Femara Friends!

[karenh]

Hey ladies, as Karen mentioned a lot of you aren't on Femara anymore, but when y'all took it did any of you have pink/blood tinged EWCM on cd 8? AF left on cd 5... So I am kind of confused.. I'm crampy too...

I didn't either.

 

[karenh]

How mean! I can't believe she said she didn't care about filling out your reference. Ours were all honored to be asked. Sorry she isn't being the best friend right now. Who is little man having seperation anxiety from? Is he having a hard time with you going to work?

most were more than accomodating, and even hubs gramma gave a reference when one of the paper ones got lost and we needed another one! Baby cries when any one but mama or dada hold him. Even if we are still standing right there, he will cry and hold out his arms so we take him back. He has started to do it at daycare too, which NEVER happened before! Im hoping its a new phase, but im worried because im not sure if its stress from having these visits, it hasnt gottten better, its gotten worse! by law, the mother has to have her visits until we go back to court...

That is a really good sign! It is normal for them to develop "stranger danger" and go through a phase where they only want mommy. It shows he has bonded well to you and that he is prgressing normally. How are the visits with the mother going?

 

[Blackbarbie04]

HI Ladies wanted to know if I could join. I am currently on my 1st round of Femara. I did 7 rounds of Clomid and ovulated 6 out of those 7 and wanted to try something different as Clomid had really bad side effects on me..

I am on CD 13 and having a lot of cramping in my lower back. I got high fertility bars on my monitor for the past 2 days so hopefully I will get a peak in the morning...

 

[Cridge]

Lola - how old is baby boy? Yes, it's totally normal to go through separation anxiety starting around 1 and lasting until 2ish, give or take. Karen's right, it's a good sign that he's bonding well to you! My nearly 1 year old has it bad right now and won't even go to dh when I'm standing right there. I have to hand off and make a run for the hills to catch a break.

 

[LolaM]

Oooooh ladies...we learned today that BM tried to BREAST FEED during one of the visits...I'm stunned...speechless...I literally have no words

Baby boy is 8.5 months old and he loves his dada. His new adoption worker agrees with us and HER report to the court will be that baby should remain with us. Hopefully judge agrees

 

[karenh]

Oooooh ladies...we learned today that BM tried to BREAST FEED during one of the visits...I'm stunned...speechless...I literally have no words

Baby boy is 8.5 months old and he loves his dada. His new adoption worker agrees with us and HER report to the court will be that baby should remain with us. Hopefully judge agrees

The birth mom tried to breast feed you baby after how many months of not taking care of him? Weird. Yay that the caseworker agrees that your little man should stay with you! Hopefully next month you can start the paperwork to finalize and adopt him!

 

[lindsayms05]

KelliGal - I never had pink ewcm on any of my femara cycles, but I did have it on one of my ovulatory clomid cycles. I only ovulated 2/9 tries on clomid and the month I had pink ewcm was my "strong ovulation" month. I don't remember what cycle day I had it, though. I hope it's a good sign of strong ovulation for you!

PS - I responded much, much better to femara than clomid. Once hitting the 5mg dose, I ovulated every month and got pregnant on month 3 of 5mg.

 

[lanet]

Lindsay are you the Lindsay from the clomid thread with Becky and greenie?
Well I start femara tomorrow! I'm excited, I'll have to read through these posts. I did 5 clomid cycles and ovulated all of them. I did iui with 1 of them. I'm also adding bravelle injections and I hope to have more than 1 follie this time.

 

[LolaM]

It's totally messed up, riiiiight??? SHE is messed up

 

[karenh]

It's totally messed up, riiiiight??? SHE is messed up

Right! Ugh! I can't wait until this is all over Lola. You guys deserve to get on with your lives and little shouldn't be bothered with all this crap any more.

 

[Prayerful]

Hi ladies! Looks like I've missed a bit over the past week or so...

Karen - I'm sorry your sister has been so insensitive. It was very sweet of you to offer to throw a diaper party for her, and I hope she realizes that. Sisters should be the ones you can count on the most to understand and be supportive but it just doesn't go that way a lot of the time. The day I told my sisters that I was pregnant they started going on and on about all the negative, or at least not as pleasant, aspects of having a baby and asked me if I was ready for that. Really?? You think after 2.5 years of TTC I don't know what I am getting into and am fully prepared for ALL that goes along with having a baby?! Argh!

Amjon - Congrats on the boys, and good luck trying for your next LO!

Lola - Wow! I can't believe your "friend" was so uncaring in helping you to get your fostercare license. I'm glad it all worked out despite her though. Do you have a court date yet? It will be so nice for you and baby boy when you can put all those visitations behind you and just move on with your lives.

Good luck with this Femara cycle Lanet! I hope this is it for you!!

AFM - There isn't a whole lot going on right now, but I have my second ultrasound on Thursday and am super excited to hear the baby's heartbeat!

 

[LolaM]

Hi ladies! Looks like I've missed a bit over the past week or so...

Karen - I'm sorry your sister has been so insensitive. It was very sweet of you to offer to throw a diaper party for her, and I hope she realizes that. Sisters should be the ones you can count on the most to understand and be supportive but it just doesn't go that way a lot of the time. The day I told my sisters that I was pregnant they started going on and on about all the negative, or at least not as pleasant, aspects of having a baby and asked me if I was ready for that. Really?? You think after 2.5 years of TTC I don't know what I am getting into and am fully prepared for ALL that goes along with having a baby?! Argh!

Amjon - Congrats on the boys, and good luck trying for your next LO!

Lola - Wow! I can't believe your "friend" was so uncaring in helping you to get your fostercare license. I'm glad it all worked out despite her though. Do you have a court date yet? It will be so nice for you and baby boy when you can put all those visitations behind you and just move on with your lives.

Good luck with this Femara cycle Lanet! I hope this is it for you!!

AFM - There isn't a whole lot going on right now, but I have my second ultrasound on Thursday and am super excited to hear the baby's heartbeat!

We have our first court date nov 20th to see if we need to proceeed with the one on the 22nd...silly, isnt it? why not just wait the 2 days and get it done, goodness me! I will be glad to have the visits come to an end. they are very unsettling for baby and he has developed a very serious case of stranger danger, even when we are in the room and he can see us, and he particularly doesnt like THE MOTHER, screamed bloody murder at a recent meeting that she was so kind to grace everyone with her presence. Im sorry I missed that one!

 

[Prayerful]

Oi! That is crazy to have 2 back to back court dates. Will the final custody decision be made on those dates? I really don't know how all this works...

 

[sugarpi24]

cant wait to hear about your u/s prayerful!

Lola im so sorry you have to go through this! i hope its over with soon for you so you guys can just enjoy your little one without any worries of the others.

Hubby and i have decided that the cheapest plan is what we are going for...just get a loan or whatever it is through springstone and only have 1 try at IVF....if that doesnt work we will see if we try again...but we just cant spend $18,000 and we get pregnant on the first try ya know...id rather try once for $10,000 and hope for the best. So we will see when we get closer. I just dont want to be pinching pennies when having a kid. We need to get our roof done this next spring too...so i think we will apply for the Springstone thing for IVF and then see if there is anyone around here that takes payments for our roof monthly. Because i dont want to have kids in a house with leaks! But thats whats new with me.

Hope everyone else has a wonderful week!

 

[karenh]

Prayerful: Good luck with your U/S! How exciting!

Lola: Less than a month away! I hope some really great things come from your court hearings. Hang in there!

Sugar: It sounds like you have a plan. I hope you only need one IVF.

 

[sugarpi24]

I hope so too! There is so much that could go wrong so it makes me nervous but I feel money wise its best for us.

 

[TLB1986]

I hope so too! There is so much that could go wrong so it makes me nervous but I feel money wise its best for us.

I hear you. We are in the same boat... have you looked into going to Mexico? We will be going to Cancun for IVF. They have warranty so if it doesn't work the first time you don't need to worry about forking out the total amount again. Mini IVF is going to cost us $3700usd. Way cheaper then here. In Edmonton it would be about $15000cd plus meds as they don't do "mini IVF". Just something to think about...

 

[sugarpi24]

I hope so too! There is so much that could go wrong so it makes me nervous but I feel money wise its best for us.

I hear you. We are in the same boat... have you looked into going to Mexico? We will be going to Cancun for IVF. They have warranty so if it doesn't work the first time you don't need to worry about forking out the total amount again. Mini IVF is going to cost us $3700usd. Way cheaper then here. In Edmonton it would be about $15000cd plus meds as they don't do "mini IVF". Just something to think about...

Ive heard a lot of ppl going to other places (states and countries) for cheaper IVF's but we wouldnt be able to do that. that $3700 does sound appealing! The lady said for us to go through them itll be around $12,000 plus the cost of meds. And if we went through Attain...it would be $18,000 for 2 IVF's and 2 FETs....which is a great deal....BUT the payments on that is just way to much so we decided to just try to go through our clinic and do the 1 time thing and see what happens...and go from there if it doesnt work the first time. When are you guys doing your IVF? oh wait i see Good luck in January!!

 

[MMW430]

cant wait to hear about your u/s prayerful!

Lola im so sorry you have to go through this! i hope its over with soon for you so you guys can just enjoy your little one without any worries of the others.

Hubby and i have decided that the cheapest plan is what we are going for...just get a loan or whatever it is through springstone and only have 1 try at IVF....if that doesnt work we will see if we try again...but we just cant spend $18,000 and we get pregnant on the first try ya know...id rather try once for $10,000 and hope for the best. So we will see when we get closer. I just dont want to be pinching pennies when having a kid. We need to get our roof done this next spring too...so i think we will apply for the Springstone thing for IVF and then see if there is anyone around here that takes payments for our roof monthly. Because i dont want to have kids in a house with leaks! But thats whats new with me.

Hope everyone else has a wonderful week!

Try to be positive. I was so worried but it worked on the first try for us, and we have 5 frozen!

 

[lanet]

Did any of you ladies get low back pain early in your cycle on femara? I'm only cd 6. Maybe it's just my shoes