42.3 and trying for #4

[Sunshine14]

Hey ladies hope ur all having a good relaxing weekend xx Mgirl any chance that the two day bleed was IB hun? Or was it too heavy? If it wasn't fingers xd ur body gets back on track soon hun xx I just ordered a load (about 50!) cheap OPK's off of amazon so that I can check what is going on with me - I never used to do them but actually find them great now for trying to time BD!! I thought I got af on Friday but actually sorry for TMI (!!) it was just small spotting old blood for 2 days and I only seem to be getting the witch for real today even then its v light - very odd but I suppose weird hormonal patterns are to be expected after a mc while ur body gets back on track!? Anyway good luck to u mgirl and hope u get back to nice regular cycle soon hun xx

Charlie how are you doing hun? Hope u r feeling good and things are progressing well for u hun xx

ClairCath and Maxxi what are ur timelines for IVF - wouldn't it be great if u were starting together so u could support each other through it xxx

2plus sounds like we won't be cycle buddies after all as I'm now CD1 and ur having short cycles - do u know why that is? Did the midwife say? Is that ever since u came off the coil or only a recent thing hun?

Fandabby hope things get a bit easier with the feeding - did u try nipple shields? I always found them great for when the feeding is agonising x I saw lots of bf counsellors in my time and they always said that if the feeding hurts the latch is wrong and u have to take them off and get the latch right! Hope it gets easier hun xx

 

[2plus1more]

I think I'm going to pick up some opks tomorrow too. My husband works long days on mon and tues and I'd rather wait to BD if we can. I agree, if we can make this process a little less stressful, let's do it! My cycles have never been longer than 27-28 days so they aren't too far off. Plus, luteal phase is always at least 12 days so ok there. I have been ovulating on days 11 and 12 so I'll ask if that's okay. Just don't want it to keep getting a shorter follicular phase, kwim? I have to have a repeat endoscopy this Wednesday (I have bad heartburn) so I'm hoping to ovulate after the fact. Or I wonder if the anesthesia will delay ovulation. Should be interesting!

 

[maxxiandniko]

Hey ladies hope ur all having a good relaxing weekend xx Mgirl any chance that the two day bleed was IB hun? Or was it too heavy? If it wasn't fingers xd ur body gets back on track soon hun xx I just ordered a load (about 50!) cheap OPK's off of amazon so that I can check what is going on with me - I never used to do them but actually find them great now for trying to time BD!! I thought I got af on Friday but actually sorry for TMI (!!) it was just small spotting old blood for 2 days and I only seem to be getting the witch for real today even then its v light - very odd but I suppose weird hormonal patterns are to be expected after a mc while ur body gets back on track!? Anyway good luck to u mgirl and hope u get back to nice regular cycle soon hun xx

Charlie how are you doing hun? Hope u r feeling good and things are progressing well for u hun xx

ClairCath and Maxxi what are ur timelines for IVF - wouldn't it be great if u were starting together so u could support each other through it xxx

2plus sounds like we won't be cycle buddies after all as I'm now CD1 and ur having short cycles - do u know why that is? Did the midwife say? Is that ever since u came off the coil or only a recent thing hun?

Fandabby hope things get a bit easier with the feeding - did u try nipple shields? I always found them great for when the feeding is agonising x I saw lots of bf counsellors in my time and they always said that if the feeding hurts the latch is wrong and u have to take them off and get the latch right! Hope it gets easier hun xx

Not exactly sure. I didn't really track my ovulation this month (threw the fertility monitor I was using out and only have the fertility monitor that a couple of years ago kept reading low fertility even though I got and was pregnant while I kept getting those readings so clearly that monitor is broken) and so if I go on a normal 28 day cycle my period should be here on Thursday. But last month it came early and I spotted for a few days so who knows. There's no sign of it at the moment.

 

[charlie15]

Hi ladies

Thanks Fandabby, sorry that Mistique has had low HB. Hopefully it will keep picking up. Oh I remember those early months of breastfeeding! Hope I gets less painful soon. Is her latch ok?

ClaireCath, good to hear you and hubby are on the same page with TTC. How did your appointment go with your RE? Really hoping if need be that you get your bubba with some IVF

Same to you Maxi, why don't you feel positive about IVF this time around? So you should be starting some time soon then? Next week even?

2plus1 great news about your results. Has your DH had his date with the cup yet? When is your appointment?

Marathon girl, sorry your cycles are still wonky. Like I have said mine were too for at least the first 2 cycles. How pregnancy throws your body a curve ball, one of the cruelties of miscarriage as you just want to get back on with it! Hopefully you'll be back on track very soon.

Sunshine, OPKs are handy for improving timing for sure. I use to use them but stopped as I knew I ovulated the day after a positive and didn't want to hold off BDing that late, so stopped, but then I was charting. Hope your cycles get back on track soon too.

AFM, I am doing ok thanks. Symptom wise, I am pretty bloated, constipated and tired. Having occasional moments of nausea but nothing too bad. I didn't get symptoms with my dd until 6 weeks and even then I never once vomited, but felt lousy!

 

[maxxiandniko]

Hi ladies

Thanks Fandabby, sorry that Mistique has had low HB. Hopefully it will keep picking up. Oh I remember those early months of breastfeeding! Hope I gets less painful soon. Is her latch ok?

ClaireCath, good to hear you and hubby are on the same page with TTC. How did your appointment go with your RE? Really hoping if need be that you get your bubba with some IVF

Same to you Maxi, why don't you feel positive about IVF this time around? So you should be starting some time soon then? Next week even?

2plus1 great news about your results. Has your DH had his date with the cup yet? When is your appointment?

Marathon girl, sorry your cycles are still wonky. Like I have said mine were too for at least the first 2 cycles. How pregnancy throws your body a curve ball, one of the cruelties of miscarriage as you just want to get back on with it! Hopefully you'll be back on track very soon.

Sunshine, OPKs are handy for improving timing for sure. I use to use them but stopped as I knew I ovulated the day after a positive and didn't want to hold off BDing that late, so stopped, but then I was charting. Hope your cycles get back on track soon too.

AFM, I am doing ok thanks. Symptom wise, I am pretty bloated, constipated and tired. Having occasional moments of nausea but nothing too bad. I didn't get symptoms with my dd until 6 weeks and even then I never once vomited, but felt lousy!

Because I'm old ha ha but that's the whole point of this thread! I'm supposed to get my period on Thursday and if I do then I'd start birth control pills on Friday. I had a tiny spot of bleeding today so my period may get here on time this month.

 

[charlie15]

Blah plenty of women get pregnant with IVF at our age. Positive thinking, it will happen

 

[ClaireCath]

Maxxi you made me laugh there! We are old, but Charlie is right, IVF works for plenty of us oldies! I soooooo want to be positive about it all, when a little bubble of doubt (ie thinking about statistics at my age...25-40% success rate,,,,ugh) I just try to push it down. I would rather stay optimistic I guess than anything else and deal with whatever life brings me as it comes. It's HARD to do though!! I will be starting stims Nov 10th, IVF end of Nov. On BC now and DHEA (prescribed by DocThanks Charlie~~~The appt went well nothing wrong with me just OLD!!! , we had already made our decision to go ahead with IVF if he recommended. He really didn't push it on us as he knows we are paying out of pocket. But I do have $4000 left for meds thru work so obviously we are to try once with own eggs. To me it would be a waste of it to do another iui, we have about the same chance with timed intercourse....which we have done and done and done and done. lol good thing I love my sex life!! I hope you are feeling better soon and the nausea goes.....I would love a little nausea!! haha MGRirl~~ hope your cycles get back on track soon! and Sunshine~~ OPK's for me are a great indicator, I am very consistent when I O. Doesn't matter though cuz i pop out poached hard eggs!!! Maxxi, you are probably starting before me? Keep the faith and we will be bump buddies hun! xo to all

 

[maxxiandniko]

Maxxi you made me laugh there! We are old, but Charlie is right, IVF works for plenty of us oldies! I soooooo want to be positive about it all, when a little bubble of doubt (ie thinking about statistics at my age...25-40% success rate,,,,ugh) I just try to push it down. I would rather stay optimistic I guess than anything else and deal with whatever life brings me as it comes. It's HARD to do though!! I will be starting stims Nov 10th, IVF end of Nov. On BC now and DHEA (prescribed by DocThanks Charlie~~~The appt went well nothing wrong with me just OLD!!! , we had already made our decision to go ahead with IVF if he recommended. He really didn't push it on us as he knows we are paying out of pocket. But I do have $4000 left for meds thru work so obviously we are to try once with own eggs. To me it would be a waste of it to do another iui, we have about the same chance with timed intercourse....which we have done and done and done and done. lol good thing I love my sex life!! I hope you are feeling better soon and the nausea goes.....I would love a little nausea!! haha MGRirl~~ hope your cycles get back on track soon! and Sunshine~~ OPK's for me are a great indicator, I am very consistent when I O. Doesn't matter though cuz i pop out poached hard eggs!!! Maxxi, you are probably starting before me? Keep the faith and we will be bump buddies hun! xo to all

Where did you get those stats? They're good! My period is late. Should have been here yesterday and didn't show. I had some bright red blood and then nothing except maybe some brown discharge. Totally figures. I'm supposed to start with this period but I have a wedding to go to in the middle of October which would be right in the middle of stimming so I may have to do something with the cycle to make it longer

 

[maxxiandniko]

Period is here but of course it's Saturday so I'll be calling in Monday.

 

[Sunshine14]

Period is here but of course it's Saturday so I'll be calling in Monday.

Good luck Maxxi I have everything crossed for u as u start ur IVF journey sweetheart

 

[Sunshine14]

How are all u other lovely ladies doing? Charlie glad things r progressing well for u hun - when is ur first scan? Did u decide to defo wait for 12 week one? How far along r u now hun?

ClairCath soo excited for u to try IVF hun -- I'm praying u get some good eggs out of it hun xxxx my friend had IVF done recently (she is waiting to implant frozen embryo as she has thyroid issues) and from what she said it was a lot of injections, appointments, etc and she was quite emotional at points but she said it wasn't as bad as she thought it would be xx have fingers xd for both u and Maxxi xxxxx

2plus, mgirl hope ur both well and fandabby I hope Mistique's hb is ok now xx

Afm - cd7 today I think have to grab my honey as haven't been able to get to him all week been crazy at work & then went out partying last night - ended up in a gay bar dancing for 4 hours was such fun & great to let my hair down for once!! Feeling it today though - defo getting old lol Also I registered for CB fertility monitor trial ages ago and they had paused it before & then I got PG but had mmc - they have restarted it now so they have said I can join once had my second af so hopefully that will help catch a good egg - I don't seem to have a problem getting PG it's just quality of eggs now!! Anyway baby dust to u all & keep well Charlie xx

 

[maxxiandniko]

Thanks everybody for the good luck. I called in this morning and am waiting on a call back. I'm almost thinking they'll make me wait a cycle because of that weekend we're away. Well we'll see. I can wait if I have to.

 

[charlie15]

ClaireCath, yey for some DHEA, hope that gives your eggs a boost for IVF. Hoping that this will be it for you

Maxi have all crossed here for you too. Hope you get t go ahead this month

Sunshine gay bar dancing sounds great, it's been a long time since I have done that! Now it's dancing to tempo tots and tiny tunes with my dd!

Things with me are ok, I am 6 weeks now. Trying hard to stay positive still, but recently that cloud of doubt has started creeping in....age, stats of miscarriage etc, but trying to push it away. Yes still nit going for am early scan unless I need to. I may get a Doppler though, but not until closer to 9 -10 weeks. I never heard my dd HB on a Doppler until 13 weeks due to an anterior placenta, so there's a chance I could panic if I can't find it. Funnily enough it never phased me that I never heard my dds HB. But things change after a mc I guess.

How at you other ladies 2 plus, marathon girl and fandabby? Hope you're all keeping well x

 

[maxxiandniko]

Charlie - you're all good. I just know it
As for me - birth control to start Wednesday

 

[2plus1more]

Good luck to both Maaxi and ClaireCath! I've seen some of the data with DHEA and it looks promising. Wishing you both the best.

Charlie, I hope you continue to be well. This is your rainbow baby. So excited for you and looking forward to hearing about your progress.

Sunshine, did you ovulate yet? Very cool about the fertility monitor study. I tried to look up a study here in the US some months back, but no luck.

Hope you are well Marathon. Haven't heard from you in awhile.

AFM, I had my first acupuncture appointment today and it was fabulous. I loved the place and was so relaxed. My next appointment will be just before next ovulation (I'm CD 18 today) and then once per cycle. DH had his semen analysis (he had to do it in the office, so interesting to hear about his experience) and his numbers look great! 185 million total, 8% normal morphology. I started vitex about a month ago and I'm thrilled with the results so far. My horribly sore PMS breasts that I was getting every month? Completely gone!!! I hope it regulates everything. I think that's it.

Baby dust to you all!!!

 

[maxxiandniko]

Good luck to both Maaxi and ClaireCath! I've seen some of the data with DHEA and it looks promising. Wishing you both the best.

Charlie, I hope you continue to be well. This is your rainbow baby. So excited for you and looking forward to hearing about your progress.

Sunshine, did you ovulate yet? Very cool about the fertility monitor study. I tried to look up a study here in the US some months back, but no luck.

Hope you are well Marathon. Haven't heard from you in awhile.

AFM, I had my first acupuncture appointment today and it was fabulous. I loved the place and was so relaxed. My next appointment will be just before next ovulation (I'm CD 18 today) and then once per cycle. DH had his semen analysis (he had to do it in the office, so interesting to hear about his experience) and his numbers look great! 185 million total, 8% normal morphology. I started vitex about a month ago and I'm thrilled with the results so far. My horribly sore PMS breasts that I was getting every month? Completely gone!!! I hope it regulates everything. I think that's it.

Baby dust to you all!!!

I loved acupuncture. I used to fall asleep.

 

[maxxiandniko]

ClaireCath, yey for some DHEA, hope that gives your eggs a boost for IVF. Hoping that this will be it for you

Maxi have all crossed here for you too. Hope you get t go ahead this month

Sunshine gay bar dancing sounds great, it's been a long time since I have done that! Now it's dancing to tempo tots and tiny tunes with my dd!

Things with me are ok, I am 6 weeks now. Trying hard to stay positive still, but recently that cloud of doubt has started creeping in....age, stats of miscarriage etc, but trying to push it away. Yes still nit going for am early scan unless I need to. I may get a Doppler though, but not until closer to 9 -10 weeks. I never heard my dd HB on a Doppler until 13 weeks due to an anterior placenta, so there's a chance I could panic if I can't find it. Funnily enough it never phased me that I never heard my dds HB. But things change after a mc I guess.

How at you other ladies 2 plus, marathon girl and fandabby? Hope you're all keeping well x

I got the go ahead but know nothing else ha ha. The nurse called earlier this week to say that she's worked around my schedule and would email me that schedule and has not. So it's Friday and if I don't hear from her today I won't this weekend. Well there are only 3 weeks in a birth control pack so that takes me to oct 22.

 

[Sunshine14]

Ooh Maxxi great that things are happening & ur on birth control to get u ready - I would be chasing the hell out of that office for the information so I knew what to expect -- good luck hun we are all rooting for u & sending u baby dust!! xx

Charlie how are you feeling now? -- ignore the stats hun they are all based on averages & ur due a lucky break having just had mc. U have to believe u will be fine & stay positive & it will be fine xx this is ur rainbow baba hun -- happy & healthy 9 months to u xx ps ur little girl is a cutie pie xx

2plus woohoo for ur DH sperm count - that is some figures hun!! Sounds like ur in great spirits & ideally placed to be capturing that golden egg with the acupunture hun - fingers xd for u this month babe!

Mgirl - where are you? How are u doing hun? Hope ur ok xx

Claircath how r u sweetie? Ru getting ready for IVF babe? Hope ur relaxing & taking it easy before it all ramps up hun? xx

Afm - got some bding in on Sunday & Tuesday & then got a very + opk on WEdnesday along with a bad case of cystitis so that put an end to the BDIng for a while! Weird things is I still seem to have some EWCM so not sure whetehr I did actually O or not & not sure I did enough this month anyway oh well on to the next month xx

 

[maxxiandniko]

Ooh Maxxi great that things are happening & ur on birth control to get u ready - I would be chasing the hell out of that office for the information so I knew what to expect -- good luck hun we are all rooting for u & sending u baby dust!! xx

Charlie how are you feeling now? -- ignore the stats hun they are all based on averages & ur due a lucky break having just had mc. U have to believe u will be fine & stay positive & it will be fine xx this is ur rainbow baba hun -- happy & healthy 9 months to u xx ps ur little girl is a cutie pie xx

2plus woohoo for ur DH sperm count - that is some figures hun!! Sounds like ur in great spirits & ideally placed to be capturing that golden egg with the acupunture hun - fingers xd for u this month babe!

Mgirl - where are you? How are u doing hun? Hope ur ok xx

Claircath how r u sweetie? Ru getting ready for IVF babe? Hope ur relaxing & taking it easy before it all ramps up hun? xx

Afm - got some bding in on Sunday & Tuesday & then got a very + opk on WEdnesday along with a bad case of cystitis so that put an end to the BDIng for a while! Weird things is I still seem to have some EWCM so not sure whetehr I did actually O or not & not sure I did enough this month anyway oh well on to the next month xx

I'd stalk them but the nurse seems impervious to the sort of behavior ha ha.

 

[maxxiandniko]

So the schedule ended up in my junk mail (says something maybe) and I found it yesterday. Looks like I'm on birth control till the 16th