AHHHHH! So jealous, Z! Hope you are having a blast!!!! You know, vaca is supposed to be a good conception time! Will you still be there in a week or so when I see you O?
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AHHHHH! So jealous, Z! Hope you are having a blast!!!! You know, vaca is supposed to be a good conception time! Will you still be there in a week or so when I see you O?
Lola, I see your estimated O date is 30 July! That's cool, I will probably O on Aug 1st, we're going to be 2WW buddies :)
And yes, I'm telling myself - I will loose my extra kilograms once I get my :XY: LOL!
SWEET! I love me some due date buddies! We ABSOLUTELY MUST get knocked off the ttc list and into the pregnancy forums.
Oh ZB great comment on the proteins! Beans are a great source, and so easy too! I am envious of your vacay... Greece is high on my list of places I'd like to go.
Lola I'd go with the preseed only bc I know the eggwhite thing just didn't seem to do much for you last fall. Other than provide some comedy into the TTC business :bigsmile:
Alexis the CM is such a promising sign! Keep us posted!
We are on vacation til Aug 4th, so I'm on hotel restaurant diet for 2 weeks leading up to O - it's much better then my cooking :rofl: And like I said: meat and potatoes every day, lots of salads - I eat only tomato salad and just look with sadness to tzatziki, bo-hoo, I'll eat it last 2 days of vacation while in 2WW :p I buy bananas and peaches etc...
I deliberately didn't take OPKs with me because I'm prone to obsessing over them lol! We'll just BD around my estimated O date, of course checking CM and CP, I'm not THAT relaxed :bigsmile:
Begonia - we are in Greece because it is the closest sea, we went by car and it is affordable. We spent summer holidays in Greece like every year and I would really like to go somewhere exotic - Bali, Cuba, Dubai, maybe Mexico in some fancy resort :p but these are just my wishes, we can't afford the plain tickets for those destinations, let alone the vacation, so I'm grateful for Greece
This is going to be fantastic for your sway ZB! So excited and FX this is your month!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zivic-Bubac
Lola-I'm not sure if what I get in my LP is considered creamy. Last cycle it was mixed sticky/creamy but there was a lot less than now. I have a TON now and it is yellowish too. Hoping it means something. Also felt some pulling in my uterus earlier, but could be I moved too quickly lol.
I might try testing at 8dpo with $ store tests. AF due on August 3rd.
Prayin for you!!! GL!!! Come on BFP!Quote:
Originally Posted by LolaInLove
Fellow homeschooler here, WP!Quote:
Originally Posted by WashingtonPromise
Pregnancy forum, huh. I haven't entered one on here yet. By Due date?Quote:
Originally Posted by LolaInLove
Greece doesn't sound like too bad of a va-cay. We're here in California, so I'm sure I'll never get to Greece.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zivic-Bubac
Alexis, you are better off waiting until about 12dpo to get an accurate reading. It will most likely be negative either way and it might just make you stress.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexis2007
thanx all for your help, we dtd last night 10.30pm. im not gonna dtd again today though cos im feeling a little o pains(i think) and dont want to do the o+12 thing.anyway,here comes the 2ww!
Yes yes yes, and you're in MY club, LOL! There's a due date thread for March here:Quote:
Originally Posted by iluvmyman
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/show...-in-March-2012
It doesn't move super fast but of course we're VERY fun :bigsmile:
And there's also a pregnancy thread for our "blue crew grads" .... http://genderdreaming.com/forum/show...1694#post61694
ELP has been cracking me up over there!
Welcome to your 2WW Jane! Starting tomorrow you are required to post symptoms so we can make sure to obsess properly :bigsmile:
@Lola, I am excited for you to start ttc again, I have been following your story and really hope this is it for you, you deserve a nice sticky blue bean.
@begonia, you sound so much like me with the sweets and the anemia. Going this whole summer without ice cream (okay, I cheated once) has sucked so bad. We spent a week visiting my mom and she kept offering me ice cream and cookies and pie and I kept coming up with ways to avoid it. I think she thought my body had been taken over by an alien.
@Alexis, yay! I think the cm is a really good sign. Fx.
@Zivic, that is so cool that you get to visit Greece. Bet it's lovely. I did study abroad in Paris in college and got all around France and the UK. Wanted to get to some other places but ran out of money!
And like the others in the South, oh my gosh it is burning up here and I am so embarrassed to be seen in a bathing suit. :( I have gained 20 pounds. I start back to work in a week or so (teacher) and I am so humiliated to see my co-workers, I know they are all going to be talking about me and how I've gained so much. I just hope hope hope I get pregnant soon so I will have an excuse. I have unpacked all these "fat" clothes I swore I would never need again. I tear up just thinking about it. :( Luckily my DH is super sweet and doesn't mind, he would never make me feel bad but I know friends and family are like, what the hell happened to her? It's just gutting for them to be thinking I let myself go and not be able to tell them it was on purpose.
I think I'm going to test again with a FRER in the morning (12 DPO). If it's negative, that's probably it and I will start working hard on the diet again.
Begonia I am 6dpo now. I think if I got o day right and I really don't feel pregnant. With me it was severe heartburn with my 2 dds pretty much from day 1 and I don't feel that, so my guess is I am not pg. I know what you mean about girl mums meaning to be less fertile all my 4 pregnancies were 1st attempt. Looks like this one will be different though.
Wow about the success rates on IG! I am seriously thinking to go with the FGD if I don't get pg this month and attempt in October. I got the book from India, I just don't know whether I am capable of eating that much meat in one sitting plus a can of tuna. I keep changing my mind about calcium and milk. All u ladies and the Oxford study seem to think it does not sway pink. But reading the FGD that is exactly what I was eating just even less meat and I did drink 3 cups of milk per day. and I did eat about 5 veg and 1-2 fruits per day just no salt and no juices.
Btw my close friend just had the baby girl she wanted. Her diet is very boyish and has 2 boys already. They were trying Shattles only but she ovulated 2 days earlier than expected so dtd turned out to be at o-1. AND it was full moon when she oed. She and I were convinced she would have another boy (of course I did not say that I just said you never know maybe it was meant to be for you to try in a month when your cycle decides to move for no reason). Anyway she had her baby girl and I am sooo happy for her. Was pretty much crying when I heard the news... She is one of the nicest and most caring people I know. She deserves all her dreams to come true.
WP how perfect does your life sound. A farm, animals, 6 kids and home schooling. My DH and I also have farming backgrounds. I am sick and tired of my awful and stressful job where everybody is mean and nasty to each other that I do feel like doing just that. My family would be shocked because my grandfather hated being stuck on the farm his father would not help him get education and he was sooo smart. Although he never had the courage to leave, he made sure all his kids got education and practically kicked them out. My uncle (to the shock and dismay of the whole family) went back. So with my background if I did that they would probably disown me.
The other alternative I have been thinking about is teaching. What do you think daisy? I don't think schools are as bad here as they appear to be in the US. They do need teachers here. The pay I think is better here as well especially considering the working hours.
Anywho so much for me staying away from this website...
WP for protein I am eating lots of nuts. Meat at least once a day either red meat or chicken. For lunch either tuna and eggs or smoked salmon or ham or turkey or canned soups (as per FGD). I also have full fat yoghurt once a day to satisfy my sweet tooth as I am also dying for sweet begonia but am really trying to cut carbs.
ZB where in Greece are you? I have been all around the Balkans actually backpacking. Belgrade is beautiful. Just noticed that my saliva ovulation monitor is made in Belgrade. How weird is that! Or maybe not as former Yugoslavia was very technologically advanced was it not? It is called MyBaby.
Good morning ladies!
Daisy it was cookies I missed most, oh my goodness so much! But when pg I find I don't want lots of sweets so now that I can have them I haven't even made them, boooo! And I did a study abroad in Paris too! And then worked there the summer after college. Super fun!
Layla do the UK schools go year-round? I sure wish our programs would switch to that. I know Jen's girls go year-round but by and large those programs are hard to find here. Re: the IG successes I suppose it can certainly make one decide to leave milk out and look more at minerals; just about every gal on that list was on the IG diet. All of their sways are posted there if you wanted to go look at them. I'll be happy to see the results from all these GD sways start coming in the next few months!
THANK YOU for the reminder there, you are so right on, B! Decision made! FU, chickens.Quote:
Originally Posted by begonia
Yea, there is the Boy Sway Grads and then there are due in April, due in May, etc. threads. Are you in April?Quote:
Originally Posted by iluvmyman
Dude, I was thinking the SAME thing! So funny how IRL some of us live so far apart. I would DIE to go to Greece, or even Europe for that matter! My family lineage is from Prague and my DH's from Warsaw, and we'd love to go there someday. ZB, you DO NOT want to go to Mexico, it is dangerous. I would only go to Tulum (Mayan Riviera) or Baja, like Cabo if I did. But Bali sounds amazing! I think Babydes is going to Ibiza next year after baby comes.....lucky girl!Quote:
Originally Posted by iluvmyman
Hey ladies sorry for the absence we've been doing lots of home projects lately. Not so much me, we've been painting, but I've been helping where I can. Catching up but only going back 5 pages so if I missed anything good please let me know :)
Welcome WP!! It doesn't matter when you temp as long as it's the same-ish time everyday. The actually # isn't as important as the pattern that will emerge :) Oh I'm super jealous of your farm, we are hoping to have a large garden for lots of veg one day. Not sure we'll have any animals other then chickens though.
My protein was beef, chicken and eggs, lots of teriyaki jerky and some tuna.
Alexis - I'm with Lola cm 4dpo can be a good sign. I had (and still have) a ton of cm from a few dpo. FX!!
Lola - I too feel and look like a different person with all this chub. I think the worst thing is having everyone think you just got fat, I so want to wear a shirt that says "I got fat on purpose, but please don't ask me why" Woohoo for clomid and tons of cm!!
ZB- Greece, so jealous! Never been to your other options but I've been to Mexico several times, I love it.
Jane- I hate timing, so little evidence yet so much stress lol
I'll have to finish my catch up later, off to meet dd2's teacher.
Daisy : Did you test?!?!?
Layla: Funny....my family is from South Dakota where there is almost nothing to do, but farm. So, my father feels the same way....why are you wasting money on animals when you could have a new boat or vehicle. He is well educated and makes great money. Hmmm, dad just doesn't get it.
I was thinking about EW yesterday (DH would NEVER go for it), but if we ever needed a fresh one for TTCing...I could just go to the back year :)
I may add Vit. D if this isn't the month for me.
2 things that were different with my boys and girls pregnancy. I had aweful morning sickness with the girls and none with the boys. I enjoyed sweets with the girls and could barely stomach them with the boys. I normally love M&Ms, but with the boys I could only eat a few and they had to have peanuts in them.
I forgot to say, I normally get woke up by my BF DD at about 4 or 5am and if she doesn't wake me up then I either have an alarm set for that time (to keep time the same) or I forget and temp at 7.
I am in the same boat as you ladies.....have gained 5 pounds :( I know, I know....that's the goal. But, today I bought some weights at Walmart to help tone and build muscle instead of fat. They were on clearence, so I couldn't pass them up. I don't really need any toning on my upper body, carrying children and feed buckets takes care of that. But, my core is starting to look pg.
Layla - we are in Psakoudia, Philoxenia Bungalows. Psakoudia is super small village, but beautiful, bungalows are in the pine wood. Psakoudia is between Cassandra and Sythonia ( I know I misspelled it :oops:) on Chalkidiki.Quote:
Originally Posted by Layla
Were you recently in Serbia? :) I have the same saliva ovulation monitor :wink: Yes former Yugoslavia was beautiful and advanced country, too bad politicans didn,t feel the same. Anyway, it was long ago, I was 20 when the country started to fall apart with wars.
But back on the brighter subjects: I think it's super cool you want to live on farm, I had ( still have) same idea too. I think it's healthier in so many ways - for living, raising children, for peace of mind. Maybe I think of it too idealistically? lol!
Off to dinner, I'l be back in few hours, can't wait to chat with you guys! :trips::heart:
Thanks sweeti! :kiss: I can't wait to join you on Pregnacy board :pQuote:
Originally Posted by begonia
Tested this morning with a FRER and it was negative. I mean, really negative. Like, no need to squint or tilt, just abandon all hope ye who look for a line here! So...I am sad. I shouldn't be. Logically, I know it is absurd to think that I would get pregnant the first time but it just irritates the daylights out of me that with DD, DH and I dtd one time three days before O (and half assedly at that) and that was it and this time I we dtd 4, 2, and 1 day before O with preseed and propping and Robitussin and enough ewcm to start a damn slip and slide and nothing! I cried all morning and now I just cried on my lunch break from curriculum training. (although some of that may be from the training!) I know it's pms hormones starting up. At least, I hope it is. Geez, I hope I didn't completely screw up my whole cycle with all the anxiety. So....there you go. That sucks. I felt like I had such a great sway. I guess I better work on getting my August plan in better shape. Step 1...the grossly unhealthy but salty hamburger and french fries I just had at lunch!
@Layla--I am sorry, I forgot where you are from? Teaching is a great profession imo but it is definitely a calling. I teach in a great school (I know some Americans might be like, oh yeah? a great school in Mississippi? haha). It's a national blue ribbon school, meaning it has performed highly according to national standards. We have great parent support and great administration and that makes a big difference. I don't think I have it in my to teach in a challenging or troubled school district. Maybe before I had DH and DD in my life but now it would just be too much work. I teach 7th graders (12 and 13 year olds) and I really love that age group but not everybody does. And I teach language arts (don't judge my writing in these posts please!) so that is a heavily tested class with lots of accountability but it is also fun because we get to read fun stuff and things like that.
HI welcome to all the new ladies!! I have started a diet. It's more like the "caveman diet" which i hear is good for TTC boys as well. and I am taking my supplements. What do you ladies think? It's lots of red meats and potatoes and all that jaz! plus you can continue to lose weight. So should i risk it..My attempt isnt for a few more months so I can do it and them really get on the "boy diet" ehhh I dunno. I don't know why I am so obsessed with losing "just a few more pounds" So lame.
Anyway, Dh's bday went GREAT, we ran into my High school sweetheart, who i was with for 3 year in H/S then he Mind Fucked me till the week before I met D/h which was 2 years out of H/S so that makes a total of 5 years he was a life ruiner. Anyway, He was our waiter. HA. The big football star that was suppose to go so far was a 30 year old waiter. So i gave him a 100 dollar tip. Since he made our bill 6 dollars, for 14 people. Then he stood outside and smoked a cigarette and watch me and my husband drive off on our Mercedes. Just makes me feel good that he cheated on me with 2 of my friends. Didn't graduate from H/S, lost his scholarship...and I have a fantastic life...karma is a bitch.
Ok. How are all my lovely ladies. I miss everyone sooo flippin much. I am soo busy!! I can't wait for things to slow down so I can spend more time doing my stuff! XOXO
All this farm talk and I have to say I for one couldn't do it! I love me some city. Love taking my ladies to the museums and the zoo and the shows, and love going to all the fun restaurants. That said, the fam is thinking about buying a ranch outside the city ... and there I will definitely be having some animals (besides my children) :bigsmile: I do love gardening though and can't wait til our house is finished so I can get my raised beds together again! So anyhow, I see the appeal but I for one could not do it full time. I could do part-time though if you need seasonal help WP :wink:
WP I think it is interesting that your boy pg's were different than your girls! My girl pg's were SO different I was convinced that DD2 was a boy. I think that contributed strongly to the GD I felt upon hearing "girl" at her u/s ... I was just SURE she was a boy. Oh well. This 3rd one is also different than either of my previous so who knows?!?
ZB I am living vicariously thru your vacay right now!
Daisy love I'm sorry for the BFN. Big ol' hugs! Get back at it with determination bc odds are if you got pg on a OHW before this won't take you long!
Tink the diet sounds fab! Glad you could pop in and update!
Jen I am somewhat notorious for painting my home all the time. I LOVE painting projects! I'm so bummed that when we move in the new place I'll be pg and can't do the mural DD wants on her wall. She'll just have to wait a few months for that Batman and Scooby-Doo she dreams of ... my sweet little tomboy. Hope DD2's teacher is great!
Have to run ... making dinner to take to a friend who had a little boy earlier this month. Can't wait to go hold him! I have no jealousy for her either, so it'll be nice :happy: It's their first and they struggled through IVF, so I'm just happy they have a baby! Cooking has been tough bc any form of flesh at this point makes me ... umm... not well, so I made a pasta salad and am picking up one of those rotisserie chickens. I did successfully make a double chocolate strawberry pie though :bigsmile:
are you kidding me?!?!? LOVE this story!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tink18
i am also obsessed with being a CERTAIN NUMBER on the scale...good luck with diet!im trying to add in a potato a day with my dinner...so far its been about 2-3x/week on boy diet. i lost soo much weight right before the diet tink, then it immediately came back..i didnt give it time to sit i guess..but thats ok. i know i canlose it when im done!as long as i get my boy!
LOVE that ex-bf story!!!! love that you gave him a $100 tip. wow cant belive he made your bill $6 maybe to show that he has some power. im sure his boss would have made him pay teh rest. did he say anything to you? any looks? what a jerk!
whered she go? i was just wondering about her. last i read from her was that she wa sback on swaying after having gotten her AF from a LONG cycle...?Quote:
Originally Posted by begonia
Alexis - I wouldn't try a $ store at 8dpo, I'd wait till 10 dpo. FWIW I used a Dollar Tree test at 12 dpo w/fmu and got the faintest line, you know one of those is there or isn't there kinda lines, where the frer I took later that afternoon was very clear.
Lola - I was lucky enough to go to Italy in '96, it was amazing. DH and I joke about getting to Spain where some friends live, vaca's are better with free shelter lol FWIW Mexico is only dangerous if you venture out of the "tourist areas". Stay in the hotel districts and on the hotel recommended tours. The hotel staff will tell you the safe and not safe bars/restaurants local hot spots. I've been there 4 or 5 times and never had any problems.
Daisy - Sorry about the bfn, how many dpo are you?
Tink - I wouldn't risk losing weight while ttc, I know the desire but are those few lbs really worth it?
B- my preg w/dd3 was completely different from my other two as well, I was also positive she had to be a he.
What is it about a fresh coat of paint that just changes your world?
DD2's teacher is very nice, we'll go to back to school night tonight to meet dd1's teacher. I seriously can't believe they've gotten so big. DD3 starts kindergarten next year, good thing I'm (FX) having another baby cause I'm kinda freaking out about this lol
Z : I have to live threw you too. No vacation this year....we are taking a day trip on Thursday instead. Last year we went deep sea fishing on a private charter while I was 7+ months preggo, it was me, hubby, dd1, ds1, and my dad. It was difficult to reel in some of the big fish with such a big beely in the front, but so much fun AND both the kids caught a shark!!! I think BDing on vacation is so romantic, plus you will have such an awesome story to tell.
Daisy : Sorry about you BFN. I enjoy hearing about teachers.....they have such a big job. And 7th graders are at that stage were there really need teachers that are in it for the right reasons....like you.
Begonia : You can come and work for us anytime. As long as you don't mind being paid in bread and eggs :) Your right though, the city does have it's perks. And farming is hard work and long hours. We have already canned 64 quart jars of green beans this year.
I thought with DD3 that she was a boy....I wasn't as sick with her, I think it only lasted 3 wks. And I didn't want to get rid of my "cowboys and indians" room. But the tech was 100% sure she was missing boy parts and the room now houses DD3 in pink and green.
Tink: That story is hilarious!
WP: Thanks for the nice words! I'm sorry if you have said before, but what kind of farm do you have? My family did not farm but I grew up all around dairy and chicken farms. We would go play in the yard and there would be cows mooing over the fence at us. :) When I was younger, teenager and early 20's, I couldn't wait to get away from there. I was always figuring out ways to travel to big cities and now I'm 31 and I love going home and spending time in the country. Go figure.
3Pink: I am 12 dpo so I figure something should have shown up if I was pregnant. Oh well, my V8 and my pretzels are sitting here trying to deal! Nice that you get to go meet your dd's teacher, my school is not doing that this year and I don't know why. My dd is too little yet but I wouldn't mind meeting my students' parents.
Thank you, Daisy! I can completely relate to your feeling about gaining weight and feeling the stares and such. I want so badly to tell people why I have pretty much intentionally gotten fat. My mom asked me what is going on (and I only see her a couple of times a year, they live in Houston), and I told her that I barely ate and worked so much before ttc that now I eat well and it's just caught up with me. And OMG I feel like a cow for DH....and you all know he's a ballet dancer and manhandles skinny ballerinas all day....so it doesn't help with the self-esteem there. My staff members want to plan a pool party for the company in a month to celebrate the season opening, and I was like HELL NO I'm not getting in a bathing suit next to those girls who all weight a buck-o-five! LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by daisyfay311
Good luck testing, hope it comes up + for you!!!! Sounds like you are doing well on the diet....don't stress about a couple cheats here and there. Actually, ice cream is totally fine as long as it's full fat!
ZB, hope this is a good month for you out there! I can't believe you are resisting the tzaziki sauce. I can drink it plain. Have a blasty blast!
Daisy, I just read on and saw you got a bfn. Listen, we all have been there and I personally believe that sometimes swaying can delay you a month or two, sometimes just because it messes with your body a bit with all of the changes. Not to say you should abandon ship there! Just keep trying, you will get there very soon.