R/R/CS: After seeing my sister 24 hours post birth last weekend, I was terrified to get pregnant. I even considered sitting this month out. After talking to my DH, mom and MIL, I've realized that I'm being totally irrational and I want kids and it will all be worth it.
GTKY: This year for my birthday DH agreed to do a whole30 (30 day elimination diet) with me. Best present ever. I couldn't have done it alone. I can't think of any bad gifts I've received.
WAYDTGKU: Benched for now, but still OPKs, temping and CM so I can be prepared for next cycle!
R/R/CS: ***Possible TMI*** Yesterday was so crazy ... I went to my gyno about bleeding after sex, and she found that I had a huge cervical polyp. She removed it, and I was glad to know it was fixed and nothing thats a permanent problem. Unfortunately, I can't have sex for a week and the is exactly all of my FW, unless this cycle is really different for some reason. I thought that was my biggest concern ... and then when I was checking out from the appointment, I started to feel woozy. Next thing I knew there were nurses all around me, I had passed out and cut my face on the counter. FML!!! I ended up spending the evening in the ER waiting to get stitched up, and now I have huge black eye and some stitches. It looks like DH punched me! So yesterday was not my greatest day ever ...
GTKY: What is the best and/or worst gift you've ever received? Best- my macbook that I got in college and and still using 7 years later. Worst- I had a great aunt who very thoughtful picked out the tackiest gifts you've ever seen (socks, hats, calculators, etc.). I always felt bad because she was so sweet, but I never had any use for the stuff she got me!
WAYDTGKU: temping, BD, trying to check CM but I've been all over the place with a lot of different things going on so I haven't been good about that this month
R/R/CS: I got some news from the original RE's nurse that i've seen about his recommendation for care and I'm glad that I'm going for a 2nd opinion this Friday. The dr I've seen is recommending Clomid and IUI to start right off the bat for us and I know its his job to get you KTFU ASAP but at the same time, that is just a little aggressive for us at this point. Now if the 2nd RE says the same thing, we'll see, but looking at the other places website it talks about injectibles and other methods other than IUI. So, I'm really looking forward to the appointment. Curious to see what the difference in opinions may be. And I'm starting to think I O'd early which would make our timing terrible for this month. Also, on Monday night, DH couldn't finish and that was just another line in the sand for this month. Well last night, we had a big conversation/heated discussion about options and my appt with the other RE this Friday. I went to bed and he wanted to be in the bed with me and watch tv. This is a normal thing for us, but after our talk last night, I had been crying and I've been working longer hours and it had been an emotional day for me, so I was ready to just go to bed and not watch the news. I told him he needed to go downstairs if he wanted to watch the news. So he went downstairs. Then I was all mad because I was like how could he choose the TV over me and what we are trying to do after the conversation we just had? But I didn't want to put any pressure on him and I didn't want to make a big deal of it and I also have just figured if I did O early this month, we are out anyways. So whatever and I tried to fall asleep. I was woken up about an hour later by him taking my clothes off and proceeding to BD. I tried to stop him and he said no. It was quick, thank goodness, but it was so cute and sweet because I said you are crazy, what are you doing? His reply was "We can't miss a day".
GTKY: What is the best and/or worst gift you've ever received? We've collectively gotten some pretty weird gifts from DH's step mom, a soup tourine that sits in its box, a weird BBQ cook book.....just some very random things. DH also gave me a GPS for Christmas one year even though I gave him a list of what I wanted and a GPS was no where on that list. His mom also gave me underwear one year that I opened in front of his whole family. That was a good time.
Best gifts have come from my sister, a wedding dress ornament for the Christmas tree the year we got married. She also got a print on burlap with our name on it and our new address after we got married. DH got me a Nook one year and it was completely unexpected and made me cry. And his sister gets us Costco membership gift cards and I think of her almost every time I go in there. But its a super practical gift and I love Costco.
@sldp123 The plate ornaments are adorable!! I love the grumpy faces I'm all over the place with where I think I'm actually at this cycle too.
@Jemn I don't know anything about temp adjuster but I just read your reply that you left the temps as is and that you made a note of them, which was going to be my recommendation to you as well. How much did you oversleep? What was the difference in your temps from yesterday to today? toothbrushes are a terrible gift.....
@pretzel2plus1 I think FF is right or could be right about your temps. The rule is that it is supposed to be 3 temps higher than prev 6 so I can see why you are questioning that but they are all right in that range too. It will be curious to see what happens over the next few days though! I'd keep HIO just in case! Today anyways for sure I'd try to get a session in if you can
@AndiPandi27 I don't use the applicators for the preseed, we just squeeze some out of the tube and go from there. I feel like it dries up quickly though?
@msdidonato BD is tiring!! I am not one who needs a lot of sex in my life, so this has been the most we've ever had in our whole 8 years together!! We definitely use our AAA!!!
@babymish If you have HIO for the last 4 days straight, I'd take a break today. It only takes once and you are fairly new to this journey. You don't want it to become boring or a chore. Take a break today and HIO tomorrow. You'll both probably be glad that you did. And the gift from your ex sounds terrible. I would have cried too!!
@becbec28 I can relate to schedule frustrations! And trying to get the timing right.....Especially since I think I may have O'd much earlier than I have in the past. Next month we may be on the HIO EOD band wagon starting around CD 10 or so.
@maggie1202 You should be able to add your temp in from yesterday still to FF, that is if you took it.
@lalalorelai That cat sounds awesome! I think I actually remember those toys!!
@MandyBeeSLP Sorry about CD 1!! Have a big glass of wine
@AmMcc12 Sorry you aren't feeling well!! I hope that you don't get too sick!! I've been dreading cold/flu season and the wicked games its going to play with my cycle potentially!!
@Kristin712 So sorry for your loss but glad that your long cycle has ended! Here's to hopefully a new month of trying and good things!!
@JournaGr123 I've seen people count it both ways, the whole time they've been TTC and time from after a loss. I'm sorry that you are having a hard time. Try to be good to you, do something to spoil yourself a little to take your mind off it. Get a massage, get your hair done, long bubble bath, yoga.....I've also been seriously considering acupuncture as I've heard quite a few good things about that in relation to stress relief and fertility.
R/R/CS: Rant - I feel horribly guilty that we didn't get KU right away. I know it's not rational to feel like that, but DH so wants a baby. When I told him I got AF last week his eyes just fell, and he said "Well... Okay." Then he was so sweet and awesome that weekend while I was feeling cruddy.
GTKY: What is the best and/or worst gift you've ever received? Worst gift? We do token gifts at work (very small office.) A co-worker regifted me something I watched another member of our office gift her the year before. It was kinda a crappy gift (car plug in coffee cups?) But even then I wouldn't have been annoyed but - I watched someone gift you that last year. We *talked* about the fact it was a crap gift. WTF?
Best gift? My parents gave me a couch set, and handed down my grandfather's coffee tables as a graduation present from college. I had NO furniture, and we are still using all of it.
WAYDTGKU: This cycle I will start temping and using OPKs
R/R/CS: After 50 long long days, AF finally showed up. I've never been so excited to get my period before. Finally we can start over and I can better track my cycles because lets be honest EOD sex for 40 days is fun but exhausting.
GTKY: What is the best and/or worst gift you've ever received? One time my aunt crocheted me a purse. It was purple and green and made of this hairy yarn oh and the handle was made from a belt. I pretended that I loved it cause I knew she put a lot of work into making it, but then when we got home I started laughing and telling my mom how horrible it was. My mother was shocked because she honestly thought I liked it. She told me I was a very good actress that night
Me: 28 DH: 29 Married: August 2014 TTC #1 Since March 2015 Diagnosed with PCOS March 2016 SA results normal April 2016 3 rounds clomid + trigger + TI = BFN 3 rounds clomid + trigger + IUI = BFN Uterine polyp removed July 2017 Round 1 IVF January 2018
@MNturnsVA - First, I think we live slightly mirrored lives because I swear I have had almost that EXACT situation with my H that you had on Monday a few times over several disagreements - I always feel like, ok, breathe, don't be crazy, we talked it out, just let him process, and every time I end up crying and feeling like he chose something dumb instead of staying and comforting me - and then later he's all snuggly and completely surprised that I was upset because he thought everything was fine and that I just didn't feel like watching Family Guy.
Second - I think it does dry relatively quickly, but I use the applicator to make sure it gets way up there and does it's job. Honestly, I don't have so much of a problem with quantity as much as quality of CM, so I want the good stuff as close to my cervix as I can get it. Since it's very slippery, waiting a little bit for it to soak in a little more seems to work for me. Now, whether it's helping to conceive...who knows. I guess I'll know if it didn't work in a couple of weeks...unless it's something else not working...so maybe I'll never really know!
ETA: First time we used it, it was kinda like this:
@MNturnsVA I've been reading a lot about acupuncture too and have been wanting to try it. I get stressed out very easily and thought it might help relieve some of the tension I get. If you end up doing it, let me know how it goes.
@MNturnsVA - hope all goes well for you on Friday! I'm also sorry you're having a rough week. Hopefully today and tomorrow are better days as you get excited for your appointment on Friday.
WAYDTGKU: OPKs, Temping, charting, checking CM/CP, sex EoD (okay fine, not exactly EoD but as close to EoD as we've been able to make happen!)
R/R/CS: I always get 2 days of positive OPKs that correlate so nicely with my temps and CM. This cycle my temps got a bit ahead of my OPKs and I only got a positive OPK for about 3 hours. It seems like it's thinking about going positive again tonight which... sigh. I'm having a hard time getting DH interested in more BD. He was kinda hoping yesterday was O and we're done for this cycle. :laugh: I guess I won't know for sure when O was (or is...?) till I get my temp shift. My temp pattern seems consistent with all my previous cycles for O yesterday.
GTKY: What is the best and/or worst gift you've ever received? Worst: When I was younger I really wanted to take voice lessons and/or art lessons. I'd been asking my parents about it for about 3 years. Finally for Christmas one year I got 2 pieces of paper one saying "voice lessons" and the other saying "art lessons" as my Christmas presents. I was SO excited! However, neither ever actually happened. All I ever got was the pieces of paper. Best present: ohhhh that's a tough one. I'm not sure.
Me: 28 Husband: 31 TTC#1: January 2015- September 2016 Infertility, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Rainbow baby born June 6, 2017 ❤️
@blonde1817agh that sounds awful! I hope you're feeling better!
Month/Cycle: 1/1 post mmc (4/6 total)
CD: 15
WAYDTGKU: opks, temping, bd eod, cm
R/R/CS: I've been obsessively taking OPK's and still have only been getting a faint line that actually seems to be getting lighter. I had a slight temp dip today so I'm hoping I'll have a rise tomorrow but we shall see. I'm hoping I've just missed my LH surge, but in the past I've gotten a definitive positive for at least 24hrs. I've been spoiled by really textbook charts prior to my MC so I know I'm being ridiculous but it's just frustrating. I feel like I don't trust my body anymore
GTKY: What is the best and/or worst gift you've ever received?
Best: Dh got me a solitaire diamond necklace a couple of years ago that I love and wear every day.
Worst: hmm I've gotten some pretty ugly jewelry from multiple sources over the years
Ally989 I just had the same thing! A 52 day cycle of temping/waiting/speculating and then pure excitement when AF showed up. I hope this month is shorter for you
@blonde1817 That sounds just awful. I hope your wounds heal quickly! I had a big blood draw this year and on the 7th vial I passed the f out on the nice nurse that was holding my hand. If it weren't for her I would have hit the floor.
*** Question ***
Month/Cycle 2/2
CD 5
WAYDTGKU temping
R/R/CS No rants or raves here. I have an order of OPKs that I look forward to trying. If I don't know when to expect O, should I even waste them? My cycles are a mystery after BC and I wonder if I should just temp for a few months.
GTKY Best: my FIL took us whale watching and we got to swim with humpback whales. I've never been so excited. Worst: my ex-husband got me a cat one year. We had agreed to not get pets and he was such a little monster.
Me: 33 Married in 2014 TTC for 10 months--No response to Clomid 50, 100, 150 June 2016--PCOS dx July 2016--7.5 mg Letrozole--Ovidrel 7/6--TI--BFP
Re: WTO Wednesday
CD: 12
WAYDTGKU: Almost everything.
R/R/CS: After seeing my sister 24 hours post birth last weekend, I was terrified to get pregnant. I even considered sitting this month out. After talking to my DH, mom and MIL, I've realized that I'm being totally irrational and I want kids and it will all be worth it.
GTKY: This year for my birthday DH agreed to do a whole30 (30 day elimination diet) with me. Best present ever. I couldn't have done it alone. I can't think of any bad gifts I've received.
@kristin712 I didn't think so either! I was very confused far too early this morning.
**TW**
Testing with RE October 2016
BFP 11/5/2016 ~ EDD 7/19/2016
CD: 10
WAYDTGKU: Benched for now, but still OPKs, temping and CM so I can be prepared for next cycle!
R/R/CS: ***Possible TMI*** Yesterday was so crazy ... I went to my gyno about bleeding after sex, and she found that I had a huge cervical polyp. She removed it, and I was glad to know it was fixed and nothing thats a permanent problem. Unfortunately, I can't have sex for a week and the is exactly all of my FW, unless this cycle is really different for some reason. I thought that was my biggest concern ... and then when I was checking out from the appointment, I started to feel woozy. Next thing I knew there were nurses all around me, I had passed out and cut my face on the counter. FML!!! I ended up spending the evening in the ER waiting to get stitched up, and now I have huge black eye and some stitches. It looks like DH punched me! So yesterday was not my greatest day ever ...
GTKY: What is the best and/or worst gift you've ever received? Best- my macbook that I got in college and and still using 7 years later. Worst- I had a great aunt who very thoughtful picked out the tackiest gifts you've ever seen (socks, hats, calculators, etc.). I always felt bad because she was so sweet, but I never had any use for the stuff she got me!
It's a boy!
CD: 19
WAYDTGKU: temping, BD, trying to check CM but I've been all over the place with a lot of different things going on so I haven't been good about that this month
R/R/CS: I got some news from the original RE's nurse that i've seen about his recommendation for care and I'm glad that I'm going for a 2nd opinion this Friday. The dr I've seen is recommending Clomid and IUI to start right off the bat for us and I know its his job to get you KTFU ASAP but at the same time, that is just a little aggressive for us at this point. Now if the 2nd RE says the same thing, we'll see, but looking at the other places website it talks about injectibles and other methods other than IUI. So, I'm really looking forward to the appointment. Curious to see what the difference in opinions may be. And I'm starting to think I O'd early which would make our timing terrible for this month. Also, on Monday night, DH couldn't finish and that was just another line in the sand for this month. Well last night, we had a big conversation/heated discussion about options and my appt with the other RE this Friday. I went to bed and he wanted to be in the bed with me and watch tv. This is a normal thing for us, but after our talk last night, I had been crying and I've been working longer hours and it had been an emotional day for me, so I was ready to just go to bed and not watch the news. I told him he needed to go downstairs if he wanted to watch the news. So he went downstairs. Then I was all mad because I was like how could he choose the TV over me and what we are trying to do after the conversation we just had? But I didn't want to put any pressure on him and I didn't want to make a big deal of it and I also have just figured if I did O early this month, we are out anyways. So whatever and I tried to fall asleep. I was woken up about an hour later by him taking my clothes off and proceeding to BD. I tried to stop him and he said no. It was quick, thank goodness, but it was so cute and sweet because I said you are crazy, what are you doing? His reply was "We can't miss a day".
GTKY: What is the best and/or worst gift you've ever received? We've collectively gotten some pretty weird gifts from DH's step mom, a soup tourine that sits in its box, a weird BBQ cook book.....just some very random things. DH also gave me a GPS for Christmas one year even though I gave him a list of what I wanted and a GPS was no where on that list. His mom also gave me underwear one year that I opened in front of his whole family. That was a good time.
CD: 7
WAYDTGKU: All the things. *sigh*
R/R/CS: Rant - I feel horribly guilty that we didn't get KU right away. I know it's not rational to feel like that, but DH so wants a baby. When I told him I got AF last week his eyes just fell, and he said "Well... Okay." Then he was so sweet and awesome that weekend while I was feeling cruddy.
GTKY: What is the best and/or worst gift you've ever received? Worst gift? We do token gifts at work (very small office.) A co-worker regifted me something I watched another member of our office gift her the year before. It was kinda a crappy gift (car plug in coffee cups?) But even then I wouldn't have been annoyed but - I watched someone gift you that last year. We *talked* about the fact it was a crap gift. WTF?
Best gift? My parents gave me a couch set, and handed down my grandfather's coffee tables as a graduation present from college. I had NO furniture, and we are still using all of it.
CD: 1!!!!!!!
WAYDTGKU: This cycle I will start temping and using OPKs
R/R/CS: After 50 long long days, AF finally showed up. I've never been so excited to get my period before. Finally we can start over and I can better track my cycles because lets be honest EOD sex for 40 days is fun but exhausting.
GTKY: What is the best and/or worst gift you've ever received? One time my aunt crocheted me a purse. It was purple and green and made of this hairy yarn oh and the handle was made from a belt. I pretended that I loved it cause I knew she put a lot of work into making it, but then when we got home I started laughing and telling my mom how horrible it was. My mother was shocked because she honestly thought I liked it. She told me I was a very good actress that night
Me: 28 DH: 29
Married: August 2014
TTC #1 Since March 2015
Diagnosed with PCOS March 2016
SA results normal April 2016
3 rounds clomid + trigger + TI = BFN
3 rounds clomid + trigger + IUI = BFN
Uterine polyp removed July 2017
Round 1 IVF January 2018
I'm also sorry you're having a rough week. Hopefully today and tomorrow are better days as you get excited for your appointment on Friday.
CD: 13
WAYDTGKU: OPKs, Temping, charting, checking CM/CP, sex EoD (okay fine, not exactly EoD but as close to EoD as we've been able to make happen!)
R/R/CS: I always get 2 days of positive OPKs that correlate so nicely with my temps and CM. This cycle my temps got a bit ahead of my OPKs and I only got a positive OPK for about 3 hours. It seems like it's thinking about going positive again tonight which... sigh. I'm having a hard time getting DH interested in more BD. He was kinda hoping yesterday was O and we're done for this cycle. :laugh: I guess I won't know for sure when O was (or is...?) till I get my temp shift. My temp pattern seems consistent with all my previous cycles for O yesterday.
GTKY: What is the best and/or worst gift you've ever received? Worst: When I was younger I really wanted to take voice lessons and/or art lessons. I'd been asking my parents about it for about 3 years. Finally for Christmas one year I got 2 pieces of paper one saying "voice lessons" and the other saying "art lessons" as my Christmas presents. I was SO excited! However, neither ever actually happened. All I ever got was the pieces of paper. Best present: ohhhh that's a tough one. I'm not sure.
TTC#1: January 2015- September 2016
Infertility, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
Rainbow baby born June 6, 2017 ❤️
Baby #2 due June 12, 2018
CD:5
WAYDTGKU: temping, sex EOD once AF kindly exits the building, PNVs and I might as well use my OPK sticks
R/R/CS: As much as I was excited for Af to get here, she's overstayed her welcome and needs to gooooo
GTKY: What is the best and/or worst gift you've ever received?
BFP#1 & MC:August 2015 BFP: #2 10/01/2015 MC: 10/09/2015 BFP #3: 12/22/2015 @ 5 weeks MC/CP: 12-23-2015
Fertility Appointment: Feb 23/16, Hysteroscopy 03/02/2016,
BFP #4: 03/31/16 EDD 12/01/2016
@blonde1817 That sounds just awful. I hope your wounds heal quickly! I had a big blood draw this year and on the 7th vial I passed the f out on the nice nurse that was holding my hand. If it weren't for her I would have hit the floor.
*** Question ***
Month/Cycle 2/2
CD 5
WAYDTGKU temping
R/R/CS No rants or raves here. I have an order of OPKs that I look forward to trying. If I don't know when to expect O, should I even waste them? My cycles are a mystery after BC and I wonder if I should just temp for a few months.
GTKY Best: my FIL took us whale watching and we got to swim with humpback whales. I've never been so excited.
Worst: my ex-husband got me a cat one year. We had agreed to not get pets and he was such a little monster.
Married in 2014
TTC for 10 months--No response to Clomid 50, 100, 150
June 2016--PCOS dx
July 2016--7.5 mg Letrozole--Ovidrel 7/6--TI--BFP