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[Jessicabaxter]

Test

No sign of the witch yet heading into day 35 now ???????????

 

[HappyCpl]

Banana, that would be Murphy's law... But I'm with Jessica.. You should TEST! There may not be a reason for the Clomid.

 

[HappyCpl]

Mama, I can't wait to see if that temp spikes this morning

 

[banana07]

Well the witch got me yesterday so starting the clomid today. Will wait until tonight like the girls said try to keep the side effects to a minimum. Someone up there hates me anyway a week late. Its just teasing

 

[HappyCpl]

I'm sorry banana

 

[elt1013]

I'm sorry banana, but atleast you can get on with it now and start that clomid!

 

[Hann12]

That's rubbish banana but as the others said at least you now have a fresh cycle and can get on the clomid. Really hope it works first time!

Hope this post doesn't appear insensitive so tell me to go away if it is, but just wanted to see what your thoughts are on a baby name. We had agreed on Caitlin Evie for our girls name but DH has just said he isn't 100% on it and prefers the name Carrie. We had originally talked about Carrie so it's not come out of no where, and we like it as its not common here (it was number 1345 in the top names in the UK!). And it's easily spelt whereas a negative to Caitlin is that it's spelt so many different ways and is quite popular (number 70ish). If we went with Carrie we wanted to give it a pretty middle name, maybe something like Alyssa. So in all likelihood it would be Carrie Alyssa. What do you think? Do you think it goes okay with Annabelle Millie, our DD? It might all be irrelevant as it could be a boy but I don't want to give birth and be one of those couples that don't have a name for their baby for a day or two. Any thoughts would be much appreciated

 

[MamaMac123]

I like Carrie Alyssa and goes nicely with your dd name but I like Caitlin also! Haha

The first middle name suggestion that popped into my head was Carrie Isabella. but Alyssa is very pretty

Banana - glad you can get going with the clomid!

Afm - no confirmed ov yet but last cycle I never got a pos opk and I've been lax on them over the holiday weekend so I could have easily missed it. Also I looked back and on both my previous charts with this clomid dosage I had the temp drop followed but a smaller rise for 2 days then the big jump. So yesterday my temp dropped, today it shot up but not super high. So I'm guessing tomorrow it will be a bit higher or near the same and then I'll get the big jump. Hoping anyway! My only real concern is that I hope DH and I haven't bd too much. For the past couple days I've had us going every night because I'm always sure it's the day an then no temp shift. But I know the one night we don't I'll wake up and see that temp spike and want to kick myself! Errrr I hate not having a reliable cycle. Hopefully DH's swimmers are good. They say if sperm count is okay then every day isn't a problem. But we've had good timed sex on previous cycles and still nothing so I worry about his levels. Guess if we get through the clomid and still not prego then we go to fertility and they'll check him out.

Sad news, this weekend one of my best friends found out she has an ectopic pregnancy so sad for her...made for a bit of a tough holiday

 

[Hann12]

Thanks mama much appreciated

Its so annoying that you are having to guess ovulation, I wonder why the OPKs aren't being very reliable - might be worth trying a new brand. When do you go back to the doctor? I hope its happened anyway - really have my FX for you

 

[MamaMac123]

My doc told me after we got my clomid right to just go with it for the 6months. As long as I'm ovulating. After my clomid runs out if I'm not preg she'll refer me to infertility where I'm seriously hoping they do more!

I wish they were still doing bloods each cycle to make sure my levels are right. Oh well. Free health care means you don't get much....

 

[banana07]

Hey hann. Im a bias i like caitlin is i nice name but its in like the top 10 here almost every year most Irish names are. I think Carrie is a really lovely name i only know one child called Carrie and she is lovely! I think if you have it down to two your not bad you Will prob know when you see her!

What about boys names? I never got to do the names thing before ds was named after dh's late brother, Billy and if ds was a girl he would probably only have been named last year when we finally choose a girls name just couldn't decide at the time eh which was 6 years ago!!!!! Think this time Will go with Kara Louise or Dylan Joseph. Ds is Billy (William) Peter. I kind of have to put Louise is for a girl its been carried through 4 generations on my mammys side.

My fav name for a boy was always Evan but our surname is Evans so that might be a bit odd ! Also loved Ryan but its so so popular now plus Dylan is Welsh so altitude nod to dh's family tree, Evans is Welsh apparently the came to Ireland hundreds of years ago. I like little things like that.

Oh can't wait for that part yours lucky Hannah!!

 

[banana07]

 

[banana07]

Forgot to explain she middle names. Peter is my daddys name figured since he has 3 daughters and no sons he have noone to carry on the family name so gave billy his middle name. Louise a
As i said my great granny, granny, mammy and me all have the middle name Louise well i got stuck with it as a double barrel. And Joseph is dh first name, i would like a son called Joseph but only if i have a 3rd soon. Otherwise i would have a William and a Joseph the exact same as my mother in law so Will only do it if i can break it up with a dylan.

oh and i love Michaela but Joe doesn't like it. He thinks its sounds Irish but its not and he doesn't like Irish names ( hence the William!! ) and hence why if i have a girl her name Will have to be spelt with a k not the way its meant to be spelt with a c. Its directly means friend in Irish but that's not why i like it i just like it and there is no letter k in the Irish
language so if we spell kara with a k Joe figures its no longer Irish!!! Yeah you can tell this argument has been going on over 6 years!!!!!
And now i figure i know ye long enough and we have been through enough to tell to that believe it or not my name is not banana!!!! Its Emma-Louise!!!! Tada!!!!!!

 

[banana07]

Hey hann. Im a bias i like caitlin is i nice name but its in like the top 10 here almost every year most Irish names are. I think Carrie is a really lovely name i only know one child called Carrie and she is lovely! I think if you have it down to two your not bad you Will prob know when you see her!

What about boys names? I never got to do the names thing before ds was named after dh's late brother, Billy and if ds was a girl he would probably only have been named last year when we finally choose a girls name just couldn't decide at the time eh which was 6 years ago!!!!! Think this time Will go with Kara Louise or Dylan Joseph. Ds is Billy (William) Peter. I kind of have to put Louise is for a girl its been carried through 4 generations on my mammys side.

My fav name for a boy was always Evan but our surname is Evans so that might be a bit odd ! Also loved Ryan but its so so popular now plus Dylan is Welsh so altitude nod to dh's family tree, Evans is Welsh apparently the came to Ireland hundreds of years ago. I like little things like that.

Oh can't wait for that part yours lucky Hannah!!

 

[runnergrl]

Hann- I like your original name, Caitlin Evie over Carrie. Only reason is there is a horror movie called Carrie and it is very creepy! Lol! Plus, I love all the variations you can have with Caitlin, if you do that sort of thing. As is, or Cait, Caty, Cat, etc. VERY cute!

As it may be, we would have never settled on a girl's name, as we could just not agree or even come close! Good thing this baby is a boy! And just in case you were all wondering, his name is Brooks Christian

 

[MamaMac123]

Morning ladies

Got a decent temp rise this am as predicted. Still not the huge jump but I'm hoping it will happen tomorrow. Looking good anyway.

How's everyone else this morning?

 

[Hann12]

Lovely name Runnergrl!

Thanks for all the comments on the name too they have helped - funnily enough Runnergrl, people kept saying to me about this Stephen King Carrie film, which was in the 1970s, so I googled it as I wanted to see what it was all about and the date it was released, anyway I found out that there is a new Carrie film coming out this year in time for Halloween. Its a proper Hollywood blockbuster! I told DH and he said that the name is officially off the table now - he compared it to calling a boy Hannibal the year that silence of the lambs was out lol! So he has now agreed that it will be Caitlin. It will probably be Caitlin Alyssa (I still love Evie but he prefers Alyssa so I'm happy to give way to that). Caitlin was around no. 70 in the top 100 names here last year and Alyssa was 140ish, whereas Evie is top 10.
Of course after all this fuss its probably a boy anyway lol! at least the problem is solved anyway! The boys name is definitely Henry Edward and thats not changing!!
So thank you all - I'll keep you posted on what it ends up being of course, I am thinking boy though....

 

[runnergrl]

I need to see your bump one more time to make my final gender prediction please

 

[Hann12]

This was taken last week - what do you think?

 

[elt1013]

Hann- you look great...and I was also going to say that Carrie reminded me of the film "Carrie". I think Caitlin Alyssa is very cute!

Mama- hope that temp shoots up higher tmrw!

banana- We have our middle name in common and our first initial as well! My name is Elena Louise! Pretty cool!

runnergrl- I also like your boy name!

afm- I'm still feeling pretty good, just a little sicky when I don't eat often enough. I called my insurance and asked how many ultrasounds I am allowed and was told that they will cover as many as are medically neccessary, so hopefully my doctor will make them medically neccessary, and I will be able to have a few!