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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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Seriously?!?!? He wouldn't put him in a cattery?!?!?! REALLY?!! It's like a cat hotel! When we put ours in one (when we got married) I think they got more attention than they do at home!

That being said, if he's like this with a cat it bodes well for fatherhood!! :o

He's not even allowed to be left in on his own for any more than four hours at a time - and that happens once or twice a week at the most. DH lovingly hugs and kisses him all day long.

I have to do all the grooming and the discipline and the flea treatments etc. funnily enough the cat is not so keen on me!

Aaaah yes! 'Bad cop'! A role I am familiar with!

I do all the discipline etc too...but I also do all the feeding so both cats love me & tolerate DH! I think they are hoping that they can train the miniature human to operate the food cupboard! :o Coz the cat's are in charge don't ya know?! It's their house & we are merely their servants!

I may have to post some photos of our flat on my profile page to show you how much the cat has been allowed to taken over!

That cat is gonna have one hell of a shock when a baby comes along!

bebe, thanks for the blog comment :) I'll try and remember to ask my sis tomorrow, although brain is like a sieve at the moment. Yeah he was a pixie wasn't he (Andrew in masterchef) Shame about MIL putting dampener on the day.

Strawberry. Excellent stuff on trying BLW, time really really does fly. Yep to the right person winning masterchef, thought she would for a while.

Quod, thanks for the Mothers Day wishes. How was the holliday?

Harpie, she was 6 months on the 9th :) Thanks about the blog, I had a blog somewhere else(have written in it for about 5 years now), but it was only for registered users of that site, so I wanted to have something somewhere all friends could look at. How is it going for the new job search?

Having a little chuckle at the cat conversation between you two. We have no pets, so I have no idea what a cat is like, and I have never lived with one either, but I can imagine them getting on the good side of one person and that being it!

Well E stood up again yesterday, from a crawling position, she found a plastic crate (we were at a bumps and babies group) and she crawled to it, hands on the edge of it and stood up, in front of everyone! Well chuffed, proud and amazed. She's now after our sofa!

Bit tired at the moment. Was her baptism on Sunday, which was lovely, but a very busy day and not near where we live, so travelling home after the do.

And OH and I have a plan now re wedding/possible house move, my return to work and all that. It feels nice now it's not a non plan plan. We are I suppose now officially TTC as opposed to seeing what happens (as baby number 2 is high in the plan), although that's still determined on whether I'm ovulating or not, and if I can do so (i.e. if work allow it) I will be going back to work and only doing a couple of nights, so no childcare will be required :) Need to speak to work about it. If I go back and do 2 nights we will have a higher balance at the end of the month than if I go back and do 2 days and 1 night as we would need childcare for the 2 days! And full time is not really an option with the shifts I do, I a) don't want to work full time, I want to be able to have as much time bringing up E (and number 2 when/if they arrive) and b) the balance after paying for childcare means it's not as good financially. So fingers crossed we get what we would like, if not, it's somewhere in between.

A wedding you say? It sounds like you have a busy time planned for yourselves! Congratulations on the baptism - was it lovely?

I need you all to get a big wet fish and line up to slap me with it, I've got proper delusions of pregnancy today! [silly]

Harpie - Mackeral or Trout?!! :o Why delusions? What's up?

100 - You kept the baptism quiet!! Sounds lovely. Hope you can get the work thing sorted out, you never know you might be updiffed by the time you're due to go back anyways!!
E is such a clever little girl, she's gonna be an early walker I reckon! Eyes in the back of your head time!!

Hello y'all. Do you like my Texan drawl?

Blimey there's so much to catch up on. Can't believe little E is standing at 6m! 100 you must be so proud of her - and it's lovely to hear that you're making wedding plans, how amazing. Can you PM me the blog link?

Bebe sorry you're feeling so pulled in all directions. I'm not surprised, either - it seems to me that you're so generous in so many ways in your life and yet have very little of people paying you back the thought you deserve. I know circumstances are hard but it makes me cross you're not being looked after more. I don't really know what to say to cheer you up bar that if you ever feel like a little break in London to have some time for yourself (DD welcome too of course) then you should let me know and we can plan a nice get-together. Change of scene and all that.

Harpie I am dying to know what you're being silly about. OV thrown by 10 days you say? Tell us, please! I agree that your DH's cat-loving bodes well. I am sure you (as I am) would be pretty agog at the absolute volte-face that some men can have in the face of an unexpected pregnancy - my sister's DP is a prime example. (Heard yesterday that my sis is buying a house - as well as having a baby - at 3 years younger than me. Had to bite fist a bit I'm afraid.)

Strawberry from what I've seen of BLW, it looks really fascinating and fun (as well as super-messy!) I find watching babies discovering food really intriguing, they can be so funny.

My trip was great, quite intense, and probably very lucky I wasn't up the duff given the proportion of time we had to spend in licensed establishments with 'free' bars! It did bring me very close into the heart of what DP's doing and the (frankly quite massive) risks he's got stacked. These next months are really going to be crucial, and if it doesn't go right then it all has the potential to go quite badly wrong, iyswim? It's quite hard to take that in given that so many of my life plans have evolved to fit around his....really feels like we're 'risking it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss'. Ho hum.

Well it's CD30 and I've just been feeling really sick, actually gagging at my desk so that I had to grab a plastic bag just in case. Presumably it's a side effect of the medication I'm on. I'm also really tired, which is another typical side effect of the medication. So I'm still pretty sure I'm ovulating, but a girl can dream!

Glad the trip was fun, if intense! I guess the dizzy heights of the career zenith is not a place for the faint hearted! I've got everything crossed for you.

But why are you OV on day 30? and how are you sure you're not 11 or 12 dpo (and up the duff?)

I reckon it's down to all the work stress. TMI alert: If I was diffed, I'd have to be at least 14 dpo because DH has put his back out! Also got blood streaked EWCM, which is apparently a super fertile sign, not a pg sign [glum].

just popped my head in and saw that you are having symptoms harpie. What makes you think you're ovulating now rather than pg?
are you still using the monitor/charting etc? could you have somehow missed ov this month?

oh and if you are at least 14dpo... you could POAS...

AC I think you might as well just check?

So I think I've ballsed it up. Get ready for some TMI. DP and I decided we'd have a break from TTC this month and would get the condoms back out for fertile time - FF predicts I'm OV on Tuesday, which would be normal for me (CD19) and no EWCM in evidence so far, so we agreed to go back to using protection from 5 days before ie today. Only this morning - after getting a little carried away last night with no condoms in the house - I absent-mindedly pee on an OV stick and get a positive on CD15, 4 days early. Which I think puts me back on 2WW I assumed if anything, all the time-zone changing and flying and partying would make me OV late, not early!!!

Harpie, in good old MN tradition POAS, just for our benefit! POAS POAS POAS shouts POAS Yes the baptism was lovely, it was a normal service with the baptism in the middle so a proper church do, I think it may have been a tad long for some of the people there, especially the people who don't usually go to church, but E was great and behaved well. YY to the dusting off of hats, but it will probably be after number 2, unless number 2 takes a few years. :)

bebe, that would be good to be honest in the scheme of things(BFP work thing) :) Yes, well both me and OH were early walkers (him 7.5 mo, me 9.5mo) and my nieces both walked well before a year, I'm not sure if there are any genes that follow through the family, but if there are then we are in for lots of running around!

Quod, howdy. I know, it's mad isn't it, she's all over everything now, done the settee a couple of times, but sticks her bum out very far. Bless. We're doing the BLW thing as strawberry is planning to, and it is going well. Had a bit of a moment with it yesterday where I felt like she should be progressing more, but I posted on the BLW forum and got some great advice, and from what the others are saying, it can take a good few months for them to 'get it' and like crawling, the LOs need to learn things in their own time. I'm really glad you had a good time and can see a +ve in not having had a BFP last month. I hope things do all work out for you and things don't go badly wrong. And O M G For another 2ww for you.

Face plants are the thing of the week, she's taken to crawling a bit furiously and ending up on her face a few times. Sometimes it's a proper hurt and other times not. She has moments where you would think she would cry, but she just carries on doing whatever it was before. I think it can depend on how tired she is.

Well work situation, it looks like I might be going back two nights a week(and possibly an odd shift once/twice a month), although it would mean working every Fri/Sat (excluding any leave I take) but it would mean no childcare (which is a great bonus (I'd love to be a SAHM full time)) and I would earn the same as working more and using childcare, which when you look at it in terms of time with children it makes no sense to work double, see child a lot lot less and take home the same amount of money. It also means we don't have to worry about my shifts and what they are as the alternative is only knowing 4 weeks in advance, which is a bit pants at times, and I won't have extra late nights occasionally, they will all be the same :) So it's kind of worked out well.

100 that sounds like a really good solution with work, and it's great that you can still parent E pretty much full-time. Do you have to do weekends so that you can sleep in and Mr100 do more childcare at weekends, or are those just the shifts on offer?

MrQ and I ended up having a big chat yesterday about the pressures we're both under and how his work impacts on our lives together. I always feel bad for making him feel inadequate because he hasn't got enough time/energy/attention to stretch in all directions (wishing I had more of the patience and generosity that Bebe has) but at busy times his work just sucks him up and there's very little time or energy left over for our personal lives together. April's going to be a hard month I think with his launch plus touring - he'll be away 3 weeks of the month :(

I realise I maybe have been insensitive about our contraception slip-up/2ww, and sorry if so. It just seems a bit ironic having made the conscious decision not to TTC this month for us to have slipped up anyway. I'm going to try very hard to put it to the back of my mind and not think about it - I was actually looking forward to a month off from all the obsessing about it (ahh remember those days long ago when you didn't even know where you were in your cycle!)

What is everyone doing this weekend?

Quod, those were the only shifts on offer if I wanted to do set shifts. I could alternatively work days one weekend and nights the next, but then that involves childcare on the Friday, and so wouldn't be better off. It's not too bad, and won't be forever, so it's just get through it till the next part of the plan happens. :( for Mr Quod being away so much in April :( I didn't think you were insensitive, don't worry about what you say in here.

We have been to the farmer's market, I'm not sure if we are doing anything else this afternoon, just chilling out. I haven't actually spoken to Mr100, but I would like to swim, I need to see if it is possible with feeding things.

I've just been to visit my friend and her new baby (10 weeks). My goodness it looks like hard work, all she and her husband talked about for two hours was sleep! It really makes you realise how much more difficult it will be to do it as you get nearer to your forties.

I'm not pissing on any sticks so forget it! Instead I'm going to chill out with a bottle of wine!

Harpie - POAS...you know you want to really!! :o

Quod - I am a firm believer in 'what will be, will be' (ironinc given my own situation!!) and if you are updiffed in the month you decided not to TTC then the universe is trying to tell you something! :) Hope that makes sense, not saying that if you aren't it's trying to tell you something, or if you aren't when you are TTC....getting myself confused now! But hope you understand what I am trying to say?!

Feeling completely done in & not making alot of sense, spologies!
Coming down with some sort of cold/cough which I've been fighting this week while I was working on the wedding cupcakes & now they are done I think my body is giving in to it :(

Wedding cupcakes for non fb'ers Was so much work, but worth it, I'm very pleased with the end result.

Must go & get a drink, parched. Hope everyone had a lovely Saturday in the glorious sunchine. Hoping for more of the same tomorrow when I can actually enjoy it. (Well, I hopefully can if this cold comes to nothing)

sorry for typos

Bebe I get your drift! DP's reaction was 'well this is bound to be the month ou get pg now'. Those centrepieces are incredible - and do I understand correctly that the butterflies are edible too?! Amazing - you should be so proud! Ive agreed to do some communal (n

Sorry.

I've agreed to do some communal cake baking for my friend's wedding - nothing too fancy needed, it's a very home-spun vibe - but I migh pick your brains nearer the time if that's ok about what will be quick/keep a couple of days etc, as I'm working full on the week before their big day...

Yes Quod the butterflies were edible (although I bought those as they are printed with special edible colours onto wafers a bit like thick rice paper)

Re:cakes you can always bake ahead of time & freeze. Alot of cakes freeze really well. I also have a great choc fudge cake recipe that keeps really well if that's any use?