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Mommie2Ava&Presley · #1 (**permalink**) 05-11-2007, 06:32 AM

ENJOY YOURSELVES!!!!

Mommie2Ava&Presley · #2 (**permalink**) 05-11-2007, 06:35 AM

I'm heading for DH's for the weekend. I will have internet access, but with him around I might not be able to check as often as I do from home. But Heidi is diligently here - Thanks so much Heidi! You're doing a great job. I knew you would.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. Sounds like we have some

S that need to make their visits short and sweet and get the heck out of town so we can have some

S move in.

mommy524 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-11-2007, 07:31 AM

Lou - to answer your question. No AF did not arrive yet. I spotted a little yesterday but nothing today.
I heard she visited you though, well now you can start the meds.
Good luck.

bonitafrita · #4 (**permalink**) 05-11-2007, 09:28 AM

Have a good time, Shannon!

I'll be around if anyone needs me!

Haras · #5 (**permalink**) 05-11-2007, 11:46 AM

mommy524~this could so be your month woman...congrats. when do you test. let me know. just curious...what are your smptoms? Lots of BD coming your way.

Mommie2Ava&Presley · #6 (**permalink**) 05-11-2007, 03:19 PM

We arrived safely. Got a nice nap once we had lunch with DH. He's out working, so I have time to do some computer time, without him looking over my shoulder. Can't wait till Sunday to get to weigh and log in my official loss for the week on my WW site!

Lou, sorry AF hit you so hard.

Karen, you may have had some imp. bleeding since AF still hasn't moved in. I had mine with Ava late; like 12 dpo. Keeping

Heidi, Glad you are on watch sweetie! Enjoy your stroll through Lowe's!

Haras, How much longer till your test day?

Hope everyone else is doing well. Anyone heard from Carolyn lately. Hope her DH is still recovering well.

Loopy Lou · #7 (**permalink**) 05-11-2007, 03:46 PM

Shannon, thanks for your thoughts, i do hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Happy Mothers Day to you for Sunday, i hope it is a lovely one!

mrsrittler · #8 (**permalink**) 05-11-2007, 04:56 PM

Hey Ladies,
Quick update from me...not time for shout-outs...

I have two more days of Femara and man am I feeling the effects. It's weird b/c last time I didn't have any side effects. Now I'm hot as hell all the time and really tired. Hopefully that just means it's working! LOL

We had a traumatic morning...my son has a heart condition (SVT) that causes his heart to race really fast - 250 bpm or more...he had another attack this morning and we rushed him to the ER where we were all morning. I was laying on the hospital bed with him with wires all over him and thinking how am I going to handle another baby?!? But I guess God gives you what you can handle!

I'm off to put my little one to bed. Please say a prayer that his heart remains stable! Thanks ladies!!

faithforababy77 · #9 (**permalink**) 05-11-2007, 09:15 PM

I hope your son is doing well. Definitely will keep him in my prayers.

Have a great weekend everyone

Carrie72 · #10 (**permalink**) 05-12-2007, 05:59 AM

Shannon & gals: DH is doing great! He wants to go back to work early instead of waiting til June 11th. I had to take him back to the lutheran hosp. so they could do a 'Cardioversion'(shock his heart back into rhythm) and it worked perfectly! He was only knocked out for about 10 minutes! Sorry i keep going MIA for long periods of time, depression is really starting to set in with me. My best friend had her baby yesterday(Fri.) and although i am happy for her, it didnt help with my depression. I keep wondering if i'll ever get pg. again. I dont think this is my month, feels like af is just around the corner. Wish my oh-so-wonderful ob/gyn would get off his

and do something! b/w, u/s would be nice! Maybe i should go back to the RE i saw in Columbus even though it is a 2 hr. drive---1 way. Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions? Anyone?

mrsrittler: I hope your son gets better! I know what its like when someone you love and care about has a heart condition, my DH had open heart surgery on 3-16-07 to have his mitral valve replaced with a mechanical one. He is on a blood thinner(Coumadin) for the rest of his life. I'll say a prayer for you little boy.

faithforababy77 · #11 (**permalink**) 05-12-2007, 06:42 AM

Carolyn - I hope your DH gets better soon. Sounds like he'll be fine. It does stink to have to be on medications the rest of your life. My DH has Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) which is hereditary. His grandfather had it, father had it (had a kidney transplant 9 years ago) and now he has it. His kidney's are only functioning at 48% right now and he's only 27. So eventually, he'll be on meds the rest of his life. Great advances in medicine actually have had his kidney's working better than his dad's were at his age...so we're hopeful. My DH has no complications from it yet...other than high blood pressure, but of course he's on meds for that too! I'll keep your DH in my prayers as well!

Everyone else, I hope you have a great weekend and if it's nice where you're at, get outside and take in the beautiful weather!!

bonitafrita · #12 (**permalink**) 05-12-2007, 08:00 AM

mrsrittler- Sorry to hear about your horrible morning and I'll be keeping my

that your son's heart stabalizes. I hope the rest of your day goes a lot better!

Carolyn- Good to see you, girlie!

I'm glad to hear that your DH's cardioversion went well and it sounds like he is feeling MUCH better! That's awesome news! Aww, I'm sorry to hear that you've been having to deal with depression lately....that is not fun. Does most of it stem from not being pregnant/having a hard time getting pregnant? I know mine does. I keep telling my DH that something's gotta happen or I will seriously need to start seeing a shrink real soon. He laughs

because he thinks I'm kidding, but I'm not! I think about it ALL the time and like you said, it doesn't help when you are surrounded by pregnant women. My neighbor just had her son about 3 months ago, she got pregnant while on BCP, and they've only been married for about a year now. She knows that we've been TTC for awhile now and that I had a m/c last year, but just the other day, she had the nerve to tell me that she wished she hadn't gotten pregnant! That she wasn't ready to be a mom, and that she was jealous of me because I'm able to get out of the house and do stuff. She's always complaining about having to wake up in the middle of the night to feed him...or that he cries all day.........I would gladly take her place.

But I was thinking, maybe you should talk to your ob-gyn and see what his plan is. Is he going to keep you on the Femara? Is he going to try you on something else? Will he do some u/s or atleast b/w? Maybe ask his opinion and see if he thinks you're getting to the point where you need to go back to an RE?

Because if not getting pregnant is causing you to get depressed, I think the 2 hour drive would be worth it. Or maybe something could be worked out where you can get your u/s and b/w somewhere closer and then sent to your RE so you didn't have to commute for every little appointment. Just a thought though.

This is for everyone!

Mommie2Ava&Presley · #13 (**permalink**) 05-12-2007, 08:12 AM

Carolyn, so glad to hear from you. Glad the procedure for DH went well. I know what you mean on the depression thing. When we were TTC for 3 years it took it's toll on me and us as well.

with Heidi that if your OB isn't going to do more for you and move on to other things, then the drive to the RE would be worth it. My RE was about an 1 1/2 away, but it ended up SO worth the drive. BTW, don't you worry about having to be MIA. We all understand the situation, my dear!

MrsRittler, please know that you and your son are in our prayers. Please keep us posted on his condition/progress.

Loopy Lou · #14 (**permalink**) 05-12-2007, 06:38 PM

MrsRittler,
Sorry to hear about your son, i am thinking of you and your family at this time. You are right god does only give you what you can handle.

Carolyn,
I also agree that the drive to the RE will be well worth it. To have b/w and u/s gives you so much more insight, i can keep track each month of what size my follies were on what CD. For me it makes me feel just how real this process is, and that i have a "team" (doc/nurses) all supporting and working with me. It just may give you more hope, and it sounds like that would be good for you. If you ever feel like talking and not going MIA we are all here for you, even if you want to speak candidly, no judges here. But MIA is what you need to do, we totally understand.

Carrie72 · #15 (**permalink**) 05-12-2007, 07:00 PM

Heidi & Shannon: I love you guys, you always know what to say to cheer people up!

All of my depression stems from not being pregnant. Its getting hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. DH gets mad when i go through my mood swings(they can be really bad at times!) and thinks its because of him that im acting the way i am. I tried to explain how hormones work and i could see i wasnt getting through so i got mad and yelled that he needed to start going to some of my gyn appts. with me, that way he would know whats going on with me and if he had ANY questions he could ask my gyn. I reminded him that i have been to most of his dr. appts with him and practically camped out at the hosp. when he was in there and literally worrying myself sick, then taking care of him when he came home. I also reminded him that he has not been to 1 of my appts. with me. Ever. I don't remember him saying anything after that. Anyways... I dont think i would be able to get along with your neighbor lady, Heidi. Women like that make me very

then i wanna

! As soon as i see my dr. i was going to ask him what his plans are. I think he needs to increase the Femara to 5.0 mg. and start doing u/s and b/w. Or try a combo of meds(i like the femara). I also think he should do another HSG test. I know im "O"ing, that shows up on my charts and my opk's plus i can feel when i "O" (or just before i "O"). I just dont know if anything is getting through, how big/small my follies are OR how the lining of my uterus is. He better be planning something along these lines or when i leave his office it will be for the last time and i will have my medical records in hand. I always use to be afraid of making him mad/offending him/hurting his feelings, not anymore! Im the one being hurt over and over and paying him to do his job, which looks like he isnt doing from where i stand. Yes, the 2 hr. drive would definitely be worth it! On the other hand, i have DH telling me how we dont have a lot of money and we need to pay bills, etc. The last time he said that i got really upset and told him the (blank) bills could wait, cause my clock has been ticking and CANT wait anymore and that i was sick and tired of putting it off! Sorry, had to

. Ive been very emotional yesterday and today. FF has me scheduled to poas this coming Tues(15th)...i dont want to and have a feeling i wont have to. I think its about time i sit DH down and have another talk

with him as far as what we do next/where we go from here. Thanks to both of you for listening to me vent.

Carrie72 · #16 (**permalink**) 05-12-2007, 07:09 PM

Thank you, Loopy Lou! Louise? (Thats my middle name, lol!) Your reply made me feel a lot better too! Its good to know im not going through this alone. I see that your originally from England. My mom and i want to go there to visit so bad. My great grandparents on moms side were originally from England, not sure where exactly, but mom knows. Thanks for your advice and words of encouragement!!

Carrie72 · #17 (**permalink**) 05-12-2007, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by faithforababy77

Carolyn - I hope your DH gets better soon. Sounds like he'll be fine. It does stink to have to be on medications the rest of your life. My DH has Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) which is hereditary. His grandfather had it, father had it (had a kidney transplant 9 years ago) and now he has it. His kidney's are only functioning at 48% right now and he's only 27. So eventually, he'll be on meds the rest of his life. Great advances in medicine actually have had his kidney's working better than his dad's were at his age...so we're hopeful. My DH has no complications from it yet...other than high blood pressure, but of course he's on meds for that too! I'll keep your DH in my prayers as well!

Everyone else, I hope you have a great weekend and if it's nice where you're at, get outside and take in the beautiful weather!!

Shannon: Thank you so much! I hope and pray your DH gets better also!! Seems like if it isnt one thing, its another!

bonitafrita · #18 (**permalink**) 05-13-2007, 08:21 AM

Carolyn- I don't mind listening to you vent.....because I know you'd totally listen to me vent if I needed to! I totally understand the whole situation with your DH though. My DH is pretty much the same way. He gets so frustrated because I get so down in the dumps about not being pregnant and it's all I ever think or talk about. The thought of pregnancy is literally running my life. I've put so many things on hold because I keep thinking, "Well, I'm going to be pregnant here soon, so I better not _______ (fill in the blank)." Sometimes he'll just snap and tell me, "STOP thinking about it ALL the time! It will happen when it's meant to happen and we're doing all that we can to make it happen!"

Agggh....I'm going to cut my venting a little short before I get much further! It just gets me all worked up.

But anyway, I also put in a request to add you as a buddy to Yahoo Messenger. Hope to catch you online sometime!

Take care, girlie, and I'll talk to you later!

bonitafrita · #19 (**permalink**) 05-13-2007, 08:22 AM

mrsrittler- How are things going with your son? Is everything okay? We haven't heard back from you!