Newbie Intros w/o 4.19

acleverusername

Welcome, new members! Please read The Ultimate TTGP Guide pinned at the top of the board (https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12685680/the-ultimate-ttgp-guide-newbies-read-this-first). It's full of information about TTGP and about our community here on The Bump. 

Please introduce yourself and share as much (or as little) as you would like. Once you're ready, feel free to jump into any of our daily/weekly threads to participate in the community!

Ages (you and SO): 

How many months have you been TTC?: 

What are you doing to get knocked up (WAYDTGKU)?: 

Tell us about yourself! (Kids, pets, job, hobbies, etc.)

rachelredhead

Ages (you and SO): 40 (me) and 45 (husband)

How many months have you been TTC?: we have been NTNP for a couple months, this feels like the first month we are actually more « trying » than preventing. 

What are you doing to get knocked up (WAYDTGKU)?: Flo app, prenatals, might see if I can find my Ava bracelet somewhere

Tell us about yourself! (Kids, pets, job, hobbies, etc.) We have a 9 month old son who is crawling like a wild man. I was briefly on and off the TTGP board when we were trying last time (had two losses before him so also had brief stints on those birth month boards). I always found this board super helpful and encouraging and I really love the ladies in my birth board (July 2020). It’s hard to be TTC knowing we’d be embarking on our second pandemic pregnancy but I get my second shot tomorrow so that helps my anxiety some. We’re obviously elderly (ha!) so I don’t feel like we have the luxury of time, especially since we had a lot of heartbreak before our take home baby. 

Look forward to meeting folks! 

acleverusername

Welcome back to the community @rachelredhead. Hopefully the group is as helpful this time as it was last time, even if you were here sporadically! I hope your stay with us is short but sweeeeeeeet. 

lizzi97

Ages (you and SO): 36 (me) & 38 (SO)

How many months have you been TTC?: very many!

What are you doing to get knocked up (WAYDTGKU)?: IVF, just had my egg retrieval this morning, and now I'm bumming around all day

Tell us about yourself! (Kids, pets, job, hobbies, etc.): We've got two dogs but we also foster rescue pups! I'm a doctoral student finishing up my dissertation this year.

daisy0322

Ages (you and SO): I just turned 29 and my husband is 28

How many months have you TTC? 2 but hubby is currently working out of town for a few months and only is home on Friday’s. Luckily I think that’ll fall in my fertility window fairly well this month. TW*** I had a miscarriage in March and this is my first period back we took that month off **** end TW. 

What are you doing to get knocked up (WAYDTGKU)?: Flo app, PNV

Tell us about yourself!
we have two little boys ages 3 (almost 4) and 1 1/2. TW*** I’ve been told I’m totally infertile after our first son- doctors were shocked I had my second. And since he’s been born I’ve not gone back into premature menopause again so we’re trying while we still can to have a 3rd”. If I disappear I probably started menopause again (POF) my first time I was 25.  ****END TW I am a stay at home mom and I don’t really know what my husband does. He works for the government and can’t talk about it. I love to play piano and watch documentaries. I am also working on a bachelors degree off and on in sociology and women and gender studies. I was on TB while ttc with my first kiddo and it was fun getting to know every one! I can’t wait to do it again ♥️

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Welcome back, @daisy0322 Congratulations on your little miracle, and best of luck again!!! ❤️

daisy0322

@BusinessWife Thank you! I told everyone that if I have another baby I’ll pass out lottery tickets since the doctors told me I’m more likely to win the lottery 😂 I’m feelin lucky though so let’s see what happens 

b_1029

*lurking* @daisy0322 I feel like I remember you but there have been several daisys so not sure. Did your doctor tell you you had a super low AMH level or something like that? Anyway, glad to see you were ultimately successful. 

daisy0322

@b_1029 yes I remember you 😁 I had a high FSH like 112 lol I have no idea if I can get KU again but you never know 

acleverusername

@lizzi97 Welcome to the board! We have an active weekly IF thread so feel free to hop in for some great support! In the meanwhile, congrats on your ER! 

@daisy0322 Welcome back! I LOLed hard at "FSH of 112"! Your case so goes to show that doctors don't know everything. But then again, conception is an art not a science, so how can they? When IVF success gets to 100%, we can have a different conversation. Until then, keep on DTD and keep on hoping/praying that you'll get your #3. You might not have a lot of egg, but yours are still very good quality! Good luck; hope your stay here is short. 

optimistgardener

Hi y'all. I've been spouting off over in the IF Testing & Treatment thread for a few weeks now but figure I should properly introduce myself elsewhere.

Ages (you and SO): It's just me, doing this all by myself (well... me and a sperm donor). I'm 38.

How many months have you been TTC?: I've been trying since fall of 2018, when I was a starry-eyed newbie who thought she would get pregnant no problem. After perhaps 7 months (I wasn't trying every month) of BFNs,  got an RE referral, who in turn had me do an ultrasound and then an MRI that found and confirmed a couple of big ol' fibroids, one of which had breached the uterine wall. Bad timing meant I moved states right at this same moment, so setting up new insurance, getting a new referral, confirming that yes, I needed surgery and then scheduling surgery meant I wasn't free of my fibroids till Jan 2020. So about half of 2019 was a total wash. Post-surgical recovery plus covid meant it was late spring in 2020 before I was up and running again.  A few natural cycle IUIs, then experimentation with clomid and femara brought me to late 2020, when my local women's clinic washed its hands of me. Which is how I wound up at the fertility clinic I'm at now, with two failed injectable IUI cycles behind me.

What are you doing to get knocked up (WAYDTGKU)?: I'm currently waiting to start my first IVF cycle, set to begin in early May. I'm also on many of the usual supplements: CoQ10, prenatals, Vit D, Acai, DHEA, baby aspirin, melatonin, uh... I feel like I'm forgetting one. I try to be healthy regardless of whether I'm TTC, but have toned down my exercise levels on the off-chance I was getting too much of a good thing. These days I run a few miles 3-4 times a week, plus general maintenance work on my family's 70-acre property/farm. I am a lifelong vegetarian who eats a lot of whole grains, green veg, eggs, legumes, whole-fat dairy, and tofu. I've recently starting including sardines in my diet a couple of times a week. I'd cook fresh fish but I have no idea how, ha ha.

Tell us about yourself! (Kids, pets, job, hobbies, etc.): I have a dog named Luce who is every kind of trouble. I swear she's going for some kind of record for number of expensive emergency vet visits. She's a terrier and so has no pain receptors (or fear). Most recently she returned home from a mystery adventure with a broken tail and visible tail bones, which required an emergency amputation. She's still wearing the cone.

I finished a PhD in history in 2018 and now am an academic copy editor who works from home (hi @lizzi97 ! Good luck with getting that diss done!). I mainly read manuscripts from my own research area but sometimes branch out to other fields. I mostly love the work and am always grateful for its flexibility, since I never have to arrange for time off to deal with my complicated appointments calendar. When I was a grad student and for about a year afterwards I taught university courses, and boy do I ever miss teaching.

daisy0322

@acleverusername thank you! Doctors definitely don’t know it all haha we’ll see what happens this round. I wish you a short stay too 💕

acleverusername

@optimistgardener thanks for sharing some additional details about yourself! I feel like Luce and your ovary have a lot in common! 

fifilala516

Welcome all! Hope your time here is short and sweet.