Waiting to TTC part 2!

[bebejones]

Shiney new thread before we drop off the end of the last one!

So sorry to hear that hairy that's a long time, is it still heavy? Did you have the injection, is that supposed to stop the bleeding or just to ensure the process completes? I wonder, did they give you a timeframe for how long you might bleed for?
I'm really sorry, it must be distressing and frustrating and upsetting. Life is shit sometimes.

Quodlibet and Piocoa thanks.

The injection can cause bleeding and the hospital said yesterday the pain and bleeding is probably it working. I bleeding well hope so LOL!

nom nom on the chocolate! slurp on the virtual wine cos I can't have any real alcohol at the moment!

No alcohol either? Bummer. Hope you feel better soon and can start planning for ttc! Saw you thread about diet, looked v interesting.
have made an appt at the doctor for tues to get folic acid.

Oh Hairy how horrid for you. Really hoping it stops for you soon!

Just checked out you healthy eating thread, really interesting. I'm busy losing weight still (now lost about 4 stone this year) got about 7lbs until I am officially a 'healthy' BMI!! When I stop my meds I will be gearing up for baby by doing all the healthy baby friendly things I can, so will be making notes from your thread!

I think coz I have lost so much weight (which I wanted to achieve before TTC) it makes me feel like I am ready now! SO broody it is unreal! DD has been so cute & was adorable when we went to church this morning for the first time, and so well behaved!

cheers Pipocoa bebe thanks

both: a very good friend of mine dramatically changed her diet for the better just before IVF and it really helped (and she looked AMAZING from all that healthy food!)

It is SO hard to lose weight so well done bebe that's fantastic going!!!

Morning ladies! Sorry I've been pretty much AWOL for the past three days. The move is now complete - albeit we still have bags and boxes stacked everywhere, and we have ruthlessly thrown away quite a lot of things we probably need lol!

Bebe I'm so pleased to hear that the baby is doing well. Frightening stuff, isn't it. I'm also pleased to hear that your DH is coming round to the idea of a DC2 more and more. You still have a few months to work on him as well, so no worries!

Hairy I hope it stops soon - you must feel like you're in a horrible limbo. Sending you hugs x Amused by Pipoca drinking wine out of a tankard! Very ladylike!

Pipoca you are SO nearly there! Doctors tomorrow is a big day. You will graduate from this thread with nothing less than honours! Can't imagine ever getting to that point myself but obviously it will happen in the end.

Quodlibet when I talked to him and suggested what you had said, DH said that one of the reasons he is wanting to leave his job now (he hasn't actually quit yet) is to get a stable job before DC come along. He thinks the company he works for will eventually go out of business and he would then lose his job at a really bad time - so he wants to look now.

When did you say you were thinking of TTC? If you are coming off the pill in September maybe your timings are simililar to Bebe's and mine? We're both hoping to try from December - which is now only six months away!!

SoppySue one more pill for you!! I still haven't decided yet whether to start another pack on Thursday! We'll have to see how I feel. Seems a bit inconvenient now going back to condoms when TTC is still a long way off. Also what if we give in to our MASSIVE broodiness? Pleased to report my dream last night was about making a lasagna - so probably safe for now!

My dream (in the hour between DH getting up for work and DS waking at a quarter to farking seven ) was about not being able to get to sleep .

Glad you've done the move Amanda..now the mammoth task of unpacking! I know what you mean about worried about giving in to broodiness, as we're getting closer I'm quite tempted to throw caution to the wind, but it would be much much better if I didn't get pregnant til at least Aug, and it wouldn't kill me if it took a little longer.

I've got quite lot of work on at the mo, which is good but worries me about how I'll manage with a mat leave (am freelance and if gone for long will lose all my clients) and with a newborn and a toddler. I am pretty much the breadwinner so it's a bit scary.

Anyway, must run, hope Hairy is feeling OK and hello to everyone else, hope bebe's little nephew is doing well. Any names for him bebe?

Will no doubt be back once I've got bored with work.....

x

Morning all! Another one with odd dreams here! Do have the occasional baby/pg dream too, which is nice & frustrating all at the same time!

AC - glad you are moved in I hated unpacking when we moved house. I still have a couple of unpacked boxes upstairs we have lived here 3 years!!!

So worried that coz we are only using condoms I might get PG accidentally, BIG no no on the meds! Although at the moment with one thing and another there is little 'action' which is prob a good thing! Can't wait til Sept!! Final countdown to TTC from there!

Hairy - hope you are ok

Baby nephew has been named finally, George

Oh, that's a nice name! So many really OLD MAN names around at the mo (I know a Monty, Alfred, Francis and a Stanley...don't like any of those names) but George is v nice I think.

Did you read the thread in chat about the woman getting pregnant despite using condoms? Gnaah! Freaked me out a little!

AC glad you are moved in.

bebe back at work today and feel ok, have done 11.00 til now, and will prob stay til five.

I'm waiting til Sept too -roooool oooon September!

thanks pipoca I'm doing ok today

I'm not that far ahead of you all then, the plan is to have this period that I'm due any minute and then a period in July and start SWI from about mid July, will be ovulating around end of July.

Going to doc to get folic acid tomorrow as I've been reading a lot about how you should take it a while (as much as up to a year) before ttc.

Yes that would be awful. DH would always have a niggling doubt about it being an accident and even if he didn't, I'd feel like he did.

It will be great when we get to September - we should schedule a virtual party on 1 September with virtual booze for those who are abstaining, real booze for those still chugging away on a women-who-drink-moderately-are-more-likely-to-get-pregnant ticket, symbolic crushing underfoot of the much hated pill, and folic acid with a variety of dips!

Oh yes, virtual party sounds fab, Pregnacare vol au vent anyone?! However I shall be virtual partying on the 24th Sept which is (hopefully) my last injection, can TTC from 24th Dec! It is already my favourite & best Christmas present!

Hairy - glad you are as ok as you can be, hope work wasn't too bad

What's this "women-who-drink-moderately-are-more-likely-to-get-pregnant" business?

what Pip sai!???!!!

woops, all typo'd by the excitement of being allowed to drink moderately to help with TTC'ing!

click here

Ooh 24 Sept is a Friday Bebe - better for therapeutic boozing! Good call!

Just about to read the article, thanks for the link amanda.

Hope everyone is well, got my folic acid today! . Have taken the first one!

laughing at this part...."a moderate intake may correlate with a higher frequency of intercourse".... the women who drink get the drunken horn more often?

woop, hcg is down to 56

Hi all

Can I come to the party even though we're unlikely to start TTC that soon? End of the pill for me is partly to see what my body's doing, partly passing the contraception burden over, partly so me and DP have some kind of line drawn in the sand so that I don't feel like I'm taking it without examination forever.

We're having lots of discussions at the moment about when the right time to TTC would be - 2011 will be a big career year for him if all goes well, and he'll possibly be away a lot as a result. 2012 will potentially be a big career year for me as lots of projects come to fruition. And I don't want to wait til after 2012 as physically I think it will only get harder on me - I can feel myself having less energy every year! So we're stuck at the moment. (Thankfully 'waiting til we've bought a house' can be taken out of the equation because we both are under no illusions about being able to do that any time soon, which actually in a way is quite liberating.) This trying to find the right time thing is a right f*cking bind in my opinion. It's actually making my brain ache trying to think about it - I'd love someone to give me another way of looking at it.

Short rant over. As you were. I'll happily munch some folic acid vol au vents in the mean time.

Oh woops i started part three cos I thought this was full doh!!!! as you were.