The Fabulous ONE Thread-August 15-21

[Cherrie]

WELCOME to The Fabulous ONE Thread - August 15-21!

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
elonwy
enigo
EricaRN
Gator-Mom
gringuitica
intunement
Kaydove
Keria
KingsDaughter76
Kyamo
littlest birds
Lydiah
lazykate
LivingSky
maxnmaizy
MahnaMahna
meander
miriam_bat_avraham
Moonfireglow

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

Waiting to Know (2ww)
Baby_Cakes
BareFootScientist
bootsvalentine
Cherrie
GolfAddict
karmamamaa

MelungeonMW
MommyMatsumoto
Ms. B. Sprout
mymaya
Sara2881
slylives
Spinnerette
Sweet.Bee
taraknyc
Tulpen88
MrsMike
WTHamI?

Waiting and Not Stressing

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

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

Just_lily
lovebug
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

[MelungeonMW]

Taraknyc

You are doing home insemination because you are going to be away from your partner during ovulation? or some other reason? sorry if I missed an important element of your story.

[Sweet.Bee]

Thanks for the new thread!

So, I'm 4DPO. Do I have any cycle buddies out there?

[karmab]

thanks for new thread!

babycakes- it could cd 19 but your cm doesnt match up does it. it could be where they have it now, or even cd14. have you tried opks? or checking cp? sometimes it's that one extra corroborating element that makes it clear. do you know you can ask the ff guides for their input? i have done that and they are extremely helpful. it's the vip forum. and i wouldnt worry about whether things are perfect one cycle or wacky, it hasnt been my experience anyway that it matters, it happens when it happens, so you've got your bd bases covered, any of those dates your chances are probably as good as ever even if things dont feel just right.

[Kyamo]

Thanks for taking the thread Cherrie! Picked up my clomid yesterday, will start that on tues.

[vivica2]

no meds this cycle, after 4 months of Vitex, ans soy iso (diff cycles obviously) im seeing if my body will ovulate before CD 30 on its own now! lol

[Baby_Cakes]

Originally Posted by karmab

thanks for new thread!

babycakes- it could cd 19 but your cm doesnt match up does it. it could be where they have it now, or even cd14. have you tried opks? or checking cp? sometimes it's that one extra corroborating element that makes it clear. do you know you can ask the ff guides for their input? i have done that and they are extremely helpful. it's the vip forum. and i wouldnt worry about whether things are perfect one cycle or wacky, it hasnt been my experience anyway that it matters, it happens when it happens, so you've got your bd bases covered, any of those dates your chances are probably as good as ever even if things dont feel just right.

Thanks for this!!

I dont do OPKs, b/c we're really just "not preventing/not trying" -- but we all know that when you're charting it's hard not to try. Especially when you really want a baby. Nevertheless, after CD15 my cervix was low, firm and as closed as it ever is. It's always about a fingertip open.
Looking through my notes, I saw that most of the day on CD15 was creamy with just a scant bit of EW so I took out the EW and FF moved my CH's back to CD14. But it's just software. Whatever happened happened and I just need to find my zen place and go there. LOL!

I'm so crampy too, and was thinking that vivid dreams are a pg thing for me, so maybe it's something. Crampy like I keep feeling like AF is here, but then I check and it's nothing.

Oh - and I seem to be missing from the list. Can I be added in waiting to know?

[MommyMatsumoto]

OMG, I had a GIANT temp jump this morning! Praying that it is not a fluke!!!

[MountainMamaGC]

CD4 here.

About 4 women in the community have had their babies. I keep having people come up to me and say, "So and So had their baby!" Then I feel this twinge in my heart and feel sad that I cant be one of them. I am so over TTC. I keep trying to tell myself, at least I can drink at so and sos wedding, or if I am not pregnant in the winter I can snowboard, etc. Its not working. lol.

[Cherrie]

can anyone translate my chart for me?

[vivica2]

Originally Posted by Cherrie

can anyone translate my chart for me?

id put ov at early on CD18. as in, early in the morning so by the time you checked CM youd already ovulated but the temp didnt jump yet. im basing this on your CM and temp jump and leaving room for error on the open circle days.

FF is crazy.

[HulaJenn]

Originally Posted by vivica2

id put ov at early on CD18. as in, early in the morning so by the time you checked CM youd already ovulated but the temp didnt jump yet. im basing this on your CM and temp jump and leaving room for error on the open circle days.

FF is crazy.

I agree with vivica Cherrie

[Silverbird]

http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/304392

have I shared my chart right?

Anyone have a clue whats going on?

I don't!

[vivica2]

Originally Posted by Silverbird

http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/304392

have I shared my chart right?

Anyone have a clue whats going on?

I don't!

id say you haven't ovulated yet. you can have fertile CM for your whole pre ov phase. (ask Sweet.bee )

i regularly ov around CD 17-18. good luck to you!

[WTHamI?]

Thanks for the new thread!

I'm crampy today (which for me pretty much happens clear from O to AF) and my OPK is lightening up, but no temp jump yet, so I'm thinking I probably ovulated this morning. for a good solid temp rise tomorrow (or at least on its way up, sometimes I have a slower rise). I will be so excited just for ovulating even if I don't get pregnant this cycle.

[sleepingbeauty]

Thanks for the new thread!

How is everyone?

[BarefootScientist]

Originally Posted by Sweet.Bee

Thanks for the new thread!

So, I'm 4DPO. Do I have any cycle buddies out there?

Ooo! Me! Me! I'm 4 dpo too.

Silverbird, I don't think you've O'd yet. Maybe soon!

Cherrie, it looks like you have O'd but I can't really tell for sure when from your chart.

[just_lily]

Ugh. All around not good news over here.

First of all, AF has arrived with a vengence.

I posted in my last thread that my DD had come down with strep throat last Thursday. Yesterday she developed an itchy rash and I thought she was having a reaction to the antibiotics. She was up most of the night last night because couldn't settle due to the itchiness. I took her in to the clinic this morning.

Chicken Pox!!

Seriously? The kid gets strep throat and chicken pox in the same week? Poor girl.

So now I have had to close my daycare for the week, which really sucks because we need the income.

But here is the real kicker. I've never had CP either, and don't have any titres for it either. All of a sudden I am thankful that we didn't end up with a BFP last cycle. God works in mysterious ways some times.

Now I am hoping that if I am going to get it, I break out in pox today or tomorrow, meaning I was exposed at the same time as DD (I have no idea where she got it). Otherwise the incubation period is 2 to 3 weeks if I get it from her - and that would be another week off of work with no pay. And unless I do get it in the next couple of days we will be TTA this cycle instead of TTC just in case I do catch it from DD.

Unnnnngggghhhhhhh.

And then..... if we do TTA this cycle, I am not sure what we are going to do about TTCing right now. I recently thought about going back to school next year, and am in the very early stages of applying to a PhD program. If I got pregnant right away the baby would be 4 or 5 months old by the time I started my classes next September, which wouldn't be ideal but could be workable. But starting classes with a much younger babe or even pregnant just isn't going to work. So now I have no idea. We have lots to think about.

So.. if you have read through all of this, thanks. It has been a rough weekend, and I am operating on very little sleep.

And reluctantly, I need to be moved to waiting to be ready as we are on hold for now. Thanks!

[karmab]

oh goodness, lily. when it rains it pours. that's quite a situation. im sorry you are dealing with all that. ((hug))

[Gator-mom]

Yea, sorry to hear life has been so crazy for you Lilly!

I understand the timing issue myself. I am in nursing school, so we are only going to be TTC for two months, which would allow me to have the baby in the middle of my 4 month break next semester. If it doesn't happen in those two months, I'll logistically have to wait maybe another two years! I don't know what I'll do if I don't get a BFP, but I guess I'll just have to make the best go over those two months...