TTC 1st child 35+ (Please spoiler any PG news/announcements).

[lavalux]

Padbrat, I am praying furiously for you and your little pink bean.

Also, Ginger .... I will miss you but please lurk away and take as much of a break as you need.

FM,
Have a wonderful time in San Fransisco. Hope you'll have some exciting news to share when you get back.

Skye,
You are in my favorite city! So jealous! Have a wonderful time and hope the trip back is ok.

HA,
Good luck with your third round of company and that basement!

Good to meet you McWooley and newmarried gal!

Chris,
That was a very kind and wise message that you posted yesterday about our purpose here. Well said and so sweet! You will have your baby to hold soon and we all will.

Butterfly,
Love your pic.

Baby4MJ,
Big hugs to you! I really wish I could give you a big hug in person! I know what you are going through - each of us experience this journey differently but I can relate to the feeling of despondency and desperation and wanting to jump off the rollercoaster ride. You've got us though so please don't give up!

MA,
I will be thinking of you on Friday and saying lots of prayers.

Great scan, Lynn!

Carole,
When is your egg retrieval again! Way to go with all those juicy eggs!

Dwgri,
Sounds like you've been doing lots of soul searching. I know that you will make the right decision for you. We will be here to support you the entire way!

Hugs to Never, Twinkle, bblve, Missy, Luv, and anyone that I may have missed!!!

Today is my 1st Wedding Anniversary and DH & I are going to the same restaurant that we went to with family and friends after our blessing service last year. I can't believe how time flies, but some days & weeks (especially during TTC or waiting for blood test results) can seem to drag on. I truly don't know what I would have done without you girls. Love you!

 

[lynnb]

Lava - Happy 1st Anniversary. Hope you have a nice meal & great night with DH

 

[onmymind17]

Hi girls! I hope everyone had a great weekend.

I just wanted to pop in and say I'm going into lurking for awhile. I've noticed not wanting to write much lately and realized it's not because I don't want to keep updated with you all but that my mind set just isn't in the right place and hasn't been for awhile now. I think I'm a little burnt out and just need a break from the daily thoughts of babies. I know I need to really get back on track for IVF in august so I just want to really focus on other things in the mean time.

I will definatley be looking in to keep updated on skye, padbrat, lynn & lava during their new pregnancies & still sending lots of sticky dust for those precious little beans!!

And the rest I will be sending all the baby dust in the world hoping that when I come back there will be loads of new beans!!!

Love to all you lovely ladies & baby4mj don't ever feel bad for a selfish post..we all need it from time to time.

Honey you take all the time you need, i totaly understand needing to step back for a while, we will be here waiting with open arms when you come back!!

 

[onmymind17]

Thanks McWoolley for adding the banner!

Take as much time away as you need Ginger, we will all be here for you when you get back x

Just a lil update ladies..

Had a big red bleed this morning, no pain as yet. Am back for another scan tomorrow.... this is not looking good..

Big hugs and prayers that all is well with your little one!!!

 

[Neversaynever]

Lava, congrats on your first anniversay

Padbrat honey and I'm hoping that your little bean is going to stop making you so worried and you have a good scan tomorrow

Ginger, hugs and take care and all the time you need. We will still be here

Macwooly

to everyone,

AFM, said good morning to the witch and had a bit of an emotional evening last night so I'll probably be just reading and popping in for quick bits an staying in my journal for my sanity for the time being

Love, hugs and to everyone

XxX

 

[onmymind17]

Lava, congrats on your first anniversay

Padbrat honey and I'm hoping that your little bean is going to stop making you so worried and you have a good scan tomorrow

Ginger, hugs and take care and all the time you need. We will still be here

Macwooly

to everyone,

AFM, said good morning to the witch and had a bit of an emotional evening last night so I'll probably be just reading and popping in for quick bits an staying in my journal for my sanity for the time being

Love, hugs and to everyone

XxX

Big to you i am so sorry the showed!!!

 

[Dwrgi]

Just a quickie, although I'm sending love and hugs to you all!

Padbrat, please try not to worry-I know it must be hard. I'm thinking of you and sending you THE most enormous hug and best wishes that all will be well with you and your little pink bean, and that the scan goes well tomorrow! Why do we always have to wait-why can't we be scanned NOW????!

Ginger-I understand completely. We will miss you! Remember that I too am due to start IVF in August so we can be IVF buddies together! When you're ready, you know where we are! Enjoy your time away, and loads of love.

Lava-happy anniversary hun! What a marvellous way to celebrate it too, with your new PG!! Have a lovely evening!

Lynn-thanks for your flower! I need it, with THE most painful of period pain this evening. God, I DESPISE the witch. Hope you're okay? xx

Never-thinking of you. I too have been emotional last few days-just all so unfair, isn't it?? We will get through it I promise you. Lots of love and hugs to you!

And big to all the marvellous ladies on here.

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P.S. I have just proved to myself that I don't do quickies. Ooooo-er Missus.

 

[Dwrgi]

Well, I'm back. Just have a question and wonder whether anyone can shed some light. It's also quite yucky.

My period (grr) started today, and, as I have switched to pads (effort to improve cm-yuk), I noticed tonight, that my vaginal area is really sore, and also I have really bad period pain (as usual), but the thing that's got me, and I've never seen before, is that I passed a really thick mucousy clump of congealed dark red blood, like one huge enormous clot. It was about an inch thick. Is this normal?? I have passed small clumps before but nothing like this.

Answers on a postcard please! If I have offended anyone, I'm sorry.
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[CheshirePanda]

Ok, sorry to be graphic, but was it like raw liver...kind of wibbly like hard-set jelly? I had this once years ago...i have no idea what it is but if this sounds like the same thing you're not the only one. I wasn't trying to conceive at the time (indeeed I suspect i was on the pill at the time if i remember rightly).

 

[newmarriedgal]

Hi Dwrgi....

Just wanted to pop in and say that it should be normal - i normally pass big clots - from the sizes ranging between an orange and a grapefruit...always congealed and clumpy. What I find that helps is tons of water - it thins out the big clots as sometimes when you are dehydrated it gets more clumpy.

hang in there and sorry it came today

b

 

[labrat44]

Padbrat, I'm praying for you! and fx!

 

[Neversaynever]

Dwrgi, it's normal! I had the same last cycle, mega heavy, mega painful and crampy, emotionally shot and passed what looked like a piece of raw liver. I researched it, rang Nhs direct and got in a right panic. Went to the GP and he said it was just the blood clotting and it is perfectly fine

I was scared sh*less

XxX

 

[onmymind17]

Dwrgi:

I have had that happen, its just a bigger clump of your lining that is comming out, i use pads all the time, for some reason tampons really bug me, so i guess i notice it more. And you need more fluids, the more water you drink the less clumps lol.

 

[Dwrgi]

Thank you everybody.... so glad it's 'normal'! It had me going for a while. More fluids for me, then!

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[Dwrgi]

If anybody else has had this situation, I found this question and answer on netdoctor.com. Frank blood indeed! x

Q: I am currently on my period and this morning I had a lump of jelly-like blood of considerable size (about two inches long by about half an inch wide) excrete itself with a lot of blood.

A: As far as the clots go, the size of these really depends on the rate of blood loss from the lining of the uterus, which is shed during a period and is the cause of the bleeding.

If the blood loss is very slow, the blood that appears is often dark and scanty with few obvious clots.

If there is a sudden significant blood loss, then either frank blood appears in liquid form, or blood collects in pockets before it appears and then comes out as a clot of blood.

These can look like black or dark jelly-like clots, that are shiny, or more granular brownish clots that can look like bits of liver or tissue.

These have a lot of fibrin (a substance that aids in blood clotting) in them.

In your case it sounds as if you are not losing blood at a consistent rate during the period.

When it is slow, you are hardly seeing anything, and then there is a more rapid loss and these clots appear.

If you are lying down quietly the blood clots sometimes may pool in the vagina and clot there, and when they do appear can be quite large.

I don't think you really need to worry about the occasional large clot. What would cause concern would be if you passed constant frequent large clots so that your total blood loss was more than usual.

If this should happen, it would be best to see your GP about it. However this change in your periods may settle down again without anything needing to be done.

 

[onmymind17]

Whoo hoo, look i got my pic up lol, now you know what me and my wonderful dh look like

 

[lavalux]

Yay! Love the picture, Chris! Adorable!

 

[bblve]

Whoo hoo, look i got my pic up lol, now you know what me and my wonderful dh look like

Beautiful!! - what a great picture! You two look so lovely.

 

[onmymind17]

Thanks so much ladies!!! Pretty good for a 43 year old lol, well actually in this pic i was 40!!

 

[Dwrgi]

Nice to see you at last OMM!! You look very happy together!
xx