THE FABULOUS ONE THREAD - August 8-14

[Kyamo]

WELCOME to The Fabulous ONE Thread - August 8-14!

posted by alexisyael in 2004:
The One Thread is designed for all on the MDC board. No matter where you are in your cycle, you are welcome to join the One Thread! We are also open to those who are "Waiting to be Ready" for one reason or another. We continue to embrace those of us who have become pregnant as well. Feel free to jump in at any time and introduce yourself!

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Waiting to O
Abbykins
3boobiekins
annaconda
babygrey
bolobear
CLH X3
EllyMayMomma
enigo
EricaRN
Gator-Mom
gringuitica
intunement
Kaydove
Keria
KingsDaughter76
Kyamo
littlest birds
Lydiah
lazykate
maxnmaizy
MahnaMahna
meander
MelungeonMW
miriam_bat_avraham
Moonfireglow

motray36
Mrs.Nap515
nyc55
raindaisie
samy23
scarletjane
Silverbird
Stevi
sweetest77
Tara2
Tear78
Vivica2
WTHamI?
ZoeJane'sMommy

Waiting to Know (2ww)
BareFootScientist
bootsvalentine
Cherrie
Just_lily
karmamamaa
LivingSky
MommyMatsumoto
Ms. B. Sprout
mymaya
Sara2881
slylives
Spinnerette
Sweet.Bee
taraknyc
Tulpen88

Waiting and Not Stressing

Waiting for Aunt Flo
Karimac
kriket
In our thoughts and hearts
MI_Dawn

Waiting for my otherwise-wonderful-but-on-this-particular-subject-ultimately-infuriating husband to be ready
HulaJenn
jojobean
M.Q.
sleepingbeauty

WTF IS GOING ON?!?!
I Need Coffee

Waiting to be Ready
elonwy
lovebug
MrsMike
SimplyRochelle


~PREGNANT~

August BFPs!
Blanca78
karmab
Wembles


July BFPs!
jenniferadurham
-Jenn-
Banana731
forest~mama
Neuromancer
Ola
SML27
Virginia884


June BFPs!
BunnyMcFluff
ChristineEileen
hollytheteacher
mommytoallh
Ravin

[vivica2]

thanks for the new thread!

[Spinnerette]

Thanks for the fresh new thread!

10DPO, tested, nada. I'm probably the most impatient person in the world, but I'm going to wait from here on out until I'm late.. I have 3 tests left and I'm not technically due for 3-4 days.

My best friend is coming to visit me at my new house! My husband just left early this morning to pick her up from the airport and haven't seen her since April. Hopefully her visit over the next week and work will keep me sufficiently distracted.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed! Cycle buddies, how ya doing?

[MountainMamaGC]

I am 9 DPO and I dont even have a desire to test. I am just not feeling it. I will probably test for fun, but I fully expect a BFN.

[Kyamo]

I'm 9DPO too. I have had a few small cramps, and when I blew my nose this morning, there was a little blood. I know Maeryn had that as a pregnancy symptom. So I almost tested this morning, but I resisted, as its still early. I will test either tomorrow or tuesday though.

[mymaya]

hello to all!

mymaya here, CD16, temp are low, CM is on-and-off fertile, got some action this morning, and unfortunately leaving tomorrow morning for a 5-day-long work trip, and I am sure I will O while away... CD16 is early for me, normally, for O. so I am hoping for an early O or a later one, after I am back.

good luck to all!

mymaya, mom to beautiful DS (9) and amazing DD (6), and waiting for my third babe to complete the family.

[just_lily]

Not much happening here, 5DPO. Please move me to waiting to know. Thx!

[kriket]

Thanks for the new thread!

So, FF says it is possible I ovulated between CD74 and CD80

I have no idea why it's even trying to take a stab at this one. I've been temping erratically because I'm getting back into the groove of it, and this cycle is 81 days long!

So we shall see... I have been feeling extra 'ready' and I swear I was cramping a few days ago, maybe it was O pain?

We'll see if AF comes around again.

[taraknyc]

First of all, big, big to those of you who are having a difficult time. This is tough.

Uggggh.

I'm 9DPO and just not feeling positive. I tested positive with my daughter at 8dpo and got a BFP and I have tested yesterday and today to get a blaring BFN. Do you think each pregnancy is different, or if I am likely to get an early BFP once, that is my body. I want something to look forward to!!!!

Kudos to those that can wait!!!

Kyamo- bleeding nose is definitely a good sign!!! Keep us posted.

Good luck everyone and I can't wait to see BFPs...

Tara

[kriket]

Taraknyc, I think each PG is different, they may be going on in the same body, but they are different people. KWIM?

Like I swear I tested every other day from 8DPO on and got HUGE BFNs until the morning of 13DPO

[Silverbird]

please move me to wating to O

So AF found me last thur while I was in a comedy show. Not very funny. And was even too late to late me get a comiseratory drink at the bar.

I had some good conversations with dh about ttc. sometimes I think he doesn't really get it. Me: hmm I keep wishing I could get a cocktail. Him: well your not pregant Me: well I don't know we had unprotected sex and I haven't had a period yet. Him: look of surprise.

For him were "whatever"ing. To me we are haveing unprotected sex when I'm fetile so I want to take foilc acid and avoid alcholo. I want to give this little one the best shot at life.

This may sound stupid as I'm only on my 3rd cycle of ttc but it just feels like its been so much longer. I've been wanting a baby and reading up on it and wating to be ready for years. I think if I'd only just come to this I would find it really exciting reading up on proper diet and fertility yoga and pregancy. But now I just want to get on with it. And knowing the chalenges we face I find it hard to keep postive.

I do feel a little better from talking to dh and doing a great ttc mediation I found in Juno magazine. I've also started a little fetilty ritual for myself. Each month I'm going to make a paper egg. each day untill I O I'll write a little affermation or wish to slip inside it. After I O I'll seal it and each day I will deocarate it. When I get pregant I can make them into a mobile. Lets not hope for a later coverd with pretty eggs. Just one will be fine.

Anyway thanks for letting me ramble. Good luck all and sorry to thoes who said about losses on the other thread.

[Blanca78]

Originally Posted by Silverbird

please move me to wating to O

This may sound stupid as I'm only on my 3rd cycle of ttc but it just feels like its been so much longer. I've been wanting a baby and reading up on it and wating to be ready for years. I think if I'd only just come to this I would find it really exciting reading up on proper diet and fertility yoga and pregancy. But now I just want to get on with it. And knowing the chalenges we face I find it hard to keep postive.

I do feel a little better from talking to dh and doing a great ttc mediation I found in Juno magazine. I've also started a little fetilty ritual for myself. Each month I'm going to make a paper egg. each day untill I O I'll write a little affermation or wish to slip inside it. After I O I'll seal it and each day I will deocarate it. When I get pregant I can make them into a mobile. Lets not hope for a later coverd with pretty eggs. Just one will be fine.

Anyway thanks for letting me ramble. Good luck all and sorry to thoes who said about losses on the other thread.

Oh, it's not silly at all. I can totally relate and I'm sure lots others can too. When we decided to TTC (more like, when I said NOW and dh shrugged and said, "sure") all the built up baby lust that I had been suppressing for years came roaring out, and it felt like I had been waiting forever. The prospect of months before even a BFP, and then the possibility of loss, and THEN many months of actually waiting for the baby, feels insurmountable at times.

What is the meditation? Do you mind sharing? I'm not familiar with Juno magazine but my therapist suggested I come up with a TTC/no stressing mantra to help me through the 2WW. I came up with a great one in a dream last night but now I don't remember it.

I like your ritual, too!

p.s. Welcome, Mymaya!

[kriket]

Originally Posted by Silverbird

I've also started a little fetilty ritual for myself. Each month I'm going to make a paper egg. each day untill I O I'll write a little affermation or wish to slip inside it. After I O I'll seal it and each day I will deocarate it. When I get pregant I can make them into a mobile. Lets not hope for a later coverd with pretty eggs. Just one will be fine.

I did something similar to this when I was TTC #1, I wrote 'things' on little slips of paper and slipped them into a pumpkin tied with a yellow ribbon, then I set it out by the river.
I had been TTC for 8 ish months at this point and really needed to let some of my feelings go out into the world.
I still say thank-you to the river for my son by when I go by.

[Silverbird]

Thanks Blanca78.

I totally get all the supressed babylust coming out. We've been waiting for my dh to recover from illness for the last two years and during that time he said he didn't ever want to have children becuase oft he resulting disability. So I've kind of felt like I've spent two years already greving for not being able to have children! And we would almost certialy have kids by now if he ahdn't been ill.

Unfourtnaly the mediation doesn't help with the 2ww!

It has two parts:
When you are on you have a red alter and obejcts of things that will befit from your foucs while you are not pregant. In the mediation you thank the earth for your belssings.

Then after your period you make a white alter with baby things and meditate on what you need to do this cycle to convieve.

This is Juno's website http://www.junomagazine.com/ It s the first time I've read it but it seems good (and what luck getting the mediation as I need it!). Another magazine to get myself addicated to!

[lazykate]

Another negative this morning. I saved the test just to see if I would get an evap to look at, and I think I did. I see two thin grayish lines on either side of a white line, like where a positive would appear. It's kind of fun to see something other than white!

Silverbird and Blanca78, I know exactly what you mean. I've been interested in having a baby since high school, even tried to become a midwife or doula for a while. It's been almost a year since I told my husband that I needed to start trying as soon as we were financially ready and he was emotionally ready. This is only our second cycle, but I feel like I've been waiting forever already! I've been trying to distract myself (ha) by knitting baby things.

[Cherrie]

Please Move Me To Waiting To Know

0 dpo, inseminated using instead softcup. Had it in most of 12hrs. Gonna try for one more time. Inseminated O-1, O, so far.

I'm feeling good this 2nd time around, I'm enjoying my trip here in cali. I don't wanna leave.

I write in a journal everyday, which helps with the 2ww and waiting to O. We all WILL be pregnant very soon.

[CLH_X3]

Kingsdaughter and 3Boobiekins - I'm really sorry for your losses.

Dont really have much to say.... 9DPO and not much going on! ... except and this is weird. I keep having really vivid dreams/nightmares!! and iv also had 2 dreams in this TWW which resulted in me taking a preg test and getting a + both times! 4dpo and 9dpo..

Oh and also can people take a look at my chart ? WHAT IS WITH THE MASSIVE DIP!!!!! That can not be an implantation dip.. its to big!! I done nothing different last night to any of the prev nights,, and my chart was looking so pretty

I usually have a 14 LP as well so it shouldnt be dipping already! AND I know last cycle I had a 11 day LP but I was under a lot of stress and Im not on this cycle anymore! ...

Help... stupid chart

[BarefootScientist]

Not much to say today, just wanted to send out s to those who had losses and a congrats to wembles.

[littlest birds]

Good morning all. I should be moved to waiting to O--sorry to wait so long out of place

I have been reading and thinking of each and every one of you. So many are in and out of this thread so fast with their BFPs that I can't keep up-- that is a very good thing! I am drifting away a bit. This is my last cycle before it will be a full year TTC; we waited a while before we started TTC as well since we had to wait months before getting VR. Still hopeful! What will be will be and I am open to that.

My really really cool update: Those who aren't aware, we are TTC after a vasectomy reversal Sept 1 2009. We never had an SA like we were supposed to, we just waited hoping for the best since we had no plans to take further steps whatever the reversal results and we were super busy with some other things going on. We let it go. A BFP would have made it irrelevant to do the SA so we crossed our fingers for that and focused on other things.

So a reversal can either be successful or scar over. A success may mean low counts or normal counts, but a failure means absolutely zero. We haven't known in all this time where we stood. Sooo... last night I finally looked at a sample under a microscope myself and We Have Swimmers!!! They look normal and active! Obviously there is plenty I can't evaluate (could still have low counts or other issues) but I basically just found out we have a fair to good chance after being in the dark for a long time. The VR was a success!

What a happy relief. I feel a little better about hitting a year now. Keep me in your thoughts and prayers for a May baby. I am cd 11 and probably about 4 days before O.

[annaconda]

wow silverbird - what's the name of the article?

i hear you all about the babylust... we didn't have a delay in TTC except that we've been "thinking about trying" and getting everything in place to try for about two years. It's been 2 yrs since we bought our house.

I have been doing a lot in that time, becoming a yoga teacher (my second job) and working on my COE with a therapist (Compulsive Overeating). My mom is anorexic and in denial and my sis is... exerciseaholic. So I'm the rebellion one, and I'm over weight because of it.

Anyway I've been working on myself so I needed the wait.

But... now that we're officially trying, I'm completely freaking myself out with the intensity of the emotions. I even literally stressed my AF away. I'm on CD 53 or something and have had cramps for weeks. (I went to the doc, everything's fine, and I"m not preg.) I just have long cycles when I get stressed.

So my first TTC cycle is lasting almost two months now and I'm so anxious to get on to the next one.

Ladies send your unwanted AF TO ME PLEASE. Then I can get on with things! It's been a good time to learn, but I really need to work on some sacred rituals and safe healing and destressing techniques.