Dwrgi.. I have printed out the Welsh phrases.. thank you so much for the phoentics! I will patiently practice them and have no doubt I will be bloomin fluent by the time she arrives! Thank you thank you thank you!
Dash.. I FB you chick... anger... normal... go with it chick. Do not repress it... it will fade eventually and then you can consider your options... but it takes time. xxx
Purps!
Hey Mum! How are you? How is it all going? xx
DrH
so nice to see you! Hope all is going well for you!
Hey Pbl... I am sorry I have never had that procedure done.. so I am afraid I cannot shed any light. Am sure someone here has who can help you.
Tiger, OMM, Mirium, Nee (big hug) and the gorgeous Butterfly.... thank you...xxxxxxxx Mwhah.
AFM
I saw my consultant today and he did a sneaky scan on a portable machine... quality was crap, but you could see a little heart beating away beautifully and the spine was so clear I swear you could count the vertebrae! He was happy... said the placenta was posterior... however, won't find out gender until 17 Dec when I go for 20 wk scan... boo hoo!!!
At least she looked fine! Am stubbornly staying with a 'she'!!
Question for me:
I just scheduled my HSG for one week from today (a Monday). Some of you may recall that I have a hunch bad things will be found (if the evidence provided by an ectopic can be called a hunch). The test will be done by a radiologist separate from my normal doctor, and I just found out that my normal doctor won't be able to see me until that Friday. For those of you who have had this done, will I hear any results on the day of? Do they tell you anything at all, or will I have to wait those whole four days to find out what the results were?
Pebble - Generally, the patient views the fluid on a screen while it flows into the uterus and tubes and they tell you what they found right there after the procedure. Most likely, they will give you a CD with the images as well or you can request it before you leave. They will also send a formal report to your doctor. Good luck to you!
OMM - I've been to the Smokey Mountains a couple times too and loved it!! They are beautiful.
Kismet - that's right!!! Be negative and bask in it all you want!!!! Sometimes you need to let it out and that's why we're all here as a support system.
Pebble - I saw that you are from Chattanooga... love it there!!! When I lived in Huntsville we went to the aquarium there! And... CONGRATS on CD 1!!!!!!!! I just started too!!!!!! And now that my new cycle has started, my face is finally clearing up!!! It's good to know that you were having breakouts too. I don't think I'll be TTC this cycle - I'm pretty sure we'll wait until the next one...
Nessaw - hope you are having a good week!
Maddy - very exciting about the IUI!!!! Lots and lots of babydust to you!!!
Butterfly - I bet it is getting exciting for your IVF consult!!!!
Luv - Hi from another SoCal girl here!! So glad to hear things are moving forward with the RE consultation and that you'll be starting IUI soon!!
Owl - hope you are still enjoying some lovely wine!
Kiwi - I'm so sorry to hear IVF was cancelled this round but so glad to hear you'll be trying again in January. FX that BDing does the trick this time around though!!!
Lils - Best of luck with the eye surgery!!!! And that's right - you definitely need to get the premium unleaded!!!!
Pad -
My vote is that you stay and keep updating us!!!! We all love hearing from you!!! How's the bump looking?? Woo hoo for a strong happy heartbeat!!!
Mirium - hope you're doing well!
Fly - glad to hear you're doing ok now. I agree completely that women need to be better educated about fertility!!! I didn't know how much things change with age. I would bet that just about every lady on this thread was working on a degree, building a career, finding a job they enjoyed, finding a partner, figuring out where to live, settling down, or just TTC for a long time, which lead them to start (or still be) TTC for their 1st over 35. And I would also bet that many of us didn't know how hard it would be to start later. But still, even if we did, would we have changed our life paths? I put in many long years of grad school before settling down, getting married and having kids. And I thought I would find someone as soon as I was ready to settle down, but I didn't. Part of it was my choice, and part of it was timing. But I never knew it would be hard at all to conceive in my mid-30's. If I had known better, maybe I would have done things differently, but maybe not. I still think it would be a huge benefit for women to have more knowledge of things that affect us TTC as we get older. I just didn't know!!! And, BTW, I have a very regular 28-day cycle too!!! Just keep at it though - if you're regular I bet it will happen before you know it. FX for you!!
DrHouse -
How is everything going? Having lots of symptoms??
Dash - Thinking of you. hugs hugs hugs.
Chicken - hope you DH get your appts worked out. Huge hugs to you.
Smallhelen - hope you're doing well.
Tiger - Yes, agreed... 2013 will be our year - that's our new moto!!!
Purps - so great to hear from you!!! Hope you are resting and enjoying Purplette!
Dwrgi - hope Monday has been a good day for you so far. Lots of babydust!!!!
AFM - AF came on Sunday!!!! Woooooo!!! Am having cramps though, so am definitely reminded how much I hate it. Still glad to be back on track. I think we'll probably skip this cycle, which puts us at TTC the last week of December (ovulation sometime around Dec. 29, while we're in PA at DH's parents' house!!!! LOL!!!! Isn't there some old wives tale that says that you are more likely to conceive if you BD at the inlaw's house?). Hope everyone who is celebrating Thanksgiving this week has a great week! I'm cooking, and we're having friends over this year. DH and I bought all the groceries last night and our menu is: roasted turkey, gravy, hamburger stuffing, mashed potatoes, spiced yam casserole with marshmallows, lemon rosemary green beans, fresh cranberry sauce/relish, green and black olives, corn bread, wine / soda, pumpkin pie, and eggnog. Mmm mmm mmm!!!
Hi all, just trying to catch up with your news on crappy wifi here in Antigua (I know, shame right?) big for you all.
AFM
had a terrible nightmare that I was at the amnio and they told me there and then that the baby was Downs. It's had me upset all day, but the test is a week today so I guess it's playing on my mind a bit now.
Hi all, just trying to catch up with your news on crappy wifi here in Antigua (I know, shame right?) big for you all.
AFM
had a terrible nightmare that I was at the amnio and they told me there and then that the baby was Downs. It's had me upset all day, but the test is a week today so I guess it's playing on my mind a bit now.
Moondust- I was in the same situation. Then, after my degree and pilot training, I got my dream assignment/aircraft, and was on cloud 9. Would I have done anything different? No, I met my hubby flying these things, so I never would have met him otherwise. But, we were so concerned about getting assigned together (chicks can't fly certain aircraft if they're PG), that we delayed trying until that last couple years (now that we can stay where we're at). Now my eggs are withering. We've talked about what decisions we could have made differently, and we both agree that we made the best decision at every assignment/decision point. We're finally in a fantastic position to have kids- The jobs, the home with several empty bedrooms, land, 9 doggies, etc... All this fun, and no rug rats! What a waste
Had my flu jab today that i booked because i was pregnant. feeling bit sorry for myself so think will book a trip to moondusts for thanksgiving dinner!
Hi all, just trying to catch up with your news on crappy wifi here in Antigua (I know, shame right?) big for you all.
AFM
had a terrible nightmare that I was at the amnio and they told me there and then that the baby was Downs. It's had me upset all day, but the test is a week today so I guess it's playing on my mind a bit now.
Ummmm yeah i would take your crappy WiFi if i could be where your at lol. I am sure that a lot is on your mind, dreams are not a prediction of the future, if that was the case i would be having 3 babies that were born out of Easter Eggs, lol, im not kidding, I could see all three of them in a row, and they were giant decorated Easter Eggs, and the fronts were clear and i said in my dream oh look my babies are so beautiful lol. Try to hang in there and i am sending happy thoughts to you
Having a bit of a crisis in the office. Hospital wants to terminate all contract staff due to lack of funding so now we have to try and sell ourselves and make ourselves important so they won't fire us. Whole department is in turmoil because almost 90% of our staff are on contract.
Greenleaf I am sorry to hear you are having a bit of a crisis in the office. I hope it works out ok. Maybe if you stay you get pregnant and if you go you get pregnant so I am crossing my fingers for you.
Pad am so excited for you. An avocado! Three weeks till you know its definitely pink alicious.. So so crossing fingers but think that she has declared herself anyway!
Maddy good luck for IUI, kiwi I hope your au naturel DTD has meant a bonny baby for you too!
Pebble yay for CD 1 it must have been like a watched pot that never boils, the waiting the waiting, but now it is hear and now it is back to BDing for purpose!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woo hooo . Are you from chattanooga like the song! God that takes me back!
Fly so pleased that you have found us.. I get the career vs the eggs.. its a hard choice but you did the best with the information you had at the time.
Small Helen, chicken, butterfly, lils, luv I am crossing my fingers and toes for you regarding baby dust showers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Moondust, thanks for adding me, am excited to hear if there is anyway that you can sort out a good tasting buckwheat receipe.. your descriptions as yet suggest it is more therapeutic than delicious.. Interested in your culinary experiences!!!
Purps, lana is so lovely and wonderful... your dad looks so so at peace holding her... I am wishing you less rib pain and more hugs with your daughter and your dad.
Hey Doc, how are you feeling? When is your 1st scan? Excited much!
Kiwi I won't cross my legs, but promise to X everything else for you - gosh your weekend testing is only a couple of days away now.
Greenleaf that's awful about your job. Do you work for one of those swanky hospitals in KL where you can waltz in and see a specialist within 5 mins without a referral? Love love love that style hospital, but I bet they cost a bomb to run!
Everyone else...sorry my mind is scattered & I can't read or catch up much right now. DH got a job that sees me commuting an additional 2 hours per day to transport him to work (we don't want to buy an extra car until he get appointed as a permanent staff member). Ughhh.
AFM it's day 5 of injections and not so much as a twinge...a bit worried this low dose isn't even doing anything. Ah well.
Good morning! It's a half holiday here. I think theoretically I should be in the office, but we have A Situation. A student is being terminated from the program, and people are genuinely worried about safety issues. He was in my office yesterday (cop hanging out in the room next door, just in case) casually chatting about violence and evincing signs of poor mental health. Of course, someone said that they smelled marijuana on him, so there could be some conflation be tween high/mental health problems. Anyway, I will not be going in for the next few days unless I have to. This is a first for me, and I'm a teeny bit freaked out.
But this work situation has nothing on your situation, Green! Sorry to hear about that. Hope it works out okay.
Good to see everything's going well, Dr. H!
Maddy, I'm hoping things are working for you, too. I've never done the injection route, so I have no wisdom. I'll be sending you !
And special big huge to you Dash! I see in your siggy that this may be the end of the line? I'll check in on your journal.
Fly – Yes, thank you for your service to our country! How exciting to be a military pilot (what kind of planes?). Yes, many of us are dealing with high FSH, low AMH or both unfortunately & the Dr’s do usually start giving us the talk about DE’s at that point. That is a high FSH, but not horrible (mine’s 13 now – was 9 just 6 months ago). AMH is on “low normal” side, as mine was .84 (now its 1.5 – normal). A lot of us take CoQ10, Royal Jelly & DHEA (hoping my next AMH looks good too, but it takes 4 months to really make a diff on your eggs). RE’s are all diff – my current one says yes, step it up a bit, but my #’s are to be expected for my age. Another one was pushing DE on me, but now that my AMH got higher he said try naturally – even with my high FSH #’s. But there are plenty of women who have conceived with our #’s, so don’t lose hope! (PS – where the heck did you find actual “land” in Florida??? Has to be somewhere in the middle…
Luv – I think we’ve all gotten those comments, as well. Like we can just go out to a baby store & pick one from the shelf – oh & they are inexpensive too – Not! People don’t realize how much time, effort & money is involved. It’s a beautiful thing, but you do have to really want it. Glad that egg is removed – jeez?! Thanks for the speedy recovery wishes & good luck on IUI!!!
Kismet – so sorry for . When do you get your tests back? My positivity doesn’t seem to help me much, so be whatever you truly feel & whatever makes you feel your best.
Mirium – yeah, I hear you. We have to be at the very end of our rope to seriously consider our “other options”. How are you doing hun?
Dwrgi – Sending big to you hun. Sounds like you are having a very rough time right now & all I can do is hope & pray that things get better for you really soon. Not just on the TTC front, but with everything else piled up on top of you . More in your journal, but big, sunny, warm. Coming from Florida…
BF – Hope your back is doing much better after that move with your mom! You must be getting excited about your Spanish trip!
Dashka – see the links I put under OMM. Interesting, as I always knew there were higher chances the more you do, but didn’t really know it was like this. I hope you do go another round. But, before all of that, you need to get through this thyroid thing! Good luck on your appt. I hope they do the biopsy right there & I hope they don’t have to do surgery!!! I put more in your journal, but just wanted to give you some here, too & wish you luck!!!
Pebble – yeah, honestly when I got Lasik, it was nothing! So easy & a 24-hr recuperation, if that’s what you even wanted to call it – was really just a tad uncomfortable that night. But PRK was painful & about 1 week recovery. I could barely even open my eyes for 3 days (slept a lot & got a nice loooong audiobook by Steven King – 29 hrs long! ). This is supposed to be “in between”, so we’ll see . I’ll deal. for AF! (that is not said too often on here!). And champagne! Do you know that you can order your own progesterone tests off the web? I think the simplest 2-test one is like $59 (Amazon). May be cheaper to just go to RE/OBYGYN though. Just a quickie blood test & you get results the next day . Seems like you chart temps are high enough, but idk if higher temps during LP can truly mean that progesterone is high as it should be? May be worth doing it, because that’s such a simple fix if it was low . Would hate to see you get pregs & then mc from something like that… Oh – HSG, I got my results right then & there since he talked about it as he was doing it “tubes look great, look at this, this is your ovary/tube/etc”. But if you just have a Radiologist, I’m not sure they’re allowed to say anything? But if they are blocked, its going to be hard for them not to, as they’ll have to tell you what’s going on at the time??? GL on Monday & hope you get your results then, too!!!
Chicken – hope DH has his appt by now??? It’s so easy for men to be chill about it. Many of them just need to on certain days & their duties are done- see, TTC is so simple! Not!
Moon - Glad AF came – this time! . Wow, you’re a pilot too? Some smart cookies on this thread! Oh BDing at the in-laws – can make for some funny as you try to “keep it quiet”, hands go over mouths &…. . And then telling the IL’s how it was conceived would make an especially good story – lol. Good luck on that one! That’s a heck of a lot of cooking for one person, but Yummmmmmm your TG dinner sounds awesome!!!! I’m SO hungry now!
Tiger – yes, bring on 2013!!!! Since a lot of us have had bad luck in the other years, maybe the #13 will actually be LUCKY for the rest of us that are still here!
Pad – you never upset me, rather it’s the opposite – you make me laugh! When I can understand what you are saying . Love it! And you are always very thoughtful in doing Spoilers thing, so please stay! You’ve been through hell & we are all so happy for you here!
on baby Pads scan! Sorry you can’t tell the sex yet – I thought it usually had to be later, but I guess there’s always a chance if at the right angle? It’s GOT to be a girl – this one’s a keeper!
OMM – that’s so interesting you said that about 2nd round working better. I recently found some stats that were very interesting. It showed that many frozen cycles were actually more successful than the fresh ones . And I was wondering if it was due to all of the stress, etc. associated w/fresh cycles? Maybe it’s just one study/analysis, but FWW: https://attainfertility.com/article/ivf-success-rates. And this site shows success rates of 1st 2nd & 3rd IVf cycles…(it doesn’t show them for 38+, but we can get the gist of it anyway): https://attainivf.com/ivf-success-rate.
DrH –
Looks like you are just cooking right along! Btw, I’ll drink the wine for you, don’t worry.
LadyH –
try to remember it was just a dream. But I can see how you’d be upset . Just 1 more week & things will be cleared up for you. Enjoy the sun, beach & virgin daiquiris & colladas in the meantime!
Purps – welcome back, love! Shouldn’t be here? Of course you come anytime you want & I hope you don’t ever leave! You have to stay & “supervise” to make sure every one of us gets a rainbow…
Nessaw – hope things are going well for you now.
Green - so sorry about work! I hope it gets sorted soon
AFM – work has been super-busy (11-hr days) & then with the holidays & a sprinkle of family drama, could only make it to journals here & there lately! UTI survived the attack of anti-b’s & meds, so now I’m trying D-mannose & concentrated cranberry (much more potent). It just has to leave before O time, at least! Not that I’m the least bit into it this month. My baby sis is driving down from college today to stay w/me for 4 days, so looking forward to that (she’s 20 yrs younger – could be my daughter - easily!). I look after her & make her care pkgs & stuff since we don’t have a mom anymore, so I’m like a mom-friend type. She’s not scared of my dad w/her grades, she’s scared of MWOAH! She’s a funny/wild one, that one! She says she takes after somebody but idk who she’s talking about? Going to SIL’s for TG dinner so will be making some stuff tonight/tomorrow. I hope our US ladies have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!
to all!!! We’ll get there ladies, we’ll get there… bring on 2013!
Maddy - Day5! Idk anything about the IUI meds (yet), but good luck over the next few days & hope some twinges happen really soon! (2hrs?? -that sucks!!!! )
Dashka - I'm so sorry about the arrival of the . Big massive to you hun.
Pebble- um, can we say Columbine? That sounds pretty scary to me! If he's just smoking pot, no biggie (to be expected almost), but the violence/mental stuff - he had to say some pretty heavy stuff to have the cops there. But, I'm guessing these are the procedures after the school-shooting sprees have crept up over the last few years . Sad...
Lils...that is my plan!! To lurk around until every person on here gets their snuggly baby! Then and only then will I take my soggy down and leave the thread!
Meantime, I will pop by, lurk as I said, and leave a hundred hugs for you all!!
Lils...that is my plan!! To lurk around until every person on here gets their snuggly baby! Then and only then will I take my soggy down and leave the thread!
Meantime, I will pop by, lurk as I said, and leave a hundred hugs for you all!!
We had a fun afternoon-2 1/2 hour power cut !was a wee bit tricky trying to do pe with 28 5 yr olds in the dark!have had a couple of wobbly days.tmi-just bored of waiting for the bleeding to stop.feelin fat cos comfort eating and not exercising.have never been v patient.
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big 
feeling bit sorry for myself so think will book a trip to moondusts for thanksgiving dinner!
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I'll check in on your journal.
People don’t realize how much time, effort & money is involved. It’s a beautiful thing, but you do have to really want it. Glad that egg is removed – jeez?! Thanks for the speedy recovery wishes & good luck on IUI!!! 
Coming from Florida…
. I’ll deal. 
on certain days & their duties are done- see, TTC is so simple! Not! 
. And I was wondering if it was due to all of the stress, etc. associated w/fresh cycles? Maybe it’s just one study/analysis, but FWW: https://attainfertility.com/article/ivf-success-rates. And this site shows success rates of 1st 2nd & 3rd IVf cycles…(it doesn’t show them for 38+, but we can get the gist of it anyway): https://attainivf.com/ivf-success-rate. 
If he's just smoking pot, no biggie (to be expected almost), but the violence/mental stuff - he had to say some pretty heavy stuff to have the cops there. 
