WTO Sunday

adirat

Cycle/Month:

CD:

WAYDTGKU:

R/R: 

CS/Q:

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal? 

adirat

Bumping on my way to the airport this morning! Otherwise I'd never be up this early on a Sunday. 

Cycle/Month: 5/4 

CD: 9

WAYDTGKU: The most important thing of all has started... EOD. 

R/R: Short-term, but I can't wait to get on a plane and fall asleep. 

CS/Q: Not a question but a PSA: I had a nice CD9 temp spike fakeout this morning -- 97.3 when my typical coverlines are 97.0-97.1. I've had no other signs yet (no o pain, no ewcm, never o'd this early before, nothing) plus no alcohol or change in room temperature. This is a long way of saying to newbies that yes, random spikes for no apparent reason do happen! 

GTKY: The comfort food I make for myself is linguine with clams -- my favorite pasta. Always white, never red sauce. The comfort food from my childhood is my dad's grilled brats with sauerkraut. Yum! 

krisnicole23

@adirat My dh loves pasta with clams too!  He asks me to make it for him quite often.  

Cycle/Month: 8/8

CD: 3

WAYDTGKU: Charting, temping, opks, and preseed as soon as af is gone.

R/R: One of my students gave me a nasty cold.  I'm already looking forward to coming home this evening after all day of classes to get back into my comfy bed and sleep.

CS/Q: nope

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal? My momma's homemade chicken noodle soup.    

BigBadWolf12

Cycle/Month: 3ttcal

CD: 15

WAYDTGKU: temping, sex

R/R: I just want a temp spike! I had EWCM for two days and then nothing yesterday, so I hope that it won't be too much longer for two reasons: we have company coming on Tuesday staying with us for the rest of the week and also I just want an earlier O....(I'm typically 16/17, but post loss was 20, then 18...)

CS/Q: none now. It's not that my chart is confusing, it's just annoying. 

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal?
cake counts, right? my homemade chocolate sour cream cake with cream cheese whipped cream oreo topping....

Marley629

Lurking from tww...

@Buthayna that cake looks amazing. 

adirat

@krisnicole23 I hope you feel better soon!

@Buthayna Wow I have never seen a cake like that before. Amazing. 

BigBadWolf12

@marley629 it tastes even better than it looks, but I use a different recipe for the cake part (from this cake recipe...the whole thing is good too, but I always use the cake part of the recipe for any chocolate cake I'm making)...and I modify the filing part (whipped cream instead of coolwhip), so maybe putting that link in there was not useful! It's great as a slab cake too if I don't want to go through the whole process

manillabar

Good morning everyone!

Month/Cycle: 4/4

CD: 8

WAYDTGKU: all the things now

R/R: looking forward to a relaxing Sunday 

C/S: nothing to see yet

GTKY: I love baked mac and cheese. I need to figure out how my mom and aunt make it exactly. They use a different kind of pasta, like rigatoni or something and a whole bunch of cheeses. The top layer is always slightly crispy and then the inside is all warm cheesy goodness...
of course, now I also need @buthayna's cake in my life!

KhRun17

@buthayna - yes, cake counts. And that one looks amazing!

Cycle/Month: 5/7 (did these flip somewhere? does it normally say month/cycle?)

CD: 13

WAYDTGKU: BBT, PNV, OPK, CM, CP, preseed, EOD.

R/R: Well, first positive OPK today. That was unexpected! I usually O around CD19, but have been as early as CD15 so definitely is possible with my regular cycle. But was really weird. I haven't been seeing too much CM leading up to it, so I'm not sure yet. But on the plus side, DH has been like a teenager, so we're already on EOD timing.

CS/Q: Does anyone know, with CB OPK's since it's based on your previous days LH, I usually start on CD11 but forgot that day and started on CD12. Is there any way that the levels it read one day to the next are giving false positives? It just seems early to me. But I know - you're regular until you're not. And I HAVE O'd on CD15 before, but it's pretty uncommon.

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal?  Hmm...as a kid, it has always been meatloaf and mashed potatoes. I do love a good gorgonzola pasta that DH found and made for me once, and now I want it for every anniversary/valentines dinner (we cook together instead of going out).

PolarBear517

Cycle/Month: 2/2

CD: 22

WAYDTGKU: temping, wondfo OPK, CBAD

R/R:     Very bummed that after a small temp dip yesterday my temp only rose 0.17 degrees. CBAD peak reading from Thursday dropped off yesterday, today's was negative as well as a clearly negative wondfo (yesterday's negative was still very close to +). CM is sticky so it doesn't seem like O day could be today. Everything but temps would imply I ovulated yesterday... so either my body geared up and then never did or it's a slow rise. Messing around with temps in FF I don't think it's going to give me CH for a slow rise. 

CS/Q: not really but if you read above feel free to stalk it! 

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal?  Probably pizza... that's my "I'm frustrated and don't want to cook for myself" meal so I'm going to say it counts as comfort food!

@buthayna I hope you see your temp spike soon!
And that cake looks delicious!

@manillabar ooooh mac and cheese is a good one! I've tried a couple crock pot recipes for it and they turned out delicious but I'm still looking for the perfect one 

@adirat have fun on your trip!! 

hupp0013

@manillabar I love baked mac and cheese!
@Buthayna that cake looks amazing!
@krisnicole23 I hope you feel better soon!
@adirat white sauce with pasta is the best!

Cycle/Month: 2/2

CD: 15

WAYDTGKU: HIO, temping, PNVs, tracking CM

R/R: I got to sleep in!  Plus DH and I had ice cream last night and it was delicious.
My combined rant/rave was that I think I o'd 4 days earlier than O did last month.  I am glad I O'd earlier, but I wasn't expecting it quite this early and wish I would have gotten another day of sex in.  I was sure my OPK was going to be positive yesterday morning and O today so I didn't push for sex Friday night.  I wish I would have.

CS/Q:  Just waiting for crosshairs,

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal? Pasta with white sauce.  Or stroganoff.  Basically anything with pasta.

manillabar

@PolarBear517 I never even thought of making it in the crock pot! are there any recipes you'd recommend?

MrsN092714

C/M:1AL

CD:22

WAYDTGKU: pnv, OPKs, all the sex.  Really really regretting not temping this month.

R/R: Yesterday was day 3 of 'positive' OPKs.  The line was significantly darker than the day before (which I was pretty much considering negative) and not as dark as the day before that.  Wtf?  I thought it would have been negative for sure and I'd be jumping on over to the TWW but that's not the case.   Guess we will see what today's pee stick shows....
Happy note, Gramma came and watched the boy last night so me and hubby could go for a late anniversary date.  I felt really pretty!  Had a great time even though he got the wrong meal altogether and both of our steaks were over done.  And now my child is up really early but just wants to cuddle so I'm enjoying it.

CS: wish I had a chart to stalk....

GTKY: I like a good jambalaya or an Alfredo pasta.  Mmm 

PolarBear517

@manillabar

I tried this one in the crock pot: 

https://wishesndishes.com/creamy-crock-pot-macaroni-cheese/?m

and this his one on the stovetop: 

https://www.shugarysweets.com/2014/03/copycat-panera-macaroni-cheese

Both turned out pretty well. I'm a big fan of white cheddar and Panera's mac & cheese so I think next time I'll use the crock pot but make sure to use the cheeses from the stovetop recipe. Now that I'm on this train of though I may have to run out to the store lol 

britters314

Cycle/Month: 15/13  ( @KhRun17  yes, this is normally month/cycle)

CD: 5

WAYDTGKU: Temping, CM, will start Mucinex and the sex sometime after my HSG on Wednesday

R/R: I've had a cold for about a week and I'm really ready for it to be done.

CS/Q: None today.

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal?
Definitely mac & cheese. We make a really good crockpot mac&cheese, but H just found a recipe for steak mac&cheese that looks amazing and we will probably try soon

bramblerose-2

Cycle/Month: 4/4

CD: 4

WAYDTGKU: BBT, OPK, PNV, probably going to try mucinex closer to o (by probably I mean I bought some on Amazon yesterday out of a desire to do something at all.)

R/R: Rant - I had a dream I got a BFP last night but even in dream world, the line was squiggly so I knew it wasn't real. I haven't been at this very long at all, but cycle 4 is getting to me, and I hate it. 

CS/Q: Nope

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal? 

I'm with @PolarBear517 on comfort food being food I don't have to make. For me, that's chick-fil-a. I go for a spicy chicken deluxe and a sweet tea, and it makes me so happy.

jackiemarie1989-2

@Buthayna, fingers crossed you get your temp spike soon! Also I'm not a fan of ores but that cake looks amazing
@PolarBear517 I know the OPKs don't line up with it but do you think CD 14 might have been a possibility?

Month/Cycle: 4/4

CD: 13

WAYDTGKU: temping, CM, prenatals, EOD/sometimes more often

R/R: I had a good temp spike this morning plus a change in CM, so I'm hoping for a few more high temps. I feel good about our timing this time.

CS/Q: None today

GTKY: I too love a good Mac n cheese. Also, nothing like a warm muffin or pastry with coffee on a rainy day

PolarBear517

@BrambleRose We don't have any chick-fil-a restaurants for like a hundred miles from where I live, but we are getting one next year that will only be a 10 minute drive! I'm excited to finally see for myself what all the hype is about! Also, I'm sorry you're having a rough TTC day I kind of am too, just having hoped for a more clear picture of what is going on with my body. Good luck with the mucinex this cycle, hopefully this is the one! 

PolarBear517

@JackieMarie1989 I would be surprised to have such strong positives and peak CBAD readings after O and my CM was much better around the time of the positives as well. Also CD 14 would have been 9 days earlier than last cycle. FF gave me dotted CH for that day but took them away with my OPKs. So, it is possible I suppose but I guess I'll just know in retrospect if I end up getting AF around CD 26

jackiemarie1989-2

@PolarBear517 admittedly I don't really have any experience with OPKS so I suppose FF is probably right. I was just looking at your temps. Hopefully you get a good sign of O soon!

manillabar

PolarBear517 said:

@manillabar

I tried this one in the crock pot: 

https://wishesndishes.com/creamy-crock-pot-macaroni-cheese/?m

and this his one on the stovetop: 

https://www.shugarysweets.com/2014/03/copycat-panera-macaroni-cheese

Both turned out pretty well. I'm a big fan of white cheddar and Panera's mac & cheese so I think next time I'll use the crock pot but make sure to use the cheeses from the stovetop recipe. Now that I'm on this train of though I may have to run out to the store lol 

Wow... I'm going to have to add some things to our shopping list for this week... Thanks for the links!!

bumpybump

@Buthayna cakes are one of my favorite desserts and omg does yours look amazing!  Good thing I just ate a cake donut or I might be on the search for a cake!

@KhRun17 the month/cycle is totally switched. When I saw it this morning I thought I'd been listing them all wrong in the past. I think @adirat is keeping us on our toes this Sunday. 

Cycle/Month: 3/3

CD: 5

WAYDTGKU: Waiting on AF to finish. PNVs and charting

R/R: Late church service today to merge the two services for a church anniversary celebration. Church lunch which means awesome food!

CS/Q: None

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal?
This is a tough question for me because I was raised on what most people would call "comfort food."  So I'll go with what my favorite meal was growing up. Thrifty Steak, Gourmet or Delicious Potatoes, Fresh Lima Beans, and any dessert my Mom made. My parents now do the Paleo diet due to health issues my Dad has so I never get any of these things anymore. 

Edit: spelling

sevenn

Cycle/Month: 6/6

CD: 13

WAYDTGKU: HIO, OPK, CBAD

R/R: pretty sure yesterday or today is O. Had a lot of cramping yesterday, but today's OPK is at 80%. I temped yesterday and today and although today's was higher than yesterday's it was not above my typical coverline temp. And that's it for temping until next weekend and at that point they better be post-O! Darn shift work. Hopefully it will help the keep the BSC at bay with one less thing to obsess over.

CS/Q: if you aren't temping to confirm O (and waiting the 3 days to get CH) when is it appropriate to move to TWW?

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal? I will go with a dessert on this one too- Oreos and PB

PeachyTeachy

Cycle/Month: 1

CD: 4

WAYDTGKU:  PNV, temping, attempting EOD

R/R: 

CS/Q: not yet

GTKY: Mashed potatoes with all the gravy or french fries with all the gravy.

theweevee

Cycle/Month: 2

CD: 10

WAYDTGKU:  PNV, temping, opks 

R/R: Don't have to work at all today and get to enjoy fall!  I'm going to try to make homemade pumpkin donuts as an ode to October.

CS/Q: Nothing now!  Sleeping in on the weekend has made my chart look crazy.  If I exclude those days, I'd have a nearly straight line.

GTKY: I second @PeachyTeachy with mashed potatoes.  I also love pioneer woman's beef tenderloin and butternut squash with kale (It's amazing!  Best way to eat kale!)

adirat

All your comfort foods are making me hungry! 

Sorry -- I didn't realize I transposed cycle and month. (Did they used to be reversed? I just pasted from my notepad which was itself pasted from old, months-ago threads, but I can fix it moving forward.) 

spk112

Well, I'm back. 

Cycle/Month: 2/2

CD: 1 

WAYDTGKU: PNV, temping, charting

R/R: I have to work tomorrow.

CS/Q: Nope.

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal? Grilled cheese and homemade tomato soup. I made some on Friday night (I used pepperjack and provolone cheese) and it was so satisfying.

glitterfish-2

Rainy Sunday = Zero Motivation! 

Cycle/Month: 9/10

CD: 8

WAYDTGKU: PNV, OPKs, Charting, IF testing

R/R: I went to the endocrinologist last week and I wasn't a fan at all. She hardly spoke to me, and just ordered more tests, mostly to see if I have Hashimoto's. OK, but what does that matter if the treatment is the same?? It's probably good that I'm getting these other tests done too, but.... I think I will be doctor shopping depending on the results, which I will get Thursday. I don't think this is someone I would trust long-term, since literally the only thing she asked me is if I have irregular periods. Oh, and if I'm still on Nuvaring, which I had already told her nurse I am not. I'm no doctor, but that would probably be the first thing I quit when TTC!!!!

CS/Q: These are the blood tests I had done Thursday.  Anything else I will expect to need when I find a new endo/RE? I'm starting to feel like a pincushion :-P
TSH, 3rd Generation
T4, Free
T3 Free
Thyroid AB (ATA, TPO)
FSH and LH
Testosterone, FR/TOT, LCMSMS
Prolactin
DHEA Sulfate

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal? Probably my grandma's spaghetti sauce and meatballs, but my grandfather has taken over the cooking in the last several years, so I'll probably never really have it again   Lately it's been really upsetting my stomach, too - We do Sunday dinner every week, but I might have to start skipping the actual eating part.

ETA: I also had to ask the endo if I had to take these tests on a specific cycle day, just from my limited time here on TB, and then she decided, yes, before CD10. Any comments on that from you more knowledgeable ladies? I took them on CD 5 I believe.

purplg8r

@Buthayna that cake!!!!!

@KhRun17 oh!  Do you have a link to that recipe by chance????

purplg8r

Cycle/Month: 2/3

CD: 23

WAYDTGKU: PNVs, temping, opks, preseed, cut out soda, made hubby take a vitamin

R/R: I woke up to temp but went back to sleep for another 5 hours!  It was wonderful!!

CS/Q: I got a positive Wondfo last night but negative CB. I had a dip in temps yesterday and only went up a little today so hopefully it'll go up tomorrow. 

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal? Mine is weird.  My comfort food is chicken nuggets & Mac and cheese that my mom would make when my dad would go out of town when I was little.  Being an adult now I realize that she did it because it's extremely easy but I love it when I'm having one of those days.  Tyson chicken nuggets popped in the oven. And the Mac and cheese is elbow macaroni cooked with chunks of cheddar cheese mixed in.  No milk or anything.  It makes it so stringy and I love it!!!

WillRunForWine21

@Buthayna this may be 2 for 2 in recipes you post on here that I try! Last week's apple oatmeal cookies were divine (my DH is celiac, I just have to do some flour substitutes but I have gotten used to that.) Thank you!!

@BrambleRose I understand about the mucinex. I am starting it this cycle as well. @britters314 and I had a whole discussion about it yesterday as far as timing and logistics and really I think the reason I am diving in this cycle is just because I need to feel like I am being proactive somehow. Pretty soon the TTC prep will take up all the time and I am worried I will forget about the BD part!

Cycle/Month: 4/4

CD: 7

WAYDTGKU: today starts BD EOD!!!, tea, PNV, temping, CM, mucinex, preseed

R/R: we have a wedding this evening which will be fun and it is extra awesome for me because my school is closed for Rosh Hashanah  (if anyone is celebrating, I hope you holiday is lovely) so I can recover! Also BD can start because DH is home so at least this is the fun part of the cycle

CS/Q: nope

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal?  I love me a good mac and cheese but for real fall comfort food, I love shepherd's pie. Th combo of meat, potatoes cheese just warms my heart. My mother still makes it on my birthday

wabash15

Cycle/Month: 5/5

CD:15

WAYDTGKU: All things

R/R: by some miracle DS woke up at 5:30 nursed and fell back asleep. DD and the dog also slept so we didn't get up until 8. its been 18+months since I last slept in till 8am. It was delightful other than it made me late for choir because I had to run into work for a few minutes this morning.  Another + OPK this AM, it was so + that the test line was way darker than the control line, that the first time I've had that happen.

CS/Q: Nope

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal? mmm I'll have to jump on the mac and cheese train but also anything breakfast related.

@adirat I hope you have a good flight
@krisnicole23 Hope you feel better soon
@buthayana fx for O soon
@khrun17 Hooray for a + OPK, we may still be cycle buddies!
@polarbear517 sorry your temps are not lining up with the secondary signs
@mrsn092714 sorry your cycles are wonky post loss. Glad you had a good anniversary date with DH and felt pretty
@bramblerose BFP dreams suck, they just mess with your head
@sevenn fx for O. I guess you could move over once your pretty sure you've O'd
@spk112 sorry for CD 1
@GlitterFish sorry you didn't mesh with your endocrinologist. were you seeing a general endo or an RE? If you didn't get a good vibe from them I would keep looking.

BigBadWolf12

@willrunforwine21 I'm glad you liked the apple cookies! one of my friends described them as tops of muffins and I can't get it out of my mind now!
no gif..this is the best I can do

laurad75

Hi gang!  I hope everyone is having a good weekend.  My family was visiting and they just left leaving us just enough time to BD before H heads to the Sox game.  I really  didn't want to ask my  mom and dad to leave so we could get humping.  

Cycle/Month: 6/6

CD: 15

WAYDTGKU: pnv, temping, opks, BD E/D; I was on clomid earlier this cycle, I'm also doing acupuncture and drinking green tea when I remember.   

R/R: Our timing is going to be great this cycle but I am supposed to do an IUI the day after a positive OPK and we are away next weekend so hopefully it will come before that.  I am supposed to call my RE nurse CD 16 (tomorrow) if I don't get a positive OPK so I can ask them about how the timing will work.  Maybe they will do a trigger.  

CS/Q: nope

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal?  Whenever I go home my mom makes me an english muffin pizza which is basically just an english muffin with tomato and cheese but its delicious.  

Jane1775

This is my first WTO post. I am loving everyone's comfort foods... I am getting pretty hungry!

Cycle/Month: 2/2

CD: 8

WAYDTGKU: PNV, tracking CM, Preseed, EOD, OPKs (I tried my first test today: ClearBlue Advanced Digital. I'm interested to see what it tells me this week).

R/R: I have a big presentation tomorrow morning and I think I'm ready but feel like I should keep looking at it. I'll have time in the morning to review it a couple more times and I'm trying to convince myself that relaxing the rest of today will be more beneficial to me that just staring at it all afternoon.

CS/Q: No.

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal? PIzza is a big one for me. I feel so happy when I have good pizza.

BMPNAB

Hey! Been Mia for a while works been too busy! But trying to get stress levels down for a successful attempt this month *fingers crossed* and sorry replying on mobile = hard

Cycle/Month: 2/2

CD: 7

WAYDTGKU: Starting my wondfo OPK strips in a few days, hoping for good results so I can more accurately pinpoint when I O

R/R: all good!

CS/Q: not today

britters314

@GlitterFish  I think CD3 is when bloodwork is usually done, but it's probably not a big deal if it was done CD 5. Also, usually progesterone is also tested at 7dpo, so it's a little odd that your doctor isn't having you do that one. I would call and ask why.

shstephenson

Welp I'm back.

Cycle/Month: 6/6 (that stings)

CD: 2

WAYDTGKU: Waiting on AF to get out of here. Then the usual. HIO like crazy people, BBT, OPKs, PNV, CoQ10, preseed, Mucinex, green tea

R/R: DH and I have spent the day cleaning and putting out our fall/Halloween decorations. Now we are spending the rest of the day curled up watching scary movies.

CS/Q: Literally nothing to look at

GTKY: What is your favorite comfort food meal? 
I'm with @hupp0013 I love all things pasta. I especially love my dad's spaghetti! Its nothing overly fancy or special. I think its just cause its my dad making it.

KhRun17

https://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/creamy-penne-with-walnuts.html Ok, Thanks @bumpybump and @britters314 for assuring me I haven't been doing it wrong for a long time. @adirat - doesn't matter to me which way they go, as long as we all write it the same as each other.
@BrambleRose - I totally had a TTGP dream last night...I was pretty far along, but then the baby came early and we didn't have anything ready...like, no car seat, no crib, nada. Lol. What a weird thing to dream. Maybe it's a sign for us! Fx this is your cycle.
@PolarBear517 - My chart usually looks something like that... not quite as drastic, but I usually have higher temps during AF, then it goes down, and then rises .5 above ALL of those temps after O and hangs out up there. Hang in there for a few days and see what temps do...maybe a false LH surge? Or maybe it was O... Sorry I'm no help. Just sympathizing. It's so impossible no to try to overanalyze these things.
@spk112 - no! You're not supposed to come back to WTO. We hope when people leave they don't return. So sorry for CD1! Treat yourself.
@GlitterFish - I love that you have dinner once a week with your grandparents! Super jealous.
@purplg8r - DEFINITELY have a link. https://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/creamy-penne-with-walnuts.html
@wabash15 - YES! I love having someone on the same day as me...we'll have to see when we each move over. Based on my chart so far, it's definitely looking possible that CD15 (Tuesday) could be peak...we'll see.

wabash15

@jane1775 welcome! I hope your stay with us is short
@shstephenson I'm so sorry your back and at the 6mo milestone. Creepy Internet hugs

bramblerose-2

@WillRunForWine21 I hope you're having a great time at the wedding right now. Mind if I ask when you started the mucinex during your cycle? I'm leaning six days before o based on some reading. May cycle 4 be the last one for both of us.

@wabash15 congrats on the extra hour of sleep! And ugh yes BFP dreams are so hard to shake in the morning. 

@KhRun17 Huh that is an interesting dream. I'm not one for psychoanalysis but there's maybe something there re: how much we're working to prepare for/control something we can't. I very much hope this is both of our cycles too.