baby on the brain.

i now have a new little nephew born 21st may at 10.6pounds. and it is making waiting until start of aug soooooooooooo hard. i am at the point where i dont want to go see him. i was with him yesterday and everythign he did i was like awwwwwwwwwww thats so cute and kept sayin to trev i cant wait till our baby does that or i cant wait till we go places with our kid. and i have been buying little things when i go shopping as trevs job maybe ending soon and he will be out of work but i think i am starting to get too carried away with the things i am buying i only really have th ebig things like the cot, pram etc to go. Is anyone else as bad as i am?

I have bought a basinette, rocker and glider chair, and have them all set up with a couple of other things in the room that will be the 'nursery' when we finally are successful with having a baby to put in there! My friends say that they think that I am making it harder for myself by having a room nearly all set up. I think it gives me something to look forward to, like a 'fat photo' stuck on the fridge when you are on a diet!!

yeah and i think it gives u less to worry about later, especially if ur like me and think money will be tight later

I find myself constantly looking on ebay at baby things, then I catch myself before bidding and think you aren't even pg yet - stop wasting time! Have you been ttc for very long?

Oh Sassy!! I'm soooo glad you mentioned this! I too, am going to TTC in August and I am so ready to have a baby and fall pregnant right now. I've had babies on the brain for a good 12 months now... i'm terribly clucky. I'm turning 26 tomorrow which isn't helping as it's reminding me that I am getting older now! The clock is ticking!
We are TTC Aug/Sept as our wedding is late Sept and I don't want to be "bloated" for the wedding so to say... so the wedding is the only thing stopping us! And me fitting into my wedding dress of course...!
I constantly look at babies in prams in shops, baby clothes/toys, and my sister is due to give birth any day now so I'm like 'aaagghh" aswell!
How come you are waiting if you don't mind me asking?? It's difficult waiting also because you don't know how long it will take to fall preg do you? I wish we knew....

I haven't bought much, however I have bought a little boys outfit because i couldnt resist once, that's if we have a boy, if we don't i can give it away... and little green slippers for a baby (unisex)...

my wedding is march next yr so i wanted to wait a few months so the baby woudlnt be due the same month or the month after just incase i got preg straight away. i dont mind having a big bump just dont want the baby coming on the day fromall the excitement or have had it a few weeks b4 the wedding. it also give me a chance to get rid of these few kilo's be i puff up lol.

LOL Its funny how we keep quiet about things because we think that we are weird but so many other people around us are doing the same thing. When DH and i decided to start trying (June/July last year) we couldnt help it and bought clothes every time we saw a sale. We went a little over board but we didnt think it would take this long to TTC. Now we have a glory box type of thing full of baby clothes for when the time is right. We also bought a few really cute stuffed toys but we stopped at that. Wont be buying anything now till i am well and truly pregnant. I dont feel that it has made it harder for us as we arent always looking at the stuff. I have also indulged in lots of pregnancy mags. My excuse is i want to read ahead so that when i am pregnant i know what to expect rather than reading about it when its too late.

Yesterday we babysat a 14 month old all day and had to do everything from feeding, nappies, entertaining and putting her to sleep and it was the best experience ever. DH and i had a bawl and its made us realise how clucky we really are and how badly we want this baby.

Paula, that would have been a great experience for you and DH! I hope we get to do that before we have a baby, only problem is none of our friends have babies except for one and we don't see them all that much! haha i LOVE being around babies and they don't scare me at all either :) I'm sure being a mum can be stressful at times and challenging however at the end of the day it's all worth it !

Totally agree with you Renstar

I truly hope you get your BFP real soon... and we might be pregnant together with Sassy and Timnik77 soon!!! yay!!!

i to find it hard as i look after 3 children 4 months 8 months and a 3 year old and they are all so cute cluck cluck, i thought looking after them would take my mind of ttc but it did the opposite.

I have bought a few super-cute baby things too - I just can't help myself! But I talked myself into the idea that I was just buying 'gifts' in case friends fell preggo...and I have recently found out that a close friend HAS just got her BFP! So now I have to call my own bluff and give some of my cute clothes away :(

My age is worrying me and I have a fear that I will never fall pregnant and will have a bunch of baby clothes to depress me...

Luckily (?) DH is not clucky at all - he is one of those old-fashioned 'men-don't-like-babies' macho types, lol! So he keeps my feet on the ground...

Mum2furbabies, i hope you get your very dark lined BFP very, very soon.... keep your baby clothes you bought.... :) It will happen.... you are still quite young...

i am so glad i am not the only one i thought i was going crazy. hopefully aug will be a lucky month for all of us fingas crossed

Hi Mum2furbabies,

Please don't stress about your age - i wish i was your age again!! You still have lots of time so just keep it up and you will have that little baby one day to put those cute clothes onto. Good luck for a BFP really soon.

Yeah Sassy, I thought I was getting too obsessed, but it appears to be a normal part of life for a woman wanting kids to get a bit carried away... keep buying the clothes and the toys etc if that's what makes you happy and keeps you excited then why not?? Go for it! I would buy some but we are trying to save lately so that's not a good idea for us at the moment!!! I LOVE looking at the baby clothes and always say to my DF, would you let your baby wear this? Would you buy this for your baby? Do you like the name ### etc etc and I talk about babies all the time to DF!!! hehe

C'MON AUGUST!!!!! C'MON!!!!!!! C'MON BFP's!!!!!!!

My husband has to listen to me all the time going on and on about babies

Thanks Renstar and Lissie for the kind words :)
You are right of course...age is not necessarily a barrier and as long as AF is still around there is still hope (this time we LOVE her, hehe) Lissie your sig says it all...never say never! I guess we all get the mopes sometimes when we want something so badly and have to be patient though, just human nature. ;)

Hope you all get those wonderful BFP's soon. My theory is that the longer the wait the more magical it will be!

Hi all,

I've taken the opposite tack to most of you guys it seems when it comes to "baby on the brain". DH and I certainly are clucky. I haven't bought anything though. I just think if I buy something I'll just jinx myself and never get pg.... I even try not to think about babies just so I don't get my hopes up.

Until Jan 07 I had been on the pill for 15 years. Before that I had irregular periods and from that I think I've always just anticipated that I would have trouble ttc. DH and I have been ttc since Jan 07 but I'm only on my 3rd cycle since (so I've only o'd twice) - the waiting for o is painful!

My younger sister has 3 gorgeous daughters and conceived each one first month of ttc. I just know I'm not as lucky as her and not allowing myself to think too much about pregnancy and babies is just a self-protective mechanism I guess - so I don't get disappointed.

Wishing everyone a :bfp:!

That's how I am too Principessa, we aren't TTC yet (Aug!) and I am saying to myself "it may take 6mths or more to conceive" hence that's also why we are going to start just before the wedding, on the chance that it probably won't happen then so we get ahead if you know what i mean????
WIshing everyone all the very best with TTC!!!!

hey everyone,
well dh and i had a big talk yesterday and we are puttin our honeymoon off for abit after the wedding so we can afford to go where we really want not just settle for 2nd best because we have no money after paying for the wedding. well enough with the rambling the exciting news is that because i dont have to worry about timing so i can still fly we get to start ttc at the end of june YAY. one month closer i am so excited. i think the more i think about it i find more logical things to start ttc earlier. i am tryin to think baout othe rthings now because i know i will be crushed everytime that damn 2nd line wont appear.

End of june is not far away at all!! :) How exciting!!! When is the wedding again??
:) Good luck!!! I'll see you around similar threads no doubt, hopefully i'll be not far behind you!

march next yr. yes hopefully we will be close and we can go through everything together dont worry it will all turn out to plan lol wishful thinking.