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lardybump · 24/06/2008 16:50

Here

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Ses15 · 27/06/2008 18:10

I used OPKs for 3 months before getting pg in February. Seemed to help with the conception at least...! Never knew about the CM stuff until I logged on to MN! Once things get back to normal, I'm definitely going to be keeping an eye on it though as it seems to have worked for many of you!

Also is it fertility friends that you use too??

lardybump · 27/06/2008 18:17

Yes ses you get one month free then have to pay. Really good if you temp..

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Ses15 · 27/06/2008 18:20

Well I've not done my temperatures before either.... Maybe I'll wait and see what happens in the next few months with CM and cycle length (always used to be 28-32 days) and then consider OPKs and temping.

Ses15 · 27/06/2008 18:23

Right, I'm off to cook dinner and sort the washing out - how exciting!! Maybe catch you later

lardybump · 27/06/2008 18:52

night ses have a nice evening.

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lardybump · 27/06/2008 20:00

I am off now so speak to you all tomorrow...

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tinkisexcited · 28/06/2008 09:05

morning
11 wks here and off to get my hair done

Diege · 28/06/2008 10:17

Have a lovely time TINKS Hectotic here at the moment, but pop back later!

Diege · 28/06/2008 10:24

Hectotic - an adjective to describe toddler-induced frenzy

Ses15 · 28/06/2008 10:31

Morning all!

Diege - I like hectotic

lardybump · 28/06/2008 11:54

Nice work diege.

Hello everyone. Well I am working till 6 again today. I have bad tummy ache and feel really sick. But apart from that I am ok.... How about you are you all ok?

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Diege · 28/06/2008 12:03

Awww LB, hope you get through work OK - horrible on a Saturday even when you're not feeling yucky . Hi SES
Well dh has taken dds out for lunch at Morrisons' cafe, to give me a chance to get some more marking done ...what he doesn't know is that I have a secret rendevous with my other man ...Nadal is playing this afternoon ..
On a rare evening out tonight, for a meal with friends. Why is it that I always set these things up but would like nothing better than to stay in when the time comes? ..the older I get the more ant-social I become .

lardybump · 28/06/2008 12:13

I would love to go out every now and then but my dp never wants to go out. I may have to leave him in and go out with some friends on my own one day. (note to self must get some friends in this area to go out with....)

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Diege · 28/06/2008 12:27

LOL LB, I am the same re: lack of local friends! I made a few when on maternity leave, but then lost touch when back at work..most friends now seem to be old friends of dh's, and a lot older than me! In fact the woman in the couple we are going out with tonight has always struck me as in her late 40s early 50s (re: personality, clothes, attitudes, looks etc), but I have just heard that she is actually a year younger than me ...I think I am a young 38 (think Heat magazine type person)so maybe more about my immaturity!
Right, really must get some work done!!

lardybump · 28/06/2008 12:45

You are not really 38 it is a trick. You dont look, act, dress or think like a 38 year old. and I am not 34 either... he he he he

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Diege · 28/06/2008 12:56

I like it!!!

tinkspregnancyisgoingquick · 28/06/2008 13:59

hi ladies i have had my hair done and i bought some clarks shoe in sale for dd1 for when she out grows others only £10 each got trainers and shoes
luv hetotic great word lol @ rendovous with nadal

lardybump · 28/06/2008 15:11

hi tink I bet your hair looks lovely.

When are you all telling your work that you are pg? I am not sure when to do it!

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Diege · 28/06/2008 15:21

Hi Tink, sounds like you had a fruitful trip!
LB, I think I'll tell work when I'm 12 weeks, just so that they can arrange cover for me. It half passed my mind to mention something in last week's staff development/planning session, but thought it ridiculous to possibly change the whole year plan when I was only 6 weeks pregnant!
There are no hard and fast rules (think you have till about 18 weeks??)so just tell when you feel ready I'd say

lardybump · 28/06/2008 15:27

I think I will do the same as you wait until I am 12 weeks (only 7 weeks to go). I wont be able to hind it much past that anyway the way my belly is growing

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Diege · 28/06/2008 15:34

Mine is too! Deffo a top button open jobbie on my skinny jeans! Am doing the smock top/dress over jeans look at the moment too, but having a problem zipping dresses up too over my former AA cup

lardybump · 28/06/2008 15:46

At least your boobs are growing mine are the same little gnat bits that they have always been . Still give it 9 months and there will be plenty there (all being well)

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NatalieJaneIsPregnantAgain · 28/06/2008 16:15

Afternoon

OK big catch up....

Diege, holiday? What holiday? Oooooooh do you mean the five days spent spending a squillion quid on fuck all and shite? Or the fantastic () bingo in the club at 7pm? Or the kids disco at 8.15pm - YMCA included for the parents for free - while paying £2 a go for crappy cheap coke, and the dreaded fruitshoots? On asking for bottled water, the reply was "well you might as well get fruitshoots, since they are only £1.75, whereas the water is £2.50 a bottle"!!! Or do you mean the 5 days sat in a tiny hole of an apartment, staring out at the rain? No seriously, it was OK, as far as holidaying in the UK goes, kids loved it, which people keep saying is the main thing.... And it didn't rain the whole time, just most of it! LOL

Aunty, congrats!!!! Very pleased for you, is it starting to sink in yet? I don't think it matters if you've been trying for 6 hours or 6 years, that BFP is always a shock!

Ses there is 13 years between me and DH, (he is older than me) never been a problem for us, had a few funny looks when we first got together, but I was only 17, he was 30, I don't think people even register there is a age difference between us now. (Not sure if that means he looks younger, or me older..... )

Pop, still can't believe you're having twins, and I meant to say a big congrats to your sister as well!! I bet siblings having twins a week apart from each other doesn't happen very often! My doppler is the middle one, can't fault it, gives a clear reading every time, have picked up the babies heart beat, heard movements, the placenta swishing - it's great And if you rent it for 6 months, it becomes yours and they give you the remaining 6 month warrenty on it. When I was reading up on them, it seems that some of the cheaper 'listeners' just literally amplify any sound in your belly, whereas the ultra sonic dopplers will actually search out the movements of blood flow/movement and give you the sound of the movement if that makes any sense? It basically means you'd hear the baby/ies heart beat earlier and more clearly.

Tink, my scan is on Wednesday, next MW appointment is some time in August - I must remember to ring and make the appointment actually. It is going quite slowly day to day, but the weeks seem to be adding up fairly quickly IYKWIM? LOL I am swaying from feeling sick, feeling really dizzy, and feeling absolutely exhausted, it is quite different from my other pregnancies so far.

LB, hoorahhhh for symptom - or have you had enough of it already?

Kooky, cool names for the cats Ours doesn't have a name, I am sure we gave her one when we got her, but never actually used it....

Phew is that it??

DH has taken the boys out to MIL's Lovely couple of hours to myself after all the hectotic-ness of the week

lardybump · 28/06/2008 16:45

Yay NJ so good to have you back we have really missed you.....

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NatalieJaneIsPregnantAgain · 28/06/2008 16:50

LMAO, lovely to have me back? What so I can fill the thread with HUGE posts full of crap? LOL

Awwww, I miss you lot when I'm not about as well