[CLOSED] ex-SMEP ladies waiting for lightening to strike.

[ProfWife]

Yeah. I thought about getting OPKs this month, but with the EWCM starting this morning, I figured we could just wing it. We bought the fern microscope a few months ago. It's accurate for the first half of my cycle, ambiguous for the second half. So, I use it to verify that O happened in addition to the temps.

It looks like we'll be within a few days of each other this cycle again! Here's praying this is our month! I've had many friends who didn't get pregnant until they had a referral to a specialist in hand. Hopefully that referral will also be your magic ticket ;-)

 

[LillyTame]

Now you are the 2nd person today that says she uses one lol when I was just saying I didn't know anyone that did lol

You know I was thinking the same thing...I think I will feel a little like an ass for pushing for the referral when it's been less than a year and then I turn out to be pregnant before I even go! But other than that little embarrassment I wont be complaining!

We are very close this cycle! Because my cycles keep getting longer and longer I seem to wrap around and be cycle buddies with everyone at least once One of my concerns and why I wanted the referral...OV @ CD 27! Most people are about to start AF already.

 

[ProfWife]

Any major stressors during the last 27 days (aside from TTC)?

 

[LillyTame]

Nope...last month it was CD 27 too....I had finals and my new coworker had not started so it was understandable. This cycle...way more relaxed...even about TTC itself...the last 2 cycles I went through a few moments of wanting to give up or go NTNP. This cycle I just embraced TTC because it IS something I really want...well not TTC but a child lol

 

[ProfWife]

It's possible it just took a little bit for those stress hormones to get out of your system. It took me months when my big stress was going on. February-August of 2012 were almost all exceptionally long cycles (longest was 46 days). Starting in the fall, they slowly started to come around. If this month goes like last, I'll be back to the 28/29 day norm I was when I first went off birth control (I was on the NuvaRing for almost 2 years after the normal pill wasn't working properly anymore).

 

[LillyTame]

I'll keep that in mind, hope you are right and it isn't something more.

 

[Wytrease]

How are you ladies doing? I hope to see some BFP's soon. I'm in vacation mode completely relaxed so hopefully this is my month. Good Luck ladies

 

[LillyTame]

My temp didn't rise like I wanted it to, BUT I'm counting this as dpo1 until proven otherwise

I had OV pain yesterday and feel completely fine today. Got my pos OPK the day before and neg yesterday.

Any progress today ProfWife?

Enjoy your vacation Wytrease! I get a mini-staycation lol Today is my friday then I have a 4 day weekend

 

[ProfWife]

Just EWCM and a fairly normal temp. His brother won't be here until tomorrow evening...so we will have a bit more privacy for tonight.

 

[LillyTame]

Hi ProfWife! :wave: I see you got your crosshairs, I got mine too! According to FF we are both 3dpo! But I actually think I am 4dpo

 

[ProfWife]

Lilly...I am fairly sure that I'm only 2, but I'm going on testing by the 3 dpo.

We can wait it out together!

 

[LillyTame]

I've always been an early tester, this will be the 1st cycle that I'm even trying to wait till AF is late lol

 

[Akayj]

Hey ladies thought I would pop in and see how everyone is?

 

[LillyTame]

Hi Akayj! How are you?!

We are still holding on...working hard for our BFP's

 

[ProfWife]

Hey akayj! Like Lilly said...we're still plugging along.

Just spent the afternoon surrounded by tons of children and relatives of hubs who all kept saying how we need to start filling out our branch of the family tree...and tons of people during photos referring to our half of the shot as the infertile side. Made me want to scream at some points that I'm not sure how much they want to know but I can tell them EXACTLY how much and how long we've been trying if it will make them stay out of our business.

They don't know about our struggles...so I can't blame them for saying insensitive things. I just smiled and basically walked away. Hurt though...

 

[LillyTame]

Wooooow It's hard to imagine people would say such hurtful things, but you are right...they don't know how much it hurts and what you are going through

If there is one thing I've learned from TTC, it's that if I'm lucky enough to have children I want to teach them to be careful of what they say because they don't know what goes on behind closed doors.

 

[LillyTame]

Great chart, ProfWife! I may or may not be slightly jealous Any symptoms so far?

 

[ProfWife]

Not really. BBs aren't even hurting yet. FF and Ovufriend actually wanted to move my date back to CD17 instead of CD13. I found the offending temp on FF, but Ovufriend won't move it. So, I could only be 4 dpo rather than 8dpo. Sort of pissed me off when it moved because we went from having the 3 days pre-ov, ov, AND 2 days post-ov covered to ONLY having the 3 days pre-ov. When FF gives me crosshairs, we usually take a break. Thanks to that coming up and then being moved, we could have missed a chance. (I almost want to write an angry letter to FF over it.)

Other than having a few twinges here and there, nothing really.

Pray for me. Meeting with one of my mentors and a friend for lunch. She's 33 weeks pregnant, and I'm sure she will be the main focus of conversation with all her aches, pains, preparation, etc. I am happy for her, but pretty ticked as well that she knows what I'm going through, yet it doesn't seem to click that I might not want to rub her belly and all every time I see her.

 

[LillyTame]

Wow, how frustrating AND confusing!

Hope you actually have a nice lunch and the pregnancy talk is kept to a minimal. You need a mental list of alternative subjects....so every time baby talk comes up you can change the subject! Maybe she'll get the picture lol

 

[Wytrease]

Hey ladies how are you doing I am back from vacation & lets just say I worked my Husband overtime to try and get this BFP. Hope all is well with you all.