

i just dealt with a person whos surname was mycock!!! that ahs made my tuesday much better

MMm cheese, pate, salami, palma ham, bread, butter and wine, yum yum. All good healthy options

Mmmm wine I do love like my wine, worst thing about ttc'ing/being pregnant/bf it is off the menu.

PMSL at Mycock, Have a good day Mr. Mycock Poor bloke!

BB don't know about the cystitus thing, don't think I have ever had it, try drinking lots of water? See GP? Can't you get tablets for it over the counter?

Got to go and get DS1, it is chucking it down, DS2 is grumpy, and mums and tots leader is going to tell me off for not going this morning. Oh well, it must be done.

i am constantly carryin the cystitus sachets in my bad, i got quizzed on them at customs!!! its passed now but i do seem to get it every fur months or soo arg

Playing you are so right about all of that!! I could quite merrily live on a variety of cheeses breads and cured meat... all the bad stuff tastes sooooo nice!! Real butter is another weakness, infact when i was little you know what my fav meal used to be??

this is gonna gross you out.. Spaghetti with big huge globs of butter and cheese...god it was gd he he

Gawd, you women can chat

Firstly, NJ your cycle was 30 days (ended yesterday) and I must say I don't feel your commitment to waiting is as strong as it could be...

Kay, you going for it or no? Many health profs recommend 3 months off the pill to let your cycle re-adjust.

Glad to hear I'm not the only mega-mutha on here...I too am htinking healthy-eating & exercise thoughts (alas, they have yet to translate into actions).

However, I was 1/2 stone lighter when DS was days old, than before I was pg... I wished for it!!

you ladies are leading me astray from thwe waiting however april isnt far is it? but someone else go first.... cos then i can folow behind discreetly!

lol teuch i love that phrase i shall use it!!

BB maybe some people are just more prone to it? Might be worth looking up if you should try avoiding certain types of food or something? Or if there are any vit's you can take to try and provent it?

We used to stick raw spaghetti sticks into butter then into the sugar pot, was bloody lovely!! And real butter on weetabix is one of the only good things my dad ever taught me! Mmmm getting hungry now! Maybe hanging out with you lot is bad for me, got me hankering after wine and buttered weetabix.....

Teuch, sadly my impatience is just going to have to stay impatient, there is no way we could have a baby before March next year, really April 09 or even May would be much much much better, but I can't wait till July, May seems a good compromise, especially as both of mine went well overdue, so might just squeeze into April anyway!Oddly enough though if I hadn't have miscarried, I'd have been due beginning of Sept and that would have been fine in the grand scheme of things!

Meant to say as well, thanks for clearing up my cycle for me Teuch.

And Kay, I think the docs say to wait 3 months so it is easier to date the pregnancy, there is no health (or unhealthy) reason why you can't TTC straight off the pill. Though with your history, I expect the thought of not being easy to date would send you running away, waving your hands in the air, screaming, loudly!

All you people moving your dates! No matter how contagious this thread is (and there is no doubt about that) I cannot ttc earlier than Sept and to be honest it would be more sensible to wait till Dec as if I had a bad pg I may need to go on maternity leave early but I am not sure I can do that! We have a couple of loans that finish next year, one in March the other in May which we need to no longer have for me to be able to survive on maternity pay (the 6 weeks of 90% is fine, its all the rest on £102 a week!). So working on the assupmtion that I get pg on Cycle 1 (which is not going to happen) but you have to assume the best/worst, I cannot afford to be more than 6 weeks into my maternity leave until June 09, so I am not safe ttc till Sept 08. I will be strong and I will stand by this...

playing where'd you get £102? i thought it was £112? i know what you mewan about waiting tho, if i had sense i would wait til may but...i dont my rationales are that if i get pg quickly i can still work till i pop and thus save.... thats what im telling myself anyway!

BB - your right, I just cant type!!

Well when DH agreed to TTC'ing for deffo on Saturday, he said then that it makes no common sense to have a baby now, we are reasonably comfortable money wise, just got to the point where we can sit down in the evenings and be alone, just got to the point of lovely long sleepful nights, and we are going to crush it all. But, then he said, who cares?

It's been said before, if you wait to have a baby until everything is absolutely perfect, you'd never have one. Tis true.

lol i was gonna say dont make me panic!whats everyones opinion of ikea for furniture, particularly a bed?? me and DP need a new one (ahem )just dont wanna buy one and have it break???

i've got an ikea bed - a metal frame one which I love and it's fairly strong (bout 18mths old tho)...but go for the more expensive mattress. We got the middle range one and it's shoite!! Have the more expensive one on our spare room (sadly smaller) bed and it is v comfortable.

That's my tuppenceworth

Ikea is one of the those shops where when we are looking for furniture we go, spend hours looking, have lunch, spend more hours looking then come home empty handed! I think the only thing we have bought from there is lightbulbs, and some salad tongs! Highly overated if you ask me, but I have no idea on the quality of stuff, so maybe you just have to like 'that kind of stuff'?

I get all of my furniture from here. My living room, dining room, and down stairs hall way is all in that type of furniture, I absolutely love it, can't tell you how much!! Just need to do our room out in it, tis next on the list

thanks, i was gonna order off the online service, teuch was your metal fram one a more expensive one? i saw one and it wasnt too expensive but DP and i are not small persons and we dont want to ahem do the deed and have the bed collapse!!!

well i just had a closer look... it is £105 for the frame, mattress and slats thingies would be extra, but its stell so i reckon thats strong...

We have a metal framed thing, it is steel, it squeaks like buggery, however it is also erm.... a few years old, about 6 I think...

Would you not be btter with a divan type bed if you are that worried?