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sabby2009

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 LOL Aqua. Kids never work out the way we want them too. ;-) DS is 10 months younger than DSD1 and he is more ready for kindy than she is right now. 

 

Okay I just POAS and of course BFN. Let the POAS games begin now ... At least I made it to 8DPO this time around and ONLY acutally did it because my boobs decided to go all sore tonight. 

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Sabby, you know it's early...did you ever get a +opk? Looks like you stopped taking them, which I don't blame you for doing if you did. Give it another few days and poas again, I say. Do you get sore boobs every month?

Aqua, I LOL about the time thing, too. I was on such a "life schedule" with my parents (although they were very uninvolved working parents), that now I am retaliating from the norm....the norm being the stupid little track that everyone is supposed to be on, as mandated by the private school I attended all my life that I hated. Sabby is totally right, life takes on its own shape and the sooner you realize that YOU are the one who makes up your own "schedule" for things, if you even decide to make one, the sooner you feel better about everything. I say that partly in convincing myself, because although I know that is true, I am admittedly bad at thinking things have to go along a track, albeit one I recently made up.....mostly having to do with me being almost 35 and wanting to not be an old mom and have a high risk pregnancy. So, did you quit the accup?

Medic, you're getting there, just chalk it up to the Clomid making you O late, of course. Yea, I am not surprised that my insurance doesn't cover infertility....I told my dr that and being the awesome dr that she is, she was fudging my diagnosis to annovulatory, but I still have a $2,000 out of pocket that I haven't put one dollar towards yet this year, so I would really be paying out of pocket for the whole thing. My dr said it's no big deal, we'll just do all the other ones that are cheap (sperm is only $62), give it another couple of months, and then in January, if nothing, I'll start the Clomid.

OK, random rant/vent/blah.....I was up late last night making Thanksgiving feast food and cookies and all (DH was out of town yesterday), and I suddenly got all sad because I suddenly started thinking about how I wish I didn't work and could make that stuff at my leisure instead of having to work, then race to the store, then race home and make dinner and then stay up till midnight making this stuff, which I usually pass on doing except that my girls were begging me to make stuff. Now, I like working, but I ALSO loved being a SAHM back pre-divorce, even though I hated my ex-h and was miserable......so, I think I was just being a baby because DH wasn't there to help, and he normally does, but it started me thinking about when we have a baby. I realized that I totally want to stay home for a year....I am so sappy and I freak about silly things, especially when I feel like I am shortchanging my kids for some reason (reason is always work). Which, to our credit, we are awesome parents, but I think I just have guilt from getting divorced and making their lives harder, even though they are ok with it all. Ugh. Anyway, neither of us make a lot (we work in the arts, of course), so I have think feeling that I need to have a talk with him about how we can manage to get by with me potentially not working for a year or so. I have voiced concerns about how we would "do" it before, but we just decided to not worry about it and go with the flow and just get pg first. Anyone had/have a similar situation? I'm just trying to figure out how to broach this subject.......or at least feel better about juggling, etc.

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Yeah, I stopped the accu. And Lola, you just spoke my mind! DD had a thankgiving feast last week at her school and they perform all this cute lil turkey songs for the feast. When I picked her up that evening she asked if I was among the other parents watching her at the thanksgiving feast. It just broke my heart that I was not there because I was ofcourse at WORK! I told a little white lie that I was there, but was in the back. I feel so disgusted. It got me thinking about SAHM. I like the idea for couple of years. I sometimes wished my mom was not a working mom when I was a kid, but I never told her that. [But I think she felt guilty about this and quit her job when DD was born just so she can take care of her for us during the day instead of sending her to a day care.]

Poor DD requests me to take off to just go have lunch with her at school. I am so close to making this decision starting next year from Jan 01. I have been working for more than 10 years now, but I feel its such a enormous step that I cannot even picture it. And ofcouse there is the income part. I did throw the idea to DH . He was like "you wont last a week as home..." and that if I stay out for 2 years it would be extremely tough to get a job. I work in technology and we know how that changes. I need to update myself regularly. Its like we are still figuring out how to work with Windows XP and Windows 7 is out the door.. KWIM? But I really really really want to take that break but worry putting all that pressure on DH and what if I never get another job again.

I second that thought on private school.  Me and sis were at one till grade 7 and they had every detail defined for you, there was so much peer pressure, I hated it. I became socially active and more confident only when I left that school.

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Morning ladies!

So Sabby ... are you going to hold off a few days or keep up the POAS every morning? FX!

Ah, kidlets and planning :-) I am by nature a planner and a perfectionist and have been overwhelmingly surprised that I do NOT do either with my kids. Thank God. I want to let them blossom as cheesy as it sounds and not try to impose any of my ideas about what they should be on to them ... I had a wrecked childhood for many reasons and I want theirs to be as carefree and whimsical as possible, KWIM? Not saying I have no rules for them, and I definitely think structure/stability is super important for kids (I had zero), just saying I don't have any intentions of raising them to fit a certain mold. Thank goodness b/c DD1 is a TRIP. If I tried to mold her I can only imagine the backfire. Yikes.

Lola I am so sorry last night was tough! Does DH travel frequently? I'm glad you don't fall into parent-guilt-trap and think you're not doing enough or something. It is refreshing to hear someone acknowledge that they are in fact a great parent.

Aqua I'm sorry you're feeling the working mom thing too :-( It is definitely a tough place to be in. I think you did the right thing by letting DD think you saw her. That's all she wanted to know ... no need to make her sad for no reason, KWIM? I am a SAHM and missed DD's program last year b/c I thought it was a different day and I totally fibbed and said it was great. I just try to protect their hearts when I can b/c life will deliver enough crushing blows that I won't be able to stop, IMO.

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sabby2009

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 9 DPO and today my temp absolutely plumeted. :-\

Dollar store test was also negative BUT was an error test too. lol. Who knows? I originally told myself I wouldn't test until Tday but dang this is just getting the best of me. :-\ 

Last week DH traveled for the first time ever and left me alone with the three kids. It was insane. I WAH and run a business. I work CONSTNATLY. But the one reason I would never give it up? Being able to be there with my kids every day. I honestly don't know how *I* would deal being away from my kid working a 9 - 5. Likewise I know many Moms who just can't do full time SAH stuff. It's a personality thing. 

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cemas:

Aqua,

i also do you have a plan chalked out abt supps, food and attempt.....if so can you please share..i started AF today....last month was worst on diet for hubby and me!! so have to get on track and all jumbled abt what to take when....

Cemas, I have put my daily schedule on the posts above. I started ASG and fertile cm after I got the AF. I plan to check my cm ph starting from Thu. And I plan to BSF every day once starting tomorrow and BSF 2-3 times a day the day before O, on O and once after O ( not sure if I have to do this last BSF). My predicted O is on Nov 30th. I plan to have the Big Os 3x a day starting tomorrow. So 2 hrs before will make DH do the ICE, will give him a stong coffee 1 hr before. I'll have an O in that duration. 1 hr before DTD I'll insert some ew (1-2 ml). I'll insert the IC slowly move to the couch and watch TV for 90 mins. Have couple of O's in that duration and remove the IC and go to sleep. Next day I might have another O.

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LolaInLove:
Which, to our credit, we are awesome parents, but I think I just have guilt from getting divorced and making their lives harder, even though they are ok with it all.

 

I think the second you get a BFP, the very next hormone that rages through your body is guilt!  We feel guilty for everything!  I know I do.....Sad

I work full time, but I went part time with all of my kids for at least 6 months.  This worked out really well for us.  Maybe you could do the same.  It's tough, I know.  We don't take vacations, so when I take a vacation day, I use to cook and clean...and maybe I'll slip a pedi in there, but then I feel guilty about taking my DS to the sitter because he should be home with me when I'm home.....   ::sigh::

Wish I had better advice girl. Just let'in you know that you are not alone...not alone at all....  Heart

 


 


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medicrunner

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 Hi ladies!  I have postive opk's!!  Really,really, dark ones!:)  Yay!  I wonder how long it will stay positive?  Ugh, dh is completely unavailable on Wednesday, all day and overnight working, so we have to get our bding in today, and I was thinking if my opk was still really positive I would maybe do it again in the am to at least get some fresh ones up there for Wednesday hopefully.  What do you ladies think?  I need advice!  My ovaries are so tender that dh nor anyone else can touch my pelvic area.  I hope that is a good thing!!:)

 

On another note, I am a sahm and I will tell you, for the most part I love it.  I have times where I feel like pulling my hair out and I get tired of being home and amongst children instead of actual adults all day, but that doesnt happen too often.  I do , have a few side jobs I do occasionally, but not real often.  Even doing those, I can have my youngest with me, so she has NEVER been to daycare, which I am actually quite proud of.  Mainly because she has asthma bad and if she gets a cold her asthma kicks in and she is very, very sick for a long time, like now:(.  Once the kids are all in school full time, including a new babe if I can ever get pregnant,  then I may go to work part time while they are in school.  With dh's job, I cant go anywhere full time, as he can never leave, or get time off if something happens with the kids, sick, fall, lost homework etc, so thats my job.  I definitely would need a flexible position til the kids were older.  

Anyway, Im done rambling, sorry for being so windy:(

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Stupid monkeys ate my first post ... but basically, Medic, I think you should definitely DTD today and tomorrow am. I wouldn't mess around with just one BD at this point with TTC for so long - and if you can't do it any other time tomorrow due to DH's schedule, get some tonight AND tomorrow! SO excited for you!!!! Are you going to use EW or BSF or just go all natural? GOOD LUCK!!!!
 

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 I was thinking of maybe doing egg whites, but definitely adding some preseed to them and one thing Im going to stop doing is checking my cervix while Im in my O window.  I dont want to kill off or damage any swimmers.  Wonder if I have been doing it in the past?  Ugh, who knows.  

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Medic I hadn't thought about checking the cervix and potentially upsetting the little guys ... I wonder if that is possible? It couldn't hurt to not do it.

I was at the park with the ladies yesterday and there was a woman there with 2 older DD's and a set of identical twin boys. I want that! We only plan on one more baby but how fun for those boys to have each other ... I think if we have a son I'll sorta wish he had a brother, but probably not enough that we try to make him one :-)
 

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My AF has been bad this time...have been cramping badly last two days...had to take 2 tylenols....don't know what they sway....but i had to ...to look civilised at work!

to add to it all....we have free thanksgiving lunch at work today!!...tried to eat some mashed potatoes along with turkey and beans...and ofcourse could not resist the pumpkin pie:(((

last and this month so far are not good diet wise and as if to compensate i am chuggings loads of BS water...Aqua i see that u only have have 1 BS/asg drink?

I have already taked with DH to take a small break from work with DS1 whenever that happens and he is all for it so he does not have to do much work home then...lol...i am so looking fwd to that break. also since DD1 is nov born i am holding her back and so hoping that DS1 comes soon so i can spend time with DD1 before she starts school....i feel quilty not being able to spend as much time with her...

Aqua i am in technology too....but whatever...i can spend time later trying to catch up but now i want to put my kids before all....

Medic GL DTD and FX for u and sabby for you too with that BFP...

Lola...good that all ur test came clear...have u tried Soy before??? I will be starting tomorrow days 3-7....wonder how my cycle will go with it all....and am going to start OPK a lil sooner....hoping not to miss it like last month...

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cemas

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My AF has been bad this time...have been cramping badly last two days...had to take 2 tylenols....don't know what they sway....but i had to ...to look civilised at work!

to add to it all....we have free thanksgiving lunch at work today!!...tried to eat some mashed potatoes along with turkey and beans...and ofcourse could not resist the pumpkin pie:(((

last and this month so far are not good diet wise and as if to compensate i am chuggings loads of BS water...Aqua i see that u only have have 1 BS/asg drink?

I have already taked with DH to take a small break from work with DS1 whenever that happens and he is all for it so he does not have to do much work home then...lol...i am so looking fwd to that break. also since DD1 is nov born i am holding her back and so hoping that DS1 comes soon so i can spend time with DD1 before she starts school....i feel quilty not being able to spend as much time with her...

Aqua i am in technology too....but whatever...i can spend time later trying to catch up but now i want to put my kids before all....Thanks for the schedule and the tips

Medic GL DTD and FX for u and sabby for you too with that BFP...

Lola...good that all ur test came clear...have u tried Soy before??? I will be starting tomorrow days 3-7....wonder how my cycle will go with it all....and am going to start OPK a lil sooner....hoping not to miss it like last month...

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medicrunner:

 Hi ladies!  I have postive opk's!!  Really,really, dark ones!:)  Yay!  I wonder how long it will stay positive?  Ugh, dh is completely unavailable on Wednesday, all day and overnight working, so we have to get our bding in today, and I was thinking if my opk was still really positive I would maybe do it again in the am to at least get some fresh ones up there for Wednesday hopefully.  What do you ladies think?  I need advice!  My ovaries are so tender that dh nor anyone else can touch my pelvic area.  I hope that is a good thing!!:)

Suh Weet Girl!!  I say go for it and BD right before your DH has to leave and then BSF and if you still have +OPK's when he gets back Thursday morning BD again.  This is exactly what I did!

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Great Medic. Go for it tonight. GL.

Thanks Begonia for understanding. I've contemplated it so many times. It pains me so much to leave DD in daycare or with a sitter.

Cemas, I missed adding an ASG at noon. I do that, so its 2x a day. I don't do BS/COT cos I am doing ASG. And I'm thinking about a break of 2 long years, like really quit. I am not worried about my career path, but we also need to think about income right? college funds, retirement funds, savings etc needs that additional income push.

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