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Mid 30s TTC - Simply The BESH... BESHer than all the rest!

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Scorpette · 16/09/2009 11:30

Come on in, ladies. I've had a widescreen telly installed and there's a big cupboard full of 80s teen movies if anyone's interested. New and more secure cages for our prey are being delivered soon. There's a big picture of a desert over the bar, a loudly ticking clock in the corner and bowls of raisins, currants and sultanas on every table; everything the discerning BESH could ask for...

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CUNextTuesday · 02/10/2009 21:43

Oh yes, I remember out on blue six

ginhag · 02/10/2009 21:47

'it's maaaark radcliffe - the man in the anorak!'

Scorpette · 02/10/2009 22:06

Ladies, I will have a BESH-cam trained on my vagina from the second I get a BFP to the moment my first child is placed in my arms, just for you lot.

Or possibly not.

I heart Radio 6 too! Any channel that seems fixated by 'Birthday' by The Sugarcubes is A Good Thing in my opinion. It's all we ever play at work - I love the mix of top indie/rock/weird tracks from the past and groovy new stuff I might otherwise have never heard. It's thanks to R6 that I too love Frank Turner and many others. Mark Radcliffe rules and as for Adam & Joe - what can you say? Genius. It's also great now I'm in a twilight zone between coolness and 'call this music? In MY day, blahblah'-ness that it plays loads of 80s and 90s stuff. I made a fool of myself the other day squealing delightedly 'IT'S NED'S ATOMIC DUSTBIN*!', in front of loads of people, when the first few bars of 'Grey Cell Green' came on R6. We also locked the entrance later so we could dance full-on 90s-stylee to Sheriff Fatman by Carter USM.

gin - no chance of a shwerps, then?

*Anyone with me?

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CUNextTuesday · 02/10/2009 22:21

I hear ya scorps oh yes NAD and USM

Sub Pop....

ginhag · 02/10/2009 22:39

There's bats in the belfry
the windows are jammed
the toilets unhealthy
he don't give a damn!

(I swear I actually lived there)

considered calling mani jimbob for a while

ps cunty radiohead at a very muddy glasto in nineteen ninety-blah was probably the best gig I have ever been to. I actually cried. I was a little under the influence of a few things tho.

ginhag · 02/10/2009 22:51

Oops got bit overexcited there

Scorpette · 02/10/2009 23:26

gin -
he just chuckles and smiles
and laughs like a madman,
a born again Rachman
Here comes Sheriff Fatman!

God, I loved Carter. I can't be alone in thinking of them beating up Philip Schofield whenever I see his smug face on telly.

I do think women of our age are v tomboyish (for want of a better word) compared to others of different generations. Guess when Eddie Vedder drinking his own spew is considered quality entertainment, you're not going to be a prim and proper Laydee when all growed up.

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HawaiianCuntShine · 03/10/2009 00:27

As for you non-tester types - what's up with that??? I'm from the other side of the tracks where we start peeing weeing from day 6 onwards! How else are we supposed to get accurate information on what's happening down there??? The eyes of the internet? Or perhaps that magic 8 ball???

I test and test and test... so just brace yourselves BESHies! The 2WOOFL for me shall start in about 5 weeks! For now, I'll just suggest that scorps give into the temptation and just POAS!

Scorpette · 03/10/2009 01:23

Which part of 'brown stuff coming out of my foofoo' have you POAS-pushers missed? I've been whining about it enough, fer frig's sake!

PS There are Radio 6 podcasts, but dunno if you can download in the US of A.

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skihorse · 03/10/2009 05:40

Scorpette Yes, I've been thinking about your brown foofoo and wondering why you're so convinced this is early droid/erroneous dods of shite when it could be implantation!

Hawaii Seriously? POAS for a BFP when you're only 6DPO? Mein gott - I'm speaking in code.

HawaiianCuntShine · 03/10/2009 08:44

Ja, my insanity has no bounds... (sorry my days of living in Germany were long ago otherwise I would have attempted translation). Perhaps Thai?

Technically, I was using a bit of hyperbole I thnk last time I waited until 8dpo. all better now? At 80 cents a pop, why the hell not? I just look at it like a status update (like taking your temperature), have you passed over this threshold yet? But let's not get too hung up on my craziness yet, you ladies BESHies have a few weeks before you really have to hear about it.

scorps you should know by now, the mob wants what we want! It's not about you, or us listening to you!! You should really rethink that vag-cam I think it would be very popular on MN, heyyyy perhaps it would even be picked up by the DailyMaul! (ok, that was BAD, I know.)

I also lived in Arizona, you'd figure I'd have learned not to poke play with scorpions.

ginhag · 03/10/2009 09:05

hawaiian six music is a digital station and so available on t'internet. So you should be able to listen. I'm pretty sure you could get the podcasts too.

scorp I'm going against the mob to say that is you're doing v well to not POAS. It sounds like you're fairly sure what your body is doing,i've been in the sane position several times lately and pissed on sticks more out of hope than anything else. Expensive,and depressing.

If the droid doesn't show then I don't doubt you will be compelled to test.

Gosh I sound almost grown up. You'll have to keep me in check when r2d2 time approacheth for me so that I can live by my own advice

Ponymum · 03/10/2009 09:07

Look here HCS, I am trying so hard not to be 2WOOFLy and you're going on about PingOAS at 6DPO, 8DPO, whatevs. I am 10DPO and trying to put it out of my mind for as long as possible. As far as I am concerned, next Wednesday is the day and I will not be budged.

As for symptoms, temp is still well up, and I nearly vomitted when changing the foal's nappy yesterday (but anyone who smelled it would probably have felt the same way)(though I have never felt like this before ). On the other hand we have a challenging day of travel on Monday so RTOD is sure to arrive in the middle of that and ruin everything. But on the other hand, in the last 10 days I have eaten loads of pate, fresh shellfish, unspeakable volumes of alcohol, semi-cooked eggs, and The Smelliest Cheese On Earth. Surely that has upped my chances?

Very happy about The Clash, They Might be Giants, Radiohead (at their peak), The Prodigy, etc. Even glad someone mentioned the Smiths as I was besotted (but of course too embarassed to be the first to come out and admit this). In fact, very pleased with BESHies. BESH=great taste in music. I was so afraid someone was going to say Bon Jovi or Huey Lewis and the News . Or Hall and Oates. And if R6 plays Sugarcubes' Birthday I am now going to start listening. Def gets my vote.

ginhag · 03/10/2009 09:16

pony your levels of consumption sound good to = baybeeeeee.

If you listen to 6 music from 9 this am you will get Adam n Joe and their world of rambling nonsense

Scorpette · 03/10/2009 09:30

Ski, one day I'll have to take you aside and explain how a laydee doesn't do a poopoo or a weewee out of her chuffchuff. But a lady does sometimes bleed out of her chuffchuff and that's what's happened this morning.

It's 9DPO, which would be just right for an implantation bleed - but it's also D27 of cycle and I'm a 27-28 day kinda gal. Which do you think it could be? Exactly. Temp was up though. Might POAS just to torture myself further.

*HCS' - do they have magical wazz-wands in the land of the should have free healthcare? I thought you wouldn't get any result POAS until about 10 days after OV? But what do I know.

Pony - 10DPO is very promising and I applaud you for forcing yourself to undertake the 'vastly inappropiate pre-conception' diet to make your ironic chances as high as poss We will be agog on Wed for POAS-Watch. You have been warned.

I has a question I wish to ask all BESHes who have actually been updiffed at some point - do the symptoms you get differ noticeably from their non-pg counterparts? I mean, does early pg nausea feel like normal nausea or is it somehow different? Do hurty boobs feel like general pre-period hurty boobs or diff? I ask because every time I OV late, I get nausea, tender tits, need a wee every 5 mins and am ravenously hungry - all updiff signs, which I'm sure you'll all agree would send even the most Zen TTCer insane with TWOOFL (this is my excuse for being a mental and I'm sticking to it). Is there a way to tell the difference or do you just 'know'?

Sorry for asking a genuine TTC question. Am punching myself in my useless ovaries as punishment.

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ginhag · 03/10/2009 09:48

scorp different for me. The nausea much more intense and involved actual barfing. Sensitivity to smells at bloodhound level...often caused said barfing. Second time the duff fairy visited I knew purely because of this,hadn't expected to be pg (tho we were trying.)took a test after nearly throwing up in paddington station.

Boobs were very different too (tho more with first pg than 2nd.) felt like someone had attached a bike pump to my nips and literally inflated me jubblies. They felt utterly weird.

However I still think the only way you 'just know', especially first time round, is by having a positive test.

Am sorry you're feeling all fucked in the head. It'll be alright y'know. I know you have a lot of worries but it really is normal to take a bit of time (I know that diesn't help,it's still true tho)

Scorpette · 03/10/2009 10:04

Thanks gin, that's interesting to know. I'm a control freak, a perfectionist and a worrier, so having to chill out and just trust in the 'magic and mystery' of TTC is anathema to me.

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ginhag · 03/10/2009 10:16

Yup it's a crock of steaming toss I say.

I'm fairly laid back,utterly disorganised and generally rather confused but even so ttc brings out the screaming obsessive madlady in me.

kimdeal · 03/10/2009 10:44

Grrls, this is freaky. OMG my funky just got chunky. To my utter amazement, I have a line. A line. My top tips of irony: in the last fortnight, I ate, among other things, 1 x steak tartare; 6 x oysters, drank my bodyweight in red wine and limoncello limoncello ffs. I was also a right frigid bitch. And no, this does not make me super fertile ? I really assumed I?d never have children owing to a long history of avoiding children, mostly dressing in black, listening to Pussywhipped, over smoking and under-eating . Re your qus scorp these symptoms you describe DO sound like pg symptoms (and of course something like 50% of pgs dissolve in the first month, so who knows). However, one thing: have been feelin tired to a degree unknown. A bit like coming back from a very long haul flight, which usu knocks me out for a few days. Also, I felt FAT. I think I posted about the mysterious weight gain. And I still feel fat. But as gin says, you only know after the pg test (really, I was completely shocked ? none of this 6th sense stuff ? which I?d ?had? the previous month).
BTW, I'll kick myself out of here again if posting while possibly updiffed is another hideous faux pas. But if I'm allowed to stay a bit (i.e. until the inevitable mc) then can I add YEP to Violent Femmes, the Ramones, he he TMBG (Birdhouse is a toon I often hum to myself), and can I add Spacemen 3 (c?mon anyone else like them?), the Buzzcocks, Iggy Pop, & PJ Harvey. Finally, will invite David Bowie to come and sing the entire album Low to us, hope not too obsessive... I'll do Cannonball too.
On a final note, NO ONE else on MN is as interesting as you lot , have looked on other threads, so I hope you all get updiffed soon. Oh and the OH told his mum last night, who sniffed ?Well I?m surprised I thought kim never wanted children?. Now his mum is normally a cool woman, but now I feel judgey judged. It?s a minefield this whole children thing and I must admit I feel like a fraud on the outside. But on the inside it is all sort of making sense (for those of you who remain really unsure). Ok, so now I?m really tempting ze mc.

CurlyCasper · 03/10/2009 10:55

kim A LINE? SERIOUSLY? That calls for a party and some serious hair-pulling and toe-stamping erm... good on ya!

kimdeal · 03/10/2009 11:01

Curly a line, I kid you not. I have been pulling my own hair ever since (Tuesday). Can not actually get my head around it. Espesh since MIL seems to think I am clearly NOT cut out for it - what with my general kid avoidance and exciting life of peanut cookie eating (no, really in RL I do have my dream job - bizarre though the job is).
I really am not a Kath Kidson mummy type. Then again, nor is gin and she has a real life 3rd century prophet/stone rose/pooh shoe under her watch.

ginhag · 03/10/2009 11:06

Woop woop!

Hey kim you're going to be gigantic!!!!

(pisses self laughing)

mani is 90% tequila by the way.

By the way I think the official line is that You Are Not Allowed To Leave The Gin Palace. We're a bit like the mafia (only more rubbish,people actually fuck off and abandon us All The Time!)

Ooo a little pixie I'm very excited!

Celebratory slammers all?

ginhag · 03/10/2009 11:11

Abso-fuckin'-lutely kim.

One teeny word of warning tho the first few weeks are HORRIFIC. Tiny babies are a bit rubbish.

it does get better though. And yes you can be a flaky slack lush and still end up with a totally ace kid.

ginhag · 03/10/2009 11:19

The aforementioned Ace Kid just asked to put his little backpack on cos he's 'gotta run ta work' just like his daddy does. Is now running round and round the table saying 'bye bye! See you soon'. Kissed me goodbye and eveything.

He's very funny. And has a fuck of a lot more energy than I do!

kimdeal · 03/10/2009 11:20

gin I think I luv you.

Thank god there are lush mothers out there. Yeah - I heard about the first weeks crap (and sometimes the first 20 years of course, apart from when you win a mani) and as for the ...labour... oh god, I can't even go to the dentist without gas and air.

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