Welcome to 'Trying To Conceive Over 35'

[Grey Eyes]

Ali- are you back yet? Did you get Jess' ice cream ?!

LOL, I haven't left yet! That movie, the 5 year engagement took me like 4 hours to watch! Geesh! It didn't help that I got interrupted about 5 times, kind of like their engagement. LOL!

I am going to go now.. doubt I'll pick up any ice cream, but my favorite is Publix brand ice cream. It is fantabulous. So yummy! It is the store brand, but by far the best. It is not too sweet, and they have so many cool flavors. Even some lower fat options of frozen yogurt too. They are the bomb!

So that is where I'm heading now.. does sound good! Especially if I put it on top of my blondie!

Mmmm- did you say "the bomb"? LOL! I used to use that phrase all the time..Oh and I used to be these horribly bad for you burritos called The Bomb and they are AWESOME! As long as you don't read what's in them Growing up in Alaska our food was very plain, you know- mom would boil meat and throw a spud in there...but when I moved to Utah years ago (don't live there anymore) I learned to love mexican food, the real stuff....O my gosh this lady I knew would make the most amazing stews with pork and green chilies...I have no clue what she did but it was like Heaven on fire! That's what I am hungry for, would prob throw me into instant labor

 

[Sunshine15]

alicatt, congrats on tranferring 2...that's great! I can't wait till ou get bfp on oct 1
Afm, I'm sure you can see in my sigy that I'm on

 

[Grey Eyes]

alicatt, congrats on tranferring 2...that's great! I can't wait till ou get bfp on oct 1
Afm, I'm sure you can see in my sigy that I'm on

Sunshine15- wow, congratulations on a beautiful According to your sig this was your first IVF right? Awesome! I bet you ARE on cloud 9! How are you feeling so far? What were some of your early symptmos if any?

 

[Grey Eyes]

Ok ladies. Here's a quandary. How am I supposed to effectivley perform both Perineal Massage AND kegals What they ask us women to do! LOL!

 

[alicatt]

Ok ladies. Here's a quandary. How am I supposed to effectivley perform both Perineal Massage AND kegals What they ask us women to do! LOL!

HUH? What is a preineal massage?

 

[alicatt]

alicatt, congrats on tranferring 2...that's great! I can't wait till ou get bfp on oct 1
Afm, I'm sure you can see in my sigy that I'm on

Sunshine that is fantastic news! I hope to follow in your foot steps here in another few days! I'm obsessing right now about my cramping and lower back pain. I feel like AF is on its way, but AF is at least a week off!

 

[Grey Eyes]

Ok ladies. Here's a quandary. How am I supposed to effectivley perform both Perineal Massage AND kegals What they ask us women to do! LOL!

HUH? What is a preineal massage?

Ummm.......LOL! K, the area between the vaginal opening and rectum stretches immensly during childbirth and often tears. To aid in the prevention of tearing women are advised to perform Perenium Massage. Place thumbs 1-1.5 inches inside vaginal opening, press down toward rectum and massage in a "U" shape to stretch this skin. This (in theory) helps to prevent tears. i did this with last dd and seemed to help TONS, although that could have just been the fact that I was a second time mom too

 

[jm1355]

Coy...this is my thesis work space today...my kitchen table...a bit of a mess, but the popcorn is AWESOME!

 

[alicatt]

OK So totally off topic..

I always think best while I'm in the shower!!! Which is probably why I take such long showers (I know that will all end when I have babies to run after)!! Anyway, while I was in there, I suddenly realized the timing of Monday (9/24). I am going in for my p4 test Monday morning. Well I'll be 5dp5dt! I bet my FS is trying to pull a sneaky one on me and is going to test my hCG. By that point it most definitely would show up on a blood test!
What do you guys think? are they pulling a fast one? I'm wondering if they will test it secretly and not tell me unless it is good news, and if it is bad, they'll just make me wait another week to be sure?

 

[alicatt]

Ok ladies. Here's a quandary. How am I supposed to effectivley perform both Perineal Massage AND kegals What they ask us women to do! LOL!

HUH? What is a preineal massage?

Ummm.......LOL! K, the area between the vaginal opening and rectum stretches immensly during childbirth and often tears. To aid in the prevention of tearing women are advised to perform Perenium Massage. Place thumbs 1-1.5 inches inside vaginal opening, press down toward rectum and massage in a "U" shape to stretch this skin. This (in theory) helps to prevent tears. i did this with last dd and seemed to help TONS, although that could have just been the fact that I was a second time mom too

If it works, then by all means go for it! But ya, I think they meant do one then the other, not both at the same time

 

[jm1355]

Hmmm...I did both with my son. I think the kegal exercises helped (I think I never really stopped doing them...I would do them at the red lights and I still do! ) but as far as the perineal massage, well, my big head son came out so fast that he ripped me all the way back AND up!! OUCH!! I sat on a donut for almost six weeks!!

 

[jm1355]

Ali...I don't think it is ethical for them to check anything without letting you know that they are doing it. So the BETTER tell you ...

...and you BETTER tell us!!! Lol!

 

[alicatt]

Ali...I don't think it is ethical for them to check anything without letting you know that they are doing it. So the BETTER tell you ...

...and you BETTER tell us!!! Lol!

HAHA! I will definitely tell you!! I know the FS I was using in Canada did a hCG at the same time she did progesterone and she didn't tell her patients about it until they came back the week later for the real hCG. That way she would have an early level and a second level to compare. Plus she said that so many of her patients would have a low hCG on the 7dpo day and then nothing by 14dpo (chemical). In my case though it will be 10dpo, and by then we should have a nice hCG level. At least I hope we do!!!

 

[alicatt]

On a side note, I almost clobbered Michael last week when he stayed over the night before my transfer. I was taking him out to dinner for his trouble (you know trying to be nice) and he starts a fight with me. Insists that I don't know what I'm talking about. I mentioned how we are already about a month pregnant when we find out they we are pregnant. He go all bent out of shape and insisted that I was misinformed. I'm like, and you've been pregnant before? You have spent the last 4 months trying to get pregnant? How on earth would you know? He responded that they count from when you conceive and its 9 months from then! I tried to explain to him that there are several ways to determine when you will be due, but they all say that when you find out you are pregnant you are already about a month pregnant. Still he insisted I was wrong!!! He can be so pig headded!!! So we got our food (we were at sweet tomatoes - salad buffet) and sat down, and I pulled out my pregnancy calculator app on my iPhone plugged in my LMP and showed him how far along I was (at the time it was just over 3 weeks), and then I said, just for sh*t and giggles lets plug in the egg retrieval date since we know that it is the day my egg(s) were fertilized. Low and behold it gave the same answer! That I would be due the beginning of July, and that I was a little over 3 weeks pregnant. He was dumbfounded. GEESH! Some men just think they know everything, and they just don't.

 

[Grey Eyes]

Jess- your work station looks much like mine! Only no popcorn, right now it's sunflower seeds And I wonder about the PM in that case...I have never torn with either of my dd's so it may just be luck or something But I am trying my best to do the pm anyway, just in case....

Ali- lol at Michael! Why do men think they know so much about women but are almost always wrong? Sheesh!

Oh, and on the hcg testing. Hmm..they might do that. I agree with Jess, I think ethically it is wrong for them to test and not tell you, so I would be up front with them and just ask! R U going to test with an hpt before then?

 

[Grey Eyes]

K, I'll try to keep this one short LOL! Sometimes my pet peeve list can go on and on and on...

1) Go to the store yourself- why do I always have to go?

2) (at children) Eat what you are given or go hungry. Period.

3) Leave me alone, I am trying to study!! (Again, at children...)

4) The garbage can is, like, right there! How can you possibly miss it!!!

5) Pee in the toilet, not on it!

6) Why ask Mom? Why can't dad answer?!

Ah. I feel better lol!

 

[Grey Eyes]

I am suddenly starving and not sure what I want to eat...Dh and the girls have had dinner already and I am working on my assignment after making like the billionth trip to the store. Now I am hungry and can't think of a darn thing I want I am drinking a bottle of water, maybe that will help?

 

[jm1355]

I am suddenly starving and not sure what I want to eat...Dh and the girls have had dinner already and I am working on my assignment after making like the billionth trip to the store. Now I am hungry and can't think of a darn thing I want I am drinking a bottle of water, maybe that will help?

I hope you mean "help you figure out what to eat" and not "help you with your hunger"! Girl, you better eat!!

 

[Grey Eyes]

I am suddenly starving and not sure what I want to eat...Dh and the girls have had dinner already and I am working on my assignment after making like the billionth trip to the store. Now I am hungry and can't think of a darn thing I want I am drinking a bottle of water, maybe that will help?

I hope you mean "help you figure out what to eat" and not "help you with your hunger"! Girl, you better eat!!

Lol, yes I actually meant help me with my hunger But I think I'll go make a sandwich or something after I get the girls to bed Right now they are running around looking for wxcuses not to sleep and papa is dealing with them so I am working on my assignment....

 

[jm1355]

Good morning everyone! So I was looking at my chart today and I had another temperature spike. At first I was thinking triphasic. But now I realize my cardio at the gym has been crazy. And I think that is what could cause my temperature rise. What do y'all think?