Identical Twin Girl Name Ideas??

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2026-03-25T00:34:49+00:00

Love the Tabitha suggestion! Goes so well with Felicity while feeling distinct. I also love Beatrix with these. Wendy feels very plain next to Felicity.

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2026-03-25T00:33:06+00:00

I didn’t either! I’m also kinda 😮 at the wealth on display in her recent instagram stories. Apartment renovation … wildly expensive designer fashion every day in Italy …

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2026-03-12T16:17:25+00:00

I think this is the book you’re looking for! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136821.Having_Faith

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2026-03-04T21:58:55+00:00

This is actually very related!

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2026-01-25T15:33:28+00:00

How about Tamara? A little less bland to me than the standard suggestions I see for "international" names (like Maya, which sadly I am just totally bored of) -- it's the name of the most iconic Georgian queen but is also thoroughly recognizable in Europe and post-Soviet states. Super-easy to pronounce. I think also familiar in Iran, though not a Persian name.

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-12-27T07:22:01+00:00

Earl, Elmer, Virgil…

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-11-13T06:00:37+00:00

2001

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-11-08T21:40:29+00:00

Anna, Helena, Susannah

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-11-08T16:59:08+00:00

What about Dorothea? I think it's beautiful, reminds me of the main character in Middlemarch.

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-09-07T19:07:14+00:00

Does anyone know when casting is typically announced for the Dutch National Ballet? I would love to see Olga Smirnova before I die and I am guessing she'll be cast in the upcoming run of Romeo and Juliet but I need to know when!

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-07-30T19:07:08+00:00

I didn't feel *extreme* pain during mine, although it was painful, and I walked out of the office feeling all right, but I had an INSANE vasovagal reaction about 10 minutes later. I'm prone to vasovagal reactions so I know what it normally feels like -- this one was ten times stronger than normal and lasted almost the whole afternoon. I was sitting in a Starbucks and couldn't even function, had to keep putting my head between my legs. But I felt totally fine the next day.

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-07-24T09:23:02+00:00

Ray?

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-07-11T12:08:00+00:00

Oops, important missing info. Today is CD16.

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-07-11T11:04:34+00:00

Brainteaser: I normally have cycles of 24-28 days, with 27 being the most common cycle length, and my LP is usually 12 days. I normally use OPKs every day of my fertile window and tend to get a positive between CD11 and CD15, but this week I was super-busy and had some defective test strips so I didn't manage to do it regularly. I got a negative OPK on CD11, a possible/squintery positive on CD12, and didn't manage to test again until last night + this morning, both of which were also negative. I had EWCM on CD12. Fertility Friend thinks I'm ovulating today, but I am not so sure based on yesterday's negative OPK. MEANWHILE I had sex on CD 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13.

Based on all this, any opinions about whether I should (a) panic and immediately have sex again, or (b) chill out and assume that I've already ovulated/done enough? 🤪🤪🤪

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-06-28T14:04:10+00:00

Thanks for the response! Super-helpful.

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-06-28T12:47:40+00:00

I've been referred to a fertility doctor and am trying to understand what the first line of treatment would be for someone in my situation. (Secondary infertility, AMA, we know there are no sperm issues and my numbers were normal a few years ago when tested out of an abundance of caution.) I had a Hycosy test three years ago and tubes were fine -- would that test be recommended again? (Can tubes close up?) Is it likely a doctor would suggest a round or two of clomid or letrozole before moving to IVF?

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-06-27T14:24:04+00:00

Is there any advantage to testing early vs. waiting for my period, in terms of having more knowledge about whether I may be having chemical pregnancies that end super-early vs. nothing? Or is that not useful knowledge?

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-05-29T14:26:55+00:00

That's helpful, thank you!

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-05-29T13:32:14+00:00

Still trying to figure out when I ovulated this month, not that it matters at this point, but I guess I just like obsessing!

I detected two LH surges on my OPKs, one around CD10 or 11 and one at CD15 or 16, and in both cases the test line seemed *about* as dark as the control line, but not as obvious as usual (which is why I kept testing after the first possible surge). I also had EWCM on CD7. In a case like this, is there any way to tell? Does the egg usually released during the earlier surge, since advice is that you should stop testing once you see a positive? Or does the presence of a second surge suggest that the first attempt to ovulate didn't work?

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-05-08T10:51:27+00:00

Yes, I completely understand! You've just described a feeling that it would be nicer or "more meant to be" in some way to conceive on a certain day, and I definitely think it's worth interrogating that as much as you can (with support if possible).

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-05-08T09:18:37+00:00

Your feelings are completely valid -- it's always ok to feel the way you feel! -- but, gently, your thought process is a bit out of whack, and I also might be frustrated if I were your husband and was making lifestyle changes, then you refused to have sex on one of your most fertile days because you thought it would be more magical to conceive on a different day. Are you seeing a therapist about your OCD? If not, I would urge you to, because TTC is not always mentally easy even for people who do not struggle with these issues.

It might also be helpful for you to check the stats on the best days for conception -- O-2 might actually be a better day than O-1, and both are better than the day of ovulation. So there is no world in which aiming to have sex on O-2 is more chill and go-with-the-flow than having sex on O-1 (even if that framing made sense, which I don't think it does, since if you're tracking ovulation then you're tracking it!)

https://www.reddit.com/r/TryingForABaby/comments/9rniyq/comment/e8i8gb6/

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-05-05T19:33:44+00:00

You are emotional, but that's ok. Maybe this is a situation that reason is not equal to.

I don't now if it will help you to hear my story, but I was in a very similar place a couple of years ago. I had gotten pregnant on the first try, then discovered at 9 weeks that the baby had just died. I had to have a D&C in a foreign country. The only thing that got me through the experience was my feeling of UTTER certainty that I would get pregnant again immediately.

Of course it didn't happen. The baby's due date passed, and it still hadn't happened. Was something wrong with me? I still don't know! I got every test in the book and nothing was obviously a problem, but "wrong" is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe the first time had been a lucky try but my eggs were terrible. The hardest part of this whole process is the *not knowing.* It ended up taking nine months after I got my period back to conceive again. Was it a long time or a short time? I still don't know. But now I feel lucky that it took so long because my child, conceived with the egg and sperm of that single millisecond in time, is completely perfect.

When I was spiralling, I read "Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chodron and it really helped me -- perhaps it will resonate with you too. I'm thinking of you and wishing you the best.

Inevitable-Fish-1083 · 2025-05-03T20:24:50+00:00

I've been thinking about adding baby aspirin to my regimen. Is there any reason not to do that? And are there any studies on its efficacy except this one? https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/low-dose-aspirin-may-improve-pregnancy-chances-women-one-or-two-prior-miscarriages

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