TTC Girl - January 2012

[suregena]

Suregena, I think all the stressing over one meal is likely to do more harm than just enjoying one thing that is not part of your girl diet. I'm sure you'll be fine. BTW, I love your comment to your MIL about really being into jacket potatoes!
My family are more likely to notice me not drinking alcohol than what I am eating. Luckily they are on the other side of Australia!

Heeh. I didn't know what else to say! She pushes her own personal girl wishes/hopes on me SO much that I feel like if I do get a girl, she'll favor her over my son. That would be very annoying. But, to be honest, ever since I've become a mother, everything that woman does is pretty annoying... (she's not very maternal at all... she's from a Pre-War era of Britain. She had my husband when she was nearly 40 and done having kids and his dad was nearly 50. He had a lonely childhood. She's not very emotive/affectionate...)

I don't drink... my mom drank a LOT of black coffee with me. I'm a coffee drinker. So that has been my morning routine. I've just been having the one (two, only sometimes) in the morning rather than constantly throughout the day, though. For several years (being vegetarian already), I cut out soy when and where I could and usually avoided it at all costs (when I was single and living with my best friend who was vegan at the time, I was eating it a lot as she was cooking meals often, and it made me break out baaaad.)
So, drinking lowfat soy in my coffee (instead of whole milk/cream) and no milk anymore, period, I think is doing something crazy different for me.

I don't know why I got on a coffee ramble.


I asked my husband this morning (as I don't have a scale... want to get one, but don't know if I should or not as I might get obsessive!) if I looked like I've lost weight. He said, "Uhhh... yeah, definitely. Geez!"

Okay, that's good!


Obviously with daily exercise (I don't own a car so am on-the-move by foot/public transport every day) and still breastfeeding, that probably works to my advantage...

[suregena]

Suregena you should just enjoy your lunch with your husband, i'm sure one cheat day is ok especially if you work your other meals for the day around that so you don't go too much over.

Auroara I knew you would test again today!! I would have too if I was in your shoes YAY!

Ha, I'll still try to behave, I think! But thanks, all.

My son's 2nd birthday is on the 22nd (which will be just after ovulation/fertile window....) and I'm baking buttermilk vanilla cupcakes, CINNAMON ROLLS in little cupcake wrappers, etcetera. How am I going to survive this month? I had to sway this period of time for timing reasons as we're going to spend Christmas back home in the US next year and I need to try to balance it for either before (so I can fly with a baby) or make it so I am under the maximum allowance for how pregnant you can be to fly. Sigh.

[amari]

rainbow-sorry about the bfn, when is af due?

pinkin-it is exhausting! dh has a hard time with fr here too, too muh pressure I think!

purple-thanks for the info and advice. I think I will try that. Have you asked for an Rx from your dr.? Of course, hopefully you get your bfp this month!

katie-you can start the rephresh as soon as af stops!

I am also trying to decide how many attempts to do. With clomid it is hard b/c AS recommends not using rephresh b/c the clomid already makes your cm hostile, but then there is nothing to bring the ph down if you do multiple attempts. But she also recommends getting preggo quickly. Not sure how many times to try once I get a +opk. How much thought we put into this!

[Mochagirl]

Bfn for me, even opk shows only a faint 2nd line. Definitely not pregnant this cycle. Temps are still high so luteal phase seems likely to be the longest its ever been thanks to the vitex and vit b6, but just want AF already so we can start again.

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Oh rainbow, I'm sooooo sorry. I was really hoping this would be your month. I hope af comes swiftly for you and I'm sending you some baby dust for your next attempt

[littlemissnaughty7]

hey amari il be on clomid for my attempt too, like i was with both my boys, once we dtd every other day and my other son was every day, so were going for one maybe two attempts with this one one maybe a 0+12 were still undecided yet but i gotta give it my best shot this time as its last baby !

[rainbowflower]

thank you Mocha + Amari

not sure when AF is due. Based on last cycle, it would have been due at 10dpo, based on my cycles before conceiving DS it would have been due at 12dpo (today), but I'm taking vitex and vitB6 so perhaps that has extended my LP and if so I have no idea when AF is due.

[xokatietatie]

Trying to get caught up... 20 some new posts since I went to bed last night.

Rainbow, I'm so sorry!! Maybe this next cycle will be the one!

Thanks everyone else for answering my question.

AF is basically gone, just spotting a little -- so I'm going to start using the RepHresh again tomorrow... as well as OPKs!! I'm going to be testing once a day (2:00 p.m.) and then bump it up to twice a day (2:00 p.m. and maybe 7:00 or 8:00 p.m. as well) after a couple days. I'm getting SO EXCITED!!!

[pinkin2011]

Katie I am joining you I am EXCITED TOO xxoo!!!!!

[xokatietatie]

What day did AF come for you, pink?

[pinkin2011]

The 25th of dec and that month i oed the 9th of dec... so usually i have a 31 or 32 day cycle but i seem to o earlier usually around 15 or 16 days from the start of af.. I think it could happen on the 10th of jan, just by the way i am now i am not quite ready