TTC Girl - January 2012

[Out of the Blue]

My AF was due today. I was cramping a little last night so I threw a pad on thinking it was imminent.

Nothing today!

Hmm... I'm looking at you, vitex!

But... that's a good thing, I think... that it has fudged with my perfect cycle a little.

Any chance you need to POAS???

[suregena]

Any chance you need to POAS???

That would be the shock of the century. I've got pregnancy tests but I think we've only done anything once this cycle... using a condom. And we're VERY careful because of it.

Yikes, but now you make me want to take one! :/

[auroara78]

Surgena, the only girl my sister had was because of a condom misshap! So maybe you just got your girl, lol.

Katie, I think it would be soooo cool if you had an oct baby around the time of Oct 7th in honor of your grandma! Birdella (I hope I spelled it right!) is so cool and unique, I totally think you could pulll that regardless if things lined up right, but if they did, how extra cool would that be?

Mocha, I think your temp rise is so awesome! I still feel you'll get your BFP! Jamie, I love your company, please stay around and delight us with your preg symptoms once they start getting stronger! We can obsess about gender as well

Jen, thanks for asking! I am thinking I may have O'ed late or early, or not at all, so given that I have no idea how many dpo I am (assuming I did O at some point), I'm not going to test, just gonna chill and enjoy things and see if AF comes. I'm totally relaxed and cool right now about everything. Those evil temps out of context of a whole cycle really made me feel miserable, but once I stopped them, I just feel like anything could happen, a BFN or even a BFP.

However, I told my husband that I wanted to take a break from TTC until April, for two reasons: A) I am 200 lbs and 5 foot 7. I am the most heaviest I've been. While I have lost some weight on the diet, it keeps coming back very fast when I take a cheat day or two. My body seriously does not want to give it up. So I am going to excerise until April to try to lose 30-40 lbs hopefully, if not more. I gain about 30 lbs exaclty each pregnancy, and I do not want to be 230 when I deliver, nothing wrong with that, but...I had a long soul searching session with myself, and I know it would bother me.

B) Our baby is just 8 months old, still not crawling, is sweet and smiling but generally a hand-full. He is very hands on, and demands a ton of attention. I think dealing with all day yuck during the first trimester and him would be too much. I was just so blinded by my desire to have a daughter and the fact that my husband was so willing that I threw everything out the window.

So I'm definitely gonna be here for ya'll and join all the pink swayers thread until our attempt in April...i'm excited about April, it's mine and DS2 birth month, and he'll be 1, and hopefully walking by then (or crawling, lets hope)....

[suregena]

Baaaah! I'll go take one!

[purplepoet20]

It's getting harder for me to want to stay in the swaying. I want a girl but I also want a baby born before 2013... The number 13 has always been bad for me. I am not into the whole bad luck thing but lets just say the worst things in my life happened around the number 13.

I have been staying away from this forum just so it doesn't make me sad to see everyone else getting bfps and having their DG... I am about to give up on the swaying and just focus on getting pregnant.

[xokatietatie]

Birdella! I've never heard of that name. I LOVE it! Like our son's name, our girl's name was set in stone YEARS ago. Sort of handy, really. Heh.

With the exception of my great grandmother, I've never heard it before either. They called her Birdie!!

[KraizyDaizy]

Hi ladies! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and an awesome New Years! Any +HPTs yet?

I am CD8. Started RepHresh on CD5 and will use it every 3 days leading up to our attempt to keep PH down. DH started FR on CD5 as well. He is releasing am and pm and also started licorice root 450mg 3 x day. I started the Saw Palmetto on CD7, cause I was just able to find it in the store. Not sure if the licorice and saw palmetto will help, but they could not hurt right LOL! Having an after AF dicharge like all the AF is still lingering in there, so might do a vinegar douche to clean things up (TMI, but what do you all think). I went shopping and got lots of HPTs and OPKs, SYLK, CBE monitor sticks and Phion PH testers. I am thinking of doing at least 5 attempts this cycle O-3, O-2, O-1, O (maybe not O?) O+1 using a little SYLK, Benedryl and hot showers before. Maybe a Diva cup too. Not sure but may skip Diva and do JAD? or maybe leave things be since the RepHresh and SYLK? Maybe I should not use SYLK I mean we are 37 and 40, and I have anemia, Vit D deficiency, as well as thryoid levels unbalanced? Or maybe I should skip it all and just DTD LOL!!! Any ideas are much appreciated.

[ttcadaughter2012]

When do you think you'll O, ttcadaughter2012? I'll probably O around the 15th, give or take a few days. This will be my 2nd month of TTC. Last time we did FR and frequent BD. This time, I may just wait and BD as soon as we get a +OPK. I'm still on the fence about using RepHresh. We'll use Sylk for sure, though.

well i tend to be a late ovulater (sp?) With the other boys I ovulated cd 19, when I stopped nursing Logan, I ovulated that month cd 19 and then last month cd 17 I got a positive opk and then the next day was negative and the day after that I had another positive test. So I don't know if I ovulated 2 times? And that was why I had 2 positive tests clear as day as dark as that line, it was weird. That was cd 17 and cd 19. So I am guessing sometime at cd 17 or cd 19

[lemon2012]

Wow, I posted at 8 am and it has been busy!!!!!

So many wonderful posts and so much support!

Katie..your names are cute and I love Birdie!

KD, I think supplements can't hurt but it seems so many women use rephresh and douche and nothing happens. I did use rephresh but I am not sure how much came out.

OOTB, maybe you can help her out. Did you overkill on the rephresh or do you think maybe this was just not the month for you?

purplepoet..I can't sway anymore.
I am eating cereal, chips and dip......maybe it is PMS though that is getting me down!

I am due for AF tomorrow. Does anyone know...can you use OPK as a pregnancy test?

[ttcadaughter2012]

I think the vitex messed with mine too lol. I normally have a 29 day cycle nope not this past time af came 2 days 2 early!

But... that's a good thing, I think... that it has fudged with my perfect cycle a little.[/QUOTE]