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2HopefulMommies
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This month my wife and I have switched it up while waiting to get her into the Fertility Clinic.
We switched donors and I am attempting to get pregnant this cycle.
I tracked my cycle more in depth last month than previously, and did my first inseminations last night and this morning.
I generally have a 23-24 day cycle, but last month was a little different - most likely due to being in a different environment for work - and I had a 27 day cycle.
This month, I was on 50mg Clomid and I've been extremely bloated for about a week. I started OPK testing on the 5th and got my peak yesterday morning at 6:30. I had planned to do insemination at home at 18 hours past positive/peak OPK and then the IUI with our midwife at 36 hours. We ended up doing the at home insem at 15 hours and I had a weird feeling about waiting for 36, since my peak tends to be rather short lived. We decided to test again this morning, and my OPK was low so we went ahead and went to the midwife for the IUI this morning.
So, although I've been through this with my wife 7 times, I am officially in my first TWW. I'm not good at being patient and waiting to test when it wasn't me, so I can only imagine how crazy this wait is going to be. (I always asked her to start testing way too early!)
What are ways you ladies get through the TWW?
We switched donors and I am attempting to get pregnant this cycle.
I tracked my cycle more in depth last month than previously, and did my first inseminations last night and this morning.
I generally have a 23-24 day cycle, but last month was a little different - most likely due to being in a different environment for work - and I had a 27 day cycle.
This month, I was on 50mg Clomid and I've been extremely bloated for about a week. I started OPK testing on the 5th and got my peak yesterday morning at 6:30. I had planned to do insemination at home at 18 hours past positive/peak OPK and then the IUI with our midwife at 36 hours. We ended up doing the at home insem at 15 hours and I had a weird feeling about waiting for 36, since my peak tends to be rather short lived. We decided to test again this morning, and my OPK was low so we went ahead and went to the midwife for the IUI this morning.
So, although I've been through this with my wife 7 times, I am officially in my first TWW. I'm not good at being patient and waiting to test when it wasn't me, so I can only imagine how crazy this wait is going to be. (I always asked her to start testing way too early!)
What are ways you ladies get through the TWW?
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I did not do Clomid this month either as I felt it didn't really help and I was SO bloated the entire month last time.
I'm due for AF on the 26th, so it's a waiting game until then. 17 days to go.
I waited to test until yesterday (10dpo) BFN. I had some spotting last night and this morning. So I'm just waiting for full-force AF at this point.
We are also working the final pieces to get started with IVF for C. We have the follow up with the fertility clinic on the 1st if we can get our ridiculous physc consult out of the way.
I kept having dreams that I was pregnant and dreams of having twins. Even though I knew I was on my period (although it was a little lighter than usual, it was bright red some of the time and I had a ton of cramps) it was hard to believe the cycle was really over.