TTC Pink Chit Chat Thread - August

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mocha ~ for you!!!!

zanacal ~ I am feeling the same way!! My older two (6 and almost 4) have been allllll day!! I am feeling so irritated and like a totally bad mom!!! My oldest starts first grade in less than a week and I am almost looking forward to it. It will be the first time he is away all day.
Hang in there!!! You are soooo close to your attempt!! I am then about one week or so behind you for my first attempt! I swear my days are going soooooo low right now!!!

[zanacal]

Thanks Rachel, hugs to you too. Can you believe I looked at your profile pic earlier and cried - it's a pink flower ffs!! Oh well, chewing gum furiously to avoid the temptation of eating a big cheese & pickle sandwich right now

[Emmy2012]

Good Luck Mocha, I hope this is your month! (mine too, hehe) I know what you guys mean about feeling down. I have been like tht alot lately. Questioning timing and second guessing everything. Wondering what am I doing....scared of the gender disappointment....I don't know just scared overall. Swaying is so stressful. Gender envy, desire, and disappointment is exhausting. Family pressure is crazy! My DH's mom has had 4 grandson's in a row and no granddaughters except for step-granddaughters (which she treats amazing), she just really wants a girl so I feel the pressure of not only my own gender desire and potential gender disappointment but hers too!

[Indira]

Emmy I hope you can make your mother in law happy very soon
Zanacal, I´m sorry you´re feeling that way, hoping you´re doing better today.
What you´re describing is exactly how I felt a week ago, I would blow up for the smallest things Ds1 would do or say..I think the kids being at home for school holiday makes it a lot harder now to stick to the diet. Skipping breakfast, not snacking is so much easier if you have to go out mornings.
I have a real coffee now half afternoons and that reaaally helps a lot for my mood. Plus I let them play a lot in the garden with water without worrying things get wet, so I can relax and read magazines for a little while.

I actually ate breakfast the past couple of days because of my guests , but it was fine. I ate all carbs and only the protein that´s in bread, and i could really feel my blood sugar crash after a couple of hours.

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Thanks Rachel, hugs to you too. Can you believe I looked at your profile pic earlier and cried - it's a pink flower ffs!! Oh well, chewing gum furiously to avoid the temptation of eating a big cheese & pickle sandwich right now

Aww zanacal!!! I hope you are having a good day today!!!

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I have a real coffee now half afternoons and that reaaally helps a lot for my mood. Plus I let them play a lot in the garden with water without worrying things get wet, so I can relax and read magazines for a little while.

This sounds so nice!

[Emmy2012]

I would so take a coffe right now if I could! Noah was up teething last night so I am TIRED! LOL

[zanacal]

Thanks all. The weather was awful yesterday, it rained constantly, I'm sure getting outside would have helped!

I ended up having a big food blow-out and then of course went to bed feeling terrible (and sick!) but today I'm cutting right back and what's done is done (or eaten!). I feel yucky still though, sick all day and like I've been kicked in the tummy. If we had been trying to get pregnant then I would be expecting a BFP (I'm not btw and I know because we didn't DTD unprotected and I took a test anyway!). My hair is also falling out today - definitely some weird hormonal stuff going on which I'm going to ask AS about.

[swish]

Hello everyone!!!
I'm back from my Hols and there are solo many posts and new people!!! I'll have to catch up over time but the one thing I did notice is doulamama's news, omg!!!!! I can't believe it!!! Congratulations to you, dm!! I think that little bean really wanted to make it's way to you! I had a fantastic holiday and we had no internet access so a welcome break from swaying madness! I've had a really good think about every whilst I was away for a numberr of reasons which I'll go in to later but the main one is that I didn't ovulate this month, my temps never rose and although I wasn't reliably temping I know my usual cover line and it didn't go over it and the research I've done says my temp was not high enough to ovulate. Basically I think I've become too thin on this diet and my body is no long working properly. Obviously this had really worried me and scared me that I may not be able to have ANY other baby if I continue to deny my body. So on holiday I did skip breakfast but other than that I was pretty relaxed, we ate out every night and I really enjoyed pizza, pasta, garlic bread, fish and chips - it was a so good to eat real food! I have only put on 2 lbs so I don't know if I've done enough to ovulate next month but I'm going to carry on eating mo normally. Also met a couple who tried for 10 years for baby no 3 after 2 normal pregnancies and this really shocked me. I don't know if they swayed but they had boy no 3 after their long wait! The other reason I decided I needed to change something was the worry I'm causing my family who have no idea why I've had such a drastic weight loss. Lots of my mum's friends are expressing their concern to her too. Sorry that's a bit of a depressing return post!! Looking forward to catching up with all of you!

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Zanacal, sorry lots of rubbish stuff is happening to you. Just to let you know I had terrible pms with bites and I've never really had it before. This month having taken it every day I didn't have pms. I also had a phase of being mummy from hell, food really affects your mood, fx for a first month bfp for you!!! hope you're feeling better today, x