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TTGP Grad Thread --- Week of 10/3
hartmich
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Congrats to any TTGP grads this week, our fingers are crossed!
This thread has mild restrictions - thread is primarily BFP announcements but does allow for direct questions or lengthy/personalized congrats in the comments. Use the "Love It" button to indicate "congrats!", "H&H 9 months!", "I was hoping this was your month!" and other short&sweet notes. Questions as well as longer personal congratulatory notes can be posted in the thread.
Regular board rules apply - this is not the place to ask if you are pregnant based off your symptoms or for second opinions on your tests. We do invite you to contribute in the daily TWW and WTO threads and discussions. This community gives back tenfold what you put into it!
When you see somebody who has possibly violated a guideline of this thread, please quote the section of these guidelines and include a callout to the poster, but keep snark to a minimum as these rules can be subject to opinion. If you have a post called out, please edit your offending post to add a note that you've been made aware of the rule and will keep it in mind in the future (if you are being asked to change wording due to unintentionally offensive phrasing, please remove that part of your post with a note of "EDIT: Removed offensive phrasing). Remember: this thread is not a tribunal. Continued arguments and defenses about a post have no place here and are considered off-topic. If you would like to make an argument for or against a rule, please create or update a META thread to discuss.
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If you are a contributing member with a BFP this week, please share your success with us here!
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CD/DPO of first BFP?
How many months/cycles had you been TTGP?
What were you doing TGKU?
How was your timing?
What symptoms did you have, if any (CS & CD breakdowns welcome)?
How are you going to/did you tell your partner?
Anything else to add?
This thread has mild restrictions - thread is primarily BFP announcements but does allow for direct questions or lengthy/personalized congrats in the comments. Use the "Love It" button to indicate "congrats!", "H&H 9 months!", "I was hoping this was your month!" and other short&sweet notes. Questions as well as longer personal congratulatory notes can be posted in the thread.
Regular board rules apply - this is not the place to ask if you are pregnant based off your symptoms or for second opinions on your tests. We do invite you to contribute in the daily TWW and WTO threads and discussions. This community gives back tenfold what you put into it!
When you see somebody who has possibly violated a guideline of this thread, please quote the section of these guidelines and include a callout to the poster, but keep snark to a minimum as these rules can be subject to opinion. If you have a post called out, please edit your offending post to add a note that you've been made aware of the rule and will keep it in mind in the future (if you are being asked to change wording due to unintentionally offensive phrasing, please remove that part of your post with a note of "EDIT: Removed offensive phrasing). Remember: this thread is not a tribunal. Continued arguments and defenses about a post have no place here and are considered off-topic. If you would like to make an argument for or against a rule, please create or update a META thread to discuss.
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If you are a contributing member with a BFP this week, please share your success with us here!
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CD/DPO of first BFP?
How many months/cycles had you been TTGP?
What were you doing TGKU?
How was your timing?
What symptoms did you have, if any (CS & CD breakdowns welcome)?
How are you going to/did you tell your partner?
Anything else to add?
Re: TTGP Grad Thread --- Week of 10/3
OK, I wasn't planning to do this until I tested again tonight, but my two squinters this morning were verified by my BFFs via cell phone photo (I know, but we love each other so much we're ok seeing things that were peed on), so I will VERY CAUTIOUSLY put my announcement here, because I know people are probably wondering why I haven't hit up the TWW thread yet today...
CD/DPO of first BFP? 29/10
How many months/cycles had you been TTGP? 3/2 active, plus 7 NTNP (the last 2-3 of which I became active on this board, so I've been around longer that "3/2" makes it appear)
What were you doing TGKU? Normal stuff. PNVs, BBT, checking CM, attempting to have sex EOD
How was your timing? -3, -1, +1
What symptoms did you have, if any (CS & CD breakdowns welcome)? Nothing. I had some light cramping at 8dpo. I thought last night when nursing DD that my nipples MIGHT have been a bit more tender than normal? But even that seemed like I was SS more than anything. I didn't have early symptoms with DD either though, so I didn't expect any. I am actually shocked, I really didn't think this was my month. This was the first time in my life that I ever noticed ovulation cramping as well, so maybe my theory that I released a nice big healthy follicle this time was accurate!
How are you going to/did you tell your partner? DH yelled at me when I tested at 11dpo with DD, so I think i'll wait until my period is ACTUALLY late (or I have a darker and far more obvious + line) to tell him. Jury is still out on how. Last time I just said "hey look, I'm pregnant" so it might just be that again. If I'm feeling really motivated, i'll put DD in the "Big Sister" t-shirt that Carters sent me by accident (I didn't order it) a few months ago and let him see her in it after work. But her general mood right now is piss poor due to getting her molars in, so it's probably better if she's not involved.
Anything else to add? You guys, this was for real a shock. Between DH being out of town at a really inopportune time, and FINALLY ovulating at my pre-DD "normal" again when I least expected it, it was a really weird cycle. Especially knowing that it was my last chance to get pregnant and deliver #2 before turning 35 (it looks like EDD would be 2 days before my birthday...so I'm cutting it close BUT IT COUNTS), and my BFF getting pregnant and finding out a week ago after 2+ years of trying, and the fact that i'm still nursing DD in the evenings, it just seems too good to be true. My first pregnancy was easy, but so many of my friends have had losses since then that I'm finding it hard to be completely excited yet. i'll feel a lot better when I get out of the CP Zone and I see the heartbeat (my doctor won't see me until 8 weeks because I'm low risk). I love you guys so much, but please don't be offended that I'd prefer to not come back here unless DH agrees to have a third kid one of these days (highly unlikely).
You all are the greatest, and I hope so hard that all of you make it into the June 2017 BMB. Or July at the very least! I will be lurking. And I will miss you guys. Please don't hesitate to PM or tag me if you have questions. I don't even know what else to say, this is crazy.
How many months/cycles had you been TTGP? 9months, 10 cycles
What were you doing TGKU? Metformin, BDing, Luneva, Folic Acid, decided to chart this cycle.
How was your timing? Horrible....-4,-3
What symptoms did you have, if any (CS & CD breakdowns welcome)? Headache today....and horrible headache with puking last Monday. That "eat or feel like puking sensation". My temp dropped today, so I thought for sure I was out completely.
How are you going to/did you tell your partner? I just took him the tests. He is in denial.
Anything else to add? There are some amazing women here. I just recently started a new job so I haven't been on as much as I had been. I feel bad for coming in after I haven't been in for a couple of weeks. I finally decided to chart this cycle to make sure I was ovulating. Honestly, I am sitting here in shock and I send my love and wish the very best luck to everyone else.
DS - 5/2010
DD - 6-2013
TTC #3 - Cycle #9
Dating: 11/14/2010
Married: 10/18/2014
TTC April 2016
BFP: 5/12/2016 ~ MC: 5/25/2016
How many months/cycles had you been TTGP? 5 months total
What were you doing TGKU? Preseed as lube for the last two cycles, temping, sex EOD from CD 6-14, gave up caffeine, got back into running more regularly
How was your timing? -5, -3, -1, +1
What symptoms did you have, if any (CS & CD breakdowns welcome)? My boobs are the biggest ever and sore. On CD10 I had pink spotting late in the afternoon for a hot second. I also felt like death from the moment I woke up to moment I went to bed that same day. I was certain I was getting AF. There was no doubt in my mind that I was out. I stopped taking my temp at 4DPO so I could sleep better. But yesterday I broke my rule and had the 2nd highest temp I've ever had. Then the BSC really took hold.
How are you going to/did you tell your partner? I had all these plans!! But I was/am overwhelmed. We started playing scrabble slam. You play only four letter words. He didn't want to play at 8am this morning, despite my whining. I said I'd play alone and I laid out the word Baby and looked at him. He asked if I was calling him a baby. I said no and he looked at me in a way that I thought he knew. I nodded and he got up and asked really? and laughed and then swept all the cards off the table and onto the floor. I started hysterical laughing and crying thinking that's a weird reaction. He asked why I was I crying I realized he was so lost. So I said I'm pregnant and his mouth fell open. We both cracked up that he had no idea what was going on. It's a story to remember for sure.
Anything else to add? I cannot even think of the words to express how grateful I am for you ladies. I've learned about everything through you all and wouldn't be in this spot with out you. I will miss this board so, so much. Keep up the high standards and snark because that is why this board is so great. I wish nothing but healthy babies for each of you. There are no ladies more deserving than this group. I will be lurking
"It's time to try defying gravity."
Married 6/11/16
TTC Since 6/2016
12/2016 RE appt; 1/2017 SA & HSG results - all normal
3/2017 Dx Hyperprolactinemia; 5/2017 Prolactin levels normal; 8/2017 Low Ovarian Reserve
8/2017 TTA for personal reasons; 10/2017 NTNP; 12/2017 Re-start TTC
7/2018 Clomid+IUI
11/2018 Letrozole+TI
12/2018 Letrozole+IUI
2/2019 NTNP
5/2019 Stopping all TTC efforts; living Childfree
Dating since: 11/17/2001
Married: 9/26/2009
TTC: June 2016
EDD: 5/14/2018
Me: 36 DH: 41
2017 - egg retrieval #1 - 3 eggs, 0 embryos appropriate for transfer; ER #2 2 eggs, 0 embryos on day 3; ER #3 1 egg 0 embryos
moved to donor egg in summer 2017; 35 eggs retrieved; 19 fertilized; 9 total embryos
Fresh transfer Dec 2017= BFP! baby boy born 8/22/18
May 2019 - surprise natural pregnancy ended in MC
Nov 2019 FET; MC at 9 weeks
May 2020 FET; BFN
July 2020 FET; CP treated with methotrexate
Oct 2020 BFP!
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