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TTC after 35
kindershlitz
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Weekly Check In April 15
kindershlitz
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in TTC after 35
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?
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
QOTW: Have you ever had a celebrity/famous person encounter? Tell us! If not maybe someone you know- or who is your celebrity crush?
Feel free to add any vents or shout outs. Thank you @dolphin012 who has offered to continue check ins after this week.
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?
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
QOTW: Have you ever had a celebrity/famous person encounter? Tell us! If not maybe someone you know- or who is your celebrity crush?
Feel free to add any vents or shout outs. Thank you @dolphin012 who has offered to continue check ins after this week.
Re: Weekly Check In April 15
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?
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
QOTW: Have you ever had a celebrity/famous person encounter? Tell us! If not maybe someone you know- or who is your celebrity crush?
Feel free to add any vents or shout outs. Thank you @dolphin012 who has offered to continue check ins after this week.
- Jill here from NC.
- TTC#1 for awhile now...
- Just stopped taking crinone (vaginal progesterone suppositories) after I found out that I did not ovulate this cycle (based on 7dpo progesterone test).
- Currently at CD37. AF should show up in a day or two (or three?) now that I've stopped taking the progesterone supplements.
- I feel pretty shitty about this cycle. Basically I was tricked since I had all the classic signs of ovulation - +OPK,
drop in temp followed by rise, EWCM, open cervix, etc. but yet nothing happened. My chart even started to show a triphasic pattern the last few days (which really got my hopes up) but I guess that was all from the progesterone supplements? I'm slowly coming to terms that all the "traditional" methods of tracking ovulation don't really work for me but I know I must ovulate once in awhile since I did get pregnant twice last year (both times by natural means). So working hard to just be patient and looking into other insurance options so we can explore Clomid with u/s monitoring sometime in the future...On a more positive note, doc has told me I can switch to Prometrium, which comes in pill form (less messy!) and is less expensive as well.
QOTW: No encounters, although I was in Brett's house once (from Flight of the Conchords).
I'm so excited for our recent grads! What an exciting week!!
NTNP since 11/12, actively trying since 8/14
11/15: Letrozole, Ovidrel, TI = BFP!!!
Beta #1(14dpo)=349, Beta #2(18dpo)=2,805
12/17/15: Got to see the heartbeat (105bpm)!
1/25/16: NT scan = normal (HB=163bpm)
EDD: 8/10/16
8/8/16: Baby boy born @ 12:25am, 8lbs, 20.5 inches
5/18/17: BFP!!! (11dpo)
Beta #1(12dpo)=176.4, Beta #2(15dpo)=607.1
2. ttc #4, cycle 8 I think
3. charting, temping, sex
4. 2ww, 3 dpo. Trying to not test until middle of next week.
5. I'm whatever at this point. However, I did tell H that life's a bitch and I'll get pregnant now because we're in the process of trading in the minivan I blew up for a ford focus. So obviously, since I will no longer have the room for a family of 6 it'll happen.
QOTW: Have you ever had a celebrity/famous person encounter? Tell us! If not maybe someone you know- or who is your celebrity crush?
2. TTC #2 since Fall 2014
3 & 4. Just waiting for AF to show up... Im not sure if I will O this cycle or not because of the MC but I'm not tracking or anything. I will probably just do OPKs like before once my next cycle actually starts.
5. Not really thinking anything will happen this cycle but hopeful for the next.
QOTW: So when I was a kid (12 ish) I went camping in Yosemite with Chuck Norris, he was dating some extended relative of mine at the time. It was pretty cool in retrospect but at the time I didnt really care ha ha ha. Gotta love Chuck Norris
2. TTC #2
3 and 4. My cycles are still MIA, despite the fact that I'm only nursing my daughter once or twice a day now. My OB ordered bloodwork for me (not sure what it is that they are testing), and I got that done on Monday morning. Now awaiting the results.
5. Waiting for the phone to ring, but I feel good that there was a concrete step I could take (getting the bloodwork). I feel better when there is a plan of action.
QOTW: I had a conversation with Ryan Seacrest in the summer of 2012 when I was working at those Olympics. I was working in London, and my husband was working in NYC, and there was a big video board with a linkup between the two workspaces. So I was chatting with my husband, and Ryan came up in the hallway behind me and said "what's going on here?" and then proceeded to chat with my husband and me for about 30 seconds. It was surreal. I've also done a one-on-one interview with Gavin Rossdale... that time I was REALLY starstruck (more like weak in the knees). And I once saw Julia Roberts at, of all places, California Pizza Kitchen. Stars... they're just like us!
1. efhoping2010, WY
2. Since miscarriage and D&C surgery May 2012, IVF/ICSI is our only option because of DH's dx.
3. IVF/ICSI #4 with a fresh MESA for DH and then CCS testing and later FET at the "big clinic".
4. Had ER on 4/10 9 eggs retrieved on 4/11 6 eggs were mature and only 4 had fertilized normally. No update since. I get a formal report of how many made it to blast were biopsied for CCS tomorrow on Day 6. I am very nervous waiting for that call.
5. Trying to stay positive and not to stress about the above. Trying to be positive for my hopeful 4 blasts.
@dolphin012 my RE said AF usually comes around 14 days after ER. We are also in a similar situation, my blasts are being biopsied today and I will find out more from the embryologist tomorrow, my CCS genetic testing results take I think 1-2 weeks. Hoping and praying you receive GREAT results!!!!
1. Your Name or Screen Name (not full names) and State you are from.
FemShep, MA
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
We are TTC #3. We have been trying for 6 months. I got a BFP in February, but had a miscarriage at 6 weeks at the beginning of 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?
Just charting and testing. I'll start testing on Monday.
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test?
CD 8, waiting to O. DH and I will start with daily sex on Saturday, although I'm expecting a wonky cycle since it's my second cycle post MC.
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
See above re wonkiness. I've had unusually long spotting (still spotting today, in fact), and am not sure what to expect.
QOTW: Have you ever had a celebrity/famous person encounter? Tell us! If not maybe someone you know- or who is your celebrity crush?
I used to work for a very famous baseball player, and met other baseball players as well as a few of his famous friends. The best (read: craziest) stories aren't ones I can put on the Internet.
2. Been TTC #1 since July 2012
3. Had IUI #2 last Wednesday after taking 100mg of Clomid for 5 days. Currently taking progesterone, 2 times a day.
4. Currently on my TWW. Supposed to test on the 24th
5. How do I feel....right now I'm just trying to remain hopeful while also preparing myself for what I feel like I already know.
QOTW: I've had a few with local celebrities but internationally known I had an encounter with Usher when I worked at Planet Hollywood. I was in charge of looking after his gear, including his sneakers, after the presentation was done he told me "I bet u wanted to make some money out of them"...LOL!!!
TTC # 1 since January 2014.
Working with RE. Charting, temping, opks.
11 dpo. My LP is usually about 16 days but I want to test on 4/20 because that's my husband's birthday. Just in case.
I was very hopeful about this cycle because I was having pretty over-the-top progesterone symptoms but now I feel totally normal except for some mild cramping, which is not unheard of for me at this time of month so I feel like we didn't hit it. Only the test or the arrival of CD1 will tell for sure.
QOTW: I've run into celebrities in passing but no encounters that are interesting or fun to tell about. I will watch anything with Daniel Sunjata in it. Really. It can be total garbage and I will sit there enthralled if that man is on the screen.
Stairbear it is all very confusing!
Since we are doing CCS (genetic testing) on our embryos our clinic gives a fertilization report and then a day 6 report which is how many embryos survived to make it to blast, were biopsied, and then frozen.
So far they biopsied 2 of our 4 at day 5 and they were graded 4AB and 3AB and I am waiting for a report today about whether any of the other two made it to blast for biopsy and freeze.
Then in a few weeks we should have CCS results and can hopefully plan a FET (frozen embryo transfer) in May with any normals.
I am keeping fx for you that everything will be clear this next cycle and you can feel confident taking the progesterone! Hugs!
dolphin012 my clinic's lab is able to sometimes to give embryos until day 7 to see if they make it to blast to test for CCS.
Sadly, my other two passed away.
So I now only have 2 day 5 blastocysts total for CCS testing.
I am scared now that is so few.
After spending so much money on this cycle at the big clinic I am feeling a huge let down.
On a plus side for both of us though, they say day 5 blasts are best for FET.
Wishing you well.
1. Your Name or Screen Name (not full names) and State you are from.
Joanne, NY
2. How long have you been TTC? Are you TTC #1,#2,#3, etc.?
TTC#1 16 months
4. Where are you in your cycle? (Waiting to O, 2WW etc) If in the 2ww when will you test?
5. How do you feel about this cycle? (Are you hopeful, anxious... etc)
QOTW: Have you ever had a celebrity/famous person encounter? Tell us! If not maybe someone you know- or who is your celebrity crush?