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Mid 30s TCC Gin Palace

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SkaterGrrrrl · 22/06/2009 22:47

Welcome everyone from the old 'Mid 30s and TTC for the first time' thread. And welcome newbies too. Don't mind the poster in the corner dipping pregnancy test sticks into her glass of gin.

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Aussieng · 04/07/2009 22:13

Hey everyone - finally finished work!!!! Woo Hoo. Damned if I am going in on Monday though I bet I've missed all the good weather now V jealous of all the lovely week/weekend plans you lot have

Donttry whan I was (not so) young, free and single, the primary way I weeded out any undesirables on the dating website I joined was quality of spelling and whether they used 2 much txt spk if they txtd. Grrrrrr

DH kind of circumvented my weeding mechanism so it was not until many weeks later and I was head over heels that I realised how truly frighteningly bad at spelling he is. He hardly ever even reads - he listens to talking books But he is as clever as me (she says modestly) and a much nicer person who has totally chilled me out since I've known him and really helped me be a more positive person.

So YANBU (oops wrong topic) as I tend to make judgements on the same basis and I think they are often right but still - I'm SO glad that I didn't get the opportinity to judge DDH that way.

He is under orders to improve before we have kids of reading age btw!

skihorse · 05/07/2009 10:22

Aussieng has a good point there. Terrible spellers they might be, but they can still also be good people.

As some of you know, my OH is of a tender age . We met online and one of the things I found attractive about him was that he didn't use txt speak. Well, not "attractive", but the txt speak would definitely have had me ignoring him.

SarahAbroad · 05/07/2009 18:14

PMSL re the spelling. Aussie and Ski, I completely used spelling etc. as a criterion when on an on-line dating site--I am so glad to know I am not the only one.

Hope everybody has had great weekends. I didn't kill survived my mother-in-law, somehow. Funny thing was that our posh ovulation kit told us that it was my "peak". (On the plus side, this appears to confirm that I am ovulating, or at least having the ovulation hormones....) But you try telling your DH that he has to put on his A game at his mother's house and see how fun it is.... To be fair, he came through but honestly . Fingers crossed (again).

Skater (I think it was you asking about the POAS stuff, or maybe it was Aussiesorry, cannot manage to go back a page and not lose everything I've already written to find out who it was who was asking), I went with the Clear Blue Fertility Monitor because even though it's more expensive, I get more information about my cycle and it seemed easier to read. The act of PingOAS is easier than with some of the pregnancy tests toomanaged to do it on a porta-loo in Glastonbury. Annoyingly, the Fertility Monitor is bloody expensive, but, on the other hand, the sticks are cheaper. (£19.99 for a pack of twenty, which is either 1 or 2 cycles' worth (depending on how long your cycle is....)

Don'ttry, try to give yourself a break from worrying about epidurals, etc now. I'd only go for a home birth if I had a real penchant for cleaning myself (I don't)....

skihorse · 05/07/2009 18:26

SarahAbroad I'm planning on a home birth. The Dutch have a rather wonderful system whereby for 2 weeks after you give birth a woman is sent around to clean, cook, iron & do your shopping etc.! It's to give you and new dad time to bond with the baby - what a lovely idea!

Cleaning?? wtf? I'm so lazy I'd move to The Netherlands rather than do my own!

MrsVandam · 05/07/2009 20:15

Evening gin swigging ladies.

Have been holed up for the past few days with horrendous period pain. Have never known it so bad. Is this because I'm approaching the age of doom?

Talking of the age of doom, was reading the Times where it categorically stated that "a woman's chances of conceiving dramatically fall at the age of 34". How dare they change the rules of the game! That's one less year they've given us. What a load of crap.

I would definitely say a home birth is the way to go (as someone who gave birth in hospital) Just wish I hadn't let bloody husband talk me out of it (reckon he was too bloody lazy to pump the damn birthing pool up).

Aussieng · 05/07/2009 21:16

I'm planning on a Netherlands birth!!

triggerhappybaby · 05/07/2009 22:14

Ah good evening 'ladies'. I have returned from my debauched weekend in the Cotswolds. at the noise created on Friday night, only to find there was another room next door to us (thought ours was the only room in a bungalow annexe to the main hotel. WRONG!). They may possibly have had a late night and it sounds like they may have had some kind of kid with them so double . Still it'll have to learn sometime. So basically sunshine, sex x 5, scran and scider in middle england. Perfect. I'm burnt to a crisp, raw like sushi, my liver is like a rock and I've put on about 10 stone

donttrythisathome · 05/07/2009 22:34

I'm moving to NL too!

The GP told me the local birth centre (local as in a 40 minute white knuckle in-labour drive) lets you stay in as long as you fancy (like a week - or a year?) and they mind the baby and feed you and all sorts...). Feel like booking in now actually..

nolongerchunkybutstillapudding · 05/07/2009 23:16

don'ttry...mmm,sex,booze n lots of pie,sounds like a perfect weekend!

Further to my post re doing loads of pg tests due to being a twat - came on today.2 days early so I don't even know my cycle length anymore.am surpisingly fucked off.

nolongerchunkybutstillapudding · 05/07/2009 23:19

Oh fucking hell,I meant good weekend trig think I just wrote the last name I saw.brain bit rubbish ce soir.

Cosmosis · 06/07/2009 09:42

mrsvandam I'm horrified!! You mean I'm already AT the age of doom??? I thought I had a whole month left till doomdom! arsebiscuits. And the TIMES as well, a proper paper, so not even one you can laugh at. Can't you pretend it was in the Daily Hate so we can ignore it????

MrsVandam · 06/07/2009 10:28

Cosmosis I laugh in the face of the Times. I'm working on the basis that some hack from the Daily Hate somehow managed to infiltrate the Times....

I have now cracked and bought the one thing I said I would never buy - an ovulation device. Damn thing is meant to tell me when I'm ovulating. Am now struck with fear that it will show me that I'm not ovulating. The lengths we go to....

skihorse · 06/07/2009 10:31

We had a weekend of hot & sweaty everything. I've told OH that he's on A-game all this week and he's having sex whether he likes it or not.

My brain is totally dead this week, I hope they don't need me to do any clever stuff.

skihorse · 06/07/2009 10:32

Btw, it's bang out of line those bloody media peeps moving the goalposts like that. swigs gin, waves cigarette wildly and jumps on teenage lover

idealcamel · 06/07/2009 14:47

Afternoon all. Sounds like everyone had productive (ahem) weekends.

I'm assuming that the rethinking of the BOD comes from terrible sub-editing, rather than new science. But I'm starting to wonder how the BOD manifests. Do you hear a ping, like from a microwave only from your shrivelling ovaries, on the morning of your 35 birthday?

skihorse · 06/07/2009 14:54

idealcamel I think it's more of a "oh, my gusset smells very Miss Havisham".

I have good news:- following my mc, I am ovulating bang on when I should be if this were my normal 26 day cycle - so yipppeee! he's going to get it tonight!

Cosmosis · 06/07/2009 15:59

Good news ski. Bring on the A-Game. I heard that phrase on the radio this morning, rather made me chuckle!

MrsVandam · 06/07/2009 16:45

In an idle moment at work (OK should have been working but can't be asked at the moment) I stumbled across a website for 'older mothers and would be older mothers'. Expecting to see a site aimed at women in their forties. It was aimed at BOD women

Nocoffeenoworkee · 06/07/2009 18:20

Helllooo!!!! My period is so bad I leaked onto my cream skirt at work today!!! I'm so pissed off! Can we start a pissed off at periods club?

I started temping this month, so Mrs Vandam I'm with you. I want to goddam know the instant one of my poor old ovaries squeezes one out so I can shock it into foetus status.

Had a sociable drink with a preggers exfriend of mine who, as she stroked her belly lovingly, smugly pointed out that I have been on the pill for so long it's bound to take ages for my body to regulate. And of course I couldn't possibly have been pregnant that soon after trying... it took her 3 months and she'd only been on the pill for 6 months. I must get preggers immediately now!

Well done ski, get that A game ON!

triggerhappybaby · 06/07/2009 19:00

phthoo @ smug pregnant friends - I got all that as well re coil/pill/whatever. That's why two of them have fallen out into my sock.

ski leave no detail unshared ref A game. Saves me browsing for internet porn

donttrythisathome · 06/07/2009 22:05

idealcamel a white flag flew out of my fango on the morning of BOD.

donttrythisathome · 06/07/2009 22:15

Lots of A game going on. Feeling frisky myself, but only Keanu will do. No interest in DP as he has now performed his function by up-duffing me

Can anyone lend me Point Break

Cream skirt/in your flowers not a good combo methinks....

SkaterGrrrrl · 06/07/2009 22:31

Happy Monday gin hounds.

I got plastered at my mate's hen do and spent yesterday in an agony of tequila-hangover.

TWO of my mates are pregnant. BAH!

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skihorse · 07/07/2009 07:35

nocoffee Of course your period didn't leak on your cream skirt. BOD women don't have periods. They are dry and barren.

As an experiment, if you were to go to your doctor today and ask for the pill, do you suppose he/she would say "oh darling, there's really no need - not at BOD".

donttry PointBreak

I stumbled across the facebook page of the MADDEST bitch from my circle of friends from uni. When I say mad, I mean clearly identifiable personality disorder, manipulative etc., etc. Thankfully she became a secondary school teacher and I eagerly await her expose on front page of NoTW "Sex starved geography teacher seduced my 14 year old angel". Anyway, bitching aside, there she was 8 months pregnant in a Demi pose. sigh nocoffee Not the best choice for period-wear. I find burhkas are good for that sort of thing.

I'm taking a couple of days off work to process the mc and also concentrate on our A-game, everyone's a winner!

triggerhappybaby · 07/07/2009 08:09

A likely story - you are going to Michael Jackson's funeral aren't you darkhorse

sh'mon

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