Please, August, do not taunt- it's BFPs that we want!

[SmallTownGal]

Belated Intro: Hi, I'm STG and I'm only checking in once in a while to keep the stress of TTC down by not focusing on it too much. My sig and charts contain everything else of TTC interest.

Thanks for the new thread, Morgan (Please put STG for my nickname on the first page)

Congrats on the BFP, Rachel!! Lucky 13! H&H 9 mos!

Thanks for the hugs and well wishes on the old thread, Nichole! Hope you get your BFP soon too!

 

[Cowgirl07]

Yay Nicki!

 

[mommyxofxone]

I promise to introduce and catch up. Family is over for dinner, but wanted to tell yall asap.... :girl:

awesome!!! congrats!!!

Belated Intro: Hi, I'm STG and I'm only checking in once in a while to keep the stress of TTC down by not focusing on it too much. My sig and charts contain everything else of TTC interest.

Thanks for the new thread, Morgan (Please put STG for my nickname on the first page)

Congrats on the BFP, Rachel!! Lucky 13! H&H 9 mos!

Thanks for the hugs and well wishes on the old thread, Nichole! Hope you get your BFP soon too!

:wave: hello!!!



afm- looked over old charts. seems cd21 is actually more of the time i o. got a ways then ladies. got like 5 more days before i'm there. ugh.

 

[Disneybaby26]

Ahhhhh Nikki!! A sweet little pink bundle, so happy for you!!

 

[NDTaber9211]

Yay for a girl!!!

 

[TTCaWee1]

Thanks everyone! I've thought multiples too....I guess we will see with my beta tomorrow. As fun as twins would be, I'm hoping its just one strong poppyseed. I'm a small person with a ginormous husband. Twins would wreck me.

Kara - your 11 dpo beta was 87?! That's crazy high! Now I'm worried mines not high enough.

Nikki - yay for a girl!! I had a feeling it was a girl!

I want to do a gender reveal party. Or have the dr put the sex in an envelope and then take it to a bakery and have them bake the inside of the cake the blue or pink....same with balloons. Have a box filled with either color and open it to let the balloons out....sounds fun right?

For whoever asked about opks, I used them at least 3 times a day near o time.

Julie - I was thinking you used a syringe or something to insert it. Maybe you should try it and inject the sperm with some force since the force of ejaculation helps drive the sperm up into the cervix...you could use the speculum and have dw shoot it up in there. Then put the softcup in...

 

[NDTaber9211]

Gender reveal parties do sound fun but there is NO way I could wait long enough to have one. I'd want to know asap

 

[jury3]

Nikki-A girl!!!! Yay!!! I was also guessing a girl for you! So exciting!

Kara-I've wanted a Nissan Murano for a few years now. When my last car crapped out on me I bought an orange Dodge Caliber. There was an orange Nissan Murano in the same lot, but at the time I couldn't afford it. I've been thinking about a new car a lot lately (not that I can afford it right now) and that's what I'm leaning towards.
You've been bding a ton, I think you'll be ok to take night off! lol With that temp spike, there's a good chance you O'd anyway.

As far as syringe vs softcup...we started out inserting with a syringe. We don't use a speculum to put it in bc the speculum could end up pulling the sperm back out. We also don't squeeze it in too quickly bc it pushes it back out. When we did it that way we would do little spurts and then wait and do more spurts. It kind of simulated normal ejaculation but didn't make it come back out. Honestly I didn't like doing it that way bc I hated having to make sure I was laying down, I couldn't get up and pee, etc. So, that's when we started using soft cups.
Then we decided to start inseminating at our donor's house so we didn't have to worry about keeping it body temperature. So he would put the donation in a jar and leave it in the bathroom, we would syringe it out, put it in the cup and I'd put the cup in.
More recently we decided maybe it was bad to use the jar bc I had to wash it and that could be killing the sperm. Plus when you syringe it out of a jar there is always a little left that you can't get...so, no he puts it right into the soft cup, leaves it in the bathroom and we go in and put the cup in.

There's a thread on here dedicated to at-home insemination success stories. I've literally read through every single one and recorded stats...bc I like to see numbers (Type A much?). I compared people who used syringe vs people who used soft cups and honestly it was about the same. There's actually a girl who just got preggo from the same method I'm doing, so I know it works. Just waiting for my body to figure out what it's doing...100mg of clomid started tonight!

 

[jury3]

Rachel-We had a gender reveal party for our friends and it was so much fun! It was their second baby though. They'd already had a baby shower for the first one, didn't want to have another baby shower but wanted to celebrate somehow. So we convinced them to let us do a gender reveal. The doc sealed it in an envelope and they brought it to us, we were the only ones who knew! We poked a hole in a blue ballon so when they blew them up the pink one blew up since it was a girl and the blue one didn't. I made pink bows and blue bow ties, so everyone had to pick one based on what they thought it would be. So fun!

For the opk discussion, I do them at least 3 times a day bc I've gotten positives first thing in the morning, middle of the day and as late as 9 or 10 pm...you never know when the surge is going to happen and you only have so much time after a positive....I use the digis bc I hate guessing lines! lol

 

[morganwhite7]

Will update soon ladies but Rachel- what a beautiful line!!!

AND bought a First Response OPK today w/ a test So ready to go and waiting til Sunday, hopefully Monday, to start POthatS! Only have 7 so I'm tight on sticks.. May stop and get some $ sto ones though to feed my addiction.. Since DH and I went to FOUR diff CVS/Walgreens today and they were all out of OPKs! Lol it was funny DH said "oh here we are, the family planning section!"

Nighty night all

 

[RobertRedford]

We went to dinner and I had reallly bad cramps all dinner. Was starting to worry that something was wrong. Got home, went pee, AF is here again. Super dark red with clots, so theres no way its spotting. beta is negative. Im officially confused!

 

[clynn11]

Sorry AF got you Amanda

Yay for a baby girl Nikki!!! So exciting and so much fun!!!

 

[NDTaber9211]

Amanda- I'm sorry hun confusing cycles are the worst.

 

[pdxmom]

We went to dinner and I had reallly bad cramps all dinner. Was starting to worry that something was wrong. Got home, went pee, AF is here again. Super dark red with clots, so theres no way its spotting. beta is negative. Im officially confused!

Oh Amanda...tht is soo wierd...how did tht happen...the only time this happened to me was during my mc in feb...but if your beta was negative then??????hmmm...this is so confusing...

Nikki - yaay for a girl...so cute...id love to have a girl to shop for all the pretty stuff

Rachel...Beautiful lines...and ive already mentioned before...im thinking twins ...so exciting

Aslee - im so sorry af got u...hopefully this will b a better cycle...

Sorry im havent got a chance to come online all day...pooped right now with all the stuff goin on all day...will catch up soon...have a nice weekend everyone

 

[jury3]

Amanda-Did you find out your hcg from before AF, the one they didn't tell you before? That just seems very strange...that's like a double period. Ain't nobody got time fo that!!! Lol I hope it ends quickly...

 

[pdxmom]

Julie yaay for starting clomid today...all the best for this mth hun

 

[Disneybaby26]

Rachel-if you were 47 at 10dpo, you'd be mid to high 70s by 11dpo hun. The range varies so much for everyone and that line is ridiculous!! Everything it totally fine, I'm sorry I scared you, I meant to be encouraging

Amanda- that's really weird, I'm so sorry hun, WTF is going on??

 

[HWPG]

Kara, your chart and bd pattern look great!

 

[frsttimemama]

I'm sorry, Amanda. Hope you can get some answers soon!

My OPK this morning was much lighter than the previous two mornings'. Hmm.. I do have a question about this temping business though. Now, granted, I have only been temping for 3 days so there is not much data to go on here, BUT the first 2 days, my temp was 97.05 both days, then this morning it was 96.76. That seems like a lot considering the thermometer measures down to the hundredth. Or am I reading to much into it? What could that drop mean? What is a good website to go read about temping and such so I can kinda get the hang of it? I hate asking so many questions about all of this.

 

[NoGreaterLove]

Nikki - Congrats on the baby girl!!!!

Amanda - So sorry .... I wonder what's going on.

Today is officially my 6th day with a headache. I used a heating pad for my back and hips last night, but I'm still in pain. I'm just going to take it easy today and relax.