Weekly Check in 7/9

tlc35

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? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?

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

Feel free to add any vents or shout outs.


QOTW: What is your favorite summer food or drink?

tlc35

1. Your Name or Screen Name (not full names) and State you are from.
tlc35 from Louisana

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

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?
Charting/temping

4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?  CD 19.  I had a big temp spike this AM but I had several drinks last night so not sure if I O'd or just an alcohol induced temp spike.  I didn't get a +OPK but only tested once a day since I didn't bring enough strips.  I guess we will see.

5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
Not sure.  Right now I'm just glad that we got a chance to try since I was away from H till Monday night.



QOTW: What is your favorite summer food or drink?  Love sangria

Lesliem0901

Hi lovelies. Thanks for the check-in @tlc35‌!

Margaret from Michigan
TTC#1 since June 2012
I'm doing a natural cycle w/ acupuncture, temping/charting and taking Chinese herbs and Coq10.
I believe I'm post O but waiting for FF to confirm.
I would love for this to be my miracle cycle so I wouldn't have to move on to IVF. I'm trying to set positive intentions.
QOTW: fresh squeezed lemonade and corn on the cob. Yum!

URMySunshine77

1. URMySunshine77 in Northern California

2. TTC#2 since March (when PPP arrived).

3. Charting, temping, PNV, green tea before O

4. CD5. Today should be the last day of AF.

5. DH is on a business trip and returns CD14. I have been ovulating on CD17 or 18. I have a good feeling this month because DH understands that we should have sex multiple days for the best chances.

I'd like to shout out to @Davie813 and @C_Girlie and send some positive thoughts since they are having difficult weeks.

Also @BeckyP005 we miss you!

QOTW: My favorite summer food would have to be Midwestern sweet corn--it tastes just like candy.

meredithcarole

1. Meredith from FL
2. TTC #1, round 2 since June (but more seriously this month)
3. I used an OPK yesterday and today. I got a faint, squinter line today so I am guessing I might get a positive OPK tomorrow.
4. Waiting to O (CD14). I have had a couple twinges that might be ovulation related.
5. I am hopeful, but not completely confident.
QOTW: What is your favorite summer food or drink? Margaritas, on the rocks, with salt!

kelley72

tlc35  Thanks for getting us going!  Sounds like we're cycle buddies, I'm d18 and believe I o'd yesterday- Best wishes for you!

Lesliem0901   Wow, that's three of us cycling right together, Wishing you well on this cycle! 

MySunshine77   Hopeful you and your dh make the best of this cycle!

meredithcarole  ok lady, you know what to do with a +OPK...

IFinTN  Hope your healing continues and you get to progress with your embies!

1. Your Name or Screen Name (not full names) and State you are from. Kelley in GA
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.? 3rd cycle for #6
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? on our own, charting temp, cp, cf
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww? probably O'd yesterday just waiting on crosshairs/fertility friend
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc) Pissed off...

Feel free to add any vents or shout outs.  My vent is the emotional/physical frustration of having an ill dh.  We are obviously very blessed with our family, we would love to have a sibling for the child we have togeter, my baby Levi.  I am not desperate to be pg and am ok with it taking a while which in reality I know it will if we are even able to conceive again.  However; because of our ages we decided to ttc immediately but with my dh not able to perform sexually *due to illness although right now I am feeling like it is more and he isn't telling me... I'm just pissed off.  We all know without sex (or iui, ivf) no conception is possible and his inability ?desire/followthrough/ is making me so damn mad.

thanks for letting me get that out!


QOTW: What is your favorite summer food or drink?  I'll go with grilled corn and/or grilled shrimp/tuna steaks, etc.  Grilled food says summer to me

Austrogermokee

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

Shannon from Maryland

2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
TTC#1 since Sept 2013

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?

I had my first Letrozole cycle CD 2-6, then I am on progesterone for two weeks. 

4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?

I'm in the 2WW, 4DPO. No symptoms. My doc says I can test 14DPO, but I'm going to test on 12DPO because I don't want to wait that long.

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

I'm not feeling good about this cycle. I had a corpus luteum cyst rupture after I O'd, and while the RE says that wouldn't affect conception I just don't feel hopeful.

Feel free to add any vents or shout outs.
My vent is for my friends. Very few of them know I'm dealing with IF, and every time I go to a party and don't drink they start peeking into my glass, asking if I have "anything to announce" and outright asking if I'm pregnant. I know they think they're being funny, but every time I go home and cry. DH and I have been talking about how to respond, and I think at this weekend's cookout I'll say something like, "Yes, I would like to announce that I'm the designated driver. Now piss off."

Shout-out is to my DH, who has been a trooper.

QOTW: What is your favorite summer food or drink?

I make a mean sangria, which in my world is rum-fortified jug wine.

latershrader

1. leanna from virginia

2. TTC#1 since Nov 2012

3. I feel like a broken record. still dropping weight. 15 more to go. probably going to have push my iui to August at this rate. but i am using opk's this cycle and as always, pnv.

4. Waiting to O. Probably in the next couple of days. 

5. I'm hopeful but not overly so.

QOTW: I love ice tea, fresh ripe tomatoes, and sweet corn. YUM!

Radiantly

1. radiantly, from brooklyn ny

2. TTC #1 pretty hardcore since January 2014.  6 months before that NTNP.

3. I am charting, temping, OPK, acupuncture, eating well.  I did see an RE this week for the first time and the ultrasound showed good egg reserve (YAY!) but a 1.8 endometrioma on the right ovary.  He said it could be the reason we haven't conceived yet.  I am not sure.  I never knew I had any endometriosis.  He didn't give a prognosis probably b/c he wants to get my test results (I gave 10 vials of blood!) and if I get my AF next week, I'll go in for baseline and HCG.

4. I'm 6 DPO.  Was experiencing cramping pretty heavy right at O.  Lots of creamy DM the last few days and a little soreness on the external skin down there.  But today don't feel anything really.  Will test this weekend on 8 DPO.

5. Really hopeful but don't want to get too caught up in expectations.  It's hard b/c the last of my friends who was struggling just announced 3 months pregnant last week.  I have faith that the timing will be perfect.  I am really happy with the lots-of-eggs message from the RE. That makes me feel better about timing, that i have time.


QOTW: What is your favorite summer food or drink?

Usually I just drink a lot of water, but if in a really special moment in the heat, I love watermelon juice.

Davie813

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

Davie813, Chicago

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

6 months TTC #2

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?

Will do (if insurance agrees) IUI with injectables this cycle.  I'm going in Monday morning for CD3 bloodwork (assuming AF shows up on time), and am having my needle-instruction session Wednesday.

4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?

12 DPO.  BFN yesterday.

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

Ready to move on to the next thing!

Feel free to add any vents or shout outs.

@tlc35, Good luck!    Hope you enjoyed the drinks

@Lesliem0901, Hello yourself, Lovely (I just thought that was a nice greeting).  FX you get your miracle this cycle!

@URMySunshine77,   Thanks for the shout-out!  Glad DH is on board!

@IFinTN, Seven embryos!  Hooray!

meredithcarole  I hope your +opk shows up and that you can make the most of it.

@Kelley72, so sorry about DH.  Hopefully he comes around (whatever is trouble is) soon!

@Austrogermokee, Good luck!  Are these the same friends you have to keep explaining yourself to?  You'd think, after awhile, they'd just get used to the fact that you don't drink much and move on with their lives...

@soontobeshrader, I'm still so impressed with the weight loss and hope the last 15 lbs go quickly.  Off topic, am I the only one who repeatedly reads "pnv" in this context not as "prenatal vitamins" but as "penis in vagina" and thinks well, yes, that's a good way to get pregnant before realizing my mistake?  Probably.

@Radiantly, so happy to hear about your plentiful eggs.  That must be a load off your mind.  GL!

QOTW: Cherries.

Austrogermokee

@Davie813, I used to be more of a drinker, so I think they assume I'm pregnant because I've cut back. I actually cut back to lose weight and have more energy, but what can you do?

kindershlitz

1. Kindershlitz, MI

2. TTC #2 12th cycle

3. PNV, OPK, acupuncture, starting progesterone, (still working with OB)

4. CD 13- but my cycle was weird spotting wise so I hope I counted right.  DH is out of town for 2 nights so hoping my O date sticks to 18ish.  

5. Trying to stay positive as we hit the 1 year mark but little comments about having another ting as people don't really know.

6. grilled chicken, corn, coleslaw, s'mores around the fire make the perfect evening summer meal (love cherries for snacks)!

@Davie813 No- I had not previously seen PNV that way but now I will! 

@URMySunshine77 shout out for checking in on my appt.

Fredifer1115

1. Jen from NY

2. TTC #1 since March

3. Been with an RE since March.  Had our first IUI with clomid and trigger this cycle.  Been doing acupuncture once a week, taking prenatals and CoQ10.  Just started charting this month, and have no clue if I am doing it correctly.  

4. In 2ww, CD26, 7dpiui.  The only phantom symptoms I am not having are spotting and breast soreness.  Have everything else, and that's annoying.  

5. I am more anxious than anything else.  Not very hopeful, based upon RE's lack of optimism.  

Struggling with next steps if this IUI doesn't work.  Have a very high FSH (one month 24, next 43).  Even though this is just the first IUI not sure if we should try once again, or jump to IVF.  Scared that with failed IUI we could be 'wasting' viable eggs.  

QOTW: Seafood, any and all.  LOVE crabs, and eat them once a week.  Been enjoying McKenzie's seasonal reserve hard cider.  Tastes like apple pie in a bottle.  Just getting into beers, never been a big beer drinker.  Having fun experimenting with local craft beers.  

TAT2MAMI

1. TAT2MAMI from Northern California

2. TTC #2 - This will by my 5th cycle.

3. I'm going to try the OPK's this month and also going to let "the juices marinate." I usually get up pretty quickly.

4. AF came on Saturday, 7/5 so I am on CD 6.

5. Don't feel pretty good about it, obviously. I always said I wanted to get pregnant in July to have an April baby. Plus, the chinese calendar predicts it would be a boy. So, I'm holding out hope that July is THEE month!

A shout out to ALL of the ladies on this board. It's great to be on this board with all of you and to share our bad times as well as our good times!


QOTW: My favorite summer food would have to be cherries. Don't really have a favorite summer drink.

efhoping2010

1. efhoping2010 from the plains living in the midwest

2. Since FET D&C surgery in July 2012, IVF/ICSI is our only way for biological children

3. Have ODWU Scheduled in CO next week, DH has soured on the price.  I am trying to decide if I should go and fly alone if he will not???

4. AF just arrived
5. Hopeful but sad

QOTW:Hotdogs and smores from a bonfire

IFinTN are you happy with CCRM?  We are having trouble with the costs.

KirstenAlecia

Kirsten from CA

TTC #2 but #1 for H Im into about a year and a half on NTNP

Technically Im still NPNT but i WAS planning on starting to temp so i could actively be trying when September hits…BUUUUUT, I can't find my BBT. So i guess next month temping will half to start. Im on a mission to find it today….

Im on CD10 

I feel like I'm ready to start getting ready to try……the weight loss efforts are beginning and if i could get 20 lbs off me id feel good about getting PG…like it could be a healthy PG where as if i don't lose i would worry about my blood pressure.

Shoutout to all you guys…..you are awesome! 

QOTW: My fav summer food is Watermelon sprinkled with Tanjin. OH my gosh SOOOOOOO GOOOD! I wait all year for just that…lol

supersarah77

1. Sarah from Oregon

2. TTC#2, just completed my first full cycle.

3. I'm charting/temping.

4. AF arrived today.

5. I'm chalking this first full cycle up as information. FF didn't detect O so I don't really know what that means. We'll see what happens this cycle I guess. I am on day 3 of weaning DD, so still BFing may be impacting things. I'm dropping one feeding every few days and hope to be completely weaned in a month or so. But that all depends on the little miss.

QOTW: anything on the grill, especially sweet corn! And beer enjoyed al fresco.

efhoping2010

IFinTN.  WOW that is amazing!  Wonderful results, I guess that is why they cost so much!

Any ODWU tips?

danieleandwayne

@Davie813: Where are you in Chicago? My brother has two restaurants there... (Despite not having been able to even fry an egg when he was growing up with us in CT.)

1. Your Name or Screen Name (not full names) and State you are from. Daniele, live in Maine (i.e. I'm from Away since I wasn't born here)

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

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? Charting for now. My cycle is wonky, but not sure if it's just wonky since having DD last year or just wonky because I've only had one AF since my dd was born and then the miscarriage. If I get a BFN this month and AF arrives in time, then I may need to go to the OB or RE to figure out why I'm Oing on CD 30 instead of CD 15.

4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww? In the 2ww (finally!). Getting some discharge, but it could just be a yeast infection. Can you feel my positive vibe? If so, awesome, cause I'm not. LOL

5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc) Guess I just answered that question at the end of number 4. Even if I get my BFP this cycle, I'd be nervous and cautious because of my loss history. 

Feel free to add any vents or shout outs. I'd like to put a shout out to my fellow ladies on here who have been sharing the love, the fear, the frustrations, etc. of TTC > 35. Love to you all!


QOTW: What is your favorite summer food or drink? Food = rosemary ranch chicken kabobs (on the grill). Drink = mojito (I'm channeling Sam Axe)

thirtyninetoforty

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

2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
#1 since Jan 2014

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?
RE, charting/temping, vitamins, clomid, steroid, hopeful for follicles to trigger and then IUI

4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
CD 3

5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
HOPEFUL...increased clomid and steroid

Feel free to add any vents or shout outs.
@BeckyP005...see your "love its" miss your posts and am so very HAPPY for you


QOTW: What is your favorite summer food or drink?
Watermelon and fresh strawberries

kelley72

supersarah77  just curious about your chart, did you have interrupted sleep/ timeing of temp differences due to nursing?  You missed a few days and with all the open circles I am not surprised ff didn't detect ovulation.  Have you played around with  the time of temps to make them closed circles to see if ff will give you crosshairs?  I would change your setting this cycle (take the check off of the time setting) so you get those circles.  Best wishes!

Davie813

danieleandwayne said:

@Davie813: Where are you in Chicago? My brother has two restaurants there... (Despite not having been able to even fry an egg when he was growing up with us in CT.)

We're in the Bucktown/Logan Square area.  Where are your brother's restaurants?

mattandlora

Better late than never!! (LOSS MENTIONED)

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

Lora, Ohio

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

NTNP from Jan - June 2014 with chemical pregnancy in June. Now "officially" TTC for July

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?
charting / temping

4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
Just had O on the 11th, now in 2WW

5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
I think this is our cycle. (WTF, why did my font change???). Instead of "I'd be ok with this" like previous cycles, I WANT it this time. Yes, I know it takes more than that. But.....I just have a peace about it this time.

Feel free to add any vents or shout outs.
Serious family crisis this week. I won't go into details, but we have multiple other family members living in our house this week, for an indefinite amount of time. It made time / space for BD a little more difficult than normal!

QOTW: What is your favorite summer food or drink?

OOOOH......Tough one. There are so many things I love about summer. Ice cream, bbq, lemonade, etc. But the winner is Leinenkugel Summer Shandy beer. Because I can ONLY get that in the summer. Unfortunately I haven't had it in a few summers because of TTC / pregnancy / nursing / TTC. But then again, I'd rather have a baby than a beer. So I guess that is a good trade!