Posted By: AKRobin- Cy12/cd31- wasn't counting but am now! :)
Monday, 24 January 2000, at 2:38 p.m.
dust ~~~~~ & DETAILS!!!! (extremely long)

It's been a very "interesting" month,
did not temp or anything, decided to let go & wing it for our 1 year
anniversary of TTC. Symptoms? Jan. 12,
which would have been 5dpo-ish, I felt slight cramps (implantation
on hind-sight). My breasts were never sore
but my NIPPLES were very sensitive. Almost irritated ... should
have gotten AF either Wed, or Friday of last week-
(26-28 day cycle) but she no showed. I had slight
cramps and veryyy light (like a couple drips
on a panty liner) dark spotting.. Then nothing else. The last few
days, my breasts have felt.. heavy and sore.
I am surprised by how FEW symptoms I have felt this month,
as I have had PLENTY of months that I thought
this is it only for AF to rage on! I cannot tell you exactly
when I o d, I think it was somewhere around 1/7...
But can tell you we bd every OTHER day instead of every
like we had been doing around O time. I take prenatal
vitamins, have for 1 year. I drink green tea, but not as
[faithfully as I should .. I quit coffee, only have
decaf now and then. And the big thing I did different this month
was- baby aspirin, one a day.

Now for the other details I just HAVE to share...
Last week, Wednesday I was driving... out of the blue, I
saw this vision of us in the delivery room, doc said
"it's a boy" and I laughed, looked at dh & said "that
figures"! (I have 2 older sons from marriage 1)
I thought.. hmmm where did THAT come from?

THEN Thursday I received a book in the mail,
I have been searching for it for a YEAR. I had decided it was
the way I will tell DH when I am preggers.
It's a childrens book "Guess How Much I Love You?" I had
attempted ordering from our local bookstore
(We live in a small island town in Southeast Alaska- 8,000
people) They couldn't get it, anytime I was
out of town I looked, any bookstore- even Seattle, it was always
"sold out", "but we can order one for you".
I tried Amazon.com, they didn't have it, but would hold my
request until they could get one from the publisher...
a few months went by- Thursday- Opened the mail box
and there it was!

Then Friday, I logged into TCC- saw my name
as a Success Story and screamed! I emailed MommaKath
told her although it looked great, I wasn t preggers yet,
she said she wasn't sure where she got that but
would take it off "for Now" : )
I thought maybe she knew something I didn t!!

DH installs fire sprinklers systems for a living,
he was up on a Lift on Friday- he said he was reaching and
leaning over the edge of the "lift cage".
He suddenly thought "now this is no way for a DADDY to act, this is
dangerous". So he got down off the lift and
moved it over so he wouldn't have to lean. He said that is the first
time he has ever had a thought like that.

Now, I am not sure if this means anything-
our minds play such interesting little tricks and perhaps our
"suppression of obsession" put our subconcious minds
into OVERDRIVE- BUT this was all part of my
month. AND I AM PREGGERS!! By the way, I am 37 years old...
score one for the geriatric league!
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I haven't a clue how to dust!
I cannot remember!!!!
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consider this my effort to
spill it all over this entire board!!
I love you all sooo much.
I want you all to feel exactly like I do
right at this moment!!!!
I'll let you know what DH's reaction
is tonight when I tell him he's going to be a DADDY!!

Posted By: Karen G cycle 2 of clomid
Monday, 31 January 2000, at 12:04 p.m.
I'm Pregnant !!!

I was going to wait until I could get in to
see the dr. before I post this, but since my appt. is not until the
beginning of March, I decided to go ahead. I
couldn't wait that long. On Saturday morning, cd28 I took an
hpt and it was +. I was in complete shock and
made dh get up and make sure I was not seeing things. It
was 4:30 am. I have since taken 3 more hpts
and all were positive. On Saturday the line on the EPT was a
little light, but by the time dh looked at it
15 minutes later, it was much darker.
They have gotten darker
every day. First let me say that this totally
surprised me this month. My temps have been wacky. I had a
major fall back temp at 2dpo and on 6dpo
my temp dropped from 99.0 to 98.6 and
then on 7dpo it dropped
to 98.3 (coverline was 98.2). 8dpo temp went
back up to 98.7. I od on cd16 and we bd on cd14, cd15, and
cd16, which we should have because dh has a
little low sperm count (14 mil per ml).
I actually had fewer
symptoms this month than I normally do.
Usually after o my face breaks out
and it didn't and bb's were only
sore off and on. This is my 2nd month on
clomid and I was taking robi and epo.
I had major ewcm on cd14.
The only thing I noticed this cycle was bad
heartburn at 9dpo and every day after.
Plus I have had af like
cramping off and on for last 5 days.
Dh has been taking vitamins, multi
vitamin, selenium, Vitamin E and C.
I dont know if this helped, but it definitely
didn't hurt. I was very worried at
first about his total count, but as
ob said it only takes one. I am still a
little in shock, but extremely happy.
I want to thank everyone on this
board and I hope to see you all very soon
on the alumnae board. I hope you wont mind
if I lurk on this site
and respond occasionally. It's kinda sad to
leave you all. I'm happy and sad at the same time.
Please feel free to ask me any questions.
Its kinda hard to cover everything.
But like I said, I would have never thought
that this was the month.
++++++++ thoughts to all of you.

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:23:30 -0600
From: "vito

My DH and I have been ttc for over a year. I had a
MC in September of 98 and we started trying again
that November. Each month I wanted to be pregnant.
I used to check pregnancy sites but they discouraged
me. Last month I specifically set out to find a
site for people who were in the same boat as myself
and I found this site. I started reading the TTC
FAQs and found a couple of things to try out----the
baby asprin and green tea. Well, this month (like
every month) I broke down and bought a EPT. I took
it on the 17th and it was neg. I went back to
calculate and thought I would try again on the 18th.
Well, it was positive! I was so suprised, I was
really just expecting to see the disappointing neg.
sign. I'm not sure why this was the month, but it
could have been the baby asprin, I don't know. Of
course, things are early, but by the grace of God
all will continue well. Best of luck to all who are
trying, I know how hard it is and you will all be in
my prayers!

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:17:31 -0800 (PST)
EDD9-26-00
Well, here I am! I can't believe I'm actually
pregnant! DH and I had been trying for exactly
one year this month. I have PCOS, so girls, it is
definitely possible to get pregnant with this
dreaded disease. Keep the faith, it will happen.
This month I took EPO from AF until O, drank Green
Tea (when I could remember to),
was on 150mg of clomid and dexamethasone (prescribed
by doc). This month I had very
few symptoms. In fact, DH and I were positive this
would NOT be the month it would
happen! hehe, guess we didn't know what we were
talking about. Here are my temps for the month:
cd1 - 4 - AF no temps,
cd5 - 98.0,
cd6 - 98.0,
cd7 -97.8,
cd8 - 98.1,
cd9 - 97.7,
cd10 - 97.7,
cd11 - 97.7,
cd12 - 97.9,
cd13 - 97.9,
cd14 - 97.8,
cd15 - 97.4,
cd16 - 97.3,
cd17 - 97.6,
cd18 - 97.5,
cd19 - 97.9 O day,
cd20 - 98.1,
cd21 - 98.1,
cd22 - 98.2,
cd23 - 98.3,
cd 24 - 98.6,
cd 25 - 98.4,
cd26 - 98.7,
cd 27 - 98.5,
cd28 - 98.6,
cd29 - 98.6,
cd30 - 98.8,
cd31 - 99.1,
cd32 - 98.9,
cd33 - 98.6,
cd34 - 98.7

The only symptoms I can really recall are on 8dpo,
DH was teasing me and tickling me and
it made me so mad I started sobbing! Well, then on
10dpo, We were going to have Tuna
Noodle casserole for supper, (my idea). I NEVER
offer to make TNC. DH usually has to
beg me to make it, but for some reason, it sounded
really good. Well, I ended up eating 2
big helpings of it! Now I'm having slight
pulling cramps occassionally and foods either
sound really good, or really bad.
My breasts are already starting to get
bigger and are extremely sore.

Melissa

Terri S. Success story EDD 9-25-00
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:15:39 -0800

I found this site at the point when I came home from
the Dr. and she said I
should have testing done as well as SA by DH. I was
depressed and seeking info on the tests.
I reached out and there you all were.
I can't tell you how glad I am I found you.
I had gone to see the Dr. and she made all these
recommendations. She said I should come in
on Monday, as AF was due to show on
Friday. She said testing must be done
or so days following AF arrival. Well, I said "is
it possible I'm pg as I'm incredibly tired, have
unusually tender bb's and have to urinate constantly".
She said I probably just want to be pg so
badly that I'm manufacturing these things.
Well...long story short...I was
right. AF never came and DH and I couldn't be
happier. We have been trying for 11 months.
I'm a DES baby, and almost
39. I was nervous. Now I'm just taking
care of our little miracle till
she/he shows up!!