Getting Pregnant
amandaf6383
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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Roll Call!!
In honor of all the newbies and all of the ladies who are coming back around (which I'm so excited about, btw, the board has been so fun the last couple of days), I was thinking we could do a brief profile thing lol.
SN/Name:
Age:
How long have you been TTC (or how long did you TTC before BFP):
Where are you from?
What do you do?
Favorite things:
Least favorite things:
List one interesting fact about yourself:
Cheering on all of my 3T ladies! DX with PCOS - 11/2012 DH S/A & HSG - Normal - Too many rounds of Clomid = BFNs - New RE 5/2014 - Repeat Testing - Losing 40lbs before injects/IUI
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Re: Roll Call!!
my read shelf:
Age: 28
How long have you been TTC (or how long did you TTC before BFP): TTC for just over a year and then stopped. 4 quick BFPs that ended in loss. Major suckiness. Planning to pursue a longtime dream of adoption.
Where are you from? Seattle-ish
What do you do? Teach
Favorite things: knitting, sewing, dancing, reading, ice cream.
Least favorite things: 3T, tomatoes, traffic, pretentious people.
List one interesting fact about yourself: I've walked on the Great Wall of China.
Married August 2009
3 years. 5 losses.
Our rainbow baby boy born 11.16.15
Age: almost 30 (yikes)
How long have you been TTC (or how long did you TTC before BFP): 2+ years. Unexplained. My ovaries are fine but don't want to play. Adoption process happening NOW. Can't leave GP.
Where are you from? The best place evah! New England!
What do you do? I teach.
Favorite things: wine, DH, dogs, yoga, being outside, a good book
Least favorite things: drama llamas, pickles, cheesecake
List one interesting fact about yourself: I wear glasses for everything but showering and sleeping. I can't wear contacts due to a dermoid in my eye. *****DON'T GOOGLE IMAGE***** I think I've mentioned this before and someone did (seahorse??) and lived to regret it!
Age: almost 30
How long have you been TTC (or how long did you TTC before BFP): well.... Off BCP 3 years ago-ish.... Temping since then, over a year and a half of actively TTC.... Now 3T I guess
Where are you from? Cape Cod
What do you do? I'm an In Home Behavioral Therapist
Favorite things: ice cream, the ocean, my friends, music, Zumba(the gym)
Least favorite things: mushrooms, dramatic uneducated people, the ridiculously, Inappropriately fertile
List one interesting fact about yourself: I survived a D&C from the 1980's
Getting fit for IVF!
Age: 28
How long have you been TTC (or how long did you TTC before BFP): 2 months
Where are you from? Pittsburgh
What do you do? Evaluator at drug and alcohol rehab
Favorite things: cats, sports, DMB, watching tv that rots my brain
Least favorite things: snakes, avocado, my boobs, EDM
List one interesting fact about yourself:
I got a full scholarship to law school, went for one day, and dropped out.
Holy crap about the d&c! When did you find out about that? What a miracle.
"You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. SeussB/w 1/8: betas 17,345, progesterone 25.6
Age: 27
How long have you been TTC (or how long did you TTC before BFP): currently NNT previously tried from May 2010- Feb 2013 prior to BFP
Where are you from? The best city in the world, Boston
What do you do? Get people to where they need to go.
Favorite things: raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Internet strangers. Hockey. The Nightmare Before Christmas. Harry Potter. Whiskey. A proper cup of tea. Poutine. That guy I married.
Least favorite things: Ebola. Working second shift.
List one interesting fact about yourself: I once won a pageant ( are those of you who know me shocked?)
TTC#2 4/14
A Parachute in an Oak Tree: A World of Love
Lilies: I found out my senior year of high school....
PR-BR-LM
My brother was 17, my sister was 13... My mom got pg and just as she was ending her first tri she had cramping and bleeding and what they thought was a MC and very well could have been....so they did a D&C with a clear ultrasound.. She went home with no cycle, and weight gain... She was back at work (she was a pediatric nurse) and I kicked her.... She was a bigger woman and I guess I was tucked in somewhere? 1980's d&c's were full of chemicals etc so no idea how I did that... Kinda awesome and scary at the same time... Did I have a twin? No idea! Crazy
Getting fit for IVF!
Age: 26
How long TTC: TTA till next cycle. Started trying June 2013, loss in Oct, d&c leftover in Feb 2014
Where are you from: Toledo, Ohio
What do you do: Office assitant for non profit charity
Favorite things: Reading, food, naps
Least favorite thing: Mean people
List one interesting fact: Won awards for short story writing in middle & high school
BFP 2: 7/7/2014 Beta 7/8: 115, Beta 7/12: 638, Beta 7/16: 3793, Beta 7/21: 21,625
Age: 32
How long have you been TTC (or how long did you TTC before BFP): only a couple months before BFP. DS is almost 9 months old. TTA for a couple years at least. Maybe forever, haven't decided.
Where are you from? Seattle
What do you do? Human resources
Favorite things: sushi, pho, pizza, coffee, gardening, movies, reading, plants vs zombies, cats, dogs, spring, board games.
Least favorite things: olives, energy drinks, smoking, uncomfortable shoes, a nap cut short, family drama/guilt, unnecessary BS at work, snow when I have to go somewhere.
List one interesting fact about yourself: I am German, Irish and mystery - my grandma was adopted. In fact, we have lots of adoption on both sides of my family.
When you've been married this long, you need a ticker to remind you.
Baby Boy M - 08/01/2013
Age: 24 soon to be 25
How long have you been TTC (or how long did you TTC before BFP): 2 years
Where are you from? Oregon
What do you do? Labor and Delivery Nurse
Favorite things: reading, food, hot weather, family, watching mindless TV/movies, coffee, tea, my job
Least favorite things: working night shift, bad coffee, stupid people, some days my job
List one interesting fact about yourself: I collect coffee cups/to go mugs; just a few months ago I had enough coffee cups to use a different one everyday for over a month and a different to go mug every other day. I have since downsized a little but whenever I go somewhere new I have to get a new mug.
Age: 27
How long have you been TTC (or how long did you TTC before BFP): 5 months
Where are you from? Arizona!
What do you do? Medical Collections
Favorite things: crafting, chocolate, summer
Least favorite things: mushrooms
List one interesting fact about yourself:
I've been in the medical field since I was 16. CNA, LPN school (didn't finish cause I didn't want that as a career), Pharmacy Tech, Medical Biller and now collections.
Age: 23
How long have you been TTC (or how long did you TTC before BFP): Got my BFP in our second cycle. We are TTA right now until probably Spring 2015.
Where are you from? Northern California
What do you do? Homemaker/SAHM, but I also recently started an eBay store to hopefully bring in an extra income.
Favorite things: Chocolate, mochas, my family.
Least favorite things: Yams, selfish/insensitive people.
List one interesting fact about yourself: I had cranial surgery when I was 1 to correct a very rare disorder or the skull.
Age: 31
How long have you been TTC (or how long did you TTC before BFP): almost two years, PCOS.
Where are you from? California.
What do you do? SAH.
Favorite things: coffee, blankets, food, sleep.
Least favorite things: cleaning, working out, getting gas.
List one interesting fact about yourself:
I love to plan parties.
~TTC Buddies with akcrrr and amandaf6383~
Natural Cycle (8/7/13)- BFP! Beta #1 (9/10/13): 509 Progesterone: 18.64 Beta #2 (9/12/13): 1118
BFP - 10/29/2016!!!, EDD - 7/8/2017
SN/Name: ungraceful13
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TTC Since January 2011 - We have bad spermAge: 29
How long have you been TTC (or how long did you TTC before BFP): NNT for like 6 years, officially trying for over 2 years.
Where are you from? Maryland
What do you do? I'm a manager in the mortgage side of a large world wide bank.
Favorite things: Cats, Dh, pizza, a good scary movie and Diet Coke.
Least favorite things: Birds, bugs and seafood.
List one interesting fact about yourself: I can flip my eyelids inside out.
dx: Unexplained IF (mild MFI)
TTC since May 2011, 1 year trying, and then 3 TI, 2 IUI = BFN
IVF #1 (May 2013): Antagonist Protocol:24R, 18M, 15F w/ICSI; 5dt of 2 early blasts, no frosties = BFN
IVF #2 (August 2013): Lupron Stop Protocol:
28R, 23M, 15F w/ICSI; 5dt of 1 partially hatched blast, 7 frosties = BFP
EDD 5/23/14, blighted ovum (6w6d), D&C (8w6d)
FET #1 (April 2014): transferred 2 5d blasts = BFP
C.J. born 01/09/15
Age: 33.5
TTC: 4.5 years+
Location: Minnesota
Occupation: Elementary teacher
Favorite things: coffee with lots of flavored creamer, McDonald's coke, Caribou, scrapbooking, flying to meet my internet friends, vacationing with the hubby.
Least favorite things: meatloaf, cantaloupe, hypocrites, and getting up early.
Interesting fact: I've got nothing.
Baby Boy born 5.3.15
Age: 27
How long have you been TTC (or how long did you TTC before BFP): tried for 1.5 years, but we started treatment almost immediately
Where are you from? MA
What do you do? I've had a lot of different jobs (research coordinator, vet tech, real estate agent, nanny, optical technician), but now I SAH
Favorite things: Starbucks, cooking/baking, target trips, a good book, chapstick, shoes, chocolate chip cookies, my iPhone
Least favorite things: laundry, bad breath, feet, tailgaters (the driving kind, not the fun kind)
List one interesting fact about yourself: I'm tall (5'11), and have been this height since seventh grade
...hello out there!
dx with anovulatory PCOS 2005
off bcp 11/11
a few rounds of clomid and femara... no response.
injectables/IUI 12/12... BFN
Feb 13 IVF cycle converted down to IUI due to low follicle response... BFFN
one last IVF attempt April/May 2013: 19 retrieved. 10 fertilized. 2 transferred in a 3dt. 4 frosties... BFP!!
EDD: 1/21/14... Induced early at 36+6. Our LO was born 12/30/13
TTC since 1/13 DX:PCOS 5/13 (long, anovulatory cycles)
Clomid 50mg 9/13 = BFP! EDD 6/7/14 M/C 5w6d Found 11/4/13
1/14 PCOS / Gluten Free Diet to hopefully regulate my system.
Chemical Pregnancy 03/14
Surprise BFP 6/14, Beta #1: 126 Beta #2: 340 Stick baby, stick! EDD 2/17/15
Riley Elaine born 2/16/15
TTC 2.0 6/15
Chemical Pregnancy 9/15
Chemical Pregnancy 6/16
BFP 9/16 EDD 6/3/17
Beta #1: 145 Beta #2: 376 Beta #3: 2,225 Beta #4: 4,548
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