TTC 40 plus!! Lets share the ups and downs!

[heavenly]

I'm 46 though....let's be honest....more chance of my neutered cat getting pregnant................

Sorry....have to keep a sense of humour here.

Love it!!
Well, no news from us. Except we've found the venue for our wedding and in one day, completely changed all our plans - now having a humanist wedding in a barn, instead of hiring some stuffy place in London. Much more us, will invite a few cows to moo through the wall as we say our vows. It's such a stunning place, I am thrilled. And we will do the legal bit swiftly in the morning, pretending not to see each other! x

That sounds lovely, I think weddings should be all about the couple.

 

[Spoomie]

Does this now mean that we don't need to buy a hat? Is it more casual than a 'new hat' affair now?

 

[Mistyy]

Heavenly + Beetle - fingers still crossed!

Reb - well done on picking your venue. We booked ours last week. I've discovered that organising a wedding in under 12 weeks is less fun than i thought. We started out wanting a pagan handfasting ... with, like you, a quick trip to the registy office first. However due to growing numbers and the general difficulty of keeping it simple we have found ourselves doing the thing we both said we wanted to avoid at all costs ... a big white do in a manor house! (so excited though - and i must say i am so going to love swanning about in THE DRESS for a few hours like a slightly raddled princess LOL)

As for my temps - they shot up the day after i was moaning about them on here, he he, so i'm day 5DPO today AGAIN. God these months are whizzing by. xxx

 

[Reb S]

Ha ha, Mistyy!! Sounds like we've swapped weddings! Although we're not doing a pagan handfasting quite...! I really had to work hard on myself NOT to buy the most amazing dress in the world,...for £1,000. Mine is quite a lot cheaper...in fact, a HUGE, embarrassingly, never going to let Steve know how little it cost, cheaper.
Good for your temps.
Spoomie - so nice to see you!!!!! How're you doing? As for hats, it's a wear it or not as you please affair, but I will expect all you lot to have your cyber hats on.
What do y'all think about getting married the first weekend of the Olympics? Will I have any guests?!
PS sorry have hijacked thread from TTC...!

 

[Miss_C]

all this wedding talk is awesome, such excitement!!

I think I will wear blue if that is ok and think I will wear this hat

https://s3.amazonaws.com/bonanzleimages/afu/images/1482/8316/ad29_1_sbol.jpg

 

[pdmcd17]

Reb how exciting i love the wedding talk, i know my oh is close to proposing. We dont have a song and it old him we need one the other,and he keeps playinng bruno mars - marry you.

When we do get married were goiNg away to the carribean

Im on cycle day 4 so i can start tryi g in a few days!!!!

 

[Spoomie]

I plan to wear this one, it sells for a very reasonable $499.99

https://i12.ebayimg.com/01/i/001/30/41/8338_1_sbol.JPG

And I thought this one would be good for Butterfly

https://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ddaf3c9344d9e36d5d9acdd1d7867339

Gosh, I really should go to bed if this is all I have to do...........

 

[Garnet]

I'm 46 though....let's be honest....more chance of my neutered cat getting pregnant................

Sorry....have to keep a sense of humour here.

My grandma had a baby at 46 and another lady had a baby at 46 on the 35+ pregnancy thread.

 

[Spoomie]

Heavenly, I remember reading this post early on in my BnB days and it inspired me that I was not too old and there was still plenty of time. Ok, maybe 'plenty' is not quite the right choice of words, perhaps 'possible' would be more sensible! A moving story nonetheless

https://www.babyandbump.com/trying-...tribute-my-grandmother-dont-ever-give-up.html

 

[ciarhwyfar]

Heavenly + Beetle - fingers still crossed!

Reb - well done on picking your venue. We booked ours last week. I've discovered that organising a wedding in under 12 weeks is less fun than i thought. We started out wanting a pagan handfasting ... with, like you, a quick trip to the registy office first. However due to growing numbers and the general difficulty of keeping it simple we have found ourselves doing the thing we both said we wanted to avoid at all costs ... a big white do in a manor house! (so excited though - and i must say i am so going to love swanning about in THE DRESS for a few hours like a slightly raddled princess LOL)

As for my temps - they shot up the day after i was moaning about them on here, he he, so i'm day 5DPO today AGAIN. God these months are whizzing by. xxx

We did a nice pagan ceremony in the living room we were about to move into with just a few people in attendance. The priestess is qualified to perform legal weddings so didn't have to do anything else. I wore the outfit I had on when we first met plus a light sweater since it was October 2nd. He looked very nice in a ruffled velvet shirt, vest, and pants all in black. I got away with it by not really telling anyone until afterward.

I hope you all get what you want plus those bfps.

 

[Miss_C]

And I thought this one would be good for Butterfly

https://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-ddaf3c9344d9e36d5d9acdd1d7867339

Bugger me that poor girl needs a stylist you'd think she would have learned after the Kat & Wills pretzel incident!! - wonder if Rachel Zoe could fit her in!!!!

 

[Butterfly67]

Ha ha loving all the hat and wedding talk!! Yes, I'll take that hat Spoomie but those girls sure do need some styling

 

[Reb S]

Spoomie - thanks for putting in that link, and your MAD hats! Maybe I should make that a prerequisite for the wedding - you have to wear a truly awful hat!
Ciararfarasfefdffar - how's it going with the new arrival?!
x

 

[Mistyy]

Really LOL'd at the hats girls. Fab! Butterfly's is perfect of course.

My do's on the 10th April and i'd love you all to wear the most flamboyant crinolins - a la Deborah Kerr in the King And I please

ciarhwyfar - how lovely! Thats great that you managed to keep the integrity of a simple meaningful ceremony for you and he. Our simple integrity went out the window very early on. Over here unless you're in Scotland a handfasting isnt legally binding so you have to do 2 ceremonies really. The handfasting, plus a legal one with a registrar. My mum's not good on her feet, and DP got the heeby-jeebies about leaving out his (massive) extended family, and so that was the death of the simple windswept gathering on a Cornish cliff top, lol.

pdmc - Carribean will be wonderfull! Can we all come too?

Reb - bless you with your dress. I chose one online for £49 in sort of oyster pink. Lovely simple sheath dress and was very smug about the price. When it arrived it fitted beautifully but the zip had been put in inside out Its with a local seamstress now being sorted. But in the meantime the wedding grew and i started to feel my dress was too simple. Found a site called Light In The Box, based in China. AMAZING wedding dresses for around £200, some made to measure, and bridesmaids dresses from around £50 so i have a lovely clingy ivory 'fish-tail' number with a little chapel train coming from them now plus my daughters dresses in plum Price for all 4 dresses is still less than one dress from the local posh wedding shop. (keeping the £49 dress for any future evening do's)

Appologies for banging on about my do. I'll reign it in now and get back to ttc talk

xxx

 

[Miss_C]

no idea wehy but as soon as you said everyone was to wear crinolins I suddenly got this vision!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/images/clip/p00781d4_196_110.jpg

My friend had her dress made in china on e bay, a beautiful shot silk sheath thing with a sort of train thing at the back, beautiful, she just sent all her measurements and it cost about AU$190!!!

 

[Reb S]

Miss C - hahahahaha!!!! That's it! My style for the wedding x

 

[heavenly]

Heavenly, I remember reading this post early on in my BnB days and it inspired me that I was not too old and there was still plenty of time. Ok, maybe 'plenty' is not quite the right choice of words, perhaps 'possible' would be more sensible! A moving story nonetheless

https://www.babyandbump.com/trying-...tribute-my-grandmother-dont-ever-give-up.html

What a heartwarming story, thank you!!


Well, I got a BFN today, 14DPO, not really surprised, but still no AF. Maybe Clomid has mucked up my cycle. So, still waiting, but getting a BFN on 14DPO doesn't look too promising!!

 

[beetle]

Hello ladies - firstly HUGE congratulations Butterfly on your BFP! I'm so pleased and excited for you!

Well, quick update on me ...its a BFP and a Puppy! I cant believe it! I'm so ridiculously excited. And praying that 3rd time lucky this will stick. I'm hoping that mum has been pulling strings upstairs to get me pregnant and am hoping that she will continue to pull strings to keep me pregnant! We had v.v faint BFP on Sunday (16 dpo) so I held out and did a FRER and digi this morning and both v. clear and pregnant 1-2 weeks! Woop woop!

Anyone got any tips as to how to not think negatively 3rd time around? Im taking vits - anything else?

OK ... the puppy ... she's gorgeous! My OH and I completely fell in love with all of them - just under 4 weeks at the moment and about the size of a wriggly guinea pig but gorgeous fox red lab puppies! So ... we've put down a deposit for Foxy who she is being known as for now (my OH thinks its a great porn star name) and we'll see her in 3 weeks time but take her home when she's 8 weeks! Reb ... I need a puppy shopping list!

Finally ladies - congratulations on all the weddings - loving the concepts! The hats etc. Just wish my OH would pop the question!

And last but by no means least - fingers crossed Heavenly! xx

 

[beetle]

Heavenly, I remember reading this post early on in my BnB days and it inspired me that I was not too old and there was still plenty of time. Ok, maybe 'plenty' is not quite the right choice of words, perhaps 'possible' would be more sensible! A moving story nonetheless

https://www.babyandbump.com/trying-...tribute-my-grandmother-dont-ever-give-up.html

What a heartwarming story, thank you!!


Well, I got a BFN today, 14DPO, not really surprised, but still no AF. Maybe Clomid has mucked up my cycle. So, still waiting, but getting a BFN on 14DPO doesn't look too promising!!

Heavenly I must have been writing at the same time as you. You aren't out yet until AF shows, my test were v. slow to show positive so you never know may be slow rising HCG. Fingers crossed for you lovely and big hugs. You are such a star and never ever lose hope! xx

 

[Butterfly67]

OMG Beetle, massive congrats back that is great news, we must be very similar in dates - actually I was also 16dpo on Sunday so we are the same - are you being monitored by a doc this time? Have they told you to take aspirin or anything (I don't know anything about it but I have heard other ladies being told to take it)?

Anyway, I will keep everything crossed that this is a sticky one for you

p.s. we need pics of the puppy