Trying to Get Pregnant
TheJerilu
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Me: 28 & Partner: 32 | Married 2014
BFP 7/29 EDD 4/11
TTGP Weekly Graduation Thread - Week of 5/9
TheJerilu
member
Congrats to any TTGP grads for this week! We've been rooting for you!
If you are not a contributing member in TTGP, feel free to go right to the 1st trimester board: https://forums.thebump.com/categories/1st-trimester Not sure if you're considered a contributing member? Think about the quantity and quality of your posts here on the Bump while you've been TTC. Contributing members are regularly engaged and active with other members via Love Its, callouts, quotes, and DMs over multiple months TTC. We believe in giving back here
This thread has mild restrictions - thread is primarily BFP announcements but does allow for direct questions or lengthy/personalized congrats in the comments. Use the "Love It" button to indicate "congrats!", "H&H 9 months!", "I was hoping this was your month!" and other short&sweet notes. Questions as well as longer personal congratulatory notes can be posted in the thread.
Regular board rules apply - this is not the place to ask if you are pregnant based off your symptoms or for second opinions on your tests. We do invite you to contribute in the daily TWW and WTO threads and discussions. This community gives back tenfold what you put into it!
When you see somebody who has possibly violated a guideline of this thread, please quote the section of these guidelines and include a callout to the poster, but keep snark to a minimum as these rules can be subject to opinion. If you have a post called out, please edit your offending post to add a note that you've been made aware of the rule and will keep it in mind in the future (if you are being asked to change wording due to unintentionally offensive phrasing, please remove that part of your post with a note of "EDIT: Removed offensive phrasing). Remember: this thread is not a tribunal. Continued arguments and defenses about a post have no place here and are considered off-topic. If you would like to make an argument for or against a rule, please create or update a META thread to discuss.
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If you are a contributing member with a BFP this week, please share your success with us here!
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CD/DPO of first BFP?
How many months/cycles had you been TTGP?
What were you doing TGKU?
How was your timing?
What symptoms did you have, if any (CS & CD breakdowns welcome)?
How are you going to/did you tell your partner?
Anything else to add?
If you are not a contributing member in TTGP, feel free to go right to the 1st trimester board: https://forums.thebump.com/categories/1st-trimester Not sure if you're considered a contributing member? Think about the quantity and quality of your posts here on the Bump while you've been TTC. Contributing members are regularly engaged and active with other members via Love Its, callouts, quotes, and DMs over multiple months TTC. We believe in giving back here
This thread has mild restrictions - thread is primarily BFP announcements but does allow for direct questions or lengthy/personalized congrats in the comments. Use the "Love It" button to indicate "congrats!", "H&H 9 months!", "I was hoping this was your month!" and other short&sweet notes. Questions as well as longer personal congratulatory notes can be posted in the thread.
Regular board rules apply - this is not the place to ask if you are pregnant based off your symptoms or for second opinions on your tests. We do invite you to contribute in the daily TWW and WTO threads and discussions. This community gives back tenfold what you put into it!
When you see somebody who has possibly violated a guideline of this thread, please quote the section of these guidelines and include a callout to the poster, but keep snark to a minimum as these rules can be subject to opinion. If you have a post called out, please edit your offending post to add a note that you've been made aware of the rule and will keep it in mind in the future (if you are being asked to change wording due to unintentionally offensive phrasing, please remove that part of your post with a note of "EDIT: Removed offensive phrasing). Remember: this thread is not a tribunal. Continued arguments and defenses about a post have no place here and are considered off-topic. If you would like to make an argument for or against a rule, please create or update a META thread to discuss.
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If you are a contributing member with a BFP this week, please share your success with us here!
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CD/DPO of first BFP?
How many months/cycles had you been TTGP?
What were you doing TGKU?
How was your timing?
What symptoms did you have, if any (CS & CD breakdowns welcome)?
How are you going to/did you tell your partner?
Anything else to add?
Me: 28 & Partner: 32 | Married 2014
BFP 7/29 EDD 4/11
Re: TTGP Weekly Graduation Thread - Week of 5/9
CD/DPO of first BFP? 37/9
How many months/cycles had you been TTGP? 3/3
What were you doing TGKU? bd+bbt+opk
How was your timing? I honestly thought it was super sucky. I was not thinking this was our month!
What symptoms did you have, if any (CS & CD breakdowns welcome)? None. Like, at all. I tested because my OB asked me to. I fully expected a negative because I was so void of symptoms.
How are you going to/did you tell your partner? I hadn't meant to tell him over the phone but I texted him asking when he would be home because I was dying to tell him and he called me back and I blurted it out. Probably preferable to my last pregnancy when I threw a still wet pee stick at him.
Anything else to add? Good luck to the rest of the ladies on the board! I wish I had been more active the first few months of TTC. The time I was active really helped to have the support of other ladies going through the same thing. Lurkers, get active!
How many months/cycles had you been TTGP? Over a year with 10 months of that being "actively" TTC (temping, charting, OPKs, that sort of thing.)
What were you doing TGKU? Temping, charting, OPKs, checking cm/cervix, sex when possible, saliva microscope, supplements for egg quality: vitamin E, alpha liopic acid, CoQ10, PNVs. Plus whatever I'm forgetting.
How was your timing? -2, O
What symptoms did you have, if any (CS & CD breakdowns welcome)? Not much out of the ordinary. I'm usually super cranky toward the end of the luteal phase, and hungry all the time. The past couple of days my moods have been surprisingly even and good and I have practically no appetite. I've also been really, really tired. Other than that I just got all the same usual things: some cramping, bloating, heartburn, increased breast size and such. I'm not counting any of that since I have it every luteal phase.
How are you going to/did you tell your partner? I haven't told him yet. I'm going to try my best to wait till I've missed my period, assuming I do. Monday is the day of my missed period so everything is still OK then I'll call my doctor and have betas done. Once I see "normal" betas I'll tell my husband. Or at least that's the plan right now.
**TW: Losses mentioned:**
The past 2 cycles I've had chemical pregnancies and I'm honestly more terrified than excited right now. I just keep feeling so sure that this is going to be another chemical. My husband doesn't recognize a chemical pregnancy as a pregnancy/loss. So there is no point to tell him since he wouldn't grieve with me anyhow if it doesn't work out. And he won't really be excited at this point after our 3 losses till I've missed my period at least.
Anything else to add? Guys I'm so terrified. I've been seeing these ghostly "maybe there is something there?" lines for a couple of days. The other day I had a R/R/CS about how I've descended into BSC territory with testing. I know I said I'd wait to FRER till 13DPO but I caved this morning. The line was still faint, but pink, came up in the time frame and definitely there. Since I also got super squinters on Wondfos (from 2 different batches) and another internet cheapie test I'm going to call this my BFP.
Hopefully if this ends up being another chemical you guys will take me back!
TTC#1: January 2015- September 2016
Infertility, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
Rainbow baby born June 6, 2017 ❤️
Baby #2 due June 12, 2018
YAYYYYYY! Congrats! I'm so excited for you. FX this LO is sticky.
Me: 28 | DH: 31
Together since 2006 | Married May 2015
TTC #1 since November 2015
BFP 5/17/16 | EDD 1/27/17 | Born 2/4/17
TTC#1: October 2015
dx: PCOS & MFI
IUI #1 w/Femara + Ovidrel June 2016 ~ BFP
July 2016: Blighted Ovum
IUI #2 w/Femara + Ovidrel September 2016 ~BFN
IUI #3 w/Femara + Ovidrel October 2016 ~BFN
IUI #4 w/Femara + Ovidrel November 2016 ~BFN
IVF with ICSI January 2017 ~BFN
FET February 2017 ~BFN
IVF with ICSI March 2017 ~BFP--Twins Due 12/8/17
Team Blue X 2!
TTC#1 - March 2013
BFP 8/9/13 - EDD 4/14/14 - DS born 4/23/14
TTC#2 November 2015
Dx: Secondary IF June 2016
Medicated IUI cycle#1- Clomid+IUI -1/15/17 -BFN
Break Mid 2017 - Resumed TTC December 2018
"She believed she could so she did..."
Medicated IUI cycle#2- Femara 5mg+IUI 12/22/18 - BFP 1/4/19 - MMC 2/1/19
Saline Sono 3/15/19 - All Clear!
Medicated IUI cycle#3- Femara 7.5mg+IUI 3/28/19-BFN
Medicated IUI cycle#4- Femara 5mg+Gonal F 50iu+IUI 4/27/19- BFP 5/11/19 - MMC 6/12/19 - D&C 6/14/19-
Incomplete M/C Repeat D&C - 7/3/19 -Testing concluded baby was genetically normal
Dx: Unexplained RPL July 2019 - Tested + as carrier for Usher Syndrome & Familial Mediterranean Fever
Saline Sono 8/7/19 - Mostly Clear! All systems go for IVF#1
But will need a repeat Saline Sono between ER and FET
IVF #1 - Antagonist Protocol - 8/17/19
ER#1 8/27/19 - 12R, 6F, 4 biopsied+frozen! (3d5blasts + 1d6blast)- 2 PGS normal embabies!
Saline Sono 9/13/19 - All Clear! Onto FET Prep#1
FET#1 - 4AA -10/4/19 - BFP 10/14/19 - EDD - 6/21/20 -Beta#1-10dp5dt- 379 Beta#2-12dp5dt- 1007 Beta#3-14dp5dt- 2844
DD born 6/15/20
TTC January 2016
BFP May 17, 2016
DS born January 31st, 2017: Rory "Mac" MacKinnon
ETA: Sending positive vibes your way for a sticky bean!
Me:31 H:31
DX: MFI - 1% Morph
12/16 -IVF #1 - Antagonist Protocol w/ Lupron trigger
ER - 11 retrieved- 9 mature - 7 fertilized - 3 sent for PGS on day 5 - No normals (1 XXX Embryo - may use in future)
3/17 - IVF #2 - Antagonist Protocol w/ HCG trigger
ER- 13 retrieved - 11 mature - 8 fertilized - 2 sent for PGS on day 5 -2 Normal
FET #1 - 5/16/17 - BFP! - Beta #1 5/25 - 156 - Beta #2 5/30 - 2562 - Beta #3 6/1 - 5191!
Number 1, SUPER SUPER excited and happy for you.
Number 2, So so sorry for your previous losses, lots of thoughts and prayers that we don't add to that list!
Number 3, I know it's super scary and hard to get excited right now since there is so much fear. The last time I got a BFP I turned around and immediately threw up.. and it was not MS it was anxiety.
Number 4, I know it's difficult with the H not really understanding. Mine is the same way. I just don't think they really understand what it means. It isn't so much the loss of a baby, it's the loss of the future. There is such a unique and heartbreaking pain that happens after you prepare a place in your future, a place in your heart for a baby that never comes. I think it's hard for men to get that because they haven't reached the point of preparation yet. It's not their body, so the pregnancy isn't quite real yet, so neither is the baby. It's hard to not have the support, but I'm certain it's more from lack of understanding rather than just not caring.
Number 5, My "mantra" every time I get pregnant is this: "I need to forget what I feel and remember what I deserve. It is safe for me to be happy during this pregnancy, regardless of how it may end. I deserve this blessing." It may mean nothing to you, but to me, It helps me live in the moment and appreciate the time I do have. You deserve to be happy. And it's okay to be excited.
Number 5, I hope you don't find this offense, as I know not everyone is religious, but I will be praying for your baby and for you to find peace and happiness. I really hope to see you back here at every grad check-in raving about what a great pregnancy you have!
......and sorry that was so long.
Diagnoses: RPL, Endometriosis, MFI (count, morph, DNI, DNAS, multiple bilateral subclinical varicoceles), low progesterone
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BFP: 15 August 2015, loss confirmed 23 August 2015
BFP: 16 November 2015, loss confirmed 22 November 2015
BFP: 18 July 2016, loss confirmed same day
BFP: 04 March 2018, loss confirmed 23 March 2018
BFP: 12 June 2018, TWINS; D&C 06 July 2018
Met with OBGYN in January 2016
Me: all clear, H: OAT
November 2016: HSG = All Clear!
January 2017: H tested again, High DNA fragmentation and stainability
February 2017: Clomid + TI + Progesterone = BFN
March 2017: Clomid + HCG + IUI + Progesterone = SA/wash: zero count on attempt #1, <1,000 on attempt #2= BFN
Varicocele Embolization- 5 May 17
December 2017 SA: Zero improvement after embolization
January IVF- 25 retrieved, 11 mature, 8 fertilized, 3 frozen day fives (3AA, 3AA, 3AA), 1 frozen day 6 (5BB), 1 frozen day 7 (3CC)
Three PGS normal (3AA, 3AA, 5BB), one inconclusive (3AA)
FET #1: 27 February 2018, 3AA & 5BB, one stuck! BFP 04 March 2018.... Loss confirmed 23 March 2018
May 2018: SHG/SIS = all clear "beautiful uterus"
FET #2: 04 June 2018, 3AA PGS normal embryo, 3AA PGS hatching inconclusive embryo.
BFP: 12 June 2018, EDD 20 February 2019
Ultrasound, 25 June 2018: There are two!
Lost Baby A 02 July 2018
Baby B not growing, D&C 06 July 2018
Laparoscopy, hysteroscopy, chromotubation: 23 July 2018: blocked right tube, heavily inflamed, covered in endo. Removed right tube. Removed more endo from uterus, tubes, ovaries. Endo remains on bladder and bowel.
ER#2 ~Jan 2019
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
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
CD/DPO of first BFP? Squinter on 28/9, dark positive on 31/12.
How many months/cycles had you been TTGP? 3/3 TTCAL
What were you doing TGKU? Metformin, Preseed, OPK
How was your timing? I felt like our timing was decent. I don’t have much of a sex drive so it can be a bit much for me during the FW, but this was the first cycle where I felt less anxious about HIO and pressure to get KTFU.
What symptoms did you have, if any (CS & CD breakdowns welcome)? My boobs swelled quickly and are very tender. Generally, I am pretty dry after the FW but I had an increase in CM and I had weird cramping and crazy gurgling sounds starting 9DPO. I rarely cry and I’ve tearing up at ridiculous things. And the bloat…
How are you going to/did you tell your partner? My first test was a squinter so I asked his opinion. We were both pretty hesitant to get excited (I think it’s more self-preservation) and agreed to wait until we had a darker line before getting excited. After I got a darker line, he ran around the living room with his hands above his head, shouting, “I won the great sperm race!”
Anything else to add? I have PGAL brain and I have been scared to post, thinking I’m going to jinx it. I just want this time to stick and really hope this is it.
Me: 28 | DH: 31
Together since 2006 | Married May 2015
TTC #1 since November 2015
BFP 5/17/16 | EDD 1/27/17 | Born 2/4/17
TTC#1 - March 2013
BFP 8/9/13 - EDD 4/14/14 - DS born 4/23/14
TTC#2 November 2015
Dx: Secondary IF June 2016
Medicated IUI cycle#1- Clomid+IUI -1/15/17 -BFN
Break Mid 2017 - Resumed TTC December 2018
"She believed she could so she did..."
Medicated IUI cycle#2- Femara 5mg+IUI 12/22/18 - BFP 1/4/19 - MMC 2/1/19
Saline Sono 3/15/19 - All Clear!
Medicated IUI cycle#3- Femara 7.5mg+IUI 3/28/19-BFN
Medicated IUI cycle#4- Femara 5mg+Gonal F 50iu+IUI 4/27/19- BFP 5/11/19 - MMC 6/12/19 - D&C 6/14/19-
Incomplete M/C Repeat D&C - 7/3/19 -Testing concluded baby was genetically normal
Dx: Unexplained RPL July 2019 - Tested + as carrier for Usher Syndrome & Familial Mediterranean Fever
Saline Sono 8/7/19 - Mostly Clear! All systems go for IVF#1
But will need a repeat Saline Sono between ER and FET
IVF #1 - Antagonist Protocol - 8/17/19
ER#1 8/27/19 - 12R, 6F, 4 biopsied+frozen! (3d5blasts + 1d6blast)- 2 PGS normal embabies!
Saline Sono 9/13/19 - All Clear! Onto FET Prep#1
FET#1 - 4AA -10/4/19 - BFP 10/14/19 - EDD - 6/21/20 -Beta#1-10dp5dt- 379 Beta#2-12dp5dt- 1007 Beta#3-14dp5dt- 2844
DD born 6/15/20
HSG - All clear, ectopic kidney didn't affect uterus (yay!)
CT Adrenal Scan - no tumors!
SA - sperm count excellent, 2% Morphology
March/April IUI scheduled - surprise BFP w/ help of Progesterone - 3/18/2016
Beta #1 @ 11dpo - 45.7 #2 @ 14dpo - 163 #3 @ 18dpo - 997 #4 @ 21dpo - 3799
EDD 12/1 based on O, 11/28 per Ob/Gyn (but he's wrong lol).
*TEAM BLUE!*
Me: 32 DH: 31
TTC #1: January 2008
Surprise BFP: November 2009
CP: September 2016
then 3 failed IUIs, and finally a successful IVF FET.
Due with #2 5/2/19 after HIO once in my FW,
because apparently that's how life works now. Team Blue!
TTC January 2016
BFP May 17, 2016
DS born January 31st, 2017: Rory "Mac" MacKinnon
@loveinak Congratulations!!! Love your DH's reactions!
I'll be thinking good thoughts for you both for a happy and healthy 9 months!!!
April 2016 - AMH, FSH, Progesterone normal
June 2016 - HSG clear
*TW* BFP - Aug16, demise confirmed Sep16, incomplete m/c, D&C Nov16
BFP 3/27/17, edd 12/7/17
DS - 12/9/17
TTC #2 December 2018
BFP 2/22/19, edd 11/4/19
DD - 11/1/19
My Chart
TEAM: PINK!!
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MFI (High DNA Fragmentation) & Mild endometriosis
Aug 2016 - May 2017 6 IUI's with letrozole - BFN
April 2017 - laparoscopy to remove mild endo
June 2017 - Mini IVF letrozole 12.5mg, Gonal-F 75IU - Cancelled early ovulation, no eggs retrieved.
Aug/Sept 2017 - Mini IVF letrozole 12.5mg, Gonal-F 75IU, cetrotide - 13 eggs retrieved, 11 mature
5 eggs ICSI'd 6 eggs frozen - 1 day 5 blast transfered, 2 expanded blast frozen - BFP!
May 2018 - Baby girl born - Our Joy
TTC #2 since July 2019
July 2019 - FET - BFN
Jan 2020 - FET - canceled due to family health issues
Mar 2020 - FET - low beta - chemical pregnancy
July 2020 - ICSI'd remaining 6 eggs - 3 fertilized - 2 survived to early blast stage, transfered both - Chemical Pregnancy
Hopefully if this doesn't work out you guys will still take me back. And hopefully no one minds having me around as a dirty lurker who occasionally love tits things.
TTC#1: January 2015- September 2016
Infertility, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
Rainbow baby born June 6, 2017 ❤️
Baby #2 due June 12, 2018
im soooo happy for both of you!!! I agree with PP a love tit just didn't do it for you guys!!! I'm so glad I actually opened this thread today or I would've missed it and wondered where you'd gone!!!
DS - January 2014
TTCAL | April 2016
CP | June 2016
CP | July 2016
**TW**
Testing with RE October 2016
BFP 11/5/2016 ~ EDD 7/19/2016