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{CLOSED GROUP} Journey to BFP and Beyond!

Yes Fleur, so excited for you :dance: Keep us posted!

I am 4dpo and already itching to test. Haha. But I won't go crazy like last cycle (went through about 20 tests) . I only have one and won't let myself buy more until I miss my period.

Katie that's so wonderful that you did that! I meant to do something for my nurse, maybe still will. She was amazing. I hope you all have a wonderful dinner! :)

So I decided not to take that hospital job. It would just be a lot for me to handle , and I'm not so sure that's the line of work I want to get into anymore. (taking classes is making me rethink everything!) But while in back in school I'd just really like something a little less intense and more enjoyable. So tomorrow I'm starting work at a little frozen yogurt shop! I'm super excited, I haven't worked a customer service job in a few years and I really missed that interaction. Obviously nothing to build a career out of , but hopefully an enjoyable way to pass the time until I get my rainbow. :)
 
Thank you ladies, but don’t get excited yet, it’s still very early ! I tested again this morning and got a faint BFP, but my temps have gone down a little. I was so sure I was out this month that I hadn’t been very careful the past few days : I ate sushi, made my DH spray insecticide everywhere because I saw 2 cockroaches, ate tons of crisps and biscuits as I was feeling sorry for myself!

Jamie, I also hope this will be a normal cycle for you this month, I know I was SO relieved when I finally got a positive OPK.

Natalie, ah yes, I understand what you meant now. The pics must really be magical, little Christmas miracles being born <3

Terrissa, hope the days till you test will fly by. I agree on not testing before AF is due. At least with only 1 test in the house you can&#8217;t be tempted! It sounds like you&#8217;ve thought about the job a lot, I&#8217;m happy you found something which you&#8217;ll enjoy doing. Do you get unlimited frozen yoghurt as a perk??

Hope everyone else is doing well.
 
Ahhhh Fleur my fingers are crossed for you!!! Keep us posted please!

Terrissa - that job sounds fun. I always tell people that out of all the jobs and careers I've had, I was the happiest when I was a little 16-year-old working at a movie theater scooping popcorn. I mean really, a little movie theater making minimum wage over a corporate office making much, much more. Just goes to show you that money definitely does not guarantee happiness (for me at least!).
 
Oh, it is 3 degrees this morning. Buuuuuurrrrrr!!!
 
Haha. Katie where are you again? Here in Kansas City it's pretty cold too! I think that's the story fit most of country though. Earlier this winter we had some random 60 &70° days, so I thought the cold and show had passed us by. Nope!
 
Thanks Katie. I’ve had some pinkish/brown discharge after gym today, although I only walked on the treadmill and did some light weights (arms only). It’s my birthday on Sunday, hope it's not going to be an awful day, ugh.

Good luck with the cold ladies, been reading about that. :cold:
 
Hi all!

Fleur, congrats!!!! Huge exciting news, really hoping and praying for a sticky bean for you!

Glad to hear everyone else is doing well, and hoping for good things for everyone this cycle.

I am ok, been trying to law low. My emotions have been all over the place and I've been trying not to think about TTC. I did talk to my doctor about my LP and she prescribed progesterone which I will start after my next O (probably next Thursday) but for some reason I'm just still not feel very positive.

Question for you all- have any of you ever experienced or read anything about bleeding between periods? I had my period CD 1-5, then it totally stopped, then yesterday (CD9) I started bleeding again. Not a ton, really just a "gush" in the morning and then it stopped. But now I'm spotting again this morning. I called my doc but I'm so confused as to what this could be and the internet has been no help.

Anyway many thanks in advance, I will check back in again later and get on track with everyone's full updates :)
 
Oh, it is 3 degrees this morning. Buuuuuurrrrrr!!!

We must be somewhat close Katie because your weather is always similar to ours here in Maryland, it was 1 degree this morning here!!!!!!&#128563; my daughter had a 2 hr delay just because it was so cold!

Teresa-that sounds like fun, I would totally do something like that if I didn't have my youngest still at home!

So last night I had a lot of discharge which is I guess for most women including me a precursor to ovulation so this morning I used a digi and finally got my smiley! I was so extremely happy, almost as happy as when I got my last bfp!!!! We've been dtd about every other day, we dtd this morning, and we'll probably dtd again tonight and tomorrow now that I know ill finally be ovulating soon!!! I'm praying this is my month-I know its in the Lords hands but I also strongly believe he expects us to do what we can on our end if that makes sense so I've been taking the fermented cod liver oil, fertil aid, extra progesterone, I've been eating full fat dairy and homemade bone broth, all of which is supposed to aid in fertility, I am hopeful I will get my bfp soon!!!

Today my youngest turned 5! It's unbel how fast time gos by! I can't believe she is 5 years old and her big sister just turned 8, it's definitely bittersweet :cry:
 
*Meant to say extra folic acid not progesterone all though I'm taking that too
 
Well we probably are well and truly having a month off. CD11 and we haven't BD once yet because I said me not initiating is the closest I get to not trying, and DH has a cold and a broken toe. O usually happens CD 12-14. My appointment is Monday CD13.
 
Terrissa- im in NC. This was our first shot at cold weather with some precipitation. We got some snow and ice. The ice closed everything down for the whole week! It's crazy. We're supposed to get sleet today which will be interesting, as I have a wedding to go to tonight

Fleur- how are things now? If it means anything, I have always spotted with my pregnancies. It lasts about 2 weeks - if it lasts anything longer than that I usually know something is wrong. Hoping yours is just some residual implantation bleeding!

Jamie- love that you're ovulating!!!! Who would have thought we'd get so excited about that stuff??

Natalie- no worries girl! Take this time to relax and do something fun for yourself. It'll help the time pass. I hope your DHs toe gets better! And keep us posted on your appointment.

As for me...I'm just flat out annoyed and really starting to think DH has a sperm count issue. "I got nothing left" is his response if we try to DTD more than one day in a row. What the heck???????? Getting pregnant is all about increases your chances by having sex as many times as you can during your fertile window. Doing it just once during that time and hoping for the best is not how I want to play my cards, and it's not what worked for us in the past. It's been like that for the past 3 months for us. I know he's not just saying it, because we try but then nothing happens. He's not a smoker or has any crazy habits, except he does have caffeine. Sometimes 1-2 cups of coffee or soda a day. Maybe that's causing issues? But he's been like that for years, even before our first kid so I don't know. He's 33, so I don't suspect an age thing. Ugh. I'm trying not to be frustrated with him but I totally am. In fact as I type this I'm getting more annoyed so I just need to stop. *sigh*
 
Terrissa- im in NC. This was our first shot at cold weather with some precipitation. We got some snow and ice. The ice closed everything down for the whole week! It's crazy. We're supposed to get sleet today which will be interesting, as I have a wedding to go to tonight

Fleur- how are things now? If it means anything, I have always spotted with my pregnancies. It lasts about 2 weeks - if it lasts anything longer than that I usually know something is wrong. Hoping yours is just some residual implantation bleeding!

Jamie- love that you're ovulating!!!! Who would have thought we'd get so excited about that stuff??

Natalie- no worries girl! Take this time to relax and do something fun for yourself. It'll help the time pass. I hope your DHs toe gets better! And keep us posted on your appointment.

As for me...I'm just flat out annoyed and really starting to think DH has a sperm count issue. "I got nothing left" is his response if we try to DTD more than one day in a row. What the heck???????? Getting pregnant is all about increases your chances by having sex as many times as you can during your fertile window. Doing it just once during that time and hoping for the best is not how I want to play my cards, and it's not what worked for us in the past. It's been like that for the past 3 months for us. I know he's not just saying it, because we try but then nothing happens. He's not a smoker or has any crazy habits, except he does have caffeine. Sometimes 1-2 cups of coffee or soda a day. Maybe that's causing issues? But he's been like that for years, even before our first kid so I don't know. He's 33, so I don't suspect an age thing. Ugh. I'm trying not to be frustrated with him but I totally am. In fact as I type this I'm getting more annoyed so I just need to stop. *sigh*
 
And cou- I had a friend who spotted in between periods. It was actually this past November. It really freaked her out. She found out for her, her cycles were just changing. I think it could mean a whole bunch of things. Maybe see how things are for the next month? What did your doc think?
 
Sorry for the double posts! Gotta love responding on an iPhone :)
 
Hi ladies,

Fleur! So happy for you! I know what you mean about not getting your hopes up. Keep us posted. (obv)

KTJ - I'm sorry about your DH.. maybe it's too much pressure? Maybe a little role playing or distraction from baby making may help?

JLW - That's so great about ovulating! Fingers crossed for you.

ASM.. I'm a bit of a wreck. It's cold as balls. I'm in NYC and I've had 7am meetings. I'm so sick of it! I'm trying to hideaway from my friends. I know they are sick of hearing me complain about money, clients, miscarriage.

and today.. I have a burning yeast infection and my curling wand broke. :cry:

Last night I was so sick of this itchy vagina that I used a walgreens monostat brand to clear it up. As I put the applicator in the cheap thing scraped the inside of my vagina to the point where I bled! Now that I have a cut in there it burns like HELL!

I mean.. come on. Can I get some effing good news for once?

On top of that.. I don't think this is my month. I felt good about this month while I was ovulating but I don't think it caught the egg. My body feels no different aside from this yeast infection that's driving me up the wall. I'll test on Tuesday either way.. but I'm braced for bad news.

WHAAA!!!!!!
 
Ok this is the second time this week where I wrote out a good sized post and must have forgotten to actually post it! That's annoying &#55357;&#56864;

Anyways-thanks Katie, it is funny how excited I am over ovulating, I've never had that happen that I know of but I honestly probably have and just didn't know it but it's amazingly depressing when you're ttc! Sorry you and dh are not on the same page, do you think he'd ever be willing to give a sample? One thing we learned is there is so much more to sperm than just the count ;) I know it drives me crazy that my dh likes to take baths (I know the heat is not good for his swimmers) and he insists on continuing to drink 2 cups of coffee a day, but he is otherwise very healthy and also doesn't drink smoke etc.

Zay-yikes sounds like you've had it rough lately! Reading the part where you cut yourself made me shudder! Ouch! I hope next month is better for you

So it's snowing a ton right now we are supposed to get 5-8 inches and then another 3 inches tonight! I'm officially ready for spring!!!
 
Hi Ladies!

Hope you are doing well, Fleur! I was so happy to see your news. I wouldn't worry too much about a little bit of spotting.

Seems like other than that there isn't much to be happy about around here (except O for Jamie-yay!). T- love that you started a job you will enjoy. That will be so much better for you! Let us know how you like it!

AFM- 11dpo today. Starting to have some promising symptoms, but I am trying not to think too much about it because I don't know if it is possible to get so lucky with ttc. If somehow I am pregnant, we have managed to hit the bullseye all three months we have tried. And I just don't know if that is statistically possible. Only because of that, I am not optimistic for this month. Bbs are sore the last few days (not out of the ordinary but hurting more like when I'm pregnant and not AF) and then today I got what I am calling my "pregnancy diarrhea" lol. Every time I have gotten pregnant I have had a ridiculous day of diarrhea around implantation time or shortly after. Today is the worst it has ever been. I literally feel like my rear end INVENTED FIRE. Like it could not have existed until what is happening to me right now caused fire to come into the world for the first time. lol. It is horrible. And I can feel my stomach churning again as I type this. I am terrified to go back in there and resign myself to the flames. I could possibly be burned alive. *groan*

Oh. Had ice here a few days ago and worked from home for several days because I couldn't get to work (40 miles). Today it is 55 and pouring rain... And there is still snow and ice all over the ground. Only in Arkansas. Planted some seeds inside last week and my first tomato plants are popping up now! I am so excited. I built one raised bed last week. I had planned to build the other this weekend, but that is out now with the rain and the fire in my butt (lol). No big deal. Still plenty of time before any of the plants have to go outside. This is my first year with my own garden, so I can't wait to see what I can grow and what I kill. :rofl:

Testing Tuesday morning when AF is expected. I'll update!
 
Katie my hubby is the same, in the nearly 7 years we've been married (and we were both virgins til then) he's only gone 2 days in a row a few times, and just once three days in a row. I attributed our 2+ year journey to TTC our first to that, without actually asking him to get tested. But after that pregnancy I've had no trouble getting pregnant since then - 4 months for dd2, 3 months for bug and two chemicals in three cycles - just staying that way *sigh*

Kylee yay for the garden! I'm planning a balcony herb garden ATM and so can't wait until we can have space for a vegetable garden.

I hope the big d is a pregnancy symptom. Not a very pleasant one :(
 
Lol Kylee you're killing me with the fire inventing!:haha: that would be amazing if you got another bfp so soon! I am the same way with plants! My husband always jokes if I bring home a basil plant that I'm giving the plant a death sentence ;) keep us posted! I hopefully will be able to test around the 7th of March!
 
Hi all!

Taking the time to catch up with everyone now. My husband has his study group from business school over and I swear I have never been so bored listening to them talk about their companies' financial projections and management... groan!

Fleur any updates today? Hope you are feeling good and things are still looking positive!

Terrissa working in a froyo shop would be the death of me! I would be eating it all the time, haha. Although maybe that would cure my sugar addiction. Let me know how that goes for you!! How are you feeling? Any symptoms? I do so hope we get some more BFPs, I would love to share the 9 months with you guys.

Jamie yay for O! That's so great, what a relief. Sounds like you have been timing well too :) You are so good with all the things you do to aid fertility, I should really be trying to be better about that. I can barely manage to remember my prenatals. Happy (belated) birthday to your daughter! Did you do anything fun? It is crazy how fast time goes, I can't imagine my baby growing up and yet it is happening before my eyes. I'm just trying to give her as many kisses as possible so I don't regret missing out on the snuggles later (when she wants nothing to do with me, ha). Also I'm curious, when you were testing your husbands sperm, did they give you any good tips or suggestions? What good things did you learn? I know the TTC is more than just a woman's job and I'd love to give my husband some things to work on. Of course I doubt I can get him to quit his nightly glass of wine and that should be priority number one but.. baby steps.

Natalie you never know, I have spoken to two people in the last week who said they ended up pregnant the one month they were just like, eh forget it, I'm not going to try. So this could be your surprise :) I hope the appointment goes well and the doctor is better this time around.

Kate that is a bummer about your husband! That does seem strange because he is really young, and clearly doesn't have any bad habits that should be affecting things. Might be worth just saying something to him, like "we would really increase our chances if we tried more than every other day, maybe there is something we could do differently" - then suggest going to be early, or trying in the morning, or even in the shower or something! Who knows, maybe it's just a routine thing.

Zay I'm so sorry! That really sounds like a bad day - ugh I am shuddering just thinking of the cut in your vagina, yikes! So uncomfortable. Good luck clearing up the yeast infection, those things are the worst. I have my fingers crossed for you anyway! Also I bet your friends aren't sick of you - I am sure they are very supportive, but I know when I am thinking about something 24/7 (ttc) I think my friends must be sick of hearing about it, but mostly I'm just sick of myself thinking about it! Might be fun if you can get out for a girl's night.

Kylee I definitely hope these are all good signs!! Diarrhea has actually been one of my symptoms too, one of the reasons I was so convinced I was pregnant last cycle, I had it from like 4dpo. And I do think it is totally possible to hit the bullseye like that, I mean it's obviously very common not to but some couples I think are just more fertile together, and also if you are really trying I have to believe that increases the odds. Very impressive with the planting! I would love to make raised beds but we don't really have the space. Maybe in our next house, haha.

AFM my bleeding seems to have stopped - I had the one morning and then yesterday morning some pink when I wiped. My doctor didn't call me back yesterday so I'm hopeful she thinks it's no big deal. I have a ton of CM this cycle, I actually thought I was bleeding again this morning but it was only wet. It feels like a strange cycle so far but I'm trying not to get to down about it. I picked up the progesterone yesterday, my doctor says to start it 72 hours after I get a positive opk. I'll wait until I am sure I ovulated I think. I'm sure it won't be a magic bullet but I think it might at least help me relax during the tww since I won't be temping (since the progesterone will just artificially keep my temp up). Anyway it better do something because it cost $150 for 15 doses!!! And that was after insurance paid for half. Jeez. I should be ovulating Thursday, started opks today. My husband is fighting another cold so I'll have to stay on top of him this week to BD (no pun intended!)

I'm hoping to be more positive this week and stay more connected! It's nice to hear everyone's updates.
 

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