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Nicky_Noo_Na wrote: »

Can I join the 'December is sensible but want to do it now!' gang please!!??

Realistically we have to wait until October after holiday and then i'll come off the pill so probably take 2-3 months to get body 'ready' and then it will be xmas!

The waiting has not been made easier by someone annoucing in work today and someone in hubbys work getting everything given to them on a plate! Makes being sensible seem pointless, grrr, rant over!

Off course you can join our gang!!!

I think Im going to come off my pill after my holiday (in a few weeks), I was going to come off it before my holiday but I am worried that I may then come on at a random time during the holiday plus also if I get any side effects (mood swings, headaches), I dont really want them on holiday, so I will wait till September then come off in order to TTC properly in December.

Nicky_Noo_Na

Same here, don't really mind getting a period on holiday (although would rather not!) but have heard you can lots of weird symptoms when you come off the pill and mood swings, tiredness, cramps etc are not ideal for holiday!

daisiegg

Welcome Nicky Noo Na

For some weird reason I am obsessed with baby names at the moment. Even keeping a list of random ones that occur to me so I don't forget them! Stupid

Also bizarrely I have forgotten my pill AGAIN one night this week. I can't remember if I said on here, but about a month after the wedding I missed a pill, and now I have again. I know that sounds like no big deal but it needs to be put in context - in the 10 years or so I have used the pill for contraception I have NEVER missed a single pill. Even if I was drunk, ill, travelling, in hospital, moving house, anything, whatever.....never, ever, ever missed a single one in 10 years. And suddenly I miss two in the space of a couple of months! So weird. It's like my subconscious has relaxed or something.

Also, this may just be me, but does anyone else do this weird thing I do of looking at future events and thinking 'I may have a baby by then'? I mean weird things like every time I use my debit card I notice it expires in 2016 and I think 'I wonder if I will have a baby by the time I have to get a new card'. Or this morning on the radio they were talking about the next Bond film coming out in 2015 and I was thinking 'I might have a baby by then'. I'm already willing myself not to get too attached to my new Year 10s in September because chances are I won't see them through their two GCSE years... I do it all the time - it's so weird!

When I told my husband last night about missing a pill so we need to take other precautions for a week, he said 'it's good you noticed because you wouldn't want to have morning sickness and not be able to drink on our America holiday in August'. So I asked him if that's the only reason it would not be a great thing to get pregnant right now and he said yes pretty much, after the holiday it wouldn't matter! :eek:

I'm sill thinking January is the time to plan for (all you people saying December, are you really planning to do Christmas with no champagne?! Or your preferred tipple...)

Nicky_Noo_Na

I've started thinking like that with upcoming events like I have a wedding next summer where i'm hoping to be pregnant and a wedding the year after by which time I'm hoping we'll have a baby so it is on my mind a fair bit!

When I say December for trying I mean around xmas time - we both have a bit of time off work so would be a nice time to start but guess it depends on ovulation cycles and such - hopefully won't be a stress head about it and will just stop the pill and other things and see what happens!

samehat

Hi ladies, I just want to say hello.

I'm so happy to have found this thread as I wish we were ready to ttc but I'm highly aware it will be another year min before we can sensibly think about such things. For this reason I avoid the ttc thread as I find it upsetting that we're not there yet!

Despite that, I really need somewhere to talk about wanting babies! I suppose I'm very impatient..

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Daisiegg- Im not really bothered if I cant drink at Christmas, in the long run a sober Christmas will be worth it (and you never know, Christmas 2014 could be a sober one anyway if Im pregnant or breastfeeding!!). Oh Im the same with names, we already have our boys name sorted and I have an idea of what girls names I like!!

I think our plans will be come of my pill after holiday and then go for a ntnp method for a bit and the depending on cycles start properly December time.

My sister keeps talking about making plans and then says 'oh hopefully youll be pregnant so can drive us!!' :rotfl:

Hello and welcome Katherina.

ilovelondontown

It's lovely to know there are others in the same boat as me at the moment, it's been a glorious summer so far and I've really enjoyed it as much as I can, but I do still get pangs of feeling like December is agggges away!

We had a BBQ yesterday and our friends straight up asked when are we gonna have kids and visiting my mother today she asked if I had anything to tell her hint hint wink wink... on both accounts I said we're not trying until we pass the first year mark (From our wedding) Every time I tell someone that my heart sinks abit because I would so happily start trying now!

And it bugs the hell out of me that I'm wishing this year away, I should be enjoying this freedom to the full but I'm just on a calendar countdown, so wish I could divert my attention to something else but nothing works, I've broody and that is that!

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Well have said from the start that this year is an us year, and when people ask I tend to say 'oh not yet, maybe in a couple of years'!! I say this as I cant be doing with people going on about it, plus then it will be more a surprise when we make an announcement (should everything go to plan obviously).

December will be here before we know it. Just think how fast this year has gone already!:D

Miss_Bolan

HI everyone

I was a regular poster on this forum 6-8 months ago, but I have been absent for some time. Lots of reasons really, trying not to concentrate on 'waiting to ttc' being a main one!

I have gone through the crazy baby manic period and come back out the other side, I had decided to be sensible and wait and my plan WAS to start TTC in April/June 2014.

However yesterday we received some very tragic news in the family and a sudden an untimely death has caused me to really think about things

A young man, on his way home from work, had an accident and never made it home. He never made it to hospital. He leaves behind his young son and his young partner who is pregnant with their second child.

If you'd have written down his life then none of it would have been 'sensible' or 'thought through' and yet somehow they had made it. Him and his partner and young family were living and growing and loving and somehow they all made it together. And now he is gone.

The only reason I am not 'ttc' is finances. And whilst that is the sensible and correct thing to do, maybe sometimes 'sensible' isn't the only thing to be?!?

I don't know, I am aware the situation has altered my perception and reasonable decisions, but life can change on a sixpence, and if it should happen to me or my partner how would I feel?

I don't know. It's the 'what-ifs' which are haunting me today...

Sorry, I don't want to bring anyone down or make the thread morbid, things like this just make you re-evaluate the priorities.

Adora-Bell-Dearheart

Hi all just came across this in rather woebegone state . We're waiting due to financial issues.
My best friend and sister have just separately announced pregnancies and while so happy for them feel so sad. I know that pne day we'll get there but am just wondering when!!