TTCAL 2015 Rainbows! (7 Rainbows & 2 Angels)

[KylasBaby]

Morning ladies! Or afternoon or evening depending on where you are. My impressive bed head says it's morning here Slept over my parents last night. They went out to a casino about a 3hr drive away and needed a "babysitter" for their dog. He is 13 today!!! So he is very old and is going blind and deaf and has arthritis and bad separation issues. So I stayed here with them. When I stay the night here I sleep on the couch downstairs in the playroom (my mom has a home daycare). Well last night I had four dogs with me (my 2, my parents, and my brothers) and one of my cats. My cats live here as at the moment I have a place with two roommates and one is allergic to cats. Can't wait to be out of that place but that's a whole other story. So their dog had me awake at 2 freaking in the morning?! We are not friends at the moment haha.

Other than that just waiting for AF to arrive. There was a couple spots on my undies when I got up (sorry TMI) so I was all excited! But nothing when I wiped. It should be here sometime today though. I'm still sick as a dog. Strep as an adult is seriously no fun. I remember having it as a kid and it was not a big deal.

Now to address all I missed...

Cupcake - hope things are going well hun. Well as well as they can in the situation. Have you spoken with your boss yet? Or made an appointment with your doctor at home?

nessaw - so sorry for your losses! Hopefully you can find the support you need here

Bushmumma - FX for you!

brunette - how are things going?

hanni, holly, buttrfly how are you guys all doing?


To all!!

 

[brunettebimbo]

I am so scared. I really want this to be our rainbow baby.

Good Luck everyone.

 

[Buttrflyl553]

Sorry ladies been exhausted and busy ( please be a good sign for exhaustion! ). Going to catch up now.

Kylasbaby I appreciate you sharing your story. I was also on antidepressants and went off them when we decided to ttc. I believe that my anxiety and depression may make it more difficult to move on with certain things, such as this, but we do the begs we can I understand about the weight gain etc it's always nice to hear someone who has the same types of experiences and can relate. Possible AF coming your way? That was the only time I remember praying for AF sorry about your strep. Are you feeling better?

Ladders I'm sorry that people are not being empathetic. I agree with the other ladies that you don't understand until you have been through it. We are here for you. Great attitude you have with thoughts on DH's spermies and and that you guys have been pregnant already. I try to think if that as well. Only one sperm analysis done. I have the results in front of me to let you know because they still confuse me...volume was 1.6 where I think it should be 2.0 but she wasn't completely concerned about that. Motility was 31.1%. She said the bad ones are getting in the way of the good. She did recommend another analysis but our insurance doesn't cover so I opted for clomid which did not for me. Going to see a fertility specialist this month if no BFP and will get a second opinion. I definitely don't mind sharing because it helps with support and insight

Fairy dust yay positive opk! Hope BDing is going well. Glad you like digital OPKs. I'm guessing they can be easier to read rather than the lines that are not always consistent.

So sorry for what you are going through, kbcupcake. I opted for d and c because I was scared of doing natural. I was so scared but found that it wasn't as bad as I thought, emotionally of course it takes I toll. I did end up taking off a couple days after because of emotions but I also found that the med they gave me had me having pretty bad cramping. I am sure your job with understand. Good luck. I understand about the money too! My insurance is terrible and I'm still laying both the hospital and Gyno a year later....everyone needs to have coverage for these type of events.
Keep us updated and best of luck.

Nessaw so sorry for your losses. My DH also has same sperm issues, what vitamins is your DH taking if you don't mind me asking? I just started my DH on fertility blend we bought at gnc. Do you find it helpful? Sorry for all the questions. Good luck on your journey.

Bush and slowloris good luck on BDing! Are you guys cycle buddies?

Brunette completely understand being scared. Hoping and praying for you and your bean. Do you go in for US or blood work soon?

AFM around 6 dpo. If I didn't know how late I ovulated would have thought I was pregnant already based on the symptoms I am having. Someone did tell me that clomid gives those symptoms until AF sometimes so I am keeping that in mind. Mother's Day is tomorrow and although I think it is way to early I may test at 7dpo. Not expecting anything but would be wonderful on Mother's Day
Happy Mother's Day to all the Angel mommies out there who celebrate the holiday tomorrow. Someone posted the below on another thread and I found it beautiful and thought I would share. Mother's Day is for us all

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MosAkwGMJYM

 

[brunettebimbo]

I'm in the UK so they don't do blood work. I saw my Doctor yesterday, he prescribed 5mg Folic acid and 75mg Dispersible Aspirin. I've also been referred to the hospital for monitoring. Hoping I hear from them soon.

 

[KylasBaby]

Brunette - FX this is your take home baby!

Buttrfly - AF should be here today. I really hope she shows up because WHEN I conceive this month my due date would be Valentines day! And that would be great. I've been having some cramping and pressure in the uterus area so she is coming. Just not sure exactly when. Not really feeling much better. Just hoping the antibiotics finally start working. Best of luck to you this cycle!

FX we ALL get our rainbow take home babies this cycle!

 

[nessaw]

Thanks guys. Buttrfly he's on conceive plus for men plus cutting down on booze and stuff like no phone in pocket etc. We've managed to get pg twice so am optimistic for a 3rd time.
brunette I know how scared you must be. I was and (fingers crossed) will be again. One day at a time. Hugs.x

 

[ladders]

Buttrfly my dh second sample showed low volume at 1.6ml and low motility at 48% and high viscosity and I did some research and found it was possibly due to dehydration. My dh was a bugger for drinking coffee at work and then beer at home and no water etc so I think He was chronically dehydration which makes the semen thick and lower volume and harder for the sperm to move. I got him drinking more water and taking mucinex around o week and I think that's what got me my bfp. Might not be the same for your dh but worth a try because water doesn't cost anything.

Still taking opks and nothing yet, apparently I can't do the whole ntnp Guesse it's too ingrained

 

[Buttrflyl553]

Brunette didn't realize things were different in the uk. Hope you hear back from hospital soon. What dpo did you get positive?

Kylasbaby valentines day would be such a great due date...hoping for you! If you don't mind me asking, do you know your donor?

Nessaw and ladders thank you for the info! I am new at this spermy stuff so many pointers/ hope is great! And yes ladders if h20 does the trip it is free and that is fabulous! What does the mucinex do?
Good luck ladies!

Anyone used any lube other than preseed? I have to use lube because I have pelvic pain and both DH and I don't like preseed. Wish I could use the one I had when we weren't ttc but it isn't really ttc friendly that we know of.

 

[brunettebimbo]

9DPO. It's progressing too.
https://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh70/kjordanj/Snapbucket/AE4A244E-C2B7-482B-806C-9E6043B5AB99_zpsrcnm6xld.jpg

With my losses I didn't get a dark test until 15DPO and it didn't really progress until 21DPO. I'm hoping that's a good sign this time.

I'm 11DPO today.

 

[brunettebimbo]

Have you tried conceive plus?

 

[KylasBaby]

Buttrfly - thanks! I don't know him, no. I found him on a donor website. Were gonna go for lunch or coffee (I'm pushing for coffee, but he asked about lunch. I don't want to get too familiar with him and I feel talking about all this stuff in person would be awkward with some guy I don't know) but we want to iron out all the details. And I'll give him the cups and preseed. So he can provide a sample at home and then were gonna meet halfway between us to hand it off. So I should be able to inseminate within half an hour to forty five minutes. With my last donor my inseminations were an hour and a half after I got the sample and the other was 45 minutes. And I still got pregnant. So I'm not too worried about the time.

Brunette - beautiful progression!

AF still hasn't shown so it's looking like it's not gonna start today . Which there is no reason it shouldn't as I took medicine to bring it on and it always comes 3 days after I stop it. Maybe being sick or my antibiotics messed with it? But still hoping it comes soon!

 

[Bushmumma]

Feeling lucky about this cycle! Watch out for me I've not missed BD'ing even done it again last night and plan to tonight haha I'm like a sex machine lucky DH loves it lol...

 

[Bushmumma]

Burnette!! I love the picture of lines!! And lovely progression I must say whoop whoop!

 

[KylasBaby]

So I'm officially calling AF out on showing up today. I did some research and the medicine I take to bring on AF isn't supposed to interact with my antibiotics so I'm chalking it up to being sick and my body being stressed from all of that. FX it comes soon. But here's the other thing, I've been having some pain on my lower right side kind of like ovulation pain. So I took an opk for the hell of it and it was halfway to being positive....I know with PCOS OPKs can be a bit wonky, but they never have been for me. They've always worked well as they're supposed to. So maybe I'm going to ovulate instead?

Tomorrow is Mother's Day. Going to be a sad day for us. You are all in my thoughts and prayers!

 

[Bushmumma]

It's Mother's Day here and my babies got me a great bag of goodies!! I'm thinking of my angel today and all other mums with angels also happy Mother's Day to all! Xo

 

[ladders]

Buttrfly the mucinex is supposed to thin out the semen so the sperm can move better and swim faster. I'm having dh take it again now but I'm worried I'm not going to ovulate, strips look ghastly white at the moment!

 

[KBCupcake]

Buttrfly I hear coconut oil is a great lubricant and is sperm friendly. I've tried it twice with DH and we were happy with it. Much cheaper than Preseed.

@brunette happy to see that lovely progression. I don't think my Wondfos ever got darker than the control with my pregnancy. It took until around 18 or 20 dpo for the lines to get as dark as the control, and they just got lighter from there I think. I wish you LOTS of luck and sticky baby dust. xxx

@ladders I didn't know dehydration affected sperm... I saw DH drinking bottled water right now and warned him to chug it lol

Today is a bit rough since it's mother's day. I hope everyone gets through this just ok.

Anyway, thanks for the support ladies, all of you!! I wish I could give you big bear hugs, but this is all I can give for now!

 

[ladders]

Nor did I until the second sa, I'm like a crazy person on Google about anything ttc.
Think I could go on mastermind with specialist subject ttc! Although doesn't seem to get me very far unfortunately.

Mothers day was in march for us which I'm glad of because would have been a hard day so I'm thinking of all you ladies today

 

[Bushmumma]

Cupcake- I'll take that and give you one right back it's pretty amazing the strength we all pull from one another on here.. You know thatvwouldakw perfect sense about dehydration for sperm, my DH come to think of it dies NOT drink enough water at all!! Hmmm, things are gunna change haha..

 

[Buttrflyl553]

Hi ladies,
Just popping in quick to say happy Mother's Day to all who celebrate on this date. It's a hard one for us all but I am glad that we are here for each other.