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10/12/11 9:36 A

Hello, I've just joined BabyFit as my husband and I have decided we would like to start TTC from about January 2012. I'm overweight currently (14st and 5ft2) and I'm on a health kick to be baby fit when the time comes. I'm having my contraceptive implant out on Tuesday 18th October so my body can get back to some sort of normality before we try. I would love to hear any advice or hear from anyone in same boat. Cheers.

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10/15/11 4:43 P

We are also planning on TTC in January... I just have some medical stuff to check up on first! Will this be your first child? It will be #3 for me and #1 for my husband (I got remarried this year). I gained some weight over the last year and really want to take it off before we get pregnant but I am having a hard time with that. My previous pregnancies were VERY difficult and so I have been having anxiety about getting pregnant again which is why we waited till now. Its hard knowing I really want a child but that I am afraid of the pregnancy! Hopefully with support, It will all go smoothely and this coming year will be an amazing one!!!

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10/17/11 9:04 A

Hi STRIKEYPLUS. Yes it will be our first child so I have no idea how the next year will go. I'm sorry to hear your previous pregnancies were difficult. When you say your having a hard time with losing weight is that motivation, time, not losing but trying? Mine's been not having the will power to want to start losing weight. I've enjoyed eating what I want when I want. My husband is a bit of a fitness nut and rarely pigs out so I've been buying things and eating them in work instead so I don't feel guilty eating them in front of him. I realise this isn't great and it's an issue I need to work on. I'm hoping starting to focus on TTC will give me the motivation to want to lose it and to stop eating rubbish. I'm a bridesmaid next year and already had my first fitting. That was not a nice experience and I will need to make sure I can get into the size dress I've ordered. What kind of anxiety have you had? Have you mentionned it to your husband or is it not something you want to talk to him about?

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10/19/11 8:39 P

Welcome to BabyFit! I am currently TTC. We saw our doctor and stopped birth control in March. I would like to be pregnant rather than TTC in 2012, but time will tell. I primarily use BabyFit for tracking calories and nutrients. Two weeks a month for the last seven months I have been potentially pregnant, so I try to eat right just in case there is an exceedingly young baby in there trying to gather the nutrients for spinal cord nerve cells.

This place is not so great for pre-pregnancy support though. Everything is baby baby baby when over and over again there isn't one. I like FertilityGal.com for charting temperatures for ovulation and peak fertility and message boards for talking with other people trying. Some people like FertilityFriend.com too, but that one costs money. I prefer free.

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10/28/11 9:21 A

My DH and I officially decided to start TTC in the middle of last month. I didn't refill my birth control after the last pill. I've been off a little over 3 weeks. I'm hoping we won't have to TTC very long but after being on the pill almost 6 years I'm not sure. I hope everyone has a very successful 2012! Baby dust to everyone!

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12/25/11 2:03 P

hey TTCFROMJAN2012 -- i've been seeing a nutritionist for a few months (she helped me maintain weight during my second pregnancy and to lose weight after his birth 5 years ago) since i gained some weight over the last year and it was really beginning to bother me. i have stopped gaining but cannot seem to lose any weight even though i live a fairly active lifestyle and i am managing my food pretty well (not this week bc of the holidays AHHHHH)! TTC has definitely given me more motivation to take better care of myself. My husband and friend like to go out to town Thursday nights for drinks, etc. and i've almost completely cut alcohol out now! I'm very open with my husband so have discussed my anxieties w him. We got married only 9 months ago and i have 2 children from a previous marriage. he has never had children before so he is anxious for other reasons :) It will be a big transition for everyone and i have some very traumatic memories of being pregnant with my EX, so that obviously contributes to the anxiety i am having about pregnancy and going back to "mothering a baby"! my kids are "big" now and i don't have to worry about leaky bladders or leaky boobs!!!! lol!!!! but its all going to be worth it in the end!

This was our first month without protection!! so this wednesday I'll either get my period or get some news!!!

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12/26/11 4:05 A

I got my period (EARLY)! how could that be? i am devastated! I was really hoping it would be easy, considering my other pregnancies were "unplanned"...

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1/3/12 4:41 P

We've been trying to conceive our second baby since (officially) November, but I started spotting 2 days ago AGAIN, so AF is on her way. I'm 20 pounds heavier than when I conceived my little guy, so I'm currently attempting a slim-down in hopes of increasing our chances.

We only have until March to try, because I have severe Raynauds syndrome which increases chances of 2nd and 3rd trimester miscarriage if those trimesters occur over the winter. Needless to say, our pregnancies have to be well-timed.

Our first little one was conceived in our first cycle trying, so this string of BFNs is new to me. I don't know how gals can TTC for so long with so many disappointments, and I'm just getting started!

Here's hoping for a 2012 baby for each of us!!!

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1/5/12 12:54 P

Also TTC this month, hoping we'll have a baby before the world ends! Joke.

I am so so so happy at the mo! I stopped depo over a year ago and about 4 months ago DF and I decided we wanted to TTC, even though my cycle hadn't come back. Buttttt... 3 days ago AF came!! I think I'm the first person to be so breaking excited about this! Means in a week we can start trying properly knowing my body actually IS working! haha

Babydust to all!

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1/6/12 4:00 P

Me too. I have to wait for the first day of my cycle this month and then I start my first round of clomid. I'm excited and anxious to see how this all works out. Good luck and lots and lots of babydust for everyone

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1/6/12 10:02 P

I finished my first round of clomid and have had my first ovidrel shot. I take the second one tomorrow and Wednesday I have bloodwork to check progesterone levels. I'm not real confident we didn't miss our window of opportunity. But we'll see. I'll know more in a week I guess...

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1/11/12 6:56 A

Good luck, everyone. I got a bfp in November 2011 and thought I wasn't going to be TTCing in 2012. But the babies didn't stay, so I'm back as a regular member of the TTC club. I know it is common, but like a lot of people with their first, I didn't think it would happen to me since my mom never had a single fertility issue.

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1/12/12 8:42 A

Hi All! I was pretty active on the TTC 2011 board, but unfortunately that did not work out for us. We have MFI issues and have been ttc for almost a year and 10 months now. However, we start IVF tomorrow and will be doing our transfer in February! Here is to hopefully a November baby! I am nervous but very excited. Hope to get to know you all! Baby dust!

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1/12/12 5:06 P

Good luck on your transfer, Darlene! I hope you end up with a fantastic Thanksgiving!

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1/12/12 10:13 P

Sorry for your loss of twins. Thats devastating. Sounds like a lot of us are trying here in January! Our first month TTC #2. I really want an October baby but if not this month we will wait until April as I do not want a Nov Dec Jan baby. Good luck all!