Early 30's TTC #1

[hopefulmama2b]

YAY!!! Good luck!!

 

[MsJMouse]

Soliel - sorry to hear about the spotting. But spotting can occur during pregnancy. Have you done a test at all??

I have read that egg quality can be improved just like sperm quality can be improved. We are born with the follicles but as they are maturing they can be influenced by what we eat etc just like sperm quality can be improved. Hopefully those supplements that your doc has you on are going to work wonders for you Rosa and you will get that BFP soon!

MrsPTTC - yay for the positive OPK!!! Hopefully that cyst doesn't hurt too much if it does burst.

MrsMax - sorry to hear AF has arrived. Hopefully you get that appt with the clinic soon.

Hopeful - I hate hearing miscarriage statistics. The docs all say that it is only 1/5 that miscarriage but that still means a 20% chance and I (as have you) have been there. So it really doesn't reasssure me that much.

Back from my conference. AF has arrived with a bang today - though it kinda started two days ago. Cramps have really kicked in - at least I made it home before that got too bad. Came home to news that DH's stepsister has had her opps baby last night and MIL wanted us to come straight from the airport to visit. DH told MIL a bit of a fib that we had had another loss recently as that was the only way to stop her from insisting we go straight there. She doesn't think I should still be upset about my loss as it has been a whole 8.5 months. Yeah right. Sigh.

On the upside though, DH dropped off his SA sample yesterday so hopefully some results in the next week or so.

Have a great week everyone.

 

[MrsPTTC]

MsJmouse, insensitive MIL's!! And sorry got you.

I heard that egg quality can be improved to!

AFM I had my scan today and I've ovulated!! Woo hoo . And I got told (again) I have beautiful lining lol. I think I either ovulated yesterday or today, though only got my positive OPK yesterday and another positive today. I've played around with my temps and if it's not sky high tomorrow FF doesn't give me cross hairs! But if it's high tomorrow it confirms ovulation today, though if that's the case it must have been through the night as the follicle had burst at 8am this morning and she could see what was left of the fluid.... Interesting experiment this, temping when having scans. Maybe today's temp is a bit out of sync though as our clocks went back so took it an hour later than normal . So I've got no more scans now, just 5 more months of clomid and we need to wait and see! Sending to all of you ladies - am I the only one in the 2WW? Everyone else seems to have gotten their AF's within the last week x

 

[readyORnot]

Hi MrsPTTC!! I'm in the 2WW! Based on my newly irregular cycles my AF could be due anywhere between today and the 8th of November! I don't do OPKs yet as I can't get them here - have to wait till I get home (London) in December, so I haven't the foggiest when I ovulated.

 

[MrsPTTC]

Ahh that must be so frustrating, last month when I didn't POAS I knew roughly when my body was trying to ovulate based on my CM & CP. Wishing you lots of luck hun, are you testing or waiting to see if AF shows? x

 

[readyORnot]

I'm waiting it out and if AF doesn't show up by the 10th, I'll finally be testing then! I just can't bear the thought of a BFN - had one my first cycle TTC when AF was 3 days late (based on my original 23-day cycle) and at that point I didn't know my cycles had become irregular. But I felt so awful about that BFN that I haven't been able to do any hpts ever since!
Good luck to you too MrsPTTC - hope you caught that egg! I'm sure it would love to settle down in your 'beautiful lining' for 9 months! LOL

 

[MsJMouse]

Just wanted to say - sorry if I offended anyone with what my dh said to his mum about us having a second loss. It was not my intention. I was tired and a bit dumbfounded that he felt he had to say that to his mum to get her to leave him alone - I know he is really finding it hard lately (we should have a 8 week old by now if we hadn't lost the baby in Feb) and we have already been to see a friend in the last couple of weeks who has just had her baby and I cried in the corridor after seeing her with her gorgeous baby boy so he is just trying to protect me.

and to everyone.

Hi Ready or Not!! Good luck with your tww Ready or Not and MrsPTTC!!!

 

[MrsPTTC]

Msjmouse x

 

[mrsmax]

MsJ - I was ceratinly not offended. I am just sorry you have such an insensitive MIL (I do too if it helps!)

 

[hopefulmama2b]

MsJ - I was ceratinly not offended. I am just sorry you have such an insensitive MIL

^^^^^WSS. J. No one really understands what it's like unless they've been through it. 8 months is not enough time to "get over it" as some people think we should. It still f-ing hurts. A lot. And you are allowed to mourn as long as needed. Sorry about your MIL.

 

[hopefulmama2b]

Mrs Max- I think you should ring the clinic! Get an update!

 

[Soleil Breeze]

and I'll be beginning clomid again tonight. Fingers crossed, ladies. What a battle.

MrsPTTC, great news about O-ing and the beautiful lining Are you doing IUI, too, or just taking clomid and BD around O?

MsJMouse and Rosa - what kind of supplements do you know of that I could start taking, too? Who knows, maybe my old egg-girls could do with a supplemental lift!

Oh, and MsJMouse, no offense taken at all! and I agree with hopeful and others' comments that your MIL seems sensitively "clueless" and you've got to do what you've got to do to get those types off your reproductive organs (I was going to say "back", but I'm trying to be clever)

UGHHHH. I'm thinking my next O will be Nov. 14th. So much for the plan to surprise our parents at Christmas. Such is our life.

Have a great week ahead!!

 

[readyORnot]

and I'll be beginning clomid again tonight. Fingers crossed, ladies. What a battle.

MrsPTTC, great news about O-ing and the beautiful lining Are you doing IUI, too, or just taking clomid and BD around O?

MsJMouse and Rosa - what kind of supplements do you know of that I could start taking, too? Who knows, maybe my old egg-girls could do with a supplemental lift!

Oh, and MsJMouse, no offense taken at all! and I agree with hopeful and others' comments that your MIL seems sensitively "clueless" and you've got to do what you've got to do to get those types off your reproductive organs (I was going to say "back", but I'm trying to be clever)

UGHHHH. I'm thinking my next O will be Nov. 14th. So much for the plan to surprise our parents at Christmas. Such is our life.

Have a great week ahead!!

Surely if you ovulate mid-November you'd still have plenty of time to do a Christmas surprise! Unless you weren't planning on telling them until you're 12 weeks? Either way, good luck!

I'm still hoping to have caught this cycle's egg (or to catch the next one) so that I can be 16 weeks (or 12 weeks) by my belated wedding reception at the end of January and get to announce it to everyone!

 

[rosababy]

MsJMouse and Rosa - what kind of supplements do you know of that I could start taking, too? Who knows, maybe my old egg-girls could do with a supplemental lift!

I'm taking Co-Q 10, melatonin (at night, helps me sleep, too!), DHEA 25 mg, 3x a day (I think that's the name, and inositol (2 pills in am, 2 in pm, 500 mg I think). I've been on Co-Q 10 for a while, ever since I met my doc, so I would start with that. I got it at CVS.

Mrs Max- I think you should ring the clinic! Get an update!

I second that! Be a pushy broad!

Just wanted to say - sorry if I offended anyone with what my dh said to his mum about us having a second loss. It was not my intention. I was tired and a bit dumbfounded that he felt he had to say that to his mum to get her to leave him alone - I know he is really finding it hard lately (we should have a 8 week old by now if we hadn't lost the baby in Feb) and we have already been to see a friend in the last couple of weeks who has just had her baby and I cried in the corridor after seeing her with her gorgeous baby boy so he is just trying to protect me.

None taken, hun. What a witch...sorry she's so insensitive.

 

[MrsPTTC]

Soleil, thanks hun, no I'm not doing IUI, not yet anyway, just BDing around ovulation. Good luck with this cycle hun! I was taking Maca which is supposed to improve egg quality! I stopped though cos I thought I was taking too many supplements & thought it was making my spotting worse, but I now realise it's probably been the cyst causing the spotting! DH also takes it to help with his little fella's

Readyornot, that would be lovely announcing in to everyone at your reception! I was hoping the same about Christmas, but it never happened .

AFM, 2DPO and this 2ww is gonna DRAG! I'm trying not to test until 13DPO (if I get that far) which is a saturday and I'm stopping temping as soon as I get my crosshairs which should be tomorrow. Just trying to wait patiently... x

 

[Regalpeas]

Hi Ladies,

Rosa glad you're feeling better.

MrsMax family can be the worse! They don't know what to say out their mouths! Sorry your MIL was hurftful

Soleil hang in there honey. Hoping for the best. Your PMA really encouraged me recently.

Hopeful hope you're feeling better. I sometimes worry about my eggs especially since I've never been pregnant ever. It can get depressing. However, I think it's good you are trying to what you can to increase equality!

MrsPTTC good luck with everything! Hope it all works out with regulating your cycle and clomid use. Also why did you stop the Maca?

Welcome ReadyorNot hope you don't have too wait to long for your BFP!!!

To all of us

and for our favorite Mommies to Be..wishing you the best each and every day.

Afm,

Went to see the specialist. It was a long visit but I left feeling confident. DH has to do another SA to confirm his abnormal results. He has issues with count, motility and the FS did mention something about morphology concerns. If the next one comes back similar she's going to refer dh to a Urologist. I think this is the best thing.

As for me there was a scan and hormonal test which will continue through out this cycle also I have to go in for a PK test. Lastly I'll have to lose about 25 lbs. I am bumbed about that. I already feel stressed about TTC but the pressures of losing weight on top kinda has me down. However, I just have to keep my head up and do this for myself and my future child(ren).

 

[MrsPTTC]

Thanks regal. I stopped cos I didn't like the number of supplements I was taking & I thought it was making my mid LP spotting worse , but I now think the spotting was due to the cyst. I got my crosshairs today so my thermometer is staying put in my drawer! Month 14 started today x

 

[mrsmax]

Hi Regal - sounds like you have a plan which is good.

BTW it wasnt my MIL who was insensitive - it was MsJ's 0 but my MIL is a cow and would be insensitive if we trusted her enough to telling her anything - so thanks anways!

I called the clinic and they had just made me an appointment - 29th Nov!! Seems ages away, but looking forward to it. It will be the first time ever (in 19 months by then) that we have ever sat in front of a fertility doctor. We have to pay as NHS wont cover us, but we have been saving like mad so if we need it, we will be able to afford IVF in March. And I guess then we keep saving and paying until we can get pregnant. Yikes. For anyone in the UK N- this seems so unfair. I hate the postcode lottery - I dont udnerstand why if I lived 30 miles in the other direction or was 1 year younger I woudl get 2 free rounds of IVF when I pay the same tax as everyone else (in fact, probably a hell of a lot more than many!). Grrr. Gripe over.

 

[MrsPTTC]

Yay for your appointment mrsmax!! But I agree its absolutely shocking that you can't get free IVF! x

 

[hopefulmama2b]

and I'll be beginning clomid again tonight. Fingers crossed, ladies. What a battle.

UGHHHH. I'm thinking my next O will be Nov. 14th. So much for the plan to surprise our parents at Christmas. Such is our life.

Have a great week ahead!!

Good luck this cycle!! Question- were you not o-ing before? Why are you taking clomid? So you have more targets? I will be doing an unmediated IUI next cyle. He said since I ovulate I don't need it. I'm glad because I hate taking drugs but wouldn't have minded having more targets.

[I'm still hoping to have caught this cycle's egg (or to catch the next one) so that I can be 16 weeks (or 12 weeks) by my belated wedding reception at the end of January and get to announce it to everyone!

That would be a great end to a wonderful evening!!

AFM, 2DPO and this 2ww is gonna DRAG! I'm trying not to test until 13DPO (if I get that far) which is a saturday and I'm stopping temping as soon as I get my crosshairs which should be tomorrow. Just trying to wait patiently... x

Yay on finally getting crosshairs! FXXX for you!!!

Afm,

Went to see the specialist. It was a long visit but I left feeling confident. DH has to do another SA to confirm his abnormal results. He has issues with count, motility and the FS did mention something about morphology concerns. If the next one comes back similar she's going to refer dh to a Urologist. I think this is the best thing.

As for me there was a scan and hormonal test which will continue through out this cycle also I have to go in for a PK test. Lastly I'll have to lose about 25 lbs. I am bumbed about that. I already feel stressed about TTC but the pressures of losing weight on top kinda has me down. However, I just have to keep my head up and do this for myself and my future child(ren).

Good luck with DH's SA! I'm sure it's frustrating about the weight, but so worth it if it increases your chances.

HiI called the clinic and they had just made me an appointment - 29th Nov!! Seems ages away, but looking forward to it. It will be the first time ever (in 19 months by then) that we have ever sat in front of a fertility doctor. We have to pay as NHS wont cover us, but we have been saving like mad so if we need it, we will be able to afford IVF in March. And I guess then we keep saving and paying until we can get pregnant. Yikes. For anyone in the UK N- this seems so unfair. I hate the postcode lottery - I dont udnerstand why if I lived 30 miles in the other direction or was 1 year younger I woudl get 2 free rounds of IVF when I pay the same tax as everyone else (in fact, probably a hell of a lot more than many!). Grrr. Gripe over.

YAY!!!! You have an appointment! I hope they let you do IUI so we can be IUI cycle buddies! It is crap about the age restrictions. Your not ancient my god! I'm glad you and DH planned for it just in case though. That way you're prepared. Would love to share that bottle of wine with you that you were talking about!

AFM- Saw RE this morning! Unmedicated IUI next cycle. We'll do this three cycles and then re-evaluate! Dear god, please let this work!!!!! No insurance coverage for IVF, but we've saved just in case.