***WTDS 11/30***

[littlelion]

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- Are your Christmas decorations up? What's your tree style? Real, fake, color scheme, etc.

[littlelion]

Numbers: TTA until Jan; CD15 (O day)  

Circumstances: Getting over an ectopic pregnancy, waiting to get hcg down <2. 

R/R/NFNSQ: I finally found the OPK's at the dollar store (took 2 stores). And I tested over the weekend and got a positive which matches what my menstruation app has predicted for me. Which is great because I tried temping last week and only got 2 days. In a mini rant, my DH tried to get sexy time last night and I had to beat him off with a stick practically. He does not get the whole "I am ovulating, sex must be avoided at all costs". 

GTKY- My fake tree is up. I have white lights and multicolored lights. Plus a multicolored lighted star that I just bought.  It reminds me of the one my parents had on our tree growing up. I do a red and gold theme for most decorating.  

[hurricanerek]

Thanks for starting littlelion! You're story of fending off Dh is hilarious!

Numbers: CD 19/9 dpo

Circumstances: ttc...any day now

R / R / NFNSQ : just waiting for AF to start. Then I can get this show on the road. This is likely my last wtds. Talk about bittersweet. This thread has really helped the waiting speed by.

Gtky: yes everything is up. We have a fake tree. No color scheme: just all the ornaments that have been given to us over the years. When we got engaged we were thrown an ornament shower so we have a lot of sentimental ones. The challenge is to see if dd will leave the tree alone.

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Hope it's okay that I join you ladies! MH and I have decided to TTA until early next year for financial reasons. I just started a new job a few weeks ago after being out of work for a 4 months, and our savings took a huge hit because of it. Hoping we can be in a comfortable enough place around February to get back to TTC.


Numbers: CD9

Circumstances: TTA until February 2016

R/R/NFNSQ: Nothing really!

GTKY- Are your Christmas decorations up? What's your tree style? Real, fake, color scheme, etc. We finally put our tree up last night and it makes me so happy! This is the latest I think I've ever started putting up my Christmas decorations. Usually they're up at least a week before Thanksgiving. Always fake here - love the smell of real tree's but they just seem like a lot more work. Need to put lights on our balcony this evening and then I think we will be done.

[Deleted]

Numbers: 16 months(17 tomorrow)/20 cycles/CD 9

Circumstances: TTA for FMLA eligibility/ mental health break.

R/R/NFNSQ: We have a few months to get things situated, but i'm worried about MH changing his mind again about treatments. He has gone back and forth on his position on it a couple times. He's much more ok with the idea of being CLNBC than I am. It makes me mad because his SA came back great, so it really is more of a choice for him, than it is for me.

GTKY- Are your Christmas decorations up? What's your tree style? Real, fake, color scheme, etc.
Living at my MIL's for christmas this year. We have a ceramic tree.

[daisy818]

Numbers: Cycle/Month 12, CD10

Circumstances: Benched till at least January 2016 - just had a lap last week, endo was removed but tubes are both still blocked. HSG in January to see if we can flush them clear with the dye.

R/R/NFNSQ: Still recovering from the lap, wish I didn't have to be back at work today but too much to do to miss. Trying to stay positive about the results of the lap (endo was all able to be removed, ovaries were clear of endo and looked good) but I'm not happy that my tubes are still blocked. Trying to be hopeful about the HSG. Also turned 34 today - creeping up on AMA.

GTKY- Are your Christmas decorations up? What's your tree style? Real, fake, color scheme, etc. Nothing is up yet (spent all weekend laying around recovering) but we have a fake tree. Last year we had all white lights with all sorts of random ornaments; this year we may have colorful lights (my preference).

[Deleted]

Numbers: cycle 3/ month 4, CD 25

Circumstances: long cycles (45 ish days) and hypothyroid.

R/R/NFNSQ: estimating that I am about 1 week from O. Fingers crossed no one comes down with a cold this time.

GTKY- Are your Christmas decorations up? What's your tree style? Real, fake, color scheme, etc.
No decorations until after my birthday on Friday. When they go up it will be a fake tree with white lights. Most of the ornaments are silver, white and jewel tones.

[BabyStandish]

Numbers: n/a

Circumstances: no PP AF yet, BFing my almost 11 month old

R/R/NFNSQ: I've been crampy on and off for the past couple weeks. I feel like my body is playing tricks on me. I hope it's AF coming.

I'm running my 5th marathon this coming Sunday! I'm so excited!

GTKY- Are your Christmas decorations up? What's your tree style? Real, fake, color scheme, etc.
Yes, got the decorations up. My tree is usually real, but since we are going to be out of town most of the month I decided to put my mini fake tree up. It's sitting on our kitchen counter. I like multicolored lights and unique ornaments.

[ourcrazynavylife]

Numbers: N/A, still just practice charting

Circumstances: My little will be 11 months tomorrow. Holy cow!
T-10 days until IUD removal, TFAS in March

R/R/NFNSQ: Nothing much to say today. Just counting down the days.

GTKY- Are your Christmas decorations up? What's your tree style? Real, fake, color scheme, etc.

Call me a Scrooge but it MUST be December before even a smidge of Christmas decorations go up in our house. So we'll probably do that this weekend.

We rock an artificial tree. Blue lights. Peacock theme: lime green/silver/teal ornaments.

I'm contemplating getting a second tree to put all the homemade ornaments that I know we will start getting as she gets older. Also letting her pick one ornament each year for Christmas.

[sammysam]

Numbers : N / A

Circumstances : TFAS in January (maybe)

R/ R : Not much. Same as before. I am realizing more and more that even once we are all back living together SO still won't be around enough to really help with LOs. Plus he hasn't lived with us since before DD was 1 (she is almost 2 now), has a short fuse and doesn't handle stress well. We didn't even live together while I was pregnant so he sort of has no concept of what any of this is like. It will be nightmarish trying to train him how to take care of a toddler and a new born...now if I could give birth to a one year old and skip the infant stage then maybe....off to my science lab to work on this.

GTKY: At my parents for another year or 2...they put the tree up mid November. Fake. My nieces and nephew decorated it...no colour scheme at all. SO usually gets 2 real trees. He likes just white lights. We do one with just lights and one with our sentimental ornaments.

[amandamh2]

Numbers: n/a

Circumstances: TFAS in January

R/R/NFNSQ: One more month until we stop preventing! Not that I'm counting... Once BC is out of the way there's still the matter of BFing interfering with normal cycles but at least it opens the possibility a lot more.

GTKY- Are your Christmas decorations up? What's your tree style? Real, fake, color scheme, etc. Our living room is an explosion of garland and a tree haha. Artificial tree with white lights, some antique ornaments from DH's great-grandparents and my childhood ornaments (my brothers and I each got to pick one per year and then take them with us to set up our own tree when we moved out).

[littlelion]

hurricanerek, GL burning the bench! Yep, I have a 12 mo (tomorrow!) and I'm waiting to see if he attacks the tree anytime soon. 
texaslady, Welcome! Hope your finances right themselves quickly! 
@wallflwr926, Sorry YH is waffling. FX he decides to keep trying, and hope this break is good for the both of you.
Happy Birthday daisy818! 
@sparky85, your tree sounds lovely!
BabyStandish, Here's hoping your body makes up it's mind....after your marathon! 
ourcrazynavylife, I like the idea of a 2nd tree! 
sammysam, I'd like to skip the pregnancy part and just have a baby handed over to me, thank you very much. 
amandamh2, Your last month here is going to fly by! 

[mosdub]

Thanks for starting littlelion! Hoping your hCG plummets quickly (weird stuff we say in WTDS).

hurricanerek congrats on this being your last WTDS! Good luck on the TTC train!

texaslady welcome! We can wait together - I'm likely going to be waiting until at least February too. Still trying to decide WHEN to ttc...

@wallflwr926 I hope your H is still on board for treatments after TTA. We also have a ceramic tree! Actually, I have like 8 of them I inherited...

daisy818 Happy Birthday! Hope the HSG goes as smoothly as possible when it comes.

BabyStandish good luck at your marathon! I also like eclectic colorful trees.

[mosdub]

Numbers: TTA until... April 2016 ish? I keep going back and forth.

Circumstances: TTA following a partial molar pregnancy. Took 6+ months for hCG to drop to <5 and now we need to monitor to make sure the trophoblastic cancerous cells are indeed gone.

R/R/NFNSQ: Twiddling my thumbs waiting for...I don't know when for sure. I'm thinking I'll FOR SURE ttc April 2016 but have been thinking if my hCG hits 0 before that maybe I'll be open to NTNP at that point. There are so many different recommendations and research I've just thrown my hands in the air at this point.

GTKY- Are your Christmas decorations up? What's your tree style? Real, fake, color scheme, etc. We are travelling this year for Christmas so I didn't want to go all out. I just plugged in our several ceramic Christmas trees and put some lights on the porch.

[sammysam]

mosdub @wallieflowers I have never heard of a ceramic tree. What does this look like? I am very curious!

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Nov 30, 2015 17:31:17 GMT -5 sammysam said:

mosdub @wallieflowers I have never heard of a ceramic tree. What does this look like? I am very curious!

Generally like this, but they can vary. My mom made the one I have in a ceramics class years ago.

[sammysam]

@wallieflowers that's awesome! I love that your mom made one. My mom tried to draw a chicken once...she gave it 4 legs. I can't believe I've never seen one of these before.

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Nov 30, 2015 18:47:42 GMT -5 sammysam said:

@wallieflowers that's awesome! I love that your mom made one. My mom tried to draw a chicken once...she gave it 4 legs. I can't believe I've never seen one of these before.

A four legged chicken? That's awesome.

[gabride2010]

littlelion Too funny about your H! Glad you found OPKs.

hurricanerek Congrats on your last WTDS! Good luck TTC!

texaslady Welcome to WTDS! I'm also TTA until February. I hope the time passes quickly for us both!

@wallflwr926 I'm so sorry you're in this position. I hope you and your H come to an agreement about treatments.

daisy818 I'm sorry your tubes are still blocked. FX they can unblock them in January! Also...Happy Birthday!

@sparky85 I hope no one is sick when you O!

BabyStandish I hope your period comes soon!

ourcrazynavylife I hope your IUD removal goes well. Mine wasn't bad. Definitely a million times easier than getting it out in!

sammysam Good luck with your SO!

amandamh2 January is so close! Good luck TFAS.

mosdub Good luck deciding when to start TTC!

@holachica Good luck TFAS! Welcome to WTDS.

AFM...

Numbers: Cycle 2 CD 62 (9 DPO!!)

Circumstances: TTA until February.

R/R/NFNSQ: Holy crap guise...I finally ovulated! I can't believe I actually O'd! Since FF moved my CH, H and I didn't have sex in my FW, which is good for TTA. I'm not going to lie, I was excited at the possibility of having a chance to be pregnant. February is coming soon though!

GTKY: No tree or decorations for us this year. Normally we get a real tree and decorate it with some sentimental ornaments and some new ones.

[mosdub]

Nov 30, 2015 19:45:00 GMT -5 @wallflwr926 said:

Nov 30, 2015 18:47:42 GMT -5 sammysam said:

@wallieflowers that's awesome! I love that your mom made one. My mom tried to draw a chicken once...she gave it 4 legs. I can't believe I've never seen one of these before.

A four legged chicken? That's awesome.

Someone would pay a lot for that breed.  

[amandamh2]

Hope your HCG continues to go down littlelion
Yay for TTC right away hurricanerek! Best of luck to you if this your last WTDS.
Welcome texaslady!
I hope you and your H stay on the same page/get on the same page @wallflwr926
Hope you're doing okay with the lap recovery daisy818
FX things work out for you @sparky85
Congratulations on the marathon BabyStandish! That's so cool that this is your fifth, running a full is on my bucket list.
Almost a single digit countdown now ourcrazynavylife
Hope you and your SO can figure out what makes the most sense for your family sammysam
Hope your HCG continues to drop and there are no trophoblastic cancerous cells mosdub
I'm with you on the mini pill @holachica, so not a fan. Can't wait to be done it in a month.
Yay for O gabride2010! February is totally coming soon.

[sammysam]

mosdub Hahaha! Looking at that picture I might actually be the one paying a lot if money for it...

[daisy818]

I really hope I can figure out when I O this month - I hadn't been temping last week because of surgery and trying to sleep in and what not, but I like knowing when to expect AF, so I'm trying to at least temp till I can confirm O. But last night I had a terrible asthma attack and had to use a nebulizer at midnight, and albuterol increases your heart rate and body temp, so my temp was way up this morning. Although I did find it really cool to see the direct impact albuterol had on my BBT - science! #nerdalert

[nuggetrn]

So I realize that it's Thursday... but Hi! I started my new job on Monday and I have been SO busy! Also I don't really have reliable internet access at home in the evenings so I don't always make it to the boards. Hope everyone is having a good week!!

hurricanerek, I have never heard of an ornament shower but that is pretty cool!!

Welcome texaslady!! and @holachica!!

Ugh Walls, (@wallflwr926) I am sorry your husband is giving you troubles with this. I hope you two can work this out over the next few months and come up with an agreement you are both happy with... like, you two going to an RE Come on. Mr. Pizza Roll 

Hey daisy818! Hope you are feeling well after your lap, I hope your HSG in January will help with the tube blockages!

mosdub, Holy crap, April doesn't even seem all that far away right now!!!

gabride2010 WAAAHOOOOOOO! For ovulation!!!!! Yay yay yay yay!! So happy for you

[nuggetrn]

Numbers: Cycle 2/Month 5 CD25/3DPO??

Circumstances: PCOS - long,irregular, sometimes anovulatory cycles

R/R/NFNSQ: So I got CHs this morning. I am very wary of them considering the fact that my chart is an absolute disaster because of waking up stupidly early/working 3rd shift/my usual PCOS rocky temps.

I am also stupidly hopeful. Bleh.

GTKY- Are your Christmas decorations up? What's your tree style? Real, fake, color scheme, etc. No Christmas decorations up for me and won't be putting any up We are living at my mom's right now. We usually get our real tree the day/weekend after Thanksgiving and decorate then. I am sad we don't get to do Christmas in our house this year. I have been telling DH I want to do Christmas in July Maybe we will have our house warming party and invite everyone over. Haha. Tell me if that's too crazy

[gabride2010]

Thanks nuggetrn! I looked at your chart. I'm not sure about O. It is certainly possible. FX this is for real! Your timing was pretty good!

[ourcrazynavylife]

You guys DH talked me down off a huge ledge last night. IUD removal in 6 days. I was major second guessing TFAS. I've just been having a hard time with some body hating issues lately. I just feel so squishy and not in shape. I know totally selfish reasoning for doubting. It also has a lot to do with us moving in the summer, DH most likely getting out of the Navy, and school.
DH was so sweet though. He was like you want an answer. Yes. Keep your appointment. We'll be happy and adjust no matter what happens.
Serious panic mode setting in over here.

[amandamh2]

Dec 3, 2015 14:42:30 GMT -5 ourcrazynavylife said:

You guys DH talked me down off a huge ledge last night. IUD removal in 6 days. I was major second guessing TFAS. I've just been having a hard time with some body hating issues lately. I just feel so squishy and not in shape. I know totally selfish reasoning for doubting. It also has a lot to do with us moving in the summer, DH most likely getting out of the Navy, and school.
DH was so sweet though. He was like you want an answer. Yes. Keep your appointment. We'll be happy and adjust no matter what happens.
Serious panic mode setting in over here.

Glad your H helped talk you through it ourcrazynavylife. I feel like second-guessing is a totally normal part of TTC and maybe even more so with TFAS. Add in any uncertain life circumstances and the doubts are definitely going to come. Hugs!

[gabride2010]

I'm glad he was helpful ourcrazynavylife!