*************TTC in our 20's February**************** - Page 5

[chicajones]

Monday (Well, Thursday) Check-In
Name: Chicajones
Date: 2/24
Chart: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/32b88b
Where are you in your cycle: CD 75
Appointments: n/a
Symptoms if they apply: Nothing
Testing: Tested on Saturday before a big work party, just so I felt ok about drinking. Nada. Almost didn't post an update this week b/c it feels pointless, but here I am anyway. :) My temp jumped a bit for the past few days, but I think it was just the weather getting warmer and having the windows open. I wonder how much the warmer weather will affect my temps? (I'm in the south, so yes, it's already getting to being in the  mid-70s!)

[Gemmine]

Monday Check-In
Name: Gemmine
Date: 02-28
Chart: www.fertilityfriend.com/home/gemmine84
Where are you in your cycle: CD27, 11DPO
Appointments: N/A
Symptoms if they apply: A little crampy, very mild
Testing: Only if AF is late or temp shoots up. Temp dropped today so pretty sure I'm out
Thoughts: Thinking of skipping March to avoid possible holiday baby (but will still temp), reading up on TCoYF, resume in April. My LP last month was 15 days so I can't imagine 4 more days of this cycle since my temp plummeted this morning...just hanging out waiting at this point.
 

[belacmsage]

Monday Check-In
Name: Belacmsage
Date: 2/28
Where are you in your cycle: CD7 maybe
Appointments: Acupuncture tomorrow
Symptoms if they apply: N/A
Testing: I've been testing for ovulation because my cycles have been so off after the IUD removal. Hopefully that will help us catch the fertile days. I tested for PG today just to be 100% certain I wasn't yet.
Thoughts: I really would just like to get my normal 30 day cycle back so I know what my body is doing.

[daylicious]

Monday Check-In
Name: Daylicious

Date: 02-28
Chart: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/2e1c71
Where are you in your cycle: CD11
Appointments: N/A
Symptoms if they apply: Nada
Testing: Going to try to hold off until day I expect AF...we'll see how that goes :)

Thoughts: Waiting to O....feeling good all around. Fingers crossed...
 

[Mal85]

This morning I got a BFP!! No question about it. It showed immediately and a very DARK line! I have my worries. I've been taking provera the last 7 days. I tested before I started and the next two days, just to make sure. They were all BFN. The last few days, I'd noticed my uterus felt... enlarged (if that's the right word for it). So, I tested and surprise! I called the doc immediately and they said it should be okay. But they want me to get my hcg levels tested today and Wednesday just to be sure. My first prenatal appointment is March 15 and I'm going to have a million questions just to put my mind at ease.

Now, I'm just trying to be excited!

[Gemmine]

Congratulations Mal! So glad we closed out February with a BFP!

[toothfairy2be]

Congratulations Mal! So happy for you!

Monday Check-In
Name: Cait
Date: 02-28
Chart: www.fertilityfriend.com/home/caitylady
Where are you in your cycle: CD17- Not sure what is going on...
Appointments: Acupuncture 3/1
Symptoms if they apply: Spotting... doesn't make any sense
Testing: Not a chance unless AF is late, in which case FML.
Thoughts: So avoiding bit me in the butt again, I though I was going to O like... 4 days ago, and my temp has been going crazy. So we BD after I got a neg OPK after I had a pos OPK, because we both just couldn't wait anymore. And then my temp dropped again. And I had cramps last night around my left ovary (which is weird since this is normally the month I don't get those things, and since I thought my overly expensive arvigo massage was supposed to fix the squished bleeding upon ovulation left ovary). Then I had spotting tonight... In the end, my thought is, it doesn't matter if AF comes in 2 weeks, but when she does, regardless of the fact I wanted to avoid this month (and next), anyway, I will be so disappointed that even with acupuncture and TCM and massage, and exercise, & stress reduction (and on and on), I still can't make the conception thing work. Aside from all this confusion, I've been in a fantastic mood, so that is good!

[FairyMe]

Congrats Mal85!!!! 

Monday Check-In
Name: FairyMe
Date: 2-28
Chart: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/30c2d9
Where are you in your cycle: CD 15
Appointments: None
Symptoms if they apply: None yet 
Testing: Started my OPKs today.

Thoughts: I'm coming off a 31 days cycle and am sooooo confused as my cycles aren't usually this short and I didn't even O. I'm sure I haven't O'ed yet so I started my OPKs today and got a nice dark not quite positive line. I'm hoping to get a  solid positive test before the week ends as DP has been very much in the mood lately and I want to take advantage of it!!!!

[LadyFaceMama]

I Would Like To Be Added

Monday Check-In
Name: LadyFaceMama
Date:2/28
Chart:No
Where are you in your cycle:Day 4
Appointments: 3wks for
Symptoms if they apply: Depression, Insomnia, Vertigo
Testing:
Thoughts:Set to start cycle 4 of Clomid tomorrow (second at 100mg.) Dreading the vertigo and depression it seems to bring out. I am seriously considering skipping a month to get insomnia and vertigo to go away. What are some thoughts on this? Has anyone skipped a month to rest from the side-effects of Clomid?

28-yr-old Wifey  to DH  and Mommy to DS 5/2010 TTC#2. Endometriosis sufferer

[Caitlin0919]

Monday (Tuesday) Check-In
Name: Caitlin
Date: 3/1
Chart:  http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/32d29b

Where are you in your cycle: CD 31 16 DPO
Appointments: None
Symptoms if they apply: Waiting on AF
Testing: I guess I might if I make it to 18 DPO even though I don't think there's any way I could be pg.

Thoughts: Getting a little frustrated right now. We're planning on really trying this upcoming cycle, but AF just won't show herself. My last cycle was only 21 days and I don't even think I O'd, but it was my first cycle after having Mirena removed so I kind of expected it to be a little off. AF was pretty heavy last time, so I thought maybe things were starting to go back to normal. It doesn't help that FF couldn't figure out when I O'd this cycle, even though I actually had EWCM twice. I think staying at my dad's messed with my temps, plus I might have transposed some numbers when entering my temps and I forgot to temp a few times. I know 31 days isn't a really long cycle, but I don't think my pre-baby cycles were this long. Maybe I'm just anxious because I know we're really going to start trying this time around so I want to get started as soon as possible. I guess I'll keep waiting.

[belacmsage]

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Thoughts: Getting a little frustrated right now. We're planning on really trying this upcoming cycle, but AF just won't show herself. My last cycle was only 21 days and I don't even think I O'd, but it was my first cycle after having Mirena removed so I kind of expected it to be a little off. AF was pretty heavy last time, so I thought maybe things were starting to go back to normal. It doesn't help that FF couldn't figure out when I O'd this cycle, even though I actually had EWCM twice. I think staying at my dad's messed with my temps, plus I might have transposed some numbers when entering my temps and I forgot to temp a few times. I know 31 days isn't a really long cycle, but I don't think my pre-baby cycles were this long. Maybe I'm just anxious because I know we're really going to start trying this time around so I want to get started as soon as possible. I guess I'll keep waiting.

I got my mirena removed 2/1 and my first cycle was 18 days and I am pretty sure I didn't O either. I'm on my second cycle post mirena and we are really hoping that I O this time so that we can TTC. I've been doing OPKs everyday just to be sure we don't miss it and so far no positives. Good luck to you!

[OJazzy1]

Congrats Mal85!

belacmsage: it is really hard to keep your temps correctly when you travel or stay somewhere else and terribly frustrating!

[dashley111]

Congrats Mel! 

I'm on CD 10 right now, and REALLY frusterated with my OPK's.  I was getting not-quite-positive OPK's yesterday, and now they are even lighter- and I'm not supposed to O for another few days.  I can usually tell by CM, and my gut is saying I havent O'ed yet...I'm thinking about tossing the OPK's.

[KAS08]

Monday (Uhh... Wednesday) Check-In
Name: Heather
Date: 3/2/11
Chart: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/11a448
Where are you in your cycle: CD 32/ 7 DPO
Appointments: n/a
Symptoms if they apply: Headache, bits of nausea, starving, tired, sort of dizzy/just plain out of it
Testing: 10 DPO/ Saturday
Thoughts: With all of these symptoms lately I'm either sick or I'm pregnant.  Could go either way I guess.

[daylicious]

Ugh! FF is saying I o'd on cd11! I dont think ive ever o'd that early...I got a reallly high temp this am...I don't know what to think. I'm thinking I might discard today's temp, and see what happens tomorrow...I was NOT expecting those crosshairs! Of course there wasn't well timed bd-ing

[onyxravnos]

i'd like to be added

Don't have any of the stats to share yet... cycle has been crazy and all over the place since returning PP. But TTC now. 

i'm 26 and this would be my 3rd baby (once i conceive) but 4 including DSD

[toothfairy2be]

daylicious: do you want to post your chart & we can give you some input? I'm dealing with the same FF problem, I think I O'd on CD 16 (which my temp doesn't confirm) but it says 15. I hope you got some BDing in and O is coming on time!

Welcome Onyxravnos- I think ZJMommy is away right now, but she will add you when she's back!

Nothing new here, I'm on a 5th day of spotting after O.. I just spent a bunch of time messing with my stats to try and get it to say later than cd 15, so I changed my OPK from negative (which it was, but it was an internet cheapie, so who knows) to positive which did it... I atleast feel better being realistic that I'm probably more like 4DPO not 6 DPO.

[ZoeJane'sMommy]

Sorry it took so long please look for March Thread!!