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Welcome! I have kind of stopped posting but stop drop by now and then. I'm not sure how active I will be but I'll join in!

Cycle Day: 15

TTC Cycle #: 23..? Lost track

Ovulation: Oct 14th most likely

POAS Date: Oct 27th

Baby #: 1

Your plan: do it EOD around ovulation. Thats it. It's been two years so we're kind of exhausted. We have gone for testing and have been told DH has a morphology issue. But everything else was normal, apparently. I don't overly trust my doctor with fertility, I think I must have issues since I have quite painful ovulation. We are still waiting on an appt with a specialist. There is a long waiting list and since we're young, we don't get priority.

Favorite Fall Activity: Going for walks, wearing warm sweaters and boots, decorating for Halloween!

Ok I’m in even though I promised myself no poas this month

Cycle Day: I don’t exactly know because I delayed this cycle with bc pills but cd7 since then

TTC Cycle #: we started around new year’s and I had a d&c end of March, trying since

Ovulation date: sometime in the next two weeks I hope

POAS Date: 10dpo hopefully by Halloween

Baby #: 3, my kids are now 5.5 and 2.5

Your plan: we did interventions for our first two and I’m still thinking no serious ones this time. I think I mostly have a lot of bad eggs at this point, so it’s shots on goal until we decide we can’t do it anymore. Thinking we will start eod tomorrow until I see opk+ and then do two days straight. I delayed the cycle with bc because dh was out of town, and I’m taking myo inositol which delayed my last o date, so trying to just test every day and stay calm.

Favorite Fall Activity: I love everything about fall! Since moving to Texas 3 years ago I have to live for the few cool days we get in “fall”. We had some cool mornings this past week but today the high was 90 I really miss fall up north!!

Oh I wish we were trying this month! We had 3 failed IUIs the last 3 months and I am having surgery to have my uterine septum removed on November 8th so I have to sit out until January.

I'll be here to cheer you all on!

@crazydoglady: we were told it could take up to 9 months. Crazy i know. I think that was back in Feb or march? It should be any time now that we'll hear back. We were told we'd likely get pregnant before we get an appointment.

I'm so pumped that you made this board @crazydoglady!!!

Cycle Day: CD 20

TTC Cycle #: Oh geez... 20 or 21 or so?? It feels like forever

Ovulation: Trigger shot the night of CD 14 & then IUI on CD 16

POAS Date: I really, *really* HATE negative pregnancy tests so I usually just wait for AF, plus with the Ovidrel shot I don't want to risk getting a false positive! But I will test if my spotting hasn't started by October 24th because my cycles tend to be pretty regular.

Baby #: 1

Your plan: This cycle is our final shot at IUI, lucky #3! I just celebrated my 33rd birthday so hopefully that's EXTRA luck?! We took a break last month after the first 2 failed IUIs to regroup & get an emotional/mental reprieve
We are totally unexplained infertility All tests have come back normal, which is great except we can't figure out what to 'fix' to be able to conceive! I've also been going to twice weekly acupuncture since January to help with that side of things.
If this IUI is not successful we will meet back with our RE to discuss the next step- AKA IVF Which scares the shit out of me if I'm being honest

Favorite Fall Activity: Like @bhbee, we really don't have a fall here cause we live in Florida ha. In the mornings you can tell a bit of a difference but the humidity is still out of control! Hopefully the next few weeks will bring a bit of cooler weather Fall isn't what Florida is known for but I'll take it for our wonderful winter & spring seasons!

Just wanted to say GOOD LUCK to all of you lovely ladies!! I was a +6 month ttc'er and I know the roller coaster of emotions you deal with! Hang in there.

My bub is now 8 months and all the struggle was worth it.

@mrskansas: good luck with the re this week!

Hey all! Just kinda hanging out for now...waiting to try after an ectopic, likely won't be trying until December.

Cycle Day: 109 Sort of. That's from LMP. I'm still counting down hCG after treating an ectopic August 28th, then sitting out until I get a real period.

TTC Cycle #: Trying since February, with 2 miscarriages, one ectopic and one non-pregnant cycle in that time. LO#1 took 8 cycles to conceive (no losses then).

Baby #: 2

@crazydoglady: I haven't. The three losses were all quite different (blighted ovum, no identified cause, ectopic)...so I expect it is a combination of bad luck and age (I'm 36, my partner is 42). But, I also don't know what I'd do with that information if we had it; I don't want to do IVF and I'm don't think we'd stop trying just yet even if we knew we had low odds of a successful pregnancy.

I am worried about whether my left tube is still good after the ectopic. My right ovary has always been kind of a slacker. All three pregnancies this go-around have been from the left. My kid was from the left. All of the times that I've had ultrasounds non-pregnant had dominant follicles/corpus luteum cysts on the left. So....yeah -- considering pressing for an HSG and any testing that's also about my longterm health (eg thyroid).

@crazydoglady: I'm so surprised your RE doesn't tell you exactly when to trigger! I have to go in for follicle & lining scans and blood draws every other or second day until she gets to where she's happy with the numbers, especially the blood work (estrogen or estradol or whatever it is called!) and then the nurse calls me and has me trigger than night or the next. So funny how different clinics do things differently! I hope your hubby made it home safe and you all were able to BD when you wanted to!!

@crazydoglady: I ovulate on my own too but we were timing it to be able to do it with IUI, so maybe that's part of why my doctor is really into getting all the timing so exact!! I didn't think about that! I haven't had to do Progesterone yet because my numbers were high enough I was allowed to put up a stink that I reallllly didn't want it ha, so I am not jealous of you at alllll Do you have a lot of side effects with it??

Since we're unexplained our RE thought we should start by trying a few IUIs to see if that would maybe just help make the process easier for egg+sperm to meet ha! I'm like 6 DPO I think or so?? I've had some creamy CM since Sunday which is unusual for me at this time of the cycle so MAYBE that's a good sign?!? It's at least something different ha! But overall I just feel normal- sore boobs like I do after ovulation through my period, some weird cramping/pulling on the side I ovulate from like usual, but nothing else to report! Overall I feel more hopeful than I did the first part of my cycle though so I will take that as just a good sign that even if it isn't this month that good things are to come I tend to spot a day or so before my period flow begins so around the time I would test I know I'm out anyway I do find it easier emotionally than seeing a stark white negative test and wondering if it's just too early, 'maybe I'm one of those people who can't get a positive test until I'm 2 weeks late??' blah, blah, blah No thanks!

@mrskansas: I’m with you. It feels so nerve wracking and I’m always worried about messing up timing. This cycle really sucks because with the various meds and supplements I have no idea what to expect (I’m hoping for the next few days too but could go longer). I’m super stressed this week and taking allergy meds so my cm will be awesome I’m sure

At least in tww there’s nothing to mess up and I can just play “maybe if” until my hope get dashed

This board is moving fast! I guess we really needed a new version of this!

@crazydoglady: Yea, I've heard of Progesterone for losses as well so I get why you were put on it! {And I'm sorry } Keep us posted on side effects and what not as this cycle goes on. I'm super interested to hear your actual experience cause I've read so many differing views! I think I read that they always put you on it for IVF?? So that's part of why I'm interested, in case this IUI isn't successful and we have to move on to that