Anyone want to join me in a waiting to conceive thread ? Anyone else really broody but can't TTC yet ?

[Hobnob76]

Hi everyone! Hubby and I are desperately broody and have been for a few years. We're hoping to TTC later this year, we're having to wait til Hubby finishes his degree as we just can't afford to have a baby whilst he's a student. Am wanting to come off the pill round about May, and hopefully TTC about Nov/Dec. Want to come off the pill a few months early as I've been on it for over 14 yrs, and would like to know what its like to have normal periods!

Be nice to know if anyone else is in a similar situation.

What's B+B?

OLS, welcome, and why not just go for it? You don't know how quickly you will get pregnant, and babies sleep in your room for the first few months anyway. Besides, entire families used to be brought up in one room flats! I knw it isn't that simple really, but I bet you can find a way.

Hiya Everyone...Only just got back in my own house from Hull - big sis appointment was 10:30 this morning - we had to set off at 9am cos we live so far away from the damn hospital dept (sis had gastric bypass in Dec) when we arrived they told my sis "oh havent you had a letter thru the post - this appnt has been rearranged"

from me but my sister was like x10000!!

So we did what any normal person would have done and sat in the waiting room demanding to be seen and complaining loudly that we had been stuck in traffic on M62 and A1 and this was just unacceptable etc etc...

But anyway...things are looking up.
Only 8 weeks til September Only thing keeping me going lately.

How is everyone??
Warm welcome to OneLonelySock - great name Hope you're well...can totally relate to you on the space thing. We were hoping to sell our 3bed and move to a 4bed for ease for children but in the end because of the current market it's just impossible. No-one is buying!!!

Only way we will get our 4bed is if the new developer peeps will take part-ex - but we'd still have to double our mortgage which is not realistic with (hopefully) another baby coming into the equation soon.

CurlyCasper How are you? Hows London - have the thunderstorms stopped now? They have here thankfully - DS is a little scared of them.

Hobnob DS still not sleeping so looks like I'm destined to have a weeks worth of bags under my eyes methinks. How are you?

Kayzr Hi and welcome - glad you came to a decision on when you wanted your DC3 (another thread I think maybe?)

Medee I'm with you on B+B - what is it?? How are you anyway?

x xx x

very well thanks, Kaylo. That's a pain for your sister.

Welcome OneLonelySock, CurlyCasper and Rimmer08 and hello all - and on your behalf, Kaylo - what a massive pain for you and your sister!

Not much happening with me except that I think everyone I know except me is pregnant... waiting till the end of the year seems like a long time away!

MrsP x

thanks for all the lovely hellos! will find this a good place for advice i think. its driving me nuts not to be able to talk about it with people!!

Hi MrsPigeon - Thanks for the welcome

For those who asked, B&B is Baby and Bump, another forum site.

kaylo thankfully things brightened up overnight in the big smoke. Back home now and back to reality - pilates class and Top Model catch-up! (DH currently sitting next to me bitching about the finalists!) Sorry about the hospital nightmare. I had that in December, was literally there to pick something up from therapist, had paid parking and then they called my mobile to cancel. Of course, if we fail to show, it's a different matter!

Finding little things get me excited now. Basal thermometer arrived in post today, and if AF appears over next couple of days I will have returned to a normal post-pill cycle. Don't think I've ever wanted AF so much - but in a couple of months I'll be desperate for it not to come!

TTFN x

Hi and welcome OneLonelySock! I can so see where you're coming from too. We're waiting til Hubs finishes his uni course. Ideally we'd have liked to have our own house and for Hubs to be settled in a job before we start TTC but hey, we've decided life's too short! Much to some of our relatives annoyance, they think we're doing it all the wrong way round!

CurlyCasper I think we are my dear! I'm waiting for my 1st period off the pill too, am sure mine'll be due in the next week.

Hi and welcome to Kayzr! Good luck with the weightloss, I really need to join you!

Kaylo I'm good thanks, schools just broken up for the summer, so I have lots of time off (well a few weeks, til the summer job starts!) Sorry to hear about you're stressful day. Hope you manage to get at least forty winks!

Mrs Pigeon I know that feeling too well, gah for being too sensible, why do we have to be so bloody sensible!

rimmer08 I love this thread for that reason too. We've not told many people in real life about our TTC plans, its so nice to come on here and chat to others in the same boat.

Wow, Thanks Curlycasper, Medee, Kaylo, MrsPigeon, Hobnob79 and well, just to everyone for the fantastic welcome!

I know it might sound a little selfish, but it helps to know I'm not alone with the space and mortgage issue. (Really, Really good luck to you Kaylo!) And I have tried to find a space for a kiddie, I mean one of those moses baskets would take up the least space right, but even then the only place I can find for one of them is in the kitchen, either on the worktops or the middle of the floor and I don't think that'd be ideal (although the baby-craving-monster in me did seriously consider it before my brain took over ) And I'd be too scared to consider co-sleeping.

Rimmer08 I'm with you in being really happy to have found somewhere to get rid of a little bit of the crazy just by talking about things And it's great that we're not the only new people still joining nudges Kayzr (Good luck with the fitness.. any great tips and I'd love to know!)

Did I forget anyone? Zen-hugs to all.

so true- i am almost going mad with excitement. have told in laws thats we might ttc as well as my own parents. i thought they were going to cry with happiness! my only concern is not being able to afford lots of time off! although am teacher so school holidays will not be a prob

We aren't telling anyone, possibly not even until the scan. Primarily cos I spent so long persuading my mother that I wasn't going to be giving her any grandchildren!

i know what you mean but needed to tell re. childcare etc!

thinking i'll tell my mum - cause I want to ask about family history, her pregnancies etc before seeing the GP this Tuesday re TTC

i thinks thats sensible. more or less what i did. last day of term today so ecited for holiday and what will (hopefully) happen afterwards

I'm with Medee on this one, thinking I'll keep it all hush hush until the bump appears..

(Curlycasper I had to pop in to see the nurse recently, I mentioned that I'd want kiddies soon and would it be a good idea to see the GP prior to TTC? She looked at me like I was insane and said 'you don't need to see a doctor, you need lots of sex'.)

OLS, I got the same reaction. Said to my GP at my last pill prescription - I plan this to be my last, should we come and see you before TTC, and the GP said no! I did ask the nurse at my smear to check my immunisations were up to date. I think that's all they care about if you are otherwise healthy - up to date smear and immunisations.

at OneLonelySock's nurse! I went to see my doc before TTC (way before TTC, given that we're not trying for a couple of months) and he wasn't that direct but you could tell that's what he was thinking too! Although I did get him to test me for rubella as it was so long since I'd had the jab - and at the same time they ran tests for folate levels and some other stuff, so maybe it was worthwhile. Although really the main point was to make me feel like I was actually doing something...

happy holidays Rimmer! We're off for a couple of weeks on Sunday too, really can't wait. Going camping so fingers crossed for sunshine...

Thanks rimmer and sorry onelonelysock and others, I should have explained that I have to see GP because I've stopped taking long term meds in order to conceive (hence the wait). A page on MN says GP will ask about family history etc and I know they quite often want to know about any PG complications your own mum had etc, but maybe those Qs won't arise till I'm actually PG.

TBH it's actually any excuse to tell someone!

Happy holidays to all who are getting some. After my few days camping recently I'm stuck at work to end of August now
x

Can I join too? Have one dd who is 18 months and going to start ttc in the Autumn. Want to lose a couple of stone before then. Was v overweight with dd, still am and I want to be a little bit less - only removal of limbs would make a big diference to my weight . Anyway we are looking at starting around Oct/Nov and I can't wait

Hi Ho Everyone - Welcome Eyeballs Love the name - very unique!! (can we call you EbitS for short?

I totally agree with you on the removal of limbs re weightloss - I mega need to do something as am a size 22 bottom and due to start TTC in Septemeber - maybe we could do it together, kinda?
I weigh about 18 stone, maybe a little more or less but roundabout that. I think I'm gonna start Slimming World as thats the easiest way for me to lose weight I think. (DH suggested me having gastric bypass )

Curly love what your Nurse said - nothing like saying it how it is - no sugar coating in those words Also it's a very good idea to know about prev family pg's [they didn't ask me about pg'd but they did about diabetes]

MrsP Hope you have a fantastic fortnight camping!! Wishing you sunshine and gentle breezes . When I was pg by surprise first time around (I was a young a naive 19y/o) and was advised by my mum to see GP(?) - who gave me a blank unsmiling look and said - think you need ante-natal clinic couldn't get out of there quick enough - although he did give me a prescription for folic acid and told me not to get it until my exemption cert had come thru - bless him.

Medee Think I agree about seeing nurse re being healthy enough to conceive. Could be why I haven't been to see her - last time I went she told me I was depressed and overweight so I don't think she'd like to know my TTC plans

rimmer HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! Am a little lol, but I think you've earned it - what age do you teach?

LonelySock You're definitely not alone!!! at your baby monster and moses basket location. We have no room at all for a moses basket (downstairs) so baby will have to sleep in a bouncer while downstairs (or pushchair carrycot? Planning on getting M&P Pliko Pramette) There I go again....

Hobnob Very wise to wait for DH uni course to end but I sooo agree with on the Lifes Too Short front. You only live once so you have to make the most of it!!!

I hope everyone is well...sorry for being AWOL yesterday - hubby surprised me with a trip Alnwick Castle in Northumberland (2 and a half hour drive from where we live!) It was beautiful - and we saw where the Harry Potter flying lesson was filmed (sorry I'm a bit of a freak with HP - I love the movies and books)

Love and cyber hugs to everyone xx xx xx

Sorry

I forgot to ask how you are Kayzr

I didn't mean to forget you - honest!!
Hope you're well hun xxx

Think we're body-twins Kaylo Pg last time was ok but they were testing for GD right at the last minute and it made a difference to their treatment of dd when she was born so any tiny thing I can do to lessen the chance of that again would be good.

And you can call me whatever you like

Kayz sorry to be a cyber stalker but was reading your other threads and noticed the driving/passing test one?

I was just wondering how being pregnant would affect that? I know I sound like a nosy bugger and I'm really sorry I just remember you saying you were going to start trying in Nov and if you caught on practically straight away or in the month after then you would be due very close to next July - will you still be able to drive whilst that pregnant.

Also fingers crossed you pass before you get to big in pg but I've also heard the emergency stop can be dangerous to perform whilst pregnant.

I'm sorry if you think I'm being a cyber-stalker but I just thought I'd mention it thats all

We're still not 100% about ttc this year yet so we're just looking at our options. Didn't know about emergancy stop. I know loads of people that had lessons while being pg.

Ok sorry - just wanted to mention it to you.

Actually not sure if I want dc3. Now weaning ds2 and he threw the spoon at me and I now have orange gunk in my hair!!

We are going to see how my driving is going when we get to November. I'm not spending another 9 months mat leave not being able to drive.