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The fourth WIIT thread travels far and wide, with tales of new adventures to share.

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100years · 17/09/2011 13:00

Hello Ladies,

Here is the 4th WIIT thread for our enjoyment.

Stats will have to follow at a later date, as I can't check back to see where everyone is accurately at the moment.

Get posting and lets see where this thread takes us. :)

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Quodlibet · 31/01/2012 14:34

Ooh good answers! So definitely a or b then! AF by my estimate is due on the 5th so won't test til Monday, if it hasn't shown up by then. DP will be away Sad.

bebejones · 31/01/2012 15:19

Might be option c.) That you are getting a bug?

(Although of course all WIITs would love for it to be a!)

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100years · 31/01/2012 15:54

AC, hopefully one day you can have one. Re the possible pg symptom, I'm probably only mid cycle, and I ended up with a bad headache so I think it's possibly just a tiredness headache thing that caused it. Too too early for symptom spotting for me.

Strawberry, tbh, I want to carry on as long as possible, but had a few Hmm looks about this, I think my OH expects me to stop around 12 months, but if things are going well I think I will continue passed this, I think he just thinks a year is the norm to stop, as opposed to thinking I should stop then, I keep saying I might do longer. It also depends on if I get pg, if I do and I have HG again then I would find it hard to BF as I don't know what extra my body could produce if I'm having to feed me and baby inside me on no food, I don't know if I could BF then, also if I don't get pg there will be a point where I would stop to try and get pg. In an ideal world I would feed throughout pg and tandem feed DD1 to maybe 2 years and then continue feeding second LO until the same I reckon, but it might not work out like that. Just a case of wait and see for me really. Sorry, long answer that doesn't answer it in a specific way. But WRT people's reactions, just try to ignore them, it's what is important to you and your LO that matters.

And yay for master chef, love it. In fact my FB status last week was master chef related! Not seen birdsong and don't know what it's about.

Quod, park runs are fab for that (running with other people) and the volunteers are all really friendly, will clap you and cheer you on - or they do at the ones I've been to. Re your symptoms, probably b, but I'll say a just because we want it to be :)

Bebe I love your most recent buns, fantabulous. :)

LO is almost crawling! She can get things if you put them on the floor away from her, she makes her way to them in a funny fashion, it's kind of a push with her feet thing as opposed to knees up crawling, but she's getting fab at it, but it's meaning being a lot more on your toes about watching where she is and what she's doing now!

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Awayinamangercooper · 31/01/2012 18:05

Oh my goodness did someone say POAS???? Shock Shock Shock

I'm going to say a, because why the hell not - you DTD on OV day, so there's a chance the little egg was still loitering about. And symptoms too!

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100years · 31/01/2012 19:01

Omg imagine how excited you'll be when we say POAS to you!!! Grin

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strawberrypie · 31/01/2012 19:04

If it is a Quod, some might say you would have a greater chance of having a boy as male sperm are faster but don't last as long.....

Thanks for the answer about BFing 100. I think you have a very similar plan to mine but I don't think we will be having a second just yet. Some people ask if I am 'still' feeding her myself now, goodness knows what they will say if we are still at it when she is running around! I don't care though.

Masterchef wise, my early favourites are the large, tattooed man called Jay and the hyperactive quantum physicist.

bebejones · 31/01/2012 20:17

I got all confused then when I read 'if it is a Quod', thinking what if it's Quods...then I realised it was spelt wrong & that you were talking about option 'a'! Blush

I looooooooooooooove masterchef! Is the tattooed guy the one who had to cook for his family from a really young age? I love the Japanese physicist, she is totally bonkers! Also quite like the small curly haired bloke.

bebejones · 31/01/2012 20:18

Oh, and I like the guy who did the pigeon dish with the raw potato! ;o

strawberrypie · 31/01/2012 20:24

The small curly guy looks like a little doll- he doesn't look real! I like him though. I think Jay is the tough security guard that can do really delicate dishes, I'm not sure if he cooked from an early age- I missed that.

My favourite Masterchef quote of all time has to be JTR saying

"For me...........yak"

Sorry for the confusion re 'a' quod, I worded that really badly!

strawberrypie · 31/01/2012 20:25

oh I just saw the ;0 yes he is quiiiite attractive isn't he!

bebejones · 31/01/2012 21:37

Curly haired man: He's like a cute little pixie person! Just want to pop him in my pocket! He's really good though.

Potato man: He could come and cook me raw potatoes anyday! :o

Quodlibet · 02/02/2012 13:37

Alright ladies how goes it?

Having a bit of a rubbish day here - really bad mood with angry/weepy mood swings, mainly due I think to feeling at a pretty low ebb with work. My PhD work is driving me mad it's progressing so slowly and I'm so far behind finishing writing this chapter, and my company work is currently quite stressful and feels like banging head on wall much of the time too! We also had a big disappointment about a major summer project this week - the olympics is creating a load of BS for everyone, basically. Aggh. DP is being very nice to make up for it all.

Also not feeling like it's a BFP month at all but really not enjoying the last few days of uncertainty. Come on, let's have a fresh slate. Grrrr.

Moaning over. I might make your muffins again Bebe to cheer myself up.

bebejones · 02/02/2012 14:17

An extra large muffin with a large hot chocolate is definitely called for! (And have a just for good measure) :)

I'm freeeeeeeeeeezing today, just can't get warm! -5.5 at 9am when I took DD to school, over 5 hours later & I still can't feel my toes, think they ma have actually frozern and dropped off.... ....nope, still there!! :o

bebejones · 02/02/2012 14:18

Sorry for typos...fingers cold too!!

bebejones · 02/02/2012 17:09

All excitable coz my friend had her baby today! :) SO pleased for, healthy little baby boy :)

Hoping the excitement rubs off on DH Hmm

Quodlibet · 02/02/2012 21:37

Ahh lovely stuff Bebe, and thanks for the hug. We're beig emergency babysitters at the mo as my friend is in hospital having had her appendix out today, poor thing, she was kept nil by mouth for nearly 48 hrs and was expressing to keep her supply up so absolutely delirious with hunger by the end.

Is this cold going to carry on? I was thinking winter was over!

Awayinamangercooper · 03/02/2012 20:01

Hi guys! So glad it's the weekend, particularly if it has to snow! DH is deliriously happy about the weather report, he's been wanting it to snow since about October. No concern for me having to trudge around in it!

I think it's wonderful to bf for as long as you can. I don't see that I could feasibly keep bf after the end of my maternity leave, but I guess I'll just take it as it comes and see how I feel. You never know DH might keep me waiting till I retire and then there'll be no need to go back to work...

Quod what do you mean you'll wait to test on Monday? WAIT to test?? Preposterous!! Sorry to hear about your poorly friend, it sounds pretty unpleasant. Hope she's ok soon. And sorry about the summer project. Hope things pick up.

Bebe good news about your friends' baby - at least you'll get some baby snuggles.

Quodlibet · 03/02/2012 20:28

No snow down here in laaaandaaahn, just blinking freezing. Has scuppered my running plans.

AC I am so convinced that AF is about to turn up as per usual tmw or Sunday (all the classic warning signs) that I have been actually wailing and crying and snotting into tissues and telling MrQuod how terrible it is that this means I won't be a mother now before I am 33. Ridiculous I know - but sometimes you get those milestones in your head, don't you? my logic is that wasting the best part of a tenner to be starkly delivered that news in line form will just make me even more cross. Humph.

MrQ has buggered off for 5 days now for work. This weekend I fear I will mainly be moping, perhaps with some sighing and flopping thrown in for good measure.

Quodlibet · 03/02/2012 21:23

Sorry to be so self-involved and such a misery-guts, I know it's stupid and I'm sure also pretty annoying to those of you still waiting to get off the blocks. This TTC bollocks is stressful.

Awayinamangercooper · 03/02/2012 21:29

Tsk they are 3 for 99p in Home Bargains! Grin

Seriously though, it's not likely this month I know - but wailing and snorting into tissues? Quodlibet you have come a long way from our dithering days of old! What does MrQuod make of all the blubbing?

I'll be hanging around like a bad smell all weekend no doubt, it's all I can do to pour wine out and drink it after another stressful week on tenterhooks wondering if I'm going to get sacked!

DH has gone out for the night with all his pals leaving me in reading What Mothers Do, which is putting the fear of god into me. I definitely couldn't cope with motherhood on top of everything else. Why does life keep getting in the way?

Quodlibet · 03/02/2012 21:47

MrQuod has been very sweet and has appreciated that perhaps I have been dealing with the majority of thinking/stressing over this whilst he remains typically stoic and uncommunicative quiet about it all, and that we should be 'sharing' more. Blush And also making more effort to time his, errr, contributions to the effort better.

To be fair I think the snotting was also the end of a difficult work week for me where I feel a bit like I'm trying to lift myself off the ground by my hair motivation-wise.

What do Mothers do, by the way? Can you give me a brief synopsis?!

Awayinamangercooper · 03/02/2012 22:22

They reel in shock from the impact of motherhood, live on the edge of stress and exhaustion, find it impossible to find the language to articulate any of the positive things they do as a mother, struggle to accept that motherhood is not a hurdle that you prepare for, do and then relax... Shock

I'm glad to hear MrQuod is being supportive. Hope he is as good as his word re SWI next month! Don't let it get you down, you will get there. 33 is very young

Quodlibet · 03/02/2012 22:28

What do you mean, motherhood is not something you prepare for?!?! What about all these hours and hours of our early thirties youth we have frittered away on MN?

I did resort the other day to showing MrQuod some of the PG charts on FF who'd clearly made a solid effort (you know the ones, twice a day for weeks) and he blanched a little. But next month's Ovulation Stations is firmly in the diary.

Awayinamangercooper · 03/02/2012 22:39

It was saying that women are used to dealing with "hurdles" like exams or work projects, where you prepare, cram in a load of effort, do the exam or project and then have a relaxing period afterwards where we relax and reward ourselves - and motherhood is a shock because it's not like that, there's no chill out time basking in the accomplishment, it just carries on and on.

Quodlibet · 03/02/2012 22:41

Ahh, see my work just seems to carry on and on - no relaxing, just relief that things weren't as disastrous as could have been. So maybe it won't be too different?

You do still get weekends off with babies, right? Wink