Infertility A-Z...

A - Age at Which you Started TTC: 28

B - Baby Dancing or Sex: Neither. Dr. B. Says relations!

C - Children wanted: As many as God is willing to give me

D - Dogs/Cats/Fill In Babies: 1 dog at home, 2 nieces and 1 nephew at their homes, 2 nephews on the way and "Auntie" to plenty

E - Essential Oils/Vitamins: Prenatal vitamin, Vitamin E, Calcium, Folic Acid

F - Fertility Meds I've Taken: Clomid, Femara,BCP,Progesterone and Estrogen in every freakin' form, Follistim/Gonal-F, Lupron, Lovenox, Dexamethasone, Ganirelix, Prednisone, Intralipids, Metformin, Neupogen, Aspirin, and probably some others I can't recall.

G - Gain, What I have Gained from Infertility: Besides a broken heart? Hhhmmm . . .knowledge, strength, courage and a bigger set of cahones!

H - HSG: Nope. Hysteroscopy x2, Hemorraghic cyst x2 and Hospitall stay.

I - Infertile Pet Peeve: People who open their mouths without knowing anything about IF. Just shut it if you don't know what you're talking about- please.

J - Job Title: Teacher

K - Kids Names you are Afraid will be Taken: I'm partial to K girl names and Irish names.

L - Lengh of Time TTC: over 3 years

M - Miscarriages: 6

N - Number of Times you have Swiched REs: 2

O - Ovarian Quality: Never had any issues

P - POAS or Wait for AF: POAS day before beta and day of. This cycle I'm going to change it up and pee on everything I can!

Q - Quote from an Obnoxious Fertile: It's a toss up with "It's not like you have Breast Cancer" and "Relax-take a vacation. It'll happen."

S - Sperm: I don't have any. DH has plenty

T - Time you Tried Naturally: over 1 year with BBT and CBEFM

U - Uterus: Praying for thick lining every cycle.

V - Vagina: Surprisingly hasn't died after all the surgeries, u/s, AFs and TTC.

W - What Baby Stuff do you Already Have: A Kate Spade baby bag that my Mom bought me after a miscarriage.

X - Xtra, Xtra, Hear all about it! How many people know about your TTC Journey: Practically everyone. I'm not ashamed. My IF journey is a part of who I am, today, tomorrow, always.

Y - Yearly Exam: I don't have a GP. I see the cardiologist and ob/gyn yearly and RI plenty.

Z - Zygote: I can't even begin to count how many we've had with all our IVFs. Embryos are more important anyway

FYI, found on an IF blog. Feel free to fill your's in!

Message edited 8/3/2011 4:23:01 PM.

Re: Infertility A-Z...

A - Age at Which you Started TTC: 25

B - Baby Dancing or Sex: Sex... and I'm like a 4th grader because I chuckled in my head when I answered this.

C - Children wanted: 3

D - Dogs/Cats/Fill In Babies: 3 AMAZING kitties..... loves of my life (besides DH, of course!)

E - Essential Oils/Vitamins: prenatals, vitamin e

F - Fertility Meds I've Taken: Oy. Ok..... Femara, Gonal, Menopur, Ganirelix, Luveris, Lupron, PIO, E2V suppositories, Viagra suppositories, Crinone, Estrace, Vivelle patches, dexamethasone, prednisone, ovidrel...... does baby aspirin and metformin count too?

G - Gain, What I have Gained from Infertility: 10lbs so far

H - HSG: Nahhh not yet anyway.. who knows... Hysteroscopy last Fall and another one tomorrow.

I - Infertile Pet Peeve: When I am judged for how I react to things pregnancy/fertility related... or told how I should feel (especially from someone who doesn't know sh!t about any of this!!!!)

J - Job Title: Teacher

K - Kids Names you are Afraid will be Taken: I'm not afraid of names being taken... If the next 15 people who have babies name their daughter Juliana, I will still name my daughter Juliana

L - Length of Time TTC: 18 months with an RE

M - Miscarriages: This is tricky. Technically my triplets were a miscarriage and I had a chemical. My son was not a miscarriage

N - Number of Times you have Swiched REs: None. I am loyal to Dr.B

O - Ovarian Quality: Umm after cycles and cycles of fertility drugs?! I hope it's still ok!!!!

P - POAS or Wait for AF: POAS, 100%

Q - Quote from an Obnoxious Fertile: "You just have to stop thinking about it and let go of trying so hard" Yea. Ok.

S - Sperm: My DH's checked out great!! That's one bit of good news!!

T - Time you Tried Naturally: Umm 2 months. I knew I had PCOS for 10yrs before I started trying so I didn't waste any time. Stupidly, I thought this would get me a baby faster. If this is what's considered a short cut, that's really sad.

U - Uterus: My uterus held 4 babies at one point. 4. I held none.

V - Vagina: I call it my "V" and my DH says I should use the full name because just saying "V" sounds weird

W - What Baby Stuff do you Already Have: Sample formula I received since I made a registry while I was pregnant...... and maternity clothes, if that counts. Oh- and I have one baby boy outfit that I'm not sure I will ever use because it really belonged to my son.

X - Xtra, Xtra, Hear all about it! How many people know about your TTC Journey: More like, who DOESN'T know?!

Y - Yearly Exam: Yeaaa I was due for a pap in July but skipped it. They make you do it when you're pregnant, so I am just hoping I can be pregnant soon and do it then!!

Z - Zygote: I was an LIF zygote for like 10 mins ....... Then I made 1000 posts and was able to change my avatar message thingy Still waiting on my free shirt though... and something tells me I will keep on waiting...........

Message edited 8/3/2011 5:42:16 PM.

Re: Infertility A-Z...

A - Age at Which you Started TTC: 29

B - Baby Dancing or Sex: Sex

C - Children wanted: When DH and I used to discuss this pre-TTC, I always said, "let's just have one healthy one first." Little did I know how long that would take! Ideally, we want 3.

D - Dogs/Cats/Fill In Babies: I have a 12-year-old and 8-year-old nephew from my sister and BIL. DH's SIL and BIL gave us a niece almost 2 years ago, and have a boy due in September. I love them all, but it's still not the same...


E - Essential Oils/Vitamins: Prenatal vitamin.

F - Fertility Meds I've Taken: Femara, Dexamethasone, Metformin, Gonal-F, Ovidrel, Progesterone Suppositories. Ask me again in a couple of months, and I'll have a few to add.

G - Gain, What I have Gained from Infertility: Some fabulous friendships with the ladies on this board, lots of patience, and lots of weight from food therapy.

H - HSG: Never had one. Had a hysteroscopy though.

I - Infertile Pet Peeve: The parents who I work with who can pretty much look at a man and get pregnant, and can't care for their children.

J - Job Title: Preschool Psychologist

K - Kids Names you are Afraid will be Taken: Hannah, Gabe

L - Lengh of Time TTC: over 2 years

M - Miscarriages: 4

N - Number of Times you have Swiched REs: 0 - only Dr. B for me so far.

O - Ovarian Quality: Okay, as far as I know.

P - POAS or Wait for AF: POAS two days before beta. Prepares me for disappointment while leaving me with some hope.

Q - Quote from an Obnoxious Fertile: "If you stop thinking about it so much, it will happen."

S - Sperm: Lucky DH has no problems...I have more than enough issues for both of us.

T - Time you Tried Naturally: 1.5 years, with two losses.

U - Uterus: Would love to house a baby.

V - Vagina: has had too many things shoved up it that are not attached to DH!

W - What Baby Stuff do you Already Have: Nothing, just lots of ideas. I'm a bit superstitious.

X - Xtra, Xtra, Hear all about it! How many people know about your TTC Journey: I've lost track. The longer our journey gets, the more people I tell. This is my life, and I don't want to be ashamed of it.

Y - Yearly Exam: I have to have an annual physical b/c I work in a preschool. I saw my obgyn recently too. I'd just love to see her on the ob side instead of the gyn side!

Z - Zygote: I guess I've had 4 little balls of cells...

Re: Infertility A-Z...

A - Age at Which you Started TTC: 28

B - Baby Dancing or Sex: Sex

C - Children wanted: 2-4 we'll see

D - Dogs/Cats/Fill In Babies: none

E - Essential Oils/Vitamins: none.. i really need to start

F - Fertility Meds I've Taken: Clomid,BCP,Progesterone and Estrogen, Follistim/Gonal-F, Aspirin, and probably some others I can't recall.

G - Gain, What I have Gained from Infertility: 10 pounds!

H - HSG: Nope.

I - Infertile Pet Peeve:

J - Job Title: Teacher

K - Kids Names you are Afraid will be Taken: not really afraid

L - Lengh of Time TTC: 14 months

M - Miscarriages: none

N - Number of Times you have Swiched REs: 0

O - Ovarian Quality: Never had any issues

P - POAS or Wait for AF: POAS addict!

Q - Quote from an Obnoxious Fertile: "Just relax it will happen in time". "I knew someone going through this and it worked out for them"

S - Sperm: DH has lots!

T - Time you Tried Naturally: 1 year

U - Uterus: Praying for thick lining every cycle.

V - Vagina: tired of having things get stuck up there

W - What Baby Stuff do you Already Have: none

X - Xtra, Xtra, Hear all about it! How many people know about your TTC Journey: Just a handfull

Y - Yearly Exam: I see the ob/gyn yearly and RE plenty.

Z - Zygote:

Re: Infertility A-Z...

We are at the beginning of our IF Journey, but I will try to answer as many as possible:

A - Age at Which you Started TTC: 28

B - Baby Dancing or Sex: Making out

C - Children wanted: 1-2..Hopefully, we will have one and take it from there.

D - Dogs/Cats/Fill In Babies: N/A


E - Essential Oils/Vitamins: Prenatal vitamin.

F - Fertility Meds I've Taken: N/A.....yet

G - Gain, What I have Gained from Infertility: Lots of knowledge about the female/male reproductive systems

H - HSG: N/A

I - Infertile Pet Peeve: People who get pregnant while on BCPs

J - Job Title:

K - Kids Names you are Afraid will be Taken:

L - Lengh of Time TTC: 12 months

M - Miscarriages: 0

N - Number of Times you have Swiched REs: 0 - first RE appointment in 4 weeks.

O - Ovarian Quality: Okay, as far as I know.

P - POAS or Wait for AF: Wait for AF

Q - Quote from an Obnoxious Fertile: "Well, you always knew you would need IVF to get pregnant"

S - Sperm: Not looking good

T - Time you Tried Naturally: 1 years

U - Uterus: Fetal Development

V - Vagina: Birth Canall

W - What Baby Stuff do you Already Have: Nothing, just lots of ideas. I'm a bit superstitious.

X - Xtra, Xtra, Hear all about it! How many people know about your TTC Journey: 2 people - me and DH

Y - Yearly Exam: Every year like clockwork!

Z - Zygote: Fertilized egg

Re: Infertility A-Z...

A - Age at Which you Started TTC: 28

B - Baby Dancing or Sex: Sex OK

C - Children wanted: 3 or 4 max

D - Dogs/Cats/Fill In Babies: none

E - Essential Oils/Vitamins: Prenatal

F - Fertility Meds I've Taken: Clomid, Femara,BCP,Progesterone (Crinone, Supps, PIO), Follistim/Gonal-F, Lupron (only as a trigger), HCG (novarel, ovidrel), Luveris, Lovenox, Dexamethasone, Ganirelix, Intralipids, E2V, Vivelle, Metformin, Baby Aspirin...

G - Gain, What I have Gained from Infertility: a new perspective, a lesson in patience, and most importantly my beautiful DD.. oh yeah and about 20lbs...

H - HSG: Nope. Hysteroscopy

I - Infertile Pet Peeve: are there things about infertility that aren't incredibly annoying??

J - Job Title: Senior Product Manager & Floral Designer

K - Kids Names you are Afraid will be Taken: Jacob

L - Lengh of Time TTC: 18 months for #1

M - Miscarriages: 2

N - Number of Times you have Swiched REs: 0

O - Ovarian Quality: Stellar if I day say so myself

P - POAS or Wait for AF: POAS day before beta or at least 12DPO and day of

Q - Quote from an Obnoxious Fertile: "I can imagine" (NO... you can't!)

S - Sperm: minor low morphology but basically not an issue

T - Time you Tried Naturally: 6 months

U - Uterus: was perfect but after a really traumatic c-section Im not sure - will need a new hysteroscopy to tell me what's going on in there

V - Vagina: what about it?

W - What Baby Stuff do you Already Have: everything for #1

X - Xtra, Xtra, Hear all about it! How many people know about your TTC Journey: Everyone. We kept it private until m/c #2 then we shared. I like sharing it because its a common problem that NO ONE seems to talk about. And it should be talked about.

Y - Yearly Exam: No, I graduated in 2004

Z - Zygote: 18 i guess? all my eggs for IVF fertilized so i guess 18..

Message edited 8/3/2011 9:03:50 PM.

Re: Infertility A-Z...

A - Age at Which you Started TTC: 32

B - Baby Dancing or Sex: We say "Do it"

C - Children wanted: Yes!

D - Dogs/Cats/Fill In Babies:Had a cat we had to put to sleep last year. 4 nieces and nephews

E - Exhausted from early appts

F - Fertility Meds I've Taken:Clomid, Femara, Gonal-F, Menopur, Lovenox, BCP, Baby Asprin, Lupron, antioxidants, Ovirdrel and HCG, Metformin, Ganirelex

G - Gain, What I have Gained from Infertility: Strength, patience, the ability to express myself freely and a baby girl!

H - HSG: All was clear!

I - Infertile Pet Peeve: The "it will happen" saying. No, not everyone walks away with a baby...

J - Job Title: Assistant Director of Residential Services

K - Kids Names you are Afraid will be Taken: Never a fear of mine.

L - Lengh of Time TTC: 4 an a half friggin years!!

M - Miscarriages: 1, but it was in college, not with DH and so long ago...

N - Number of Times you have Swiched REs: 3 (3rd was the charm)

O - Ovarian Quality: Sux moose balls

P - POAS or Wait for AF: POAS 12DPO and day of beta

Q - Quote from an Obnoxious Fertile: You can always adopt!

S - Sperm: Plenty to go around

T - Time you Tried Naturally: 1.5 years but was very irregular

U - Uterus: Would make a lovely home, as per Dr. B (and it did)

V - Vagina: Has been seen/probed by many

W - What Baby Stuff do you Already Have: All I had before getting pregnant were my 2 baby blankets (my mom gave them to me) and a penguin teether I had bought for DH

X - Xtra, Xtra, Hear all about it! How many people know about your TTC Journey: I was very open about it. Most of my family, friends and work knew.

Y - Yearly Exam: Skipped them a lot when I started with an RE, figured if something was awry it would have been found.

Z - Zygote: Just the one I carried to term, I guess...

Message edited 8/3/2011 9:26:19 PM.

Re: Infertility A-Z...

A - Age at Which you Started TTC: 28

B - Baby Dancing or Sex: sex or pork or bang or we quote dr.b and say relations

C - Children wanted: As many as God is willing to give me

D - Dogs/Cats/Fill In Babies: we just lost our dog dakota..i have 8 neices and nephews that we see every day

E - Essential Oils/Vitamins: Prenatal vitamin
F - Fertility Meds I've Taken: Clomid, femara,metformin,baby asprin,predisone,syntheriod,ovidrel,gonal f,follistem.progesterone,endometrium,
metnx,dexamethesone and lovenox..think thats it lol

G - Gain, What I have Gained from infertlity..a sense of how amazing it will be when i do get to be a mother..how not to take anything for granted and to cherish all of pregnancy..the good and the bad cause i will knwo how hard it was to get here
H - HSG: all clear

I - Infertile Pet Peeve: when people act like they know what u r going through when they dont and when people dont understand why u cannot go to that 9th baby shower u were invited to bc the person was not even trying..and i also hate the i am so fat comment from pregnant woman..drives me nuts!

J - Job Title: take care of my mom who had a stroke

K - Kids Names we like madison grace and landon patrick


L - Lengh of Time TTC: in month 17

M - Miscarriages: 1

N - Number of Times you have Swiched REs: 0

O - Ovarian Quality: ok not the best lol

P - POAS or Wait for AF: wait for af..after po so many sticks its not as fun anymore

Q - Quote from an Obnoxious Fertile: It's a toss up with relax..it will happen..ur time will come..enjoy it now while u can

S - Sperm: I don't have any. DH has plenty

T - Time you Tried Naturally: over 6 months

U - Uterus: tired of people sticking things in it lol

V - Vagina: waving the white flag soon i am sure

W - What Baby Stuff do you Already Have: too much

X - Xtra, Xtra, Hear all about it! How many people know about your TTC Journey: family and close friends know for sure but i think everyone does now

Y - Yearly Exam: go every year

Z - Zygote: yes please!

Re: Infertility A-Z...

A - Age at Which you Started TTC: 31

B - Baby Dancing or Sex: Doin it, LL Cool J style!

C - Children wanted: at least one- im not going to be greedy!

D - Dogs/Cats/Fill In Babies: 1 dog, 1 niece

E - Essential Oils/Vitamins: Prenatal vitamin

F - Fertility Meds I've Taken: Femara,Progesterone, Follistim, Lovenox, Dexamethasone, Ganirelix, Prednisone, Intralipids, Metformin

G - Gain, What I have Gained from Infertility: 15 pounds and counting!

H - HSG: tomorrow!

I - Infertile Pet Peeve: Just about everything related to IF

J - Job Title: Social Worker

K - Kids Names you are Afraid will be Taken: I'm so afraid, I wont write it here!

L - Lengh of Time TTC: 4 months!

M - Miscarriages: 1 uncomfirmed chemical

N - Number of Times you have Switched REs: 3

O - Ovarian Quality: not sure

P - POAS or Wait for AF: POAS addict here

Q - Quote from an Obnoxious Fertile: Pretty much anything that comes from their mouth

S - Sperm: all good

T - Time you Tried Naturally: 0- we were seriously aggressive!

U - Uterus: umm check!

V - Vagina: hates it when ppl talk to it!

W - What Baby Stuff do you Already Have: Nothing, too paranoid

X - Xtra, Xtra, Hear all about it! How many people know about your TTC Journey: So far just close friends and parents

Y - Yearly Exam: Im going once a freakin week! Im sure I'm ok

Z - Zygote: get in my belly!