Those who are waiting to TTC

Kalama

Welcome Magicboo!

Congrats on your wedding and you will have a fab honeymoon - we got married in New Zealand and have just been back for 3 weeks for our two year anniversary. If we could move there we would (although I think our mothers would kill us ).

I'm a first timer and very much in the terrified/excited camp. It took me a while to work up the guts to tell OH that I wanted to make a firm plan for TTC cos it seemed like such a grown up thing to decide!

Right - I reckon that since I have been good this week and so far have done 46 km on my cross trainer I am allowed a curry - that and it's absolutely freezing tonight and we have no wood for our fire (only source of heat - I long for central heating!) Is it a bad thing when the staff at your local Indian recognise your voice on the phone?

*pootles off for curry*

euronorris

No, but it is bad when the two closest McDonalds to your work, know your order before you even get to the till. As used to be the case with me!

Thankfully, changed my eating habits now, except for the odd treat of course!

Triangle

Oh no all this lovely talk about food....I've got the dreaded weigh-in tonight :eek: I'm hoping that the very large pizza I had on Monday and the copious amounts of alcohol consumed on Friday night will hide from the scales...a girl can dream hey!

Hi to magicboo :wave:
Thanks all for info on temps and tracking - will def look into this :T

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Kalama

ah - no mcdonalds (or anything else) here so a curry is about as bad as I can get!

mintedby30?

Evening ladies,

Hi Magicboo! :hello:

Just about wet myself laughing at that "being sick" smiley! First time I've seen it, so funny!
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Triangle wrote: »

Oh no all this lovely talk about food....I've got the dreaded weigh-in tonight :eek:

Good Luck triangle!! This is my first attempt at a multi-quote post too!

We'll I've been trying to be good this week food wise but am slipping already and it's only Wednesday! We're off to London for a long weekend next Thursday so ill try to be good until then, come off the diet for the weekend, then back on it. After that I really don't have a legitimate reason to be naughty until the end of June, I'm sure I'll find reasons though! My work mates are awful! They have a rule that broken biscuits don't contain any calories!!!!! :eek:

RebekahR wrote: »

I think there is going to be a need for an added bit on post 1 for a weekly weighin for weight loss at this rate :rotfl:Will spur us all on. Everyone on the scales Friday morning and report in ...:rotfl:

:eek::eek::eek: Oh cr*p! You're right though it would def spur us on!!

Well ladies, as I don't have a dramatic weight loss story to share with you I thought I'd share my birth story from when I had m y DD who is now 6. Could make this quite a long post though! We'll stop halfway through for coffee and (broken!) biscuits!!!:D

So I was due on the 30th of October, I didn't mind at all when I gave birth, just wasn't too keen on having a halloween baby!! Anyway it turned out she was stubborn- can't imagine where she gets that trait from! My mw said I'd be taken in on Nov 11th to be induced, the 11th arrives and OH and I head into hospital for 2pm.
I was put on a baby heart tracer and examined, mw said I was already 3cm dilated and therefore couldn't be induced anymore as I was already on the way.
At this point I had no pain at all, I was put back on the tracer and we were left to relax. At about 9pm I was examined again and the mw said I would be taken down to have my waters broken but that it could be 5PM THE NEXT DAY!!!!!!!!!
She told OH to go home and get some sleep so I asked to get home for the night too as I really didn't want to be at hosp alone and I knew I wouldn't sleep. They were fine with that but said to come straight back if my waters broke naturally or if labour really got underway.

OK, breaktime, tea? coffee? freshly baked lemon drizzle cake? ...OK, breaktime's over.

I still didn't sleep much that night but was much more relaxed being at home. I got up the next day, pottered about a bit and had a bath. By this time the pains were more frequent, still a good 1/2 hour apart though and still mild. We headed back into hospital at 2pm, again I was put on the tracer. At about 4pm I was examined and during that examination my waters broke. Labour really kicked off after that! I had a go of the gas and air but didn't like how spaced it made me (control freak much?!) I had a pethidine injection at around 9pm and that really helped take the edge off the pain. It honestly really isn't as bad as it's made out to be though! No soap acting screaming etc! Someone else was saying how dramatic some of the "One born every minute" girls are with their screaming, lol. I felt it the most in my back and had the poor student midwife running back and forth to the microwave with my heat pack, bless her she was fab!!
At about 1am I started pushing and believe me I was pushing like hell!! Nothing was happening though so at about 2.30am a consultant came in and tried the ventouse (sp?) Again nothing so they finally got out the forceps :eek: At 3.07am on Sat 13th Nov 2004 Abby as born weighing...... 9lbs 9 1/2 oz!!!!!!
To be fair I am 5'10 and DH is 6'3 so we weren't expecting a teeny little 5lb-er but we definately weren't expecting that!!! I had found out at 37 weeks during a "query breech" scan that we were having a girl but DH didn't know so that was lovely him having that surprise. He cut the cord too.
It got a bit dramatic after that, I lost 1ltr of blood and had a transfusion a few hours later, the placenta hadn't come away properly and trying to get it out had caused the bleed but it was all handled so professionally. We stayed in hosp 2 nights then home to start our life as a family! God it all seems so long ago!

Awww can't wait to do it all again now!!!!!!

Jxx

Sorry guys, that was long, anyone still awake?

bigzippy

On the weight issue ladies (and I'm not trying to be awkward or anything, just a thought for you to take into account perhaps)... I actually would start avoiding thread(s) that become (all) about weight-loss and numbers. I don't and won't do Slimming World/Weight Watchers meetings etc, and don't tell family or friends that I'm dieting, as I don't like the pressure (at ALL) that gets piled on with it.:o Also I've been on other threads where people have openly told voiced their concerns about their/another's eating disorders being triggered/considered when such things are raised.

I'm not saying that it's a bad idea to support each other through your weight-loss&WTTC journeys, not at all... I just don't know how much good/bad formalising it on this thread would be...? (I *think* there are specific threads for weight-loss too, but I've never investigated)

I hope you take this in the spirit was was meant I'm not having a pop or anything, honest

RebekahR

I am awake but disappointed I didn't get to stop for the tea (coffee for me) and biscuits! LOL. I am petrified of birth. Abso-ruddy-lootley petrified! I am a good bleeder ... literally so i'm worried to death something real bad would happen.

mintedby30?

RebekahR wrote: »

I am awake but disappointed I didn't get to stop for the tea (coffee for me) and biscuits! LOL. I am petrified of birth. Abso-ruddy-lootley petrified! I am a good bleeder ... literally so i'm worried to death something real bad would happen.

Sorry, forgot about the break, have edited one in!!

I know, I'm scared to do it again too but you just have to think about holding your baby at the end of all the hard work... although that's really just the beginning of the work!!!

Also having a birth plan that you know your birth team know and support 100% and trusting the team at the hospital will make you more relaxed about it all.

OK back to just thinking about taking vitamins and charting ov for me, this is just making my broodiness worse! May have to consider TTC earlier than next year. Head must rule, heart must not!!!!

Jxx

euronorris

Kalama wrote: »

ah - no mcdonalds (or anything else) here so a curry is about as bad as I can get!

I keep meaning to ask you, and sorry if you've already mentioned it (memory is rubbish!), but where are you based?

euronorris

Mintedby30 - Your daughter is only a matter of hours younger than my youngest neice! Her Birthday is 12th November. Although, she was a small baby. I was the biggest baby in our family (so far), at 9lbs and a quarter ounce! So well done for delivering your daughter at 9lbs 9 1/2 ozs!

November is a popular month in our family. My Birthday, and my sister's Birthday is also in November, and my other sister (who's now pregnant) is also due in November! lol

I do worry about the pain of childbirth. I know some women say it isn't that bad, but I think it all depends on the person. ie, how they're built, what their pain threshold is like, if there are any complications etc etc. I'm hoping it won't be as bad as some pain I've felt in the past. That way, I can repeat a mantra to myself of 'You've experienced worse pain than this before. You got through that, you'll get through this.'.

BigZippy - No problem and thanks for the feedback. I'm not fussed about the weight loss, as, if anything I only want to lose a couple of lbs that I've put on in the last month or so. But.....I prefer dieting and exercising without scales. I know that sounds odd, but I get fixated on the numbers instead of how I feel, and how my clothes fit, which I feel is more important really.

How do others feel about it? Do you want it as part of the thread, or no?

Have good days ladies!