Those who are waiting to TTC

dreamdreamer

I'm on metformin for the PCOS yes. They found out I had Impaired Glucose Tolerance (a sort of prediabetes that goes out to play with PCOS) after they found the PCO on the scan. It's supposed to help the way your body absorbs sugar (so it lays down less as fat) and therefore that has a knock on affect on your hormone production, from my understanding.

Very interesting thanks - I was actually diagnosed as insulin resistant way before I was diagnosed with PCOS but I hadn't made the link until I read something about metformin a few months back while looking at TTC stuff. I'll have to go back to the GP for a little chat I think!

bigzippy

Triangle wrote: »

That's fantastic - well done! Are you following any specific plan?

Just calorie restricted (GP approved/suggested) - he wanted me to aim for 1200!!!! a day. I've given myself a buffer of up to 1500 though cos the time before that I asked him he said 1400 So I aim for 1200-1400 with the extra allowance for the odd treat

Just to be clear: THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE

I'm doing slimming world and have lost 2 stone so far - feel loads better already! Would like to lose another 3 by time start TTC - so thats 3 stone to go by January _pale_ Would be so much easier if creme eggs didn't exist!

Well done! I feel better for it too. More confident too, which makes me carry myself better and therefore look better too...it all has a knock on effect

mintedby30? wrote: »

I tell people all the time I just need to lose the baby weight and they say "aww, bless, how old is your baby?" Erm 6 and a half!!! :rotfl:

:rotfl:

Dreamdreamer, Bigzippy & Triangle- well done on the weightlosses so far!

Thanks Gotta tell you, I thought I could never do it! But if I'd known it was gonna be this (relatively) easy I would've done it long ago...

It looks like quite a few of us are looking to start ttc early 2012, are any of you doing anything else in preperation just now? It's probably too early to start taking pre-natal vits, I thought maybe 6 months before trying? Is anyone taking them already?

Is there anything I'm maybe not thinking of that may be a good idea to do soon?

Medics recommend that all women of childbearing age take folic acid actually, because it's so important to the babies neural tube development, so you can never start too early with them (3months before TTC/pg is recommended and it's beneficial for hubby too btw )

daydreamer wrote:

Very interesting thanks - I was actually diagnosed as insulin resistant way before I was diagnosed with PCOS but I hadn't made the link until I read something about metformin a few months back while looking at TTC stuff. I'll have to go back to the GP for a little chat I think!

No worries, happy to help
With the amount of medical issues I have, I have to do my best to rest into/around the things they tell me I have so I can understand them better and get the help I need for any interlinking things, iyswim?


Btw ladies, I really am supposed to be lurking on here...I'm actually on the TTC thread really, just come for a nose

Jen151

bigzippy wrote: »

... I have lost 20lbs in the last 2months, and that was with a wedding and my bday weekend c*cking things up I can't exercise either (health conditions), so if I can do it, anyone can!

Keep it up ladies!

(I should really just be lurking, huh )

Congrats on the weight losss bigzippy thats amaziing! well impressed.
ive lost 4lb in 3 weeks... 2 weeks left to lose the same again :eek:

mintedby30? wrote: »

My real name is....
Jen honestly! It's a fab name isn't it?!

haha it is indeed! x

RebekahR

Triangle wrote: »

It makes me seem more real somehow :Dx

Yes it does!

RebekahR

bigzippy wrote: »

Why don't you have your graduation as over to the TTC thread? And then TTC graduates go to the preg thread(s) etc...?

And then the had the baby and reporting back here with a birth story and a picture to spur us all on and entertain whilst we wait! lol.

Triangle

RebekahR wrote: »

And then the had the baby and reporting back here with a birth story and a picture to spur us all on and entertain whilst we wait! lol.

Seconded! Love birth stories!

T
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dreamdreamer

I'll go with that plan! Oooh birth stories!

Discovered something amazing at work last night... was reading maternity policy and talking to my pregnant colleague and it turns out that where I work maternity pay is based on your gross PAY in weeks 17-25 of your pregnancy. I assumed it was based on your SALARY, because our total pay includes unsocial hours allowance, and overtime, of which we can basically do as much or little as we like (within working hours guidelines). So basically if you heavily boost your pay in those 8 weeks by doing tonnes of overtime, the maternity pay (which is already very generous, I would get 6 months at 95% salary and 3 months SMP) is based on that massive pay you had for 8 weeks, and not your contracted salary!

Utterly bizarre but confirmed to work by a close friend/colleague who has had 2 kids now and has done it both times. The first time around her maternity pay ended up being based on monthly pay of £3760 instead of her salaried £2005, she had a total of 14 months off, 12 on ML and 2 using up her accrued annual leave, spread her ML payments equally over the 12 months and she wound up on more a month on maternity than she was working full time! Senior manager confirmed with me it's perfectly allowed and most people who know about it do it.

It's not often an employer is overly generous but that will make a big difference when I'm on ML. Just hope the policy doesn't change before then but it's 6 years old now so they don't seem in a rush! :rotfl:

Kalama

Triangle - totally get what you mean about the heart vs head thing. My heart is saying "baby!" and my head says :eek:. I am sure at some point I will realise I am a grown up (I'm 28!).

Big thanks to COMP and euronorris from me as well - I think we can safely say that there was a need for this thread!

Super impressed by the tales of weight loss. I need to lose at least 20lbs but don't really have a fixed idea of the upper limit - I'll stop when it feels right! I'm using portion control, healthy eating and exercise and I'm recording my weight and my measurements. I'm doing my first weigh in on Saturday morning so we'll see how that goes!

I've also started keeping track of what happens when - my hubby was a bit shocked that I didn't already! I think my cycles are fairly regular (long haul flights seems to be the only thing that mucks me up) and I can't use any hormonal contraception so I think I can be pretty sure of what to expect when we start trying. Unfortunately I won't have access to OPKs so won't be able to use those.

I found out at the weekend that one of my best friends is three months pregnant - made up for her as she was really worried that it was taking a while but it also made me quite sad 'cos we're not at that stage yet and also 'cos I am going to miss it all.

euronorris

Morning Everyone!

mintedby30? wrote: »

It looks like quite a few of us are looking to start ttc early 2012, are any of you doing anything else in preperation just now? It's probably too early to start taking pre-natal vits, I thought maybe 6 months before trying? Is anyone taking them already?

I've also started (just this cycle, CD 13 (I think) today) to chart my BBT and have also done a couple of OPK tests, the clearblue one- no smiley yet! I'm really just hoping to get a proper idea of my cycle and ovulation. My periods can be regular for months then be really erratic for a few months, last year had mainly 30/31/32 day cycles but I had a couple that were 50+ It's all a bit strange. I've never been on any hormonal contraception.

Is there anything I'm maybe not thinking of that may be a good idea to do soon?

Jxx

I haven't started taking pre-pregnancy vits yet, but have started on normal multivitamins, just to give my body a boost. I must say I, and OH, have both noticed big improvements in our energy levels since starting with that.

I also came off the pill 3 months ago. Partly because I wanted my cycles to regulate themselves before TTC, but also because I was suffering with frequent headaches and migraines on the combined pill. I came off the pill and the headaches have stopped!

So, I have now been fitted with a copper IUD. This is a non hormonal method of contraception, and although it was quite uncomfortable to be fitted, and the first period was horrid, things have calmed down now. I am now able to let my cycles regulate themselves after 15 years on the pill.

I also started tracking my cycle on fertility friend (FF) (my chart: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/340f41) and taking my temps so I get an idea for when I ovulate and what symptoms are normal AF symptoms. I'm hoping that this will stop me from SS every month when I am TTC'ing! lol

I think that's it.

Kalama

euronorris - I'm on the copper IUD as well and whilst you are right that it going in is pretty horrid - removal is an absolute doddle. I had to check with the doctor that she'd actually done it!