Mini-vent - FF is bumming me out: This is the second month in a row that I disagree w/FF about my O date. The program just changed it, pushing it up a couple days (and giving us lousy timing). I still think it's wrong. FF just seems overly influenced by the +OPK. The program also extended my cycle for this month based on its predicted O date. I'm hoping FF will change back when I get AF on CD 23 or 24 (not 27, as it's now predicting).
I was so tempted to tell my folks we're TTC. I stopped myself from saying something 5-6 times times weekend (they were in town for my bday). We're still setting up our upstairs bedrooms and the room that will be the future nursery is in transition (full of random stuff). My mom totally stopped herself from saying "this would be the perfect nur.....uh, it looks good." My folks are so afraid of intruding. I was just dying to say - "I know! We're TTC! Yay!"
I think it may have it right...I usually O right after my last patch of CM and have a small dip before it goes up. It could be wrong but only time will tell.
My sister is coming over with her 2 kids today -- son is 3 and daughter is 6 months and they are the cutest kids ever...my ovaries hurt just thinking about it! lol I'd like to tell someone I am TTC, but at the same time I want to see their complete surprise when I tell them I am not KU, not just a "oh, finally" look lol.
This is my first month temping an I think it may be stressing me out more. My chart looks weird. (A few preO temps are as high as my postO temps)
The only people who know that we are TTC are also TTC. They ask how things are going every once an a while but not to much that its annoying. (I always wait till they bring it up to ask them about it) I kinda want to tell my mom but I don't know how she would react. I think she'd be to excited to not ask all the time.
This is my first month temping an I think it may be stressing me out more. My chart looks weird. (A few preO temps are as high as my postO temps)
I have this every month. Temping is more about seeing the pattern to your cycle, it's not really a physiological measure of anything definitive, if that makes sense I know people who have had a couple of temps below their coverline during the 2ww but had gotten pregnant in that cycle
This is my first month of only temping and not stressing myself with opts or cm charting and OF COURSE I have two different dips/spikes that could be when I Oed which is bothering me now lol
I thought temping would make me less crazy! lol Boy was I wrong!
I think after a few months I will understand my cycle a little more.
Post by Monica Geller on Feb 24, 2013 11:39:32 GMT -5
I tempted & charted for a few months before I caught myself randomly checking the chart throughout the day...as if either something had changed in the last couple hours OR as if it had some secret code I needed to figure out. Once I realized I was borderline obsessed with the damn thing, I stopped charting. :^) Sometimes I wish I knew definitively when I O'ed, but the not knowing is better for me than the obsessive staring.
That being said, this is the first cycle we used a OPK. I'm really hoping it "worked" this time. I had no idea what a mind-fuck TTC is before this year. I can only imagine what pregnancy & then parenthood must be.
Every cycle, during the last week of the 2ww I indulge myself in my favorite things that I might be giving up during pregnancy... runny eggs, glass of wine with dinner/margarita, etc.
My sister knows that we're TTC but no one else does. She only knows because she "guessed" and then wouldn't drop the subject until I admitted it. I'm pretty sure the rest of my family suspects it but are too polite to bring it up. Some days I really want to tell my mom.
Really random: the Thomas' bagel ad on this page makes me want a bagel. Yum.
I just found out that my job that I have been working as a casual at is no longer allowing us to work more then 80 hrs a month! (That is 5 12 hr shifts a month) I know I haven't been working more then 2 shifts a month there and working OOT because the money is way better.
I just really hate my OOT job and it is starting to make me depressed. I was going to take 2-3 months off of my OOT job and figure out if we can make my casual job work. (Up until last August I was working my casual job only and the money was more then enough for us to live off of. It was about 180-200 hrs a month.)
I'm just frustrated as now I think we should put off TTC until we figure this out. But I don't want to put this off because I really want a baby soon. Urg, I'm just frustrated. I guess it's time for DH and I to have a talk about money when I get home.
Post by simpsongal on Feb 25, 2013 14:15:36 GMT -5
I'm sorry, awick. Sounds like a money discussion is a good idea. Why compliate things by introducing a BFP? On the other hand, you do get quite a bit of time to prep (9 months is a long time).
This is my 2nd month temping and I wish I would have done it all along. Mainly for comparison. I noticed my 2 months having some similiar things. I've also looks at some charts in the galery on FF and a lot of people like PP said have a dip in the 2ww and still get pregnant. So it's def a mind game. After I O I usually have a small dip and then before AF comes I dip again. I'm not sure if this month I agreed with FF about when I O'd. I just try to keep having sex even a few days after to make sure. You never know. I don't use OPK's at all.
Post by annabear07 on Feb 25, 2013 14:33:45 GMT -5
awick14 I'm so sorry to hear about the casual job! I know how much you were looking forward to quitting your OOT job. I hope they change their minds!
My randoms- While hanging out with my FSIL she kinda weazeled out of my that we are TTC. I didn'y want to tell her as she's planning her wedding and I didn't want to steal any thunder, but she was so, so excited and that made me glad I blabbed!
I cryptically asked my mom about getting pregnant with me, I had always thought that they had, had troublettc me because of the age difference between my brother and I. Nope! It turns out that they couldn't afford me for a little while. So that means I can stop irrationally diagnosing myself with genetically passed fertility problems! I'm so glad I asked that question!
I think it may have it right...I usually O right after my last patch of CM and have a small dip before it goes up. It could be wrong but only time will tell.
My sister is coming over with her 2 kids today -- son is 3 and daughter is 6 months and they are the cutest kids ever...my ovaries hurt just thinking about it! lol I'd like to tell someone I am TTC, but at the same time I want to see their complete surprise when I tell them I am not KU, not just a "oh, finally" look lol.
Ugh, it's so frustrating. I thought our timing was pretty decent. By the time I got +OPKs we were tapped out. In fact, I think we were squabbling a bit that day. Next cycle (assuming there is a next one) we'll hold off until closer to the O date (or possible O date).
I'm going to see if maybe another job in a different field of work is going to work with my schedule. At this point ill work at McDonald's if I can quit this job! (Yep that's how bad this job is!)
Post by simpsongal on Feb 25, 2013 16:00:13 GMT -5
Try not to worry, katie. The software is just predicting but your O date based on your last month of charting. It could be several days earlier or later. Watch your temps and OPKs for the real date.
my next FW is during a stretch where I'll be working a lot too. I won't be OOT, but being that I work nights, I only see H for 30 minutes a day! and he's tired from working and too much pressure... not good.
my random for now: my BFF is getting married in June, and her bach party is April 20. I just looked ahead in the calendar, and assuming things go well this cycle, I'll be 8 weeks pregnant (from LMP) that weekend. H and I aren't planning on telling anyone outside of the family about a pregnancy before 12 weeks, but I'd have to explain why I wasn't drinking. oh well, FX that's a problem that I'll have!
my next FW is during a stretch where I'll be working a lot too. I won't be OOT, but being that I work nights, I only see H for 30 minutes a day! and he's tired from working and too much pressure... not good.
my random for now: my BFF is getting married in June, and her bach party is April 20. I just looked ahead in the calendar, and assuming things go well this cycle, I'll be 8 weeks pregnant (from LMP) that weekend. H and I aren't planning on telling anyone outside of the family about a pregnancy before 12 weeks, but I'd have to explain why I wasn't drinking. oh well, FX that's a problem that I'll have!
This is a good problem to have.
Dh and I will be in the same position if this cycle works for us as well. We are visiting family that we only see once every 2-3 years and they will defiantly ask whats up if I don't drink. (My aunt also has a big mouth, so it won't work well if we just tell them)