August Thread for TTC Blue - Chit Chat!

[Hobbermittens]

Welcome Hobbermittens!!! There are a few here that are waiting. How long until your TTCing?

October. I think Flava is waiting until then too, and maybe a few others? THanks for letting me hang out here!

[Alexis2007]

WP-Did you check Walmart for the royal jelly? They have it at my local store. It's where I get all my supps lol. I've heard it can work pretty quick in like a week or two for ewcm. But may take 3 cycles to help egg quality.

[LolaInLove]

just a quick question, im on 1800mcg of folic acid, is that enough or should i take 500mcg more(my tabs are in 500mcg incraments plus prenatels 800mcg)

If you are intaking more sodium than normal, you need more because the sodium depletes the FA in your system....but 1800 should be good! I wouldn't go higher than 2000mcg personally. Hope you are doing ok, Jane!!!

[LolaInLove]

Oh I have another Q -got mucinex today but there is so many type no clue what we need.I got maximum strength 1200mg guaifenesin .It's says take 2/day. Is this ok or it really don't matter what type we take?

Yes, you want guifanesin, but I've never seen 1200mg before....I just have a 400mg kind but you can take up to 3 a day, so I guess 1200mg total. I guess the RDA on the bottle is what you should take!

[LolaInLove]

I will take 2/day because it says on the box. We need it for ewcm so only until O I guess.

Yes, you can take it AF-O, or just a dose on bd day, at least an hour before, if you don't feel like taking it for that long.

[LolaInLove]

Holy crap 22 weeks, I sure hope I'm not that unfortunate! I have to force myself to eat and when I do I feel like puking it back up. I am going to ask my Ob about it as I know there is a medication they can prescribe, I can't do this for much longer!

MS literally is pure torture....especially if you have it for long like TTC5. I had it so bad with #1 (from 5wks-16wks) that I lost 15lbs in the first trimester and my doctor was about to put me in the hospital. She didn't believe in fenegren or the anti-nausea drugs, so never tried that. Luckily, it lifted all of the sudden and I started eating like a madwoman. I could only put down a banana and a yogurt each day, and felt like I was about to hurl every waking moment. Kris, there are a few awesome tricks I learned and employed with #2 and kept it at bay very well: lots of lemon water (as if you aren't sick of that already from swaying, LOL), ginger ale and ginger candies/nibs, eat some crackers literally before you get out of bed....there are some new ones at the baby superstore they have now with ginger in them, lollipops and suckers, and the best thing I had was the SeaBands, these accupressure bands for your wrists that sailors wear. They are so popular for curbing MS now that they carry those at the baby stores, too. I hope you feel better soon, and SO glad you don't have the swine flu!!!!

[LolaInLove]

OH BALLZ, I just wrote the longest post and then hit something on my laptop and it went away. Frick. Anyway...

WP, you are sweet! For some reason, I thought you were talking about you going to school, but how awesome your kids get to be homeschooled AND live and work on a farm? Greatest childhood ever, in my opinion. I could only find RJ at my health foods store, but you may not want to worry about it at this point, you'd only have a week and a half or so before you O.

Alexis, glad you DH is ok and up for bding soon! I think my weight has leveled off, but I am making an effort to eat less fattening stuff and work out more. I look like I did after I had my girls, with the extra "padding" and yea, maybe a bit pg myself. Hopefully, we will get pg this month and not have to worry about it anymore! Good luck, looks like your O is coming soon! I would def bd every other day if you are up for it.....

Let's see: I did have AF today, so am CD1. I am starting to get a little freaked out, like I REALLY need to get pg in the next 2 months....I don't think it's good to be on Clomid for too long. I saw Atomic post about how it makes your cm hostile and wrecks your uterine lining, so I am thinking I need to get pg like now. I decided not to make DH do the sperm test. What's the point? Just $70 we have to pay and what would we do with the results? Just pump him full of more supps. I don't know, we can't afford IVF or any of that, so I figure money is better spent just getting a couple more supps. I looked up the current sperm boosting blends that lots of companies are carrying, and they are pretty much a multivitamin with a few extras in there, with maca and L-cartanine being the biggest two, so I'm giving that to him. I got us Spirulina also and am upping his CoQ10 to 200mg. So, we'll see what happens. I don't know what else to change up to just freaking get pg this month....

[Alexis2007]

Just got a +opk on CD 11?!??!! What?! We did dtd this morning. Should we do it again tomorrow morning and again Monday morning? I could O tomorrow or Monday. This is the earliest I've ever gotten a +opk, but I have O'ed on CD 12 and CD 13 before. Better to be safe than sorry I guess. My cm turned watery today (still has a white color to it though-kinda milky). And I can't even find my cervix right now lol.

Lola-I weigh as much right now as I did after DD1. I think I hold my weight well though as most of it is in my face and belly (well-that's where you can tell the most). I don't "look" like I weigh as much as I do, but I still do look fat. Especially in my belly lol. But I hope this is all of our magical month!!! Here's to all of us a BFP!!!

[daisyfay311]

Welcome Hobbermittens!

Lola, I think your plan sounds good. Totally agree with you on the test for dh, just hope you get pregnant this next cycle.

Alexis, I would probably dtd one more time probably tomorrow but that's just me.

I'm kind of disappointed with my cm this month. I've been looking for my big burst and it doesn't seem to be showing up. Well, I think it's here but it's not dripping out of me like usual, sorry for the tmi. But I have some and it's ew so fine, whatever. We dtd last night and I think I'm going to jump dh tonight and then again Monday night. Thinking I will probably O Tuesday morning-ish.

I was feeling kind of down about it today because I have been thinking about my bff's experience. She was running miles and miles every week, super in shape, loves dairy, eats cheese constantly, hates bananas, and dtd with her dh every day leading up to O, on O day, and the day after O and got a boy. It was her first and she didn't know anything about swaying but really, really wanted a girl. She is fine now but she so wants her next to be a girl and I don't want to tell her about swaying at all because she will probably think it's stupid given her experience. Blah.

[Kris217]

MS literally is pure torture....especially if you have it for long like TTC5. I had it so bad with #1 (from 5wks-16wks) that I lost 15lbs in the first trimester and my doctor was about to put me in the hospital. She didn't believe in fenegren or the anti-nausea drugs, so never tried that. Luckily, it lifted all of the sudden and I started eating like a madwoman. I could only put down a banana and a yogurt each day, and felt like I was about to hurl every waking moment. Kris, there are a few awesome tricks I learned and employed with #2 and kept it at bay very well: lots of lemon water (as if you aren't sick of that already from swaying, LOL), ginger ale and ginger candies/nibs, eat some crackers literally before you get out of bed....there are some new ones at the baby superstore they have now with ginger in them, lollipops and suckers, and the best thing I had was the SeaBands, these accupressure bands for your wrists that sailors wear. They are so popular for curbing MS now that they carry those at the baby stores, too. I hope you feel better soon, and SO glad you don't have the swine flu!!!!

Thanks for the tips Lola! I have a MS pill with ginger root and vit B6 and I also drink ginger beer, I don't know if I could stomach the lemon water again lol. I bought some crackers yesterday, tried them this morning but after I got out of bed. I will try before in the morning and see if that helps. I have these anti nausea wrist bands but they have a huge round button type thing on them and it digs into my wrist and it's really uncomfortable so I will look up the ones you mentioned