Sticking Together Until We All Get BFP's!!!!

[aidensmommy1]

Hi ladies! I am new to B&B and I thought I would share my story with you! I'm just gonna copy and paste from my introduction so I don't have to type it all again lol

Hello everyone,
I am new to B&B and thought I would share my story and let everyone know a little bit about me! I am 24, husband is 26. We have been TTC for 2 1/2 years now. I am a proud army wife last year in august I unexpectedly found out that I was pregnant. I was in shock because I didn't think for some reason that it would happen so easily (I've had troubles with my periods since high school) and being so active in sports I hardly had an AF. (I'm not over weight and do not have pcos) But for the first time ever in my life my periods became regular for 2 straight years! (Miracle!) and I was so happy to be pregnant! Having military's insurance is a blessing, but can be complicated; so by the time I had my first ultrasound I was 14 weeks! I just didn't feel like I was growing and I knew something was up! The technician put my little bean on the monitor and I didn't see the little flicker of a heartbeat. My sweet baby had passed away and was only measuring 8 weeks after everything was said and done, I knew I wanted to get right back in the saddle and try again! So here I am now still waiting on a little miracle to come into our lives. I recently had an ultrasound and blood work done and we discovered that I haven't been ovulating, but there are no cysts and doc says everything is good to give Chlomid a go! I am very excited to try this medicine and I hope it works! I've never been so nervous and excited for AF to show! I'm trying to stay calm so I don't delay her from coming but it's so hard!! Thanks everyone for reading my story!! I'm here if any of you need support or have went through anything that I have! Maybe I can find a first time Chlomid partner and we can do this together!!

welcome! I hope the clomid works wonders for u! It certainly helped Kenna have a good O when she took it!

I'm Mary btw. A little background...ive been ttc for a total of 2 yrs, u was NTNP for about a year and ive been actively trying (temping & opks & such) for 14 cycles now. Unfortunately, I found out my only tube is blocked on 3/31/14 and I'm now taking natural enzymes to try and clear up scar tissue and I just found some herbs ill be starting asap as well. FX 2014 brings lots of baby dust to all of us!

& I am so sorry for your loss. Its such a horrible thing. I wish you all the best with the clomid! Very exciting!

Thanks so much! Im so excited to get started! I noticed that on my blood work I was low in vitamin D. Doc said nothing about it but on further research on my part, I discovered low vitamin D can cause infertility and o problems! So I've decided to put myself on vitamin D supplements! Hopefully it will help baby dust to you!!!

vitamin D is definitely important! I think that's a very good choice on your part. The sun can help with ur vitamin D as well . Do you take prenatal vitamins? If not, its good to start taking those while ttc for better egg/overall health . I love the prenatal gummies, yum. Lol. FX June will be a lucky month for all of us!

Yep! I am taking a prenatal, I think I'm going to get the gummies! I always pass them up at the store and they look so good lol. I hope this is the month!!!

Be careful when taking the gummies. You have to take 2 gummies instead of one pill and the nutrients aren't as strong. I switched from the gummy prentals to the Nature Made prenatals and felt. Huge difference. Right now I'm giving these whole foods prenatals a try. I got them from my hubby's health insurance program.

I think I might be unexpectedly in the tww. I had those positive opk's on Tuesday and cramping before surgery on Wednesday. After entering in my temps of has me at 3dpo. We were able to do it twice Saturday, once Sunday, and once on Tuesday afternoon. I'm kind of hoping that some male sperm were up there when the eggy popped (team boy). Guess we shall see in about 12 days

FX! I soo hope u get ur bfp!!

And we are team boy as well . Well just like u guys, we'll be happy boy or girl but if we can try and choose, we'd choose a boy. Aiden wants us to have a girl though. I guess hes against us on team pink! Lol

I definitely want a boy first. My sil thinks that there won't be any girls in the family but I think there will be (mine). My hubby just wants a healthy baby and mommy lol.

After entering today's temp, ff and count down to pregnancy has me oing on Thursday instead of Wednesday like ovufriend. I'm getting kind of excited!

On another note, I had a dream last night about writing an ebook on fertility. I think I'm going to give it a shot lol. Just write down what I know about the baby making process.

I just started a little book on fertility too! Lol we think ALOT alike. I have been just starting out with a blog but ive also been writing it all, and some, in an journal book as well. I think it'll be good for us, just like blogging and we can help teach others things we have learned .

I too have the nature made pills for parental but although im out of my gummies, I will not take my pills! For me personally, they make me extremely nauseous!! Its horrible. If I could stomach them, id pick those tho. I do love the gummies as well, probably because when I started taking those, I was truly getting the affects from them since I wasn't sick from them and I actually didn't get a single cold or anything the entire time I took them. I deffo need to get to the store and buy some more asap. I keep getting colds since I stopped taking them.

Jess I sooooo hope ur O date is correct and u get ur June bfp! We have been talking about a June bfp for u for months and months! FX sooo tight!!

AFM, I went out and got my opks for the month and my hpts . Now im all ready to go! I already know I always O on Cd11 or 12 but what's ttc without opks at least sometimes! Lol FX so tight! I'm getting excited for the summer. Alot of docs who specialize in naturally unblocking tubes say the serrapeptase enzymes im on take 2-4 months and im on 2 months now so FX! I'm praying I get lucky before even needing my repeat hsg BUT if I do need the hsg, getting great results will certainly make me happy enough! I'm so happy my positive self is back! I was really stuck in a horrible depression. I felt horrible but thankfully, im feeling much more hopeful and happy . I'm glad to be back in the game!
TO YOU ALL!!!

 

[aidensmommy1]

I second Jess on the gummy prenatals thing. I **highly** recommend New Chapter Perfect Prenatals, purchase at a discount online or find at GNC. Now that I'm pregnant, I'm also taking New Chapter WholeMega Fish Oil. This stuff is really well made and absorbed by your body properly because it is made from whole food. The gummy prenatals have Vitamin A derived from animals which is NOT recommended in pregnancy. Atleast the ones I was taking did. So just keep an eye out for that. You want the Vitamin A derived from beta-carotene.

Daphne I hope you feel better soon. If you don't get preg this cycle (which I think you will), maybe ask for a second opinion on the Clomid. Sounds like a huge dosage but I don't know much about it. Good luck

the gummies I'm on dont have the vitamin A from animals. The ones I have are the same as nature made with the Vit A-100% beta carotene. As long as u read the gummy labels, there's good ones out there . My doc actually recommended them (with the vit A as beta carotene) because she said very many Prego women or women ttc dont do well with the pills due to feeling sick. I compared the nature made pills and my gummys before I bought them and the labels were practically identical (besides the fruity gummy stuff of course lol).

I have wanted to try the ones uve been mentioning but ive been afraid of feeling pukey from it. Did u ever take other pill form prenatals that made u feel sick before the ones ur on now? Jw if maybe they'd have a better affect on me than the nature made and the ones the doc originally prescribed.

 

[Jrepp]

It helps if you take prenatals with a bit of food at night instead of in the morning.

 

[Jrepp]

What a bitch!! I am sorry but I need to vent. My sister is being such a bitch! I didn't open the front door for her because my walker is all the way across the room and she pitched a fit. Then when I was holding my nephew she was telling me how to hold him and arguing when I told her that he just popped. Seriously I know that she has had a child already, but I have held and cared for more babies than she has her whole life. Seriously the first time she held a a baby was when my nephew was born.

At this point I'm over it. She isn't happy and she is trying to make everyone just as miserable as she is.

 

[chelsealynnb]

What a bitch!! I am sorry but I need to vent. My sister is being such a bitch! I didn't open the front door for her because my walker is all the way across the room and she pitched a fit. Then when I was holding my nephew she was telling me how to hold him and arguing when I told her that he just popped. Seriously I know that she has had a child already, but I have held and cared for more babies than she has her whole life. Seriously the first time she held a a baby was when my nephew was born.

At this point I'm over it. She isn't happy and she is trying to make everyone just as miserable as she is.

Wow! Doesn't that kind of stuff annoy the shit out of you?! Sorry you had to deal with that

 

[chelsealynnb]

So I felt my cervix this morning because it has been high, soft and closed since I O'd. Usually it goes to rock hard and low within 2 days of O'ing. Well this morning it was fairly hard so I figured it was on it's way to doing the norm, just a little late. So I just checked it again and it's high, very soft and closed again! Of course I googled it and I'm finding stuff that says a high, soft cervix indicates pregnancy. But I'm only 5DPO so it wouldn't have even implanted yet probably. What gives?

 

[Megamegan]

Chelsealynn, from what I understand, feeling cervical position and softness is not a reliable way to detect pregnancy. That's all I know, I stopped checking after a couple months because nothing ever made sense.

Mary- I'm SO glad you got the good gummies. That makes me happy. I did take the doctor prescribed prenatals for a few days, and they made me nauseous and gave me a metallic taste in my mouth. My current prenatals make me feel amazing, and I think they actually help stabilize my mood a little bit because they give me some energy. I'm sure yours are just fine, no need to switch if you're satisfied with them. I know no one could ever convince me to switch

 

[Fiza123]

Hello everyone..hope u all are doing fine..
Update- as i told before af started on cd 29 but it has stopped within 2 days..such a short af for 2 days..have never experienced before. Could it be a bfp soon or just a harmonal imbalance.. anyone faced this before???

 

[mdscpa]

Yes, too much can hypersrimulate the ovaries causing too many follicles to develop and release immauture eggs.

Thanks Jess. I have read a lot about it too and that raises my concern. She's planning to put me on clomid for just two cycles then she'll do different kind if we didn't conceive after 2 cycles. So we will just stick to whatever plan she prepared for us. I will also talk to my doctor in the Philippines about the additional dose my doc gave me and the current dosage i'm taking. I have read though from the link below that some fertility clinics do increase/extend taking the pills if women don't respond well to it.


"In the case of women who don’t ovulate reliably prior to the treatment, approximately 80% will ovulate if taking up to 3 pills per day. If there are no follicles larger than 10 mm at the first ultrasound (day 11-14), then we might have you initiate another 5 day course of Clomid or Tamoxifen at a higher dose right away without waiting for a period. In that case a repeat ultrasound will then be done one week later."

https://www.sjfert.com/index.php/infertility/treatment/clomid/


Me and DH can't BD last night nor this morning. I was just feeling soooooooooo exhausted because of having 2-day low blood pressure (hypotension). Hopefully I'll be alright tonight and make DH and ME (of course) have fun.....

 

[aidensmommy1]

What a bitch!! I am sorry but I need to vent. My sister is being such a bitch! I didn't open the front door for her because my walker is all the way across the room and she pitched a fit. Then when I was holding my nephew she was telling me how to hold him and arguing when I told her that he just popped. Seriously I know that she has had a child already, but I have held and cared for more babies than she has her whole life. Seriously the first time she held a a baby was when my nephew was born.

At this point I'm over it. She isn't happy and she is trying to make everyone just as miserable as she is.

wow, I'm at a loss for words. I'm sorry she treated you this way. Do you think she's going through post pardon depression? (idk if I spelt that right..) Its sad she has to act that way. And I bet you were holding ur nephew just fine! I can't wait to see pics of you and ur own baby around March next year FX!!!

 

[aidensmommy1]

It helps if you take prenatals with a bit of food at night instead of in the morning.

this was what I did, that way I could try and fall asleep before it kicked in lol but I even started waking up gagging. Even when I was pregnant with aiden I wasn't able to take the pill form so maybe its just the way my stomach acts to a certain ingredient in the pills...? I have no idea what it is! It stinks that I cant just order prenatals unless they're gummies. Alls my doc said was "we see this often. Try the gummies" lol. She didn't explain why I may feel sick from them. I'm going to have to ask, now uve got me thinking about why they affect me so oddly..hopefully she'll have an answer lol.

O in a few more days for me. I'm going to start opks today . FX for June!

 

[aidensmommy1]

Hello everyone..hope u all are doing fine..
Update- as i told before af started on cd 29 but it has stopped within 2 days..such a short af for 2 days..have never experienced before. Could it be a bfp soon or just a harmonal imbalance.. anyone faced this before???

have u tested at all since the bleeding stopped? If not, id def test on the 3rd-5th day from when the bleeding originally started and if no bfp, it was a probably a light/short AF but Id def test to see if ur on a new cycle or if you had IB and get ur bfp. FX for you!

 

[aidensmommy1]

Jess, how are u feeling? I'm following you on my wordpress acct now so everytime I log in, ur posts pop up for me . I'm getting more and more excited seeing how excited u are about this month! FX soo tight! I cant wait for ur tww to be over now!!! How soon are u going to start testing?

 

[mdscpa]

Still feeling dizzy and get nauseated sometime today. I just had a small bright red stain on my undies... I don't know what is happening. I hope i'm not yet ovulating as of yesterday's scan...

 

[Megamegan]

Hi all.

I'm gonna take a break from BnB, but I'll be checking this thread ONLY, every once in a while to see if anyone gets a BFP. Now that I'm pregnant, I'm freaking myself out, and seeing tons of people have chemicals and miscarriages all over the place, and I can't be thinking about all of that. I am just going to read my pregnancy books and journal on my computer (not online) for now, and enjoy these first few weeks. It's nice to go through early pregnancy with people but at the same time it can be heartbreaking and I just don't want to constantly be reminded of the possibilities. My mom told me I need to envision everything going perfectly inside my uterus and just look forward to the future as if everything will be fine.

I did take my last FRER today and the test line was darker than the control, and I woke up with really sore boobs, so I'm feeling great about all this and I have no reason to worry.

Best of luck to you ladies, YOU are my BnB family and I can't wait til you're all pregnant.

 

[mdscpa]

Jess, how are you doing? Been stalking at your chart so far so good. FX this is it for you. Just don't mind about what your sister said. I'm sure you know what you're doing maybe she's just being protective but have acted or said it the wrong way, or maybe we are too sensitive while TTC'ing.. I'm sure everything will be fine.

 

[mdscpa]

Hi all.

I'm gonna take a break from BnB, but I'll be checking this thread ONLY, every once in a while to see if anyone gets a BFP. Now that I'm pregnant, I'm freaking myself out, and seeing tons of people have chemicals and miscarriages all over the place, and I can't be thinking about all of that. I am just going to read my pregnancy books and journal on my computer (not online) for now, and enjoy these first few weeks. It's nice to go through early pregnancy with people but at the same time it can be heartbreaking and I just don't want to constantly be reminded of the possibilities. My mom told me I need to envision everything going perfectly inside my uterus and just look forward to the future as if everything will be fine.

I did take my last FRER today and the test line was darker than the control, and I woke up with really sore boobs, so I'm feeling great about all this and I have no reason to worry.

Best of luck to you ladies, YOU are my BnB family and I can't wait til you're all pregnant.

You'll be in my prayers Megan to have a happy and healthy 9 months. Take care of yourself. We will surely miss your posts in here. Missing you already

 

[Fiza123]

Did hpt., its a bfn
Going to see my doc today. Lets see what she says..i guess i need to get my harmones tested

 

[Jrepp]

Chelsealynn, from what I understand, feeling cervical position and softness is not a reliable way to detect pregnancy. That's all I know, I stopped checking after a couple months because nothing ever made sense.

Mary- I'm SO glad you got the good gummies. That makes me happy. I did take the doctor prescribed prenatals for a few days, and they made me nauseous and gave me a metallic taste in my mouth. My current prenatals make me feel amazing, and I think they actually help stabilize my mood a little bit because they give me some energy. I'm sure yours are just fine, no need to switch if you're satisfied with them. I know no one could ever convince me to switch

So I felt my cervix this morning because it has been high, soft and closed since I O'd. Usually it goes to rock hard and low within 2 days of O'ing. Well this morning it was fairly hard so I figured it was on it's way to doing the norm, just a little late. So I just checked it again and it's high, very soft and closed again! Of course I googled it and I'm finding stuff that says a high, soft cervix indicates pregnancy. But I'm only 5DPO so it wouldn't have even implanted yet probably. What gives?

When I was checking cervical position, my cervix went high and stayed high during pregnancy months. I only noticed it go soft and open after I had lost the baby and the bleeding was about to start.

Yes, too much can hypersrimulate the ovaries causing too many follicles to develop and release immauture eggs.

Thanks Jess. I have read a lot about it too and that raises my concern. She's planning to put me on clomid for just two cycles then she'll do different kind if we didn't conceive after 2 cycles. So we will just stick to whatever plan she prepared for us. I will also talk to my doctor in the Philippines about the additional dose my doc gave me and the current dosage i'm taking. I have read though from the link below that some fertility clinics do increase/extend taking the pills if women don't respond well to it.


"In the case of women who don’t ovulate reliably prior to the treatment, approximately 80% will ovulate if taking up to 3 pills per day. If there are no follicles larger than 10 mm at the first ultrasound (day 11-14), then we might have you initiate another 5 day course of Clomid or Tamoxifen at a higher dose right away without waiting for a period. In that case a repeat ultrasound will then be done one week later."

https://www.sjfert.com/index.php/infertility/treatment/clomid/


Me and DH can't BD last night nor this morning. I was just feeling soooooooooo exhausted because of having 2-day low blood pressure (hypotension). Hopefully I'll be alright tonight and make DH and ME (of course) have fun.....

Why was your blood pressure low? I don't quite understand what your doc is doing, but I hope you o soon and can get.a sticky pregnancy.

What a bitch!! I am sorry but I need to vent. My sister is being such a bitch! I didn't open the front door for her because my walker is all the way across the room and she pitched a fit. Then when I was holding my nephew she was telling me how to hold him and arguing when I told her that he just popped. Seriously I know that she has had a child already, but I have held and cared for more babies than she has her whole life. Seriously the first time she held a a baby was when my nephew was born.

At this point I'm over it. She isn't happy and she is trying to make everyone just as miserable as she is.

wow, I'm at a loss for words. I'm sorry she treated you this way. Do you think she's going through post pardon depression? (idk if I spelt that right..) Its sad she has to act that way. And I bet you were holding ur nephew just fine! I can't wait to see pics of you and ur own baby around March next year FX!!!

I don't know what's going on with her. She just found out that she doesn't qualify for fmla because she hasn't worked at the company she works for for a year and her maternity leave will be unpaid. I think she is stressing about that, but everytime she sees anyone she tries to pick a fight with them. Whatever......

It helps if you take prenatals with a bit of food at night instead of in the morning.

this was what I did, that way I could try and fall asleep before it kicked in lol but I even started waking up gagging. Even when I was pregnant with aiden I wasn't able to take the pill form so maybe its just the way my stomach acts to a certain ingredient in the pills...? I have no idea what it is! It stinks that I cant just order prenatals unless they're gummies. Alls my doc said was "we see this often. Try the gummies" lol. She didn't explain why I may feel sick from them. I'm going to have to ask, now uve got me thinking about why they affect me so oddly..hopefully she'll have an answer lol.

O in a few more days for me. I'm going to start opks today . FX for June!

My doc also said if taking the prenatals at night doesn't work you can take 2 flinstone vitamins and extra folic acid.

Jess, how are u feeling? I'm following you on my wordpress acct now so everytime I log in, ur posts pop up for me . I'm getting more and more excited seeing how excited u are about this month! FX soo tight! I cant wait for ur tww to be over now!!! How soon are u going to start testing?

I probably won't be testing until around the 20th or after. I don't really know yet.

Still feeling dizzy and get nauseated sometime today. I just had a small bright red stain on my undies... I don't know what is happening. I hope i'm not yet ovulating as of yesterday's scan...

Was the scan internal? The sonographer could have bumped your cervix causing some slight bleeding. I had some ovulation spotting once.

Hi all.

I'm gonna take a break from BnB, but I'll be checking this thread ONLY, every once in a while to see if anyone gets a BFP. Now that I'm pregnant, I'm freaking myself out, and seeing tons of people have chemicals and miscarriages all over the place, and I can't be thinking about all of that. I am just going to read my pregnancy books and journal on my computer (not online) for now, and enjoy these first few weeks. It's nice to go through early pregnancy with people but at the same time it can be heartbreaking and I just don't want to constantly be reminded of the possibilities. My mom told me I need to envision everything going perfectly inside my uterus and just look forward to the future as if everything will be fine.

I did take my last FRER today and the test line was darker than the control, and I woke up with really sore boobs, so I'm feeling great about all this and I have no reason to worry.

Best of luck to you ladies, YOU are my BnB family and I can't wait til you're all pregnant.

Good luck Megan.

Jess, how are you doing? Been stalking at your chart so far so good. FX this is it for you. Just don't mind about what your sister said. I'm sure you know what you're doing maybe she's just being protective but have acted or said it the wrong way, or maybe we are too sensitive while TTC'ing.. I'm sure everything will be fine.

I'm doing pretty good. Kind of wish time would speed up a bit. I'm not going to be symptom spotting lol, but I did have some minor cramping in my uterus last night and a little bit so far today. Not sure what it is but remain hopeful that it could be a good thing.

 

[aidensmommy1]

Megan, I think that's a good idea for u, although we will miss you. But as I was saying to Kenna, when my bfp comes, ill be on this thread ONLY because the first trimester boards are ESPECIALLY scary!! And just hearing others talk. I think ull be just fine. With my chemical, my test never got quite as dark as the pic u posted yesterday. I bet ur sticky bean is nice and comfy in there. I wish u a very very happy and healthy 9 months! And I agree with ur mother, when I was pregnant, I just imagined a perfectly healthy baby the WHOLE time and just enjoyed myself but of course took care of myself extra well. Stressing wont do anything but potentially cause harm so trying to stay as stress free as possible is def the best idea! . I cant wait.to be joining you!! This is still so unreal, just because ur one of the originals on here, its so amazing one of us finally got our bfp!! I bet we'll all be joining you well before 2014 ends! FX!!!!