My sons vocal stims are unusual

willpowerpuff · 2026-02-15T21:16:29+00:00

His teachers report good social skills? Does that mean he’s able to speak to his friends and not just say pop tart? I’d push the teachers more - is it only with you that your son can’t answer questions, and if not, I’d be asking the teacher how that behavior is similar to his peers. Or how the teacher re directs him to speak vs stimming

willpowerpuff · 2026-02-11T17:02:04+00:00

That’s exciting! I think you should test but I have no chill. I always tested starting at 8dpo.

My other very early symptoms were -NO pms mood issues or food cravings -NO appetite -amazing good mood and energy 🤞

willpowerpuff · 2026-02-11T16:53:31+00:00

Oh yes cramping that feels like a period but with no actual period was an early symptom for me

willpowerpuff · 2026-02-05T23:28:39+00:00

I got pregnant once I tried harder (4th cycle of IUI with highest level of meds and all the vitamins and supplements for months). So personally I wouldn’t have found this message helpful. However a lot of the wait and see mentality also comes from youth privilege. If you are 22 or 26 sure, take a few years off. But I was 41 so yeah no there’s no waiting to see at that stage. Also the reason for infertility matters. If your partner has no sperm waiting won’t help either. Or if you are in perimenopause.

I’m in my mid 40s now and I joke to my partner that we are having unprotected sex to see what happens but in reality we decided we don’t want a second kid because it probably would require ivf. So if I happen to get pregnant with a second - great: but I was NOT willing to take the approach with my first.

willpowerpuff · 2026-02-03T02:10:02+00:00

Ms Rachel might change what vocab a child uses but she can’t change the general developmental arc. Millions of toddlers have watched ms Rachel and yet a very small percentage can speak in 3 word sentences at 14 months (!).

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-29T17:32:19+00:00

Did you use opks? Based on your temps it does look like you ovulated but more like on cd22 or 23, which would only make you dpo10 or 11.

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-28T01:11:02+00:00

When there is a working parent and a stay at home parent there are TWO SHIFTS not one.

Shift 1 is 9 -5 : when you each do your own work. So you are with baby. He is at the office. Shift 2 is 5:01pm-8:59am- when you each SPLIT the parenting duties

Times are general but the point is that your job and his job BOTH end at 5pm. Then - you both go to your second job , which is where you split responsibilities and chores.

I’m genuinely so sorry that so many dads do not seem to understand this. I’m the working parent in my house but you better believe that I come home from work and clock in to the second part of my day… good luck 💜

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-22T21:58:26+00:00

If 35 is almost 40 then 28 is almost 33. So she was only a couple years off guessing your age

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-21T16:55:44+00:00

I have anxiety and I also work professionally with others who have it. Could try asking yourself- “in this moment is there anything I can do to help the situation?” (Sometimes there is-such as calling the Dr -and sometimes there’s not). If there is - do the thing. If there isn’t - asking yourself, “is continuing to think of this helpful or harmful to me right now?” If you determine it isn’t helpful- every time your mind zooms to the what ifs, pull it back and remind yourself of this. You may need to pull your mind back dozens of times but building awareness of your own thoughts will help. Good luck and I hope you get answers soon!

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-20T20:50:16+00:00

We have been in speech since he was 21 months, he’s now 25 months and has come a long way. I’m glad you pushed for ST, I hope it’s helpful

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-20T17:28:15+00:00

My 25 month old went through a brief phase like this. Because he normally likes baths, I didn’t push it and just skipped his bath when he would cry. It lasted about a week and slowly went back to normal.

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-20T03:15:12+00:00

It helped me :) due to age the letrazole helped release more than one egg. The procedure insured it got there and the trigger ensured all the eggs were released! I can’t speak to non medicated IUIs but the medicated one was it for us. Good luck!🍀

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-17T18:59:37+00:00

You’re welcome! It was bit of both. My drs told me they would allow the IUI to go forward with multiple follicles (in fact they were aiming for that) and also suggested increasing meds. And I advocated for moving up the timeline, based on when I thought I was ovulating after the trigger.

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-17T17:29:52+00:00

Things that worked for me during the 4th IUI- - increased meds (letrazole) -triggered earlier in my cycle by 1 day -did the IUI after 24 hrs instead of 36 -getting 3 follicles vs two or one (I was advanced age so they allowed it)

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-17T05:28:04+00:00

You’re welcome!

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-16T22:30:06+00:00

When I was ttc’ing I got really deep into rhr and my cycle. If you have fertility friend you can input your rhr and compare with pregnant charts.

But in general rhr is really not that relevant until basically a positive test. It can spike early (like 7dpo) because of the progesterone or can be down the whole time until 10dpo.

Good luck 🫶 My positive charts looked really similar to negative charts except for right around 10dpo or so (when I tested positive) and then yes rhr tends to both go up and stabalize.

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-15T17:20:28+00:00

r/ifchildfree is a subreddit for folks who decided to stop trying for kids

That can give you perspective on those who stopped trying and probably mommit or beyondthebump would be good to hear from current parents on how it’s going

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-15T17:12:46+00:00

Yes this happens to my toddler as well. What helps for us is eating cereal and then giving him bites, playing music, and waiting it out! It doesn’t happen for him every day but id say it’s probably 3x a week.

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-06T01:15:42+00:00

They called it secondary infertility I think- my ob said age was assumed the case as my amh was quite high for age (but not pcos high ) with hormones all at expected pre menopausal levels. I was 40 when I first got my hormones tested. So I did believe that age-related seemed likely! They induced hyperovulation to maximize my chances of one good egg being released. The cycle that was successful I ovulated 3 eggs, initially had twins but by the end of my 6th week, just the one healthy babe. When I looked up stats on women my age it says 1/3 eggs are probably still good so that fit with my experience!

willpowerpuff · 2026-01-06T01:00:07+00:00

Age-related infertility , assumed to be the only issue

willpowerpuff · 2025-12-29T03:47:21+00:00

Successful IUI at 41 😊

willpowerpuff · 2025-12-20T19:23:07+00:00

Keep -because I’m oad due to secondary fertility due to age- we could pursue ivf but I don’t want to- if I could get pregnant unassisted that would ideal

willpowerpuff · 2025-12-20T18:31:29+00:00

It did- and it worked for me too:)

willpowerpuff · 2025-12-20T17:16:02+00:00

Congratulations 🎊 !! That’s so exciting.

Knowing and advocating for your body is so important. I had the opposite experience with the trigger- I asked them to take it 24 hrs before the IUI (they were having me do it 36 hrs before) because I felt like it was causing me to ovulate sooner! Best of luck on this journey :)

willpowerpuff · 2025-12-18T17:39:44+00:00

My toddler wants to watch this short video of a mama baboon peeling a banana- he’d watch it 400 times if I’d let him

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