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@yellowbeach: I just updated. E2 is 446 with 2 follicles ready to go. My P4 shows I haven't begun to OV ... I trigger tonight and the crazy BD-ing begins for 2night, ICI tomorrow morn, BD tomorrow night, BD Tues morning. ๐ค
I was also directed to take an HPT on the 18! Beta on the 20th if I am pregnant.
That is AH-MAZING news about your friend!!!๐คฑ
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โข 3/4 - Drackomalfoy
โข 3/6 - Jessiemuller88
โข 3/12 - FuzzyPeaches
โข 3/16 - Bees_knees
โข 3/17 - Paranundrum
โข 3/18 - Yellowbeach
โข 3/18 - Kaohinani
โข 3/20 - Ms.Hangry
โข 3/25 - Sam's Mom
โข 3/28 - Blythe
โข 3/28 - BreakOutTheIceCream
โข 3/29 - JennyLayneAZ
โข TBD:
โข No POAS date:
โข Drop-In BFP:
Good luck, ladies!
โข BhBee
โข Lazb
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@Kaohinani: OMG so exciting!!! Time to get your BD on, mama! My weekend is going fine, thanks for asking. DH is out of town, so Iโve been cooking myself to all the foods I like and he doesnโt, which is a nice treat. Scallops are my absolute fav, but he hates the smell of seafood, so Iโve had scallops twice this week and am making fish tacos tonight.
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@karenbme: I am so jealous. My diet is fairly restrictive but I LOOOOVE seafood. Scallops, salmon, crab, oysters, and shrimp are among my favorites ... Heck, I even like caviar! DH has only been gone since yesterday (0600) and will be home late tonight so I didn't make anything stellar for me and the kids. I did indulge a bit did had a glass of Merlot while taking my bath after the kiddos went to bed.
I am beyond stoked and REALLY hope that I can catch the fertility leprechaun this month!
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@Kaohinani: Omg, yes. Iโm mostly meat-free, but Iโve always loved seafood, so much that one of my earliest memories is of being excited because my mom was making scallops wrapped in bacon for some holiday, just looking (up) at them on the counter as she was doing the wrapping before she put them in the oven anticipating how delicious they were going to be. I mustโve been 4 or younger based on the fact that my mom was around and healthy enough to be cooking, if that gives you a sense of how deeply my love for seafood (and especially scallops) runs.
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@karenbme: @Kaohinani: you guys need to stop
Like his allergy is so bad that if I didn't brush my teeth multiple times, scrub my hands, and so on I'd have to stab him with an epi. Like we went to Alaska for our honeymoon, he offered to let me go get King crab legs by myself, and I just felt bad ditching him on our honeymoon that I didn't go.
Thankfully he was cleared for bivalves from w mild allergy, so I can have scallops
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Otherwise, my temps are still bottoming out, also I think today might be my last day of AF. Now the long wait for ovulation ๐
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@Sams Mom: Wow, he is worse than I am with my wheat allergy. If DH doesn't brush his teeth and kisses me after he has a sandwich, I get itchy all over my throat, mouth, face, and neck (and could break out with a rash). Benadryl usually helps me. With bees, I get close to anaphylaxis (tight throat, itchy tongue, localized rash and swelling but I never get to the point of beyond that). I have an EpiPen just in case I do, although a prescription dose of Benadryl usually works wonders.
I am hoping that today is your last day of AF. ๐ค Perhaps, you will have an earlier OV this cycle? ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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@Sams Mom: @Kaohinani: Wow, I am so thankful we donโt have any serious allergies in our house.
@Sams Mom: ๐คthat you donโt have to wait too long.
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@Kaohinani: so exciting to trigger tonight. Good luck w that BD schedule!
I should O sometime this week. Iโm going to start OPK today. Thatโs my big plan...haha
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@Kaohinani: o and your ovaries look great
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@Kaohinani: very exciting!!
@Sams Mom: no crab legs in Alaska? Now thatโs true love!
@karenbme: itโs so funny the things we remember, but that is a deep love for scallops!Iโm ovulating today I think, and itโs so hard to not want to get KU! I mean, we are still doing it, just pulling out, and even if we werenโt, it would be VERY unlikely for me to get pregnant, but itโs so weird to not want to lol. It will be a long wait for our retrieval and transfer since we will probably wait for July, but I think itโs best.
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@LAZB: โIโm still going to pee on sticks for funโ
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@kaohinani: yay for triggering! Happy BDing
@Sam's Mom: my DH is allergic to shellfish too. I'm not a big seafood eater though. Fish is really gross to me lol
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@MsHangry: @LAZB: @DracoMalfoy: Thank you, ladies!
I am uber-excited.@Sams Mom: My ovary dinosaurs. RAWR! ๐ฆ๐ฆ (* I'm old so maybe they are "Dinosaur Ovaries," instead!
Atm, there are 7 tornadoes in GA. One grazed north of us and another is headed between my town and the one north of us.
DH is with his unit as they drive back from SC. #StressedTheEffOutATM -
It is headed towards us. Alarms from the air base are sounding and we are all in the laundry room.
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@Kaohinani: oh man - stay safe and keep us updated!
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We are safe. The only warning now is for thunderstorms.
@yellowbeach: the last one passed over my town 10 minutes ago and began to dissipate soon after.
We are super lucky! Hubby is 20 mins away from the base.
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Ladies, I am so freaking out right now. We just found a squirrel nest under DHโs hood. One healthy baby. We are going to try and care for it.
In the meantime I have been feeling all sorts of KU from our oops. I caved and tested tonight as roughly 11dpo. Iโm so scared!
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@Jessiemuller88: wow on both counts! Fingers crossed so hard this is your sticky baby!!
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@bhbee: thank you!
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@Jessiemuller88: wow! I definitely see a line on your FRER, I can't imagine how you feel, I'm even feeling a lot of feels for you. All of the things crossed for you!
As to the squirrel, cat/kitten milk replacer or whole goats milk. You might want to contact local conservation or maybe a vet about what comes after that food wise. I've known a few people with pet squirrels, they're fun.
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I am having a shit-tastic day ๐
Came home from exchanging my pants that I accidently bought a regular instead of a tall in. I hit my garage door button before I usually just my garage door button. So when I was backing in, I hit it again and backed my car into it as it closed. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ It closed thankfully, but then when we went to leave later it wouldn't. My husband tried to fix it, it messed up more, he got mad/stressed (you know the whole sole income at the moment thing).
Thank God a former coworker/neighbor used to install garage doors, and came up to fix it in below freezing temps.
I need a job
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@Jessiemuller88: I see it! So hoping this is it for you!
@Sams Mom: I have done that exact same thing. I hit my garage door button (which was on my visor), flipped my visor up which must have hit it a second time. Ended up backing into the garage door as it was on it's way back down. DH was sups thrilled
ANYWAYS...I feel ya.
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So question for the masses if you've switched jobs while TTC.
I've been trying forever as we all know, and it will take a lot for me to skip a month(s)... BUT a friend of mine delayed TTC when she got a new job because she wouldn't qualify for maternity leave until the due date fell after your 1 year anniversary. Is this a common thing? I'm hoping to get on at this hospital, so they have enough employees for FMLA (last job did not), so I should at least qualify there.
I really really really don't want to skip any months.
I plan to text a former coworker that now works at this hospital to see if she knows anyone that's had a baby to ask.
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@Sams Mom: Iโve never been in the situation, but I *think* in order to qualify for FMLA you have to have been employed for 12 months AND have worked 1,250 hours. (I once had a coworker who cut it close on the hours...she was working as much as possible before her maternity leave and barely squeezed them in!)
Damn it. Hoping for your sake that you can find some sort of loophole or something
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@Jessiemuller88: That is such an adorable squirrel!
As for your BFP-ish, I see it!@Sams Mom: I am sorry you had a shi!tty day. (Trust me, yesterday was no gem for me either between G throwing a tantrum at the RE's [he was the proverbial "birth control" at the fertility institute ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐
As for me, our home was unscathed and everyone fine after being crammed into laundry/food storage room. DH came home and I was able to BD. Things could have been so much worse. (DH and I still have to DTD this morning and evening AND tomorrow morning.) Hoping this cycle sticks. Also, I'm a bit [weirdly] excited to "test out" my trigger. It will be my 1st BFP (* besides the thing we do not speak of) since I tested for G ... I know, I'm odd ๐คช
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Well, that was highly anticlimactic and a bit underwhelming... I metabolize medication so quickly that I can barely catch a positive HPT 15 hours after I triggered! ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Soooooooo crampy (and bloated) with hardly a thing to show for it!
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@Kaohinani: what dose of trigger did you use?
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@Sams Mom: It was a premeasured 250 Ovidrel injection. It's half-life "should be" between 30-35 hours post trigger not 15 hours post trigger. So 15-18 hours AFTER it's half life, it would be down to 1/4 (... then 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, etc). Either I metabolize HCG quickly or the amount of HCG was very low and may not induce OV. ๐คทโโ๏ธ I will [probably] be receiving a neg HPT in the next day or two. I cannot find anything on whether HCG builds up to OV then declines or, if it begins declining immediately post trigger. Perhaps, @Yellowbeach, @FuzzyPeaches, @Karenbeme, or @Lazb would know? If not, I may contact my RE's PA and see if I need a second shot.
I "Doctor Googled" (* which I never do) and looked some info up via Study Viewer and on Health Tap:
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@Kaohinani: from the extensive creeping and reading I've done on ART/IVF it's usually 1-1.5 days per 1000 units (but I don't know if that high of a dose is specific to retrieval cycles). So a 10,000 unit trigger is conservatively assumed to be out by 2 weeks. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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Wow, it has been a busy weekend on the POAS board, but first things first...
@Jessiemuller88: You have a baby squirrel!!! I hope it grows up to be strong and healthy.
And I see the the line on the test too, I hope it's the real thing!@Sams Mom: I'm sorry things haven't been great lately. Hopefully the universe will balance it out with a BFP really soon.
As for the question about skipping some months TTC when changing a job - I did it. I would have gotten paid leave either way, but I would have gotten about three times less if hadn't waited and gotten pregnant right away. We didn't prevent though, just tried a little less than usual for a few months.@Kaohinani: I'm relieved to read you're all okay, the news about the tornadoes reached our media too. It must have been really bad, because yesterday was election day and we have a huge doping scandal over here, not much room is left for other news at the moment.
I'm glad to hear your cycle is going well and everything is on track. I have high hopes for you!It's cd14 for me today and I might ovulate right on time. I've had ewcm since Friday and had a positive opk yesterday. Time has gone by so fast, I remember when the first half of my cycle lasted for ever, now it's good if I remember to start temping before cd10...
I wrote to my doctor last week and obviously I haven't been in contact with her for a while, because it turned out she's not working at the moment - she's home with her baby (one can hope it's a good sign). She said I should make an appointment with another doctor as she'll be away for a while. I'll do that in the coming weeks.
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Quick update after RE visit - roughly 18-20 follicles but he wants to do another day of meds to let a few more mature more. Retrieval day is pushed back to Thursday with a 5% chance it will be Friday. Now the scramble to find coverage for the shift Iโm working Thursday and Friday.
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@paranundrum: Thank you.
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@yellowbeach: Good luck with producing many quality ova! ๐ค
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I spoke with my RE's PA and she stated that some women do not show crazy amounts of HCG post trigger as it metabolizes too quickly and is not expressed in full saturation in the urine. She told me not to worry as Ovidrel induces OV 99.8% of the time, even when HCG levels appear low. She told me to focus on my normal ovulatory symptoms (* Mittelschmerz discomfort, changes in cervical mucous, and horniness) as my LH may also not register on an OPK. Also, she does not want me to test out; rather, I am to take an HPT on 14 dpo and, if positive, come in on 15 or 16 dpo for my beta.
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@Jessiemuller88: fingers crossed!!!
@Kaohinani: you really do metabolize it quickly!
@yellowbeach: wow! Thatโs a lot of follicles, hope you get bunches! I think we will get 1/3 of that if we are lucky! Good luck finding someone to cover for you. -
Update - DH and I BD this morning. DH is scheduled to drop off a "sample" by 1 pm. I go in for my ICI appointment at 7 PM. Hoping everything works out! ๐ค
@Lazb: Yes, ma'am, apparently I do. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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@Kaohinani: good luck today!
@yellowbeach: wow!!! Good luck to you too! Itโs so stressful to find coverage last minute for this kind of thing.
@Jessiemuller88: I definitely see it!!! When will you poas again?!
Also very brave with the baby squirrel! He looks so cute but I know they are so crazy as adults.As a total aside I just remembered this weird fact I learned that squirrels only remember about 20% of what they hide. For some reason I think thatโs totally hilarious
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@fuzzypeaches: Thank you!
P.S. That IS a funny fact about squirrels!
Good luck, ladies! 
I am uber-excited.
ANYWAYS...I feel ya.
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