TTC #1 in Our 30's: January 2008 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

[JustKiya]

Welcome to the
January 2008 TTC #1 in Our 30s
Thread!!!!

MEMBERS

Ace age 30, TTC since Jan 2007
adsm73 (April) age 33, TTC since Oct 2006
AmericancatinJapan (Freya)
anica age 33, TTC since Aug 2007
B2* age 34
belle67 age 34, TTC since Oct 2006
Boernemama(Angie) age 33, TTC since April 2007
Cattibrie age 32, TTC since Dec 2006 after TR :
cecelia7
Celtic Angel (Allison) age 34, TTC since August 2005
Cicely_m age 29
Dara age 30, TTC since December 2007
Derun (Esra) age 30, TTC #1 since March 2007
Earthymama2b (Kiya) age 30, TTC since Mar 2007:
Ellien C age 37, TTC since Oct 2006
elspethshimon (Elizabeth) age 32, TTC since January 2008
frog age 36, TTC since January 2008 :
Frumpy 33, TTC since May 2006
Fuzzy Bunny (Annie) age 35, TTC since Feb 2007
Fuzzycat age 35
Greenegirl (Karen) age 33, TTC since May 2006 :
hae703 (Heather) age 30
Illaria age 32, TTC since May 2007
ItyBty age 30, TTC since Sept 2005 :
jem1976 (Jane) age 31, TTC since May 2006
jencat (Jen) age 36, TTC since Dec 2006 :
Jilliebean (Jill) age 30, TTC since April 2007
Katie34 (Katie) age 35, TTC since Sept 2007
Kemaji age 30, TTC since Sept 2007 :
kJad29 (Kemi) age 31, TTC since July 2006 :
Lemony Ale, age 35, TTC since Dec 2007
Maefair, age 33, TTC since Jan 2008
Magsen TTC since April 2007
mhiccup age 32, TTC since July 2007
Mischievium TTC since February 2007 :
Milliemoo age 31
Ms Sig age 31, TTC since April 07 :
nonsenseprecious age 36, TTC since Dec 07 :
oregonduck age 33, TTC since June 2007
Olerica age 37, TTC since June 2006
Palma age 34, TTC since Oct 2005
PatioGardener age 36, TTC since July 2007
Piccolina age 35, TTC since Sept 2007
Poetgirl age 33, TTC #1 since Jan 2007 :
PrayingforMiracle (Ann) age 34, TTC since October 2007
Red_Lil_Mamma (Jasmine) age 33
Rhon age 30, TTC since June 2007
Rivka TTC since December 2007
Ryan's Princess (Stephanie) age 32
Scalpel (Darcie) age 36, TTC since August 2007
Soc age 30, TTC :
Spinedoc age 37, TTC since Sept 2006
Sprout's Future Mom TTC since March 2007
Sri Radha age 32, TTC since January 2007:
SunnyKat (Kat) - age 39, TTC since forever
sweet pea age 34, TTC since March 2007 :
Wanting2BaMom (Laura), age 33, TTC since April 2006 :
Zucchini age 30, TTC since Oct 2007

: GRADUATES :

Farmama Nov 2006
PiePie age 35 Dec 2006
Dctexan (Emily) age 33 : Dec 2006
Greengrey (Alex) age 30 : Dec 2006
Beckyphry (Becky) age 32 : Dec 2006
Hazieluna (Natalia) age 35 : Jan 2007
ATD Mom age 32 Jan 2007
Brightside (Beth) age 30 Jan 2007
K9sarchik (Laura) age 38 Jan 2007
Amberbella age 30 : Jan 2007
Shibababy January 2007
jpiper0430 (Jenn) age 30 : Feb 2007
MajorGroover (Dee) age 32 : Feb 2007
Grace24 age 36 Mar 2007
Hezzy (Heather) age 33 Mar 2007
CowsRock (Kripa) age 33,: April 2007
Kharen (Karen) age 32 : April 2007
Nico DeMouse age 31 : May 2007
xenon age 30 : May 2007
SarahJen (Sarah) age 36: May 2007
Suzywan, age 30 : May 2007
Phillybama age 31 : June 2007
jentina age 33 : June 2007
Jujubie (Judy) age 34 : June 2007
Writerbird June 2007
Melanie_rabbitbarn (Melanie) age 30 June 2007
PinkOrchid2 July 2007:
Cking (Christina) age 30 : July 2007
Mandy 74 (Mandy) age 32 Aug 2007
Anouk (Lacy) age 32 Aug 2007
GISDiva age 32 Aug 2007
Raingyrl (Rain) age 37 Aug 2007 (after 12 months of trying!)
Starlightsound, age 30 Sept 07
ChristyM26 age 30 Sept 2007
Desilou, age 30, October 2007 after over a year!!!!:
Nony age 32 November 2007 (after 6 months!!!)
AngelaM (Angela) age 30, November 2007(with donor sperm!!!)
Radiowave (Aimee) age 31, 12/1/07 after 5 months
FiberLover (Michelle) age 31 12/1/07 after 14 months!
Funnygrace December 2007after 31 months trying!!!!
VeganCupcake (Catherine) age 31, 12/07 after 5 months trying
11yrsNoKid age 28, 12/07, after 13 YEARS trying
Amahrey age 31, 01/08, after 1 month trying

Now Accepting Applications:

February: RIVKA, pending a BFP!
March: Still up for grabs!!

[jencat]

Thanks for the new thread Kiya!!

Happy New Year everybody!

[Sri Radha]

Congratulations Vegan Cupcake! I was away at my parents home for the holidays and haven't been here since. I missed your BFP. I am soooo happy for you!

I went for an u/s to check my ovaries and I have 8 follicles on my right and 12 on the left but they are all still so tiny. So I go back on Thursday for a second u/s and I guess we will decide what to do then. I think the doctors might write off this cycle if they are not big enough and then change my treatment plan. I hope they grow!

I am doing the hcg shot this time too and I am nervous about that. I will get through it!

How is everyone? I must have missed a lot. I better check the old thread.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!

[Sri Radha]

Congratulations to Muppet and 11 years no baby! : Wow...December was a great month. I hope I didn't miss anyone!

[poetgirl]

Yeah, Kiya, thanks for the hot new thread! Looks great.

Happy New Year! I'm hopeful about the new year but...
I'm having a hard day. Let's just say I've finished my first round of Clomid and I feel like absolute crap. Bloated, nauseous, weepy, lethargic, super-morose. Ick. I hope it gets better. I feel snowed under by my own emotions and am desperately trying to distract myself. Last night at a new year's party, I was talking to this woman and just started telling her how 2007 made me so sad and the whole fert. issues thing and started crying right there in the middle of the party. Oh brother. It just kind of happened. Hope you all had better nights. I just don't know what to do with myself. I don't feel like ME at all.
Sri, Jencat~have you experienced this? My ovaries are literally throbbing.

[anica]

Oh, I'm sorry to hear about your feeling poorly Poet. I drank champagne last night and felt a little rough today, but I hear that Clomid can be something else.

Still no AF in my case but I could be annov. or something, so I am not getting my hopes up. No symptoms at all since yesterday, of PG or AF. I am just sort of sitting here in limbo. Maybe I'll test again in a few days. I don't want to waste my test, but on the other hand, I keep seeing people say FRER can be strange, and some women don't get a result with it but do with others. So maybe I should go get some digitals. Who knows. I have to go to the doctor tomorrow, but I am technically not but 1 day late for my longest LP, so I don't know if I will say anything or not. We'll see.

BTW my thyroid was fine, in spite of all my low temps, but he wants to retest my sugar or something. If it helps me figure out this weight gain and reverse it, I'm all for it. I just hope its not too serious, but if it was I think they would have been in a much bigger hurry to see me, rather than, "Oh, anytime in January will be fine...."

[elspethshimon]

Hi! I'm 32 (33 in February) and have been TTC since Sunday night

[anica]

Welcome!

Hi elspeth! Happy babymaking. I wish you a very short stay here.


Also, your post reminded me to ask that the front post be altered to say that I am now...since September 24..../dramatic sigh/...33.

[VeganCupcake]

Sri, thank you for the well-wishes. I hope I can congratulate you soon too! Hopefully those follicles grow nice and big soon.

Poet, ugh, I am so sorry to hear about the throbbing ovaries. Hopefully they're just ramping up for some serious egg production, and then they'll hit their stride and shoot out a super healthy egg.

elspeth, welcome!

anica, a second opinion from a different type of test might be a good idea--or maybe just wait it out, fun as that is!

[Sri Radha]

Elspeth, I also turn 33 in February. What's your birthday? Mine is February 16th!

Poet: I get the throbbing ovaries close to O and a little after. I have been O'ing late though. I still don't have them yet. I do get really bloated. The days I take the Clomid I am a pretty unhappy person with headaches and irritability. The PMS is worse with Clomid for me, too. It really effects me the whole cycle. How many times have you taken Clomid? My first time I had much more painful ovaries than the second time. I have heard other people say this was true for them, too. It was even difficult to BD around O time because I was so sore! Last time it wasn't like that at all.

[JustKiya]

Morning Ladies!!!

for the emotionality and throbbing ovaries, Poet! That sounds distinctly uncomfy.

Anica - I made the change!

Elspeth!! May your stay here be short and sweet!!

I'm super excited about the new year - and it's not even TTC related - I feel like (and I wish I had realized it with more awareness while I was in the midst) last year was really about internal transformation, changing how I think about and react to being alive - and I'm hoping/manifesting that this year will be about making those internal changes external and apparent.

Which, ya know, is how I keep my sanity on CD45 with no ovulation detected. : *sigh* Murph!

[JustKiya]

And Kripa (CowsRock) had her baby!!!!

[elspethshimon]

Originally Posted by Sri Radha

Elspeth, I also turn 33 in February. What's your birthday? Mine is February 16th!

Mine is the 5th

[jencat]

Kiya - thanks for passing the word about Kripa - how cool!

Poet - I feel terrible for what you're going through, sweetie! Pain AND emotional-ness - what fun! Don't worry about crying at the party. Not only are you "on drugs" it is an emotional time of the year anyway. We all have challenging times... don't be too hard on yourself. Treat yourself well and make sure DH is doing the same! If he's not - tell him to step up to the plate and take care of you - physically and emotionally.

Luckily, the Clomid is not so hard on my as it has been on you this cycle. But, I do think it may affect me in subtle ways that I'm not quite sure at the time if it's the drug or just me... Around Christmas I was feeling quite melancholy and I was just finishing my 5 pills. This weekend I've been a little emotional but not too bad (just O'd). But I do have some pain in my abdomen - I can tell my right ovary is the one ovulating this month... which is cool I guess even if it does hurt.

What is your dose? I'm doing 50 mg for three months, then 100 mg for three months, then 150 mg for three months (if I decide to do it).

Hang in there honey. Seriously, if DH is not being nice and supportive and helpful - you tell him to PM me! I'll "motivate" him and tell him what he needs to do!

[ms sig]

<<<earthymama2b inquired:
Ms. Sig!! May your stay here be short and sweet!!! Do you have a chart we can stalk?>>>

thanks for the blessing
i don't have a chart anywhere yet. i've been keeping them on hard copies, but i'm thinking of transfering them to fertility friend so i can be in the same boat as y'all

code name kringle* doesn't look very positive right now, as i just got some spotting, but i'm gonna try to ride this one out without getting down. i'm going to a meditation retreat this weekend that i'm really looking forward to --i'm hoping to be centered in the new year.

best new years wishes,
ms sig

*kringle - every month my husband and i will assign a ridiculous name to our potential offspring. it helps keep things light hearted.
example: "kringle's waiting for us -- we better get to work (on the bd)"
or "someone better do the dishes. you don't want kringle to be born into a messy house, do you?"

[christine1977]

hmm i'm not a graduate.. can someone take me off as a graduate? thanks

[jencat]

Ms sig - THAT is adorable! I love the code name idea!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for kringle to surprise you - messy house or not! Babies don't care!

[poetgirl]

Originally Posted by jencat

Poet - I feel terrible for what you're going through, sweetie! Pain AND emotional-ness - what fun! Don't worry about crying at the party. Not only are you "on drugs" it is an emotional time of the year anyway. We all have challenging times... don't be too hard on yourself. Treat yourself well and make sure DH is doing the same! If he's not - tell him to step up to the plate and take care of you - physically and emotionally.

Luckily, the Clomid is not so hard on my as it has been on you this cycle. But, I do think it may affect me in subtle ways that I'm not quite sure at the time if it's the drug or just me... Around Christmas I was feeling quite melancholy and I was just finishing my 5 pills. This weekend I've been a little emotional but not too bad (just O'd). But I do have some pain in my abdomen - I can tell my right ovary is the one ovulating this month... which is cool I guess even if it does hurt.

What is your dose? I'm doing 50 mg for three months, then 100 mg for three months, then 150 mg for three months (if I decide to do it).

Hang in there honey. Seriously, if DH is not being nice and supportive and helpful - you tell him to PM me! I'll "motivate" him and tell him what he needs to do!

OK you are SWEET! Your post made me smile smile. DH has been pretty sweet but I like knowing you'll PM him if he needs it.

I think the extreme symptoms really freaked us both out because our chances of conceiving on Clomid aren't exactly great. I think we both saw a flashback to last year beginning TTC with such hope and now this year in such a different place, wondering how long I'll have to take this stuff and how it will affect our lives. I do feel a bit better today than yesterday. I'm taking 50 mg this time and Sri, to answer you, this is my first cycle on it! Both of your experiences with it helped so much to put it in perspective and know I'm not necessarily in complete control here and to be extra gentle.

Plus, it used to bother just me that everyone we know has gotten preg. since we've been trying (no exaggeration, we're up to like 15 gals all in 30's, #1, no problems), but I think it's getting to DH now too. 2 more announcements in the last few days.
Last night we began BDing and he said "OK, let's get our BFP!" Cute.
I'm only CD 8 and I think the Clomid should make me O later, but I had watery cm and high cp, so I figured we should start now and go every other day until after O.

Jencat, Yeah for Oing! I'm hoping hoping everything's doing its thing!!! You're an early Oer too, did the Clomid make you O later these 2 mths?

Sri, Praying for a good u/s tomorrow and nice plump follies for you!Curious, do they ever give you a trigger shot? Thanks for telling me that the clomid effects were strongest the first month.

Anica, Great to hear from you and good that the thyroid is fine too. So, are you still waiting for AF? HOPING FOR YOU! (p.s. yes, I understand that dramatic sigh...had one too in Oct.)

Kiya, Love hearing your New Year visions! But I sure am sorry about CD 45. When do you see the OB? Also, you get the award for the most perfect non-word utterances. Murph, harunph and so forth.

Christine, Sorry you were still on the grad. list. We'll get you off ASAP.

Ms Sig, That WAS cute! Meditation retreat, YUM! Love it! Have a blissful time and may AF stay away.

THANKS everyone for giving me Clomid-woe love and support! My goodness, it does help.

[jencat]

Poet - yeah, I have been O'ing later on Clomid. I usually O day 12 on my own. With Clomid it has been 13 and 15. This month was only a faint positive OPK on day 14. I think my right side is a milder O, or a milder OPK test anyway...

I'm exhausted and frustrated b/c I'm working on a job application for a job I don't want. I'm answering their stupid "supplemental questions" and I don't want to! I'm applying for the job just for the heck of to see if they'd actually want to hire me. But it's in Portland, OR and I don't want to move... why am I doing this!?

Night ladies! Night kringle...

[Wanting2BaMom]

Hi all! I just wanted to pop on and wish everyone a great New Year, thanks to Jen for a fabulous and productive December thread and best wishes for Kiya for lots of positives in January. Welcome to the new members, may your stay be S & S! Hope all the new mamas-2-b are doing well! I think of you ladies often. My brain does not work that well these days, I feel like I have dementia at times, so keeping up with everything is hard. I went back to work Monday and I can't really even focus. Every day is hard but I know that will ease with time. The whole not knowing thing is SUPER HARD! 2 weeks later and it is still being investigated, noone in custody... Ahhhhhh! Anyways, I vent! My Dad said to me, the night before he left to go home, "I haven't spoken up about this until now but I really need to tell you (DH and I), I want to be a grandfather" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! DUH, I want to be a Mom... see my screenname!!! I told him, with everything going on, and needing my surgery, it will be a while. Then DH said the other morning.... so we aren't going to try for a while... I could see the sadness in his eyes! Right now my mind and body are out of whack... I didn't even eat for 5 days and it is a struggle to get food down at times. Don't think it would be a good environment for a little one. Also, I have been smoking... Ahhhhh I know, I know! I will stop... it just seems to ease my nerves at times... of course I have had more suggestions and offers of pills through all this than I care to count. Anyways, please keep the prayers coming, I am sending you all good vibes for virile sperm and receptive eggs.

BTW, my birthday is February 15th and I will be 34 UGH! 35 was my baby making/having cut off! YIKES! :