TTC Pink Chit Chat Thread - August

[Indira]

Great your attempt is finally here zanacal!
I remember being all giggly and excited the days before our first attempt.
About dropping things gradually; on our first month I only took zyrtec, didn´t use sylk, rephresh, didn´t j&d and I conceived but it didn´t stick.
On our second month I used zyrtec and sylk, j&d after a couple of minutes and I didn´t conceive. Next month I think I will take zyrtec only and maybe a tiny bit of sylk..no j&d.

I hope you get some answers from your doctor swish. I would absolutely be doing that kind of googling too!

I´m in a weird place right now, in my mind I´m sort of giving up on swaying, I just want to be happy again about TTC-ing and not obsessing on having a daughter. In fact, I´m allowing myself to do projects and am getting excited about a professional course I will start next weekend. But I´m still sticking to the diet, not to strict but still LE trying to gain weight on empty calories.

[swish]

I completely understand what you're saying, indira! I too feel like I want to tic without all this stress, I remember tic ds2 and it was a relaxed, enjoyable experience, I cannot say the same this time!!

[zanacal]

Indira, I think you have the right idea, life has to carry on (especially if it takes some months to conceive) and I also think that having that mindset may actually help rather than hinder - being relaxed and enjoying life is hardly the same as taking on swaying as the ultimate challenge is it?! I hope you're ok x

[Indira]

thanks, yes I am ok, a lot better than a couple of days ago, this swaying road is a bumpy one for me.

[zanacal]

I think it sends us all loopy - I was a mess a couple of weeks ago too. I'm glad you feel better.

[swish]

Af finally arrived!!! Now I can plan my next attempt, fx I will ovulate this month, my weight is up and I plan to keep it that way. I've completely dropped sp and vitex as I worried they lengthened my cycles. Do you think that's a good idea? Do you think they'll be any trace left now? I haven't taken any since the first week of august. All I'm doing this cycle is diet(all be it more loosely), frequent bedding, zyrtec, no rephresh, dh to take lr if he will! Does that sound ok?

[Mochagirl]

YAY swish!!!!! I'm sooooo happy af finally came! I just know September is going to be a lucky month for all of us!

I suspect it was your weight loss and not your meds messing with your cycle, but I'm sure dropping Vitex and SP won't hurt your sway much. I'll probably drop both if I end up TTCing much longer. If you're not taking SP, you might want to start drinking peppermint tea.

This month I'm only doing diet, frequent bd and zyrtec (+Vitex and SP), so our sways will be similar. I'm also going to up my aspartame intake around O to make up for the lack of rephresh.

[zanacal]

Yay swish, that's fantastic! I bet you've never been so happy to get your period I think your sway sounds just fine!

As for me, deep breath .... I got a smiley face today!!! I'm a little freaked out because I wasn't expecting it until the weekend but I'm trying to relax and just go with the flow now (what more can I do?!). I'm convinced this is a 'boy' cycle because I'm so crampy on my right side and I've got my +OPK early (cd11, so should O tomorrow) whereas last cycle when I was crampy it was on my left side and I had far less symptoms and didn't O until cd15. Thinking positively, at least my cycles are wonky (they used to be very predictable!) and I'll be doing alot of things to reduce our fertility so if more boys are conceived on the right because that's the more fertile side then perhaps we're doing enough to counteract that. DH has football tonight (great for testosterone lol!) then he'll have a bath and see to himself before bed. I used Rephresh yesterday morning and will use a little Aci-jel before bed tonight then our attempt will be first thing in the morning (hopefully on O day!).

[Mochagirl]

Oooooh - how exciting, Z! As I said, this is our lucky month, so I'm sure we'll all get our pink BFPs!

[swish]

Yay z!!! Don't worry at all about being in boy territory etc etc, you are doing SO much to sway pink, just relax and enjoy!! Mocha, I'm upping aspartame too, I figure so many women do it anyway it can't harm my sway. I am pleased to see af, just soooo nice to know where I stand. Got docs tomorrow but spoke to receptionist and she said my results are clear so definitely seems it was the weight loss that mucked me up!