WuW 7/20/16

[cali]

Welcome to the Dark Side CAL What’s Up Wednesday!




Your rotating weekly check in leaders:

@eliida muscari cali elliecat17

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QOTW: Tell us about the best trip/vacation you've ever taken or where your dream vacation would be?

[MissSally]

Thanks for the check-in!

CALR: I think I O'd yesterday. Maybe...? I had two days of positive-ish OPKs. Which is more than I've had since December. I'm going to keep testing just to make sure, but today's was not as dark. I'm not feeling super hopeful because we didn't have great timing. We shall see!

NCALR: I finally weeded (well - re-weeded) my mulch area, and I'm getting mulch and new plants today! I'm pretty darn excited. Things are coming together around the house!

QOTW: Three years ago I went to the beach with my best friend and we had an amazing time. We just played and did karaoke and got drunk with my family. I want to go back!

[cali]

MissSally, fx that you O'ed. That trip sounds so fun!

[cali]

MissSally, fx that you O'ed, even without great timing, at least if you O'ed you have a chance. That trip sounds so fun!

[bethkate]

Hey, ladies.

I'm home from my egg retrieval and resting. They retrieved 20 eggs, which is awesome, but because there were so many, they stressed the fact that I need to watch out for OHSS, so I'm drinking lots of gatorade. We'll get our fert. report tomorrow, so FX at least a few of them fertilize and start to grow normally. We're doing PGS, so our transfer won't be until September.

QOTW: So far, Key West is the best vacation we've been on. We really don't travel much.

[cali]

@eliida, it's going to be sooo hot this weekend, I'm planning to spend the whole thing in the pool! Glad you were able to get a bunch of miles in early!

bethkate, what a great # of eggs!! FX for a good fert report!!

[shandorfml2]

bethkate, whoo! Great # of eggs!


I'm 8dpo. Temps look awesome. I'm rather nauseous today, so the mind fuck is strong today. Because of my short LP the last three months, I'm expecting AF tomorrow or the next day. I think I was doing well with just going with the flow and not obsessing to much, until my temps looked so good lol. I'll probably POAS tomorrow even though it is way early, and I've never gotten a pos before 13dpo.

Meh.
Seeing OB next month for short LP, and sending off adoption application soon, so that's good and exciting!

QOTW: Best vacation, going from Maine to Missouri by car to meet my birth family. Was really fun to see a big chunk of the country. I'd love to go to Ireland and England!

[iheartbroccoli]

MissSally FX for you!

@eliida Great job on the milage! And I want to see the Northern Lights too, it's probably in my top 5 of things I want to see.

bethkate Congrats! And FX for you!

shandorfml2 FX for you! I hope you are nauseous for a good reason! Good luck with the adoption application!

CALR: I am in the TWW, and feeling pretty good right now. AF is expected to arrive at the end of a business trip I have next week, so I'll test before I leave so I can have MH with me when I test.

QOTW: We went to Vancouver, Canada last September and had so much fun. I'm so glad we went as it was the only trip we got to take Theo on. I really want to see Iceland, Istanbul, Ireland, and Alaska.

[birch113]

shandorfml2 it's hard not to obsess. GL!

iheartbroccoli sending you good vibes!

[rslh10]

MissSally fx for you, even if you didn't have great timing it's good to see a semi-positive opk, right?!

@eliida that's super interesting about it being rate and that its detected with biopsy. What made your dr decide to test for it or was it found when you had retained tissue? I'm feeling good, thank you for asking

bethkate FX for a great fert report!

shandorfml2 FX for you!

iheartbroccoli as always, thinking of you and fx for your TWW!

cardhard ((hugs)) I admire you being able to look at your sons photos. I cannot look at my pregnancy photos of Kenley inside of me. Or anything from before she died. It's too hard still. I hope it brings you peace momma. Good luck with talking to your OB.

AFM- 2dp5dt and just waiting around. Betas on Wednesday of next week, so I plan to keep a low profile but wanted to check in with you all because I love you. I hope that's ok. LMK if it's not and I will respect that!

[muscari]

Hi all! Quick P&R as my mum is about to pick me up but I'm still in my PJs! Just wanted to update real quick since I hadn't had a chance yet since ET.

Our four eggies resulted in one embryo, which is now safe inside! Getting just the one embro was somewhat disappointing to me, and a shock to MH.. But according to the RE our little embryo was right on track with 8 cells and looking good. If they grade embryos at our clinic they didn't share that information with us..

I have to admit that being PUPO felt and feels quite unreal! If I could have ignored the uncomfortable sensations in my lower tummy and the side effects from the P4 (soooo bloated, tired and queesy!) I may have forgotten about the fact we just did IVF altogether. But then all the feels take over again. I guess that's going to be the way for these next couple of weeks.

Will try and catch up properly with everybody this evening! **hugs**

[shandorfml2]

rslh10, and muscari, thinking all sticky vibes for you, so so exciting!

[MissSally]

I'm so f*cking confused. OPKs are still nearly positive. I guess I'll keep peeing on them in hopes that the line gets darker?? UGH.

[iheartbroccoli]

muscari FX crossed for you!!

[MissSally]

rslh10 and muscari all the things crossed!!!! YAY!

[cali]

shandorfml2,iheartbroccoli, FX for you both!


cardhard, ((hugs)) 


rslh10 and muscari, every single thing crossed for you both!! I'm so hopeful and excited for you ladies!

AFM, I don't really have much new going on. I've just been kind of struggling with all these weird emotions lately. This summer has been kind of weird for me. I've been feeling kind of isolated from a lot of my IRL friends and it's kind of hard. I think it's mainly because I just spend so much time thinking about IF stuff and feel like very few of my IRL friends get it and it makes it hard. I also feel like BCP makes me all kinds of emotional. So, bottom line I've had wayyyy too much time alone with my over emotional thoughts. IVF is right around the corner and I've just been freaking myself thinking of all the what ifs. In a way, I think I'm looking for an excuse to not go through with it because I'm so scared it won't work and then I don't know what I'll do, especially since I doubt we can afford to do it again. Anyway, I've just been really spiraling lately, so that's kind of why I've been laying low. 

On a brighter note, I only have one more week of school and then two days of finals and I'm DONE for 3 weeks! I'm so ready to be done with this semester and have some time away from school. AND MH has a one week vacation from work while I'm off school so we will have some awesome QT together that I'm looking forward to! He's been working so much lately.  If it works out with the IVF schedule we're going to try to get a way for a few days but even if we just have to stick around here it will be nice!

QOTW: After I graduated law school my mom and I took a trip to Italy. We went to Rome, Florence, and Positano and it was the most amazing trip of my life!

[birch113]

cali so many (((hugs))) lady. This stuff is so hard, and it just sucks that it encroaches on pretty much every aspect of life. I'm so glad you have a break coming up, and some time with YH to look forward to!

[iheartbroccoli]

cali Big hugs. I think it is easy to isolate yourself, especially when so few of your IRL friends have experienced it. Have fun on your break! I hope you and YH can go away for a few days!

[MissSally]

cali big hugs lady. I totally understand about the IRL friends. I've actually had to tell a few of them that I need a "break" from hanging out. They say they get it. But they don't. Thank goodness for TCF! If you ever need a chat. Hope you have a blast on your break! woo!

[elliecat17]

Hi guys. Sorry I've been MIA, I was out at Catholic Camp all week and we had no signal for anything at all. I couldn't even call H which upset him a little.

CALR: I started spotting yesterday at 10dpo. Nothing heavy just a little bit of brown when I wipe, but it's still happening, and it's annoying, because I'm on 600mg of progesterone. I hope AF isn't trying to come early, because then the progesterone is no longer helping with the luteal phase defect. I know it could also be implantation bleeding, but I've NEVER gotten that before, and it seems a little much for that.

NCALR: we had Hedwig in on Monday for surgery to have her mammarian cyst removed. Today they took the drains out and on the 1st they will remove the sutures. She is very active and struggling with the concept of needing to be calm. Also camp was really really fun!

[cali]

elliecat17, are you using progesterone in suppository form? If so, it can irritate the cervix and cause some bleeding.

[elliecat17]

cali no mine are oral. But I did walk upwards of 6 miles every day at camp.....

[birch113]

elliecat17 I'm sorry about the spotting. How frustrating. Would suppositories be an option going forward?

I hope Hedwig has a speedy recovery! Enjoy the snuggles!

[cali]

elliecat17, I agree with birch113, if you end up still have a short LP maybe see if it's possible to use suppositories, sometimes they're better absorbed by the ute and work better.

[elliecat17]

@ birch113 and cali I could ask. But like I said the numbers were high that's what they are looking for right? And I've been using them for over a year and never had spotting like this before. I guess I will ask and see.

[birch113]

Jul 22, 2016 15:45:24 GMT -5 elliecat17 said:

@ birch113 and cali I could ask. But like I said the numbers were high that's what they are looking for right? And I've been using them for over a year and never had spotting like this before. I guess I will ask and see.

FX it means good news!!