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

[chickenchaser]

Thanks my lovely, He was supportive but I think he just hasn't got much faith in charting and said that there is no evidence that it works. And as I was using my charts as my evidence I think that it really didn't help. I did say I don't have 2 years but he seemed to think that women will have babies when they are ready and not before. But don't you worry if these test come back fine i will be back there within the year if nothing happens and if they aren't then we will go from there. I'm still waiting for AF that should have started yesterday with spotting and still no sign but if I did O this month is was late accourding to my OPK so I'm doing to give her till the weekend until I put myself through testing.

Thanks for your concern and I will be picking your brain when my results come back, big hugs. XXX CC

 

[LilSluz]

Chicken - Yeah, hurricanes are pretty (sometimes extremely) scary, even for us Floridians, so you must have been really freaked!!! Don't suppose you get too many of those in the UK . I'm going to have to tell my 25-yr old friend on a diff thread that 2 years is truly not the norm even for < 35. That's what they told her (so I assumed it was the youngin rule). Of course I told her not to wait that long anyway but now she'll know that's not the "rule of thumb". Just caught your post - excellent plan! (non-related I'm prob going to take a crystal & aromatherapy class tomorrow night ; still haven't gotten my moonstone yet as Crystal shop closed ).


GrkPorn - It is expensive & Omega 3's are too! What I do is hit CVS on its buy 1 get 1 free sales & get all of them then. Matter of fact, once you buy those you'll prob get a coupon for several dollars of or 20-30% off another non-sale product so yu can go rt back to the supp aisle & get anything else you need that's not on sale (I know pretty sad I've got a whole strategy down - lol). I'm pretty sure you can start CoQ10 at any time, but someone speak up if I'm wrong (hoping you don't need, of course!)

Moon - yeah, and the moon we are under now is the Blue Moon which started 8/16? or so (when everyone's charts seemed to go nuts). Next one isn't until July 2015 (once in a blue moon). It just feels good to blame it something bc can't be all of our faults, can it? EWCM - I was wondering if you had accidentally slipped on that one . Glad you didn't get the earthquakes! I went back & looked at those pages too & it looked like 65-70% got pregs/babies. That is encouraging, thanks for pointing that out!

Asry - how you doing honey? How's house hunting?

Purps - have a fab day darlin'!!!

DrH - how's our world traveler doing? Where are you in your cycle? Btw, I never caught what kind of Dr you are (but don't say if too personal a question).

Dashka - hope you are having a great day & not stressing too much about upcoming events . Ommmmmm.... Ommmmmm... ~~~~~~

Dwrgi - if lurking,

Big to all of you fine, wonderful, strong, beautiful ladies on TTC #1, >35!!!! To all in 2WW, sending Blue Moon fairy baby your way!!!

My temps are pretty low this month, having major swings (99.5 during day) & my boobs aren't even big or sore at all - on 90mg suppositories. And I so look fwd to the "big" part being that I suffer from smallboobitis (of course, it's all relative tho ). Oh well, whatevs. DH's bday today, so going to have surprise lunch party at work, dinner out w/family tonight & then for his present go to Orlando (next wknd as this wknd is a hols wknd - too packed) to ride some coasters, get adrenaline rushes & scream our heads off. Its a wonderful stress reliever, I highly recommend Have a lovely day everyone

 

[drhouse]

Hello,


Hiya lovely ladies just a quickie to say Hi......
Lils - moon's right -trauma and stress so hurricanes would bring on a higher fertility rate - it went up after 9/11 too.... Maybe BD as much as you can while its windy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm an Emergency Room Doctor!! Know a bit about most things!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy to help out in an emergency as Pad knows!!!

Am having a hideous two week wait. am thinking maybe pregnant or maybe psychotic or delusional... had tingly feet, wretching on multivits and tiredness but no real symtpoms of sore boobs or nausea or others... Am so worried and probably going to be SO gutted come monday - due sept 3.

RE on Sept 5, then on plane for six hours for work... yip... awesome!!!!!!!!!

Moon, Gkporn Dash you girls are inspirating me to get on the EWCM train - will be implementing your suggestions next cycle.

I miss dwrgi.

Chicken - good on you.. Six months get advice. Remember I saw a RE with a low blood test result not intending to try. He's got me on IVF after four months of NOT trying. So get the best opinion you can pay for.

Purps/asry - hope the bumps are good!!!!

All the rest of the lovely ladies... fx!!!

 

[LilSluz]

Chicken - You're going to find that some Dr's (almost always male) don't care about charts & would rather you do bloodwork, u/s, etc. That's all fine & dandy, but you can't do that every cycle. The OBGYN I went to at first said charts-shmarts & put me on Clomid bc my CD21 tests didn't show I O'd. Well, I was new at this so didn;t have a clue about anything & he didn't bother to ask me how long my cycle was; he just assumed women are all a perfect 28 - 30 days (& he's an OBGYN!). Well, I don't O until CD21, so of course my prog is going to be low! . So he gave me Clomid assuming I didn't O & told me dtd CD10-18. Um, Ov on CD21, here AND Clomid just dried up all of my EWCM (which he also didn't tell me could be a side effect). I had to find out from google that all of this was totally wrong for 5-wk cycles & then w/o good EWCM, I'd basically have to hit it on the mark - within a few hrs of O, who can do that?! So, I very reluctantly began charting & ever since, "by some miracle" I have O'd every month (& of course figured out when I really O). So, I wasted 7-8 months of very precious higher fertility time w/him!!!

We've got tons of ladies on this site who have discovered issues based on their charts, too (repeat annovulation, thyroid, PCOS, prog deficiencies, estrogen probs, egg quality probs from too short or long of cycles, etc). Of course you have to listen to the Dr., but as DrH I'm sure can attest, they can't know everything & some are better than others, so listen to your own inner voice, too. And of course, you can bounce stuff off of all of us (& espec the lovely DrH) too!

 

[dashka]

Hi Ladies!

Chicken - i agree - please don't wait too long to see a specialist... Time is so precious and I hope you get answers soon... re: hot flashes - have you had your thyroid checked? GL with the testing and AF stay away!

Lils - thx hun you are awesome at giving advice - ever thought of becoming a counsellor? This has been a weird month for everyone - cool about the blue moon though... perhaps it will bring someone here a BFP ?? Maybe you are ov twice this month? It's totally possible... Saw you Bd'd a few days ago just in case - Crystal and Aromatherapy class sounds awesome! And "smallboob-itis" - LOL you are so funny chick.... funny I'm not feeling the same in the bb area too this month that I usually have (mind you I'm only 6DPO)....maybe the blue moon has some power over our bb's!!
Have a great time at DH's b-day!! and Orlando sounds fun.... I use to love rollercoasters when I was younger - but now I'm getting older and am more afraid of death - so get really stressed and don't go on.... (so has opposite effect on me!)

Dr H- GL on having just the 1 job now - hope it takes some stress off - although can't imagine working in an emergency room - Gosh that has to be one of the most stressful jobs!! Hope AF stays away and GL testing and GL at RE next week! (you've got a lot going on next week too!)

Dwrgi - if you're lurking....

Moon - think it was a good idea to sit it out this month... don't worry it will pass quickly!

Grkprn - chart looks good! Be careful with the supplements from Costco and Sam's Club - I find the quality is not the same. I tend to get mine from the health food store (less fillers, binding ingredients etc) Also please always get a high quality Omega 3 (fish oils have to be strictly purity tested and pharmaceutical grade) You don't want heavy metal contaminments like mercury...Remember takes 3 months for egg quality (or sperm) to improve... BTW -I don't think you need to wait for AF to come to start the CoQ10... (but you need to wait for EPO as that is from AF -to -ov...only) GL!!!

Purps and Asry !!

Hello to everyone I didn't mention (keeping it down to those who post since my last post)....

AFM - feeling a bit calmer today... Have a pre-screening phone interview tomorrow afternoon and then if I'm interested will go for actual interview next Wed. We'll see how it goes. I really want to do IVF and part of me knows that if I were to go for this job -IVF would definitely be pushed aside for a while and perhaps may have to start with another doc that is up in that town. Which would mean starting tests over. (here I am getting ahead of myself again) Next week AD starts nursery school on Thursdays and Fridays - to add stress to the mix - we'll see how she handles it - it is her first time away from parents/grandparents for the whole day.
Breathe in ..... breathe out........

Love and hugs to everyone!!

 

[padbrat]

DrH... just wanted to publicly say thank you! I went to see another GP at the practice and she was fab! I told her how worried I was about my thyroid and all the symptoms it was giving me... and also how concerned I was on its effects on TTC and pregnancy.

She agreed absolutely and was shocked I had not been referred to a specialist yet... so she is referring me, she is also referring me to a gynae after she saw I had 6 losses in a row and no surviving children... I was so relieved... a GP who believed me!

I also asked her about my 21 day test result and she said it was low... then she asked if AF had come and I said no... so she said the result is useless as it is more or less designed for those that AF on 28 days or so... as I am now on CD thirty... whatever it was meaningless for me.

She then asked if I was pregnant....

hmmmm must test tomorrow I guess lol...

Sorry it is a quick me one... but just wanted to say YAY!

 

[padbrat]

Hmmm just checked FF.... CD 38 for me...

 

[dashka]

Pad - WOW!!!! CD 38!! test test!!!!
I am SOOO glad you went to another doc who is referring you and gets your urgency on the matter.... you must feel a bit better...

 

[moondust7]

Hi everyone! Happy Thursday!! It's almost the weekend!

Grkprn - I looked at my bottle of EPO this morning, and they were 1000mg capsules... so what I said in my last post was wrong!! I need 2000mg to notice a difference in EWCM. One month I just took 1 pill a day (1000mg) and I didn't notice any difference. But as soon as I upped it to 2 (2000mg), I saw a big increase. And ya, the CoQ10 is expensive!! I did get my bottle at Costco. I didn't research which brand was the best (Dashka might have more insight), so I'm sure some are better, but I'm happy with what I got, at least for the first month Fx that you don't get AF!!

Asryellah, Purplelou, Chicken, PadBrat - hi ladies!

LilSluz - oooo your crystal & aromtherapy class sounds so fun!! Let us know how it goes!! Thanks for the tip on CVS! RiteAid has buy one get one free deals for vitamins too. I'm always on the watch for those, so it's good to know that I should check CVS too if I'm near one!! BTW when you said "EWCM - I was wondering if you had accidentally slipped on that one" hahahahahaha oh you totally cracked me up. Have a blast at the amusement parks!! My DH and I are planning on going to the Universal Studios in LA tomorrow!! Woo hoooooo!!!

DrHouse - FX for you!! If you do start green tea, whole milk and/or EPO next cycle, let us know what you think!!

Dashka - good luck with the pre-interview, and interview if you go! Make sure you definitely do what is most important and best for you... it's so hard balancing work and personal life. I wish it were easier! But I'm sure that whatever choice you make will be the right one. Best of luck, and like you're doing, make sure to take plenty of deep breaths!!

Man, it sounds like so many of you could get BFP's this month with the symptoms and late AF's!!! and hoping for all of you!!

AFM - I'm taking Friday off of work, and Monday is Labor Day (federal holiday) so I am really, really looking forward to the 4-day weekend! I can really use the time off!! I just wish it were longer....

 

[owl35]

lil - yay for roller coasters!! That's awesome and I'm jealous

drhouse - fingers crossed for a bfp!

dash - good luck for your interview!

pad -

Asry, Purps, Chicken, Miri

moon - hm, you put a nice thought in my head with taking tomorrow off for a 4 day weekend. That sounds nice. I think I will ask my boss if I can work from home after my iui tomorrow...

afm, cd13 today and I had iui this morning and again tomorrow morning

I miss dwrgi

 

[chickenchaser]

Thank you ladies, you are awesome. I am a great believer in everything happens for a reason (I have probably said that before) but I will fight as much as I can with Mother Nature to have a child and if I can go up against her I can fight my GP. But I really appreciate all your support and advice.

Lils a crystal & aromatherapy class together!!! I haven't heard of that before, how fab you will be so chilled afterwards. Do you also do aromatherapy? I trained about 8 years ago as well as doing reflexology and head massage. I would like to go and do Reiki as well but I have spent so long on my 'conventional studies' I just haven't had time.

Dash good luck tomorrow. Will be sending Positive thoughts your way.

Pad - TEST!!!!!!!!!

Love and hugs to all XXX

 

[Butterfly67]

Pad, great news on the new doc

And yes, I agree, although who knows what is going on as you have given up the temping

 

[nessaw]

am out-af got me this morning. not before i had a swim tho

have worked out the smileys!!

phoned qbout my referral.although i called 4 wks ago and it shd take 4 wks,they didn't send the letter til the following wk so no point calling til then.pantaloons!

anyhoo.best of luck to all u lovely ladies.

happy friday.vx

 

[drhouse]

Hiya lovelies...

Just got home from date night - super - got home late from work and managed to salvage it by paying for the cab rather than public transport!!!

Nice steak, fancy....

Chicken you all good!!!
Lils - reiki/aromatherapy vibes for pregnancy
Neesaw - sorry about the pantaloons/GP not doing the needful and general feeling of pants caused by AF.
Owl enjoy four unadultered days of late morning bd and lazy breakfasts.. leave is wonderful!!!
Pad my god i never knew you hadn't seen an RE.. Girls if ever one has three miscarriages in a row, is right to the RE you go!!!! te he he he..... So pleased I could be of help and support.... so pleased the C21 is irrelevant!!!!! Woo hooo.... Thyroid fix = next preg...if not already... wink wink... you will have to test at some point!!!!!! Not sure how to get a pink one is that bding early???

Trust me girls.. you are becoming experts in your health... get the test results, keep photocopies of your scans... ask if I can help I will or at least assist you find proper not dr google resources...

Dash luck luck luck for your job... this may be the change you have been looking for...............

 

[dashka]

Hi Ladies! happy Friday!!

Owl - yay - hope both your IUI's went well!! Now take it easy this weekend for sure.

Chicken - you go girl!!!

Nessaw - Sorry AF got you - that nasty witch... Glad you got a swim though... Take it easy this weekend GL on getting that referral soon!

Moon - have a great 4-day weekend....

Dr. H - glad you had a nice date night.... Have to start doing those..
take it easy and enjoy weekend....(do you work weekends??)

Hello and hugs to everyone and wishing everyone who has Monday off -a great long weekend!

AFM - Monday is holiday -Labour Day here - so will go to parent's cottage Sat/Sun at least and then do some house chores on Monday. Have phone interview today - but I think unless it goes SUPER well and I get an amazing feeling about it that I'm not making the switch... My heart is telling me I need to keep on track with my current RE and possible IVF soon. Funny thing yesterday a girl from another dep't (who I don't even know very well) confided in me that she had both her kids via IVF and she had the same RE do IVF for her first one... she had good things to say... She had tried for about 10 years too and did IUIs with no sucess... but got lucky with IVF/with ICSI.

So we'll see how it goes....

 

[chickenchaser]

Dash that is a good Omen, I think your gardian angel sent her to give you faith, Big hugs hun. XXX and follow your heart it knows best. XXX

 

[chickenchaser]

You girls are fab - I just wanted to let you know.

 

[LilSluz]

DrH &#8211; Ugh, I hate when BNB eats posts! A lot of times, I now type it in Word just for that reason, as we can sometimes put a lot of time onto those! Had no idea trauma & stress gave you high fertility rates?! Wow, I should be preg by now&#8230; So should you being an ER Dr (wow!)! Sorry you&#8217;re having a tough 2WW but I hope you are happy at the end of it! My AF is due Sept 5th so, we&#8217;ll either be together or . Thanks for the ~~~ - back at you!!! Btw, I just need to mention that it&#8217;s a pleasant surprise that as a Dr., you are open to alternative healing techniques & things that are perhaps not 100% scientifically proven. (PS will you be able to hold out until Mon or testing earlier?)


Dashka &#8211; Aw, thanks darlin . Ahhh, attack of the Blue Moon Boobies!!! Awwww, I do know a lot of people who have developed that fear also &#8211; seems to come in the late 30&#8217;s/early 40&#8217;s! DH starting ot get a &#8220;lil&#8221; sick feeling, but I&#8217;m afraid it is the beginning of the end&#8230; I&#8217;m going to have to stalk some 13-yr olds for coaster buddies! Btw, if your LP is usually 12DPO, we are both due on the same day Hoping she doesn&#8217;t come for us! PS &#8211; GL today!!!! and liking the calm in you Update &#8211; just caught latest post. WOW!!! I don&#8217;t believe in coincidences! Same RE, same 10-yrs TTC & she&#8217;s got 2!!! Oh boy, I&#8217;m saying my prayers & sending ~~~~ to you! Maybe things are starting to come together for you now &#8211; Oh I sure hope so!!!


Pad &#8211; YAY for new GP & someone who cares!!! Ugh, I just did a post to Chicken about a Dr that tested me CD21 when I didn&#8217;t even O until then &#8211; my point exactly Chicken! Btw, when you said prog was 20 & thought it was low, I figured we are on 2 diff systems. I wish we could all just agree on 1, it would make the world so much simpler! I don&#8217;t even care which one&#8230; Um, oh yeah


Moon &#8211; Ooooo, go enjoy Universal, yay!!! Do you guys have the sister-park &#8220;Islands of Adventure&#8221; too (w/Harry Potter land, Jurassic Park land, Superheroes, Dr Suess, etc)? That&#8217;s actually me fav. Enjoy your long weekend (PS &#8211; no pun intended on that EWCM comment !!!!) lol


Owl &#8211; Ooooooh, GL honey &#8211; keeping everything crossed & !!!! (Ps &#8211; maybe I should have said &#8220;Whoooooo&#8221; instead )


Chicken &#8211; Wow, chick, you have done the real classes & h! I&#8217;m just doing a short Intro bc I don&#8217;t know very much & want to add it into my reiki (which I don&#8217;t do professionally yet either). In-depth classes later&#8230; When you say conventional, are you studying medicine??? If so, at least all of that goes together very nicely &#8230; Not sure I can work my reiki knowledge into my Accounting & Tax job (other than just having it help me relax & foucs, which it does in a most excellent way - & giving me a healthy hobby/outlet). Do you practice massage now? You wanna come over?


BF &#8211; hey honey, I hope you are doing well!!! Was thinking about you this morning as I tried another short yoga core-strengthening program. I have to strengthen my back & abs, no more dilly-dallying around! Hope yours is doing well - Big

Dwrgi &#8211; We all miss you so much!!!! Sending Florida sunshine your way


Ness &#8211; Aw, honey! I&#8217;m so sorry the stupid pimply hag came for you. . I hope your referral comes soon & good job on the smileys


Purps &#8211; You must be really busy at work today, so hope you&#8217;re getting off soon & can enjoy a nice, relaxing weekend!


Tiger - if lurking


Fro -


Mirium &#8211; How you doing honey? What day is lap again &#8211; 9/8? Keeping FX this fixes everything!


GrkPorn &#8211; 11DPO, I hope you get good news on Monday too!


to everyone else &#8211; lurking & regulars!


AFM &#8211; I feel like this is my last bit of freedom before the gates of hell open next week at work But we have a nice 3-day weekend for Labor Day, as well, so very happy about that! Too bad I&#8217;m going to be spending my extra day off doing taxes . Oh well, tomorrow night I have &#8220;Girls&#8217; Night&#8221; w/, & scary movies til the wee hours of the morning &#8211; yay! Looks like August was a bust for us , so bring on September!!! A lot of us testing &/or AF due next week so it could get good, bad or ugly on us &#8211; c&#8217;mon fairy, just give us at least one sticky BFP (more preferably) - PLEASE!!! Have a wonderful, wonderful weekend everyone!!!

 

[LilSluz]

Oh Dash! I didn't entirely forget about this - I did some googling about intralipids delivery & here's place in Toronto area so you can call & find out pricing & see how much notice they need, etc...

https://www.bayshore.ca/locations/toronto-home-care.aspx

 

[dashka]

You girls are fab - I just wanted to let you know.

I agree you ALL are FAB!!!