My ~*January*~ Testing Ladies, on our way to our BFP!

[mommyxofxone]

Update 11/1/13: So me and dh decided one was enough, but, this is a great support group!! most women here are trying for their second, but would love to have you join us!

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Hi!!

we JUST started into a new cycle, and are officially TTC number 2!!!

I'm on cycle day 16 (or something like that lol) and would love to have a buddy. Doesn't matter what number baby you are on, cycle day, whatever, doesn't matter, just would love a buddy to join up!!!! thanks!


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Our 's !!!! :
October
Rozzer

September
Emalou90
Jalanis22

 

[Overwhelmed]

I am on cd18 and TTC number 2. I am on my first round of clomid and wishing this works. I would love a buddy!

 

[Sam1989]

Hi ladies,
I'm TTC #2, its been 5 months of trying for us so far would love to have a buddy or 2.

 

[mommyxofxone]

hi ladies! thanks for joining me!!!

Overwhelmed- i think we're on the same cd! i hope your clomid works this cycle. Did you have to use anything when you had your first?

Sam- it took me 5 cycles the first time, fx'd this is it for you!!! are you testing early, or when af is due? i see from your ticker you're 1dpo.


afm, i'm still waiting to o. ff says i did, but my ferning microscope never showed a positive, so not thinking i did yet. i think it's in transitional so i think it's coming but my temps are rising, strangely. don't know if that means anything.

 

[Rozzer]

I'm a little behind - cd12 I think, TTC #2 and in the midst of o week I hope but I'd love to join you. This can be a lonely journey irl!

I'm temping this month, quite fun. We are cycle number 2.

Good luck and baby dust

 

[mommyxofxone]

I'm a little behind - cd12 I think, TTC #2 and in the midst of o week I hope but I'd love to join you. This can be a lonely journey irl!

I'm temping this month, quite fun. We are cycle number 2.

Good luck and baby dust

hello !!!


i'm so confused, ff says i o'd but it was a bit early for me, and my ferning scope never said i was o'ing either. and my temps are higher than normal. so maybe i really did, but why wouldn't i get that positive fern test? i don't know, think it's still coming...

 

[Overwhelmed]

We didn't have to use anything with our first. I went off BC and 2 months later I had a BFP- this time it has been a year and half with two miscarriages. I hope the clomid works this cycle too.

This may be a TMI question- but is anyone still feeling a lot of pressure during BD? I am still having a lot of pressure and now I am wondering if I Oed.

 

[mommyxofxone]

bd'ing has never exactly been pleasant for me anyway so nothing different for me.

starting to think i did o due to temps-

i hope it doesn't take very long to get that egg for you!

 

[Overwhelmed]

I have been reading up and it looks like it common to still feel pain after oing. But who knows. My temps cannot be counted on since in the summer I wake up at different times each day. I am feeling a bit better today about my TSH (Thyroid) levels since it says that it is normal for TSH to raise when estrogen raises because they have the same receptors- the ones that are blocked when on clomid. Still hope it doesn't cause another M/C

When do you think you oed? Are your temps still elevated? When are you going to wait to test?

 

[mommyxofxone]

i really hope it doesn't cause a m/c too hun i don't know how i'd do with something like that

And yeah my ff is saying i o'd cd 16- wednesday (pretty darn early for me i'm usually between 18-21.) and then if i did, i'm pretty much out, as we bd'd the day after. we were kind of waiting for that positive ferning test before going all out.

Ovufriend, a new charting page i'm using, says cd 18, which makes more sense for me, and says our bd timing is good. we'll see who is right. Af usually comes 13 days post o. so we'll see.

and yeah! my temp jumped up again, from 97.7 to 97.9 (i'm also normally low 97s or high 96) so that's odd too. it's consistantly going up.

https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/461a2a

as for testing, hard to say. i guess if it's sure i o'd, i will test on friday the 19th. but ff thinks i should wait til the 22nd. i just don't know yet. feeling down about not knowing.

 

[Rozzer]

I hate the not knowing too. I'm meant to o on Thurs - we bd on Sun and Mon, will have a break today then tomorrow and Thurs. I do hope we catch the egg!
I honestly can't believe we got preg not even trying with ds - seems mind blowing!

I hope my temp rises!

 

[Overwhelmed]

My doctor said to BD every other day from day 10 til a BFP or AF. I asked about every day around oing and, she advised against it- saying that sperm need to be as strong as possible (DH does not have a problem). I also read some article about how sperm can actually help with implantation. Trust me I know every other day for almost the entire month seems like a lot (and it is), but it actually makes things easier with DH. We get to sort of joke about the entire process and keep each other light hearted.
I did read that your temperature can have a one day drop and implantation and then begin to rise again- so that is a good sign.

I am going to wait to test til the 20th. I don’t know if my cycle is different now on Clomid or not, but I should AF between the 16th and 19th, which means the 20th it would be late. I always wait til I am late.

 

[mommyxofxone]

I hate the not knowing too. I'm meant to o on Thurs - we bd on Sun and Mon, will have a break today then tomorrow and Thurs. I do hope we catch the egg!
I honestly can't believe we got preg not even trying with ds - seems mind blowing!

I hope my temp rises!

i hope your temp rises too!!! If you are meant to o on thursday, you should bd until you get that rise in temps and confirmed o. that's how i got my bfp.

My doctor said to BD every other day from day 10 til a BFP or AF. I asked about every day around oing and, she advised against it- saying that sperm need to be as strong as possible (DH does not have a problem). I also read some article about how sperm can actually help with implantation. Trust me I know every other day for almost the entire month seems like a lot (and it is), but it actually makes things easier with DH. We get to sort of joke about the entire process and keep each other light hearted.
I did read that your temperature can have a one day drop and implantation and then begin to rise again- so that is a good sign.

I am going to wait to test til the 20th. I don’t know if my cycle is different now on Clomid or not, but I should AF between the 16th and 19th, which means the 20th it would be late. I always wait til I am late.

Tried the bding every other day like your dr said with the first. nothing.

I read what my opk had said, which was once you get that +, you need to bd every single day until you get that confirmed O with ff. so i did that. bd'd on the day of the +, then the days following there were three total days i believe, and there it was, so we relaxed (not that he minded!) and got our bfp that cycle. just told him to be at the ready, but we knew the general time we o'd by that point. cd 18 or up. changes every month. :/






AFM- my temp dropped to coverline this am, back to 97.4 so i don't know what it's going to say, my temps generally hop all over the damn place, up down you name it. (if they're the same as they were 2 years ago.)

just waiting for af now as we didn't do much with this cycle.

 

[Overwhelmed]

I think it is all about finding what works with you. We did nothing with our first but went off b/c. At this point I am willing to try anything. We have done every day for 3 weeks, every day just around when the tests said we oed, every other day around the time the tests said we oed...

And my husband is there with yours- he isn't exactly upset when it is an off day at cd25

 

[mommyxofxone]

well i do hope it works for you though!! problem with me is my cycles can be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long that there would just be too much worrying about all of the bd timing if i started too early too. :/

temp shot back up again today, but had a terrible nights sleep, so don't think it's anything.

 

[Overwhelmed]

I have a long cycle too. I have to admit it becomes very tiring, but at this point the OB could say to stand on my head with one toe touching my ear and I would try it.

I hate temps. I cannot understand them. Mine are back at 98, but I read that a rise in temps is supposed to be a good sign. Aren't temps supposed to continually rise or stay high or something like that with a successful pregnancy. A one day dip signifies implantation? How high did they shoot up? What have they been this past week?

 

[mommyxofxone]

i hear you, i was like that with my first. this one i'm much more relaxed. we want one, but if it didn't happen, we would still be completely happy. so it's not like it was.

my temp was 97.4 yesteray morning and jumped up to 98.4 today. really odd. my temps were really whacked the cycle i was pregnant with my first too but i'm not thinking we successfully created one technically the first cycle really trying. my score for bd'ing is SO low.

oh if you click the blue ticker in my signature it'll take you right to my chart.

normal people yes, down can indicate implantation, and would immediately rise back up again. they say it shouldn't go below coverline- which it didn't... but they say you should have 3 hours of solid sleep before temping and i so didn't. i slept so terrible. i'm super hungry tonight, i've had cramps on and off for the passed few days, but i really don't think it's anything. :/

where are you in your cycle again??

 

[Overwhelmed]

That is how we were at first (a year and a half ago), but now it feels completely different. I am completely type A, so I feel almost like a failure at this point- like why isn’t it working? I am doing everything I am supposed to be doing and all I keep getting told is that we are both perfectly healthy. In fact I am way healthier now than I was with my son- I was 100lbs heavier. I almost feel like eating chocolate cake morning, noon, and night. 

The whole temperature thing throws me for a loop- I don’t get it. I don’t understand cover lines and what a dip means or anything. But from what you are saying it does sound hopeful for you. It only takes one time with one sperm. It is totally possible. Like I said before with my son we didn’t really do anything but bd when we felt like it and within two months of being off b/c we were pregnant. But I know it is hard because you don’t want to get too excited if its not what you think.

I am cd 24 right now, but I am not sure of my cycle. I have been 31 days, but I don’t know if clomid messes with things. I am still guessing 31 days thought because I know for a fact (ultrasound) that on cd15 I still haven’t ovulated (even though if you go by temps it said I did o by then- that is why temps confuse me). I haven’t had any “signs” really. I had some lower back pain on Monday and I guess a temp dip on Monday too , but it went below my cover line. And my son started swim lessons on Monday so this entire week I have been testing an hour and half earlier than the past 2/3. Now I am back just above my cover line (no idea what a cover line means).

When are you going to test again?

 

[mommyxofxone]

oh hun i remember that horrible feeling of failure. Ugh, so i'm completely with you. i'm so sorry you're feeling that way. i guess it'll happen when it's supposed to happen.

i've been trying to figure out if i'm supposed to have another or not. i go back and forth daily. and i figure if god wants me to give dd a sibling i will right? i don't know how involved i should be. i prayed so hard right before having her and that was the cycle i conceived, so i've been trying to ask god if i'm supposed to have another or not. i feel confused.

as for the temps- they're not really understandable lol. i mean, for me,all of my first 4 looked promising. and then died out. it was the 5th- the one i was pregnant that looked like crap, and that was the one!! i mean, if it dips below coverline once it's ok, but mine was up and down constantly.

i think coverline is your average temp or something like that. all i know is you want your temps above it. do you have a link to your chart?

and i think i'm going to test on the 19th, and you?

also i think my temp is more normal today, i got almost 3 solid hours before temping- almost. i think yesterdays was a fluke. but it's still up there.

 

[Overwhelmed]

We lived like that for the first year, it wasn't until more recently we have been tracking etc. I guess it is a good thing because it doesn't look like I was ovulating and my thyroid was messed up again.

I will probably test on the 20th if I don't AF by then. AF is expected sometime between the 14th and 18th- I will give myself two extra days :0) I just hate getting disappointed and getting my husband disappointed.

My temp was back up to 98.3 again today, but I didn't sleep well last night- I didn't get out of bed, but tossed and turned all night. DH is sick so he was in and out of bed all night and 3 year old decided to come sleep with me at 5am.