Getting the practice in...

So, we've put plenty of practice in over the weekend but this week is it.

Baby-making week...

It's gonna be back-breaking work!

But someone's got to do it.

Sigh... 

Pre Pregnancy Pills...

So, I did it, I went into the Pharmacy yesterday and picked up my pre-conception vitamin tablets.  

These are very important to take, they contain folic acid and a bunch of other stuff that is crazy important to healthy foetus making. 

They did however have a pack that had them for Daddies and Mummies.  So I got that one and have started my husband on them too.  

As it is well written... It takes two people to... 

Have a fight,

Do the tango,

Make a baby! 

Now I just have to sort out the rest of my diet, organic fruit and veg, no fast-food and lots of red meat and iron filled produce.  I have an anaemic tendency so it'll help to have lots of iron coursing through my system. 

Right, so food shopping this evening it is. 

What is the world doing to me...

So, I've had a funny 24 hours.

Good friends of mine and "B"'s had a baby yesterday evening at 5.30pm.  We're very happy about this, it's really great news!  A little boy that they've called "D". This is great news!  They're also the first of us to have a baby, so we're very happy and all my friends are also delighted.  The child's huge too... It looks about ready to pick up an iPhone and start arranging meetings!  Very, very cute. 

But here's the bit where I get a wee bit jealous, talking to the mummy she told me it was their "New Year's Resolution" to go for a baby. 

It's October!  So they were trying for two weeks? 

Two Weeks! 

Then when I'm messing on my iPhone I discover I've missed a couple of emails, from my Mum and my Uncle. 

It's also great news, my cousin and his wife, who got married last year, are also pregnant!  

How cute is this kid, one hand behind it's head, sitting back, relaxing and chilling out.  It even looks like it's got it's legs crossed. 

This is the first baby to be born in my entire close family, on both sides.  

I'm the oldest of all my cousins, I was the first to be married, first to buy a house still though, I am glad for my, as yet, unmade-baby to be, it sucks to be the first doing everything. 

However, I'm just a wee bit jealous. 

Only a teeney weeney wee bit... 

Fertility...

I suppose I should give you my family history.

It took my parents four years to have me, then another four to have my sister!  It turns out I'm not the kinda chick who gets knocked up easily. 

That being said, I was on the pill until this time last year, when we discovered I'd had a stroke (that's a whole different post to be sent in the future).  So we've been unofficially trying for the past year, but according to the records I've been keeping I'm pretty much back to the 28 days cycle - I tell you, that took a while to get back in the rhythm. 

So I should be very fertile next Tuesday 25th right through to the 31st.  So lots of baby-making is to take place then.  

Of course I've started taking my pre-baby vitamins, I don't know what sorts are available where you live but I believe the most important thing to take is Folic Acid.  So my pills are loaded with Folic. 

Which reminds me, it's pill taking time!! 

First Post...

So, I suppose I should start off with the usual disclaimer... 

This is going to be personal and hopefully not too intimate.  Although, I should explain why I've decided to do it anonymously, could you imagine talking about baby-making and your Mum discovering it, although my Mum is still quite cool, it just doesn't feel right to publicly announce to the world that we're going down the baby making route!  Plus, my friends would have no fear announcing to my husband that we "apparently had a great time" last night, or every time I decide not to drink to have them all racing to this blog to see if it worked.

But I've always been a talker and that seems to be the way that I get through, around or over things.  So I'm going to talk to you - if you're out there? 

Hello?  Anyone? 

So here we go...