♥ JULY 2011 TTC Boy Chit Chat Thread ♥

[begonia]

Yes, Iluv, a good friend WOULD do that! I'm going to have her just put an insert in the program ;-) Of me in a bikini, pre-childbirth, so it can REALLY do the trick!

My girls are actually pretty good about the not-asking-for-stuff thing ... I have a list in my phone and whenever they ask for something I always tell them they can have it ... for their birthday :-) And then I put it on the list. So far it works but I don't expect that to last forever!

Can't believe you have a 16 year old ... that age scares me! Is she driving?

[Layla]

Hi ladies. I have to quickly update and ask you a questin, before my girls wake up and the crazy morning before school routine starts so sorry for ignoring your comments. I tested with opk and my saliva tester this morning/ The opk seems to show that the control line is only slightly darker than the test line. My salaiva microscope does not have any ferns just thick bubles. My CM was sticky then day before yesterday egg white and now this morning it is watery. So I am thinking I am getting close to O but not yet time to attempt. Maybe tomorrow morning for a 1st attempt after I test again (probably at 4am to make sure evryone is asleep? I have a house full of guests btw. I had to accommodate a single mum with 3 girls this week.

Still not 100% sure I should attempt. 6 weeks on diet but are noticing a LOT of CM. I have never had that much in my whole life seriously. Also 7 days after full moon. And under a lot of stress this month about returning to work as well as unexpected guests. If I wait till Sept I may O on actual full moon day but who knows as have had crazy cycles lately. I will also be on a diet longer if I manage to keep up to it at work. I will be even more stressed if I go back to work but maybe too stressed to focus on diet or to even get pg. If I don't go back I may be too relaxed and too bored. What do you think? I do feel like I have been postpoing attempt for ages now as I was trying to wean DD2...

[begonia]

Layla are you taking OPKs in the am or pm? From what I've read and my experience they are most accurate in the pm. But it does sound like you are getting close to O! Tough to be doing all of this while having house guests!

[begonia]

Oh and on your second Q it is so hard to advise! Do you think if you got pg this cycle you'd worry about the strength of your sway, or would you just be happy to be pg?

[Layla]

Thank you begonia for replying!!! I have been testing in the am actually. Should I test again this arvo?
I think I may worry a little about the strenght of my sway to be honest. However I know that I will be so happy to be at work pregnant and therefore with oh who cares I am going on mat leave again soon, that this may overcome my sway worries. On the other hand if I don't attempt and it does not work as planned in 3 months time I will be really unhappy to have waited so long and it may end up being a 6 month wait or longer and then I am sure i will give up swaying alltogether. I am strongly thinking to give it a shot and see what happens.

[begonia]

I think based on the fact that you think it might take you awhile, I would go ahead and try now. You've been good for 6 weeks and you're right ... the longer you do it, the harder it is to stay on the diet/supps as well as you do when you're first starting out.

I would definitely test again this afternoon or evening. The recommended times for OPK's are 2pm and 6pm because your LH peaks during the day. If you catch it in the morning the odds are that your surge started the day prior, and you're catching the downswing rather than the true peak.

[iluvmyman]

Yes, Iluv, a good friend WOULD do that! I'm going to have her just put an insert in the program ;-) Of me in a bikini, pre-childbirth, so it can REALLY do the trick!

My girls are actually pretty good about the not-asking-for-stuff thing ... I have a list in my phone and whenever they ask for something I always tell them they can have it ... for their birthday :-) And then I put it on the list. So far it works but I don't expect that to last forever!

Can't believe you have a 16 year old ... that age scares me! Is she driving?

That is a perfect idea and I think your friend will totally go for that, it's not "her" day anyway. GL!

My DS1 used to ask for stuff all the time then and we said maybe for your birthday. So, now he says it just as much but asks for it for his b-day. He's my only child who does that though.

She has her permit but she doesn't want to drive w/ DH so he told her she didn't get to drive unless she's driven w/ him 1st. So, she hasn't driven since and it's been weeks & weeks. Guess her license isn't that important to her. She's a good teenager as far as her choices but still, the teenage years are pretty tough.

[LolaInLove]

I think based on the fact that you think it might take you awhile, I would go ahead and try now. You've been good for 6 weeks and you're right ... the longer you do it, the harder it is to stay on the diet/supps as well as you do when you're first starting out.

I would definitely test again this afternoon or evening. The recommended times for OPK's are 2pm and 6pm because your LH peaks during the day. If you catch it in the morning the odds are that your surge started the day prior, and you're catching the downswing rather than the true peak.

Layla, ITA with this advice! And you don't want to be on this diet for any longer than you have to. 6 weeks is perfect, 6 months is not cool. Keep testing, sounds indeed like you will O soon. GL!

[iluvmyman]

Hi ladies. I have to quickly update and ask you a questin, before my girls wake up and the crazy morning before school routine starts so sorry for ignoring your comments. I tested with opk and my saliva tester this morning/ The opk seems to show that the control line is only slightly darker than the test line. My salaiva microscope does not have any ferns just thick bubles. My CM was sticky then day before yesterday egg white and now this morning it is watery. So I am thinking I am getting close to O but not yet time to attempt. Maybe tomorrow morning for a 1st attempt after I test again (probably at 4am to make sure evryone is asleep? I have a house full of guests btw. I had to accommodate a single mum with 3 girls this week.

Still not 100% sure I should attempt. 6 weeks on diet but are noticing a LOT of CM. I have never had that much in my whole life seriously. Also 7 days after full moon. And under a lot of stress this month about returning to work as well as unexpected guests. If I wait till Sept I may O on actual full moon day but who knows as have had crazy cycles lately. I will also be on a diet longer if I manage to keep up to it at work. I will be even more stressed if I go back to work but maybe too stressed to focus on diet or to even get pg. If I don't go back I may be too relaxed and too bored. What do you think? I do feel like I have been postpoing attempt for ages now as I was trying to wean DD2...

I have the fertilefocus and haven't been very happy w/ it at all. I think you have to test our saliva several times a day w/ it to catch it being accurate. I would go off of opk's w/ a digital confirmation and cm before the saliva. I didn't get full ferrning this month at the times I tested and barley any ferrning at all. Not sure if you've tried it for a couple of cycles or not. A lot of ladies take opk's several times a day. I took them generally around 11 a.m. and again in the evening. Don't use FMU for your OPK's, only FMU for hpt's. Watery CM is fertile CM so if you aren't O now you s/b soon. Test at least 2x's a day I would say. what CD are you on?

I think past the 1st attempt I've totally questioned my sway, in fact, not sure how much of a "sway" I've managed at all at this point. I put sooo much into the 1st attempt that i got disappointed and burnt out. I knew if it was going to take months (which it did for various reasons) I'd never be able to keep up w/ the sway. Timing for ttc is hard and timing is never "perfect". I realized today the boy clothes if I, if it's a boy, will be the wrong season. If you have been swaying for a good 6 weeks you s/b fine. What does DH think? Most of us don't buy too much into the moon but I think you are actually effected by it. My cycle wasn't at the full moon, but I did see decent solar flares around time of conception so who knows.

[LolaInLove]

OMG, I am going to lose it when mine are teenagers. The freshly 9-yo one in already super sassy when she wants to be. I'm sure you gals all have at least one with the mouth!

Yea, I'm not sure what we are going to exactly do about the sex thing. Getting pregnant at my grandma's house gives me the heebie-jeebies. And I am sure her bed frames are not exactly new either, so....you know what I mean. We are going to dtd every other day from CD10-18 or so, after I am sure I O'ed. I may even say we have to do a day trip, I just can't handle too much of this insanity. This is HANDS DOWN the best month for me to get pg with my job....which is why I was ttc first month in August of last year! I think I will be O'ing right around the 30th or so.

Iluv, I know what you mean about not being innocent anymore.....I just hope you can get an u/s soon and some sense of peace will seep in! Hugs, hunni.....

Begonia, ugh, what is with the weddings right around baby time? I swear. I had to be a bridesmaid when I was 6 months pg with DD2, as well as the MOH when she was 4 months old (and I was still a cow and nursing, so no fun for me). Remember Dollydoodle from IG? She had her baby boy yesterday morning, and has her sister's wedding in a couple of weeks! They are doing great, though.