Welcome to the thread. I hope you have come with bags of patience for everyone because some of us are running out. Some people have even (I am convinced) naughtily snook away and started ttc!
If you have read any of the old posts on the thread you will know that a reluctant DH is exactly what I've had to put up with this last year. He does seem to be coming round a bit, from his original position which was "I'd rather die than have a baby and if you got pregnant and wouldn't have an abortion, I'd kill myself" - a bit OTT you might think? anyway now he's talking about borrowing one to have a bit of a go and maybe ttc on Wednesday - so massive progress is possible even with the most severe case of FOF/Peter Pan Syndrome!
Bebe I wasn't really thinking about the first few months. I was thinking what it would be like when I was back at work at month 6 and I had to drop the LO off at childcare at the crack of dawn and then pick it up again at night and negotiate the traffic and still catch my trains and then doing ten times as much housework while still keeping up with work and getting up in the night with a screaming infant and sobbing at my desk all day because I miss PNB. It barely seems do-able.
Pipoca hello! I saw that you had boarded one of the buses. Hope things are going well, I've got my fingers double crossed for you and will keep an eye out around the 10th for that BFP!
I've just had a look back over my ttc timetable, that I drew up in April, and I was planning to come off the pill in August, so July is actually a month earlier than planned, but I feel that DH might cope with the idea at the moment. By August he may have regressed to FOF Stage 1!
I am not doing terribly well at my stupidly over-ambitious savings plan - lucky I built in those extra months! Looking at what my other plans were in May and June (sister's wedding and friend's wedding in Ireland and moving house) it's hardly surprising I haven't saved anything yet!
Anyway, my revised timetable for the year looks like this:
July - rubella immunity test (takes 3 months for result). Come off the pill, sign up to Fertility Friend and start charting. Buy new mattress. Don't go on holiday to Spain, instead celebrate first wedding anniversary on the cheap - possibly by ttc on new mattress!
August - pay for wild holiday in Ibiza (honestly, I'm going to get round to doing that saving at some point, bear with me?); go to the dentist for gum health check-up.
September - wild holiday in Ibiza with DH. Return to dentist for all sorts of nasty treatments, no doubt.
October - result of rubella immunity test; smear test; pay savings into bank; start putting zinc supplements in DH's food. Vegas trip now unlikely.
November - My 33rd birthday. Drink in moderation (final cycle before TTC)!
December - Assuming smear, rubella, etc all clear, start TTC. Like Bebe, I foresee much obsessive charting and testing due to long-term exposure to terrifying content of Conception threads.
What are everyone else's Plans looking like now?