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The Trials & Tribulations of Trying to Conceive when its just not happening (12m+)

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  • SewIt_2
    SewIt_2 Posts: 271 Forumite
    Seventh Anniversary Combo Breaker
    Just seen it. You're quite right. No need. I already feel like a worthless, dried up barren creature without tv adverts reminding me.

    ^^^^ This is exactly how I felt when I saw it, I was really upset TBH. There is no need to be quite so smug about it, ggrrr to Johnson's. If I do get a baby, I'll not use their products!

    xx
  • fluffnutter
    fluffnutter Posts: 23,179 Forumite
    tea_lover wrote: »
    Ooh newbies, I like it! Now let's hope we're all out of here by Christmas :) How bad is that new Johnson's baby advert?? No need!

    A few years back Calpol ran an ad that said 'If you've got kids you'll understand' in such a smug, self-satisfied, aren't-we-all-lucky-to-be-part-of-the-parent-gang way that I vowed there and then never, ever to buy any Calpol or its associated evil twin Calprofen. And I never have. And never will.
    "Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.
  • tea_lover
    tea_lover Posts: 8,261 Forumite
    A few years back Calpol ran an ad that said 'If you've got kids you'll understand' in such a smug, self-satisfied, aren't-we-all-lucky-to-be-part-of-the-parent-gang way that I vowed there and then never, ever to buy any Calpol or its associated evil twin Calprofen. And I never have. And never will.

    Exactly! It's like when people say stupid things like "as a parent I was horrified to hear about ' insert child abuse case here'..." Because obviously as a non-parent I couldn't give a monkey's about neglected or abused children. Mothers starving their own children? Well, as I haven't give birth I assume that's completely ok.

    Idiots.
  • littleme82
    littleme82 Posts: 363 Forumite
    Whilst we are all on our soapbox I will put my bit in!

    I have just walked around town at lunch and it appears that EVERY woman has either got a baby or is v heavily pregnant. Everywhere I walked I was hit by it. The bit that really annoys me was the teenage mums with their baby's and cigarettes.

    dont get me started on that one.

    rant over
  • time2deal
    time2deal Posts: 2,099 Forumite
    tea_lover wrote: »
    Big big hugs sewit :grouphug::grouphug:
    And also a little kiss...:kisses3:

    ETA: T2D, I really hope I didn't upset you. I'm sure you know I would never intend to!

    Not upset in that way! Don't worry, I know you.

    It's just the odd time a comment reminds you how near and how far away you are from your goal.
  • codemonkey
    codemonkey Posts: 6,534 Forumite
    tea_lover wrote: »
    Exactly! It's like when people say stupid things like "as a parent I was horrified to hear about ' insert child abuse case here'..." Because obviously as a non-parent I couldn't give a monkey's about neglected or abused children. Mothers starving their own children? Well, as I haven't give birth I assume that's completely ok.

    Idiots.

    Whilst I've been off work I've seen loads of those child sponsorship ads and there's one with, I think, Fiona Phillips saying something like "As a mother..." which grinds my gears. Like you say, because I haven't given birth, I'm overjoyed to see suffering children. I couldn't possibly understand. If I decide to sponsor a child, it wont be through that agency.

    And don't even get me started on those stupid facebook mom memes.
    Eu não sou uma tartaruga. Eu sou um codigopombo.
  • cwtw
    cwtw Posts: 269 Forumite
    edited 7 October 2013 at 3:00PM
    I wondered where everyone had gone over the weekend, totally failed to find the shiny new thread. Doh!
    Things I hate (along with all of you at the moment) smug adverts; smug pregnant people; people who ask when I'm planning on having a child; Facebook both for baby updates and baby adverts (for goodness sake); stupid people.... the list could go on but I'd just upset myself.
    I have my HSG on Wednesday and ultrasound on Thursday, hope it won't be a problem having them one after the other. And my asthma's bad. Just great.
  • Part_Mouse
    Part_Mouse Posts: 5,527 Forumite
    Sewit

    *hugs* back to you. I'm still injecting and hope my little follie has grown tommorow will be 6 weeks tommorow of the injections.
  • Rowingirl
    Rowingirl Posts: 239 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    SMA advert winds me up no end; smug & patronising. Not seen the Johnsons ad although I take comfort how terrible their products are and wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. And the phrase "you'll understand when you a mother..." should be consigned to deepest, darkest pit along with "relax & it'll happen" and "you should just adopt". :mad:

    And breathe...

    P.S. good luck this week cwtw and part mouse
    The biscuit will only dare to be just a biscuit when it is with its true friend the potato. (Edward Monkton) :beer:
  • QQuaver
    QQuaver Posts: 8,444 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    fannyanna wrote: »
    Hi All,

    Hope you're all well.

    Can I ask a quick question for those that have had an HSG? I had mine on Wednesday morning and had a bit of cramping for a few days after. Nothing too bad. Last night I started getting relatively sharp pains in my left side. It's happening again this morning. In a way it feels like someone is pinching my insides sharply.

    Did anyone else experience this? Not sure whether this is something to be expected.

    Thanks

    FA x
    The sharp pains could be something else, normal pre-AF thingy?
    I had HSG, and was crampy for few days after but that was about it.
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