♥ JULY 2011 TTC Boy Chit Chat Thread ♥

[begonia]

I hope they humor you too, Jen ... I know if I'd been thru what you have, I'd be begging for one too. So here's hoping they oblige. Good to know yours are around the same gap as mine are/will be! I like the spacing on DD1 and DD2, but so many of my friends have them closer together. To each her own And I hope you get your rest today!

Baby I am glad your bean looks good so far! Phew! One less thing to fret over for now. And perhaps we're both wrong... maybe we've got but I think I'd rather get used to the idea of than get my hopes up. I'd love to be wrong this time though! And I hope you are too

Skrimpy thanks for sharing that re: waiting til birth. I'm going to hope for a good nub shot (though neither of my NT scans with the girls showed one) but DH doesn't want to know a thing until delivery, so we won't find out for sure til then. It helps to hear you think that would have been better for you. I LOVE your baby girl's name! And I'm glad you're back on our thread!

I do think I'd be less crazy about wondering if I hadn't swayed and just gotten pg. But now it feels like I need to know if all of this worked. Waiting 9 months for a test result is forever


Speaking of not finding out til delivery I was looking over sways on IG and saw HAS321 had her baby a couple weeks ago - a boy after 3 girls So happy for her! Always nice to see someone get their DG.

[LolaInLove]

Tink for food recs I ate at least 2 of these a day, packed with sodium/potassium and a decent amount of protein. I loved them! http://www.ballparkfranks.com/franks-turkey-franks

Also dried fruit + nuts is excellent. And beef jerky is another good protein + sodium snack to have with dried fruit. I grew to love v8 hot and spicy, buy the low sodium and just add a ton of salt. Hmmm, oh I ate cereal with whole milk every night, too. And lots of fruits and veg, obvi potato, banana, tomato, but also avocado is great IMO for ttc boy with the fat/potassium. For breakfast I usually ate eggs, bacon, and fruit salad.

So there's some ideas to get you started ...

Last night we were laying in bed and my DH was like, do you think there's any chance this one could be a boy? I felt so sad for him, in a way, because I know he wants a son so badly but doesn't think it is possible for us. He said that's why he wants to wait til delivery too. It's the first time he has admitted all of that. Anyhow, I don't know if I'm just protecting myself or it truly is intuition but my gut tells me it is another girl. That said I was sure DD2 was a boy so I've been wrong before ... here's hoping I'm wrong again, I would love for DH to have a son. And this is for sure our last baby so we're either getting a son now or never.

B, I TOTALLY know how you feel, this is exactly how many of us are, and I had the exact same feelings when pg for that brief time. Just remember that you won't know for some time, so no use getting yourself upset over something that may not be true (ie another girl)! For me, I had to kind of assume it was a girl so I wouldn't be devastated at birth or u/s, it helped me feel like it would be ok. I guess I didn't so much assume it would be a girl, actually, as I just tried to envision both scenarios and be ok with either. Anyway, healthy is what we all want here, that is the biggest blessing of all.

[LolaInLove]

Babydes, SOOOOO glad your scan went well and your baby has a strong little heartbeat!!!!!

Skrimpy, glad to see you again and all is well! I know how those evening fussies are, my #2 was that way for sure. Making dinner was a joy. But so glad you are doing well and back in the swing of things.

Good luck, ZB!

Bec, right on with o'ing on your own, girl! I didn't know you couldn't do wheatgrass with Clomid...oh well, I may not get it, have no idea what my rad doctor will get me going with. We decided not to do all the testing. Too stressful, and I don't need any more unnecessary medical bills. My gut instinct tells me we had bad luck with bad eggs or embryo or whatever and just being healthy and trying again is all we can do.

[LolaInLove]

TTC5, your Dh is a sweetheart....so nice to have a good man tell you how amazing you are! I hope he is right about there being a baby in there.

[Zivic-Bubac]

Lola, great to have you back! Cheekymo-what a beautiful gallery of OPKs Thank you for good wishes

Anyway, I wanted to tell you

The damage is done!

[babydes56]

Skrimpy, you right about waiting till birth to find out & i'd love to do that but i know it would kill me not to find out

3PNB, is it not normal procedure to have a scan when you have your visit? Good luck on the 14th! In England we only get 2 scans, one at 12wks & another at 20wks. I had one this early because i'm with fertility clinic so they just wanted to check everything was ok.

[babydes56]

Begonia, i hear you i hope we wrong & have our boys!

Bec, great that you ovulating on your own FX this lasts till your attempt. I took wheatgrass with clomid & still managed to ovulate so why is that you cant take the wheatgrass?

Lola, thanks! Hun just keep doing all you can to boost egg quality. I dont know if the wheatgrass & DHEA that i took helped me get preg because it was the month that i took those that it happened.

Zivic, great news! Tell us all. Did you use preseed, ew? How many times did you dtd etc. GL now you in 2ww

[Zivic-Bubac]

OK, here comes TMI:
I had -OPK at 2pm BUT my CP was very high and soft around 3pm and SHOW around 5pm.
DH came back home around 5:20, so I was all over him immediately lol! and we dtd once around 5:30pm, no bsf, no ew ( although I planned to use some but gave up the idea as I had enough ~hopefuly~ EWCM with pH close to 8 So I didn't want to ruin that natural CM with such great pH.

If my CP SHOW around 5pm and I had completely clear and stretchy EWCM, when do you think I Oed?
(btw those OPK strips I'm using are obvious crap I'll test tomorrow though, just in case)

[3Pink1Blue]

ZB - woohoo!

Baby - I see a midwife and usually only get one scan at 20ish weeks but I'm hoping between the Oct incident and my 10 yr history with them that they'll bring out the little office one just to take a peek. Truth be told I'll beg, whine and full on cry to get it done if I have to.

[babydes56]

How many days of +opks do you usually get & why did you not wait you had +opk. Do you think the opk would have been + had you used a better brand? How many times are you planning to dtd? Great stuff with ewcm & ph of 8, those boy swimmers will thrive in there