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WTO Sunday
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GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
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R/R/CS:
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
Re: WTO Sunday
Cycle/month: 3/3 (1TTCAL)
CD: 21
CS: I just feel so defeated and like I'm already out this month. It's like my temps are doing the opposite of what they should be doing (high right after period and low after when most ppl ovulate). Could you guys please take a look? First time posting chart, so hope it works:
https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/596532
Some considerations:
I just got a new thermometer at the start of these temps; is it possible for it to be too sensitive for a few days? I had a little bit of a sore throat during those high temps, so maybe that impacted temps? I get up to pee 5542256654333 times every night, so doubtful that I ever truly get 3 hours of sleep. I had alcohol the night before that big temp hike around CD 14. This past AF was my first one since loss.
Is this an anovulatory month?
GTKY: Our caterer was super late! While we were taking our photos after the wedding, I looked over to reception area to see that no one was eating and caterer wasn't even there yet. He showed up soon after that and our wedding planner was able to play it off well, but oh man... It was stressful!
@strickland8052 sorry O is taking a while. I can't explain the high temps but it sounds as if there may be a few reasons. Your current temps look good for potential O and your cm and +opk. Fx it's right around the corner. I'd say it's too earlier to presume it's an anovelatory cycle.
TEAM: PINK!!
***Question/CS reqiest***
Month/Cycle: 6/6
CD: 15
WAUDTGKU: BBT, CM, CP, OPKs, PNVs, HIO
R/R/CS: Background: Today I woke up at 2:00 and temper, and then I lay in bed trying to sleep until my normal temp time this cycle and temped
Question 1) Would you ladies go with the lower temp/open circle, or later temp/closed circle? The difference was 1.5 he's and .25 degrees fwiw.
2) I typically "O" around CD 15 per FF, but with my (so far) steadily rising temps, I think I may have already ovulated this cycle. I had almost/not quite positive OPKs on CD21 (evening) and CD22 (morning). Would/How long would you continue using OPKs (wondfos) to be relatively sure O is past (assuming that it has)?
My Ovulation Chart
GTKY: My mom and I got into a relatively silly disagreement about how I would wear my hair, and "everyone" (including the hairdresser) joined in on her side. Made me cry because I started to feel ganged up on and was already stressed over the wedding. Looking back, especially at the pics, I wish that I'd either caved completely or gone with what I actually wanted because the way my hair looks in the half up do that I compromised on wasn't great.
ETA: additional info related to Question 2.
DH: 36⎹ Me: 36
CD: 15
WAYDTGKU: temps, green tea, PNV, HIO
R/R/CS: I wish my body would cooperate and O already!! DH is wearing out, and I have to leave Thurs for a work trip.
GTKY: the tux placed messed up DH's tux twice so he has to go the morning of our wedding to get a new one. I was so stressed he was going to be late. Also our videographer was supposed to film the girls getting ready at my moms house but was late and missed it (even though I paid extra for that). He met us at the church and was interviewing me before the wedding and I was so pissed at him I was giving dirty looks and really short answers. It's funny on the video lol
As for the difference in temps, I'm not understanding. If the alternative temp was much lower, then that could indicate O now and keeps on your patterns. However, we all know there is no normal. If it were me and the other temp was a dip on my average O day, I would mark the lower one following those guidelines above. Then continue BD until I I get higher temps. Then after my three days to confirm, go back and review the differences with both temps. Sort of go from there.
I have NO if I answered your question, made any sense, or just talked too much. I just woke up.
Edited because I emphasized the wrong word.
CD: 8
WARDTGKU: waiting for AF to leave.... STILL
R/R/CS: i don't know what is going on. AF was spotty on Friday but seemed to find a second wind yesterday. AF was preceded by 3 days of spotting. So I have been bleeding for like 11 days now. I am now convinced that I am broken. It's all been light with mild cramping, so nothing to make me go to the doctor.... But I don't think I need to worry about starting the advanced OPK on cd8 when I am still bleeding. Why can't everything just work??????
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps?
Actually the day of was smooth! If anything went wrong no one told me!
Mild drama at rehearsal dinner with Mil ( shocker). We had been planning and planning to pay for the rehearsal dinner ourselves until mil got bitchy about it so we let them do it and pay for it. It just spiraled out of control. And the one goddam thing I asked for at the reheas dinner, mil blatantly ignored after agreeing.
CD: 8
WAYDTGKU: temping, CM, CP, OPKs if I decide to this cycle. The earliest I've O'd is CD 23, so I've got a while before I really worry about any of it.
R/R/CS: Nothing big today, just happy for another weekend day before I begin my week.
GTKY: My wedding day went pretty smoothly. I guess the only thing that went wrong was that the lady who kind of helped coordinate (we didn't pay her, she sort of offered to just help out because she had done it for others' weddings) kept asking me questions all day about what was supposed to happen when, and all of it was stuff we had already gone over together. It was a little frustrating at the time, but nothing horrible happened - that they told me about anyway!
**TW**
Testing with RE October 2016
BFP 11/5/2016 ~ EDD 7/19/2016
CD: 3
WAYDTGKTFU: temping, green tea, PNVs
R/R/CS: AF has been super, super light so far, which is weird for me. Wondering why.
GTKY: The only mild mishap we had was that my bridesman, who can't drive, forgot to tell the groomsmen that he needed a ride to the ceremony so they all left without him. Luckily he ran into another friend at the hotel who drove him over.
Cycle/ Month: 3/3
CD:15
WAYDTGKTFU: PNV, temping (horribly), BD ED to EOD during FW, CM, preseed
R/R/CS: I've missed so many temps this cycle, but luckily I don't think I've ovulated yet so that's a plus. Another plus: last night was my last shift as a full timer at my job! I'll be per diem (once a week) but not having to be there more than that feels like a huge weight off my shoulders! Now I get a week off before I start my new job so bring on the SLEEP!
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
Nope, we had a courthouse wedding and I was so happy with it. Only our parents and close friends were there. Probably about 7 people total. No stress! We dressed up and took some nice professional photos at the beach afterwards. Then got takeout and everyone had dinner at our house. It was a great day!
CD: 2
R/R/CS:
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
@Ally0221 - I had a courthouse wedding too!
The only thing that was slightly crazy is my best friend overslept and almost missed my courthouse ceremony. My brother was high or jacked up or something and wouldn't wake up for my ceremony. So kind of sad that my brother didn't come to my wedding even though it was just a tiny little courthouse ceremony. His "girlfriend" bedazzled a bra and wrapped some sheer mesh around herself to make a little dress that was goofy looking.
DS: 5 years old
TTC #2 since August 2015
July 2016: Testing cycle with 100 mg Clomid = BFN
August 2016: 50 mg Clomid + IUI = BFN
October 2016: IVF#1 - 13 retrieved / 12 mature / 9 fertilized / 2 blasts
November 2016: FET#1 = chemical
January 2017: FET#2 = chemical
March 2017: IVF#2 - 18 retrieved / 18 mature / 16 fertilized / 5 blasts
May 24, 2017: FET#4 - BFP! - Beta #1 151 - Beta #2 503 - Due date 2/9/18
CD: 2
R/R/CS: Go away AF!
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
We planned a small, intimate wedding with just family. On the day of our wedding it ended up being just the officant, DH, and I present with no one else attending since there were two deaths in the family that weekend and a second in my family three days later. My uncle passed away late Saturday night / early Sunday morning, with my great aunt following him on Wednesday. And DH's grandma had a stroke and was considered brain dead on Saturday. Due to her DNR, they pulled the plug on Sunday right at the time our wedding was supposed to start. So I ended up not even wearing my dress or cutting the cake. We had the caterer just drop off the dinner for 19 at some local church that did meals for those in need. So our wedding was not even close to according to plan, but it was nice to just relax with DH and spend a few days away from home before having to go back to deal with funeral business.
CD: 8
WAYDTGKU: everything and anything.
R/R/CS: yesterday a friend mentioned that taking EPO can delay ovulation..is there any truth to this? also anyone else get canker sores around O time? Seems to be a theme for me the past 6 months- maybe a surge in hormones?
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
We aren't married yet but I'm sure there will be stories when that day comes
DX Diminished Ovarian Reserve, Factor V Leiden Mutation, Secondary Infertility
MFI (SA #1Count 11mill, Motility: 18%, Morphology: 1%)
AMH .328 | FSH 13.2
CD: 1
R/R/CS: ugh CD1. I was so hopeful.
GTKY: to set this up I had a backyard wedding at my parents lakehouse. We checked and quiet time in our neighborhood was 11pm. I got pretty drunk so I went and threw up then to bed around 10. After I went to bed I guess the cops came because neighbors complained about the noise. Nothing happens because everything was winding down anyway and the DJ was already packing up.
- BFP: 3/10/16 — Baby Girl born 11/20/16
TTC#2 April 2019CD: 7
WAYDTGKU: pnv, temp, chart, cm, hio eod
R/R/CS: no rants or raves, gearing up for eod, but trying to to let dh know. I've been trying to keep it to myself so we are not both stressed out.
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
We had an ice storm the morning of and it made everybody late. It wasn't too bad because everyone was scheduled to be pretty early though.
CD: 12
R/R/CS: I thought I might see a temp spike this AM. Hoping O holds off for 2 days now so we can try again in my window since Friday didn't go as planned. Last night might have been our only shot in my FW.
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
My dressed ripped about an inch at the zipper/buttons down my back during our first look. I bent down and turned to straighten out my train during photos and Riiiippp. I was pulling my dress up all night which is why I didn't want strapless in the first place. Luckily you didn't see it unless you looked, but that was our biggest fail. I was uncomfortable and self conscious since I have huge boobs and I felt they were hanging out and flopping around since I lost some support.
CD: 14
WAYDTGKU: Secksking, forbidding DH from using the heated seats, OPKs, etc.
R/R/CS: FF says I may have O'ed two days ago....we'll see. If so, then my cycle is totally different TTCAL. My previous earliest O day was CD 18. My temps may be totally effed up because my sleep has been really off this week. Arg. Also, can I seriously rant about TB mobile?! I couldn't even get onto this board yesterday, which was a tragedy. I am on my laptop now so I can post. The horror, the horror. What am I supposed to do at work tomorrow?!!?!?!?!?
GTKY: Totally pissed that I missed yesterday's GTKY. Just saying. So we had a brunch wedding. I had to wake up really early for hair and makeup....and I overslept. The hotel tried everything to wake me up and failed. The makeup artist finally got me out of bed and she was not happy with me. But...the biggest mishap was that the reception venue started clearing out our party before it was really over. The silver lining in that was I got them to give us a discount because of that.
Me: 33 H: 36
Married: 12/14/13 DS: 1/29/09
BFP2: 10/9/15 MMC: 11/12/15
BFP3: 4/6/16 DD: 12/12/16
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AF sucks
My BSC sis is a huge AW. She always tries to make herself the centre of attention. When that doesn't work she tries to accidently-on-purpose ruin the day for me. This has happened too many times in the past when big, exciting things have happened to me for me to believe it is truly an accident. At my wedding she somehow managed to knock her dinner off her plate and on to my dress. I suspect she was hoping for me to make a big scene and scream at her, but I calmly got up, grabbed mom, my best friend, and the wedding coordinator and we managed to clean up my dress before the stain set.
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AF sucks
My BSC sis is a huge AW. She always tries to make herself the centre of attention. When that doesn't work she tries to accidently-on-purpose ruin the day for me. This has happened too many times in the past when big, exciting things have happened to me for me to believe it is truly an accident. At my wedding she somehow managed to knock her dinner off her plate and on to my dress. I suspect she was hoping for me to make a big scene and scream at her, but I calmly got up, grabbed mom, my best friend, and the wedding coordinator and we managed to clean up my dress before the stain set.
That is truly evil! So glad you could keep it from setting.
CD: 22
R/R/CS: I had a temp spike today! I really hope it stays up because I O'd.
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
I had a lot of drama with DHs family. I really tried to ignore it and have other people deal with it on that day, but it was difficult. First of all my inlaws were yelling at DH all afternoon because they came dressed up for pictures and they didn't know they weren't need for those until later in the day. Wtf, who cares? Not to mention that I gave them a wedding day schedule that they just chose not to look at. 2nd DHs grandparents were our ring bearer and flower girl. DH and I never really discussed if they would be in the wedding party photos or not but apparently they thought we didnt want them in the pictures so instead of coming out and asking they just sat in the house and pouted the whole time and then yelled at DH later. Finally FIL made a snotty comment about how my mom chose to wear a yellow dress instead of a black dress because he thought MIL and my mom had to match... I could have slapped him. And I felt really bad for DH for his family being snotty all day.
Me: 28 DH: 29
Married: August 2014
TTC #1 Since March 2015
Diagnosed with PCOS March 2016
SA results normal April 2016
3 rounds clomid + trigger + TI = BFN
3 rounds clomid + trigger + IUI = BFN
Uterine polyp removed July 2017
Round 1 IVF January 2018
CD: 1
R/R/CS: I was so hopeful today because my temp was still above the coverline...
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
Our officiant forgot to tell everyone to "please be seated" after I walked down the aisle, so everyone stayed standing for like 5 minutes into the ceremony until the photographer got them all to sit so she could get pictures. Also our caterer didn't bring enough help so the food took FOREVER to be ready and then forever again to be served. Everyone at the head table was done eating before some tables were even served their food. The food was really delicious, though, so I can't be too mad.
@<span><a title="Link: https://forums.thebump.com/profile/JamieK1882" href="https://forums.thebump.com/profile/JamieK1882" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">JamieK1882</a> OMG I almost forgot that was actually a huge fiasco for us too, the men's tuxes! It was just one screw-up after another! I don't know if any one of the groomsmen's orders was not somehow botched. Ultimately everyone was dressed, but even DH's tux was altered for him last minute because - I don't even remember now - if they ordered the wrong size? or what? But they have all these styles supposedly available and they really just phoned it in during the initial fitting process, saying, okay so you'll be in this one, but like, didn't get to try on multiple styles etc or maybe even get properly measured when it get's right down to it. Now he understands why I had said in the beginning, we could get him a nice custom tux made and then he would HAVE a tux of his own, but anyway I was pretty disappointed for him, because obv when the bride is dress shopping, everyone makes a big deal and makes you feel special, and he didn't get that at all. We even went to what I thought would be a place with better service and it really wasn't.
@m6agua So sorry about CD1.
@furbabymom2007 It breaks my heart to hear you say you feel like your body is broken. I'm not a doctor, so I don't know what they would recommend, but if it's just light, I don't think at CD8 it's cause for alarm or means anything is WRONG with your body. I know this process is frustrating, and as much as we want to just science the shhh out of making these babies sometimes... The reality is bodies are bodies and they don't always stick to the plan. I have had some tail end very very light pink discharge a couple days here when I thought AF was gone, too, and I'm like, okay, well it is what it is. I blame the full moon. ;)
@Kay6519 oh dear. I can't even imagine. We had a death in the family that we decided to push the date back later and later but ultimately we had to just set it and make it happen. But I remember waiting till after the New Year to send out Save the Dates because he had passed in August. That is real life though! Glad you and your DH got to make the most of your time together anyway. :)
<b>Cycle</b>: 18 temping / 6 ntnp / 3 ttc
<b>CD</b>: 8
<b>R/R/CS</b>: <b>Question: </b>I stopped using alluminum/paraben anti-perspirant, so if anyone has any specific brands they can recommend, I'd be curious. I have this crystal spray I've been using since I've just been hanging around the house mostly anyway, but there was one I was thinking of ordering to try, or I've actually seen a few on the diapering websites, so I didn't know if anyone had some personal experience with one they liked.
Other than that, trying to hold off a bit on the BD until it seems like O may be a little more imminent, since our pattern has been to shoot out the gate after AF and then lose steam closer to FW/O. Not sure if I will have the patience to wait until I see an OPK actually turn though.
<b>GTKY</b>: Well seems like small stuff, nothing major. But I was kind of disappointed when I saw my cake. No offense to all the pink brides, but my flowers were supposed to be blush/peach. NOT PINK. And I mean, we discussed that specifically. So then when I saw my cake it had peach/orange ranunculus on it (okay) right next to the gigantic FUCHSIA PEONIES! Most of the venue flowers too had sort of that saccharine pinkish cast, not what I would call a warm peachy blush, but of course, they were EVERYWHERE so what could I do. They were beautiful flowers, just not really what I had pictured. Now if you look at my cake it looks like the colors were pink and orange. They also didn't find the flower pedestals for the altar, so they were just on the floor, which I'm sure no one noticed, whtvs. But they were doing construction in the Church, and I don't know why no one thought to just take the stupid yellow caution tape off the pews for an hour!!! There's yellow caution tape in most of the Church pictures and it kind of makes me cry. It was a whole thing convincing DH that we had to make sure we had nice pictures/video, and ultimately I can't say I'm over the moon with the job they did. So of course it's such a small thing but it was such an expensive thing and the point was to have those nice memories and they really didn't meet our expectations. I think that's why I've been procrastinating with the video edits because it turned into kind of a sore spot. There were certain shots we really wanted and didn't end up getting either, so again, what can you do now.
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CD: 12
R/R/CS: DH just announced yesterday, AKA the first day he's been home in a week, that he has to go out of town Tuesday and Wednesday this week. That makes me a bit uncomfortable as that will be CD14-15. It's a little too close to O time to have him be gone and not have me be a little worried our timing will suck. Plus, he just got home. I missed him and I'm not ready for him to leave again. And he's going to be gone all of February. I was hoping we'd get at least 1 week where he isn't traveling for work between all the traveling for work.
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
Planning my wedding was just a total pain. DH's family is very devoutly catholic and my family is so very much.....not. So his family wanted us to have our wedding in a catholic church with a full mass and all. My family was against the idea of a Catholic service. DH's family wanted to have a lot of alcohol at the wedding. My family found the idea of serving alcohol so people could get drunk at the wedding to be offensive. As an aside, this isn't to say that most of time alcohol is served so people can get drunk. It's just a simple, extremely well known fact, that DH's family has a long-standing reputation of being the people who get smashed drunk at every wedding they attend that serves alcohol. So in this particular case, assuming if we served alcohol that a lot of people would get drunk was a justified assumption. Long story short, if you can think of something people fight over in regards to wedding planning, our families disagreed and fought over. There was all sorts of drama and some of it got kinda nasty. My family pulled the old "if you want to marry yourself into this family of lunatics then that's your adult decision but we can't support it and won't be at the wedding." Eventually DH and I decided we didn't want to pay all that money (neither of us had well paying jobs and a lot of extra money to throw around. Neither family was willing to help us pay for the wedding.) for a source of contention and drama. So we just eloped at a little mountain bed and breakfast. And it was perfectly lovely. DH forgot to pack his tie and cuff links and was pretty upset when we were getting dressed the morning of the ceremony. Fortunately, the lady who ran the B&B popped in to check and see if we needed anything. She offered to run over to her friend's house and borrow some stuff from her friend's husband. So, all the crises averted.
TTC#1: January 2015- September 2016
Infertility, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
Rainbow baby born June 6, 2017 ❤️
Baby #2 due June 12, 2018
CD: 19
R/R/CS: Just still feeling the lingering crud and my am temp is still high but less than my fever cutoff (100.4). What the heck, body?
GTKY: I guess the big thing was the way my dress turned out after it was altered (I picked it up like 2 days before the wedding). Around my torso it bowed out on one side and I didn't see it until we saw our photos a couple months later. That, and one of the chapel assistants thought it would be a good idea to wear nude leggings so it looks like we have a streaker in some of our best wedding photos.
ntnp #2 . summer 2018
*siggy warning*
ttc#1 . jul 2015
mmc . mar 2016 | 6w2d
dx PCOS (non-IR) / subclinical hypothyroidism . summer 2016
tx metformin, levothyroxine, LP progesterone, femara + trigger + ti . fall/winter 2016
BFP! . jan 2017
DD . oct 2017
You've been warned this is a gross and TMI question...
Yesterday DH and I used pre-seed during our afternoon BDing (prob 3ish?). Anyways, just now I went to the bathroom and when I was finished, had a significant amount of what might otherwise be considered EWCM. However, I'm wondering if it is just some left-over pre-seed. Thoughts? (again, sorry I know really gross). OPKs are still negative and temps are doing nothing.
@furbabymom2007 As hard as it can be, maybe just try to be patient with your body. I saw someone saying they were doing the un-sciencey things, like saying kind things to their uterus. That made me laugh. But it's going to happen in your body's own time, and ultimately whether you O'd on CD14 or CD18 is not going to matter when you do get your BFP, right? You are doing all a person can do. <<hugs>>
@NamelessAria That DOES sound like a nightmare and perfect recipe for a quiet mountain elopement! ;) I liked the part about DH not having his tie or cufflinks cos I can totally see the same thing happening in our house. lol I'm just glad that DH and I mostly wanted the same thing, the Church wedding, the big happy family get-together, laid back family-holiday kind of feel, rather than too fussy fancy or bumping club party scene. We almost didn't get a DJ, but last minute just went for it, and he was fine. By the end of the night he had run out of all my old-timey type song suggestions and everyone was dancing and making requests so I was like, ya, just play what people want to dance to so they have a good time. So what if Grease didn't fit our pre-war period vision. lol Sometimes you pick your battles and I'm glad it sounds like you did what was best for you. I mean honestly, if everyone is going to have such strong opinions, let them have their own darn wedding and count you out, right?
**ETA** @JamieK1882 I'm not sure, but I have heard the ladies discussing this before. The Pre-seed tends to maybe just be more watery and rinse away easily, where real EWCM would be more... gelatinous? But have that little bit thicker consistency and not just rinse away with water quite so easily perhaps? Real EWCM will do the stretchy thing, where preseed will not.
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CD: 8
R/R/CS: Don't really need a CS, but I'll link it just to show...I just started temping this month and was a but discouraged to start because my insomnia has been so bad, I didn't think it would work for me. The first day, I was up nearly all night and didn't temp until late AM just before I got up because that was the longest stretch of sleep I got. Normally I'll temp when DHs alarm goes off @ 5:30 or a little later on the WE. Thankfully my last 3 days of temps have been consistent, despite fragmented sleep and some variation in times.
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)?
Unfortunately, I can say that I had a very, very stressful day. I hate that my memories are stress and pain.
My father was in the middle of a mid-life crisis (still is) and had acquired a mail order bride who was due to arrive in the states around the same time. He wanted to bring her to the wedding without me/he telling anyone. When I said no, our already rocky relationship turned worse. I wish now that I wouldn't have had him walk me down the aisle. We have no relationship anymore. Fastforward to the birth of DS - he decided the first time I should meet MOB and her teenage daughter was, unannounced, the day of his birth. That was pretty much the last straw.
My ILs also made the day stressful because they decided their wedding gift of paying the DJ wasn't going to work (despite this being offered completely by them and talked about for months), so DH and I ended up awkwardly having to deal with that and pay at the end of the night.
Looking back, I wish we would have just eloped.
@virginiaham Hope you feel better tomorrow and your temps return to normal! That has to be frustrating!
@furbabymom2007 Sorry you've had a rough morning! Creepy internet hugs to you!
Cycle/ Month: 4/3
CD: 6
WAYDTGKU: BBT, PNV, omegas, bought some EPO today because why the hell not?
Probably starting to HIO EOD soon, since my cycles are erratic and I have no idea when/if I will O. Just don't want to wear DH out too soon!
R/R/CS: Our new foster pup slept through the night!!
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
We used my mom's mercedes for our getaway car, and when our friends went to get it for us, the battery was dead. So we had people outside with sparklers, and it started raining...and no car. In the grand scheme of things, I'm glad that's all we had to deal with!
Edited: because technology.
@Ally0221 welcome back and congrats on the new job!
@Marley629 I've heard that it could delay O, but I haven't really researched it.
@m6agua, @LadyMillill and @bcooke314sorry about CD 1!
Cycle/ Month: 4/4
CD: 13
WAYDTGKU: Temping, CM/CP, HIO, going to try preseed this week
R/R/CS: We had people over last night to have some drinks and play board/card games. We ended up having like double the amount of people we expected, so it turned more into a party. And I didn't go to bed until four am, when my alarm to take my temp goes off. Ooooops. But I took my temp just to see what it would be, and there was only a .03 difference from yesterday.
GTKY: It rained like CRAZY, but that wasn't that bad other than messing up my hair. The one thing that really sucked about the day (and guys, I swear I'm not a drunk haha) is our asshole friends all insisted on buying us all of the shots the night before. Well, DH and I had rented a cute little two story cottage to stay in for our wedding weekend and when I woke up in the middle of the night to pee, I was really confused about where I was. I got up, passed the bathroom, and walked to the other door frame where the staircase was, and DH woke up in time to watch me take a step at the top of the stairs, like there was more floor there. And I tumbled down the entire flight of stairs. My arm/elbow was bruised, scrapped, and sore on our wedding day. Plus I was so incredibly hungover. But I'm really just lucky I didn't break anything.
Me: 25 - DH: 30
CD: 10
R/R/CS: I've got a bad feeling I'm working on a sinus infection. Hoping to kick that before my FW.
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
Other than being concerned about flooding because it was raining sideways all day, everything went pretty smoothly. The rain even stopped in time to get pictures outside. No crazy stories for us...and I'm thankful for that!
Cycle/ Month: 4/3
CD: 16
R/R/CS: I'm a little confused right now! Input welcome, though this is more of a rant as I know my temps will bear out the truth. Last cycle it was clear when I had a positive Wondfo OPK; the test line was darker than the control. This cycle, the darkest I got (yesterday -- right around when I expected my surge) was just about equal to the control, but honestly I think it was a tiny bit lighter, so I'm questioning it. The "surge," if that's what it was, has since dropped back down. I do drink a lot of water, and I know they say not to drink too much water before the test, but I figure staying hydrated is more important than my ability to read a test, especially since I take them every day for 5 days! I had a bit of light red spotting this morning, which is *not* normal for me and was rather shocking, but I understand that O spotting is normal for some women and am guessing that's what this is. (P.S. I hope this isn't considered symptom spotting -- I think that is only for the TWW and not for trying to spot O!)
GTKY: My immediate reaction is that everything went swimmingly on our wedding day, but when I think about it, a lot of little things went wrong. The funniest ones: (1) A bridesmaid freaked out and destroyed something which another friend had to go far out of their way to fix. Really annoying, but even as it happened as I was able to appreciate its ridiculousness. (2) The pianist started playing the Bridal Chorus (the traditional "here comes the bride..." for the bridesmaids instead of me! Oops. By the way, I wasn't on here yesterday, but loved looking at everyone's wedding photos just now! Beautiful.
CD: 16
R/R/CS: I'm proud of myself for using my brain this morning and remembering that I had an unwrapped CBAD holder thingy, so I could just restart today, which should be better for my cycle!
GTKY: I'm so wedding themed GTKY out already. 1) they're not particularly inclusive even if there is a "if you've never been married, what is your dream ____", 2) they get needlessly long, and 3) wedding pictures are fun, but they're also kinda boring after the first hundred.
Yes, things went wrong, but so what?
TTC #2: April 2018 ~~ BFP: May 2018 ~~ EDD: January 2019
CD: 5
R/R/CS: I think AF might be gone which is nice! I'm excited for this cycle, I hope it's not as long as last and I'm excited to start OPKs and work on timing better. I mean there's no way OPKs could hurt right? It was such a guessing game last cycle especially since I didn't O until like cd33... Too much guessing.
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
The weather was bleh, but I didn't get rained on at all! DH, me and all our parents thought everything went perfectly. If you ask my SIL I'm sure she would disagree ::eye roll::
CD: 7
WAYDTGKU: almost everything. I even remembered to temp today!
R/R/CS: wondering if I should try OPK this month...but they just cost so much unless you wondfo and then there's the whole testing multiple times a day thing. There is absolutely no chance I would ever test OPK at work. I don't have that kind of bathroom time. I'm lucky if I remember to go to the bathroom at all at work some days. I guess if cycle 8 doesn't work out maybe cycle 9 I'll add OPK?
GTKY: I don't have any great stories about things that went wrong. If things went wrong I didn't notice them and/or don't remember them.
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I actually came here to share a chat we just had because it made me chuckle. Yay for scientific sex!
"hey...umm...are we 'doing it' today?"
"Um..possibly. Wouldn't hurt."
"Uh..that doesn't help. I'm trying to determine if I can have beer or not and how many."
"Well, we can't do it now because that's not a healthy 24 hr in between. Maybe tonight."
"Not helping."
"Um..give me an hour and I can check things and give you a better answer? Definitely not soon, maybe before bed. Does that help?"
"It's helpful....one hour."
I have one hour to determine the difference between PreSeed, CM, and *ahem*.
CD: twenty-effing-one
WAYDTGKU: P in V
R/R/CS: *TW* My CP was so freaking early, I knew the loss was happening at 4 weeks exactly, and AF came at 4+3 (and only 5 days late), so I was expecting to O at a relatively normal time, maybe a couple of days late, but now I'm freaking out that it's going to be CD 25-27, and DH is leaving on Tuesday (CD22). I'm praying that I O on at least Tuesday because otherwise our timing this month will be shit. We've been DTD every single day since last week Saturday, and if I O while he's gone, all of my hard work will be for nothing. I'm really disappointed that the stupid CP effed up EVERYTHING. Stupid body!!!
GTKY: Continuing with the wedding theme from yesterday, did you have any crazy wedding day mishaps (family drama, bad weather, vendor issues, etc)? It seems like every wedding has at least one thing that just doesn't go according to plan, but makes for a fascinating story!
Oh lord, I don't want to talk about it. DH's family was pretty horrific, though. And SIL decided to try to steal the spotlight all day long. Needless to say, we aren't really friends now.