Early 30's TTC #1

[arianne]

Thank you rosa! All these time i never questioned my nutrition because i eat very healthy but maybe i eat way too healthy and sometimes if i dont have the right foods around me (usually when i go to my home country) i just dont eat! Also i stopped eating meat for a while now, trying to get my protein from smth else but now i think maybe i should add some meat once in a while?

Good luck with your blood test. It feels good when we are getting tested doesnt it? Its good that you are not waiting until you try for a year to go get checked!
I actually went to my doctor last week to ask for a referral.. Hoping she wont refer me to the one i've been seeing! I just want to get another opinion, so im happy that i will see another fertility specialist soon! Now that i know way more than before, i have many questions to ask and will better understand everything i hope...

 

[hopefulmama2b]

arianne- Just to give you hope...My first af after my mc was really really heavy, but the last 2 that I had were very very light. I would really only bleed for 2 days and it was light those days and then just spotting for a couple of days after that. I was starting to be worried that some damage had been done during my D and C. Then this month I get my BFP! I took the baby aspirin since I had read that it helps build up a thicker lining so I don't know if that really helped for not. I talked to my doc about the BA on Monday because now I'm worried that if I stop taking it I'll miscarry. He said it actually hasn't been proven to help with pregnancy so I can stop taking it and not be concerned. He said he just prescribes it with known clotting disorders and even then I think it's in combination with other blood thinners. Soooo.....my point...I had light periods too and it still worked and the BA may or may not have had anything to do with it, but it certainly didn't hurt! And awesome news about your hubby's SA!!

 

[rosababy]

Hi rosababy,
Don't worry about them 'rooting' around in there. I had an annual at 3dpo this cycle with all the fixings and I still implanted!

good to know! thanks for the info. My doctor didn't do it, but probably because she could sense how nervous it made me. I'm sure it would have beene fine.

 

[finallyready]

Arianne! Great to see you back and that your in good spirits! Hopefulmama love the little counter under your name

So DH woke up to the sound of my thermometer beeping this AM and yesterday AM and it freaked him right out! He told me he thinks it is stupid to do the whole temping thing and that it will happen when it will happen. He is so laid back about the whole TTC thing. I did order some OPKs and plan to use them when I can, because I want confirmation that I am OV'ing and it couldn't hurt to have some insight on when to BD.

I am currently working on a course right now until the end of Jan so I am going to focus on that and then in March I am going down south for a Vcay! If I don't get a BFP by then, I have decided I will enjoy my trip. When I get back it will be time for my annual so I'll talk to the dr then. All in all, I am at Peace with whatever happens will happen.

Although I really really would love a 2011 babe! It kinda freaks me out to think if I don't get a BFP by April it will be 2012 before I have a wee one . But I am going to do my best and not look at it that way.

 

[rosababy]

I think it's a good idea to have a trip or something to look forward to. My dh and I decided if we're not pregnant by April, we're going to Spain! So, part of me REALLy wants to go, and the other part of me, kind of doesn't.

I'm having some cramps right now...7 or 8 dpo. Trying to ignore them, but they're definitely there. Trying not to symptom spot, but it's nearly impossible!

 

[arianne]

Girls i love reading your posts, I feel that im not alone! I relate so much with all of you about ttc

Thanks hopefulmama i was thinking about the baby aspirin as well... Not sure if it was you with the one i was talking about taking it? When did you start taking the BA?
Maybe if next cycle doesnt work, ill start on that... I actually bought them already but havent taken them yet.. Im scared to take medicine! Did you take one a day?

 

[nativetexan]

Seems like there is a lot of positive talk going on in this thread! That is great!

I'm pretty sure we missed this month. I never had a positive OPK or any symptoms. Plus, I had lasik surgery right around the time I should have ov, so we weren't exactly trying very hard, lol. So, here's to next month for me!

Rosababy, I agree about having something to look forward to. For us, we want to tile the floors in our house, lol. I know, super exciting, huh? lol

 

[hopefulmama2b]

Thanks hopefulmama i was thinking about the baby aspirin as well... Not sure if it was you with the one i was talking about taking it? When did you start taking the BA?
Maybe if next cycle doesnt work, ill start on that... I actually bought them already but havent taken them yet.. Im scared to take medicine! Did you take one a day?

I'm like you, I hate taking medicine even when I'm sick I usually hold out unless it's absolutely necessary. I also bought the BA a couple of months before and just held onto it. I decided if I didn't get pg in December I'd give it a try. I took one (81 mg) every day from CD1 until yesterday (12 dpo).

 

[Soleil Breeze]

Arianne - so glad you're back! I will look into the maca for this next cycle. I actually took some "bush medicine" (which smelled like fermented baked beans and had the consistency of very thick spit because aloe was in it), but it doesn't seem to have done any good this cycle. I'm at 12 dpo and got the lovely watery brown stuff. Even if hubby's sperm weren't slow and generally malformed, I think this pre-AF spotting is not a good thing.


Anyway; I always try to see what is positive about *not* being pregnant when AF is about to come/comes. For instance, I have one of my field exams to take in the next few months, I've got a conference in September, etc. So it's probably just as well. These are all justifications for why it's *ok* not to be pregnant, of course; but they're just a way of coping.

I just found out that my Uncle and his wife tried for six years before they got pregnant (naturally) and now they have a 12 and 10 year old. So it's all possible...I'm going to use the FertilAid lube for two to three cycles and then I'm going to stop TTC for a few months and pick up again at the end of the Summer. That's the game plan anyway.

Have a great day, ladies!

 

[rosababy]

Native, new floors ARE exciting! Isn't it funny what we find exciting now-a-days?!

Arianne, I also love reading the posts. Lately, we've been so positive, and it's helping me a lot! What is BA?

Soleil, my dh and I decided that if we're not pregnant this cycle (I don't have high hopes), that we'll both take Maca. He also told me that he'd go get a sperm analysis if we're not pregnant this month, so that makes me feel better. Not that I have any reason to believe there is a problem with his (in fact, I always feel bad talking about it, because I don't want to make him feel like less of a man), but I told him I just want to "cross it off the list" and so we can move forward and so I can relax more.

I had definite cramps yesterday and felt a little nausous when I woke up this morning, which went away after about 20 minutes of being up. REALLY trying hard not to read too much into it all. Tomorrow, we leave for Florida to visit family for 4 days, so that's very exciting! I'm hoping it makes time fly, and I won't think about ttc very much. By the time I get home, AF will be due, so keep your FX for me!

 

[finallyready]

Ilus, I had lasik surgery right around the time I should have ov, so we weren't exactly trying very hard, lol. So, here's to next month for me!

I had Lasik 3 yrs ago and LOVE IT!!! How did you make out? Do you just love waking up and not having to worry about contacts! Best $ I ever spent!

 

[arianne]

Rosa, BA- Baby aspirin... I think I will try it next month if AF comes this cycle...
Spain sounds exciting!! nice to look forward to things!! I will be starting a new job in the next few weeks that is like my dream job!! and I am super excited!! I was almost hoping for no pregnancy for at least a couple of more months so that I can work there for a full year... but then I thought I shouldn't hope such things!!! I think I prefer a baby that a dream job

 

[nativetexan]

Ilus, I had lasik surgery right around the time I should have ov, so we weren't exactly trying very hard, lol. So, here's to next month for me!

I had Lasik 3 yrs ago and LOVE IT!!! How did you make out? Do you just love waking up and not having to worry about contacts! Best $ I ever spent!

It is awesome!! I had PRK, which is a little bit of a longer recoverey, but my vision is so much better now. I walk around smiling at all of the things I can see on my own now, lol. I have to agree...best money I've spent on myself.

 

[Soleil Breeze]

It is awesome!! I had PRK, which is a little bit of a longer recoverey, but my vision is so much better now. I walk around smiling at all of the things I can see on my own now, lol. I have to agree...best money I've spent on myself.

Funny - I find myself smiling more at people when I can't see properly. When I have my glasses on, I smile less. But when they're off, I smile and smile because I can't tell whether I'm being dissed or not by a non-responsive smiler. Ha, ha, ha.

That's my laughs for the day. My darn spotting is just going on and on. AF just needs to come. I have willed myself not to cry as I enter cycle 18. Going to look up and buy maca now.

 

[Soleil Breeze]

I was almost hoping for no pregnancy for at least a couple of more months so that I can work there for a full year... but then I thought I shouldn't hope such things!!! I think I prefer a baby that a dream job

You'll handle it either way, Arianne. Dream job and baby!

 

[arianne]

aww thank you soleil, you are so sweet... yes buy maca!! it is awesome... today I got the second part of my dh SA results.... so now no abnormal forms anymore!!! yay!!! even though my doctor didn't seem to care about morphology as much as the count, I was still concerned... now no more of that!!!! but he still has some immature forms... 5, and in should be less than 3- this part is the same as the last SA.... but overall everything improved big time!!! now he is taking the powder form because we run out of the capsules... the powder tastes really bad, and he struggles every morning but now that he sees his results, he is more motivated to keep taking it... I don't even have to beg him to do it, I see him every morning adding it to his cereal and it melts me...

 

[finallyready]

ADVICE Please!

My OV tests just came in the mail today so I decided I would try one out. I am CD10 and not sure how long my cycles are as you know my struggles with coming off the pill. Anyways, this was my first time ever doing a OV test.

The result was a very faint line. It was for sure there but not as dark as the control line. The instructions say that a faint line means you have a low level of LH in your system. My question to you is: are all OV tests like that? For example will it ALWAYS show some sorta line no matter what? Or should I be getting excited that I even have a line showing? Is there a point in your cycle where one has 0 visible line? Does the fact that I have a faint line mean that if I keep testing tomorrow and the next that it will get darker? When it is as dark as the control line, does that mean I OV'd???

Sorry for the stupid questions....any insight would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

 

[arianne]

Finallyready yup! It means you are getting closer to ov! Yay!! That line will start getting darker and darker. The day you see the line is as dark as the reference line or darker means you have 24-48 to bd
And yes, i have gotten one line only when i used to test in early or late cd days... I used to wonder the same thing bc i would always see a second line, so once i tested way early and only got one single line
Let us know once you get your 2 dark lines!

 

[Aisak]

Hi finallyready!

My experience is the same as Arianne's. i typically start testing around day 9 (my cycle is 26-29 days and i tend to ovulate from day 12 to 14). The first couple days are really faint lines (if at all), then get darker and darker until i get a positive. After the positive they say you will ovulate in 12 to 48 hours, so make sure you bd for those days!

Good luck!

 

[sillysilly7]

ADVICE Please!

My OV tests just came in the mail today so I decided I would try one out. I am CD10 and not sure how long my cycles are as you know my struggles with coming off the pill. Anyways, this was my first time ever doing a OV test.

The result was a very faint line. It was for sure there but not as dark as the control line. The instructions say that a faint line means you have a low level of LH in your system. My question to you is: are all OV tests like that? For example will it ALWAYS show some sorta line no matter what? Or should I be getting excited that I even have a line showing? Is there a point in your cycle where one has 0 visible line? Does the fact that I have a faint line mean that if I keep testing tomorrow and the next that it will get darker? When it is as dark as the control line, does that mean I OV'd???

Sorry for the stupid questions....any insight would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

Hi Finally,

For the most part I agree with the other ladies that it will get darker; however for me, I had it get darker to an almost positive, then the next day it was much much lighter. I thought I had missed my surge. I tested again the following day and it was an extremely dark positive. I only add this as I was about to give up for the cycle because I was convinced I missed it. I also have some sort of line throughout most of my cycle. (I used the FR kits).