Fit For Future Families - August 2011

This week was a pretty good week for me. I lost 1.5 pounds, and am down to my lowest weight ever in my adult life. So that's pretty awesome! I'm at this point where I'm right on the verge of having to buy new clothes - my current clothes are getting a bit loose. But I don't want to spend the money on smaller clothes right now because I'm hoping to out grow them with preggo clothes soon. So hopefully this will happen quickly!

We've only been TTC for about 3-4 months now - I'm not charting and my cycles have always been pretty regular - so I'm just trying to time "it" with this little iPhone app. According to it, I'm scheduled to start my period in 10 days, so now we wait. Honestly, I don't think this will be our month since we only did "it" once during the scheduled "fertile" days - I'll spare you the details. HA! But, it only takes one...right ladies?

Only 6 (SIX!!) of us said we were taking prenatal vitamins............C'mon ladies!!

Make that 7. I've been taking prenatal vitamins for over a year now. Just wasn't thinking about vitamins when I filled out the "meds" section of our little get-to-know-ya intros.

Same here...I didn't think about it. So make that eight!

Add me to the taking vitamins list, too!

Soooo...today I went to fertilityfriend.com to set up an account. Turns out I already had an account. I have absolutely no memory of creating it, but apparently I did. There is only one day that I recorded info--Dec 28, 2010. Too funny! Anyway, my plan is to start charting, for one thing just to get in the habit of it, but also so that I can better know what's going on with my cycles, which have not been regular since giving birth.

I am seriously dragging today. Yesterday was a super busy day at work for me...actually the past few days were, since I was making up for being on vacation for a week. My in-laws came into town yesterday, so they were at my house when I got home. I took them out to eat and to a baseball game, and we didn't get home until 10:00.,,didn't get in bed until after midnight. I never do that. I'm always in bed by 9:00 LOL. Today I just had no energy at all, but in-laws were still in town, so I had to power through. They're gone, now, and DH is at work. Tonight should be workout night, but I'm SO not feeling it. Maybe I'll just do 20 min of Wii Zumba. If I can make myself get up. What I REALLY want to do is grab the bag of sour cream & onion chips that I've been successfully ignoring so far, turn on Friends re-runs, and veg on the couch. Bleh.

Also - Happy Birthday (late) cupcake! Where in KY? The vast vast majority of my family lives in Kentucky.

thanks! I am from southeastern ky

Cupcake, I had the same issues last month. I'm giving it a month and seeing what's up. If I'm light again this month then I'm going to try and do less intense workouts and see if that helps. If not, I will be headed to the doctor. It is very possible that it's your body getting used to the weight loss, but less weight means a healthier, happier pregnancy

Sorry I've been kinda absent this week! I think I have had some sort of social function everynight this week! I've been creeping and trying to keep up w everyone!

Jalara - that is some pretty awesome stats we've got going on!

So the hubs is FINALLY in port so we've been able to skype twice (although one of them was at 2am last night and I was half awake so I only remember bits and parts of the conversation) but we were able to talk for a little over an hour yesterday and it was awesome. Far beyond what I could have imagined. I won't lie and say these last 7 months of us being separated has been fun or easy (for all u newbies that aren't aware, my husband is a naval aviator and has been deployed on an aircraft carrier since right after last Christmas) but it has done some pretty amazing things for us not only as individuals but also as life partners. As it is coming to an end (17 days until we ate reunited!!) we have only come to realize how awesome our relationship has developed and any doubts or fears we may have had ( which believe me...there were lots for each of us) have been resolved and proven to be insignificant.
He said the SWEETEST thing he could have ever said to me...ever, he said "this is going to sound REALLY weird, but the thing I am most looking forward to and the thing i miss the most is my friend."
My first thought was "all your friends are on the boat w you...." then I realized he was referring to me! :-) we've never had a real "friendship" ..... We made out the night we met, it had always been sex or business. We have realized how much we depended on each other for true unconditional friendship and have really learned how to open up to each other and be honest w each other about wants, desires, dreams, complaints etc. I then responded "I totally get what you mean, I miss laying on the couch and just being silly w you. Plus I like having sex with you" haha thn he goes "well duh! That's an added bonus!" then he goes "BABE! we're like friends w benefits...only we're MARRIED!" it was HIL-ARIOUS!

We also got to have "the talk" about all our (my) fertility issues. I cried a little BC this was the first time we've verbally talked about it since I was diagnosed and everything. I'd been keeping him up to date via email but it's always been just me TELLING him the plan of action and him saying that he was okay w whatever we hadto do. I've never really seen his actual reaction. We were taking about what we were going to do for the holidays and he said he was looking forward to having a free sitter for our son to be able to hit up our old stopping grounds (were going to FL to do thanksgiving w my family and that's where we met) and I said "yeah, hopefully I'll be preggo so I can DD and we won't have to pay for a cab!" and he made a face and my heart SANK...so I asked if he was REALLY on board w this BC it is almost time for me to start all the lovely medications and he needed to speak now or forever hold his peace. And he said that he was ready and REALLY excited to start trying (u think he's just excited to have LOTS of sex haha) but that he is terrified that it's not going to happen right away and I'm going to be devastated every month. I told him I WILL be sad every month that we get a BFN or AF shows up but that I am completely aware that it will probably take time and that it probably WON'T happen right away and I am ready for that. I told him at some point we would need to talk about how far we're willing to go as far as medical intervention goes but he said he didn't want to talk aboutthat until WAY down the road when we've exhausted all our current options. It was soooooo nice to FINALLY talk to him about all this. I feel like I've been doing it ony own up to this point (w the exception of you guys's awesome support).

On THAT note - started the provera yesterday! So we are in the final stages getting ready to ACTUALLY make this happen!

Sunday night - preparing for the new week ahead......it was an emotional weekend. Got into a big fight with my father and he stormed out of my house yesterday. We were going to take them to the restaurant we're doing the renewal in.....so that was a bit of a bust. Kept active today though.....got the fence fixed and a garbage bin half built....hopefully tomorrow morning the raccoons won't have shared our garbage with the neighbourhood like they have every other day this month.......

I realized today that it's day 29 for me. My cycles have been consistently 36 days for about 10 months so that means next Sunday should be my day 1. That kind of sucks since my clinic is not open until Monday, but I'll call the for the u/s and prescrip on Monday (which works well since I'm working from home and can sneak off for an hour or so early in the morning

Good to see there are so many members again....I'll check in with you guys soon!

Alisatoth- I cried when I read your post. My hasband has deployed twice to IRaq. Thos phone calls and sweet moments are the best. kids werent on our radar then, but those heart to heart talks of FINALLY discussing things for when they come home is awesome. everytime my phone rang and that inavailable number popped uo my heart would race like a school girl..

Kimberly- the only reccomendation i have for a thermometer is to NOT get the walgreeens one...it was a POS.

fitterpam- i always fight wiht my father. it sucks!

kah#78- sounds like lots of fun!

AFM- I am still dealing with the after eccefts of my surgery. I had a D&C, ovarian drilling, and laprascopy done. the good news is everything looked good except my cystic ovaries which we already knew about. I see doc on the 6th and then hoping to come of BCP and start ttcing again.