MAY we all be blessed with baby! May 2013 and beyond (BFFs Seeking BFPs)

[newbie2013]

Merry Christmas to all of you, my dear friends. Enjoy spending time with your loved ones!

 

[momwithbabies]

Thank you, Newbie. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas, as well.

Happy holidays to everyone. I'm sitting here at CD 1. I hope this coming year is a great one for us all.

 

[Hopeful2014]

@ClandestineTX I understand about going into the office. I like to be productive and usually have some project I'm working on. I also love to relax. That can be harder at times. We actually did a large house clean today after my niece was over.

@ProfWife I would have such great ideas that would get me so excited when I was teaching. I loved implementing them, but the stress of some students and colleagues did take it out of me too. Enjoy your break!!

@newbie2013 Being vice principal is quite an accomplishment! I wonder if I would have enjoyed teaching elementary school more than high school. There are pros and cons to each. I'm glad your insurance will cover the pregnancy and birth. I'd make a list of questions and just read them off in the meeting. I made a list of questions for the specialist visit and scribbled down notes as we talked so I could look at it all later.

@melann13 Congratulations! 2014 was an amazing year for you. I hope 2015 brings more happiness and success.

@momwithbabies I'm sorry about CD 1. I hope 2015 brings us all happiness, health, success, and babies!



AFM I'm not quite sure what's going on this cycle. I'm CD 21 and still in pre-o range temps. I had a stressful day a day or two before usual ovulation so I assumed it would be delayed a day or so, but it's still not here according to temps. It might have been today? I don't know. We had good timing and will continue. I'll see what happens.

 

[ProfWife]

About to get cleaned up to head to my family's Christmas celebrations.

Merry Christmas to all!!

 

[Lazydaisys]

Hope everybody had a good Christmas. Hoping for a good new year!!!

 

[newbie2013]

Hoping for a GREAT new year, LD.

Bought some grapefruit juice, going to look for Robitussin Tomorrow (not sure I can get it), dug through my drawer and found my "sperm friendly" lub. I'm going to try these tricks before seeing the doc to plan the iui... bring on new years eve bding

 

[pathos]

happy new year! Looking forward to hear/read 2015 bfp announcements

 

[ProfWife]

Rang in the new year with hope last night...af arrived this morning. Happy New Year.

Calling tomorrow to start protocol for my first medicated cycle and trying to schedule with the re to discuss if we should do medicated +timed intercourse or if we should go to iui this cycle or if we need to consider ivf as the issues seem to be totally on my side.

 

[Lazydaisys]

Lots to think about prowife. I'm torn about iuis. They seem to have low success rates, although work for some people. I attempted four last year. 2 were bfn and two had to be canceled which was really frustrating.They get cancelled quite easily, too many folicles, not enough folicles, lining too thin.
I found the medication I took (clomid) made my lining thin and the extra oestrogen I took thicken my lining squashed my ovulation process and folicles stopped growing.

I'm glad I did the iuis as by the time I started ivf they knew what drugs didn't work for me (gonal f and clomid). The procedure is similar to having an embryo transferred.

This cycle I'm attempting to transfer a frozen 5 day blastocyst. I'm just waiting on my lining getting a bit thicker and I hope to transfer in the next two weeks. I'm not sure how much more trying I can cope with so I'm just taking each cycle as it comes.

Best of luck to everybody still waiting. X

 

[Hopeful2014]

@Lazydaisys I really hope we all have a great new year with many blessings and happiness. I'm sending you luck for the FET!

@newbie2013 That's a good idea. Here are some ideas I've heard about before: drinking more water, increasing exercise (for circulation), making sure you're getting enough fatty acids (omega 3, 6, 9), making sure you are getting enough Vitamin C, stopping smoking, slowing down on caffeine, evening primrose oil, L-Arginine, Pre-Seed, and Robitussin. I don't know about all of those suggestions, but I thought I'd mention them. Here's to bding in the new year and many BFPs!

@ProfWife I hope 2015 is our year. I hope you get good advice from the RE and that you are on your way to a BFP.


AFM Ovulation was later than usual this cycle, but it finally came. I expect af early next week, although it would be nice if she didn't come. Fingers crossed for all of us!

 

[newbie2013]

Thanks hopeful. I'm doing (or not doing) pretty much everything on your list. I even went swimming the other day and had planned to continue daily but the air temp dropped too much!

Question, though - how do you get pressed to the... right place? (may require too much info!!)

 

[ProfWife]

@Newbie - most of my packages came with vaginal insert tubes. You fill the little applicator tube with as much as you need (I think I only ever used 1.5 or 2 mL), insert the applicator like you would a tampon and push the plunger to put it up near the cervix. You can insert it beforehand (but I haven't done it very long before as it can get a little runny when warmed up).

(https://www.preseed.com/How-Pre-See...th-Pre-Seed-Fertility-Friendly-Lubricant.aspx)

Unless I'm having an unusually dry month, we usually just use it for lubrication though.

 

[newbie2013]

Thanks Profwife. Mine Isn't preseed but a similar one - can't get preseed here. No tubes we'll do what we can! I've been drinking so muh water and grapefruit juice (I don't even make a funny face when drinking it now!!!).

Doc appointment tomorrow git my long list of questions! Hopefully will have some answers soon.

Hope you're all having a great start to 2015. I've still got this week off before going back to work - going to be busy with one teacher reassigned in December, one not coming back yet due to illness and another one I suspect won't come back after the winter break... (sigh)

 

[ClandestineTX]

I'm already back at work, CD 5 of some absurd cycle number...

 

[newbie2013]

I've stopped counting cycles as well. I did long ago. I saw my doc again on cd14 and he confirmed by ultrasound that I ovulated within the preceding 48 hours, which Is good, but that my cm q's definitely not good quality. Considering plans for iui in the next couple of months.

 

[ProfWife]

Hey everyone. Just had a consult with the RE.

He advised that we go with medicated cycles, timed intercourse for the next 3-4 months. If that doesn't work, he wants me to repeat the HSG to make sure there's no blockages or polyps because I've had several weird cycles lately. If all is clear, he may recommend medication for additional cycles or put us straight to IVF.

I'm not too thrilled about ivf being the "next" step, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Right now, it's Letrozole and Ovidrel. (Shudders...I HATE needles!)

I'm okay overall. Just praying the doctor is right and that it's just ovulatory dysfunction that is keeping us from pregnancy rather than something else.

 

[ClandestineTX]

Ovulation issues are largely easy to fix, so FX for you!

 

[ProfWife]

I'm hoping. Doc still seemed optimistic. He's convinced this is our year. (I'm just hoping I don't hit another major milestone before getting pregnant... this stc stuff is for the birds!)

 

[ClandestineTX]

Small, shitty birds at that! Not awesome ladies who would make awesome mamas!

 

[ProfWife]

LOL - Agreed! :-D