pmblake...
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linds99 - November 20

I've never been able to squeeze in a 2! You must be really skinny minny! I'm actually scared of sqeezing myself in my jeans, as my mom used to tell me i would be "straining circulation by doing that." Ever since I was a little girl, she's always ask "are those too tight." Funny that I still worry about that at 29. That is why right now my jeans are opened on the front button and my sweater is over it covering the opened button to let the bloating do its thing in freedom. You sound like you have a real mellow outlook on things right now despite what is going on. Maybe AF will come sooner than you think...Do you think your sister is "purposely" avoiding a run-in with you and your brothers? Geez, I guess you are right about her if she is strategizing that way. Let me know how things go tomorrow. Maybe they will give you the provera shot to induce the uterine contractions faster?

 

pmblake - November 21

We're a truly disfunctional family. No kidding. We go the beach as a family for a week every year and we're lucky if she comes for 1/2 a day. I can't figure her out. and I'm barely 5'3. I'm not skinny minny just short. short w/ constraining jeans ;) Okay, all serious. I'll let you know when I get my phone call tomorrow. In the meantime if you can think of anything else that I can add to my protocol for next cycle that would be great. I'm going for 50-100mg serophene, cd14 follicle check (since I usually O later), trigger shot, and post O b/w for progesterone and estrogen. Anything else?

 

linds99 - November 21

Maybe add baby aspirin during the follicular phase and omega three supplements. The baby aspirin will thin the blood and get it circulating more to the uterus to really get it thick by o time, start taking it today, and buy an omega 3 complex and take it throughout the cycle, in follicular and luteal. You need the omega 3s and your baby does too. Or start eating fish (particularly fatty fish) at least two times a week. Fatty fish like mackerel, lake trout, herring, sardines, albacore tuna and salmon are high in two kinds of omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA. And DHA is the one that first time mothers are robbed from (their first baby takes all a mother's reserves of DHA. Tofu and other forms of soybeans, canola, walnut and flaxseed, and their oils contain LNA, which can become omega-3 fatty acid in the body. Those 3 are so important...

 

linds99 - November 21

I saw AF came, let the games begin...

 

pmblake - November 21

yee haw. i'm barely making it through today. My dr had given me a sample pack of effexor awhile back. i took one today so i'm starting to feel better. I have the baby aspirin so I'm going to start that today but I don't have other supplements, but i'll get them. OH what do you think about teas? a female toner tea inparticular..can teas throw off your ph balance? I drank a good bit of green tea last cycle but I have this box of tea w/ all kinds of roots and leaves. it's supposedly good for all sorts of things. I'm a tea drinker so the more I could get through sipping the better. this really sucks. well here I go to Marin's dance class to see more pregnant moms.

 

pmblake - November 21

sorry I sound so bitchy today. I think the reality set in and I didn't think it would all happen so suddenly.

 

linds99 - November 21

It's ok to be in a bad mood, I'd be too. It sucks. As for green tea, don't drink it after you ovulate, it robs you of folic acid. But otherwise, it is alright. I also read chamomile isn't good when you are pregnant. But everything else seems ok...but don't do fertilitea, I tried it and it is good...it has ovulex in it, though, and its not supposed to be used on a medicated cycle.

 

pmblake - November 21

I'm making a cup of tea now. It's Traditional Medicinals Female Toner. Ya know I was drinking green tea all last month but I wrote in my diary right about the time I could've conceived that I didn't want it anymore. I mentioned that I hadn't had it in more than a week and that I found that odd. Maybe my body knew. Sometimes how when we know we need protein or Vit. C. I can really get urges. OH and I just found out that my Dr may want me to sit this cycle out. I should find out later today. My HCG was at 23 yesterday.

 

linds99 - November 21

I'm really sorry about that. HCG goes down by how much each day? Sitting out a cycle is really not fun, I had to do it last August and I think that was the month I slumped into a slight depression and cried everyday that month. The Female Toner sounds good, I'm not sure what is in there, but I'm sure its designed to care for our reproductive organs. That is weird how you stopped the green tea, I believe too our bodies (and dreams) tell us a lot, we need to listen more... I like tea too...I love those green tea latte's at SB, so that was hard for me to quit during 2ww...but of course, I started up again when I knew IVF was next. Its hard to break bad habits. There is something very comforting about having something warm in our hands to sip ya know?

 

pmblake - November 21

Well, I hate to say it but I didnt' give up caffeine while ttc. Well, I didn't have my usual afternoon diet coke, but I had a.m. coffee but it was a lite version. I felt guilty but I had to have caffeine or I couldn't function. I think this cycle I'm really going to attempt to go by the book. If it doesn't work at least I tried. and yum, this tea is good. It's minty but not overpowering. I really like the citrus teas better, but this is good. Like I said it has lots of root stuff and mostly raspberry leaf. I will only drink it until O and then I"ll back off of everything. Hey I read you were about to start your AF. Are you on schedule?? and then when do you start follisitm? day 5 or so? are you mixing an orals w/ your cycle?

 

linds99 - November 21

If that tea has raspberry leaf in it, ONLY drink it during the follicular phase of the cycle, as raspberry leaves can promote uterine contractions during the luteal phase...so stop it once you ovulate. I really don't think that one cup of coffee will be detrimental to your conceiving, after all, you got pregnant with one cup a day. Even my nurse, who I told "I never drink coffee anymore" sold me I was crazy and that one small cup really is harmless. It is the women that go overboard with caffeine, coffee+ tea+ cola+ chocolate everyday that are in trouble.

 

pmblake - November 21

Yikes! So much to learn and so little time. Well, I was right. My doc just called and said that since I still have HCG while I"m bleeding this wouldn't be considered a cycle, just a m/c, sooo... i'm "healing" this month. I like the way you put that to Tink. I will drink my tea and stop around day 13 - just in case I were to O. I'm going to temp and I don't do the CM thing very well but I will temp. Thanks for the clarification on caffeine. I'll lose the guilt.

 

linds99 - November 21

I forgot to answer your question...ya I think AF is coming on Thursday or so, and I start follitism I don't know when...I have to call them, thanks for reminding me...No orals this cycle, other than the medications before the retrieval to stave off infections. Gosh, I'm not looking forward to all this at all...my bedroom dresser looks like a pharmacy, filled with needles, progesterone boxes, estrogen patches, pills, etc. it is sick and its a daily reminder when I wake up and go to bed..but I have no where else to put it and stay organized. My life sucks right now. As for your healing cycle, really, maybe focus on your husband this cycle and the love you have for each other, after all, some of these "baby oops" we heard were conceived out of the heat of the moment, not timed intercourse, just like God intended. I guess we also leave our husband's behind in all this too in some aspects, as it is not emotionally easy for them either. And now you guys are going through another mc, you need to hold each other now more than ever and remind one another of the real reason we are married to our spouses...we love them (and not just their sperm!) Talk to ya tomorrow Pam, have a peaceful night.

 

pmblake - November 22

You're so right Linds. I went to bed last nite at 5:45! I slept for over 12 hours. I was exhausted mentally and physically. My dh took care of the kids and gave me my meds and I haven't even thanked him. I would, but I should've already thanked him. I forgot that he's hurting too and here I'm leaving him w/ all the work. I'll make it up to him. Thanks for reminding how great he is!

 

pmblake - November 22

ps - And you should feel so fortunate to have these IVF opportunities. although it sucks!! to have to do it - you have a choice. I have no doubt this will work for you. 4 chances right? do you have your sights set on having it happen the first try or are you willing to go through w/ more?

 

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