Twins are more common once you hit your 40's! Your chances actually increase for naturally conceiving twins. Im 41 and ttc #3 for me #1 for hubby and I have fallen pregnant twice in 5 cycles so take heart ladies, 30's will be a walk in the park!

Yes, it's true: twins are more common in older moms.
Yet the number of mid-40ish celebrities having twins defies the odds that this could be a natural phenomenon.
IVF increases the odds of having multiples too.

Hi everyone!

I tested AGAIN this morning and still have BFN.. sigh.. I've gotta stop buying those tests and wait until AF stays away. Costing me a fortune!

Lucia.. sorry to hear about your loss - a lady at my work has just gone through a similar situation as you... however she found out at the 12 week scan that her baby wasn't alive .. She is 36 and was (is) on #2. She is going to try again on her next cycle.

Another one at my work is preggers and fell straight away - thought she would go off the pill and get ready to try and just got preggers straight away. Whatever!

I don't have any good updates other than no BFP is so frustrating and I am getting quite annoyed with people who see I'm not drinking and smoking and assuming that I'm preggers (when I don't know if I am!).

Also annoying is the people who ask you how getting preggers is going. I wish I had never mentioned it. I feel like saying "yes well we are having sex and I've heard that causes pregnancy, so really the getting pregnant thing is going ok!". I mean really...

And one more complaint - people who tell you how fertile they are and they just look at a man and get pregnant - yet have never had a baby or been preggars in the last 10 years? And when they were preggars they never carried to full term by choice?

Ok thats enough for me I have bad Mondayitis (as you can tell) and I wish everyone lots of

fast and strong

and if this month is not successful - plenty of next month..

I don't know how you guys afford them! lol!
I bought one pack when we started ttc last month; the pack had 3 tests, and it was like 16 dollars at Walgreens. But it's an "early response" test, supposed to detect pregnancy 5 days before AF is due or something like that.

Anyway, I used one last month before AF: negative.

I'm holding the other two.
We're on a really tight budget, and buying more tests would mean going without something else that I want, like chewing gum or soda or any of the little comforts that help me get through my long workday!
Besides, I like to enjoy the illusion that I *might* be pregnant for as long as possible.
There's some pleasure in that, for me: the suspense.
Why should I test early and spoil the whole thing sooner than I have to?

I'm saving the other two tests for when AF is late... and since AF is never, ever late, I really won't even need the tests, because if AF is late, I'll already know. The test will just be a confirmation.

that is such a good idea....

I'm gonna try really hard not to test unless AF is late (next week). But my other two tests (got them on special) are for 4 days before AF is due.. which is not until Thursday.... you would think I could hold out till then surely

FearlessKat - this is so similar to me. There's nothing more annoying than people asking how its going - don't they know they aren't supposed to ask?! And we told lots of our friends we were trying to avoid them asking about lack of drinking. Can't have it both ways - either you tell them and they ask for status updates, or you don't tell them and then they think you are secretly preggers!

I talked to my doctor about drinking in the 2ww. She said that it wouldn't do any harm to have one or two glasses of wine every now and then - as long as I didn't get drunk. She certainly didn't recommend giving up completely, which I what I did to start off with... Its completely up to you, but maybe this might help a bit. Bearing in mind getting preggers might take months...