September TTC Boy Chit Chat and Such Thread

[Flava]

Lola look what I find.

The fate of spermatozoa that are ejaculated or inseminated into the vagina, but that do not enter the cervix, has not been studied extensively in humans. However, in a 5 year study of 11 female volunteers Baker and Bellis (1993) examined the characteristics of sperm loss from the vagina following coitus (‘flowback’). They found that flowback occurred in 94% of copulations with the median time to the emergence of ‘flowback’ of 30 min (range 5–120 min). Furthermore they estimated that a median of 35% of spermatozoa were lost through flowback but that in 12% of copulations almost 100% of the sperm inseminated were eliminated. This suggests that less than 1% of sperm might be retained in the female reproductive tract and this supports the notion that only a minority of sperm actually enter cervical mucus and ascend higher into the female reproductive tract.

I think this means that is very important to lay with hips up as long as possible so you keep all that sperm from flow back and more can swim up so we have a bigger chance for a bfp.

[Hobbermittens]

Wow, Flava, I never heard about "flowback" before! Thanks for posting! How are you feeling?

Cute belly pic, 3PNB! Can't wait to find out what you have in there! FX for blue!

TTC5, how is your sister? I hope she is doing better.

Kris, I am sorry about your nephew. Also, is your partner also having a baby, or did I read some of these posts wrong?

Lola, are you in the 2WW now? How many times did you DTD this cycle? I hope you caught that egg! Did you read the info I posted on your other thread, about the sperm counts?

Begonia! That belly is TINY! I am way fatter than that and look WAAAYYY more pregnant than you, and I am not even pregnant yet! Totally unfair!

Tink and Jane, hope things worked out for you with your attempts! Go Blue!

[LolaInLove]

Today's the day! I'll be popping in off and on to let you all know what's up but won't be catching up till tomorrow, fx!!

I'M DYING!!!! Sending you so many good thoughts and massive FX!!!!!!!

[LolaInLove]

Well, he just snaps and goes crazy. At home and at School, attacking other kids and teachers, his brother and sister who are older than him. He uses things as weapons to hurt kids and he enjoys it. We also found out he's been hurting our animals and damaging our rental property. He has now been taking into care by DOCS. We can't have him in our home full time any more, he's just too dangerous. Threatening to kill us, and he runs away too. HE needs one on one care and daily counselling. I couldn't imagine him hurting our baby when it's born out of anger or jealousy. It's sad we had to do that but we couldn't sacrifice 5 peoples happiness and safety for him. No one would help so we took him to the ER and they had him admitted to the mental health unit.

Oh so 16 weeks is still considered a little early huh, damn I might have to wait until 18 weeks!

OMG Kris, I think you and Sarah DEFINITELY made the right choice! I am sorry you had to do that, though. He will be better off with more care and counseling, though, so you did the right thing. I hope you all are doing ok!!!!

[LolaInLove]

jane we dtd last night...9pm! fx for us! i barely slept last night for some reason.

3pink cant wait to hear!

Do you think you Ov'ed yesterday? I did! Wouldn't that be a kick? Well, odds are you will get the bfp, but that would make me super happy!!!

[LolaInLove]

Lola look what I find.



I think this means that is very important to lay with hips up as long as possible so you keep all that sperm from flow back and more can swim up so we have a bigger chance for a bfp.

Interesting! This also means I'm totally F'ED because I barely have enough to start the race, kwim?

[LolaInLove]

Lola, are you in the 2WW now? How many times did you DTD this cycle? I hope you caught that egg! Did you read the info I posted on your other thread, about the sperm counts?

Yeppers, I'm officially 1dpo today. I am pretty sure I ovulated yesterday, even though I did nothing but opks this month. I can feel it, though. We did dtd last night as well. So, I've got O-3, O-1, and O as my "pattern" this month, but good thing is, that was my pattern for the other months we managed to conceive. I decided to just try the flood with sperm thing. I mean, if he is only getting 2m in each time with a 48 hour cutoff, then 2m went in on O-1 day and hopefully 1m or so went in last night. I don't know, so NOT hopeful. I decided my best strategy for not having a monthly mental breakdown is to assume it won't happen for a year or so, but we must keep trying. Thankfully, I've been working my behonkus off, so been distracted.

Flava, thinking about you, too? How are you feeling?

[Tink18]

i got a smiley this morning at 9am and we dtd last night at 9pm....should we dtd today?

[Flava]

hey Lola Im fine tnx! Come talk with us in the 2ww.

Im still on diet and do the exercise too. But just thinking today why? so sick of it too...I really want to stop it.

[skrimpy]

Today's the day! I'll be popping in off and on to let you all know what's up but won't be catching up till tomorrow, fx!!

I can't wait to hear!!!!!