*TTC my Rainbow Check-In*

Mrs Nice

Hello Ladies,

I hope I find you all positive and well this week! I wish you all luck and sprinkle extra baby dust.

Have you found any resources that have been helpful to you while TTC? (books/articles etc.)

Please share something positive that happened to you this week.

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? 

 

lrichmond86

Have you found any resources that have been helpful to you while TTC? (books/articles etc.)

Not in particular.  My best resource is other women on this site, to be honest.

Please share something positive that happened to you this week.

We found out that DH is getting a significant pay raise this year, which takes a lot of pressure off of us considering all of our new expenses owning a house.  

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?

As I've already posted about, our 2ww ended with AF so we're back to trying for cycle 2.  I'm having a really hard time coping with things right now... the disappointment of not being pregnant, DH's cousin posting about having her baby on FB (we didn't even know she was pregnant), the last of our pregnant friends due any day.  It feels like too much right now.  I'm having a tough time staying positive and in the right frame of mind to want to TTC.  I just feel sad and frustrated I guess. 

whiteroses05

Hey ladies sorry i have been absent from the board here lately. I have been busy with daily life and preparing for an interview and vacation. Which so far vacation is going well, we havent been out on the boat yet but its beautiful here. Have you found any resources that have been helpful to you while TTC? (books/articles etc.) I agree with pp the ladies here are who I have been able to find helpful. Also for those who dont chart I have found a good resource if you have a smartphone. For andord phones its called period tracker and there is also one for iphones that my friend showed me however dont know what it is called. Its great to keep track of your cycles and it tells you when you should be ovulating. You can also custumize symptoms.Please share something positive that happened to you this week.This is our first cycle of actively trying again. It makes me feel like there is something positive to look forward to. FXOpen Topic. What is on your mind this week? Being that it is July brings mixed feelings. I am happy we are able to finally be on the same page about trying again however our edd is around the corner. I know that it will be difficult but glad I also have a positive for this month. I know the chances of being able to get pregnant this cycle will be slim but over I know that we will have that joy again. I hope that all you ladies are doing well on this new journey. Know that I am lurking even though I havent posted and that I am sending you all the best wishes!

jbranden12

Have you found any resources that have been helpful to you while TTC? (books/articles etc.)

I read tcoyf when we first thought about ttc and I'm pretty much sticking to that. If I sought out any more information, I think I would drive myself (and DH) crazy.

Please share something positive that happened to you this week.

This week has been tough. After another short LP, AF showed up yesterday. I was pretty devastated. I'll call the office today to schedule monitoring appts. for clomid cycle #2. On a good note, I am in the middle of a five day weekend that is only costing me 10 hours since we work 4 10s in the summer.

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?

On Saturday I am taking a comprehensive exam for my master's so I can graduate in August. I am worried because I have had a hard time focusing on anything lately, which makes studying difficult.

philfemgal

Have you found any resources that have been helpful to you while TTC? (books/articles etc.)

Nothing that comes to mind.  Google I guess is the best resource.  There is actually a pretty long preview of TCOYF on google books and I have ended up there a few times for temp interpretation sort of questions.

 

Please share something positive that happened to you this week.

My parents came to visit and we had a decent time, ate out a lot, etc.  My wife got a raise (well that might have happened a little earlier than a week ago--I can't remember.)  I got a (temporary, badly paying) job--but at least I have some income and something to do.  I made a really tasty ice cream cake for my wife's birthday.

I guess there were numerous positive things--you'd think I wouldn't feel so sucky in light of all those.

 

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?

I feel like I had been having an up the last weekish.  My parents came to visit and so I had a lot of cleaning and stuff to prepare for their visit which was a good distraction.  And then while they were here we were doing stuff all the time so I was distracted.  Now I feel like I have a little bit of a grief hangover.  I experienced this after we got back from the cruise we took 2 months ago too.

Adding to the down I'm having now was talking to a good friend on skype last night.  This friend is not pregnant, but one of our mutual friends is and we talked a bit about her and her pregnancy.  I have not talked to the pregnant friend over skype since they announced--I've only communicated with her over email and through a card I sent.  Just talking *about* her last night threw me into a really sad place.

I am also currently in the 2WW for our 2nd cycle of TTC post loss.  Our timing this month was far from ideal.  Usually I ovulate the day after a + OPK and so we time our inseminations based on that assumption.  But this month apparently I ovulated the day of my first + (which only became apparent the next morning when my temp shot up).  So I feel like our timing was not good and that we wasted hundreds of dollars putting the sperm in at the wrong time and so I already have very little hope for this cycle.

We also started looking for a new OB and had an appt. on Monday.  We are going to check my progesterone level (I have the 7DPO test tomorrow) because I had one pretty low level before getting pregnant.  Weirdly it was low in August and then in September my level was fine and I got pregnant with twins and carried them just fine until into the 2nd trimester, so no signs of low progesterone.  When I got the low number last August the RE we saw right away recommended clomid.  I resisted it since we had never tried at all at that point and I was worried about the risk of multiples (ironic that the very next month I got pregnant with multiples without taking any fertility meds!).  So I am stressing about what the progesterone test tomorrow is going to show and worried that another recommendation to start some fertility meds is in our future.  It particularly worries me now to do anything that would raise our risk of multiples since they have blamed my going into labor (as well as other issues in the pregnancy) on the fact that it was a twin pregnancy.