Trying To Concieve

kathy72

RoxieW wrote: »

Well, just dashed off to sainsburys very nervous and did a test in their toilets (delightful - i know!) and it was positive. Followed it to the letter so looks like thats a definite positive.

Excellent news Roxie :T :T :T

I think that I may have already ovulated this week and we have been busy doing the BD so will keep you all updated later this month as to what happens with us...

Babydust to everyone...

Kathy x

Welshlassie

Snap!

I went through this just before we started TTC. I even had episodes when I was pregnant. Will we be good parents, how will we know what to do, what if something is wrong, how will know if something is wrong, will we be able to afford everything???? etc etc.

My DS is now 10 months old and we managed absolutely fine. Yes we had days we weren't sure if we were coming or going, but we are good parents. DS is thirving and the overwhelming rush of love you get when you first see them and that grows in the subsequent weeks and months is not comparable to anything.

It is a scary time and if you weren't scared you wouldn't be human, it is afterall a completely new experience, and looking after other peoples children, whilst can help you work out how to do some things, won't always make it any easier when yours arrive.

Enjoy the practicing and TTC, catch up on your sleep and enjoy spending time just the 2 of you cause it won't be just the 2 of you for much longer and although when you become 3 is wonderful its also a totally different way of life.

Good luck

angelfairy

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CONGRATULATIONS ROXIE

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Nicki

I'm driving myself crackers this month. I got the impression (just from CM) that I stopped ovulating a few months ago (haven't been OV testing though). This month I wasn't sure whether I did or not, but for the last week or so my boobs have been really sore and tender, I've been insatiably hungry, and been falling asleep on sofa at night. AF isn't actually due until Monday though. I did cave in and do a first response test this morning but it was BFN. I am still torturing myself though with the suspense. We've been trying for 14 months now, and it took 6 years (and fertility drugs) to fall with number 1.

MrsTinks

Thanks all!

I think maybe I should clarify the judging of other parents mainly I'm referring to the ones who stand and scream at their children and the kids scream back at them in places like tesco etc. Then there are parents like my step sis who would happily carry her toddler round on one hip smoking a fag! Oh and my favourite pet hate... parents who always feed junkfood... I'm not saying there isn't a time and place! But my step sister would get McD and prefab meals for her son all the time - he only had HM food when he visited our parents! Oh and he didn't know what the word NO meant till my mum introduced it into his vocabulary... oh the tantrums!!! Now he thinks my mum is the best thing before and after sliced bread! And she's only his step grandma...
I guess I just don't want to bring my kids up like my step sister did her son if I think about it! :rotfl:

(I think what always shocked me was how just after he learnt to walk she'd let him roam my parents rather big house complete with stairs indoors and out and no fencing as well as their large GSD - who was great with kids but not the point! - and she'd be sat watching TV paying him no attention! The rest of us would realise he wasn't with her and start a search and more than once he was snatched up within feet of the pond or the top of some concrete stairs... Most of the time the dog was following him round so we kinda knew if she wasn't about then he'd wandered off but I spent loads of time being a nervous wreck and she didn't move a finger and I guess that's what I'm scared of turning into... )

You know I never thought about it that much before... Never realised that I was that focussed on NOT being her... Hmmm

MrsTinks

wes_cov wrote: »

can honestly say before my daughter (sienna 5 Months) was born i was petrified but prepared for the worst up 10 times a night never stops crying baby
i was soooo lucky she sleeps through 9/10 nights will go down about 9:30 and wake about 8 we have just started weening her and she hasn't turned her nose up at anything.

But i can still say i'm scared because i want to wrap her up in cotton wool so she stays perfect but i guess thats love

If mine isn't this perfect can I come swap with Sienna??? :rotfl: she sounds great!:D

MrsTinks

I've also started eyeing up the box room which would be the nursery... It's the nearest to our bedroom so we would just need to fall out of bed and in to baby's room during the night lol The cats will obviously be a little miffed as it's currently THEIR room... that might cause a few issues!
The dog never comes upstairs so all interaction with her will be only when we take baby downstairs.
I know somethings will start out as great intentions and then go by the by but I guess I'm just worried about "what if the baby gets sick, what if the worst happens and something terrible like cot death happens, how would we ever cope with that?" I know I can't live my life on "what if"s but when you add it to the already mounting pressure of "we'll be parents! what if we're rubbish and can't work out how to put nappies on!!" ok so I'm sure we'd work it out but until I did it on my own child I'd still worry!
I think deep down I know we'll get by one way or another But I can't help worrying!

RoxieW

You'll do fine - of course you will! I'm scared and I'm onto my third - I dont think that feeling goes away.
Re the stepsister - I'm sure that you wont turn into her. And I have my pet hates too - junk food being one of them - although mine are still allowed it occassionally (pizza hut is my big vice! ummmmmmmm)
But, it is amazing how much you change when you are actually a parent. I used to be shocked at my aunts lack of discipline with her kids, but when its your own you can fall into some bad habits. I'll admit i'm guilty of a few 'turning a blind eye' moments. I'm the softie thou - tough when I need to be but i choose my battles. OH will come down like a ton of bricks for the slightest thing though so I guess we balance each other out.
You'll muddle through like the rest of us - oh, and you probably will shout at your child in tescos - I have. I even smacked my little ones hand (pathetically softly) when he recently tried to defiantly pull away from me to run into the path of an on coming van. It was the first time I have, and I dont agree with smacking as a rule and turn my nose up if I ever see it, but I'd rather that then him get run over. It really shocked him so I think it did the trick. I felt massively guilty though afterwards.

RoxieW

BFN? Does this mean negative?
FWIW - I did the first response test before I was due and it was negative -but 2 positive tests since say otherwise. Try again in a few days. Good luck!

PS - I'm also insatiably hungry!!

Sarah_Joanne

RoxieW wrote: »

BFN? Does this mean negative?
FWIW - I did the first response test before I was due and it was negative -but 2 positive tests since say otherwise. Try again in a few days. Good luck!

PS - I'm also insatiably hungry!!

BFN = Big Fat Negative