Just an fyi, because we ended up not doing Venice/Verona this summer, but I did do all the research. There's a faat train that goes from Milan to Venice with just 1 other stop, Verona. The Venice-Verona stretch would be an hour or so (all the way to Milan about 2.5 hours) tickets can be reserved in advance, and ticket prices go up a LOT shortly before you travel. So making a reservation online would be smart.
There's an app for the whole north Italian train system btw, which is useful, since there are a few different companies and they don't all make the same stops.
Where are you located, rugbywife? I'm soooo jealous of a year of mat leave which you can actually divide over both parents. that's my dream scenario. Maternity leave here in NL is decent, 16 weeks paid in full, and legally both parents have the right to add onto that for a max of 1 year FT divided over the first 8 years of the child's life (unpaid) but really, the right to unpaid leave really wouldn't help out all that much, as for a lot of people the reason both parents work is money, right?
I think I'll make a triple batch this weekend, freeze the leftovers and have them ready to toast. My cousin does that for her kids, they get to have pancakes all the time..
I don't know what's up with my body. First O-ing so late, now weird food cravings at strange times. It's 5.25pm and I'm seriously craving pancakes. Pumpkin Spice pancakes with lots of maple syrup to be precise.
WTF?
Guess we'll forego the steak dinner I planned and will have breakfast for dinner (if I can hold out that long)
I agree with the others. I'd try the first round without icsi, and transfer just 1.
Also, if the fertilization is the part where it goes wrong, they'd know that before trying to transfer right? Would that change anything in the cost of that round?
Working mom, for sure. Not just for financial reasons. I think being a SAHM would drive me nutso. Will likely go down to only working 4 days though (and so will H, which means only 3 days in daycare ).
Morning! I'm at my office and bored out of my skull. I have shittons to do, but I need someone to first supply me with text and someone else with numbers. Neither have their shit done, so I'm hanging out on the internets. I brought my e-commerce book though, so I might just get a few chapters in that out of the way today, which would be good!
QOTD: The weekend But besides that, I'm mostly looking forward to my cleaning lady coming in on Wednesday. She kept changing the date she would come, with the holidays, so by now she hasn't been in for almost a month. But she's definitely coming tomorrow, and that makes me very very happy!
I know I know. It's that we had a stash but I had to take it when I felt sick and had to work. Then when he got sick we were almost out. He just went to work but said he may be home early. I'm going to make sure I'll be at the library by then
Hey, whoever gets sick first, gets into the stash first, that's just how it works. And if he needed more that you couldn't touch, he should've bought some of his own and wrote his name on there or something.
So yeah, agree with Crimson, make sure you're out of the house by the time he gets back and save yourself from manflu agony! :-)
No SA yet. That's part of the package after the current cycle's BFN that's bound to come. It's just that I've read so much about when it's not happening with every day, you should try every other day. Both haven't worked for me so far, so I figured who knows, 36 hours might do the magic. Give his swimmers 12 extra hours to get strong, but still do it frequent enough so they won't miss my egg, so to speak.
DH wasn't feeling very well last night and this morning. We still had sex last night, but I kinda feel bad making someone who's sick have sex. So I guess I'll just try for tomorrow night.
It's so stupid, I'm fully expecting to have another BFN at the end of this cycle. Completely sure that we will end up getting the RE's help and me asking myself why the hell we accepted her suggestion of trying on our own for 3 more months because everything looked so good with me. At the same time I do want to do everything right to give this last natural cycle a chance, ya know.
And at the same time it makes me angry and sad (directed mostly at myself) that I've come to the point that I don't even consider a natural cycle an actual possibility to get pregnant.
I really shouldn't be thinking about it too much, it just makes me sad, but I really really just want to kick my stupid teenage cousin who's gotten pregnant while really not planning to twice now.
I just realized how glad I am that I did start temping and POASing those few days though. I would've been gutted if at 16DPO I'd still have no AF and a BFN. (Which would be 12DPO, so totally logical )
I'm trying to go for less than every day this cycle. 36 hours actually. EOD just doesn't seem enough, every day hasn't worked so far. And so tomorrow morning would be ideal timing, which, with different work schedules and such, won't work. Tomorrow night will work, but it's just less perfect than if I'd O'd -ideally - yesterday. (Saturday was my usual O day. Latest I've ever O'd in 3 or 4 years is CD14, which was yesterday. )
I guess getting p/o at my body helps. Took an opk again this afternoon, and this brand has a 10 minute wait before it fully develops. This is after 1 minute. It's still getting darker even. So I guess I'm finally gearing up to ovulate. It sucks that even up to O-ing today, the timing if sex would've been perfect, but with O-ing tomorrow or Weds, it won't be as great.
I just kinda really wanted the most perfect timing ever for our last cycle on our own. Oh well. I guess 2 more weeks and I get to schedule my follow up RE appt and find out if we're even ever going to need the spare bedrooms...
Anyways, this is what catching your LH peak at it's highest looks like at 10% developed...
We took everything down yesterday. It suddenly feels empty here, but we'll be used to that again in 2 days. I always try not to give in to the urge of buying plants/other things to fill the void the tree left, but it's hard
Would you knock it off already. Kidney disease and a tough time getting knocked up all together is bad enough. do you really truly need to start messing with my rhythm as well. You're usually effing clockwork, from when I poop to my luteal phase and when I ovulate. It's the one thing I can count on since you've started to give me terrible terrible cramps during AF. The one thing is me being super regular. And now you're taking that from me too? What the fuck girl, that's just not cool!
So knock it off please. Just ovulate quickly now and be done with it for this month. Don't drag this out any further. You and I both know that besides me getting cranky over a terrible chart, it won't change anything anyways.
Oh, and while I have your attention, please stop storing and extra portion of fat on my belly. Not getting pregnant sucks bad enough without my belly growing constantly. I know losing weight is my end of the bargain, but really, when you leave all the fat on my belly right there no matter how skinny I get, it makes me mad. And kinda hate you a little. And that's just not cool.
So one last plea, knock it off. Get regular. I've been and will keep doing my part, but please just don't screw me over like that.
So Germans have square pillows huh? Dutch ones are rectangular , I think US pillows are even a little longer than NL ones - a narrower rectangle. Re firmness I can't say much about it. DH likes to have as thin a pillow as possible, and I prefer memory foam (love that thing). Bought one here, and one in the US and they really are the same, I think the US one is a little wider, but really, my head has mooooore than enough space on the EU one as well.
And to boot (this makes me very very happy!) Teacher already responded (on a Sunday even, I mean, wow! that tells me something...) and acknowledged that a number of things that definitely should have been updated in the revision, definitely weren't, but that the general lines of the book are still correct and that despite it's flaws, this is the best (Dutch) book there is on this subject atm. He added that there is a LOT of more current information available on the interwebz, and that we'll get into that during classes.
I guess I'll just have to get through the old info in the book and laugh it off...
My period is much heavier off BCP (wish I could get back on just to get rid of those awful crams and all the blood. However, usually my temp doesn't drop below the cover line until CD3 or 4. It usually does come down a bit starting at 12DPO, but all the way down to my preO-temps isn't until well past CD1.
Everyone is different though, and as soon as you have a couple of cycles temping under your belt, you knwo what's normal for you. (I guess that's why TCOYF recommends charting ALWAYS, also when you're TTA/not trying anything.
How to pause the VIP membership, but still be able to use FF without the VIP feautures? I figured with not temping so much, pausing it would be a good idea to save my VIP days, but when pausing it, they logged me out and to log back in I have to reactivate.
Or is pausing it just considered not charting at all and should I just never have sprung for it in the first place
Damn phone apps with their pretty charts and stuff...
ETA: and now it won't reactivate because it's been on hold too short and I need to use the support form to get it reactivated, which means I not only lose the VIP function, but can't use the whole damn app even though I'm paying for it (apparently if you pause for less than 15 days, it doesn't count as paused, even though you couldn't use your account AT ALL. They just made absolutely sure I won't pay them a penny again. Bastards.
I used to post on GP dailyish, but all the BFP posts were getting me down. Decided to lurk a little today for the first time in a while, and saw a new sub-board that might work for me better.
We have been TTC since June 2012, and this is my 8th cycle. I have a medium sized fibroid, and just found out I have a small cyst on each ovary that my doctor wants to monitor. H had two SAs done and both were decent, but with some borderline morphology.
I hope you all don't mind me joining in here and there!
Don't mind at all, though I hoped that the reason I hadn't seen you for a while was because I missed an announcement from you or something :-(
Be welcome, and share your crazy and/or wisdom :-)
My H and I disagree in a major way about what a good vacation is. I am a "Sun, Sand, Tequilla" girl and he is a "Mountains, Whiskey, Cool Weather" boy. UGH!
If your funds can handle it, try Tuscany maybe. We rented an awesome little house in the mountains of Tuscany this summer. The weather was still nice, just cooler than at sea level, but at night it gets pretty cold, so your DH might like that, during the day we did trips to other cities, we were really in the middle of nowhere (because the mountain town had sentimental value to us), but still, it was only a 1 hour drive to Pisa (which is at the sea). If you'd get closer to the Tuscan coast, you can have both mountains and beaches, and you just drink the awesome awesome local wines and liquors instead of whatever your drink of choice is
(If we do a European vacation again this year, I actually definitely want to go back there, that was the most relaxing and fun vacation I've had in ages! And OMG the food!!! Best food ever!)
through my alarm, I chose the very best. Should have a temp spike today or tomorrow if all is correct. Have hardly been temping lately to give myself a break, but I figured, the days around ovulation are useful for temping. Guess that doesn't work very well, as my body isn't used to waking up for a minute for temping anymore.
I woke up 4 hours after my temping alarm went off. So not only did the 4 hours make a change, but by that time the heating had turned itself on (we set our thermostat 5 degrees C lower during the night when we sleep, it comes up automatically around the time I usually get up, my temp alarm is set just before the heat comes on.
Oh well. My temps since thursday (when I started temping again) were super low, so when my temps are higher tomorrow, I'll still know I O'd today or tomorrow, but really. Of all the days to sleep in.
On the other hand, I guess I needed the sleep... sleeping 4 hours past alarm... sheesh!
We just got back from the US, haven't planned anything new yet. We'll surely go to Italy at least for a long weekend at some point, and likely to the US, unless I get pregnant before the end of March. If I get pregnant in the first half of this year, I guess we'll do a longer Italy trip and skip the US, or maaaayyyybe a September visit to Colorado to go shopping/see my friends/dad.
(Most of DH's family is in Italy, mine's in the US. We really hardly ever get to go anywhere else unless it's driving distance.)
Uhm, yeah, if you can't afford OPKs/HPTs, you can't afford a baby. Just sayin'...
I don't think I could unfriend that person fast enough, both on every social network I know as well as in real life. I might actually send in a nice RSVP: Hell no card, explaining that I unfriended them and to cross me out of their address book.
lolo, they really market it as 'the 2010 fully revised edition', and it had been known forever that Vista was a total bust. Also, by now I'm so far in that I found that on some other pages there is info that can't be added before December of 2009, because they hadn't happened yet. So I guess it looks like they actually just did a really craptacular job revising the book. :-(
@wise_rita, nope, author is not the prof, thank goodness. I still have a little hope that he is really good and he just has to deal with this being the only book from the publisher they work with that he can use. Doubtful, but there still is a little spark of hope there.
If he doesn't reply quickly and/or his reply doesn't take my concerns seriously, I will contact the school to see what we can do about it though. I'm not about to accept crappy education for that kinda money.