TTC Check-In August 17th

[bexincanada]

No one has started it yet, so I figured I'd do the honours.  We decided to abandon roll call, so that makes it easier.  What's up gang?

QOTW: What do you wish you could do more often?

****  Please no BFP's in this thread, if you have a BFP to share please start a new thread.

[rikkiandjulie]

We don't have a lot going on here, DW has BETA on Wednesday, and is suuuuuuper optimistic, I'm just trying to be realistic. If this cycle doesn't work we will try two more IUIs, for a total of 5 (three of which are well timed with Trigger) and then we will most likely move to IVF, but that of course isn't set in stone.
She's also been having "symptoms" which we all know probably don't really exist, but helps pass time during the TWW. We also have no idea what's real, what's made imaginary, and what's from the progesterone. Although, I've read that a lot of women have very few side effects from progesterone, and only like 15% have even the most common symptoms. Side Note- she did wake up with night sweats the other night, and had to go sleep down stairs to cool off, and then last night she complained of being cold, but was so warm it was uncomfortable to cuddle with her. Again, it's most likely that this is from the progesterone, but being hopeful never hurt either, i guess. Again I know the TWW is way to early for symptoms but it's a nice distraction, so we will see.

All 3 of DWs brother and their wives are expecting. One is due in October. This particular brother sent us a "we're accepting announcement on Easter, it was cute", they then sent us an "it's a girl announcement" with their registry info attached, and this weekend we just got an invite to their baby shower with their registry info again. These two are especially narcissistic so I'm not surprised by this behavior but it is very over the top, imo. Who sends out that many announcements?!?! I may just be jealous and grumpy though. They also just bought a house that they can't possibly afford and two new cars to prepare for the baby. Apparently a 4bedroom/3bath house is a MUST for a family of 3, he called yesterday to gloat, I could have hung up on him about 30x.

I wish I used my sewing and embroidery machine more. A lot more actually. I haven't used it in over a year. I can make really really awesome stuff, and have the best space for it.

[kona]

It looks like DW and I are back on the baby making train. We are having some issues getting into the clinic we used last time. They have 3 offices and now use a call center which leaves you on hold a lot. It's kinda frustrating. Anyway hoping that we will try this month if everything checks out!

[JustJudy]

GL with the betas rikkiandjulie! Waiting is so hard.
Welcome back on the TTC crazy train kona,

AFM, I'm 10DPO and waiting for Thursday, as that's when my period is due. I'm really trying not to cave and test before I'm late this round, we'll see.
If this round (#7) is another BFN, I'll be going on Femara for cycle 9, since I'll be out of town during cycle 8.

QOTW: Good question. I wish I could travel more often. Ideally, we'd take 3-4 vacations every year. One day maybe!

[bexincanada]

I'm at 7dpo. I threw up this morning, but it's too early for that to mean anything except that I'm annoyed to be sick yet again. I'm off this week which is good and bad, good to not be at work, bad to have a lot of time on my hands during the final stretch of the TWW. We are camping this weekend, so I won't be able to do beta until next Monday... that means I'm going to pee on everything, I just can't help it (again, not having distractions since I'm off.)

[morveng]

rikkiandjulie, bexincanada, Good luck with your betas!

Last week we thawed all six of DH's eggs, and all survived and were fertilised. Three were graded A, one CC and two never amounted to anything. We transferred One of the A graded embryos on Saturday, and froze the rest. At the moment, I'm 5dp3dt, with betas on 11dp3dt, which I think is possibly a bit early, but that's what our RE wants so, that's what we are doing. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much, since it is our first cycle, but I don;t think its working well.

QOTW: I would love to have more time to travel locally. We manage to get abroad a couple of times a year, but we've now been living in our area for five years, and we haven't managed to see a whole lot of it, even though its lovely.

[JustJudy]

CD 1 for me, blah. I'm out next cycle bc, as previously mentioned, I'll be on vacation during cycle 8's FW.

[klake42]

Offical BFN today (but I got BFN yesterday and the day before, 12 and 13 dpiui, so no surprise). Mew.

I feel like I want to keep trying with a few more IUIs before going to IVF, so waiting for AF to start a whole new cycle.

[esquette]

Exciting times around here! We (finally) did our first at home insemination today! So, now we pretty much just wait 2 weeks and then I start peeing on stuff, right? I am both excited and terrified. Which is probably the only appropriate approach to the possibility of impending parenthood.

It has been a weird day. I had to leave work at an awkward time to pick up our donor sperm at the local office of the sperm bank, and then I wasn't supposed to leave it in the car, so I had to drag it in to my office at work. WEIRD. Also, our tiny little sample (.5 milliliters) was in a liquid nitrogen tank, in a box big enough to fit a whole corgi. I felt very strange driving around today with that bad boy buckled in to the front seat next to me.

Anyway! Now we wait!

[bexincanada]

Sorry to hear about the negatives JustJudy, klake42, and rikkiandjulie.

I peed on a stick today at 10dpiui and got a BFN. I'm hoping it's just too early. I'm already starting to think of things that we could do differently next cycle though - thinking of cutting out coffee and alcohol in the beginning of my cycle. Also thinking about asking them to trigger me earlier (the stress of this cycle with all the RE visits was not fun), and I'm also wondering about IUI 24 hours post trigger instead of 36. Judging from how I felt waking up that morning, the trigger worked and it worked early.

Anyhow, it's all irrelevant at this point - still a waiting game.

[klake42]

bexincanada, I really think that 10dpiui is too early.

I read a ton of statistics this last go round, because I was obsessively peeing on sticks every day, and at 10 days, a negative is too early to mean anything. A negative on day 11 might or might not mean anything, and a negative on day 12 is probably a BFN (though there are some late bloomers out there).

If you can, try to wait until day 12 before you pee on anything else. Good luck!

[dannigirl]

Hey all, the summer is coming to an end and soon our baby making journey will start again. I know I haven't been around again, but I disconnected for the summer and it was great! Very little Internet and NO FACEBOOK!! That helped me in so many ways, it's not even funny. I'm in a much better place.

Small update: I spoke with our RE about how I just seem to be leaky all the time now since the pregnancy. Said I could have fluid in the uterus or it could be totally normal. Either way, it's annoying and I can't go without a panty liner, ever! So I had my blood work done again and hormones and thyroid are all good. Yay! Now on Sept 1st I will have a pap and maybe some other tests to make sure all is good because it feels like my uterus is still hard, it's weird. So if all is good, we will try after my cycle in Sept.

Hopefully we will get lucky... Jo is leaving for a tour beginning on Oct and will be gone for a minimum of 6 months, so if we don't get pregnant, then I will go on my own in Oct and try with the last vial we have in storage. If no go with that one then I will wait for her to come home and we will see where to go from there. I sure hope we get lucky.

However, I feel good about this. I think I needed the break, that's why the last two IUI's didn't work. My body needed more time to heal, so I hope 9 months will be enough.

I have some catching up to do on here, so I hope all have been doing well. I'm happy I'm back.