Official Trying to Conceive - Thread 10

codemonkey

alipops1986 wrote: »

Without meaning to be rude, how do people find the time? Myself and OH have really hectic lives in the week, don't get home until 6pm at the earliest, we have to do work once we get home so DTD can get forgotten or we're just too exhausted.

PS: we got married in August 2013, so are already being bugged about when/if we are pregnant or will be. I was on a strict diet before the wedding, as you do, have put on a bit of weight and now people seem to think I must be pregnant!! NO I'M JUST FATTER!! ROTFL

daisiegg wrote: »

I am worried about finding the time as well! We have a punishing schedule (up at 5am every day for me to drive hubby to the station, he gets home usually about 8pm and to sustain the 5am starts we really need to be getting to sleep at 10pm). Although I only work part time it is not much use if he is out of the house 14/15 hours a day! He also goes away on business a lot and I am really worried that if he is away during a fertile period, we could easily just miss the chance of trying one month. And if that kept happening, we'd be scuppered!

I am ashamed to admit (as we are both relatively young newlyweds) that normally we can easily go a week or more without sex (often more if I am honest!). I really don't know how we will manage to do it every other day, and don't want it to become a chore, either not sure what the answer is!

It's a difficult balance to strike, especially with work and so on. If you're both tired, it's difficult to want to. DH and I have never managed every second day because he has a low sex drive - he's basically a sex panda and also because it's less fun if you feel like you have to all the time. This is where we found opks helped because it meant that we would make sure we dtd at the right time, whether we were in the mood or not. It does ruin the romance somewhat when you say "right, I've ovulating, do me", but we tried to have slightly more spontaneous, non-babymaking sex othertimes in the month. If we hadn't used opks, I don't think we'd have ever timed it correctly, not that it matters now.

As for the questions alipops, we got them from when we got engaged. I gained weight after the wedding too so had family members patting my belly, and now that I'm on medication I can't drink on, I'm getting loads of raised eyebrows when I decline to drink. It's a bit upsetting because of the whole infertility thing, but we're trying to just let it wash over us. I posted a while back on funny retorts to make to these questions, like saying you have 6 kids already but they're kept in your basement sweatshop where they make shoes and cheap clothes/your husband's real name is Fritzl and he keeps them in the basement for nefarious reasons.

ThinkPink

Thank you.

I knew TTC was going to be a hard journey- and I was prepared a little bit for it, but I don't think I was prepared not to even have af for over three months- so I guess Im not actually a new bit to here anyway!!:)

It is difficult finding the time, we tend to find a bit of time either in the morning (we have between 20 mins and half hour between the alarm going off and us having to be out of bed!!!) or weekends- so lets hope that when I actually do start having periods and therefore ovulating that it falls at the weekend!!!:rotfl:

Hugs keepergirl.

We had a lot of comments leading up to the wedding about having a baby- luckily they have stopped for now as now we are trying I think I would find it a lot harder to deal with comments than I did before.

Part_Mouse

Code you hit the nail on the head.

Part_Mouse

Think pink I really hope af arrives for you soon.i know its some what different I don't have natural af just bleed when my lining comes away and never ov on my own.

Code I've known since my teens I've got pcos so getting pregnant was always something I knew would never happen without lots of help.

Princess_kate

Sorry about af Keepergirl. Do you mind me asking how many cycles of clomid you're tried, is it for PCOS? I'm due to start in Clomid & have read so much able horrible side effects I'm hoping something magically happens before then! CD43, thanks code for the lists! Fed up of waiting for af now after stopping my 3 months of the pill to see if that helped my cycles, I just want to get on and have a "normal" cycle now!

Part_Mouse

Pk clomid is for lack of ov whatever the cause. Try not to worry about the se, not everyone gets them.

codemonkey

Winner of October BFP predictions: Mrs T_M! :T

November BFPs
AquamarineMonkey 01/11/2013 :j
Pommeverte 01/11/2013 :j
claretsgirl 09/11/2013 :j

MrsMuffin 09/11/2013 :j
wangdoodle 15/11/2013 :j
skintchick 19/11/2013 :j
menollyke 22/11/2013 :j


November BFP predictions
Thinkpink: 5
Aquamarinemonkey: 6
Disney_Pluto: 6
Princesskate: 6
tia86: 6
ashia: 7
kellykins: 7
vesper: 7
wangdoodle : 7
mrsmuffin: 8
Loudfish: 9
ttc39: 9

Thread Graduates
Mrs_T_M BFP 10/10/2013
Lara44 BFP 18/10/2013
glimmerofhope BFP 24/10/2013
catlovebex BFP 25/10/2013
Aquamarinemonkey BFP 01/11/2013
PommeVerte BFP 01/11/2013
claretsgirl BFP 09/11/2013
MrsMuffin BFP 09/11/2013
wangdoodle 15/11/2013
skintchick 19/11/2013
menollyke 22/11/2013

codemonkey

Two week Wait (BFP Hopefuls)
CD91 ThinkPink - Awaiting AF :cool:
CD50 paulashek - 35PO :cool:
CD42 Disney_Pluto - 21DPO :cool:
CD?? ejecoms - 18DPO :cool:
CD27 ashia - 11DPO :cool:
CD22 Purcy -5DPO :cool:
CD19 Tinkwings - 4DPO :cool:
CD19 credit_crunch - 3DPO :cool:

"If in doubt - BD" Zone
CD92 Skaps* - Awaiting ov
CD71 BabyMad* - Awaiting ov
CD61 159 - Awaiting ov
CD57 littleme - Awaiting ov
CD52 Carrot34 - Awaiting ov
CD47 without-a-paddle - Awaiting ov
CD43 Princess Kate - Awaiting ov
CD43 tea lover - Awaiting ov
CD41 Codemonkey – Awaiting ov
CD36 Picklekin - Awaiting ov
CD36 ruth26 - Awaiting ov
CD33 chocgirl - Awaiting ov
CD31 cwtw - Awaiting ov
CD31 cookiee - Awaiting ov
CD30 loudfish - Awaiting ov
CD30 time2deal - Awaiting ov
CD28 Kellykins - Awaiting ov
CD24 bigmomma051204 - Awaiting ov
CD24 Chocoholic_chick - Awaiting ov
CD24 MrsMills1985 - Awaiting ov
CD22 Goodvibes* – Awaiting ov
CD19 Clevernamehere - Awaiting ov
CD17 lilmissmup -Awaiting ov
CD17 Vesper - Awaiting ov
CD16 linz4383 - Awaiting ov
CD16 tia86 - Awaiting ov
CD16 ttc39 - Awaiting ov
CD14 any name will suffice - Awaiting ov
CD13 Gelly123 - Awaiting ov
CD10 DanielleNic87 - Awaiting ov
CD8 lollypopswater- Awaiting ov

"Wine and Chocolate" zone
CD7 sweaty betty - Awaiting ov
CD6 alipops1986 - Awaiting ov
CD6 daisiegg - Awaiting ov
CD3 LailaP - Awaiting ov
CD1 Keepergirl - Awaiting ov
Those we haven't heard from in a while
Smookle
Skint_Catt
Slinky_Selina
WillowCat
Loulou123
january23
Lemon Tree
atton
MsTTC
Tashatutuw
KimLouise
Sapphire
Alice31
BeautyButterfly
JoJoB

Those with * sometimes uses conceive plus/preseed.
The names in blue has a link to their Fertility Friend chart.
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Mrs_T_M

It's a new month, and I just wanted to pop on here and ask if any of the new people (or anyone who isn't new) would like to be put on the front page. I've tried to keep up with updating it, but I haven't added new people in a bit.

It's not a requirement to be on the front page, just an option if you'd like it.

Here is an example of the preferred format (ThinkPink, I'm using yours as an example, hope you don't mind!):

ThinkPink (30) TTC#1 since 10/13
name, (age), which # are you trying for, since when you started trying

Also, if there is anyone I need to remove from the front page, please let me know!

Thanks, and I hope everyone has a great day!

angeltreats

Hi Mrs TM, hope you're well. Will you take me off the front page please? Thanks x