Weekly check-in Nov 11

dolphin012

This check in is for anyone on this board to participate in and will occur every Wednesday. If you are new here and haven't made a separate intro on the main board please do so before checking in so we can "meet" you! It's easy to do just click the new discussion button in the top right and post away. 

1. Your Name or Screen Name (not full names) and State you are from. 

2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.? 

3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE? 

4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? 

5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc) 

QOTW: Doing anything to honor veterans day or want to share any veterans that you are thinking about today?

dolphin012

dolphin012 from CA

ttc #1 for a while

Preparing for a frozen embryo transfer. I had my lining check appt on Monday. All looks good and it is ready! The transfer is scheduled for next Tuesday. So will be transitioning with meds over the next week -- stop lupron on thursday, start progesterone on friday and tapering the estrogen patches along the way. 

Mostly just hoping for the best! Honestly its such a long build up to the transfer that it gets hard to transition emotions, but i suspect it will start to feel more real after the transfer. 

QOTW - I am enjoying  my day off today. Nothing particular planned. We are thinking of my partner's great grandfather who fought in WWI. 

btw - finally can access the site on my laptop again. Although the formatting is really goofed up, but the basics seem to work. Anyone else having this issue?

Sporty1216

Ah, good luck @dolphin012 ! I really really really hope this is the one for you!

agriffin92013

Amanda from South Carolina

TTC #1 for almost 3 yrs

I'm waiting to see RE.  Have appt tomorrow.  Started acupuncture this past Saturday

CD 8

No meds this month so not very hopeful this month.  I did start acupuncture so hopefully that will help

QOTW: Not really doing anything today.  My grandfather fought in WW2 and my cousin was in Iraq.

jilligan14

1. Jill from NC

2. TTC #1, not preventing since 11/12, actively trying since 8/14 (two losses in 2014)

3. OPKs, temping, prenatals, evening primrose oil, CoQ10, probiotics, Vit D, fish oil, Myo-inositol, D-Chiro-Inositol, cayenne, flaxseed oil. Cabergoline to bring down my prolactin levels and some nasty herbal concoction twice a day from the acupuncturist. First cycle doing letrozole and Ovidrel trigger shot.

4. CD8, waiting to O.

5. Feeling a bit blah right now as I'm getting over a cold and having some headaches from the letrozole. Going in for my ultrasound this Sunday to see how many follicles I've developed. If it all looks good, I do the trigger shot and then TI. I've been feeling pretty hopeful since this is my first medicated cycle and I'm excited to see what happens.

No veterans that I know personally but today is my dad's bday so I'm thinking of him.

Good luck everyone! We need some BFPs soon!!

PattersRN

1. PattersRN, Oregon

2. TTC #1, 3rd cycle? 4th cycle? Not good if I'm already losing track....

3. OPKs, temping/charting, Pregnitude, preseed. Tried cutting out caffeine and alcohol. Managed to get down to two cups of coffee per day and not so successful at alcohol (I usually have one drink a night).....that's a work in progress.

4. 4dpo, trying not to test until at least 12 dpo

5. Hopeful, but I was under a ton of stress at the beginning of my cycle due to the issue with the roof contractor. Hopefully that didn't affect anything.

QOTW: Nothing special, I work today. Both my grandfathers were in WWII. DHs dad was in the Dutch Army when he was younger (his parents are from Holland). I also did a couple of clinical rotations at the VA when I was in nursing school, so I have a soft spot in my heart for vets.

emsmama15

@dolphin012 - GOOD LUCK!!  You're transferring your two day 3 embryos, right?  God, I know I asked this before.  Not sure why I can't remember.  Your FET seems to be going on forever!!  (for me, at least)

@agriffen92013 - good luck at the RE tomorrow!  I hope you get some answers and a plan!

@jilligan14 - I'm so excited for your medicated cycle.  Everything is crossed for you!

(Edited because I typed "our" medicated cycle.  HAHA!)

@PattersRN - cutting our caffeine and alcohol took me a while.  Caffeine was harder for me, I had to cut back SLOWLY!!   But, with my first, I didn't cut it out and I still got pregnant, so I'm not sure why I'm being so strict this time.  Probably because we've been trying for so freaking long.  I keep saying if this doesn't happen soon, I'll have cut out all food.  

1. EmsMama15 (Heather) from MN

2. TTC #2 for a long time...

3. IVF #1 starting Nov 27.  I'm also finishing up a green smoothie cleanse and actually feel amazing.  Going back to normal food but going to try to stay off sugar and gluten, high protein, no caffeine, no alcohol.  Supplements: CoQ10, myo-inositol, Vit D, Prenatal vitamins, Fish oil.

4. Not sure, on BCPs till 11/22.

5. Getting VERY excited for IVF to start.  I'm ready to move forward.  Sadly, I was thinking about the little blurb I'd put in our Christmas card this year and realized we've done nothing exciting this year since a trip to Jackson Hole in January.  WTH?  Our lives have just been on hold.    

QOTW: Nothing much, just thinking of all the amazing men and women who sacrifice every day for our country.  

rspalding001

1. Rita from Central California
2. TTC#2 for over a year, multiple MC's and a CP
3. Doing OPKs and will start progesterone and baby aspirin after I ovulate
4. On CD 18, think I'll probably ovulate tomorrow or the next day based on my Wondofo OPKs (line is basically as dark as the control so if i didn't have my LH surge already I probably will soon).
5. I'm excited for this cycle sine we are trying something new this time (progesterone). Fingers and toes crossed it will work.

QOTW: staying home with my DD today since day care is closed for the holiday. My uncle is a veteran and so was my Grandpa so hats off to them

KLake42

Kathleen in GA

TTC#1 since early 2015.  7 IUIs done, all BFN.

Gearing up for IVF in early January.  It looks like it will all be done by the second week!  But for now, I'm taking this cycle off, getting a saline sonogram next week, as well as pap smear and counseling session (required by my clinic).  I'll start on birth control when my next cycle starts (I'm CD 2 now, so in 27-ish days.)

Relieved to have this cycle off.  No testing!  But I am concentrating on exercise and eating healthy, hoping to lose a couple pounds by next month (I'm just barely under the BMI limit).

I'm hopeful that doing something different will be the key, but oh wow, this shit is expensive!  And we're already thinking that if this round doesn't work, we look into partner IVF.

Lots of family members in the military (grandfathers, cousins).  I appreciate their service.

@emsmama15- Fingers crossed for you!  It is good to be moving on to something new!

@jilligan14- Yay for trying a new strategy!

@dolphin012- All my fingers and toes crossed for you!

carrieandr

Carrie from Florida

TTC #1 since January, MMC/D&E + chemical pregnancy

Charting/temping, opks, getting progesterone checked on Monday

3dpo, got the crosshairs today

I'm not hopeful for this cycle.  -2 timing doesn't seem great to me.  I really need DH to try hard next month.  The last time we really tried was in August, which resulted in the CP.  Not really trying makes all of this more depressing.

QOTW: Just worked all day.

BernieRae

BernieRae Oregon

1. TTC for 2+ years

2. Clomid & IUI. Also using preseed for the first time and taking a prenatal gummy.  @PattersRN and @emsmama15 - I've also worked on cutting back on coffee. It's tough because it brings so much joy to life, right?! I have these two small mugs that I found at Marshalls and I just love the look of. They're just over 8oz  so I've started drinking my morning coffee out one of those to help keep my consumption in check. Pre IUI, RE said keep it to two cups a day. Post IUI instructions say 8oz.

3. 2dpiui CD15

4. Feeling neutral although my husband and I seem to be having more fun with things this cycle and joking more so that's nice. My sister is coming to visit around Christmas so I've been thinking about if I do get pregnant I'll probably end up telling her even though it would be pretty early. That, or that if I'm not pregnant I'll get to enjoy our family tradition - The "It's a Wonderful Night" viewing/drinking game with Bailey's Irish Cream  

QOTW I had the day off of work which is always nice. Both my grandfathers were WWII Veterans. Wish they were still around.

amimhof

lickastick

1. Createillumination from california
2.TTC #1 cycle 5
3. I'm considering a more NTNP approach this cycle. 1. I need a break from the stress and heartache 2. The EDD would be at the end of august and that is the most miserable time of year here. While it's true it's hot everywhere in the country in so cal we don't have air conditioners in houses and a lot of other places because there is only a need for it a couple weeks a year. However I think we are going to get central AC in our house before next summer because the weeks we need it are getting more and more each year. (I'm scared for the planet!) But being very very pregnant at that time of year seems like insanity, but if it happens it happens hence NTNP. 

I just had my blood drawn to go back to the endobioginist to see what has changed over the year and get a new herbal formula. I am excited to see if I have improved in thyroid and adrenal (the 2 areas we were targeting.)

4. CD 5 AF just ended!

5. This cycle I am using the mantra "there is a timing that is not mine, but is exactly right" 

**loss mentioned** 

when I got pregnant before my miscarriage, I just knew the timing was right and it happened the first cycle, somehow I have gotten away from my internal rhythm with all of these BFNs every cycle. I have learned that one of the most powerful ways in which I manifest in this world is to wait and wait until the timing is just right and then act. One of my most exciting examples of this is that we were so fortunate to buy our house at the absolute lowest dip in the real estate market using my method of waiting until it feels right. One day I woke up and decided it was time to buy, we found and bought our house 2 weeks later and it turned out to be the absolute bottom of the market. I want to find my way back to that state of knowing and receiving and being, to manifest from pure surrender. 

QOTW: Yesterday was just wednesday for me but I honor our vets in my T&P.

daisy62103

1 Sinnet from upstate NY

2 TTC #4 again since m/c at 14 weeks in July. 

3 charting/opks

4 CD 5. AF decided to show 3 freaking days early giving me my shortest LP and cycle ever, AND while we were in the middle of our Disney vacation. Awful. I was really hopeful for this month, which was helping me deal with my most recent loss better. So getting af again has made me really sad again and really missing baby girl we lost in July.

Onto cycle 4. 

Q: we were in florida.  Both my grandfathers fought in WWII.

SLGILL1978

Slgill from KS

TTC #2 and this is our third cycle

Using Ovulation Kits and a Fertility tracker 

Waiting to ovulate

Hopeful, nervous

*My husband is in the Army and we both have extended family that are Veterans or still active duty. Yesterday, my daughter an I watched the parade in our town. My husband walked in the parade with kids at the elementary school I previously worked at. I took off work since my babysitter closed yesterday as her husband returned home from deployment. 

mileeena

1. Milena from Serbia, Europe
2.  TTC #1, 2nd cycle
3. Charting, prenatals, going for folliculometry this Monday (my ob/gyn suggested this just so we can be sure that I'm ovulating) 
4. Waiting to ovulate
5. Hopeful, but relaxed. We're still at the beginning of this journey, so I think there's no reason to stress out. 
QOTW: Thinking of all the people I know who were affected by Yugoslav Wars during 1990s

JeNYCeee

1. Jen, New York

2. ttc #1 since September 2014, but only for 9 cycles now that I'm counting

3. Temping. Both on a naturopathic protocol to 1) raise his sperm count 2) regulate my cycle and balance hormones. BD every other day. Staying natural until 2016 then retesting. 

I'm 35 until August. Plan: Retest for everything in January. If sperm count good and hormones more balanced and follicle count still good - try natural until May. May 2016 see RE. If sperm count or anything is off, see RE in January.

4. CD16 Looks like I O'ed two days ago, third raised temp day is tomorrow in FF. 

5. The waiting is no longer much of anything - not hope, not disappointment. Then on AF day all the stress pours out. 

My father was in the navy, cousin and friends in the army. I am grateful to those willing to sacrifice so much for our safety and peace. 

dolphin012

@emsmama15 - lol! I know it takes freakin f-o-r-e-v-e-r! Yes, you got it, we are transferring our 2 day 3 embies.   

I have been thinking the same thing about Christmas cards -- no exciting travel pictures to include etc. Probably going to put a picture of our house in the snow with christmas lights from last year since the people in it are not too exciting these days!!

@createillumination - i like your mantra a lot, will try and remember it myself

@KLake42 -enjoy the break and good-luck preparing for ivf!

@CarrieandRoy -- fingers crossed for you! I know its a lot better feeling getting in -1 or 0, but but -2 is still well with in the window and gives you a good shot. 

@Sinnet -- so sorry  that is really rough timing.