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TTC #2: since June 2016...
So other than the race, we have so much going on right now. I need a break big time. Work is crazy, I've had three resignations in the past month and I'm expecting another one (via the rumor mill), our house is on the market and we are trying to find our forever home (at least for the next 20 years or so!), and we are in the middle of our first injectible cycle. So far the injectible cycle hasn't gone as great as they had hoped. As of yesterday which was CD14, my biggest follicle was only an 8. Now, I normally ovulate later in my cycle with an average of CD 19 but I don't know. They upped my dose of meds on Saturday so we will see what happens. Exhaustion does not begin to describe what I am feeling right now. I did get a little down time after the race Saturday but I'm still utterly beat. Hopefully my u/s Friday will show a big juicy follicle and we will be ready for IUI by the weekend. And here's to hoping that our house sells quickly and we find a great house!
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
TTC from 06/2015...Baby M born 11/24/16!
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
TTC from 06/2015...Baby M born 11/24/16!
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
So 3dpi today, 1dai and 2dpi were kind of rough. I felt fine but had pretty severe bloating and gas (that I could never pass) so I definitely didn't feel like myself. Today seems a lot better though so fingers crossed!
Wednesday we celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary and yesterday was my DW's birthday. Really praying this is our year. So far things are going great. Just hope that we can finally make our family complete!
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
In other news (or lack there of) we still haven't heard back on the house we want to buy yet. I'm so hoping this works out. We love the house, while it does need some work, it's nothing we do not feel we can do ourselves and I can definitely see raising our family there.
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
I'm feeling cautiously optimistic about this cycle. My body is being all kinds of weird and I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. I try not to think about it but then my body will be weird for a while, then go back to normal, then be weird again so it's hard not to think about it. Yesterday I woke up to pee and immediately after had this weird dull ache/pressure in my left side kind of near my pelvis that went through my hip. I had a hard time getting comfortable to go back to sleep because of it and it lasted throughout most of the day yesterday. Almost felt like a mildly strained muscle with gas and bloating on top. The feeling disappeared overnight and today I feel perfectly normal other than being really tired. No sore boobs nothing.
I still feel like our chances are pretty good this cycle. I'm trying to remain positive and not even think that it might be negative to not upset myself but I also don't want to get my hopes up so high that I'm devestated if it doesn't work out. It's funny how being away from this for a few months almost makes you forget the emotional turmoil but as soon as you do it again it's back in full force!
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
I think I'm just super overwhelmed right now. Between TTC, buying and selling a house and being slammed at work I'm just exhausted. Our house got a contract on it relatively quickly which is great but now we are having a really hard time finding a house in our budget in the school district we want to be in. My wife came down this morning super excited about a house that of course is out of the price point we are trying to stay at and would require me to borrow against my 401k. I'm still young so that would not be the end of the world, but that's really the only little bit of a nest egg we have left and if we do get to the point of adoption I don't know where else the money is going to come from not to mention a dire emergency that we might need it for. Plus we are waiting for the home inspection to come back from our current house and the appraisal hasn't been done yet so we don't know if we are going to have any further financial responsibilities to get out of our current house. Right now if all goes well we will walk away free and clear but that's not guaranteed. So anyway when my wife came and showed me the house I just lost it and broke down into tears. In all fairness they have been on their way for a couple of days now but the floodgates finally opened.
Then to add insult to injury once I finally calmed down, I went to go let the dogs in from the backyard and they were nowhere to be found and then I realized the front gate was open. They are small dogs and I was sure someone had stolen them. I was now really in hysterics I yelled their names, searched around, went back in the house to make sure I hadn't let them back in and forgotten. What's worse is when they are home in the backyard we usually don't have collars on them so I was just sure we had lost them forever. Then I just happened to see my white dog through the slat in the back fence so I was reliveved that at least I had found one of them and since they generally stick together I thought the other one must be close when he appeared as well. Relief doesn't begin to explain how I felt right then. I ran back in the house to get the key to the back gate and frantically pulled to get it open (it's really tough to open) and they came right back in.
To say TGIF is a complete understatement today. Hopefully the weekend is better!
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
In better news, we put another offer on a house today, just staying hopeful that it goes through and it doesn't end up making us house poor. It's a bit above what we wanted to spend but it's in an excellent school district and we don't have to do anything to it at all to make it what we want. Here's hoping this week is better than last week.
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
This past week has just been really rough which makes this so much worse. Over the past 2 weeks I have had 3 people on the team I manage put their resignations in, I'm stressed about buying and selling our house and if we are making the right decision. I'm just having a hard time feeling grateful for all of the things I do have which is the worst part I think. I DO have a decent job, I DO have a loving and wonderful marriage, I DO have a roof over my head, I DO have shoes on my feet and clothes on my back. I'm not a person that wants for much, I lead a pretty uneventful life. I like buying my clothes on clearance, I've never felt the need to have the "latest and greatest" thing out there. I just feel like the true want of my life to be a mother is so far out of my grasp and I don't know what to do. I go through my head, if ONLY I had made better financial decisions when I was younger, if ONLY I wasn't overweight maybe it would work. While both of those things are things I am working to improve, both of them take quite a bit of time to accomplish and even if I do build up a decent savings and lose a good amount of weight I may still not be any better off than I am.
Sorry for the pity party, I'm just completely overwhelmed right now.
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
Carry. (I may be wrong but believe you mentioned that) also, whether it be 1$-10000 dollars I would be more than greatful for anyone funding my TTC journey. It's expensive! We didn't have the money either but the moment I stopped being so negative and pessimistic (and our last try for a while it worked! Now I'm 8 months and that has struggles too. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and being so negative and it will happen.
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
Also, I just wanted you to know that I personally appreciate the rawness of your posts on this journal. It doesn't feel like you try to filter anything, and I think that is kind of refreshing. I agree one should try and be positive around people IRL because negativity can have a ricochet effect, but I feel in order to achieve this you have to have an outlet and this is yours. It's healthy, in my opinion.
TTC from 06/2015...Baby M born 11/24/16!
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
Also, I went off on family all the time - sometimes family members are big jerks. Heck, some people we permanently cut out of our lives because they weren't supportive while we were TTC. It's totally up to you how to deal with your family and friends while TTC, there's no one right answer!
It worked! Two clomid cycles and two IUI's with injectables all BFN, on to IVF! 3dt of 2 perfect embryos on 12/15/14, BFP 7dp3dt! Frederick Lars born at 37 weeks on 8/15/15!! FET for #2 on 9/29/16 - BFP 5dp5dt!! Bertram Wilder and Mabel Moon born at 28.4 weeks on 3/29/17!
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN
IUI #1- 07/12-BFN, IUI #2 08/12-BFN, ICI at home 10/12- BFN, Back to Back IUI #3 08/13-BFN, IUI #4 09/13-BFN, IUI #5 03/14- BFN, IUI #6 05/14- BFN, IUI #7 06/14-BFN
KD-10/14-BFN KD-12/14-BFN IUI #8 3/15 BFN, IUI #9 4/15 BFN, IUI #10 6/17 BFN
Potential Adoptive Parents- Baby Due November 2017!
IUI #8 04/15- BFN