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@Sams Mom: I can relate to the impatient feelings, and I don't think it's too early at all!

Cycle Day: 10
TTC Cycle: 2+ years
Ovulation Date: triggering again this month for our second IUI, so I'll know tomorrow after my midcycle u/s
POAS Date: won't know for sure until after tomorrow's apt to set my IUI date, but I'll estimate 5/11
Baby #: 1

Second IUI this month. Last week I had my day 3 scan, and it showed a small cyst on my left ovary, but it wasn't putting off estrogen so we can move ahead with this cycle, thank goodness. We also reduced my dosage of femara this month, because I produced more mature follicles than she'd like last month.

everyone!

Thanks for starting the thread. I'm having a bit of a rough cycle over here...

I should have ovulated today, based on my cycle track record for the last like 8 months, but I don't think I have. I had to stop taking the wondfo OPKs because they were all SUPER close to positive 3+ days before usual ovulation, but when I'd confirm with the digital it was negative. So I've stuck with the digitals the last couple days and all negative. I also have no signs of imminent ovulation. No EWCM. No pain/heaviness. And no sustained temp rise yet.

I was handling the wacky cycle ok, but then to top it all off DH had a sperm analysis earlier in the week and we thought all the numbers came back good until we got the morphology yesterday. 2%... which is low. And Dr. Google says it's either nothing to worry about as long as all the other numbers are good or it's terrible and your only option is IVF with ICSI. So I don't know where we're going to go from here... I'm sorry to be such a debbie downer, but this is only of the only places I can vent.

@LabradorLover: Thank you so much! There is so little out there on morphology it really helps to hear some success stories without IVF.

I think at this point DH is going to make a Urology appointment, and I'm scheduled to see my GYN on the 1st. I think I'll ask her to run my CD 3/21 numbers and we'll probably take that and DHs SA in for a consultation with a fertility clinic and see what they have to say about everything. We have ZERO fertility coverage so thinking of starting down that path is quite daunting.

I wish I knew what DH's SA number were 4.5 years ago when we got pregnant on the first try with DS... oh well.

@Sams Mom: We might qualify for something like that, I'll look into it. Thanks!

@BadgerMom: I'm afraid I know zero about morphology, but I do understand the frustration with wacky cycles. Vent anytime! This is the only place I have too. And we have almost no fertility coverage too, just u/s and blood work. Everything else is out of pocket.

@LAZB: High five for trigger shots! You're brave for testing it out. I'm going to do my usual wait-and-see even though it's torture.

@MamaBear87: Hugs. I've been thinking of you.

So glad to read your update! You must be really relieved.

@MamaBear87: Yay! I'm so glad things are looking up!!!

I don’t know if I mentioned here that dh is out of town today, but doc said tomorrow and Friday should do the trick lol

@LAZB: Yay for good follicles!

@Sams Mom: Thank you so much!! I'll look this up!

@LAZB: I had two follicles last month, both measuring around 16mm when I had the u/s, and I triggered two days later. I was excited to have two chances, too, and I hope I do this time as well! I'm not using OPKs, though I have been temping just for my own curiosity. The femara has my temp all over the place. It's so crazy it's basically useless.

Cycle Day: 12
TTC Cycle: Hard to say. I had a miscarriage in December and then waited a couple months to try again. We tried one cycle, which was a bust and then the next month, which was last month, we were on vacation with our kids during my fertile days so we missed our shot.
Ovulation Date: My app is predicting 5/4 as my ovulation date.
POAS Date: I'm not temping but I've had short luteal phases after my December D&C so I won't POAS until I'm at least 12 or 13 days post-ovulation. My period has been coming at 10 dpo recently so I haven't made it long enough to even need to test.
Baby #: This would be kid #3. I've also had 3 losses - 2 in between my kids and one after my second child.

Before I had my second kid, I was diagnosed with a diminished ovarian reserve (age 35) and now I'm 38 so I can only imagine how much worse my numbers are now. However, we're trying to take a more relaxed approach to TTC this time and if it happens, it happens and if it doesn't, it doesn't. I did book an appointment with the acupuncturist I saw when I got pregnant with my second kid and started back up on the diet she put me on but I haven't started temping again. I also found out at my recent check-up that I had really low iron, which I guess can affect fertility so I've been working on improving that as well. We'll see what happens. Good luck, everyone!

Cycle Day: 14
TTC Cycle: 3
Ovulation Date: 4/26 (today!)
POAS Date: 5/11, if I can wait that long
Baby #: 2, first will be 3 in July

First time poster here! I've been having really strange, short cycles with a lot of pre-period spotting since starting TTC two months ago, so I'm not too hopeful about this cycle, but you never know!