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First time TTC?!! Let's get through this together!! Part 2

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bluestarlavender · 08/08/2008 08:11

Hi guys, new thread for us to carry on!

BSL x

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summerbird · 11/08/2008 19:26

dont worry bubbap we have names picked out too!! that may change at the time but we have got some already..

BSL i will take the gas straighteners for backup - although they are not a patch on GHD - oh god i am panicking now - i only have chin length hair (pretty much same length as my wedding pics) and it goes absolutely mental when drying naturally - i will take kirby grips to be sure!!

hey saz are you still without the evil witch? i am rooting for you girl.

i bumped into another of my colleagues who is pregnant today, she is due in November and looking fab - i asked her to send me some baby dust and she gave me an extra special little bit more - so i shall share it with you all

summerbird · 11/08/2008 19:33

dawn my colleagues daughter is called Emily Rose and someone mentioned the exorcist too, but it is a truly beautiful name. i love your names - ours are currently William Edward (a bit regal but WM is my dad and DH's stepdads middle names and Ed is DH's middle name)

I want Mary Jane for a girl but DH wont let me as it is another name for cannabis!!! We are currently pondering over Ella May for a girl (after the wonderful Ms Fitzgerald of course!!)

gotta go - DH is nagging for his dinner and it is my turn to cook........

crunchynutter · 11/08/2008 19:40

hi all! eth and BSL it's nice to see you back! I Am going to look into holidays to jersey now-sounds fab! We are going to Wales on the 22nd (hoping my mobile picks up 3g so I can still chat LOL) we are in a log cabin with a hot tub near the breacon beakons-is that anywhere near these lovely pubs?!?!

saz day after AF was due is very early so don't give up hope! Fingers crossed for you. Xx

bluestarlavender · 11/08/2008 20:27

Crunchy - I don't think you'll be close enough to visit the pubs. But the cabin with the hot tub sounds fab - very romantic and relaxing!!! I bet you have a wonderful time!!

We're off on our hols that day too - visiting family in Singapore, so I'll be in the same time zone as B I think...

BSL x

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saz007 · 11/08/2008 20:30

Thanks girls xx

I think the names that you're all chosen are lovely. We have a shortlist but havent decided yet, Sophie or Caitlin (I'm liking Grace or Olivia as a possible middle name) for a girl and James or Matthew for a boy. I also have future pets names picked out too

I have to take my ghds with me on holidays too. I didnt take them to the States this year (I didnt realise until I was on the plane!) I had to buy some when I got there, they were ok...better than the holiday frizz I'd get if I didnt buy them!!

Bonifacio · 12/08/2008 06:47

Hmm BSL I think you'll be 6 hours ahead and i'm 7.

Well i'm having a shitty week I have put loads of weight on which is getting me down, I even did a pg test because I thought there's no way I can be getting fat without a good reason. Obv it was BFN! AF is due tomorrow so I am a little bloated but its never usually this bad. I've actually put 4lb on in a week. I haven't been going to the gym or swimming, I am crap. ANd my mum arrives today so no doubt she will comment on the excess weight, and i'm going on hoiliday in 2 weeks I need to be skinny again. Hopefully my mum will want to go to the gym too!I think I just eat too much, i'm always hungry. Maybe its from quitting smoking. I've never been this heavy in my life I'm feeling so unnatractive and PMT isn't helping. I need to get it sorted!

bluestarlavender · 12/08/2008 10:24

Morning everyone!!

B - Singapore is also 7 hours ahead at the moment and 8 hours in the winter. As for feeling yuck, I would hit the gym! I usually gain about 4lbs in the run up to AF and always feel much bigger in my head than I really am!!

Saz - how's things this morning with you? Any more symptoms/test results? [hopeful emotion] I totally know what you mean about HAVING to have your straighteners with you on hol!! The US doesn't have GHDs oddly. But thankfully the newer GHDs work in the US.

MAF - All ready for Thursday?? you must be so excited now!!

Waves to everyone else! Dawn - how's the back??

BSL x

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makingafamily · 12/08/2008 11:06

Hey everyone

Dawn, hope your backs feeling better and not interfering with the BD'ing. 10mg of valium may help lol

Getting their for Thursday BSL, i can't wait

Oh, lovely baby names ladies. We like Lily May for a girl and Joshua James for a boy

DawnAS · 12/08/2008 11:24

Morning all,

B, you sound really down. As BSL said, your weight won't be noticed by anyone else as much as you're noticing it yourself. Not that that helps as it's you that's upset about it! I have to admit that my weight fluctuates a lot and if I feel that I've put some on, I do Weight Watchers for a couple of weeks and it goes again. Although strangely before the MC I was eating loads and only appeared to be putting weight on my tummy. Strange because I'm classic pear shape and that's where all the weight normally goes. Even since the MC, I'm eating more than usual and still not putting it on my bum and hips. Still my tummy. Oh well! Do you suffer with PMT then? It definitely sounds like that might be what you've got. Hopefully you'll feel better in a few days.... Sending lots of hugs and kisses to you.

It all sounds like you lead such exotic lives!! I did before I met DH! I used to have a couple of holidays a year. But our honeymoon to Mexico this year was the first time that we've been abroad together at all! (Other than Jersey for a few days last year....). If we get PG then I can't see us going anywhere else for a few more years. It's the buying the house that's stopping us doing all those things!!

So, my trapped nerve is now affecting my chest aswell as my back and seems to be getting a lot worse. So that's four nights in a row with hardly any sleep now, I don't know how I'm still functioning!!

It's not at all pleasant and waking up and continually looking at the clock just makes it worse. I'm so knackered!!

So, I have no idea where I am in my cycle now as we've started BDing just after the MC, so I guess I can start getting excited in 3 months if I still haven't had an AF!! . I guess the benefit of doing it this way, is that if I do start to get some light bleeding or spotting, I'll just assume that it's AF and won't be so paranoid and freaked out about it as I was when I already knew I was PG.

I'm actually having a bit of a fight with myself at the moment. Because we managed to conceive first month (very rare I know and it was definitely more luck than judgement!), I will be disappointed now if I get AF. BUT to the same extent, because of the problems with the PG before the miscarriage (all the spotting and stuff), I'm almost scared to get a BFP again because I'll be so terrified and paranoid that the same thing will happen again. So really, I can't win!!

Anyway enough of being miserable!!

How is everyone this fine day?!!

Babydust for everyone...

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xxxx

saz007 · 12/08/2008 11:41

Morning all,

B you sound really down. I really hope you feel better soon

MAF for Thursday v v excited for you!!

Dawn sorry to hear your back's no better. I don't know how you're functioning either, I'd be in bits if I hadn't slept for that long (I'm still like a child if I don't get my sleep - I turn really wingy and then get sick!)

No test results yet BSL (don't tempt me!!) and the only other symptom I forgot last night was my lower back's been achy for about 5 days now. Still no AF tho, which I'm taking as good. DH wants me to test again in the morning, but I wasnt sure about waiting til Thursday

Hope you are all having good days. I will be now as I had a training workshop and a 2 hour meeting scheduled for this afternoon but they've both been cancelled - hurray!!!

summerbird · 12/08/2008 12:08

Hi everyone - having a manic busy morning today as am clearing my work for my hols, but just wanted to bob in and say hello.

saz still no AF then? i am sooo trying not to get excited for you! (as i have been 3 days late before and we had the next 5 years mapped out by the time the evil witch came along..) hang on in there and test on Thursday - i will still be on line on Thurs even though i am off (well we need to get together at 2.30 for MAFs wedding!

dawn hope your back gets better soon - DH gets a bad back and he can be out for ages.

bonifacio you sound like you have a touch of PMT, i agree that you should hit the gym as the endorphins will get you back on track, hope you too feel better soon

hi to everyone else too - hope you are having a more chilled morning than me!!

baby dust for everyone
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crunchynutter · 12/08/2008 14:42

hi All!

Dawn I hope your back eases, have you been to the doctors? I am awful without sleep-it actually makes me I'll! I get migraines and a sorts!

B I know how you feel-I have put lots of weight on lately and most of the time I am quite accepting of it but every now and again I feel really inattractive and sad

Today is one of those days- I have a grotesque coldsore on my nose it is really odd. Nowhere near my mouth just spreading accross the side of my face

bubbap · 12/08/2008 17:47

Hi girls

Big hugs to those of you who are feeling down and/or ill.

summerbird and crunchynutter - you're coming to Wales on holiday! hope you have a lovely time here! (I'm in Cardiff). We're off to Crete in a couple of weeks time, can't wait.

MAF good luck for thursday, hope it all goes brilliantly.

Saz fingers crossed that the witch doesn't appear!

And here's some baby dust for all of us!!

crunchynutter · 12/08/2008 19:10

today is just getting better our patio doors Have broken (I have no idea what had happened but we have taken the lock apart and a pie e of metal inside has actually broken!)

Hubby looked on Internet and it looks like it could cost bout £350 so I did what any sensible girl does and phoned my daddy! He has come to look at it and disappeared with my DH so fingers crossed he's got a friend with the relevant equipment! Xx

bubbap · 12/08/2008 20:08

poor crunchynutter... hopefully your DH and dad can fix it! x

Bonifacio · 13/08/2008 02:51

Lol, sorry Crunchy but when I first read your post I thought you were going to blame the broken door an a pie, that would've been funny!!

Well my mum has arrived and when she gets up we will be going swimming and to the gym, and then shopping yey! And your all right I always get bloated and PMT ish but mainly I am annoyed with myself at letting myself go, I was just over 7st when I met DP thats a stone and a half of excess crap on me and it all goes straight to my hips, ass and thighs I think I like food too much!!

Dawn I hope your back gets better soon, and you sound like your between a rock and a hard place, wanting a BFP but worrying about MC'ing again, must be tough I am sure your next pg witll be fine!

BSL I can never remember time zones, family are all over the world it gets really confusing!! You'll have a great time in Singapore its a lovely city. Make sure you go to the zoo! We had a great time! And its really humid there at the moment accoriding to a friend of mine!

Saz I am hoping that if you test again in a few days you will get a BFP!! Heres hoping!!

MAF ooh its getting closer now!! I bet you are so excited!!

Hello to everyone else Bubbap, Summer, Flirty, Sorry if I forgot anyone!! xx

summerbird · 13/08/2008 07:20

hey boni you sound much happier today, that is good to see i get days like that too when everything is crap then i wake up next day and forget about it!

bubbap i will be in Cardiff on sunday night after my weekend at Llangennith, my friend lives on Cathedral Road in the centre, it is a lovely part of town, i have family in Pontllanfraith (Blackwood way) too so that part of Wales is like home to me.

saz - anything happening yet matey??

MAF i am literally peeing myself with excitement for you! all the very best for the big day and enjoy yourself

hi there crunchy BSL dawn and flirty an all of our other first timers! Have a wonderful day everyone!

saz007 · 13/08/2008 08:45

Yeay B you sound much chirpier this morning!

LOL Crunchy I also thought the door problem had something to do with a pie...or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part?!? Hope it got sorted ok?

No news yet Summerbird. 29 days has been my longest cycle since coming off the pill and that would have been Monday, they've usually been 27/28 days. Although I have been having some stronger cramps this morning (I don't usually get any cramping until about day 2 or 3 of AF and even then it's not much - sorry if TMI!) so I'm fully expecting AF to make an appearance....boo!

Bubbap thanks and cheers for the babydust lady

This waiting is driving me crazy, I just wish I knew one way or the other. DH was saying he felt the same last night. This is going to make me sound really self centered but I'd totally forgotten that he'd be feeling the same - oops!

MAF good luck again for tomorrow I'm soooo excited for you!!! Hope the sun makes an appearance

Hi to Dawn, Flirty and everyone else, hope you all have fantastic days xx

crunchynutter · 13/08/2008 09:48

LOL I got the bloody space bar instead of the c! Pie would have Bern much easier to fix though! There is a man here now from my dads work so I'm hiding upstarirs in my pajamas! fingers crosses-I was thinking someone would break in all night!

b I would love to be that weight! I was 8.4 when I met my hubby and was only 16! I used to get told I was too skinny loads! I have put just under a stone and a half on and hate it though, I guess it's just what you're comfortable with isn't it? (BTW I was a dancer so I was 8.4 of very hard and defined muscle-I think that's what I miss more than numbers on the scale!)

Saz stay positive. When were you gestin again? Was it tomorrow?

dawn I hope you have seen sombody about your back. My sister regularly has to see a chiropractor but he does wonders.

Maf I st you can't wait til tomorrow-I walked round grinning like a mad woman leading up to my wedding. I hope is perfect for you xx

Crunchy xx

crunchynutter · 13/08/2008 09:52

that should be everything is perfect for you! I really am going to start reading these before I post... Maybe lol

makingafamily · 13/08/2008 10:28

Morning

Thanks for all your lovely messages and wishes. Shoes have finally turned up......at work!!!

Bit concerned about the weather EEK

saz007 · 13/08/2008 10:47

I guess I'm out this month - spot of blood this morning

Oh well, onwards and upwards

eth37 · 13/08/2008 11:05

Morning ladies,

Saz are you ok? Are you sure it's not implanting spotting?

Maf you must be getting really excited now!! Eeeeek!

Hope everyone else ok. I have started packing for hols on Fri - it is pissing it down here so really looking forward to escaping.

B is your mum staying with you? Have a lovely time!

Crunchy how's the patio door?? Hope you got the pie out....!

Summerbird are you packed and ready?

crunchynutter · 13/08/2008 11:48

the pie has gone LOL! We have got the door fixed so I am happy now that no one will try to kill me in my sleep! House is cold too cos there's Been a door open for a day and a night! Anyways I have to go pram shopping with my SIL so I will probably be sad later! Xx

Vix67 · 13/08/2008 12:07

Hi everyone,

I've been reading your threads for a while now, is it ok to join in??

I'm 27 have been ttc for 18 months , have had my first cycle of clomid this month, i am ovulating but not to the right level??

I get my 21d blood test done on fri and again next fri, so hoping this has lifted the levels!!

I've also heard grapefruit juice is good for you when ttc, have any of you heard this??

xx