TTC Check-In!

2MamazInSeattle · June 2013

This check-in is for anyone not-yet-pregnant but looking to be! Whatever stage you are in (thinking to TWW) check in here!

Check-In: So, how's the baby makin' going this week everyone?
QOTW: Stolen from last weeks' pregnancy check-in, do you have a name already pre-determined for your future baby/babies? If not, what do you think about in terms of your 'rules' for naming your LO? Tell us all about it!

healz413 · June 2013

I wrote a long post on my phone but lost it.
I am at the hospital in the pre op waiting room. My surgery is in about an hour and a half. Manada isn't allowed in here with me because it is patients only but she will meet with the doctor afterwards to find out how it went.

I really appreciate all of the sweet comments folks on this board have made and people have sent. Hopefully m and I will have good news to share afterwards.

QOTW: we have two gender neutral names picked out. They are both quite uncommon but in the good way. We go back and forth on one of them because it sometimes reminds M a lot of some of the ber trendy names. We are keeping a running list of backup names and other options. We are commited to a gender neutral name. We I am and M isn't fighting me on it. We have a few really gendered names that we have liked for a long time that are also on the list for whatever reason.
I like this question and am looking forward to the other responses.

KH826 · June 2013

healz -- sending lots of positive thoughts your way for an easy surgery with a positive outcome. You and Manada are definitely in my thoughts today!

Well today is 10dpiui and CD26 for me. Before this AM I was prepared to say that I felt my chances of success this cycle might be 50/50, b/c I really don't know what to expect... However, I have been having some pretty intense cramping today that feels just like period cramps, so now I feel much less confident. I feel like my period is coming...

We haven't tested yet, and won't unless my period doesn't show up by Friday.
In terms of when it is due... I am thinking Wednesday, but I am not really sure. Wednesday will be CD28, and I was usually a 28 or 29 day girl before TTC. My cycles have been getting shorter the last few months, and last month I spotted on CD26 and had a full flow on CD27.
So in theory I could start today or tomorrow, I guess...
It sure feels like I might.
It would just surprise me to get AF early again since the Femara I was on really seemed to slow down the first part of my cycle and I didn't O until CD16.
Who the heck knows anymore.

That's all I have to say today... sorry, I am a bit of a downer...

QOTW: We have 2 girls names that we adore, and 2 boys names that we like (but don't quite adore). All of the names include middle names, and all of them are variations of family names, but with a little twist to them. We already talk about our "kids" and call them by these names even though they have not come to be yet. We have had the names picked out for a long time. Between my wife and I, sometimes it feels like we already have these children the way that we talk about them. I can't wait until we get to meet the faces that will someday go with some of these names....

Manada · June 2013

As H. mentioned, we're waiting on surgery results today. H. is at the hospital waiting to be called in for her procedure, and I'm at the office trying to work but having the worst time focusing! Luckily we're texting back and forth.

QOTD: As H. mentioned we have 2 gender neutral names picked out that are uncommon, but (we think) not weird. One we both absolutely love, and the other is a bit reminiscent of the Kaiden/Jaden/Payton trends for me - - so I really go back and forth on it. That said, it's also a name that's derived from a family member's name so I like that part of it. We don't share them though Too many friends are in baby-making mode these days!

I'm less committed than H. on the gender neutral name ideas... some of my favorites are names like Liam, Duncan, Allison, Tessa, and Matteo -- I love all those names, but have (so far!) shelved them in favour of respecting H's desire for something gender neutral. I still suggest them sometimes though Stick out tongue

laynesmomma · June 2013

Hi Ladies. I feel so bad that I jump in and out of this board, but generally can't keep up very well. You may remember me as mindingpandq . I am in the 2 week wait... My 7th and I think the worst of them all. It's going by at a snails pace. We are under a new dr and the first time I had a great response to clomid. I had 3 follicles which made me super hopeful, but I feel nothing at all. In my past (one miscarriage n one chemical) I had a definite full feeling but not this time which has me convinced I will have a bfn on Thursday for my blood test.

We have had a boy name picked out... Kessler and I really love Lucy or Macy for a girl. We don't have rules, just ideas. We like different names... Our daughter is Layne or Layniebug if you ask her and we love her name and that no one else has it.

MaryanneN · June 2013

Hi all. I am CD 7 and am going to begin our 2nd cycle with monitoring on Thursday. It doesn't look like I will be living it up at the wedding next weekend, being that it will be a posible iui day, but none the less I am super excited for this round. I pray and hope that this is out month.
I have been keeping up with my diet and exercise, loss of 1 lb the first week. My goal was 23lbs by iui. I hope I make it!

Q: no name talk yet. I think we both will be into it when we know if it will be a boy or girl. We are planners so we want to know before the big day. I have a feeling that we both know what boys name, because it is a name in both of our families.

Pinkspark · June 2013

Hi Ladies!

TTC is put on hold, I had my bloodwork done early (after begging my dr's office) to check my TSH levels and there wasn't much improvement. I have a nuclear thyroid test scheduled next week, then from there I start on meds, then spend more time trying to get everything regulated. So right now, all I can say is that I hope my thyroid will play nice and eventually we get a greenlight.

QOTW: We have a few kicking around, but nothing definitive. We don't have rules per say- the only thing that we don't want is a super popular name.

2MamazInSeattle · June 2013

Well my update was my long post last week - basically we're planning on July 18th while waiting for genetic testing to come back on our egg donor in hopes that she is not a carrier of the small chromosomal deletion our baby had. If she is, I'm scared of our (crappy) options assuming our RE refuses to allow us to use our embryos. We only have 3 so PGD would likely not allow for many, if any, to survive... and we can't afford another whole DE/DS IVF cycle. I'm trying not to get overwhelmed by it and wait and trust it will be ok! (And, truthfully, have done a little embryo adoption 'shopping' as a back-up idea).

QOTW: It's funny that we had the hardest time naming our baby we lost. I was 16w and we weren't really even close. We had boy names we loved but they just didn't fit him or how we felt his personality to be. So, we had Elliot all along as a god solid name, but were trying out Hugo when he died. However, for our next baby, which J has already decided is a girl, we will call her Sunny (nn for Senara). We're ok to tell people since we aren't too afraid of a Senara name explosion. It's old, French and means "light." We call our next baby Sunny all the time already! If it's a boy I like Jonah.

But we'll see - overall, being a Jennifer in 1971 I am wholly opposed to popular names, and J owning two coffeeshops gets a fast view of what's up and coming. For example, we loved Theo as a boy name - within a week she had two newborn Theo's come in to her shop! And on a Saturday morning, if you holler "Sophia!" about 12 girls come running. So we had to nix a lot of names we liked for being too popular. Plus with the last name, we can't have anything that ends with an "s" sound, has to be 2-3 syllables, and we like having nicknames so the kid has some choices (that was the only saving grace about Jennifer - I could be Jenn or Jenny...and I was both of those at different times in my life - and I'm Jennifer to my besties).

As for the gender neutral thing - it is funny that most of the trans people I know had names like Larissa and Tiffany. But we figure if we get a kid who is trans, or prefers a gender neutral name, we'll totally support them changing it and figure it'll be fun for them to pick it out!

Of course, to be honest - since our loss, we could call the kid Bob and I wouldn't care, just so they are a nice healthy full-term living baby (I feel I must be very clear to the universe on the specifics!). It's amazing how much stuff I cared about and was so excited about that now seems to be unimportant (not that naming your LO is trivial!) - but I was obsessed with naming our baby and am glad J already has that done for the next one. Assuming it's a girl.

shelly2314 · June 2013

Baby making....well, hoping for the best, trying not to dwell on the worst. I have been on Clomid since Friday and have an US scheduled for Thurs to see where things are. I am excited and scared at the same time. We've been here before, told we were great, then NOTHING. No egg, no ovulation, nada. It is disheartening and, unfortunately, I tend to take it very personally. My wife is amazing and tries to do her best, but it is just hard for me to navigate through this as it is something I have wanted so badly for as long as I can remember. SOOO...positive thoughts to the universe this week (which btw is taking FOREVER).

QOTD: We have decided on a girls name and are tentative on a boys name. My wife changes her mind a lot so I figured we could start now. The 'rules' we have are pretty simple. In honor of my father's religion, we will not name the baby after anyone that is living. Also, I am a teacher and there are some names that will make my BP rise with the mere mention of it, so those are a no go as well! It has been fun finding names that are not common but not as far-fetched as Apple!

firstcomeslove2013 · June 2013

Sorry I am late on this everyone! We are currently 11dpIUI and I should be 3 days from AF (but hopefully not). I had myself convinced that we were pregnant this time until sunday when I decided that this IUI didn't take...who knows. I have not tested and won't be testing until after friday...it just makes me too sad to see that negative test :-(

As for names, we have gone every which way with names. We have settled on a boys name and a girls name but are trying not to focus too much on names and more on getting our little egg to stick!

candimc26 · June 2013

I'm 7dpo, waiting to test in another 5 days. I feel totally normal... not sure what to think of it. With my daughter, I had sore boobs and bloating by now. I'm already planning for the next cycle- we will be in the same town as our sperm bank, so I'm thinking about going "old-fashioned" and doing an ICI.

I'm a little down on hopes because my friend just found out that her fetus has died (11 weeks) and my sis-in-law (37yr old with 2 little girls) was just diagnosed with lymphoma. Feels like a pregnancy for me isn't in the cards this month and puts life/priorities into perspective.

Q: I have no idea! One step at a time around here!

AmandaG47 · June 2013

Candimc26 I'm so sorry to hear about your sis in law! While TTC is very difficult in so many ways, that kind of news sure does put some of the set backs into perspective.

As for us, we are cd13 so I will be expecting a positive opk sometime between tonight and Thursday. We have also switched banks this month, which was stressful as we needed another doctor signature to get the vials shipped to us and we had to go through multiple providers to get it! I thought for sure it would be easy here in MA, like in Seattle... Just show up, ask and get it signed. Unfortunately I was wrong and we even had to deal with rude office staff asking personal TTC questions in the middle of the waiting room! Sorry about that mini vent, it was jut unexpected.

Luckily we got everything in order on the day we needed it shipped and our new bank sent it out without a hitch same day. I really like their customer service, and selection of donors.

As for the QOTD: we have a first name Picked out for both a boy and a girl that we both love. We have some middle names we like but we aren't set on them yet. We do not like super girly girl names, and for both sexes we prefer strong sounding names. Our girl name picked out is pretty girly but strong so we are trying to pair it with a more androgenous name to balance it out. We like Ryan for a possible girls middle

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