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

'Are you remembering to have sex with your partner?'

fuck, I knew I was going wrong somewhere!!!!

Although had to lol the other day, my friend and I were discussing my acupuncture and wondering where I'd get the needles placed. So when I reported back that they were mostly in my legs and feet, he came back with the response that I must have been doing sex wrong all this time!

cosmosis What? Your own partner? hahahaha, well I have read about couples in their 80s who remained childless because they'd been told that "after they got married, children would come"... but never realised sex was involved.

But... I reckon I can't be the only one here who's had a GOF + blind panic knowing that I've "chanced it".

Urgh... other people's weddings. Bridezillas should be shot (imo).

It really is a beautiful evening for a gin isn't it?

wildfig I have laughed and laughed and laughed at that. Hollywood stars miraculously getting pg despite having a BMI of 12 and being 48!

Plus, Black Fieldhouse's smack addict babymama... Nicole Ritchie - pregnant again, Angelian Jolie - pushing out another one? I mean come on!

skihorse, no it was just a mate lol!

skihorse that did occur to me - clapping my hand on my forehead and going, 'Oh, I've been shagging my LOVER and his three bisexual wifelets mid-cycle - stupid me!'

I totally understand why celebrities don't want to talk about it, but I do think the number of 40-something women who mysteriously pop out twins makes life difficult for 'real people', who hang hopes on it happening for them, when in fact there's a lot of covert egg donation and IVF going on behind the scenes. OK, so there are some women whose fertility naturally carries on well into their 40s, but I have more respect for Courtney Cox and Marcia Cross being upfront about how tough it was for them to conceive, instead of pretending to be biology-defying superwomen. Although you have to wonder if it might have been a little bit easier if, as you say, they didn't have the BMI of a malnourished 18th-century cabin boy...

Glad I'm not the only one who looks at the whole Katona/Fielderhouse/etc baby flood with gritted teeth. Whover the fertility goddess is, she has a warped, Heat-style sense of humour.

(Is Angelina having another one? And is Kate Moss?)

Wildfig your post did make me laugh - especially the bit about inflaming your other half after so many years together - means I must identify with it!

Hello chaps, can I join?

I'm nearly 33 & like some of you upthread I didn't have a maternal bone in my body in my 20's .... too busy partying to settle down.

4 years ago I met SkaterBoy and it was like find the other half of myself. We are finally ready to start sprogging now that the housebuying/wedding madness of the last couple of years is over.

Went off the pill 8 weeks ago, no period for 7 weeks, took a pg test today just to check but nada.

Ah well. It'll happen. In the meantime there are cats and gin.

Are Brangelina really preggers again???!

I saw the nurse for a test involving a speculum up me fango, but left my tights on when I hopped on the couch by mistake. Cue "You are taking your tights off during intercoiurse dear aren't you??" Ah, they're all jokers.

Skatergrrrrl welcome to the cats and gin thread!!!

Wildfig I so need those leaflets!

Also, the doc gave me a wank pot for DP last Sat. Cue "If he fills this then there's no problem love fnar fnar".

Crikey, didn't realise TCC was so, like, hilarious to the medical profession.

God I'm thick - I hadn't stopped to think about all these celebs popping out babies with each sneeze despite being, ahem, older & a little too skinny (b*tches, the lot of them).

Anyway, only on CD2, I'm so impatient it feels like FOREVER. (Sudden pang of sympathy for my parents, I must have driven them made on long car journeys).

I'm allergic to cats, can I substitute for another gin? Is it bad to be talking of gin at 8am? I'm sure its cocktail hour somewhere in the world.......

OK, I've taken a daft pill this morning. Do docs give you a pot for DP without DP being there? Mine has an absolute aversion to docs, & I've told him he's likely to be tested first as its easiest. Tried to pretty it up that his test should be kinda pleasurable but he's still nervous..........

If I could just bring the pot home it might be easier.

Who said romance is dead?

donttry right load of comedy genuises you've got!

I don't think Angelina has announced it as yet, but it was printed that she took fertility drugs for the twins - then the story just sort of disappeared. I was like "wtf? it's not normal for a 30 year old woman with a BMI of 15 to be taking fertility drugs like sweeties". Uber-mom indeed. slap

hahaha laurielou I don't have a cat either - pass me another gin!

PS Welcome skatrgrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl!

PPS Is gin something which grows on you like the thought of having children? I hated gin when I was younger but re-discovered it when I was 34 and now can't get enough of it.

skihorse same here! Though if truth be told I prefer a southern comfort.

I was always told gin was for drunken lushes. Oh, right up my street!

skihorse same here! Though if truth be told I prefer a southern comfort.

I was always told gin was for drunken lushes. Oh, right up my street!

Oh, got a little excited & posted twice - apologies! Nope haven't touched a drop.

Gin. Ah. The further I get into my thirties, the more I start to see Margot Leadbetter from The Good Life as a life and style icon... Jerry! The Harrods delivery line, please!

DB is getting very shifty about his trip to the docs for the old swimmer count. Is fine for ME to get prodded and poked and generally made to feel useless, but he 'thinks doctors are stupid' - since whenever he goes, they tell him he needs to lose a stone or two. I suppose the medical profession feels the need to tell men that, since women self-administer the same message every time they go to Top Shop.

Hello, skatergrrrl!

skatergrrl welcome to the ginhouse!

laurielou don't worry, didn't they used to say that the sun was always over the yardarm somewhere in the Empire? I can't drink southern comfort any more, faaaar to much of it at uni. The very smell of it makes me retch!

Well, 2nd acupuncture tonight for me. I'm in training to be a pincushion

I realise I've made myself sound like an alchie - but honestly I'm not. One day my drinks cabinet will be sold on ebay as an antique. I have unopened bottles of voddie in there that are more than 2 years old.

It's just that once in a while a good G&T hits the spot - got to be Bombay Sapphire though!

Cosmosis explain to your GP that you are getting lots of pricks?

lol skihorse I'll tell him that and see what his face is like

Yep laurie the doc practically threw the wank pot at me, didn't even have to ask.

Not a big gin fan meself, more a red wino and a cider queen. Recently got into the ole southern comfort too though.

Cosmo whats the acupuncture for again - to regularise your cycle?

donttrythisathome I haven't had a perdiod since coming off the pill in December. Also had a blood test at the doctors and my FSH level is slightly too him.

However............... my period has started this morning!!!!!! Yipeeee!

cosmosis - it's not often we celebrate having a period around here!

skihorse no I agree, it's not the norm!

Sorry don't know what is up with my typing, too him above should say too HIGH!

Uh, congrats on your period cosmosis. Blimey, that sounds an odd thing to say!!

Hope it kick starts your system though.