TTC New Year's Week

[sarahh]

Knock, knock...anybody still here?  Hopefully some have moved on!



This is a combined TTC thread for EVERYONE currently TTC. Whether you're a first timer, a many timer, or an old timer come on in and pass the time as we struggle through WTO and the dreaded TWW.

As this is a combined thread there will be talk of LC, losses, and IF struggles. If any of these are hard for you please just let us know in your first post and I'm sure the lovely ladies on here will be happy to add TWs to accommodate.


Feel free to add a little intro to help us get to know you better;)

Please come join us!


Month/Cycle:

Timing:

CD/DPO:

Symptoms:

RRCS:

[sarahh]

Month/Cycle: 8/9 CP last summer

Timing: I'm not tracking O so I think -3, +3 so not good

CD/DPO: CD 27, 10 dpo

Symptoms: Just waiting for AF

RRCS: We have decided to start really trying again. We are going to try unmedicated this month then start Femara next month if not pregnant and possibly IUI after that. I probably need to start at least doing opk's but I don't want to obsess about it (easier said than done!)

[letthewookieewin]

(LC mentioned)

*waves* Hi there! I think I go here now. MH and I have a four-year-old DS and we seem to have decided that if we're going to give him a sibling, we need to start trying.

Month/Cycle: 1/1

Timing: still WTO

CD/DPO: 20

Symptoms: starting to see some mucus, but still at least a few days to O

RRCS: I'm just hoping my body gets its act together. My last cycle was the first after having my Mirena removed and AF showed up two days after my likely O day.

[sharebear]

I'm still here!

Month/Cycle: The holiday season marked the 3 year anniversary of this journey! Benching in mid 2017-early 2018 for non-TTC medical reasons. CPs June and September

Timing:n/a

CD/DPO: 4, n/a

Symptoms: Period bloat

RRCS: So I ended up in the hospital for almost a week before Christmas due to a severe asthma attack that came along with a cold. I'm feeling great now, but I was super worried that it would further delay the next injectables cycle. Happily, I got the all clear from Pulmonary on Monday and the RE yesterday, so I start up another Gonal F cycle tonight! Woohoo! Doing clomid again last cycle was so rough - and I didn't actually ovulate even on 150mg of it. I'm very happy to go back to Gonal F, which was much much easier on my body.

[stayingblonde]

Month/Cycle: It's been over a year now since we started with a loss in the middle there

Timing: O (O was right during Christmas time and OMG we were both so sick and tired and busy this was all we could manage)

CD/DPO: CD24 Basically just staring at the calendar, willing days to pass at this point

Symptoms: I've had slightly sore boobs, but at this point it's probably all in my head.

RRCS: My temps are all over the place and nothing makes sense. Been sick my entire winter break. My loss from the summer would have been due next month, so I'm having tons of feelings. Know the odds aren't good with this cycle, but want it so bad. Basically driving myself crazy over here. Will talk to my doc about options if this cycle is a no-go.

[thinkchocolate05]

Im here. I think I posted once before the board went quiet.

Month/Cycle: 3/3


CD/DPO: CD5



RRCS: We have been mostly not trying not preventing with terrible timing the last two cycles, but this cycle I plan to have better timing. We've just been so sick this winter with the boys getting colds and giving them to us.

[charliefox]

Month/Cycle: 29

Timing: n/a

CD/DPO: cd9

Symptoms: none

RRCS: Just taking it easy this cycle, I'm not even temping which is weird but since I haven't done it in months for IVF it also feels normal. H and I still haven't discussed what we're going to do moving forward, which is stressing me out a bit. I know we were both trying to get through the holidays, maybe we can schedule some time this weekend to talk about it.

[sarahh]

letthewookieewin, welcome! Hopefully your stay here is short!

sharebear, I'm glad they put you back on Gonal F this cycle. I am dreading going back on Femara which I know doesn't have as bad of side effects as Clomid but was still awful for me.

stayingblonde, I'm sorry. Loss months are always the worst. Hopefully you can do something fun to get your mind off of it. Let me know if you have any questions after talking to your doctor. You and I are close in age so I may have gotten answers to some of the questions you may have.

thinkchocolate05, this cycle was not good for us either, timing wise. It's just so much effort! Haha

charliefox, hopefully you and DH can talk this weekend. Do you have any thoughts on which way you're leaning?

[sharebear]

And I have graduated to IVF. This cycle ended up getting cancelled due to too many follicles maturing. After having a long discussion with the RE about my ovaries' overachiever status when stimulated, and alllll of the cycles we've gone through so far, we feel like this is the logical next step. Ho hum. But also exciting? I started digging into the IVF overview binder they gave me to review in advance of our IVF orientation later this month and it is overwhelming. And expensive.

[sarahh]

sharebear, that's exciting! At least you have a plan! A co-worker of mine is doing IVF and her transfer is in a week I believe. I have my fingers crossed for you!

[fikafairy]

I think maybe we are tentatively heading in this direction? But we will see... we have a complicated history.

TW for all the things (LC, late loss, etc.):

DS is an S12 baby, in kindergarten, and we didn't try for him - he was the result of not taking the BCP 4ish days over the appropriate window apparently, or my body hates BCP. Jury is still out on that one. We started trying for LO #2 11/2015, BFP 4/2016. That was a very, very, complicated pregnancy due to red cell antibodies (anti-Kell specifically) and ultimately ended at 27 weeks in a loss of our DD due to mismanaged care by our MFMs. We started exploring IVF with PGD and got really, really close to starting - but my H got laid off in November and our IVF savings took a huge hit as a result. It was going to be about 50% OOP, and even that was daunting to handle.

So we are considering heading this route again. We have a 50% shot at the same complications occurring, but those complications come with a roughly 90-95% survival rate if managed well. I had been tracking the past several months because I suspected that my cycle was breaking through the BCP I was prescribed. Once my H is working again we tentatively decided to NTNP for a couple months to see how our anxiety felt and then go from there.

tldr: I might be poking my head in and out of here shortly. Lots of anxiety about TTC in general based on last outcome but I think that anxiety would exist no matter what.

[stayingblonde]

sharebear Ooh! I'm excited for you! All my fingers and toes crossed.

fikafairy Welcome!

[stayingblonde]

Welp, I got my period. Again. So I'm still here. *brings moving boxes* *unpacks* *paints the walls*

[sharebear]

Welcome fikafairy!

Thanks stayingblonde and sarahh. I am very happy to have a plan.

stayingblonde I'm sorry you have to unpack and hunker down here for a bit more. Hopefully this will be a quick residency for you <3