Confession Thursday

minionlover

Anything you need to tell us?

ramstein1027

I'm just blah.  I haven't been keeping up with my writing and need to get back to it.  Also we started NFP and I truly love it, but I cannot stop myself from taking pregnancy tests!  It's insane.  In a good way

nitecheese

I feel awful on all fronts. It might be that I'm exhausted from the little guy kicking me in the ribs between one and four a.m., or the cold I caught from my germy students, but I am just miserable. On top of that, my verbal filter is broken. When people ask how I am, I give them an honest answer, rather than a polite one, such as, "Starving and exhausted!"" as opposed to, "Great! You?"

I have a feeling there will be apologies to make post-pregnancy.

Meh.

mana8503

 

frank139@msu.edu said:

I'm just blah.  I haven't been keeping up with my writing and need to get back to it.  Also we started NFP and I truly love it, but I cannot stop myself from taking pregnancy tests!  It's insane.  In a good way

 

Where did you get the pregnancy tests? I just ordered some from amazon. The Wondo strips so they are only like $1 a piece if you count shipping and came highly suggested from friends. I have a feeling H will want me to test a lot and I don't feel like spending a crapton on things to pee on. 

goatlady12

JennaBirdTheBride said:

I feel awful on all fronts. It might be that I'm exhausted from the little guy kicking me in the ribs between one and four a.m., or the cold I caught from my germy students, but I am just miserable. On top of that, my verbal filter is broken. When people ask how I am, I give them an honest answer, rather than a polite one, such as, "Starving and exhausted!"" as opposed to, "Great! You?"

I have a feeling there will be apologies to make post-pregnancy.

Meh.

My sister said when she'd get kicked in the ribs she would put an ice pack where the baby was kicking.  They can feel the cold and don't like it, so they stop kicking there.  She said that was the only useful thing she learned from La mas class.

goatlady12

I confess to having puppy fever.  After all this went down with my health I caught some baby fever, because I was scared I was going to have issues with IF.  Since I can't get pregnant until after I'm in remission I can't stop thinking about puppies!  I really want a Maltese or a Yorkie.  I found some Yorkie crosses and OMG I can't even stand how cute they are.  It is really hard to work instead of puppy shop right now.

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ramstein1027

@mana8503 I use the dollar store cheapies for both HPT and OPK testing--from what I've read, they're just as good as many of the store brands.  However, I don't think they're as good for "early testing" (before AF is due).  My cycles are long/irregularish, which is probably why I test compulsively!  Charting has definitely helped me feel a little more in control, though.  I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't fully understand ovulation and the timing of all things AF until age 27.  womp womp.  That should have been my first confession for today! haha

mana8503

frank139@msu.edu said:

@mana8503 I use the dollar store cheapies for both HPT and OPK testing--from what I've read, they're just as good as many of the store brands.  However, I don't think they're as good for "early testing" (before AF is due).  My cycles are long/irregularish, which is probably why I test compulsively!  Charting has definitely helped me feel a little more in control, though.  I'm embarrassed to admit I didn't fully understand ovulation and the timing of all things AF until age 27.  womp womp.  That should have been my first confession for today! haha

I'm still waiting for my first non-BC peroid.  I want to give it a few months before I start charting etc.  I signed up for Fertility Friend, but all the emails about temping and charting overwhelmed me.  H wants me to test the day I should get TOM but I doubt I'll be regulated that fast.  I talked him into giving it 4 days.  I would give longer, but we leave the 5th day for NC for a long weekend.  He knocked his first wife up first try both times, he's going for a hat trick...

WillyH19

I guess with all of the baby talk, I will confess...I found out I was pregnant the day after we picked up our dog. I am 7 weeks today.

mana8503

YAY CONGRATS @willyh19 !!!!

LDubHawksFan

I need to vent a little bit. My best friend for married in July and I went to Hawaii got the wedding. It was hard because they decided like 90 days before to get married there, so costs were pretty crazy to get there. That aside, I had reservations because they had been together for all of 6 months, but he was from England, so that time together was for weeks at a time but mostly long distance. I, and most other friends thought they should have waited. Less than 2 months later she has told me at least 3 times he is much different, not loving and she made a mistake. We discussed that they should try counseling since he is learning to be a step dad, they still live with her parents and he knows no one in the states. Apparently she is done and asked him to go back to England today.
I'm so disappointed in my friend. I feel like she is just giving up on something that is so important. I also feel like she rushed getting married because she was the last of us not to get married and was more enammered (sp?) with the idea of marriage than making sure they were in love and making the lifelong commitment. I don't know what to do because I want to be there for her during this hard time, but I think she is in the wrong. I'm so torn inside....

LDubHawksFan

mana8503 said:

 

frank139@msu.edu said:

I'm just blah.  I haven't been keeping up with my writing and need to get back to it.  Also we started NFP and I truly love it, but I cannot stop myself from taking pregnancy tests!  It's insane.  In a good way

 

Where did you get the pregnancy tests? I just ordered some from amazon. The Wondo strips so they are only like $1 a piece if you count shipping and came highly suggested from friends. I have a feeling H will want me to test a lot and I don't feel like spending a crapton on things to pee on. 


Haha h just asked last night if he should go to Costco to but a bunch of pregnancy tests! Lol. Since I was ovulating last week he asked if we can find out if I'm pregnant yet. I said some tests pick up a hormone a little less than a week before your period but we would probably just wait to take a test until I miss a period. I realize it could take awhile, but in anxious too. I find it adorable how excited my h is!

ramstein1027

ahhhh congrats @willyh19!!!  is this your first then?  super excited for you!!  a happy and healthy pregnancy to you

@mana8503 lol at the hat trick comment!  supposedly the early response ones are great if you are willing to shell out for them, that's what my ob-gyn says anyhow

@lwoehlk that sucks  i am inclined to agree that you're friend is in the wrong, but maybe if you're supportive she will just come to that conclusion herself.  i'd just try to be there for her and if the time is right, throw your opinion in as well.  AND on the subject of hpt's, they are seriously super addictive!  the earliest you can rely on them is 6 days (for the fancy $$ ones), but i always end up testing earlier

mana8503

@lwoehik - I love how excited MH is too.  It's like last year I was all WEDDING!!! and don't get me wrong he was happy to be married but pretty meh about the wedding (if that makes sense).  Now he's all BABY!!!  and I'm the chill one.  The other night he asked me about baby names haha. 

@frank139 - eh I don't see me testing until the day I'm suppose to start my peroid or a week late.  I know I can go very Type-A control freak about things, but I don't want this to be one of them.  Even so I think the wondo strips can test pretty early as well, but the line might be a little faint.

LDubHawksFan

Frank, I'm definitely anxious but I don't want to spend the $ on the super early tests. I'll and I'll admit I didn't and still probably don't know as much as I should about the whole process. I was always so worried about getting pregnant before, even in bc, and now I know there is a super small window of time and even trying a lot during that time totally unprotected, there is still only like a 25% chance of getting pregnant each month. Ha.

goatlady12

Congrats @willyh19!!!

minionlover

Congrats @willyh19.  You have the best confession today!!!

@everyone else that is TTC - All of your posts are great info for me since we will be TTC at the end of the year!!  Yay!!

@lwoehlk - While your friend did get married pretty fast, you may not know what truly goes on behind closed doors to make her not want to work on her marriage.  When I left my XH and didn't want to try to fix things, people didn't really understand either which made things really hard.  They didn't see that we couldn't communicate, that we were really just roomates, that he was an alocoholic and that I was turning into one too.  On the other hand, you could be right that she just didn't really know what she was getting into with this guy.

I confess that I haven't done dishes in a few days and they are stacking up.  I just really hate doing them even when DH helps.  I wish that I could just play the Fantasia music and they will all just do themselves.

Confession part 2 - I feel like not many people will get the reference to Fantasia and that makes me feel super old...

mana8503

@cathyl7910 - I got it and I have a vivid imagine of you doing that and everything cleaning themselves!  Also, I lurk a lot on Trying to get Pregnant boards on here and TB.  I gather most info when they are putting someone in their place... I'm in info horder.

LDubHawksFan

mana8503 said:

@cathyl7910 - I got it and I have a vivid imagine of you doing that and everything cleaning themselves!  Also, I lurk a lot on Trying to get Pregnant boards on here and TB.  I gather most info when they are putting someone in their place... I'm in info horder

I've looked at the bump ttc board once but I felt like it was only for women who have had trouble and were going through fertility treatments...,or maybe the abbreviations were all too foreign to me. I got overwhelmed and felt like an intruder since we have technically only been "trying" for 2 months now. So please feel free to share! Haha

Cathy, I understand and she has told me a few things that could make it not work (like just fundamental differences in marriage roles ans finances), but I also feel like their circumstances are beyond stressful and she is giving up without a full chance. He is in a country he doesn't know, without work and living with his in laws. I don't know both sides, but I sympathize that those circumstances could make the most stable couple have problems. I think that they should rent an apt and try living as a couple and get counseling to try to learn to communicate. By him leaving now, he can't return to the states until he received residency which could be at least 6 months. But you are right, I don't know everything. I don't want to judge and feel disappointed but I do and that is why I don't know what to do.

mana8503

@lwoehlk - yea, I think a lot of them are having issues and why I haven't posted either.  TB has a trouble TTC and a reg TTC boards, but there's a mix still on the reg TTC one.  But when sometime come on and says something stupid, between the snarky comments/gifs is usually good info about fertility Friend app/website, charting etc.  I haven't been in a while since work picked up.  I also lurk on working moms they usually have good info on ML, day cares etc.

ETA: Trying to get pregnant on TB has a great blog with a lot of the information: http://tbttgp.wordpress.com/

mpjf1001

@willyh congrats! H&H 9 months:)

chasemamabear

Congrats @willyh!! That's great!!

All of you TTC ladies are making me kinda sad I'm done having babies!! I'm 24 and I know 2 is enough for me but I'm really going to miss that special part of my life.

sjs1013

@WillyH19 Congratulations!  Wishing you a healthy and happy pregnancy

xxjen015

@WillyH19 congrats!!! ahhh!! So exciting  

@Cathy I got the reference!! hehehe. Wouldn't it be nice if life worked that way?!

I confess that I'm so over my job. I'm doing everything I can to make things work and keep a positive outlook, but it's hard. My kids are absolutely awful most of the time. I feel like it may be getting somewhat better, but they're running me ragged. My team has been stand-offish towards me and I just feel like the red-headed step-child. I've had a couple of breakdowns, one of which was yesterday. :-/ My doctor prescribed me some Xanax but I haven't picked it up yet. I've never tried it before and I don't know how it'll help me, but at this point I feel like I have to try whatever it takes.

mrshall1027

@WillyH19 - congrats!! That's awesome news! H&H 9 months :-D

LDubHawksFan

Congrats @willyh19!!!!

WillyH19

Thank you ladies, H and I are very excited! Cheering on all you TTC ladies \:D/

ramstein1027

@xxjen015 I'm with you about the recent breakdowns.  My anxiety has been crazy lately, I am so sick of panic attacks I could scream.  I've never taken Xanax but I have taken Fluoxetine (Prozac) before and it helped.