first month of TTC no.1 anyone care to join?

[katster37]

Hi all. Well, after nearly a year of talking about it, and not really trying NOT to conceive, we are finally taking the plunge and this month will be our first PROPER month of TTC our first child. I am so excited! I realise it will not all be plain sailing, but I feel it is such a huge thing to have even reached this point.
I am on CD1 and have been v closely monitoring my cycles and ovulation patterns (we have been using natural family planning for a while) so am extremely nervous and excited about what is held in store.... Anyone in the same boat that would care to join me?!

Sorry things are looking complicated for you Violet hoping you get the answers you need. Katster are you feeling better?

I've given up waiting for the MW to call me so booked my own appointment direct at the birth centre. Going on the 11th Feb so I guess I should really graduate onto the anti-natal board! Been hiding out here but seeming more real now we're about to tell parents.

Good luck to everyone TTC and to all the BFPs we've had already. Hope to see everyone on anti-natal.

Lots of love and hugs

Sorry, Katster kinda meant any better? Rather than better all round, I know it's not going to be a quick fix. Really hoping you get the help you need for the stress and also hoping a baby comes along too.

Lots of grinning at you and I'm sure it'll happen.

Purple have fun over on antenatal, we will miss you. Keep us updated on your progress and i hope the MW appt goes well. And i hope telling the parents goes well.

Hi Ladies,

I've been trying to catch up on everything here (Hi to all newbies!) Purple, we'll miss you, but congratulations on graduating!

Katster Sorry to hear you're down. I know you mentioned work-issues but do you think there's a chance that it's a seasonal thing? Lots of people in Scandinavia swear by those light-lamps. It can't hurt! (Although, I guess if your heart is racing, it's probably not that.) A friend of mine has just started and promptly stopped anti-anxiety medication because she heard of so many people struggling to come off them. She was going to look into taking St Johns Worth while TTC, will let you know what she comes up with.

Nothing much to report over in Broodzillaland. No AF, but also no BFP.

I'm starting temping as of tomorrow.

Hi ladies - I haven't posted for a while but I have been lurking and following your stories. Thanks so much for all your thoughts, I really appreciate it.

Broodzilla - any news? how late are you? I think there is definitely something in the seasonal thing. I swear, every January since I can remember I have felt rubbish, and I am definitely a summer person. I actually spent most of autumn dreading January which kind of makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy really! Nearly Feb though, and I think it is staying lighter a bit longer now.

Kittycatcat thanks v much for your email. I will reply in a sec.

And hi to everyone else!

Well, I am actually feeling a lot better and have been doing for the last couple of days. I'm not sure why but I have abandoned the pills and got myself a CBT appointment for Saturday. Dh is back from skiing tonight and I am so so excited to see him! Can't decide whether to pounce on him or whether to leave TTC on the back burner this month. I am thinking a month off won't do any harm and will be one less thing to think about. I am trying to take a more relaxed approach to it now, by telling myself we are not trying, but obviously not use contraception etc.

So, that;'s it from me really. A colleague announced she was 14 weeks pg today and I felt slightly .

Kaster [big hug]. Good luck with your CBT appt.

Hello everyone [waves]

Katster I know your DH has just been away, but any chance you could book a sunny getaway? (Even a long weekend down in the Med MUST be better than the dreary gray skies we're permanently stuck with here!!) That might help. At least it's a very good excuse for a holiday!
Also, I know it's a very American thing of me to say, but I do believe that most people (including me, obviously) would benefit from some kind of therapy, so I think it's great that you're going for CBT. Anyway, I'll shut up now, could go on for hours as I've just been reading up on related stuff for work...

We had a letter from my SIL the other day, with pictures from her latest scan. She's doing my head in at the moment, as last time she visited she took it upon herself to congratulate her DP right in front of us, for being "a real man" and getting her pregnant...

Anyway. I know it's fantastic and lovely that they'll be having a baby and all, but...

No AF. No signs. I've normally got a 26 day cycle and today is 27. I don't know what to think.
Just wrote on the GFJ thread too. I think if this was a normal month I might allow myself to get quietly optimistic, but I didn't get a +ive on the OPKs at all this month, and have been feeling so rubbish with this damn virus that I had actually written this month off in terms of TTC.

I just got a text from my friend who says she only got a BFP when she was 3 days overdue. Ahhh, I don't know.

I did find myself buying a Clearblue Conception Date indicator test, but I've promised myself I'll only use it if (WHEN!! POSITIVE THINKING!!) I get a BFP on a cheapy.

Ooo Broodzilla I am optimisitc for you, it sounds promising! Also, your SIL congratulating her DP for being a 'real man'?!?! How awful, I would have been too...

Well DH got back late Thursday, and we did BD yesterday morning, but am really really trying not to think about it this month. I'm really looking forward to my CBT appointment so will see how that goes...

Happy Saturday everyone!

AF arrived this morning. It's disappointing, but I'd also rather know than keep knicker checking and wishing and hoping.

I've signed up on Fertilityfriend and started temping, mostly just to take the guesswork out of it all. Don't know if that'll make it more or less stressful, but figured it's worth a go.

I'm also determined to BD every other day this time around, come hell or high water. (Whatever happened to the good old days when that would just have happened anyway, no planning and effort involved???)

We'll see where that gets us.

Happy Saturday Ladies!

ji all - katser sorry you got af, was reading and thought fab you were pregnant but alas not ((HUG))

havent posted for a while

STILL waiting for af - though people have said they have conceived with out having 1st af from comng off the pill

still not 100% i want a baby now,but july is a nice time to conceiveve

will just wait and see what hapens over the next few months

but def having fun shagging

Hi Blondeshavemorefun, i had to go docs for a pulled calf muscle this week. Was agony, couldn't walk. App clots are a side effect of coming off the pill...but it's a muscle so thats all ok. Anyhoo, doc mentioned alot of women dont have AF at all when they come off the pill to conceiving...
Fingers crossed for everyone.
Kaster have you another CBT session? If so hope it goes ok.

hi KITTY - sorry to hear about your pulled muscle - though glad its not a blood clot - i have had one of those travel up my leg, to my lung which collasped and nearly died

guess i want AF, just so i have a vague idea where i am in my cycle, coz as the moment i havent a clue

hi Blondeshavemorefun. GOD! How scary. I am back in work today
Yeah can understand that. Very frustrating. Bodies ar4e wierd things aren't they.x

very weird

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

xxx