{CLOSED GROUP} Journey to BFP and Beyond!

[Fleur828815]

Natalie, congrats, your intuition was right, woohoo! When are you due?

Katie, ugh about the triggers… I was due almost the same day as you, 20 May. I will also try SMEP next month, or BD every day from CD 10 to CD 20 if we manage to. SMEP seems to have great results though!

Jamie, hope you can get back to business now and that a BFP is not far off. I’ve heard good things about Fertilaid.

Leigh, how was the wine tasting tour? Hope you had a relaxing weekend after the week you had at work.

I’ve got crosshairs on my chart but I’m not sure I can trust it because I NEVER temped at the same time, it was anytime between 3 am and 8 am. Good thing about ovulating earlier than I expected is that I won’t be symptom spotting this month and I’ll get a shorter cycle!

Zaycain, Kylee, Terrissa, how are you doing?

 

[coucou11]

Good luck Jamie! I've heard good things about Fertilaid.

Fleur I think FF is usually pretty good at working out all the weirdness in your chart - do you feel like you did ovulate? Looks like you hit the right days if FF has it right!

I am 8DPO and I definitely have breast tenderness today. It almost feels like they are sore after a workout! This never happens to me... but I am really trying not to get overly excited. I will be waiting to test on Thursday with an IC and then if there is something there, will use a digi on Saturday and really hoping I can put it in DH's Valentine's card hahaha.

 

[Fleur828815]

I don't "feel" when I ovulate and I don't get any EWCM since the miscarriage so I don't have any idea honestly.

Hope the breast tenderness is a good sign for you!

 

[NDH]

I'm due around October 20.

 

[tcinks]

Congratulations Natalie!

I've been trying not to be too obsessed with ttc, took a break from all my boards for a little while. But I wanted to come check to see how everyone is doing! So glad to see some good news, and hopefully more coming.

I have my sonohysterogram (?) tomorrow. I'm a little nervous but hopefully I'll get some answers that will put me at ease. Really hoping and praying everything looks good, my fertile period is coming up and I want to get to BD as soon as possible!

Haven't heard back yet from the banks, but I was offered a job at a children's psychiatric hospital. Fairly certain I will take it, but I have a couple weeks to decide. Classes are going well. Just really been keeping busy these days, which has been helping a lot.

Hope everyone is doing well. Any fun Valentine's day plans?

 

[jlw617]

Terissa-i was wondering where you've been sounds like you're keeping busy! Is what you're having the same thing Natalie had? (Was that Natalie that had it?) you'll have to tell us how it goes! Oh wow working in a children's psychiatric hospital sounds interesting, how often would you be working? Is there a specific age group you'd be interacting with?

We do an annual Valentine's day banquet with our church, it's lots of fun and we get to dress up really nice which is always fun for me! In fact this year I said I wasn't going to buy a new dress, but I can't resist!!!! Today going dress shopping

 

[tcinks]

I think it was Katie that talked about it earlier. She said it wasn't too bad...but then I searched for other peoples experience, and definitely should not have ! Hahha. It's about 50/50 that either say it wasn't bad just a little uncomfortable, and that say it was extremely painful. I'm taking some ibuprofen before just in case.

When I go through training , I'll be with all the age groups, from 6-18 I think is the range. After that, I decide which group I'd like to work with. And I'm PRN right now so I will get to pick my hours. Probably just two 8hour shifts a week.

The banquet sounds so fun! And dress shopping. You'll have to show us what you get. I'm trying to decide if I want a new dress for our Valentine's day date...

 

[zaycain]

Hi everyone!

Natalie! Congrats!!! I know it's early but it's so nice to hear some good news for a change!

T - what kind of job would it be?

Cou - Good luck!

Sorry I have been absent. I have been going through a very stressful work period. I cry at almost anything nowadays. So here's my ttc report.

I am supposed to O any day now.. and I've been crampy. This is what happened when I got the BFP. Crampy before my ovulation.. so maybe I will actually O this month? I dunno. I'm feeling good about it this time around. We'll see though.

I haven't been working out too much but DH and I started to cleanse really getting out a lot of our carbs. Not that I had a problem with it but I wanted to start fresh.

 

[Fleur828815]

Terrissa, sounds like it’s doing you good to be so busy. Anything to keep our minds off TTC huh. Congrats for the job, what would you be doing exactly? Good luck for tomorrow, hope it won’t be painful.

Jamie, you should totally get a new dress! The Valentine’s day banquet sounds really cool. The kiddies must love it!

zaycain, sorry to hear things are still stressful at work. Fingers crossed that the cramping is a good sign and that you will ovulate.

Nothing to report here, just waiting for AF so I can try properly next cycle.

 

[tcinks]

Well praise God, I didn't need that procedure after all! They wanted me to so that they could get a better look at the fibroids to make sure they aren't a problem, and my previous transvaginal ultrasounds couldn't show it properly. But they tried it today and they said everything looks great! They could clearly see where the fibroids are located and they don't look at all like they are a problem. So relieved. So now just to get started BD! I should be ovulating this weekend, maybe we'll make ourselves a Valentine's Day baby.

Oh, about the job...I don't entirely know everything I'll be doing. I think basically helping them throughout their day with social and coping skills, homework, making sure they do their chores, etc. I'll have a better idea after training.

 

[NDH]

Great news Terrissa!

not great news for me today

 

[coucou11]

Oh no! Natalie I'm so sorry Sending you big hugs and thinking of you today.

 

[tcinks]

Ugh! Natalie, so sorry you're going through this again.

Are you going to keep ntnp?

 

[Fleur828815]

Oh no Natalie, so sorry to hear that Would your doctor run any tests?

Terrissa, glad it all went well and that you can get back to focusing on TTC.

 

[NDH]

My Dr would run any tests I wanted but theres a 3-4 week to get in to see her and I can't afford anything that isnt covered under Medicare. I would like to see my naturopath, but they're not covered by medicare.

 

[jlw617]

Natalie- I am so sorry and I cannot believe you are having to go through this again I hope this isn't a trend for us ladies on this group but I especially hope that when you are able to TTC again that it doesn't happen again. hopefully, though i know it doesn't make it any less painful, at least since you werent too far along you won't have to wait as long to be able to TTC again-kwim? but I guess that depends on whether or not you are emotionally ready as well, I will be praying for you!

Terissa-i'm so glad you didn't have to have the procedure done after all and got good news so do you know when you will O? I still have another week or so until O but we will be kind of close together!

So on top of taking the fertile aid for women and trying to cut down on my carbs I have also been taking femented cod liver oil which I know sounds disgusting but is so incredibly healthy for you if it wasn't so expensive I would take it year round but I cannot afford it

 

[coucou11]

Well ladies, AF is here. I'm pretty down, I really thought we had it this time. I'm not sure what to do. I'm starting to feel like maybe we just waited too long and it's too late now. I know I'm probably being overly dramatic, but Kate I feel a bit like you, we got pregnant very easily both times in the past (even without timing BD super well), and now I feel like despite timing everything pretty much perfectly, it's just not happening.

Also, since the MC my LP has been 9, 11, and now 9 days again. I will call my doctor tomorrow but I don't know if I should start up the Vitex again, and maybe use the Kokoro cream you recommend, Jamie, or see if she recommends progesterone suppositories. I just wish I knew what was wrong.

Might try a mental break from TTC. We have another month of trying then we have to take a break for a month because we are hosting a big family thing next Christmas and I can't be having a baby then.

Anyway, thanks for listening.

 

[Fleur828815]

Natalie, how are you feeling? Are there any 'basic' blood tests that would be covered by Medicare? Maybe it's also worth asking your doctor if you should take a month or two off TTC to give your body some time to recover? Or maybe there's no reason to!

Jamie, fermented cod liver oil does sound gross! Does it have a strong taste/smell? I'm taking all my vitamins etc. in tablet form, and one of them has got a pretty foul taste.

Leigh, sorry to hear AF showed up. I'm also feeling like you, that it happened quickly last time and might not happen at all this time but I hope that we will get our BFPs soon. It is hard being patient although I know it's normal to TTC for up to a year before a BFP. Have you fixed an appointment with your doctor? Hope he'll have some answers for you about the shorter LP.

 

[jlw617]

Coucou-I'm sorry you're having such a hard time right now, I can definitely relate to you on the part that makes it so difficult is that we were able to get pregnant so easily before in fact I was just telling a friend about this we got pregnant so easily each time that I know this is going to sound incredibly naïve but I did not realize until later on in life that you couldn't just get pregnant any time of the month but that it had to be the right time so both times or I guess I should say all three times I previously got pregnant I must have just been really lucky and my timing as well because from the minute we tried we got pregnant, I have also thought many times like you that maybe we just waited too long, but I know I shouldn't be thinking like that, there are so many women that are having babies in their 30s now. Try to stay positive, I know it's hard!

Fleur-it does have a very strong smell they are in capsule form so the taste is not too bad as long as you have something to go down afterwards

Kylee-how are you doing?

 

[NDH]

I'm going to the walk in clinic in the morning to see what kinds of tests might be covered. I've heard cd3 is the best time to get a baseline blood test, and I'm CD 3 tomorrow. Well actually probably 4 considering I had a day of spotting first. Hopefully I can at least get my hormones tested to see if there's an imbalance, and see if there's a deficiency of any nutrients as those are things I can treat myself. I'm also going to do a vaginal steam this month to try and encourage good uterine lining growth next month. Thyme is an excellent herb for uterine health in general.

I looked into vitex as I was thinking of starting that, but I found a lot of information suggesting that if there's a mineral/nutrient deficiency going on vitex could make things worse in the long run. Most people will automatically jump to fixing a hormone imbalance by addressing the hormones themselves, but the reading I've been doing suggests rather explore why there's a hormone imbalance and by fixing the cause the hormones will usually fix themselves. For example for low progesterone instead of just using a progesterone cream or taking vitex etc , perhaps its low because your nutrient stores are too low to maintain sufficient progesterone production, as one possibility. Simply increasing progesterone may work, but if the nutrients aren't there it won't be a long term fix and will just deplete your stores further.
This is the reason I'd like to see a naturopath who can look at the whole picture, but with DH in school and still looking for part time work that just isn't happening.