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MelissaM090
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Me: 32
DH: 33
Married: October 2015
TTC #1: October 2015
EDD #1: June/July 2017
WTO Wednesday
MelissaM090
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GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
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WAYDTGKU:
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GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
Me: 32DH: 33
Married: October 2015
TTC #1: October 2015
EDD #1: June/July 2017
Re: WTO Wednesday
CD: 12
WAYDTGKU: everything
R/R/CS: It's my day off, and I was hoping to sleep in. But apparently my dane had other ideas. She pounced on me at 4:30 this morning to demand a walk. Now that I am wide awake, she wants to go back to bed and cuddle. *sigh*
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
Uncommon for both. I took his name when we got married. I have no feelings about my name one way or the other. Plus DH and I already have a list of names picked out for our kids.
Cd 8
Added FertileCM, plus normal Mucinex, *ET fix typo* doc wants me to add B6 with the Mucinex, and testing
QUESTION: Now I'm paranoid about how I've been logging my CM since the doctor was concerned I don't have very many EWCM days. If it's creamy/sticky colour, but also stretchy less than an inch, do I log that as E because of the slight stretch? Or for dry days, how do you know if you're "dry" since I feel like I'm never truly 100% dry? He was worried about possible infection /chronic discharge, but I'm not convinced.
My first name is so common, I switched to using my middle name when I went away to boarding school and no one knew me. My maiden name is not that common, and neither is my married, but my married name is a little more normal lol
CD: 11
WAYDTGKU: All the stuff
R/R/CS: So my FW is pretty much starting. Last month I turned an OPK on CD15 and I think I O'd on CD16 so now it's go time! I asked DH yesterday if he'd like to be involved in the baby-making schedule or if he'd like it to be spontaneous (for him, it'll never be spontaneous for me) and he was like 'eh, surprise me'. So I guess he's getting surprised tonight
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids? My first name was #8 in popularity the year I was born and I was the only Melissa in my grade in elementary school and there was about 3 in my grade in high school but no big deal. I don't love it but it's never given me grief. My last name was annoying only because it was not overly common, but the name of a pretty major company name which opened up all sorts of eye-rolling jokes about my family inventing such products. Ha, ha, so funny, not. My biggest issue with my last name is that I don't have a relationship with my father and my mom remarried when I was 13 so I didn't even hesitate to take my husbands name when we got married. I have a LOT of opinions on kids names but basically just want what a lot of people want for their kids - a not-overly-common, but recognizable and easy to spell name.
DH: 33
Married: October 2015
TTC #1: October 2015
EDD #1: June/July 2017
Month/Cycle: 8/5
CD: 13
WAYDTGKU: Letrozole + Trigger + IUI
R/R/CS: So I go back tomorrow morning first thing to see if my follicles are getting bigger. I realized last night that if they are in fact growing, and I end up having a mature follicle(s), I'll more than likely trigger at the clinic tomorrow and do the IUI Friday. Two things. First, holy crap it's so real right now. Second, though I don't peg myself to be superstitious too much, the IUI will be on Friday the 13th.......(insert long dramatic pause in your reading of this). Idk why but that freaks me out a little bit!
Side note: WTF is up with all the drive-by's? Usually they don't bother me, but one of them yesterday really got to me. It sat with me way longer than I would have liked.
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
So my first name isn't super common, but oddly enough including myself there were three of us in my graduating class. If you put a T into my name, it becomes a very popular name. So I am constantly being called that name. But that's not my name! I used to hate my name because of that, but the older I got the more I liked/like it. I took DH's last name when we got married, and I had never heard of it before until I met him. It doesn't seem to be too popular, as I've never met anyone else with it. But if you do a Google search of it, a lot comes up. And actually, it has impacted what we want to name our kids because we like that it's very Italian. And therefore we would like to go with that theme kind of.
@mrsdaddario I'm excited for you! I'll be looking for your update tomorrow. Fx for good follicles. If your clinic wants 36 hours from trigger to IUI, they may have you trigger tomorrow night instead, and come in Saturday morning, so you may be able to avoid the dreaded Friday the 13th, haha.
Married: July 2015
BFP: 5/20/16 | EDD: 1/28/17 | Twin boys born 1/16/17
@melissam090 Enjoy your FW ;-)
@mrsdaddario Hope your appointment tomorrow shows good things! I think Friday the 13th WILL be lucky for you.
Month/Cycle: 9/9
CD: 10
WAYDTGKU: trying to remember to temp, will start sex soonish
R/R/CS: I've remembered to temp three days in a row, so I'm already doing better than last month!
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids? My first name is common if you're a grandmother. I don't mind it, though it is kind of boring. I did change my last name when we got married. Neither of my last names are super common, but my maiden name was at least phonetic. I now have to spell out my last name all the time. As far as naming kids, I really like alliteration so my last name would possibly influence their first initial (H is not on board with the alliteration).
ME: 28 | DH: 31
DATING SINCE: 09/20/08
MARRIED: 10/26/15
TTC #1 SINCE: OCT/NOV 2015
CD: 8
WAYDTGKU: the things
R/R/CS: So, as a kid, I didn't really understand the point of reading books in a series in order if, like, the last book looked the most interesting. So when I "read" Harry Potter I only picked up the 2nd, 3rd, and 6th one.
Now, I've started reading them in the correct order, and I'm loving it! I can't believe it took me until "adulthood" to do this xD
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids? I like it well enough. My name is fairly popular among girls my age, though the spelling varies GREATLY. My first name and maiden name are both very long, so about 6 or 7 months after getting married, I took DH's name, since it was shorter. I thought about not taking his name, but it was really important to him that I did.
It has impacted the way I named DD. Because my name has so many spelling variations, I changed the traditional spelling of my daughter's name. I kind of regret it now, but DH and all our family LOVE it so.... I won't be changing the spelling of our future child(ren).
Me: 25 | DH: 25
DD: Aug. 15
Month/Cycle: 8/4
CD: 27
R/R/CS: DH has his SA on Tuesday! I'm very excited that he finally made the appointment and he was excited that he could have sex last night. It was all he was talking about during the day and when I got home haha.
Tomorrow starts month 9 of zero ovulation so that's a little upsetting... But fortunately, we have plans and are moving forward right now so I think I'm a little more okay with it than I originally expected.
GTKY: Like @felix08 my name is popular if you're a my grandmother (or actually, for me, my great aunt). But I love my long, old name. And when I was a kid I always shortened it to a nickname but now I'm back to my full name. My maiden name and my married name are difficult and uncommon but they go well with my first name. My old fashioned name 100% influences the names that I like and we'll be using all old names!
@mrsdaddario I've got all my fingers crossed for you! Hope your appointment tomorrow goes really well!! And if you do have a successful IUI on Friday the 13th, then it can just be a lucky day from now on!
@Businesswife I'm always confused about how to log CM too, so I won't be much help there... But how was the rest of your appt yesterday? I know you were a little concerned about a male doctor... I have my first appointment with a new male OB in two weeks and I'm already starting to freak out a little bit.
Month/Cycle: 5/4
CD: 9
WAYDTGKU: The stuff.
R/R/CS: It has been rainy here for weeks, it feels like! And it's not supposed to be better any time soon. Crappy weather really kills my mood and I may or may not have turned DH down for sex last night because I was so cranky. Oops. May have to make that one up to him tonight...
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids? I don't love my first name. It's kind of a unisex name and I just feel like it's not very "pretty." But whatever. My maiden name used to annoy me because it required spelling out to most people, but now that I've taken DH's last name, I find I have to spell that one out too- and it's not difficult at all. The only thing I've thought out for baby names is that I don't want my future children's initials to spell anything out. Especially now that there are so many more 3 letter TTGP acronyms
@MelissaM090 Yay for FW! I try to keep DH in the dark about it too. Last night he was all "that was a nice surprise" little did he know, I was pretty much planning it all day, because FW!
@mrsdaddario Good luck tomorrow, keeping FX for you! I am not superstitious either, but eek Friday the 13th makes me a little nervous too.
@mokay19 Hope everything goes well with the SA. Having a plan makes all the difference, FX for you.
Month/Cycle: 10/10
CD: 13
WAYDTGKU: Pretty much just sex and temping. I always get super nervous around this time, so I am just trying to remain calm.
R/R/CS: I hate having a "sex-schedule" that only I know about. I don't want to share too much with DH, but I also want to scream, I need your P in my V right now, we are in prime baby-making time!
GTKY: I have a pretty common name. There is always another person with the same name as me. H and I pretty much have the same name too, so people always joke that we will name our kids the same thing. I didn't change my last night when I got married, but agreed to change it once we have kids. H last name is a lot easier to pronounce than mine.
10/2/10
Me:29 H: 31
TTC#1: Aug 2015
https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/5e3072
CD: 9
WAYDTGKU: Starting green tea today.
R/R/CS: Not much today. Just trying to stay awake. Day 3 of a new diet and this happens every time. I know I just need to get through this day of grogginess to get to feeling good again. I want to be in my bed. @RedBreast35 we must be in the same area. It's been grey and rainy for the past 2 weeks with grey and rainy in the forecast for the next 2 weeks. Blah. Definitely doesn't help the mood!
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
My name was semi-popular growing up. In elementary school, I was never the only one in my class but in High School, there were maybe 3 in the whole school. My last name and H's last name are not popular whatsoever. Growing up, I always wanted to marry someone who's last name begins with a letter in the first half of the alphabet because I always hated being in the back of the line at school. It didn't work out that way...
CD: 20
WAYDTGKU: diet, exercise, acupuncture, and we've been HIO this weekend and this week. I'm pretty sure I Od yesterday, so hopefully we had decent timing this month. We meet with our RE on Thursday to go over our plan of care. I'm so friggin nervous!
R/R/CS: I have one student in my first class this morning. Two of the others who are supposed to be here are gone and the rest of the students were seniors. It feels empty in here, but this means I can start clearing out my classroom and get my grading done so that I can go into "summer mode" quickly! I finished a massive stack of stuff last night...I just need to get through one more stack and then my school year is practically done. Their final project will be my last set of grades to enter. Where did the year go?
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
There were like 15 girls in my class of 79 in high school with the same first name as me. There were SO MANY girls with the same first name. I'm indifferent to it now. I took DH's last name so it helped spice things up with my name. He was born in Germany and is half Mexican, half German. His last name is VERY unique, so if I ever meet someone with the same last name, he's probably related to them. He really wants to have an alliterate name for them (so first and last name starting with the same letter), but I just...can't. No, thank you. I'm a very sentimental person, so I've been picking family names and names that have a lot of meaning to us. He's been understanding about it.
ETA: Best of luck this week, @mrsdaddario! FX for you!
CD: 24
WAYDTGKU: Just HIO for the first time in 5 days..
R/R/CS: ugg...I have been avoiding posting because I don't know what is going on, but here I am! Had a bit of a temp drop today, and have been deciding that every twinge and pain is ovulation...right? Annoying. Excited to have be meeting my potential new OBGYN group on Monday, hopefully that will make me feel a little better. I know that can't really do anything right now, but knowing that I feel comfortable with them will make me feel better. I hate HIO under pressure, or feeling like there is no point, really puts a damper on it...
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
I have never particularly LOVED my first name...it isn't super popular, not that it matters, but it's my first name so oh well! I haven't ever really thought about it. I loved my last name, but did change it when I got married, it has been a big change, but I actually made my maiden name my middle name legally, I wanted to preserve a family name. Something interesting I found out, when we went to Italy for our honeymoon I booked everything, apparently my name is a mans name in Italy, so everyone was surprised when I showed up and introduced myself! hahah What makes that story even better is my mom is Italian, I was like, mom you gave me a dudes name!!!!
Me:31 H:31
DX: MFI - 1% Morph
12/16 -IVF #1 - Antagonist Protocol w/ Lupron trigger
ER - 11 retrieved- 9 mature - 7 fertilized - 3 sent for PGS on day 5 - No normals (1 XXX Embryo - may use in future)
3/17 - IVF #2 - Antagonist Protocol w/ HCG trigger
ER- 13 retrieved - 11 mature - 8 fertilized - 2 sent for PGS on day 5 -2 Normal
FET #1 - 5/16/17 - BFP! - Beta #1 5/25 - 156 - Beta #2 5/30 - 2562 - Beta #3 6/1 - 5191!
@DoctorDonna ahhhh I can't wait to hear about your appointment tomorrow as well! Do you get the SA results tomorrow, too?
TTC#1: October 2015
dx: PCOS & MFI
IUI #1 w/Femara + Ovidrel June 2016 ~ BFP
July 2016: Blighted Ovum
IUI #2 w/Femara + Ovidrel September 2016 ~BFN
IUI #3 w/Femara + Ovidrel October 2016 ~BFN
IUI #4 w/Femara + Ovidrel November 2016 ~BFN
IVF with ICSI January 2017 ~BFN
FET February 2017 ~BFN
IVF with ICSI March 2017 ~BFP--Twins Due 12/8/17
Team Blue X 2!
Me:31 H:31
DX: MFI - 1% Morph
12/16 -IVF #1 - Antagonist Protocol w/ Lupron trigger
ER - 11 retrieved- 9 mature - 7 fertilized - 3 sent for PGS on day 5 - No normals (1 XXX Embryo - may use in future)
3/17 - IVF #2 - Antagonist Protocol w/ HCG trigger
ER- 13 retrieved - 11 mature - 8 fertilized - 2 sent for PGS on day 5 -2 Normal
FET #1 - 5/16/17 - BFP! - Beta #1 5/25 - 156 - Beta #2 5/30 - 2562 - Beta #3 6/1 - 5191!
ETA: @Zoey1019 - Aw! Thanks, lady! I'm really starting to feel like it could happen soon.
Me:31 H:31
DX: MFI - 1% Morph
12/16 -IVF #1 - Antagonist Protocol w/ Lupron trigger
ER - 11 retrieved- 9 mature - 7 fertilized - 3 sent for PGS on day 5 - No normals (1 XXX Embryo - may use in future)
3/17 - IVF #2 - Antagonist Protocol w/ HCG trigger
ER- 13 retrieved - 11 mature - 8 fertilized - 2 sent for PGS on day 5 -2 Normal
FET #1 - 5/16/17 - BFP! - Beta #1 5/25 - 156 - Beta #2 5/30 - 2562 - Beta #3 6/1 - 5191!
CD: 8
WAYDTGKU: pnvs, bbt, cm, acupuncture
R/R/CS: Temping sucks. After taking a month off... I miss just sleeping in and not shoving a thermometer down my mouth. I'm on my 11th month of temping now... it's just getting old.
GTKY:
This is a fun question! The spelling of my first name is not popular at all until Ms. Jenner stole it! I love the spelling of my first name but it is a common name. I had a super uncommon maiden name but now my last name is also common as well.
My last name is a color. It will definitely affect our choice for our future kiddo. And then I'd like to have a slightly uncommon name so that our common last name doesn't make our future LO have a super common name. My husband has one of the most common first names and last names and it just makes his life surprisingly difficult (can never find a username, email address, etc/people at work are always confusing him for another person....)
Dx: Both tubes blocked, PCOS, DOR, RPL
IVF Cycle #1 Dec. 2016 - 11R·11M·5F - Transferred 2 - BFP - Miscarriage - 0 Embryos Left
CD: 19
WAYDTGKU: bbt, opk, pre-seed and sexing
R/R/CS: Sorry I was gone for a couple days. They were hell days. But... guess what........ MY HUSBAND IS DONE WITH HIS THESIS!!! He presented it yesterday afternoon after not sleeping for 3 days and he totally rocked it. The 3 professors who watched the presentation and signed off LOVE HIM! His project was unique and that was a really good thing in their opinion. It was an architecture thesis, but his was about robotics in architecture. They were stony encouraging him to apply to PhD programs. And they seriously want him to come back next semester and teach some seminars on using robotics. The dean of the school was there, so he can actually say that. Wow! So much to think about. Anyway, DH has been sleeping for 14 hours now and shows no sign of waking up. I did check his breathing though, and he is still alive. I am pretty sure I am ovulating today, based on OPKs and CM. So, of course we missed yesterday which makes me a little sad since we had sex 5 days in a row before that. Oh well, we aren't out by any means. And the important thing was his thesis yesterday.
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
My name is very unique. I have only meet a few with my name. It was more popular 100 years ago, and actually more popular in African American communities. (I am white and didn't know that until I moved to an area with a very dense black population). I love my name sooooooo much! I get compliments almost every time I tell someone my name. It just really fits me. I did change my name when I got married. I like my maiden name more, but I don't hate my married name and I wanted us all to match so I went with it. We named our daughter charlotte in 2013. It is getting to be pretty popular, but DH and I had it picked out since we were dating in 2009. So, there was just no way we could change it. The tentative names we have picked out for our next child are much more rare because ideally I wouldn't name more kids something nearly as possible.
DH: 30 year old pneumatic electrical engineer
BFP: June 25, 2016 and MC: July 3, 2016
DD2: April 16, 2017
BFP: November 30, 2018 EDD: August 14, 2019
Month/Cycle: 10/2 TTCAL
CD: 27
WAYDTGKU: all of it
R/R/CS: Question on discarding temperatures- This is my second cycle after loss, I took a break from charting the first one. My temps are really rocky which could be from screwy hormones or the weather changing from winter to spring, not sure. I have two big spikes CD12 and CD16 for no apparent reason, and I'm wondering if they will throw off my coverline and make ovulation hard to spot, or if FF will take that into consideration. I know discarding temps is frowned upon in general. I'm hoping/predicting O was yesterday, but waiting to see how my temps are for the next few days. I also woke up super hot on Tuesday night and threw off all my blankets, so that temp might be screwy too.
GTKY: My first name was last popular in the 30's/40's, so it's kind of an old lady name now, and sounds like a nickname. I'm not a fan of it. My last name is a word that I would use to describe myself anyway, so I love it. I ended up hyphenating my last name because mine was so attached to my identity, but honestly I wish I'd just kept my own. Both of our last names are one syllable and his starts with the last letter of mine, so they do flow together well. Due to issue I have with my first name, it is important to me that our child's name is one that has a lot of flexibility in choosing a nickname. We like Kathryn for a girl (it's a family name) because she could be Kathryn or Kat or Katy or Kate or Kitty, depending on who she turns out to be.
CD: 18
WAYDTGKU: getting some
R/R/CS: I've been getting faint lines on my opks, some ewcm, but no O. Asshole body. I didn't ovulate last cycle and I'm really hoping this isn't another anovulatory one. My temps have been in my pre O range but a little funky. Idk. I'm annoyed with the world today.
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
First name is really quite common for my generation, and I'm a little salty about that. It's commonly shortened to a nickname and my mom never allowed that, so I go by the full name. My last name is still my maiden name because I don't want to go through the hassle of changing it, and because I really don't like my hubster's last name. It just doesn't sound good with my first name. That said, our kids will have his last name, and I'd still consider changing mine. But eeh. Hubster doesn't care. I don't care. Hubster's family DOES care but their opinion doesn't matter
Married 10/12/13
TTC #1 since 10/15
Chart!
CD: 3
WAYDTGKU: PNV, CoQ10, Red raspberry Leaf Tea, H on vitamins and extra Zinc and C.
R/R/CS: Temp finally dropped today - hopefully the next two weeks goes by quickly so I can start feeling productive!
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
My name is an old, classic name and not even remotely popular. It hasn't ever been in my entire life time and it's still not now. I like it just fine
CD: 7
WAYDTGKU: normal things plus inositol and Vit d, accupuncture
R/R/CS: HSC is on Friday. The surgery prep sheets says no sex for a week. Re said if I am not bleeding when I ovulate we can can try. One week from surgery will be cd16 (my average ovulation is cd 17-18). So we will be cutting it a bit close.
I have mixed feelings for this cycle. Assuming the pathology from the HSC comes back clear, then this is my last unmedicated cycle. So in that respect... I think I have a lot of hope riding on this cycle.
On on the other hand, I don't ovulate well and DH has some issues as well so I don't think much is gonna happen without meds (without an iui more likely but we are working our way there). So it's not likely anything is going to happen this cycle (even if we can get some good timing after the HSC).
just... Blah
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids
My real name is super southern and old fashioned, my nickname is actually normally a guys name. I like both names and use either when it makes sense (my real name in emails to avoid people calling me Mr... Though it really doesn't bother me at all). My maiden name was hard to spell and pronounce. I don't mind losing it, all of my female cousins still call their husbands "maiden last name" boys even though we all have new names now.
I took my husbands name. It's way easier to spell and pronounce. My only hang up is that is ends in 'es so it is absurdly annoying to make plural. For example, instead of aigning things "The Smiths" I have to sign them "the Smith family" (obv smith is not my last name). It's minor but annoying when trying to personalize things.
funny story... When I make table reservations I use my open table account. I never changed my name there so the hostess always calls DH Mr "maiden name". I think it's hilarious.
@MelissaM090 cheers to FW!!
@MrsDaddario FX for tomorrow! Friday the 13th is only unlucky if you're a Knight Templar
@kfair001 Yey for CH!! Hope you had good timing!
@furbabymom2007 I know going to get help is a hard pill to swallow. I really hope this is "the cycle" for you, and you can avoid all of it. If not, you're on the right path, just like many of us are. And you have all of us to support you!!
@QueenSunscreen I hope your body stops being a TW, and gets it's act together!! Hope your day gets better lady.
@mrsstuessy Holy crap! I am so happy for you!! Here's to a less cranky DH!
4/4
CD:
4
WAYDTGKU:
OPK, CM, SHOW, PNV, RLT, yoga
R/R/CS:
Still exhausted from this weekend & work stuff. Took a late day today.
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
First name is usually a top 50 girls name of the past 20 years, but not so common as to be annoying. I like it, but we found out that one of my great-aunts had a different spelling of it that my parents would have used had they known (she went by a nickname). I would have preferred that spelling because it does lend itself to nicknames better. My surname is super rare in the US (very slavic) and my partner's is rare outside of Cajunland. I kept my surname legally but socially we share his. We're probably going to give our kid(s) French/Cajun names because of how distinctly Cajun their last name will be. They'll probably have my surname as a second middle name.
Me: 28 & Partner: 32 | Married 2014
BFP 7/29 EDD 4/11
CD: 42
WAYDTGKU: all of it
R/R/CS: Still just waiting for stuff to happen or CD1 to start. My expectations are low.
GTKY: My first name is SUPER uncommon in the US but common in Europe, so much so that people of so many European nationalities claim it as their nationality. I like it. It gets butchered a lot and it's definitely a conversation starter, like almost every day, and sometimes that gets exhausting. But I have a really hard time lying about my name at restaurants or coffee shops haha.
I changed my LN when I got married and my H's LN is a strong name in Europe so my FN/LN totally fits. As far as naming kids, haha yes we've talked about how much we like common long-time-popular names.
*siggy warning*
mmc . mar 2016
dx PCOS (non-IR) / subclinical hypothyroidism . summer 2016
tx metformin, levothyroxine, LP progesterone, femara + trigger + ti . fall/winter 2016
BFP . jan 2017
DD . oct 2017
ntnp #2 . summer 2018
mmc x2 . sep 2018 & may 2019
RE workup, dx MTHFR mutation, ultimately unexplained . summer 2019
surprise BFP . aug 2019
DS . may 2020
dx Hashimoto's 2023
ttc #3 . feb 2023
mmc . apr 2023
mmc x3 . mar/jul/aug 2024
dx elevated nk cells
tx ovasitol, levothyroxine, baby aspirin, LP progesterone, lovenox, prednisone, femara + ti . jan 2025
BFP . mar 2025
ME: 28 | DH: 31
DATING SINCE: 09/20/08
MARRIED: 10/26/15
TTC #1 SINCE: OCT/NOV 2015
CD: 11
WAYDTGKU: Clomid 150mg CD 5-9
R/R/CS: I am still over here waiting for O. I hate this waiting to find out if I will. I haven't yet and so I'm so nervous I never will! Also, the Clomid is giving me horrible anxiety. It's terrible. I can handle hot flashes but the anxiety makes me nervous.
GTKY: My first name is Rebecca. I hated it when I was very young, I only wanted to be called Becky. When I got to high school people called me Rebecca and I just didn't correct them. I always referred to myself as Becky. Some people caught on. Others still call me Rebecca. I didn't know many other Rebecca's or Beckys until 6th grade, then I had at least one other in my class each year until high school when there were 3 in my class.
My maiden name is not common unless you're from my dad's small hometown. The problem with it is that there's a "TH" that is pronounced "T" in it, so I spent most of my time correcting people. I took my husband's name because I'm sentimental that way, and he is the only son his father has. So we're carrying on the name. I don't often have to correct people on it, except the times when people pronounce the end of it as an instead of on.
I have had my children's names picked out several times over the course of my life. I made the mistake of telling my husband's cousins and they stole them. So now I have new names picked out and I'm keeping them secret.
Clomid 50;100;150;200: No O
TSH 3.75 Put on 50mg levothyroxine
1500 MG Metformin
7.5 MG Letrozole: No Follicles
9 MG Letrozole: 21mm Follicle no pregnancy
4 cycles at 9 MG Letrozole, No pregnancy
Month/Cycle: 3/3
CD: 14
WAYDTGKU: Everything but HIO... but that doesn't matter right?
R/R/CS: FW is supposed to start today. No signs yet of any fertile CM, so maybe that's good because I won't see DH until Friday night. Hopefully we both won't be too tired to do anything. I'm seriously hoping O holds off a few days so I can have decent timing.
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
My first name is very common. I had too many to count in my school, and almost all of them had different spellings. My mom was adamant about my spelling. They spelled it the more common way on my birth certificate and she had to do an amendment to my birth certificate - so mine is two pages. I changed my name to DH's last name when we got married, but I loved my maiden name. Neither are common. H's first name is very common, like mine. I've wanted traditional yet uncommon names because of our names but that is a hard combination to come by. DS#1 was literally THE only name we could agree on and thankfully hasn't become THAT popular. DS#2 was a spin off of a newly popular name we both liked. We just dropped the last syllable (still a real name, just not as common).
Married 07.21.07
DS#1 01.23.09
DS#2 08.01.11
TTC#3 08.31.15
Laparoscopy/Hysteroscopy/HSG 05.16.17
Hysteroscopy 10.04.17 10.05.17
Laparoscopy/Hysteroscopy/HSG 01.10.19
Left tube removed
dx: Endometriosis, Adenomyosis
BC: February-October 2019
TTA: November-December 2019
NTNP: January 2020!
DH: 30 year old pneumatic electrical engineer
BFP: June 25, 2016 and MC: July 3, 2016
DD2: April 16, 2017
BFP: November 30, 2018 EDD: August 14, 2019
CD: 16 (not temping, so not sure how long I should stay on this board...but I have been charting CM and it's all over the place so I am thinking my body is going through an adjustment after BCP. How long do you non-tempers tend to hang out in this board?)
WAYDTGKU: Sex, PNVs, wishful thinking
R/R/CS: I struggle with depression and I swear I got through a weird case of SAD in the springtime. I hate it.
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
My first name is not common at all. I have never known someone with my name. My last name though is super common. I did not change my last name when I got married though, because it just felt weird to me to have to go by a different name. But I agreed to give our kids my husband's last name.
Having an uncommon name definitely influenced me to want less common names for our kids. I was glad to never have to be "Ashley J" or whatever in class. It is tough though because my husband likes super common names so trying to choose something we both like can be a challenge!
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BusinessWife I had been confused about dry days as well. I consider dry to be, after I wipe there is really nothing at all, no slipperiness. Also if you touch it with your fingers during dry times, it might evaporate rather quickly when you rub your fingers together. Fertile times when it is watery, when you wipe the tissue kind of slides. Also for fertile CM during the day you might feel gushy and wet throughout the day, while during dry times you might not feel anything. I hope this helps some. I feel like when I read about CM it is so black and white, but when you are in the bathroom it is like WFT is this? Just make up your mind and be in a category CM!!!
mrsstuessy Kuddos to your hubby!! I remember the pride and relief I felt for my hubs when he finished his PhD thesis. I think after he slept for like two days straight.
PepperAT You are amazing for keeping some mystery in BDing. I now just send my DH a text with the baby emoji and he knows its time.
Month/Cycle: 9
CD: 8
WAYDTGKU: Peeing on all the things, taking all the vitamins
R/R/CS: Nothing new, just waiting for O to get closer to start BDing. Excited for our trip to Vancouver this weekend. We both need some relaxation and time away. DH has S analysis and I am nervous about that. I am impatient so I hate having to wait to results.
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
My first name is very common. Very classic late 80s name. I'm fine with it, it is something to call me. I just can't stand that there is 99 different ways that people spell it, so even though it is the easiest name in the world to spell, people still misspell it all the time. My maiden last name was also not very original, I was glad to take on my DH's uncommon Italian last name. I think I will want a name for my children that is easy to spell and pronounce. Other than that, I am pretty open.
Me: 29 : Him: 30
Married Since: May 2013
CD: 8
WAYDTGKU: PNV, started temping again this AM, will start OPKs in a few days, starting green tea again tonight.
R/R/CS: It was nice to take a break from temping! Now I'm starting again since FW is coming up. I made an appointment with the OBGYN but it isn't until August 1st
GTKY: How common is your first name? Do you like it? What about your last name? If you're married, did you change your last name? Do you think the way you feel about your name will impact (or already has impacted) how you name your kids?
My first name is very common, I wanted to change my name when I was younger, ha but that never happened. I'm fine with my name now. My last name is uncommon and gets misspelled or mispronounced a lot. I'm not married yet, but I will change my last name when I do. I have some names in mind for future kids, but SO and I won't discuss names until I get KU.