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Thanks for starting the new thread Kelley!
It's almost Friday weeee! I have2 and half more hours here before I get to go home. I hope all of you have had a good day and everyone is feeling well...
Kelley-Im so glad the baby turned for you! 8lbs is a good size for a baby. Trust me, when they are closer to 10 like my last 2 kids going it natural isn't a concideration. lol Poobear-the classes sound fun. I can't wait to start them in a few months. Even though I have 4 kids already I have never taken a class. So I'm going to do all that stuff this time. J.D.-Oh man, a friend of mine made that stuff one time and I have been wanting to make it myself for years! Thanks for the recipe! Brooke-I'm so glad to hear you are feeling better! Mommy2-it never hurts to try anything in my book. Ha! It sounds safe enough, I would do it. Leslie- I could use a pedicure too! I'm just affraid that the girl will take one look at my feet and refuse to do them! :) 1mom- you doing ok? Bladder infections are no fun. I hope your not hurting at all. HI to Slow and Robyn- I didn't read to much on you girls today. And a big hi to anyone I missed.
Not to much to tell today. I feel better then I did the past 2 days though. I have been taking my Prenatal Vit. at night but man they make me burp. lol And my clothes don't fit anymore and they squeeze my belly. I think most of it is fat but I still don't know how far along I am. My Doc. had said 11 week (this week) but I don't know how I could be that far and not know it. Either way I'm getting bigger and need pants now. Everything I read says with each pg you will show sooner, and I have. I just wish I knew where I was at. Oh well, have a good night girls and I will talk to you all tomorrow...baby dust to all of you*~~~~*

Girls, I hate to disappoint but I cannot answer today. I did read Kelley's due to the suspense of part 1 - YAY KELLEY_ glad the vibes got there ;) As far as the recipe goes, I do everything as I go, nothing tastes the same each time, lol but I'll dig out the baselines I use and send it your way. Give me a couple days ;)On to ME, lol...real quick - the accupucture was quite interesting, i'll have to repost after I fully process what took place, haha. It didn't hurt a bit and she said that I had quite a few energy bloackages but she doesn't believe I am the problem at all in conception; although she thinks I may have an issue with my spleen? I dunno. Like I said it needs some processing. I go back Nov 30 which according to my charting would be directly after AF comes again - I am hoping of course she stays away. Dh and I are miserable today, lol my neck has flared up again (I know it is from driving that standard trans again, I am back in the auto but...), my head feels like it's 50lbs sitting opn a spaghetti stick it's horrible and my hubby has another one of those cyst thingies. I told him that infections lower sperm count so you better take 200mg Zinc in the AM every day! November is proving to be negative...I am gonna stay positive as long as I can but the physical stress of my neck can't be good in TTC as it purs overinto my moods. Okay well I am off ... oh ... I have to take some chinese herbs too. All i could read on the bottle was cinnamon twigs-dunno. Well I am off to eat dinner and watch TV (RELAX) Supervisor off again tomorrow, dunno if I can take another long day. I really need to get back to exercising, nbut how do you do that when you have NO energy!??? LUVYAS - babydust!

Hey girls I am BUSY AS SHIT at work. Tons of arrests, stolen vehicles, warrants non friggin stop. I barely had enough time to get up to do my injection. Anyway today was my last and hopefully final BCP. No more now its the AF wait. The injections continue and we have a big appt on Tues with U/S and E2 and starting the stimulation phase of the IVF so they have to teach us how to do all the upcoming injections. Anyway KELLEY congrats on the big turn around. GAYLE - obviously you know to contact your doc sure its just a bladder infection, RHONDA - how are you? HEATHER how are you feeling? TANYA when is your RE appt? I feel like there are so many positives on this thread that its so going to continue I have a good feeling by X-mas theres gonna be more. Really not much more left of us who are still TTC. Anyway hi to everyone else I may have missed back to work now. CYAS.

hi girls.well, i had a job interview today for a teachers aide job in an alternative middle school,it's for a position in the reading lab.most of the kids that go there have been gotten arrested for fighting ,drugs or whatever.i'm kinda nervous about it but i also hope i get it.i REALLY,REALLY need this job.PLEASE cross ya'lls fingers and pray that i get it.1mom and katt, for that recipe it shoud have been a 12oz. box of cereal instead of the 19 oz. box,i was writing the recipe from memory and i couldn't remember that.hey slow, how are you?thanks for the emails.rhonda,how are you doing?

hey everyone - thought I'd do a quick update on my dr.'s visit...well nothing has changed. My cervix is still pretty high and no dialation yet. It would have been a bit early, but I was hopeful. Basically she said I probably wont go into labor in the next few days. I'm hoping for next weekend since that's her weekend on call! Actually I have a feeling it will be much more like after Thanksgiving. Okay, I'm going to eat some cookies and have some tea and head off to bed. DD is at a slumber party and DH is at basketball...so just me and the t.v. tonight. talk to you all in the morning.

Hi girls ... TGIF!!! I just can't wait to sleep in a bit tomorrow, but can't too much because we have to continue our Christmas shopping. Last night was rough for sleeping ... I woke up about 6 times and 4 of which were pee trips ... this is getting to be unbearable, LOL! KATT, try and rest your neck this weekend, why does it hurt so much, because of driving a manual transmission? Do you guys have those things called 'sac magique' magic bag is the translation ... you put it in the microwave to warm it up and can put it around your neck (or anywhere else) to soothe it ... they work really well. TANYA, funny about the epidural, one of my friends also found that it didn't work for her, but my experience with it was wonderful, except for the feeling of being cold and then all the itchiness, but I felt NO pain at all ... I just hate the fact that you're stuck in bed, oh, and I couldn't pee either, so the nurse had to put in a catheter. I had the epi at around 4 cms, this time I hope to go a bit longer without it because it really slowed down my labor and then I needed pitocin to get it going again. The birthing center has whirlpool tubs for natural pain relief, so I plan on doing that. LESLIE, sorry that nothing is happening yet ... I have my first internal in 2 weeks to start checking for changes, and I know I'll be anxious too. CHRISTINE, with my forst pregnancy, I was clueless about the whole baby position because I only had 2 ultrasounds the whole pregnancy, and the last one was at 36 weeks, so I didn't know until then if she was head down. GAYLE, I hope your appt went well ... I had a yeast infection right around the time I got my BFP .. it was awful. Anyway ... sorry I can't reply to everyone ... had someone come in for help really early this morning ... will drop in tomorrow morning.

Hey girls good morning. This is my last normal day of being up with the rest of the world. I am really upset about it so tonite afterwork I will try and stay up mostly all night so I can try and readjust to going back to midnites. Anyway.... so here is my vent for the day.... When I got ready to leave last night from work I checked my mailbox and found a nasty letter from a supervisor. We have mandatory on call callout. So you are supposed to sign up for 6 days a month during fri/sat and sun. Well.. this entire month has been not good. Jason was away my parent are leaving sunday for a cruise and my IVF procedure tenatively thanksgiving weekend. Mind you in 17 years i have never had Thanksgiving off. My days off just happen to fall on the holiday this year. So this note says that I am to sign up for a whole list of dates which fall on t-giving day and the weekend. Well how the hell am i gonna do that when I possibly will be doing the retrieval that weekend. So they said if i dont sign up they are just gonna plug my name in anywhere. So I said to my supervisor last night. Do whatever the f--k you want. I will not be available. These people do not care. I have a child i cannot leave him at school till 600pm when my husband gets off work. I have noone to watch him and I certainly cannot leave an 8 year old child home by himself. Also they dont give us breaks because there arent enough people to cover them. So they said if we want breaks then we cant have any days off. Its like a friggin sweat shop in a 3rd world country. I makes me so upset. I also told them that Monday night i would go to training but after that I am not working Monday night because of our appt on Tuesday morning. I would be up for over 27 hours. My supervisor goes well I will try and post it to cover it for you but if not... then you have to come in. So I said I tell you what put me out sick for Monday night. So now you dont have to post for anything I will not be there monday. I gave you people a letter 1 1/2 months ago telling you that in November I would be starting my IVF treatment with little to no notice. Well... the time is here and I am not gonna not have a family because of this job. Like Jason said last night ok.. we just paid 25000 dollars for IVF you just cant put it on the back burner when its conveient for everyone else. Its all timing you go thru all these steps because its all timed. I just cant say to my RE well.. nah I cant come this week i might be on call at work. Hell no. I hope and pray I dont need to do this much longer. The stress is killing me and I know its not good either for the whole TTC. Ok thats my whole vent. Anyway hi to everyone I will check in later. CYAS

Moring ladies. Kelley, that's interesting that you said you had a yeast infection just around your bfp. I had that with ds. My old doc refused to give me medicine and I suffered with the infection for almost 3 months. It was the worst experience of my life. I never had a yeast infection before that. Brooke Josh is gonna be 5. I hope you are feeling better. Gayle how are you feeling? What did the doc say? Leslie, dont worry. Its early still. Do you have a Natural store anywhere? I mean a store with organic and natural products? If you do, go there and buy respberry tea and drink tons of it. That will jump start your body. Dont know how it works but it does. Robyn is Jason back? Got to go. Be back soon. Hello to everyone else.

Robyn holly shit. I would have exploded right then and there. Are you not human? After performing civic services for so many years, one would think that you could get a break once in a while, especially when it comes to something as important and expensive as IVF. I am sorry that you are having a tough time. Sending you a big, huge, enormous New York Hug :) Stay possitive, take a deep breath and thank god that you are not as ignorant as your supervisor.

Hi ladies i just wanted to check in and let you know that the dr said everything was ok. I think he was an idiot but if everything is ok then i'm fine with it. ROBYN--sorry your jobs sucks right now. I have those days when i just want to tell the people to f--k off. I hope the IVF goes well. i'm soo tired today and my DD isn't letting me rest at all. I'm getting so frustrated. She's constantly getting into everything. She tells me she's hungry so i get her something to eat and she doesn't want it. I can't wait for her nap time so i can rest too.

Robyn, I'm so sorry you have to deal with the stress of your job on top of everything else going on. Tanya, are you going to have a pery for JOsh? We're going to a place called pump it up. It's a place with all inflated jumpy things and slides. You can rent it so only your party is there. Kelley, I also had the epidural and LOVED it! I will have it again. I also had a pretty easy labor. Gayle, I'm glad that you're okay. How old is dd? I have noticed that I have less patience these days. Jd,I'll keep my fingers crossed that you get the job. Leslie, a Thanksgiving baby isn't so bad. My b day is the 28th and sometimes it falls on Turkey day. I know you don't want to wait that long. Maybe thing will change next week.

It's Friday yeah! I'm so glad I get to sleep in tomorrow! Waking up at 5:30 sucks and then I don't get home until 6 every night. I hope some of you got today off for the holiday. (I didn't)
Katt- your neck got hurt driving? Man, it sounds painful, I hope you feel better soon. But, I have to say that the way you described it (spaghetti stick thing) made me laugh so hard! Sorry, I'm one of those people that laugh at other peoples injuries. (if there not realy hurt) It is realy hard to get motivated to exercise when you are so tired at the end of the day you want to cry. I hope today won't be so hard on you. Get lots of rest this weekend... Robyn--ok I was so mad after I read what happen to you at work I called and told my dh and vented on him. HA! I would have strangled her. I have no patience for people like that and it is illegal for them not to give you breaks! They can't do that! If you gave them a formal letter explaining that you would be out sometime this mo. for the IVF there shouldn't be a prob. They should have got there shit together and covered their asses. If they try to fire you over something like that I would sue their asses! Im not even playing. Oh ok, I have to calm down. Anyway, I hope it works out but you are doing the right thing. J.D.--I will keep you in prayers for that job! Leslie--Sorry there wasn't any dialaion yet but it's so exciting waiting for you to tell us you are. :) I hope you enjoyed the quiet in your house lastnight. Kelley--Your hospitall has whirlpool tubs? Wow. I don't think mine does. And I know just what you mean about the pee trips a zillion times a night. Now I don't even get out of bed, I just lay there and refuse to get up. :) I can fall back to sleep and then wake up a few hours later and have to go REALY bad, so then I jump out of bed and pray I don't sneez. :D Hey I only get up once now though. hahaha And what changes are they checking for in 2 wks? 1Mom-I hope the day gets a little better for you and DD. Sometimes they just get so wound up like little tops there's no stopping them. lol Hi to Mommy2, Poobear, Brooke, Slow, Impg, lyric..umm I miss anyone? Have a great weekend you guys!

brooke my DD is going to be 2 on jan-1st. Yep i had a new years baby. I got the free stuff my picture in the paper..the whole nine yards. I love her to death don't get me wrong but i just need some quite time and she seems more active than normal today. But to my delight i think she just fell asleep. YEAH!!! break time for mommy

hey all just wanted to drop in and say hi. JEN- i am praying that u get that job. i am doing alright. i need to clean house but i dont feel like it. it is a wreck everytime i look at it i just watn to go back to sleep and hopefully the housecleaning fairies will come out..lol..actually i think the housekeeping fairies all went on strike..lol ROBYN- what a bunch of punks. i would have cussed them all out especially since they knew that you were going to be doing ivf and have known that for over a month. people can sometimes be such morons. LESLIE-i am sending you smooth labor vibes. it would be nice to have a thanksgiving baby. KATT-so sorry that your neck is hurting i know that must be a pain in the ass. i have 2 automatic vehicles and 1 standard and i would rather drive the standard. lol..i like shifting gears. my sister always tells me that i should be a racecar driver..lol..anyway i know that you are in pain so just take it easy and rest as much as possible.

Good afternoon girls!! CD9 and time to pick up the opk's. Man those things are pricey! (sp) I do not really think there is much more to tell about the accupuncture. I should have researched it a bit more before I went because I am still stumped, lol. No luvin's last night - both of us were pooped, haha. And both of us had very sore necks! TO ALL U PGERS - are you shaving your legs or is DH doing it? I have always been so curious about that, haha;) Ok so on to the posting: KELLEY_ Thanks for starting the new thread - you were the first person I really bonded with and I am really hoping November is my month, so maybe you'll rub off ;) (((HUGS))) Hi CHRISTINE_ Sending head down vibes to you! JEN_ Thanks for the recipe, maybe I should wait to make it until I lose 10 lbs if it is that addicting, LOL - then again I am with you, the holiday season is here and so is all the FAT! BROOKE_ Glad to hear you are feeling better. TANYA_ Wow that sounds pretty intersting what your doctor said. I just love doc's that tell someone to take a vitamin, lol. Love it! I'll be knocked out when I have my baby - LOL JK. I can tell ya this; I wanna be awake but I do not want any pain so epidural here I come! Is that bad?? LESLIE_ Sending happy good luck vibes to you for your appointment. I see good things! HELLO GAYLE_ wishing you good health! ((((((JAMIE)))))) MARY_ So glad to hear from you. I will look in dhea...I know it has a lot to do with sex drive and hormonal regluation but I also know it is something that muct be carefully taken as there are side effects. Come back again soon! LYRIC_ Oh I know how the exercise/diet thing goes - YoYo! I am in much need of both. I am 2 days nicotine free!! YAY!!! I am completely impressed with the Chantix. I think It is well worth the dollars (ahh, but ask me again in 6 months, haha). HEATHER_ I was gonna say trace all your sex, lol but if you have lots of it (unlike me) then that might be difficult. I almost think you are lucky in that respect as charting takes something out if it. I am not sure how to explain what I mean except to say that it causes more needless worry/stress. I am always on the edge of my seat in the 2ww to see what my temp will do and in your situation, you simply were unaware so no jynxing it. I dunno, just me I guess. Well it is 1030 and we've been pretty slow here at work so I will take a short walk around the building to get my eyes off this PC as a nice break. I guess since I will be posting this before I read todays logins - look for another post from me!!!!! Luvyas & babydust!!

Hey girls thanks for listening. Unfortunately with law enforcement our position must be manned 24/7 so they dont need to give us breaks trust us we looked in to it. Anyway this is the way its been and its getting worse because noone wants to stay here. Jason said today just try and hang on for a little while then we will see what happens. So thats what you get with 17 years of service to a police dept. Anyway.. I need to read the rest of your posts. Take care all of you I love you all!!