The 11th Gemini bus - Trudging through the terrible twos

[AGnu]

Holy smokes that happened quickly! Fingers crossed for you!

Thanks bring! I'm confusing myself about ovulation tests & BBT. It was so much simpler when I had a vague idea of when I should be ovulating & just went with a JSing approach! Day 10 the ov test had 2 lines but the test was lighter than the control line which apparently means negative. Day 11 the 2 lines were roughly equal & every day since there's only been a control line. That would imply I'd ovulated on day 11, right? My BBT, OTOH, hasn't gone up as much as in previous months. It dipped on CD10, has gradually risen 0.2 degrees over 4 days but has dipped a whole 0.12 degrees today! I'm trying but not succeeding, obviously not to obsess! If it doesn't happen this month, there's plenty of time, we're still young!

In other news, the powers that be have now decided, after months of waiting, that Calf doesn't need a SALT assessment after all! Instead they're planning on doing an ADOS assessment. I've given up caring what tests they want to do, as long as they get on with it! We were offered a slot next week but we can't do that day so they're going to give us a date in July. Starting to see the light at the end of the diagnostic tunnel! No idea what'll happen after that but at least things are moving along for now!

pear that does sound like an extraordinary epic weekend for you. It's good it's over, but sad, but good because you can start moving forward... it's just so tough sometimes isn't it?

Exciting news on hypnobirthing! I love that stuff :)

Shhhh, ssshhh, shhhh agnu it's going to be ok. It's the first month lady! Exciting obviously, but you'll know in a couple of days, right? Still feeling some crazy symptoms?

Dh gets home tonight. I'm so glad to finally have him home again. Still no word on the job.

I don't have back hair! I haven't had an appetite for a couple of days but have been eating out of habit & ending up with stomach ache. DC are having curry for dinner. I'm supposed to have the same later... it smells disgusting. I get like this sometimes anyway, just one of the perks of being me! I'll probably get a migraine in a couple of days & get back to normal a day or 2 after that. It's probably just a reaction to having a really busy week last week & then Runt's party yesterday. It's still 3 days before I'd get my weird implantation symptoms if I were upduffed. Any slight weirdness I experience on Friday will be attributed to pregnancy. With Calf it was very sudden & extreme diarrhoea, with Runt it was just a weird queasy feeling. Both 7 days after ovulation. I'm hoping for a Runt-like implantation followed by a practically symptom free Calf-like pregnancy!

I'm sure I was more relaxed last time. I remember laughing at Frus & Thunder poking their breasts & running up & down the stairs... I'm actually tempted to try it!

Erm....well the back hair one is definitely a unique symptom to be watching for. Have you gotten a test yet?

DH is home and he's pretty exhausted. Don't blame him, jet-lag is brutal. I've decided that if we do move over, I'm definitely applying to Uni to the midwifery programme over there. I've been checking some options out and just the cost alone is about 1/3 of what I would have to pay over here to get the same credential. I'd also get done in 3 years, vs 5. Kinda excited now!

You said you were soothingly smoothing my back hair! I got 10 tests free when I bought my BBT thermometer... about 2 months ago! I'm going to start my squintathon on Friday. I might even make it into a squint-a-long with it's very own thread! My BBT has finally got up to 36.7 which my app seems to think is important. No idea why it's taken so long to get up after my +ve OT.

Exciting plans! If you get your butt over here in the next 9 months you can be my doula so you can wow them with your recent birth assistance experience! Just don't let the NHS get into your head & lose your lovely hippiness! Do you think you'd plan on going the NHS route or go private? Maybe set up by yourself? It's all so exciting!

Not back hair... jeesh. Smoothing back hair on your HEAD. Cultural different perhaps? Even after 10 years together my DH and I still find things that confuse each other.

Oh believe me. NHS standards are progressive compared to the hospital care that midwives provide here. I would definitely go NHS route. I've done the private thing here and I just feel like it's so much weight on the midwife's personal life (for me anyway) and so much responsibility. I love midwifery, but the option of being able to have a set schedule and even to maybe focus on a certain area of midwifery sounds very appealing. My hippiness shall live on my friend. Maybe I'll get certified in aromatherapy as well and dish that out to my patients? I still have all of my paperwork and all of the signatures of the births that I attended 3 years ago (50+!) so I'm hoping all the past experience will help with getting into a school. The whole grading and school structure is SO VASTLY different in the states compared to the UK so I never had A-levels or GCSEs and I don't even know if my University degree in Psychology would count because of how different it all is. Hopefully I can get some answers from the schools that I emailed yesterday. Talk about putting the cart before the horse... DH hasn't even heard about his job yet!

Not cultural differences, just me being silly!

The NHS would be lucky to have you! Fx DH hears positive news soon so you can start making proper plans!

Day 1 of my squintathon at 7dpo was, unsurprisingly, a BFN! It'll probably turn out that I'm not upduffed after all this! I might limit myself to every other day so I don't waste too many tests!

How's everyone doing today? Has DH got over the jetlag yet bring?

I feel dreadful. Either I'm pregnant or I need to see a doctor! The last couple of days I've been queasy, dizzy & faint. I've slept most of this afternoon so poor DH has had to do everything by himself on Father's day! Including stopping in at Subway at lunchtime because I couldn't stand the thought of eating anything else. Once he'd brought it home I had to hold my breath & shove it in because the smell was making me queasy. I'm 9dpo. I should not be feeling like this already! BFN this morning so either I'm ridiculously sensitive to the hormones or it's all psychosomatic & I'll have to apologise to DH for imagining myself ill!

Agnu I would be v impressed if you hit the jackpot first month I didn't get a faint line on the Opk until 12dpo with both pregnancies so you've still got a chance!

Bring Exciting times ahead for you fx fx Love a plan!

Not much going on with me. I'm now 30 weeks. Slightly freaking out that we have so much house stuff to get done before baby arrives but I also know deep down that none of it is important! Ooooo I get my GTT results tomorrow!

It was the first month with both my previous pregnancies. We've been very lucky fertility-wise so far! Good luck with your results!

Agnu - yes I remember you saying you had amazing fertility powers I hope you're not disappointed third time round!

So, anyone else having real hair washing issues at bath time? I'm looking at goggles for toddlers, just hope he wears them! I would really like to find a solution to calm the situation down before baby arrives!

We're having a lot of tantrums at the moment. It feels like the heat has been turned up since bpear turned 3!! My mother thinks this is baby related but I really don't think so. We hardly talk about the baby unless bpear brings the subject up and really he has no idea what is coming his way! Anyway, I had all these grand summer plans but now I'm just taking every day as it comes and just trying to enjoy every day rather then panic that I've only got 10 weeks left with bpear. The same goes with my jungle garden I'm really exhausted by 9pm and I've told DH that I need a week of earlier nights this week so I'm going to try and make that happen.

Lor how's it all going with E? Have you got any tips for me?

Woohoo no diabetes in this pregnancy I'm a happy bunny! Bpear is not such a happy bunny as he was very tearful when I dropped him off at nursery today Better get on with my chores and find my bag of hidden chocolate fingers!

Yay! Fab news pear! Don't overdo it with the chocolate fingers though...

I'm a complete hypocrite. I've eaten junk almost non-stop today! These last few days I've been getting nauseated if I go more than an hour between snacks. Also, my boobs are really sore - I nearly threw Runt across the room when we were having a cuddle & not only was he leaning on my boobs but he had the audacity to move slightly! Still BFN on the test but I'm only 10dpo & still about a week off AF's due date. If I'm not upduffed I have no idea what's going on with my body! Mastitis in both breasts with no temperature, maybe?!

Bedtime was a nightmare tonight. DH popped to the pub after work for someone's leaving drinks so I had to do the routine alone. Seemed to be going well, both boys in their beds before DH got home at 7.30 but everything went downhill from there. Runt was being silly which set Calf off. Runt finally settled in the cot, not his bed, at 9 & Calf was messing around until 10.45. No idea what set either of them off tonight but I'm really hoping it's not the start of another phase. Calf's not been quite that bad for a while!

Oh my life! Why do I never learn? Saying out loud that I was going to have early nights this week was such a silly mistake Bpear woke up at 9:30pm crying because of a bad dream and then the same again at 5

Agnu I suppose we better get used to stolen hours in the evening/nighttime if we're to have more babies!!

Lalalalalaaaaa... my possibly imaginary baby will sleep 8 hrs a night from day one...

Those are some very suspicious symptoms! Eek! I can't believe you could already be preggo!

We're dealing with a lot of tantrums too. Ugh. So much work!

I'm beyond shocked with the news going on over there. DH and I are now kind of freaking out about this possible move and WTF is going to happen with this vote. We were so optimistic that a move to the UK was going to help pull us out of the political horribleness that we're facing here and now things feel very bleak when trying to look ahead. Oh my god this is just insane.

Hi! HI! Typing fast here. So sorry I've disappeared!

Been catching up. Too much to reply to but OMG - updated pregnancy stuff, moving countries, TTC (and possible BFPs), hearing updates... Argh. Tough times too so sorry I haven't been much of a support but you're all brilliant with each other.

Things are good here. E is still a pretty good baby. He was sleeping amazingly - going down around 10 until 3/4 and then down again until morning (7). Bit scrappier now as we're all dying of headcolds in this house, including him. Thanks for that one C. He's also had evening colic for about 4 weeks and just screams for 2 hours from 7-9. Seems to have lessened a bit this week though, thank goodness. Hopefully getting over it.

C has settled down. He's been really good at home and apparently since turning 3 (they're 3! our babies are 3!!) he's been good as gold at nursery! He still has his moments but he's getting used to things.

No major tips for you pear. BPear will just need a bit of time, love and reassurance. We found C was better all day if he got a bit of mummy-cuddle time first thing in the morning and/or some time cuddling E. Felt more included I think. I never did make a box of toys for C for when I'm feeding as he's too unpredictable. Sometimes he wants to snuggle up beside me feeding E and read stories and sometimes he wants to play by himself and he could choose anything really!

In other news, I've just been accepted for voluntary redundancy - although after this morning's Brexit result I'm wondering if it was the right timing. I've felt like I outgrew that job some time ago but it suited me because of good maternity leave etc. but it's time to move on and the package they offered was fantastic, including paying the rest of my enhanced maternity pay, a training grant, careers counselling (which I need) and almost 2 years' salary. I have no idea what I'm going to do with the rest of my life, but I'm going to enjoy my maternity leave first and then worry about it, which I have the luxury of doing with this payout.

Did everyone have fun 3rd birthdays? We had a party in a local park. It was a superhero sports day so they all dressed as superheroes (well, they almost all dressed as Spiderman) and we did a sports day and then a picnic. It was brilliant fun.

Pear how are you feeling now? When are you due? and how are things with your DH now?

Agnu dying for an update! Run up and down the stairs now!

bring politically a move for you right now is a bit frying pan into the fire!

BFP

Couldn't have come at a better time. DH's grandmother fell over & hit her head which resulted in bleeding on the brain. A week ago we thought she was recovering but now we've been told she's got days, possibly just hours. DH has taken the afternoon off to drive over there to say goodbye & see his grandfather. I'm stuck home with the DC because no-one could have them for 6+ hours at short notice. I wish I could've gone. Still, at least we've had some good news today!

AHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!! Omg Agnu!!!

Lor- the redundancy package sounds amazing and I don't blame you one bit for snatching that up. Good for you!! And oh man, yes I remember the torture of having a newborn with a head cold. Hope everyone is on the mend over there!

We did M's birthday party with my (partial) family. She wanted a "big, big, big, big pink dress" for her "birfday" with a gold crown so that's what I got her! A gigantic monster-sized hot pink tulle fluffy dress and a crown made out of painted and glued lace off etsy for a cheap deal. She LOVED it. She wore in barefoot running around outside in grass, it was super cute.

Also to say, I'm really sorry to hear about your DH's grandmother. So sad

agnu SQUUUEEEEEEEE! how exciting! Congratulations.

Sorry to hear about the dh's grandmother though