This check in is for anyone on this board to participate in and will occur every Wednesday. If you are new here and haven't made a separate intro on the main board please do so before checking in so we can "meet" you! It's easy to do just click the new discussion button in the top right and post away.
1. Your Name or Screen Name (not full names) and State you are from.
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE?
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions?
Feel free to add any vents or shout outs.
Re: CHECK IN 12/31
1 CML11 from NH
2. How long have you been TTC?
TTC # 1 Since Feb 2013,
seeing an RE since Feb 2014 with 1 loss
3. What are you doing this cycle?
IVF injections Gonal F and Lupron 2x/day, Exercise, pre-natals, Vitamin D, Ubiquinol, acupuncture, organic pomegranate juice and eating healthy. Eliminated caffeine, alcohol, herbal teas, and as nitrate free as possible
4. Where are you in your cycle?
CD11, I haven retrieval set for 1//3 (Saturday!)
5. How do you feel about this cycle?
So far I seem to be responding to the MicroFlare protocol. So over this IVF crap! I'm excited for it to be over
QOTW:
In New England it's tradition to eat Chinese food. I have no idea why or when it started, but the good places will be on a 4+ hour wait. We will put our name in for take out several days prior to get a dinner pick up time.
1. Your Name or Screen Name (not full names) and State you are from.
Wannabmama23 MA
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.? TTC #1, about 5 mo
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE? Just the basics, temping.
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
WTO
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
I'm determined to make this cycle one where if we don't get KU, it's not for lack of trying!! My FW is right now through the weekend, probably, so I'm jumping DH as much as possible ha!
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions?
@CML11 I didn't know the Chinese food thing was a NE tradition! I moved here about 5 years ago and just thought my friends who usually host got it bc it was easy...but now I've learned that everyone does it! We are putting in our order now!
Usually my friends have a little NYE party but they are out if town this year, so it will just be DH and I on the couch with the puppies this year (which sounds heavenly)!
Feel free to add any vents or shout outs.
1. Lucyspeople , CO
2. TTC#2 4 months
3. Charting, temping, opks. Trying to finish all requirements for the RE.
4. Waiting to O (cd12)
5. This will be our last cycle on our own so hopeful but just want to get the timing right so that I can know we gave it our all.
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions?
None! Staying in and having friends over. Should be a mellow night.
Meredith from FL
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
TTC #1 since November 2013. One loss in March.
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE?
I am temping/charting to get back into the swing of things.
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
CD 13, so waiting to O. I am benched though and am not even released for general "sexual activity" poet-surgery until this weekend so there will be no 2WW for a couple of months.
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
I have egg white mucus in abundance (yep, you wanted to know that didn't you) which is kind of a piss off because I haven't had it like this since June.
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions?
My Ovulation Chart
2. TTC #2 this will be 17 or 18 cycle? I'm starting to lose track
3. Everything will be in new year full swing next week. Follow up with E, then follow up with RE, appt for IUI 'practice run' to get measurements and injection 'class'. Not sure which of those I'm dreading more.
4. CD 8. This will be our last cycle natural try before procedure it looks like
5. Haha. Right now trying to schedule DH's work trip to India around fertile times.
QOTW. No traditions or plans. I don't remember the last time I was up until midnight- pretty much super lame. But I love the Rose Parade and football this week/weekend
Shout outs to everyone for 2015 BFPs!
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE?
We are trying naturally this cycle due to the holidays. Decided to focus on family and holiday activities this time. We have a consult with a new RE at a better clinic next tuesday.
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions?
Feel free to add any vents or shout outs.
vh2014
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
since Nov 2013 #1 for him #3 for me
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE?
Vitex, CoQ10, Prenatals, Vitamin D... Charting, OPK
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
CD 97, possibly (though doubtedly 8DPO) BFN this morning so DH wouldn't be concerned about me drinking tonight so nope, no symptoms. Happily on Day 8 of negative OPKs and temps leveling out so thinking I am really waiting to O not past O... but hard to tell since hormones were out of whack and temps were all over the place so no idea what coverline would have been.
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions? nope. We've been doing small groups of friends for the last several years. Has been awesome.
My Ovulation Chart
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE?
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
Benched to Im oblivious.
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions?
Feel free to add any vents or shout outs.
BFP- 10-16-14 EDD 6/13/15: MC 12-1-14
1. Your Name or Screen Name (not full names) and State you are from.
Ally - New York
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
TTC #1 since January 2014
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE?
Wonfo OPK, temping, just bought Pre-Seed
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
Waiting to O
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
I'm hopeful if I can get my DH to freaking do the deed...UGH...add frustrated to how I feel!
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions?
I love staying in and watching Anderson Cooper & Kathy Griffin. It doesn't matter what kind of horrible day I'm having, Anderson Cooper's giggle can cure it!
1. Your Name or Screen Name (not full names) and State you are from.
Astoria1587, WA
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
Ttc #2, 6 months
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE? OpKs for us.
4. In the 2ww
5. The whole house just got a cold so I feel very negative right now.
5. We have this tradition of writing down in a journal what we think will happen in the new year and then we go back and see how many we get right. We usually only write things we are pretty sure are going to happen. Amazingly we always get more wrong than right.
flyliceandcoffee - CO
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
TTC#2 since June, 1 loss
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE?
Just keeping track of all the things, as usual
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
Waiting for AF to take a hike. Today is CD5 so I'll start opks again soon.
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions?
Heather, MN
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
Stopped breastfeeding in March, started TTC#2 in July when period returned. Had some delays and bumps in the road so we're on our 3rd medicated cycle.
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE?
Femara CD3-7, Menopur CD9, Ovidrel trigger CD10, IUI #1 (yikes!) CD12 (TOMORROW)!!
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
CD11, Waiting to O, triggered last night!
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
I'm eternally hopeful. I feel like 2015 is our year!! I just can't imagine we're not going to get pregnant soon. I'm feeling good about moving on to IUI because my hubby was having some issues with the prescribed sex. I feel so bad for him, but his frustration wasn't helping my attitude either. With my diagnosis and no known MFI, IUI will only increase our odds a few percentage points, but I think it's helped to take the pressure off my hubby, so I'm all for it.
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions?
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.? TTC 4 months 1 loss
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE? Letrozole, Gonal-F, Pregnyl trigger and IUI
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww? CD 10 monitoring u/s and labs tomorrow
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc) I'm hopeful but after last month I'm very anxious as well
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions? I'm a little late for this, lately at our house it has been college football on New Year's Eve, we didn't even have drinks this year!
Best of luck to everyone, especially @nd613 and @emsmama15 on your IUI's...hopefully I'm right behind you! And also I conceived on my first IUI so beginners luck happens!!
Melissa Fl
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
Cycle 5 for our #1
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE?
Good ole BD and hope timing will be decent this cycle.
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
See above. Not o hopeful.
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions?
Last couple years had sucked due to major life changing events. This year it was the start to a new tradition. Bringing it in with my partner in crime, best friend, and love of my life. It was nice, we went to friends and then hit the casino for a couple of hours.
Feel free to add any vents or shout outs.
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
TTC#1 for a year this month
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE?
Seeing an RE, IUI#1 was on 12/23
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
VERY end of 2WW CD 30, 11dpIUI
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions?
I love casinos! Roulette is my game!
Peaseblossom55 from NJ
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
since mid Nov TTC#1
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE?
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc) No clue none. I just want to start a new cycle........
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions? No we really don't I usually have to work NYE.
Christina in CA
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
TTC #1 since December 2013
3. What are you doing this cycle? Are you seeking help with a fertility specialist (RE)? If so, what stage are you in? Charting/temping? Testing? Medicated cycles? IUI? IVF? DE?
Supposed to be doing IUI #1 this cycle. New Years might mess with the timing... I go in on Monday to see where we're at.... Fingers crossed I don't O first!
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test? Experiencing any weird "phantom" symptoms ladies in your 2ww?
CD10... waiting to O
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
Apprehensive.... I want to be hopeful
QOTW: Do you have any NYE traditions?
2. TTC#2 for nine months, eight cycles
4. WTO. I expect to O on Thursday.
(child mentioned below)
QOTW: We don't have any NYE traditions. This year DH and I took a quick trip (without the toddler) to Austin, TX. Drinking didn't really appeal to us that night, so we had a sushi dinner and watched the midnight fireworks from our hotel room.
"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt