WTO Weekend 6/22-23

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Month/Cycle:

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WAYDTGKU:

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CS/Q: 

ejoseph16

Month/Cycle: 6/2 AL

CD: 22

WAYDTGKU: OPK, BBT, CM, PNV, folic acid, HIO EOD 

R/R: after a 4 hour jaunt, my phone was announced as dead and I was given a replacement for free because it was a manufacturer problem! Thanks, apple! 🤦🏼‍♀️ 

Fun weekend ahead... going to the Cleveland Indians game today, then tomorrow is my nephews 3rd birthday! 

CS/Q: finally getting my OPK’s to show me something, so that’s good! Hoping for O soon. MH looked at me last night as we were going to bed, and he said “this is our month. I can feel it” and it hit me hard. It sucks when your body is holding you back. But I know he gets it! 

mrsvp614

@ejoseph16 Sounds like an awesome weekend and yay for new phone! DH told me last night, “I just want it to happen so I don’t feel the pressure anymore,” which is the first time he’s expressed anything like that. 😔

Month/Cycle: 6/6

CD: ETA 19

WAYDTGKU: BBT, FF, HIO, PNVs, OPKs, pre-seed

R/R: Rant: We’re supposed to go to the zoo this morning, but it’s storming. Hopefully it’ll let up in the afternoon. 

Rave: I finally got my peak OPK last night and was able to HIO! 

CS/Q: 

millpe

Month/Cycle: 6/3/1 AL

CD: 12

WAYDTGKU: OPKs, sex eod

R/R: so glad it's the weekend, but we have a very busy weekend so its going to fly by. Heading to a town 2 hrs away this morning for an anniversary party for H's grandparents. Will spend the day there and drive back tonight. Tomorrow we are having both of our families at our house for a BBQ party. Glad we now have the basment to hang out in! 

CS/Q:  nada

millpe

@MrsVP614 I hope the rain lets up so you can go to the zoo! Its supposed to be chilly where I am today - only in the 60s!

@ejoseph16 sounds like you also have a busy weekend!

bows22

@ejoseph16 looks like we are both hitting up baseball games today! your team is slightly better than mine though😆

@mrsvp614 hopefully thats the only storm and you can still head to the zoo!

@millpe have a fun weekend! a grandparent anniversary party sounds so sweet  how long have they been married?

Month/Cycle: 7/8

CD: 8

WAYDTGKU: EOD, OPKs, tracking CM

R/R: Going to the baseball game later, and a winery tomorrow! But in between that we will be trying to get the house and yard in order for a party we are having next weekend. The wife of someone who works for one of our clients passed away yesterday so I might go to the viewing. It’s hard for me to decide what to do in these situations but it feels like the right thing to go. I keep mentally debating it though. 

CS/Q: 

inthewoods23

Good morning!

@ejoseph16 have fun at the game!

@MrsVP614 hope you can still make it to the zoo today! Zoos are great!

@millpe quite a busy weekend you have! Have fun!

@bows22 enjoy the baseball game and winery!

Month/Cycle: 24/22

CD: 2

WAYDTGKU: FET!!, PNV, vit D

R/R: I got distracted from this because the embryologist called and 5 of the 6 embryos we have are normal 😃 that's it, I got nothing else I'm so over the moon at the news!

CS/Q: nope

silly_goose

@ejoseph16 RIP to your phone. Yay for free replacement. Hope your info was backed up? to YH’s words. I hope he’s right!

@MrsVP614 hope the skies clear and you get to go to the zoo. 

@millpe what a full schedule this weekend! Have fun. 

@bows22 enjoy the game! Death freaks me out and TBH unless it were someone I was close with, I wouldn’t go. You’re a better woman than me. 

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekends. 

Month/Cycle: 2/2

CD: 13

WAYDTGKU: temping, OPKs, vitamins, etc.

R/R: My husband is getting ready to leave for CA for a week as I type this (best man in his cousin’s wedding). I hope he has a good time but he’s definitely going to be missed. We haven’t even bought the wedding gift yet but I looked through their registry a couple of days ago and everything is SO expensive. iPads, 300$ pot, 700$ knives, like I don’t understand who they think will be willing to cough up that kind of money lol. Gonna need to figure that out soon though the wedding is on Thursday 

CS/Q: I got a positive OPK last night! So relieved. I tested at 8 pm and it was negative. I started to feel nauseous and I was like hm my hormones are doing something and POAS again at 9:20ish, and the test line was darker than the control! So we HIO last night and again this morning as I planned. Last night was fun this morning felt more forced though. 

ETA- chart and to note that while I had decided I wasn’t going to do cervical checks, the lack of clarity drove me nuts yesterday and I decided to dive right in. Pun intended. 

kagesstarshroom

@bows22 enjoy the fun stuff this weekend! GL deciding to go to the viewing or not. do what you think is best. it’s always a respectful gesture to go to something like that if you can but also understandable not to.

@millpe busy busy! have fun this weekend.

@mrsvp614 hope the storm lets up so you can go to the zoo!

@ejoseph16 yay new phone! enjoy the game! also i dig yh’s attitude!

Month/Cycle: 9/5AL

CD: 8

WAYDTGKU: pnv, bbt, cm, opk, gfj, rlt, smep,  coq10, probiotic, etc.

R/R: my wrist hurts from being in my phone so much since we have no internet til monday. having some people over today bc we are hosting a friend’s going away party. 

CS/Q: nothing thrilling yet. 

inthewoods23

@silly_goose My one cousin's registry had $500 bedding!!! And then the decorative pillows were like $80! I know one of the items we did buy them for their wedding gift was a $50 burlap table runner. Stupid Crate & Barrel and their expensive stuff! Burlap is burlap right? Probably could find something nearly identical at Target for $20.

And I thought our $300 block of knives was expensive 😱

ejoseph16

@MrsVP614 I’m sorry YH feels pressured. That sucks. MH did initially, but now he’s more relaxed. Hopefully the storms let up and you can get out to the zoo! I love going to the zoo! 

@millpe have fun at the anniversary party! 

@bows22 have fun at your game as well! What team are you watching? We love our Indians! They’re one of 2 teams MH and I agree on... and we have never been to a game before (I went to a spring training game a few years ago when I lived in Arizona, in all fairness). 

@inthewoods23 YAY! That’s great news! So I’m not familiar with the process... what’s your next step?

@silly_goose yeah I’m an apple user, so everything was backed up in the cloud at midnight the night before the phone died, so that was good news! Registries can be so expensive! We always find the most ridiculous cheap thing on their registry and get it for them. My personal favorite was a darth Vader waffle skillet. $20 of fun! 😂🤣 

@kagesstarshroom I’m just glad MH has the positive attitude this cycle, I’ve been an emotional disaster this whole cycle. But yes, I dig it, too! How is your dissertation going? 

silly_goose

@inthewoods23 yup Crate and Barrel is the culprit in our case as well. Seriously, burlap? What a rip off. 
ALSO, wooohhooo! 5 normal embies! So happy for you. 

@ejoseph16 that’s a relief. iCloud to the rescue. This would have been a much bigger problem #backintheday. 

@kagesstarshroom hope hosting goes well tonight and everyone has fun and doesn’t leave a massive mess behind!

inthewoods23

@ejoseph16 next is transferring one of the frozen embryos into the uterus.

Before that though I'm doing a repeat saline sono as the one I did back in early May showed an abnormal lining (it's supposed to look smooth) so they're repeating to check how it looks this cycle. If it's still abnormal I'll be having surgery to "clean" it before they transfer.

kmornelas29

Month/Cycle: 2/2

CD: 13

WAYDTGKU: opk, temp, BD, and pre natals 

R/R: rave: got a high fertility of my digital opk today. Matching CM. Rant: having 14 Girl Scouts at our house today for a pool party, and LA is getting rain drizzles. Insert eye roll! 

CS/Q:  does ovulation usually occur 24 to 48 hours after a high fertility reading or peak fertility reading on the clear blue digital ovulation test?  I tried searching for the answer and it seem to contradict itself .

mrsvp614

@silly_goose Maybe get them a gift card for an amount you’re more comfortable with for one is the stores on the registry. Then they can use it towards a bigger item. 

ejoseph16

@kmornelas29 peak reading means you will ovulate 12-36 hours after I believe. I know it’s not high. High just means you’re in your fertile window. 

kmornelas29

@ejoseph16 thanks! 

silly_goose

@MrsVP614 I thought it might be too impersonal consider the groom is family. But MH just told me he’s just going to put some cash in a card and call it a day. Talk about impersonal 😂. 

@inthewoods23 hope your sono goes well. I had one of saline ultrasounds once. I remember them telling me to take some tylenol or Advil beforehand because there would be some cramping. I decided to just brave it. But then I regretted it because those cramps were intense 

kagesstarshroom

@silly_goose i was SUPER PISSED bc i didn’t see a card/anything from my BIL/SIL after our wedding, but DH informed me his bro “doesn’t do cards” and apparently had just handed him some cash. Talk about impersonal! 

@ejoseph16 thanks for asking about the dissertation! It’s been hard to make good progress without the internet at home (i use Google Docs to keep track of sources & quotations not to mentions i am always looking something up) but i’ve gotten so much more reading done in the last million days since the net went down (since Thurs. morning lol) than in a long time! Some diss related, some not...

@inthewoods23 YAY re: the five embryos! 💗

shoogapoff

Month/Cycle: 5/6

CD: 6

WAYDTGKU: PNV, COQ10, GFJ, RLT, BBT, tracking CM, OPK

R/R: I had a sh** day yesterday. Work stuff was bad, then *TW pregnancy*

went onto FB at the end of the day and  saw a pregnancy announcement from someone much younger than me who's been married a very short amount of time and it just hit me wrong. It doesn't help that my sister went into labor yesterday with her 2nd child. 

 Then went to the chiropractor where he told me my biological clock is ticking and if we want kids, we need to get on it! Thanks. Dude. 

Anyway, on the bright side: We're going swimming today! My in-laws are in town and staying at a fancy resort with a nice water park. So we're going to the water park this afternoon and then dinner with them this evening. Should be nice!

CS/Q: As predicted, vaginal temps are high...98.6 today! I'm wondering what my post-o temps will reach...

Edited bc mobile bump equals grammatical errors. 

bows22

@inthewoods23 oh my gosh that is such wonderful news. I am so happy for you! 

@kagesstarshroom thanks! I just feel so bad. And want him to know that people care. They were so close to retiring and ugh. Life sucks sometimes. Anyway. Have fun tonight! I love hosting parties so that I am that much closer to my bed when they are done 

@ejoseph16 we’re in Pittsburgh. The pirates are in last place 👎🏻 But we still love going to the games 

bows22

@shoogapoff have so much fun at the water park. That sounds like a blast! I’m sorry about the other stuff. Stick to the back stuff, chiro!

shoogapoff

@kagesstarshroom @silly_goose My BIL and SIL are extremely wealthy and they didn't give us anything for our wedding. I guess they decided BIL and niece being in the wedding was their gift? I would have loved cash, but I don't care for them too much so something personal wouldn't have meant a lot to me. 

@ejoseph16 I love your wedding gift philosophy. I registered for a Hello Kitty toaster as a joke. The registry showed someone actually bought it, but we never got it. So it remains a mystery. 

@bows22 Situations like that are hard. I think viewings are easier than actual services. You can make an appearance and then duck out without staying forever. 

@millpe In the 60s?! Wow! It's 100 here. DH would love to be where you are!

shoogapoff

@inthewoods23 Oh! I forgot to add you. 5 is so great! What good news! So you'll transfer 1? Just curious, does your dr ever do 2 embryo transfers? In my RE research, it seemed like that was a big dividing line between facilities, but I didn't know how much the couple had a say in that. 

inthewoods23

@shoogapoff yeah they'll only transfer 1. They might do 2 under particular circumstances. I'm still young and as far as I've been told they all look good so there's no reason to transfer 2.