TTC Check In!

ball.and.chain

Good morning!  This is the weekly check in for those who are trying to conceive or in the planning stages.  Let us know how things are going this week!

QOTW: If you had one extra hour a week, how would you spend it?

GoaliesWife123

Good morning friends!

Looks like I'm CD1 (finally). I've started using the CBE Fertility Monitor, and will be religious for my temping routine. I will also be using opks starting with the day af ends. 

We're hoping for better timing this cycle. 

QOTD: I'd spend it with my wife in the woods hiking. I miss hiking!

trisholio

Good morning ladies.  We are 8dpi and starting to get anxious.  We have 6 more days until we can test and I have a feeling this week is going to be more difficult than last week.  I swear I have felt twinges and weird little cramps that for sure means we are pregnant ;-)  But we are going to have to wait and see.  

QOTD: I would spend it getting a massage.  I have a lot of neck and back pain and I love getting massages!!!

KH826

Today was my 9th morning of Lupron injections. I took my last BCP on Saturday (thank goodness!)... waiting for AF to show up, I am spotting and crampy this AM, so looks like today will be the day for AF. I have my next RE appointment on Thursday -- it will be my "Supression Check" before I start stims. I am scheduled to start Follistim shots on Saturday.

I guess that's it for me...

QOTW: I would spend my extra hour a week having a nice meal (without interuptions or distractions) with my wife. A little weekly date.

lbugher

I'm 4 dpiui.  I don't know if I'm crazy, but my uterus feels... heavy.  It's felt heavy since I had the IUI done.  Has anyone else experienced that?  I've never had sperm inside my uterus before so I wonder if it's just a foreign substance and my body is still reacting to it?  Or could it be the Ovidrel making my ovaries go nuts?  Good lord, I hope I didn't shoot myself in the foot.  I had a nightmare about having 4 fetuses in my body.  I really don't think I could handle that.

QOTD: If I had one extra hour... Hmmmm... I'd probably lay in bed and read

healz413

We are sitting in the clinic waiting to see the nurses to get the ovidril trigger shot.
M has a 19.2mm follicle and they want it over 20mm. We will take the trigger shot home with us to trigger Tuesday night for a Thursday IUI. But M will also come to the clinic tomorrow morning for quick bloodwork and ultrasound to make sure she isn't surging on her own. If she is surging,
they will call us tomorrow afternoon and tell M not to trigger but rather to come in weds for an IUI.
We were hoping for two mature follicles on this Clomid cycle but unless something super special happens, the 13mm follicle won't mature in time.

QOTW: it depends on what time of day/week it was. At night, we'd probably spend it watching TV to be honest. But if it were during the day when we were both free and awake, I'd like to do a long dog walk in the woods or have sex.

2MamazInSeattle

FX for all you in the wait!!!

GW: Sorry this cycle didn't work, but sounds like you have a good plan to nail the timing on this next attempt. Will you doc do a beta blood test? That is a sure way to know you're pregnant - and, my acupuncturist nailed it both times - first time, she knew I was pregnant before I did. Second time, she said "there is a quality of pregnancy to your pulse, but it's not 100%" and indeed, it was a chemical pregnancy that ended mid-week 4. But the beta tests confirmed things (first time, 180+, second time only 40).

KH: We are so close in our cycling! I have my suppression check tomorrow and am truckin' away on Lupron too! Our transfers should be super close! YAY! I'm excited to have you as my cycle buddy, though sad @ball.and.chain isn't with us this month . (And further sad about her foot).

Update - My last BCP was on Friday and I'm still doing my 10cc's of Lupron daily. I added an alarm on my phone to remind me and it's been so relaxing not having to remember! Old lady tricks I guess. AF is imminent and my first u/s (suppression check) and blood draw is tomorrow! Then I start estrogen patches with the next blood draw the following Tuesday. Knock on wood - the preparation part has always going like clockwork for me - so hoping this time is no different.

Back to acupuncture last week, and am working hard on my hip which is SO much better! I got a cortisol shot a week or two ago and I am shocked at the difference. I feel like I've got my life back!  Back to yoga too which has been very emotionally helpful, not to mention the physical. J said last night "honey, I don't think you should ever NOT be doing yoga." So true! It is my happy pill.

Otherwise, I am having baby/kid dreams, which isn't too far out of the norm for when I cycle, but they've been weird or interesting or fodder for the dream interpreters .

QOTW: I think if I had an extra hour, I'd just have quiet time with my latest New Yorker, or my phone, and just putter while lying in bed with the window open for fresh air and views of the giant evergreens in our hood. I'm not great at holding still, so it'd be good for me to have "extra" time that I didn't feel I was being inefficient or wasteful laying around.

 

kristi&p

Today is 6dpi, had a a very busy rest of the week last week and busy weekend I am thankful but at the same time ready for somethings to slow down.

QOTW: If you had one extra hour a week, how would you spend it?
Probably just spending time with the wife relaxing.

ball.and.chain

Well, I updated you all on my hysteroscopy last week and nothing has changed since then (in my ute anyway!).  Trucking along on estrogen; I start progesterone on Friday to induce a period and then we're into the next cycle.  The nice thing about the hormone therapy is that it should create approximately 28-day cycles, whereas my "normal" cycles tend to be closer to 32 days.  At least it'll shave a few days off each cycle between now and FET.

QOTW: Since this is fantasy land and money doesn't come into play, I'm going to choose a couples massage or other spa treatments for my wife and me.  Good call @trisholio!

@GoaliesWife123: Sorry that your first cycle didn't work, but glad to see at least it's finally resolved itself!

@trisholio, @lbugher, @KLeigh1, @kristi&p: Good luck with the rest of your 2wws!

@KH826 and @2MamazinSeattle: Hope the suppression checks go well.  So bummed not to be your IVF buddies anymore!

@healz413: Good luck with that follie (or follies)!

doodah1013

Good day everyone! We are currently 5dpiui and everything feels totally normal. I had some serious cramping after this IUI which was really uncomfortable, but that is all done now. My temps have been steadily higher than usual, but that must be from the Clomid.
We are feeling pretty chill about this one. Definitely don't have our hopes up. If we get pregnant this cycle we will deliver in the busiest month of my work year... Which I would totally be okay with! At the end of this cycle we are going on vacation, so either way We win... Either I will be sitting on the beach growing a baby, or sitting on the beach with a Corona... I like those odds!
Wishing everyone luck for wherever you are in your journey.
QOTD: it depends from week to week. I think mostly I would want to spend it in a park enjoying the sunshine!

StacyLH24

We are 7dpiui today. Nothing exciting happening other than trying to decide if we are going to do a hpt or wait to see if I miss my period. The consensus this morning was to wait and see. So that means another 8 days, approximately. We'll see how that goes...

QOTD: If I had an extra hour each week, at this point I would want to spend it with C on our motorcycle.

GoaliesWife123

2MamazInSeattle said:

FX for all you in the wait!!!

GW: Sorry this cycle didn't work, but sounds like you have a good plan to nail the timing on this next attempt. Will you doc do a beta blood test? That is a sure way to know you're pregnant - and, my acupuncturist nailed it both times - first time, she knew I was pregnant before I did. Second time, she said "there is a quality of pregnancy to your pulse, but it's not 100%" and indeed, it was a chemical pregnancy that ended mid-week 4. But the beta tests confirmed things (first time, 180+, second time only 40).

My acupuncturist told us that my pulse indicated a pregnancy(for two weeks), but she also thought that my body was trying very hard to hold on to it. There is no way to know for sure, but after what went on in the last few weeks, I wouldn't doubt if I was, at one point. I'm not seeing an RE, so we'll wait to see if we get a positive this cycle and go from there. 

We are hoping for better timing this cycle for sure!

GoaliesWife123

@ball.and.chain, thanks!!

kristi&p

doodah1013 said:

Good day everyone! We are currently 5dpiui and everything feels totally normal. I had some serious cramping after this IUI which was really uncomfortable, but that is all done now. My temps have been steadily higher than usual, but that must be from the Clomid. We are feeling pretty chill about this one. Definitely don't have our hopes up. If we get pregnant this cycle we will deliver in the busiest month of my work year... Which I would totally be okay with! At the end of this cycle we are going on vacation, so either way We win... Either I will be sitting on the beach growing a baby, or sitting on the beach with a Corona... I like those odds! Wishing everyone luck for wherever you are in your journey. QOTD: it depends from week to week. I think mostly I would want to spend it in a park enjoying the sunshine!

 

Have fun on vacation. I felt the same way during my last IUI cycle said either way I will enjoy myself on vacation growing a baby or have a drink on the beach. (of course I am hoping for baby growth for you )

Pinkspark

Hello everyone,

Sorry to be a late poster! Currently on CD5, going to start using OPKs on CD9 and call my RE when I get my surge. Very exciting!

And I think I would go for a hike if I had the extra time- I don't hike nearly as much as I used to..

CageyMack

Hi!
Happy to be joining all of you in the TTC world again.
We are on CD 1 here. No + last cycle, but it wasn't optimal since DW was gone for the first 10 days of her cycle.

This will be a monitored, medicated cycle, trigger and IUI from KD. Whee!