Those who are waiting to TTC (New Thread)

cottage_retreatist

Sethisis wrote: »

Ooh congratulations to Chealseablue!

To all the other ladies who have lost their partners to GTA, I feel your pain. Mine hasn't even got it yet and it's all he's talking about. We just sat through a 2 hour video of someone else playing it on Youtube!

haha! sethisis!!!!! my goodness!!!! get it for your OH if only for your own sanity!!!! Then you'll get the comments 'i love running people over!!!' - OH says it's worth every penny!!!

good luck xxx

ilovelondontown

Hello ladies

Hope everybody is well and happy? Putting all outside influences to one side (health, money, timelines etc) I'm feeling really excited about where we are in the year, it's nearly October which means that after this month and November it will be ttc time for me. Typing that out makes it feel SO close! :j

We're ready as much as we can be now, money is stable, jobs are stable, pensions are sorted and we have a lovely home (and we're in the process of getting a car.) The only reason we're waiting until December is because we want to enjoy Christmas and NY without the added stress of ttc. I'm happy to start 2014 on this journey and to just revel in the last few months of us time without pressure.

SO enough about me, how's everyone else?

Cookiee

Hi all x

Congrats first of all to chelseablue x

Well I have my coil removed a week tomorrow eeek!! I am so nervous to think that this is the start of a new chapter in our lives. OH got a new job which starts tomorrow so he is slightly nervous but he has this gift of just being able to talk to everyone. Mind you there is a McD'd right next door to his new place of work so I have told him I will know if he has had a sneaky burger!! lol It's only for 3 months but it's a very strong possibility that it will turn full time as this has happened with the last 2 placements they have taken on in the last 9 months. It also happens to be doing something with cars so he will be in his element!

I have been a little obsessed with working money and called my ccard to just check when my 0% ended to work out how much I would need to cover for my maternity shortage. Well the really fab people actually helped me and now I have the money to cover 7 months maternity pay!! This leaves us to find the remaining 2 months or I could go back slightly earlier but things are not looking as black as I first thought - YAY!!

I am dreading a week on Monday though. The coil was to maintain my periods and control the pain I used to suffer. The thought of having to cope with them again whilst we try to have a baby is filling me with dread. My consultant has said he will make sure I have painkillers etc but I am still having flashbacks of the pain. I used to have to miss 1 week of school every month in my final year and the trips to hospital every month were not a barrel of laughs.

Well not only am I about to become a great aunt again for the 5th time any day, my oldest school friend has just become a dad for the 1st time and my closest work friend is also due to drop in a months time. There is like a boom of babies and I have to mentally remind myself that it will be our turn but it's just so hard ... especially when these are people close to me and I am happy for them honestly but it is hard to explain how I am feeling .....

Sorry rambled slightly lol x Hope your all well x

ILLT - ooo NY at xmas - so wish I was going, supposed to be really beautiful. What car are you looking for?

ilovelondontown

Hi cookiee, Sorry for the misunderstanding it was meant to say "Christmas and New Year" not New York, although I WISH! I was of to NYC for NY! That would be incredible! Now that we're into the last few months before ttc I feel like I'm enjoying the wait now, I revel in a glass of wine and I know how good a lazy sunday lie-in really is. I'm trying to take in my "easy" life before it becomes forever busy and someone else becomes the priority!

As for the car hunt, I'm looking for a family car Something that I can purchase outright, I would prefer a newer car so it last longer but to be honest it's not going to be very cost friendly if/when mat leave and going part time starts. Which is crazy to consider stuff like that before you're even PG!

Having your coil removed is a big step forward, how long have you had it for? My periods used to be a complete b!tch but the older I've got the easier they've become, plus when all else fails I have a nurofen and a hot bath!

Also great news for your partners new job! That's never a bad thing, my fingers are crossed for you that it does turn full time for him!

ILLT

afoolandhermoney

chelseablue - that's amazing news congratulations and hope all goes well for you

Feeling really positive today despite the gloomy foggy weather.
Just back from a lovely holiday with DH last week. Four days of lovely weather in the NE was just the pick me up we needed before pushing on with the moneysaving so we can get the house finished and on the market. That will hopefully be next year, our number crunching before we went away showed that we can do it in three years without much further scrimping, but we're both so desparate to move that we're going to hit it hard (plus DH's business seems to be rocketing the last two months - we could barely justify taking time out last week, he's so busy - so that'll help :-).

Need to renew my pill prescription next month - hopefully this will be the last 12 months.

WTTC jobs for September
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- switch phone & internet (to avoid price hike)
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- holiday bonding time with DH
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WTTC jobs for October
- book window fitter for French windows (first job on the house, been waiting 18 months to get the dining room done, and might have it done by xmas :j)

chelseablue

Thank you

Currently 5 weeks 3 days, so early days

wangdoodle

Hi everyone

I've been laying low as I'm not coping with the wait at all well.:o

Hello and welcome newbies. It's nice to have new people posting, even when I'm just lurking and sulking I like to read new posts

Congrats chelseablue wishing you a pleasant pregnancy.

Cookiee that's great news re your OH's job. Good luck getting your coil out, hope it's not as bad as you think.

Hey ILLT hope you are okay. Things are sounding more osotive for you. Good luck finding a car. I really need to upgrade mine as its ancient and tiny but I can't see it happening before TTC.

Things are sounding positive for you too afoolandhermoney sounds like your making good progress.

AFM I'm feeling a bit down. Work is a mare. I've been tracking my cycles and it doesn't look like I'm ovulating, or at least if I am it's so late in my cycle that I have no luteal phase. OH wants to start trying in a few months but I'm scared my cycles are all messed up from being on the pill and implant for do long

WD x

ilovelondontown

Thanks WD, I'm ok- still waiting for doc results, which has started to feel like it's never going to come, I just have to sit tight, I'm told the longer your waiting the less serious your situation is, but I just need to know now, you know?

Please don't be too disheartened by your cycles and charting, it's taken me a heck of a long time to get a better understanding of what my body is doing. Don't get me wrong I'm still learning but I realise for me that getting stressed in the first half of my cycle, (even only slightly) WILL have an effect on my cycle so I'm now learning to force myself to be less of stress-head, but when you're a control-freak worrier as I am, it's no easy task. :cool:

Keep going with the charting it does start making sense, you see patterns and themes and IF after a while you don't think you are ovulating, you can go to the docs armed with the info to help them help you, Do you want share your charts? we can analyse each others. in the mean time keep posting here for support and a vent, that's the whole point of this thread!

It's a place where crazy can meet with crazy and feel sane

pollyzanna

well, I went to the GP yesterday to talk about coming off the citalopram (currently on 20mg per day having reduced from 60 :T). I thought it would take a long time (like, a year) but she is saying I could be off it in a couple of months and then I could have my coil out and then I would be ready to try!

:eek:

I know that may seem really good news but I had planned everything in my head for it to be kind of this time next year for TTC. We were going to go abroad travelling for a bit and I know people travel with babies all the time but I wasn't planning to. Does that make sense?

Obviously, I could still be trying this time next year but it has still just freaked me out a bit.

afoolandhermoney

Wangdoodle - do try not to get stressed about it, as londontown says, even a tiny stress at the "wrong" point in your cycle can make a big difference.

londontown - still got everything crossed for you and a good result

pollyzanna - that's so exciting! though I'd be freaked out a bit too with such a sudden shift in plan. I don't know your exact circumstances but could you put ttc off for a while after coming off the citalopram? or bring your travel plans forward?