TTC Check-In (June 22nd)

[RM80]

Morning All!

Tell us where you are, milestones, big deals, small wins, gripes, whatever you want to share.

**Reminder- If you have a BFP to share, please start a new thread so we can all celebrate with you, please don't post it here!!**


Roll Call:
RM80
mahler5
wittyandwaiting
esquette
kona
Stringy
shemarie82
bmorecharming
03mrstn
luckypanda
dannigirl
jazibel
crazyaunt84
@justjudy
klake42

QOTW: Did your family have any summer traditions you plan to share with your kids? Or do you want to start  your own?  Or just share something fun you're doing this summer!

[RM80]

I am 9dpiui today. I tested out my trigger and yesterday it was finally all clear. My plan was to start POAS for real today, but then this morning I managed to talk myself out of it. I'm not sure I could handle seeing a bfn this morning and I was pretty sure that's what I would see- after all 9dpiui would be very early to see anything! So maybe tomorrow or maybe I'll keep holding out until Saturday.

Normally my policy is to test early & often, but with this being our last cycle, somehow I want to drag it out and not know for just a little while longer. I'm scared it will be a bfn.

QOTW: My family used to go to the beach in NH every summer and we rented a tiny house. Since I don't live there now, that's not likely to be the tradition, but I would like to find a place we could go every year and just relax. I used to love the beach days as a kid!

[crazyaunt84]

RM80 - I am hoping for you SOO incredibly hard. You don't even know. Actually you probably do know. Still, though, it's a ton of hope.

If mother nature co-operates, I have exactly two weeks left on the bench. Basically it just feels like a stand still at this point - time isn't moving. Unfortunately, I know this feeling. Fortunately, I've got some practice keeping myself occupied. Had an awesome weekend with C, and looking forward to gardening this week. I just have to get my beets in and I'll be good to go!

Update from last week - the BFF didn't text me saying "hey I saw your post". Perhaps my paranoia got the best of me. I did check out that she's got an account on here though, and PB lets you see the last time someone logged on...so I'm keeping an eye out and I'll have the conversation if need be. I'm also considering blogging again but keeping the posts private until after the fact. I do want to document and share our journey, I'd just rather it be history first.

QOTW: We always went camping when we were kids, and I really wanted to share that tradition. Last fall we bought a camper. Last week, we sold it. As it turns out, C has no interest in camping and was terrified to haul a 27' camper...sooo...we'll find something new.

[shemarie82]

We are doing respite care (certified babysitting) for a foster family this weekend, for 11 month old twin boys. I am excited and terrified at the same time. We have them from Saturday morning until Sunday afternoon, a day and a half will be fine, right?!?!

Other than that, not much is happening of interest around these parts. The well guy that was supposed to come out during the week apparently wanted to come on Saturday when we were 2.5 hours away. So, hopefully that can happen sooner than later since it is now close to 2 months.

QOTW: My mom raised 4 kids on her own, so she didn't have time/money to take us to do anything. I want to make sure that when we have kids that we travel. I would love to find a place that we could always go. But, being a couple hours from each of the Great Lakes makes it tough to choose one place to stick to.

[RM80]

Jun 22, 2015 8:09:33 GMT -5 shemarie82 said:

We are doing respite care (certified babysitting) for a foster family this weekend, for 11 month old twin boys. I am excited and terrified at the same time. We have them from Saturday morning until Sunday afternoon, a day and a half will be fine, right?!?!

So exciting!! Should be fun! You can certainly survive one night!!

[mahler5]

They are doing the genetic testing on our embryos tomorrow and then refreezing. We will know the results in a week. My period should start later this week. So the plan is to start my meds before the results (in hopes we will have at least one good embryo) so we can do an FET this cycle.

If there are no good embryos we will likely do IUIs with my eggs or possibly IVF but I honestly don't know if financially and emotionally we can go through another IVF cycle.

I am over this wait after taking this cycle off. The guy that does their testing only comes once a month so it seems like this has been taking forever.

QOTW-- going to baseball games and usually a yearly family vacation were pretty typical for us. We are taking C to one professional baseball team with my mom and brother in a few weeks so that should be fun. And we are going to LA at the end of July.

I like the idea of having a house on a lake or some place we always go in the Summer but I'm not sure that will happen.

[RM80]

Jun 22, 2015 12:41:22 GMT -5 mahler5 said:

They are doing the genetic testing on our embryos tomorrow and then refreezing. We will know the results in a week. My period should start later this week. So the plan is to start my meds before the results (in hopes we will have at least one good embryo) so we can do an FET this cycle.

If there are no good embryos we will likely do IUIs with my eggs or possibly IVF but I honestly don't know if financially and emotionally we can go through another IVF cycle.

Yay for testing!!! Glad you are moving forward & you'll know very soon!! FX you have plenty to transfer with!  How many embies do you have frozen still?

[mahler5]

Jun 22, 2015 13:37:05 GMT -5 RM80 said:

Jun 22, 2015 12:41:22 GMT -5 mahler5 said:

They are doing the genetic testing on our embryos tomorrow and then refreezing. We will know the results in a week. My period should start later this week. So the plan is to start my meds before the results (in hopes we will have at least one good embryo) so we can do an FET this cycle.

If there are no good embryos we will likely do IUIs with my eggs or possibly IVF but I honestly don't know if financially and emotionally we can go through another IVF cycle.

Yay for testing!!! Glad you are moving forward & you'll know very soon!! FX you have plenty to transfer with!  How many embies do you have frozen still?

We have 6 left. Two failed transfers.

[JustJudy]

Fingers and toes crossed for you RM80!
crazyaunt84, I hope time starts moving faster for you.
shemarie82, Have fun with the little ones!
Sending good thoughts for healthy embies mahler5.

I'm 7DPO and had a temp spike this morning so of course all the symptom spotting starts now. I've been really productive this week though which is making the time go by a little faster this cycle.

QOTW: When my sis and I were kids the two places our parents really liked to vacation with us were Hawaii and Tahoe. Every summer there was some kind of vacation, but we went to Hawaii 3 times and Tahoe so many I lost count. J and I both love to travel so we do plan to travel a lot with our future kids.

[mahler5]

RM80-- FX for you!! I really hope this is the one! And I hear you on the POAS. I seem to have a hard time not, but then when I do it stresses me out.

crazyaunt84-- waiting sucks! I hope the time goes by fast for you!

@shemarie-- that's great you all are doing respite babysitting. Hope you enjoy it.

[mahler5]

@justjudy-- fingers crossed for you!!

[wittyandwaiting]

Guess who's back?  Back again.



Hi folks. I'm back after a whirlwind week <insert F bombs here>; it's CD1 today and I'm headed to the clinic Thursday morning to kick off IUI cycle number 8 with all the meds! Bring on the meds!

        Bad News = I'm back

        Good News = I'm back with wonderful people.

        Great News = I managed to score two more samples of our donor!



RM80, I want this for you sofa king bad! Keeping my fingers crossed! My toes crossed. My legs crossed! My eyes crossed! EVERYTHING CROSSED!!!



crazyaunt84, A new TWW! So excited for you to start this next step in your TTC adventure!

shemarie82, I had a little dance party about your news! It really made my day. Have fun this weekend!

mahler5, I hope that all goes well with your thaw and refreeze!

JustJudy, I hope that this two week wait ends well for you! I always find that the second half is the hardest part. Fingers crossed!

ETA:

QOTW: We really didn't do much as a family at all when I was growing up so C and I really strive now to build many memories with DS and try a ton of new things. we are camping fails though; we might try glamping.

[klake42]

RM80, we've got the same timing. I went ahead and peed on sticks on 9dpo and 10dpo, and got negatives, but it was definitely too early yesterday, and mostly too early today.

I keep telling myself I'll wait and test at the end of the week, but I know I won't. I'm totally going to pee on another stick when I get home tonight.

Maybe, maybe, I can hold off until at least Thursday. How great would it be to get BFP on the same day as marriage equality? Though, the decision could come down Thursday, Friday, or Monday (I'm actually betting on Friday).

As for summer traditions, I practically *lived* at the neighborhood pool when I was a kid. I'm going to be so excited to teach a kid to swim!

[RM80]

I broke down and peed today too- 10dpiui, nada!

And wtf if with the 'new & improved' FRER it's like trying to read a curved soup spoon! Not a fan!!!

[RM80]

Sad to welcome you back wittyandwaiting, but happy you got more of your donor & a plan!

[mahler5]

Jun 23, 2015 19:26:46 GMT -5 RM80 said:

Sad to welcome you back wittyandwaiting, but happy you got more of your donor & a plan!

Ditto.

I hope you all are doing ok. I'm thinking of you guys.

[JustJudy]

Likewise, I wish you didn't have to be here wittyandwaiting, and sending you tons of good healing thoughts.

RM80, since I pee in a cup that shape will just make dipping even more awkward!

[wittyandwaiting]

Jun 23, 2015 19:25:24 GMT -5 RM80 said:

I broke down and peed today too- 10dpiui, nada!

And wtf if with the 'new & improved' FRER it's like trying to read a curved soup spoon! Not a fan!!!

That looks like art to me.

[dannigirl]

wittyandwaiting,and RM80, *HUGE HUGS*


** Possible triggers**

Hello all,

I haven't been around much since we decided to take the summer off to let my system sort itself out. And really, for me to keep healing... The 2 bfn's effected me far more than I thought they would have. Maybe if they happened a year ago before we conceived our Baby Girl, then it wouldn't have been as bad.. I know they would have sucked really bad, but holy I wasn't expecting this reaction. I swear I was close to hysterical at times when AF showed up, especially after the 2nd bfn. That one was the hardest, AF 5 days early, and I felt so good about that IUI too..

I'm on CD3 right now. I really think my cycle has now shifted to 26 days rather than my normal 28 days. I've had more 26 days than 28 since Baby Girl was born and I had some 'normal' periods. I guess this is a question more for those in the parenting thread, but I wondering if that's something normal after labour and all that. Hmmmm....

Anyway... As much as I wanted to try again for this cycle, I'm happy that I have a course the second week of July that I have to attend, so that means that we can't go to Saskatoon for IUI#4. Now we are forced to wait till after my cycle in late August.

Jo and I are doing good on WW, and our vacation to Ontario and Nova Scotia was approved and we are soooooo excited! Now I have something to look forward to, and not think about baby stuff all the time. I just really hope that my sister in law doesn't announce that she is pregnant again when we go. I don't know what I will do if that is dropped on us.