August Thread for TTC Blue - Chit Chat!

[Flava]

Oh my Flava I just saw you're 7 DPO, so you're getting to be like 3 weeks out from your attempt?!?!

What??? I only have 3 weeks left? omg I have to get a lot better on this.
Im thinking I don't do the diet as good as others .Maybe I need more veggie or so...and maybe have to start on some more drink and just in all others do a lot better for sure.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Alexis2007]

3Pink-that pic does make me feel better. Thank you so much!! I had some major cm just now. MAJOR!!! Wow!!

TTC5-thoughts and prayers for your daughter and family. I hope it is nothing serious!

Begonia-I told my girls because I am very honest with them. DD1 knows I want another baby. She keeps telling me she wants 2 baby boys. Which would be awesome but I do tell her we will get what God gives us and she might even get another sister Only other person I told is my sister. She won't tell anyone as she lives all the way in Maryland. We actually are going to see her in the middle of September.

So, any of you in the path of Hurricane Irene? Lola don't you live in North Carolina or close to it? It's looking pretty rough from what they're showing on tv. I'm a weather fanatic. I love it! We were very close to the April 27th tornado outbreak. It was scary. Missed my Mom's house by less than a mile.

[Flava]

Hey girls ! I took mucinex this cycle to help with ewcm but I think it did nothing. So should I bother with it next month or drop it? Is this suppose to work for cm right away or need more then 1 cycle?

[Alexis2007]

Flava-it should help within a few days I'd say. How much did you take per day?

[LolaInLove]

Yea, Flava, I agree with Alexis, should work fairly soon....maybe take some more?

Alexis, I am the same way with my kids. They know ALL about this whole journey for me, everything except exactly how the babies are made, LOL. They think the egg in my body just turns into a baby or it doesn't. I hate telling them something that is untrue, but I just can't deal with the sex talk at 9 and 6. They know all about periods and tampons and why you have a period and mestrual cycles and have even watched birth videos on youtube and tv with me. They are on the fence about whether they would want to be there and watch, but I would love them to. I think it would make me calm down during labor if they were there also....no screaming F*&K like I did last time, LOL. (Funny side story: I met a lady in the peds office with her baby when DD2 was 6 months old....we discovered they were born on the same day and at the same hospital....she says, yea, there was some lady screaming her freaking head off, and I smile THAT WAS ME......what are the odds?) Anyway, that's my style....my girls go with me to buy FRERs and even watch me take them, they think it's cool. I let them "read" them. My philosophy is that they are A) learning about how the female body works and won't be freaked out when they have their periods or are learning about sex and birth and stuff, and B) they are learning that sometimes, life doesn't work out just the way you had planned. Sometimes, you gotta just have some perseverance and keep your spirits high despite adversity. I hope they learn from my example with this ttc stuff. And when we do have a baby, it will be a total experience for them, from A to Z, ya know?

Flava, LOL....you are gonna be FINE!!!! You need to go into DD's room and find all of those pens!

[3Pink1Blue]

Lola- I don't think she's picked up anything from us, dh and I have been very careful about the way we talk around them and have said with each baby what if it's a boy. We don't want them to think we were in any way disappointed by them. W/dd3 we kept saying it could be a boy but she was steadfast she was a girl. We've been really lucky never having had to deal with sibling jealousy or had any kind of new baby issues. It's definitly going to be a struggle and I know once the baby gets here she'll be in love but the 20 wks of grumpy before that will suck but yet here We are hoping to break her heart lol
I say go for it, pep talk those spermies!

B - I think the more swayers that hear boy the harder it'll be for you for you to wait and not care lol ooh baby could be finding out soon! Woohoo for the free Bugaboo! We suck at fun ways to share, we tend to just blurt it out lol

Flava- she's thrilled I'm pregnant just horrified at the thought of a jerk of a little brother. I've tried to convince her our little brother would be sweet like her sisters but she doesn't seem to think it's possible lol
The mucinex didn't do a lot for me but I noticed it pretty quickly, w/in a few hours.

Alexis- glad that helped, it's scary when everyone has deep dark bf's and yours isn't. I still have crazy amounts of cm, it's like it never shut off after ovulating. It's kinda gross actually lol


Well ladies I spent my afternoon at the lab, apparently between my several pregnancies and being over thirty (sure my extra lbs didn't help either) they sent me for a gestational diabetes test along with my regular labs. They tell me it's their new standard practice since you don't process sugar as well the older you get. Nothing like drinking the evil orange and then sitting there, fetus going nuts, waiting for them to stick you. I had dd3 with me so we brought the iPad and watched Despicable Me while we waited. Fun part is I get to do it again at 28 wks

[3Pink1Blue]

Lola- I've been lucky on not having the "how babies are made" talk either. Dd1 was there when dd3 was born and they've all seen their births on tape several times. They love it, definitely want them all there this time. It's funny though, they know where babies come out of but have never asked how they get in there lol.
I take them to the gyno with me, dd2 even watched my pap one year. The only reason we keep pregnancies from them is because we don't want them blabbing lol

[LolaInLove]

I hear ya, 3pnb! Kids are blabbers, for sure. I told my girls that we were going to keep it a family secret until we all decided to tell people, but mums is still a good thing. I don't talk about swaying or wanting it to be a boy, of course, but my girls do want a brother. My oldest said, "Don't you want a boy? Wouldn't it be nice to have boy and girl kids?" Intuitive, no? But I do tell them that I'd love to have another girl, I just want a healthy baby and they get that.

Anyway, gotta go BD!!!! Talk to you all on the flip-flop!

[begonia]

Begonia-I told my girls because I am very honest with them. DD1 knows I want another baby. She keeps telling me she wants 2 baby boys. Which would be awesome but I do tell her we will get what God gives us and she might even get another sister Only other person I told is my sister. She won't tell anyone as she lives all the way in Maryland. We actually are going to see her in the middle of September.

Oh gosh, I'm not going to lie to my kids about it, LOL! I'm totally honest with them (except when it's 108 outside and they want to go to the zoo, and I have to lie and say it's closed ) ... if DD1 asked me if I'm pg I'd say yes. But given that she started kindy 4 days ago, and is moving to a new house in 6 weeks, I'm choosing to parcel out big changes in small doses. I'm sure we all do what we feel is best for our kids. But I don't think I'm being dishonest to not tell them about the baby at this time.

Flava I will totally post a pic, of course! I'll have to scan it in but I'll do that tonight or tomorrow for sure! It's totally a cute baby FWIW I didn't think Mucinex did a ton for me. I took it the cycle I got pg but didn't notice a dramatic change. The most dramatic change for me was definitely from the EPO.

Jen I have to do the early GD test too at my next appointment, 16 weeks. They blamed mine on having an over 9lb baby last time. So I get 16 and 28 weeks tests too. Good call on bringing the iPad! And gosh, knowing you're going to find out I want you to find out NOW, lol! The waiting is hard!

Lola I think it is super cool that your girls are getting to see some of your TTC journey up close and personal. I bet it will make them all the more attached to that sweet baby when it arrives! I like the shirt with the photo idea! I think I'll get one of DD1's old big sister shirts out and put it on DD2, and take her picture in it holding the u/s photo... then pop that in the mail

[begonia]

Ok let me see if I can get my pic to post...