Fit For Future Families - August 2011

Datx- www.early-pregnancy-tests.com were awesome for OPK's cheap and very fast(and free) shipping

Batgirl-Thanks! will check out later

I hope no one was affected by the earthquake on the East coast and all you lovely ladies are safe.

Beth- a pound is great!

Klmh614- I'm glad your cycles have become regular. that is awesome you don;t have to go back in for three months!

AFM: So I'm a total slacker and didn't weigh myself this morning... but, I did go shopping with my coupons and saved just over $70 :happy: I am going to make it to the gym tonight, so far so good meeting my goals this week. I scheduled my annual for Monday. I hate it, because it is a clear sign that another year has passed. I have decided I'm going to take in my temps and see if they will check for LPD. I feel I'm ovulating too late in my cycle (last three cycles day 20, 18, 20). Dr. didn't want to check previously since my a 28 day girl and my blood tests checked normal, but now I have data to show my concern. Curious to see what he says about it.

Hey everybody....thanks for the well wishes...Ive been getting better...day 4 and can aaallmost close my teeth together!! But the pain has subsided!! Getting there!! LOL I hope to be able to read up all the post and respond to you all tomorow!

Newleaf- Good luck in October...its not always this bad.....my DB got all 4 impacted teeth out at the same time...and he was good in 2 days!! So was my friend! I wouldn't worry about it...the paranoia sometimes is worse!! LOL

Just a motivational story for you all.....don't anyone ever lose hope about TTC. I just got call from a friend and all the doctors told her that she could never ever ever have kids. They have been married for over 10 years and were TTC all that time. Well once again the doctors were wrong! For all that never read my post way back....this is my second friend this happened to. My other friend gave birth this may. Positivity and hope (and if you are religious...prayer) can get you a long way!

xoxo to all of you!!

Dawn (godbless...) - More power to ya on the Bikram Yoga. I love yoga, but I cannot quite grasp the idea of doing it in a sauna!

i'm terrified. lol. but i love the heat, especially dry heat, so i hope it is a good experience.

by the way stephanie, you are doing great with using everyone's real name!

AFM: So I'm a total slacker and didn't weigh myself this morning... but, I did go shopping with my coupons and saved just over $70 :happy: I am going to make it to the gym tonight, so far so good meeting my goals this week. I scheduled my annual for Monday. I hate it, because it is a clear sign that another year has passed. I have decided I'm going to take in my temps and see if they will check for LPD. I feel I'm ovulating too late in my cycle (last three cycles day 20, 18, 20). Dr. didn't want to check previously since my a 28 day girl and my blood tests checked normal, but now I have data to show my concern. Curious to see what he says about it.

good idea to take in your temps. that should help (provided you have an attentive obgyn). let us know how it goes.

p.s. great job on the savings! total couponing girl here.

my goals this week:
get hubby and boys in to get measured (tuxes for my sister's wedding)
get youngest in to dentist (visible cavity)
make haircut appointment
take all medication without forgetting
increase water consumption (i've been slacking)
eat reasonably during lunches out with friends
get back in the habit of eating breakfast

the extra estrogen is making me nauseous. it hasn't affected my hunger levels yet, but i know from past experience that it can. i wouldn't mind a decrease in appetite. my insurance turned down the progesterone gel that they wanted to prescribe, so i will be trying something different. that makes me nervous. and of course, i get to stew about it for the next two months.

by the way stephanie, you are doing great with using everyone's real name!

Thanks!! I had an initial list on a sticky note to learn most of the names & I have to look back through old posts every so often. We've had so many wonderful newbies though, so it is getting harder!

Big hugs Karen, glad you feel able to get some of it out. Thinking of you

hey, hope you dont mind if i join in. Re-starting my weight loss journey. Both my husband & i are soooo ready to be parents. What's holding us back is my weight. I'm at 260 & want to drop a bunch before ttc. Hopefully this will help to get my butt in gear.

Good day all,

Luki-Mostly my cheats involved carbs since I've been doing a physician monitored reduced carb diet so that's more what the "cheat" was for since carbs tend to up calories quite quickly.

Steph- Thanks!

KLMH-Great job on the weightloss for the week and super exciting about the ovulation regularity too. Hopefully that means you'll be prego in no time!

Dawn-Thanks!

Beth- Just give your DH a little bit to breathe. It's a very scary thought for some guys to think of losing their freedom and becoming fathers. I think they are also afraid of the "horror" stories of some girls "tricking" their significant other to get pregnant. Prenatals are recommended to get your folic acid levels up months before you start TTC anyways. Keep your chin up and let him relax a few days before bringing it up again maybe. Good luck any which way.

MsMitch- Welcome!! Good luck on the losing weight battle first. It is soooooo much better for the babies if we get ourselves healthy first.

Taldie- It's not uncommon to take 6 months-1 year to get pregnant (even doing everything right) once beginning to try so try stress yourself out about it yet. Temp tracking might help if you've been unsuccessful with it at first. Here is a good article that cleared up a lot of questions for me : http://www.ovulation-calendar.net/fertility-indicators/basal-body-temperature.php Just keep your chin up!

AFM- I actually have all 4 of my days off this week and I'm very excited about it!! Weighed in this morning at my clinic and am down 5 pounds since last Monday(15th) and I'm stoked about it. It's also a very alkaline diet which is supposed to increase chances of conceiving. Other then that not much new with me although I do have a cute story which has nothing to do with TTC but thought I would share anyways:
I have 2 (very different personalitied) dogs, a rotty shepard(Harley) who is 4 y/o and a pitbull lab(Rezzer) who is 1.5 years old. Rezzer is a totally "Momma's Boy" who really wont do anything much out of my sight but also has strong seperation anxiety if seperated from the other dog. Harley is much more laid back and doesn't particularly care what I'm doing. Well my front door has an issue with latching unless you slam it quite hard so when my roommate left this morning it didn't quite latch. So Rezzer begins his panicked freak out routine this morning for no apparent reason sitting at the top of the stairs. So he whines there for about 5 mins before I call him to see what his issue is. He comes down stairs to me and whines and paces and nudges for about 5 mins before I realize the other dog wasn't lounging around somewhere in his usual routine. So off I go to investigate the oh so urgent concern of Rezzer who whips up the stairs ahead of me and sits right in front of the open front door. I find Harley wandering around the front yard happy as a clam because he's found a way to get away from his "younger pesky brother." Who knew that even dog siblings tattled on each other?!? Hahaha Just another joy of parenthood I can look forward too Hope everyone has a wonderful day! Babydust to all who want it and fat melting genies to those who want them first!

Karen,

I've done the "sympathy" eating for 2, and I've felt the same about my DS. So lucky to have him but at the same time that I'm failing him. He is so loving and has asked why we don't have a baby at our house several times. Just last month I was ready to sell the infant seat & stroller. If we don't get pregnant in the next 6 months the infant seat will be past the expiry date and useless by the time we had a baby, or it would be too late to sell and get any money back on it. We bought baby gear with the intention of it being used by 2/3 kids before we'd pass it on or sell it. My heart breaks just a little every time I see the crib dissassembled and tucked away under the bed in the "spare room" or any of the baby stuff we've got stashed around the house.

(((HUGS))) All I can say is you need to spend the time to grieve what you don't have before you can get back to focusing on your health, weight and TTC again. We were forced into a 2-3 month break due to waiting for laparoscopy before cycling again. I am now so glad that we've had these few months. No fertility meds, no doctor's offices, not really caring when AF is due and agonizing over symptoms that are not really there (or are but are a result of prometrium) duing the 2WW. I think in the last week or two I have finally gotten my head back into a healthy space and will be ready to cycle again after the lap. One thing I have been doing lately, instead of focusing on the babies and pregnant mammas everywhere, I deliberately search out siblings that seem to have 3-5 year age gaps. I watch how they interact and how caring the older ones are towards the little ones and it makes me excited to have 4+ years between kids, if we are fortunate enough to ever have a second one.

Karen- :flowerforyou: I’ve been there too! Before starting MFP I spent a couple months admiring my fat belly pretending it was a baby bump. Sounds so weird and eventually it lead me to this site ) I have also gone through the whole “morning of lost children” phase. It is a totally normal and healthy phase, but I know it was very hard to explain my feelings to my husband and people that have never had problems TTC. They just kept saying. “don’t give up” or “it will happen” Neither are very helpful. So, I will say, I understand!

MsMitch- WELCOME!

Taldie- Yes, get the swimmers checked! It is awkward for them, but I figure if we can get all the painful tests taken they can *kitten* in a cup. Sorry not very compassionate, probably cause I’m arguing with my DH to get his checked again. Been trying to get him in for his ‘new’ check for 6 months and REALLY irritated that he is giving me such a hard time about it. Sorry for the mini vent.

Batgirl- 5 pounds in a week WOWZER!!!

Alisa- One more week! YES, SO EXCITED FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!

AFM- I weighed in today and I’m down 1 pound. Very excited to see 130s again. Only 4 more pounds to my revised goal weight.

Welcome back Jalara! I'm so glad you had a wonderful trip despite the food thing. Vegas is so awesome. I'm not even much of a gambler, but I think it is the overabundance of the artificial fantasyland that just makes it intriguing to me. Like Disney for grown-ups. I have also always loved Garth Brooks too and that show sounds amazing. I think I remember you saying something about doing a vow renewal while you were there. Did you end up doing it?

Hey ladies! Quick check in. This has been a blah week for me, mostly because I think I've had a reaction to eating a bit of gluten. I have been eating gluten-free since January, and up until now I've been able to tolerate it in small amounts, but Monday night I was trying to get my little girl to eat something (with gluten in in, of course), and took the tiniest bite. Tuesday I woke up nauseated and with stomach cramps, and actually had to leave work. By mid-morning, I could barely stand up because of the pain. And all of this was on top of period cramps, bachache & bloating. Yesterday I still stayed home from work again, but I'm back in action today, and feeling better, but still not 100%. My best guess is that it was the gluten that caused the reaction. Definitely motivation NOT to eat it again! Also, my husband's cousin's daughter, who was 24, passed away this week. I didn't know her, but it was a sad, sad story (which I do not want to share here). But it was another reason for the blahs this week.

Enough of the blah's though. I hope everyone is having a great week!

Jalara--glad you guys had a good trip! Yeah, I can understand not liking the weather in Vegas in August, LOL. Glad you liked JCP...I love it, too! But for me it's pretty common-place, since we've had one here my whole life.

Karen--I always enjoy reading your posts. You are such a great communicator, and you put so much emotion and detail into describing things. Side note: I once joined WW Online because I got to the point where I was frustrated with myself for not losing, and felt like paying the $15/month would keep me accountable. I did for quite a while, and then life got busy and I quit. When I decided to start back up, I never could get back into it, and that's when I found MFP. But I hear you about the whole paying for something so that you'll actually stick to it!