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Hey Girls!!! I have been MIA since my IUI...It went very well! DH had 368 Mill after wash...double what it was last month...RE seemed very pleased. It's amazing that DH has enough sperm to get the whole country pregnant, but I can't yet!!! Hopefully this is our month! This IUI was better than the 1st...hardly any cramping at all!!! Last time I had such bad cramping that I felt like I was gonna pass out...my Mom went with me this time...DH had to work...asked my Mom.."I bet you never thought you'd be doing this with your daughter..." LOL :)~ Maybe one day she call tell our child she was in the room when he/she was conceived...Chele...about my 3 eggs...not for sure I had 3 eggs, but RE told me I had 6 follies, and 3 that would for sure be big enough to release an egg...I just hope one gets fertilized. How is everyone feeling? I'm only 2dp IUI and I can tell this is going to be a long 2ww. I start progesterone tonight...BFP's here we come!!! Baby dust to you all! This is our month!!! Have a great week!!! XOXO

Hi Hannah, actually I'm not sure if it's the med or not... I usally have 1 of the larger size by now but not as many.... Don't worry about your size because I think every womens body is different and you may just grow at a slower pace but that could be fine, also your doing your IUI later so you will catch up or pass me when you get your IUI :0) I agree, I would do the same thing also if it worked in Dec. Keep us posted! Baby Dust to you too! ADDIE, that is too funny about your mom and your comment!haha I'm glad everything went well for you, and 3 good ones is great all you need is 1! I'm with you, I want to see tons of bfp's on this thread! Keep us posted.

Hi Ladies! Well I went away for a few days to a wedding and had a great time. No time to think about the 2ww which was great. Monday here today, and AF is due Friday..........so it's going to be a long wait! Fingers crossed I get good news but I'm not counting on it that's for sure. POLLY sorry you got Af - sucks I know. :-( Good luck everyone with your cycles! Wishing everyone lots of luck and baby dust!

well today is my big day: first IUI. i never got a positive opk this weekend (but i have never had great luck with those things) and since i didn't have a trigger shot only hope that today really is O day. my temp dipped, i have ewcm, my boobs are sore and i felt some twinges, so it can't be too far off. my dr stressed me though by having me take a test right away when he rang this morning and i told him i hadn't had a positive. it had only been an hour since i peed and after drinking water and tea i wasn't surprised to see a very barely visible line. after describing my symptoms he said we could go ahead but now he has me worried!!! so ... dh is off doing his thing and i go in about four hours. that seemed like a big time lag but they assured me its normal. (?)

JG, sounds like your in a great mood! Not sure where you live, but here in MI we had a great weekend (warm) and it's so odd how the sun has an impact on everyone; smiling faces, upbeat personalities... I love it! Here's hoping that af stays away!! CHANDELINNA, let us know how things go, good luck!

Oops forgot to post again..... Went to RE this a.m., I have a 21, 20, 19, 15,10 . I trigger tonight and the IUI at 9a.m. both Tues & Wed. Pray for me ladies! Still waiting on those bfps to start the trend on this thread! :0)

Chele, good luck and baby dust to you!! I went to the RE today and my follies are small still as of Day 10 of my cycle. It was expected. They are in the same range this time last month. My RE is out this whole week because of Spring Break so the RE I did see doesn't have me coming back until Sunday if I haven't surged. I am waiting for them to call me back to see if I can change my Sunday appt to Friday. Last month on Day 14, my follies were 25, 20, 16. So i don't want to wait longer and have them get any bigger that that. I hope they will let me reschedule the time. Chandelina, I hope this IUI works for you. We need some positives on this thread. How is everyone else coming along?

thanks chele and hannah! it all went smoothly, didn't feel a thing. my dr did a scan to check my follicles beforehand and it turned out i have two mature ones. they were 21.something mm and 22.something. i don't know how he missed one on the last scan but i'm happy! dh's semen was decent too. chele, it sounds like you are in great shape for tomorrow/wednesday. best of luck and now here comes the two week wait!

I everyone, I was hoping to talk to someone about his and am not sure who will understand. Today I am in my doctors office for a follow up appointment after AF (I don't know if your doctors do that) Anyway, basically everyone is prgnant there except me. So I am starting to feel alittle uncomfortable. All other clinics I know do infertility either in the morning or on a different day than pregnant women. No biggie but i was feeling a bit uncomfortable, just envious I guess. So anyway after waiting 2 hours he calls me in and makes me wait more while he finally decides to look at my charts. so I casualy say, "has anyone ever mentioned that it's uncomfortable to sit ina room of pregnent women when you are having this problem." totally not mean, no malice, just a question to kill the silence. He says to me: "You're really out there!. Have you considered psychotherapy?" I said, "Did you just say I was out there???" He says, "Yes, only 3 other people have said that to me in the thousands that I have seen and all 4 of you are out there."
I am not kidding. Girls, I swear I jsut said it very matter of fact. He starts saying, "Do you expect me to change my practice for you?" I was completely dumbfounded. This is not worth it. I am giving up. How can I start again with someone else at this time. It's been two years? I am so frustrated. I have not stopped crying all day. My doctor says I should make a complaint to the ontario college of physcians but where is that going to get me. Sorry to burden everyone but I have never been so taken aback in my life by a person that calls themselves a professional. I said nothing. I just let him belittle me. I've tolfd you that I am a teacher and to me it is the equivalent of telling a kid that he is "dumb as a stump and why not go see an educational assessor." (to cure your dumbness0 I was mortified and I feellike giving up. It's doctors like this that give others a bad name. Two people I know said not to go see this doctor and I went because my DH's doctor recommended him and he was a jerk and I have wasted 2 years of my life!
I am just so down right now I don;t know how I will ever get back up again.
Thanks forl istening while I rant.

POLLY I have mentioned that problem on this board before. It is TOTALLY a kick in the gut to be sitting in a room full of pregnant women, when you are there because you CAN'T get pregnant. Even when I have gone to hopsital for pre-admission interviews to treat my infertility problems, it is in the same room as where women go for their baby's 6-week check-up! Totally and completely inappropriate! You know, if I were you, I would WANT to make a HUGE complaint regarding the doctors treatment, but the problem is that it could cause you even more stress than you are already going through, so I don't know if it would be wise or not. Maybe you could write a letter to the board and leave it at that, rather than go through a whole complaint process. You know what I mean? That was VERY wrong of your doctor, VERY hurtful and VERY inappropriate to say those things to you, considering that he has a duty of care for your health, physical AND mental. !!!!!!!

Hi JG,
Thaks for your support. Ij ust reread my last statement I it appears that I am not only nuts but I can't spell either. I guess I was caught up in the moment. It's not like I want everyone around me to stop living. I just made a simple comment and then he said what he did. Someone asked me last week if he seperated the fertility patients for the obstetrics patients and it was just an observation. I feel like such a fool. I am so devestated. I donlt know how I will ever see this through. I am sure I will feel stronger tomorrow but today I give up!

Polly, Infertility doctors more than ANYONE should understand the stress, the emotion, the depression that TTC'ers go through. You were right to be very upset and what he said was just NOT ON. Even if he didn't agree with what you said, he could have told you he will keep it in mind in case they could change the situation in the future, or something like that. To attack YOU for your feelings, was very very wrong. You're not nuts. No more nuts than any TTC'er. ;-)

Hi JG, Thanks for being understanding. Those are my twin sisters initials so you stood out right away when I started. I'm just so confused. Where does this road end? Another doctor? Another disappointment?I'm being negative and I don't want to do that for the 2ww's. You guys rock and thanks for everything.
Polly

The road doesn't end till you get a little bubdle in your arms, I'm afraid, and even then it starts all over again when you try for number two (which is where I am at). Disappointment after disappointment seems to be the way this game is played. You're allowed to be negative - HELL, I feel that way 99% of the time! Don't go away will you! Stay here and moan and complain and be as negative as you like, and we'll all understand every single thought and feeling that you describe. Don't go away for our sakes, I don't want to be the only negative TTC'er on here! :-) :-) :-D

Hello everyone..... i am on my 5th day waiting 11 to go...... I have been feeling a little nausious in the mornings it could be due to something else or just stress but it is there.... I am hoping and praying that this is the month for us and for all of us here... This is a great community that i am happy to have hooked up with... I hope that eveyones dreams come true....!!!!! when should you start feeling symptoms and what kind??

Jas when i had my baby I felt no different than any other cycle. It wasn't until a couple of weeks later that my breasts got really tender and I get ligament pain. Until then it was just normal AF symptoms, slight breast swelling, cramps, etc. It is annoying that pregnancy symptoms mirror AF symptoms, 'cause we never know for sure until AF arrives or we get a BFP!