Trying for a Baby Part 8

tinkwings

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time2deal

Hi girls,

Thanks for the hugs today. I was sitting at work trying not to tear up - it's so heartbreaking every month, even though I told myself it wasn't going to happen.

Really down tonight - but have wine and chocolate at least. Terrible week at work too as my lovely job (and team) is being ripped apart and someone else is trying to take over. Stupid political games being played, and another dream job I was applying for has gone to someone else. sigh... it will get better... just probably not today.

tinkwings

time2deal wrote: »

Hi girls,

Thanks for the hugs today. I was sitting at work trying not to tear up - it's so heartbreaking every month, even though I told myself it wasn't going to happen.

Really down tonight - but have wine and chocolate at least. Terrible week at work too as my lovely job (and team) is being ripped apart and someone else is trying to take over. Stupid political games being played, and another dream job I was applying for has gone to someone else. sigh... it will get better... just probably not today.

:kisses3::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:

claire16c

firefly369 wrote: »

have to make before Xmas?

Claire16c - My last cycle was 46days and we kept bding trying to catch ovulation but I am not convinced that I ovulated at all. FF was as confused as we were.
This cycle I have removed all the cm info I was putting in and the light changed back from green to red so I think I will just stick to temping for now - although I am giving OPKS another try. Gonna pee on them three times a day and hope for some advanced warning of O otherwise we will have to bd every second day again.
I will post more often. I have no-one except you ladies to talk to about this. We are not telling anyone we are TTC and my OH is fantastic but I need a female perspective sometimes.

Yeah frustrating isnt it. I just did another opk and it was completely blank so ov must still be a while off for me which is just so annoying.



Congratulations lemon!!!!!


Atton - from your posts it seems to me that you have a normal cycle and its possibly your DH that needs to go to the docs and get a test. Whilst you are waiting for that, look forward to going to uni and your wedding!

lilymay1

Erugh, I'm so confused.

I've been getting quite dark CBFM and OPK sticks since AF started, although none of them have been totally positive. All off today i've been having quite bad cramps too. Quite 'wet' down below but no ewcm, only creamy sort of gunk. Very tender nipples since AF too and I am absolutely exhausted. More so than usual!

I told myself I wasn't going to get all caught up in it all this month but I just can't help myself. Couldn't get my last set of blood results or OH's SA analysis from the hospital today so feeling very fed up. Meh

And yes, I have spent the evening eating chocolate!

bigzippy

Congratulations lemon! :T all the very best for your pregnancy

Time 2 deal, I hope you find some pma soon and feel better


*SKIP THE REST IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ ABOUT WEIGHTLOSS *
Firefly, when I first started trying to lose weight it was largely because I'd just been told I had insulin resistance (courtesy of my PCOS). I recently had another GTT done and it showed massive improvement to the point that I have reversed the insulin resistance and am now well within "normal"! :j I'm not going to pretend it's all been easy, but it's been a lot easier than I imagined it would be Even with all the trauma of basically living at the hospital with MIL etc, I still managed to lose/stay at a stable weight.

Biggest tips: drink at least 2 litres of water a day (people often confuse thirst with hunger); cook as much as possible from scratch (my personal theory is that the stuff they put in processed food just makes you crave more processed foods); cram as much fruit and veg into your meals as possible (if you're already getting the minerals and nutrients from your food, you are much less likely to crave anything else); watch portion sizes, especially carbs (we have 50g of (dry weight) pasta or rice, and 100-200g of potatoes these days, I dread to think how many "empty calories" of carbs I used to eat ). I do watch calories to an extent, and I do avoid sugar to an extent, but I still eat takeaways, chocolate, macdonalds etc but half the amounts I used to (i.e. Me & dh share a portion of fish & chips instead of one each, happy meal instead of large extra value meal, snack size chocolate bar instead of "normal" ones)

Hth and I didn't witter too much. I personally don't really believe in WW or SW etc because I worry that it's only a lifestyle change while on the plan, hence people can end up putting all the weight back on when they get to their goal weight and go "back to normal". I feel that what me and dh have done in the last 12-18m is a lifestyle change that's healthy and easy to live by, and hopefully will mean our future family will be healthy too. Dh has kissy a similar amount to me, btw, while running/cycling/gym, I'm unable to do any strenuous exercise due to other health conditions but have managed to lose just slightly more than him in the same time - they say it's 90% what you put in your mouth, 10% about the exercise.

Oh and one last tip - change your scales to lbs or kgs instead of stones and lbs. I found it demoralising to be at the same stones # even if the lbs # went down!

P.s. I'm 30

tinkwings

TeamLowe wrote: »

tink my tree came! it's lovely! there was a couple of holes but I fixed them, although rocky wanted more of the orange things that came out lol x x

:o:o Sorry about the mini holes it was in tack when I posted it !!!! xxxx

becca0417

I'm just popping on to say how much I love this thread. It's so nice being able to share the highs and lows (albeit mainly lows at the moment!) with you all, who actually understand.
Rather than DH who nods and says 'yep' whilst watching football :@
xx

ikkle87

tinkwings wrote: »

Thanks . Have orders for 30 already. The shop I sell in want about the same amount & I am also booked into Christmas Fairs :eek:

Make some dinosaurs xx

ikkle87

atton83 wrote: »

I also call myself a failure as my family hate me and i blame myself for my abuse i lived with as a child telling myself i asked for it.

A lot of my family have a genuine dislike of me and probably wouldn't pee on me if I was on fire, I was also abused as a child. It took me a very very very long time but I'm now of the general opinion that if someone doesn't like me tough !!!!!! on them, it's not my problem, they just obviously can't handle how god damn awesome I am. I hope one day you can get to a similar place.

i have been doing even stupider stuff like asking a magic 8 ball if i am ever going to get pregnant and i get the outlook looks bleak, my goddaughters brother has a lie detector on his tablet so i said i am never going to be a mom and it came back truth

You've already said you know it's silly hun. These have no impact on your life, one of them is a piece of plastic in a ball of liquid, the other is a silly computerised program that again has no real impact, it's not a proper scientific lie detector.

The only thing that can determine if you fail or succeed in life is you. Yes there are hurdles in life, some are easy to overcome some are not, but all you can do is keep on battling on and not giving up. If you let your negativity get to you before you've even started uni and tell yourself your going to fail, chances are you probably will. The uni obviously think you can succeed or they wouldn't have accepted you for fear of ruining their performance scores, so stay positive and believe in yourself xxx