jesshopes4baby's Profile
Jul 30
Just a quick note to say hi! I couldn't imagine having to go through a miscarriage because I know it would be about a million times harder than getting a negative test (yet again). I've stopped crying at least and I called my husband and told him he's buying me frozen margarhettas tonight (I can't spell today) Anyway, I've been trying to take off weight too and I got off about 28 -29 pounds and then hit a standstill but I've been so sick from the meds. and everything going on that exercise has just been out of the question since all of this fertility stuff has been in full swing. So I don't care I'm going to have a few drinks tonight and then go home and go to bed. I know you've been really busy but it really is nice hearing from you again :) Thanks for writing.
Jul 30
Just a quick note to say hi! Thanks. I'm so glad I'm not in school right now. I would really lose my mind if I tried to do that and this too. I don't think that anyone really realizes just how stressful and time consuming trying to get a degree is unless they've done it. It's hard and I know it takes a strong person to do it. I don't blame you for taking some time off. I agree, you'll feel a lot better if you're able to lose some weight. I know how hard it is from waaaayyyy too much personal experience. I was balling after I found out, I couldn't stop crying. I've picked up some sort of a bug and was sick really bad yesterday and super nauseated so I really thought this could be it. I'm just so frustrated, I know you know about all of that.
Jul 16
Just a quick note to say hi! Hey how have you been doing? I haven't heard from you in a while and just wanted to make sure everything is OK.
Jul 15
Just a quick note to say hi! How are things going with you? Are you doing good? Don't give up on your baby it just takes longer for some of us then others
Jul 06
Just a quick note to say hi! Hey how have you been? It's been a while since I've heard from you so I thought I'd say hi and see how you've been. Just got my second BFN on the IUI. I start my clomid tonight and then back to the doctor next Tuesday to see when I'm ready for the third.
Jun 29
Just a quick note to say hi! Anyway, I'm sorry I'm just rambling :)
How have you been doing?
How have you been doing?
Jun 29
Just a quick note to say hi! No sign of AF though so I guess that's good. I'm just really trying not to get excited though because last time I had nothing all the way up until the night after I'd had the preg. test done so.... I'm just too afraid to think that I might be pregnant. I don't want to jinx it, you know? I was going to start a baby blanket but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I started knitting on some cotton washcloths instead. :) Oh well. I'm not optimistic about this. Is that bad? I hate to be that way but anytime I've ever gotten excited about anything it's always come back to bite me in the butt, so to speak.
Jun 29
Just a quick note to say hi! I just wanted to say hi and to see how you're doing. I'm sorry I've been anti-social here lately with initiating notes. I've been working really hard to take my mind off of all of this to get through the two week wait and so I think I've kind of been out of it. Two more days to go now and I'm finally starting to feel anxious and go nuts. No symptons, none to speak of anyway. I was nauseated this morning but then I've been having that off and on anyway and I think it's more to do with sinuses than anything else.
Jun 25
Just a quick note to say hi! Yeah, apparantly that's a lie. But you know I really think that as long as you use a sensible diet (and I also beleive that the South Beach Diet is a very good and sensible diet) you should do well. We just started cutting calories and reducing fat and my husband dropped 30 something pounds. I lost 24. So I know if I can then you can :) OK 24 down now if I can just take off like 40 more? That'll put me around 130, which is somewhere I haven't been in a really long time. I haven't been able to exercise lately though because of the fertility meds. making me sick. Oh well :)
Jun 25
Just a quick note to say hi! I wish I did like fish a lot that would just be so healthy. Oh well :) I finally did find a diet cookbook that I like though, Better Homes & Gardens new diet cookbook. It just has a nice variety of low calorie, low fat, stuff in it.We have a pond behind our home and everyone keeps telling us we should stock it with catfish or bass or whatever and I'm like, ughhh, no. I don't like eating it and I don't like the way it smells while it's cooking. They have some other stuff in the South Beach diet too, don't get me wrong. I remember they had some healthy mini quiche that was OK. To me anyway. I mean I know everybody's different. I wish I could make myself like fish. I've tried before because I've always heard you can train your tastebuds.
Jun 25
Just a quick note to say hi! Did they say anything about Fortamet or Metformin or Glucophage (basically the same drug). I'm insulin resistant and they put me on Metformin and it helped me lose weight. I've gotten used to it now but in the beginning the side effects were killer. I couldn't even take it to start with but then that was about 8 years ago and I was around 22 then and I don't think it has gotten as bad as it is now. My mom bought me the South Beach diet book. I just couldn't do it. I'm not a big fan of seafood. I flat out hate crab and lobster and his book calls for a lot of fish and those sorts of food. If you like seafood you should be fine but it's just not for me.
Jun 24
Just a quick note to say hi! Oh are you finishing school and quitting so you can get done faster or are you going back? Just curious :)
What are they doing chromosomal tests for? Do you think they all do that? I know they did some on my husband and that's how they found out he has xxy chromosomes that keep popping up and that's what's causing the lack of sperm production. But I don't even know if they checked mine or not. I didn't even ask. :) Are they going to put you on meds. for the diabetes? Sorry I'm nosy :)
What are they doing chromosomal tests for? Do you think they all do that? I know they did some on my husband and that's how they found out he has xxy chromosomes that keep popping up and that's what's causing the lack of sperm production. But I don't even know if they checked mine or not. I didn't even ask. :) Are they going to put you on meds. for the diabetes? Sorry I'm nosy :)
Jun 24
Just a quick note to say hi! I guess that would be just one more thing to deal with huh?
Jun 24
Just a quick note to say hi! I just don't feel anything. I guess I just haven't written anything to anyone because I really haven't had anything going on at all. I don't feel pregnant at all. I just feel almost normal or actually normal yesterday until this whole blood sugar ordeal today. I really do appreciate all of your good thoughts and warm wishes because it really helps me out in knowing that I'm not alone in this and that there a lot of other women out there who know how this feels. I hate that there are because I hate that anyone has to go through this but still... Hey how have you been doing? I know you said that the doctor thinks you have diabetes how is that going? I don't have diabetes but I am insulin resistant and I'm scared that it'll turn into diabetes.
Jun 24
Just a quick note to say hi! You're so sweet. I felt fine yesterday, even mowed the lawn. I had two really bad bouts of hypoglycemia today and felt like I was going to pass out. The first time I drank a coke and started feeling better and then after work I stopped at a grocery store and bought a slice of birthday cake that wasn't good at all. If I ever have cake again I really think that it'll be too soon. Ughhh. I can't believe I just said that but I really didn't want it, I just ate it to get some sugar in. I wonder if it has something to do with a hormonal shift or the drugs wearing off or something because I had this happen around day 6 post IUI last time so I don't know. I'm really just trying hard to not think about it. Which is hard. I'm really afraid that this won't work.
Jun 22
Just a quick note to say hi! Me, I don't really feel anything. I'm glad because the last IUI I had was really rough. I was cramping and sore for days and days afterwards. I'm trying to just not even think about it. I analyzed everything last time. I may get there this time too but I'm going to try really hard not to. I'm not really optimistic this time so I think that's helping. I've been trying to not even think about babies or getting pregnant. :) Hope it works :)
Jun 22
Just a quick note to say hi! I'm sorry about the diabetes. I know that must be rough. They diagnosed my husband with it but to be honest we aren't really sure if he has it or not (it's a long story!!!!). Just hang in there because now that you know what the problem is you can work with your doctor to help manage it. I know that probably sounds cheesey but my husband was on three different blood pressure meds. for high blood pressure. He lost close to 40 pounds and cut back on the salt and now he's off of all the meds. Hang in there...
Jun 15
Just a quick note to say hi! Hey , what's going on with you? You're still waiting on test results right? I hate that most of all. Well, two and half weeks after my second IUI was supposed to have happened.... my nurse just called me back today after doing YET more bloodwork and another ultrasound and the doctor wants me to take an Ovidrel shot tonight and then I go in for the actual IUI on Wednesday morning so great news and then the tww. Ughhh. Oh well. It's better than not even ovulating at all!!!! I was starting to get really, really scared!!!! How are you doing?
Jun 14
Just a quick note to say hi! I'm just hoping that I'm ready on Monday. You know if my second IU would have gone as planned then I would already be over the tww? It's just so frustrating because when the femarra didn't seem to be working all that great I said well the clomid worked last time right? Let me try it again. I'll just have to deal with the side effects and they said no, no, no, let's try this tamoxifen first. Oh well. Hopefully this time we will both get BFP and everything will go smoothly for a full nine months!!!!
Jun 10
Just a quick note to say hi! I'm sorry for your loss but you know the old saying "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" so be strong in these hard and trying days. So how is the baby blanket going? My sis is 7weeks pregnant and I'm thinking I might get my mom to make her a blanket bc I have no blanketing skills at all (LOL)!!
Jun 09
Just a quick note to say hi! You can't really go wrong with your neutrals and your light colors though because you can always switch out so many accessories so easily with those good foundation colors. Especially if your parents prefer light colors! That way you can always hide the bright little washcloth or something else that you've made for the baby when they come over! LOL! Why do they not like bright colors for a baby? Do they just prefer the traditional lighter baby shades? Just curious :)
Jun 09
Just a quick note to say hi! So our bedroom is a deep blue "blue patina" was the name, I can't remember the brand. Oh yes, I can I went to Wal-Mart to get it and I told them that I wanted that brand of paint, I can't remember the name brand and they gave me their watered down paint brand instead. I was so mad. I didn't realize it until I got it home and then had had it for a while and was ready to paint. I was ticked. It was hard to paint with. I should have taken it back to the store but I didn't. I'm trying to decide what color to go with for the extra room where we will put the baby. It's green, right now, "crocodile tears". I love the names of colors too. From Lowe's, I don't remember that brand either. Anyway, I can't decide if I want to stay green or go tan or what for the walls.
Jun 09
Just a quick note to say hi! I don't blame you for going light. I wanted to go kind of natural. Maybe making the tan predominate. I just like all colors. When we were renting a house before we moved and bought this place the landlord was my husband's boss and so he didn't care if we painted or not. I painted the living room a silver grey, the bedroom a robin's egg blue, the spare bedroom a purple (not really deep or bright but not pastel either), the kitchen I went cream. And the dining room was my favorite. I went cranberry jam. That was the name of the color, cranberry jam. I loved it. But we bought a mobile home and moved to the country so even though we actually have more square footage due to the layout I painted everything but the bedrooms this really light beige-y type of color.
Jun 09
Just a quick note to say hi! I'm sorry I misread. His family is having some trouble with acceptance, not yours. Sorry.
Jun 09
Just a quick note to say hi! Definitely post pictures of your blanket! I was thinking about knitting something green and a light khaki tan color maybe with a little brown and yellow in it. What do you think? :)
Jun 09
Just a quick note to say hi! It must be difficult having to cope with the racial aspect of a marriage. I guess I'm luck because most days race never crosses my mind! I mean you know you deal with all different people every day, black white, hispanic, indian, native american mix, wealthy, poor, etc... and both my husband and myself you know watch TV, movies, listen to music from all different people, all different races and it doesn't really matter. I think what matters most is what kind of person you are. Hopefully your family will come to accpet him regardless of anything or anyone (the baby) else. Believe me I have family issues too, a lot of them, mine are just different issues. You know how that goes. :)
Jun 09
Just a quick note to say hi! Yeah, I agree it's weird what genetics can do. I'm very, very light skinned and my sister is very dark skinned. We're part Cherokee and Creek Indian and part Italian and God only knows what else. Everyone else in my family can get a tan. My sister has people walk up to her at work on a regular basis and start speaking Spanish. She doesn't know a word!!! She keeps getting mistaken for being hispanic. I got my paternal grandmother's skin and the only thing that looks "ethnic" so to speak about me are my eyes and high cheeckbooks. My husband has a TON of native american in him and so I was shocked that he went for a donor with his easy tan ability but a donor with no native american at all.
Jun 09
Who couldn't be friends with a girl from Houston? I don't live there, by the way, just born there. =) I'm still a TX chic in my soul!
Jun 08
Just a quick note to say hi! Oh hey, I just saw where you said you're working on your baby blanket. Are you quilting or knitting or crocheting. I've been knitting for a few years now and I'm terrible at it. I can make squares and rectangles don't ask me to increase or decrease! LOL. But I've been thinking of taking up knitting a baby blanket. What are you working on?
Jun 08
Just a quick note to say hi! Part of the reason that I wanted to tell them besides the thought that they would be OK with it was that I was so afraid what if we have this child and we can't pass him/her off as my husband's? I mean, what if someone started to wonder if I had had an affair or something? I mean my parents, sure we can pass that off, but this is his sister and his mom and they're going to know or possibly know. But they aren't actually going through the process of using a donor themselves and so to be able to chat with someone who is also going through the same thing is comforting. Thanks for being there.
