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TTT
Look at me starting this thread.
- I want a baby. Bad
- I don't know when we are going to start working on #1 and it is driving me nuts.
- I took some much needed time to myself this weekend. It was great but I think it just showed me how much I needed it. Now I want more.
- I want to send E to camp for a week at her new school this summer. I think it will be good for her to be there for a week before school starts. Now I need to convince my dw of this.
- E's donor is "retired" does anyone know if you can get him out of retirement for a sibling? We used xytex. He made a cute kid and would love to use him again.
- God if we have to pick out a new donor I am going to freak out. ugggggg.
- 6 more weeks of dw in grad school. I can not wait for it to be done.
- I am bummed the people we are renting from in p-town didn't give us a deal. For god sake I have your daughter in class right now and you own two properties in p-town...throw a gal a bone for goodness sake.
- We are getting no where with potty training. I really want my kid to do something that is not delayed. She is freaking 2.5 and supposed to be caught up by now. I am frustrated.
- I know she is well within a normal range for still being in diapers but I feel like everyone else has potty trained their kid. I need to take a week end and focus on it. Argh.
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Re: TTT
1. SSG - FWIW the boys didn't PT until 3y 3m and I have several friends right now who have 2.5y-3y old girls who have no interest in PTing (and were not preemies.) Some kids just take longer to find interest. She'll get there.
2. I am in meetings/seminars all day. Boo.
3. It was 30 degrees this morning. Huh? Last week the kids wore shorts to school every day.
4. I have a 4 day work week this week since the kids are off of school on Friday. 3 more days to go!
YIPPEEE!!!
5. I need spring clothes. I don't want to spend money for spring clothes.
6. I had a dream last night that I started running - like for enjoyment. LOL.
7. My afternoon seminar is parents of children who died at the hospital and how they viewed the communication between them and the hospital. Emotionally draining.
8. I need to go get coffee before my first meeting. I will be back with 9 and 10 later.
1. today is my partner's birthday and she insisted on testing even though she's only 9 DPO
2. naturally, this resulted in a negative test
3. which naturally resulted in a sad partner
4. I reminded her "not pregnant" really just means "not yet" because some how, some way, some day, there will be a child
5. another gray day, which is so unusual for the Twin Cities
6. I feel kind of barfy today. Not morning sickness, because I'm not the bio-mom!
7. It took us like ten minutes to select a donor
8. And if we had to switch for some reason, it wouldn't matter a bit
9. Which makes me feel like some sort of donor-selection-slacker
10. I see recruitment posters for donors (for our cryobank) in the building where I work every day, and it does feel bizarre that there is a small (quite small!) possibility that I have somehow met our donor, even in passing on the elevator, at some point in time.
1. Our donor also retired (he was new too so I assume he was a one hit wonder) and we only have one vial.
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2. I have a cold.
3. I spend some time on the Multiples board but sometimes they really annoy me because there's a lot of people who are like "zomg twins are so hard its impossible to brush my teeth". Not everyone but enough, even among the older set.
4. I haven't worked on my proposal in a month
that's a lot of tuition this semester wasted. MUST get draft in this week. ughhhhhh.
5. WTF was I thinking coming off leave?
6. I found a huge puddle of water in the basement last night. I thought the washer was leaking, and had brief visions of stinky rotting diapers (given that I hadn't done laundry since Saturday) but turns out my utility sink needed a visit from the plunger.
7. andddd I need to buy a new lint trap for the hose. Whoops (I cut it off - so full water was shooting out the top - when we moved in in OCTOBER).
8. I THINK we have free lunch today but i'll likely eat what I bought. Not because its healthier but because a) Ive eaten half already and b) this place is CHEAP and free lunch tends to blow.
9. That's something I miss about my old job. Goo d catering. That and working from home sometimes. Of course, daycare is way more than my old take home pay, so oh well.
10. I don't super care about the donor issue, except if we need someone new our options are limited to tall, thin, blond blue eyed folks (to give my theoretical baby a shot in hell of looking sorta like the girls) which is kind of limiting. AND this is mostly my issue because they're soooo thin and C was thin as a child and I am afraid a baby I birthed would not be. I kind of hope I have a boy if i ever get pregnant due to this issue
1. StUPID RANDOM CAPS. ONLY HAPpENS ON MY PHONE ON THE BUMP. SORrY.
2. THETe IS A SLEEPING BABY ON MY LAP SO ITS WORTH IT.
3. I WANT TO WATCH SUNDAYS MAD MEN. BUT I WaNT TO WATCH IT OLD SCHOoL STYLE -UNINTERrUPTED WITH A COCKTAIL.
4. LOTS OF FOSTER UPS AND DOWNS THIS WEeK. I NEED TO DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH MY STReSS OTHER THAN EAT.
5. HOPEFULLY I WILL FIND OUT TONIGhY IF OUR VACA HAS BEEN APPROVED. AND CROSS YOUR FINGErS FOR MORE GOoD NRWS TOMORROW.
6. I MISS OUR LONG WALKS FROM LAST WeEK. WE GOT SPOILED BY THE WeATHER.
7. I MADE A NEW ReCIPE LAST NIGhT THAT WAS A HIT. GOoGLE "TODAY SHOW SAUSAGE GARBANZO BEANS." I ADdED LOTS OF ROOT VEG AND KALE AND IT MADE A TON.
8. I GET MY HAIRCUT TOMORrOW AND DONT CARE BUT DeSPERATELY NEeD MY BROWS WAXED.
9.We HAVE A TRAVEL FLOiR ACTIVITY MAT...THE BARS KEEP POpPING OUT OF THE MAT, SO I TAPED IT TO THE OTTOMAN. CLASsY. HE PROBABLY WONT USE IT THAT MUCH LONGER, SO I DONT WANT TO BUY A NEW ONE.
10. SaW THE MUPPET MOVIE IN SAT..WAY FUNnIER FOR ADULTS THAN KIDS, I THINK.
11. I LoVE FRIENDS WHO INVITE YOU OVER FOR DINnER, BUT THEN ReALIZE PUNKIN CAN SLEEP IN HIS CRIB IF THEY DeLIVER.
1. Its cold this week, which stinks after how warm and beautiful it was last week.
2. I'm in a funk. Something has got to give because I'm just feeling so achy for change. So in need of something that makes me feel satisfied and like I'm making a difference.
3. Appropriate ways I've handled #1 and #2 today -- warm tea and a big comfy sweater.
4. Not so great ways I've handled #1 and #2 today -- eating the leftover 2.5 slices of pizza for brunch. ::sigh::
5. On a nicer note, I think I'm going to start volunteering with the Sierra Club the first Saturday of each month cleaning up trails at our local state park. Hopefully as Gwen gets older she'll be able to join me.
6. I think I'm really going to enjoy it, but I hate missing out on any more time with Gwen. :-( I'm getting better about getting "me" time... but I wish it didn't come at the expense of our time.
7. I really just need to find a job that fulfills me.
8. Okay, enough complaining...
9. I think I'm going to try to convince Trav to take a family vacation to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter either this fall or next fall, since Gwen has a week off between summer session and fall session at daycare.
10. Either that or the west coast... I'm dying to see Oregon, and the Redwood Forests.
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1. We adopted 2 new dogs this weekend and I love them so much. They are such good dogs and have already fallen right into the fold.
2. But 1 dog is severly allergic to, well, everything. which is interesting when you have a baby who still throws food and a toddler who is just plain messy.
3. RB's tonsil/tube surgery went well. Except for when she was coming out of anesthesia and was WILD - like thrashing around, screaming, and pulling out her IV wild. FOR AN HOUR. poor thing
she didnt even look or sound like herself.
4. But nothing a few doses of morphine couldnt fix!
5. Now she's home and refusing to eat anything other than chocolate munchkins. because she can. and she knows it. oh well.
6. I'm supposed to have zumba class tonight but dont know if its too soon to leave DW home with all the kids. hmmm
7. my other option is to just go to the gym after they are all in bed. that could work.
8. i want to see the hunger games.
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1. I just made chocolate chip cookies! They're for someone else, but that didn't stop me from eating a "test" cookie.
2. Spotify is great.
3. I called our social worker yesterday and left a message asking if they need more information from us and that's why we haven't heard from anyone. We sent our 1st set of paperwork in about a month ago now!
4. I also haven't heard from the RE's office yet. Just waiting to see what our plan of action is. I need to pick out some new donors. Sigh. I don't love this part. I don't even care anymore.
5. Meanwhile- we pretty much have the kids room done! New furniture, paint on the walls, linens, old dresser painted with new hardware, etc. We also have a totally re-done guest room. Somebody come visit us!
6. Today is going to be a long day at work, I can feel it.
7. My houseplants have names.
8. Have a great day!
1. The girls gave me their cold, not fun.
2. Last night, I switched my nightstand and Apple's cradle so she would be closer (she was across the room), everytime she fussed or cried I felt J poke me in the back so I could tend to her. Sigh.
3. I'm craving lentils.
4. Apple sits on her own now!
5. I tracked Apple's formula intake yesterday, it was 40.5oz.
6. Iz has pink eye, I hope no one else gets it.
7. I enjoyed J being off for the weekend but was relieved when she went back to work yesterday. If I'm going to be a single parent than I'd rather it happen when she is working, not sitting on the couch watching me do it all.
8. The rock candy that we started 3-4 weeks ago (that I keep forgetting to toss and restart) FINALLY started growing, I'm going to leave it and see what happens.
9. A's spring break has been nice, I wish we would have been able to go somewhere though.
10. J got her taxes back, minus the adoption credit, so we are looking for an 8 passenger van.
Two Mommies Healing Hearts
1. My internal alarm clock went off very early this morning, ugh. Because of this I decided to test at only 9 DPO.
2. Obviously it was negative.
3. Even though I was a little sad, I made homemade hash browns with onions and green peppers and sausage for breakfast. Yum!
4. I have a ton of errands to run today and tomorrow. I think it's sad that I'm excited about errands, just so I can get out of the house.
5. I'm also cheating and going to see the Hunger Games today (I'm going to be out anyway, why not?). J doesn't care to see it, so she told me to go whenever I wanted.
6. Our pup is extra cuddly the past few days. This makes me happy (even though sometimes she's in your face cuddly)
7. J got her bonus the other day, yay!!!
8. I'm freezing! Where did the warm weather go?!
9. I got a package from my mom yesterday. It had Easter candy and a bunch of stuff from her trip to NYC. So cute!
10. Well, we have to leave in about 15 minutes... And I still have to pack J's lunch. What would she do without me?!
*DS 6/28/2013*
I love how you said this! I did the same thing this morning and this comforted me as well. Thank you!
*DS 6/28/2013*
1. We finally decided that we are going for two more baby tries this summer. I decided not to take a summer class and DW is off work so it will be stress free baby making time. These would be attempt 4 and 5, I really hope one works.
2. June needs to get here NOW!!!!
3. I was just elected to the executive staff of the graduate student government at my school. I am kinda syked about it, I even get paid a tiny bit.
4. Five papers and two tests to go between now and April 27th and my first semester of my MSW is done.
5. I cannot wait to start field in the fall. I was also able to get a schedule between classes and field where I only have to drive into DC 4 days a week.
6. DWs birthday is in a few weeks. Her car is a hot mess (light interior, muddy dog, and our 4 year old nephew), would it be a bad present to have her car detailed? I am also getting her a massage but I just bought a car and I have noticed her eyeing my shiny interior.
7. Love my new car but I have already but 700 miles on it in a little over two weeks
8. We have 3 vials of sperm left and need to buy another one.
9. I really wish the mid-atlantic would figure our what the heck it wants to do weather wise. It is freezing.
10. My dog and cat are snuggled up right now it is really cute.
1. Meegs' funk/ache for change pretty much defines my feelings lately. And I know DW feels the same way, the combination of which doesn't help either of us.
2. But all the change I want is on hold for ttc. We can't move, change jobs, plan a vacation, spend any money, apply for school, etc. because of ttc.
3. It's getting harder to be optimistic.
4. I am sitting in a pharmacy parking lot waiting for them to fill my Femara prescription.
5. We're planning a date night this weekend with a giftcard we got for xmas. I'm excited for that.
6. I really want to hire a cleaning service to do the deep clean we never seem to get around to doing. But it always feels like we really should be able to just do this for ourselves.
7. It was really really cold out this morning.
8. I feel like I should volunteer somewhere, but then I also feel like my whole job is one giant volunteer project. But it's not really, since they pay me and all.
9. Is it beach weather yet?
10. Tell me I shouldn't go buy a snack when I pick up my Femara....
IVF Oct/Nov 2012
Beta #1 = 77, Beta #2 = 190, Beta #3 = 1044
Cautiously optimistic.
If I had a dollar for every time C and I have had this debate, I could have paid for the cleaning service by now. She never wants to spend the money, but I just want a clean house!
AMH 0.5, AFC 5-8, FSH 7ish
IVF #1 - antagonist. Empty follicle syndrome. 1 retrieved, 0 fertilized.
IVF #2 - antagonist. Ovulated early. 3 retrieved, 2 fertilized, 0 blasts
1. I have been networking and job hunting my butt off, and it is finally paying off.
2. I had two interviews last week, and fly to Boston for an interview this Friday.
3. The job is in the Chicago office, but the project managers/principals are in Waltham.
4. Hopefully I'll hear about job offers this week and next week. The waiting is making me a bit crazy.
5. A random trip to the Boston area means I get to see a bunch of my friends along with my mom, sister, and niece.
6. We are enjoying Chicago so much. There is so much to do!
7. I am in the midst of a fibromyalgia flare, which is a huge bummer, but at least is happening at a time when I am not working.
8. Due to said fibromyalgia flare, I've been using a cane to get around. Which makes me feel old and self-conscious. But it's interesting to have a part-time view of what it is like to have a visible disability.
9. I finally reschedule our initial consult with the alternative insemination clinic. We go in two weeks.
10. I hope they teach us some stuff about at home ICI, because we're on schedule to inseminate at the end of April.
AMH 0.5, AFC 5-8, FSH 7ish
IVF #1 - antagonist. Empty follicle syndrome. 1 retrieved, 0 fertilized.
IVF #2 - antagonist. Ovulated early. 3 retrieved, 2 fertilized, 0 blasts
1. SSG- E was THISCLOSE to being 3 before she was ready to potty train. And within a week it clicked and she was done. It is SO frustrating...sending you my potty patience!
2. I signed the closing docs on the house yesterday afternoon!
3. I got an email from the mortgage broker this morning that the escrow company didn't deliver the documents back yest like they were supposed to, so they can't fund it until tomorrow. I assume this means no keys until tomorrow. Sigh.
4. Not like we're moving in tomorrow but come ooooon I just want to go there and let myself in for a minute and be excited about it!
5. I also need to start getting the utilities turned back on so I can schedule the painting, etc. and I need keys to do that!
6. Work is getting busier this week which is good but man my head is spinning with everything that's going on!
7. E was SOOO tired this morning. I swear she must be up until 11 every night she's not with me.
8. Packing and organization must be in full swing this weekend.
9. I miss my bff who works at my old office. We talked briefly this morning and now I just want to talk more!
10. Hello pollen??? You are NOT my friend and you can go away ASAP. Thanks.
1. I loved reading everyone's comments - it totally took me out of my head and took me to a better place filled with potty training, puppies and volunteer work.
2. My dad's in the hospital from emergency surgery, they found cancerous cells in his bladder, more to be revealed.
3. My family is weird. Usually they tell me things after the fact once everything is all neatly wrapped up and resolved. So I was surprised, and oddly grateful when my mom called from the hospital last night.
4. EV and I have been talking about our family, what types of things we want to work on so our kids have a different experience than we did. For me it's intimacy, and emotional availability. Both things I'm not good at.
5.This deary, cold, rainy day is adding to this feeling of being depressed
6. Starbucks banana bread and green tea are counteracting the dreariness slightly.
7. We will likely not be getting the house we fell in love with last month, but on the positive note house hunting may officially start late summer/fall 2012 which is what our original goal was anyway.
8. I just got a leg cramp while sitting here at work typing my TTT. OUCH
9. On a positive note I love my Biskiebean (aka. Kaden), love feeling him wiggle and kick
10. Not everyday is today, so I will look forward to my personal TTW and know tomorrow will be different than today.
1. We met with the adoption lawyer this morning to get the second-parent adoption paperwork started. I am choosing to look at the $1730 we are paying for her and the filing fees as a cheap 21 years' worth of insurance that these babies will always be mine, and not as an expensive PITA.
2. I liked her a lot and the process doesn't seem too invasive, so that helped.
3. My sister and I got so much done on the nursery yesterday - it is no longer a pile of boxes. I love how it's coming together with the white furniture and the big Jasper Johns print.
4. My best friend is coming for a last-minute visit in a few weeks. I'm so excited
5. FIL sent Jen a five-page hand-written letter about the babies having my last name. It was all about how she should choose a *family* name for the babies, since family names are important. Her short and sweet reply pointed out that my last name IS a family name for her, and for our kids!
6. I'm going to try to buy everything else we need for the babies (except diapers) tomorrow in one fell swoop. I need to map out a plan.
7. I wonder how long it will take me to get used to the time difference between here and my friends in DC.
Things I love about living here:
8. My mom can text me and we can meet for lunch 20 minutes later.
9. Everything - groceries, the vet, utilities, car wash - is cheaper.
10. There are no flies, so if it's nice out we just open the sliding doors and let the dogs run in and out.
Don't feel like a slacker! Some people obsess over it (me included) and some don't -- I'm jealous of those who have an easier time. I WISH it took us ten minutes, because we're probably going to have to pick a new one in the next month -- and not only am I super sad about abandoning our current donor (who appears to be a dud) but I am stressed out about finding another we like.
However, I am glad to see I'm not the only one having donor stress out there!
9 IUIs = 9 BFNs
IVF October 2012: 22 eggs retrieved, 17 fertilized, 5 frozen
ET #1: 1 blast = BFP; Blighted ovum discovered at 7w5d; D&E
FET #1: 1 blast = BFP; Missed m/c discovered at 9w5d; D&E
Karyotyping: normal ~ RPL Testing: normal ~ Hysteroscopy: normal
FET #2: 1 blast transferred 10/25; BFP 10/31!
EDD 7/13/14 ~ Induced at 37w4d due to pre-eclampsia ~ Born on 6/28/14
*Everyone welcome*
1. I don't think I can come up with ten things because I'm SO tired.
2. I made a yummy dinner for K tonight - black pepper pasta and pork tenderloin. Yum!
3. I wish we could make some actual progress with getting the house ready for us to move in. It feels SO far away right now.
4. 3 means we'll be paying two mortgages for at least one month. I would SO prefer not to, but I don't think it can be avoided.
5. Rachel Maddow ROCKS.
6. J's room is taking longer to do than I anticipated. Of course, I haven't had that much dedicated time - maybe 12 hours total so far. If I look at it that way, I've done a heck of a whole lot!
7. We're saving SO much money on our cell phone bill now that my goddaughter is not on it. I wish she were still here, though; I'd gladly pay more for the cell phone bill and get to talk to her more.
8. I haven't heard from my godson since he moved to Brazil. 17-year-old boys... *sigh*
9. IKEA - I love/hate it. And hate/love it.
10. J is funny. Everyone who's not someone whose name he knows is "people" to him. Well, there's a photo of K and me kissing on our fridge. You can see me pretty well, but not her. So J points to me in the photo and says, "Mama!" Then he points to K and says, "People!" No matter how many times I tell him it's Mummy, he says, "No, people!" So apparently my kid thinks I kiss random people.
And your #3 made me lol because I'm on my own with the twins this week, and realized when I got to work that I never brushed my teeth this morning (ewww).
IUI #3 gave us the best 2nd anniv. gift ever: 2 babies! (born 03/09/10)
Peanut and Little Man are getting so big! 2 years old already!
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aww i miss TTT. Work has been crazy and so I never have spare time which is good and bad ...
Twins are what you make it .. SOMEDAYS are AMAZING some Days suck suck suck ... but its all we know and honestly its been good - i hate when people assume we have our hands full . When we talk a bout baby tres we worry because the girls are so good that we might be asking for it ... UGG but my clock is tick tick tocking and well i see the $ signs and MONEY is a wee bit tight for us lately not sure what that is about but we are feeling it -not that we are rich or anything but we never seemed this tight that we have to worry ... hmmm...i attribute it to diapers and formula...
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Our bank (Cryotec in Minnesota) allows you to select for donors with a "known pregnancy" on file and that was our #1 selection criteria. I know that doesn't guarantee fertility in every vial, but it gave us some level of confidence.
For what it is worth dd was the same with walking. She was discharged from EI at 14 months (had been in since 2 months she qualified because of her birth weight/gestational age) but was not walking (or showing any interest at that time). The pt told us to call for a re eval at 17 months if she was still not walking. A week before I had to call she finally got it together and started walking. Interestingly she never went through the couple of steps fall toddle stage. She went from crawling to really walking pretty much over night. I am pretty sure that she was lacking the core strength to walk and not the ability to use her legs for walking. We did a lot of sitting and reaching and rolling/ sitting on a bouncy ball which helped a lot. I would say it wasn't until this fall (over 2 years old) that her core strength was up in a normal range. For what it is worth I love EI I think it is really helpful and I always found the evaluations very interesting. We also loved our case worker and therapists. In addition to the therapy E also qualified for several free playgroups which were nice and did I mention....FREE! It was hard to see where she was really far behind in somethings but also really nice to see where she was catching up. Also sometimes there is a wait time between calling and when you can get an eval. If you think you are going to need the eval I would call sooner rather than later.
Ours too. We didn't look exclusively at donors with reported pregnancies but it was definitely a big pro for those who had them. In the end we narrowed it down to 4, 2 with pregnancies and 2 without, but the more we looked at them, the more we really wanted 1 donor over the other 3 -- and he had none. We decided to go for it -- after all, someone has to be the first, right? He actually does have a reported pregnancy now, but I have a hunch it was IVF. Now that we are choosing a new one, I am not willing to pick someone without reported pregnancies.
9 IUIs = 9 BFNs
IVF October 2012: 22 eggs retrieved, 17 fertilized, 5 frozen
ET #1: 1 blast = BFP; Blighted ovum discovered at 7w5d; D&E
FET #1: 1 blast = BFP; Missed m/c discovered at 9w5d; D&E
Karyotyping: normal ~ RPL Testing: normal ~ Hysteroscopy: normal
FET #2: 1 blast transferred 10/25; BFP 10/31!
EDD 7/13/14 ~ Induced at 37w4d due to pre-eclampsia ~ Born on 6/28/14
*Everyone welcome*
Thanks, SSG. It's good to hear that you had a good experience with EI. DW and I talked more and if he's not walking within the next two weeks, I'll call to schedule an evaluation. I learned today that there are long waits in our county. Either way, calling and scheduling something will almost guarantee that this boy will start walking!