Hello all: Quodlibet here reporting for Waiting and not MIA!
Welcome to nannyl, Waiting and the new recruits. I have been following everyone's developments here, but RL has taken over recently. I've been crazily busy with work over the last few months, and family business - my grandmother died last week and we had her funeral today, which was very sad - but she's finally at rest after a long period of dementia, so it's a relief, really.
Been having a few long and protracted conversations re the whole TTC thing with my DP (my grandmother's death has definitely increased my broodiness, why does it work like that?) We're stuck at a bit of an impasse I think, and I feel quite down about it all - it seems impossible right now to be able to balance his (and my) career aspirations with starting a family, all the time scales seem wrong. He's kind of at the crest of a wave professionally speaking (something he's been working towards for a decade) and may end up being away a lot - fairly unpredictably - with work over the next couple of years. As a result, we ended up having a long discussion about, if it came to it, it being better for him to be away while I was pregnant than with a small child. Neither is my idea of fun. And it's all (work-wise) so up in the air it feels impossible to plan, which is very hard for me as I'm also trying to juggle my projects and hard-won professional role with taking the time out to start a family...and that's before we even start on the ludicrous financial implications.....At least he is very understanding about my concerns about wanting to do it sooner rather than later for biological reasons, I can't complain on that front.
Oh dear. I do apologise for wallowing but it is so helpful to get it all off my chest and share with others with similar quandaries. On a positive note - and following on from the 'health and fitness' discussions, I have finally taken it in hand to sort out my lingering back issues by properly starting a pilates class; August is 'core strength and pelvic floor' month for me, in preparation for TTCing at some point!
bebe - I love the idea of your nursery doodles! And nannyl, thanks for being such a font of wisdom on the vitamins front.
Over and out - as you were!