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

[arizonacolbys]

Hey girls - I'll reintroduce myself, too! I just started posting here last week after our trip to WDW where my hubby told me he was ready to have a baby!

My name is Emily, I'm 28 & have been with my hubby, 29, for over 10 years - married for 6 this past May. This is my first month off BCP in several years, so not sure how long it may/may not take to get a BFP. AF is finally gone, so this will be our first official week of BD'g!

I've started charting & bought Taking Charge of Your Fertility over the weekend. Since I don't know my cycle very well yet, I have no idea when I will O this month. We're hopeful that we'll have good news to share with the family for the holidays!

Baby Dust to Everyone!!

 

[mickeyboat]

My name is Denae, I am 35 (36 on the 24th) and I am not TTC. I guess I am a little bit of a freak on this thread, but I really love to be involved in a thread that is full of so much hope. And the encouragement everyone gives to one another is very uplifting for me.

DH and I have known each other since 1983, and have been married for almost 15 years. I had trouble TTC, and after 2 1/2 years, a PCOS diagnosis and Glucophage, I got PG with Hannah in January, 1999. She was born at 34 weeks, and is now a healthy 7 year old. I found out I wasPG with Emily when Hannah was 4 months old, and she was born 6 days before Hannah's first birthday.

The girls are both in First Grade (because their birthdays fall on either side of theK cut-off date), and we are havig a great time. It was super tough when they were babies, but it is great to see them learning and playing together. I will probably change my mind when they get a little older.

Continued good luck to all!

Denae

 

[AllyandJack]

Yay, Roll Call!!

I'm Carla....recently turned 30 (I'll be saying that until I turn 31 ). DH and I started TTC in July of 2004. Two young, healthy people....what could go wrong? The last 27 months of my life have been a big blur. I'm finally pregnant with #1 after 3 rounds of Clomid, 2 rounds of IUI, an ectopic miscarriage after IVF #2, and 4 rounds of IVF total. Now that I'm pregnant, I'd do it all over again (but, I REALLY hope I don't have to).

skuttle, I'm sorry about AF. It's hard this time of year because of the holidays and family up in your face.

Cari, has your DH gone to get "the boys" tested? Drugging you up isn't going to do anything if the swimmers aren't swimming anymore.

Ash, I took my HPT at 10dpo (for me that was 7 days post my 3 day transfer). It was sooooo faint. Barely there. I wasn't even sure it was real or my eyes just making it up.

Lisa, how are you feeling? When do you test?

Does anyone know if LisaLovesPooh has internet in Hawaii? I thought about her when I heard about the earthquake there. She's on Oahu, right?

I'll be 6 weeks tomorrow. So far, so good. I'm LOVING the sleeping. For the last 2 years, I've needed pills to sleep. I'd mix it up with what I'd take (I have a pharmacy in my nightstand), but I would have to take something every night. Not anymore. The last 2 nights, I was asleep at 7pm. Then I'm up every 1.5 hours to pee. Isn't it a bit early for that?!?

 

[mickeyboat]

Does anyone know if LisaLovesPooh has internet in Hawaii? I thought about her when I heard about the earthquake there. She's on Oahu, right?

I ws thinking about LisaLovesPooh this morning, and was hoping she hadn't left yet for her trip. Hope all is well, Lisa.

Denae

 

[7beasley]

Hi All

I will re-introduce myself as well.

My name is Nicole. I have been part of this thread since June. I am 32 and my DH is 33. My husband and I have been married 6 years (just celebrated our 6th in Disney in Sept) but we have been with each other for 16 years (started dating our senior year of High School!!)

We started TTC in June of 2005 -- in June of 2006 we found out that I have Premature Ovarian Failure (POF) and therefore have no eggs and would not be able to conceive on my own -- the upside though is that I can carry a baby just fine -- so we have gone the route of an egg donor.

The process has taken longer than we thought and has been very expensive ($20K+) but we have found a wonderful anyonomous donor and we are going through all of our medical screenings now. We expect our donor to start taking her meds in November and we expect to do her retreival and IVF/implanation in me at the end of December/beginning of January.

I am excited to be pregnant and with the help of my family and many of the wonderful ladies on this thread I have accepted the fact that this will still be 100% my baby (even though it is not my egg) and I am thrilled that I get to carry the baby and I am praying and hoping and wishing on every star and birthday candle that we have twins so I can have the family I always wanted and know that the kids are 100% siblings (same egg/same sperm) and not have to go through all this again!!

Have a good day ladies!!
~Nicole

 

[LisaB]

Okay My name is Lisa I am 38 and my dh is 39 (Kevin). We have a 7 year old Diana in 2nd grade. We have been trying since my daughter was born off and on. Started clomid about 2 years ago after my mom died. Mom died of brain cancer in May 04 after 10 months after initial diagnosis. It was a very aggresive form of cancer doubling in size every 11-12 days. She had two surguries but never really came out of the vegetative state she was in after the second surgery. Her brain was swelled which caused this state. After Mom died we decided to see my gyn and she put me on clomid. We were suppose to see her to start but then my Mom was diagnosed and it wasn't the right time. Last January we started the process with two more cycles of clomid and then two cycles of hcg and clomid. We saw the specialist in Novemeber. I lost my job after Christmas. Since we were in Disney during the time I was ovulating we took April off. Last June we stated glonal f and ultrasounds 1 cycle and then the next cycle I had a cyst of the ovary. We took some time off again and started again this month. Sorry so long. I go for my beta on thursday Feeling gassey, usually AF stuff but no real cramps yet but wait they will start because I said so

 

[TAKitty]

Hi!

My name is Tracie. I have been married for almost four and a half years. This is my first marriage and my husband's second. He has two boys from his first marriage (ages 12 & 9). I am 32 and Dh is 39. We have never used birth control so I was hoping for a surprise at sometime. Well, it hasn't happened yet. Dh is on board finally with actively trying. This is our first month of TTC. I can test in 11 days!

 

[2bemarried]

Kristy, did you have the lap?? Are you going to cycle again in December? Does the doctor have any new information??

Thank you all for the welcoming arms again

Carla I did have the lap on 9/8. The doctor found smalls cells of endometriosis, but it was in a location that could not have caused the ovaries to do weird things. She doesn't think it was enough either to mess with the E2 levels. When she did the lap the ovaries were exactly the way they should be, so that was good news. I'm still on 3 metformins a day and she really wants me to lose 10% of my body weight before we do another cycle(that's rougly 25 pounds). I had a bad weekend of eating between watching the ballgames(GO TIGERS) and the race(GO JR), but I promise that I'm back on the wagon again today.

Elaine I remember when you lost all that weight before. I definitely need the push from friends to keep this up, so THANK YOU for the offer!

You ladies are flying through the pages over here. I'm not sure if I can keep up with you, but I'll try. This will be my TTC and weight loss support thread

Have to get back to work now....later taters

 

[Pollito916]

Hi everyone, my name is Sara. I am 25, and DH will be 29 in 2 days. We have been married for 7 years, together for 8. I am currently a little over 5 months pregnant. Even though I had endometriosis and ovarian cysts as a teenager, it still only took us one month of ttc. I still check in here regularly in hopes that all of the rest of you are able to get pregnant so we can all share in the joys of motherhood!

 

[Minnesota!]

Skuttle - I am so sorry the hag showed! How rude of her. ((((hugs))) on feeling pessamistic - I know how that goes. And I would always just want to slap DH and his optimistic views, LOL. Doesn't he know I just want to pity myself? I hope this coming month is 'the one'.

DMickey - are you feeling the baby? It's not unheard of. I have been feeling movements for a little over a week. I felt "something" at 11 weeks, but at 13 weeks I got my first FOR SURE movement. When I sit for a while with my legs crossed, I can feel him moving. It's cool

On the subject of "it happening when it's supposed to happen". My comments - I really really tried to live by that mantra when TTC my son. It was so hard and I never wanted to hear it from other people. It felt like the world was out to screw ME out of the joy of being a mother. Month after month and year after year, when AF would show, or another m/c robbed my short lived joy, I swore I was on someone's hit list. And "my perfect time" seemed like it was never going to come. However, I then got pregnant with my keeper baby - my now 2 year old son. And from the instant I met him, I had an "AHA" moment. I couldn't imagine a MORE PERFECT time, and if I had succeeded in getting pregnant, or staying pregnant any earlier, I wouldn't have my miracle boy today. I would have waited a million years for him. Patience is NOT one of my virtues, but "patience" is what got me my little boy.

Reintro -

I am Andrea (28) married to Kevin (28) for just over 6 years. We have been together for 13 (since Freshman/Sophomore year AWWWWW...). We have 1 son, Luke, who was 2 in June. We had started to TTC in 5/2001, and had 3 m/c between then and 8/03. Due to low progesterone mainly. We decided to "take a year off" and were pregnant 2 months later with my son. This time around, we started TTC last November, and stopped in Feb (to go to WDW in May!). I got pg in April, though, and m/c at 5 weeks a few days before WDW. Again, decided to take some time off, and was pg shortly there after with this bean I am carrying now. I am due with miracle #2 on April 13, 2007. Hoping to find out WHO is inside me in the next few weeks.

I hang around here because I truly care what is going on with all of you, and I love seeing the successes. And I share in the heartbreak. I have been there so many times, and if my "experience" taught me anything, it's compassion.

 

[LisaB]

Oh we have been together for 12 years married for 10

 

[2bemarried]

excellent idea to do the introductions again:

I'm Kristy (29) married to Derek (40). We've been married since May 2003. We started TTC in May 2005. When December rolled around and we still weren't pregnant I decided to make a couple of doctors appointments. We ran all the tests and found out that dh has azoospermia. That means the little guys are swimming around in there but refuse to come out. DH had surgery in May of this year to remove 4 tubes worth of stuff. From that we have about 400 viable ones to use. So I started the first cycle of IVF in August. Unfortunately there were complications and we had to cancel the cycle. I had laparoscopy on September 8th to determine what my issues were. I have a small amount of endometriosis and I have PCOS. I'm currently on a weight loss plan to lose 25 pounds. When that goal is accomplished I will be allowed to start my second cycle of IVF.
shew....that's a mouthful..no wonder I haven't tried to explain it to my family

 

[ashjohnson80]

I'm Ash and I'm 25 (I'll be 26 in December) and my DH is 28. We started ttc this cycle for our first. We've been married for a little over four years and have been together for over six. I've been off of bcp since last spring. I've been charting my temps on fertility friend. I didn't want to tell anyone that I was ttc, but then I finally did tell my mom and dad and brother and sister. I can't keep a secret.

 

[mickeyboat]

I'm Ash and I'm 25 (I'll be 26 in December) and my DH is 28. We started ttc this cycle for our first. We've been married for a little over four years and have been together for over six. I've been off of bcp since last spring. I've been charting my temps on fertility friend. I didn't want to tell anyone that I was ttc, but then I finally did tell my mom and dad and brother and sister. I can't keep a secret.

And us!

Denae

 

[ashjohnson80]

And us!

Denae

Yeah, I couldn't keep a secret from the DIS either!

 

[DMickey28]

Hi, I am Christina (28) and my DH is Derek (31). We have been married just over 2 years and together for 4.5 years. We were married on the Island of St. Thomas on a cruise! We had been TCC #1 since January 2006. We had an early MC at 4wks 3days in May and decided to stop charting and temping. We also found out at that time we would be moving from Chicago to Florida so we put TTC out of our mind until we got settled. We moved to Florida on July 1 and then we both went out of town for three weeks traveling, seperately for our jobs. We talked about TTA until the Fall to let things get settled, but we both just wanted to let thing happen. I saw DH once during our three weeks apart, on my birthday and our little bean happened!! It was amazing to us.... I am a little over 13 weeks along and in or getting into the second trimester! I can't believe it. My Dr. Says we will do a u/s for sex at 19weeks so I can't wait!!!!

Minnesota! - I haven't felt any movement yet. I thought I felt a little twitch here and there for the last week or so, but it could just as easily be a muscle twitch. I can't wait! I listen to his heartbeat on the doppler a few times a week and I can tell he is just squirming around in there like crazy!!

I obviously don't know the sex yet... I have just found myself referring to the baby as HIM. That's my gut instinct. If it's a girl, I am sure she will let me know that she isn't pleased at referring to her as a boy for the first four months by kicking me soon!

 

[Jen_in_NH]

Hi everybody!

Reintro stuff: I'm Jen (gee, my screen name didn't give that away ), and I'm 32. Brian and I have been married for 2 years, and had been TTC since May 2005. When nothing happened for a few months, I mentioned it to my doc, and he started taking gallons of blood out of me. We ended up doing 8 rounds of Clomid, and were scheduled for an IUI with the last round, but the could not find any follicles. We decided to take a few months off to give ourselves a break, and then go back for another IUI. The month I wasn't on meds, we actually managed to get pregnant. So I'm 12 weeks today!

I just keep hanging out here because everyone on this thread was great when I was trying, and I want to stick around to see everyone else's success stories!!!!

Jen

 

[fanofdisney]

Lisa B- I'm glad we aren't the only ones on here who will have children further apart in age. Things happen that delay the timing, and kids grow up fast! I'm trying to squeeze in my second before my son turns 7 next December. I know of some people who have kids far apart like that, and they said it's great for many reasons.

Everyone else- It sounds like most of us are having our struggles! Babies are easier said than done! They teach you how easy it is to get pregnant and to be careful, then you want to and nope! Not so fast! It's frustrating...

I have been exhausted the last few months. I fall asleep day and night, have trouble staying awake, and when I am, I'm tired and can't wait to lay down. I'm not pregnant yet, and just had my doc do some thyroid tests. I'm waiting for them to call me back. If they're okay, I think I may have iron-deficiency anemia. Since I've been off bcp, af is very heavy. I'm the one who's af was dancing all over my mattress a few weeks ago! So I think I may need some iron supplements.

 

[Syrreal]

Reintro

I'm Pinelopi. I'm 29 and my DH truned 30 a couple of months ago. We've been married for 4 years (got married in Jamaica) but have been together for 8 1/2 years (9 on Christmas day). We wanted to wait a few years to get a little more settled and spend some just me and him time before sharing our lives with a baby. DH and I are huge travellers- we like hiking (aka walking in the woods- not "real" hiking), scubadiving (how we met), that kind of stuff.
Then we decided that we would start TTC in March. So I stopped taking bcp in December to give all the horomones and what-not time to get out of my system. I was one of those girls who got off bcp and right back on track (I had been super regular before bcp and nothing chnaged after- even though I had been on them for 10 years). So March came around and we went snowboarding/snowbiking up in Whistler. We were so excited to start ttcing! So DH falls and breaks 3 ribs. There went that idea. 6 weeks of healing later and we started trying a tiny bit but it wasn't at the right times. We go down to Florida and Disney in May and somewhere in there we timed things right and are now just past 5 mos pg with our 1st kid- a boy!

 

[PoohPrincess76]

Reintro, Hi all I am Janeese. My DH, Jerry, and I got married in July. I have a DD who will be 10 in January. We are going to start TTC on Jan. 1. This will be the first for DH. I am a bit nervous about the whole thing. DD was an "unplanned" pg, so, no trying involved, not to mention the HUGE age difference for her. I am actually heading to the Dr. today to talk about ttc and all that fun stuff. I was on Depo for 2 cycles, then heard all the horror stories and switched to BCP and am finishing up my 13th pack.