Mid 30's TTC--Gin Palace Two: Spawn of the BESH

[SarahAbroad]

Hey all...

Hope this thread name is okay...just moved the Gin Palace around the corner before we ran out of space!

See you soon. The bar's open!

[RunLyraRun]

I remain deeply unconvinced and thoroughly grossed out, but have calmed down a bit. Thought I was going to have to leave because you'd all turned from pissed rock chicks into smelly blood-covered hippies.

Because of my useless polycystic ovaries, my period usually lasts about 3 days and even that is hardly anything to speak of, so I guess that's why it would never occur to me to use anything but tampons. Maybe if it was more of a problem I would consider it

[laurielou]

pmsl @ mooncup sizes long

[SarahAbroad]

ginhag, perhaps your company should do a card celebrating the acquisition of a mooncup....

[ginhag]

bollocks to mooncups.

that's all I have to say on this matter.

fuckin hippies.

[skihorse]

clutches pearls to chest

[idealcamel]

Am not a dodgy hippy. Am a v well-spoken sloany bird, ta muchly.

The best mate swears by her mooncup so I got curious - and she's right. It's the lazy girl's answer to periods. Bung in, forget, remember when you get home from work, rinse and repeat. First period in forever when I haven't trashed some nice underwear with lady ooze.

Oh god, now I've grossed myself out.

[ginhag]

Nah I used to have the proper lazy arse way to deal with periods. After much discussion with docs discovered that 'periods' when on pill were not vital,so with doc's blessing ran 3 packs together.4 periods a year hurrah.

And somehow I managed to get duffed when I came off it.so fuck you daily maul eh???

[ginhag]

Ps I did get very ill with periods,used to pass out monthly as a young 'un so wasn't entirely about being a lazy selfish lush.however that side of my personality did benefit.

and you will never convince me re mooncup.no not never ever.

[idealcamel]

Ooh, ginhag did that work for you? Every time I tried it, my body rebelled, and I'd have awful cramps and create some kind of monstrous discharge. And I only ever did it for special holiday-style occasions. In the end, I gave up...

Plus, as I had to point out to my GP t'other day, pill is not the greatest thing to take while trying to have a baby.

[ginhag]

No well obv not now camel that would be foolish even by my standards.

Funny bout the mooncup.what with you being nice sloaney type n me being grungy bitch,who would have thought that you would be the one with a vag-bucket???

[RunLyraRun]

Ooh are we having a row? Is it our first one? Are we going to throw bloody marys over each other to celebrate?

Now this has got to be worth a list:

Pro-mooncup (the mingers)
camel
ski
longwee
Sarah

Against mooncup (the clean women)
ginpud
Lyra
laurielou

[idealcamel]

Harumph

Ah, ginpud, you remind me of the immortal words of Katie Price. "You must have a bucket, luv". Could never quite look at KFC in the same way after that.

[ginhag]

Yeah can't think why they went for 'mooncup' as a brandname over 'vagbucket'

[donttrythisathome]

Are we fecking back to vagbuckets again?
They are fabulous. Dead comfy and can leave in all month if you want (can I really be alone in that?)* Just get the durty trollop baggy fango size at our..ahem...age...

Pro-mooncup (the mingers)

camel
ski
longwee
Sarah
Donttry

Against mooncup (the clean women)
ginpud
Lyra
laurielou

And the next category:-
Free bleeders (manky bitches)

ski it certainly seems the nutters have found you on this thread.Like to like as they say?
joke

[donttrythisathome]

Fecking asterisk again! The leaving in all month was a joke, although ya could!

Laurie LOL at cat and dad's robe!

[SkaterGrrrrl]

Like the new gin palace, BESHies.

I need a very large and very cold glass of wine, feeling a bit ropey after 4 days dancing in a field. Did manage to put DH through his paces in our tent so fingers crossed!

I like the idea of a mooncup in principle as I hate waste & am a bit of a treehugger. Too squeamish to try it in practice - my mates say they can form a powerful, um, suction and be very very hard to remove.

However you can buy tampax & towels which are better for the planet (using unbleached cotton etc). Voila.

[skihorse]

I am ovah periods and intend to get myself knocked up.

Painters are still not here and I'm now in total denial - G&T heaven. Will hand OH a cup of wee tomorrow morning so he can play at Captain Chemistry.

Glad to have you back Skater although I don't understand going to a festival and shagging your husband, wot no randoms?

I had a mooncup leaving it in too long incident story, but I fear it may be TMI even for us... and has probably rendered me sterile (and banned from Vancouver).

[ginhag]

ski.denial is good.as is gin.

lo skater welcome back to earth.

it's just occured to me that if I'm not duffed this month am actually going to be proper fucked off.thought I was doing fine with the 'am I boverred??' shtick.but apparently..umm yes I am actually.

wangersangers.

[ginhag]

Oh,and I'll get a round in.

Pint of chilled white for skater,bathtub of g & t for ski... anyone else while I'm at the bar?

[Scorpette]

Hear Ye, Hear Ye - Scorpette's official opinion on mooncups: if you're squeamish about the idea of something in your fanjo then you're in the wrong place. A piece of rubber (? Plastic?) up your tuppence hardly compares to a human being coming out of there after 9 months, does it?

I'm having mittelschmerz today (y'know, that weird mid-cycle mild period pains thingy), which I've not had for years - am not quite ovulating yet, but am I allowed to convince myself that this is a sign of super-strength BESHy fertility?

Hilarious 'Remind Me Why I Want Kids, Again?' moment of the day: in the gym changing rooms, kids of both sexes are getting ready for their swimming class. One Mum shouts towards the toilets, 'What are you doing in there, Harrison?'. Little boy's voice pipes up 'I'm doing a poo, Mummmy. Mummmmee... I think I need you' (quavering voice). The Mum goes to the loos and enters the cubicle. I then hear, 'What are you... oh, Harrison, that's... how did you get it on your goggles? Oh Christ.'. Then 'Sorry Mummy'.

So much to look forward to (bet ginpud is nodding sagely)...

[cheggers]

soda water please

i did have a naughty glass of wine at the weekend as had the folks over to stay.

when i asked the doc about booze and ivf he said: "During the therapy alcohol should be avoided as much as possible."

wtf does that mean? i need an out an out ban to behave.

anyway it was only a couple of little ones and that will be the last. (i needed to chill out a bit after sneaking off to the bathroom each night to shoot up. felt like a right wastrel )

anyway. mooncups. never tried but not totally against. i can't imagine i would not manage to make a mess though. i very rarely manage to eat my tea without dripping food somewhere of other

anyway good luck with the wee sticks tomorrow ski and fingers crossed for Cosmosis with the new job.

will stop there before i start dishing baby dust and fairy sprinkles out....

night all

[ginhag]

cheggers I would struggle with that too.need a 'rules is rules' approach or I struggle...

scorpette you would not believe the various indignities my lady bits have suffered.and I do not experience that thing you humans call shame.and I have had lots of 'ladyblood' experiences.and I am not squeamish in the slightest. Just Don't Want a VagBucket.

Have absolutely nothing against others having them.

and yeah,poo and motherhood are pretty much synonymous.

Oo also you guys may think you're not bothered about morning sex now,but believe me when you are watching 'yo gabba gabba' at 7.30 am with a toddler who has been in your bed since 4 you will miss it.

Incidentally,anyone who used to go clubbing in an 'all night' kinda way should give 'yo gabba gabba' a go.7.30am on nickjnr. Possibly the craziest thing I've ever seen that doesn't involve David lynch.

[Scorpette]

ginhag remark was not really meant for you. You are the font of all knowledge re: having an actual child and having known the indignity and agony of 'the miracle of birth'...

I haven't got a mooncup but that's mainly because my parents won 100 pks of Always Ultra in the world's most disappointing raffle and passed them onto me. I don't care if they're she-nappies, if I've got freebies I ain't spending any money on owt else. Besides, the last thing any of us should be thinking about is sanpro: let's focus on not needing any for... oooh, I dunno - what about 9 months?

Oh yeah and ski GOOD LUCK with the wee stick

[laurielou]

Morning ladies, (although some not very lady-like behaviour going on last night).

To quote Micheal Winner "Calm down, dear".

pmsl @ poo & goggles & shudder at thought too.

Just thought I'd share my strange evening. In true rowdy gin-addled BESH style I was politely asked to leave my slimming club held in the church hall last night! Gone are the days when I was thrown out of clubs & pubs.....

I had the audacity to challenge them trying to make me pay for a missed class when I was on holiday. Apparently you're only allowed 6 weeks hol from slimming (WTF?) & I'd exceeded that - all because the stupid class leader (who incidentally is fatter than me) put me down as 2 weeks hol when I'd broken my wrist & couldn't get a lift to class. Stupid mare. So I told them to shove their class, calories n all where the sun doesn't shine, hence asked to leave.

Strangely its motivated me to lose weight in a "I'll diet on my own & show you I don't need your class" kind of way.

Then the boyf & I got down & dirty (my new exercise & weight loss regime)- yes I know not during fertile time, God forbid it was for fun & it was so much fun I burst into tears afterwards!! Dear God alive, what the hell is wrong? I should've been swinging from the rafters singing!

Ah well, at least I had a good sleep.

[laurielou]

Oh how rude - ski you POAS yet?