**WTDS 8/31***

[penguin129]

The Waiting to Do Something Thread is posted once a week (usually on Mondays) for those of us that experience long, extended cycles. Whether it's medicated cycles, long (45ish+ days) cycles, postpartum/breastfeeding, TTA, on the bench, or something else, this is the place we gather throughout the week to discuss and vent about our slightly unique situation.


Numbers: 

Circumstances:

R/R/NFNSQ:

GTKY: What is one of your favorite memories from elementary school?

Edit: to change CS

[penguin129]

Numbers: 1 month 1 day until NTNP and 1 cycle after this one ends

Circumstances: see above, plus I get my TSH checked again in 2 weeks or so

R/R/NFNSQ: Last cycle after O (more like suspected O) since I'm not temping I was in such a bad place mood wise. I felt depressed. It was not a good place to be for me. This month I am in a really good mood. I feel like I am finally ready to TFAS. I'm doing some stay at home preschool stuff with DD and things just seem to be falling into place.

GTKY: I had a teacher named Mr. Schuler in 4th grade. We were supposed to write a comic strip in his class. I ended up writing one about him and made it Mr Shoeler. It was really funny. To get back at me he had me stand on a chair in the front of the classroom when it was my birthday to have the class sing to me. I was so embarrassed.

[acorn99]

Numbers:
Cycle 4/Month 5 CD14
Circumstances:
long irregular cycles
R/R/CS:
just waiting to see if my body keeps it's shit together and ovulates....
GTKY: What is one of your favorite memories from elementary school? I always liked how my school celebrated Flag Day. We all dragged our chairs outside and sat in the blazing hot sun and sang songs. Looking back it sounds terrible, but for a little kid it was something different from the usual school day and it was the end of the year and I always had fun. 

[LadyNymeria]

Numbers: CD24 of loss cycle

Circumstances:
Benched until my first post-loss period

R/R/CS: Anxious for my next hCG draw later this week. I did use a Walmart cheapie pregnancy test this morning just to see what would happen and the line was so light it was practically a shadow so hopefully that is a good sign for my test. I've also been noticing some creamy CM starting back up so maybe my body is trying to get things going again. Well see.

GTKY: What is one of your favorite memories from elementary school? My best friend and I were in the same class from Kindergarten until my family moved after 4th grade so I got to spend every day with my best friend and it was awesome. One of my favorite teacher memories was my 2nd grade teacher - my asthma was really bad when I was younger so I couldn't always go out for recess in the winter. She would give up her free time while the rest of the class was outside to play games with me inside so I wasn't just stuck sitting there doing nothing by myself.

[LadyNymeria]

penguin129 - I'm glad you feel much better this month. Sorry last month was so rough.

acorn99 - FX for O!

[cheshie6]

penguin129, Thanks for starting!
Numbers: 13 cycles AL; CD 26 DPO 11

Circumstances: DH comes home in a week and a half! So once CD1 starts, I'll be moving over to WTO

R/R/CS: Our Hawaii trip starts in 16 days!!!

GTKY: What is one of your favorite memories from elementary school? 5th Grade Mr. Lord (our science teacher) In hindsight, I realize he had a bigger impact on my life. I remember being in the lower grades and thinking I couldn't wait till he was my science teacher. He brought in a hand crank generator and we had to crank it to light a light bulb. He also disconnected it from the bulb and had the class hold hands in a circle and had 2 people hold the connecting wires and we got to feel the current. He was funny but made sure we read all the directions.

[dashook]

Hi ladies! I've been MIA for the past two check-ins because my new job is just so ridic, but now I'm back--I've missed you all!

penguin129, I'm really glad to hear you are in a better place this month.
acorn99, FX this is a good cycle for you!
LadyNymeria, I hope everything goes well with your HCG draw--hang in there ((hugs))
cheshie6, 16 days is not long at all--so exciting!

Numbers: 33+ weeks (coming up on 8 months) PP

Circumstances: Still waiting for my first PP period. NTNP in the meantime but I am still breastfeeding so chances I'm actually fertile are rather slim.

R/R/NFNSQ: Today's my birthday! I updated my siggy lol. DH and I are going to Red Sox vs. Yankees tonight and sitting in a box suite--not too shabby for a Monday birthday! I am going to eat and drink all the free things!!

GTKY: What is one of your favorite memories from elementary school? I effing LOVED when we would play dodgeball in gym class. Are they still allowed to play that in elementary school? My guess would be no, which is sad.

[Girlymama79]

Numbers: 12 weeks pp

Circumstances: waiting for the return of af

R/R/NFNSQ: I really would of thought that AF would have came by now. LO generally sleeps 7+ hours at night. I have even spotted twice but cd1 eludes me.

GTKY: What is one of your favorite memories from elementary school?
Eek! I have nothing awesome to write here. I mean I had fun in school at recess but I can't say there is a single thing that stands out.

[hurricanerek]

Thanks for starting penguin129!
LadyNymeria, Fx for another big drop this week. Also, that teacher sounds like she was amazing!
cheshie6, yay for moving to wto soon! Have a wonderful trip to Hawaii!
dashook and girlymama79, I hope you get AF soon. Put that on the list of things I never thought I'd say.

Numbers: cycle 2 of practice charting

Circumstances: Tfas in December

R/r/NFNSQ: tooth #13 has cut through so we're sleeping better. I think my temps look a bit less erratic so far this cycle.

Gtky: I'll always remember the day we got to school and there was a gas leak so the entire school got 2 hours of recess first thing in the morning. It was awesome!

[mosdub]

Hi!

Numbers: 19 weeks post D&C (I think?)

Circumstances: TTA -- need to wait for hcg to drop to 0 and stay there for 6 months to a year before TTC.

R/R/NFNSQ: Today is the EDD from my loss. I went to work this morning, kept busy, went shopping, and now I am going to stuff my face with food and drinks. I was worried about today. Who knows, I might still have a melt-down but right now I feel alright. Next week I will have my hcg drawn again. Last time was 33. I'm hoping for something close to 15-20.

ETA -- I charted this cycle and seemed to have confirmed ovulation (based on temps only)!  Hopefully this means body is getting back to normal, even if I do need to wait a year to TTC. 

GTKY: What is one of your favorite memories from elementary school? I have so many! I had light-up shoes and we had to walk through a dark hallway (for some reason the lights were never on in this one stretch) and I loved watching my shoes glow. In 5th grade my friend and I were so good in science that we completed the work well before anyone else. My science teacher let us go to the room across the hall to look under the microscope at various water samples to see what we could find. Looking back I admire how he rewarded us with more educational stuff.

[dashook]

Big hugs, mosdub.

[penguin129]

Many many hugs to you mosdub.

[LadyNymeria]

Hugs mosdub. I'm glad you seem to be doing ok. Nothing wrong with a breakdown if it comes later! But I'm really glad you're doing ok today.

[amandamh2]

Numbers: 4 months PP, BF. TTA so on BC.

Circumstances: currently TTA, TFAS spring 2016.

R/R/NFNSQ: Nothing really...

GTKY: What is one of your favorite memories from elementary school? Snow days were the best! I remember one time we went to school on a snow day and used pizza boxes to slide down the hill at our school

[mosdub]

Aug 31, 2015 15:01:58 GMT -5 LadyNymeria said:

Hugs mosdub. I'm glad you seem to be doing ok. Nothing wrong with a breakdown if it comes later! But I'm really glad you're doing ok today.

Thanks Nymeria.  I think I've been through harder days this month.  It helps that today is SIL's birthday so we can focus on that instead. 

By the way - is there any reason you are tracking your hCG down to 0?  Or is that standard procedure for all MCs? 

I hope your drop is significant this week!  Let us know how it goes! 

[mosdub]

hurricanerek I'm surprised they didn't send you all home for a gas leak! My how times have changed.

dashook HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

acorn99 FX for ovulation!

penguin129 I can't believe you're so close to NTNP! Will you be leaving us for WTO/TWW?

[LadyNymeria]

Aug 31, 2015 15:05:44 GMT -5 mosdub said:

Aug 31, 2015 15:01:58 GMT -5 LadyNymeria said:

Hugs mosdub. I'm glad you seem to be doing ok. Nothing wrong with a breakdown if it comes later! But I'm really glad you're doing ok today.

Thanks Nymeria.  I think I've been through harder days this month.  It helps that today is SIL's birthday so we can focus on that instead. 

By the way - is there any reason you are tracking your hCG down to 0?  Or is that standard procedure for all MCs? 

I hope your drop is significant this week!  Let us know how it goes! 

It's definitely good to have a distraction. I imagine that has to be helping a lot.

Originally the plan was to do an ultrasound and hCG test once I got my period to make sure the clot that was left was gone and that I was at zero before we resumed trying.

Then they decided to test my hCG the day they saw the clot on the ultrasound to see where the level was at to help confirm whether the clot was actually a clot or if it was remaining POC. It wasn't as low as they were expecting so they asked me to go back in a couple days and decided to just track me to zero to make sure. I actually appreciate it because it's helping me not be so antsy about getting back to trying.

This was my first loss so I'm not sure if this is a standard approach, or maybe this is just something my dr office likes to do to be sure nothing was retained.

[LadyNymeria]

Happy Birthday dashook!!

[sweetmelissa5]

Numbers: 9 months since LO was born, still no period

Circumstances: breastfeeding and no cycle

R/R/NFNSQ: nothing going on, no signs of anything, we just have fairly regular sex and hope maybe something will come of it

GTKY: What is one of your favorite memories from elementary school? Believe it or not, it was the time when my group (five kids plus chaperone - my mom) got left behind on a school field trip in 3rd grade and had to be picked up by our teacher later. Once the initial shock of being forgotten wore off, it actually seemed really funny.

[sweetmelissa5]

Hugs, mosdub.

[sweetmelissa5]

Aug 31, 2015 15:12:55 GMT -5 LadyNymeria said:

Aug 31, 2015 15:05:44 GMT -5 mosdub said:

Thanks Nymeria.  I think I've been through harder days this month.  It helps that today is SIL's birthday so we can focus on that instead. 

By the way - is there any reason you are tracking your hCG down to 0?  Or is that standard procedure for all MCs? 

I hope your drop is significant this week!  Let us know how it goes! 

It's definitely good to have a distraction. I imagine that has to be helping a lot.

Originally the plan was to do an ultrasound and hCG test once I got my period to make sure the clot that was left was gone and that I was at zero before we resumed trying.

Then they decided to test my hCG the day they saw the clot on the ultrasound to see where the level was at to help confirm whether the clot was actually a clot or if it was remaining POC. It wasn't as low as they were expecting so they asked me to go back in a couple days and decided to just track me to zero to make sure. I actually appreciate it because it's helping me not be so antsy about getting back to trying.

This was my first loss so I'm not sure if this is a standard approach, or maybe this is just something my dr office likes to do to be sure nothing was retained.

I'm so sorry you're both going through this, but I just wanted to say that in my experience (a little over five years ago), my OB tracked my beta down to 0, and it seemed to just be a standard procedure in that case.

[penguin129]

Aug 31, 2015 15:08:24 GMT -5 mosdub said:

hurricanerek I'm surprised they didn't send you all home for a gas leak! My how times have changed.

dashook HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

acorn99 FX for ovulation!

penguin129 I can't believe you're so close to NTNP! Will you be leaving us for WTO/TWW?

No, I don't think so. I've been charting CM and OPK's but during October my plan is to chart nothing. So I wouldn't know exactly where I'll fall in the threads, just guesses. I may do both. I really would be fine if nothing came of October except for the fun of not having to stop and grab a condom. LOL!

[Ray]

Yay for only 1 more month and positive moods penguin129!!

Glad to hear things look like they're getting closer to zero LadyNymeria

Have fun in Hawaii cheshie6

Welcome back dashook

Fx cd1 shows up soon Girlymama79 sweetmelissa5

AFM:

Numbers: I feel like I've been "here" in the general sense forever.

Circumstances: lazily TTA/ kinda NTNP until the house sells. No interest since the first two showings.

RRNFNSQ: in the meantime I'm scheduled for an u/s on the 17th to check for ovarian cysts as well as cd3 blood work for TSH, LH/FSH, hematocrit, and a general cbc to try and figure out what's going on in there. The only problem is that cd3 might be a Sunday or labour day in which case I'll have to wait for NEXT cycle to bet it done. Hopefully it's not.

GTKY: mostly the people stand out for me. I had an amazing teacher in grade 5. And I just loved everything about her.

I am glad you are feeling alright about it so far mosdub hugs

[rablissful]

Lurking to give mosdub the biggest of hugs. I'm glad you're doing ok. I'm here if you need anything! Love you lady

[teachermomtobe]

Today was my first day back at school and I'm overheating and exhausted but happy to be back. This is a post and run so I can shower but I'll be back!

Numbers: CD33

Circumstances: long, anovulatory cycles

R/R/NFNSQ: FF gave me CHs on Saturday for CD20 which I knew were completely wrong but still got me ever so hopeful. Of course yesterday, FF took them away. It's weird how even though I knew looking at my chart there was clearly no O, as soon as I saw CHs I started trying to find ways that maybe it happened. At this point, I'm just waiting for my ultrasound and RE appt later this month and next month.

GTKY: What is one of your favorite memories from elementary school? This is tough. I teach elementary school now and I think one of the reasons is because I loved elementary school so much myself. I loved my kindergarten and 3rd grade teacher a lot! I remember some of the projects were did in 4th and 5th grade that I also really enjoyed.

[gabride2010]

Yay for being so close to NTNP penguin129. I hope your TSH numbers are good at your next draw.

I hope you O acorn99

FX for a big drop LadyNymeria. When do you get your blood drawn again?

I hope y'all hit your FW this month cheshie6!

Happy birthday dashook!

Hope you get your PP period soon Girlymama79.

Glad you're getting more sleep hurricanerek!

Huge hugs today mosdub! I hope your numbers dropped!

amandamh2 When in the Spring are y'all TTC? H and I are TTA until February.

Good luck TTC sweetmelissa5.

I hope your house sells quickly Ray!

Sorry FF took away your CH teachermomtobe. I hope you O soon!

AFM...

Numbers: Cycle 1 CD 39

Circumstances: TTA until February

R/R/NFNSQ: I'm happy that it is September tomorrow, and that means it's one month closer to TTC! I haven't O'd yet, so I'm just waiting to see if my body will get its crap together. I will call for Provera on CD 60 if I need to.

GTKY: I loved the choir songs/programs we would do for holidays, especially Halloween!

[teachermomtobe]

penguin129, Glad you're feeling in a better place this month!
acorn99, We did something like that for Flag Day at my elementary school too! Funny I had totally forgotten about it until just now!
LadyNymeria, Hope your body gets itself going again quickly for you and your hCG draw goes well this week.
Happy Birthday dashook! Have fun at the game tonight and go Yankees =P. Also, we don't play Dodgeball at my school. Not sure if it's a "can't" or "don't" though.
mosdub, *hugs* take care of yourself
sweetmelissa5, And that is why I count my kids a million times on every field trip! Ahhh!

[bighair12]

Numbers: will start trying in October

Circumstances: timing. I am gone till October and we would need to be due after May due to my schooling.

R/R/NFNSQ: I am sad to be away from my family right now.

GTKY: What is one of your favorite memories from elementary school? I loved 4th grade. It was Idaho history year. It was so interactive and I remember everything about it.

[sweetmelissa5]

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Aug 31, 2015 18:56:23 GMT -5 teachermomtobe said:

sweetmelissa5, And that is why I count my kids a million times on every field trip! Ahhh! he

Apparently the teacher did tell each chaperone to count the kids in their group since we (the entire class) were running late; it just never occurred to anyone that an entire group might be missing, and they didn't realize it until they were back at school.

[penguin129]

acorn99 Hopefully your body works thing out soon.
LadyNymeria I hope you see a good drop in your HCG. It is good they are monitoring you closely.
cheshie6 Yay for your H coming home soon and your cruise! Such fun!
dashook Happy Birhtday!
Girlymama79 Hoping for your first PP period.
hurricanerek Yay for teeth coming in and more sleep! I charted for 3 cycles as practice before I stopped do to DD sleep
mosdub FX you see the drop in your HCG you are hoping for.
Welcome sweetmelissa5!
Ray I hope you get some more interest on your house soon. FX the timing works out for your bloodwork.
teachermomtobe Hopefully talking to you RE and getting U/S will shed some light on what is happening. FX it is something they can fix easily.
gabride2010 I hope your cycle gets its but in gear for you.
bighair12 Yay for October being so close! I hope this month goes by fast for you so you can return home to your family.