TTC #1 In Our 30's MARCHing aTHREAD! - Page 2

[elspethshimon]

Thank you everyone!

[mischievium]

Feliz Cumpleaños a Frog!!!

[JustKiya]

WOW RIVKA!!!! : I'm amazed by the work you've done, and I think those guidelines are just WONDERFUL!! Go you!!!

Happy Birthday Frog!!!

: elspethshimon : !!!!!!!! Oooh, congrats!!! Hope you have a fabulous pregnancy!!!

[anica]

Sorry I vanished. My cycle was like a milliion days long. Not really, but way too long for me to keep up with it so of course we missed the right days to ttc. I'm back in it again, though, waiting to (hopefully) O.

Happy birthday frog!

And Laura, I am glad to hear your news. I know things don't get that much easier with this development, but it is a step towards closure of the justice system kind, at least. You and your family are in my prayers.

[quasar]

Rivka, I am in absolute awe! What an awesome job you did here on the thread!!

Happy birthday frog!!!! :

Laura- I'm glad that they have made an arrest.

[frog]

Thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone. Alas, I think I've got wrinkled egglets, but we're going for it soon again, anyway. Here's hoping!

Laura, you and your loved ones are in my prayers.

Rivka, thanks for the great job you're doing of keeping the thread. Please change my age to 37.

[JustKiya]

Laura - I'm so glad that they made an arrest!! May justice be swift!!

FF is messing with my head. It changed my ovulation date from CD23 to CD32. From 14DPO to 5DPO in a flash - and our timing is bad now....though, in my heart of hearts, I'm wondering if it really makes a difference, if DH has sperm issues. And then, I'm wondering if we should even bother going to the specialist, because it's not like we would be able to follow through with any medical procedures, because insurance doesn't cover it, and the gods know we can't afford it - I nearly fainted/wept when I saw the bill for the HSG....and DH still doesn't have a job, and the main one he is considering doesn't offer benefits, and............ *sigh* I'm a bit mopey, today, I am. I think coming up on a year TTC has me scared and unsettled and I just - I had so much hope for this cycle - *sigh* ........

[dctexan]

Hi ladies, just coming out of lurking to let you know that I think that Rivka has done a WONDERFUL job cleaning up the first post and to say that if you ladies want to pare down the grads thread, I don't think it will offend anyone. Okay, back to lurking.

[EarthMamaToBe]

Everything looks great!

What do you guys think of my chart. I'm a little confused this month. The temps are weird and I've got no + OPK and no + ferning on CD 12?

Any thoughts?

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[frog]

Originally Posted by EarthMamaToBe

What do you guys think of my chart. I'm a little confused this month. The temps are weird and I've got no + OPK and no + ferning on CD 12?

What's going on with your cervical fluid?

[Olerica]

Originally Posted by EarthMamaToBe

Everything looks great!

What do you guys think of my chart. I'm a little confused this month. The temps are weird and I've got no + OPK and no + ferning on CD 12?

Any thoughts?

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I think it's too early yet. I second Frog's question: what's going on with your CM?

[~sweet pea~]

I'm kinda more of a lurker than a poster, but since this is my "home" board, I'm gonna post this just to keep on the list. Kudos to Rivka, I'm all for clearing out the clutter.

Laura, that is good news.

Okay, back to : lurking.

[EarthMamaToBe]

Not quite EW CM but my CM tends NOT to be a good indicator for me for some reason. Last month was on par with other signs but many months it is not. This is typical for my mother too, who never had any trouble conceiving (even at 37)

Or maybe neither of us is a real good judge of consistency!

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[~Adorkable~]

ok did some more clean up, i think i'll just leave it like that for a few days, was nice to take my mind of wondering if i O'd last night.

decided to compress rather than delete 2006 preggos, integrated 2007 preggos i found, formatted the active member list for readability.

i need to get a life

j/k have one, love it to bits, just am a system & logistics gal cant help it.

[nonsenseprecious]

Thanks for starting up the new thread, Rivka!

I haven't posted in weeks, since work has been keeping me very busy. I'm trying to not obsess so much over TTC, but it's tough! Right now I'm at 10-11 DPO. I didn't temp this cycle, but had positive OPK in the evening (but not earlier) on 2/20, so figured that I probably ovulated on 2/21 or 2/22. I just monitored CM this cycle, but it didn't seem to make much difference.

AF expected Wednesday. Today I'm a little crampy and this morning's HPT was a BFN. We will keep trying of course, since we've only been at it since 12/31/07, but I'm sad today. It's nice to read all of your news and updates, and it's making me feel a bit better.

[EarthMamaToBe]

Well I decided to test again and got a + OPK !! SO maybe the temps are just weird.

Wish us lots of baby dust!

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[Olerica]

Originally Posted by EarthMamaToBe

Well I decided to test again and got a + OPK !! SO maybe the temps are just weird.

Wish us lots of baby dust!

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Looks like perhaps you O'd yesterday, but more temps will be needed to bear that out. I do hope you caught it!!

I think I O'd yesterday too, but again, have to wait for those darn temps to stay high. If I did O, then the Vitex is doing it's job and taking another 3 days off of my follicular phase. Regardless, I'm doing the count down to testing. I'm sort of planning on 3/21, but I may wait for a few days after that.

[~Adorkable~]

wooohoooo it looks like a O'd yesterday, a bit late, but hey who's counting?
will have to see if temp keep climbing and i finally get to be in a TWW, thought i would never get here.

on a personal note i just wanted to share my yesterday with you
(there will be no apologies for TMI, i needed to share)

We packed and closed up a job box trunk that DH was given to send his personal things to Iraq ahead of him. We only found out last minute that he was getting this and so we were not very prepared to make the most of it or deal with it's emotional impact as it sit in the dinning room. It might as well have been a 20 ft tall obelisk with the words "YOU TRUE LOVE IS BEING TAKEN" for the impact it caused.
I busied myself with shopping, gathering and packing, something i do with the same systematic organization that i maintain this list with. We generally made it a nice "together time" and opened a bottle of nice wine and shared stories of the strangest trips or camping we had ever gone on. There was soo much that was NOT said.
As we slipped into bed, both tired and sore (i having a nerve pinchy issue slowly resolving in my upper back, he just got anthrax and typhoid shots, that were killing his arms) We capped off what has been a wonderfully frisky weekend, with BDing that was so caring, I cry now thinking about it. It was also the very first time that we spoke about the thought that we could actually be starting other lives, right then and there as we lay embraced. It is talk that i have kept separated from BDing as to not spook him and especially to avoid him feeling like a vending machine (something that he had expressed worry about) I slept so well.

When i got my temp jump this morning, I told him what that probably meant as he got ready to go. He took a long moment to crawl back into bed, half dressed in his uniform, and just shared the moment. I love him so much.

He ships out mid Spring.

If this day and night is the memory that i have to look back on as the day we started a family, it would be such a powerful one of love, strength, determination and choice. Even if i get pregnant at some other point this night will always have a spot in my heart.

[frog]

Rivka, that's beautiful. And I'm so sorry he's shipping out.

[christigpa]

Originally Posted by Rivka 

If this day and night is the memory that i have to look back on as the day we started a family, it would be such a powerful one of love, strength, determination and choice. Even if i get pregnant at some other point this night will always have a spot in my heart.

Really beautiful. I really hope this is the cycle for you and your husband; sorry to hear he's shipping out to Iraq. May God keep him safe for his return to you and hopefully new son/daughter.