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

[AllyandJack]

Lisa, nothing attractive about drunk and puking. I'm trying to get drunk, but it's not working. I took an Ativan. I drank a glass of wine. I drank another. I'm drinking another. Not only am I not drunk, I'm not even tired. Are you having another IUI tomorrow? If so, I hope your DH can manage to get boys un-drunk.

Some morons are lighting fireworks. They sound professional. Um, people, that holiday is OVER and it's time to MOVE ON.

My new driveway is cool.

Desnik, why do people think their babies should be the center of our lives? I always get, "But what about Josh?" from my friend when I'm in a mood and say I'm not leaving the house and not doing anything anymore. Um, Josh isn't MY BABY and he's not the center of my life. But, hey, going to her baby shower should have made you feel better, right? I'm sure things would have been great sitting there because that person's baby more than makes up for the loss of your own. If I get one more damn voicemail with her saying, "Say hello....Josh, say hello to Auntie Carla...." Twit, he's 4 months old, he's not saying hello, hang up and leave me alone.

 

[AllyandJack]

Yes. No bright side there. I puke so hard every morning that I literally piss my pants.

Wait... is that TMI? Oh, couldn't be; not HERE!!

Checking in here- still barfing every day. I suffered through Pirates of the Caribbean 2 today- but at least I made it out of the house. Orlando still looked tasty, so I can't be that sick.

to all the new ladies I have seen in here!!

I'm not totally caught up yet (still reading, but had to let Carla know that not peeing myself was not indeed a bright side, since, well, oh- you know. )

I have a HUGE pad my RE gave me from my SHG. It looks like a folded up mattress. I took it and pretended to use it, but I brought my own. You can borrow my mattress pad, if you'd like.

Did you tell people at work? I mean, if it's a shared bathroom and you're in there hurling...at some point they're going to figure it out - or think you're bulimic!

 

[beckmrk04]

FlyingBelle- gorgeous nephew!!! What a sweetie pie!

And the issues with the "girls": I am already a DD. I have NO clue what my monsters are going to turn into. Where do you go after DD? I'm scared!!! I just envision myself with my mammoth HH breasts smothering my poor baby when all I intended to do was breastfeed. I'll have enough milk to feed a daycare, I'm sure.

I have lost 5 lbs. Although, I'm pretty sure I'll gain it back, with interest, once I can keep my food down consistently.

 

[beckmrk04]

I have a HUGE pad my RE gave me from my SHG. It looks like a folded up mattress. I took it and pretended to use it, but I brought my own. You can borrow my mattress pad, if you'd like.

Did you tell people at work? I mean, if it's a shared bathroom and you're in there hurling...at some point they're going to figure it out - or think you're bulimic!

Yeah- they found out on Monday. I figured I better tell some people before they think I just have really bad hangovers every day.

Here's some love for ya: I work in a bank at the drive-thru, and our bank is weird in that the drive-thru is a separate building from the main bank.

I'm the youngest out there by, oh, 35 years (I'm 25). When the 3 other ladies I work with found out I was pregnant, I got NO congrats: instead, they threw a FIT because I would have to take maternity leave. "What are we gonna do? Blah blah blah."

AS IF I cared, or as if I considered they're feelings when making my life/reproductive decisions. I couldn't believe it.

Needless to say, they aren't very supportive people, and certainly weren't overly nice when I threw up all day Wednesday.

Maybe I should invest in a mattress. Right now I just throw a towel down. Whattya gonna do?

 

[Syrreal]

beck, there is a small light at the end of the tunnel. After weeks of being too sick really to do much, the past two days I have been feeling better. I am still gagging and getting nauseous some but not actually puking. I even managed to go to our town's shakespeare festival tonight (would NOT have done that last week)

Keeping my fingers crossed that I didn't just jinx myself!

 

[MommyBryn]

Well, I suppose I can get more involved here if you ladies don't mind. My first PP AF just decided to show up. It was a mix of emotions for me...partly good because now I can track my cycle, yet partly bad because I HATE AF (I've always had AWFUL cramps and long- 7 to 9 days- heavy AF's) and I was hoping that she'd stay away for maybe just another month or 2. I'm even EBF'ing around the clock and DD doesn't even sleep through the night. Guess I'm just lucky. :lol:

But after my pouting session, I couldn't help but remember my friend (a DD buddy) who had her baby at 29 weeks and got a uterine infection, so she had to have a complete hysterectomy to save her life. Now I'm sure shed give anything to have a cycle so that she could have more babies. So praise God that I HAVE a cycle.

Just wanted to add that I am hoping that I don't grow too much during this pregnancy. I'm already a D and we were passing a lane bryant and I told DH I would probably have to start buying bras there. He asked why I couldn't just get bras at a maternity store.
All I've heard about maternity store bras are that they tend to be unflattering and uncomfortable. Is this true?

I didn't grow at ALL during my pregnancy or afterwards (I'm BF'ing). Actually, that's a lie...I grew the one night that my milk came in, but after DD got ahold of those things they went right back to normal. I was a D cup pre-pg, during pregnancy and still a D cup now.

 

[Syrreal]

Thanks MommyBryn That's encouraging

 

[LisaB]

Morning all did my second day of iui. Wnt well Kevin's count was 43 million and yesterday 68 million, I get my beta test on 7/24

 

[connorsmom911]

Hey all, just stopping in to say hi! I've been trying to chart my temps, but already I'm ready to throw it out the window. It's so hard on nightshift because I don't get a whole lot of sleep and a couple days this week I was barely asleep 2 hrs before having to get up to pee or get something to eat because the "rumbly in my tummy" woke me up, so I don't think my temps get even remotely basal. Plus I worked 2 extra nights this week, a day apart, so I think I totally have stumped the charting program on fertilityfriend.com. I'll be surprised if it comes up with anything by the end of this cycle. Oh well, at least we're getting some practise time in!! That will eventually be the other battle if I do start Oing...because of our shifts there are a few days every week or so where we don't see eachother...I'm gone before he gets home, he leaves before I get home, etc. Should make the babymaking interesting!!

I'll add my comments about bras...I had to totally abandon underwire about my 5th month with Connor. He was a relatively tall baby and I'm relatively short-waisted, so his feet were always up in my ribs and underwire just got plain painful!!! Couldn't get used to wearing it again after having him, especially at work. I just recently bought my first underwire "pretty" bras since having him!! And guess what...I hate them!!!

Carla, just wanted to say keep your chin up...I can so remember hating my SIL when they got pregnant on the first try with all 4 of their boys (4, 3 and twin 2yo) since they apparently don't "practise" all that much anyway. Or my aunt who too got pregnant on the first shot with all 4 of their kids (2, 1 and twins when they had them). They didn't even sleep in the same bed together, always on the brink of divorce until they finally did. She is the worst mother too. The kind that make you think people should have to apply for a licence to have children, same as they have to apply for a licence to have a dog. And all the crack addicts my sister sees when they come into give birth at the hospital where family and childrens services is already there to seize the baby since they already have her first 4 kids...hello, anyone heard of STERILIZATION!!! Makes me sick that people like that can have kids so easily and some of us have such a hard go at it!!!

Tasha+Scott...cutie pie!!!

I'm also not a mid-wife fan...I'm sure there are perfectly great ones out there, but I've just heard so much negative about them from my sister when they come in to the hospital and dump the patients that got out of their control and things went bad. Plus friends of the family, she had super high blood pressure towards the end of her pregnancy and some minor complications early on that should have screamed doctor supervision but the midwife had them convinced everything was ok. She was even admitted to hospital about 2 weeks before her due date because of the high bp. Why a doctor did not step in at this point I still don't know, but I guess if you are a midwife patient the doctors kind of throw their hands up and say "not my problem". Well, 2 weeks go by, she winds up in the hospital, her bp goes so high that she loses her eyesight and they are still trying to deliver ******lly, forceps, suction and the like. The baby didn't survive and they almost lost the mother too. That baby was perfectly healthy, nothing wrong except the delivery. Makes my bood boil that in this day and age of technology that a baby would be allowed to die because of hospital politics. And the midwife had the gall to call the girls parents after the birth and tell them everything was ok, there was just some minor complications and they sent the baby to another hospital!!! She died 2 days later in her mothers arms, but she still didn't have her eyesight back, so she never even got to see her daughter. My heart totally breaks, even writing this 3 yrs later. Thankfully they did try again and had another little girl, healthy and happy last summer, but I have heard through the grapevine that she was horribly changed after that incident. They are very religious people so chalked it all up to God's will and such, didn't ask for an inquest or anything. I would have been up one side and down the other of that hospital and all involved!!!

Ok, breath...sorry, doesn't take much to get me riled. My moods are all over the place now that I'm off bcp. Hope that calms down soon!!

Anyways, cheers to all recently preggers, and cheers to those still trying!! We'll have a drink for you guys that can't!!!

 

[LisaB]

Wow what a sad story Connors Mom. On the other board that I am on I am Diana's Mommie. That is that reason why I don't trust midwifes. Like when I called my doctor's office and found out she wasn't an OB anymore just GYN and the nurse goes we have so and so who is a midwife. No friggin way. I swear sometimes even in the states they let woman go to long in labor. Was in labor for 14 hours and after 12 hours I wasn't progressing duh I couldn't have told you that. I made it to 4.5 cm after 2 epidurials and an induction. She goes we can try alittle longer or we can prep you for a c section. I knew I would end up with a section because my old gyn had told me and then a new doctor in this practice also told me the same thing.

 

[AllyandJack]

Lisa, good numbers for the IUIs!

connorsmom, you know what's funny? I have to sign a bunch of forms for IVF - mostly medical consents. There is a form that has some other legal stuff in it and one line in it says I am responsible for financially supporting any children born of this procedure. Why doesn't everyone have to sign this form? If you're lucky enough to be fertile, that absolves you of the financial responsibility because you get a free pass?? Insane. I remember when I went to adopt my cats, I had prove I owned my home and I had money to support them and care for them. Poor kids don't have a chance in some cases, but the animals at the shelters get sent to the best possible families.

When my friend was pregnant, she always got a mid-wife. She was on Medicaid, so they told her she got what she got and to deal with it. She's still entitled to a DOCTOR - maybe she doesn't have a choice in doctor, but she's still entitled to one. A mid-wife is a choice, right? This was at Mass General and it wasn't until they determined she needed a c-section that she actually saw a doctor. On that night, they wanted to send her home, despite massive bleeding, but she sat in the waiting room and refused to leave. Sometimes, we have to take our health into our own hands.

I've been so lazy the last two days! I briefly considered going out and doing some yard work, but then decided to watch the BBQ competition on Food Network.

 

[LisaB]

Carla I thought you lived in Derry????? My follicle numbers or Kevin's sperm count????

 

[2bemarried]

Carla as usual you have me cracking up....trying to get drunk and the "twit he's 4 months old" comments were hilarious. We've also been lazy this weekend. I didn't even leave my house yesterday.

Becky...those ladies have NO right to treat you like that Amazing how rude some people are.

Lisa... : keeping my toes and fingers crossed for your IUI.

Connorsmom that is such a sad story. I get so irritated when I think of all the children here in the US in foster care and orphanages yet those of us who are fit to care for them are put through the ringer and can't have them..yet the druggies that gave birth to them get to treat them like crap and make them live in a crack house.

Nothing new here. I took my first Follistim shot last night. The meds stung a little bit going in but not a big deal. I am however noticing that my stomach is starting to bruise from all the needle pricks. I have a big belly yet I tend to do the shots in the same areas, so I'm going to have to change that habit.

 

[smilie]

I've been trying to read all of the posts, but decided to post before I finished. Dh and I have decided to start TTC in February. We'll be in Disney the first week of February so we're going to start then. Just trying to read the posts and find out what I should start doing ahead of time. Thanks for all the info on the thread!!

 

[LisaB]

Well welcome to our group Smile. I am sure you will find a wealth of information and people you can laugh and cry with

 

[gypsydoodlebug]

Nothing new on my end, either. Been attached to the Big Brother live feeds and can't tear myself away even to go to the bathroom –– I might miss something!! Kristy, I know you're a fan, too, right?

I bought a box of HPTs, and I swear they're slapping me in the face, whispering "C'mon! Do it! Just one won't hurt you..." I can't officially test "early" until the 16 (not due for AF until the 19th or 20th). Last time, I tested before AF and got a positive result right away with two tests. Drove me crazy until I could officially see the doctor at about 8w. It's killing me though, because I know DH and I worked hard at it last week during O.

I'm terrified of gaining weight like I did with Bella ––*I gained 75 pounds. It was fun going on, but not so fun coming off. I found my old pregnancy journal from her and I weighed about 10 lbs. less than I do now when I was 8 weeks pregnant! My neighbor, who just had a healty 7.5-pounder in May, walked outside in superslim jeans and looked to be at her prepreg weight already. I'm still not.

ETA: How do you guys handle alcohol consumption? I like to have a glass of wine or two at night while I'm watching my shows. Have y'all competely gone cold turkey? I'm not taking an OTC meds and have been caffeine-free for a week. DH was wondering about alcohol when you don't yet know if you're pregnant.

Smilie: DH and I brought back a souvenier from our first anniversary trip. See my signature! And darned if she isn't a "Dissny Whirl" fan (as she calls it!)

 

[FlyingBelle]

Good morning all! And welcome newbies to our fun thread!

Just went in for my blood test this morning to find out if our lives are changing I'm nervous as h**l and have NO IDEA if it's going to be positive or negative! About every 10 minutes I have a different feeling. I should be getting the call sometime after 1pm CST today. (That's about 3 hours from now).

Last month I was soooo certain, until the morning I went for my blood test. On the way home I got AF and cried my eyes out Then I had a drink.

Speaking of, gypsydoodlebug: my RE says no alcohol after the IUI. I'm not a big drinker anyways - but when laying at the pool, it's so hard not to have a "stupid drink" (DH's description of a frozen cocktail). They just did a segment on pregnant women on one of the news programs over the weekend. They said that once you're in the 3rd trimester, it's ok to have an occaisional glass of wine.

 

[LisaB]

I think so many woman drink before they know they are pregnant. I was worried about that because we were going to the Finger Lakes just arround the time my test would come back positive. It was negative. I figured that if it was positive that I would drink in moderation We were going up there to wine taste because at that time if it was a normal pregnancy ie I got pregnant on my own instead of iui we probably wouldn't be testng yet. I had a drink with Diana about two weeks before she was born

 

[Syrreal]

ETA: How do you guys handle alcohol consumption? I like to have a glass of wine or two at night while I'm watching my shows. Have y'all competely gone cold turkey? I'm not taking an OTC meds and have been caffeine-free for a week. DH was wondering about alcohol when you don't yet know if you're pregnant.

I tried not to drink very much while I was in my 2ww. I was at Disney during the 1st half and only had a pina colada at ohanas (my fave) and then I went to Brazil right after that and had 1/2 a glass of wine at a bbq one day but that's it.

 

[2bemarried]

Smilie welcome to the thread!!! Feel free to ask any questions. As my nurse said "there are no stupid questions".

Yup GypsyDoodlebug I'm addicted to Big Brother!!! I've already caught up on last nights house shinnanigans(sp?).....other that the game of kick ball they've been pretty boring this weekend.
To answer your question about alcohol: I don't really drink but my RE has asked that I not drink caffeine or alcohol while going through IVF. I think a couple of years ago the rule was one glass of wine max per day, but then it changed to no wine at all. So I would consult with your doctor to see how he/she feels about it.

Flyingbelle : coming your way for a positive blood test!!!

UGH...do I really have to work today???

No one warned me that the medications would severely alter my taste buds. My bottled water tastes BURNT....blech!! The issue is I HAVE to drink it.....THIS SUCKS....thankfully I have a friend constantly reminding me that it's for a good cause.