TTC check in - 6 May 2013

[changedname]

Good morning ladies!


1) Where are you in your journey?

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week?

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies?

[linz]

1) Where are you in your journey? IT'S IUI MONTH!!!!! I'm so freakin excited. Just waiting for AF to show up. Should be today or tomorrow. (I was temping all month but stopped about a week ago) Then I can call the dr and get this process started. I had cramps last night so thought maybe it would show up today. I've had boob pain like a MOFO the past week.

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week? H is applying to be a city cop. He took the written today.  ****fingers crossed**** will find out within 2 weeks if he moves onto the physical test. This would be so great for our future for him to get this job.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? I love to read and go running - did my first half 2 weeks ago I took a break and my legs already feel like they are getting weak. Starting back up again tonight to just casually run. Hoping to still do 3-4 miles while pg.

[HoneySpider]

1) Where are you in your journey? 1st cycle TTCAL, CD 11 (can I vent that I have been bleeding for 11 fricking days? What's up with my body? I thought it stopped and it started again. My periods used to be 4, maybe 5 days)

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week? I'm graduating on Friday, woohoo! My parents, brother, and MIL are coming to town on Thursday. I'm excited we'll get to spend mother's day with both mothers....we usually don't see either.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? I'm a big sports fan, also love music (particularly 90s alternative....DH & I will spend hours just rocking out), and I love baking but since I'm team fatass I don't do it very much. I have no self control. 

[Deleted]

1) Where are you in your journey? (edited 5/8) I’m on CD 19 and according to FF I’m 3 DPO, so I’m in the 2 WW (damn, that’s a lot of acronyms right there). At first FF thought I O'd on CD 14, but I had a negative OPK that day. I had positive OPK’s on CD’s 15 & 16 (taken after my morning temps). The cross hairs were dashed until I entered this morning's temp, which caused FF to update my O date & gave me solid cross hairs. So - 2 WW!

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week? Wednesday I’m meeting up with a girlfriend that I hardly ever get to see anymore, so I’m excited for that. I’m going to try to squeeze in a mani-pedi Friday night. Saturday my IL’s are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, so we’re all going to dinner. I just found out that while I don’t have to get super dressed up, jeans will not cut it so I have to go shopping for something to wear – gah!

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? My Kindle app got me back into reading, so I have that. I used to play Rock Band, but my guitar controller recently broke & it seems like it’s hard/expense to replace. I learned basic knitting skills a few years ago that fell to the wayside. I’d love to get back into knitting, but I’d like to give crocheting a go. I think I need to keep my hands busy lol. I love listening to music - my 90's & early 00's alt-rock gets a lot of play on my ipod HoneySpider, lol.

[statlerwaldorf]

1) Where are you in your journey? TTC#2 for 3.5 years.  I've been ovulating on Femara and Metformin.  I'm 14 dpo today, but I'm getting lower back pain like I usually do the day before AF shows up.

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week?  Not much.  DD just started t-ball.  We have been planning our vacation and have finally made concrete plans, so I'm excited about that.  We were a little worried about TTC, but it's looking like it should be during the next TWW which will be nice.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? 
I have a vegetable garden in the summer.  I do a lot of volunteering with different organizations.  I also am into gaming.

[speyedr]

1) Where are you in your journey? CD 6, day #2 of Clomid and IUI hopefully next week.

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week? Not this week, knocking on wood that I stay side effect free from the Clomid.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? I am a big fitness enthusiast. I love to road bike, hike, lift weights, etc... love the mud races too! I also am starting to teach myself how to sew, this is important to me because my grandmother is a seamstress and I have been told that I will inherit all of her machines one day. I live too far from her to have her teach me.

[discogranny]

1) Where are you in your journey? CD7, cycle 28 or 29...not sure.

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week? Nothing really exciting. My DH is traveling again. He has only been home 3 days in the past 11, which has been kind of a bummer.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? I really should add TTC to my hobbies list! LOL! Otherwise I like to run/do 5k races, ride my road bike, bake and read. I love all kinds of music (especially cheesy music) and always start my workweek listening to the Top 30 playlists from the Sirius/XM 2000's pop, 90's hits and electronic dance music channels.

[changedname]

May 6, 2013 15:41:05 GMT -5 discogranny said:

1) Where are you in your journey? CD7, cycle 28 or 29...not sure.

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week? Nothing really exciting. My DH is traveling again. He has only been home 3 days in the past 11, which has been kind of a bummer.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? I really should add TTC to my hobbies list! LOL! Otherwise I like to run/do 5k races, ride my road bike, bake and read. I love all kinds of music (especially cheesy music) and always start my workweek listening to the Top 30 playlists from the Sirius/XM 2000's pop, 90's hits and electronic dance music channels.

Yeah, I don't know why I see it as a hobby but it so damn time consuming (mentally) and also I waste so much time researching crap online that I decided it is now a hobby!! haha

[changedname]

1) Where are you in your journey? second month on bcp. Tried for 13 cycles including 3 IUIs

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week? Baseline on Friday where hopefully I will be given the green light for lupron

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies?  Reading for sure, running 10ks. I recently took up knitting and just completed my first project. I also like sewing and baking. Home decor, gardening (veggies and some flowers) also. I guess I have a lot of hobbies.

[degal99]

1) Where are you in your journey? Beta tomorrow, beta tomorrow!!!  15dpIUI

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week?  DH's birthday on Friday, and we're doing a BBQ on Sat.  Nothing really exciting otherwise.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies?  Video games, board games, reading (although, I don't do it enough), trying to get into exercising.

[degal99]

May 6, 2013 14:30:09 GMT -5 statlerwaldorf said:

1) Where are you in your journey? TTC#2 for 3.5 years.  I've been ovulating on Femara and Metformin.  I'm 14 dpo today, but I'm getting lower back pain like I usually do the day before AF shows up.

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week?  Not much.  DD just started t-ball.  We have been planning our vacation and have finally made concrete plans, so I'm excited about that.  We were a little worried about TTC, but it's looking like it should be during the next TWW which will be nice.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? 
I have a vegetable garden in the summer.  I do a lot of volunteering with different organizations.  I also am into gaming.

What kind of gaming are you into?

[G22]

I shortened my name! My siggy/avatar should give away who I am. My blog and name here were the same, and I prefer my IRL people to not stumble upon me and my venting here

1) Where are you in your journey? 13dpiui, but I'm pretty sure I'm out for this cycle. I POAS today and it was negative. I fully expect my period to show tomorrow. Blah!

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week? Not really. Unless my body is tricking me and I get a BFP later on.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? Running, volleyball, hiking, surfing, snowboarding, really anything outdoors and active. Reading. Traveling. My pets.

[geppiegirl]

1) Where are you in your journey? 2nd IUI was in April, tomorrow is POAS day, but I'm nearly 100% sure it will be negative.

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week? Not really, super depressed from having to put my awesome and wonderful dog to sleep on Saturday. I miss him so much, I've teared up 3 times at work today.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? Working out, hiking, painting pottery (though not necessarily painting it well .

[ilovecandy]

changedname What did you knit? I picked up knitting at the end of last year.  I haven't done much in the past two months but i am hoping this month to get a good ways along on a blanket. 

[changedname]

geppiegirl - welcome to our board! Feel free to post an intro in the thread at the top so we can all get to know you!

ilovecandy - I made this hat for my friend's baby. I know it is Christmassy and It's going to be an Christmas gift but I seriously thought it might take me til November to make it! Going to make some for my nephews now. (This isn't the actual one I made but it's the same)

[statlerwaldorf]

May 6, 2013 16:06:04 GMT -5 degal99 said:

May 6, 2013 14:30:09 GMT -5 statlerwaldorf said:

1) Where are you in your journey? TTC#2 for 3.5 years.  I've been ovulating on Femara and Metformin.  I'm 14 dpo today, but I'm getting lower back pain like I usually do the day before AF shows up.

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week?  Not much.  DD just started t-ball.  We have been planning our vacation and have finally made concrete plans, so I'm excited about that.  We were a little worried about TTC, but it's looking like it should be during the next TWW which will be nice.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? 
I have a vegetable garden in the summer.  I do a lot of volunteering with different organizations.  I also am into gaming.

What kind of gaming are you into?

Mainly first person shooters and the Sims games.

[purpleme]

1) Where are you in your journey?

CD 22; lost track on how many cycles

I'm feeling lots of cramps and my breast are swollen...Booo!

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week?

Nothing super exciting! I'm so boring! lol


3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies?

Let's see...
-texting my sisters like crazy! lol
-gardening I just planted some bellpeppers, serrano chilies, tomato plants...YAY!
-baking
-love watching crap tv shows...Married to Jonas, Chelsea Lately, Kartrashians and many more! lol
-love bargain shopping..big lots, 99 cent store, clearance sections at Target/Kohls/Walmart/Kmart/Ross/Marshals/Tjmax


 

[belovedbride07]

1) Cycle 13, I think, CD20, 5 DPO

2) I'm extra hopeful this cycle, mainly because I don't want to deal with next steps for DH's varicocele (insist on a second SA? get a whole second opinion? schedule the surgery?), and with my SHG next month. I know I'm setting myself up for disappointment, though.

3) Hiking (we did 10 miles on Saturday!), reading, creative writing, photography. I'm also very involved in my church, and in a local organization that puts on a big community event every year.

[KaraOrNot]

FX for you, degal99, geppiegirl and G22

1) Where are you in your journey? Month 21. CD 7.

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week? Today is my last day of Clomid and my ultrasound is on Friday!

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? Reading and TV.

[trace]

1) Where are you in your journey? TTC since Sep '12. Cycle 1 post m/c, CD 26.

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week? Not much, still anxiously awaiting AF so I can get my RPL testing done. My face started breaking out this weekend so I'm hoping that's a sign, no cramping yet though so who knows.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? Traveling, scrapbooking/stamping, and baking. I should probably get back into scrapbooking and baking to help clear my mind; it's been too long.

[jewel]

1) Where are you in your journey? TTC since Oct 2011, CD 8

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week? This cycle of clomid+IUI was cancelled because of a cyst and unknown "mass" in my uterus. I have an ultrasound this Friday to try to determine what the mass is, and we'll likely schedule surgery to remove whatever it is. I am looking forward to the possibility of surgery. I feel really strongly that there is some scar tissue or something weird going on in there from my D&C about a year ago.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? I like traveling, eating, watching TV, reading, napping, baking, and wine-tasting. I hate exercising of any kind.

[rugbywife]

Here I am I haven't posted in here recently because we have been in a 'hold and secure' mode as I like to call it, aka, do nothing, since december when my pituitary tumour was found. Since then we have found out the the tumour apparently/probably does nothing, gotten pregnant, miscarried, and now we are here.

Today I go for day 3 bloodwork and U/S, if all looks good, we start a round of low dose Clomid and hope for the best!

Other than this, not much exciting happening this week, I have to go into Toronto for a conference today and my principal just bailed on me because there is some bullying stuff going down at school with the grade 7s and she may need to be suspending kids - so now I have to take the train in and sit through it all by myself. I am fine with that kind of stuff but I was still looking forward to company. I am more excited for next week - it will either be next Wednesday or the following Wednesday that I find out if I will be a Vice Principal next year! So excited! It has been a long wait since my interview on the 5th of April!

My only real hobbies are crossfit and photography - I love both! And I do a lot of crossfit photography. A few of my photos are being published in some magazines this month and next!

[azurely]

1) Where are you in your journey? Today is CD27, so I should get my period this week. FF is predicting it on Mother's Day... perfect timing, ha.

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week? We did our Infertility 101 class at the RE's office today and I'm irrationally terrified about injectible meds. Not so much the needle part, just the mixing and measuring and timing... what if we screw it up?

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies? Reading, cooking, baking, walking/running (when I'm allowed to again--currently the RE says no strenuous exercise or heartbeat above 140)

[melindafelinda]

1. Still (tmi) bleeding from MC but it's slowed down considerably so hopefully that is almost over. We are going to avoid this month just in case even though OB said its fine to start right away. I did a count and I've been pregnant every month since November. Probably time to give my body a rest.

2. I forget 2

3. Hobbies? I like reading, video games, making crafts, cooking and eating

[awkwardpenguin]

Checking in late, but here goes.

1) Where are you in your journey?  Same sex couple, donor sperm.  BFN on our 8th insemination.  We're done with natural cycles and are banking sperm to move on to IUI with Clomid.

2) Any updates or anything exciting happening this week?  I got DW sick and feel really bad about it.  I'm looking forward to the weekend because the weather is finally nice.

3) QOTW - apart from ttc and proboards, what are your hobbies?  Yoga and lots of crafty things.  Right now it's sewing, but it changes.