Bright and early TTC Check In!

ball.and.chain · October 2013

This is the weekly check in for those who are trying to conceive or in the planning stages. Newbies welcome!

Please let us know how this week went!

QOTW: My FB news feed is all about the Patriots and Red Sox this morning. Do you have a favorite sport to watch?

GoaliesWife123 · October 2013

Good morning friends,

DW and I did our first of 3 at-home ICI's yesterday. We will be doing another Tuesday and finally, Thursday. OPKs are turning darker and darker, just like always. CBEFM is at high now, and should be at peak in a day or so. My cycle length may be irregular, but I do seem to always O on the 21st day of my cycle, so that's a bonus.

I'm not sure if I am going to temp during my 2ww. It seems to make things a lot more stressful. Do any of you stop temping after you O?

QOTW: Oh I love hockey, so that is number one for me, but most of the games are on cable and that is not an expense we pay for. I love my Patriots and Red Sox, so the games yesterday were amazing.

wishiwaspreggo · October 2013

Good morning everyone! I'm hanging out and waiting for Thursday when I have my first ultrasound of the cycle. I finished my Clomid several days ago. Started doing OPKs this morning and so far no surge. I've been temping since that seems to be the thing to do. It's much more reliable now that it's not summer anymore. I tried temping in July and it was a mess. My temperature would vary from 97 to 98.5 and I never really knew what it meant. The mornings I woke up with sweat on my forehead due to the merciless sun baking our room were the days that my temperature soared. So at least I have that going for me now.

I was worried about Clomid crazies but I didn't have a single symptom. It was like I was taking Aspirin at night or something for all the impact it had on my body. I hope that's not a sign that it didn't work

QOTW: If sports are on TV, we turn the channel. We walked into a bar in Wisconsin when the Badgers were playing and everyone was going nuts. We had no idea what was going on. Same thing happened when we went to a local brewpub here and the IU game was on. Everyone was cheering and we, again, had no idea what was going on. Honestly, I wish I loved sports because it would give me something to look forward to. But I cannot for the life of me get myself into it. I've tried. Nothing.

lamaitresse · October 2013

TTC is on hold for the next 6 weeks while I recover from surgery. The doctor wants to see me for post-op near the end of November, and we'll go from there.

I'm bouncing back pretty good from surgery, which I'm pleased about. I made a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving which went over pretty well with Smurf's fam. Certainly took a lot of energy out of me though! LOL

QOTW: I'm not much for sports, but I do love to watch lacrosse! I am a big fan of the Calgary Roughnecks, and once a year we go to Toronto to see them play the Rock at the ACC. The game is usually right around our anniversary, so we make a big deal of it and go out for a nice dinner, splurge on a hotel etc. Smurf, on the other hand, is a huuuuge hockey fan, especially of the Leafs.

ball.and.chain · October 2013

I went in to the clinic for bloodwork this morning and my estrogen level is fine. I'm up to 3 estrogen pills a day, starting today, and scheduled for more bloodwork and an ultrasound (to check my lining) on Friday. If that looks good, I start PIO on Saturday and go in for transfer on the 25th.

QOTW: Like @iwishiwaspreggo, I am REALLY not into sports. My wife loves it all. I can kind of get into some of the Olympic sports, sometimes, but otherwise I don't bother.

StacyLH24 · October 2013

C and I went for my CD 10 u/s on Saturday morning. The result wasn't quite what we were expecting. I don't remember the total count, but I believe there were two follicles in my right ovary and at least three in the left. This is my fourth cycle on Femara and the most I have had up to this point was three. Also, all were either at 10 mm or just below. Last cycle I had a 22 mm and a 15 mm on CD 12. We went up on Saturday expecting that we would be back on Sunday or today to inseminate based on how I have responded to the meds in the past cycles.

So, the plan is that we go back up Wednesday morning for another u/s. Then, depending on how everything looks, I will use Ovidrel on Wednesday or Thursday and the IUI will be Friday or Saturday.

QOTW: I'm not really huge into sports but I do watch at times. C likes football so we watch that whenever it is on and we are home. I do enjoy watching NBA games in person. I haven't done that in a few years though.

healz413 · October 2013

I forgot that it was Monday on the Bump because today is Thanksgiving in Canada, so it doesn't feel like a regular Monday. We just got back from Kitchener (about 1.5 hours from us) where M's family lives. We had Thanksgiving dinner with them yesterday afternoon and then all went to see Gravity in 3D. I totally recommend it and it is definitely worth watching on the big screen in 3D.

We met with the RE on Saturday because I have been bleeding through my birth control pills and we wanted to see what she wanted me to do. My lining was 8mm so she had me stop the bill to get a full bleed. I'm on day 2 of a full bleed, so I'll start the pill again tomorrow night. Then on Friday I'll have a repeat sono. I had polyps removed in January, so she wants to make sure my uterus is looking good.

If that goes well, the plan is now to start me on 10 days of lupron on November 21. She'd previously said she wanted to do an antagonist short protocol (no lupron) with me, but has reconsidered and now thinks a lupron longer protocol is a better choice because of my endo.We'd then be looking at a retrieval in mid-December and (hopefully!) a fresh transfer shortly before we'd head to Chicago for Christmas.

We did our first IUI last year in December, the week before Christmas. Since we were almost sure that it was going to be BFN (IUI was 48 hours too early!), it was a pretty shitty experience. Hoping to flip that one on its head this year.

QOTW: I'm a jock, but I'm not a huge fan of watching sports. I am always happy to go to a baseball game. And I'll watch baseball or football on TV if other people are watching. Basketball I can take or leave when it comes to watching. In general, like @KLeigh1 I tend to prefer college sports to professional ones.

ball.and.chain · October 2013

healz413 said:
We did our first IUI last year in December, the week before Christmas. Since we were almost sure that it was going to be BFN (IUI was 48 hours too early!), it was a pretty shitty experience. Hoping to flip that one on its head this year.

My beta for this cycle should be right around (maybe in between) the year anniversary of my ER and ET. Although both went well initially, they obviously ended badly, so I'm kind of hoping for an opposite result this year...FX for both of us!

Happy Thanksgiving!

trisholio · October 2013

I hope everyone survived their Monday.

We are on CD15, finished Clomid last week and had our u/s on Saturday to verify 3 very large follies. We did an insemination last night. We were going to do another this evening but I am not feeling well and having some minor cramping. I think the cramping is due to some digestive issues I have been having. Ugh, so annoying. So I guess we start the TWW today!

Good luck to everyone in the varies stages of their TTC.

2MamazInSeattle · October 2013

Hey all!
I think I am in denial that I'm still TTC

...that is, outside of being in bcp's this part of the process is pretty quiet which I'm enjoying a lot. J is taking the approach of not caring if it works...feeling that we've put so much pressure on the situation every time that maybe we're trying to kill a mosquito with a fire hose and we need to back off, chillax and let things unfold.

I have been spending a little time on "what next?" if #4 embryo doesn't work....but whatever is next won't happen until we take a few months off.

We are debating adoption or potentially doing another cycle with a small clutch of frozen donor eggs (6) which usually gives you one more try...for $18K. Not sure that's worth it. And, if we did, we're not sure if we'd stick with our egg donor who has a frozen batch or try with two new donors all up. You can see why we're avoiding thinking about this...

Our WTF appt. is 10/25 and we're going to do the saline hysteroscopy just to make sure there aren't any adhesions (there better not be!) and then talk to see if we want to change any protocol. I'm scheduled for 12/5 for our last transfer.

Like @healz and @ball.and.chain, the timing is less than awesome....our donors egg retrieval was last year on 12/5, and our transfer was 12/11... And I was pregnant until mid march from that try. It's been a long year of TTC, and I hope we get to take a baby home with our last try!

GoaliesWife123 · October 2013

trisholio said:

I hope everyone survived their Monday.

We are on CD15, finished Clomid last week and had our u/s on Saturday to verify 3 very large follies. We did an insemination last night. We were going to do another this evening but I am not feeling well and having some minor cramping. I think the cramping is due to some digestive issues I have been having. Ugh, so annoying. So I guess we start the TWW today!

Good luck to everyone in the varies stages of their TTC.

I haven't ovulated yet, but we'll have 2 more inseminations (one today and one thursday) so we will have the same 2ww again

wishiwaspreggo · October 2013

Ugh, the 2WW is such a bear

hang in there, @KLeigh1! I'm rooting for you! FX all the way! I'm hoping to venture into the 2WW soon myself - as long as I don't need to schedule the IUI on Sunday I should be cleared to do it soon. A BFP from a fellow LGBT bumper would be most inspiring

jspencer8216 · October 2013

DW and I have decided to wait until after the holidays to try our 3rd IUI. After the let down of the last one I need a break. We decided we are going to try a different donor when we buy our next couple of vials. If it doesn't work for me with those DW is thinking about trying. She is 6 years older than me and worried she might be too old at only 37.

lamaitresse · October 2013

Fingers crossed for all!!

Amber&Reva · October 2013

I'm really late on updating. The same day as my temp drop and my blood work I got my period. It is weird how much you can tell by charting your BBT. When I went in to get my blood work I was already pretty sure it would be a BFN and then sure enough about 2 hours later I got AF. I start OPK again on Monday and most likely IUI #2 will be on Thursday or Friday.

Good luck to everyone still in there TWW!

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