Any other DISers trying to concieve? Reread OP for the QOTD!

[AllyandJack]

Lisa, you're getting poked all over today! Sheesh! I hope it went well and you're getting a chance to relax.

Lots of 2 week waiters! We're a bunch of antsy people.

I'll be joining the 2ww on Wednesday (they consider date of retrieval, O date). I'm so excited. My follicles grew - They should grow more from now until Wednesday AM. She's going to call me back later to let me know when to show up in Boston. I start my antibiotic tonight and mix the HCG and inject that. It gives me a big rash. Tomorrow is nothing - a day off from everything, even the injections.

I took the next 2 weeks off of work. I told them to fire me if they had to, but I was taking the time I needed. It seems they're OK with it. I like the job, but I can't play around anymore. I need to relax, not sit in traffic getting frustrated.

Kristy, your appt is tomorrow, right? Has AF arrived? I hope they're able to start you this cycle. Follicles need to be at about 16mm to be considered "mature" and be likely to contain mature eggs. The ones that aren't at 16mm yet should grow over the next 2 days with the HCG shot. I hope. If they get too big, you risk that you'll ovulate prematurely. That would stink.

The BD restriction starts Wednesday. I have to admit, after the daily wanding, I'm looking forward to having some peace in the area.

 

[beckmrk04]

Count me in on the 2ww too! I am 3dpo. I have my HPTs and I am ready! (to wait).

So- Jen, Rachel and me in the 2ww, and Carla on Wednesday? Is that right? I am going to make a list of 2ww'ers in the OP, and also a list of our girls who got their BFPs!! So, if I leave anyone out, post or PM me, and I'll add you to whichever list it is!!

And reread for QOTD! I'm having a little trouble posting (ok- a LOT of trouble) due to the server. So, bear with me.

 

[beckmrk04]

QOTD: I loved "The Monster at the End of this Book" when I was little. It had Grover in it, and was one of the Little Golden Books (love those). I also recently bought "And Tango Makes Three"- it is officially my baby's first book. Adorable.

WHen I get pg, I also plan to get "The places you'll go (a book to be read in utero)"!

 

[AllyandJack]

I like the lists. It's nice to be able to keep track of people in 1 place.

Becky, you're all armed with your HPTs. When are you going to start the testing?

My beta is going to be June 29. Ironically, my beta for IVF #1 was on my Nana's b-day. This beta will be on the 1 year anniversary of the day she died. Actually, I think she officially died on the 30th, but the 29th was the last day I saw her alive. I've had it with "signs" though.....IVF #2's transfer was on the day my best friend delivered - we joked about how mine were going in as hers was coming out. That didn't end well either. Oh well...so much for "signs".

QOTD: I saved all of my books from when I was little. I hope my kids like them as much as I did - and I hope they don't mind my name all over them. When I learned to write my name, I did it everywhere!

 

[LisaB]

The iui went okay much easier than yesterday. I dropped the semen bottle so Kevin's count was only 10 million but they were able to do a wash with that. My beta test is on June 26th. The pap went well after the iui's the pap is nothing.

 

[beckmrk04]

Ugh- Carla- After AF showed up (ON MY BIRTHDAY- not that I'm bitter ) last month, I decided- "Ok- I'm not going to test every day and make myself crazy." Three days later, I promptly went to the Dollar Tree and bought 5 HPTs. I used one already- sort of a "dry run." LOL! So, I have 4 HPTs and 1 Clear Blue Easy digital. My luteal phase last month was 12 days- so I figure I'll start testing at 9 or 10dpo and see what happens. If I get a line with the cheap HPTs, then I'll use the clear blue.

 

[Tasha+Scott]

QOTD: I loved "The Monster at the End of this Book" when I was little. It had Grover in it, and was one of the Little Golden Books (love those). I also recently bought "And Tango Makes Three"- it is officially my baby's first book. Adorable.

I also loved that book as a child! When my youngest brother was born my mom bought him "Another Monster as the End of the Book". It has Grover and Elmo in it. There was also one with Oscar the Grouch in it. I can't remember the name of it right now though. Anyway, after I found out I was preg. with my dd my mom gave me all of our old books. So I have those 3 and they are all pretty worn out but I have read those a couple of times to my dd. She loves Sesame Street so she seems to like them...although she did not have the attention span to sit through them until really recently. Her favorite books are touch and feel type baby books with animals in them. Thought I'd throw that out there as an idea for those of you ttc and thinking of books for the baby. She will sit in the floor and flip through those books and look at the pictures and touch them on her own for a long time. She loves it when I read those to her too.

Anyway, dh told me last night he wants to start ttc this year instead of next. So we might start ttc in a few months if I don't chicken out. My question is how long before I actually start ttc do drs. recommend taking a daily prenatal vitamin? I did the whole ttc thing before but I'll admit I didn't know as much about it the first time around. I learned more about it after I was already preg.! I am planning to buy some OTC prenatals today and start taking them soon just in case. But just wondered when the drs. recommend is the best time to start taking them before ttc. A few months? A month? Any info. would be much appreciated! TIA!

 

[2bemarried]

I'm sending all the I can find to those of you in the 2ww. If you all get pregnant those poor men out there on the DIS aren't going to know what hit them.

Kristy, your appt is tomorrow, right? Has AF arrived? I hope they're able to start you this cycle. Follicles need to be at about 16mm to be considered "mature" and be likely to contain mature eggs. The ones that aren't at 16mm yet should grow over the next 2 days with the HCG shot. I hope. If they get too big, you risk that you'll ovulate prematurely. That would stink.

Carla I'll be doing a dance for you Wednesday. Good for you taking the 2weeks off. Yes, my appointment is tomorrow at 10am AF showed up last week and tomorrow will be CD7...so guessing that I'll have to wait till next month to start the injections.

The BD restriction starts Wednesday. I have to admit, after the daily wanding, I'm looking forward to having some peace in the area.

QOTD: To be honest..I'm the oldest grandchild in my family so all of my books were passed down to my cousins. I don't think I have any of my books left. If I do it's a Hans Christian Anderson book with fables in it. I really love Winnie The Pooh so I'll probably buy a couple of those and read them to the baby/babies in utero

This may be a dumb question: I know that babies can hear music/sound waves when it's played on the radio, but can they hear it if you're listening to it with headphones...i.e. Will the baby be able to hear everything I'm listening to via my IPOD?

 

[AllyandJack]

This may be a dumb question: I know that babies can hear music/sound waves when it's played on the radio, but can they hear it if you're listening to it with headphones...i.e. Will the baby be able to hear everything I'm listening to via my IPOD?

Good Lord, I hope not! I don't need my unborn child hearing Eminem!

Good luck tomorrow. I can't wait to hear what they have to say.

Tasha, as long as you're getting 400mcg of Folic Acid for a month or so before conception, you should be fine. I take a Centrum Chewable (400mcg) and then a Folic Acid supplement (800mcg), but I only take the extra because of the high risk of multiples with IVF. My OB and some places I've seen online say to get 800mcg during pregnancy. That's why some people take pre-natals - to get a jump on the 800mcg. I can't swallow those pills and I can't have extra Iron, so I opted to take the regular vitamin and supplement the Folic Acid. Food has it, too. Total cereal has 400mcg and the Vanilla Yogurt is goooood.

Holy moly, I'm all scheduled! HCG tonight at 10:30pm. Arrive at hospital at 9:30am on Wednesday. I questioned her again - Is she sure the follicles are ready? How was my E2? E2 was over 2,000. Lining was over 10. Last time, it was 1,900 and we got 9 mature eggs, so I should be all set. But, of course I still worry that the eggs aren't mature yet and I had surgery for nothing. She told me to stop playing doctor and let her do her job.

 

[Minnesota!]

Forgive my absence, please! Crazy at work!

What wonderful news on this board - congrats to all the newly pregnant! I hope your 9 months are happy and healthy!

Carla - what a week you have in front of you! I hope everything goes swell and in 2 weeks we have some awesome news from you!

AF showed up last week - 3 days early. I think my body is still kind of screwy from the m/c. Today is a month since I lost the baby, and I am kind of sad. Hard to believe I would be almost 10 weeks already.

I think this month we will get back in the swing of TTC. TMI but I didn't let DH touch me once this past month. I had some issues. Now I am raring to go, LOL!

I will try and stay caught up here!!

 

[beckmrk04]

Minnesota! Glad you are back and ready to go again! June is shaping up to be a wonderful month around here!!

Carla- I am hoping and praying for you! I'm so excited!!! Your doctor is right: stop worrying- she gets paid PLENTY to do that for you!!! And the Eminem comment cracked me up. I recently started wondering when I have to give up MY music... I seriously doubt that my music is appropriate for babies/children- but i just love it! What will I do without my crunk mix?

T+S- doctors reccommend (generally) that you start taking prenatals 3 months before you start ttc. However, like Carla said, as long as you are getting 400 mcg Folic Acid daily you'll be fine. I started taking OTC prenatals, and they made me sick, so I checked my with family practitioner and she said my Women's One-A-Day were fine. Then when I had my annual exam, my ob/gyn gave me Rx prenatals that don't make me hurl every morning!

 

[Tasha+Scott]

Thanks for the info., Carla! When we were ttc last time I did the same thing by just taking folic acid and a Centrum vitamin. When I found out I was preg. and called to make a drs. appt. the receptionist asked what I was taking if anything. I told her and she asked if I had been taking prenatals. I said no and she told me to get to the store that day and start taking them right away. The way she said it I wondered if I should have been taking prenatals instead of the Centrum and folic acid. It didn't affect the baby one way or the other and my dr. even had me just stick with an OTC prenatal vitamin (One Source from Wal-Mart) until I was 24 weeks preg. and it was discovered that I was anemic. Then he switched me to an Rx because it had more iron in it. I will probably just do the One Source prenatal again to be on the safe side since I do have a history of being anemic on and off since I was 2 yrs old. Thanks for all of the info. It is very helpful! And I am really rooting for this to be your month! You have been through so much and you deserve to be holding a precious baby in about 10 months!

Minnesota~ Oh, I am so sorry to hear you had another m/c! I really hope this is the month for you!

Can I just tell you ladies how scared I am to even think of ttc #2 this fall? I know I shouldn't be posting this since so many of you have gone through so much that I haven't had to deal with but I am so nervous and would feel better just getting it out if you don't mind. (If you do mind, then by all means just tell me to shut up and I will, I promise! ) Anyway, I am the one that wanted to have our kids about 2 years apart and I am the one that was ready to start ttc again this fall. Dh wanted to start ttc next year. I finally accepted that and was okay with it. He then tells me he is ready now and also wants our kids closer in age. Well, of course one side of me is so thrilled! The other side of me has been so sick about it ever since he told me. I am so nervous to possibly have 2 kids next year that close together. I know it's what I wanted so why the hell do I feel this way? Ugh! I am assuming it is like when you are getting married and it's what you know in your heart you really want but all of a sudden you realize how final that step is and you get a case of cold feet or something. Now that I know I might have 2 next year (if we have no problems conceiving that is) I am scared as hell! And yet, excited! I hate having conflicting feelings! Okay, thanks for indulging this post and I will quit whining now since my "problems" are so trivial in comparison to some of yours! Good luck to everyone else ttc! And congrats to those who got a BFP this month!

Oh, and I am going to try to start eating healthier and exercise more and lose a little weight before we start ttc so at least that will be a positive about ttc so early! Too bad it takes that to get me motivated to get in shape, lol! Oh, well, whatever works!

ETA: Just saw your post, Becky! Thanks for your advice as well! And my dd is 13 months old and I'll admit I still listen to a lot of the music I have always listened to. My dh laughed when I said something yesterday about how ironic that we were listening to Usher on the way to church with a toddler in the backseat yesterday morning!

 

[RachaelRol]

Lisa, you're getting poked all over today! Sheesh! I hope it went well and you're getting a chance to relax.

Lots of 2 week waiters! We're a bunch of antsy people.

I'll be joining the 2ww on Wednesday (they consider date of retrieval, O date). I'm so excited. My follicles grew - They should grow more from now until Wednesday AM. She's going to call me back later to let me know when to show up in Boston. I start my antibiotic tonight and mix the HCG and inject that. It gives me a big rash. Tomorrow is nothing - a day off from everything, even the injections.

I took the next 2 weeks off of work. I told them to fire me if they had to, but I was taking the time I needed. It seems they're OK with it. I like the job, but I can't play around anymore. I need to relax, not sit in traffic getting frustrated.

Kristy, your appt is tomorrow, right? Has AF arrived? I hope they're able to start you this cycle. Follicles need to be at about 16mm to be considered "mature" and be likely to contain mature eggs. The ones that aren't at 16mm yet should grow over the next 2 days with the HCG shot. I hope. If they get too big, you risk that you'll ovulate prematurely. That would stink.

The BD restriction starts Wednesday. I have to admit, after the daily wanding, I'm looking forward to having some peace in the area.

Carla,

I;m really excitred for you although I don't really know what it means, but I definitely get that Wednesday is your big day!!! Good for you about the job!!! It's awesome they're that flexible.

 

[mickeyboat]

Denae

 

[beckmrk04]

Denae

Hi Denae!

T+S- I totally get how you are feeling about being scared, even though it's something you want! I'm terrified! I don't have any kids yet- so I'm worried about how having a child will affect my relationship with DH, how it will affect our lifestyles? Will I be a good mom? Will we be able to comfortably make ends meet? Will I like my child? Will I resent the amount of time/money a baby will require? Will I lose my identity? Will dh still think I'm hot?

I have about a million other questions. But- in the end, I know the answers to most of those questions. And I know in my heart that I want to start a family with my amazing husband. So, the rest will work itself out. And just think- your kids will have built-in playmates since they will be so close in age, and you'll be able to get all of the diapers out of the way that much earlier!

 

[2bemarried]

Good Lord, I hope not! I don't need my unborn child hearing Eminem!
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Good luck tomorrow. I can't wait to hear what they have to say.
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Holy moly, I'm all scheduled! HCG tonight at 10:30pm. Arrive at hospital at 9:30am on Wednesday. I questioned her again - Is she sure the follicles are ready? How was my E2? E2 was over 2,000. Lining was over 10. Last time, it was 1,900 and we got 9 mature eggs, so I should be all set. But, of course I still worry that the eggs aren't mature yet and I had surgery for nothing. She told me to stop playing doctor and let her do her job.

I told you it was a dumb question but my brain is fried today and I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask The Eminem and Marilyn Mason tracks I have were concerning me.... It's fine for me to listen to them, but I don't want my baby hearing them. I'll let the baby listen to all my other stuff (Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Clay Aiken, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Reba, Nora Jones, etc etc etc...and all the classical stuff too).

Wooohooo you're all scheduled Yes...let the doc take over and do her thing You should go to Blockbuster tomorrow, rent several movies and have them ready to play when your surgery is done Wednesday. Does your doctor have you do bedrest after the transfer?

Minnesota! welcome back!! June is going to be a GREAT month around here..

Becky....I'm right there with you on all of those questions..specifically the one about being able to make ends meet and provide for my kids. DH and I have already started looking into daycare centers/family childcare as well as possibly moving to another home. It's A LOT to think about!

 

[Minnesota!]

Tasha - I am SOO with you on being nervous. Not so much about the age difference...but just having 2 kids!! Nerve racking, really. As I chased Lucas around this weekend, and him screaming "NO" at me...I wondered how I would do it with a newborn in my arms, LOL!! Doesn't deter me at all (well, when those nosy people ask me "Are you pregnant with #2 yet?", I do tell them that a 2 year old is good birth control!!). Is Kylie getting into things yet? I don't remember what age it was that Lucas became "A 2 year old". He transformed into a (Lovable, sweet..) monster almost overnight. BEWARE :O)

Thanks for the welcome backs, ya'll!! I hope June is a ROCKING month :O) I will gladly accept a BFP another month for some of you to get one this month, though :O)

 

[beckmrk04]

Whew- it's shaping up to be a long 2ww. I'm not sure if I am happy that I will be busy now, or not.

Funny thing- my Grandma called today. "Soooooo.... How are things?" I think maybe she thought I would know already if I was PG. It's funny- never thought I would be teaching my Grandma all about ttc and how women's bodies work.

Has anyone esle read "Belly Laughs" by Jenny McCarthy- it is soooo flippin hysterical. Like, make you laugh-and-snort funny. I highly reccommend it.

I also reccommend www.thepregnancytester.com - great website!

 

[beckmrk04]

Reread OP for QOTD- and check to see if you need to be added to a list! PM me if you want to be added or, for those who have got their BFPs, let me know your due date and I will post it in the OP! We'd like to be updated and along for the ride, so to speak! :

QOTD: I already have the themes all picked out. In fact- when we bought our house and decided to paint the extra bedroom, knowing FULL WELL it would be a nursery, we chose a fun green color.

If we have a boy, I want to do a monkey theme. Complete with stuffed monkeys hanging from vines across the ceiling!

If we have a girl, I'm thinking I want to do a ladybug theme- I found the cutest ladybug baby bedding.

(BTW- of course, this all depends on me finding out the sex of the baby, which I fully intend to do...)

 

[AllyandJack]

Hi, Denae!

Tasha, I have a friend with a 15 month old who is over 30 weeks pregnant. She said she wishes she had them closer together because her son is so mobile now, he's a lot of work. A girl I grew up with had hers close together, too and once said to me, "Can you believe I have TWO kids? TWO KIDS?" She was tired, but the girls were able to entertain each other so she got a break during the day.

Minnesota, time goes by so fast, doesn't it? Even though you tell yourself not to think about how far along you'd be, you can't help it. But, it's good you're ready to get back to....well, you know.

Rachael, thank you for the good thoughts. I need all I can get!

Becky, I have the big question of "Will I like my kid?" We've all been to WDW and seen some annoying twit of a kid - now I wonder, "What if that's MINE?" Or, will I be as blind as those other parents and not see how utterly annoying it is? I'd rather know than be blind to the annoyances.

Kristy, if we're wrong, we're going to have some very informed babies! If we get a call from the preschool that one of our kids is being tossed out for foul language, we'll have nobody to blame but ourselves!

QOTD: I was thinking Pooh, but now that I actually sit and look at the room (it's now my office, which will be moved to another room if we ever need this room for a nursery), I wonder about other things. I think I've thought so much about it, my mind is a blur. I love www.babyenvy.com. They have great stuff. What if I have twins and it's one of each? When they're babies, I'll keep them in one room.....how do you decorate that?! I plan to find out the sex(es). I need to plan ahead.