New TTC Thread

[KiKi Mouse]

Christal,

Please do stop in and tell us how you and Jen are doing. I wish you all the best with fostering. I have to say that your post made me feel very excited for you and happy that babies out there are going to be so wanted and nurtured by you and your partner. They will be happy to have you and you are so lucky to have that opportunity.


Chris

 

[ChrizJen]

Christal,

Please do stop in and tell us how you and Jen are doing. I wish you all the best with fostering. I have to say that your post made me feel very excited for you and happy that babies out there are going to be so wanted and nurtured by you and your partner. They will be happy to have you and you are so lucky to have that opportunity.


Chris

Thank you. I will definitely check in and keep you updated.

 

[allie_to_you]

Wow. So that HSG...that was horrible!

The HSG I had was horrible too. They gave me valium, aleve & loratab and while I felt completely drugged and dazed, it did nothing for the pain and then afterwards, I was so crampy and I got dizzy and had to lay down. I nearly threw up too. I went home and ended up sleeping with more pain pills the rest of the day. I cramped and hurt for the next couple days as well.

I am one of these people who reads all I can & checks about any procedure I'm gonna have, so before my HSG, I had read all about it so I'd know what to expect. Most people has said that the procedure was uncomfortable but no so painful....WRONG!

Anyway, like Christal, we are done, at least for a while with our TTC via our fertilitys specialist. All the test and other things have taken up all the money we'd saved and we just can't see going into debt to keep trying. We're just finally getting ourselves out of debt. So, we too are going to try the foster care route. Dont' know what all is involved or what all we'll have to do to get ready, but we want to foster infants as well with the possibility of adoption down the road.

 

[D&DDisney]

Aurora - sorry you had such a bad experience. Hope you are feeling better now.

Hotveggy - Congrats again. Glad everything is going well.

Well, after the wierd July month of not 1 but 2 AFs I am ready to move into Aug. So far the docs can't figure out why I keep getting that right side pain and why I had 2 AFs. She told me to try BC pills and see if that helps, but I am not ready to completely slam the door on this TTC by taking BC. Hope is all I got right now, even if its just a little bit of hope.

 

[skuttle]

Courtney...I'm SO sorry about your HSG experience!! It sounds awful! I hope you are feeling better.

Christal and allie...Good luck with the foster care! I hope this new journey brings you both much deserved happiness (in the form of a baby, of course!).

D&D...I'm so sorry you aren't getting any answers! That is so frustrating!! Hopefully your cycles will start to be more normal and that pain will go away.

Minnieandmickey...Poor you! I'm so sorry! You are right, though...you need to get better before TTC. That's wonderful news about your DH!

I hope I didn't miss anyone!!

 

[WDWAurora]

Can I just say how relieved I am to hear that it wasn't just me with the HSG? Holy cow. I had attributed the hot flash to my femara, but gypsydoodlebug, you've got me thinking maybe it's something with the procedure that triggers it. I'm feeling back to normal now, other than some lingering cramping when my stomach hurts, if that makes sense. He said I had patent fallopian tubes, and in my drugged state, I told him I had no idea what that meant. So he starts explaining how the ovary isn't attached, and the sperm joins the egg and they travel down the fallopian tube, etc...Um...I just meant that I didn't know what patent meant. Didn't need the birds & bees lecture.

Hopefully my ultrasound will look good on Saturday. I'm not sure what I'll do if I have to do the shot-DH will never give it to me, and I'm not sure how capable I am. I kind of want it, just to do something different, and to hopefully not have an endless cycle. Has anyone done a trigger shot before? How was it?

 

[WDWAurora]

I went back for my mid-point ultrasound today. My lining was good and I had one egg that was maybe a 22? Does that sound right? I think my lining was at 9.5? Both were good, the nurse said, so I had to do an ovidril trigger shot, which was nerve-racking. Luckily, it really wasn't so bad once I just did it. So, hopefully either the BD from this morning or the BD tomorrow night will take. I may make DH (well, make probably isn't the right word) BD again Monday night, just to be safe. It would help me so much if it work work this time. I guess we're basically in the TWW.

I wonder what the shot will do to my Clearblue Easy fertility monitor?

 

[KiKi Mouse]

WDWAurora,

I really hope this is it for you

 

[DznyLvr2005]

Hi just wanted to pop in and say hi...
Here's some recent pics of 3 weeks old Emma. I hope it gets better, I haven't slept in 3 weeks and I'm dreading going back to work. I feel like crying every day because when you're so sleep deprived, you just can't function.
I love her to death, but I really hope it gets better soon!!!

 

[skuttle]

Courtney, I hope this is it for you, too!!

 

[KiKi Mouse]

DznyLvr2005,

It does get better. Gradually but it does get easier.

The best parenting advice I ever got was;

'roll with the punches'

and

"this too shall pass"

beautiful pictures You are very lucky.

 

[allie_to_you]

Congrats on baby Emma. I hope it gets better for you soon too!

 

[Jen_in_NH]

Aurora - good luck this month! Happy 2WW....

So DH and I decided to skip this month. Between work and other stuff, there's no way I could make it to all the appointments. So, when AF shows up next month, I'll head in for the mini-stim cycle. This month, we'll just try the old fashioned way..... The up side to this - it was this time 2 years ago we stopped all of the TTC stuff for a month, and I ended up pregnant with Christopher. Hopefully, we can have a repeat performance

 

[vetrik]

Aurora, I'm so sorry to hear about your HSG, it sounds like an awful experience. However, I do hope that this is the month for you!

Christal, that's exciting news about fostering. At least something positive will come, and you'll be able to help these babies/kids that really need help.

D&D, I hope the doctors are able to figure out what's going on. I know that frustration of not having the answers.

Work's been insane, and there hasn't been much going on with me on the TTC front - just waiting for my Hcg to return to 0. Tomorrow is 4 weeks since the shot - I go back for bloodwork every Friday, and it was down to 50 (from 2600 the day before the shot) last week. The nurse that called with the results was hopeful that this week would be the last week - I have a follow up appointment next Thursday.

 

[D&DDisney]

Good Luck to everyone this month!

Dreading going to my niece's b-day party this weekend. I know my sis is going to announce she's pregnant ---AGAIN. Fertile Murtile hasn't said anything yet, but has quietly been moving the 2 girls into 1 room and "fixing up" the nursery "for the future". Yah...not so distant future I'm sure Just once I'd like to control over my fertility and be able to plan the spacing of my children or how many. Okay...rant over.

 

[JLCdisney0310]

Ugh. Big time ugh. Results of Drs. appt is that the Dr. thinks IVF is really where we need to be going. And sooner rather than later as I may have an egg supply/quality issue. I was not really ready to hear this. I don't have any problem doing IVF other than fact there is no possible way we can afford it. Insurance doesn't cover IVF and it will cost upwards of $15,000 due up front. It just doesn't seem right that we should have to take out a loan or a second mortgage to have a baby--something that most be people are blessed with for free! I'm just so frusterated.

Im right there with you, in everything you say have spent over $650 bucks for just copayments, sperm analysis, blood work for the "SO CALLEd" fertility specialists ...while my brother just had TWINS for free!!!!!!!! isn't life just wonderful!!

 

[Maggimus]

Can I join in? DH and I are TTC!

 

[D&DDisney]

Welcome aboard Maggimus!!!

As we all say...Glad to have you but hope your stay is short.

Well, the fertile sister didn't make any announcements this weekend. However, couldn't help but notice the PRENATAL vites on the counter. Duh!!!!!!
Just a matter of time now. SIGH!!!! No matter how many times or how well I prepare myself for this kind of news, it always feels like a bombshell.

 

[momsully]

Hi everyone - I've been lurking but not posting again.

Kiki - I am thinking about you. I hope you made it thru the last few weeks ago. My due date was Monday and I have been a bit down. AF started today (early) so at least it isn't going to start Monday which would have stunk.

D&D - Sorry about the sister. I have one of those as well. She thinks about a baby and bam!

Allison - Did your husband ever test?

I hope everyone had a great summer. The kids went back to school last week and we decided to plan a trip to California for fall break so I am in Disney planning mode. We don't ever go to Disneyland so it is all different.

Welcome all the new folks, I hope your stay is shorter than mine.

 

[WDWAurora]

Maggimus-haven't seen you since the wedding board days. Good luck!

I'm pretty sure I'm out again this month, despite everything looking perfect, ovulating thanks to an injection, and having the HSG which is supposed to increase fertility for 3 months. I had some spotting yesterday and more spotting yesterday. Not enough for me to even count today as cycle day 1, but enough for me to be fairly sure I'm out.