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@spaniellove: thinking of you!!

@ladybee: UMMM IS THAT A HPT OR OPK??

ETA: of course it's a hpt! OMG!!! Isn't this your psychic reading month?

@ladybee: amazing! Congrats!

@ladybee: how exciting to see two lines! Wahoo! Good luck with your bloodwork!

@spaniellove: No need to apologize at all. Sorry you're having a rough time right now. We're here for you if you need us.

@ladybee: Congrats!

@Suzimo: We're just getting ready for our CD 3 bloodwork so we're sort of at the same point - let me know what your results say! Hopefully they are positive!!

@ladybee: Congratulations!!

@spaniellove: I'm sorry. It can feel SO lonely! But you aren't alone! I know that sometimes it's more than you can take to even type it out or explain it. Vent when/if you need to!

@ladybee: WOOOHHOOOOO!!!! Congratulations!!! I will keep you in my thoughts until you get the reassurance of the bloodwork results!!!

@ladybee: yay! congrats, love hearing good news after such a hard journey. Thinking positive thoughts for you

@spaniellove: that's the one thing I never expected - how truly HARD this can be. For me there aren't a lot of people in my life that can understand this type of discouragement, so I hope that you can find some comfort here or elsewhere.

@suzimo: ugh, I can totally relate! I'm coming up on my year mark fast and literally everyone I know has either announced a pregnancy or had a baby in the last year. One of my friends started the same time I did, except that she got pregs on her first try...while we're still struggling. It's hard. We're waiting on some test results this weekend too, good luck at your appt. - fill me in on how it goes!

@ladybee: I was so honored to get this AMAZING news first. I am SO SO happy for you and really think this one is going to work out, especially since you're getting a BFP so early (possibly only 10-11 dpo right?). I honestly think I was happier hearing about your BFP than my own. This is where I disagree with that blog post written yesterday. I really only wish the best for all of my friends who struggle with infertility and would never feel sad when one of them finally succeeded. Yay!

@bluestriped bee: My wondfo on day 12 was super super light. You could barely see it. So while testing later sucks, sometimes it really takes that long on a wondfo. However a first response is much better if you have some of those.

@ladybee: oh my gosh!!! Happy Valentines Day for you, how exciting, congratulations!!!

@marionberry: Yeah, I am using wondfro tests so I should hold off on testing. Maybe I'll wait to Monday so that I'm 12 DPO.

@sweetooth: My doc said to call them when I get the BFP. No bloodwork post IUI, so far.

@sweetooth: I had to go in for testing and they called me back about 3.5 hrs later with the results. I did not test out the trigger or test at all until they told me the news. Luckily I did temp so I had an idea it might be positive. It was really the right decision for me, but I think it's different for everyone. Once I got the positive hCG I peed on a lot of sticks though lol.

Question to all (because I think people who've delt with infertility may have a slightly different perspective): I'm trying to decide whether to do the nuchal testing, aka test for down syndrome. I have to make a decision about this in the next week or two. No one wishes their baby would have down syndrome nor does anyone get excited to hear their kid has it, so I want to say that while we'd probably keep a down syndrome baby, it would certainly be devastating to us, at least at first.

The option for me is to a) take the test and know for sure one way or the other right away or b) not take the test and wait to find out when the baby comes. I've found that after dealing with infertility, I'm always assuming the bottom will fall out and something else will go wrong, so of course I'm worried about this now despite my odds being 1 in 1180. Would you want to know you had a baby with down syndrome early so you could prepare and likely stress for six months or find out at birth and then totally stress even more then?

@marionberry: I think I would take the test and want to know. I am a very type A personality and like to plan everything (which is not a good thing during this whole infertility struggle). If we were going to have a downs baby I would like to prepare for it and do as much research as possible. My sister-on-law, who went through 4 years of infertility before getting her BFP, took the test. Her baby does not have downs but she wanted to be prepared.

@marionberry: We plan to get every test possible. Not because we wouldn't keep the baby, but just to prepare.

@marionberry: That related thread really got me thinking yesterday! I'm not sure if my feelings would be different if pregnant, but I'm pretty sure I would want to keep a downs baby, so I wouldn't see any point in the test as it would just cause more worry. Have you seen http://www.kellehampton.com ? She found out at birth that her baby has downs. Her blog is great, and her daughter looks like such a happy sweet girl.

@spaniellove: Yikes, that sounds awful Are you going into the ER? Hope you feel better soon!

@spaniellove: DH used to be a nurse. He says you need to circle the ballooned vein area with a pen. If it grows over 50% you need to go in and see the ED. Otherwise you should be fine. He did say that it means you reduced the amount your body got of the injection but I doubt that's a big deal. Just want you to be safe.

@justdarling: @mrssomeone: @shutterbug: @spaniellove: Thank you for your advice on what you're doing. We had said we weren't doing it, but I'm so type A that I almost think it may be better for me just to do it so I can either prepare or know I have nothing to worry about. This has really helped because DH won't say what he thinks I should do.

@spaniellove: I've done subQ injections before. You are not suppose to be deep enough to be anywhere near a vein. I have seen SQ injections that cause a bump, but the bump is definitely not blood. It could be a bump of what was injected. SQ is right under the skin so bumps can be normal. BTW, I'm not a nurse, though.