|
||||||
| Trying to Conceive Share your joys and struggles with others who are trying to conceive. Also, please post any tips, ideas or anything else conception related in here. |
| Discuss May TTC at the "Trying to Conceive Section" of the Conception Tips - Pregnancy Tips - TTC and Conception Forum; Hello Everyone... I was wondering if I could join . I have been lurking on here for a while, ... |
 |
|
|
Thread Tools |
05-13-2008, 10:12 AM
|
||||
|
||||
Can I Join?
Hello Everyone... I was wondering if I could join
 . I have been lurking on here for a while, and I've finally gotten the courage to say hello. Because there is already a Mary, I will go by my nickname... Mare. I grew up on a horse farm... so that was my nickname during high school and college. lol My DH and I have been married for almost 3 years, and we have been trying ever since our wedding (not always actively... just not preventing it). After a year of trying and not succeeding, I went to an RE. I knew I had PCOS, but my husband had an injury when he was younger and wondered if he was part of the problem. Well, it turns out he has super-sperm, so now we've focused on my problem. With the help of Clomid, I achieve ovulation. We got pregnant, but sadly lost it at 3 months. We took a short break, and now we are ready to try again. I've started charting this month, and I would love some feedback. After posting this message, I will figure out how to bring my chart over here. Thanks      |
|
05-13-2008, 10:34 AM
|
||||
|
||||
Mare - Again - Welcome! You'l be glad you decided to join the chat and kick yourself for not joining sooner! LOL There are several here who have overcome IF due to PCOS and now have healthy babies. It sounds like you're on the right track. Looking forward to having another chart to stalk.
Claire - OMG you had me LMAO at your remark about Mel's Cap'n practicing for the SA. |
|
05-13-2008, 10:48 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Mare - Looks great! You should get your crosshairs tomorrow with another nice temp! YAY. And it's a nice thermal shift, too - a great sign of a strong O!
|
|
05-13-2008, 10:51 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Lindy-I just wanted to reiterate what Claire said about you being a good wife has NOTHING to do with your dh's high sex drive, so please don't be hard on yourself *hugs* I know I couldn't keep up with 3 times a day! Also, I noticed that your temp went up today, so I'm hoping there is a BFP around the corner for you
 Mel-you will love the shopaholic books! Good luck with the job interviews and  to the spotting.Irene-hope you get some answers on those test results. Claire-your gun comment had me laughing too..even though I know you are dead serious Hi to everyone else! |
|
05-13-2008, 11:50 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Ok, I can't stand to stay away from you guys. I suck and sticking to things. Anyway, I have been tears all week! It is driving me crazy. OK, I told yall that one of my friends has been TTC for 8 years with no luck. She went in and did the IVF and they implanted two embryos! She got at least One sticky bean. She is finally PG with her 1st. I would really appreciate if you could all pray for her to stay PG and have a healthy baby! She lifted my spirits today!
Bina-Thanks for seeing the temp rise, I am still kinda hoping (OH I am really hoping) that it is a good sign of me being PG. I guess with the last chart tom. will give me a better idea. Claire, Irene, Rebecca, Ashley, Mary,Deannna,Mel, and Becky- Thank you for helping me through this. I really appreciate it. Ok, so we worked out a compromise. He can still JO whenever he wants as long as it is in the bathroom and I don't know about it. Also he needs to keep his hands of his weinie during my fertile time as well (thanks Mel). The porn issue is if he wants to look at to include me and I won't get mad. I told him it was the fact that we had already agreed that is how we would handle it months ago, and then he hid it from me. So, he has a very clear picture to not look at it w/o me. On a side note, if he wants me to be a part of him JO that might get him some more action from me. So, I can't stay away from you guys. I missed you too much. Mare- Welcome! This is the best place ever, I wished I would have been on here sooner. I am so happy that you are here. I will stalk your chart. I am not the best at analyzing but I know everyone stalking at mine makes me know I am doing something right. I can't wait to get to know you more. This group is not a bunch of strangers, but a big group of friends. GL with your TTC journey!
__________________
Lindy "Let's kick some fat butt!"  
|
|
05-13-2008, 12:29 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Lunch time
Lindy, I'm with you I can't stay away!
Welcome Mare - Love the name! As you probably already noticed, I'm pretty clueless, trying but not really trying for over a year. So I'm just starting this journey. What is PCOS? Starting to feel sick, yuck. Any advice on if DH and I should still be BD? Since I jump the gun, and started Tuesday I'm ready for a break, but if today I'm actually Oing, then we should still probably do it tonight? Thanks! Hope you guys are having a better day than me, all I want to do is go home and sleep.
__________________
Mary
  |
|
05-13-2008, 01:00 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Thanks for the welcome messages...
Lindy -- I already wish I joined sooner! I've read through the posts and I have learned quite a bit with regards to charting and conception. Also, it is nice to have a place to go where you can share your thoughts and emotions about trying to conceive. All my sisters and sister in laws have no problem having children... I mean, they get pregnant the first month of trying, and know nothing of how it happens. They look at me and ask when I'm having kids and think it is as simple as having sex one time. It is nice to come on here where everyone knows the 'process' so to speak. lol. Sorry... look at me... my first day and I'm already venting! haha. Mary -- PCOS is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, also known as PCOD Polycystic Ovarian Disease. It is essentially where your follicles don't mature as they should, instead becoming cysts within the ovary. One treatment is Clomid (which I'm on), which basically tricks the body into producing a mature follicle. That, in turn, ruptures and you ovulate. I hope that is a good description...I haven't read about it since last year, so my memory may be a little off. I hope everyone is having a good day!
__________________
Mare
  |
|
05-13-2008, 01:06 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Looks like I responded really well to the clomid. Here's what I posted in the IF side.
OMG OMG OMG! I have three LARGE follies on the right. Get this - one is 34mm, one is 31mm and the smaller one at 16mm. Left side was sleeping. Lining is 12mm LH is 29 E2 is 616 Dh goes at 8:15 to donate and I go at 11:15 for the insemination. No wonder my right side has been achy. That ovary is working overtime. |
|
05-13-2008, 01:19 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Rebecca- Yay! I am so happy for your mature giant follies! Hooray to Clomid! I will be praying for you today and tonight and first thing in the am and will pray during your 11:15 IUI, so that puts me praying at 10:15 my time! This will be it for you. I just know that this is your time. Keep us updated tomorrow and let us know how it goes!
Mare- Venting is more than welcome here. I have been for several days now! I don't have any friends close by so it is nice to be able to talk at the touch of a button on here. I am really happy that you are here! Mel- How did the interview go? I am dying to find out. I am praying that you get it, but only if you really want that particular one. Everyone else, I hope that today is a Terrific Tuesday! Oh, tonights movie review will be Sweeny Todd with lover boy Johnny Depp. Let me know if anyone is interested in it. This week I haven't felt like movies, so we are back on track now for me to start a movie review thread! Well, I am going to start on the spare room now. Oh, and NO, I am not cleaning it out for me to sleep in! It is our future baby room, so maybe if I am working on that, it will help me get PG faster. I know wishful, positive thinking!
__________________
Lindy "Let's kick some fat butt!"
|
|
05-13-2008, 01:28 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Bina - Yes, IUI is tomorrow. Dh goes at 8:15 and I go at 11:15
Lindy - Thanks. I can use as many prayers as I can get! |
|
05-13-2008, 01:32 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Lindy ~ I'm glad I made you laugh. So sorry you are struggling, no matter what the reason. No matter what the issue, what is 'right' or 'wrong', if either of you is uncomfortable, there's something to work on.
Re: the porn issue (ROFLMAO@ 'beating it to death', whoever said that a couple pages ago), the last time DH and I watched it, he had a guy at work give him a BAD DVD, and we sat on the floor in front of the tv eating cereal and laughing out a$$es off.  It personally doesn't offend me, but I've also never been in a situation where I felt I was in competition with it; DH really isn't into it. And I'm personally much more turned on watch us in a mirror than strangers on tv. I'm always like 'oh, she's doing that wrong', or 'we can do better than that'. And Re: the masturb. issue, I know DH has always done it from time-to-time. One of his old jokes is 'Nobody loves me like I love me'.  Anyway, it doesn't bother me b/c (past year notwithstanding) I never felt deprived. I never felt the need to 'be with myself' as someone put it (again, cracked me up!), but it didn't bother me that he did from time to time. It's a different head-space for them than being with us. If I was feeling ignored and knew he was doing that, I might have had a whole different spin. To me because I've always had plenty of attention (again, before the past year), it's always been a separate thing from our sexlife. But we had a HUGELY active sex life. Sometimes 4, 5, 6 times in a day, at least 2 was normal (the record was something ridiculous like 9 times in 12 hours or something) -- of course, this was back when we were young...LOL...actually it was back when we didn't have teenagers around and could do all the weird and mildly kinky and silly stuff that kept the flame burning round the clock. And before ttc made us insane after the 2nd m/c, and before clomid and that entire year. It was a tough handful of months that year...Oh, for the good old days. Maybe again someday, but there's a lot of work to do before we have that kind of trust and freedom again. And YAY again a/b Bec's big ol' follies!
__________________
          |
|
05-13-2008, 01:36 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Lindy - Correction (typo, i was excited), my IUI is at 10:15, so, 9:15 your time.
|
|
05-13-2008, 01:43 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Bina - Yep, it's white! Thanks!!!!
|