Oh I like this tag, thanks Keri!
It goes like this
Rules:
1. Grab the nearest book of 123 pages or more.
2. Open it to page 123.
3. Find the first 5 sentences and write them down.
4. Then invite 5 friends to do the same.
The nearest book to me that meets the pages criteria is "The Ultimate Guide to Pregnancy for Lesbians". It was the first book we bought when we started this ttc journey.
page 123, first five sentences (this comes under the chapter So You're Finally Pregnant!) not a bad sign :-)
Get Some Air
Your house (and of course, everywhere else you go, too) may suddenly smell terrible to you. Burn scented candles at home if this helps. Avoid stinky places. Keep your house clean. Open your windows wide, letting the fresh air come streaming in.
I tag... It's Taking A Village, Just A Pair of Mom's (in training), The Proud Prowsers, Role Playing with Kids, Growing Our Little Bean
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Good Morning AF *updated*
You really shouldn't have come. No I mean it. In fact I would have preferred if you hadn't. Maybe you should call first next time. I hope this is your last visit for at least a year.
Hoping at least one of the cycle buddies gets a positive. Kim and Merr I think your the only ones left.
**One of the cycle buddies this month IS PREGNANT. Yeah!!!!**
Hoping at least one of the cycle buddies gets a positive. Kim and Merr I think your the only ones left.
**One of the cycle buddies this month IS PREGNANT. Yeah!!!!**
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Still
Still no AF. Still no positive. I have never in the two and a half years of monitoring my periods been late. I guess I'll test again tomorrow if no AF. What does one do if AF is not here and HPT's are negative? Is it possible that you can still be pregnant? Do they do blood tests with negative HPT's?
I keep dreaming about pregnancy. Just before I woke up this morning, I was dreaming about seeing the stick with two pink lines. It was a very heavens opened up and angels sang moment. Then I woke up to one line.
Still hopeful. Still praying.
I keep dreaming about pregnancy. Just before I woke up this morning, I was dreaming about seeing the stick with two pink lines. It was a very heavens opened up and angels sang moment. Then I woke up to one line.
Still hopeful. Still praying.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
No good answers
I got nothin. No positive and no AF. I was supposed to start today. I ALWAYS start on time. I am clueless. I guess I'll test again in the morning if no AF by then. Hmmm...
Friday, February 22, 2008
14 dpo. Hmmm...
Could be an evaporation line. The test window time was technically over. La woke me up sometime in the middle of the night to tell me she sees a line on the test I took before going to bed. I have been really distant from the testing thing this month. I just pee in a cup and leave it in the bathroom and the testing fairy (La) comes and sucks it up and drops the drops and checks on it and comes out and says. I think it is too early. This has been going on since 10dpo.
So this morning she wakes me up at 7am to see if I have to pee. Well I didn't because I was sleeping but now that you have woken me up to ask I guess I could. Get up leave my sample, go back to bed. No obvious line. La sending me to the store to get another test. "A real one", not the $ store kind. Ok, whatever you think dear. Have a good day at work. Trying to sleep. Not happening, get up, get shower, make chi, check e-mail, read blogs, waiting until the retail market opens to start running errands.
Odd symptoms
I felt unusually cramping and had a lower back ache from 10dpo to 12dpo. I don't feel as crampy today on 14dpo as I normally do when my period is coming. Hmmm... does this mean anything along with my ?evaporation line? Hmmm...
Going shopping.
So this morning she wakes me up at 7am to see if I have to pee. Well I didn't because I was sleeping but now that you have woken me up to ask I guess I could. Get up leave my sample, go back to bed. No obvious line. La sending me to the store to get another test. "A real one", not the $ store kind. Ok, whatever you think dear. Have a good day at work. Trying to sleep. Not happening, get up, get shower, make chi, check e-mail, read blogs, waiting until the retail market opens to start running errands.
Odd symptoms
I felt unusually cramping and had a lower back ache from 10dpo to 12dpo. I don't feel as crampy today on 14dpo as I normally do when my period is coming. Hmmm... does this mean anything along with my ?evaporation line? Hmmm...
Going shopping.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Angel
Today could've been your birthday. Your mom and I thought about you a lot today, wondering what you may have looked like. We cried and we smiled, as the skies opened up after this mornings rainfall. We think it was you smiling your sunshine upon us. The rose bush your Grandpa bought for you has one beautiful bud celebrating your day today. We miss the thought of you growing inside Mommy...we miss you!
Today.... we celebrate you!
We love you Javier(that's what our friends named you)
Love,
Your Mommies
Today.... we celebrate you!
We love you Javier(that's what our friends named you)
Love,
Your Mommies
Thursday, February 14, 2008
6dpo
Waiting... waiting...
Happy Valentines Day!
My wife made me a yummy dinner... french onion soup, a beautiful salad with roasted chicken AND delicious creme brulee. Oooh it was so good!
Feeling a few crampy twinges here and there. Trying to decide if we should test Monday. It will be 10dpo but also the due date of our first baby. So we are both off and planning to picnic or something special, but I'm not sure about testing. If it is positive, what a great day to find out. If it is negative, even though it is not for sure that early, it is always such a let down. Hmm... what to do
Happy Valentines Day!
My wife made me a yummy dinner... french onion soup, a beautiful salad with roasted chicken AND delicious creme brulee. Oooh it was so good!
Feeling a few crampy twinges here and there. Trying to decide if we should test Monday. It will be 10dpo but also the due date of our first baby. So we are both off and planning to picnic or something special, but I'm not sure about testing. If it is positive, what a great day to find out. If it is negative, even though it is not for sure that early, it is always such a let down. Hmm... what to do
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Preparing to Launch
Ah the life of a TTC'er. This was yesterday. 12hour shift starts at 7am. I called around the day before and finally found someone to stay late for me so I could get a final follicle check and estrogen level drawn. Wake up at 4:30am confused about my alarm, afraid I was not waking up in time etc.. Try to go back to sleep, trying to be still so I don't raise my temp, having a hard time falling back asleep, decide I better take my temp even though it is early before it gets too high from me being awake. Finally just get up!
POAS- supposed to be peak, it does not, whatever. Don't trust that thing anyways. Get showered, dressed, grab lunch and out the door 6:05am. First stop to the lab for blood.
Smile, give my information.
Lady says "oh we don't take this insurance, without a prior authorization".
What it is 6 in the morning how would you like me to get that?
Me- "Ok, can I call to get that?",
Lady- "you can try"
Me- :-)
Dial up insurance, get recording business hours 8:30-5:00p.
Sad eyes Me 'They are closed, what should I do? How much is it if I pay out of pocket?'
Lady- $104.00.
Hmm. decisions, decisions.
Kind lady-"I'll tell you what, I'll draw your blood and hold it and you work on getting the authorization"
SWEET! Thank you very much, kind lady
Leave the lab, run to the 24h C.V.S and get some OPK's for later. MW calls says we need to meet at 7am, instead of 7:30am, because she has a couple people in labor. Great no problem, I am up and ready. Get the ultrasound, follicles growing, looks good, will get estrogen result and decide about hcg trigger.
Arrive at work at 8:01am. Get report, my patient is pushing. (this obviously requires me to be in the room with her so no phone calls for authorization yet) Delivery 9:32 am, big 8#5oz baby, happy family, dad crying, mom crying. Beautiful. 10am MW still doing repair. Parents oohing over their baby, I seize my opportunity call the office. Authorization in the works. Great!
11:30am no word yet from the office on the authorization. Called them back, say it is still in the works. 12pm my MW calls says insurance won't cover it for a complicated reason that involves the RE in town and going through them. Whatever. We discuss and decide I will just pay the $104. Hang up call the lab, tell them the plan thinking they would bill me. Oh no, gotta pay first. OK, how about over the phone. No they only take checks and cash. Ok fine. Ask another nurse to watch my patients while I run over there. Luckily it is just a block away. Grab my purse. No checkbook. Arrgh! Leave the parking deck, go around to the front of the hospital, get money out of the ATM, drive to the lab. "Hi, I am here to pay my money." Kind lady getting out receipt booklet, tells me again it is $104, I have $110, she has no change, she says just pay $100. I say ok. I am holding the money out for her. The phone rings. She says hang on, answers the phone, starts waving her hand at me in a never mind fashion and starts writing down a bunch of numbers. Hangs up and says, "oh that was your doctor's office, they got the authorization". Stunned, feeling like I was just in a whirlwind. I say great! thanks. She says I can look up the result on the hospital computer in about an hour and a half. Fabulous.
Hi ho Hi ho, it's back to work I go. 12:30pm
Big long breath
All that for a little blood test. I really feel bad for patients. All the rigga mor ol (is that a real word) they have to go through and in this TTC world- no time to waste time.
Side note. The pharmacy has no hcg, it is on back order, so we cannot trigger and have to go with the ole nature's best. :-)
So that is yesterday in a nut shell minus the dozen vaginal deliveries we had and the half dozen c-sections plus all the other crazy stuff that hapens on the labor floor. What a day! I got home and my lovely wife had made breakfast for dinner. Yummo.
Still no peak this morning, but I don't believe it. My OPK's are getting darker and I am starting to feel those early ovulatory feelings. IUI this afternoon and then tomorrow. Ready to launch!
POAS- supposed to be peak, it does not, whatever. Don't trust that thing anyways. Get showered, dressed, grab lunch and out the door 6:05am. First stop to the lab for blood.
Smile, give my information.
Lady says "oh we don't take this insurance, without a prior authorization".
What it is 6 in the morning how would you like me to get that?
Me- "Ok, can I call to get that?",
Lady- "you can try"
Me- :-)
Dial up insurance, get recording business hours 8:30-5:00p.
Sad eyes Me 'They are closed, what should I do? How much is it if I pay out of pocket?'
Lady- $104.00.
Hmm. decisions, decisions.
Kind lady-"I'll tell you what, I'll draw your blood and hold it and you work on getting the authorization"
SWEET! Thank you very much, kind lady
Leave the lab, run to the 24h C.V.S and get some OPK's for later. MW calls says we need to meet at 7am, instead of 7:30am, because she has a couple people in labor. Great no problem, I am up and ready. Get the ultrasound, follicles growing, looks good, will get estrogen result and decide about hcg trigger.
Arrive at work at 8:01am. Get report, my patient is pushing. (this obviously requires me to be in the room with her so no phone calls for authorization yet) Delivery 9:32 am, big 8#5oz baby, happy family, dad crying, mom crying. Beautiful. 10am MW still doing repair. Parents oohing over their baby, I seize my opportunity call the office. Authorization in the works. Great!
11:30am no word yet from the office on the authorization. Called them back, say it is still in the works. 12pm my MW calls says insurance won't cover it for a complicated reason that involves the RE in town and going through them. Whatever. We discuss and decide I will just pay the $104. Hang up call the lab, tell them the plan thinking they would bill me. Oh no, gotta pay first. OK, how about over the phone. No they only take checks and cash. Ok fine. Ask another nurse to watch my patients while I run over there. Luckily it is just a block away. Grab my purse. No checkbook. Arrgh! Leave the parking deck, go around to the front of the hospital, get money out of the ATM, drive to the lab. "Hi, I am here to pay my money." Kind lady getting out receipt booklet, tells me again it is $104, I have $110, she has no change, she says just pay $100. I say ok. I am holding the money out for her. The phone rings. She says hang on, answers the phone, starts waving her hand at me in a never mind fashion and starts writing down a bunch of numbers. Hangs up and says, "oh that was your doctor's office, they got the authorization". Stunned, feeling like I was just in a whirlwind. I say great! thanks. She says I can look up the result on the hospital computer in about an hour and a half. Fabulous.
Hi ho Hi ho, it's back to work I go. 12:30pm
Big long breath
All that for a little blood test. I really feel bad for patients. All the rigga mor ol (is that a real word) they have to go through and in this TTC world- no time to waste time.
Side note. The pharmacy has no hcg, it is on back order, so we cannot trigger and have to go with the ole nature's best. :-)
So that is yesterday in a nut shell minus the dozen vaginal deliveries we had and the half dozen c-sections plus all the other crazy stuff that hapens on the labor floor. What a day! I got home and my lovely wife had made breakfast for dinner. Yummo.
Still no peak this morning, but I don't believe it. My OPK's are getting darker and I am starting to feel those early ovulatory feelings. IUI this afternoon and then tomorrow. Ready to launch!
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