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Hi All! It has been sooo long since I've been here I didn't even recognize this board it looks so different. I was just curious as to how you're doing and what I have missed since I had my 2nd baby Daniel 9 months ago. Even though I've been absent from this board I've often wondered about Kristin, Tryingx3, Aspen, NVgirl and others and have continued to wish you all well in your babymaking goals and otherwise. As for me, I've been overwhelmed with my 2 year old and my 9 month old boys. They are a lot of work and baby #2 is a high maintenance baby who has always liked to be held a lot and has had some minor health issues but now that he's just started crawling I have a little more time to do things like come back here and check on you all. Trying: are you pregnant?!! Kristin and Aspen: what's going on?

Hi Perl - I bet you do have your hands full. I'm glad you are able to join back in. Talk to you soon. Krissy68

Thanks Krissy68, I hope you're doing well. I saw the link for the thread you created for "pregnant over 35"----a BIG congrats to you if that's where you are now. As for the other ladies I mentioned before, maybe I'm lost and posted to the wrong thread? Oh well.

Hello Perl! Yes, I am pregnant! It is flying by this time! 24 weeks tomorrow...another girl! She is due the day after my dd's 3rd birthday. I am almost scared of how hard it is going to be! Still the same - working full time, dh still travels, etc... I had a crying fit this morning about how I am going to take care of 2 "by myself"... Even when he is home, he just doesn't "get it".

Perl - have you boys been totally different as babies? I hear that so many times...my dd is still a clingy baby/toddler...we are like 2 peas in a pod...which is why I wonder how I will take care of another little pea!

Perl - I'm not pg yet, but I will take the congratulation... I just got my bfp on the opk on cd 12&13 and today it was bfn and it is cd 14. I have been bding so we shall see.

tryingx3 - Congratulation on having another daughter. Do you have her name picked out yet? Well I have been MIA I needed to take some time to myself and this is my first month back to ttcing. I have a new doctor and I really like her she is a ob/gyn and family doctor. After I got all my test results back she told me to try on my own and if I am not pg by July we will go from there. She also told me to start taking folic acid once a day she gave me a prescription for that she said that the folic acid will make for a healthy baby. I started back taking my temp. This cycle was really weird to me I normally have cd 30 days and I have AF for 7 days straight heavy well this time around I started on May 15 no problem because for April it was April 15 any on cd 1 it was real light ping on cd 2&3 it was real heavy and on cd 4 it was normal and the on cd 5 it was spotty and pink that was the end of the cycle. I went to the $ store and got some opk but I only brought 5 and I started testing on cd 10 and it was bfn and then on cd 11 it was another bfn then on cd 12&13 it was a bfp and today cd 14 it was a bfn. My temp went down some from yesterday. I have so far bd on cd 1, 6, 8, 10-13. Yesterday I started having some pain on the right side. According to fertility friend it said since I got the first positive on the opk I will ovulate betweeen cd 12-15 what you think? Well this is my update and I will talk to you both soon. Rub your belly for me. Krissy68

Hi LAdies, I just returned from San Diego last night. Had a great time visiting the brother and his twins. I am 25 weeks tomorrow. Had a long arduous flight 17 hours of travelling with stop overs and delays but made it home. The lo has a cold which she picked up from my brothers kids.
I am feeling pretty good. Just received a little gift from a friend with a photo frame that reads "Me and My Big Sister" I will try and get the baby room organized today..actually the 2 year olds room. I need the dh to move his office stuff but he said he would today.
Perl~congratulations and welcome back. I would love to hear how life has been with your new 9 month old. You must be slowly getting adjusted. I have heard how hard it can be with 2 demanding little ones. I am just hoping I have a better delivery than I did last time (22 hours labour 3 hours pushing..drugs wore off..and doc left a 5cm piece of placenta inside me. I later had to have a D&C at 9 weeks) Anyway other than that have had a fairly uneventful pregnancy. I go in early June to get my Rhogam for for O neg blood type. Other than that not much to report.
Aspen, did you have your IUI this cycle yet? What is determined that you had more than 1 follicle? (I hope you don't think I was nutty suggesting garage sales..but it just upsets me how costly these procedures are.
Krissy~Welcome back..how are you? We have really missed you here. How has your health been? What is the latest in your ttc quest? I so hope things happen for you.
Julia~how are you doing? How are you feeling these days?
Jayjaysom~ What is new with you? Are you still taking a cycle off? Did you get your hsg? Have you started baby asprin? I wish you all the best.
Trying~ have you thought of anymore baby names? I am so happy that you are having another girl. I love having a little girl. If I had another I would not be unhappy. The Dh :P really wants a boy. I am thinking of having a 3D ultrasound just to get another peak at the baby.
Well that's about it now..wishing everyone all the best. Update when you can!! XO

Kristin72 - Thank you for the welcome back. I am doing much better. I had to take some time off and regroup. This is the first cycle that I am ttcing again. I am not taking any medicine except for the folic acid that my doctor prescribe to me. I did buy some opk and I started using them on cd 10 (sunday) I got bfn on cd 10&11 and then I got bfp on cd 12&13 and then on cd 14 I got my last bfn. I have also been bding cd 1, 6, 8, 10-13 & 15. I know this cycle was weird to me. I normally go 7 days heavy but this time around I started on May 15 which was okay because in March I started on March 20 (while I was in the ER) then in April I started on Apr 15 so I am guessing my cycles are 30-31 days long? Anyway on cd 1 it was real light and pink on cd 2&3 it was heavy on cd 4 it was normal then on cd 5 I spotted and it was also pink then that was it. I will keep you updated on what is going on with me. Rub your belly for me and I hope you get the baby room started. I hope your daughter get over her cold real fast and I am glad you made it back home. Talk to you soon. Krissy68

Hi ladies, just checking on all the old names - congrats Kristin72 and trying3x with pregnancies, and hi Pearl. I am 45 now, with a 4.5 and 6 year olds. Time flies! Pearl - you are going to feel better and out of the eshaustion by the time the youngest will get out of his terrible twos. My first-born daughter was mature, you could reason with her at 3, she was a truly big sister. My 4.5 year old son now still seems toddler-like. Don't know if it's because he's the youngest, the "baby", or because boys mature later. But overall, I felt must easier when the youngest hit 3. I know, it may seem, too, still far away, but there is hope. My second, too, ahs had some health problems. But he seems to be outgrowing.

Anyway, good luck to all you ladies. I'm not sure if I'm going to be having another one, it would be getting to be pushing it, but never say never.

Hey girls nothing much to report on me I am now currently 4dpo. I will be turning 41 in 2 days and I cut all my hair off it is short like Jada Pinkett-Smith or Hallie Berry. The last time I cut it this short I found out I was pg with my last daughter and she will be 5 in Oct. I hope everyone had a good weekend. Krissy68

Happy Birthday Krissy--your birthday is my wedding anniversary. :)

Otherwise, I'd like to join this group...This has been my first cycle back...I too was on the page with the old format and didn't recognize...but, aroudn December, I hit the emotional lows and decided to stop "obsessing" about this (as some people would consider it). I will say, being on fertility meds this go around has made me very very sensitive (I'm normally sensitive, but this just breaks all records!) and kinda testy too. Less patient with DH and more determined to get my answer NOW! haha. That's normally not me, so I may have to research books for DH to read to udnerstand that this isn't controllable. If I'm this bad just from meds, I fear what happens with a full pregnancy. whew. Anyone else go thru that?

runnershirl - Happy Anniversary!!!!!!! How many years? I totally understand what you are going through but it will get better trust me. I have been doing this now for 2 years. When are you testing? Maybe we can test together let me know. Krissy68

Krissy~It'll be our 3rd wedding anniversary, but since we were together for 6 years, we were already unofficially trying before the wedding...On and off the whole 3 years. That's why I took an emotional break from Dec til now (plus, I have a whole myriad of medical things I had to address). I feel better with the majority of it all now. Irregardless, gyno says I'm outta time, so here we go on this joy ride again. Let's hope it's a short commuter train (ttcing) til the real journey (pregnancy). As for em testing, the dr told me to go in this upcomign Monday for a progesterone test. No other mention of tests has been made. Are you talking about HPT? Or, the proges? I don't know if I have enough patience to do NOTHING the whole 2 weeks. Krissy, are you having any symptoms today? I have seriously bad heartburn, as I've never had, and I keep peeing. I'm assuming that is just from the extra water added into my life. But the heartburn~man, my chest has never hurt like that--under my sternum...? I had pink cm earlier, but now it's dry. I don't want to assume this is all related, but I sure hope it is. Any of that with you?

Hi everyone. Sorry I went AWOL for a little while. It's been crazy...and I think I also just needed a little break. Everything is fine though.

I had my IUI on Memorial Day morning and gave myself my booster hCG shot last Saturday. The countdown is on. I'm supposed to know one way or the other by the 8th day after the booster, so that would be Sunday. I'm not expecting to be pregnant but naturally I'm not totally writing this cycle off yet.

If this isn't the magic month, I won't be doing shots next cycle. We just can't afford it...we need a chance to get caught up. I'm okay with that. I want a break from the drugs. I *might* take letrozole (Femara) since it works in an entirely different way. I haven't decided yet.

Hubby had an ultrasound which resolved the conflict between the two urologists in favor of the one who said that the surgery had been a success and that the varicocele in his left testicle had resolved vs. the guy who said it was still there AND he felt one in the other side. The great news about that is that he won't need to consider any more surgeries. The not-so-great news is that we can cross "varicocele" off as the reason why his sperm morphology is so bad. We're right where we were before he had surgery.

I had "the talk" with my RE who strongly suggested IVF with donor eggs and ICSI. He said he'd try it once with my eggs but that he didn't expect it to work...he gave it a "single digit" chance of success. And then, in case I didn't understand what "single digit" meant, he elucidated the concept for me: "I mean, from zero percent to nine percent." Very helpful. Lol.

So here we are. Hubby's morphology is so bad that IVF w/ ICSI is the only treatment option they recommend at this point. My ovaries didn't respond well to the shots this last time. And I'm 44.

And yet, somehow, I haven't given up. What's up with that? I'm either really optimistic or totally delusional and I honestly have no idea which! And don't particularly care which either. Lol.

Anyway, enough about me....

KRISSY - I was really happy to see that you're back. I'm glad you're feeling better and getting back into the swing of things. It sounds like your break did you a world of good.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you...happy birthday to you...happy birthday dear Krissy...happy birthday to you! (It's a good thing you couldn't actually hear that. An "Idol" contender I'm not!)

PERL - HI! Wow, it's GREAT to hear from you! Sounds like you've really had your hands full w/ Daniel and your older son. I hope you'll have a chance to keep popping in and saying hello.

Hubby and I are still trying despite my geriatric ovaries and his sperm issues. No luck yet but we're not giving up.

TRYING - Wow, 24 weeks. I keep saying this but I can't believe how the time is flying. You'll be meeting your new daughter before you know it.

KRISTIN - Sounds like you had a nice vacation...and like you need another one to recover from the traveling! Was the weather good out there while you were there? I wasn't the least bit put off by your garage sale suggestion. "Fundraising" per se hadn't crossed my mind but I don't hate the idea at all. I just might have trouble telling people what it's for...the old broad wants IVF...I just don't wanna hear any crap, you know?

IN THE WOODS - Hi. I don't know if we've met before. But if do decide to try for another one, this is still the perfect place to get support!

RUNNERSHIRL - WELCOME! And happy anniversary! I took Clomid one month for a clomid challenge test and HATED it. OMG. Hated it. I didn't even realize how much of it was the drug until Julia from this site pointed it out. Femara was a little better for me but still not fabulous. I did that for two cycles I think. I'm losing count. The shots, which I did for 3 cycles, didn't mess with my mood themselves, but they make me bloaty and constipated and made my boobs hurt exactly as if I were pregnant...and THAT stuff made me testy! I gained 4 pounds in 3 months on those shots and it was NOT because I ate more. Fertility drugs suck. Except that they're the answer for lots and lots of people, right?

Which ones are you taking? I hope this is your lucky cycle.

Off to a friend's father's funeral. Happy hump day everyone.

runnershirl - How are you doing today? I was talking about taking a hpt. I'm not really having any symptoms just being a real witch. Your symptoms sounds real promising. I can't wait until you test. Do you have a test date picked out yet?

Aspen8 - Keeping everything cross for you and I am saying a big prayer for you as well. I want to say the break did me a lot of good but I guess only time will tell for sure. Thank you for the birthday song and I'm sure you can sing. I will also say a prayer for your friend whose father passed. Krissy68

KRISSY - Thanks for the prayers, they're always appreciated. I'm positive that we're both still going to find those "golden eggs." I'm jealous about your hair cut by the way. I look AWFUL with really short hair and I've always envied women who could pull of that "short and sassy" look. :-)

MY UPDATE - Just waiting, though not obsessing, which is good. Can't wait to see some more posts from our new friends.