To TTC or not to TTC, that is one of the many questions...

[YorkshireTeaDrinker]

Ok fellow ditherers, as we have filled up one thread (and still not made too many firm decisions) here's another one for us to continue to procrastinate and worry on.

Here's to more monitoring of relative green and redness, mutual support and occassional chivving, discussion of everything baby or not baby related, and perhaps even our first BFP...?

Quite. And, as you say, their loss.

And yes, I appear to be green. Green, green GREEN.

Say it loud and say it proud!

Good grief!!!

Is it a green that needs action?

Lets not go mad, HP SP - one step at a time an' all!

I think its a culmination of everything - and, weird as this may sound, YTD's BFP seems to have had an effect too. If I think about it too much, which I am now, I can come up with more reasons not to go for it than to go for it but if I don't ponder over the little details I am most certainly green.

True, true.

I think that's what I meant by vague green. If I let my mind drift and wander into babies I just feel warm in the ovary region and quietly happy. If I focus on it for even a second I start worrying and doubting.

I knew one of us would eventually get a BFP, but I'm still surprised that it has actually happened!

HP YTD and everyone else that welcomed me so warmly last time I am back to lurk!

sorry i haven't posted for ages- boy have things changed and sadly not for the better! at the moment i am signed off work with stress after slowly slowly going down a big hill of what the Dr calls depression and finally ending up in a real unhappy place. Baby talk has been put on hold altogether whilst I try to figure out what the heck I am going to do.

Won't go into the the details but hit a low which made me question whether there was any point continuing anything anymore and yes that was all due to work.

Am being told off for overthinking things (I know I am in good company for that here) and in figuring out what I want to do with my life/ change jobs etc. I should go with the flow apparently!

Anyway thought I would pop my nose in and say hello, I hope you are all well and will try to follow the thread a bit more closely.

x

YTD! I just read back through the posts! Congratulations! fab fabby news. take very good care of you xx

Greenness all round I see? I've been using reasoned argument, eloquence, cajolary and plain harranging for months and all it takes is a couple of lines on a stick and suddenly the threads gone green!!

HP I too am surprised by how quickly I seem to have got really tired. Although I was pretty knackered last week as well, I just put it down to the fact that I was having such a busy week - lots of travelling and long days.

I think I might be noticing stuff more now that I know I'm pregnant. And worrying more. I've had pokey cramps for about a week. Pre-test it was an interesting sign of possible pregnancy, now I think it could be the bean inplanting in the wrong place/ falling off / developing in the wrong way. I think the anxiety kicks in with the hormones!

lizardqueenie welcome back. Sorry to hear you've been in a grim place recently. I'll post more tomorrow, but now really have to go to sleep.

Night night. xx

OMFG!!! YTD- CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

popped onto the thread before i rush off (got to catch yet another flight today, and no, nothing very exotic- certainly not boston!)
WOWOWOW!!
good stuff!!

I just purchased a basal body temp thermometer! Just had to tell someone, really....

HP!
Does this mean this will be your last pilled up month (so to speak) then...? I would have thought that getting to the temperature stage speaks volumes!

Okay - now we're getting green (and YTD your bit about two lines on a stick did make me laugh, and not just because it's true!) here are The Predictions:

1. YTD - done!
2. LST
3. ??
4. ??
5. ??

390th. Confused.

Please feel free to fill in the gaps!

Just looked in mirror as bought some new trousers and now feel that a pregnancy is the last thing my expanding waistline needs! Or maybe it's a good thing as you can let it all hang out and not care...?!

Yikes - some friends of mine (he was DH's best man) are in the hospital right now having their baby! It has been over 24 hours already (not sure if it's an induction or not but her due date was last Weds) and, according to the text conversation, it looks like it's going to be long haul.

Am both excited and glad it's not me!

I just really, really love the idea of making a graph out of my body .

Im not thinking too much about if these are my final moments on the pill, as I'm still mortified after PillGate. Lets just say this, I feel quite positive about coming off it at the minute and I am interested to see what happens when my lovely artificial hormones are gone (but then, it isn't D-Day yet!).

Oooo, Confused, surely with the current greenness you could place yourself higher than 390th?? If there is a 'sods law' list, I'm totally third, as I will get knocked up by accident the first month we use condoms.

I dont need to imagine what pregnancy is like, my boobs are getting bigger by the month, along with my gut tummy. For shame, HoneyPetal.

Oh for fecks sake, talk about timing (and, poor girl)..... www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/923526-confused-about-positive-result

HP you might be interested to learn that once you are pregnant, a whole new range of graphs become available to you.

I have been charting via Fertility Friend and once I recorded my positive test results, you get access to a whole new site called pregnancy tracker, where you can record daily symptoms (not taking my temperature any more though)and store scan pictures, weights, sizes etc.

I've moved up to a whole new level of charting!

I am almost see HP wanting to get pregnant just so she can start charting and temping, especially as, once she had C'd it can go to new levels!

Sorry - was that a bit below the belt?! I, of course, meant it in the nicest possible way!

Turns out my friend started the induction 24 hours ago and it's not working so is now on the strongest one's possible in the hope that does the trick. I suspect, and of course I am an expert, a C-sec may be on the cards... (Hope not though but I think she won't care as long as they get the bugger out!)

Shit - YTD! I forgot for a second, sorry if that seemed a little tactless!

Taking feet out of mouth and off to walk my dog, back later on

Imagine the pregnancy possibilities....girth of tummy vs boob size (am assuming a positive correlationbased on previous data), number of wees per day, even a bar graph of volume, the ratio of wakeful to sleeping hours....

PS the thermometer has been dispatched!

PPS still not going near my cervix. No way, Jose!

Confused no tactlessness noticed. Traumatic birth stories don't worry me, its such a long way off, won't happen to me, don't want to think about it "la la la, I'm not listening" .

So HP the thermomenter is on its way eh? There remains the decision you have to make with regard to data collection, i.e. anal or oral (I kid you not!). It may not surprise you that, despite it being considered the less accurate of the two measurements, I chose to take my temperature orally.

Now I am monitoring pregnancy signs. Today I recorded the following symptoms (selected from a controlled vocabulary) in my pregnancy tracker:

Breast Tenderness
Cramping
Fatigue
Frequent Urination
Thirsty

Over time I should be able to observe trends and, should problems arise, this could be a useful diagnostic tool. I am a bit disappointed by the way the data is displayed on the fertility friend pregancy tracker. I might have to request that they develop a .csv output option, so I can download my data and manipulate it in excel.

Hello chickens

YTD i love all your charting and data collection. I worked as an analyst before this poop job and I still get all excited about charting and mapping - where's the emoicon for geek!

Well after months of dithering and trying to make carefully planned decisions I am actually hoping to have C'd this month (last month?). I haven't got in to the counting and measuring just yet so I could be late but with everything that's been happening recently (and with feb being a strange short month) I am not really sure. Its just that its strange, after all the cr*ap that has happened with work rather than wanting everything tied up with a bow I know that I really want a baby. We popped out to see some friends last night _ felt ridiculously sick when I went into M&S to buy some flowers and then it got me thinking? Am I?

confused reading your post above sorry if that makes you slap your forehead! I am sure that I probably am not but there was this one evening....and we had started taking all the vits!

Is it too early to test yet? I need to go up to London today could buy as test on the way...maybe I'll google it.

Happy Friday everyone- hope its sunny where you are! xx

I am geek free zone I'm afraid, so please don't ask me for any mapping or graphs.

YTD discounting the sore boobs and cramping, you could be diabetic with those symptoms - luckily you're not, eh!

LQ I think it's really better to wait as long as you can before you test, which isn't always possible I know. Different women have different levels of the pregnancy hormone so some may show earlier than others. Leaving it as long as you can will give the most definate result - if you can wait that is! Not sure if I could really. Tests like First Response say they give a result 6 days before your period but (and I can't remember the specifics) it's not a guarantee.

Anyone around this weekend? My DH has taken himself and our DD (dear dog!) on a walking weekend so am home alone and trying not to drink any wine!

Oh yes, and my friends had a little girl by emergency c-sec at 6pm last night after two days of trying to get labour going properly. Spoke to dad and he is beside himself. I also asked why they induced - she was 5 days over her due date. Turns out there wasn't anything wrong with either the baby or the mum (or the placenta etc) but 'it was just overdue.' Hmmm.... Does this, to you, seem a bit over zealous of the hospital staff? Would it not be better for her to have gone 'overdue' for a bit longer before being pumped with artificial hormones and such like? Maybe then she'd have had the baby naturally? I do think that the whole birthing thing tends to be far too medicalised sometimes. I know lots of women used to die and their babies died and so on and ON before we had all this 'help' but it does strike me as over the top. If there's a problem of course get the baby out asap but if there isn't why bother? Why the rush?
Rather like the diabetic thing - why have a drip in each hand so your less mobile etc when you can do the simpler thing of just having regular little injections or eating or drinking if you need to? Why make it more medical than it needs to be?
Be interested to know your views... Come on Geeks, give me some stats to compare!!

Sorry in advance as this is a loong quite self indulgent post and hopefully you guys will still have me on here if I dont whitter too much!

I was itching to get on here and chat to someone yesterday afternoon but.....I'm pregnant!

Went into London thought "oh I will just buy a test from boots. I bought a double pack - not expecting it to be positive but having had problems with pt before got to the till and turns out they were on BOGOF! So I left Boots with my 4 tests and was busting for the loo so quickly went down to the toilets in Victoria station. And there they were 2 fat lines! I then laughed at myself for doing a test in such an unglamorous setting - not quite the way I had envisaged finding out I've a small bean.

and then I couldnt really concentrate on what I had gone to London to do - which was a conference to look for another job. So I wandered around the science museum feeling really strange. I took another test whilst I was out and when I got home (got to use them up). Then announced it to DH who was shocked but thrilled as I'd kinda mentioned it to him yesterday wondering what the possibility might be. I really still can't believe it.

So to be sure (I am so so cyncial and thought maybe there is a problem with the PG tests that are on special offer otherwise why would they be on offer) so I bought one of those clearbule digital ones - more for hubby as I thought he'd like the technology and did that just a moment ago and its still positive! Meeep!

confused how is your friend & her little girl now? To me it does seem quite a lot of intervention when it wasn't really needed on the facts you've set out.

I totally agree with your view and have always thought I would like things to probably just take their course rather than having a team of people wadding in. Totally different if there is an emergency but concerned about that with our local hospital - have heard some stories.

YTD you'' have to show me where the pregnancy tracker thing is. I would like one that can track my reduction in shock!

Right must do some shopping- have been on a shake diet the last fortnight so lost a fair bit of weight but shakes wont sustain me now!

LQ that's fabulous news - CONGRATULATIONS! Oh my goodness, everyone's getting little red lines! Christ, it's like it's catching! So, give us the low down? How late were you? How do you feel? Do you feel any different? Would you have guessed if you hadn't already tested?! Tell us all!

By the way, and sorry to ask, but can you tell me your original reasons for dithering? I would scroll back but can't remember if you first posted in the original thread or this one and my laptop takes ages to upload pages sometimes (like today) so don't want to rummage for it.

Looks like LST is going to be number 3 then - talking of which, any developments with the IVF as it's meant to be this month isn't it?

Congrats again LG - don't you and YTD be leaving us, y'hear!