The 10th Gemini bus - 2nd Christmas stop

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I'm so lucky to continue to have you ladies to chat to Let's all have a merry Christmas and an even happier 2015!

Bring ~ nothing will stop me!! I'm determined to get pregnant. This is my third serious cycle of trying. Bpear took 4 serious cycles. I'd like to think I am a bit more experienced second time round

Ha! That's the spirit! Fingers crossed but legs open (sorry, too much?) for this cycle.

Haha Bring

Mr Selfridge tonight woop woop! Bring do you get that on TV where you're? My DH says the American clients love it.

I love your laying descriptions pear, I can so remember trying and having to dtd when it's the last thing you feel like trying to act a picture of health, isn't there some cough syrup that's surposed to aid pregnancy?!?! I know I conceived tiger at a wedding and I was all flued up and full of meds

Oh yeah, kitty ! I've heard that too. It's supposed to increase the viscosity of the CM making it more favourable for the spermies.

I've got baby fever again. Bad. NO! Have to wait and find out if I get into nursing school or not.

How are thee ladies? Lor? Lib? Frus? Agnu?

What is this cough syrup?? Tell me now lol

Found THIS

And THIS TOO

Ha! TTC-syrup that also helps your cough! You must buy some immediately pear!

I'm getting baby-fever again too. At toddler group yesterday there was one 4 week old & a 1 week old. Both girls. They were so snuggly & pink. As if that weren't bad enough, one of our team members was off because she'd had her little girl 2 days before! I want, I want, I want. I might get a bit "confused" about my dates & tell DH the pregnancy risk is really low when I'm ovulating... Anyone know which brand of cough syrup is pink?

I think DH would be rocking in a corner if I suggested another one right now. He's already inching towards said corner. He's been looking back at his payslips from last year - they switched to an online system so he actually has to go hunting for them instead of just being handed one - & he's fairly sure they've overpaid him by about £3000. Some of that will be tax & benefits though so it's not like we've seen all of that money. Obviously, we don't still have £3000 just sitting around to pay back to them. We did think it odd that his annual pay increase was a couple of thousand instead of the usual £500-£1000 this year but just assumed the company had had a good year. We can only assume that when they inputted his pay increase last year, they got their figures wrong, hence the overpayment & the sudden jump in pay this year. DH is freaking out that they're going to dock his pay over the year to reclaim the money. That'll be a huge impact on us as a family. I'm freaking out because it looks like I'm going to have to tell my friend we can't go visit her in France in the summer. We'd set it up so we'd be over there just a couple of weeks after she's over here so she doesn't have too much time to miss home before we turn up. We could only afford it by paying for the channel crossing with clubcard vouchers but we'd still have to get passports for the DC & renew DH's & we just won't have the money to do that if we're paying for some accountant's mistake!

DH rang his mum last night because she's an accountant & I'm scared they're going to offer to pay it for us. I hate it when they offer us money. I don't want to take it but feel rude, petty & ungrateful turning it down! Still, we don't know what's going to happen yet. The company's accounts department is looking into it & will get back to DH when they've made a decision. I've been looking at adverts for equivalent jobs & they're all quoting at least £5k more annual salary than DH is currently getting so we might get lucky & get the debt written off... ... That would involve DH playing hardball & threatening to move companies, in which case they'd have to offer the newcomer a competitive salary. DH is far too fair-minded & loyal to try that though. I've asked him to look into joining a union, in case things do get difficult, but I doubt he will. He'll just stew about it by himself until he has a complete nervous breakdown! Hmm... Maybe that could be used to our advantage - repaying the money would put considerable strain on someone who is known to have a history of anxiety & could end up costing the company at least the same amount, if not more, if DH is off sick with the stress for a long time... Can I pretend to be his lawyer?

Ha we have actual first-hand experience from Frus! The other thing you can buy is "Pre-Seed" that is supposed to lubricate like fertile CM and people have said that helps too.

Wow agnu that sounds so stressful! Money is always so freaking stressful with families. I really hope that it wasn't a mistake, that you DH worked his butt off and you got the extra that way. Hoping you will still be able to go to France in 6 months-time! Fingers crossed for you. How is Calf settling into the preschool, has it gotten any better for him you ?

I'm sure you could buy some special cough syrup from the internets! I love what you can find online! So FUN!

Calf is loving pre-school on every day except the one I needed him to. The whole point of sending him was so I could keep running an under 3s toddler group but he asks every week if he can come too! I lied to DH & told him that Calf was looking a bit peaky yesterday & had a bit of a cough so I thought it best to keep him off pre-school & take him to toddlers with me to keep an eye on him. His little friend followed him around all morning! It was so cute! I've had a chat with the other leaders & they're not planning to "waste" a pre-school session on a toddler group morning so will continue to have their DC with them so we're considering swapping his sessions so he can come with us to toddlers & will go all day on a Wednesday. I'm tempted to pull him out altogether but with our other stresses right now I can't cope with the tantrums that would come if I told him he wasn't going anymore! We might stop after Easter or the summer break so we can legitimately say there's no pre-school until he stops asking & then just not take him back. Despite our very open schedule, I do feel like pre-school invades on our time & like we can't meet up with anyone on a pre-school day because we've got to be getting back for pick-up/drop-off or for Runt's nap. I'll stick with it for now though because he does enjoy it!

Frus I didn't realise it was linked to a gender - I just hoped if I drank pink stuff I could get a pink baby!

Aww thanks for the cough mix ideas! Bring, we brought conceive plus this week which is like pre-seed. Worked for us last time. I caved in and had one Lempsip!

Went to see the last nursery on the list today. It's the "one"! Phew! Both DH and I agreed it's the one straight away. I feel a weight lifted from my shoulders. It's a 5 minute drive and feels like it will become bpears second home. The only downside is it is not attached to a school but as I don't know which school I want to send him to yet maybe that is OK. The one attached to the school had such little outside space it felt like they went on lots of outings to escape which to be honest would just make me worry. I want to drop my 3 year old off and know he's staying in one place. It has a huge garden with a mini beast area and a mud kitchen. What toddler boy wouldn't be happy with that?

Bring ~ quick question. I am utterly confused with what's going on downstairs today. So close to ov (cd17) I shouldn't have stretchy cm should I? I should be slippery and clear, right?

Bring - just looked at the cm chart on baby centre and I think I'm heading in the right direction. I think

I do love your description of the mini beast area. I would be sold too! When we were finding a new place for the kids the place we knew was the one was the one that had little raised garden beds in the back near the playground so the kids could plant and tend to the gardens in the spring and summer. SOLD! That's just awesome that it's so close to your house too! Very excited for you. Must feel so great! So are you guys all signed up and have your space saved then?

Actually, yes! That's exactly what it should be like close to ovulation. When it's whitish/milky/creamy/or sticky it's not "fertile" mucus, when it's clear/stretchy it's "fertile". It should start a few days before ovulation up until ovulation and then once you ovulate it will go back to the non-fertile type. Our bodies are so amazing, aren't they? hippy, dippy midwife in me coming out, sorry

Bring ~ ha ha I would be sold at planting beds too!! We need to pay a £20 deposit and fill a form and then we're sorted. The other nursery doesn't require a deposit.

Hmm not convinced about having fertile cm because it's not clear, more creamy. Always some confusion!

I'm currently in bed with hot chocolate and marshmallows. Was lovely until I burnt my tongue. DH has the day off so he's entertaining using the TV bpear downstairs. A little bit of me time

How is everyone today? It's freezing cold here today. Ack. So glad it's Feb, meaning we slowly creeping out of the winter horribleness. The sun is actually starting to feel warm again, so HUZZAH!

M has a hitting problem. I have no idea how to tackle this. It feels like she's too young for time-outs and for her to really understand the significance. I do bring her over to the step if she hits and she needs to sit there for a minute... but then she just hits me again Some of the swipes actually do hurt! Little girls aren't supposed to be like this. They are supposed to be sugar and spice and everything nice clearly didn't get the memo

So when's the big move-date Frus? Getting excited? How's the hubby?

Runt hits sometimes too, bring. I just object loudly & refuse to play/move away/turn him around if I need to carry him somewhere. Calf used to too but seems to have mostly stopped. He'll sometimes hit out in our direction but more in a frustrated wanting us to go away way than actually aiming to make contact.

Runt's ill. No idea what's causing it but he woke up from his nap with a temp & insisted on sitting on the sofa all snuggled up with me for over half an hour. I think the medicine is finally kicking in & he's gone off to play but that half hour reminded me what a trial being a SAHP can be... Sometimes you're just forced to sit on the sofa & cuddle a snuggly baby! It's a hard life! The morning was a complete nightmare with 2 grizzly children so I feel I earned the cuddles!

Hello, cd18 and still no sign of anything happening (no high fertility sign) on the cbfm and the OPK stick has gone back to being very faint barely present this afternoon so it's all very frustrating for me this week. Perhaps my stinking cold has stopped things happening this month. Who knows! It's been trying to snow here so we've been tucked indoors today as we're still full of cold. Bpear is well on the mend now though because he was in a very creative mood this morning. We managed to do a lot of messy play. I filled a tray with different pasta shapes and lentils and he enjoyed filling and pouring his stacking cups. He then really enjoyed magic painting which we hadn't done since he was 12 months. Our new non spill pot was a hit. We then went onto hand prints as he wanted to paint his hands so we managed to do a few thank you cards as I do them whenever he's interested. We then made cupcake sandcastles with the fake sand. Busy morning!

Bpear has a hitting and throwing problem. Hitting has got better but throwing is a real problem when he doesn't get his way. The way I've tackled it is to get him to say sorry to me everytime so he learns that I'm not happy with his actions. I crouch down at his level and say "no hitting or throwing, what do you say to mummy?" He will then give me a head but kiss better and I'll then give him a quick hug if he's sad about it and say again "we don't hit or throw, it makes us sad" and just try and move on quickly with something else.

Kitten never got the all things nice memo either bring, she smacks and throws if she doesn't get her own way, also attempts to pull hair and throw herself on the floor! Totally different to tiger whose never had a tantrum in her life and is the softest heart you'd ever meet, she just takes whatever kitten doles out to her and never retaliates, we make kitten say sorry and give a kids or she's taken out of the room, she gets a warning but she knows full well what she's doing.
Pear great news on the nursery and that you were both on the same page, doesn't matter it's not attached to the school, it can be handy to make friends but like you say you havnt decided the school yet so neither here nor there really
Kitten did her first poo on the toilet yesterday! By accident more then design she still has real poo issues she was in the bath showing me her swimming and then after she's kick her legs she thought it was hillarious to fart I've learnt she must be able to do this on dam and which is quite a gift she loved the bubbles and my reaction anyway after forcing out about 10 farts it obviously got to the point where she pushed so much she needed a poo and couldn't stop ( I know this as she try's to stop herself everytime she poos ) it's pretty obvious and she starts panicking and clenching her but cheeks to get her legs ridgid so I figured right poo in the bath or wip her out to the toilet ASAP which I did and Jesus it was the biggest poo she's ever done, she was crying but this isn't unusual as she cries everytime we made a big deal though and all clapped her and then I obviously rewarded her with a chocolate would be such a breakthrough if I could get her to do proper poos like that! If I havnt updated her current trend it is about 5/6 tiny poos a day that result in making her bum really sore, she has allready told me on a few occasions before she's about to have a poo that "bum sore "or "poo" so would be amazing if I could somehow get her to a toilet in time, if not I'm thinking doctors but not sure what they'd suggest as she's not constipated she has a fear of pooing and try's to stop it comming out