Ongoing and continuing conceptions and follicling ahead of Feisty, Fabulous Forty somethings

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Just to start us off.

May this be a happy and lucky thread for all of us.

Hello ladies, lots of EWCM here but no positive on the OPK yet.

I am drinking Cava tonight (gosh Hippy you know how to live). I know I might be about to ovulate - but I am f*cking 44 tomorrow and I can see my last chance at one more baby slipping away, so i'm drinking - ANYONE WANNA ARGUE????? - Good .

I will wander off now and read the pregnant at 47 thread again.......

ps. Took my boys to Big Space today - why is it always my DS who gets kicked in the eye playing football???? He is just like his mother - I was always accident prone too.

pps. LOL at .... Does anyone want a cider based illness?????

hippy I was on holiday, drinking every night when current pregnancy conceived . Just be sure to take lots of folic acid too. And happy birthday!!

Snap here Hippy,EWCM but neg opks; cd 10 though,so a while to go yet.Think I have started too early on the SWI for my dates -have you started yet? Happy birthday for tomorrow .

Happy Birthday Hippy. Age is just a number.
My wee boy is turning 2 on Monday.We are having a little party tomorrow. So I did a tesst this am, because I was hoping to know either way whether to have a drink tomorrow. Of course my logic is terribly flawed, because even if I get a negative I'll still think, it's too early, and AF isn't here yet....

This morning's test was mostly negative (I can always see a bit of a faint line if I squint, hold it up to the light, wave it about, etc,etc)but I am only 8 dpo, so I suppose it is too early, but with the encouraging symptoms, I thought I'd give it a go.I don't feel sad because I still feel there's a chance, AF not due til Weds.

My boobs feel different this month.Since the return of AF (after baby) I haven't had much breast tenderness at all, and it has started earlier than usual. BUt before I had my son I would get tender breasts every month, so maybe I'm just getting back to normal. I've higher temps than ever this month,and some unusual cramping too. I'll just have to wait and see.

Hippy, I hope getting hammered, having drunken sex and feeling hung-over in the morning will be just the thing to get you pregnant!

Have a great weekend folks.

Lunatic am so impressed you still have it!!! We MUST have met... Funnily enough DP finished his EE, then went into radio...
Suspect when we start looking for real we may cast net further afield... love the area round Ardingly, so maybe Balcombe too.

Hippy happy birthday my old bean. It IS just a number of course, but I understand how birthdays when you are TTC are a bit tough. And just to say DS conceived on my sister's 50th party when I had had just a leetle bit more than a drop of Cava ...

Oh and Diege - I love a bit of PenVin (didn't enjoy the latest one quite as much), but you can't beat her for a multithreaded yarn!

Wet and grey today - last weekend in my house :(

Morning! Happy Birthday Hippy!!!! It may well be a memorable one if indeed you get your pos opk! I'mhoping for one myself, though it's my night off (good job as an avid x-factor fan ). Hope you have a lovely day x
Gum I am liking your 'mostly negative' comment .I think 8 days post-ov far too early, and as you say,lots of reasons to suspect it may well be good news.
Jollster I know how you feel about moving house - I was terribly sad for the last few days in mine. This time next week things will seem brighter on that front though (is Thurs the day?).Oh and I agree about PenVin's last book - I did enjoy it but not half a patch on the others. I am on the last of the Lytton trilogy (Into Temptation); I will be sad to leave the Lyttons behind! (I model myself on Venetia and her brood ).
Hope everyone has a good weekend x

Hippy Happy Birthday my dear. ~To hell with the Cava, I suggest you have a brain neutraliser instead - I remember they are served in a pint glass, topped up with orange juice. I seem to recall that if you are probably hard, you drink it in my go... I might have made the last bit up...

Did we really drink that stuff lunatic - God! No wonder our insides are screwed.

I am having a down day, and have decided I will never get pg again. I know that no one has said that, and logically I should have at least some chance, but never-the-less I feel sorry for myself - I know with less reason than some others, so I apologise for being such a moody moo cow.

I think partly it is because so many people keep telling me I should ttc. A complete stranger started chatting to me at Catherine's grave last night whilst I was doing the flowers. I chatted back politely - by the end of the convo, he had told me I should try for another baby, and/or adopt/foster, or involve myself in the life of another random child who I could help (!!??!!) After holding me back from flower arranging for 20 minutes, he suddenly announced that he hoped he had helped me (WTF) as it is meant to be good to talk!

My 25 yr old pg friend keep telling me I am too negative. I think I want to slap her. OK, she is actually tyring to help, but I am a moody moo cow.

Sorry to be such a grump... I know.. I am only 3 days post ov, and it is too early to say anything - someone slap me!

And Jolly - no not those initial....

sassy let's just say phew on the initials... in terms of how you are feeling, I'm impressed you can even speak to a pregnant 25year old, I'd be call screening and hiding behind curtains... and re "less reason than some others" - FWIW I can't think of anyone's situation that trumps yours. I think you are amazing bearing in mind what you are going through - truly inspirational.

Hope hippy is being spoilt rotten.

DS and I have been out scootering - now slightly soggy. A bit of bleeding now, but nothing else - am really hoping things get going so I don't have to have ERPC on Tues.

sassy I agree with Jollster, your situation defo trumps most others - but I understand it's not a misery competition.

Am that a total stranger approached you at your daughter's grave and told you to have another child. I would most definitely respect someone's privacy in that situation. Oh bloody hell - want to hug you AGAIN! You must get sick of me!

jolly if you really don't want the EPRC on Tues you could wait a bit longer but it could take weeks to kick in. Hope it goes as well as it can.

gum you are so funny the way you test at 8 days post ov. You know it tells you nothing . It does sound like you could be lucky this month. Keep testing - but wait a bit, honey

I have made sure the troops are in place here. Day 8 for me, which is still early but I did ov early last month. Will now continue every other day for a good while until my temp goes up. then thanks to sassy and her strict regime - I am gonna have to Sweetie!!!!

sassy some days i am so sure i will never have another successful pregnancy. Like yesterday at Big Space looking at a tiny baby and thinking that is sooo not in my future and then other days I'm like, "It happens to others - it could be me next!!"

What I'm saying is I totally understand that you feel like you'll never be preg again - sometimes that glass insists on being half empty. But you know your chances are good. You are relatively young (compared to me ) and you got preg easily with Catherine. I wish you all the best, hon.

ps. Last time I got preg (in May) i was convinced the month before that it would never happen for me again. I know that was a MC so not a brillient example but you know what i mean.

Happy Birthday to me.

beatiebow thinking of you today (((())))

OMG. Was I just saying that my son was accident prone and so was I????

Cannot believe what just happened. My son came up behind me and some how knocked me into the sofa. I then richoshed off the sofa into the sideboard - richoched off THAT too and landed hard on one knee on the wooden floor!!!!

I am fine and don't seem to have done any damage (was so releaved I wasn't pregnant for a minute there). Still can't believe it happened. MY DH said only I could be sent flying by a 10 year old.

I did fall over when I was 40 weeks pregnant with him - maybe that's how he caught the affliction .

Anyway, i'm ok. Got some lovely things from the boys and DH. But I'm still 44 - so that part is shit!! ha ha

Age is just a number Hippy - think how impressed everyone will be when you have a baby aged 44.

Thank you both for humouring me, and for the hugs hippy. My pg friend is one I met at a bf-ing group when C was a baby, so she has a DD of a similar age, a toddler and a bump. I think people mean to be kind, but most people find it dreadfully hard to appreciate how difficult situations are unless they have lived through them themselves. It's easy to tell people to be positive when they are pg and 25. That is why it is so nice to come here

Hope things get moving soon jolly xx

Ouch! Hippy I know you want to prove you're still agile, but that's going a little too far
Hope you are ok..

I will not despair.
I will not despair.
I will not despair.

Thank you - I needed that.

ahhh.. University Radio Falmer... I had a mate who used to do a slot on that... Peter Hickman - do you remember him?

ha ha - he's one of my FB friends... you could always add him... However, remember you were away to thump someone... well...

I think the Sussex Alumini are taking over the thread...

Actually, this is all very surreal - here I am discussing how often I f*ck my husband not only with a bunch of strangers, but with someone who now has instant access to half the people I know in the real world Scary eh!

To ice the cake, I propose we do a Feisty and Forty Meet up in a year's time so we can meet all the babies! To be fair, it should be in the middle so everyone can get to it easily... Now, given Gumblossom is in Australia - I make that Hong Kong... Unless you drop out Gumblossom, and then it will be Milton Keynes.. Please say you'll come Gumblossom... pretty please....

Oh, I'm there!Bali might be a bit far for you, but that would be lovely.

Another negative test this a.m, but I'm not giving up yet. Pointless doing these early tests, I know, but I was hoping to have a glimpse of something positive! With Charlie's pregnancy I get a positive 9 dpo.

I really need to take some anti-inflamatories, I seem to have hurt my neck and shoulder. I have no idea how, but it hurts so much, I can barely turn my head, and it has given me a headache, we are even thinking about canceling DS birthday party today (mainly DH's idea, so he doesn't have to do all the work). I shall google about taking ibuprofen in the first trimester - just in case.

Sassy, I cannot believe what people say to you.So flippin' insensitive. Hang in there, you have a great chance of getting pregnant. I know when I was trying for Charlie I was very focused on it and sometimes thought it just wouldn't happen and I'd never get over it.Well, it took 7 months of trying, (after the previous 4 pregnancies were first try)but he is here now.

Hippy, gasp! at you little flying stunt! I'm quite accident prone too.My DH is forever making jokes about it.

It's amazing what a small world it is really - so many of you knowing people in common and Uni and stuff. I went to U.W.A so you won't know me!

Gumblossom Bali sounds perfect. This place looks good:
www.nikkobali.com/

Hopefully your neck will have healed by then... if not, they seem to do a good line in massage. I don't think you can take ibuphronen when you're pg - certainly not in the first trimester. It increases the risk of miscarriage and abnormalities. DH has knee problems and uses the gels - I'm not sure if that is any better for you - probably worth speaking to a GP to see if that is an option.

Sorry no positive news yet - and thank you for the hand holding. It's very comforting to know that you fell pg so quickly in your previous pg but took a while longer with Charlie.

Hope the b'day party goes well, if it goes ahead, and that DH does all the work!

Quiet funny that gum makes the difference between - Milton Keynes and Bali .

looney hope the knee is ok. I seem to be fine after my tumble but have asked for a restraining order - DS1 is not allowed to come within 2 feet of me (except for hugs) - we are just to accident prone when put together.

I'm feeling a bit shit today. I'm just fed up with thinking/dreaming/worrying about whether I will get another pregnancy and whether it will MC again. I know you are all in the same boat - so forgive me for whinging .

Hello all! Lunatic I am in awe of you having gout; wasn't that something Henry VIII had? Do you feel it in your big toe? Seriously though, hope you feel ok without the meds x
Bali sounds great ; I love the look of that resort Sassy!
Hippy I think we all get the glums from time to time when we feel hopeless about the whole ttc business. I am starting to feel a bit panicky tbh, purely because dds 1&2, and ds were conceived first try(though dd3 took 5 attempts).This will be cycle 6 which is know is nothing, but having high expectations hasn;t helped. I'm sure your anxiety is manifested a bit by your recent birthday, perfectly normal, but remember that the chances of you conceiving(and having a successful pregnancy) are far greater than not (esp with your rampant shagging )
Gum, I'm still feeling very positive for you. I didn;t get a pos until af was 6 days late with dd1. Could you see a glimmer of a line at all with the test this morning?
Well I'm not sure where I am with my cycle. Got a pos on opk yesterday (well,as pos as I ever do, line not quite as dark, and will test again in an hour or two). My EWM has all but disappeared though, but ov (according to temps) hasn;t happened. TBH, ny chart is allover the place,as I have had more disrupted nights than not . So, tonight is the night, certainly feel very 'ovulatory' if there is such a word.
Hope everyone is ok xx

I always think of gout as a very posh ailment... ...

diege that all sounds about right. You get the pos on the OPK then later that day or the next you get the ov pains and the temp rise doesn't come for another day or so. So defo go for it tonight.

Interesting that you say I'm more likely to have a successful pregnancy than not - due to this years false starts - i find that hard to believe. Still as they say 'Don't stop believing!'

Can I ask you all AIBU :-

I made a nice Sunday lunch today (we don't always do the whole roast dinner thing, but I wanted to do it today.) I like to think of it as a chance to all be together and chat. My DH arrived at the table late (after being in the loo ). About half way through the meal my youngest needed a poo (what is it with my family that they can't eat a meal without needing a poo??). Anyway, no sooner had little one buggered off for a poo than my DH announces that he needs the loo again and doesn't want any dessert cos he's on a diet.

So I'm left eating my meal with the kids and he just didn't bother coming back after the loo. I called up the stairs, "Are you not coming back to the table then?" And I then had a bit of a paddy about being soooo bloody glad I'd made the effort to cook a nice meal.

He is now in a strop cos he says I have ruined the week-end by being all huffy!!!

Arrghhh - I understand that he didn't want to be tempted by dessert and he is doing really well at his diet but on the other hand we always tell DS2 to stay up the table until everyone has finished eating and I didn't make a roast dinner just to eat it with the bloody kids. .

I just tried to make up by saying sorry I was a bit stoppy. Thinking he might say sorry for not indulging you in the whole 'family together' thing. And he had the cheek to say that he'd try to cheer up but he was so bloody angry with me.

AIBU????

diege No frantic shagging here today!!!!