46 BFPS and Counting -TTC Lucky Support Thread - newbies welcome!

Campn at least for me it was the surprise lol. We will be having a CS this go and though I do know it is a common procedure it has always unnerved me. After thinking it through though I am going to be petrified either way the day of so I told DH we could find out but I have final say on the theme lol. Was much happier since he wanted either Star Wars or LOtR

Teeny hopefully she'll not make you wait too much longer or at least as long as you need.

Bee I hope you have fun! Drink one more for all of us!
 
hehe I might pass out if I do one for each of you drum :haha: I'll do one for the collective BNB girls lol :drunk::drunk::drunk::drunk::drunk::drunk::drunk:
 
Bee lol that might be a good idea but it would certainly make for an interesting drinking game :haha:
 
Campn: I kind of wanted to stay team yellow but SO was not having it at all. He wanted to know. And wasn't going to let me have the surprise so I was like fine, whatever.
I don't have a preference for gender anyway, so surprise would have been fun. But since I don't have to worry about gender disappointment so might as well find out.

Bee: Do drink one for all of us! Glad everything is sorted for this cycle, I'll keep my fingers crossed!

Drum: Hahaha LotR or Star Wars, that's amazing. SO wanted a really childish room with bright colours. But I really really hate bright colours so I convinced him a woodland critter theme would be lovely. And that bright colours 'just don't fit with that' :blush:

Gina: sorry about AF hun :flower:
 
I won't be disappointed either way. I kind of want a girl so my dd will have a best friend later in life, but then I want a boy so I have that special bond. Let's face it, girls tend to bond well to their dads...not always, but in our case it's true.

Bee- Yes, drink one for all of us! I miss margaritas. My dh has been indulging in Sangrias and it makes me really jealous. I am very excited for you this cycle and I think the timing will be better.
 
Bee- Yes a drink for each of us! I think they might gently escort you outside though :D I miss Mai tais and Long Island tea!

I know having a preference sometimes offends people, I've seen a few fights over in the pregnancy section or the gender disappointment section. Which is sad cause we come on here to rant and look for support :( you ladies are all super sweet and understanding though so I feel very lucky to be part of this thread still!
 
Bee- Yes a drink for each of us! I think they might gently escort you outside though :D I miss Mai tais and Long Island tea!

I know having a preference sometimes offends people, I've seen a few fights over in the pregnancy section or the gender disappointment section. Which is sad cause we come on here to rant and look for support :( you ladies are all super sweet and understanding though so I feel very lucky to be part of this thread still!

Really? I mean, it is natural for people to get their hopes up right? If you have your heart set on a certain gender, doesn't mean you won't love your kid if it is of the opposite gender right? The nerve of some people :dohh: I think it is only natural to be a little disappointed when that happens.
 
I would love to have a little boy but a little girl would be fine too. At this point I just want ANY healthy baby. And really since I've had my daughter born with a major birth defect I can handle that too. I just want to be pregnant already so I can complete my family.

Edit to add dr appt at 3:15 today... No more spotting since Friday night when it was a pale brownish cm. So fingers crossed my appt goes good and he has some idea of what caused the weird bleeding and where we go from here. I think I may seriously cry if he says give it a few more months and come back and see me
 
Bla I love DH, I really do but he takes the whole fan boy thing quite seriously lol. I still love the critter idea and nature theme in general be sure to take pictures when you're done!

We both would prefer another girl but honestly I do not mind a boy. DH I think will be disappointed at first but the guys in his side of the family have never gotten along so it is more fear of that then anything. As TeX said though as long as lo is healthy we'll both be happy.
 
Amen! Everyday I hear that a friend or someone I know had a baby with birth defects and issues that come up all the time and it's so scary. I'm very very thankful for my healthy mischievous boy although he's always keeping me on my toes!
 
camp - I have seen what you are talking about on the gender threads - IT'S NUTS!!! I am always so tempted to butt in and stick up for people because I get that a lot in my personal life when I say I want all girls. Instantly everyone with a son becomes PERSONALLY offended and I just don't understand it. I don't want your children - boy or girl - this isn't' about you! lol (figurative "you")

the reason I want all girls is because I want all of the same gender. There are 2 girls and 2 boys in my family, and growing up, my dad definitely treated my brothers very different. they had way more freedoms than we did and I've been a feminist since I was 9 and saw Gwen Stefani perform "I'm Just a Girl" so I always actively hated that. I know that I wouldn't then repeat that, but my husband grew up in India where women are openly labeled as second class citizens (whereas here they just deny it :haha:) and he and his sister were treated SO differently. my husband is a feminist too, but I worry that he won't be able to break away completely from that part of his culture and he admits that too. so we both want all of the same gender to avoid treating them differently and therefore we both prefer a girl over a boy, which then translates to 4 girls ! :haha:
 
Campn: :hugs: I'm doing okay thanks. Been very distracted these past few days with Game of Thrones madness. I am a massive nerd and a huge fan of the books and the show. I followed the off season on a blog and have been swept up into the hype. Been reading a lot and writing a lot and watching a lot :haha: and getting way too little sleep! It's been a nice distraction. Feeling positive about this cycle, but this bit is the boring bit!! Ready for my next TWW.

Bee: I'm loving how much better the timing is for your cycle this time around. On Cd11 they will definitely be able to get ready in time to get the IUI in before ovulation! Hoping you're growing two nice juicy eggs in there ready to get fertilised :D I have my appointments booked now too. Got my first scan this Friday (CD8) which they wouldn't let me get out of and then another on CD12.

Peski: I'm so sorry about your chemical :hugs:

Texas: hope your appointment goes well and they can shed light on your weird period.


All your pregnancies are seriously flying by!! I look at your tickets every now and then and just have a moment of "what?! How did they get that far along??"

We will be staying team yellow the next time if we ever get there (unless it's twins, in which case I would have to know!).

I'm joining the short weird period parade too this time around. It was only one day of heavy, one medium and very light since then with spotting today. Weird!! I was on progesterone and my lining looked good at CD12, so I shouldn't really have had a light period. Very strange!

One more day of taking clomid and then I have a scan on Friday to check follicle growth and a follicle scan booked for Tuesday next week. Hoping we have three follicles this time :blush: yep, feeling greedy :haha:
 
Squirrel: Yay another nerd! I also love the books and the series :)
Looking forward to your scan, and i'll have my fingers crossed for three follies!
 
Bee- Exactly! I'm having MY baby not yours so why should my preference be just like yours? there was a lady chewing another lady's head cause she was so happy she's having a girl and saying how glad she is its a girl, then the lady that was so angry "mom of 2 boys pregnant with 3rd" posted in another thread how she doesn't want a 3rd boy and wants a girl instead!

I hope you get your girls Bee, you do look like a girl mom since you're so girly :)

Squirrel- I'm glad you're distracted and busy! I remember I immersed myself into the Hobbit during my ttc, my cycles would drag on and on and weeks would go by and still no ovulation. Grrr!

Fx clomid wins this time!!! You're so so close now!
 
I don't get why people flip out bc someone has a preference. Of course they want a healthy baby, but maybe they imagine their families a certain way. People need to chill and stop being so judgemental. It's not like if we don't get the gender we preferred, we're going to abandon it. Smh!

The same with breastfeeding. I tried to do it with dd but had a lot of complications. I got judged by a friend saying "bottle fed babies aren't as intelligent or healthy". Well it was my only option and we were both happy. Plus, my daughter is a straight A student and reads chapter books so that statement she made is false.

I think we need to be more supportive towards other moms rather than tear them down because everyone is different and doesn't have the same mindset. I definitely find this thread to be a safe place to discuss things bc you all are so wonderful.

Bee- I'm glad you're doing well and I look forward to more updates!
 
Ah Smille that breastfeeding thing is so mean.
Some people can't, which is sad enough for them if they wanted to. Some people don't want to, which is totally fine too because its THEIR body.
In the Netherlands we call people like that Breast-Nazi's. It's mean and uncalled for.

I'm really happy that this thread is so open and supportive to everyone. Makes such a big difference to have such lovely ladies around!
 
I'd love another little girl if we ever managed to conceive again. However, I wouldn't be disappointed with a boy and I just hope he or she is healthy. We were team yellow with Anabella as I had a vision of giving birth and then my husband seeing he/she first and telling me the sex. I ended up with a c section in the end , but I asked the Dr and nurses not to disclose the sex and to show my husband first. It was magical (for me) and just the way I wanted it.
If I got pregnant again, I am veering more towards finding out as the spare room is decorated boy-ish colours (we've only just moved here) and I'd like to know whether to ditch all of the clothes we've kept from Anabella or whether we need to keep them. I was made redundant at 5 months pregnant last time so had months and months to prepare, but this time round I doubt I'd have the same time, so would like to know sooner to get everything sorted and ready. Phew that was a long response!!

Pesk - I am so sorry you had a chemical :hugs:

So many pregnancies reaching that gender / anomoloy scan, exciting times! I felt my own pregnancy went so slow, but watching everyone's tickers it feels like the pregnancies are flying by!

Texas- I hope your appointment went well and you managed to find out the cause of the spotting. I hope your Dr was helpful and not like mine!

Bee - I hope the femara is helping two lovely follies become ready and mature to release those eggs. It won't be long until your next IUI! Time really does fly!

Squirrel - I can't get into GOT, but my husband loves it. I think I will try again at some point, it seems quite complicated! I hope the clomid is working well and getting those follicles nice and mature. I am sending positive thoughts your way for Tuesday :)

kitty - what a long cycle you had! Is that abnormally long for you??

AFM - I am CD 17 today. Starting to get a little bit of fertile cm and my temp has been consistently low the last few days so I think I am gearing up to ovulate. So far it doesn't look like the soy isoflavones have done anything. I was hoping ovulation would be bought forward, but so far , it's not looking that way.
After doing lots of reading, I am convinced my thyroid is either all or partly to blame for my short luteal phase and failure to fall pregnant. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense. I was diagnosed with a borderline underactive thyroid in June last year and was put on a very low dose of thyroxine. Within a few months my periods starting to return to normal after being erratic and irregular for a whole year, although I wasn't ovulating. Then my dose was increased and I have started ovulating, however my levels are still not optimal for TTC. So my dose has been increased slightly again and I am really interested in how the next few months pan out to see of my luteal phase is positively affected. Fingers and toes crossed. Although I am imagine that is all wishful thinking and probably not that simple!
 
I don't get why people flip out bc someone has a preference. Of course they want a healthy baby, but maybe they imagine their families a certain way. People need to chill and stop being so judgemental. It's not like if we don't get the gender we preferred, we're going to abandon it. Smh!

The same with breastfeeding. I tried to do it with dd but had a lot of complications. I got judged by a friend saying "bottle fed babies aren't as intelligent or healthy". Well it was my only option and we were both happy. Plus, my daughter is a straight A student and reads chapter books so that statement she made is false.

I think we need to be more supportive towards other moms rather than tear them down because everyone is different and doesn't have the same mindset. I definitely find this thread to be a safe place to discuss things bc you all are so wonderful.

Bee- I'm glad you're doing well and I look forward to more updates!

How horrible about the breastfeeding comment :( Sometimes people have a very smug attitude to things like that, but I don't understand why. As long as the baby is loved, what does it matter how it's fed?

And I am totally with you on your second point. It shouldn't be mum wars as it isn't a competition! Everyone should just do what is right for them and keep noses out of other peoples business!
 
Smille- That friend is super mean! So many women try to breastfeed and do their best and it doesn't work out. We struggled the first 6 weeks and I almost never made it and comments like "breast is best" really hurt me cause I was trying so hard to breastfeed and I wasn't successful. I did manage to after those 6 HORRID weeks but I couldn't go through that again. Fed is BEST!
 
I'd love to breast feed but unsure I will get on because my mum couldn't, she tried so much with my sister and was scarred from her experience so I was never breast fed.

Yes this is really strangely long, longest cycle in the last 2 years since they regulated from BC (apart from pregnancies) was 40 days, they are usually 35. So 62 is ridiculous!!! Hopefully this one is normal if not shorter haha XD
 

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