Pink swayers' December thread

[amari]

HI ladies! I'm back from Mexico as of late last night! Hope all is well! I've missed chatting with you! I briefly looked back and see that you all got some attempts in, yay! Sorry you had such a hard time, Aurora.

I had a crazy time. I kept to the LE diet the whole first week, but my dh's family was quite worried and I was really having an almost impossible time finding enough food to eat. I left the US weighing 94 lbs and I'm not sure how much I was at the end of that first week but it wasn't good. I was getting no lines on the opk so we thought I wasn't going to O. Even more family came and met up with us too and was wondering why I wasn't eating anything.
So one morning I put out to the universe how will I get to meet my daughter? Two hours later I met a lady who did one of the high-tech methods, maybe Ericcson? She said it was $500 plus $200 for the meds. Anyways, I decided to eat and drink whatever I wanted the last 6 days and then go back to the LE diet today and look into combining the diet and researching this clinic when we returned. I just couldn't afford to continue the diet anymore away from home with no food choices. Well, of course when I got home last night I o'd on day 21! But I really felt I had no choice given the situation I was in.

It sucks that I took clomid though and didn't even attempt.

So that is where I am. Just o'ing now and not attempting b/c I ate so much the last 6 days. I will start the diet again today and look into ericsson and microsort I guess? Anyone know anything about them?

What's up with you all too?!! xoxo Amari

[auroara78]

Amari, glad to hear you're back safe and sound, but sorry about getting not attempts in (

Mocha, did u O yet?

I'm not sure if I'm going to O today, I have a sneaking suspicion just based on everything that I might have started to O last night as my O pain got better....

Well, I dunno, I did have an attempt 3.5 days ago, so maybe that did it...? We did attempt this morning at 5 am, I woke him up to have sex (well I made it impossible for him to ignore), lol, and my CM was still abundant but creamy, did not detect any EWCM, where on Friday and Sat it was EWCM, so I might have inadverently hit o+12, LOL....not that it matters to me, I do not believe in timing, except for timing to get preggers

I am hopeful that this cycle did something, considering we did manage 3 attempts in a week of O, though the first one, a week / 6 days before O probably didn't count. I did not use any reprhesh, as i believe with represh I would need to get more attempts than 1 in, and with my hubby, well....I'm lucky to get 1 in when I'm fertile! I took no Zyrtec either since this morning my CM was already so creamy.

Well, I'm really going to try to not stress this 2WW, and just think of it was a bust, so that I won't be fretting over nothing....

Merry Christmas everyone!! Love ya, enjoy your families! We're going to travel to Mom's house later today...yesterday we hosted Christmas here for DH's family and the house is torn up still with gifts and wrapping paper shreds galore!!

[HopeandDreamG]

Merry Christmas EVERYONE!!

Out of the Blue~ Are you testing today? Fingers crossed for you!

Amari~ I've been wondering myself about doing HT. Really on the fence. DOing everything for January attempt (naturally), but I'm really thinking about it! I've even made a call to a clinic. What did this lady tell you?

[Mochagirl]

Well, it looks like I O'd last night. Today my temp was up, my cervix is firm and my cm is creamy. At bedtime my cervix was getting firmer, but the cm was still watery so I might not have O'd yet. I suspect O happened shortly after that - maybe at around midnight, which is kind of nice because that means it was a Christmas O.

DH was very much not in the mood, though, and I didn't want to push it since he was already grumpy. I just hope the attempts I did get in were enough - I think it works out to a 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 DBO attempt. I wish the last attempt was a little closer to O since I think it might have been a little over 24 hours, but as I said, DH just went to bed, rolled over away from me last night and made it clear he was not open for business.

So I guess the 2WW is on. Luckily I have lots to distract me since I'm very busy keeping the kids out of trouble here at the in-laws. We fly home on Thursday, but then we're driving straight to my Mom's house to spend New Year's there with her. I guess January 1st will be too soon to test since I'll be only 8dpo, so maybe I'll wait until the 3rd or something like that to test.

I'm really worried I messed up my chances by not dtd last night. I really hope I caught that egg!!!!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

[Mochagirl]

Merry Christmas EVERYONE!!

Out of the Blue~ Are you testing today? Fingers crossed for you!

I was going to ask the same thing. I'm sending you BFP vibes right now....

[auroara78]

Mocha, u and I both! Worried about not catching the egg, LOL

and that's funny about him making it clear it was not "open for business"....my husband once told me he feels like I just want him around for a sperm factory, lol.

Amari & HopeDreams, good luck with checking out HT! Good luck on your natural attempt in Jan. HopeDreams!

[amari]

Hopeanddream-I need to email her to get more info b/c we couldn't talk too much. She had two sons and her dh had two sons from a previous marriage. But she said she went to a sperm clinic and they spun her husbands sperm after he "relieved" himself in the clinic. Then she took the test tube of separated sperm under her armpit to another place where she did an IUI. She got pregnant the second time with her now 4 year old little girl. It sounds like the Ericsson method but I don't know? It is in Orange, CA. I need to get the exact name of the place from her. I will let you know when I get more info if you want.

I just feel like such an idiot that I am O'ing right now from the clomid and not trying to conceive. I just ate soooo much rich food the last 6 days I would def get a boy. I really set myself up by doing it on vacation, I have to stop beating myself up but I can't stop. Someone help release me of my guilt!

[amari]

Mocho-good luck in the 2ww!! How exciting! I also o'd last night but didn't attempt! Boo, I ended up on an eating extravaganza while on vacation the last 6 days so we are aborting our attempt this month. HOpe you get your BFP this month!!

[Mochagirl]

Sorry you're feeling guilty, amari - but if you would have spent the entire pregnancy regretting your sway then you made the right decision for you. Next month's attempt will come before you know it

I really hope I was right about O happening last night - I'm starting to second guess myself. My cm is definitely creamy, but there's tons of it, so I still feel a bit 'wet' like when I have fertile cm. My cervix is way firmer and lower, but still ever so slightly open. I took my temp 3 times last night since I'm sleeping in a strange place and was worried I'd forget. The first time I took it, maybe 4:30ish, it was 36.48, but when I took it an hour later, it was way lower - 36.31, then about an hour after that 36.38. I chose to use the first temp even though it was an hour earlier than my usual time because it's the only one I took before getting out of bed briefly, and I suspect I might have been sleeping with my mouth open the two other times. If I use the first temp, I have a nice temp spike today, but with the others my chart wouldn't look so nice. I'm hoping in 2 days I get my crosshairs for the 24th!

[Out of the Blue]

Just popping on to say, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

BFN and spotting for me this a.m....Feeling out but when AF comes, I'll have a nice cheat day or two...

I'll try to catch up with you all tomorrow. Have a wonderful day today w/you fam & friends!