September TTC Boy Chit Chat and Such Thread

[daisyfay311]

Oh Lola, honey, I am sorry. I was really thinking this would be your month. I think you have a great attitude and a great plan going forward though.

My nurse called me this morning (after saying Friday that my numbers were fine) and my doctor wants to do an u/s on the 14th when I go for my first appt. I will only be about 6 weeks. Can they even see anything then? I didn't have an u/s with DD until 10 weeks. I've never had a vaginal u/s and I'm really nervous about it. I asked if the doctor thought something was wrong and the nurse was like, no we just want to do the u/s to see what's up. So now I'm going to be a nervous wreck until then. I swear, I kind of think that God/fate/the universe/whatever you believe in makes getting pregnant while swaying and swaying pregnancies more difficult sometimes so that we will appreciate what we have. I know now I'm just hoping this baby is healthy, regardless of gender. Though I'm already thinking it must be a boy because it is being so much trouble! My girl was no trouble whatsoever until the very end when I had pre-eclampsia. And this one is worrying me to death from the start!

[b3blue]

Tiffany- That's really odd they didn't say why. I would totally be calling back! Vaginal u/s's are no big deal and if they pushed it back a few days you'd see a heartbeat. Perhaps it's their policy to do a dating u/s at the first appointment or something.

[Hobbermittens]

Tiffany, I agree, the vaginal u/s isn't any big deal--just weird because it looks like big dildo. They even put a condom on it! I bet if they were worried something was wrong, they would call you in sooner. But like Heather said, you could call back just to be sure.

[LolaInLove]

Daisy, I agree with the others, the vag u/s is no biggie. I would call them back to ask why, tell them you are worried now. They certainly don't want worried pregnant women, so I'm sure they'll tell you something. It may be no big deal. I can only imagine with u/s numbers that it's something like wanting to see how MANY babies are in there or see if there is a developing yolk sac and fetal pole....I hope it's ok, and it probably is. Thanks for the hugs about me. (:

Hobbers, you can do 4 kids for sure! ELP is the big brood master, though....hopefully she can calm you down about it. Hey, she's still making em' too!

[begonia]

Daisy ITA ... the 6 week u/s is really nothing to fret about; it has in my experience been routine with each of my pg's to have a "dating" scan at the 1st appt. At 6 weeks Lola is right, they will be looking for yolk sac/fetal pole, but probably no heartbeat yet. With DD1 I had the vag and it is not my fave thing in the world but doesn't hurt or anything ... my last 2 pg's my early scan has been abdominal and I definitely preferred that!

So Lola has DH booked the SA yet? I'm curious to know what that reveals. It's one of those weird situations where you almost hope they find something, but it is easily fixable, and BOOM then you get pg :-) Prob won't work out that way of course. I do have a friend who it was that situation though. Can't recall what it was with the DH, but after the SA they "fixed" something and literally the next month he knocked her up. So who knows. Best to do the test and see!

Tink what's your update?

WP are you just waiting to see if AF shows?

Getting excited for Flava and Hobber to have attempts :-)

I'm having a hard time finding time to pop on much lately so if I'm absent know I'm thinking of all of you! And I frequently read our thread on my phone but hate posting from there so I'll be in touch. My house project has just gotten to a point where I'm constantly having to have meetings and go places and pick stuff out. Fun stuff but looking forward to getting it done.

[Hobbermittens]

I am on CD11 now, and I usually start today with my opks. I usually have a day or two of fade-ins before I get a positive, but today I got a positive! I guess that means I am going to O earlier this month? Normally I O on day 14 or 15, after 2 days of +opk. I am hoping today was my first day of +opk, but who knows, because I didn't test yesterday! I am guessing I will O a day early on day 13? Ugh, I hate that it changed this month--I was hoping for some consistency for my attempt next month!

[WashingtonPromise]

Daisy: Alright!!! An early peek at the baby. Like everyone said, if they were super worried I am sure they would continue betas or something.

Begonia: I remember building our house and all the work we put into picking everything out. It was a lot of fun, but most of the work for me started when I was 8-9 months preggo with DS2. DH, his brother (he has a company and this was their first house), and my oldest brother built our house....that was it....they subbed out the plumbing and hv/ac. I may have to dig up a photo of our house.

Lola: Are you testing in the morning? We can be test buddies.

Hobber: You may be Oing early, just keep testing....I have heard of people having a couple days of positives. Who knows, our cycles can get screwy on us.

3pnb: You need to post so we can see how many days until your U/S!!!

Have any of you ladies used the Answer early tests? I hope they detect early enough for 12dpo.

[Hobbermittens]

WP, we built our own house too (DH is a carpenter and did our house with his company). How exciting that you get to test tomorrow!! FX for a BFP! I have used those tests and they have worked for me at about 10 or 11 DPO I think.

[b3blue]

WP- I think Answers are pretty good. I got a pos at 11dpo but knowing my LP now I was actually a day late so I can't really say lol. I agree with you too that 3npb needs to post so we can stalk her u/s

Hobber- Man, our bodies never like to just go with the flow eh? At least that puts you that much closer to your attempt. October seems so far away sometimes.

[Kris217]

Hey, thanks everyone, you ladies are so sweet and encouraging! I got another negative this morning at 11dpo, but I am pretty zen about it today. You all are probably right, I need to chill out about it all maybe and just see if I get some luck that way...but won't be leaving GD for sure! The thing is, I have a SUPER full life....I run the largest performing arts organization in my state, and love every busy minute of it....and I've got the kids and a great husband now....and am involved in so much going on in the arts in my city....so my passion is really my family first, and then my work....BUT this ttc thing has taken my mind away from work a lot. I would say I am at about 80% of what I normally put into it, which is not great sometimes, but a good portion of my life has been taken over by all the ttc. I think you all know what I mean. So, I think it is time to put some more into work and find a nice lasting zen place with this ttc. I have 36 dancers coming back to the studio tomorrow for our official first day and a busy and exciting season for the next 7 months, so hopefully I can keep it all balanced. But again, thank you all for your love!!!!!

What's hard is that I just can't for the life of me figure out what on earth I could do BETTER, ya know? I know there is still some possibility that I could still be pregnant, but I am going to just move forward and assume I'm not. It's time for a semen analysis, like I said. Then, if there is a problem, we can deal with that head on. DH and I talked about the what ifs yesterday.....there is no way we can afford like 15-20K for IVF, but we decided it's important enough to us to have a baby together, so if we have to, we can harvest my eggs and freeze them in case I don't make any good ones anymore by the time we can save up for IVF- which may be 2-3 years. I am going to call my doc and talk to her about possibly seeing an RE and also what she thinks we should do now. I don't want to waste my full run of Clomid for nothing.

You could always travel overseas to have IVF, even with travel costs it still works out cheaper than IVF in America.