ATP/PCP/TTC Wednesday

madisonpeas · August 2012

How is it going for everyone?

And I don't have a QOTD...anyone?

Two*True · August 2012

Things here are good. Jelly Bean is getting so big so quickly. I feel like each day she continues to amaze me. Her favorite thing right now is to play matching games. I think K and I continue to figure out the balancing act between parenting, marriage, work, and our own needs.

QOTD - Did you share a room with a sibling growing up? If so, how was it? How do you feel about it now looking back on it?

madisonpeas · August 2012

I am the youngest of three in a house with only 2 kid bedrooms. I was solo as a baby, then shared with my sister, then when she was gone I had my own room. Then was totally solo when my brother moved out. Sharing with my sister went pretty well. We are 7.5 years apart though so not much sibling rivalry stuff.

tdmklm · August 2012

Ummmmm... So, I'm freaking out right now. A little bit. And this is the only place I feel like I can post this without anyone thinking I'm TOO crazy. Which I am, by the way.

You know how I got BFP, then a BFN on the blood test, and then we missed the chance to inseminate this month because of timing? Well, I've been feeling "off" - my lower back has been KILLING me and I've been really, really tired. Like, crazy tired. And crampy. I had been getting negative OPKs, then I got a positive early (but still missed the "deadline" to meet with our donor), then stopped testing. That was a week ago. Today, I just got a feeling... A weird feeling that I might be pregnant. Which is insane, since I had a blood BFN and AF (though AF was shorter than normal). Well, I decided to pee on an OPK just now, since I know those can be used for pregnancy as well - hcg and LH are apparently nearly identical, and what varies is the sensitivity of the test (with OPKs being much less sensitive, of course). So: it's positive. Big fat smiley face one week after I'm supposed to have ovulated.

What the bajangas are the chances? K is on her way home with an actual HPT. Which I'm sure will be negative, just to p*ss me off.

ASKJAKSJKAJSKAJSKJAKJSKJASKASJ!

Go ahead, ladies: call me crazy. I am. OUT OF MY LITTLE LESBIAN MIND.

tdmklm · August 2012

QOTD: My family was crazy. No one had an actual bedroom; we'd just sleep wherever. Sometimes I slept in a room with my mother, sometimes with my brother, sometimes with my grandfather. Before moving out, at 18 (unheard of in my country - you stay home until you get married), I always slept in my grandpa's room.

madisonpeas · August 2012

You are not crazy. On the edge of my seat....will you post here or elsewhere? I mean AF could have been spotting, just more. Was blood test just really low hcg? I'll go to the "crazy" place as I am an eternal optimist.

Two*True · August 2012

Not crazy at all - totally normal TTC crazy! ;-) You know you must post the results of your POS to us, right?

tdmklm · August 2012

Thanks for going to the crazy place with me, madisonpeas! The blood was really negative - and it was right after a positive HPT in the morning - so I was like, WTF, but whatever (it was really early, and I actually went to the doctor because I was super sick and had a fever - I told her about the BFP, of course, because of the meds, so they did a blood test to confirm). Then I started spotting 4 days before AF was supposed to show (dark and really just a little bit), so I thought it might be implantation but didn't want to get my hopes up. AF showed a couple of days late and was lighter than usual, but it didn't give me any reason to hope either. And now this... I'll definitely post here after the HPT. I'm thirsty but don't want to drink anything because I don't want my urine to be diluted. It shouldn't make a difference if I'm really pregnant at this point, but like I said before, I'm giving myself the right to be out of my mind today. Cra-zeee.

tdmklm · August 2012

Two*True:
Not crazy at all - totally normal TTC crazy! ;-) You know you must post the results of your POS to us, right?

Thanks, T*T! And of course! Smile

2mommiesinoh · August 2012

Found out that babysitter did not disenroll my kid's biting target...he was just out sick. Thankfully she did not bite yesterday...one day at a time right? She did however start spitting again. For the record I think spitting is a gross, dirty, disgusting habit (no offense anyone) and I already got Ky to stop once. Where she has picked it up again I do not know but it will stop again. Other than her habits she is doing well. Finally adjusting to dada dropping off somedays at daycare and being her happy, smily self.

QOTD: I had my own room from the time I can remember (maybe 4?). It was a teeny, tiny shoebox of a room in our first house. When we moved at age 9 I got a much bigger room and was allowed to help decorate. When my grandpa moved in with us when I was 14, my parents renovated the basement and finished rooms down there and I moved into one of those.

clairmeij · August 2012

TTC:- I'm waiting for my period to start - probably in about 10 days, then I'll get the prescription for Letrozole and start taking it in anticipation for IUI #4. I'm also going to book some accupuncture appointments for the next month to get me more relaxed about it all. Oh, and I ordered a relaxation dvd from amazon. Can't hurt, right?

QOTD:- We moved a lot when I was a child, so it varied between sharing with my brother, my sister, or having my own room.

2moms2b · August 2012

At this time we are just chugging along. Our NT scan is tomorrow!!! Also my parents surprised us with baby furniture. It arrived yesterday so I know what I will be doing this weekend on Sunday.

QOTD - I never had to share a room as I am so much older than my siblings (6.5 years and 7.5 years older). My younger bro and sister shared a room for a long time until my dad converted the garage to give us each our own room.

2brides · August 2012

everyone is on the mend and hopefully all of the sickness is behind us. The kids are sounding so old these days because they are hanging with older kids at camp. It is mostly butt/fart jokes - which are hysterical to hear them say, but also inappropriate and we don't want them to get into that habit so we are trying to stifle the chuckles.

QOTD: I am an only child, so I always had my own room. But my kids have always shared a room. We've broached the idea of them moving into their own room (which would mean L would lose her office space), but neither want to move out. It works fine with the exception of Carter talking when Gray wants to go to sleep and Carter waking Gray in the mornings...but we are working on both issues.

EratMama · August 2012

Going well here! Pumpkin is doing more & more--waving, pulling to standing, crawling (usually with one knee up) all over the place, pulling stuff off shelves, kneeling...

Carrot has been SASSY. I think a big part is because we parent differently from her previous foster home (much more Love & Logic than hollering, whupping, sit down, shut up, I told you so) and she doesn't know what to do with it. But, oh lord, the sass on that girl. Screaming, kicking time-outs.

Zucchini is doing well. Like, too well. I am waiting for the shoe to drop. TPR trial is scheduled for the same week as school starting, so I bet then.

Good news is the family vacation was AWESOME! I mean, Carrot was bratty, but not much more than at home :0

QOTD: I shared with my bro until we moved into our house--I was 6, he was 4. I think it went well. Then, we got our own rooms.

leapgirl8 · August 2012

ATP: I am starting to realize what people mean when they say that time flies by when you are a parent. It's not that I think this summer has gone so quickly (it hasn't), but that I don't have time to process how I feel about anything before we have moved on to the next thing. I'm used to having so much time to think things through and plan for big events and I'm starting to understand that I'm going to be flying by the seat of my pants for the next 20 years. It's scary.

QOTD: My brother and I shared a room until my dad and grandpa renovated our attic to make two bedrooms and a playroom. That happened when we were 4 and 6. The main problem with that bedroom wasn't that we had to share, it was that you had to walk through it to get to the only bathroom in the house. What an odd design.

hlke · August 2012

TTC: Today I completely forgot to schedule the FedEx pickup of our sperm. We rescheduled to a day earlier because C is surging right now, donor deposited the sample (mixed with buffer), and then....I forgot the pickup. We already have the first sample (that's my current euphamism) delivered today and will split that over an insem today and an insem tomorrow, and he'll ship it tomorrow, so it will all be okay. But seriously? Who forgets something like THAT?

In other news, we got a toy microscope to check the sperm for viability at the recommendation of our AI health worker. I'm super excited to try it out, which makes me a huge nerd.

QOTD: My sister and I shared a room until I was 8 and she was 4. It was fine when she was little, but by 4 she was driving me completely crazy and I got my own room because I begged for it. My parents were just using the extra bedroom for storage and finally cleaned it out because I got so insistent. She would babble and talk when I was trying to sleep and make noises in her sleep and I was so over it.

ball.and.chain · August 2012

Well, as hlke pointed out, the second Clomid round this cycle spurred my old ovaries into action and I managed to develop one mature follicle. IUI #9 was today. Given how this cycle has gone, I can't say I feel that optimistic about it. The motile count was not great either. But who knows -- Clomid is a fertility drug, after all, so maybe it will do its job.

If it doesn't work, it looks like we may be moving on to IVF next. Clomid is clearly not my drug, and Femara was not offered as an option (I don't think my RE prescribes it). She had suggested injectables as a next step, but as far as I can tell the risk of multiples for injectables is higher than IVF and the success rate much lower -- so as long as my insurance will cover everything, I really can't see why we would bother with injects. I mentioned this to the nurse at my IUI and she didn't seem to think that it was insane, and wrote it down in my file, so it's officially on the table for my next discussion with my RE. It feels a little surreal given that we weren't even doing meds last cycle, but I'm ready to get this show on the road. This cycle is my last chance to have a baby before I turn 35.

QOTD: I shared a room with my older sister from the time I slept in a bed to age 14. It was a tiny room with bunk beds until that was needed for our little sister, at which point my dad finished our attic and we moved up there. Then we had an addition put on the house and gained a master bedroom, so I moved into my own room just before I started high school. My sister and I did not get along AT ALL at that point and I think things would have been much worse if we'd had to share a room through high school. We fought plenty before and after I moved out. But we also fought with our little sister, who somehow always had her own room.

ctbride08 · August 2012

ball.and.chain:

I mentioned this to the nurse at my IUI and she didn't seem to think that it was insane, and wrote it down in my file, so it's officially on the table for my next discussion with my RE.

we also went straight from clomid to IVF - once you are already on all the meds and doing all the injections, it really isnt that much more to add in an egg retrieval and transfer (considering the much improved odds). Since we were OOP and the meds were the drivers behind the $$$, it just made sense.

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