Waiting to TTC

Hi,
I am also waiting to TTC. We are getting married november 1st, and want to start trying right away. In reality prob October! (I don't drink much at all and prob wont on wedding night pregnant or not).
We really want to start now but I wont fit my dress if we get pregnant straight away!
I am a bit scared reading all these threads of ppl trying month after month. Hopefully I don't stress myself out before I even start.

Have been saving a good amount each week (on top of saving for wedding!) just for baby for about 4 months, so will have an enjoyable shopping spree as soon as am pregnant!

I can join in here!!!

We are still in the talking stages of TTC number 3. I want to start trying Later this year as I want a baby born later next year away from the beginning of the year as that is when the rest of mine are.

I need to have the 3rd very soon (well I want to) as once I am 30 I am having the baby oven and the rest all removed (i'm 26 now).

Fleur I think you have the right idea but what about putting the money into an account and then once you get pregnant you have that money to spend on baby stuff.

Hi all

I'm Jo.  I turn 30 on 16th September and DH agreed several months ago now that for my 30th birthday we'll start TTC.

So just 2 months to go now and although I've been terribly clucky I'm now getting cold feet... I still really really desperately want a baby but am beginning to worry about money and stuff... but I have resolved to stop using condoms in September and leave the rest up to God (i.e. I won't be charting or temping etc, I'm just going to stop preventing pregnancy and have fun while we work on #2).

 

ETA: DH isn't getting off that easy, he'll be buying me some pressie for my birthday too

Edited by MrsMojo

I've worked out with paid parental leave, my annual leave and my annual bonus we'll have enough for 22 weeks before the $$ run out, and we qualify for $70 a week WFF.

I'm also studying part-time extramurally, and while it would be great to plan a baby around the academic year, I think that's asking a bit much.

Now that I have a fixed time frame ie 6 more months BCP I'm trying to save and put things away in that time.
Who knows could well end up pregnant first time trying.

Not sure how much help we'll get from friends and family, I'm the last of my friends to have babies, not sure how many of them still have baby gear.

It will be DH's folks first grandchild, and my nieces are 6 and 11, so long time since my Dad had a baby.

Fleur, there's heaps of ways to save up extra money if you make a really good budget and get into good shopping habits. I've managed to have $200 a fortnight for food and I'm constantly coming under that even though grocery prices are going up. You could also take a mortgage holiday if you havne't thought of that already to give you breathing space if you wanted to stay at home longer.

Stacey - how do you do your shopping for $200/fortnight?!

Yay Neeks for DH saying yes to another bubs.

Hi Sassy, I'm a teacher too so I understand what you're saying about timing! We are trying to time ours around work so that I get PPL and materinty grant. I'm only fixed term for this year but we are hoping I can get my job to roll over for term 1 next year then have baby due about June(ish). Now I just need to cross my fingers that I get pregnant as easily as last time

Brenna wrote: Stacey - how do you do your shopping for $200/fortnight?!

Very easily actually, I could do it for $170 if I didn't buy the crap that I do.

We buy 2 tins of formula a fortnight, I buy half of Daniels food in cans which ain't cheap.

Thing is we don't eat much cheese, it's really fatty anyway so good for me not to eat lots of it lol. We buy our meat either at a butcher or we pay my parents for half a beast which lasts months and months.

I shop using a list, I think what meals do we want to have over the next 2 weeks and make sure I get all I need for those meals. We have standard things we eat like risotto, pasta bake, some sort of mexican like tacos and they are all cheap easy meals.

We buy mostly frozen vege so none gets wasted and its easy

But then I'm bad with chocolate and end up buying chocie bikkies and naughty foods which I don't need but WANT lol

Yay there are lots of us.
We are so excited to start trying. OCtober isn't going to come soon enough. Although admittedly planning a wedding does make the time go fast.

Hopefully my cycle will start to become regular soon, stopped the pill months ago to give myself a chance, it is still about 35-40 days though.

I so want to start buying things but am holding off,. just saving everything, and will have the ultimate shopping experience when I can!~

I haven't been on the pill since before getting preggy with Brenna and since getting AF back when Brenna was 8 months, my cycle seems to be anywhere from 28 - 35 days.

I didn't chart or take temp when TTC #1 and will do the same this time around. I'll prob chart if I'm not preggy after a few months.

Becks, I also think I'm ov now. I get a bit 'keen' at this time of the month lol

I tried the pill at the beginning of this year to help with my bleeding - didn't work just made me bleed all the time - so I have given up on any pill ever working for me.

We are just using condoms much to Nigel's disgust but I don't want another baby just yet (if conceived right now it would be due in April and Andrew is then), and I know he doesn't want one just yet either.