My family needs this thread.. My sister is sure I'm going to get KU because *tw* her boyfriends sister just had a baby, so now it's her turn to have a sister have a baby.
Looking up what your due date would be if you got KU this cycle and the site saying you are in your 1st tri right now. Bitch you have AF! You. Are. Not. Pregnant!
*TW LC*
Me & MH: 32 DS: 6/1/18 (Pre-E; IUGR; seizures; NICU) TTC #2: 12/2019 Sept 2020: HSG possible blocked right tube Nov 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFN Dec 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFP!!! EDD 9/18
Chloandcoco, just because you've had crazy dreams since 3 dpo does NOT mean you are pregnant. You have a lot on your mind and your brain is just trying to process it all.
Speaking of crazy dreams I totally had a dream over the weekend that I banged Justin Timberlake while we saved the world. And last night I had a dream that I was gonna have a 3-way with some dude and chick and decided screw this, we don't need no dudes. DH has taken to calling me a "dream ho" as of late (cause we tell each other everything). LMAO. Totes KU right?
BFP 3/21/2020! OMG We're having TWINS! 4/17/2020 -------------------------------- LO arrived 11/9/2018! We have a baby! -------------------------------- Me: 33 | DH: 41 Married: March 2016 TTC #1/IUD out January 2017 PCOS dx January 2018 Medicated cycle 2.5mg Letrozole CD3-7 February 2018 BFP 3/10/2018! -------------------------------
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If you had ovulated, FF would be able to tell you. You are not the anomaly that breaks FF, no matter what Ovia says.
*lurker*
PSA: To be fair, if you have PCOS its entirely possible to break FF (at least temporarily). I mean, it will probably still catch your ovulation if you have PCOS and ovulate, although it might tell you you've ovulated when you haven't. Once FF said I ovulated and blood work (and more temps eventually) proved FF was wrong (at first - it corrected itself later). Also I routinely break FF's predictor function. So there's that.
ETA - None of that has ever meant that I've been pregnant or even have ovulated though.
ETA - So my affirmation is: No matter what that OPK said, if blood work says you haven't ovulated, you haven't ovulated.
Affirmation: A BFN at 13DPO is pretty final. Not having AF doesn't mean what you want it to mean. Also, progesterone supplementation could have something to do with the lack of AF.
(As Aurora secretly plots to go to FF charts like mine and find some that have a negative on 13DPO with a positive on 14DPO)
Me: 45 OH: 42 Beloved SS: born 12/2011 TTC my bio #1/our #2 since January 2016 **TW** June 2016 had CP **end TW** August 2016 - dx with DOR Somewhere in here received recommendation to do IVF with donor eggs, elected not to; OH dx with Low T May 2017 - began freezing sperm June 2017 - OH began treatment for Low T July 2017 - began doing 1 IUI via a midwife and 1 at home insemination each cycle http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/6259ba July 2018 - exhausted frozen sperm, officially NTNP since OH is probably shooting blanks
Is ovulation spotting really a thing? Or is AF just around the corner? I keep going between both possibilities. I guess only time will tell... I keep trying to tell myself that it could be ovulation spotting as my OPK was + two days ago and my temp increased this morning.... On the other hand, though, I'm having some cramping this morning that feels an awwwwful lot like AF cramps.....
Me: 25 │DH: 27 Married: 05/27/2017 TTC #1 since 08/07/2017
@josteele91 LOL to that gif! Yes apparently it's a thing. If you're not sure about your O date, you could post your chart for a second opinion on the Chart Stalk thread.
Me: 34 | DH: 33 Married Aug. 2013 TTC #1 Sep. 2016 ***TW***
BFP Jan. 15, 2017; MMC Mar. 4, 2017 at 10w6d BFP Jun. 5, 2017; MMC Aug. 2, 2017 at 11w6d BFP Nov. 20, 2017; ended in CP All the tests. Everything normal except treated for ureaplasma and DH potentially has high DNAF. BFP Dec. 25, 2017; EDD Sep. 5, 2018; DD arrived Aug. 26th My chart: https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/63f71d
@josteele91 see my response in TWW. Yes O spotting is a thing, but in my experience, even with all the spotting I have, it stops after ovulation is confirmed.
Tempted to POAS ((even though we're benched this month due to MH's work travel)) just because I'm in the TWW. Hey, immaculate conception is totally possible. .
Ugh, this is me as soon as my fertile window ends! I felt nauseous about 8 dpo with hot flashes and was instantly like OMG maybe I'm pregnant!?!? Nope, got my period this morning. Although, part of me wants to be in denial about it and say it's from a happy little egg that has implanted for a nine month staycation, but get it together girl,try again!
@paleoprincess -- Also me, so convinced I waited too long to TTC, I'm 33. Every time I skip the fruit and eat a cookie I'm like well there goes my chances, so much for that well balanced diet to get knocked up! The struggle is real
Just because your BBT chart on day 3 of temps makes a perfect upside down "V" (which who cares if it it upside down. It is a "V" on your chart), does not mean it is a magical sign you won't need to worry about more P in the V after this cycle.
Helllo everyone. I hope all of you are fine. I am very happy with this forum. For women who are struggling to have children, you have to keep the spirit and positive thinking. I know being a mother is a dream of all women. Being a mother is something extraordinary. Mother makes women more perfect. Can't be denied, if the presence of a child can make life complete. A child can make the family more perfect. But not all women are easily pregnant. Some have to struggle and do various ways to get pregnant and get a child. Money, time and energy are consumed for that. Various existing technologies are tried but the results have not been satisfactory. Believe me oh woman, if someday the time will come, little baby will come to you. A little baby will come by bringing happiness to you. Keep the spirit of ladies. Send a big hug.
BFP 3/21/2020! OMG We're having TWINS! 4/17/2020 -------------------------------- LO arrived 11/9/2018! We have a baby! -------------------------------- Me: 33 | DH: 41 Married: March 2016 TTC #1/IUD out January 2017 PCOS dx January 2018 Medicated cycle 2.5mg Letrozole CD3-7 February 2018 BFP 3/10/2018! -------------------------------
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Helllo everyone. I hope all of you are fine. I am very happy with this forum. For women who are struggling to have children, you have to keep the spirit and positive thinking. I know being a mother is a dream of all women. Being a mother is something extraordinary. Mother makes women more perfect. Can't be denied, if the presence of a child can make life complete. A child can make the family more perfect. But not all women are easily pregnant. Some have to struggle and do various ways to get pregnant and get a child. Money, time and energy are consumed for that. Various existing technologies are tried but the results have not been satisfactory. Believe me oh woman, if someday the time will come, little baby will come to you. A little baby will come by bringing happiness to you. Keep the spirit of ladies. Send a big hug.
Helllo everyone. I hope all of you are fine. I am very happy with this forum. For women who are struggling to have children, you have to keep the spirit and positive thinking. I know being a mother is a dream of all women. Being a mother is something extraordinary. Mother makes women more perfect. Can't be denied, if the presence of a child can make life complete. A child can make the family more perfect. But not all women are easily pregnant. Some have to struggle and do various ways to get pregnant and get a child. Money, time and energy are consumed for that. Various existing technologies are tried but the results have not been satisfactory. Believe me oh woman, if someday the time will come, little baby will come to you. A little baby will come by bringing happiness to you. Keep the spirit of ladies. Send a big hug.
Keep your hugs. Some of us will never conceive and this ideal that having a child somehow makes a woman more whole or more perfect is incredibly hurtful.
Me: 31 Husby: 36 Married May 2014 TTC # 2 Since December 2021 Baby girl W born 2/2021 Our journey so far... (tw loss & infertility)
Diagnosis: Poor Egg Quality Working with an RE since March 2016 2 failed TI cycles 3 failed IUI cycles
IVF Feb - April 2017 23 eggs collected, 20 mature, 14 fertilized with ICSI, 4 day 3 blasts, 3 day 5 blasts, 1 PGS normal Transferred 1 PGS normal embryo 4.12.17 BFP 4.21.17 MMC due to small gestational sac 6.8.17
Our adoption journey: 12.25.18 Agency picked and apps submitted! 5.1.19 Adoption on hold so we can buy a house! 1.1.20 Homestudy process started 3.14.20 First social worker visit 5.25.20 Homestudy Approved & Submitted to Agency
6.1.20 Surprise! Positive pregnancy test! Healthy baby girl born 2/10/2021
*snip* Being a mother is something extraordinary. *snip*
*lurker*
Aside from all of the obvious issues I have with your post, the language nerd in me also has to point out that you are using the word "extraordinary" incorrectly. There is nothing "extraordinary" about being a mother. "Extraordinary" is defined as "very unusual or remarkable," or "exceptional to a very marked extent." According to the CDC, about 88% of women in the United States between the ages of 15 and 44 will have no difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term. I'm not saying that motherhood isn't a powerful and beautiful experience (I assume it is - I'm not a mother). But believe me oh woman, according to Merriam Webster, being a mother is a very "ordinary" kind of powerful and beautiful experience since 88% of women are able to experience it easily.
I just want to point out that I never dreamed of being a mother. Definitely not something I was interested in until about 5 months ago.
But that's ok because I'm totally KTFU because I haven't O'd yet at CD20! I have no idea how my brain came up with that logix...lack of O being a pregnancy symptom? But ok.
When you throw up. For a split second you wonder if you could be pregnant before thinking, "No, you idiot. Your husband has no sperm, you literally just had your period, and you consumed a whole handful of medications on an empty stomach."
Me: 35 DH: 28 TTC since June 2016 Azoospermia diagnosis (zero count) Dec 2016 AZFc chromosome microdeletion discovery March 2017 Unsuccessful TESE for DH in August 2017 October 2017 IVF with donor sperm
29R, 24M, 16F, 2d5, 4d6 (6 embryos total) Only 3 could have PGS. 2/3 normal. 5 embies frozen 12/15/17 FET #1 (1 embryo)--CP 2/7/17 FET #2 (2 embryos)--BFN Chronic endometritis diagnosis May 2018
ERA Sept 2018--borderline receptive--12 more hours of progesterone Abnormal SIS Oct 2018 Repeat hysteroscopy Nov 1. Treated recurring endometritis. 12/4/18 FET #3 (2 embryos)--BFN Our journey has come to an end.
DH is looking at me like I've lost it cause I can't stop laughing!!! I've been in a serious funk all day and totally needed this thread.
Also, because being home recuperating from torn ACL makes me even more BSC - You're tired and your back hurts because you had surgery and you've been suddenly sedentary for a month, not because your copper IUD magically read your mind and failed after 3 years.... Go take some advil and reread the pre-TTC list you and DH agreed on!
You're snacking like a college pot head because you're stressed at work, not because you're KU. You're nauseous because you've been snacking like a college pot head, not because you're KU.
When you feel a tug in your ute area. No, you're not pregnant moose, you're 3dpo. You just got up too fast from petting the damn dog. You are not a speshul snowflayke.
Re: You Aren't Pregnant. Calm Down. (the help thread)
the sad thing is it sounds reasonable to me.
Married: 05/27/2017
TTC #1 since 08/07/2017
DS: 6/1/18 (Pre-E; IUGR; seizures; NICU)
TTC #2: 12/2019
Sept 2020: HSG possible blocked right tube
Nov 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFN
Dec 2020: Letrozole + TI - BFP!!! EDD 9/18
And do...
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LO arrived 11/9/2018! We have a baby!
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Me: 33 | DH: 41
Married: March 2016
TTC #1/IUD out January 2017
PCOS dx January 2018
Medicated cycle 2.5mg Letrozole CD3-7 February 2018
BFP 3/10/2018!
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PSA: To be fair, if you have PCOS its entirely possible to break FF (at least temporarily).
ETA - None of that has ever meant that I've been pregnant or even have ovulated though.
ETA - So my affirmation is: No matter what that OPK said, if blood work says you haven't ovulated, you haven't ovulated.
(As Aurora secretly plots to go to FF charts like mine and find some that have a negative on 13DPO with a positive on 14DPO)
Beloved SS: born 12/2011
TTC my bio #1/our #2 since January 2016
**TW** June 2016 had CP **end TW**
August 2016 - dx with DOR
Somewhere in here received recommendation to do IVF with donor eggs, elected not to; OH dx with Low T
May 2017 - began freezing sperm
June 2017 - OH began treatment for Low T
July 2017 - began doing 1 IUI via a midwife and 1 at home insemination each cycle
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/6259ba
July 2018 - exhausted frozen sperm, officially NTNP since OH is probably shooting blanks
Married: 05/27/2017
TTC #1 since 08/07/2017
Married Aug. 2013
TTC #1 Sep. 2016
***TW***
BFP Jun. 5, 2017; MMC Aug. 2, 2017 at 11w6d
BFP Nov. 20, 2017; ended in CP
All the tests. Everything normal except treated for ureaplasma and DH potentially has high DNAF.
BFP Dec. 25, 2017; EDD Sep. 5, 2018; DD arrived Aug. 26th
My chart: https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/63f71d
Also, you can believe that BFN is a BFN. Looking at it in different lighting and from different angles for five minutes will not change its mind.
DD1: 8/2014
TTC #2: 6/2017
BFP 8/3/2017 | CP 8/4
BFP 10/16/2017 | CP 10/21
BFP 12/18/2017 | CP 12/28
BFP 2/15/2018 | EDD: November 2nd | It's a girl!
DD2: 10/2018
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LO arrived 11/9/2018! We have a baby!
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Me: 33 | DH: 41
Married: March 2016
TTC #1/IUD out January 2017
PCOS dx January 2018
Medicated cycle 2.5mg Letrozole CD3-7 February 2018
BFP 3/10/2018!
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@elka30
Married May 2014
TTC # 2 Since December 2021
Baby girl W born 2/2021
Our journey so far...
(tw loss & infertility)
Working with an RE since March 2016
2 failed TI cycles
3 failed IUI cycles
IVF Feb - April 2017
23 eggs collected, 20 mature, 14 fertilized with ICSI, 4 day 3 blasts, 3 day 5 blasts, 1 PGS normal
Transferred 1 PGS normal embryo 4.12.17
BFP 4.21.17
MMC due to small gestational sac 6.8.17
Our adoption journey:
12.25.18 Agency picked and apps submitted!
5.1.19 Adoption on hold so we can buy a house!
1.1.20 Homestudy process started
3.14.20 First social worker visit
5.25.20 Homestudy Approved & Submitted to Agency
6.1.20 Surprise! Positive pregnancy test!
Healthy baby girl born 2/10/2021
Aside from all of the obvious issues I have with your post, the language nerd in me also has to point out that you are using the word "extraordinary" incorrectly. There is nothing "extraordinary" about being a mother. "Extraordinary" is defined as "very unusual or remarkable," or "exceptional to a very marked extent." According to the CDC, about 88% of women in the United States between the ages of 15 and 44 will have no difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term. I'm not saying that motherhood isn't a powerful and beautiful experience (I assume it is - I'm not a mother). But believe me oh woman, according to Merriam Webster, being a mother is a very "ordinary" kind of powerful and beautiful experience since 88% of women are able to experience it easily.
Directed at myself: YOUR CHART ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE THIS BEFORE AF, YOU MORON.
But that's ok because I'm totally KTFU because I haven't O'd yet at CD20! I have no idea how my brain came up with that logix...lack of O being a pregnancy symptom? But ok.
For Chart Stalking, Click Here!
TTC since June 2016
Azoospermia diagnosis (zero count) Dec 2016
AZFc chromosome microdeletion discovery March 2017
Unsuccessful TESE for DH in August 2017
October 2017 IVF with donor sperm
29R, 24M, 16F, 2d5, 4d6 (6 embryos total)
Only 3 could have PGS. 2/3 normal. 5 embies frozen
12/15/17 FET #1 (1 embryo)--CP
2/7/17 FET #2 (2 embryos)--BFN
Chronic endometritis diagnosis May 2018
ERA Sept 2018--borderline receptive--12 more hours of progesterone
Abnormal SIS Oct 2018
Repeat hysteroscopy Nov 1. Treated recurring endometritis.
12/4/18 FET #3 (2 embryos)--BFN
Our journey has come to an end.
Also, because being home recuperating from torn ACL makes me even more BSC - You're tired and your back hurts because you had surgery and you've been suddenly sedentary for a month, not because your copper IUD magically read your mind and failed after 3 years.... Go take some advil and reread the pre-TTC list you and DH agreed on!
Now back to the shadows with me.... lol
You're snacking like a college pot head because you're stressed at work, not because you're KU.
You're nauseous because you've been snacking like a college pot head, not because you're KU.
It's only 3 DPO ... Get. it. together!
DD: 09/16/14 @ 37 weeks
Baby #2: BFP 09/29 @ 11 DPO | EDD: 06/11/18
Betas: 10/04 - 235 | 10/10 - 2,975 | 10/13 - 8,150 | 10/16 - 21,987