Mid 30's TTC - you're my BESH mate you are..... <hic hic>

[extremesitting]

OOOh - Hope this'll do! Emergency!

cheeky Bessie

extremesitting hahaha nutter! Although I must admit every time the sales are on I think I ought to stock up on baby-gros and the like - and I saw some gorgeous maternity stuff in one of the expensive places advertised on this site at 70% off. Tempting fate, moi?

I just daren't buy it in case I end up like some mad Miss Havisham type - sat there in the nursery wearing a maternity dress and staring at an empty cot aged 74.

There's a good chance that'll be me Ski

Yet again... extreme has shared a bit TOO much...

I'm highly superstitious about babies and will not be buying anythign until at least 15 weeks into preg. But hell, who am I trying to kid, it's never going to happen!

Skihorse I absolutely know what you mean about the book (which incidentally arrived this morning). I have alaways been quite opposed to being clinical and planned about this. But I am very old, need all the help I can get, and now feel that one of the reasons it took so long to conceive DD is that I didn't really understand my cycle. I had weird 45 day cycles with a funny false period in the middle, and then roughly every second month I had a normal 30-ish day cycle. I never really knew when I was ovulating as I was so confused.

scorpette DH came round on the whizzy expensive pram by virtue of its engineering. I just let him assemble one I had brought home on appro. By the time he had put it together he was exclaiming 'I can't believe the quality of the bearing system in the rear wheels!' etc etc. 10 mins later he had taken it off round the farm for a test drive and that was it, he was sold.

extreme you're not alone. For years I kept buying tops and dresses of a certain flowy, empire line-type shape thinking, oo, when I am pregnant I can keep wearing this. Two years later when still not pg I had become a little tired of the look.

I hear ya Pony I have hardly bought any new clothes for well over a year thinking "Ooh no point, I'll not fit in them for very much longer". As a result I have no clothes of any style merit anymore so have to wear my one maternity or my dressing gown most of the time. Caused havoc when choosing outfits for interviews....

STOP THE PRESS:

Does anyone know what the fruit this is about:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/818012-The-MN-Mail-Column-what-we-think-and-what-we

I've just hit on it, and because the maull is mentioned I feel a smidge vomitty....

Ha, extreme, you're admitting to all the bonkers things I've been doing for a few years - reluctant to buy clothes OR I've bought smocky/loose tops and dresses on the grounds that I'll get good wear out of them when I'm pg , just like Pony! And I've have also planned just about every purchase required for future sprogs (though that cot manufacturer you mention sounds intriguing), and have researched in depth alternative nappy types, all that sort of stuff

Also bought most gorgeous little babygro earlier this year (have not admitted this to anyone but TYF) - 'twas from Topshop Mini range, and is unisex - navy and white striped with a purple star on it. My ovaries punched me in the eyes when I saw it, so I just had to have it!

Sadly, Ponymum, I wouldn't be able to use manly car/engineering talk to persuade him about a pram, as he is finds that sort of subject as boring as I do (not casting aspersions on your fella, of course). I won't worry - he can't say no to me (especially in a low-cut top ).

Chin up VAG! So I can PUNCH YOU REPEATEDLY whilst yelling 'You will, you WILL! till you go deaf. Feel better now? I said, FEEL BETTER NOW?

I felt pg in the gym - having to stop cardio after 500 cals burned, whereas I usually do at least 700, felt weak doing weights and felt sick all the time, in fact, nearly spewing when doing crunches and norks aching in general. And yes, I read a book about fitness in pregnancy to check if everything I was doing was okay. I'm a proper BESH, me! Of course, not even had BFP - and bastard Tesco sold out of their own-brand tests

I voted 'no MN in the Daily Heil, whatsoever' in the poll. Fucking rightwing bastards.

PS Ski - is your FB status related to the twatsome AIBU topic about 'Can a feminist find love'?

RTOD here too!

Hello drunken friends!

I can feel mine coming. Bastard R2D2. If you were to put a sex on the RTOD you would have to make it male wouldn't you?

Ah well, boozy gin soaked holiday for me then!

Definitely bastardly.

I have a cool holiday planned for May so deep down okay with being Barren until... Nov (you can fly at 7 months preggers, right?).

Babyfail here too. I don't think I'm particularly arsed - I've got a bit bored with myself now...

Yeah I saw that 'will I find love as a feminist' - seriously - what planet are these people on??

shit. sorry BESHies. Day 20 here and lower back very, very sore. Prob cos I've been on my feet all day , but a girl is allowed to speculate...

SFF not quite ready to talk prams etc, but has just asked when I can test

evening ladies. Are sore nipples A Sign? I've had them for several days.

I'm sorry for all you babyfailers

Scorpette The month I fell pregnant I had to stop in the middle of my pump class to sit on my step for a minute.

I'm just back from 2 hour ride - woop! No foetus is going to stick the way I'm riding right now - I'm actually bleeding (from my arm). (brambles , nothing exciting)

Yes, the fb status was due to that thread. It's depressing. I've a US "friend" who votes republican because she thinks abortion is killing babies and is wrong... I asked her if she wanted a choice? She didn't understand that pro-choice wasn't about killing babies indiscriminately. sigh 2 + fucking 2 people

Big to the babyfailers too. Don't forget to plough through that case of wine I brought earlier

ski - pump class? Tee hee! Pump means something very different in my part o' t'world

Gotta love the way pro-life fucktards think that being pro-choice means you actively want unborn children to die. I mean, who'd be for that (apart from the Chinese State, etc)?!? And I know it's unoriginal to say, but how can you be pro-life and then go murder real, living humans? Durr. I had such a long argument with an American once who said that the morning after pill was the same as abortion; they insisted that conception (and therefore life) happened at the moment of ejaculation. I pointed out that sperm take up to 3 days to reach the egg, so conception doesn't happen for at least 48 hours after sex, so if the m.a. pill stops the egg and sperm meeting, then how is it abortion? To their credit, they admitted they didn't know how it worked and changed their opinion, but FFS!

Mind you, it's to our credit that BESH-babymania hasn't turned us all into raving pro-life loonytunes!

Yet.

WOW.. guess I tuned it at just the wrong time.....

PS To anyone who's ever wondered how those Northern abbreviations work, 'part o' t'world' is pronounced 'partut world'. ie, pronounced CORRECTLY!

Gah @ so many RTODs. Commiserations everyone but bottoms up eh?

Scorpette Body Pump - ooooooowooooh body pump for youuuuuuu! It's a weights class - makes a nice change from doing the weights yourself and it's the only thing which really tones my triceps.

trog "bottoms up"? Is this your suggested alternative whilst RTOD is in full flow?

well why the hell not - there's some sort of contraption in one of the Palace bedrooms designed for that veeeeeeery purpose

Shit, there are bedrooms? I've been waiting till the place is empty to molest the Desperate Romantics!

Our menstrual cycles seem to have synchronised, just like at boarding school.

Oooh, boarding school! I want to be the feisty, headstrong tomboy who always has dirty socks and skinned knees, but, after some of the older girls take her under their wing, they reveal that she is actually a true beauty, etc., etc., blah blah.

Yes, I was fixated with read the Mallory Towers books as a child, why do you ask?