Tuesday TFAS Check In 1/5

[ellabee]

This Check-in is for anyone actively trying to conceive a sibling or planning to TFAS in the upcoming months.



Age of LO(s):

Circumstances:

Cycle/Month:

CD/DPO:

RRCS:

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached?

[caz1221]

Age of LO(s): 28 months

Circumstances: TFAS since September 2015

Cycle/Month: 4/4

CD/DPO: 21/7

RRCS: Nothing at the moment.

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached? DD seems to do something new every day. Recently, she has been saying "I missed you" and "I love you" to me and DH, which is so sweet. She also likes to talk and sing to her dolls and stuffed animals as she falls asleep - so cute.

[littlelion]

Age of LO(s): 13 mo

Circumstances: TTC (1st TWW wait!)

Cycle/Month: 1AL

CD/DPO: CD26/9 DPO

RRCS: I went last night to buy milk and ended up buying 2 boxes of pregnancy tests (on sale!). Last week I kept thinking I must be KU and now I'm not on the crazy train. I actually feel a bit bloated and crampy so AF could be around the corner. Still want to POAS. 

GTKY: My baby boy is learning things so fast. He understands us more and more each day. I've found it sweet that he knows which slippers are his dads and whenever he has them off, he'll go get them and give it to his dad. And if his dad's asleep in bed, DS still takes each one and throws them up and over into the bed. the other thing he is hell bent on figuring out is how to turn a door knob, he can barely reach!

[ladytiffany24]

Age of LO(s): 18 months

Circumstances: TFAS since Nov 2015

Cycle/Month: 3/3

CD/DPO: CD6

RRCS: Nothing right now.

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached?
She's picking up words so often now! And I'm pretty sure she's attempting to put small phrases together. Sometimes it still sounds like gibberish, but she's trying hard to have actual conversations. Also, all of the sudden when I pick her up from the sitter, she is running to me with her arms in the air with the biggest smile on her face. It's the best feeling in the world!

[kerbear]

Age of LO(s): DS turns 1 on Friday and his first birthday party is this Saturday. He got his first haircut this past weekend and I nearly cried in the corner

Circumstances: Trying since early this month

Cycle/Month: 1/1

CD/DPO:32/10

RRCS: Faint line today on my Wondfo. I can't tell if I'm having line eye or what so I'm going to wait til tomorrow for final confirmation!

GTKY: LO blows kisses now. Last week I was about to take him upstairs for jammies and bottle and I said "Say goodnight to Daddy!" and he blew him a kiss! It melted my heart.

[caz1221]

FX that you get confirmation of a BFP, kerbear!!!!!!!

[smallllmin]

Age of LO(s): 17 mos

Circumstances: TTC

Cycle/Month: Cycle 2, but technically 1, because we said we wanted to start trying during last month's luteal phase.

CD/DPO: 1... boo.

RRCS: I'm back to worrying about pre-AF spotting. It didn't affect our ability to get KU last time, but it always weirds me out. I seriously don't want to temp, but maybe I should for piece of mind.

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached?
He started jumping last night!

[ellabee]

Age of LO(s): 21 months

Circumstances: TTC#2

Cycle/Month: 7/8/2AL

CD/DPO: 3/NA

RRCS: I was trying to play it cool and not get my hopes up last cycle, but I was secretly optimistic about a miracle first cycle post-loss Bahama-mama vacation baby. It wasn't meant to be... so onto 2016. :sigh: I get a little panicky and anxious every time I think about just how much older DD will be now if we do GKU. I know it doesn't help anything to be sad about not starting sooner, but I find myself wishing more and more that we started TFAS sooner. I see parents of kids in DD's daycare class dropping off their new siblings in the infant room and it always makes me sad.

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached? DD randomly comes up to me (and others) and gives kisses and hugs. It's adorable. Milestone-wise, she had her first poop in the potty two days ago. Crazy how fast she's growing up!

[jwinct]

Fx, kerbear, that it's an actual line!! How exciting! I'd be getting a different kind of test and peeing on that right now if I were you. LOL
I did that with my first BFP; got barely a shadow of a line on a dollar tree test and later in the day got a faint, but very visible blue line on a CVS test. Good luck!!

Age of LO(s): 6 and 8

Circumstances: I'm almost 40 and have one fallopian tube

Cycle/Month: 6

CD/DPO: CD2

RRCS: I'm starting to get a head cold. Booo.

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached? This is hard to answer because they're always being funny, smart and sweet! My 3rd graders is getting straight As and my 1st grader is also doing awesome in school. Their teachers love them and they often get recognized for how helpful and well-behaved they are. I'm so proud of my girls! My little one wants a baby in the house so badly recently. They know we are licensed to foster-to-adopt, but they have no idea that we are trying to have a baby. After we were at a party where we met our friends' little 2 year old and 9 month old foster sons, my little one asked if we could adopt them. She was obsessed with them for days. She will be over the moon excited if I ever get pregnant. That makes my desire to get pregnant even stronger. I think my girls will be awesome big sisters, and they are at an age that it would be fun to go through pregnancy with them.

[WittyLittle]

keeping FX for you kerbear ! Pee on all the things!
So many cute things all your LOs are doing!!!

Age of LO(s): 11 months (sniff, 1 month of babyness left)

Circumstances: TTC#2

Cycle/Month: 2 (1AL)

CD/DPO: 24 (1DPOish. Not temping but guessing)

RRCS: 1st day back at work sucked some serious ass. But today was better!

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached?
DS is starting to take steps. He's been cruising since Halloween but now he's finally letting go and trying to actually walk. EEEEEEP!

[sleepymonkey]

FX for the next line to be nice and dark, kerbear!

Age of LO(s): She turned 2 on NYE!

Circumstances: TFAS since June 2015, AMA

Cycle/Month: 8

CD/DPO: 12

RRCS: I only have 6 more months before my deadline. I really hope it doesn't come to having to decide to stop TFAS.

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached? It's so hard to choose just one thing! She got a play kitchen for Christmas and she also got a baby doll (she kept saying Santa was going to bring her one so of course he did.) The baby came with a bottle and she insists on putting the bottle in the play kitchen microwave to "make baby's milk" before she gives her the bottle. We warm up her sippy of milk in the microwave so her baby must need warm milk, too. She also got another baby doll for her birthday that she absolutely loves. She named her Carla, which is so random because I don't know where she would have heard that name.

[ladytiffany24]

ellabee, Send me your potty training advice! DD is 18 months old. We got her a potty chair for Christmas in hopes to take baby steps towards it.

[WittyLittle]

Jan 5, 2016 10:48:50 GMT -5 @holachica said:

Age of LO(s): 10.5 months

Circumstances: I go here now! We were WTDS for a couple months for my period to go back to "normal" after the mini pill.

Cycle/Month: 1/1

CD/DPO: CD24/not sure because I didn't temp while we were on vacation, but I'm guessing 8 DPO based on CM.

RRCS: DS is a pretty good sleeper, but he'll have nights when he wakes up and cries/resettles himself at like 2 am. I wake up and so I haven't really been temping because I know it wouldn't be accurate. When TTC DS, my temp was really sensitive to being at the same time every day, with at least like 4 hours of solid sleep. I feel like TTC #2 will be a bit tougher because of it.

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached?
He's learned to climb the stairs, so that's frightening! But he also says "mmmmmm" and waves his arms and legs when he's eating something he likes.

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! :-P

[sleepymonkey]

Yay for LO using the potty, ellabee! DD loves to sit on the potty but it's more fun for her and she doesn't actually use it. We got her a few potty books and some big-girl undies for Christmas but she just seems to think the potty is to play with. Everyone keeps telling us she'll be easy to train and MH wants to try to start training her but she just doesn't seem ready yet. She's not bothered by wearing diapers so I think we have a little while.

[ellabee]

ladytiffany24 - we've been working for months on associating the actions with words, so DD pretty consistently says peepee/poopoo when she's wet her diaper, or feels like she has to go. We let her sit on the potty whenever she wants and usually have her sit on it before bathtime too. She's yet to actually pee in it. The day she pooped in it, I basically intercepted her mid-push and asked if she wanted to do it in the potty. She's yet to repeat it, but she has a pretty regular morning bm, so I'm going to keep trying to start with that one... I'm not too concerned with pushing the training, she just seems like she's on the cusp of really being ready. Her daycare teachers have also mentioned that she seems like she'll train on the earlier side of things.

[caz1221]

 All of the bolded. I GKU on our first cycle trying with DD, and we would ideally like a ~3 year age gap, so I was hesitant to start trying before DD turned 2, but I'm starting to wish we had. I keep telling myself that whatever the age gap is, it will be perfect, but the huge number of pregnancy announcements I'm getting IRL (particularly people having #2) is making it really hard to fully buy into that.

Jan 5, 2016 10:56:16 GMT -5 ellabee said:

Age of LO(s): 21 months

Circumstances: TTC#2

Cycle/Month: 7/8/2AL

CD/DPO: 3/NA

RRCS: I was trying to play it cool and not get my hopes up last cycle, but I was secretly optimistic about a miracle first cycle post-loss Bahama-mama vacation baby. It wasn't meant to be... so onto 2016. :sigh: I get a little panicky and anxious every time I think about just how much older DD will be now if we do GKU. I know it doesn't help anything to be sad about not starting sooner, but I find myself wishing more and more that we started TFAS sooner. I see parents of kids in DD's daycare class dropping off their new siblings in the infant room and it always makes me sad.

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached? DD randomly comes up to me (and others) and gives kisses and hugs. It's adorable. Milestone-wise, she had her first poop in the potty two days ago. Crazy how fast she's growing up!

[jubilantsquirrel]

Age of LO(s): 21 months

Cycle/Month: 3/3

CD/DPO: 16

RRCS: Nada today.

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached?
This weekend I was sitting on the floor in the living room and he was in his playroom. I kept asking him for a hug and he would come running full speed into the living room and plow into me laughing. We did this for like 20 minutes before the cat distracted him.

[pivot]

Age of LO(s): 16 months

Circumstances: TFAS

Cycle/Month: 1

CD/DPO: 11/NA

RRCS: I have been sleeping like crap the past few nights so I'm sure it's messing with my temps along with it being extra cold in our room last night. 

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached? She's getting really good at saying bigger words/phrases! Some favorites of mine include take a baaa (take a bath), lellow (yellow), he go (here ya go) & peekyboo. She's also a master at the word NO. This morning when I dropped her off at the babysitter I asked if I could have a hug before I left and she just looked at me and said NO and then Bye Bye and proceeded to go play Little miss independent. 

Bonus: She loves to go around to any feet (hers, mine, the dogs) and sniff them and go "POOOWEEE" and scrunch her nose. Cutest ever. 


kerbear FX it's a real line!!!


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[cheezee]

kerbear FX'd for you!!

Age of LO(s): 4

Circumstances: MFI (last SA was normal)

Cycle/Month: 8/10

CD/DPO: CD14

RRCS: I hope to get a positive opk soon. Ready to get this show on the road! I'm praying DD stops coming in our bed at night...she's making this real difficult sometimes!!

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached? DD has just about conquered writing her name! I'm so proud. She gets so proud of herself when she does it too and its just the cutest!

[BabyStandish]

@kerber FX!!

Age of LO(s): will be one year on Saturday!! EEEEK! Somebody hold me!!

Circumstances: NTNP, Still no PP AF, breastfeeding DS

Cycle/Month: n/a

CD/DPO: n/a

RRCS: LO has been eating a bit more solids over the past 2 days so I'm hoping that'll help my period come back

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached? He can stand without holding onto anything and can take a few steps. I love watching him stand up. He gets so proud of himself. He's also babbling like crazy when he plays. I love it!!

[jubilantsquirrel]

ellabee, I hear you on the wishing you would have started TFAS sooner. I think our LOs are the same age. I wanted to start over the summer, but I had just started a new job and we needed to wait until I would be covered by FMLA.

[ellabee]

caz1221 -There are a few of us TFAS'ers who GKU on cycle 1 with LO#1 (me included). It definitely adds that extra bit of ironic cruelty when struggling TTC#2.

[jrun2013]

Age of LO(s): 20 months

Circumstances: TTC

Cycle/Month: 10

CD/DPO: 35

RRCS: I'm really happy to see this thread. I got knocked up the first cycle with DD, so I was hoping I'd be that fortunate again, but the months keep going by without any success.

Also, this is my 3rd cycle charting. The first two showed clear ovulation and so far this month, nothing. FF showed c crosshairs briefly, but took them away. Frustrating to say the least.

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached? She is so giggly and talkative, it's so adorable. Most of what she says is gibber jabber, but it warms my heart!

[britta]

Age of LO(s): 2 (27 months yesterday)

Circumstances: TFAS since July 2015

Cycle/Month: 5/7

CD/DPO: 20, WTO

RRCS: My temp was up a little this morning, but most of my temps have been higher than what's normal for me the last week or so. I've been sick, so I guess that's what's messing with it. I do have fertile CM though, so hoping I O soon.

GTKY: DS is pretty advanced for his age in the language/vocabulary department. At his daycare parent-teacher conferences this fall, his teacher said he functions more at a preschool level than a toddler/older toddler. I'm pretty proud of that. He recognizes almost all of the letters of the alphabet, counts to 15, knows his colors/shapes. As far as a recent, specific smile: DH just told me that a diesel truck pulled up next to them while they were out today. DS said "I smell a truck. A BIG truck."

ellabee I totally feel you. We meant to start TTC in April and I freaked and pushed it back to July. I got pregnant on cycle 1 off BCP with DS. We were actually NTNP while I waited for an appt with a new OB when we moved. This "trying" stuff is for the birds. All the kids DS started in DC with either have siblings now or their moms are pregnant. Humph.

[jense927]

Age of LO(s): 2

Circumstances: TTC

Cycle/Month: 11/12

CD/DPO: 18/1

RRCS: I think I O'd yesterday. Since we will be doing all the testing at the end of this cycle and with the Holidays I have really slacked on temping/tracking. I did OPKs CD13-17 Got a + on CD16. So we are going with O on CD17. My level of caring right now is not high. So burnt out. We did manage to have good timing though. So we shall see.

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached? He is chatting a lot more lately. I seriously love it. It is like an insight to his thoughts that I never had before. We were with a friend who has a 1 year old and it was so sweet to see him interact with him. DS kept telling him to come play! come! trying to get him on whatever mission DS had at the time. So cute!

[amandamh2]

Age of LO(s): 8 months

Circumstances: TFAS, BFing with no PP periods yet

Cycle/Month: 1 (maybe)/1

CD/DPO: unknown

RRCS: Well we've officially stopped BCP and TTA so here goes! With no PP periods yet I'm not expecting anything for a while but I'm kind of hoping anyway. I'm just excited not to be preventing anymore.

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached? DS has become a master at pulling up on everything and is furniture walking well. He has no shortage of confidence so he's also experimenting with letting go and trying to walk alone... lots of falls so far but occasionally a couple steps first!

[Deleted]

Age of LO(s): 3 yrs

Circumstances: TFAS with hypothyroid

Cycle/Month: 3/6

CD/DPO: 61

RRCS: pos opk sunday and yesterday!

GTKY: Time to brag about your LO. What's something funny/sweet/smart your LO has done lately, or what milestone has he/she reached?
DS recognizes all of his numbers from 0 to 9.

One funny thing he did recently was call DH by his first name, and when I tried to correct him by asking "what is the special name that only you get to call him?" DS replied "Batman!"

[kerbear]

PS- I love this GTKY. Reading about everyone's LOs and their accomplishments is making my day!

Thanks for the well wishes. I'll keep you guys posted tomorrow

[littlelion]

@kerber fx you get a positively darker line!
ellabee congrats on toilet trng! I've always heard that the pooping was the hard part!
Hey WTDS ladies amandamh2 & @holachica, good luck doing something!

[judyblume14]

Age of LO(s): 16 months

Circumstances: TTC#2

Cycle/Month: 5/6

CD/DPO: 26/either 8DPO or 6DPO...

RRCS: FF gave me cross hairs indicating I ovulated on CD18 (which is 4 days later than my average, but whatever). EDITING TO ADD HERE... that as soon as I got CH, I was done with the sex. Then, my temp went up again, and FF moved my O date to CD20 (which would be no bueno because of the no sex thing) . Then a few days later, moved it back to CD18. I'd love someone to chart stalk me, but I don't know how to link it in here.

GTKY: LO has just recently started saying mama. And the wayshe says it is honestly the most adorable thing I've heard in my whole freaking life.