Mid 30s TCC Gin Palace

[SkaterGrrrrl]

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.

Careful, trig - statements like that surely equate to immediate updiffedness because the timing's wrong?

Lyra Don't forget the weirdy things that no-one bothers to mention until they happen -like your RIB CAGE EXPANDS! Randomly, it just does. Without warning. That's not normal.

Am FURIOUS this afternoon - have been winding self up on a private education thread. I need a nice cup of tea and a sit down.

Camel that's not helping! I have one friend whose pelvis separated (so she was on crutches for last 5 months of preg) and another whose abdominals have not come back together - what were they doing apart in the first place?

Oh this is definitely not for me

Lyra You could always adopt? Thus all the fun of the kids without the nasty Alien unpleasantness?

If you really want to put yourself off (and have a lovely righteous rage) this is brilliant.

Camel, I have given some serious thought to adopting, but having read up on the British system it seems at least as much of a nightmare as actually giving birth

What's a fistula? I am sitting down and I have a G&T at my side.

RunLyraRun From what I understand of the UK adoption system you need to be in your 20s and perfect physical specimens, financially and emotionally sound. i.e., the sort of person who doesn't wake up on her BOD thinking "fuck, I need to try and have a baby before it's too late" - essentially; us.

Btw - I think I'm duffed. I nearly passed out in my body pump class and had to sit on my step, this is nOT like me. I'm probably definitely duffed because a really great job has come up in Amsterdam but it's a contract and they'd fire my arse the minute I went on maternity.

Yay ski!!

Well I think it's 'yay' but am less sure after the direction this has all been going in lately.

It's a pretty good way of getting duffed - spend a bit of time contemplating the myriad reasons why now it's perhaps not the ideal time after all (worked for me-well,that and tequila)

Brilliant if you are updiffed ski! And if you are then you definitely don't want to know what a fistula is.

Yep UK adoption system seems utterly perverse. Not only do you have to be precisely 27 to adopt, but the authorities try again and again to force birth mothers who don't want/can't cope with their babies to take them back, and then finally hand them over to the adoptive parents when they are 2 or 3 and f*cked up beyond all redemption. Crackers.

La la la la la

In other news, Point Break has arrived into the video store (ordered it frantically over the weekend>

How did you manage to make that sound rude? Are you transmitting hormones over t'internet?

Sorry, x-post. Obv the rest sounded rude, I meant the bit!

Oh, and yay ski indeed.

trig you LUNATIC - you've given up snowsports for a house? Your house had better have er... bells on it!

tis the poodles toodles. got a 160 ft back garden which DP observed would benefit from a toddler running helter skelter up and down it and a vegetable patch where 'it' could learn about nature and that innit.

On a slightly more note I am going to the EPU again tomorrow morning on the advice of the doc to find out why on earth my pee sticks (as of yesterday) still register that I am 1-2 weeks zwanger despite having miscarried fully a fortnight ago. She was slightly concerned - I am vexed. Helpfully, she suggested that I may have been carrying twins, one of which has miscarried, one of which has 'failed to thrive' and ended up like my previous one, stuck fast but not amounting to much. Grrrrr fucking geriatric body and its hostile environment. Don't want a booby anyway and I never said I did.

Lawks trig, sounds a bit blimmin complex to me, still, thank god for piss sticks cos otherwise you may not have been sufficiently aware to see a doc type. Hope it all comes good lady.

Ski - updiffed again? You're a pro!

I balked at the outrageous cost of OPKs this evening, I think temping might well be as sophisticated as this slattern gets. I have been frantically checking my CERVICAL MUCUS and I think it could well be egg whitey. Shame DH is away at the moment, idiot. Still, he made sure my weak old passages were chockablock full of the good stuff before his departure

donntry you rake!

Ahhhh, that was reviving.

Roight, I can now say congrats to ski and good luck to trig.

I got OPKs cheap on t'internet - were nice and cardboardy too as opposed to horrible and plasticy.

Patrick Swayze actually looks good too in Point Break.

SLOW DOWN! I don't know if I'm diffed yet - I'm only 9DPO - I've had a few "symptoms" but tbh not as many as last month. This time last month I was feeling my uterus fluttering - although of course it would have been the first time ever that it had to do those stretching things. I wish the 2ww was more of a 24 hour wait and if you'd done a babyfail you could simply move on and try again. You know how you can take the pill back-to-back if you don't want bleeding, you should have a pill which makes a little egg pop out every day until you have babypass. trig I'm so sorry, you poor thing - what a bloody palava. I'm glad though that you're being taken seriously and that they'll investigate.

Lyra Yes, it's utterly bloody obscene - I was thinking about this today when cycling in to work. It's my belief that social workers (in general) were a more mature been around the block type woman who could take the baby away and report it as "in my belief the mother is an irresponsible crackwhore and her boyfriend has shifty eyes". Then I suppose somebody fucked up - and so that it never happens again guidelines and procedures were introduced. Which leads to Baby P type scenarios.

Right, I'm going off to my happy place. Oooh it's Threshers!

Ski, I wish that too. Or alternatively, that the signs of PMT and updiffednes weren't identical. Am having some sort of meltdown. I told the lovely husband last night that if we weren't pregnant this month, we were having sex every day of the next. He looked scared and shifty and muttered something about harpies but it was a bit low to catch...

trig poor you, that all sounds remarkably nasty. Apart from the house, which sounds amazing!

Lyra A mate of mine and her girlfriend were looking seriously into adoption, and the two options they had were equally unpalatable - either you can adopt a baby, but only after you've fostered it for a year, and helped re-unite it with its birth parents if at all possible, or you get the fucked-up toddlers. There's a big part of me that quite fancies the idea, though - even with all the crap that goes with it.

ski - wow, quick work, girly!
trig - manly nod of comfort
donttry - ew

The rest of the lushes - oi oi! It's a Wednesday morning, not much of the week left and I had a GOF last night. That is all. In other news I have totally lost count of my mythical egging status. Pass the gin.

ps in a neat circle of conversation, isn't it grossly unfair that this girl is updiffed and not us lovely wavering lushes? Shouldn't her ovaries be shrivelled by STIs by now?

VAG I will read that now. I must admit I did throw all my toys out of the pram and wail uncontrollably ruining OH's day when Pete Doherty managed to get that smackhead prossie pregnant in fucking rehab standing up in the fucking toilets back in Feb or so!

camel that's awful. I know the Daily Mail does a lot in the way of hateful articles - but they have run with a few about how difficult it is to adopt if you're white and "normal".