DustyRose
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Hey everyone
I've just registered on Baby and Bump but I have been perusing the website for a while, its great to read about everyone's experiences and I think the amount of support and encouragement you all give one another is wonderful! Its great to see lots of humour on here too
I tend to write a lot when I write, so I'll try not to ramble. My husband and I have been TTC our first baby for a little over 12 months with no success, but I think that is not helped by how unattentive I have been to my cycle, and body in general, up till now. When I was younger I was diagnosed with PCOS but the OBGYN that I was seeing was a little senile - I'm not sure if his diagnosis was correct as when my husband and I visited another OBGYN last year, who is reputed to be the best within the state I live in, he ran some tests and concluded that I infact don't have PCOS. However, I just have a niggling worry that I may still do, as he only ran a LOT of blood tests but didn't actually perform an ultrasound of any sort.
My sister has PCOS however no one else in my family does, so it may or may not have missed me.
We also had a semen analysis done and the results were perfectly fine, so that is really good. We were told we have every chance of conceiving naturally at this stage, which is really encouraging, but I don't know - I just have this gut feeling that it won't be that easy.
Up until September last year I had not been keeping diligent track of my cycles or anything of the sort. I'm slack. I had been told and at the time agreed that we should 'relax and it will happen when it happens' but as we all know that is easier said than done and doesn't always do the trick. I went off the BCP in March 2009 so it has now been 12 months. My AFs had always been regular but up till now they have been erratic - she has come every month but my cycle has varied from 26 to 33 to 36 to 28 to 34 days etc. I'm currently on CD34 and AF hasn't showed yet but I've had cramping for a few days now, varying in severity but never unbearable, as well as yellow CM (sorry for TMI in my first post - listen to me jotting my symptoms down whilst still introducing myself!) and some very mild and intermittent back pain. I have had some dizziness but that could be due to some non-conception related medication I started taking a few days ago.
I am definitely a POAS addict and a true believer that one can convince themselves that they're having pg symptoms when they are not.. I have spent a small fortune on HPTs, even though every month I tell myself I'm not going to (we know what that is like!). I am a naiive case as I have no idea when I ovulate. I have used countless OPKs but a combination of confusion over the results as well as being disheartened and not keeping it up has resulted in me not knowing when I ovulate. I have some EWCM during the month and I count that as a sign, but still not 100% sure. In January we started trying to BD every other day to maximise our chances, but as much as we both enjoyed it we can't always do it so regularly at the moment. This month we hardly BD'd as work has been insane and I've been ill, so I highly doubt I'm pg, but AF hasn't reared her ugly head yet, so I guess its not over till then. Still, these cramps are all too familiar!
I've invested in a Clear Blue Fertility Monitor and its sitting in its packaging waiting for AF to arrive so that I can start using it. I've heard good things about it but I'm not pinning all my hope on that guaranteeing that we will conceive. Because I've never really gotten a proper positive OPK and I don't know IF I'm even O'ing I'm just looking forward to seeing if I even reach high let alone peak fertility.
Didn't I say at the start of this post that I wasn't going to ramble?
I apologise for babbling and thank you for reading this, its great to be here! Baby dust to all of you
xoxo
I've just registered on Baby and Bump but I have been perusing the website for a while, its great to read about everyone's experiences and I think the amount of support and encouragement you all give one another is wonderful! Its great to see lots of humour on here too
I tend to write a lot when I write, so I'll try not to ramble. My husband and I have been TTC our first baby for a little over 12 months with no success, but I think that is not helped by how unattentive I have been to my cycle, and body in general, up till now. When I was younger I was diagnosed with PCOS but the OBGYN that I was seeing was a little senile - I'm not sure if his diagnosis was correct as when my husband and I visited another OBGYN last year, who is reputed to be the best within the state I live in, he ran some tests and concluded that I infact don't have PCOS. However, I just have a niggling worry that I may still do, as he only ran a LOT of blood tests but didn't actually perform an ultrasound of any sort.
My sister has PCOS however no one else in my family does, so it may or may not have missed me.We also had a semen analysis done and the results were perfectly fine, so that is really good. We were told we have every chance of conceiving naturally at this stage, which is really encouraging, but I don't know - I just have this gut feeling that it won't be that easy.
Up until September last year I had not been keeping diligent track of my cycles or anything of the sort. I'm slack. I had been told and at the time agreed that we should 'relax and it will happen when it happens' but as we all know that is easier said than done and doesn't always do the trick. I went off the BCP in March 2009 so it has now been 12 months. My AFs had always been regular but up till now they have been erratic - she has come every month but my cycle has varied from 26 to 33 to 36 to 28 to 34 days etc. I'm currently on CD34 and AF hasn't showed yet but I've had cramping for a few days now, varying in severity but never unbearable, as well as yellow CM (sorry for TMI in my first post - listen to me jotting my symptoms down whilst still introducing myself!) and some very mild and intermittent back pain. I have had some dizziness but that could be due to some non-conception related medication I started taking a few days ago.
I am definitely a POAS addict and a true believer that one can convince themselves that they're having pg symptoms when they are not.. I have spent a small fortune on HPTs, even though every month I tell myself I'm not going to (we know what that is like!). I am a naiive case as I have no idea when I ovulate. I have used countless OPKs but a combination of confusion over the results as well as being disheartened and not keeping it up has resulted in me not knowing when I ovulate. I have some EWCM during the month and I count that as a sign, but still not 100% sure. In January we started trying to BD every other day to maximise our chances, but as much as we both enjoyed it we can't always do it so regularly at the moment. This month we hardly BD'd as work has been insane and I've been ill, so I highly doubt I'm pg, but AF hasn't reared her ugly head yet, so I guess its not over till then. Still, these cramps are all too familiar!
I've invested in a Clear Blue Fertility Monitor and its sitting in its packaging waiting for AF to arrive so that I can start using it. I've heard good things about it but I'm not pinning all my hope on that guaranteeing that we will conceive. Because I've never really gotten a proper positive OPK and I don't know IF I'm even O'ing I'm just looking forward to seeing if I even reach high let alone peak fertility.
Didn't I say at the start of this post that I wasn't going to ramble?
I apologise for babbling and thank you for reading this, its great to be here! Baby dust to all of you
xoxo
