The One Thread - Holiday Edition 12/19 - 1/1 - Page 3

[Galatea]

OMG CONGRATULATIONS MEGAN!!!!!!

:

Justice2 - Still : for you!

I *dreamed* I had 20 inches of bright blue EWCF. I guess that means if I get pg it will be a boy... sorta : but I'll take what I can get! Any EWCF would be nice! The last 3 cycles with Vitex and B-complex I had more EWCF than I knew what to do with... hopefully today or tomorrow. Dh woke me up at 1 a.m. after I had been asleep for 2 hours to GIO! He didn't realize I had been asleep for so long. I was really grumpy and he felt really bad. Poor guy! I have to make it up to him tonight.

[Joey'smom]

Hey there all. I' think I'm now waiting to know (but I know we're not updating right now.)

Baby dust and sticky babies to everyone!
CONGRATULATIONS Megan! Way to go. A BIG to you!
I know how hard it is to finally get preg and then still be woried or anxious that it will stick. Seems like us mommas never catch a break in the worry department.

Anyway, ds is already up form hi 30 minute nap, so I have to go get him. I'll try to catch up more later.
Hugs to everyone just because.

[Elowyn]

Hi all,

Still here, CD 18 or so, waiting for O to show up (though it's not relevant, as I'm not TTC just now).

Mostly, though, I'm kicking around whether to TTC or adopt. For those who don't know my story, I'm a single woman who wants to be a mother - it's just a question of route & timing. So keep me on the waiting-to-be-ready list. I guess I'll jump off when I have adoption paperwork in the mail or an order into the sperm bank.

Peace, love and lots of BFP's!

[kyle98sean02]

Darn it that whole post just disappeared as I was typing it. I'll retype the gyst of it

Congrats Megan!!!!!!

: Justice It sounds promising to me

I got a new laptop for Christmas a little early since my last one zapped. I can now be online without someone hovering over me waiting for me to get off their computer

I am on cd 12 and will be o'ing soon, although I hardly have any cm this cycle. I have hardly been charting though and I didnt take any fertility blend or womens daily balance drops so now I am kicking myself in the butt.

I found out at work last night from a 10 year old that my cousin is pregnant. The little girl told me that another girl we work with told her. Ok, that sure doesnt make sense to anyone else. I work in a gym daycare and was the supervisor and I hired my cousin as one of my attendants. I have worked there for almost 3 1/2 years and she has worked there for almost 3 years. Well, we are really close and yet for some reason never bothered to tell me she was 16 weeks pregnant. She is one of those sick people who already has 2 kids and weighs like 3 pounds and you cant even tell they are pregnant until they are 7 months pregnant. I even teased her the other day because her 2 year old kept knocking over the crayons on purpose and she got upset. Her first little girl used to do that all the time when she was pregnant and did it one time too many and she started crying. So I jokingly asked her if she was having pregnancy flashbacks and she just laughed it off. It just really hurt my feelings that we are so close and I find out from a 10 year old who found out from someone she doesnt even like. The other girl we work with is my cousins sisters best friend (another looooong story). So, there is my gripe for the day. I am really happy for them, I just wish they would have told me so I could have been happy with them instead of feeling like they couldnt trust me with their good news. I have been having a very emotional week on top of everything else, so nobody better even look at me cross eyed today I swear.

[Mavournin]

Cd1

She's here
She's mean

[Belleweather]

I think I'm out this cycle already. It's CD 15, and I haven't O-ed, although I've been ovulating reliably on CD12 since I started charting. There were lots of encouraging temperature dips, but no rise after. Temperatures are still low, cervical position and fluid are showing post-ovulation signs... but apparently, no egg because there's been no temperature rise. I keep telling myself that it could be because my sleep was really irregular with finals, or becuase of this cold I've got, or whatever... but I think I'm deluding myself.

I've never charted through an anovulatory cycle before, so I don't know what to look for... anyone have any charts to share?

I'm just feling really down in th dumps about it because I had good feelings about this cycle and if we'd concieved, I would have gotten my BFP while we were out in Denver with all our friends and family around us to celebrate.

But, enough feeling sorry for myself!

Megan, Congratulations on the baby on the way! I'm so excited for you!

Justice: A line is a line is a line, right? I've got my fingers crossed for you!

kyle98sean02: Yikes! That would be a shock to find out. I know it's hard when you're already having a crappy week (and believe me, I sympathize... I'm having a craptastic week as well), but they could be not telling you for good reasons... maybe they're unsure about the PG 'sticking', or want to keep it to themselves a while?

Bex80: Good luck on the reboot.

And best of luck to everyone, no matter what you're waiting for.

[RedOakMomma]

11dpo

Justice~ Chin up, schweetie! At 11dpo, a lot of tests will be riiiiiight on the edge of being able to pick up a positive amount of preg. hormone. If tests are giving you mixed or unreadable results, just wait a day or two and you'll have your answer. :

Jodi~ Way to go! I'm glad you're trimming the thread...It's been needing it for a while, and we needed someone energetic enough to do it!

Bex~ Hey there! Welcome back! We've been missing you!

Belleweather~ It might not be an annovulatory cycle. It's possible that the reason you're seeing post-ov cervical/CF signs is that your body got geared up to O and then changed its mind. That happens to me ALL the time. Hopefully your body will start a whole new round of gearing up to O, and then you'll see the temp rise. Good luck!

Mavournin~ ugh. Hopefully her stay is short.

Heather~ I can't remember how many cycles you've been trying, but is it possible that your cousin is worried that telling you about her pregnancy will be like rubbing your face in it? I keep telling my pregnant friends that it's no big deal finding out friends are pregnant, but they still feel weird about it because they know we've been trying without success. Maybe she's just being overly cautious and sensitive.

Elowyn~ Hi! It's nice to see you again! Hey, I have a question for you....I mistakenly thought you were off to the lovely land of adoptionville and I took your name out of the One Thread keeper list when I was recruiting new keepers. I'm assuming, since your'e here, that you'd still be interested in being a keeper? If so, forgive me , and please re-add your name on the keeper sticky. Thanks!

Kavita~ Thanks for asking! I am feeling better, though still my usual PeeEmmEssey self. Today I have quick headaches whenever I look too quickly to the left or right. Made driving in mall traffic quite interesting! I have a ton of energy, and my temps are still high, but i guess the temp thing doesn't mean much. Temps always stay high until the day before AF, right? C'mon Friday! I wanna test!

About your ideas that the emotions of conception affect the personality or character of the baby....that's interesting. I definitely believe that negative feelings during sex cue the body to attempt to block conception, so I suppose positive feelings might also have an effect. Dh and I always try to make sex enjoyable and real....the first month it was all about "okay, it's a BD day, let's do it!" but now we've softened the "regulations" and we tend to just have relaxed, normal sex. The good stuff. Every once in a while it gets silly (like when the Pre-Seed insert makes an embarrassing farting noise), but silly is good, too. I'm just so glad to have found OPKs and charting....it sure is a relief not to have to BD every other day for an entire 6wk cycle. Don't get me wrong, we **** like rabbits, but more like 30 year old rabbits and less like 18 year old rabbits, if you know what I mean.

Three more days until the big test....I'm trying to keep myself calm and not get so emotionally involved. My mantra is "It's probably negative. Don't let it worry you. It'll happen one of these months." I keep finding myself whispering this while I'm driving or drinking tea....It's probably negative, don't worry, it'll happen one of these months. It's probably negative, don't worry, it'll happen one of these months....

to all, and to all a good night.

[kyle98sean02]

Thanks Belleweather, but no, everybody else knew including friends of her sister. She just didnt tell me and my mom. I guess other people in her husbands family reacted badly so then she didnt feel like telling anyone else. It was just weird because her and I are so close and I dont know why she would think I would say anything negative or not be supportive. Oh well, I got complaining about it out of my system and now I can work on building her up a newborn diaper stash.

[runes]

Megan...CONGRATULATIONS!!!

BFN when I tested yesterday, and woke up to AF this morning.

Waiting to O once again...

[djs_girl517]

I'm still here....

Just lurking. Really haven't felt like posting lately. Congrats Megan!

[Kavita]

Thanks to everyone who answered the question! (RedOakMomma, allgirls!) I'm not sure that I believe that the mental states of the parents at the moment of conception affect the baby, but I've read certain things that indicate that there are those who do believe that, and I'm not certain that I don't believe it a little bit either. It's just interesting to ponder. I believe Gandhi thought this, for one. (Of course he also thought lentils were unhealthy and that abstinence was the only method of birth control acceptable for married couples, so with all respect as a major figure of greatness in the world and champion of nonviolence, the man had a few ideas I can't get behind. But I digress . . . .) From my perspective, DH and I are always very loving with each other and have fun with things and maintain a good sense of humor and a good connection. But sometimes we are GIO when we wouldn't otherwise (for example, when tired or not really totally in the mood) because we want to optimize the timing. And some of the things we might otherwise engage in to spice things up a little bit, we are more reluctant to do during these times also because of the idea that that might be when we make a baby . . . . Does this make sense? Maybe it's just an extension of the dichotomy between the "sexual" and the "maternal". Something interesting to think about!! (Well, for me anyway--hope I'm not boring you all!! ) Of course, conception can actually happen several days after sex, so for all we know I could have all this wonderful spiritual loving sex and then actually conceive standing in line at the grocery store being irritated because the person in front of me has too many coupons!!

Belleweather--I agree with RedOakMomma that it may be an issue that you started building up to ovulate then stopped--that happens to me too and I understand that it's quite common. If I had law-school finals I think my ovaries would be scared!

kyle98sean02--if it were my cousin my feelings would be hurt too. But my first thoughts were, 1) maybe she knows you're trying and felt uncomfortable b/c she didn't want you to be upset about it as you're trying to get pregnant too, 2) maybe she told her sister and the sister leaked the info to her best friend/your mutual co-worker. You know how gossipy people can get . . . and 3) maybe she didn't want to tell you yet because after all you're her supervisor, and maybe she's not ready to think about how this affects her work arrangements yet. Anyway, good for you for venting and moving on! Sounds like you are being very supportive.

Galatea--fertility dreams are funny, aren't they?! I had a dream this past week that I was at a fair or carnival of some sort, and I was playing that game where you throw darts at a board with balloons affixed to it and if you hit the balloons with the darts you win a prize. I was very focused and had such a clear picture of the balloon and the dart and was throwing with great concentration and hit one or two balloons and the people around watching were cheering for me and encouraging me. Then I started waking up and knew while still half asleep without really attempting to analyze it that the balloons represented eggs and the darts represented sperm. When DH woke up I told him the dream (without telling him the interpretation) and he said, "Hitting the target!" and knew that was what it meant too!

Justice2--no matter how hard I squint at my tests I can never make a line appear, so I am inclined to think that if you see a line and it's within the time frame for the test, it's a line! Somehow I can't seem to find the "fingers crossed" smiley but I'd put one here if I could!!

Whoops, gotta shut down, will post again . . . .

[Debsy]

Megan I am so very happy for you!!!!! congratulationS!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to see you on Thursday!!!!!!:LOVE

[mom2threenurslings]

Congratulations, Megan!!!!!!!

Not up to doing personals tonight...I'll try tomorrow.

Cd 16, no signs of O, and I'm not at all optomistic about this cycle. I just have this feeling that I'm not going to conceive this cycle and I'm basically just waiting for it to be over with. Strange. But dh and I will keep "trying" ... just in case! :LOL

Mavournin

to you all!

[squeakermansmom]

cd20....still no sign of O

carolyn - don't worry i wouldn't remove you i'll only remove the names without an asterik at the end of the 2 weeks. whoever hasn't posted in a while. does anyone know, isn't lilgreen pregnant?

bex - i'm live in jax! it's a small world!

justice - is it possible to see your chart??? i'm keeping my : for you!

jamie - s i've been thinking about you. just know we're here for you if you need us.

mavournin - are you still waiting to be ready or should i move you to ttc?

as for me....cd 20 - still no sign of O. very minimal EWCM so i don't think it has happened yet. i'm trying to have a laid back it will happen when it happens attitude this month. kinda like you said ROM. it's hard - there's a fine line between between 'thinking positive' and 'getting your hopes up'.

[Justice2]

Here you go

I took another one this am and have the exact same result. Extremely faint, but a line. Now I am beginning to worry that if I did implant, maybe it was in the tube and that is why the tests are not getting any darker. I HATE the doctor. If I don't get a conclusive result by Monday, then I guess I will go have a blood test..dammit.

[squeakermansmom]

hey justice - when i click on your link it takes me to my chart on fertility friend.

[Justice2]

http://www2.fertilityfriend.com/home/22564

K, try that.


Oh and guess what. I am crying. Why you ask...hell if I know. And, what is better is that I can't seem to make myself stop...

[Galatea]

Justice - your link goes to your chart. Is that what you meant to do?

Originally Posted by Kavita

And some of the things we might otherwise engage in to spice things up a little bit, we are more reluctant to do during these times also because of the idea that that might be when we make a baby . . . . Does this make sense? Maybe it's just an extension of the dichotomy between the "sexual" and the "maternal". Something interesting to think about!! (Well, for me anyway--hope I'm not boring you all!! )

(Warning - TMI) When we made ds, I didn't chart and we are not sure when he was made. My friend from college was in town, and there was one day when we had a quickie while friend was downstairs waiting to go out. It was quick and filthy and like the romance novels call "being taken" and it was hot and great, but not at all maternal or nice or gooey-lovey-dovey. Dh loves to joke that *that* was when ds was made. I think it is sort of funny too. Now that we chart, though, I have been thinking that it would be nice to have romantic sex when we conceive another.

I think EWCF and the eggie are waiting till Xmas insanity is over. That would be okay, as long as they come eventually!

*must work now*

[ChattyCat]

Please don't delete me!!! Since we're still a few months out, I don't post all the time, but I'm here lurking, waiting until ds is ready for dh and I to try for another dc. I read all the posts that y'all leave and am thinking of each and every one of you on your baby making journey!

Congrats Megan! :

Justice- Thinking good thoughts for you. Fingers and toes crossed! :

[Joey'smom]

Ok, I tried to put the link to my chart in my sig, but it didn't work. Any thoughts?
Here is my chart http://www2.fertilityfriend.com/home/78f42

Can someone look at it and tell me if you think I O'd on CD 14. I think I did, but FF isn't showing it? Any thoughts? It keeps trying to tell me I O'd on CD8 b/c of the temp spike, but that temp was taken like 3 hours late, so I decided not to have it count. I seriously don't think there's any way I could have O'd that early. And all my good CM is around CD14.
Let me know what you all think.

Justice2-I still think your chart looks good...and the whole crying thing...sounds like you may have to go to the doc after all. Sorry, but try not to stress too much about an ectopic. Sometimes the HCG levels are low with an ect, but sometimes they are really high. Just wait and see.

Galatea & Kavita-I don't think it really matters what kind of sex you have when TTC. Any sex you have with your partner is out of love anyway, so who cares what kind of extra fun you put into it. I say go for it!

Squeakermansmom - fingers crossed that your egg will drop soon.

Kyle98sean02-sorry about your cousin not telling you. I think it is definitely hard to decide what to do when you know someone else is TTC and you got preg first. I was in the same boat with my best friend when I got pregnant. I told her anyway b/c I knew she should be happy for me and she would be mad if I kept if from her, but it was REALLY hard to tell her. And it really did effect our relationship for a few months.

Everyone else- Hugs to the reboots, fingers crossed for those waiting to O, and baby dust to anyone I missed.