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Still TTC, PPP and waiting to CCC - one down, and more than enough optimism to go around!

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calsworld · 04/04/2008 20:03

Right, so I can't start this thread using anything like..."Here we go ladies!"

So, will have to come up with something completely different....

How about Congratulations Kay!

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kayzisexpecting · 07/04/2008 11:42

Has yours gone down yet?

I hate beingpg and not being able to tell anyone.

NatalieJane · 07/04/2008 11:46

It is starting to soften up a bit, it's not too bad in the morning then as the day wears on it grows again, but it is going in the right direction!

It should teach me to not get in such a state about TTC'ing again this month, so far so good, but I am not near the 2ww yet and that is when it all kicks in, will have to be very hard on myself!

Why are you keeping quiet? If you want to tell people, you don't have to wait the 12 weeks!

kayzisexpecting · 07/04/2008 11:49

I dont want to jinx it and have anything bad happen. Plus I dont want to tell MIL as I know she wont approve as she has already said we shouldn't have another.

NatalieJane · 07/04/2008 11:53

You can't jinx it, if something bad is going to happen it would happen regardless (though I am sure it won't!) And WTF has it got to with MIL?

Tell your mum, if you are anything like me, you'd want her to know if something did go wrong anyway!

I am quite lucky in that I can tell my sister who I know won't tell anyone else, so I can offload without worrying about the world finding out!

kayzisexpecting · 07/04/2008 11:57

Everything is to do with MIL as far as she's concerned. She already thinks I trapped dh with ds, don't know how as he knew what days we had to GOF to concieve ds.

I think I will tell my mum. I might tell everyone else after I've seen the MW.

kayzisexpecting · 07/04/2008 11:58

Plus MIL will tell the whole world.

NatalieJane · 07/04/2008 12:00

MIL's, spawn of satan! But then we wouldn't have a our lovely DH's with out them, and one day I will be a MIL, and I am sure I will be viewed in the same light!

Have you been into work yet? I am sure they will know when they see your smile!

kayzisexpecting · 07/04/2008 12:02

Yeah I have, shopping though. With a well hidden pregnancy magazine in my basket. My best friend who I work with did ask why I was buying pickled onions.

NatalieJane · 07/04/2008 12:07

Hah! The rumour mill will be running at full speed, how will you keep it quiet?!!

You'll have to make some well dropped comments about the lingering smell in the flat due to DH's obsesion with pickled onions!!

Do you have any symptoms yet?

largeginandtonic · 07/04/2008 12:23

I am of the opinion that you need lots of support in early pregnancy, it is when you feel your worst but have nothing (really) to show for it. If something happens you need to rely on people to help you through it

I am also hideously bad at keeping my mouth shut

NatalieJane · 07/04/2008 12:25

LMAO, never a truer word spoken

kayzisexpecting · 07/04/2008 13:00

I am very tired and weeing all the time. Have had a few waves of nausea.

I might suggest to dh that we can tell his mum at the weekend, just get it out of the way.

I dont think he wants to tell anyone though.

NatalieJane · 07/04/2008 13:05

What's it got to do with him?!!!!

No, seriously, if he doesn't want people to know then there is only one option, drop big hints so people guess!!!

God, do you ever get a feeling on your chin that there is a hair there, but no matter how much you squint in the mirror, or just try to grab it away there is nothing there?!! Farking annoying!!

kayzisexpecting · 07/04/2008 13:07

I think he is scared we'll tell people and something bad well happen. Some people know we are trying so it won't be a surprise for them.

Yes I do know that feeling Nat.

NatalieJane · 07/04/2008 13:15

Grrr it is pissing me off now!

I personally don't see the problem in telling people who you would tell if something went wrong anyway. But that is me. Other's have different feelings. I am just that you get a choice as to whether to tell or not, people only have to glance at me to know! I was soooo pissed off that DS1's nursery teachers (and half the school) knew before my mum! But then it was my choice to not tell mum over the phone and wait until we could go down to visit.

kayzisexpecting · 07/04/2008 13:21

I'd like to tell MIL over the phone. I might get dh to go on his own and tell her.

I think we'll tell people this weekend.

NatalieJane · 07/04/2008 13:25

Oooh how exciting, deffo get DH to look after the MIL, he can take the flack then, and hopefully put a cork in her mouth at the mere mention of entrapment.

kayzisexpecting · 07/04/2008 13:27

But I have to see her when I drop off and pick up ds. Thats when she will moan and whinge.

NatalieJane · 07/04/2008 13:29

Well you have 2 choices, 1, ignore ignore ignore, or 2 let it go and tell her exactly how you and DH planned your GOF'ing to certain days, and give her some details, when all hell breaks lose, you can blame pregnancy hormones and get yourself off the hook, she will be put firmly in her place, and I doubt would ever bring it up again in case you give her the really sordid details!!

kayzisexpecting · 07/04/2008 13:43

I just ignore her and then cry when I am at home. We have even thought about moving back down south to get away from his family. But then I think I am not leaving and moving away from my mum and my friends because they are self centred.

NatalieJane · 07/04/2008 13:53

No, and neither should you!

Damn it though, I was looking forward to your post about the look on her face when you told her it all in great detail!!! LOL

Still got a non-existant hair on my chin, bloody thing, it is seriously annoying!

kayzisexpecting · 07/04/2008 13:55

It would be so funny. I'm going to make dh buy her some flowers and send him round to tell her. I can tell him to tell her I feel sick/tired.

NatalieJane · 07/04/2008 13:59

I'd go and face the music with him TBH, then whatever she says DH is there to stop you smacking her in the chops with a rolled up pregnancy magazine for back up.

kayzisexpecting · 07/04/2008 14:05

I probably will do. Its when I am alone having taken ds round or picking him up she'll drop snide comments. I wish she lived in New Zealand or something so we only had to ring her.

NatalieJane · 07/04/2008 14:08

What's her problem with it? Does she have a thing about you personally, or is it just a case of no one is good enough for her baby?