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[MelM]

Hi another Brissie girl here gave birth to my beautiful daughter 5th Jul day after our second wedding anniversary

Hi melm. Welcome. You are lucky to have perfect pink one!! Are you trying for a second? How long a gap do you want? Trying after one - is it easier do you think as at least the end number can't be none? Or does it have it's own challenges - we shagg at 0100-0300 to fit it in between work and work emails I can't imagine how a neonate fits in as well. Are you still on mat leave?

We even know what we will call a daughter and we really want a girl. Dear fiancee has a 12 year old son no fairy wings in sight so we are thinking pink! I'd just like it go be as different as possible to his last experience as possible.

At this stage we are happy with one I had two miscarriages and had all day nausea from week 5 until a couple of days after her birth. I am on mat leave until beginning of next year and then go back part time

 

[Maddy40]

Hi Mel - sounds like you have your hands full Great that you can have long Mat Leave. If we manage a BFP I will be returning to work soon after birth and DH will be a SAHD, as I am the one with main income. DH is sooo excited at the thought!

Taurus - hi there Lovely to see there are some other 'mature' Aussies TTC.

Kiwi - did the doc think you might have endo, thus the lap?

Dr H - yes I have my CoQ10 and folate. DH has his Menevit (he has morphology issues...) You are right of course about what's considered old. How did you find out that you have a low egg reserve? Is that a common test? I'm sooo scared that our FS will order a bunch of tests that will take months to complete (waiting lists in Canberra are horrendous) and we have decided we will stop TTC when I'm 42, so it feels like the months are ticking away

 

[drhouse]

hi maddie,

good to hear about menevit. also no cannabis/smoking/alcohol for boys... to have best sperm quality. Also I read somewhere about very day bd if you have morphology issues.. let me look into it.

i had an amh test done. Anti-mullerian hormone.

can you get a specialist in sydney if the waits too long?

Do you have a desk job/can you take time off. Maybe prioritise the baby over the work at the mo? I work 60- 80 hours a week, a very very responsible role, but the baby matters so much too that I am taking time off for IVF in Jan.

 

[MelM]

Hi,
I'm 35 based in Brissie and pregnant...Wishing you both the very best of luck xoxo

Hi Pink where are you having LO

 

[Maddy40]

hi maddie,

good to hear about menevit. also no cannabis/smoking/alcohol for boys... to have best sperm quality. Also I read somewhere about very day bd if you have morphology issues.. let me look into it.

i had an amh test done. Anti-mullerian hormone.

can you get a specialist in sydney if the waits too long?

Do you have a desk job/can you take time off. Maybe prioritise the baby over the work at the mo? I work 60- 80 hours a week, a very very responsible role, but the baby matters so much too that I am taking time off for IVF in Jan.

Good question about the Sydney specialist, I didn't even ask the GP if that was a possibility - I'm back for a pap smear soon so I'll ask then. Must put AMH test on my list to ask the FS about, too. I can arrange time off, it's much easier to get time off when working shifts (can usually find someone to swap and make it up down the track). Unfortunately everyday BD is no possibility for us, DH at 38yo requires 1 day recovery time between times. And can you imagine what an ouchy red-raw vee-jay-jay that could result in?! Okay better get back to my real work!

 

[drhouse]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Am rolling in the aisles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


???? Preseed???? EPO/green tea/mucinex/for mucus?????

Good to hear that you are keeping your sense of humour about this!

 

[Maddy40]

Sitting here virtuously drinking my green tea, DrH. I am just not a 'mucus-ey' type of gal. Is Mucusey a word? It is now! I find it really hard to fill out that bit of my FF chart because I usually having nothing.

Have you peed on that OPK stick yet? It's quite addictive!

Off to Brissie tomorrow for 3 days break. Can't wait to escape the cold weather. Must remember to shave my legs or I might scare off the locals.

 

[drhouse]

Ha ha ha. brissie ladies who work too hard also have hairy legs!!!! I get my eyelashes and hair done religiously, but can[t get around to the waxing often enough.

great to hear you are having a long week! I'm not very mucousy either!! on EPO currently. Will start peeing on day 6 on the OPKs what do you think?

 

[kiwipauagirl]

Hi drH,
Have a question for u - work related sorry.
AF was 3 days late my temps were good but I got AF yesterday which was medium flow and today so light it's nearly stopped??? Nit sure what is going on? Any ideas???

Dr doesn't think endo as I have no pain no complaints all is fine there

 

[drhouse]

sure your not preggers? if i was late and light. I'd be checking. you looked like you oed last month. Your temps were good and I thought it looked pretty good for the whole preggers thing.. god knows i am not a charting whizz.

How bout doing a test?

 

[Maddy40]

Hey there - back from Brissie, had a great time. The Prado exhibition was outstanding. Of course then I arrived back to news my brother & SIL (married 1 year) are pregnant. You know, that bittersweet happiness? Well actually it was more like me collapsing into a hysterical heap... Ah well, onward and upwards.

 

[drhouse]

Understand the happy and the sad! Your chart looks good this month though maybe its baby dust all round!!!

 

[Maddy40]

Immaculate conception maybe DH is away this cycle. But it IS good to get a handle on temping without him around.

 

[drhouse]

oh maddie, that sucks. is he away for work? What do you do for work? i now work mon to fri, but did shift work for years. do you like the shifts? looking at your chart both the pre and post sleeps look the same.

 

[kiwipauagirl]

sure your not preggers? if i was late and light. I'd be checking. you looked like you oed last month. Your temps were good and I thought it looked pretty good for the whole preggers thing.. god knows i am not a charting whizz.

How bout doing a test?

Yeah did several with big fat negatives! This month!!!

 

[Maddy40]

Aw Kiwi...hugs When will the FS schedule your lap?

DrH....we moved to Aust 12 months ago (I'm Aussie, DH is Thai). DH was learning English at TAFE but he's gone o/s this month to visit his elderly parents. I'm a public servant but we work around the clock in my office. I'm one of those people that can sleep well at any time of day and I really enjoy shiftwork.

Only did a few nights at the start of the month, so no huge variations in my chart from about CD10 onwards.

 

[kiwipauagirl]

Aw Kiwi...hugs When will the FS schedule your lap?

DrH....we moved to Aust 12 months ago (I'm Aussie, DH is Thai). DH was learning English at TAFE but he's gone o/s this month to visit his elderly parents. I'm a public servant but we work around the clock in my office. I'm one of those people that can sleep well at any time of day and I really enjoy shiftwork.

Only did a few nights at the start of the month, so no huge variations in my chart from about CD10 onwards.

Yeah lap is scheduled for mon 15th Oct. They only do this sort of lap on a monday and you have to be between day 5-15. They said i have to be there at 8am and go home at 6pm. I get knocked out and will be sore for days. I am only having 2 days after it off from work. My boss is a bit of p....k so can't get much time off.

With your shift work have you heard about that lunear thing where you sleep before you ovulation with a mask on or something to make it dark and adjust your body to the moon or something. I don't know much about it (obviously with my explaining) but I did read abit about it.
How long is DH away for?

 

[drhouse]

hi, not sure does shift work affect ovulation? Shall I do a abit of digging. presumably not as every nurse i know falls pregnant in seconds! I presume though if you are on nights and ovulating, it may be that BDing may not feel like a priority.

Kiwi paua, sorry to hear hun that its not your month. Maybe it was a cycle with poor endometrial lining and therefore less shed, or you didn't ovulate, but I swear you did from your chart.

Onwards and upwards. I am sure that the lap is required if thats the advice from a specialist. Understandably stressful though.

Ive been charting like a demon. I have a cold though. Im hopeful I haven't' missed my surge as the OPKS are all negative... at the moment. Day 10 today. I presume between 10 and 14???? it should happen. I hope fingers crossed.

 

[Maddy40]

I usually start to get faint + OPK on the evening of CD13 and full-dark +OPK on CD14 & 15. I have a 28 day cycle.

 

[drhouse]

good to know. i just cant count.... i was hoping that i hadn't missed it. I even got instead cups sent over from the states!!!!!!!!