Mid Thirties First time TCC

[donttrythisathome]

Anyone feel like joining this bus??

I'm 36, TCC 1, never wanted children and now have done a complete u-turn!

TCC 1, Cycle 2, UCL 28-33ish, CD12

Cosmosis I like it, but I think if you want to make it a little more exo'ic you could try Shardonnay ? Shar-donee ? What about Boo-Jo-Lay-Noo-Veau?

Hi - On CD30 today and did a tesco test this morning - got a BFP! As I had a mmc last August I'm trying not to get too excited.

Liskey that's awesome news! Congrats!

Liskey - hooray! Keep us posted - we want to know everything!

Well, nearly...

Just been on childbirth threads - argh argh argh why oh why do you girls point me to such things? Argh!

Friend have her baby at weekend - little boy by CS - husband said something about her pelvis being the wrong way round so it couldn't come out - no idea what that meant but will no doubt hear all about it when I speak to her later in the week. I want some sort of mind-cleanser now.

Liskey fantastic!! congratulations!

I started reading a childbirth thread. I had to stop. we don't need to know these things!

skihorse I'm very much liking Boo-Jo-Lay-Noo-Veau. It rolls off the tongue v nicely.

Liskey that is so exciting. Congrats.

Now step away from the childborth threads, except the positive homebirth ones, which are great.

I have decided I really don't like all the waiting around that ttc involves. I'm faaaaar too impatient and just want to know now whether my period is going to come or not this month. Especially as I have no idea when to expect it after my hundred and whatever day cycle last time!! currently CD20 and frustrated already

I'm not going near the childbirth threads - something need to remain a mystery at the moment and that is defintely one of them!

Cosmosis - one of the worst things is the wait for AF - counting down every day.

I made the mistake of having a very brief look at one of the childbirth threads while I was having my breakfast... BIG MISTAKE!

Made me almost glad to back on CD1 this afternoon!

liskey! congratulations! Well done yourself!

[nice celebratory glass of elderberry cordial for you, and a double G&T for everyone else]

I am on CD 24 and for the first time, I genuinely don't care - have no tests in the house, and am too busy to get worked up about it. Like everyone else, am not actually contemplating the childbirth side of things (in much the same way as I'm glossing over the equally painful 'payment' aspect of my new mortgage) but since I had to have the equivalent of a c-section to get my fibroids out, I've already got a nice little scar and 'bumbag'-shaped tummy chump so it's not like I'll be losing my model figure if I do end up being too posh to push...

Cheers! Lovely news liskey.

That giving birth thread is strangely compelling - I need mind bleach now. I think on balance its good to have the truth told so at least you know you're not alone!

Have you bought a new flat/ house, wildfig? What's it like?

Mind bleach! Hee! That's a great idea - where can we get some?! Ideally the easy-rinse stuff, please.

House is a lovely old farmhouse in the wilds of Herefordshire, all ready to have its walls painted white and cream carpets installed. But as we still haven't exchanged and the nice old lady vendor is suddenly being a bit vague about 'finding somewhere else', am not counting too many chickens just yet. Boyf has expressed strange new desire to get a proper drinks cabinet in manner of Agatha Christie novel for the sitting room - is this an inevitable step of male thirtysomething home-ownerdom? He hasn't specified whether he wants it to be in the shape of a globe or just tastefully inlaid with gin bottles that rise up when you open the door, but it does keep being mentioned. Whereas I am just perturbed that we seem to be the Only Housebuyers in the Country... (The recession is off, now, right? Or are we just taking a break for Swine Flu and ministerial expenses?)

Ooh mad jealous of the country manor wildfig - imagined you as a confirmed urbanite a la Carrie Bradshaw, tapping wry comments into the laptop.

All wrong, as I'm sure is my mental image of skihorse as Zara Phillips in full dressage, only with way more attitude. And a whip.

And skaterrrrrr with a ghettoblaster on her shoulder, baggy below the knee shorts with her DH on a skateboard made for 2.

Right, sounding pervy now. {blush] I'm not I swear.

Night all.

well, spooookily, you're not far wrong - am sort of cynical urbanite laptop tapper. I like to go back to the grime and crime and over priced coffee now and again - it gives me something to moan about in the post office.

(I AM NOT LIZ JONES, though.)

donttry you are smart Kirsty Wark Scottish lady type in my head. And julia is Julie Andrews. And veryanniemary is Andrea Corr, although that might be the subliminal Irish undertones of the name, rather than any hints about tin whistles or being a platinum selling artiste.

Can you believe it about Jordan and Peter Andre, though? I give it four months before the 'Our Reunion for the Kids' OK cover.

Hi - Getting quite a few stomach cramps at the moment which is a bit worrying as it does feel like AF. Pistachio already told me though SHh's read thats quite common.

Morning ladies, hope everyone is OK.

wildfig how strange, I feel the same about (kind of) not caring this month. I worked myself into such a frenzy last month I'm too exhausted to do that again.

Someone in work has gone into labour this morning (not in the office I hasten to add, another work colleague told us). I'm finding myself envying her.........

Maybe I should read a birthing thread to put me back on track.

wildfig Sadly I think "this boat" has sailed for Ms Jones.

I wouldn't mind Zara's figure that's for sure - or her nerves of steel! In a perfect world (i.e., where I got paid but didn't actually have to work) I'd do what Zara does. Bah! When I was at school I wanted to work in a horse-racing yard or similar, my dad refused to allow me to entertain the idea saying there'd be no money in it! Fer fecks sake - had I done so I'd have "fallen pregnant" by the lord of the manor aged 22 and be set up for life! Tsk!

Liskey I've read similar things - why don't you take a look over on Childbirth to take your mind off your cramps?

wildfig - house sounds lovely, hope it works out! We went to Herefordshire earlier this year - beautiful countryside. We always do the typical townie "why on earth do we live in a city when we could live here?" One day when we work for more flexible employers perhaps (I work for a museum in London - no chance of persuading them to relocate to the countryside after 180 years I suppose...)

Quite like the Andrea Corr image - can I retain while confessing to be double her size, Welsh and utterly unable to sing? Very Annie Mary is the title of a film set in Wales about a dappy girl who can't sing. Sounds about right.

Def concur about the others though - I've always thought of Liskey as Irish actually. I think it's cos it sounds a bit like Liffey. Cosmosis is a lycra-clad, tight-bunned cyclist with the sind in her hair. And I think I pass laurilou on the way tot he station some mornings.

Went to see freind who gave birth Saturday - her birth story wasn't nice - I'm back to not being sure whether I can volunteer myself for it. Argh. Baby very sweet though - looked a bit like a lizard, but then all newborns do (or is that just me?) Both parents (initially reluctant father) seem very happy and content - it's lovely to see.

VAM I thought you may be Welsh - me too, so my first thought on your name was the film.

Hopefully you pass some uber sophisticated, highly important & beautiful business woman (ahem) on your way to the station, as opposed to a hairy, cider swigging tramp!

That's a nice story about your friend (birth horror story aside). We looked after friends' kiddies on Sat night. After 6yo girl told ME a bedtime story she announced she needed the toilet. She kept the door open so she could continue her story whilst having a sh*t. Then after a few flushes came out & told me "I've had a poo & it won't go" Deeee-lightful. Her parents had left a number in case of emergencies - was I wrong to think this was such a case?

Laurie lol at cider tramp and the poo. That little girl sounds great. I can't help seeing you as that pic of Cameron Diaz I attached now though.

Sorry.

Wildfig I think I more match your idea of VAM, being Irish and a fatter (who isn't)plainer version of Andrea Corr.

How are you feeling now LiskEY?

I have been bonking for 8 nights in a row as I can't figure out when I ov...should really have "performed" tonight too, but we're both on strike as literally shagged out.

Must admit I'm hooked on Peter and Jordan in the States.
The split is definintely a publicity stunt I reckon - she'd be a fool to get rid of him, he's sweet

EIGHT NIGHTS IN A ROW! That's not the A Game, that's the bleedin' World Cup. You totally deserve to be pregnant now. In fact, if you're not, then there is absolutely no justice.

Honestly, donttry I so thought you were Scottish! I wonder where that came from?? I am so rubbish at imagining people, to the point where even though I have seen many photos of LBC's homegrown Jabba the Hutt Nick Ferrari, I can't shake the mental image I originally had of him, as looking a bit like Anthony Head.

I am now on day 27 of 28, and am not feeling that hopeful, so instead will throw in my sister's baby news: her eeeeenormous one year old son is now so eeeeeeenormous that the nursery staff have asked if she minds him being moved up to the toddlers group as they're worried he might fall on one of the babies like a mighty oak tree and crush them. Like a good northern boy, he doesn't so much toddle as charge at people like a rugby player, and weighs a kilogram less than his four year old sister. My dad is thrilled. More thrilled than if he'd been moved up to the primary school because he had the reading age of a ten year old.

What news, Liskey? And Julia?

wildfig - love the eeeeeeeenormous nephew story! - babies seem to vary in size so much. Hope he manages with the toddlers and doesn't get too frustrated at trying things he can't quite do yet. But then I guess kids develop skills at different rates too so it probably won't matter (spot the person with no clue about kids...)

donttry feel quite glamorous now ,preen. even if Andrea was the dullest of the Corrs. Great beer though. 8 nights in a row? - blimey! Good work! Have informed Dp we'll be dtd every other night for the rest of the month. He seemed to take it quite well. Though some nights he really will be torn between bonking and watching Oilriggers/PoliceInterceptors/Top Gear re-runs on the telly.... Who says romance is dead?

How are our pregnant ladies.

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