TTC A Rainbow Sibling 3/4

[madameovary]

What's that noise?  It's deafening.  Oh, it's your biological clock ticking.








This is for those thinking about/getting ready to or actively TTC a rainbow sibling. The check-in will be posted weekly.



If you are charting, feel free to share a link for others to stalk you





QOTW: What names are you secretly obsessing about?  



If you've already answered the questions below, just share what's new or what is on your mind!



For those thinking about/getting ready:



When do you plan to start trying?

Are there things you need/want to do before you start trying?

How are you feeling about starting to TTC again?

Any questions or other things to share?



For those actively TTC:



CD/DPO?

Testing Plans?

How are you doing with TTC again?

Any questions or other things to share?



mrsbutton - How are the opks going?
@mattsgirl2004- Are you using opks this time?
docamy- Are all your appointments scheduled?  What is next on the list?
wifey- where is AF, yo?
linzeeh80- welcome!  How much are you realllllly "not trying?"  
@chnkma- did AF show?  She keeps tricking me.  Or maybe I'm just grumpy a lot.
unringthebell- when is the SIS?
scimomma- Sorry for the neverending education.  My H is also working on a program and I feel like he misses a lot (and I don't get as much help as I'd like), but we decided it was better now instead when BBQ is older and notices.  I know you have an older LO though.
muirmaid- Did you have a surprise O or are you stillll waiting?
DoesItComeInPink?  Did you have your dentist appointment?  Is it go time?

[wifey]

Hi dee ho..

Nothing eventful going on here. CD26, and zero sign of ovulation (usually get really bad cramps mid cycle) or AF.

The nurse said to call next week if there is more of nada, and I will go on Provera for 10 days.



QOTW: I do have a boy and girl name in mind, but it changed with Tate, so I may find something else this time too. I prefer names that are not out there, but not common. I do enjoy looking up the meanings of various names I like.

[chknma]

No news here. No AF. Still trying to get into the swing of charting CP/CM. I keep reading into the smallest of bodily signs. I think I'll finally bite the bullet and order a pack of wondfo OPKs and tests. I figure that I can at least take a cheapie test every once in a while to calm my silly mind.

Mostly unrelated- DH and I had our first overnight date night last weekend. It was weird how many people made comments about us making another baby. Mind your own business people!

QOTW: We're set with the same boy name we've always had which is a jr for DH. I like old lady names for our girls, but nothing specific in mind for now.

[muirmaid]

CD/DPO? CD 30 here, and still WTO.

Testing Plans? I'm almost out of OPKs again. Trying to decide whether to bite the bullet and order 50 more or wait a few more days just in case I ovulate soon and this is my cycle. I should probably just order them and tempt fate, I guess. Maybe it'd work in my favor...but man, it sucks knowing I've peed on at least a hundred of them in the last six months or so.

How are you doing with TTC again? I'm a giant mess. I would love to post on the CAL crazy train from time to time, but so much of my frustration is tied to not being able to temp accurately because of DS, and I know that board's not the place for that conversation. It's hard to be around here sometimes, too, because of all the adorable squish pics. I just feel sort of adrift. And my loss anniversary is this weekend, so I'm not exactly in the mood to keep up the EOD sex hoping to have decent timing if I ever ovulate. Blarg.

Any questions or other things to share? Just a link to my chart full of artificially high temps and open circles: My Ovulation Chart I'm open to anyone who wants to make a case that the +OPK I got last Saturday was telling the truth! I don't see any way that's possible, but...you know. Hope springs eternal.

QOTW: DH and I both love, love, love the name Henrietta (NN Hen, or maybe Etta)--it's my great-aunt's name, and I think it has so much spunk! We were team green with DS, so it went back in the vault when he was born. Boy names were tough last time; no real contenders there at the moment.

[madameovary]

@mattsgirl2004, get it girl. I hope those OPKs make you more confident about your O date.
DoesItComeInPink, wooo hooo. Good work on the dental work! Will you resist buying hpts?
unringthebell, good luck with the physical. Get your list of questions ready!
wifey, yuck to Provera. I hope it doesn't come to that.
chknma, our AFs are out having lunch together somewhere. I'm not anxious for her to return (hoping to get a few more months until we are closer to TTC, but I keep thinking she's 'round the corner.
muirmaid, I'm sorry for the loss anniversary We can be your crazy train! Just let it all out.

[madameovary]

Nothing too much going on here. I still have another week or so of "staying out of there" until my bits heal. I feel like AF might be starting soon, but she's been tricking me for the last few months. I'm still breastfeeding day and night so maybe she'll stay away a bit longer. We were looking at vacation schedules for 2015 so we could carry over the max number of days to 2016 for a potential future baby. Crazy!

[wifey]

Hugs, muirmaid . My thoughts are with you this weekend.

[docamy]

Well even though I didn't mention it I got my hair chopped off today. I usually let my hair get really long and then cut it off and I was wanting to get that done. Next on the list if my dental apt next week! After that I need to renew my college loan repayment plan (gross) and get my pups teeth cleaned. Unfortunately I had to add another item on my list. My 10 year old golden retriever has a mass that needs to be removed. It was very soft and most likely a lipoma that I've been keeping my eye on. A lipoma is benign and does not concern me but it has gotten firm and bigger.....both are not good signs. Since Golden's tend to be cancer factories I'm planning on removing the mass and sending it off for biopsy as soon as the weather turns warmer. He's an outside dog and I'll bring him inside if necessary. I still see us NTNP starting in May but my list just keeps growing!!

QOTW: What names are you secretly obsessing about? For a girl I love Olivia Marie (Marie is my sister's middle name) and for a boy I really like the name Caleb but don't have a middle name yet.

[chknma]

((Hugs)) for this weekend muirmaid

[kateitho]

QOTW: I am in love with the names Magnolia and Jedidiah.  I fought for Jedidiah when I was pregnant with Jericho, but DH won the name game that round.

I am Oing today, and only using OPKs and CM to track, so I could be off by a few days.  I am remarkably calm about TTC, but VERY nervous about actually getting pg again.

[madameovary]

Mar 5, 2015 10:30:34 GMT -5 kateitho said:

QOTW: I am in love with the names Magnolia and Jedidiah.  I fought for Jedidiah when I was pregnant with Jericho, but DH won the name game that round.

I am Oing today, and only using OPKs and CM to track, so I could be off by a few days.  I am remarkably calm about TTC, but VERY nervous about actually getting pg again.

Oing today?

[mrsbutton]

madameovary thanks for running the check-in!

CD/DPO?
CD15, WTO...
Testing Plans? just gonna apply this to OPKs... they're going ok (in so far as I'm taking them once a day-ish, and will prob start twice a day very soon... ("usually O" anywhere from CD17-20)

How are you doing with TTC again? we're only on cycle #2, ok so far... and now I remember how much the time drags between AF, waiting to O and the 2ww... whew

Any questions or other things to share? I am SO excited - I have a tat appointment set for next Tuesday night (after lots of googling about getting inked while TTC and in the 2ww)
It'll be a combo of a "memorial" for MMC and one for Button.. totally original design, hopefully will have good pictures for you during next check in!

QOTW we didn't really have any other boy names that came in even close second to Button's name, but we had a bevy of girls' names... we haven't had that talk yet for round two...

[starmile]

Hi, joining in. I was lindsayhilleary over on TD. 3 losses, conceived our rainbow with iui#2 and she's 6 mo old now.

For those thinking about/getting ready:

When do you plan to start trying? Probably as soon as I get my cycle back. Eleanor is 6 mo old now and we are still nursing on demand around the clock, so who knows when that will be.

Are there things you need/want to do before you start trying?
I'd like to lose a bit more weight. I'm almost 30lbs under my pre pregnancy weight but I weighed more that I was comfortable with then and I'd like to lose another 15 or so lbs.

How are you feeling about starting to TTC again?
Anxious, excited, impatient.

QOTW: What names are you secretly obsessing about? Juliet, Caroline, Imogen, Violet

[kateitho]

I have the same memorial/ baby tattoo plans.  DS's name means moon in Canaanite, so I want to get his name in the shape of a crescent moon with four little stars for my losses.

Mar 5, 2015 16:06:51 GMT -5 mrsbutton said:

madameovary thanks for running the check-in!

CD/DPO?
CD15, WTO...
Testing Plans? just gonna apply this to OPKs... they're going ok (in so far as I'm taking them once a day-ish, and will prob start twice a day very soon... ("usually O" anywhere from CD17-20)

How are you doing with TTC again? we're only on cycle #2, ok so far... and now I remember how much the time drags between AF, waiting to O and the 2ww... whew

Any questions or other things to share? I am SO excited - I have a tat appointment set for next Tuesday night (after lots of googling about getting inked while TTC and in the 2ww)
It'll be a combo of a "memorial" for MMC and one for Button.. totally original design, hopefully will have good pictures for you during next check in!

QOTW we didn't really have any other boy names that came in even close second to Button's name, but we had a bevy of girls' names... we haven't had that talk yet for round two...

[mrsbutton]

Mar 6, 2015 9:21:48 GMT -5 kateitho said:

I have the same memorial/ baby tattoo plans.  DS's name means moon in Canaanite, so I want to get his name in the shape of a crescent moon with four little stars for my losses.

Mar 5, 2015 16:06:51 GMT -5 mrsbutton said:

Any questions or other things to share? I am SO excited - I have a tat appointment set for next Tuesday night (after lots of googling about getting inked while TTC and in the 2ww)
It'll be a combo of a "memorial" for MMC and one for Button.. totally original design, hopefully will have good pictures for you during next check in!

sounds like a great design!! the four little stars sound perfect...

[ls2012]

Hello, ladies. I just intro'd so I hope you don't mind that I'm checking in here already. I was formerly lv2012 on the bump. My Genevieve just turned 9 months old

CD/23 and 4 dpo- I think. Not using any opk's or temping consistently.

We're cautiously optimistic and trying to just take the journey in stride. I'm trying really hard not to think about how the timing of this cycle matches, so far, my 2nd cp.

We've been holding onto the name Calvin for a boy for a long time, and I don't see it going anywhere. We love it. As far as girl names, though, DH is allll over the place and we haven't found any we agree on yet.

[linzeeh80]

Haha!! I have no idea when I'm ovulating, but going by when I got pregnant with my son! (Ovulated CD 17) I'm feeling pretty good about this month timing wise. We dtd CD 10 12 14 16.

CD/DPO? CD 19

Testing Plans? I don't plan to unless I'm late. When you aren't temping etc it makes it easier not to obsess about testing. At least it does for me.

How are you doing with TTC again? Fine. Like I said above, I'm not obsessing over it this time.... or I should say YET!

QOTW: I really like Natalie,  Aria and Althea for girls. Middle name will definitely be Grace. For our son we did same middle name as our angel (Harper) and we want to do the same if we have a girl, so we picked grace, kinda like a girl version of Grayson.  Boy names.... I really like Oliver, but dh isn't on board  :/  So i have no idea! We had such a hard time naming Zaiden! 

[madameovary]

Mar 6, 2015 13:24:06 GMT -5 ls2012 said:

Hello, ladies. I just intro'd so I hope you don't mind that I'm checking in here already. I was formerly lv2012 on the bump. My Genevieve just turned 9 months old

CD/23 and 4 dpo- I think. Not using any opk's or temping consistently.

We're cautiously optimistic and trying to just take the journey in stride. I'm trying really hard not to think about how the timing of this cycle matches, so far, my 2nd cp.

We've been holding onto the name Calvin for a boy for a long time, and I don't see it going anywhere. We love it. As far as girl names, though, DH is allll over the place and we haven't found any we agree on yet.

I remember you. (Q frump) hi! Welcome!