long cycles support thread :) the yelping vaginas club! (closed group)

[bnporter81]

Nat, thanks for asking. My kids are doing well. My little girl (who is 11 and growing up way too fast) has been having her own AF for the last 6 months and is turning into a little woman. I told her this summer we'll go and get our hair and nails done and have some girl time together. So she can't wait for that. My boys are getting big...my youngest son is definitely not a baby anymore...he'll be 3 this summer. Both of the boys are pretty much potty trained, though, so it will help out when I have another baby knowing I'll only have one child in diapers instead of 3 So maybe it all works out for the best anyway even though I've hated the waiting over the last year.

How about you? Anything new going on? If you ever want to chat or anything, feel free to send me a message and we can exchange emails or something. I know everything with TTC can be hard sometimes...I've found out in the last 3 months that 2 of my close friends are pregnant, and even though I'm so happy for them it's still difficult to sit there and wonder why the same thing hasn't happened for yourself yet.Guess I have to believe that it will happen sooner or later...hopefully sooner rather than later, though

 

[foquita]

aww, that's so sweet that you two are going to do that together some mother-daughter bonding I like that you are seeing the positives, I've been doing that a lot too recently - I've hated waiting so, so much but now I am thinking that there are some major positives everything happens for a reason, doesn't it? maybe yours was only because you weren't supposed to have three kids in diapers (or nappies as I would call them )

nothing new going on really, TTC has really taken a back seat recently after my femara cycles I think I have ovulated naturally the last two cycles but I haven't been tracking so can't 100% confirm! I have another 3 cycles of femara to do, but I've decided not to go ahead with them because I don't feel it's the right thing to do - I don't think they let my follicles get big enough before triggering and I am sure that femara turns my CM really acidic which is obviously not good for the sperm! it completely dried up my CM and I didn't have any at all!

we're just waiting for IVF next summer and looking forward to that I know what you mean about people announcing pregnancies, last year I had a really awful few months and I was so low but now I feel fine with pregnancy announcements and I've come out the other side, I'm so glad because I hated being bitter I don't ever want to feel like that again so I think I have maybe subconsciously pushed TTC back in my mind and started pretending to myself that I don't really want kids that much. I dunno, it's confusing but coming up to 2 years TTC I can definitely say that the emotions of longing for a child are the least of my worries, there are so many other confusing emotions that are more prevalent for me!

I am sure that it will happen for both of us and it will definitely be worth the wait I am actually on here every day now so we can just do PMs when we're feeling low I'm sorry again that I haven't been around much to support you

 

[mrsc81]

Havent seen newmrs on here for a while, hope shes doing ok, i know she was feeling really down last time she popped in

 

[foquita]

thinking of you newmrs xxxx

 

[bnporter81]

I agree, Nat, that everything happens for a reason...hopefully all of the reasons are about gone now so it will happen soon for both of us!

I'm feeling a little down this morning. I was really hoping my temp. would still be up this morning, but instead it's back to my regular tempMy only hope for right now is that I'm just having a fallback rise or something and that I DID still O and it will go back up. Gosh, this is so frustrating and confusing

 

[NewMrs2011]

Aww thanks ladies I've been a bit of a lurker as I'm usually on my phone and it's not so easy to post. I'm good, on the thyroxine now and loosing weight (1 stone gone so far) so feeling good about that. Still no bleeding or spotting which is good but slightly concerned at not having AF for so long but hopefully it'll come soon.

Hope everyone else is well

 

[mrsc81]

1 stone weight loss is awesome

 

[foquita]

1 stone weight loss is really good going newmrs! well done I'm sure the more weight you lose, the quicker it will be until AF comes back

Bethany, when I charted I always got a little fallback IIRC, so I'm still hopefully for you!

 

[Rachel789]

Congrats on the weight loss Newmrs!

Bethany- I wouldn't worry unless your temp is still down tomorrow. Fallback rises happen a lot.

 

[NewMrs2011]

Thanks ladies! I've a looooooong way to go but I'm off to a good start

 

[bnporter81]

I agree...any bit of weight loss is a big accomplishment. It can be so hard to do sometimes, so congrats!

Thank you girls...keeping my FX'd for a big spike tomorrow

 

[cmwilson]

Bethany - Yay for your temp rise! Woohoo! And I know you hear this all the time but your time is coming and when it does you'll be the best mom ever! Same goes for you Nat, NewMrs, Katya and Raven.

NewMrs - Congrats on the weight loss! Keep up the good work!

Nat - Happy Early Birthday and have a WONDERFUL time on your trip!

Rachel - I hope your 3 hr test went well. I had the one hour test today and am anxious about the results. Hope we both get good news soon.

 

[Rachel789]

Thanks Caroline! The test was brutal. The drink had 100 grams of sugar in it this time, yuck. I had to get my blood drawn 4 times. I really don't know how anyone's body is supposed to process that much sugar at once its not normal to ingest that much in 2 minutes,it's crazy. I really hope I passed.

 

[bnporter81]

Thank you Caroline!That means a lotI was so happy to see that my temp was back up this morning...now it just needs to stay that way

Rachel, geez, 4 times is a lot...I bet you were about ready to poke THEM with a needle after all thatI hope you and Caroline both get some good results back soon. I'm sure everything will be fine

 

[foquita]

thank you caroline

congratulations on the temp spike bethany fingers crossed for another one tomorrow

ouch rachel! and 100g sounds horrible, I've heard the glucose drink is disgusting? when do you get the results?

 

[bnporter81]

Thanks hon, I can use all the FX'ing (toe crossing, too, probably) I can get! Caroline mentioned your birthday, when is it?

 

[foquita]

I'll cross everything, including legs that's how much I want this for you!

it's on saturday I'm really excited because we're going to amsterdam for a few days for it

 

[bnporter81]

Awww, that's so sweet of you, but I wouldn't ask you to go that extreme! Us TTC girls gotta make sure we don't keep our legs crossed Hope you have a great time there and a great birthday, Nat!

 

[mrsc81]

Caroline & Rachel - Hope you get good results

Bethany - Great news on the temp rise!

 

[bnporter81]

Thanks, hon...higher temps are nice to see for a change

I have a question everyone. Since I'm almost certain I O'd on Sunday night, should I put a manual override on FF? Or should I just wait? I thought maybe today I would have gotten at least dotted crosshairs or something, but I still don't have anything