TTCAL Check-in

shandorfml2 · March 2014

Welcome to TTCAL CheckIn!

I hope I can find you all well and positive this week! Please don't be shy in asking the PGAL/PAL ladies questions if you have them. Lots of baby dust on all of you!

Where are you in your TTCAL journey?

Do you have any relevant appointments upcoming?

QOTW: Will you continue on with your old OB/RE or get a new doctor this time around?

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?

erinel · March 2014

Where are you in your TTCAL journey?
Finally started my period last night, Q would have been 11 weeks old today. So I guess officially starting CD1 of cycle 1.

Do you have any relevant appointments upcoming?

Not yet. After three cycles I will go back for an appointment to be put on Clomid.

QOTW: Will you continue on with your old OB/RE or get a new doctor this time around?

I love my OB, so I'll definitely stick with her.

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?

Q, as always. I started back to work this week, although not for as many hours as usual. I cried a lot, but fortunately I have an office, so I could shut the door when I wanted to. I also started back at the gym with my trainer. I know it's for the best, but I kind of hate that my life is getting back to normal. I don't feel normal, so it's hard.

shandorfml2 · March 2014

Where are you in your TTCAL journey?CD 22, I think today is O day. Had my pos opk yesterday and my temp went way down this AM, so hopefully it's O

Do you have any relevant appointments upcoming?No but if I don't get KU this cycle I'm making an appt. with my OB

QOTW: Will you continue on with your old OB/RE or get a new doctor this time around? I love my OB. She is sweet and very supportive. She delivered my angel and was so nice about it. She said that they would do whatever I needed to do to feel comofrtable next pregnancy (If I need to come in because I'm panicking, that's fine).

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week?I was a bit crazy this week waiting to O. I had ewcm for a while, and sore boobs for atleast a week. It has been long awaited! So, I'm really hoping to see a nice spike tomorrow. If I do I today we had great timing. So, well see!

MCH77 · March 2014

This is our first cycle of TTC, I just Oed yesterday. Our timing was great. Fingers crossed that something goes easy in 2014.

No up coming appointments and I love my OB.

Open Topic: today was my grandmothers memorial service, we lost her shortly after Timothy. I'm so tried of being sad & tired.

When will spring get here? I need some new life

kflynn81 · March 2014

Where are you in your TTCAL journey? Carefully watching the OPK.... I've never ovulated in my life (that I'm aware of) so this is all interesting to me

It's likely I had a chemical pregnancy last month so I started thinking maybe it was really happening...maybe my pregnancy with Jack kicked something into gear? We'll see! I'd absolutely love to be able to get pregnant in my bedroom instead of on a table in the doctors office.

Do you have any relevant appointments upcoming? Well...they're still making me go in for hcg levels at the RE office from the chemical/tissue issue (depends on who you talk to) so I have to go in Tuesday for that.

QOTW: Will you continue on with your old OB/RE or get a new doctor this time around? I love my RE so he can stay but the OB has to go. I'm going to need someone that I can see each time and who knows me in details.,....not seeing a different OB each time I go. I'm going to need a careful close watching next time around. Still trying to decide if I want an MFM.... The consultation I had with a major hospital in Chicago told me that an MFM wasn't necessary. I'd like to be as close to normal as possible...the less appointments the better.

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? Just wondering if I'm actually gearing up for an LH surge....its exciting!!! DH likes it too because for once I'm actually willing to dtd more than once a week, LOL haha

shandorfml2 · March 2014

@kflynn81‌ my H feels the same way lol. Ill be all "sigh we have to do it again" and hes like "ok!!" GL hope you O soon!

@MCH77‌ Spring will come...we had a nice day here (maine), 50 degrees and sun. Ready for fresh air!

schulme2 · March 2014

Where are you in your TTCAL journey?
I think I had my period at the beginning of the month?! It wasn't normal for me. So stupid, it was my first pp. So, I'm going to say CD 28 today.

Do you have any relevant appointments upcoming?
No appointments but if this cycle doesn't work, I will make one.
QOTW: Will you continue on with your old OB/RE or get a new doctor this time around?
New OB and new health system! I can't go back there.

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? Why does this have to be so difficult? So frustrating and I'm trying so hard to be positive but the constant disappointment keeps getting to me. My OPKS never turned + this month so I don't know?

I know they say that the first cycle pp usually doesn't release an egg but come on! It's been 11 months!!

Praying for you ladies!!

GymSpaz26 · March 2014

Where are you in your TTCAL journey? Not quite there yet, but we are talking about starting TTC in the next cycle, or the one after that possibly. My cycles are really long, so waiting out one more would already put us in June. Part of me wants to just get things moving, as does my husband. It took us over a year the first time. But then part of me thinks we should wait a couple more months. I've been really focused on getting myself emotionally and physically healthy. So waiting a couple more months would be good to lose some more weight, be farther out from my C-section (my son was born 5 months ago), etc. So torn! (Ideally I should try for a VBAC, since this was my first (and we hope to have at least 2-3 more) and it was baby's heartbeat issues that caused C-section and not failure to progress or something.

Do you have any relevant appointments upcoming? No, but I had an appointment with my midwife about a month ago and she gave me some steps to take to hopefully help us "maybe" get pregnant more quickly this time. She thinks maybe I don't ovulate regularly, so step one is try and keep better track, temp, etc and I guess probably schedule another appointment in a couple months if things don't look as they should. It feels good to at least feel like I'm moving in the right direction, even if we are still waiting.

QOTW: Will you continue on with your old OB/RE or get a new doctor this time around?

I would love to stay with my same midwife, however she changed practices and the hospital she works in now does not allow VBAC. So, my thought is to at least start out with her and somewhere during the pregnancy decide where to give birth and who to change to. I would MUCH rather stay with her, but as I said above, trying for the VBAC is important for me.

Open Topic. What is on your mind this week? So torn and impatient! Happy at the same time though, because I am pretty sure I Oed this cycle, which of course is good and helpful... oh yeah, and important...

diamante1181 · March 2014

Where are you on your TTCAL journey?

I am currently on bcp's, pending ivf.

Do you have any relevant appointments upcoming?

Yes, when af gets here I will be in for baseline, and will start injectables.

QOTW: I think I may switch OB's. Still within the same medical group, but for some reason out in the suburbs more care is taken, and I intend to 'exploit' that, if you will. Also, I'll be asking, and if need be, demanding, an MFM. I insist on having a specialist, and will work overtime to ensure I have an entirely different experience, and that my future rainbow has the absolute best chance at having the absolute best outcome possible.

On my mind this week, just how daunting the whole ivf process is, and having to go through it again. And the cost of my meds, I don't know how we're going to do it.

:-S

bunnybun4 · March 2014

Late to the party again. Hope everyone had a peacefull weekend.

Where are you in your ttcal journey? cycle 3 AL- CD 5

Do you have any relevant appts. upcoming?monitoring US a week from today to check my lining and follie sizes

qotw: I love my OB and will stay will her...she was amazing during the weeks we were going through hell with our loss and has since been really supportive during my mcs. She even gave me her cell number.

what's on your mind this week? It's almost April...my baby should be turning one. I never thought in a million zillion years that any of this would happen...and that a year after my EDD I would have 2 more losses under my belt. This cycle I am trying really hard to stay calm...I was a wreck last cycle and can't keep doing that.

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