We are all here for the loss of our children. Some of us are begining again, and some of us are trying, some of us are just trying to cope. We support eachother through every moment of life now, maybe with a little help from Sandwaby ( stands for Sad and wanting a baby) or the rest of us in SANDHABY ( sick and having a baby) . And now we even have a STANDHABY ( second trimester and having a baby) . All os us have come a long way !!! We have become more then support....we have become friends. So either way, come on in and join us...everyone is welcome!!!! ↓
Ladies, today is a cd27 and 10dpo with a BFN. I know that it is 4 days before AF, but my Allen(DH) bought a bunch of dollar store hpt. So I thought I could afford to test today. Tomorrow is my RE appt so I think we’ll do a blood test along with my other blood tests. I can’t wait to see what this cycle holds. Thank you for all the baby dust and good wishes. Since my step kids are in town this month, they even know my cycle. They know Erin has 2 weeks of fun(ride rollercoasters with them and such) and 2 weeks of no fun for me(I just have to watch as they do all the no-no pregnancy things). Jade is 14 and Demetri is 10. They are great kids and yesterday we saw our friend’s baby and they just loved her! So I think that they are actually getting ready for a brother or a sister. At the beginning of the pregnancy journey, 15 months ago, they were not so excited that their STEP-MOTHER was trying have a baby that would replace them. Now they understand they are special and can never be replaced and their daddy will still love them. Sorry I haven’t caught up with all of you lately. So busy!!!! But I love you all. I hope this is the thread for my BFP!!! ↑
MISSP,You are so BRAVE!!! I know that this must be so hard for you and still you are so positive! I’m glad that Tyler is still moving and jumping around. Any word on you GTT? What level is your fluid now? Have the cramps subsided? I have a lot of questions for you today! Did they induce your sil yet? My mom told me that I was 4 weeks overdue!!! How horrible for her! I told her that the dr wouldn’t let that happen anymore. I wish the best to your sil and yourself. I’m glad that your DH is adjusting well. Tell Tyler to stay healthy in there for a few more weeks. You are doing everything you can. Please update us when you know anything. Thanks for asking about me. BRYANDI, how is the basement work going?? I bet you are so excited that you will have a new bedroom!! So when do you have a sono to tell the sex of your baby?? How is the cramping coming? Maybe you are dehydrated!! Sometimes women feel a little cramping when they are dehydrated. Oh yeah, next post you said that. Hehe, we were thinking along the same lines! Sorry to hear about your week long training session! That does seem like forever when you are away from your kids. WOW, Tabby is going to be 3!! That is so cool! How are the kids taking the pregnancy? Do they know that “mommy has a baby in her tummy”? SHELLY, faithful shelly, thanks for keeping us together even though we get busy. I get so busy and wish I could update you all and respond to your post quicker. That is crazy about Carson’s flip?? Did DH get to see? Carson is trying to break out! Sorry to hear about the crazy weather. We finally got some rain today and I don’t think that we have had any since April and we are already on water restrictions. And you have a DD that is turning 3 too!! How exciting! You all have kids around the same age! What is DD name? SHAB, how is the pressure coming? Are feeling a little better?? I least you are not having any contractions. How fun!! Setting up the baby area is so exciting!!! It means Shireen is almost here! BTW, how is that lump doing? Is it still there? Any changes with the size, texture, pain? SARAH, congrats on the girl!!! Any names picked out? How many weeks does that make you? KATH, nice to meet you! I’m sorry to meet under these circumstances but I’m glad that you are apart of our little group! My name is Erin and we have been ttc for 15 months (starting on the 16th tomorrow). We lost our first little one in Jan with an early m/c. Now we are ttc our first child and I am on my second cycle of clomid 100mg. The waiting for AF is the worst! I had my m/c naturally and I had my AF about 26 days after I starting bleeding. Which is kind of strange for me since I don’t usually have a period unless it is induced by provera. I wish the best for you in this next cycle of ttc! Are you going to get a second opinion about your 2 m/c being “just bad luck”. Have they done any testing to see why you m/c? I just kept taking hpt after my m/c to see if the BHCG had dropped or if it was still in my blood stream. I don’t know if I really trust opt in relation to testing for hcg. I know that LH and HCG are basically the same molecule with hcg just having an extra “part” that a hpt test for. I just haven’t had the best results with them. LISA, how did your MRI go?? Any news from you? JUDI, did AF start? You know that we are all rooting for this to be the month for you! And no, cycle buddy, I didn’t leave you behind!! I’m still ttc just like you! If this isn’t our cycle then back to provera and clomid and maybe an IUI> But I haven’t given up yet. Please let me know how you are doing!! JILL, anything new with you? Haven’t heard from you in a while and wanted to make sure that you are doing well!! LEXXY, you still with us?? If I forgot anyone…sorry. Well I’ll let you know anything with me. The 2WW is so long and dry and boring that sometimes there is nothing to report. My nipples are still sore and have still been really tired(I also have 2 step kids at home and work full time). No nausea or anything else. BABY DUST TO JUDI, LISA, KATH, AND I!!! ↑
ladies, you are moving too fast for me to catch up, haha. i was still reviewing # 24 and you guys are in #26. so i think i am just going to pick up from here so if i end up asking something that was already discussed, please bear with me. i want to be part of the group, but keeping going MIA b/c of work and just life. Shelly was kind enough to give me a breif update on you guys. MISSP - i am sorry to hear about the fluid but you are awesome to be so positive. you keep the faith, and God won't disappoint, God willing. what's the most current status? ERIN - you never know, it's still too early to tell. i am praying for ya! SHELLY and SHAB - you must be huge, haha. i cannot believe that you guys are almost there. our group is totally expanding with the offspring! yaaay! you two better not disappear (this coming from someone who goes MIA every so often, haha, but still, i you best post whenever possible even after the baby!) BRYANDI - how are things going w/you? yaay on tabitha turning 3! SARAH - i saw you are having a girl, yaaay! picked any names? LISA - glad the MRI went well. where are you in your cycle? LEXXY - haven't seen you around, hope you are ok. LILLYMUMMY - sorry about your loss. hopefully you will stay with us through this time while waiting to ttc and pretty soon tell us about your BFP! SHELLY - thanks for updating me and i'll email you soon! who did i miss? and sorry if i am asking info that you already provided. as for me, i finished the provera i think 2 days ago and still no AF. i can't schedule the hysterosalpinogram until i get AF b/c it has to be right after it ends. i think i am going to ask them to do a hysteroscopy instead of the x-ray so that way if they find something, they can clean it out right away. what a pain and aggravation would it be to have to go back after the x-ray if they find something. ERIN, i don't think there's any harm in not telling my dr about the ovulation since the clomid won't kill or harm me (hopefully, God willing!). i had gotten a progesterone test to find out about the ovulation. i am so tired of waiting to ttc!!! and dh seems to be withholding bding w/o contraception until after all the testing even though i just want to start ttc and don't want to wait for the tests anymore! ugggghhhhhh. i just decided to check out another few girls that were also ttc. i hadn't seen that post in ages and found out that 3 of the girls, including one who was on the same cycle as me, are pg! congrats to them, but i want to be pg tooooooo. prayers ladies and baby dust, please! ↑
JUDI, I don't think the clomid will hurt you(personal opinion). You might need that "jump start" to help you ovulate I usually don't get AF til exactly 3 days after the last pill of provera. It has to do with your body kind of withdrawing from the provera and takes a fews to get "withdrawal bleeding". It's very similar to bcp when you start the placebo pills at the end of the pack and start bleeding 3 days after taking the last active pill. So hopefully tomorrow is cd1 for you. I will keep my fingers crossed and let me know about the hysterosalpinogram and how it goes and when you are going to schedule it! Don't worry, I can't keep up either. We know you are there and will update us with anything new with you. I wish you the best of luck and hope this is the month for you!! ↑
Thinking of you TTC girls.... crossing everything for you ladies and this month! You deserve it!!! I'm doing okay and so is Baby Sophi... catch up soon! ↑
JUDI SARAH, I too am behind the times and struggling to keep up! OUr computer crashed over the weekend and I have just managed to fix it! ERIN< sorry to confuse you guys, I am not using OPKs to test for HCG, I am using them to test for possible ovulation, but the fact I may still have elevated HCG means I mightn't ovulate for awhile. I'm sorry to hear you lost your little one with a miscarraige in January, but I am crossing fingers and toes that you are soon to have a BFP that sticks for nine months. 10 days past ovulation is perhaps a little early, you may still get a BFP but if not this month then next month. You sound like a lovely understanding step mum. (I'm Australian, I just can't write "mom"!!) You are thinking about the effect on your step kids and involving them, which is so lovely. My best friend was on three cycles of Clomid after trying for about two years (after taking metformin as well) and she is now the mother of twins. (Got preg on third cycle). MISS P where in England are you? I am married to an Englishman and we live in Australia, but I have spent time there and I love the whole country. I am assuming you are in UK because you wrote "mam" about your mother. Can I take the assumption one step further and ask are you in the North? You pregnant ladies are in countdown mode, I'm exctied for you. I hope you are doing lots of cooking and freezing meals so you can have some nutritious things when the little ones come! It's different when you already have children - I was a cookign and freezing fool when I was close to delivery and it will be interesting to see when/if I get pregnant again, how I will manage to do that with Lily "helping". I'm also wondering how I will go breastfeeding, how can I sit down for that amount of time when I have to look after Lily as well? I guess even if I were bottlefeeding, I would be sitting down to feed, but that will be interesting. (I am not a "lactivist" by any means and never push my opinions on others about this, but I feel strongly about breastfeeding my babies, I had a lot of issues with supply but managed to feed Lily for 9+ months.) Anyway, hope everyone is having a lovely day. ↑
I forgot to answer that yes, I am seeking a second opinion, and am feelign like a pincushion from al the blood that has been taken for tests. Yesterday I had some blood tests that I needed to fast for and my poor arms today - I look like a junkie. I don't think they will come up with anything but am having the tests now so I can rest easy I have done everything in my power so if I miscarry again I don't feel it might be because I didn't bother to have simple tests. I am very scared about being pregnant again, I hope I can get over it soon. Being told "no heartbeat" during an ultrasound twice is really terrifying, I used to cry with relief and fear everytime I had one with Lily, and that was after only one miscarriage. We'll see how I go if I conceive again. I am very envious of people who have never miscarried, they have an innocence and a pure joy about pregnancies and ultrasounds that I can never have again. On the plus side, I guess I never took anyhting for granted and was thrilled to get up in the night and all of the other hard things about having a baby, because I always thought "however bad this is, it isn't as bad as miscarrying"! ↑
Hello ladies....the bachelorette is on tonight YEY !! I have been like crap today. I have had bad pooh and just exhausted, also nauseated today...not good I know it is just a bug and could be worse..but I hate being sick !!! BRYANDI....DD's bday is the 21st and she will be 2. She is getting a big girl bed for her bday. Erin...Sorry for the bfn, but it is still early. I can not wait to hear what the doc says tomarrow !! JUDI....I hope your af shows up tomarrow also...and then you can get those tests done and get to ttc !!! SHANAT....glad you are ok. LILLYMOMMY.....MIssp is from the uk...and just recently moved back there from the Dominican Republic. Where she lived for about 2 years. She finally is home !!! ALso...we all have that fear of hearing those words again !! Even though I am 8 1/2 weeks away.....I still have a huge fear of something happening to Carson, and that I could go to the doc appt and not find a HB. Is is terrifying !! ANd those of us that have been through this...we will never have a normal pg again...it took the innocense out of it !!! And those that havent been through it..some of them try and compare...but they just can not ever understand !!! ANyways...as for learning to balance both children....you just learn. The same way you learned to take care of Lilly !!! SO dont worry..it will come easily !! OK ladie.s..I have to go lay down as I do not feel well !! ↑
Erin, that is great that your step children are involved
with knowing about your ttc and add to the family. I am sure that helps them
feel like they are a part of what is going on and helps them be a bit more accepting to
the fact. Let us know what your blood test says tomorrow! Keep on testing this still could be
your cycle. YOu are a nurse and would know better than I, but isn't it true that if you can't pick up a BFP
on a home pg test then you also aren't going to get pg levels in a blood test? I thought I read that somewhere but could
be totally wrong. Tabby I think has an idea about my being pregnant as she has been through it once before. I have told her there
is a baby in my belly and she got to see the baby on the screen when I had my First Scan done to check for abnormalities & Down's Syndrome.
We have pictures up on our fridge and she will point up and say "look mom, there's the baby" every so often. Rory has no idea what is coming
and it is going to hit him hard! Judi, good luck with your tests. Hopefully everything will be taken care of with this test or procedure whichever
you wind up having and then back to the road of ttc! Lisa where are you? how are you? I think you are in the 2ww right now right? How much longer till
you expect AF? Maybe that one oops will be the one that catches the egg! The doc said the MRI won't hurt the baby, so there is no hurt in hoping that you did
catch the egg! Shana glad to hear you and Sophi are doing well! We will be 16 weeks this week! YAY! In another month we will be halfway there! How crazy is that?
Smmom, you didn't go into labor did you? It is a littel strange not to hear from you. Every time you go missing I am going to wonder if you have gone into labor :)
Make sure you check back in with us when you get a chance if you do go into labor! Well as for me nothing new to report. Still the same old same old. One work day down and
only 3 left to go! ↑
smmom there you are. I guess I forgot to refresh my screen. Once again pg brain. We had talked about the new baby and about your dd and Rory turning two and the pacifier and big girl/boy beds.... and I completely forgot about all of that. I was thinking I was doing so good this pregnancy (with Rory, I thought I was losing my mind with how much I forgot or thought I knew but was really wrong about) and now the truth comes out! Sorry you are not feeling so good. I too hate being sick, but I can imagine being so extremely pg and sick at the same time must be awful! Take care and rest up! Kath, you will pick it up quickly once you have your next baby. I remember when I my first was born and I was soo amazed at how much I could do one handed... I thought I did a good job to get everything done and still take care of the new baby. Then when Rory came along I realized how much more efficient I could be (which I had originally thought was impossible). Plus tabby liked to help where she could. Now we will see when the third comes home in December how well I can juggle a 3 year old, 22 mth old, and newborn! LOL more importantly how well dh can juggle the three of them, when I go back to work from maternity leave I will be in the middle of full blown busy season at the office. I am going to try to work it out so I am not required to work 60 hours each week. But it will only be for 2 mths then I will take some vacation to spend time with the family! ↑
KATH, thanks for the kind words. I think that you are doing the right thing by getting a second opinion. It does seem like some people just get pregnant the moment that they want to and that can be so discouraging for us. But we have to remember that there is a reason(what that reason is, I don’t know) and we can help each other because of the losses that we have had. SHELLY, I hope you feel better! I agree with you, the innocence of our pregnancy has been taken away from us. It has taken us so long ttc and I’m afraid that when we get pregnant again, I will just have another m/c. It’s a very scaring thought. BRYANDI, a blood test can pick up Bhcg from as low as 0-5, where as even the most sensitive blood tests can only pick up 20-25. So that is why is blood test can detect pregnancy almost a week before a urine test can. So I’m hoping that if I’m pregnant, they will be able to find that out today. And if not, we can start bigger and better things. I can’t believe that Tabby is so smart that she understands that the u/s pic is of a baby! At almost 3 years old!!! You have some bright kids! Rory will be in for a big surprise! How did Tabby take it when Rory was born?? Judi, did AF show up today?? ↑
As for my, cd 28 and 11 dpo and of course I took another test today and BFN. I least I can ask for the blood test today. So today is 16 months since we have started ttc. I am ready do whatever it takes to get pregnant. I just don’t want to waste my money on injectables and IUI and spend my money for IVF, if they simple won’t work for me. My appt is at 1:30. I’ll let you know what happens! ↑
ERIN - definitely keep us posted. although i don't write all the time, i try to check up on everyone so let us know what the blood test says. i am hoping it's your bfp! God willing! SHANA - keep them fingers and toes crossed. i can use all the help i can get. we all can! BRYANDI - i think the age differences among your kids is great. they can be friends and enjoy each other's company. in my fmaily, my older bro is only 4 years older than me, but my younger 2 bros are 6 and 15 years younger! us older 3 are fine now, but growing up we went through different stages at different times. the youngest bro, who is 10, is still a kid so isn't always involved in what we do and say. i am hoping that i can have kids within a few years of each other, like you! SMMOM - did you see the bachelorette? i actually don't really watch that show but if it's on and nothing else is, i will watch it and that's what happened last night. i was kinda surprised that she picked jessie. and she wasn't all that nice at the "men tell all". who do you think she picked in the end? LILLYMUMMY - "lactivist" ha, i have never heard that before. i would want to breastfeed my babies too, so i hear ya. i also hear ya on all the bloodwork. i have pricked a number of times too and it's aggravating. my mother in law recently suggested that i just go ahead and start ttc regardless of what the drs say b/c they are just making $ off of me. while there is some truth to that, i feel, like you, that i wantt o make sure all the tests are done so i can be content knowing i did everything possible to prevent another mc. God willing, the next baby (hopefully i'll start ttc this month and get pg by the end of july, if the testing goes well) will be a healthy, beautiful, bouncy keeper, God willing! hope all is well ladies! ↑
ERIN - when do you find out the results of the bloodwork? and like you said, i got AF today and like an idiot i'm wearing a thong!!! real smart, i know. ↑
Erin, that is good to know that a blood test
will pick up about a week before a pg test. I don't know where
I got the idea that it was very similiar or the same. I hope that the test
comes back positive for you! When will you find out? Have the dr's actually pinpointed the problem
with ttc for you? Has dh been tested at all? I know you are taking clomid (and sorry if I should know all this, but
remember I am having the worst case of pg brain lately), but that is because you don't have your period regularly right?
I am sorry I feel like I should already know this information, but I am drawing a blank. have the dr's mentioned doing IUI or IVF?
Thanks for the compliment about Tabby. We feel she is very bright as well. Hehehe you opened a can of worms here. I love to brag about dd!
She was able to identify numbers 1 thru 9 and all the letters of the alphabet (in caps only) at the age of 2 and at 2 and a half she could already sing
the alphabet minus the L. She still has a hard time with the L,M,N,O,P combination. She also loves books and this past christmas we got her two new books
and after the first week of reading them she was able to fill in the blanks if you stopped in the middle of a sentence. Ok I am done. I could go on and on
about her! I could go on and on about both my kids. They are my life and I am soo proud of them and love them soo much! I can't wait for this little bean to come along!
Tabby loved Rory when he was born. She was so happy to help out and hold him and wanted to feed him. But she was always more independent and never a clingy baby. Rory is
a big 16 month old baby. He just randomly runs up to me and gives me hugs and kisses and he butters me up and knows it. (Tabby on the other hand butters up her dad). So I know he
will be unhappy about sharing moms hugs and kisses and rocking time with another baby. Especially one that will seem to need to be held all the time when feedings run every 4 hours or so and
take about a half an hour at a time. So I think it will be tougher on him. Judi, I was 6 years older than my brother and hated the age gap. When we were growing up I couldn't stand him. He was so
young and always wanted to be involved in what I was doing and it drove me crazy! Now we get along fine, but I swore my kids were going to be close in age for that reason. I hope that you get an all clear on
the tests and can start ttc this month! That would be awesome. Glad AF showed even if you weren't quite prepared :). That means you are that much closer to getting your tests over with! Smmom are you feeling better today?
I hope that bug that you caught is starting to go away! Take it easy! ↑
Hello ladies....I hope you all are making it ok through this week...only a couple more days until your 3 day weekend !!! ERIN....any news yet on your tests ???? I really want to know what they told you !!! JUDI....yes I watched the bachelorette....I dont like Jesse much either....so I dont know why she picked him over Jeremy. But I have loved Jason from day 1...so she better pick him. I think he is ready for a commitment...he is mature and totally loves her. Jesse is to immature for what she wants and needs. But I think she lusts for him. BRYANDI....its ok about your pg brain...I totally have it also !!! As for me ladies..I still am not feeling great stomach wise....but I will live. Not as yucky today. My other SIL had her baby today...a little girl. She is cute. I am ready to see my little man after everyone else having babies !!! Well..I am really tired...so off to bed !! ↑
So here is the update on the doctor appt. Sorry I couldn’t write sooner but I have been gone all day and just got back. I talked on end with the RE about my past history and told him how tired of waiting I was. He stated that he wanted to do 4 more cycles of clomid and then try an IUI after that. I explained that if I wasn’t pg this cycle, I would like to have the IUI next cycle because I had cryosurgery to my cervix in the past and I was afraid that I may have a hostile cervix for conception. He said that he still wanted to wait 4 MORE CYCLES!!! I ask him to do a bhcg and a progesterone level today and he stated that he would do one on Monday if AF hadn’t arrived. At the very end, he agreed to do a bhcg and a progesterone since he was drawing so many other labs today anyway. I didn’t get the results today and it might take as long as a week to get the results. He is going to test dh’s sperm next week if I have a BFN. So if all is a BFN and no AF by Monday, then we will start provera and clomid 100mg again. I will let you know the results of the bhcg as soon as I get them. I kind of feel that I would like more aggressive therapy because it has already been 16 months and I am so tired of waiting. I told him this but he politely disagreed. My friend went to the same clinic, same situation as mine, and was given an IUI with the first round of clomid and is now pregnant with twins due in Sept. That dr is now gone and my insurance doesn’t cover any other fertility clinics so 4 more months it is. ↑
Erin, I hear you. I wanted to slap my doctor and say "wake up, let's get proactive here". It's all right for them to sit around saying "you need to wait this long before we do anything". As I have mentioned, my best friend was on Clomid and I remember the WAITING...but it all worked for her and it will for you too soon. One tip.....I always use First Response HPT. They are the most consistently reliable and I have had BFPs with them far sooner than other brands....They detected a preg of mine I later had bloodwork done on and they detected 8 HCG. I'm not saying the BFN (if it was another brand) is not reliable, but I will never use any other brand. I'm thinking of you during this waiting time. ↑
ERIN - i wish you could get another dr. this one is bothering me. it's not like this is the first time you are trying, you have been doing this for 16 months, how much longer does he want to wait? btw, have you tried preseed? has anyone else tried it? LILLYMUMMY - i hear ya on the pg tests, but i have to say that i have found the dollar tree tests very reliable. i found out quite early that i was pg using them and i used them freely knowing that they are only a $1. i did get an HPT (i forget which one) from the pharmacy once the dollar tree test said i was pg to confirm w/another brand and later realized that was unnecessary and that the dollar tree test was actually pretty accurate. but ERIN - even if the dollar tree was a BFN, hopefully in a few days it will show BFP and the bloodwork will reflect that. i am praying for you! BRYANDI - i don't mind the 6 year age difference b/w my bro and me anymore, but the one who is 15 years younger is often out of the loop, so it sucks. i hope i can do as you have w/the age difference. w/the difficulty and loss of my first pg, i am hopeful that it won't happen again, God willing and that i can reproduce one after another until i have 7. haha, ok, that's probably a lot... i wouldn't mind 4. btw, tabby sounds very intelligent, God bless. you can brag as much as you want. you are a proud mommy! SMMOM - yeah, jason is really nice and cute w/his son. jeremy was really hurt though and he just seems like such a nice guy. even when all the guys were b*tching at him, he kept his composure and tried to be very nice about it. i think it's diona's loss in letting jeremy go. haha. oh and guess what, my bro say Jin from Lost a couple of days ago in NYC. do you think he really is gone? where is everyone else? SHAB, LISA, CLAUDS, COL, SHANA, MISSP, SARAH, JSTALEY, DESTINY? SMMOM - looks like you are the only one from the initial group, they told me they wouldn't leave but i don't see them! come back ladies and tell us how you are! ↑
Oh, my goodness, I haven't posted in so long you all might think I've had my baby by now! Just kidding. Things at work have been totally nutty. I am leaving tomorrow for some R&R in the mounatins with my family for the holiday weekend and I can hardly wait. We have a cabin in this little town called South Fork and there is a 4th of July "parade" every year that we all ride in. Parade is in quotes because it's actually just a bunch of people in town riding their bikes, motorcycles, ATV, horses, and anything they find in their yard that they could decorate and roll down the street. It's fun and goofy anyhow. I will not be able to join everyone on the long ATV trip though since the bouncing might be bad for baby but I got lots of books and I just can't wait to relax. My poor, sweet husband is staying in the city to study. I tried to convince him to bring his books and come but he is just too stressed and I don't feel like I can pressure him about anything so I just have to let him make his own decisions. At least he is letting me go! I have to drag him mother along with me. She is a nut. My father-in-law is out of town and she gets bored...so bored! So she decieded to tag along with my family. Oh, boy. She is one of those people that needs to be constantly entertained. Drives me crazy! Anyhoo... Shelly, how are you and Dancing Carson? I'm sorry you don't feel great lately. I am still battling nausea and all and I'm 16 weeks. I'm starting to wonder if it will go away? You only have nine more to go, right? Oh, I am so excited for you! Congrats to your sil too. Erin, man I wanna smack your doctor. Men...making you wait 4 MORE CYCLES! Come on...I guess this is dumb but anything great is totally worth waiting for. If I have to keep my toes crossed the rest of 2008 for you I will! I know it won't take that long but I'm prepared to do it, girl. Judith Sarah, congrats on AF but sorry bout the thong. You should have known putting that on would bring her round! It always works like that. I'm sending you babydust! You too, Erin and Lilymummy and all our ttc gals. I hope this summer brings us lots of good new news. Shana, Bryandi, how are you both doing? Bryandi, it sounds like you are busy! Guess that will make time fly before your big appt. I have one next week. Just a hb check and blood draw, I'm sure. I'm anxious to hear baby though. I love hearing the hb and knowing things are going okay. I will have my 20 week in August but we're still firm on not finding out the sex. Well, I was starting to miss you all and wanted to get in a quick "hello" and Happy 4th of July before I leave tomorrow. Have a great, safe holiday ladies and God Bless America! ↑
Ladies! I am back, and rested from a great vacation. No rain, no stress..well, other than the stress of staying with my mother for 8 days...hahaaha. Anyways, I am trying to get caught up on everyone but there has been so much activity I am wayyyy behind. Just an update for you guys - still no AF at 7 weeks past D&C but I have tons of CM right now (I know, TMI), plus like Lisa, DH and I got a little frisky the other night and forgot to use protection. Wasn't really concerned until the CM turned up in abundence!!! Yikes! Didn't really want to TTC until after the first AF. I'm going to the doctor today for my follow up (a little long after the D&C don't ya think?), but I have to go back to the evil doctor so I don't think I will tell her about having unprotected sex recently.
And, since everyone has been talking about weight - I too have about 10 pounds of post D&C flab to shed, plus another 5 pounds of post wedding flab. Gotta get motivated and make an effort to be healthy (I actually don't eat that bad, just I eat out all the time!)
So other than that, you are all on my mind - Judi, Erin and all the other TTC gals - this is our summer!! ↑
LEXXY - your lips to God's ears. glad to see you are back! btw, if you think there is a possibility, however remote, of you being pg, you may want to tell your dr so he doesn't hurt the bean. and yes 7 weeks is a long time to wait after a d&e and a long time for AF, but mine didn't show up until 54 days post d&e and that was w/provera. keep us posted! ↑
JSTALEY - yaaay, you're back! 16 weeks, wow. have fun on your trip and r&r. i could use some of that right now even though i am no pg. hah. good for your dh for staying back to study. he needs to spend as much time w/those books as possible! good luck to him, when's the test? at the end of the month yeah? also, is he taking more than 1 state? ↑
Thanks Judith Sarah...it's good to be back...briefly. He is taking the test on the 29th and 30th of July and he is only taking the Colorado test. Oh, I hope he passes so much. Mostly for his sake so he NEVER has to study like this again. (assuming we never move. We have no plans too but you just never know!) Thank you for you thoughts. I sure miss him. He studies about 12 hours a day right now and comes home (he has to studay on campus cause home is too distracting. Funny since we have no kids and I work all day, but like I said....I have to let him do this his way.) just in time to tuck me into bed. We spend time together on Sunday's. I booked him a surprise massage on the 20th. He's never had one and he mentioned a couples massage the other night which I thought was cute but I had a facial last weekend and part of it was on my back (it sounds odd but it totally rocked!) so I had to lay on my stomach/sore boobies and that kind of sucked and I am just now thinking about starting to limit the time I spend on my back so I am skipping the massage and getting my toes painted while he has his massage. I think he'll be really excited. They asked me if I had a preference for the sex of the massues (whoa...spell that!) and said "no" but that night I had a fit of giggles thinking about how much he would freak out if some dude oiled him all up and rubbed him down. He would die! I had to call back and specify females only. I did have a great giggle over it though. I'm thinking of telling him it's a guy before he goes in just to see the look on his face. That all sounds bad so please don't think he or I have anything against being gay. We don't but I just don't think he's up for a guy massage yet!...or ever. Ah, laughing at his expense now is mean but it's too funny. ↑
Today is cd29 and 12 dpo Still no word on the blood work. The RE said that he doesn't want to waste my money because he believes that the IUI will only do that. I have shown him my charts and since I had a positive OPT with the 100mg clomid, he believes that I ovulated so he wants to see if I will continue to ovulate. He says that because I got pregnant before, the swimmers must have gotten through at least once. I am waiting to see the bhcg and the progesterone before I try to push further.
I haven't gotten anymore opts or even pads/tampons for the starting a new cycle because I want to see if the hcg in pos. I really don't think I am. Thank you ladies for all your support. ↑
JUDI, thank for the prayers. So you must be cd2!! Are you on clomid this cycle?? I know that you have talked about it but I don’t remember what you had decided. JILL, have a great vacation! 16 weeks!! How exciting! We have missed you. Tell your DH, good luck n the BAR! And I can’t wait to find out the sex of your little baby. LEXXY, hopefully this cm is a great sign and you will be ovulating without AF. Try another opt today and let me know. ↑
Smmom - so glad you are feeling better today. Hopefully tomorrow will be even
better.... Congrats on the new baby! LOL your family is getting hit with babies all over
the place. I can imagine it makes you yearn to have Carson with you as well! You are getting
there though! Wow Erin that is a long time! That is tough that you don't have a choice and have to
stick it out the four cycles. Let's all hope that you are pg right now and don't have to worry about
any of that awful waiting. I hope the results come back soon. If they take a week to get back to you, you will probably
find out on your own if you are pg, either with a BFP or AF. Let's hope it is a BFP! Judi, I hope you can have 4 right in a row as well!
That is my goal too! Only one more after this! Jstay, so glad to hear from you again. I was getting a bit worried that we
hadn't heard from your recently. But with my pg brain I figured you had gone on vacation and I forgot. LOL Sorry you are still feeling
icky! I hope it goes away soon. Mine went away almost over night when I turned 13 weeks. Thankfully! Tell dh good luck! I bet he will do
great on his tests studying that much! LOL I thoght I studied hard for my CPA, but I certainly did not study for 12 hours a day! lol now my 4 hours a day
sounds sooo pathetic! I am sorry about dh mom tagging along. I would go crazy if I had to spend a weekend all alone with my MIL. Have a great fourth!
Lexxy, welcome back. So glad you had some R&R. If your doctor suggests anything like provera to get AF to visit, you might want to mention the unprotected sex
just to be safe. HOpefully AF will have a speedy arrival for you so you can begin to ttc again! Jstay....too funny about the massage therapist (I can not spell the other m word for the life of me :)
I think that is a hilarious joke to play on dh. I also have nothing against gays, but men in particular are a bit funny about having other men touch them in any way that is not a handshake or pat on the back!
SO I put in a long week at work and only need to work 3 hours tomorrow to meet my forty for the week! So I am leaving early tomorrow too! WE don't have any big plans for the fourth. Maybe a picnic at the beach and
we bought some sparklers for the kids. Just some good old fashioned family time and we might go find fireworks somewhere, but we aren't too sure if the kids will like them or not. Talk to all you
lovely ladies later! Have a great fourth of July weekend! ↑
Hello ladie.s.....ERIN...I am sorry your doc is making you wait...SOOO frustrating !! I can not believe he wont just get you going knowing you have been waiting so long already !! I agree with Kath....I always use First response pg tsts....give them a try !! JUDI.....no I dont think Jin is gone...they showed him in another city working for someone else delivering a bear to a woman who just had a baby. I think he survived and that he doesnt remember his life before !!! As for jeremy..I liked him also..way betetr then Jesse. But I am routing for Jason. JILL...there you are !!! I am glad all is well for you, and your vacay sounds so relaxing and fun. I am sure you and mil will do fine !! HAHA. I did not lose my m/s until like 16-17 weeks....so maybe soon for you !!! LEXXY...I am glad you are back also !!! I am sorry you have to go back to that nasty doc...If you still dont have af...he needs to do an u.s to make sur eyou dont have any retained tissue !!! ANd also check and see if you are pg !!! Good luck !! ERIN...how frustrating for you. I am just praying that a little bean made its way in there for you this cycle !!! BRYANDI...HEy there....yes all these babies make me want Carson here much faster!!! But I also know that he needs another 8 weeks and 2 days to cook !!! HAHA. I really want him to be a sept 1 baby ! OK ladies...I am tired...as for some reason I woke up at 430am and could not sleep!!! SO I am off to bed !! ↑
