April/May IVFers...
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ROBYN - March 30

Morning i am running out the door to the airport to pick up my ex-husband yes i said that but I have been using OPKs the past couple of days i have a lot of CM well they have been negative and today this morning it was positive. We have been bd'g the past few days so I guess we do it tonite and tomorrow and i havent done these in a while. But it would be cool if this miracously (sp) happened naturally!! Not getting my fingers crossed but definitely gonna take advantage of the opportunity.

 

JB0405 - March 30

ROBYN, I am not the least bit surprised at your lude wand comments, LOL!!! You're crazy! JODY, you don't start until January, that's cool! Hiring help would be a good idea for you! BARZEE, I already had some stretch marks but I will be using Palmer's cocoa/shea butter for stretch marks to prevent any new ones from coming thru! ROBYN, I'm not even going to get into the ex with you, LOL! It sounds like you've got your bd'ing covered! Take advantage of poor DH! Do your thing! LOL!! Ladies, I was
walking to the bus stop yesterday and has some pains so I damn near crawled to the bus... when I got home, I was still having some pains, I cooked and then just stayed on the couch for a while... I feel better today, the pains have come & gone and I of course had to call my nurse and she said that's ok, your stretching and getting ready for the baby! She said if you want,
you can call me everyday of your pregnancy! LOL! I told her she shouldn't have said that! LOL! I just found out that someone in my office is pregnant with twin boys! VERY COOL!

 

GoGo Trigger - March 30

Janae--no the university isn't going to give me money for a down payment (we've got that) but our savings would be depleted if I wasn't earning a salary or at least reduced salary on leave. I get 6 weeks "sick leave" at the university when I give birth, and so I'll start teaching the seminar remotely/over the web in August and then go off when I need to, have the kids, and finish up the seminar ASAP. It's just a condensed semester and I can teach it blind. I'll be doing nothing from July into the 3rd week of August when the seminar starts--then I won't even have to leave my house to teach it! I will have to teach some classes after the babies are born, but I'll pack them in as quick as I can into the time when they aren't home from the hospital yet. Matt and my sister-in-law can help me out during that time :D I'm just thrilled to be able to relax about the finances since I'll be feeling like money's flowing like water out the door! As to showing, I'm definitely poking out (I look about a month ahead so about 12-13 weeks) and after last night it's not bloating anymore. Something VERY gross happened...I LAID AN EGG :D BARZEE, this might happen to you! Crinone is a gel that you squirt up inside and it lines the walls of the cervix--it can also ball up. Well last night I ("no sickness" girl) had a horrible time with some Szechuan crispy fish that I had stupidly continued to eat even when it didn't taste good to eat. I ended up throwing up violently over the toilet at 12:30 a.m. Apparently the muscles down below were working too, because all of a sudden I felt something shoot out down there. When I checked, this "egg" of Crinone gel about 2.5 inches long and 1 inch wide (it looked like a cocoon) had been pushed out. Ew!! I called the RE just to make sure that was okay this morning and apparently it's supposed to fall out in golf-ball sized clumps. Gee, that would be great if they told you that beforehand!!!

 

GoGo Trigger - March 30

Barzee--I always stuck the whole applicator up except for the air squeeze part, does that make sense? But it never hurt when I did it. For the first three weeks, I laid down on the floor and did it. That seemed to help.

 

chele - March 30

GOGO, thanks for the starting this new thread!!! I believe your baby dust will help all of us! Thx

 

JB0405 - March 30

JODY, LOL!!! ILL!!! LOL!! I feel bad for you with the vomitting but the cocoon was hilarious!

 

ROBYN - March 30

Hey girls, JANAE - I am glad you are ok is it the same pains you had the other day when you picked up your god daughter? I understand you dont want to talk about the ex i dont know why i was nice to go pick him up I guess hes taking advantage that Anthony starting spring break and is home and knows i am not working so hes taking advantage of this. But I dont know if I told you girls but he just booked over the beginning of the summer June 10th - July 13th hes flying in and taking Anthony back to California with him for over a month. I was really upset I have never been away from Anthony that long. But I cant say no. It will save us 3 thousand dollars on camp this summer and my x will put him in camp on the base but i am not too happy. So we told Anthony when he comes home we will go away again to Key West and take him to Orlando to go back to Disney. So not too thrilled. But anyway JODY damn girl you got golf balls coming out down there LOL I would be freaking out. I am glad thats normal for the gel you have in there. I think i rather get the ass injection. Anyway i think i am going to take advantage of my free time since Anthony is gone till Sunday and I am going to lie out at the pool.

 

JB0405 - March 30

ROBYN, that is great that Anthony's dad is taking him for that long! I know you'll miss him BUT you'll have lots of time to get things done, whether it's sleeping, bd'ing, shopping... WHATEVER!!! Think of the positives! My friend's son also goes to stay with his dad over the summer but he's gone practically the entire summer! She gets sad every time! The idea of going away when he returns is pretty smart!

 

ROBYN - March 30

Thanks Janae hopefully i will be pregnant then and I can enjoy just sleeping again. My sister will be having a baby at the end of June also so i can spend time with her.

 

isa - March 30

hi gals just checking in and wow lots of stuff. Barzee hows the 2nd beta today? gogo Golf balls huh, i think I"ll pass on that one lol!! Well 2nd iui went ok yesterday but as expected count went down. We only had about 4.5 mil after wash but we had an 83% motility so thats good and then we bd'd again late aftn too. I probably o'd about 10:30-11pm on Wed so we covered all bases (iui wed am and thurs am and bd thurs aftn). Now its wait. Beta is on tuesday after easter. instead of prog supps this time they said i could use 300mg of prometrium pills at night (i had left over from my ivf) so thats way better than the suppositories 2x/day. Now its a sit and wait. Robyn sorry your son is leaving for so much time but just think of how wonderful it is to have a son that you can miss. You'll get through it as hard as it might be but the gals are right it will give you and dh time together and time to plan for #2 . wouldnt it be nice to pick him up at the airport and say mommys pg again :)......dh said last night he said a prayer that if i could be pregnant this month he'd donate all the moneys we saved on ivf this month to the church for their africa fund. Then he asked me if he was wrong to offer that and i said hey if God gets me pg this month the church can have it :) How kinda cool would that be. we could help people in Africa instead of a doctor who doesnt need the money anyways.

 

ROBYN - March 30

Hey ISA - well I am glad the IUI seemed to have gone well the rest is the waiting period. Believe it I actually ovulated i have been doing tests for about a week and started getting the CM I bought the tests they were negative up until this morning i took 2 of them and they are very positive. It would be weird if I pulled a "mega" before i start IVF in two weeks but we have been bd'g so we will tonite and tomorrow see what happens I am not getting my hopes up. I go for a beta on the 12th so if its positive then we pulled off a "mega". Hey already have one natural conception with Anthony 8 years ago ya never know it could happen again. As for your hubby donating money to the church if you get a BFP I think thats wonderful if you are willing to help others. What ever you both feel is the right thing to do. We just wanna see a BFP from you and you can put the money any where you want LOL. I know its good to have a break when Anthony goes a way and it would be cool to tell him we are pregnant again but its such a long time. His dad is claiming hes going over to Iraq in September and wont be back till March so he wants to spend as much time as he can with Anthony. I never know what hes gonna do so i take it day by day. But i do know hes definitely flying with him back and forth from FL to CA both times and the tickets are purchased. Nothing else i can do about it. (:

 

barzee - March 30

Hi girls! I just got the results of my 2nd beta. My progesterone is still an 8. The nurse said we are supplementing with 2 medications so try not to worry about it ( yeah right)
My HCG is 912. It more than tripled in 2 days, so I am happy.

 

ROBYN - March 31

Barzee - congrats on the 2nd beta sounds excellent how many did you transfer? You also could have multiples as well with those numbers. I am glad they arent concerned with the progesterone what are they gonna put you on? Are you doing another beta or are they just gonna do an u/s soon since you have great levels.?

 

isa - March 31

hey barzee great beta. i dont know much about the progesterone numbers so i cant help you out there. I've never had to worry about it yet since i never got a bfp yet (yet being key word !!) I agree with Robyn with a beta that high it could be more than one too -would you be ok with that? Robyn i feel for ya with Anthony gone so long this summer but i can also imagine it would be nice for Anthony to see his dad before he ships out. Gosh i wouldnt wish that on anyone. I am lucky i know noone whos had to go to iraq. Its got to be hard on Anthony knowing his dad is going.

 

ROBYN - March 31

Hey Isa thanks for the kind words but his dad is not in the military he is a special agent with the Naval Investigative Services Unit. I dont know if you get the show is Canada here theres a show on tv called NCIS. Thats what he does and what they are doing is going over there to train the Iraqi Police Officers they my ex gets a huge sum of money for going there for 4 - 6 months tax free. Its very dangerous and I am totally against it. So most of the guys he works with have signed up to do this. Money isnt every thing I think they are paying him close to 100 thousand. But hes is going to Bagdad and its too dangerous. At least if he was in the military i could justify it. But there is no justification just greed as far as I am concerned. But that is my ex. I hate to say this but Anthony is much happier with Jason and I he loves his dad but Jason is the "real" dad 24/7 takes him to school every morning does all the dad things with him actually Anthony calls him daddy. So if i sound like i have sympathy for the x i really dont he put me thru alot of crap. Ok enough of the soap opera. Well i took 3 OPKS today and they are definitely as dark as they can be for positive so cross your fingers i get a Mega. LOL. Well gonna go to bed check in tomorrow.

 

KBinParis - March 31

Its a GIRL!!!! The doctor could only be reasonably certain though as we couldn't see a willy between its thighs. However, we will know for sure in 3 weeks when the complete results of the amnio come in. I am so thrilled! Yaaaaay! The amnio was painful, no other way to describe it. I hated it and dread having to ever do it again. The initial results for the 3 trisomies (of which Downs is one) will be in on Tuesday and the complete results will be in in 3 weeks (along with the definitive sex update). I am now on complete bedrest till tomorrow morning and its so boring. DP and I sort of assumed that it was a boy as his family is full of boys and also because I am so big. Then 2 days ago I had a dream about having a girl baby and woke thinking, "That's so wierd to dream about a girl". Sure enough, its a girl. Don't know if my dream meant anything but its interesting, isn't it? Okay, I'm going to go back and read the posts I've missed.

 

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