{CLOSED GROUP} Journey to BFP and Beyond!

[tcinks]

Thanks Natalie! (See, told you I wouldn't forget this time. )

It is pretty frustrating, but hoping and praying it ends soon and we can start trying! I definitely thought I'd be pregnant again or at least trying by now. Maybe God is trying to teach me something in this waiting, but I'm totally missing it. It's so hard to think about anything else with this constant reminder.


How are you and your little ones today?

 

[NDH]

They let me sleep in til 7:15 today! Only cause I didn't notice Chloe climb over me and off the bed. When I woke up the bottom of the tree was undecorated saranna slept all night until 7:30 as well which is crazy rare for her.
Were just having breakfast and a lazy day at home. Well "lazy" as in clean the &house top tobpttom faster than it can be destroyed and keep it looking nice by the tie our Bible study group arrives

 

[KTJ006]

Natalie - we let our 4 year old decorate the tree by herself and all the decorations were on the bottom half of the tree. I took a picture - I should post it on here! It was so precious. I almost wanted to leave it like it was, but my youngest would tear it up! Haha...

 

[NDH]

Cute!

 

[jlw617]

I also use the internet ones, it's way cheaper! But I will say that when I got my BFP this last time-I couldn't believe it and had to buy the clear blue digital just to be sure. Im sure, I will probably do that again when I get my next BFP.

Terissa-I really hope the bleeding stops for you soon, I have slowed down a good bit today but I think Ill probably not be fully done until next week-Hopefully. Today I thought "wow, I could be done by the end of the day" that changed though when later on I started cramping pretty bad and (Im sorry this may be tmi) I passed a clot that wasn't so much so big but it was very firm so I ended up having to pull it out because it was right there but it wasnt coming out. I was so shocked by it and the bad cramping i was having again that I called the on call-which luckily happened to be my OB, she said it was fine but it was shocking to me-Have you had anything like that?

 

[jlw617]

Natalie - we let our 4 year old decorate the tree by herself and all the decorations were on the bottom half of the tree. I took a picture - I should post it on here! It was so precious. I almost wanted to leave it like it was, but my youngest would tear it up! Haha...

Haha! This is what mine does too, and she also like to hang about 20 ornaments on 1 branch!

 

[jlw617]

Yes Jamie, your daughters are so adorable!

Kate it's still going steady. My dcotor isn't in today, so I haven't called. But if it hasn't slowed down by tomorrow I definitely will. I've been drinking tons of water, taking lots of vitamins and even trying some home remedies I've found online! Haha. Just really hope it stops and I don't have to keep getting poked and prodded. I'm in much better spirits today, though. I just felt miserable yesterday. Now I'm trying to be more positive and optimistic.

Oh and good luck with waiting to test until next Friday! I know I'd end up caving and check early.

Are you still getting a lot of clots at this point? I started taking progesterone again to help my body to stop bleeding now that I know for sure that I passed everything other than some "debris" You can get all natural progesterone (nothing synthetic, not soy based)-I actually plan on taking it either up until af or if I get a BFP, I will just continue to take it throughout my first trimester-this is at the recommendation of a very good natural sided christian Dr. we know, Our pastors daughter did this and that is how she got her rainbow baby and she was pregnant with her before her first AF

 

[tcinks]

I didn't know progesterone helped stop bleeding! Where do you get it? What has been your experience with it? I have not had many clots lately, just a few email ones like I typically do with AF. But I did have some a few weeks ago like you described when I pretty much had to grab it out. Bleh. I feel like it is starting to lighten up now. It was a very steady flow these past four or five days, I was going through a pad or two an hour. But now I have two or three before I have to change. Hopefully it steadily declines like this and will just be really light tomorrow. So ready to be done.

 

[jlw617]

I didn't know progesterone helped stop bleeding! Where do you get it? What has been your experience with it? I have not had many clots lately, just a few email ones like I typically do with AF. But I did have some a few weeks ago like you described when I pretty much had to grab it out. Bleh. I feel like it is starting to lighten up now. It was a very steady flow these past four or five days, I was going through a pad or two an hour. But now I have two or three before I have to change. Hopefully it steadily declines like this and will just be really light tomorrow. So ready to be done.

I buy mine from Amazon-its called kokoro cream-it really is amazing stuff and it will help you to stop bleeding sooner as well as really help to thicken your uterine wall to help it get ready for a baby!

 

[jlw617]

oh and I think its great that you are at least steadily declining! my experience with the progesterone is that Ive never taken it while pregnant but I stopped using it for a while because I wasnt consistent with it (I hadnt used it for almost 2 years) but I will tell you that the first month I started using it again is when I got my BFP-I wish I knew what I know now about it because I feel like if I would have kept taking it throughout tmy first trimester, then maybe I wouldnt have miscarried but I cant think that way...just going to use what I know now!

 

[tcinks]

I buy mine from Amazon-its called kokoro cream-it really is amazing stuff and it will help you to stop bleeding sooner as well as really help to thicken your uterine wall to help it get ready for a baby!

At what point in your cycle would you take it? Can you use it still one you get pregnant?

 

[jlw617]

I buy mine from Amazon-its called kokoro cream-it really is amazing stuff and it will help you to stop bleeding sooner as well as really help to thicken your uterine wall to help it get ready for a baby!

At what point in your cycle would you take it? Can you use it still one you get pregnant?

If you take it just for your cycle-you would take it cd12-24, yes you can take it during pregnancy and its actually recommended however you only want to take it throughout your first trimester some doctors will actually even prescribe progesterone but I prefer to just use the over-the-counter topical cream because it definitely gets into your blood but the doctors prescribe extremely high dosesthat you actually inserted vaginally and sometimes there can be side effects especially if you have a boy he can get something called hypospadia's I might be spelling that wrong but you can look it up I won't go into detail but it's a slight Deformation of the penisbut again I think that is strongly due to the fact that it's prescribed in such a high-dose and you have to inserted vaginally which is so close to where the baby is but even given that the risk for that happening with the boy is pretty low but I think it's pretty much nonexistent when youuse the topical cream like I use

 

[jlw617]

Just remember though as with anything more natural sided not all doctors are going to agree with it or think that you should use it

 

[NDH]

Took a hpt and its still a bit darker than my 10/11dpo squinter. Took quite a while to show up though. Haven't found my opks from when I hid them from my daughter who liked to carry them around the house and shoe them to company though so no idea how I'm doing on the ovulation front.

 

[Fleur828815]

Beautiful girls jlw617 ! I think I’m like your mom, have broken down into hysterics quite often over spiders but hopefully I won’t transfer my fear to my kids (I need them not to be scared so they can get rid of them haha).
I’d also be quite shocked if I had to pull out a clot, hope you’re OK.

hanrh, hope your AF will turn up soon or stay away for the next 10 months! Mine came just under 5 weeks after my D&C.

KTJ006, I wouldn’t have slept in that room if I knew there was a spider roaming about!

tcinks, good to hear you’re in better spirits! Has the bleeding slowed down?

NDH, thanks for the heads up, looks like I can cross Australia off my list. The other day my cousin was showing me around his new house (which will be completed soon) and I saw 2 huge spiders, so started backing out quickly, and he said “Oh don’t worry, there are loads of them in here”. NOT what I wanted to hear!
I was still getting a faint BFP 3 weeks after my D&C, AF turned up 2 weeks after that.

At the beginning of the year I started spotting for 2-4 days before AF turned up, my OB/gyn said it’s nothing to worry about but I insisted so he gave me progesterone supplements. I tried them for a month but I still spotted for 2 days before AF. I didn’t fall pregnant that month, but did fall pregnant the month after that. During pregnancy, the baby was measuring 9 days behind so I was really worried and asked about progesterone again but he said they wouldn’t help in my case, I probably just ovulated later that month. I’ve never got my levels tested. So I have no idea if progesterone helps or not.

I’ve on CD 13 after my first post-miscarriage AF, I’ve decided to go for it but I don’t know when I’ll be ovulating… My cycles used to be between 27 and 32 days. The first day of AF I only got dark brown blood (sorry TMI), would you count that as the first day of AF? The 2nd day was bright red blood, heavy flow.

 

[jlw617]

Fleur-I would just be DTD every other day! I've always understood that it's the first day that you have the bright red blood and it's heavier and that's the day that you count as your first CD. I always end up having the brown spotting a daybefore I actually get the bright red blood and then my flow is also heavier that day as well. HIpe that helps, keep us updated!!!

 

[jlw617]

Took a hpt and its still a bit darker than my 10/11dpo squinter. Took quite a while to show up though. Haven't found my opks from when I hid them from my daughter who liked to carry them around the house and shoe them to company though so no idea how I'm doing on the ovulation front.

Haha-that would be quite embarrassing! Ok so maybe I'm not up to date-are you trying to see if you're pregnant?! When would AF normally be due for you? I didn't get my bfp until the day AF was due. I would cave and go buy a digital!

 

[NDH]

No still just testing out the residual hcg. I'd be ovulating about now +/-2 days if this was a normal cycle do just a bit curious whether I will or not.
I have no idea what my cycle is going to do. I'm still breastfeeding which can affect cycles in the first place. No idea what a miscarriage plus breastfeeding is going to do to it...

Before kids I was 23-26 days. After my first was 28-30 days. I only had two cycles before getting pregnant with the one I lost and they were 35 day cycles. The one I conceived on would have been about a 28 day one though as I got a bfp on day 26.

 

[Fleur828815]

Fleur-I would just be DTD every other day! I've always understood that it's the first day that you have the bright red blood and it's heavier and that's the day that you count as your first CD. I always end up having the brown spotting a daybefore I actually get the bright red blood and then my flow is also heavier that day as well. HIpe that helps, keep us updated!!!

Thanks, usually I don't count the days I spot but this time it was enough to fill a pad, just brown instead of fresh blood, that's why I wasn't so sure. Not that it makes a big difference anyway!

The month I did manage to fall pregnant we DTD almost every day for 10 days but I was pretty sure of my fertile period. I won't be able to do that every month! So every other day should be more manageable.

 

[Fleur828815]

No still just testing out the residual hcg. I'd be ovulating about now +/-2 days if this was a normal cycle do just a bit curious whether I will or not.
I have no idea what my cycle is going to do. I'm still breastfeeding which can affect cycles in the first place. No idea what a miscarriage plus breastfeeding is going to do to it...

Before kids I was 23-26 days. After my first was 28-30 days. I only had two cycles before getting pregnant with the one I lost and they were 35 day cycles. The one I conceived on would have been about a 28 day one though as I got a bfp on day 26.

Same here, I don't have the faintest idea of what my cycle will be like this month. I read that you should have stopped bleeding completely for 20 days before a fresh bout of bleeding can count as AF, but for me it was less than 20 days (and I got a faint BFP only 2 weeks before AF showed up), so who knows!