Lurker now joined: Help me with the acronyms, conceiving nerves, & rhesus factor
Hi
I've been lurking on and off for a while, now I finally joined as my hubby and I are TTC soon.
I am finding it a little hard trying to understand the threads/posts here. Can someone please help or point me to where I can learn all these acronyms like TTC (I worked that one out) but am going cross-eyed trying to work out all the others. It would be a great help!
I am going to research the charting stuff (buy myself a thermometer) etc.
I am also heading to the doctors in the next month (once I am game enough to make that appointment). I have been on the pill for 7 years and I am totally unsure about what I'm supposed to do about coming off the pill, whether I'm not recommend to try until 3 months or several cycles after coming off the pill. (I'm not sure if it increases any risks or what??) Am scared about that as well, as my period was never totally regular before going on the pill, so am I going to be regular when I come off? Ack!
I also have the 'rhesus negative' factor and am told I will need a few 'needles' during my pregnancy and future pregnancies, and am also naive about that too! Have researched it on the web, but it all seems scary and not sure if I am more susceptible to miscarriages etc.
Hope to become friends with you all, and share the journey - mine and yours.
Luv Shella