Taking the Scenic Route...to a BFP - Page 110

[indie1976]

oh that is so sweet - your first babysitter!! i love it!! so glad that it wasn't awful and that you are feeling fine... can't wait to see pics of your embies! constant good wishes going out to your eggs!

afm - had a great nye playing games with family. my nana, my mom, and me all did my gratitude/hope balloon ritual and it was fun to do it with three generations of women. today the weather is gorgeous and we had lunch at the thai restaurant where we had our first date and even got the same booth. it's a good day

[MsDolphin]

Happy New Year's ladies! I really hope this our year, sending you all baby dust.

I took my last Follistim shot today. It's making me so emotional, I have cried or wanted to cry almost every day - usually over nothing important. Tomorrow I go for my u/s and move forward with IUI. Our plan it to just do one try, I am hopefully, yet worried that one try will do it. 

[gtree]

Happy new year!!

TF - I hope you have something good to watch on tv and continue to feel great.  Can't wait to hear how many fertilize!!

Indie - so glad your NYE was great

MsDolphin - Hi! Good luck with the IUI.

[toothfairy2be]

MsD- so good to hear from you! Good luck wit the IUI & hopefully your nerves calm soon.

Indie- sounds like you had a great night. Did you end up sending the balloons to the sky? When do you head to Chcago? Soon, right?

AFM- so I totally passed out for 2 hours & had the hardest time waking up! It was so weird because I physically feel fine still but the exhaustion just hit me hard. I feel awake again now. Anxious for my report tomorrow (330-530pm). I drank a serious amount of Gatorade today too.

[sherryvhkb]

Happy new year!!!

Cd28. My first month of no tests....kinda hard....

Snowed in....kinda

Indie...cooking something...

Msd glad to see you...i hope its good anxiety...you know what i mean?

Tf. Everytime i feel the urge to think about ttc or my cycle or testing i say a prayer for you instead....shhh...come on little babies


Sorry for all you bfns

Chrissy....i am not a big beauty ritual kind of person...but a pedicure is heaven....spa pedi. And as a gyn nurse...i can say that body parts come in all kind of interesting forms....but for those of us that work with them all day are to immune to judge...

I cant wait to get to the google group...it wont work on my phone or kindle so i am waiting for the house to clear out and dh to entertain himself so i can get there!!

Omg...gtree...you are more than halfway

More later...

[toothfairy2be]

So 5 fertilized. Now I wait til tomorrow night to hear if my transfer will be Friday or Sunday. I really wish we could know either way so I can plan for work...

I wish I had more confidence that 5 embryos would give us our baby.

[indie1976]

i can't help but think that this is all lining up so that you are going to get your babies without having to discard embryos. constant love going out to those 5!!

[gtree]

TF - 5 is fantastic!!  I am with Indie, I feel like the universe is going to make sure you don't have to discard any or make hard decisions around that.  I'm so excited for your (and glad they called early).  My friend did 2 retrievals, got 12 the first time and only 2 fertilized and got 12 the second time and 1 fertilized.  She transferred 1 and is pregnant with 2 still on ice for later.

AFM - just got back from the obgyn, the ultrasound showed the babies facing each other (like they were each in a hammock against both sides of my belly) with their feet touching below my belly button and they were kicking the heck out of each other.  The doctor laughed and I got a small glimpse into what my life is about to be like.

[toothfairy2be]

Gtree- love that theyre already kicking each other! Boys will be boys!

Indie- thanks for the support, I'll update in my afm but im feeling a lot better about them now!

Sherry- I appreciate your prayers so much & am so touched that youre thinking of me and praying for my little babes in a dish!

Afm- I called my nurse for clarification on our 5 embryos and what happened to the other 7. Turns out 5 were immature, one was a shrinking egg(abnormal?? Any input from our nurse/np on wth that means before i google). So only 6 had icsi done and one didnt fertilize. Much better fertilization rate than I was thinking, whew. So tomorrow they call with my grades. I get an appt for Friday & then they will call Fri morning to tell me whether to keep the appt or that they will have me come Sunday for a 5 day instead. My mom wants me to name them because they are embyos & therefore my babies, life or death. I feel mixed about this but it does make it more real. Maybe thats what I'm afraid of, that I have 5 babies and may not get pregnant...

[SKJ2011]

TF - Amazing news! I'm so happy and excited for you!!! So, how many are you putting back in? I can't recall what your plan is.

Gtree - So great to see them in action. DD was having the time of her life with her cousin this past week and I kept thinking how great it would have been if she was a twin. I can't believe you are 1/2 way there. When is your due date?

indie - so glad to hear NYE went so well. Any plans to test? :sheepish

MsD - Good luck with the IUI. I hope so hard that it works out for you.

Chrissy - Sorry about the BFN. Ugh. I want you to get your sticky baby already.

Sherry - Hi!

AFM - I'm totally confused if/when I O'ed. Normally, I get a +OPK and a nice temp shift that all matches up. On CD 14, I got a smiley OPK and the wondfo was dark, but not as dark as it usually gets for me. The next day, the wondfo was very dark, but the smiley was gone. So confusing. My cervix felt very soft on CD 16, and by yesterday (CD 17) it was firmer by the afternoon. Today it's low and firm and my CM is no longer EW. So, I"m fairly certain I O'ed. I had O pain on CD 15, so I think that I likely O'ed on CD 16 based on all the signs together. But, my temp has been stubborn. I've been waking up at different times so I've been using a bbt adjuster. It has been totally in line with my normal temps, so I think it's working pretty well on those days that I wake up at a different time. Yesterday, however, I woke up later than usual and my temp was just slightly elevated. Here are the two charts of the unadjusted temp for yesterday and the adjusted temp. Today's temp was the same as yesterdays, but today I took it at 6am and yesterday was at 730am. My normal time is 645. The only reason I really care about any of this is that I want to start the crinone, but I want to make sure I have O'ed. I usually wait for 3 high temps to start the crinone. Any thoughts? If I put in the same temp tomorrow as it was today, I get crosshairs with the unadjusted temp, but not with the adjusted.

Unadjusted temp:


Adjusted temp:

[SilaMarila]

Chrissy - Did AF show? Did you test again?

Jpack - How's the 2ww going? Are you planning on testing?

Indie - What about you? Are you going to test?

Dolphin - Good luck! I have the same worries. We are planning only 1 injectable cycle.

Gtree - Too cute!!! Do you have names picked out for them?

Tfairy - Wonderful!!! I'm glad you called back. Out of the eggs that were mature that is great fertilization! Please try not worry. I would be mixed about naming them too. I didn't name my m/c babies.How can we distract you?

AFM - Just waiting for AF. More like waiting for NEXT AF so we can get started. 

I'm eating everything in sight...

[SilaMarila]

SKJ - I'm anti adjusting temps, but both charts are looking like CD17 ovulation to me. Especially since your last positive opk was CD15, you still had EW on CD17 and you cervix was starting to change. Based on signs I would actually say CD17. I saw start the Crinone tomorrow anyways. My chart this month kind of rose slowly as well.

[SKJ2011]

Thanks Sila. I'll see what tomorrow's temp is and start the crinone if it's still up.

Sorry AF is on her way.

I just found this article from 2012 which is reason enough not to give up hope for those of us with dimished ovarian reserve. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10815-012-9754-6?LI=true

[MindlessChrissy]

A quicky to say "holy shit its a squinter" will retest in a.m.

[SKJ2011]

Ooh Chrissy!! Good luck tomorrow!

[SilaMarila]

Yeah Chrissy!!! You had to be early than you thought the first time. Your body wasn't tricking you! Snuggle in tight little baby.

[indie1976]

oh, chrissy how exciting!!!! can't wait for the a.m.!!

toothfairy - that is very, very good news! i don't know how i'd feel about naming the embryos, either. probably wouldn't know unless i was in that situation. i feel like i will have a hard time thinking of a baby as a baby until i see that blasted heartbeat. oh, how i want to see a heartbeat (or two!)

skj - thanks for that article! i know i've heard that amh doesn't relate to quality but it's nice to see it in print and from such a recent study. i will go with sila's assessment of your O date since I'm so far removed from charting. 

sila - you said you're waiting for AF... did you test again? did i miss that? i tested tonight (9dpo) and... surprise! BFN

gtree - i loved your post! you are getting a glimpse of the next 18 years (or so!) of you life! at least right now it is contained!! 

sherry - can't wait to see you back on google groups and with your list of 15!

bebe - you too!

shell - where are you? hope you are well.

jpack - where you at?

msd - best of luck! i'm right behind you... iui this next cycle...

afm - like i said to sila, i'm 9dpo and bfn. totally don't think i'm pregnant but i tested anyway. very few symptoms at all though i'm a wee little bit crampy today but nothing i haven't experienced a zillion times before. however, i continue to have quite a noticeable amount of ewcm. i have had it show up in the 2ww before but never this much. i'm hoping that doesn't mean anything bad... i don't feel funky at all (meaning i don't *think* it's an estrogen dominance thing) my breasts are only slight sore (would have thought they would have been massively sore on progesterone but nope. of course i did cut down my dosage) anyway... a lot of words to say that nothing interesting is going on :)

[jpack]

Ok MChrissy sounds so exciting! Can't wait to see tomorrow! I know it's always with baited breath, but yay!

tf I'm so looking forward to hearing the report. I'm so glad you're feeling better, I think it sounds super promising- boy oh boy would I love for you and I to both be pregnant and be so close! Your odds are better than mine, though! That's so cool!!

indie I had wanted to do your balloon thing, but couldn't make it happen. I'm so glad you did though and so glad you had a good night!

MsD hello! Pleased to meet you!

Gtree that is so cool about the kicking. I think that must be a very stimulating environment for those babies- very cool! Can you tell whether they are on a similar schedule?

SKJ- I think maybe cd16? I have had temps begin to increase before o. One thing I found interesting is that the lh is about 6hrs delayed in urine. I was obsessed about pinpointing o a couple cycles ago because my DH arrived home from a business trip shortly after surge appeared on wondfos. Who the heck knows- looks like you had great timing regardless.

I'll be back with more-

I did break down and buy a pack of wondfos - I knew I'd be forking out all kinds of money if I tried to wait. Preemptive strike! I'm kinda excited to test out the trigger, but it would be great if I had the willpower not to test at all.

[jpack]

Haha indie! I started a post, then went to the gym (ran 10k!) and then haaaad to eat. That's where I'm at!

[MindlessChrissy]

Tf - Sending love to your 5, too. I also don't know if I'd name them. Personal choice, I think.

Sherry - Such a busy woman! Can't wait for your 15.

Jpack - When do you think you'll test?

Gtree - LOL Fighting already!

Indie - Are you testing again in a few days? I'm having a ton of ewcm for some reason. Not every day thankfully.

SKJ - Hope your chart figures out what it's doing.

MsD - Good luck with your IUI

Everyone else...HI! How are ya?!

AFM - Sorry about that drive by. I'm on cd29 but I dunno when I o'ed. We didn't bd after cd15 so this is a surprise since it was bfn 2 days ago then to top it off with a chemical last cycle and we were not trying in any way this month. So, we'll see what tomorrow brings. I'm anxious. lol