The "seeing what happens" girls

lol the reason DD works so well as a contraceptive is cause there isn't much bding going on.

So many people who are seeing what happens! This is so great, I thought most people decided to have a baby and so they were focusing on dates.

Question for popcorn (or anyone else) - now that I"ve come off the pill, I want to keep a track of dates when AF arrives, just so that I can be prepared when it does...did you do this? This year for they first time I'm keeping a proper journal that I write in every day, but the purpose was to keep tracking of training runs and times (and how I feel!). I figure it I note in it when AF arrives, hopefully in a few months when my body returns to normal I"ll be able to predict when AF arrives? This is going to sound sooo stupid, but the pill meant I could predict to the hour! And I do not want to be one of those people who are caught off guard (I'm remembering the days of intermediate/highschool when there'd be at least one girl a year who'd get AF for the first and have no idea, and have a stain...um, yeah, I know, I'm soooo stupid!).

Ok, TMI over...today I'm supposed to be studying, catching up cause I"m behind in readings. But between ohbaby and this game I'm distracted. Plus I"m nursing sore knees cause I went for a run with my friend up Mt Victoria but it was raining, and I slipped down the hill and landed hard...just a few grazes/bruises and a broken nail, but they sting a wee bit!

Hope everyone is well!

With TTC for DD, I started charting after 6 months, taking my temp and using fertility friend to work out when I was ovulating, glad I did it as turned out I have a 34 day cycle not a 28 day one and we weren't bding at the right time.
When AF does eventually return I will probably take a not of my cycle for the first 3 months to get an idea of what its doing and then not worry about it.

For me having another baby is something I'd like to do but not a must have. If we aren't successful by the end of next year that will it for me. As I don't want babies over 40.

hey ladies, well DH and i have been trying since dec but for the next few months we will be just seeing what happens and not hard out trying (although secretly i think i will be) as DH is quite stressed at the moment with study so he really wants to just focus on that till May then we will go back to charting and all that jazz! im quite dissapointed but i understand why DH wants to but for me im quite sad about it as ive been wanting babies for such a long time, but its only 2 months!

SO i will be joining you all in here for a few months, good luck to us all!

Yea, I'm absolutely keeping track of when AF arrives and everything. Even if I wasn't secretly kind of keen on a baby, I'd want to, because with PCOS I'm keen to know if my cycles have got more regular (i.e. I might be ovulating) after having Jacob. If they're not regular, chances are I'm not ovulating, which is a fairly effective birth control

I've got the same issue re work as you did, T_Rex. In my case, I've decided just to go for it. My gut feeling is that we'll need help to have another one, in which case I'll be fine with the one year thing. And I'd rather get UTD early and have to quit than to waste cycles in which I was ovulating (you know, if I am) - I think I'm much more likely to wonder 'what if' down the track in that situation.

We're in this camp too

DD is 10 1/2 months, but still a boobie monster and no AF back yet. So we're not stressing about it, what will be will be and all that jazz. Plus DH is super happy because he's getting much more BD than he's had over the last year lol!!

I'm 25, so no massive rush. Will wait and see!

Rorylex what a lovely big brood you have! Have you decided that you will go in for #5? I love how they are all so close in age, i bet they are fantastic mates. I bet you will make a fabulous MW with so much personal experience!!

Question with BF and TTC, how do you know if your ovulating? Do you have to chart??

Birdie wrote: caliandjack wrote: Great idea porterlou this will be us at the end of the year, we're not trying not preventing for #2, accept having a 5 month old baby is proving to be contraceptive enough. Ha ha C & J I thought the same too but have somehow got UTD again!!! I did not even think we BD that month but have been proven wrong!!!

Aww birdie, yay!! I'm just a little bit jealous

I am in this camp too- no longer charting or checking OV etc, just hoping it happens. Though in saying that, the next 3 months wouldn't be ideal timing for me- I would like a post March baby lol.

Check out fertility friend they have great little tutorials, but the gist of it is to get a bbt thermometer (2 decimal places), try and take yourt temp the same time each day (but not vital) but after you have had 3 solid hours sleep. once you have 3+ days of a higher temp FF will put lines in for you. the gals in the charting thread are lovely and knowledgable too if you get stuck

waking and only being settled with a bf... dh is leaving the country soon so thought i would try and night wean her once shes adjusted to him being gone... its tough but shes back asleep within 10mins

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Thanks for the advice emmi, will have a look into thermometers when the time is right! It's good your wee girl settles pretty quickly at nights even though she is waking up. How long is your dh leaving the country for??

Bowie you are a super fertile wee thing aren't you