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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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YouCantTeuchThis · 10/04/2008 10:09

usually count day 1 as the first day of red flow.

I went totally off alcohol (good 2 or 3 bottles down the sink for being 'off' before I got a +ve hpt ). But then at about 13-14 weeks, I got a craving for it!!

Diege · 10/04/2008 10:13

Ok, so day 1 it is!! Have put it on my calender .
Hi Tink and Playing . PMSL Playing at bringng lack of MN time up at work review . I too feel really pissed off if I don't get a chance to go on during the day - like they should compensate me in some way??

kayzisexpecting · 10/04/2008 10:37

Right I will have the glass of champagne. It will be the only be the only alcoholic drink I will have during my entire pregnancy so I doubt it will do any harm.

popcornprincess · 10/04/2008 10:57

Hello ladies - working hard today but thought I would pop in and give you all a big fat wave!!!!

Speak to you all later.
x

NatalieJane · 10/04/2008 11:07

Diege I am with you with the 'it seems like we have been trying since joining this thread' Can anyone actually remember when the thread was started? How long have we waited already?

So I am getting packed up for the weekend, we want to leave early early tomorrow morning so I am doing the packing today, DS2 is being sick everytime he moves, DS1 is just being his usual PITA self, his attitude is worse than mine ever was even when I was a teen ! I am taking DS2's temp every bloody 5 minutes incase it starts rising and he starts fitting, and it is only 11 o'clock, I have the rest of the day to get through yet!

Please stop talking about alcohol now, else I might just cave and go and get a box in from the garage!!!

Diege · 10/04/2008 11:18

We've been waiting months haven't we!! Was it January the thread started? I also lurked for a while, thinking maybe I was a bit of an oldie, before realising that I was cut from the same cloth as the rest of you, what with my filthy mind etc etc .
Nat, I will need to read back through thread to find out where you are off to this weekend! Sounds exciting anyway!
Well, I must take a break in my active work schedule to leave the computer and get my roots done at the hairdressers. It's a tough life.. Speak later x
ps: Hmmm, a glass of Buck's Fizz would be very nice wouldn't it?

Diege · 10/04/2008 11:19

Oh and meant to say hi to POPCORN

NatalieJane · 10/04/2008 11:29

We are only going down to my mums, nothing too exciting!

LOL at filthy minds, we haven't had one of those conversations for a while, what is the matter with me us?

I'll start shall I?

Erm....

Ahem....

Trying to think....

OK, does anyone else sometimes watch porn while you are ahem.... with your DP/H's?

NatalieJane · 10/04/2008 11:33

Am now thinking even a resounding no would be better than nothing......

largeginandtonic · 10/04/2008 11:52

I do

Just going off to saty at my mums\mil for a couple of days. I feel terrible, some lurgy bringing me down

The 4 hour drive will help though

Lots of love to you all! Back next week .

NatalieJane · 10/04/2008 11:54

Hoorahhhhhhh

Have a nice break Sweetie, take care xxx

kayzisexpecting · 10/04/2008 12:09

Just told MIL and she is very unhappy and says we cant afford another baby! I am very sad not even a sniff of a congratulations.

Why do we need MIL's anyway?

tinkerbellbringingsexyback · 10/04/2008 12:16

hi ladies

i was watching lazy town the other morning and said "i have never seen sportacus get that out before" unfortunatly it was just his small space ship lol someone had to lower the tone
k what right does she have to make that comment charming!! who can afford babies!!

kayzisexpecting · 10/04/2008 12:19

I know I am not J-lo and I cant afford a rolls royce pram but we are selling the old pram to buy the new one. Due to DH's disabilty we get the sure start maternity grant we will use that to buy a new cotbed, a moses basket and clothes. If we have another boy we have all the clothes we need.

YouCantTeuchThis · 10/04/2008 12:21

If she can't be gracious enough to offer congratulations before criticism then it is only polite of you to farking well ignore her!!!

There will be plenty of happiness around your baby and she will only lose out if she chooses to take this position so early.

Sad woman.

kayzisexpecting · 10/04/2008 12:23

Oh when the baby gets here she'll be all over it. She was round nearly every day when I had ds. It was so annoying.

YouCantTeuchThis · 10/04/2008 12:24

Oh, and our MIL's are sent to make us stronger, to help us focus on what is important and to get some pointers as to how not to treat the people your children love.

We are good mothers and partners in spite of them, not because of them, as they would like to think...

I am envious of people who have happy, healthy relationships with their MIL's - it just seems like so much of a power-struggle for most!!

kayzisexpecting · 10/04/2008 12:28

I am going to be a nice MIL, I couldn't dream of saying the things she said to us.

My dh gets on really well with my mum

GeordieJogger · 10/04/2008 13:45

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Playingthewaitinggame · 10/04/2008 14:59

Well I have broken my no alcohol fast, had a nice glass of wine with lunch- maybe a bad idea as I am now finding it hard to concentrate back at work!

Kay, ignore you MIL. I get on ok with mine, its a bit of an effort but could be worse. Still, we told her we were planning to have kids next year and the first thing she said was "can you afford it". I mean, it will be her first grandchild as well, you think there might be some excitement. Oh well.

It does seem like we've been "trying" for months and I'm not even trying yet!!!

Nat, nothing like a porn ref to lower the tone . We've tried it a couple of times btu it doesnt really float my boat, IYKWIM.

Geordie. Welcome back, how was your holiday? Yay at getting the implant out!

NatalieJane · 10/04/2008 16:11

Ahhhh, nice kip on't sofa, DS2 is still asleep, he is a bit of a poorly bunny today, but no temp. so I am happy. DS1 has been mulling around, bless him, he is sooo bored, when will the bloody rain stop???

Kay, yes ignore ignore ignore MIL, it is all (most of them) are good for.

GJ, wow exciting stuff about the implant So how was the trip? Did you manage to come back alone?!!

Still going with the porn thing, does it bother you all if DH indulges alone? Now I have to say, and most people raise an eyebrow at this thinking I am nieve, but it does nothing for DH when he is alone, he would never be the one at the pooter, ahem, cap in hand as it were, it really isn't his style. But I don't think it would bother me as long as it didn't interupt our time together IYKWIM?!!

lardylumps · 10/04/2008 16:43

Good evening everyone...

Car is fixed yay so can take dd swimming next week. Skint now though.... NJ dp doesn't really do porn either he has never looked at any while we have been together and that is coming on (oh my god) 8 years now.

Diege sorry about AF but at least you can start TTC for real now...

I am shattered today only two days left of bonking and I am so looking forward to the end.... I can not belive how hard it has been this every day lark.... We were like rabbits when we first got together where did we get the energy from??

tinkerbellbringingsexyback · 10/04/2008 16:45

nj sorry that you have had rain it is lovely and sunny here

Playingthewaitinggame · 10/04/2008 16:46

OO thats an interesting one Nat. I dont really know. DH has never really been much of a porn fan, he says he prefers the real thing (not sure if thats a compliment or and insult ). I like to think I am quite open minded but I have a suspicion that it would bother me, particularly as he never has and I would wonder why he has started now. I know porn is not real and all that but I like sharing our sexual experiences and indulging in something alone would feel a little wrong. But then again havign been together since we were 16 and loosing our virginity to each other means we have always "discovered" together so doing something without the other would feel a bit odd

lardylumps · 10/04/2008 16:51

And you lot have talked me into having a glass of wine tonight.... it is naughty I may be pg . I have had a beer every night this week, does that make me a binge drinker????