Dating: 2/2007 Married: 4/2011
TTC #1: 9/2016
*TW*
BFP #1: 11/26/2016 - MC: 12/6/2016
BFP #2: 3/9/2017 - CP: 3/10/2017
08/2017: DH's SA = normal
08/2017: Low progesterone (4.6) all other BW normal
11/2017: HSG Clear; Pelvic Ultrasound Normal; and AMH, FSH, and Estradiol normal
12/2017: 1,000mg Metformin
12/2017: 50mg Clomid + TI = BFN
01/2018: 100mg Clomid + TI = BFN
01/2018: RE Consult
03/2018: 5mg Letrozole + 50 units Gonal-F + 500 μg Ovidrel + IUI = BFP #3: 4/1/2018 - CP: 4/4/2018
04/2018: 5mg Letrozole + Gonal-F + Ovidrel + IUI = BFP #4: 5/2/18
BFP #2: 3/9/2017 - CP: 3/10/2017
08/2017: DH's SA = normal
08/2017: Low progesterone (4.6) all other BW normal
11/2017: HSG Clear; Pelvic Ultrasound Normal; and AMH, FSH, and Estradiol normal
12/2017: 1,000mg Metformin
12/2017: 50mg Clomid + TI = BFN
01/2018: 100mg Clomid + TI = BFN
01/2018: RE Consult
03/2018: 5mg Letrozole + 50 units Gonal-F + 500 μg Ovidrel + IUI = BFP #3: 4/1/2018 - CP: 4/4/2018
04/2018: 5mg Letrozole + Gonal-F + Ovidrel + IUI = BFP #4: 5/2/18
Re: WTO Sunday 1/22
CD: 15
WAYDTGKU: PNVs, OPKs, BBT, CM, and HIO ED-EOD during FW
CS/Q: Nothing today
R/R: Rant: I feel like the weekend has gone by way too fast! Rave: I'm off on Friday and I might take a half day Thursday. Excited for a short week.
GTKY: What's something that you would love to buy right now if you had the financial means? DH and I would love to get a vintage travel trailer. We love to take road trips and we could take so much more with one.
Dating: 2/2007 Married: 4/2011
TTC #1: 9/2016
*TW*
BFP #2: 3/9/2017 - CP: 3/10/2017
08/2017: DH's SA = normal
08/2017: Low progesterone (4.6) all other BW normal
11/2017: HSG Clear; Pelvic Ultrasound Normal; and AMH, FSH, and Estradiol normal
12/2017: 1,000mg Metformin
12/2017: 50mg Clomid + TI = BFN
01/2018: 100mg Clomid + TI = BFN
01/2018: RE Consult
03/2018: 5mg Letrozole + 50 units Gonal-F + 500 μg Ovidrel + IUI = BFP #3: 4/1/2018 - CP: 4/4/2018
04/2018: 5mg Letrozole + Gonal-F + Ovidrel + IUI = BFP #4: 5/2/18
CD: 18
WAYDTGKU: PNV,CM, BBT
CS/Q: Hey everyone, I'm jumping on here early today because my body is really confusing me. Today is only CD 18 but it looks like I am starting AF again? I have been having some mild cramping the last two days and I started spotting yesterday. This morning it became a little heavier then just spotting when I wipe. It has only been 14 days since the last signs of AF (after stopping BC) so I don't really know what to make of this? My BBT has also continued to rise today. So should I consider yesterday CD1 again? I attached my chart below.
R/R: Just trying to figure out why my body is being a TW.
GTKY: What's something that you would love to buy right now if you had the financial means?
A house! My DH and I have been saving for the past year and we plan to begin a serious house hunt within the next few months. Other then that I think I would say a handbag I have had my eye on for awhile.
Edited to fix spoiler box
CD: 11
WAYDTGKU: bbt, cm, pnv, dtd etc.
CS/Q: only putting a chart in to practice. My FF chart is exactly the same this one is prettier , haha . If there's anything I'm missing worth noting feel free but nothing's happening just yet
R/R: not a R or a R.. just a comment. DH and I dtd last night and after wards I always have a hard time telling the next morning the difference between leftover man juice, or my CM. Flame away. Its frustrating when you know FW is approaching.
GTKY: What's something that you would love to buy right now if you had the financial means?
A bigger house. Well, honestly not a bigger house. A house with more property. I don't need a huge house. I just would like to not have my house so close to another house.
Edit because bump ate some of my post via mobile.
Oct. '17 June S.C. "You Had 1 Job"
Im sorry your body is being TW. I know its sucks when you just dont know whats going on? How long ago did you stop BC?
@KariAnn323
A vintage travel trailer sounds awesome! Do you mean like an airstream? So beyond fun!
Oct. '17 June S.C. "You Had 1 Job"
@Canonmom413 Like an airstream or a shasta from the 50s or 60s. We have a Honda CRV and when we trade it in we'll probably get something around the same size. The modern travel trailers are just too heavy for us to tow.
Dating: 2/2007 Married: 4/2011
TTC #1: 9/2016
*TW*
BFP #2: 3/9/2017 - CP: 3/10/2017
08/2017: DH's SA = normal
08/2017: Low progesterone (4.6) all other BW normal
11/2017: HSG Clear; Pelvic Ultrasound Normal; and AMH, FSH, and Estradiol normal
12/2017: 1,000mg Metformin
12/2017: 50mg Clomid + TI = BFN
01/2018: 100mg Clomid + TI = BFN
01/2018: RE Consult
03/2018: 5mg Letrozole + 50 units Gonal-F + 500 μg Ovidrel + IUI = BFP #3: 4/1/2018 - CP: 4/4/2018
04/2018: 5mg Letrozole + Gonal-F + Ovidrel + IUI = BFP #4: 5/2/18
@JJMNO1616 - I got nothing but hugs. I'm still working my way off BCP too and it is so weird and frustrating. FX your body gets back to a rhythm soon.
@canonmom413 - I have such a TMI question. Please feel free to ignore. How do you keep the "juice" in? Every time, right after, whether my hips are in the air or not, the extra fluid starts working its way out of me. If I don't get up and wipe some of it off, I'd be sleeping in a (very gross) puddle. Am I not having sex right? Lol
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Month/Cycle: 3/3
CD: 5
WAYDTGKU: HIO EOD, PNV, tracking CM and symptoms. Add BBT this cycle.
CS/Q: nope unless anyone wants to help with my TMI question to @canonmom413 above.
R/R: Raves only today. So for the first time in history, my period was 3 days. Actually, it was scarily closer to 2.5. I don't know what to make of it, but I'm going to enjoy it I guess? I'm pinning it on post-BCP weirdness. But if any future periods are this short, I'll be a happy lady.
GTKY: Oh geez. I am notoriously bad at spending money frivolously. Don't get me wrong, I'm not stingy. I guess I'd pay off our house? It's our only debt besides the cars. Maybe fix it up a bit more? I'm bad at things.
I keep tissues on my night stand. Usually DH goes to the bathroom to clean up before I get up. I lay there holding a kegal so to speak and press a tissue against me to help keep it from dipping on the bed. When he gets out, I get up and scurry to the bathroom. It does usually drip a little on my leg getting there. I clean up, and head back to bed. It never *all* comes out.
Oct. '17 June S.C. "You Had 1 Job"
KariAnn323 so jealous of your short week! I feel like the holidays were not that long ago and I need time off already! I am longing for...Easter!
JJMNO1616 I hope your body regulates itself really soon, I have no post-BCP experience but from what I read here it is quite normal to have a few weird (and hugely frustrating) periods right after going off it.
LoveInDC I have the same problem! I feel like I am dripping like crazy (or at least what feels like 'like crazy') all night and some also the next day. I asked my gyn and he smiled at me and said 'what goes up, has to come down' o.o
But yeah, I'd love to not see any the next day and feel reassured it's all up there working its magic!
Month/Cycle: 9/9 (+1 benched)
CD: 1, ugh.
WAYDTGKU: BBT, HIO as much as poss, OPKs, CM, CP no coffee, green tea, healthy lifestyle,
CS/Q
R/R: I took CD1 pretty hard this morning. Like I was convinced this time was the time, tried to ignore the horrible AF pain that woke me up at 6AM, and still temped. Then I cried to DH over breakfast...in a café!
On the plus side, when I got home (DH is working a half day today so I was alone) I somehow managed to turn that anger/sadness/frustration into positive energy and cleaned the whole house, then made myself a very healthy meal (vs the lying on the sofa watching TV and eating junk food that I had planned). It's still hard, but I feel that now I am ready to start again.
GTKY: What's something that you would love to buy right now if you had the financial means?
A house in London! Or even a small apartment...We've lived here for almost 3 years and rent is so ridiculously expensive, but we can't afford a down payment for a house yet (not even a shitty suburban one bedroom flat!). We spent a fortune on our wedding last year and sometimes I think that if we hadn't done such a huge party we could probably have a decent deposit by now. But that was also one of the best days of my life/best party I ever went to.
TTC #1 since May 2016
MFI – Low Morph (0-5%)
IUI #1 Aug '17 BFN
IUI #2 Oct '17 BFN
IUI #3 Dec '17 BFN
IVF April/May 2018
@sbarluccico - Hugs for CD1! Props for staying positive
CD: 5
WAYDTGKU: Femara + trigger + IUI. Start Femara tomorrow. Plus most of the rest.
CS/Q
R/R:
GTKY: What's something that you would love to buy right now if you had the financial means?
A house with more land. Away from people.
Cycle: 7
CD: 3
WAYDTGKU: waiting for af to go tf away!!
CS/Q: nothing to see here.
R/R: Raving because I am going to *officially* meal prep for the week today. I am trying to add new recipes to my arsenal that are easy and healthy.... I usually eat by myself because of DH and I's work schedules... A bag of veggie chips isn't really dinner...
GTKY: What's something that you would love to buy right now if you had the financial means?
I would do a lot... I want to refloor the majority of my house. New curtains, new bedroom furniture, and to work on my gallery wall in our sitting room. My guilty pleasure is scrolling through pottery barn and pier 1 and asking my husband why we're not rich
CD: 9
WAYDTGKU: hio, oak, perhaps green tea, cutting down on booze
CS/Q
R/R: I use the Clearblue advanced opk and was really really surprised when it turned from low to high today (not peak yet). I wasn't expecting that for another 5 days! Time to get at it!
Before going on birth control I had perfect 28 day cycles, with an occasional 27 dryer. Never more, never less. But then I went on BC and since going off 17 months ago, I've had like 33 or 34 day cycles. Between last month's 27-day cycle and today's high opk, I wonder if my body is finally going back to normal.
GTKY: What's something that you would love to buy right now if you had the financial means
Hmm. Probably a decent sized house. Not because I would like to show it off, but because I love entertaining, bringing people together, cooking for them, and just spending time with friends. Additionally, just because of the way our life is right now, our closest friends and all our family don't live in the area. I'd love to be able to have them come for the weekend and it not be cramped for space.
@JJMNO1616 - sorry for the short cycle. Hopefully your body regulates out soon.
@KariAnn323 - I'm with you on the short weekend. I feel like I need another day.
@loveindc - I usually lay there for about 5 minutes before getting up and going to the bathroom. I like to think the "best" sperm with the most chance of creating a baby have already done what they are supposed to do.
** December BMB Siggy Challenge - Animals in Pools **
Me: 31+ H: 32
TTC Since 11/2015
#1 - MMC 6.5 weeks (2/16); #2 - MC due to cystic hygroma at 20 weeks (10/16); #3 CP (2/17); #4 - Due 12.16.17
what are you making? I usually meal prep for the week's lunches and try to keep it very healthy (and usually veg), but I am so predictable, I literally eat the same things for months on end before trying something else!
TTC #1 since May 2016
MFI – Low Morph (0-5%)
IUI #1 Aug '17 BFN
IUI #2 Oct '17 BFN
IUI #3 Dec '17 BFN
IVF April/May 2018
@LoveinDC The strongest swimmers will get through. Consider the rest dead and don't worry about it. Some people put a pillow under their butt to keep their pelvis tilted for a few minutes so it doesn't all leak out. I grab a tissue, let it absorb, and sometimes scurry to the bathroom like others. Sometimes (less often) I don't get up until morning and I don't get infections, but I did a couple of times when I was younger.
@sbarluccico Sorry for CD1.
@canonmom413 I don't see O yet! EWCM is stretchy and shiny like rubber cement. I pee into a see through cup and hold it up to light - it floats! Semen is like snot you'd blow out of your nose and tends to be more runny and milky instead of stretchy. You can see pics in TCOYF.
TTC 9/2016 BFP 12/9/16 EDD 8/21/17 NMC 1/8/16 at 7w6d
TTC 2/2017 BFP 3/6/17 EDD 11/17/17 DS born 11/25/17 via ECS
TTC 12/2018 BFP 6/2/19 EDD 2/12/20 NMC / BO at 7 weeks, low progesterone
TTC 7/2019 BFP 8/21/19 EDD 4/22/20 CP at 5 weeks
TTC 8/19 IUI #1 w/ Clomid + Ovidrel + progesterone BFN, IUI 2 and 3 w/ Letrozole + Ovidrel + progesterone,
IUI 4 Follistim + Ovidrel + progesterone BFP 1/9/20 EDD 9/18/20
AMA, ITP in pregnancy, vWD type II - low Factor VIII, unexplained RPL and secondary infertility
@JJMNO1616 I'll echo everyone that it takes time to regulate after going off bcp. It sucks that it's so confusing!
@canonmom413 I have a hard time distinguishing 'that' as well!
@LoveInDC you have me cracking up! But I think it's supposed to come dripping out? The 'effective swimmers' are already on their way up!
@sbarluccico sorry for cd1
Month/Cycle:
CD: 14
WAYDTGKU prepping for FET, starting lupron on Tuesday!
CS/Q
R/R: Greetings from Hawaii! It's 2 hours earlier here so we're all up at 5am.
GTKY: What's something that you would love to buy right now if you had the financial means?
along the same lines as @Kariannm23 a camper or RV would be really fun!
CD: 2
WAYDTGKU: nothing this cycle apparently except my normal vitamins
CS/Q
R/R: I'm so upset. My RE office told me I could get my baseline U/S around where I live instead of driving 2.5 hours to them. Well when I called to set up a cd2 U/S they said I had to go to someone in their network which the only place close to me is an hour and I can't even go there because they're closed on the weekend so now I have to skip this cycle unless I want to drive all the way to their office tomorrow and be there for 8am which I can't because I have to work.
GTKY: What's something that you would love to buy right now if you had the financial means?
We're remodeling our house and at this point taking it slowly room by room so if we had the money we'd definitely buy all the supplies we need plus new appliances/ furniture
JJMNO1616 : Others have said this, but I will add...your body is likely regulating. It's possible that the first few days of bleeding was withdrawal bleeding and this is your first actual period. I got off Mirena in October and didn't bleed/have AF until 18 days after removal. I am now 3.5 months post-removal and my periods are still not normal (currently 2 days of spotting). I am due for AF in 3 days. If she comes, I am hoping she is back to normal. Unfortunately, it's hard to say how long one's body will take to regulate.
Month/Cycle: 2/2
CD: 4
WAYDTGKU: temp and pnvs for now
CS/Q: nada
R/R: we had so much fun yesterday. We were the only people on our brewery tour and the owner was the one giving the tour. H homebrews and was able to ask all kinds of in depth questions that would be beyond the scope of a normal tour. Then we went to Korean BBQ and the distillery afterwards. The distillery tour guy was super funny and gave a great tour. And the liquor was sooo good and sooo smooth. I'm not normally a straight liquor girl but did tastings of straight vodka, gin, and whiskey and there was little to no burn, no chaser needed. Deliciously scary and I don't feel at all like I drank a bunch of liquor last night, I'm just a little thirsty. H really really enjoyed his surprise date night. We decided were going to keep doing it and that you have to include something local we haven't done before (IE a new restaurant, experience, etc) since we normally get stuck at the same places we always go to.
GTKY: What's something that you would love to buy right now if you had the financial means?
If we had all the money, private plane so we could jetset whenever. More realistically, I have major reno Plans for our house and/or H really wants a hot tub.
@cdnrunning bon voyage and happy sailing!
CD: 12
WAYDTGKU: PNV, Thyroid medicine, temping, cm
CS/Q Nothing new
R/R: Also nothing new.
GTKY: A new car. My car is beginning its slow march into death.
Clomid 50;100;150;200: No O
TSH 3.75 Put on 50mg levothyroxine
1500 MG Metformin
7.5 MG Letrozole: No Follicles
9 MG Letrozole: 21mm Follicle no pregnancy
4 cycles at 9 MG Letrozole, No pregnancy
Me: 28 DH: 35
Dx PCOS May 2015
Baby #1 due 12/7/17
@JJMNO1616 - No real advice here, but I'm sorry your body is being a TW.
@canonmom413 @peregrine DH's ideal dream home you won't be able to see another house from our house, so I feel you. I wouldn't mind middle of no where, but there' a few select neighborhoods I wouldn't mind either (I love his parent's neighborhood, for example, and would totally move there).
Month/Cycle: 19/18
CD: 8
WAYDTGKU: PNVs, OPKs, BBT, Green Tea, HIO
CS/Q: Nope
R/R: I don't have a rant, but my dog does: She's very displeased that I'm bumping and not scratching her face.
Rave: I took my first quiz for my class that started on Tuesday and got a 100%! Woo! I also rearranged the living room yesterday and I LOVE it. It's so much more open. Now I just need to spend a bunch of money and decorate it, haha.
GTKY: What's something that you would love to buy right now if you had the financial means?
New sinks and countertops, because those are the only parts of the kitchen and bathroom that I don't feel I can cosmetically "improve" myself.
SD: 21 & SS: 17
BFP #2 6/3/2020
*Trigger Warning*
Clomid 50;100;150;200: No O
TSH 3.75 Put on 50mg levothyroxine
1500 MG Metformin
7.5 MG Letrozole: No Follicles
9 MG Letrozole: 21mm Follicle no pregnancy
4 cycles at 9 MG Letrozole, No pregnancy
Month/Cycle: 3/3
CD: 15
WAYDTGKU: pnv, cm/cp, hio ed/eod, getting healthy and happy
CS/Q
R/R: rant: my dd is sick today and it's raining. Rave: I'm baking and cleaning the house before another busy week.
GTKY: What's something that you would love to buy right now if you had the financial means
A vacation with dh. We never had a honeymoon or any other getaway together. It is much needed and we are saving for a long weekend away.
First step thus is land.
@canonmom413 I just re-read your check in and the problem you are discribing about determining between semen and CM actually seems to be pretty normal! There is even mention of it in the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility.
@sbarluccico So sorry to hear about CD 1 today.
@sarelizr I ask my DH that same question everyday.
@kaitlink33 Do you live in a rual area?? I can't believe the only Dr. in your network is so far away! That's really crummy.
@cactusblossum Glad you and your husband had a great day!
@soemthingclever GL with your last semester!!!
i sometimes get ewcm on non fertile days. I know that I for a fact have not ovulated yet. I was just trying to distinguish between the two for when it IS during fertile week. I think the cup idea is a great one, someone else IRL mentioned for me to do that too.
Edit. Grammar is my friend.
Oct. '17 June S.C. "You Had 1 Job"
@JJMNO1616 kinda. I have a small dr. Office near me that I used to get them done at for my other RE but it was through a different network, which I assumed I could just go to them since the dr. Said it was fine and I even asked the PA the other day when I talked to her how to set it up and she said they would fax the order wherever I was going so I was super mad when they told me otherwise this morning.
Also I've promised a home made chocolate recipe for @adirat Friday, so here it is:
You melt in a smaller pot
- some natural sweetener (I use a stevia-erythritol mixture, about 2 tb spoons of that but it's up to taste),
- in 0,5 dl water (sometimes I use lactose free milk)
When it is completely melt, you add the cca. 60 g coconut oil to it (I still experiment with the amount, I want to reduce the coconut oil because it is a lot of calories to spare
You put a bigger pot with some hot water in it onto the stove and put the smaller pot on it (so you can continue cooking the chocolate on steam and not on direct heat).
You add 35 g natural cocoa powder to the mix in the small pot, stir until mixed completely. If needed, add some more milk, you need a nice thick creamy texture.
When it's ready, you can put it in a silicone bonbon mold. After it cools put it in the fridge and it'll be ready in about an hour or so. Be aware the fact that it is addictive
Let me know it any of the above doesn't make sense.
And GO PACKS!
Month/Cycle: 17/13-14 that counts
CD: 19
WAYDTGKU: hio, bbt, cm, and we started fertility testing in dec.
CS/Q
R/R: So we had our romantic getaway weekend: both DH and I got very sick by Friday (coughing and some fever like symptoms) so we gave up and came home on Saturday, have been laying under covers since :P But we did manage to squeeze in some BD
GTKY: What's something that you would love to buy right now if you had the financial means?
Will you laugh at me if I say: a trip to the US?
Married: May 2015
TTC since September 2015
@sbarluccico Sorry for CD1
@sarelizr That looks so yummy. I have salsa chicken in the crock pot right now for lunches for the week (burrito bowls for DH and taco salads for me)
@kaitlink33 Sorry your RE's office is being a bunch of TWs
@mythril I feel you on the car. Our cars aren't there quite yet but we're really trying to pay off the car that still has a loan and DH's student loans before we buy a new one. With the current plan we should have everything paid off in about 2ish years. I feel like every time we take in one of them for service I'm crossing my fingers and toes that they won't find anything bad.
@somethingclever FX your ovulating late this cycle and it's not an anovulatory cycle. GL with shopping totally understand the struggle - I'm an H cup
@emcake FX DD starts feeling better soon
@Anna_1021 Yay for good timing!
Dating: 2/2007 Married: 4/2011
TTC #1: 9/2016
*TW*
BFP #2: 3/9/2017 - CP: 3/10/2017
08/2017: DH's SA = normal
08/2017: Low progesterone (4.6) all other BW normal
11/2017: HSG Clear; Pelvic Ultrasound Normal; and AMH, FSH, and Estradiol normal
12/2017: 1,000mg Metformin
12/2017: 50mg Clomid + TI = BFN
01/2018: 100mg Clomid + TI = BFN
01/2018: RE Consult
03/2018: 5mg Letrozole + 50 units Gonal-F + 500 μg Ovidrel + IUI = BFP #3: 4/1/2018 - CP: 4/4/2018
04/2018: 5mg Letrozole + Gonal-F + Ovidrel + IUI = BFP #4: 5/2/18
CD: 6
WAYDTGKU: opk and planning to BD every day starting Wednesday. I usually ovulate around day 12.
CS/Q: I don't chart
R/R: dreading the rainy nor'easter touching down tomorrow and the crappy weather all week. I hate January!
GTKY: if we had the financial means we would move like yesterday. We live in a 3 bedroom row home in a nice neighborhood, and while we live comfortably now, it will get tight if/when #3 comes along. Plus I want to live in the suburbs. So over city living!!
DD2: 9/12/13
Baby #3: Due January 2018
This weather is so depressing and is killing business! I'm a natural light mainly photographer, but will use supplemental lighting when necessary/ I just don't like to. I have a session Wednesday and this weather is killing my plans!!
Oct. '17 June S.C. "You Had 1 Job"
DD2: 9/12/13
Baby #3: Due January 2018
Oct. '17 June S.C. "You Had 1 Job"
DD2: 9/12/13
Baby #3: Due January 2018