♥ JULY 2011 TTC Boy Chit Chat Thread ♥

[iluvmyman]

Iluvmyman, you in 2ww now, GL. I bet you'll get bfp because you not expecting it.

Kris, any update on how you got on

You are probably right, baby. This has been mentioned before but have thought of a girls name you can get excited about to help ease into the thoughts of the baby being a girl just in case? It really helped me mellow out and thinking a girl wouldn't be so bad. Of coarse I'd take a healthy anything at this point after the loss of DS2. I figure my odds are a girl after 2 boys in a row anyway and 9 servings of fruit and veggies is hard. I wish I had more years and a more willing DH to just keep on having babies.

[iluvmyman]

Oh girl, sorry to hear you are feeling bummy about it also. It's hard to be focused and positive about it with a lot of arrows coming at you from many directions, I know how that is. I haven't been as good on the diet or anything also, but you know, just do what you can and are capable of doing. You never know, maybe this was a good attempt month! But it is good to take a break from swaying and being caught up in this world sometimes and doing things like going out drinking. It can get to you really quick. I've been officially swaying for a year now, and without those few breaks and indifferent phases I had, I would be as mad as a hatter right now. So, we'll keep encouraging each other, yeah!!!

1 year at this is a really crappy 1 year anniversary. I've started heavily looking into swaying the beginning of March and have had a few attempts but a year....that blows my friend. I think I would be very lightly swaying too. I don't want to take any real breaks since I lost so much time w/ my cycles (although I did still O it was just all over the place) and at 35 I really would like to just have another chance at holding a new life again. Who knows though I'm all over the place w/ what I want but I'd really still like to have another boy, my focus just isn't 120% like it was. Weird, I would've killed for another boy and was in tears about it a lot, but time is healing me a little bit too I think from losing DS2. I just can't seem to get that fire lit like it was under my butt. I'm trying though.

[iluvmyman]

I'm afraid it does. The risk of multiples is 10%, and it does sway girl a bit by drying up your cm. I have not been a champ on the diet, but am trying my best at this point. I think I will do some ew and try all the other bells and whistles during the attempt to try to counter it. But, ya know, it's not a definite girl-maker.....my sister told me last night that she has 3 friends who had boys on Clomid (no swaying, of course). I am a little freaked out by the multiple issue, but 10% isn't that high. You should try it if you need though, Iluv....I think of course getting pg is much more important, and hopefully your baby(ies) would be just fine this time.

So the trick then is to use the ew's or preseed and get the CM going as much as you can to counter act that. twins would be great I just think that baby stage would seem to fly by w/ 2 and not get to appreciate it as much. I wish they would stay baby's for longer, but baby's that sleep through the night, of coarse. I hate every day that goes by and they are 1 day older. It goes that much quicker when you have other children too since you are just busier than the days when you could sit on the couch all day and hold your baby. Twins would be great to go out w/ a nice little bang though. 10% doesn't seem that outrageous just have to get lots of real or fake EWCM.

3 of her friends had boys, that's good news! I started to think Clomid was an over the counter med since it seems so many people take clomid. I was always told not to come in unless it's been a full year of TTC. I think 35 and above it's ok to go in at 6 months. Of Coarse, I've never been in a forum w/ most of the women ttc, either. If this takes much longer I think I might ask for it, but not sure how much the Dr. would be into it. I think it's risky if 1 kid only in the womb as breathing issues the last 2 births, then how would 2 smaller babies do if I had twins. If I decide to try the clomid I would definitely have to talk to the Dr about it. Ahhh, I liked blissful ignorance so much better.

[iluvmyman]

Bec, the fish oil is a blood thinner and can make you spot some. If you just added that recently, it may be the culprit, but a trip to the doc is not a bad idea. I agree with Babydes about getting your progesterone checked.....do you take a progesterone supplement in the 2ww?

Bec, Lola and the girls recommended I go in to the Dr. after a couple jacked up cycles and AF's really close to each other, and I found out I have hypothyroidism. I would say that a check-up couldn't hurt.

[iluvmyman]

Hmmmm, thoughts to consider about he diet, thanks for sharing.

I never mind sharing as long as it's not body functions....oops, I guess I'm on the wrong forum. I'm just so glad we get to use Acronyms since cervical mucus just sounds gross.

Not sure how much the FertileCM and green tea extract tablets had to do w/ this either but I stopped them just prior to getting the blood tests from my Dr. and won't take either again. I just started being super crazy & bitchy hormonal, I was breaking out for like weeks at a time and 2 months had AF's w/in 1 -2 weeks of the last AF. My breaking point was testing for O w/ opk's and starting AF on my O day instead. I was still O, just way wacky timing. It was like every other month I'd have a normal cycle. I haven't even been doing this for two long but it was weird cuz after the wacky close AF I'd have a normal 14/15 day O cycle right after.

I first called my OBGYN abut my cycles and he ordered blood tests. When TSH level came back high, he sent me to my primary physician to finish up. She checked my thyroid again w/ fasting and ultimately found out about my hypothyroidism and that my iron stores were low. So I'm now taking iron and thyroid meds. I just emailed my OBGYN and he said I can go in if I don't get a BFP in August for fertility meds, but hopefully it won't come to that.

Lola and others really encouraged me to contact my Dr. and I'm so glad I did. I would encourage you to as well, especially if you haven't been to see the Dr. in a while.

[iluvmyman]

B, so sorry about your little animal! I hope she is doing ok. Poor thing, I hate to see little ones have to get stitches....but in a way, it teaches them to try to be more vigilant. All I have to say is, "BE CAREFUL! You don't want to have to go get STITCHES again, do you?" Or, when they have a cut or some little minor boo-boo that they are freaking about, I say, "Oh well, I guess if you think it's that bad, we'll have to go get STITCHES." And they are all, Oh, it's totally fine now, mommy. LOL
But seriously, hope you all are ok, it is never fun to be in the ER and watch your child get sewn up!

And I hope you are right about the weight gain when pg. I am going to have to watch it like a hawk, like calorie count and stuff. GAH. Strangely, I was invited to a chix-only pool party the other day (from and interesting older group of ladies I know in town) and was the smallest one there, save one young girl (23) who was a rail. She was so self-conscious of all of us vicious older ladies with nice thunder thighs talking shit about her that she kept her cover up on all day. Bwahahahah!

SO glad to always hear about boys coming from Clomid. I might actually bust out the ew again.

DD2 threw the infant car seat down the stairs when DS1 was heading up them at about 18 moths or so I guess, I don't remember. No one was home and my DH was out of town. He had an open gash on his forehead and I could see way down into the wound. I was totally freaking and had no insurance at that time. On the way to the hospital DS1 put his hands up in the air and started saying Weeeeee!!!! Weeeee!!! Like on a roller coaster. He had never in his life done this nor had my other children. I thought he was brain damaged for sure. Anyway, he wasn't. I had to hold him down to stitch his forehead. He also went in for biting through under his lip when he was balancing on a chair at 2ish. For some reason he did and still loves to dangerously balance on things. He hates rides where he's out of control but loves to perch on things. Unfortunately, he went through a stage where he had a ginormous noggin and no balance, he fell constantly. The good news is he has mostly grown into his head and he has a cool scar like Harry Potter.

[TTC5]

Thought my sore throat was ok today but nope it seems to be getting worse now feeling quite yukkie, praying it is a sign of pregnancy lol.... can only hope lol

[iluvmyman]

Glad I'm not the only one, 3pnb! Denial it is, then. I think that is the best strategy at this point also!

B, I'm just about 2 or 3dpo now (no attempt, of course), so I expect AF midmonth, then will take the Clomid and go for it next cycle. Should be Oing around 7/31 or the first of the month.....RIGHT WHEN MY MOTHER IS IN TOWN. F&%K ALL. I would say that at 35 years old, and with a year of fertility bullcrap, I should be ok with telling her to enjoy a movie while we go do it, but alas, I just cannot handle that....so we will be maybe doing some early morning lovin.'

But I am getting a bit more excited now that I saw my dr and we have a "plan." I think I may do more boy-friendly stuff this month to counter the cm-drying/girl-swaying effects of the Clomid.

LOL about your mom. You go on girl w/ your baby making self! So hoping Clomid gets that BFP!!

[iluvmyman]

And ya, DD2s are programmed to be nuts so they get some attention, I guess. My DH thinks mine is the reincarnation of Chris Farley. We have seen this child try to zipper up a bag with such odd force that she catapults herself out of the bedroom door, looking like someone tossed her out of the bar, which sends us into hysterics. Once, I saw her SLIDE headfirst across an aisle of the grocery store when she tripped....all I saw was the sliding though. And my DD2 can CHUG beverages like a seasoned frat boy, and a cooler sense of humor than most of them, too. We are like HOLY HELL will break loose when this blonde testicle-crusher goes to college.

My dd2 is 7 next week and a beautiful destructive terror! Rotting her brain w/ the Wii, Ipod, Computer or tv is my only relief w/ her destructive ways. She has moved back into tantrums at almost 7 too. Maybe it is DD2's. I know someone else who had an amazing DD1 like myself and DD2 was very difficult.

[iluvmyman]

For reals. It's a little ridiculous, the need for junk. I mean what is that?!?! We're having carnitas for dinner with guac and salsa and all the good stuff, and all I want to eat is tortilla chips with cheese melted on top. Lots of cheese. Like, maybe a full pound

(sorry for the dairy porn there to those of you avoiding calcium...)

LOL on the dairy porn, B!

I've heard you crave what your body's missing so it might be loving that calcuim and saying ummm hello, where are you taking my salt I've grown to accustomed to.