December 2012: Dribbles, giggles and rolls!

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Thought we should get a new thread before the night shift

Haha Mama i'd forgot about the tingling nipples till you just mentioned them. There were times i felt like i wanted to itch mine off ha.

Ooohhh I love all the BFP stories! It's a year for us this or next Thursday...

I really wanted to come off the pill because I know that it made me more emotional and I was fed up of changing from pill to pill and it always having an effect on me. DP was not convinced and I reasoned it out with him that we want kids one day anyway; and it takes an average of 5-7 months for two healthy people to conceive.
I remember feeling really "ripe" I can't explain it, that sort of feeling where you know your period is due... Anyway, I went off to visit my mum in France and some friends in London honestly expecting my period to arrive any second.
Still no sign of anything happening so we did a test and were very much . We spent two weeks (I was 6 weeks when I found out and the doctors booked me in for the equivalent of a booking in appointment at 8 weeks) in a bit of a daze trying to get used to the idea.

When they did a scan at the dr's and we could just see the flutter of a tiny heartbeat it all sort of clicked into place and we were both still shit scared so excited and amazed at the same time

hales I fell pregnant with dd (dc1) 2 days after I started seeing XH, at 17 he's only XH because he's a cheating scumbag we went on to get married 2years later, and have DS.

Has any one else's LO had an attack of croup? DS had a cold last week and then last night erupted into the most horrendous coughing we ended up taking him to the kids A&E. They were lovely and gave him some medicine and checked him over and we got home an hour or two later (about 2am). He has been much better since, although still a bit wheezy. Any tips on what to expect tonight?? (Of course I'm hoping nothing will happen)

Gosh nutella, that's a bit scary. Glad he's doing a bit better now.

Yes, I remember thinking about the average 6 months to conceive thing and being surprised that it happened so fast.

Pregnant with dd after having unprotected sex once and pregnant with ds after only having sex once that month due to all three of us being ill one after the other.... dp won't come near e again

Nutella I don't know anything about croup but it sounds nasty, poor ds.

Isthat its good to know i'm not the only one to get caught out ha. DP can be a pain in the arse and we have to compromise about alot. I don't think he'll cheat though his nightmare ex did that to him 4 months after she had, had his DD. (i only call her the nightmare because she terrorised me the whole of my pregnancy even going as far as to tell me what i could and couldn't call my baby).

Nutella, croup sounds horrible, H was ill last week with a chest infection and is still quite wheezy now i've put bowls of hot water and baby vicks in every room, used the nasal decongestant spray on her and kept on top of Calpol. As well as having lots of baths and showers with her. When. She gets really wheezy and breathless i we do lots of skin to skin as it seems to calm her down. I don't know if any of that will help for croup though. Hope your LO is feeling better soon xxx

Just realised that when DD wakes up and stretches she does the same stretch i do when i wake up and the same throaty gurgle. Silly but its made me smile loads

Ha, halestone Z and I do exactly the same stretch too!

Its lovely isn't it Seconds i know it sounds stupid but when she did it before i realised shes done it a few times now and that she really is part of me.

Thanks ladies! And thanks hales! The drs (both this morning & last night) recommend picking them up to calm them down, open the windows for fresh air & if still not better, steamy bathroom. We have just been to the dr for a checkup and she said his chest sounds fine. Ears and throat also fine. He is now asleep & I am sitting enjoying a quick coffee yawn he is still a bit wheezy but I can understand that after all the coughing!!

Mama the dr asked how long we had been trying.. We said "errr two weeks"

hales hope H is better soon too! It's horrible when they're poorly and you can't really fix it. FX the weather stays nice ish and all the babies can enjoy it too!!

Every time ds laughs he gets hiccups

I am of envious of people who got pregnant easily. It took us nearly two years of trying and the stress did disappointment every month was horrendous!

FoD we were on a similar timescale in the end. it took us ages from beginning to end but that was partly because I had extremely irregular periods so pretty much barely ovulated for 18 months (i never really settled down after having my mirena removed). Once I managed to regulate them, things started working; it took only a couple of months the time that I miscarried, and then 5 months after that for Z. But I know what you mean; during that first 18 months or so I went for countless investigations and nothing was shown to be wrong, and I was told that the next step was basically IVF but that I'd have to get my BMI right down to something in the 20s before I'd be accepted. I went on a low carb diet to try to get there, and lo and behold that completely sorted out my periods.

That's interesting seconds about low carb sorting your periods.

FoD I can only imagine how difficult it must be

Fod I believe that sometimes the pill is used to make women more fertile because just after you come off it you're really fertile - hence DS. I really hope that when we try for DC2 we have as much luck. DP's brothers and cousin have no babies for various reasons; they all love DS dearly. But every time I hand DS to the oldest BIL for a cuddle I can see tears in his eyes and I know how lucky we are.

After coming off the pill (Microgynon 30) it took almost 18 months for my periods to settle down and it was the first month that they were "normal" that I fell pregnant with DD....so I am either super fertile or super not!

We had gone down the route of starting to investigate things and DH had been to give a sample. It was so funny, the doctor called with the results the Friday after we found out I was pregnant saying "Everything looks normal - count and quality is great, you should have no trouble conceiving..." And my husband was happy to interrupt and say, "Er, yes, we know - we've just found out Jo's expecting"

I've just started a thread in children's health, I don't think I've mentioned it, but one of ds's testicles hasn't descended. I think he will need an operation

aw lovely stories

We were trying for 6 months following 8 years on cerazette with no periods. cerazette is well known for causing fertility problems so wasnt hopeful. The month I fell I had bronchitis, a week off sick in my 2ww and downed my body weight in cough syrup! I think it all combined to relax me and make it stick. Did the test on Friday 13th and DP kept trying to convince me it would be negative. In his defence I always thought I was pregnant the other 5 months!

Got a Velcro baby here, can't even put him down in his sleep!

Your poor DS Spotty i Have no advice but hope someone answers you soon.

DS is being so cute! He's fallen asleep eating and is grinning in his sleep with the teat still in. I could eat him

FOD - I am thankful everyday that when the time came I didn't have any fertility problems. I'm thankful that all of us here ended up with a little one, regardless of how long they took to arrive.

I was on the pill for about 16 years. Came off it, used condoms for 3 months to allow periods to resume, and conceived as soon as we dropped the condoms. I'm very happy I didn't fall pregnant any earlier, as it would seem I might be quite fertile. Might run in the family - my sister conceived her 3 immediately she tried as well.

Velcro baby here too! Lots of gum licking as well.

Cough medicine is well known for aiding conception. It increases the fertile cervical mucus.

I hope that now we have conceived once the next time will be easier. It's why we have started trying for number 2 already.

FoD I know people who've have ivf for their first dc and gone on to conceive their second naturally

I know FoD and I had a short luteal phase so it was probably just what I needed! I am so thankful everyday for him and can't believe how lucky we all are

fod we had a similar timescale, almost 2 years trying for dd1, was so incredibly stressful and hurtful everytime a friend or colleague announced their pregnancy. We had our first ivf apt due in 3 weeks then found I was pg! We started trying for no2 as soon as we're back in the sadle and I did get pg quite quickly but sadly mcd. Took about another year to conceive dd2 - it was mildly less stressful as we knew we 'could'. And pattern repeat for dd3.

Thank you for your well wishes for my mum. She's moving in the right direction but progress is slow. Luckily we live round the corner so I can get to her easily to get her up and put her to bed.