Any SMEPers!!!! 43 Testers! 22 BFP!!!!

[Tasha S.]

Brandy: Wow!! So cool! Are those tests amniocentesis tests?? And you have one teenage son, right? No daughters yet (I mean, aside from your twins!)?

Manda: That's wonderful about your pelvis! I had such bad sciatica at the end of my pregnancy, I had to sleep sitting haha! Only a month and a half to go for you!! Do you know the gender, or are you keeping it a surprise?

 

[MandaAnda]

I still have to get up slowly, and I'm so worried it'll get bad again at some point, but I'm trying to enjoy it while it lasts! We're expecting boy number 2! I'll be truly outnumbered!

 

[~Brandy~]

Tasha it was a blood test.

We have a 21 year old daughter and a son who's turning 18

 

[stacergirl]

Hi ladies!

Brandy-congrats on the girls, how fun! And according to my doc, you're in the 2nd tri!!! Although I know some docs say 14 weeks is 2nd tri.

Tasha-wow what a rough delivery experience! I'm so glad Anastasia was worth all of it though! I'm sure she's keeping you busy your enjoying every moment!! Send any good pointers you have this way! Lol how long are you out of work for?

Manda-cobgrats on boy number two, hopefully they won't gang up on you too bad! Did you guys pick a name?

Hope everyone else is well!

Afm-I had my gender scan yesterday, I was so nervous that everything was ok but it was!! I'm happy to announce we are team BLUE!!! Very excited! You know, I wanted a girl but I'm actually excited its a boy even though I kinda knew all along it was a boy. I guess I just had a feeling and it was right!!! It definitely feels more real now! I can start picturing what HEs going to looks like and be like and everything! No better feeling! Everything went so perfect to plan yesterday too! The ultrasound tech was great and we were able to still see the baby without revealing the secret. So then I went and picked out a "daddy's girl" outfit and a "mommys lil man" outfit and had the cashier pack one up without showing me the price etc-she was excited to be doing this for me! She told me to come back and tell her what I think! Lol then went home and we video taped us unwrapping it and it was so much fun! I liked doing it just me and dh and especially having an outfit for baby as well bc it was just that much more exciting!! Then dh and I went to dinner. We mailed gender reveal scratch off cards to some family out of state and gave a few to friends and they loved that as well! So I'm happy! I feel like I can just sit back and relax now!!

 

[~Brandy~]

Congrats stacergirl! How cute team blue

 

[MandaAnda]

Stacergirl, planning on Thomas Daniel. I'm a bit meh about the middle name.

 

[Tasha S.]

May & Sunny, thinking of you girls! How are you both doing? xox

 

[BamBamsMaMa]

May & Sunny, thinking of you girls! How are you both doing? xox

Tasha, thanks for being so sweet as always! I haven't been on here for so long that I didn't even realized they changed the design of the website!

Things are boring on my end. We are still TTC. DH went to see an urologist and had ultrasound/blood work done. His hormones seems to be ok. Ultrasound shows slight left side varicocele. We are going back to the urologist soon to see what our next step should be. However, I did get so speak to another urologist and he said that it's not worth doing varicocele surgery because it might not help with sperm count/morph/motility. He even said that DH's analysis does not look that bad. He said we should just go ahead and try IUI. I will wait for the second opinion and go from there. DH and I have decided to wait until after the new year to start IUI.

I think I am 7 DPO today. On 4 DPO, I had this really uncomfortable dull pain on my left side that lasted almost 2 days. I also found a little spotting on my toilet paper at one point. I am wondering if I miscalculated my O day... or if that's implantation? I guess time will tell. DH and I are so ready to be parents.

How are you doing? Would love to hear what's new with you!

 

[amanda111308]

Hey ladies!! I am cd4 and I have everything I need to effectively follow the SMEP this cycle. For you who made it work out, do you have any tips you can offer?? I want to get pregnant ASAP!! My son will be 2 in May and ai want to have my babes as close in age as possible!!! Thank you!!!

 

[MandaAnda]

Hey ladies!! I am cd4 and I have everything I need to effectively follow the SMEP this cycle. For you who made it work out, do you have any tips you can offer?? I want to get pregnant ASAP!! My son will be 2 in May and ai want to have my babes as close in age as possible!!! Thank you!!!

I just followed it precisely except did odd days starting on CD9, I think, due to hubby's shift work that week. We'd charted as normal the cycle before, dtd as we did when ttc our angel but had a bfn. Found out about SMEP, followed that the next cycle but on odd CDs. Now approaching EDD. Good luck.

 

[Tasha S.]

May! So good to hear from you! Me too I hadn't been on here for a while and was surprised by the style change!
Ahhhh, I'm so sorry that you still don't have clear answers! Darn it! But I'm so happy to hear that the urologist said that your DH's sperm analysis was not that bad, that's always good news! I'm still always hoping for you!! I really hope that you conceive before the New Year, but if you don't, I'm really excited about you doing IUI!! Keep us posted!!
AFM, things are going well! It's amazing how everything changes so quickly, Ana is getting so big! She doesn't look at all like a newborn anymore! It goes too fast! And I'm still trying to find a groove what with balancing her, 1 university class, and housework...I'm finding it tough, but probably because I'm such a perfectionist. I'm back down to my pre-pregnancy weight (although still with a flabbier belly ...I'm going to try to work on that lol!), which is nice in one way, but not good in another way because I know the only reason I'm that small again so quickly is because I'm skipping meals because I find it tough to make meals (I'm working on finding out solutions to this problem...ie. making faster meals or freezing things in advance). DH is working a lot and I'm finding it a big tough being home alone so much, but I'm happy deep down even if the outside can be challenging!

 

[snowflakes120]

Just popping in to say Hi ladies! Hope all is well.

And Congrats to you Manda! Welcome to the world Thomas!

 

[MandaAnda]

Thanks, snowflakes!

Hi, all. I forgot to update in here. I had my rainbow baby on the 2nd November in a very uneventful but absolutely perfect home water birth. It was amazing, and I can't stop thinking back on it (happily, of course). I wish everyone their little rainbows soon and the exact birth you want to welcome them. It's been so healing.

 

[~Brandy~]

Thanks, snowflakes!

Hi, all. I forgot to update in here. I had my rainbow baby on the 2nd November in a very uneventful but absolutely perfect home water birth. It was amazing, and I can't stop thinking back on it (happily, of course). I wish everyone their little rainbows soon and the exact birth you want to welcome them. It's been so healing.

How exciting Congratulations!

 

[stacergirl]

Manda-that is great news! Congratulations!!

Tasha-how's your little one?

May-how are you doing? Any updates?

Brandy-hope you're doing well!

Snowflakes-hope all is well with motherhood!

 

[krystinab]

Hey ladies, stopping by after a Long long time...hope all is well with everyone...just wanted to stop by and get added to the BFP list....just found out last week. There is no way I catch up from last July, but I hope there were a lot of BFP and healthy new babies born!

 

[shellideaks]

Yay, congratulations Krystina, that's brilliant news! x

 

[dove830]

YAY!!!! Massive congrats!!!

 

[snowflakes120]

OMG Kristina!!! HUGE Congrats to you!!! I am so happy!!! Santa brought you the best gift ever!! Happy and Healthy 9 months to you!! You better check in more often too!! I swear by the Acupuncture - I really think it helped me to get my BFP too!!

 

[stacergirl]

Krystina-that is such great news!!!! Congratulations!!!! Wishing you a H&H 9 months!!