Early 30's TTC #1

[Crumbs]

So far no in sight! Fx she's on a long vacation! But I don't wanna get my hopes up since my temp has fallen today. But tomorrow's D-Day -- if doesn't come by tomorrow, it'll be my longest ever cycle!

By Saturday, if I still have the chance to, I'll test. Fx! I need all the dust I can get!

 

[kcali]

Crumbs! I'm hoping this your cycle!

You're very disciplined in not testing...last time AF was late I tested 5 days in a row....

 

[Crumbs]

Crumbs! I'm hoping this your cycle!

You're very disciplined in not testing...last time AF was late I tested 5 days in a row....

Thanks so much I need all the luck I can get! But I tested at 14 DPO, it was BFN and I got so disappointed I couldn't test again ... well unless Sat comes. Fx to us both

 

[nativetexan]

My fingers are crossed, Crumbs!!

 

[rosababy]

Crumbs, good luck!!! Soooo...when do you think you'll ?!

MrsMax, I am the same way. I used to go into baby stores and get excited. Now, it's just depressing. I really hope we all get to go shopping together for cutsie baby stuff really really soon. Online shopping, of course!

 

[Crumbs]

I'm now 17 DPO But now I'm too chicken to test! I was originally going to test tomorrow but the in-laws will be visiting and I don't know how we'll deal! I think I'll test on Sunday instead, that's if I'm lucky enough to get that chance to by then!

Fx for us all

 

[rosababy]

Good luck, Crumbs! FX for you! I hate bfns, so I understand not wanting to test. Sometimes, I think I'd rather just see the low temp and AF than a stark white test.

 

[nativetexan]

MrsMax, I am the same way. I used to go into baby stores and get excited. Now, it's just depressing. I really hope we all get to go shopping together for cutsie baby stuff really really soon. Online shopping, of course!

I haven't made my way into a baby store yet, but I do find myself looking through the Sunday ads to see what's on sale. I'll see things and think "that's a good price, I should go buy that," but then I realize it's a bit early for that, lol.

 

[mrsmax]

MrsMax, I am the same way. I used to go into baby stores and get excited. Now, it's just depressing. I really hope we all get to go shopping together for cutsie baby stuff really really soon. Online shopping, of course!

I haven't made my way into a baby store yet, but I do find myself looking through the Sunday ads to see what's on sale. I'll see things and think "that's a good price, I should go buy that," but then I realize it's a bit early for that, lol.

Yep - dumb isn't it!! One day I'm sure we wilol be able to shop our hearts out

 

[Aisak]

So the one time i actually want AF, the hag refuses to show up!! i even drank 3 cups of icky parsley tea last night in an attempt to induce it. Normally i wouldn't care except now it pushes my fertile window in April after i'm scheduled to visit my husband.

That combined with yet ANOTHER pregnancy announcement on facebook this morning (the girl's 6 weeks along...what is wrong with people!? What happened to the second trimester rule?) and having the staff room filled with babies at lunch time (employees on mat leave brought their kids in to show them off and another smug pregnant coworker talked loudly about how she's expecting twins*. i sat and stared straight ahead fighting back tears)...i thought my heart was going to explode. Or implode.

*see my journal for the story on that...and that's just the mild, abbreviated story.

Sometimes i wonder if i did some really shitty stuff in a past life.

 

[rosababy]

Aisak, I know how you feel.

 

[Aisak]

i feel like i can't escape it; like there's no "safe" place.

Even when i returned to the classroom and turned on the tv* the channel it was turned to blared "AND AT 7 POUNDS 6 OUNCES BABY SO AND SO BLAH BLAH BLAH". i turned to my assistant and was like ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!

*i teach kids with severe behavior/emotional disabilities. So those that have held it together all week get to watch a movie on Friday afternoons as a reward.

 

[rosababy]

I feel the same way. It's everywhere we look, isn't it? The same thing happened before my dh and I got engaged...there were huge diamond rings everywhere I looked! What we don't know is that there are a lot of women feeling the same way, they just don't talk about it. It'll happen.

 

[kcali]

Hi Aisak - I know how you feel! I just had a good cry the other night (alone) on the couch watching this labor and delivery show on babies...I think we have been trying the same amount of time, but we need to stay positive because maybe we're just waiting for the perfect one!

 

[Crumbs]

The got me! Off to the next cycle. Fx for you ladies about to test

 

[rosababy]

Oh crumbs. I'm so sorry the witch got you.

 

[Dodima1999]

Hi Peoples I'm sorry I haven't been on for the last week or so. Started back at work and am absolutely shattered in the evenings.... although I should get used to it I guess!!
Went back to the doctors on Monday and he said that our chances of conceiving naturally is 2%. He has recommended not doing the final IUI as the chances of this succeeding is 8% while IVF with ICSI is 36%, big difference.
We're hoping to start in May/June. I've to find out info but he said something about going on the pill for 2 weeks, then off for 2 weeks then doing stimulants etc and the proceedure over 2 weeks and then the dreaded 2WW. Fingers crossed it'll all work out for us.

In response to Arianne, no we're not taking supplements. I'm only on folic acid but the doctor told us on Monday to maybe look into taking something called NHP Fertility Plus for Men and Women. I'm hoping to buy it either tomorrow or next week when back in Dublin. When we did IUI I was on Tomoxifen for 5 days and then Gonal F and Orgalutron injections until the trigger shot of Pregnyl. Not sure what drugs the IVF will entail but a friend has said that it can be anything up to 5 injections a day.... I'll be like a pin cushion!!!

Hope you are all keeping well and having better days and brighter futures...

 

[mrsmax]

Crumbs - sorry to hear that. That is sooo unfair to get your hopes up.

It is about time someone had some good news to report on this thread!!

I went to a christening this weekend - 8 hours of hell. Lots of cute babies and coo-ing mums and dads. I felt like if one more person asked us when we planning on babies I was going to burst into tears. We have only told my mum, bro and Dh's sister that we are trying so when people ask we always have to fob them off with "one day", "we're nearly ready" or something like that. Argh!! What do you guys say when/if people ask you when you're thinking about having kids?

Rosababy - I know what you mean about engagement rings. Very shortly after we got engaged, our best man to be proposed to his girlfriend with a massive diamond that he then got set for her in a platinum band with extra diamonds. The band cost more than my whole ring, Grrr.

Off to the drs tomorrow for my 21day blood test and dh's SA result, Have taken a day off work in case the news is bad. Am going to watch the red carpet and Oscars to take my mind of it.

 

[Soleil Breeze]

Morning, ladies; just thought I'd update. AF came. She also went. She lasted two days, was the lightest it has ever been and gave me backache. Never had backache before with AF. Of course, I checked my temp. yesterday b/c I thought, how can AF be this light after hanging out in my uterus for so damn long? Anyway, temp is the usual pre-O 97.5.

And what did I tell myself this month when I didn't get pregnant? Oh, it's just as well. I have to fly out of the country for a conference in the next few weeks; I would have been worried that the rays at the airport would have done something to the growing baby, blah, blah, blah.

I don't think that I will have to come up with a reason for this cycle, because the way I worked it out, I won't even be home this month during O!
Oh, well. It looks like a 2012 baby is going to be out for us pretty soon.

And Rosa when you said:

I hate bfns...Sometimes, I think I'd rather just see the low temp and AF than a stark white test.

I totally agree! That's why I haven't tested in months and months. Once I see the temp., I know. Then I just wait it out. [Not that peacefully, of course].

Crumbs, I'm terribly sorry, honey. If only we had a button that immediately told us "Won't be getting pregnant this cycle" then the 2WW (or longer!) wouldn't seem so bad.

Aisak...how long have you been trying, hon? I know how you feel; or did know. I'm really waaay past the point of other people's pregnancies getting me upset. I am just so used to it. It's like, well, of course. Now, the closer the semester comes to an end, the more I'm thinking, all right, what the hell do I have to do get this thing going? Clomid it is (April/May).

Dodima, best of luck to you, my friend. I hope it all works out and that you don't end up being pricked too much. But if you do, I hope that your bundle of joy is the end-product.

X

 

[Soleil Breeze]

And mrs max - I hope DH's sperm analysis is fine!!