GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. My mom, I mean Santa, always had awesome gifts that we were able to open while we waited for our parents. They were all matching, and my mom has made all of our spouses, then our kids, matchingones, too.
Baby Chugging born 12.28.13 induction due to HELLP
What you're doing: sex, temping, CM check, OPKs, PNVs, baby aspirin, drinking lots of water, getting really impatient
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: I keep thinking that any time now my temperature is finally going to spike and I'll be out of this waiting to O period which is way worse for me than the TWW. But of course instead it dips way down. The positive is that gives us more time to get better timing. I thought I was going to O over the weekend which would have been terrible time since my husband was drilling with the Marines and we had no sex. But I guess this gives us a chance to get better timing. Trying to think positive right?
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. The only one I can think of is that every Christmas morning we eat cinnamon rolls then open our stockings before going to our presents. We also get in a showing of A Christmas Story every year.
Married: June 25, 2011 Our beautiful girl came into our lives October 15, 2012 TFAS: March 2014 BFP #2 July 2014 Miscarriage (6 weeks) August 2014 BFP #3 September 2014 Chemical Pregnancy September 2014 Seeing the RE: February 2015 Diagnosis PCOS: February 2015
BFP #4 April 2015 Chemical Pregnancy April 2015
BFP #5 June 2015 EDD: 3/5/16 Our rainbow baby came into our lives February 27, 2016 BFP #6 January 2018 Miscarriage (7 weeks) February 2018 BFP #7 April 2018 EDD: 12/23/18
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: Nothing for now. Just waiting impatiently
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition.
H and I brought various traditions into our lives. On Christmas Eve, we have lasagna for dinner, everyone opens one present that is new pajamas (gotta look good for Santa), we let the kids open one additional present, and read Twas the Night Before Christmas. On Christmas, after opening presents, H makes fried dough for breakfast while the kids and I are trying to get all their toys out of boxes, tags off clothes, etc and watch the various parades, for dinner we have ham and all the wondrous holiday sides.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: Got a temp rise so I'll take my first OPK of the month this afternoon.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition: DH and I always buy an ornament that signifies our year. And if nothing "big" happens, we just buy something that fits "us" :-)
What you're doing: Everything. Femara, Ovidrel, Sex EOD & IUI
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: Hurry up Friday follicle check! I also watched the Great Sperm Race with my husband last night...how depressing! Really put things in perspective.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition: As a kid, we woke up Christmas morning to open stockings that were placed on our bed. Before opening gifts under the tree, we at e homemade sticky buns. This year my husband and I will be making new traditions.
Diagnosed PCOS 2013
7th Round of Fertility treatment (Femara + Ovidrel + IUI) 12/14 = BFP. DS born Sept.15 Natural BFP Feb 2017. DD born Oct. 2017 Natural BFP Aug. 2019, EDD April 2020
What you're doing: temping, checking CM, using OPKs, sex, poM -not porn! - and grapefruit juice, green tea, basically everything.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: major temp drops and spikes in the past couple days. I thought vag temping was supposed to be less crazy?
GTKY: Tell me about a holiday tradition. Hmmm. Nothing crazy. As a kid, we always used to get to open one present on Christmas Eve and then we'd usually go to midnight mass. My dad would cook bacon and eggs or pancakes in the morning after we all opened our presents. I'd like to create some new traditions with DH and DS so I will be eyeing everyone's responses!
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks - Puppy still doesn't like my BBT and now growls at my face as I temp. Fingers crossed he gets over it
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. We have very specific menus for each meal that never change. Christmas Eve is always shrimp and grits before the midnight service. Bagels and cream cheese with smoked salmon for breakfast, cheese plate and apps through the day, beef tenderloin and Yule log cake for dinner, but my fav is the day after Christmas my mom always makes macaroni and cheese. It's supposed to be something simple after all the cooking but I doubt she agrees since she makes it all from scratch.
What you're doing Pom, green tea, temping, EOD as soon as period goes away
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks Nope
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. My family is German and we celebrate St Nicholas Day on Dec 6, as well as Christmas. We put out these wooden shoes my grandparents brought us from Germany, and in the morning we have oranges and chocolate in our shoes, and a stocking full of little gifts. It's such a fun way to start the holidays. I'm on the hunt for a pair of wooden shoes for DS so we can continue the tradition with him.
January Siggy Challenge: Happy Dance
BFP #1: 10-25-11, MC: 11-1-11 @ 5w5d BFP#2: 12-29-11, DS born September 2012 TFAS: July 2014, BFP#3: 12-29-14, EDD 9-9-15
I get to come back here now!!! We're off the bench! It was only a month, but man was it a long month.
Cycle/Month: 11/12 (since we were benched for a month, I'm thinking this is how this should be written...?)
CD: 4
What you're doing: Waiting for AF to disappear, first of all. Then all the sex! Plus OPKs, PNVs, temping, the usual.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: Just raving that we're back to it! We were benched for a month while we evaluated a cyst on my left ovary. Had a laparoscopy and hysteroscopy last Wednesday to remove the cyst, endo, a polyp, and a fibroid. Doc cleared us for intercourse again starting later this week, as long as I feel comfortable with it. And he said we'll do a natural cycle this time, since timing would have us doing an IUI over Christmas, most likely, and that's just too much stress to add to the holidays. If no BFP in January, then it's Femara and IUI! GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition: DH and I have been trying to start our own traditions, to prep for having a family of our own. The one I love the most is ordering a Giordano's deep dish pizza shipped straight from Chicago to Texas (DH went to Northwestern and is obsessed with Chicago pizza). Christmas Eve (or the night before we go to visit his family in MI, so this year, the 23rd), we have a picnic in the living room while watching a Christmas movie and drinking Sauvignon Blanc. We're really looking forward to these picnics with our kids someday.
Married to the love of my life since September 2013. TTC #1 since January 2014 Met with RE Nov 2014: Cyst on left ovary. Laparoscopy/Hysteroscopy 12/3 to remove cyst, endo, polyp, and fibroid 12/14: Natural cycle = BFN 1/15: Starting Femara for IUI #1
I get to come back here now!!! We're off the bench! It was only a month, but man was it a long month.
Cycle/Month: 11/12 (since we were benched for a month, I'm thinking this is how this should be written...?)
CD: 4
What you're doing: Waiting for AF to disappear, first of all. Then all the sex! Plus OPKs, PNVs, temping, the usual.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: Just raving that we're back to it! We were benched for a month while we evaluated a cyst on my left ovary. Had a laparoscopy and hysteroscopy last Wednesday to remove the cyst, endo, a polyp, and a fibroid. Doc cleared us for intercourse again starting later this week, as long as I feel comfortable with it. And he said we'll do a natural cycle this time, since timing would have us doing an IUI over Christmas, most likely, and that's just too much stress to add to the holidays. If no BFP in January, then it's Femara and IUI! GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition: DH and I have been trying to start our own traditions, to prep for having a family of our own. The one I love the most is ordering a Giordano's deep dish pizza shipped straight from Chicago to Texas (DH went to Northwestern and is obsessed with Chicago pizza). Christmas Eve (or the night before we go to visit his family in MI, so this year, the 23rd), we have a picnic in the living room while watching a Christmas movie and drinking Sauvignon Blanc. We're really looking forward to these picnics with our kids someday.
DH said he knew he loved me when I surprised him with a Giordano's pizza delivered to his house in South Carolina while he was studying for the bar
What you're doing bbt, opk's, lots of water, and ED smex
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks Got a +OPK for the 2nd day in a row, so I'm assuming that means yesterdays + came at the very begging of my LH surge. Just based on past cycles, I'm thinking O will be tonight or tomorrow, so we have one more shot at getting our timing high. Feeling optimistic so far!
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. Nothing too special. I always make cinnamon rolls on x-mas morning, DD gets to open 1 present on x-mas eve, and we always have a big breakfast and DH's grandfather's house on Christmas morning. This will be a 3rd year celebrating Christmas together, so we're still getting the hang of balancing our time with both of our families. Christmas day usually consists of us spending as much time driving to different houses as we do opening presents, LOL.
I love your tradition, too Dbarar. I just walked past Giordano's on my way to work, and it made me smile that you have that as a part of your Christmas
January Siggy Challenge: Happy Dance
BFP #1: 10-25-11, MC: 11-1-11 @ 5w5d BFP#2: 12-29-11, DS born September 2012 TFAS: July 2014, BFP#3: 12-29-14, EDD 9-9-15
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks On official O watch. Not temping but monitoring CM and waiting for cramps. And guessing out me bum.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. DH and I exchange presents with each other Christmas eve after DS is in bed. We pour some wine and watch it's a wonderful life.
Married: August 2008 DS born: February 2013 TTC #2: Nov. 14 Chemical pregnancy 09/16/15 BFP: 12/25/15 EDD: 09/04/16
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: Just a question about POM juice. I know it's likely too late to start for this cycle, but for the future, what's the deal? How much do you drink? How do you drink it?
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. We buy an ornament whenever we travel, so when decorating our tree we reminicise about places we've been & fun stories about those trips. It's my favorite.
What you're doing: BBT, CM, PNV, B6, sex, trying to use preseed during FW. Started OPKs 2 days ago, still negative.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: I had some EWCM this morning and FF took away my dotted CHs. I never believed I O'd anyway, silly FF. Still sick, but going to try to HIO later in hopes O is on the way.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. We always spend Christmas Eve with my parents and siblings. Then, we spend Christmas day with DH's parents and siblings. This year we might change it up a bit. We find that doing this makes it so that we have no time to spend any time as a couple on Christmas Eve/Day. We're trying to create some traditions just for the two of us.
September '15 Siggy Challenge: Favorite Movie Couple
@ajtraveler Pom juice is supposed to help thicken your uterine lining. I think I read somewhere at some point that you were supposed to stop once you ovulated, but I know some other ladies drink it throughout their cycle. I drink about 8 oz a day. Make sure it is real pom juice - a lot of what you can get at the store is actually mostly cranberry or grape and just has a little pomegranate blended in.
January Siggy Challenge: Happy Dance
BFP #1: 10-25-11, MC: 11-1-11 @ 5w5d BFP#2: 12-29-11, DS born September 2012 TFAS: July 2014, BFP#3: 12-29-14, EDD 9-9-15
DW and I always coordinate cookie decorating for our nephews on Christmas Eve, followed by dinner and making ornaments. Christmas day DW and I make a nice breakfast and spend the morning together before making the rounds to meet up with friends and family.
* Going all incognito with the "waiting to O" in the title...that's mean. No joke, I scrolled up and down the first and second pages twice scanning for "WTO" before deciding to actually read the titles. :P
* Giordano's...mmm... I want it. Now. We'll be back in CHI at the end of the month. Can't. Wait.
Alright, now for bidness:
Cycle/Month: 1/1
CD: 10
What you're doing: OPKs, BBT, lots o' secks, and lots o' obsessing... Apparently, I got a first-class cabin on the crazy train to celebrate my first cycle TTC. Hopefully next month I calm down a bit, because I'm even annoying myself at this point.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: I didn't start temping until CD8 for various reasons. Now, I'm kicking myself. Every single secondary fertility sign (OPK, CM, Cervix Position) unanimously points to O on CD9. But, since I don't have enough BBT data to confirm what would constitute a temp shift, I'm feeling extremely doubtful that I O'd that early. My cycles are usually 28-29 days long. If I'm O'ing on CD9, then that means an LP of 19-20 days...not likely, especially considering that my LP was only 13-14 days the last time I consistently charted. However, I've had a couple of really short cycles (22-23 days) in the past six months. So, it's possible that recently I've started randomly O'ing early, which would make my random short cycles consistent with a 13-14 day LP. Ugh. Why didn't I just start temping right away?? Oh well. Thankfully I realized this during my first cycle. I'll be super ready for Cycle 2.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. I love starting the season by watching "White Christmas." I have incredibly warm memories of watching that movie with my family when I was young. We all still try to watch it within the same couple of days and text each other while we're watching it, even though we're a thousand miles apart. I also love making homemade hot chocolate and driving around to see the Christmas lights with our kiddos.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition: DH and I have been trying to start our own traditions, to prep for having a family of our own. The one I love the most is ordering a Giordano's deep dish pizza shipped straight from Chicago to Texas (DH went to Northwestern and is obsessed with Chicago pizza). Christmas Eve (or the night before we go to visit his family in MI, so this year, the 23rd), we have a picnic in the living room while watching a Christmas movie and drinking Sauvignon Blanc. We're really looking forward to these picnics with our kids someday.
I love that you order Giordano's and have it sent to Texas. I have been hearing about it for years and we will actually be in Chicago for Christmas this year. DH and I plan to finally try it while we are there.
Cycle/Month: 1/1
CD: 24
What you're doing: OPKs, EOD & some ED sex, pomegranite juice, BBT, CM, etc.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: If my OPKs are to be believed, I might be in the middle of O now. I did have a temp spike this morning along with another +OPK. Our timing has been great, so I am hoping my temps will give me cross-hairs in the next couple of days so I can move over to TWW.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition: My family has always had pineapple waffles and sausage patties for breakfast Christmas morning, followed by stockings and presents. We then have snacks during the day, before a large turkey or ham and trimmings dinner in the mid-late afternoon. On years that DH and I are home we always celebrate Boxing Day by relaxing with leftovers and enjoying all of our loot. We basically spend the whole day in pjs doing whatever we want after all craziness of Christmas.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks- my throat is on fire, I didn't sleep well and I'm losing my voice. Tonight our financial advisor is having a seminar with free Red Lobster so I don't get to go home and crash. At least I get a yummy dinner and cheddar biscuits! ( even though Giordanos sounds better)
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. We use to do Christmas Eve at my grandparents every year with 40ish people unwrapping presents in their tiny basement. It was so fun. Now DH and I watch White Christmas on Christmas Eve with MIL before church. On Christmas Day all of our parents come to our house to eat breakfast and open presents. We are training them early so we don't have to drive all over town when we do have kids.
@Bluebird44 I had a really short LP (8-9 days) for the first 3 cycles after coming of BCP. My OB had warned me it could take 3-6 months for my hormones to normalize and wouldn't do anything before I hit 6 months (at which point she was going to try progesterone). I've seen here that you can call your doctor after 3 consistently short LPs, but having just stopped BCP, they may tell you to wait it out a couple more months. FX things are better this cycle!
January Siggy Challenge: Happy Dance
BFP #1: 10-25-11, MC: 11-1-11 @ 5w5d BFP#2: 12-29-11, DS born September 2012 TFAS: July 2014, BFP#3: 12-29-14, EDD 9-9-15
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks GUISE! I got my very first EWCM today! never thought I would be so excited by discharge from my body. But- small downside is that I left my BBT at my mom's on Sunday, so I can't pinpoint my O since I haven't temped yesterday or today. So I won't even be able to confirm anything. Just still excited to see the EWCM
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. H and I have our first married Christmas this year- so we are hoping to start some of our own. Only other one I can really think of is setting up the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.
@AprilH81 Wow! Those are gorgeous! Nice job!! I'm sorry for your frustrations and crazy cycles. I know that's got to be infuriating. FX that you get some answers and a plan soon.
What you're doing: Sex ED with pos OPKs EOD otherwise, temping, PNVs and I'm going to attempt checking CM again although I'm not sure I'm good at it
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: AF is full force, OUCH. I was really debating waiting until after AF to start temping but I thought maybe more temps would give me more information so I decided to temp this morning. I am going to temp at the same time every day this cycle no matter how much I wake up through the night...hopefully it goes well. Also, I have a regular therm. I was able to see a clear shift last month so I'm not sure if I want to buy a BBT or not.
GTKY: Christmas eve DD is allowed to open one gift which is always Christmas pjs....this year I'm thinking about adding a pack of hot cocoa, popcorn and a movie (saw on Pinterest). Christmas day she can go though her stocking anytime, when I was a kid we could go through them before our parents were up so we always did that first and then woke them up, DD is too young still and we always have to wake her up lol
What you're doing: bbt, sex, trying to remember to check cm
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: nothing here
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition: Despite having been married for 8 years we're still working on our own traditions since we've spent almost every Christmas with my family so far. With my family we put the tree up on Christmas eve, have clam chowder for dinner and go to church. Christmas morning we wait for everyone to wake up (growing up my brother and I weren't allowed to wake mom and dad up until after 8) and get coffee/tea then we do stockings all together. After stockings we have pecan rolls and dad always makes eggs and sausage for breakfast and after that we open presents one at a time. After that it depends on if we're seeing the whole family that day or another day. I love my family's Christmas because it's always so laid back, just good family time.
What you're doing: Everything. Including the Voodoo homeopathic shit.
R/R/CS: I wake up to a text this morning from my best friend (she's like a sister to me). It's a fucking picture of a digi pee stick and there it is in big bold letters "PREGNANT". It took so much effort to not throw my iPhone straight off my balcony into the water. That is by far THE worst way to wake up. Oh and by the way, this is the second time she has gotten pregnant BY ACCIDENT in 3 years. I want to fucking strangle her. End Rant.
What you're doing-PNV, HIO EOD, CBFM, OPKs, crossing fingers
hard!
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks-Chart is till pretty
looking J
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition-For Christmas eve my
family always gets together and has dinner together then we open presents. We
don’t do the Santa thing anymore now that we are older and there are no
grandkids in my mom’s side.
Married 9/2010 TTC 10/2013 RE Help from 10/2014-10/2016 (11 failed IUIs, a corrective surgery, and a donor embryo cycle) 9/2016-transferred two donor embies BFP 9/29/26 EDD June 11
@Bluebird44 I also had super short LP's since coming off of BC. I had mostly 9 day LP's until June when I had a 6 day LP. Since then I've had all 11-12 day LP's, which I guess is my normal. So I'd say it took my body about 7 months to adjust from being on BC for 8+ years. I did speak with my OB after the super short cycle in June and had a few blood tests done to check hormones. She considered putting me on progesterone, but my results came back well within normal range. I'd say if after 6 months things don't start to get longer give your OB a call to see if you can get a progesterone check.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks - Went to a baby shower over the weekend. Which is always super fun... not. Just waiting until tomorrow to start my OPK's.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. We haven't really created a Christmas tradition et. We moved out of state right after we got married so most holidays we travel back to MI. We both agree that once we have kids we'd like to do the holidays at home. My family has a bunch of traditions. My grandma always makes stuffed shells for Christmas Eve and we open presents from her and give her presents. Then the whole family would come to my parents on Christmas.
Married 9/2010 TTC 10/2013 RE Help from 10/2014-10/2016 (11 failed IUIs, a corrective surgery, and a donor embryo cycle) 9/2016-transferred two donor embies BFP 9/29/26 EDD June 11
Cycle/Month - I'm not even sure anymore... month 8 though.
CD 14
What you're doing: not much - tiredness and DH being sick has kept us from anything
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: my temp dipped on CD 11, went up for 12 and 13 and came back down today. Today is the first time I've seen any EWCM so I'm hopeful that I'm looking at a late O. I was convinced that CD 11 was it because I've never had my temps spike and come back down FX DH is feeling better tonight and I still have a shot at this cycle
GTKY: growing up we had wooden shoes instead of stockings. My parents got them in The Netherlands. Even though we have stockings now, my folks still put our shoes under their tree
Re: waiting to O Tuesday
Baby Chugging born 12.28.13
induction due to HELLP
CD: 23
What you're doing: sex, temping, CM check, OPKs, PNVs, baby aspirin, drinking lots of water, getting really impatient
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: I keep thinking that any time now my temperature is finally going to spike and I'll be out of this waiting to O period which is way worse for me than the TWW. But of course instead it dips way down. The positive is that gives us more time to get better timing. I thought I was going to O over the weekend which would have been terrible time since my husband was drilling with the Marines and we had no sex. But I guess this gives us a chance to get better timing. Trying to think positive right?
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. The only one I can think of is that every Christmas morning we eat cinnamon rolls then open our stockings before going to our presents. We also get in a showing of A Christmas Story every year.
Beautiful Mess Plans Co
Our beautiful girl came into our lives October 15, 2012
TFAS: March 2014
BFP #2 July 2014 Miscarriage (6 weeks) August 2014
BFP #3 September 2014 Chemical Pregnancy September 2014
Seeing the RE: February 2015
Diagnosis PCOS: February 2015
Our rainbow baby came into our lives February 27, 2016
BFP #6 January 2018 Miscarriage (7 weeks) February 2018
BFP #7 April 2018 EDD: 12/23/18
FX for great timing for everyone this cycle!!
Me (29) DH (29)
Married 5+ years
CD: 19
What you're doing: BBT, CM, PNVs, sex
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: Nothing for now. Just waiting impatiently
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition.
H and I brought various traditions into our lives. On Christmas Eve, we have lasagna for dinner, everyone opens one present that is new pajamas (gotta look good for Santa), we let the kids open one additional present, and read Twas the Night Before Christmas. On Christmas, after opening presents, H makes fried dough for breakfast while the kids and I are trying to get all their toys out of boxes, tags off clothes, etc and watch the various parades, for dinner we have ham and all the wondrous holiday sides.
CD: 12
What you're doing: Sex. BBT. OPK.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: Got a temp rise so I'll take my first OPK of the month this afternoon.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition: DH and I always buy an ornament that signifies our year. And if nothing "big" happens, we just buy something that fits "us" :-)
TTC #1: Oct. 2014
CD: CD11
What you're doing: Everything. Femara, Ovidrel, Sex EOD & IUI
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: Hurry up Friday follicle check! I also watched the Great Sperm Race with my husband last night...how depressing! Really put things in perspective.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition: As a kid, we woke up Christmas morning to open stockings that were placed on our bed. Before opening gifts under the tree, we at e homemade sticky buns. This year my husband and I will be making new traditions.
Natural BFP Feb 2017. DD born Oct. 2017
Natural BFP Aug. 2019, EDD April 2020
CD: 9
What you're doing: temping, checking CM, using OPKs, sex, poM -not porn! - and grapefruit juice, green tea, basically everything.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: major temp drops and spikes in the past couple days. I thought vag temping was supposed to be less crazy?
GTKY: Tell me about a holiday tradition. Hmmm. Nothing crazy. As a kid, we always used to get to open one present on Christmas Eve and then we'd usually go to midnight mass. My dad would cook bacon and eggs or pancakes in the morning after we all opened our presents. I'd like to create some new traditions with DH and DS so I will be eyeing everyone's responses!
TTGP January Siggy Challenge:
CD-CD5
What you're doing - PNV, bbt, lots of water
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks - Puppy still doesn't like my BBT and now growls at my face as I temp. Fingers crossed he gets over it
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. We have very specific menus for each meal that never change. Christmas Eve is always shrimp and grits before the midnight service. Bagels and cream cheese with smoked salmon for breakfast, cheese plate and apps through the day, beef tenderloin and Yule log cake for dinner, but my fav is the day after Christmas my mom always makes macaroni and cheese. It's supposed to be something simple after all the cooking but I doubt she agrees since she makes it all from scratch.
CD 4
What you're doing Pom, green tea, temping, EOD as soon as period goes away
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks Nope
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition.
My family is German and we celebrate St Nicholas Day on Dec 6, as well as Christmas. We put out these wooden shoes my grandparents brought us from Germany, and in the morning we have oranges and chocolate in our shoes, and a stocking full of little gifts. It's such a fun way to start the holidays. I'm on the hunt for a pair of wooden shoes for DS so we can continue the tradition with him.
BFP #1: 10-25-11, MC: 11-1-11 @ 5w5d
BFP#2: 12-29-11, DS born September 2012
TFAS: July 2014, BFP#3: 12-29-14, EDD 9-9-15
Cycle/Month: 11/12 (since we were benched for a month, I'm thinking this is how this should be written...?)
CD: 4
What you're doing: Waiting for AF to disappear, first of all. Then all the sex! Plus OPKs, PNVs, temping, the usual.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: Just raving that we're back to it! We were benched for a month while we evaluated a cyst on my left ovary. Had a laparoscopy and hysteroscopy last Wednesday to remove the cyst, endo, a polyp, and a fibroid. Doc cleared us for intercourse again starting later this week, as long as I feel comfortable with it. And he said we'll do a natural cycle this time, since timing would have us doing an IUI over Christmas, most likely, and that's just too much stress to add to the holidays. If no BFP in January, then it's Femara and IUI!
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition: DH and I have been trying to start our own traditions, to prep for having a family of our own. The one I love the most is ordering a Giordano's deep dish pizza shipped straight from Chicago to Texas (DH went to Northwestern and is obsessed with Chicago pizza). Christmas Eve (or the night before we go to visit his family in MI, so this year, the 23rd), we have a picnic in the living room while watching a Christmas movie and drinking Sauvignon Blanc. We're really looking forward to these picnics with our kids someday.
TTC #1 since January 2014
Met with RE Nov 2014: Cyst on left ovary. Laparoscopy/Hysteroscopy 12/3 to remove cyst, endo, polyp, and fibroid
12/14: Natural cycle = BFN
1/15: Starting Femara for IUI #1
Chart Stalk Me
TTGP January Siggy Challenge: Workout Fails
And yay for coming off the bench!
CD 22
What you're doing bbt, opk's, lots of water, and ED smex
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks Got a +OPK for the 2nd day in a row, so I'm assuming that means yesterdays + came at the very begging of my LH surge. Just based on past cycles, I'm thinking O will be tonight or tomorrow, so we have one more shot at getting our timing high. Feeling optimistic so far!
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. Nothing too special. I always make cinnamon rolls on x-mas morning, DD gets to open 1 present on x-mas eve, and we always have a big breakfast and DH's grandfather's house on Christmas morning. This will be a 3rd year celebrating Christmas together, so we're still getting the hang of balancing our time with both of our families. Christmas day usually consists of us spending as much time driving to different houses as we do opening presents, LOL.
Me: 29 DH: 35
Married 5/3/14, TTC ever since
DX: Lean PCOS, Clomid resistant
Femara 7.5 + Ovidrel = BFP! Due 4/15/18
I love your tradition, too Dbarar. I just walked past Giordano's on my way to work, and it made me smile that you have that as a part of your Christmas
BFP #1: 10-25-11, MC: 11-1-11 @ 5w5d
BFP#2: 12-29-11, DS born September 2012
TFAS: July 2014, BFP#3: 12-29-14, EDD 9-9-15
CD 14
What you're doing Sex
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks On official O watch. Not temping but monitoring CM and waiting for cramps. And guessing out me bum.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. DH and I exchange presents with each other Christmas eve after DS is in bed. We pour some wine and watch it's a wonderful life.
DS born: February 2013
TTC #2: Nov. 14
Chemical pregnancy 09/16/15
BFP: 12/25/15 EDD: 09/04/16
TTGP January Siggy Challenge:
CD: 13
What you're doing: Sex & temping.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: Just a question about POM juice. I know it's likely too late to start for this cycle, but for the future, what's the deal? How much do you drink? How do you drink it?
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. We buy an ornament whenever we travel, so when decorating our tree we reminicise about places we've been & fun stories about those trips. It's my favorite.
CD 18
What you're doing: BBT, CM, PNV, B6, sex, trying to use preseed during FW. Started OPKs 2 days ago, still negative.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: I had some EWCM this morning and FF took away my dotted CHs. I never believed I O'd anyway, silly FF. Still sick, but going to try to HIO later in hopes O is on the way.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. We always spend Christmas Eve with my parents and siblings. Then, we spend Christmas day with DH's parents and siblings. This year we might change it up a bit. We find that doing this makes it so that we have no time to spend any time as a couple on Christmas Eve/Day. We're trying to create some traditions just for the two of us.
BFP #1: 10-25-11, MC: 11-1-11 @ 5w5d
BFP#2: 12-29-11, DS born September 2012
TFAS: July 2014, BFP#3: 12-29-14, EDD 9-9-15
CD: 4
What you're doing: PNV, BBT and waiting
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: None
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition.
DW and I always coordinate cookie decorating for our nephews on Christmas Eve, followed by dinner and making ornaments. Christmas day DW and I make a nice breakfast and spend the morning together before making the rounds to meet up with friends and family.
Married: 10/4/2013
TTC Since September 2014
BFP 11/30/2014 ~ EDD 8/13/2015 ~ CP 12/5/2014
BFP #2 12/30/2014 ~ EDD 9/13/2015 Stick bean stick!
CD: 10
What you're doing: OPKs, BBT, lots o' secks, and lots o' obsessing... Apparently, I got a first-class cabin on the crazy train to celebrate my first cycle TTC. Hopefully next month I calm down a bit, because I'm even annoying myself at this point.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: I didn't start temping until CD8 for various reasons. Now, I'm kicking myself. Every single secondary fertility sign (OPK, CM, Cervix Position) unanimously points to O on CD9. But, since I don't have enough BBT data to confirm what would constitute a temp shift, I'm feeling extremely doubtful that I O'd that early. My cycles are usually 28-29 days long. If I'm O'ing on CD9, then that means an LP of 19-20 days...not likely, especially considering that my LP was only 13-14 days the last time I consistently charted. However, I've had a couple of really short cycles (22-23 days) in the past six months. So, it's possible that recently I've started randomly O'ing early, which would make my random short cycles consistent with a 13-14 day LP. Ugh. Why didn't I just start temping right away?? Oh well. Thankfully I realized this during my first cycle. I'll be super ready for Cycle 2.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. I love starting the season by watching "White Christmas." I have incredibly warm memories of watching that movie with my family when I was young. We all still try to watch it within the same couple of days and text each other while we're watching it, even though we're a thousand miles apart. I also love making homemade hot chocolate and driving around to see the Christmas lights with our kiddos.
CD: 24
What you're doing: OPKs, EOD & some ED sex, pomegranite juice, BBT, CM, etc.
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: If my OPKs are to be believed, I might be in the middle of O now. I did have a temp spike this morning along with another +OPK. Our timing has been great, so I am hoping my temps will give me cross-hairs in the next couple of days so I can move over to TWW.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition: My family has always had pineapple waffles and sausage patties for breakfast Christmas morning, followed by stockings and presents. We then have snacks during the day, before a large turkey or ham and trimmings dinner in the mid-late afternoon. On years that DH and I are home we always celebrate Boxing Day by relaxing with leftovers and enjoying all of our loot. We basically spend the whole day in pjs doing whatever we want after all craziness of Christmas.
CD 6
What you're doing: temping, pnv, water, preseed
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks- my throat is on fire, I didn't sleep well and I'm losing my voice. Tonight our financial advisor is having a seminar with free Red Lobster so I don't get to go home and crash. At least I get a yummy dinner and cheddar biscuits! ( even though Giordanos sounds better)
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. We use to do Christmas Eve at my grandparents every year with 40ish people unwrapping presents in their tiny basement. It was so fun. Now DH and I watch White Christmas on Christmas Eve with MIL before church. On Christmas Day all of our parents come to our house to eat breakfast and open presents. We are training them early so we don't have to drive all over town when we do have kids.
BFP #1: 10-25-11, MC: 11-1-11 @ 5w5d
BFP#2: 12-29-11, DS born September 2012
TFAS: July 2014, BFP#3: 12-29-14, EDD 9-9-15
CD 28
What you're doing All the things
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks GUISE! I got my very first EWCM today! never thought I would be so excited by discharge from my body. But- small downside is that I left my BBT at my mom's on Sunday, so I can't pinpoint my O since I haven't temped yesterday or today. So I won't even be able to confirm anything. Just still excited to see the EWCM
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. H and I have our first married Christmas this year- so we are hoping to start some of our own. Only other one I can really think of is setting up the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.
Married 10/4/2014--TTC since 10/2014
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My Ovulation Chart
MLG010105 that happened to me too!
Cycle/Month: 2
CD: 2
What you're doing: Sex ED with pos OPKs EOD otherwise, temping, PNVs and I'm going to attempt checking CM again although I'm not sure I'm good at it
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: AF is full force, OUCH. I was really debating waiting until after AF to start temping but I thought maybe more temps would give me more information so I decided to temp this morning. I am going to temp at the same time every day this cycle no matter how much I wake up through the night...hopefully it goes well. Also, I have a regular therm. I was able to see a clear shift last month so I'm not sure if I want to buy a BBT or not.
GTKY: Christmas eve DD is allowed to open one gift which is always Christmas pjs....this year I'm thinking about adding a pack of hot cocoa, popcorn and a movie (saw on Pinterest). Christmas day she can go though her stocking anytime, when I was a kid we could go through them before our parents were up so we always did that first and then woke them up, DD is too young still and we always have to wake her up lol
My Ovulation Chart
TTC our first together
Removed Mirena 11/4/14
DD 6/27/2011
SO's DD 5/30/2009
CD: 8
What you're doing: bbt, sex, trying to remember to check cm
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: nothing here
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition: Despite having been married for 8 years we're still working on our own traditions since we've spent almost every Christmas with my family so far. With my family we put the tree up on Christmas eve, have clam chowder for dinner and go to church. Christmas morning we wait for everyone to wake up (growing up my brother and I weren't allowed to wake mom and dad up until after 8) and get coffee/tea then we do stockings all together. After stockings we have pecan rolls and dad always makes eggs and sausage for breakfast and after that we open presents one at a time. After that it depends on if we're seeing the whole family that day or another day. I love my family's Christmas because it's always so laid back, just good family time.
Married 10.15.06
TTC #1 since 9.14
Chart Stalk
CD: 9
What you're doing: Everything. Including the Voodoo homeopathic shit.
R/R/CS: I wake up to a text this morning from my best friend (she's like a sister to me). It's a fucking picture of a digi pee stick and there it is in big bold letters "PREGNANT". It took so much effort to not throw my iPhone straight off my balcony into the water. That is by far THE worst way to wake up. Oh and by the way, this is the second time she has gotten pregnant BY ACCIDENT in 3 years. I want to fucking strangle her. End Rant.
Cycle/Month- 13
CD- 11
What you're doing-PNV, HIO EOD, CBFM, OPKs, crossing fingers hard!
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks-Chart is till pretty looking J
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition-For Christmas eve my family always gets together and has dinner together then we open presents. We don’t do the Santa thing anymore now that we are older and there are no grandkids in my mom’s side.
@rlpointer-I agree WTO is way worse than 2WW
@carolingirl67-If your temp has already risen, why are you taking an OPK? I am confused (or missed something)!
@Caitost21-I think the great sperm race is what finally got H thinking in perspective!
@cluckster-I would say yesterday’s temp was probably a fluke since all your other temps are in the same range. It happens.
@moonseeds92-That’s rough. Sorry you had to wake up to that!
TTC 10/2013
RE Help from 10/2014-10/2016 (11 failed IUIs, a corrective surgery, and a donor embryo cycle)
9/2016-transferred two donor embies
BFP 9/29/26 EDD June 11
Natural BFP Feb 2017. DD born Oct. 2017
Natural BFP Aug. 2019, EDD April 2020
@Bluebird44 I also had super short LP's since coming off of BC. I had mostly 9 day LP's until June when I had a 6 day LP. Since then I've had all 11-12 day LP's, which I guess is my normal. So I'd say it took my body about 7 months to adjust from being on BC for 8+ years. I did speak with my OB after the super short cycle in June and had a few blood tests done to check hormones. She considered putting me on progesterone, but my results came back well within normal range. I'd say if after 6 months things don't start to get longer give your OB a call to see if you can get a progesterone check.
Edit...I can't type
CD: 9
What you're doing: all the things
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks - Went to a baby shower over the weekend. Which is always super fun... not. Just waiting until tomorrow to start my OPK's.
GTKY: tell me about a holiday tradition. We haven't really created a Christmas tradition et. We moved out of state right after we got married so most holidays we travel back to MI. We both agree that once we have kids we'd like to do the holidays at home. My family has a bunch of traditions. My grandma always makes stuffed shells for Christmas Eve and we open presents from her and give her presents. Then the whole family would come to my parents on Christmas.
Me: 29 DH: 35
Married 5/3/14, TTC ever since
DX: Lean PCOS, Clomid resistant
Femara 7.5 + Ovidrel = BFP! Due 4/15/18
TTC 10/2013
RE Help from 10/2014-10/2016 (11 failed IUIs, a corrective surgery, and a donor embryo cycle)
9/2016-transferred two donor embies
BFP 9/29/26 EDD June 11
Natural BFP Feb 2017. DD born Oct. 2017
Natural BFP Aug. 2019, EDD April 2020
Me: 29 DH: 35
Married 5/3/14, TTC ever since
DX: Lean PCOS, Clomid resistant
Femara 7.5 + Ovidrel = BFP! Due 4/15/18
Natural BFP Feb 2017. DD born Oct. 2017
Natural BFP Aug. 2019, EDD April 2020
CD 14
What you're doing: not much - tiredness and DH being sick has kept us from anything
Rants/Raves/Questions/Chart Stalks: my temp dipped on CD 11, went up for 12 and 13 and came back down today. Today is the first time I've seen any EWCM so I'm hopeful that I'm looking at a late O. I was convinced that CD 11 was it because I've never had my temps spike and come back down FX DH is feeling better tonight and I still have a shot at this cycle
GTKY: growing up we had wooden shoes instead of stockings. My parents got them in The Netherlands. Even though we have stockings now, my folks still put our shoes under their tree
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