TTGP Grad Announcements w/o May 22

britters314 · May 2023

If you are a contributing member who has been active here for a full 3 months with a BFP this week, CONGRATULATIONS! Please share your success with us here.

How do you know if you're a contributing member?

1. Ask your heart if you have contributed positively here.

2. Do these people know you? Will they be happy about your pregnancy?

3. Have you offered support to others or have you just blasted your own info out there?

4. We ask that you only post here if you have been participating meaningfully here for at least three months. Sometimes the silence is kindest. Those of us who lurk BMBs will see your intro and PM/comment/love tit.

5. Again, take a moment and step away from your excitement and ask your heart if posting would be potentially hurtful.

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CD/DPO of first BFP?

How many months/cycles had you been TTC?

How long have you been an active participant on the TTGP board? (minimum: 3 full months)

What did your chart look like?

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?

charmedlifex3 · May 2023

CD/DPO of first BFP? 28/14

How many months/cycles had you been TTC? It’ll be 11 months in a few days. Casually trying July of 2022 until January 2023, fertility treatments starting after 6 months (femara) since I’m 38.

How long have you been an active participant on the TTGP board? (minimum: 3 full months) January 2023- now, minus a brief trip to a bmb in the end of February to early March for about three weeks. 😞 sadly- I may be back in a couple weeks, but trying to savor the now. Hoping this is my take home baby.

What did your chart look like? It was a hot mess. I had a fever right after AF, then caught strep right after O so there were wild swings that had nothing to do with my cycle and discarding them left me with huge gaps.

What were you doing TGKU? Temping, femara, timed sex

How was your timing? What symptoms did you have, if any? (CS & CD breakdowns welcome)
timing was actually not great. -1 and -2. My husband was out of town the week of O so we tried to pre-load… 😂
symptom wise- I always get hyperemesis. My son came home from school and informed me one of the other kids threw up A LOT!!! I was like great. Stomach bug the week after strep throat 🥴 annnnd I feel nauseous. Great. This will be awesome. 🫣😬🤢

But it didn’t really go away and then my period was due yesterday and didn’t come so I finally POAS. I was super afraid to know- we set a cutoff of August for no longer trying medicated cycles and moving to IVF (or if I have another loss- stick baby stick!) and I’d really like to avoid IVF if possible.

How are you going to/did you tell your partner? I handed him the test while he was doing dishes and he said “ew you peed on that.” 🥴😂 then he smiled and said “there’s a baby coming!”

Anything else to add? I’m so hesitant to get excited. Right now, I am pregnant. There is joy in that. I keep repeating that to myself. We have two living children but this is my eighth pregnancy, so the odds feel against us.

My OB is having me come in for a 6 week appointment rather than 8 so hopefully we can prevent another loss by starting medication. We think the positive lupus anticoagulant antibodies (a clotting issue) may be a factor in why I have had so many losses, so we are planning to start blood thinners at that point. I was on lovenox previously due to heart issues, so that’s not new. I’ve been off them for years though so my OB talked to my cardiologist about restarting for the pregnancy… I hope it works.