October Chit Chat Thread for Blue Swayers. All welcome!!

[3Pink1Blue]

There are lots of places you can go for "fun". They do not require insurance and are pretty cheap. Where in the states are you coming to, I'd be happy to help you find one of these places

[melon]

Thank you all for your lovely responses..... Flava - I will surely take a note of pine oil.

Begiona - How wonderful... I always wanted to adopt and never planned to have my own but DH is skeptical about it. It is still in my plans for future. I can be a better mother now that I have my own and just know how wonderful it is to be able to raise another one even if it is not my own...you know what i mean...

[TTC5]

Yes she does, it's very basic though so I'm not sure what I'll see....doubt it will be good enough to get an accurate gender shot. I don't know much how scans cost in America but I'll be there on the 18th to the 25th, If I could find a place to do it and without me needing health insurance then I would. So much easier to shop when I know what clothes to not waste my money on.

You lucky thing, I wonder if you will get to meet anyone from here!? How cool would that be hey! I reckon your ob's machine would be able to pick up between the legs so ask!

[Flava]

Foxy -looks like you had a great sway. I don't know much about the French diet , never really read the whole thing. I try to do the HE diet here so I hope it's works.

[LolaInLove]

Yes she does, it's very basic though so I'm not sure what I'll see....doubt it will be good enough to get an accurate gender shot. I don't know much how scans cost in America but I'll be there on the 18th to the 25th, If I could find a place to do it and without me needing health insurance then I would. So much easier to shop when I know what clothes to not waste my money on.

Someone may have already written this, but YES, there are tons of independent ultrasound shops in the USA. They vary in price, but you can easily google and find one in the location you are going!

[LolaInLove]

MFC, I can't remember if I wrote about this earlier (I have been a scatterbrained workaholic lately), but I think if you had the 2 days of opks, you can assume you o'ed on the day of the second one. Clomid does make your cycle different, but safe to say that you DID ovulate most likely! When I take it, I ovulate like clockwork on CD13, so if you didn't get pg this month, you will start to know how it affects you each month, kwim?

[melon]

Foxy - thank you for sharing your sway. It looked perfect.

Question about supplements - I am seeing Vit D is recommended...how much is allowed as a supplement? what is the purpose of this?

[begonia]

MFC I agree ... I bet you O'd on the day of your 2nd OPK, so your timing should be great!

Kris, don't know about everywhere but here, the private sono places require you to provide proof of prenatal care. Mine required 2 sono photos from this pregnancy from different dates, or 1 sono photo and a receipt of payment to a OBGYN.

WP, I really hope these symptoms are it for you this time!!!

Dreamblue, most of us took 400 of vitamin D3, it's the common dosage you'll find in most vitamins. My prenatal had 400, but before I started that I was just taking a chewable. Honestly can't recall the purpose but I know Atomic has a sticky on it somewhere! Maybe someone else will remember!

Thanks everyone for thoughts on adoption, there are always such great stories with most of them. We have close friends who have adopted internationally as well, and one who did domestic. We looked into it after DD1 was born but DH wasn't as open to it at that point ... I think once he saw how much he loved our kids it became that much easier for him to see how easily he could love one we didn't "make" ourselves. The agency we met with back then said Russia has many more boys than girls, so clearly we could help them out We're just going to see how our family feels in a couple of years. We have the financial resources to raise a larger family, but I don't know about the emotional resources ... we're going to have to see how 3 feels. And how our girls would feel about adding another. And where we live families of 4 are VERY uncommon, so definitely have to think about whether we want to be "that" family, LOL.

[WashingtonPromise]

B: You are so funny, we are "that" family!!! We get a lot of looks, but mostly lots of thumbs up.

Flava: I know I drive you crazy by not temping in the 2WW, but it drives me batty. I get too stressed seeing the up and down of the thermometer.

My (.)s have been a little sore yesterday and today, but I did stop nursing a little over a month ago....it may still be from that. I almost caved and just POAS, but I came to my senses when I seen I only had 2 FRER left, I need to wait a little bit longer. This morning I was happy with waiting until 14dpo (Tue)....I don't know what happened.

[LolaInLove]

WP, do you normally get sore boobs? I do, so I never pay attention, but if you don't, that is a super good sign! Good willpower....I did not test again after my 10dpo bfn, and I got spotting today, so AF is here, but at least I didn't waste a bunch of tests, right? (*teeny tiny silver lining*)