TTC Check In

ball.and.chain

It's Monday (again???).  Time for the weekly check in for those who are trying to conceive or in the planning stages.

How are things going this week?

QOTW: My wife asked me this last night so I'll ask you: what would you do with $1 Million?

ball.and.chain

Nothing really to report this week in terms of TTC.  Lining check in Wednesday.  Keep your FX for a fluffy ute!

QOTW: Pay off student loans, invest some, donate some, take a fantastic European vacation.  My wife and I differ on whether we should pay off our mortgage or buy a vacation home. Decisions, decisions...

KH826

@ball.and.chain - my fingers are tightly crossed for you and your fluffy ute! **** I am on my iPad again so can't seem to figure out how to make space breaks stick when I post, apologies! **** Today I am 1dp5dt woohoo! Let the wait begin! **** QOTW: I would also pay off student loans and any other misc debt, I would invest some for our children's education, and then we would probably use the rest to move up our time table for moving. We would probably build our dream home. Not sure if we would sell our current home, or keep it as an investment property and rent it out...

GoaliesWife123

Good morning and happy Monday! 

@ball.and.chain, keeping my fingers crossed for you!

@kh826 I'm so excited for you and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you, too!

As for me, my temp spiked today so I believe that I O'd yesterday or the day before. I've seen a ton of positive opks in the last few days, and two days of "peak" readings on the CBEFM on Friday and Saturday. The tests were negative as of Saturday night and Sunday, so I knew I would be O'ing soon. I was very excited to see a temp shift this morning, and I'm praying that the temp stays high. 

We managed to get THREE ICI's in for this cycle! Any thoughts and prayers would be appreciated for this 2ww!

QOTD: First and foremost, I would pay off my student loans. Next, I would pay off our truck and any other debt. With the remaining amount, we would purchase a luxury motor home and hit the road! I'm sure we would help family, but we've talked about it already and a motor home is in our future, for sure! Oh, and a new jeep!

wishiwaspreggo

Happy pregnancy thoughts for all of you, ladies!  I am looking forward to your BFP stories in the very near future

As for me... No AF yet.  I took another HPT this morning and it was, of course, stark-white BFN.  I have pretty much given up hope for this cycle as it seems impossible for me to be pregnant and still not register the HCG on a pee-stick.  I've got my appointment all set for tomorrow with a real reproductive endocrinologist so I will look forward to that and keep y'all posted.

What would I do with $1 million?  Pay off debt, by a nicer home, and invest the remainder for retirement.  I work for a university so I am not worried about my kids' education since we'll get a huge discount.  The other answers I've seen here are quite sensible, but the sad truth is the folks who usually land such windfalls don't know how to manage money and end up doing crazy things like buying 4 speed boats, fitting their teeth with diamonds, and using the rest for booze and toys.

Pinkspark

Good morning! I'm currently 12dpiui and because I couldn't wait a full 14 days I decided to test this morning and got a BFP! We were pretty shocked/excited! Now we just wait it out, test again on the 18th and call my RE for an actual blood test. Definitely keeping my fingers crossed!

QOTW- Eliminate our debt, go on a small vaca, put a bit in a savings account for an emergency fund, and invest the rest to create a secondary income stream!

2NewMoms

Happy Monday!!! 2DPI Here Feeling really good about this cycle

QOTW - We would buy a new house. We live in a very expensive area, so 1mil would basically buy us a house and that's it (and we'd probably still need a small mortgage on top of that)!!

healz413

We are on CD3. We are doing a combined Clomid and menopur (injectable) cycle. Tonight is the fifth and final day of Clomid for Manada. We have done two days of menopur and will do two more then go back to the clinic for a follicle check. We are at the clinic now (for the first post-drug check) and M has an 8mm on the right and a 10mm on the left. RE says she thinks it is too early to tell how M is reacting to the drugs. She suggested two more days on menopur and we agreed. If it isn't working to produce multiple follicles, M will likely quit taking it and continue the cycle will no more medication.
Meanwhile I'm continuing on with Birth control pills to try to control my endo in prep for IVF in just over two months if the IUI doesn't work before then.

QOTW: pay off my student loans and M's student loans, fund a cycle or two or whatever of IVF for M's eggs, top up M's parental leave for a year and save enough that I don't have to work for that year either, put enough in a special savings account to do that again for baby #2, pay for my parents' roof repair, take a trip to Hawaii, buy a house, give a chunk of change to each of our siblings and parents.

Manada

Happy Monday all!

Doing okay here.  CD7 monitoring today after 3 days of menopur + 4 days of clomid.   Another dose of clomid tonight + another shot of menopur tomorrow and back to the clinic Wednesday to check in.   I had an 8mm and a 10mm folly today, so hopefully they both keep growing and maybe another one gets picked up along the way.

The nurse who gave me my injection this morning was super rough.  I'll let H. tell the story if she wants, but she was fast and abrupt and stabbed me in the butt without so much as a countdown!   What's worse is that she was training someone new!  If that new nurse ever speaks to me like the veteran nurse did today I"m going to lose it on her!

QOTW:   $1,000,000 -- in this order I would:  pay off both of our student debt, pay off the mortgage on H's parent's house, set up a medical trust fund for her brother's medications & healthcase (he is in the US without insurance), buy my little bro a new, safer truck, send my little sis abroad to live for awhile, take us to Hawaii, set $20,0000 aside for IVF costs to see if we might get my PG eventually, and put a huge downpayment on a little house in the city for H. and I to live in.      If I have enough left over after that I might quit my job and instead work at a smaller, community based organization part-time to cover our bills.

StacyLH24

@Pinkspark congratulations! FX for everyone else in the TWW.

I am on CD 12. Had my u/s this morning - left shows a 15 mm and right shows a 22 mm. I'm guessing I will be back up to the office on Wednesday for insemination. This will be my second IUI. Since C has Mondays off and it is such a long drive to our RE's office, I took the day off today. We are spending it together and meeting up with a friend.

QOTW: We would pay off my student loans, our cars, the motorcycle and our house. At this point we would use some for TTC as necessary. We would also pay off my parent's house and probably help her Mom out as well. I imagine we would find/build ourselves a new home and then sock away anything that was left over. If there was enough, I would buy my dream truck

trisholio

Good Monday Morning ladies!

We just saw our RE yesterday and they saw 3-4 good follies and did the trigger shot.  They said they were 14-18mm.  So we are hopeful at least one will take :-)  We did one insemination last night and will do another tonight and tomorrow.  We are lucky that our KD lives nearby and makes himself pretty available to us when necessary.  So we are officially in the TWW!!

QOTD:  As most people have said we would pay off debt, including my DW student loans.  Then we would go on a badass vacation, invest some and put a nice down payment on a house.