I spoke to my consultant at the clinic yesterday. She said that DHEA, Royal Jelly and Omega 3 all good for improving egg quality. Luckily, got those covered, but, quite frankly, I need to get up half an hour earlier every morning to take all my vits and meds....! And I'm sure that I rattle!
Oh my goodness do I ever know what you mean! I DO rattle when I walk or move! I swear I do! I kind of laugh to think of me as a kid sneaking the vitamins into the toilet because I hated pills, and now I'm voluntarily taking a ton so that I can get pregnant!!
Had cramping all day yesterday and have had a bleed this morning so things are not looking good...again.
I already had this one quoted when I read your update, but I'm so glad the bleeding has stopped! I'm hoping and praying for you that the betas come back showing a happy healthy growing baby bean!
AFM,
Yesterday, we tried to do a 3D sonogram session but the boy has moved head down so that he & his sister are facing each other cheek-to-cheek. So no pictures of their little faces because they are blocking each other. We will get one more chance next week, but if no luck, we will have paid a non-refundable $175. I don't care though b/c they seem to be healthy. I am now having weekly apps with my OB doctor & twice-monthly appt with my specialist. So far, so good. DH is out of town for the rest of the week for work so it's me & the cats aka the "nutty buddies"
Glad to hear that the babies are healthy! I do hope they cooperate and give us ladies something to ogle over though!
Missyt,
The boy will be named William Alexander but we will call him Liam.
The girl will be named Lillian and we will call her Lily. Not sure yet about her middle name. We can't decide.
I love those names!!
Welcome Zoe!!
AFM, I updated my journal, but didn't have time to post here, so here's my update:
PHEWPH!!! Both results were good. In fact better then I expected!
My DH has 131mil sperm concentration with 59% of them with rapid progression (67% total progressive motility)! The prognosis for him is "good fertility potential" though in terms of normal vs abnormal sperm formation, he was on the low side of "good fertility potential". The OB didn't seem concerned about it though, it was just something we talked about after the meeting and getting a chance to look terms up in more detail/examples. So all in all amazing concentration and good motility.
For me, I have a subseptus uterus, BUT the OB says it's so slight that they actually consider it a normal variant and not something to be nervous about or that needs surgery. She described it as a dimple on my uterus rather then completely smooth. She said that based on how slight it was, it would not interfere with getting pregnant or growth of a baby in my uterus. She said I do have some cysts which were expected because of the pcos, but that they are small and inconsequential.
So overall she said there are no flags and that with these 2 tests done and showing pretty conclusively that all flags are green, that the fact I'm not ovulating is the fertility issue for us. So she stepped up the timeline!! If I don't get my period in 35 days I need to take a pregnancy test. If that shows negative, then she wants me to go ahead and kickstart my period and gave me a prescription for Clomid to take cd's 5-9! She also said that if my period comes naturally, then I can also go ahead and start the Clomid as well. At my previous appointment, she'd wanted to wait 4 months before taking the step to Clomid, but now, just a couple weeks later (one cycle) she feels that things are ready to move faster. So I'm really excited that things are moving ahead and that the results were good!
Oh and she was happy with my crosshairs on ff (based on temp, cm, and cbfm) as well even though neither of us are considering them the end-all be-all. BUT based on the high fertility of the cbfm and combining them with the crosshairs on ff, it's a good possibility that I did ovulate on the day or somewhere close to where ff says I did. So we'll see what happens. I'm even more hopeful about this cycle then I was at the start of it!! YAY!
Don't worry.. I'm not getting my hopes up too high, but even if I don't get pregnant this cycle, I still count all of this and forward progress and I know I'm getting just that much closer to being a mom.
