Early 30's TTC #1

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rosababy

 

[MsJMouse]

Sorry to hear that Rosababy

 

[arianne]

Aww Rosa! Im so sorry I just started a new cycle as well yesterday Im at cd2, but looking forward to my hsg next friday. Will let you girls know how it goes

Nice to see you here finannyready!! GL with your pregnancy!! Everything will be good! Just be very healthy

Wishing you the best girls! Love ya!

 

[hopefulmama2b]

Soliel, crumbs, Rosa, and Arianne- Sorry to hear that you are all starting a new cycle.

Arianne- Good luck with your HSG. The final test, right? Hopefully you get some answers or come up with a plan of where to go from here.

Finallyready- I hope the next two weeks fly by for you so you can see your little babe! So exciting!

I'll have to check out the new TTC #1 section!

AFM- I am on CD 4, if I can call it that. I still have a positive pg test so it doesn't make a lot of sense. I have concluded that my body's cycle switches on when my hcg starts getting really low- happened last time as well. So I'm hoping for a neg hpt and ovulation within the next couple of weeks!

Hope everyone is having a good weekend despite the unwanted visitors!

 

[rosababy]

Thanks, ladies. I'm surprisingly okay with this cycle. I think I got my weepies out the day I got my bfn, and I started to make my peace with this cycle that day. Yesterday, we went wine tasting with good friends who are moving back to Germany soon. It was a lovely day, but we'll miss them.

I got a little choked up in church this morning. We sang a song with the lyrics, "Greater things are yet to come..." and I just lost it. Sometimes I forget how much I love my life, and how lucky I am. A baby will just be the cherry on top. I can't live life like a baby is the only thing that will make me happy. It's hard to remember that, when the disappointment comes every cycle. We'll just keep trying, and keep being faithful.

I hope everyone is doing well today.

 

[Soleil Breeze]

So I was a day off; the red stuff on the wipe was at 8 dpo (not 9 dpo). AF hasn't come; I've just had watery brown stuff on the TP since then. Again, this is typical of my cycles, but I've never had red like that at 8 dpo. Thought for a moment that it might be IB, but I don't think it was. My temps are still up, thankfully (98.5). So tomorrow I am going to call the fert. doc and see if he will let me take clomid this upcoming cycle. I am officially tired of waiting for baby and need to get my system in order! I was just praying that CD1 of cycle 20 didn't start over the weekend so that I could go on the clomid this month. Luckily, it hasn't started yet! Some good news (sigh...).

 

[rosababy]

Soleil, 8 dpo could definitely be implantation bleeding. Was it spotting, or more than that? If it's AF, then I hope you can get clomid for the next cycle. Will this be your first cycle on it? I start my 2nd cycle of it tomorrow. I'm also tired of waiting for a baby.

 

[rosababy]

Ladies, my dh has his SA tomorrow morning. We're both so nervous. What if something is wrong? Please pray for us.

 

[MsJMouse]

Good luck Rosababy.

 

[hopefulmama2b]

Good luck Rosa!!

 

[Regalpeas]

For all you ladies who are out or on your way out I'm out too as of last Thursday. It is so hard somedays so don't be too hard on yourself when you don't feel the strongest. You will have your good days and your down in the dump days. I will too. We're here to support one another. I have to admit my anxiety. I wanted to have a large family. I wanted to have my children naturally and without assistance. At this point won't get all of that but praying I will get most of it. As another year of my 30s circle I get more and more frustrated and even at times annoyed. The pressure is real but I am not giving up. But I feel like it many days. So you are not alone. Be encouraged.


As far as moving the thread I'm back and forth about it on one hand for selfish reasons I say no because I have a hard time keeping up now.lol I feel bad when I can't address everyone but sometimes I just can't because of my time away. So I know if we moved over there it would be out of control. Smaller groups are more intimate and makes it easier to share deeper things.

But on the other we may gain to get more support and knowledge. Maybe we should start a general thread there but keep this as our buddy personal group.

 

[MsJMouse]

For all you ladies who are out or on your way out I'm out too as of last Thursday. It is so hard somedays so don't be too hard on yourself when you don't feel the strongest. You will have your good days and your down in the dump days. I will too. We're here to support one another. I have to admit my anxiety. I wanted to have a large family. I wanted to have my children naturally and without assistance. At this point one get all of that but praying I will get most of it. As another year of my 30s circle I get more and more frustrated and even at times annoyed. The pressure is real but I am not giving up. But I feel like it many days. So you are not alone. Be encouraged.

Very nicely put. Thank you Regalpeas.

 

[MsJMouse]

One upside to the TTC wagon - when my friends from out of town come over for dinner I can have few glasses of wine

 

[Regalpeas]

No problem. I hope we can feed off the strength of one another other and allow each other the space to have our down days.

I agree with you about the wine. It's good to treat yourself once AF comes. After I get over accepting AF has arrived I drink tea and sometimes I sneak some food Ive been abstaining from as well. lol I love tea so much. It's hard to give it up. Also, I can focus harder on weight loss. Random BDing without the hanging hinge of ttc...too...oh yeah that's fun! lol

 

[rosababy]

One upside to the TTC wagon - when my friends from out of town come over for dinner I can have few glasses of wine

LOL! We went wine tasting on Saturday and I had a big ole' margharita for dinner, too. Woke up feeling pretty bad...one of those "I'm never drinking again" mornings.

For all you ladies who are out or on your way out I'm out too as of last Thursday. It is so hard somedays so don't be too hard on yourself when you don't feel the strongest. You will have your good days and your down in the dump days. I will too. We're here to support one another. I have to admit my anxiety. I wanted to have a large family. I wanted to have my children naturally and without assistance. At this point won't get all of that but praying I will get most of it. As another year of my 30s circle I get more and more frustrated and even at times annoyed. The pressure is real but I am not giving up. But I feel like it many days. So you are not alone. Be encouraged.

As far as moving the thread I'm back and forth about it on one hand for selfish reasons I say no because I have a hard time keeping up now.lol I feel bad when I can't address everyone but sometimes I just can't because of my time away. So I know if we moved over there it would be out of control. Smaller groups are more intimate and makes it easier to share deeper things.

But on the other we may gain to get more support and knowledge. Maybe we should start a general thread there but keep this as our buddy personal group.

Thanks, Regal. This was nice to hear. We are not alone, and that's the main reason I love this website. It's encouraging. I'm fine with moving the thread or keeping it here, honestly. I agree, if we get more people, it may be too hard to keep up with!

Praying for my dh and his this morning. I really hope everything goes okay. We have no reason (besides not being preggo) to believe that everything is not okay, but still.

 

[SMFirst]

Rosa- Hope your DH's SA went well - when will you get the results?

Regal - I agree about liking the smaller group size here.. Thanks for the encouraging words too - I hope you find support from us too!

AFM- No AF yet. Or course I caved and tested but was not surprised to see a BFN. I think my cycle is just screwy unfortunately..

 

[Soleil Breeze]

Oh, well. 98.1 this morning; is coming.

Called the fert. clinic this morning and the nurse has to consult with the doctor. She's not sure if he'll let me go on clomid this cycle without doing IUI, too. I don't see what the big deal is.

DH is going in for his second SA next week to see if being on FertilAid supplements for three months has done anything for him. Let's hope so.

Rosa - I hope your DH gets stellar results! Should he not, like my DH, there's always IUI. I might be giving IUI details over the course of the next two months, but hopefully you won't be in the same boat.

Regal - I'm totally with you on keeping the thread here. I'm all for people coming and joining, but I do think it would be overwhelming by placing it over on the other thread.

As for clomid, since this will be my first cycle on it, if the doc. gives the A-ok (I really, really hope he does!!), does anyone know if I can continue taking the maca? I asked the nurse and she basically said I should only take what is prescribed by them...

Thanks, girls!

 

[rosababy]

Rosa- Hope your DH's SA went well - when will you get the results?

AFM- No AF yet. Or course I caved and tested but was not surprised to see a BFN. I think my cycle is just screwy unfortunately..

What cd are you on now? You must be so frustrated! My dh called and said that it wasn't awkward at all. Women were dropping off specimens, and other men were waiting, too. He said there was a little window and when he was done, he put his cup and paperwork in the window and waked out. Pretty simple! They said they would fax the results to our doc tomorrow morning, who are pretty good about getting back to me asap, so I'll expect a phone call tomorrow morning. I'll let you know for sure! Like I said, he's 31, healthy, on vitamins, doesn't smoke, do drugs and only has a few beers here and there. Doesn't ride bikes or sit in hot tubs or had surgery in the area...he SHOULD be fine. But stranger things have happened, so we're still praying hard.

Oh, well. 98.1 this morning; is coming.

Called the fert. clinic this morning and the nurse has to consult with the doctor. She's not sure if he'll let me go on clomid this cycle without doing IUI, too. I don't see what the big deal is.

DH is going in for his second SA next week to see if being on FertilAid supplements for three months has done anything for him. Let's hope so.

Rosa - I hope your DH gets stellar results! Should he not, like my DH, there's always IUI. I might be giving IUI details over the course of the next two months, but hopefully you won't be in the same boat.

As for clomid, since this will be my first cycle on it, if the doc. gives the A-ok (I really, really hope he does!!), does anyone know if I can continue taking the maca? I asked the nurse and she basically said I should only take what is prescribed by them...

98.1 is still really high for me. What is your coverline? I'm sorry to hear you think AF is coming though. It's a terrible feeling. Were your dh's results low count last time? Does IUI help with that? I've heard IVF might be the only option for certain problems. We won't do that, so that's why I'm so scared. But we'll do IUI! I hope we don't end up in that situation, too. I'm not sure about the maca. I asked my doc when I started the clomid, and he had never heard of it. He said let's just give clomid a chance to work its magic. So, I stopped maca.

 

[SMFirst]

Soleil - Sorry AF is coming.. Best of luck with the Clomid (+IUI if needed - might as well go for it too I guess?)

Rosa - Well today is CD28 for me (if I count the first day of bleed as CD1, but then I had a weird start-stop-start type of AF so maybe that's what screwed things up) - but usually my cycles are 24 days.. (which is short, so then I started taking B-vitamins so maybe they actually made my cycle longer..) who knows. Now I promise to wait til the end of the week to test!

let us know when you get your good SA results!

 

[mrsmax]

Rosa - good luck with dh's It is such a good test to get done as you can make sure you are focusing on the right thing's with timing and stuff.

to everyone who got their AF. I am sure I will be joining you in a week's time..

Regalpeas - I read somewhere that a small amount of tea (regular tea not just herbal tea) helps fertility. I think it is coffee that is more important to avoid (I cut down to one cup a day from 10 cups!! Very hard).

Soleil - I have read that if there is nothing wrong with your bloods, they won't give you Clomid. i can't remember - you in the UK? I think they do just give it to you combined with IUI unless a problem with your Pg. So annoying.