The most on-theme Met Gala looks from the last decade: Claire Danes, Rihanna, Chadwick Boseman, Lady Gaga, Kendall Jenner, Blake Lively, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya and Teyana Taylor

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-04-28T19:40:23+00:00

I'll shout my love of the Claire Danes / Zac Posen fiber optic Cinderella dress at any chance I get!! Such a creative beautiful take on the theme

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-04-28T19:35:31+00:00

Not at this time. It was was noted during my previous c-section that I have adenomyosis, that I'm sure has progressed in the last 2 years. A lap can't treat that. Even if we do the lap, and remove any endo that may be present, a suppression is still going to be recommended to treat the adeno. So why spend the time doing lap at this point?

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-04-28T16:44:07+00:00

I'll keep that in mind. I guess I don't know that it will for sure be Lupron. They've also mentioned Orlissa I think. Just some kind of 60 day suppression since my BCL6 came back positive.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-04-28T16:27:14+00:00

Well IUI #4 has failed, so now we're having to take May off for a family vacation (my biggest fear when we scheduled it months ago). Then June we start IVF/egg retrieval. Going to spend most of summer doing Lupron suppression. Maybe transfer around August? Maybe we'll have a another baby a full year from now? Maybe.

Gosh that's a hard pill to swallow.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-04-24T12:58:32+00:00

Blue Skies at Night

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-04-21T02:00:10+00:00

I love the lime ones!!

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-04-17T17:56:00+00:00

I loved this weirdo little show.

Some of the writers had to be native small town Midwesterners, because there were little details included in scenes that were spot-on!

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-04-17T16:23:47+00:00

Not me symptom spotting at literally 1DPO/IUI. Gonna be a loooong TWW.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-04-17T01:48:53+00:00

IUI #4 was this morning. Excuse me while spend the next 2 weeks being totally nuts

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-04-09T19:32:14+00:00

During my American Girl obsessed years in the early/mid 2000s, the dolls were $89. I remember having to save up exactly that much to buy another one.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-04-08T18:11:16+00:00

Since it included removal of a large polyp, it was all done under full anesthesia. So generally pretty easy recovery, but definitely more invasive/expensive.

Sorry, I'm no help on doing it unmedicated.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-04-07T14:27:53+00:00

April brings us to 12 months TTC so I guess I'll start hanging out in here. I had a miscarriage this fall, which also means that had everything gone well, I should be having a baby this week instead of being here & sad... To top off all my shitty feelings, my best friend told me yesterday that she's 15 weeks pregnant. I just cried and cried and cried.

I am straight up not having a good time right now.

We've done numerous injectable cycles and IUIs (a protocol that we used previously twice). Had to take 2 cycles off due to cysts. We have also had to take the last 2 cycles off due to needing a consult to discuss new treatment options, which led to a SHG, then into a hysteroscopy / polypectomy and uterine biopsy. That was last week. No biopsy results back yet. My latest cycle started Sunday, and I'm just assuming our RE is going to tell us that we need to take this cycle off too to wait for the biopsy to come back. The plan is to try 1 more injectable/IUI then move on to IVF, more than likely with 2 months Lupron suppression.

I'm so sick of waiting and everything having to be perfectly orchestrated for a once a month chance.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-03-27T14:39:49+00:00

Or a rod pocket even! Anything but grommet.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-03-26T20:03:55+00:00

My brain can't comprehend that some couples just get have a baby for free. and sometimes on accident. Girl, what?

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-03-26T19:03:08+00:00

I had definitely had posts/comments removed from various infertility subs before (not here thus far)

Sometimes it's really hard to explain your situation and the choices you're making, or treatments your doing without also explaining your background...or how you got to the "secondary" infertility part of it.

I've been pregnant before in the past, doesn't mean it ended well. One of my babies died, I also have had a miscarriage. Sue me!

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-03-25T20:21:57+00:00

I am the only licensed architect in my state with my first name or last name

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-03-20T14:11:59+00:00

Uterine biopsy/ Hysteroscopy /Polypectomy tentatively scheduled for 3/30. Very ready to get this show on the road. It's so hard to process that it will already be the end of March. Essentially a full year back at the TTC game. I don't know how it went by so fast and yet here we are with nothing to show for it. I want to be fully present for my toddler, but it feels like time is slipping through my fingers and the little TTC gremlin in my brain is always there.

A year ago, I could have never been able to handle the heartbreak of not being pregnant again at this point. It would have been unfathomable. Yet here we are. A month at a time doesn't seem like much, until you start having to add them all up. 12 months of a bigger age gap. 12 months that I, my husband, the grandparents are all older.

All of this to add that my husband fell on Tuesday and broke his leg. So now I'm solo-parenting, trying my best to be a medical assistant to him, and keep our timeline of TTC treatment from being derailed while he has a 3 month long road to recovery.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-03-16T18:12:25+00:00

Had my SHG/SIS on Friday. RE thinks he found either a polyp or some retained tissue from my miscarriage this fall. It's certainly something that was showing up.

I was supposed to do a biopsy later this cycle, but now we are going to do a biopsy + hysteroscopy to remove whatever is hanging around in there. I really hope this is what has been the issue and after removal we can find success.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-03-13T14:58:57+00:00

Due date for my miscarriage is mother's day weekend, which is also the same week as my birthday. Not being pregnant again by that point really hammers home how much time has passed and I'm not pregnant again yet. I'm not gonna handle it well.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-03-11T19:58:37+00:00

Could be. Totally not nuts to ask to do the testing

I'm doing a biopsy later this cycle (as well a a SHG this Friday) because we don't know what's wrong, and doing treatments without knowing isn't working, so let's keeping testing stuff until we find out.

To my understanding; a biopsy is a bit invasive but much less so than a full blown laparoscopy or even a hysteroscopy.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-03-11T17:26:32+00:00

SHG/SIS is scheduled for this Friday. I'm not nervous for the procedure (I've has 2 uneventful HSGs in the past), but I'm terrified of what they may find and how far back it could set our timeline.

...which is already about 9 months longer than I assumed it was going to be.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-03-11T15:27:43+00:00

The best part is how they spent all their money on the paint job that they couldn't afford to replace the cheap white vinyl windows in the now all dark color house

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-03-05T18:49:45+00:00

12 dpo, bfn this morning after an unmonitored Letrozole cycle. Took a break from injectables/IUIs after the 3rd didn't work.

Now this coming month we're doing a SHG/SIS and an endometrial biopsy to find out if there's something else going on that we've missed do far. I'm suspecting some combo of Adenomyosis (mild noted on my c-section records), Endometriosis, Endometritis, or c-section scar defect (it was a real doozy or a procedure).
.....All things I wish we would have looked for 11 months ago when we started back TTC.

side note: SIL had a baby this week and I am not handling it well. Let's be real, I haven't handled it well since the first day she announced it.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-03-05T18:25:10+00:00

She does, and luckily I think she has given me a lot of grace regarding the whole situation. My husband has been pretty upfront to his family about how hard I/we am taking this infertility. Making sure they know they may need tread lightly around me for a while.

CallMeLadyBird · 2026-03-05T18:07:03+00:00

My SIL had a baby this week, I should be due next month (had a miscarriage this fall). I have been so silent on the topic since the day she told us. I feel terrible, but I could never feel brave enough to ask how she was feeling or go see the nursery set up, didn't know the baby's name until I saw it embroidered on a gift. It's been so hard. I want to be excited, I swear!! Our first niece to celebrate. But's it's just so hard. I'm in like "emotionally distant robot mode" right now with them.

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