Didn't see this posted yet but I'm on mobile so forgive me if it has been!!
Cycle/Month:
CD:
What are you doing to get pregnant?
Rant/rave/chart stalk:
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds?
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TTC #1: July 2014
Me: 31 DH: 29
DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests
DNA Results (7/1): DH is NOT a carrier for my genetic disorder!
7/3: Metabolic clinic gave the green light to TTC - holy crap!
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Wine&Cupcakes thanks for starting us off!
Cycle/Month: 3/4
CD: 15! should be o'ing soon but I forgot to look at my thermometer this am! dammit now I have to wait until I get home to record in ff
What are you doing to get pregnant? chart temp (well except today...), cf, cp
Rant/rave/chart stalk: nope just planning to have sex tonight, tom, Wed, Thur... you get the idea, until cross hairs
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? no, just have sex and hope for healthy swimmers!
CD: 14
What are you trying to do to get pregnant? PNVs, BBT, charting, Preseed, OPKs, ED sex for this FW
Rant/rave/chart stalk: still have a darker line on my OPK. Hoping to O tomorrow but we will see...
GTKY: I haven't tried any TTC folklore but I would be lying if I wasn't curious about pineapple core. And why do people drink Pom juice?
~Santa Claus is Coming to Town~
Me: 31 DH: 29
DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests
DNA Results (7/1): DH is NOT a carrier for my genetic disorder!
7/3: Metabolic clinic gave the green light to TTC - holy crap!
CD: 17
What are you doing to get pregnant? BBT, CM, OPK, PNVs
Rant/rave/chart stalk: My spotting cleared up on it's own (16 days is a long time to bleed!), so I can cancel my doctor appt.!
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? No, nothing that isn't scientifically proven.
@Jags8 - happy your spotting is gone!!!
~Santa Claus is Coming to Town~
Me: 31 DH: 29
DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests
DNA Results (7/1): DH is NOT a carrier for my genetic disorder!
7/3: Metabolic clinic gave the green light to TTC - holy crap!
I'm also a superstitious date person so that would probably help/hurt my mental state on that cycle as well.
~Santa Claus is Coming to Town~
Me: 31 DH: 29
DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests
DNA Results (7/1): DH is NOT a carrier for my genetic disorder!
7/3: Metabolic clinic gave the green light to TTC - holy crap!
CD: 8
What are you doing to get pregnant? BBT, OPK, PNV, B6, HIO EOD
Rant/rave/chart stalk: Back from a week in the woods with no technology. Great way to pass the first part of my cycle, no temping or tracking
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? nope.
~Santa Claus is Coming to Town~
Me: 31 DH: 29
DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests
DNA Results (7/1): DH is NOT a carrier for my genetic disorder!
7/3: Metabolic clinic gave the green light to TTC - holy crap!
CD:2
What are you doing to get pregnant? nothing at the moment
Rant/rave/chart stalk: I am so thankful to all the people on here who encourage temping. This is the first month that I actually know my ovulation date because of doing it. I am not happy that I didn't ovulate until CD 25, but at least I know now that our timing has prob been WAY off and I may have been getting LH surges earlier but not ovulating until later. Good to know. I am traveling with MH this month and we are going to try and have sex ED or at least EOD once I am in my FW.
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? I may take Mucinex this month if O is later to thin things out if I notice CM is getting thick like it usually does as it gets later in the cycle for me.
Married Sept. 2012
Me 39 MH 40
DD# 1 10/23/02
DD#2 06/11/13
2 losses, one before DD#2 at 5 weeks, one after DD#2 at 4.5 weeks
TTC #3
10/15/14 Consultation with RE
Nov & Dec '14 IUI BFN & 1 cancelled d/t early O
Jan 15 Consultations with 2 new RE's for different opinions for possible IVF with DE
Jan '15 Starting the process for Foster to adopt!
CD:15
What are you doing to get pregnant? EOD sex, BBT, CM, OPK, PNV
Rant/rave/chart stalk: I didn't get to temp this morning (MH woke me up for morning sex...not a bad thing when I thought today would be O day!!) but that means I didn't get to temp. I went back to bed for 2.5 hours and when I got up I temped just to see. Any idea on if I should just pitch it? It was 3 hours later than I usually temp. In good news...I got my first +OPK yesterday! I did it 3 times yesterday and all positive. Did another today and still positive. I was really hoping today would be O day so MH and I can take a break from scheduled sex! Opinions welcomed!!!!
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? No. But, it's only my first month TTC. Give my crazy some time!
~Santa Claus is Coming to Town~
Me: 31 DH: 29
DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests
DNA Results (7/1): DH is NOT a carrier for my genetic disorder!
7/3: Metabolic clinic gave the green light to TTC - holy crap!
CD: 18
What are you doing to get pregnant? BBT, OPK, going to see H today and ready for sexy time
Rant/rave/chart stalk: So excited that I haven't O'd yet so that I'm not out before we start since today is my last day out of town. Also excited to see my H in general.
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? No, But if I get pregnant again I probably will be superstitious about not doing the things I did last time (even though I did nothing wrong)
DH: 45
BFP #1 3/19/14 EDD 11/29/14 MMC D&C 4/24/14
BFP #2 12/4/14 Beta #1 218 at 12dpo Beta #2 1055 at 16dpo
Saw heartbeat 12/29. Please be a rainbow.
All welcome
~Santa Claus is Coming to Town~
Me: 31 DH: 29
DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests
DNA Results (7/1): DH is NOT a carrier for my genetic disorder!
7/3: Metabolic clinic gave the green light to TTC - holy crap!
Cycle/Month: 1 but we might wait until month.
CD: 6
What are you doing to get pregnant? Temping
Rant/rave/chart stalk: I remembered to temp this morning! Woohoo!
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is there any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? Nope. I just temp and may use OPKs. I HATE pineapple with extreme passion, so there's no way I could choke down any part of one.
Cycle/Month:5/5
CD:16
What are you doing to get pregnant? sex, opk, CM, bbt, water
Rant/rave/chart stalk: nothing much, just trying to jump DH before he goes to work his night shifts this week.
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds?
Am I the only one who's going to admit to sticking my feet in the air? Because I definitely did that the first month or two. I had it on great authority from a random acquaintance that it would work instantly. Oh, and I was all about the full moon since the first few months we were trying had full moons on CD 14 so I thought I ovulated with the full moon and that made me more fertile.
I have a master's degree and I believed that bullshit (the internet encourages these things). I've got some pineapple core in the freezer now, but only because we had pineapple two weeks ago and we'd normally just throw it out.
TTC since March 2014
BFP#1 09/25/2014 EDD 6/4/2015
CD: 7
What are you doing to get pregnant? charting temp and CM
Rant/rave/chart stalk: My period lasted 5 days instead of the usual 6, so I'm wondering if I'll ovulate earlier this month.
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? The first time we got pregnant, I waited until the day I ovulated and we had sex. And had a boy. Cycle 1 I figured we'd play around and try to have sex up until the day we ovulated, but not day of, to see if we'd get a girl.
~Santa Claus is Coming to Town~
Me: 31 DH: 29
DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests
DNA Results (7/1): DH is NOT a carrier for my genetic disorder!
7/3: Metabolic clinic gave the green light to TTC - holy crap!
3 failed IUI cycles
Oct '15 - IVF 1 - 10R, 3M, 0F
Sept '16 - IVF - 12R, 11M, 5F and 3 perfect day 5 blasts - MMC 7w5d
Jan '17 - FET 1 - BFP, EDD 10/14
CD: 14
What are you doing to get pregnant? Sex, a lot of it. Using OPKs, since one of my darling dogs chewed up my thermometer.
Rant/rave/chart stalk: ^ That. Not the sex, just the dog issue.
GTKY: I hear a lot of talk about pineapple core. I don't believe it, but some people swear by it.
CD: 11
What are you doing to get pregnant? PNV, Temps, CM, sex
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalks: argh ive been having super watery CM the last 3 days and a small temp drop. FF keeps telling me im probably fertile. I hate my crazy cycles.
GTKY: nothing odd. Im just particular about PNVs because spina bifida runs in hubs family
CD: 4
What are you doing to get pregnant? Femara, IUI # 2 + TI sometime late next week probably. Going to see about progesterone or something to prevent another CP.
Rant/rave/chart stalk: I slept horribly last night. Too hot under the cover, too cold out of cover. Bad dreams, which led waking up on and off from 4-7, worrying that IUI # 2 won't work.
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds?
Right now, I'm gathering up research articles, but I'll probably add pom juice today and pineapple core after o.
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3T Sig Challenge: New Year's Resolutions
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
March 2014 - HSG left tube blocked, right tube partially blocked bilaterial partial obstruction; onward to the RE in April
May 1, 2014 - Lap surgery and chromopertubation; Dr removed a bit of endo, but everything looks healthy & tubes are clear!
May 2014- First medicated cycle, 2.5mg femara+TI; BFN
June 2014- 2.5mg femara + hCG + IUI on 6/18= BFP on 6/28!; C/P on 7/3
July 2014- 2.5mg femara + IUI #2 on 7/18. Starting progesterone 7/23, bfn
August 2014- 2.5mg femara + hCG + IUI # 3 on 8/15. BFN
Tx break
IVF #1 -
12/1 - TOT & SIS- RE found a polyp
12/15 - Hysterscopic surgery to remove the polyp; additional polyps found and removed
12/29- Good baseline u/s, 12 antral follies
12/30- Started stimming
1/10 - ER: 17 retrieved, 14 fertilized!
My Ovulation Chart - No data, just meds
~Santa Claus is Coming to Town~
Me: 31 DH: 29
DX (me): Inborn error of metabolism - protein restriction, metabolic formula & weekly blood tests
DNA Results (7/1): DH is NOT a carrier for my genetic disorder!
7/3: Metabolic clinic gave the green light to TTC - holy crap!
CD: 18
What are you doing to get pregnant? Same old stuff
Rant/rave/chart stalk: I think I'm gearing up to O. Had some consistent ewcm and opks seem to be getting darker... just waiting on my temp to do what it is suppose to
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? Nothing really
CD: 14
What are you doing to get pregnant? Everything
Rant/rave/chart stalk: Well, we didn't get in as much sex as I had hoped over the weekend due to the holiday and buying a new car for DH. I think I'll probably O in the next couple of days, so we'll have to get busy.
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? Nope
CD: 2
What are you doing to get pregnant? clomid, OPK's, will resume temping this month as I think that was the most helpful when I got pregnant with my daughter. I'm also going to try this: https://spermmeetseggplan.com/. I have an appointment tomorrow with my OB... talking to him about seeing an RE, but I'm not sure since we haven't been trying that long for #2.
Rant/rave/chart stalk: Feeling a little down about this lately. I really want my kids to be close in age.
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is there any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? not really... I was taking iron pills since I was told they help some people with problems ovulating. Definitely did not work for me, so I stopped.
CD: 29
What I'm doing to get KU: temping, checking CF, meds/vitamins/etc, sex, OPKs foreverrrr
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalks/etc: I'm so sick of sex without successful ejaculation this cycle. My sleep was extra messed up this past weekend because I felt super sleepy alllll weekend. Keepin' on with OPKs and trying to have sex when we feel like it.
GTKY: Can't think of anything off the top of my head.
Cycle/Month: 3
CD: 7
What are you doing to get pregnant? Temping, charting, PNV. Back from vacation and back in my normal routine, so OPKs and Pom Juice are starting today as well. Oh! And my Preseed looks like it will be delivered today, so I am giving that a shot this cycle! Going to TRY for ED sex starting tonight until O, which should be Friday or Saturday.
Rant/rave/chart stalk: My RiteAid brand thermometer can go fly a kite. It is taking over 5 minutes to read a temp and it is driving me crazy! Luckily, my Mabis got delivered today! Oh. And I got the WORST skin breakout ever yesterday… Rude.
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is there any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? I wish! I am doing all the things, because I think “Why not? It can’t hurt” I don’t necessarily know that I am increasing my odds, but at least I feel like I am doing something…
@Wine&Cupcakes ~ Check out the “Medications and Conception Aids” tab of the newbie blog J
@DarcyHermione ~ Sorry you are in a funk. Sending hugs your way.
@Jags8 ~ I am glad the spotting stopped!
@bostonbaker ~ Sorry about your thermometer! I really liked my CVS one before my dog decided to chew it up. I would just go get another one of those since you don’t have time to order from Amazon.
@pmreed79 ~ Super jealous of 6 weeks of vacation! Hope it’s great!
@jennycam ~ FX!
@RN1175 ~ I have been hearing more and more about Mucinex for TTC. I think I am going to need to look into that.
@merk.jl ~ Sorry about your weekend L
@itshumpday ~ I second what @kelley72 said about your temp. FX!
@dio13 ~ Sorry your body is being stubborn
@tlc35 ~ Glad your body seems to be cooperating and FX for good timing for you!
@ginger1228 ~ I put mine (pineapple core) in my morning smoothie with a bunch of other fruits. Maybe this would work for you too?
@sjpmcfmd ~ I used to do the legs in the air thing. But then I read a couple of threads where a LOT of ladies pointed out that this is a good way to get a UTI. So I think I am going to not do that this cycle.
@BillyHorrible ~ Yay for a shorter period! That is always nice!
@Cythe ~ FX that you get good timing this month!
@carissalf ~ I feel ya on the dogs eating the thermometers!
@acire86 ~ Love your siggy pic!
@PenguinMG ~ Sorry you are not feeling it right now L I vote that a real vacation is always a good plan!
@Sewfie ~ Sorry for the bad sleep L
@wells2010 ~ Sorry you are feeling down.
Me: 25, DH: 28, Baby #1 Due: April 30, 2015
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@kkirste ~ I usually will keep my normal weekday alarm set for the weekend that way I can still temp at my normal time. I record it on the FF app and just go back to sleep. Hope you have a great birthday weekend!
Me: 25, DH: 28, Baby #1 Due: April 30, 2015
Team BLUE!!
@mrsberg9282013 - maybe I'll try pineapple core mixed in. I really hate even the slightest taste of it, but it might be worth a shot. Not something I'll try right off the bat (bc I also generally hate smoothies!) but if it's months and months with no BFP, then I might put on my big girl panties and give it a try.
3 failed IUI cycles
Oct '15 - IVF 1 - 10R, 3M, 0F
Sept '16 - IVF - 12R, 11M, 5F and 3 perfect day 5 blasts - MMC 7w5d
Jan '17 - FET 1 - BFP, EDD 10/14
CD: 9
What are you doing to get pregnant? BBT, CM, finally received the OPKs i ordered from Amazon Saturday; planning to start using them tonight. EOD sex until O confirmed.
Rant/rave/chart stalk: I have watery CM right now and i don't know why. On Sunday morning i thought it was left over from Saturday night sex, but it continued this morning. I don't think i should O until this weekend at the earliest, so i don't know what's going on...but it's my second cycle off of BCPs so anything is possible i guess. I don't have a good baseline to work from yet. my temps are very consistent though, which is a plus.
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? nothing weird i don't think.
3 failed IUI cycles
Oct '15 - IVF 1 - 10R, 3M, 0F
Sept '16 - IVF - 12R, 11M, 5F and 3 perfect day 5 blasts - MMC 7w5d
Jan '17 - FET 1 - BFP, EDD 10/14
CD: 11
What are you doing to get pregnant? PNV, CM, EOD sex, BBT, drinking a gallon of water day, working out to help with weight
Rant/rave/chart stalk: Yesterdays's temp was about 40mins earlier then my normal time because I woke up earlier since I went to bed early and that gave me the open circle, then today I took it at normal time but I had been restless for the couple of hours before my alarm due to my cat being an ass and running all around the bed so I hope the next few days it gets back to normal.
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds? No just doing the standard stuff I guess, I feel like if there was anything that worked this board wouldn't be needed.
Cycle/Month: 7
CD: 11
What are you doing to get pregnant?: The usual.
Rant/rave/chart stalk: Managed to get a consistent temp time during our weekend away (between 5 and 6 am, even though FF gives me an open circle one day…), but my temps themselves were weird. Big dip, big rise, big dip again. Oh well. Things should be back to normal now, and I'll start on OPKs either tonight or tomorrow.
GTKY: we are all smart ladies here - but is their any TTC myth or trick you use to help your odds?: Not really, though I have added pre-ovulation green tea, and plan on making pomegranate blueberry smoothies for breakfast this week (expect to O this weekend). Also using the whole "full fat dairy helps!" idea as an excuse to eat a lot of cheese.
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Thanks @cythe!
I did just receive a pack of 50 Wondfos...so i think i'll just test at night this month, and if my temp spikes and i somehow missed my surge with night testing, next month i'll try twice a day. SMU would be easier than FMU for me anyway, because i go to the gym first thing in the morning almost immediately after i wake up so i wouldn't have time to deal with it until i got back from my workout anyway or i'd miss my 6am class. :-)
Me: 25, DH: 28, Baby #1 Due: April 30, 2015
Team BLUE!!
mrsberg9282013. SMU is an option for me but i'd like to avoid it because i know i would worry all day after getting a positive that i couldn't act on until after work that night! Though i will probably test SMU on weekends because i could actually do something about it then. And if nights don't pick up my surge, i'll move it around a bit. thanks for the advice!
Also, i forgot to mention this earlier, but i'm going to a birthing class with a friend tonight (her husband is "estranged" from her at this point i think is the best way to put it) and i'm hoping that it doesn't scare me out of TTC for a while. I told her that i have my fingers crossed to concieve this month so that when i'm present at the birth i can't be like "ooooh never mind i don't want to do this ever" because it will be too late for me to do anything about it at that point. ;-)
Me: 25, DH: 28, Baby #1 Due: April 30, 2015
Team BLUE!!