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LizaKate1213
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WTO Thursday
LizaKate1213
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Month/Cycle:
CD:
What are you doing to get KU:
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk:
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe!
CD:
What are you doing to get KU:
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk:
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe!
Re: WTO Thursday
CD: 23
What are you doing to get KU: Everything, getting burnt out this cycle
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: Welp. Still no temp increase. All the other signs are still there. Same rant, new day!
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe! Not really a food, I love to make my own hot spiced apple-cranberry cider in my crackpot! .5 gallon apple cider, 4 cups cranberry juice (the real stuff not cocktail), .5 cup honey, 1tbs cloves, 5 cinnamon sticks, cover the top with thin orange slices, set on high for 1 hour then decrease to low for 1 hour, keep on low/warm and serve.
CD: 10
What are you doing to get KU: temping, PNV, OPKs, hopefully sex
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: Really hoping DH is feeling better this weekend, I'll be so disappointed if we miss the window this month, but at the same time I don't want to pressure him because I know he is feeling pressure already.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe! All of Thanksgiving dinner.
Married: July 2015
BFP: 5/20/16 | EDD: 1/28/17 | Twin boys born 1/16/17
Probably chicken wild rice soup. The only time I ever eat soup is during fall/winter, so I look forward to a good hearty soup or stew. Yum.
CD: 2
What are you doing to get KU: Nothing yet. AF and all.
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: CD2 of cycle 6. Doesn't that say it all?
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe!
This crockpot beef stew recipe is very simiar to one I found in a cookbook years ago. Hearty, flavorful, and a little sweet--perfect for cold weather.
https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/beef-stew-with-molasses-and-raisins-recipe.htm
I also love roasting vegetables (parsnips, turnips, carrots, potatoes, brussels sprouts, garlic cloves, onion) with thyme, rosemary, salt, pepper, and olive oil in a baking dish as a side for some mustard-marinated chicken (marinate with dijon mustard, pepper, fresh herbs, touch of olive oil).
CD: 5
What are you doing to get KU: Temping, CM/CP, prenatals. AF has left the building so will start BD EOD on CD 10.
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: Excited to try again. Feeling hopeful.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Chocolate chip pumpkin bread or chocolate chip banana bread. I usually only make them in the fall so it's a real treat!
Month/Cycle: 2/2
CD: 5
What are you doing to get KU: PNV, BBT, checking CP and CM, OPKs,
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: I got Mirena removed in beginning of August. I had what was like a period but maybe was more of withdrawal bleeding (sorry TMI-really brown blood, not to heavy of flow, or any other period symptoms) followed by a 42 day cycle. This months AF was much more like a regular period (heavy bright red flow with cramps, hormone headaches, the works). So now I'm wondering if I might regulate to a shorter cycle. I just got my Wondfo's in the mail yesterday. What day do you think I should start OPKs? I got a positive OPK last month on CD 12.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe! I'm not a pumpkin spice latte person or apple cider or super into fall recipes.
DS: 5 years old
TTC #2 since August 2015
July 2016: Testing cycle with 100 mg Clomid = BFN
August 2016: 50 mg Clomid + IUI = BFN
October 2016: IVF#1 - 13 retrieved / 12 mature / 9 fertilized / 2 blasts
November 2016: FET#1 = chemical
January 2017: FET#2 = chemical
March 2017: IVF#2 - 18 retrieved / 18 mature / 16 fertilized / 5 blasts
May 24, 2017: FET#4 - BFP! - Beta #1 151 - Beta #2 503 - Due date 2/9/18
CD: 9
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: What are you doing to get KU: Gah! I am only on CD9 of cycle 1 (started temping a little last month just to get in the swing of things) But I don't know how I will survive, weeks seem to drag by and I have no patience. Trying to breath and enjoy the process, but that's not really my thing.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe! I love Butternut squash soup, I have a good healthy recipe and like to add green apple and apple, chicken sausage. https://allrecipes.com/personal-recipe/63355537/butternut-squash-soup/
CD: 20
What are you doing to get KU: All the things....
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk:
Can someone take a look at my chart ? (I know I'm annoying like sh*t with this) I had a 0,4 temp rise this morning but it's still around/under the temperature I had earlier this month. Could this still be ovulation? I know OPK are not a guarantee that I had ovulated but they are getting paler so if I didn't O I think I'm heading for a nice anovulary cycle
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe!
all the soup and creme! During fall I tend to overabuse the use of buttercup squash/sweet potatoe combo, so by the time thanksgiving is around the corner I'm ready for something else
Month/Cycle: 1
CD: 5 (9 since getting off BCP)
What are you doing to get KU: all the things!
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: I'm really hoping I'm one of the super duper lucky ones who goes back to fertility 2 weeks after getting off the pill. I know chances are slim but a girl can dream, right? Temping and opks to keep track of what my body decides to do now that it has free reign again.
**question** - is it normal to only move 0.05 every day tempwise? I have a mabis and haven't moved more than a few hundredths every day which seems too good to be true.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe!
Favorite fall food is actually more of a drink, I absolutely love apple cider, if it wasn't so sugary I would have it all the time. Apple pie and homemade apple sauce are good too but the cider is my favorite. I like apples like most people like pumpkin spice!
Eta:question
CD: 20
What are you doing to get knocked up?: Hoping I haven't O'd yet bc DH is out of town. Odds look like they're against me.
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: HUGE temp spike this morning- up 0.84 degrees from yesterday. But I also had a few drinks last night, went to bed really late, and slept terribly. My CBA opk is also telling me I'm still "high" this morning (but not yet peak), so who knows. If I enter two high temps for tomorrow and the next day, it only gives me dotted CHs, so something must be throwing it off.
If I did O yesterday, my timing would be an uninspiring -3.
GTKY: What's your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe! Thanksgiving stuffing. My family's recipe is basically "take these six ingredients and mix them until it looks/tastes/smells right." But it's like risotto- you have to be patient and add the liquid just a little at a time for it to end up at the right consistency.
My temps did something similar this month - took a dip on CD18, then a slight rise CD19, and then a spike the following day on CD20.
Keep tracking and see what happens with your temps!
Month/Cycle: 10/11
CD:13
What are you doing to get KU: all the things
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: I got my wondfos yesterday! ***So here's my question: My temp yesterday and this morning were the same, which I find odd. I took my temp this morning, at 6:20, fell back asleep until about 6:40. I checked my bbt while in the bathroom at that time and thought it was weird that it was the same as yesterdays, so I took it again and it was 97.86 (was 97.49) I'm wondering if that seems off? If I should discard this mornings temp or just keep it? I hate discarding temps this close to O and I don't think one temp being off (if it even is off) will through things out of wack. Advice?
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe! I love pumpkin spice cake. Its super easy to make. Its just spice cake with a can of pumpkin, some pumpkin pie spice, and cream cheese icing.
RE appt 12/2015
CD3 labs normal | HSG 1/8/16 clear | H's SA excellent
Dx: Unexplained Infertility
February 2016, cycle 16 - cycle #1 with Letrozole 5mg + TI | Progesterone=20.6
BFP 2/24/16 - EDD 11/7/16
It's a girl!
Isla Quinn born 10/29/16 at 38w5d via C/S
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TFAS March 2018
RE consultation 8/2/18
Suprise! BFP 8/8/18 natural cycle | EDD 4/19/19
It's a girl!
Afton Noelle born 4/10/19 at 38w5d via natural VBAC
CD: 9
What are you doing to get KU: all of the above
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk:
My chart looks like crap so far. Pure crap.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe!
Chili is one of my faves. I don't really follow a recipe. I basically just dump whatever's in the pantry in there.
Month/Cycle: 4
CD: 11
What are you doing to get KU: all the usual
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: I'm starting to worry that with my temps all over the place I'm not ovulating. I have heard that can happen after a CP. Anyone have any suggestions? Next cycle I am going to start temping vaginally to get a better idea. I don't check CM unless it's on TP or super noticeable because it's really hard for me to do so (I'm very tight.. Sorry for the tmi) so I'm having a hard time detecting O except with OPKs which I know are not always reliable.
GTKY: anything pumpkin! Love pumpkin chocolate chip cookies!
Baby #2 Due 3/7/20
CD: 16
What are you doing to get KU: The usual
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: Decided to change my username, but still the same Avatar. Another DS wake-up last night, so another unreliable temp. Otherwise, just continuing my BV meds unceremoniously and waiting for O.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe! I love Corn Chowder. Basically creamed corn, butter (I use Smart Balance), milk (I use skim), carrots, potatoes, garlic powder, onion power, and black pepper. I boil the carrots and potatoes separately first and then throw them all in a pot and taste until it's delicious enough to serve.
CD: 2
What are you doing to get KU? Took my first official temp today, also in the middle of reading TCOYF, and have OPK strips at the ready
Rants/raves/chart stalk: AF is still in the house which sucks but I was eager to move over to WTO! I finally have a chart! And things to measure and track! Feeling much more in the drivers seat this month. It's going to be a good month! It could even be THE month!
GTKY: Favorite fall food is pie! Pumpkin pie, pecan pie, apple pie, ALL THE PIE!!
CD: 18
What are you doing to get KU: feels like I'm doing everything for nothing....
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: Well my temp went up again today and this time .16, but still cannot tell if I did O or when. I feel the most defeated and confused right now out of this whole process. I have spotted most of this cycle, AF stopped CD 5 and I started spotting the next day, it was heavier till CD 9, then stopped till CD 15 and has been lightly spotting bright red again. It has mostly been in the first few hours I am awake if that means anything. Dr Google's thoughts on spotting like this are freaking me out but I still think I will wait one more cycle before contacting the OB. I really doubt that this is my cycle.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe!
CD: 12
What are you doing to get KU: Temping, PNV, sex and everything else I can think of.
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: Starting to obsess about ovulation. According to FF I will ovulate on CD 29, but I think it will be sooner than that. It's making me paranoid, because I am afraid that we will miss our window. I also have a cold right now and I am taking meds that may dry up CM.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe! I love French onion soup when it starts to get cold.
CD: 8
What are you doing to get KU: BD EOD, temp, pnv, opk
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: I woke up at 4:50 due to DH's snoring and couldn't go back to bed for an hour! So I needed up temping early again
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe! I love pumpkin pie, never make it myself though.
CD: 16
What are you doing to get KU: Everything
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: My temp went up for the second day in a row so I am thinking tomorrow I should get crosshairs.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe! I love anything in a crockpot. Especially on Sunday afternoon while watching football with the patio doors open. I LOVE fall!!!!
Me 35, DH 37
Unexplained infertility and TTC since December 2014
February 2016 - May 2016: 3 IUI's -- all BFN
August 2016: IVF #1 (Lupron, Gonal F and Menopur) -- 12 retrieved, 9 fertilized, 3 frozen and 1 x day 5 hatching blast transferred -- BFN. Sent remaining 3 embryos for PGS testing -- 2 didn't survive thaw, 1 was abnormal.
February 2017: IVF #2 (Gonal F, Menopur, and Ganirelix) -- 12 retrieved, 6 fertilized, 3 sent for PGS testing and all were abnormal
March 2018: IVF #3 (Menopur, Follistim, Ganirelix and HGH) -- 14 retrieved, 12 fertilized, 4 sent for PGS testing, and 3 were PGS normal
May 2018: FET #1 -- BFN
August 2018: FET #2 -- BFP!!! healthy baby girl born May 2019!!
July 2020: FET #3 -- embyro did not survive thaw
September 2020 - IVF #4 (Menopur, Follistim, Ganirelix and HGH) -- 1 PGS normal
October 2020 - FET #4 -- BFN
January 2021 - IVF #5 (Menopur, Follistim, Ganirelix and HGH) -- 2 PGS normal
February 2021 - FET #5 - BFP!!! Due 11/6/2021
CD: 44
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: No signs of O yet. Apparently my almost 70 day cycles from my teenage years is normal for me... do I even need to rant? Also, my Target thermometer seems to only like 3 temperatures. I knew that was an issue with them, but it was convenient! A Mabis is already in my Amazon cart with some OPKs if this cycle doesn't work out. Hoping I don't need to buy them. I will rave about the predicted O time that FF got from my last cycle! It would be PERFECT timing with our plans for the next few week/weekends! No hiding drinks, no BD-ing with visitors (it weirds me out)... now I just hope FF is right.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe! Soup. Any soup. All soup. Cream based soups are the best for fall, but I'm not picky. It's especially delicious if it comes in a bread bowl or with bread to dip in it!
CD: 5
WAYDTGKU: AF is gone, ready to start HIO! Also prenatals, OPK, temping, cm, you know the drill. Adding pressed this month.
R/R/CS: I got my preseed in the mail last night. I was nervous to tell DH about it and started off by telling him not to judge it by the name, which he laughed hysterically at. We actually had a good laugh reading through all the labels and instructions, when he wasn't pretending to barf at every mention of cervical fluid.
GTKY: Pumpkin chocolate chip bread! Or chili and cornbread. Mmm.
3/16 - Started infertility testing
4/16 - SA results: borderline low count/morph
8/16 - Ultrasound and HSG: all clear! Prescribed Bromocriptine for elevated Prolactin levels.
9/16 - Prolactin down to normal levels!
IUI #1 - 9/21/16 - Clomid 50mg, Estrace, Ovidrel, Progesterone/Estradiol - 4 follies - BFP! EDD 6/15/17 Team PINK!
CD: 15
What are you doing to get KU: temp, cm, Sex EOD, pnv
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: got a spike today, but it's not too high over my average. I'm hoping it keep increasing
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe! My FIL's stuffing!
CD: 15
What are you doing to get KU: Going away this weekend to a little cottage in the woods.. bringing some bottles of wine and hoping it will do the trick!
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: 3 months in and I'm feeling optimistic this time around, but don't want to think too much about it as to not get hopes up.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Soups & stews - love my crock pot weather!
ttc July 2015 ~ bfp Nov 2015 (cp)
bfp Dec 2015 ~ (tfmr 17wk, March 2016, genetic disease)
ttcal May 2016
CD: 7
What are you doing to get KU: BD now that AF is gone. Waiting for EWCM and O pain. Not temping yet, going to wait a couple of cycles.
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: We're having our of town guests in two weeks and my house is nowhere what ready. Ugh gotta work like crazy to get it together. These guests include my dad and his gf (who is my age btw, and was the home-wrecker) and their ugly dog whom they never travel without and she doesn't like cats (the dog) so it will be an adventure to see what this freaking dog does to my cats. I won't clip their claws this month so they can defend themselves.
Also - tmi - by DH and my BDd two days ago and I'm very sore for some reason WTF.
End rant and tmi.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe!
Chilli. Yumm. With some sour cream and cheese. Or maybe on some pasta - chili mac. One of my tricks to good chili is smoked paprika. It makes the entire dish.
@mrsschmity FX for you!
Month/Cycle: 2/2
But I love taking a roast and veggies and some fresh sage and thyme, beef broth, and red wine and letting it simmer all day. Plus when I get home there is an open bottle of red wine that has to be finished before it goes bad. Can't be wasteful after all!
CD: 19
What are you doing to get KU: BBT, CM, CP, and now bromelain supplements
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: My BBT chart looks like the rocky mountains this month, so I was worried I wasn't going to O this time around. Temps are FINALLY going up above the coverline though! I played around with FF and if I get another high temp tomorrow I will get my crosshairs on the 22nd, which means decent timing. It would be nice to still be in the running this month. I'm also taking bromelain supplements through 5dpo just in case it helps.
GTKY: What is your favorite fall food? Feel free to share a recipe! Crockpot roast beef! Crockpot anything really
CD: 5
What are you doing to get KU: Charting, prenatal. Starting vaginally temping tomorrow.
Rants/Raves/Chart Stalk: The RE office got my referral! I'm scheduled for Oct 1 Oct 6! I'm very surprised it's only a week away. And nervous excited.
GTKY: Pumpkin roll. I have a family recipe that is amazing. Everyone says it's the best pumpkin roll ever.
3/2015: Start TTC
8/2015: PCOS Dx
4/2016: BFP, Loss (4+5)
2/2017: BFP
Honorable mentions: Biggest IF support sister, sweetest bumpie, most genuine, LFAFer you'd most like to visit, great things come in small packages, pocket sized babe
Cd: 5
What are you doing: waiting for AF to leave
R/R/CS: managed to temp for a second night in a row but it was st 3am when DS woke up. I knew I would get another 3 hour stretch before we were up for the day so I took it then. Hope I can get a half decent chart with taking my temps at all times of the night
GTKY: I love pumpkin or squash soup with just a little bit of yellow curry in it. Yum!!