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

Oh skiarse stop you are really turning me on

Welcome winnie to the home of the terminally undecided. A suitable offensive nickname will follow after I have written my annual report (work-related, not to present to DP)

actually though....

Re: Percy Pigs - I'd take a waffle over them any day.

Skiarse pee, pee, pee! and then come back and tell us!

wildfig Cycle 15 (ish), CD9, A-game next week, units 0, cigarettes 0, cups of tea 121 (at parents - serious danger of tannin poisoning setting in).

Days over Birthday of Doom: approx 120, ie, I don't deserve to be fertile anymore, however £tax paid to support NHS/state child support/maternity pay, etc, thanks to my selfish careerism = substantial.

skihorse I somehow knew that was you! I green arrowed you. I loathe the DM but read all the papers online every morning over breakfast and am drawn to it like a masochistic moth to a flame; it's just one bikini diet triumph/nightmare after another. Hate hate hate. You are deffo pregnant, btw. Pee, please. I reckon if we can get one of us up the stick each month, we'll be out of here in, what? A year? Then we can start a late-30s Mums in Veils with Cocktail Glasses thread.

Hello, winnie! You're not the only one who swings between broodiness and The Fear. My own stance is not so much that my life will be empty if we don't have kids, more like I'll be kicking myself if I get to 40 and we haven't given it our best shot (hee). If I get to 40 and it's not happened, we are getting an Aston Martin DB9 with the money currently set aside for university fees. So far my other half is delighted with either eventuality. But then he's up for the next set of tests.

PS should add that we don't actually have the Aston Money set aside RIGHT NOW. It is accumulating in pathetic ISA dribbles in the hope that it would turn into that amount around the time we're in 'shit! Uni course fees!' panic. Which, with interest rates at current levels, would only work if Bertold decided to do an Open University course on retiring.

Damn, I was about to tap you up for some spare cash

Sorry, is side effect of being at parents' house: having to explain everything very literally, for fear of being misinterpreted. If I had that money in real life, clearly I'd be following Daily Mail instructions and buying a Little Baby, in manner of Madonna, and not trying to DIY like a cheapskate.

Ladies, can I join you too please... I think I might loosely fill the criteria . I swing between planning our bedroom regime with military precision and wild mild panic that I might actually be pg! I followed my last -ve with a session that Gazza would have been proud of and am planning a v expensive handbag if i'm not up the duff this month

I am 30, DP is 41, been together 11 years and have a dog that we lovingly refer to as 'our baby boy'.

My stats are: TTC#1, cycle 3,UCL30, CD16
Units of alcohol 0 (pear cider doesn't count right?!?)
Junk food of choice: Pepperoni Pizza! It begins with a P...

You sound perfect! Pull up a bean bag

By the way, the induction is that you have to have a pee stick in one hand (ov or pg doesn't matter) and a large glass of gin in the other and be very very unsure of which is calling your name loudest. Am I right girls?

especially if you even consider dipping the pee stick in the gin to see what happens.

(Pear cider is fruit-based, thus one of your 5-a-day.)

Loving your choice of cocktail decoration but seriously, what a fab way to test, pee stick in one hand, sloe gin in the other...if it's -ve drink the gin, if it's +ve you have to celebrate and drink the gin! It's a win win situation and definitely the way forward

I like your thinking. You are most welcome

trigger you bitch lol

and welcome teenycalls

i have to regrettably 'up' my already shameful weekly alcyhol units

1/2 bottle of cava on a sunny evening too tempting after a completely uncalled for piss on a stick episode. [rolleyes]

p.s have any of the other OCD types on this thread noticed the typo in the title?

i like it. i think we should keep it

Welcome teeny & winnie.

Ladies, are our menstrual cycles falling into synch, just from posting together?!

My festival tix for mid July have arrived!

HEAR THAT FERTILITY GODS? I AM REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING WRECKED FOR 3 DAYS AT A FESTIVAL. IN JULY!

TTC#1, Cycle um, no idea, just making semi-educated guesses. Units of alcohol last weekend 10. Declined a spliff though. [smug]

2 cats, am hankering for a labrador but DH won't let me while I work full time, he's such a grown up.

2 yrs until the "birthday of doom". Hatred of the Daily Mail: unwavering.

At risk of sounding like an crazy internet lady and posting three times in a row (surely equivalent to talking to oneself) I just read this and wet myself.

"especially if you even consider dipping the pee stick in the gin to see what happens".

wildfig

Morning ladies,

Welcome winnie & teeny, you sound as though you are in the right place with us.

DP & I were arguing talking last night about babies / holidays. He has come across amazing information that you are able to fly up to 29 weeks PG, & thinks we should immediately book flights to Thailand in Oct. Not thinking about the fact if I am up the duff wandering around in that heat & seeing beautiful slim bikini clad people will be the last thing I need.

Added to that, he's trying to persuad me to book First Class tickets as apparently they're cheaper than usual & we'll never get an opportunity like this again.

Ever sensible me says if I am PG, baby would have to wear same nappy for a week & we'd have to survive on a diet of Tesco value beans to even consider First Class.

I've asked him if he's dying & this is his last wish - nope.

I've asked him if he's won the lottery - nope.

So I've come to the conclusion he is insane.

Perfect candidate for a dad!!

Seriously I'm having a dilemma - the reason we haven't been away yet this year is because of this "blessed baby bollocks" as I apparently ranted last night, & I'm in danger of putting my life on hold.

Dear God, sorry one & all, bit of a heavy going rant for so early in the morning.

What to do????

How selfish of me - you pee'd on a stick yet skiarse?? Do tell............

So your husband wants to fly you first class to Thailand for a holiday and the problem is what now?!!!
When are you ever going to get an opportunity like that again?! Do it, do it!
It will give you fond memories to look back on when you're up to your elbows in baby poo.

I'm with winnie on this one. Been hunting and hunting for the problem in this rant but have come up with nada.

Really, some people need to INVENT things to worry about

Yeah, as it goes, where is skiarse?

Sorry, sorry, didn't mean to sound precious! Comes from dad being a bank manager & being tight arse careful with money. DP isn't Rockerfella!

"Really, some people need to INVENT things to worry about" - DP says that about me too!! Oh dear.

skiarse??

I regularly invent things to worry about. I worry about worrying on a daily basis.

Sure, you're holiday will be expensive, but you're gonna be broke when you have a baby anyway - consider it an early practice?! Plus, Thailand is as cheap as chips, you won't spend anything out there.

Oh laurie me and my straight talking

I think you should go, and have yourself a gay ol' time. Life is for living and you don't want to be on your death-bed regretting you didn't do it while you had the chance to do it in style .

So with that good healthy dose of common sense, and having just drafted a superior, yet robust and assertive, letter to DP's chocolate fireguard solitor, I shall retire to the smugseat and watch everyone quake in the face of my unarguable logic.

By the way, I have been itchy as the devil the past few days. Temp rise indicating impending BFP, or scabies. What do you reckon?