October Sticky Beans!

[Blackrain90]

How is everyone doing today?

We had our 6 week PP checkup- guess who ended up with an impromptu pap test? This girl! Lame, but thankfully was the least painful one I've had, and the nurses were fighting over the baby while I got it done haha.
Baby is doing great, weights 10lb 12oz (so he has gained 3.5 lbs already, little piggy). 50th percentile for weight, 12th for height (wasn't expecting a giant anyways- I'm 5ft, hubs is 5ft7, and Connor is around the 7th percentile for his age haha).

Started a weight loss ticker- the turtle and pot of gold seemed appropriate haha

 

[Angel5000]

Ooh, impromptu pap? Ick. What brought that on?

Loving the turtle and pot of gold!!

 

[krissie328]

Glad to hear everything is going well Heather. I can't believe your little guy is 6 weeks!

Things are good here. Just waiting on o at this point.

 

[Blackrain90]

Doctor just happened to notice I was due for it in March of this year (3 years since last). He didn't really ask if I wanted to do it now, was just like "oh you're due for a pap. You can strip down, one of the nurses will hold the baby". I was like..........k? Haha. He was really good about it though. He is usually straight faced and really awkward, but when he can tell I'm nervous he is really good at being comforting.

I know he is growing so fast! Hope your wait to O doesn't take too long Krissie!

 

[todmommy4568]

I know right?! Crazy!

I took a Wondfo this morning which was clearly negative so unfortunately no lab errors. I think I have decided that this upcoming cycle will be our last medicated cycle. Overall there was about $1000 worth of visits that weren't covered. Since I don't need the initial appointment this cycle that cost will go down to about $700 but with my internship starting in a month we can't really be racking up new bills. I won't get paid for my internship so it will already be a tight 4 months and it just doesn't seem logical to spend that kind of money during it. Also I want to focus on my internship. I am hoping to get hired after my internship so I don't want to be leaving for doc appointments and what not. Hopefully we get pregnant next cycle and if we don't then maybe we could during the 4 unmedicated cycles, if not we will start again after the internship ends. I am considering doing iui this cycle though since ttc will kind of go on the back burner after this. What do you guys think? I have to google how much better the chances are with iui. I am just so fed up with ttc...

 

[todmommy4568]

Clearly didn't refresh the page before posting Glad everything went okay heather! He's already getting big!! 6 weeks

 

[krissie328]

Shan- I don't know much about iui. I guess it's really about how much it will cost vs increase in chances.

I have some stretchy cm mixed in today. So it's looking promising I will o soon. I've even had some ovary twitches so all looks good.

I looked back on my last clomid cycle and I o'd on cd 18. So that must have been why I was worried about oing late.

 

[todmommy4568]

Yay exciting! We need someone in the tww

I talked to DH and we are going to go ahead and do the iui. Since it will be our last medicated cycle for a while we are going to give it our all. I haven't found too much on the increase in chances but they wash the sperm and only take the strongest and healthiest ones and inject them right into the right spot so seems like it would be positive...we never did a SA for DH so if his spermies are the problem iui will most definitely help

 

[Blackrain90]

Have you looked into a progesterone supplement for this next cycle? If they know your numbers are low in your luteal phase, it might not hurt to get a leg up there so the efforts aren't wasted with a preventable chemical? Your reasoning for the break makes total sense though

 

[Angel5000]

Heather - I guess that makes sense. Though you'd think they'd give you some notice. LoL. I am always so awkward at a pap. At least he was good about it. I can't believe it's been 6 weeks already!

Krissie - Looks like a good chance O will be coming soon!

Shan - I was still holding out a sliver of hope that it was a lab error.
$1000 worth of uncovered costs?! That's insane! I don't know much about the success rate of IUI. I think I saw someone say that it was similar to that of naturally trying but not sure. The second thing to consider is cost, will your insurance cover some or any of it? And do you want to add that cost to the other costs? On the other hand, it might be nice to have a break from the "perfect timing intercourse requirement", and just let the doctor do it.

It makes sense that you want to focus on your internship and it would be really difficult to maintain that with all the doctor appointments. I would probably put the medicated cycles aside too in that similar situation, especially combined with the cost.


EDIT : I really should refresh before posting.

Makes total sense to go for the IUI this cycle, especially if they didn't do a SA on DH. I'm surprised they didn't though, it was one of the first things my RE required was a SA for DH and a lot of blood work for me.

I'm with Heather on the progesterone supplement too. Low progesterone could be an issue. I'm curious as to whether they planned to do progesterone test mid TWW at all, or if they just assumed that your progesterone was fine? I know you said they ran it this time and it came back at 5, which if you were pregnant would be very very low, but I don't know if that's considered bad for non-pregnancy. I do know that my 7DPO bloods had my progesterone at 5, and that made the doctor really concerned when I got my BFP at 10dpo.

 

[todmommy4568]

Yea the cost was really the biggest factor but Kevin is busy at work for at least another couple months so the cost is do able at the moment. Since the insurance didn't cover anything else I'm sure they won't cover this either.

 

[cupcake.]

I totally get why you would want to pause the medicated cycles during your internship. And also why you want to try iui. I'm with the other ladies, progesterone may be worth a shot to give you the best possible shot i think.

Heather, seriously 6 weeks pp already? Time is just flying like crazy but glad to hear you and baby are doing fine

 

[todmommy4568]

I sent a message to my doctor so now I am just waiting to hear back on whether we can go ahead with the iui. Kevin agreed but he is not very excited about it. He is very reluctant about doing his business in a doctors office and then giving it to someone, the whole idea just weirds him out so much From what I have seen 5 is at the top end of normal ranges for progesterone in the LP when there wasn't a pregnancy

 

[Angel5000]

Shan - Good luck! I can see how his part of the process would be awkward. I'm not sure my DH was thrilled at all about doing his SA either, and even that is less awkward than an IUI. FX that this works!

I haven't actually looked at what progesterone should be when there isn't a pregnancy but if 5 is good then sounds like you'er right there. Usually I think there's a short LP or something when there's low progesterone too. You're probably good.


AFM - I have to rant for a minute. Feel free to ignore

Spoiler

So remember how we were fixing up the house we inherited and we were going to let some friends rent it for dirt cheap? But that fell apart because the wife turned crazy, and was making horrible comments about me trying to sleep with her husband (definitely was NOT - he's so not my type...too much like my own dad....), and then she recently was making comments about how I didn't have any kids and probably never would so I couldn't understand how kids acted, and she made some very public threats to murder me because she suspected I had called DHS on her sister. (not sure if I told all those stories in here, but this is the thread I'm most vocal in so I think so). To make matters worse, her sister is my brother - in -law's ex wife (my sister's husband), and they are in the middle of a custody battle. So she likes to be bitchy and make snide remarks about us all. It doesn't help she attends the same very small church as my mother, her husband works in the same industry as my father (in fact he trained under my dad) and my mom is on a committee with her husband.... we are linked in every way possible. Very small town, btw. Anyway.....

I have this woman blocked on FB, texting, and all other social media. But we have mutual friends, a lot of them since she went to HS with my husband and so all the local friends on her facebook are also on my husbands. Anyway, I got a screenshot sent to me yesterday by a friend as an "FYI, you should know this is being said, just so this doesn't surprise you later". She posted a thing on FB asking about the guy who is living with us (she knows he lives with us). She pretended that some friends of his, who she doesn't know, approached her and asked about whether he got the girl he's living wiht pregnant, and went on to talk about how the girl he's living with has been trying for years and then suddenly he moves in and she's pregnant. And that since no one related to the families will answer her questions about it (ie: she asked my mom if I was pregnant and my mom change the subject knowing she'd use it like this) that it was clearly suspicious and that shifty things were going on.

The way it's all written is clearly a fishing act, because none of her "explanations" as ot why she's asking these questions make any sense. But that's not the point. She's insinuating, publicly (her fb is public not friendsonly or anything), that my kid is not my husbands. And she calls our friend living with us out by name, even though she doesn't name me, EVERYONE knows he lives here.

I think if I wasn't pregnant I'd be laughing at the ludicrousness of it all, but I'm so over the top angry about it.

 

[todmommy4568]

I would be pissed too! What a wench!!

 

[Blackrain90]

......wow Jess. I would be getting to the point of pressing charges for slander or something. That is absolutely insane, what a nutjob.

This kid is hilarious. He frequently falls asleep after nursing- pulls off and rests his head on my boob and passes out. If I try to pull up my bra, he gets uncomfortable and wakes up. So I have to leave my boob hanging out as his personal pillow. Which is fine, except for last night when I started leaking milk all over his face Didn't even phase him. But I guess it's his turn, given how often he regularly soaks me with milk (multiple times each feeding, he pulls off mid suck and spits/spills milk all over my shirt and bra).

 

[todmommy4568]

Lol too cute!

My doc got back to me and iui is a go. Everything will stay as it was with the exception that clomid dose will go to 100 which was the plan anyways. Then cd13 will be iui. Now I am excited and want AF to show up so I can get on with it!

 

[Blackrain90]

Yay Shan glad you are getting this shot!

 

[krissie328]

Jess! What a horrible person. I'm so sorry you just cannot get rid of her crap.

Shan- that's fantatic! Keeping eveything crossed for you.

Heather- that's to adorable.

Afm, still have negative opks so just waiting on them to go positive. We are dtd every other day so far so hoping we have a good shot whenever the eggie pops out.

 

[todmommy4568]

Krissie that's good that you are doing every other day then your bases are covered regardless.

I'm hoping my temp drop from today means AF is coming tomorrow. Amazing how 2 days ago I said that 5 days isn't enough and now I'm excited