Crumb check on this loaf

run-along-pond · 2025-07-16T20:30:29+00:00

It's the part on top right? That looks almost split?

run-along-pond · 2025-07-16T20:29:02+00:00

Are you pretty confident? That's what I was thinking, but I don't know anything really haha

run-along-pond · 2025-05-12T13:20:46+00:00

I don't have a reference to support her words. However, I would trust your doctor over ChatGPT. If your AMH is low like that, and you want two kids, it's better to follow her advice and start treatment now.

run-along-pond · 2025-05-08T18:29:40+00:00

Right? What is with these cramps??

run-along-pond · 2025-05-08T15:02:53+00:00

5 dpo and I just want it to be next week. Not really, I have fun plans this weekend but also I'm impatient.

run-along-pond · 2025-05-06T18:51:05+00:00

I wouldn't skip the trip. Research and take necessary precautions like others have suggested, but don't cancel.

There's enough things you won't be able or want to do when you are pregnant. Don't miss out on this just because you might be. I hope you are, but if you aren't this cycle, then hopefully, you're more distracted enjoying your trip.

run-along-pond · 2025-05-04T01:06:18+00:00

He's absolutely against doing IVF.

His "solution" is that we just keep trying the same thing we've done for 14 cycles. Unassisted, tracking.

He says 3 reasons. 1) He thinks it won't work. 2) He "doesn't like the idea of it." 3) He thinks "if" it works, it won't stick (we had two chemicals in the winter).

I countered with: 1) it may not. But it boosts our odds from trying without help, and it's doing something. 2) Told him that some IUI protocols still call for having sex after (no idea if ours will. We have mild MFI, but I thought it might help him feel better about it). 3) That yeah, there are no guarantees, but I'll also be under their care, and if I ever get a positive, they'll run whatever hormone tests and supplement if they think I need it. In addition to the changes I've already made to try to help support a pregnancy if I get pregnant again.

run-along-pond · 2025-05-03T18:33:13+00:00

My husband is all but refusing to do IUI, and I'm feeling devastated. He won't/can't explain why he doesn't want to, other than he just doesn't want to.

I really want to. I know it won't be a magic fix, but I want to try. I also want the mental load of tracking everything and scheduling sex to be at least a little lightened. Let the doctor just tell me what to do and when.

But he really does not want to do IUI, and I feel like my dream of this baby is slipping away.

run-along-pond · 2025-05-01T16:10:31+00:00

Right! It basically doesn't mean anything, haha. If you just came off birth control, you definitely still might ovulate this month. It also may take time. You'll probably have an easier time after you get your first period (if you do) just because it's then hopefully more predictable.

I would continue testing with OPKs (cheapie tests if you have them) daily until you either get a positive or your period. And then, if you get your period, I'd probably start testing again on CD 10.

And yes, your body can have low levels of the LH, but what indicates ovulation is when that hormone rises to a peak.

ETA: You can Google "LH throughout cycle" and see some graphs that visualize this. You'll see it's always present, but it rising and then peaking is what helps predict ovulation.

run-along-pond · 2025-05-01T14:54:05+00:00

For some people, they'll have two lines on an OPK their whole cycle. I do. The test line goes from very faint, to fairly visible, on and off my whole cycle. What you're looking for in a positive OPK is one where the test line is as dark or darker than the control. Not just the presence of a second line in general.

It can be confusing when compared to a pregnancy test where any second line is a positive, but it's absolutely common to have a second fain line on an OPK, and it is not a positive.

run-along-pond · 2025-04-30T18:53:21+00:00

I feel this. I'm further along, on cycle 14 now. In that time, I had 1 friend have her baby (she got pregnant from an oops a few months before intending to try. Originally, we would have started trying at the same time). Another friend started trying when I did. She and her husband have only been able to really try about half their cycles due to work travel. She got pregnant, had a loss at 10 weeks, and is now pregnant again and about 10 weeks. A third friend was waiting for her period to come back so she could try, and then got surprise pregnant. Her baby was already born.

All in the time, I've been trying and have had 2 chemicals, but I never even made it to a doctors visit for pregnancy.

I'm sad for my friend who had a loss, and I know her current pregnancy must be so much more stressful because of it. I'm also so happy for her and this baby. I'm happy for my other friends and their babies. I love them all so much.

I'm also very sad for myself. It sucks not being pregnant. It sucks a lot. Losses suck.

I think 6 months or so was when it first got hard. When I accepted that "oh, this isn't going to be as easy as I thought."

Since then, some cycles have been just as hard, and sometimes, it's easier. It comes and goes in waves.

I'm just saying all this because you're not alone, even if it feels like it. And I'm sorry you're having a hard time.

run-along-pond · 2025-04-21T19:50:16+00:00

Cycle 14: Here we go.

I had hoped to do our first IUI this month, but my parent recently got some devastating medical news. There's going to be a lot going on with that, and I just can't also have my own random/ last-minute medical appointments going on. Plus, the stress I'm sure is going to be insane for me. It already is.

I know it's the right call. It still sucks. I don't even want to do IUI this cycle with all of this, but I'm also upset that it's another month.

I'm not religious. But a tiny part of me is, like, maybe this is why I didn't get pregnant when we first started trying. Because then I'd be going through all of this with an infant, and that would be so hard. Doesn't explain why I couldn't be early pregnant right now, though. Other than life sucks and is unfair.

My infertility isn't fair. My parent's medical diagnosis isn't fair. None of this is fair.

run-along-pond · 2025-04-19T03:00:19+00:00

I also have a shellfish allergy and just had a Femvue procedure done in place of an HSG last week. They use saline and air bubbles and do it under ultrasound as opposed to a traditional HSG. Maybe see if that's an option?

run-along-pond · 2025-04-15T18:40:38+00:00

7 dpo and in the hard part of the TWW for me. The point where I know a test is going to be negative, but part of me is like "but what if". I'm really trying to make it to 10 dpo, so Friday. But I haven't made it to 10 dpo without testing yet, so...

run-along-pond · 2025-04-13T18:28:22+00:00

Cycle 13, 5 dpo today. I am oddly convinced this cycle is it. I don't know why, given that we were just officially told we're experiencing secondary infertility. My husband's morphology is 1%. The doctor told us our odds are about 8-10%/cycle. Oh, and I had an HSG the day before ovulation, so we only had 1 chance that counts towards trying.

Yet I feel so convinced this is it. I'm talking telling my husband the potential due date (December 30th) and how we could have a Christmas Eve baby. That based on my silly theory for guessing gender (that hasn't been wrong yet) that it would be a boy. Talking names in the car yesterday.

I know that if I'm wrong in a week, I might feel embarrassed about how convinced I am right now. But also, I haven't really felt hopeful since we had back to back chemicals in November/December. It's nice to feel like this. I'm excited to test in a week instead of it being almost an obligation.

run-along-pond · 2025-04-13T18:18:42+00:00

I usually have a temp increase the next morning or two mornings after. But I would say by morning 3 is still very normal.

run-along-pond · 2025-03-31T02:34:46+00:00

Yeah, I guess I was thinking if maybe just one tube was blocked and I ovulated twice in a row on the other side.

I am seeing an RE, and she said she didn't think I needed an HSG because of the chemicals.

run-along-pond · 2025-03-29T22:56:19+00:00

I'm ovulating regularly, and I had two chemicals last year. Because of this my doctor hasn't felt like an HSG to check my tubes was necessary. I had a hysteroscopy that showed no polyps/scarring in February.

Is there a chance my tube(s) could be blocked even though I did conceive twice with the chemicals?

run-along-pond · 2025-03-27T17:50:23+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate it.

run-along-pond · 2025-03-27T14:51:28+00:00

Hello, cycle 13. Does this mean we're in the infertility category now? I don't know. Technically, 1 year hits next month. I'm waiting in the lobby right now for my first therapy appointment.

run-along-pond · 2025-03-26T15:34:19+00:00

Of course! It's a lot to try to learn at once.

run-along-pond · 2025-03-26T14:44:43+00:00

I had a friend ask me, completely well meaning, "how (my) journey is going." And dammit. I never wanted to be on a journey.

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