Fit For Future Families - October 2011
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Yay S'mores!! That's fantastic!!! WOOT WOOT!! Yay pink!!! :flowerforyou:0
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Welcome to all the newbies.
AFM: What a difference a week makes. I realized yesterday that I've been in a fog for the last few weeks. I haven't wanted to be social, exercise or even clean the house. So now that someone in the medical community believed me when I said it was ridiculous for me to wait 3 months for a consult with a specialist, the fog has lifted. I"m back on track, feel more in control and the ambulatory blood pressure monitor is being attached tomorrow and then the specialists office just called. They have a cancellation. So now I have to be downtown (about 2 hour drive) for about 3:30 tomorrow afternoon for the consult. This means we'll probably catch Oct/Nov. cycle to start and then have the transfer done in Dec.......crazy!!!!! (I was just hoping to have the transfer for Jan!) Going to have to watch the stress around the renewal and start farming things out so I just have to show up!!! Still I'm one happy chickie today. What is everyone else grateful for today?
YAY Pam! Doesn't it just change your whole outlook when someone validates what you have been trying to say? Hooray! December!!! WOW!
I think everyone knows what I'm gratetful for right about now...:happy:
Call me the energizer bunny - I'm still dancing......LOL0 -
Hi ladies, doesn't look like I'm going anywhere. The symptoms started going away this morning, I'm pretty certain I just experienced a CP. FRER was negative this afternoon. I decided to take my NuvaRing out a day early cause I'm sick of the way it makes me feel so it looks like i'm back to hoping for a Thanksgiving BFP again. I'm ok with this one, I don't think I lost this baby for the same reasons I lost the others, I always held onto my babies for about a week longer than this so I'm pretty sure it just wasn't meant to be. Also there's always the possibility it was nothing too, hopefully AF will come and go swiftly and this next cycle will be it for me.0
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I think you are among the most fertile people i know LOL....I will be hoping and praying this one sticks! Congrats lady!
Yes, I do get pregnant very easily, out of all the months we've been trying I've been pregnant at least as many times as not, if I count this one I've been pregnant 4 out of my last 8 cycles and we were preventing for 2 of them, so 4 out of 6 cycles that we were ATTC. Even my DD came right after I got off birth control. My problem is keeping the baby, I think I would prefer it to take me 6 months to get pregnant and actually get to keep the one baby. Hopefully I will get to keep my next one!!0 -
I think you are among the most fertile people i know LOL....I will be hoping and praying this one sticks! Congrats lady!
Yes, I do get pregnant very easily, out of all the months we've been trying I've been pregnant at least as many times as not, if I count this one I've been pregnant 4 out of my last 8 cycles and we were preventing for 2 of them, so 4 out of 6 cycles that we were ATTC. Even my DD came right after I got off birth control. My problem is keeping the baby, I think I would prefer it to take me 6 months to get pregnant and actually get to keep the one baby. Hopefully I will get to keep my next one!!
I'm so sorry Smores!!!! And with CPs its so tough for the doctors to help
I'm thinking of you 0 -
I think you are among the most fertile people i know LOL....I will be hoping and praying this one sticks! Congrats lady!
Yes, I do get pregnant very easily, out of all the months we've been trying I've been pregnant at least as many times as not, if I count this one I've been pregnant 4 out of my last 8 cycles and we were preventing for 2 of them, so 4 out of 6 cycles that we were ATTC. Even my DD came right after I got off birth control. My problem is keeping the baby, I think I would prefer it to take me 6 months to get pregnant and actually get to keep the one baby. Hopefully I will get to keep my next one!!
I definitely hope you get to keep the next one! I totally understand wishing that it just took longer and you get to keep the baby. It will happen! I can only imagine how much all of this sucks in the mean time. hang in there! xo0 -
Welcome to the newbies! I hope you aren't with us long!
Pam, congrats, i hope that everything works out! It's so nice to have a plan!
I just wanted to pop up and give a little update. Tomorrow I have an appt with the orthopedic surgeon, basically I think he's going to say "yep it's your back" which he pretty much already said but he wanted to see me again after the cortisone had settled it. Its been about 3 weeks since I got the cortisone injections and I still hurt :-/ the good thing is I finally got my neurosurgeons nurse to actually talk to the surgeon who said he would do the surgery and that the symptoms definitely match the MRI so he should be able to get good results. I have a consult on November 8th to talk about recovery and everything and do paperwork, so hopefully Nov 8th I'll have a date! I can't wait to have the surgery over with, be pain free, and back to baby making. Trying to prevent a pregnancy when you really want to be pregnant sucks (as I'm sure a good handful of you can relate to!)
I've been doing a lot of research on healthy/clean eating and I think i'm hooked! All I think about is what new things I can make from scratch and all that. This weekend I'm going to make tortillas for enchiladas. My first step in healthier eating is to make as many things as humanly possible from scratch and with whole wheat...after that i'll start worrying about organic, and sprouted wheat and all the other healthier options.
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Emily - that is the way to do it!!! I'm still on step one (make from scratch and whole wheat).....sometimes venturing into the other realms.
Although I will say......it has its consequences....
Last night I had a hankering for fish & chips and there is a great place in town that is very knowledgeable about their fish and how it's fished and who does it and all of that. I haven't had F&C in a LONG time because I had read that it is truly the worst meal you can eat - the combination of fat and carbs and minimal protein. But I sent DH to pick it up on his way home from work yesterday. It was pretty good, even if I only got through half the portion (the fries covered my dinner plate and piled up about 3 inches). All was good. Fast forward until 4am.....not so good. LOL Let's just say that the greasy carbs were really a bad idea.
Moral of the story: Once you go clean, you have to eat lean!!!! LOL0 -
Hello ladies, I would like to join you all.. I would also love to leave you all soon if I am lucky.. We just started actively TTC after we lost our boy in July.. Life has been very tough for us and we are still trying to cope up hoping someday we will get our rainbow .. I joined MFP recently and started exercising as I need to shed the pregnancy weight which I gained over the last six months I was pregnant with my angel baby..
Age: 34
Where you live: Indiana
Job: Homemaker & engaged in various Volunteer Services
Length of time on the board: joined recently
Marital Status: Married
Length of time you've been with SO: 2 years
Do you have kids: one in heaven
Length of time TTC: 1 month
Diagnosis: N/A
Do you chart your BBT: yes
Do you use OPKs: Yes
Are you on any meds for TTC: Doc put me on Baby Aspirin
Height: 5.4
Weight: 156
Goal Weight: 145
Strange fact about yourself: I am very moody, love to cook, love kids always wanted one of my own...0 -
AFM: What a difference a week makes. I realized yesterday that I've been in a fog for the last few weeks. I haven't wanted to be social, exercise or even clean the house. So now that someone in the medical community believed me when I said it was ridiculous for me to wait 3 months for a consult with a specialist, the fog has lifted. I"m back on track, feel more in control and the ambulatory blood pressure monitor is being attached tomorrow and then the specialists office just called. They have a cancellation. So now I have to be downtown (about 2 hour drive) for about 3:30 tomorrow afternoon for the consult. This means we'll probably catch Oct/Nov. cycle to start and then have the transfer done in Dec.......crazy!!!!! (I was just hoping to have the transfer for Jan!) Going to have to watch the stress around the renewal and start farming things out so I just have to show up!!! Still I'm one happy chickie today. What is everyone else grateful for today?
pam, i can so relate.
i'm grateful hubby took the boys to school so i didn't have to mess with the first-snow-of-the-season-so-i-don't-remember-how-to-drive crazies. (it's early release today though so i do go have to pick them up.) 0 -
Hi ladies, doesn't look like I'm going anywhere. The symptoms started going away this morning, I'm pretty certain I just experienced a CP. FRER was negative this afternoon. I decided to take my NuvaRing out a day early cause I'm sick of the way it makes me feel so it looks like i'm back to hoping for a Thanksgiving BFP again. I'm ok with this one, I don't think I lost this baby for the same reasons I lost the others, I always held onto my babies for about a week longer than this so I'm pretty sure it just wasn't meant to be. Also there's always the possibility it was nothing too, hopefully AF will come and go swiftly and this next cycle will be it for me. sorry smores. 0
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I just wanted to pop up and give a little update. Tomorrow I have an appt with the orthopedic surgeon, basically I think he's going to say "yep it's your back" which he pretty much already said but he wanted to see me again after the cortisone had settled it. Its been about 3 weeks since I got the cortisone injections and I still hurt :-/ the good thing is I finally got my neurosurgeons nurse to actually talk to the surgeon who said he would do the surgery and that the symptoms definitely match the MRI so he should be able to get good results. I have a consult on November 8th to talk about recovery and everything and do paperwork, so hopefully Nov 8th I'll have a date! I can't wait to have the surgery over with, be pain free, and back to baby making. Trying to prevent a pregnancy when you really want to be pregnant sucks (as I'm sure a good handful of you can relate to!)
i hope the appointment goes well and you get a date set up emily. i find things easier to handle when there is a plan in place. 0 -
Hello ladies, I would like to join you all.. I would also love to leave you all soon if I am lucky.. We just started actively TTC after we lost our boy in July.. Life has been very tough for us and we are still trying to cope up hoping someday we will get our rainbow .. I joined MFP recently and started exercising as I need to shed the pregnancy weight which I gained over the last six months I was pregnant with my angel baby..
i am so sorry for your loss. i can't image how difficult that must be. 0 -
last day of clomid and first day of estrogen. i didn't get as mentally wacked out this time on the clomid (yay), and i can tell it is working (yay, but boo). my ovaries feel huge, rock-hard and are very tender. come on ovulation!!!
not much else to report. after the half-marathon, i haven't been running much. i brought out the christmas stockings i started knitting two years ago for the boys with the hopes to finish at least one this year (it would go alot faster if i would stop putting them away after the holiday season is over). lol. maybe. i am over halfway done on one and a fourth of the way started with another.0 -
Welcome newbies. We're glad to have you here. Hope you find what you are looking for.
Smores, so sorry. Hang tough. We're here for ya.
Dawn, I'm pulling out my pom poms for a big "GO O"!!
Emily, good luck at the doctor.
Pam, Great perspective. Good things will happen. I just keep repeating that to myself.
AFM, this is just a quick check-in because I absolutely need to scream for a minute and I that just wouldn't be cool at work. The last two days I've been inundated with baby news and I feel like I'm going crazy. First, a friend who spent a year traveling around the world, came back & got pregnant right according to plan just had her baby. Two friends on facebook announced pregnancies, one of them with her third. A friend living in another state sent me an email today with her news (hers is uniquely significant because she's in a lesbian partnership and the baby was, of course, conceived through a planned IUI). My younger brother called last night to say that my sister-in-law was expecting their 2nd in June. And then...I'm walking around the corner at work today at our production facility and almost run into this girl who I'm not all the crazy about and she is clearly pregnant (I haven't seen her in awhile). To be fair for the first 5 people mentioned, I'm thrilled. Guiltily, I'm only indifferent about the girl from work. Overall, I just can't help but feeling selfishly sad. Pretty much the whole "Why not me?" argument. Aaaarrrrggghh!
So, simply put, I need to regain perspective....Pam, I'm coming back to your question: What am I grateful for? Here are a few things. I'm grateful that I get a new little niece/nephew. My current niece is about the most adorable thing ever and this just means more Auntie spoiling. I'm grateful that my friends are going to experience the wonderful miracle of being parents. I'm grateful for my job, even if there are a few people who annoy me.
I'm grateful for my husband for loving every last ounce of crazy in me. I'm grateful for the will power that has helped me with my weight loss journey. And of course, I'm grateful for all of you for listening to my mid-day rant and generally just being here and being who you are! /end rant.
Hope everyone is having a better Wednesday. *HUGS* to y'all.
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Pam- That's awesome news! So glad you have a plan and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that everything goes as it should
Emily- Good luck with your appointment tomorrow as well as your consult in a couple weeks. Happy to hear the neurosurgeon is on board!
Smores- So so so sorry hun. Big big **HUGS**
GBOH- That doesn't sound comfortable but at least you know the clomid is working! I hear ya on the stockings, I've been working on a scarf for about.... 5 years! I only bring it out to work on when its cold outside and since I'm not a knitter at ALL even the few months that I have it out I don't get much accomplished!
Stephanie- I'm in the same boat. I'm trying really really hard not to let myself feel jealous or angry about the people around me who are pregnant, even about the ones who have said they don't want to be pregnant, but its hard. But I don't want any bad mojo/karma floating around me :laugh: You have a lovely list of things to be grateful for. And we're all grateful for YOU and your friendship
AFM- Last night was rough. I think maybe LO is teething? She hasn't gotten any new teeth in about 6 months but she was screaming bloody murder off and on until I decided to go get her out of bed around 11:30. We snuggled for a while and then she cried some more when I laid her back in her crib but only for a few minutes. She burped two really big gross burps right in my face while we were snuggling so maybe her tummy was bothering her. Sigh, things will get easier when she can tell me what's wrong. I hate not knowing. We had a fun morning at story time, she got to trick or treat around the library and everyone loved her parrot costume. As far as TTC- I used the OPKs last week, but not consecutively. Things were just to crazy. I never got a clear positive, but I for a couple days I got two faint lines, then a day later just the one. Is that normal? Tomorrow we're going to the next town over for groceries and I'm going to that library to get Taking Charge of your Fertility to give me a little more insight. Also a BBT thermometer. Hope everyone is having a great day!0 -
Stephanie & RisOnTheRun- Thanks! I am pretty excite to not be considered overweight in a few more lbs! I think that will be the most exciting thing about this so far!
Karen- I am sorry... **HUGS** I've never had a CP but I did lose an angel at 10w2d so I know how it is to get excited and then find out bad news... Hopefully we all get very sticky healthy rainbows soon!0 -
smores: really sorry to hear about your cp.
AFM: ive started spotting today so af id due tomorrow which is good news as now i can start properly. So cd1 tomorrow . I have long cycles so ov day is usually delayed or late, fingers crossed for november!0 -
Sorry to hear that Smores.
Stephanie, I loved your list of things to be grateful for, it was just lovely. I know how you feel with all the pregnancies around you. I have a friend who is due on New Years Eve with her fourth. Although I kind of am happy for her, I also know that she struggles with the three she has already as the father spends most of his time drinking and trying hard to avoid the children if he can because they 'get on his nerves'. That makes me really sad (and also makes me question why she would have another baby with this man, but I guess we never know all the details of anyone elses relationship).
AFM, got through the funeral which was a lovely service but very emotional. I've been working late since then to make the time back and I also have a bit of a chest infection. Nothing that a good weekend rest won't fix but blah nonetheless.
On a slightly lighter note - I think I accidentally flashed our postman this morning! For some reason he never uses the letterbox but always bends down and puts the mail through the catflap :huh: He came a bit early this morning and I was just stepping out of the shower and had left the bathroom door open (the cats were running in and out so it just seemed easier than tolerating the mewing and scratching). The flat is what would hav been the ground floor of a house so the bathroom is directly opposite the main door which is glass so I fear he may have seen more than he really wanted to. Thankfully it's frosted but I think I'll be locking the door from now on :blushing:0 -
AFM, this is just a quick check-in because I absolutely need to scream for a minute and I that just wouldn't be cool at work. The last two days I've been inundated with baby news and I feel like I'm going crazy. First, a friend who spent a year traveling around the world, came back & got pregnant right according to plan just had her baby. Two friends on facebook announced pregnancies, one of them with her third. A friend living in another state sent me an email today with her news (hers is uniquely significant because she's in a lesbian partnership and the baby was, of course, conceived through a planned IUI). My younger brother called last night to say that my sister-in-law was expecting their 2nd in June. And then...I'm walking around the corner at work today at our production facility and almost run into this girl who I'm not all the crazy about and she is clearly pregnant (I haven't seen her in awhile). To be fair for the first 5 people mentioned, I'm thrilled. Guiltily, I'm only indifferent about the girl from work. Overall, I just can't help but feeling selfishly sad. Pretty much the whole "Why not me?" argument. Aaaarrrrggghh!
Stephanie, thanks for all of your continued support. I totally know how you feel! I haven't had quite as many announcements as you but my brother in law's "girlfriend" is pregnant....with twins none the less. While I'm very excited about having new nieces or nephews (or both) I'm also irritated because he's a pot head, wasn't trying, and I didn't even know he had a girlfriend until we found out she was pregnant, nor did my husband. When people are trying and mature I'm happy for them, but when they aren't trying and aren't in any way shape or form in a position to be having a kid I have a hard time not begrudging it. But, God has a plan, who are we to debate it? Hang in there lady, your time will come 0
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