TTC after loss - over 40 - any takers? Our lucky thread - 9 rainbows and 1 BFP

[Oasis717]

Thanks Fi hope you're having an amazing time xxxxxxxxx

 

[crysshae]

Lisa--my due date is February 18th. I am 12w5d. I don't know how to do a ticker?!?

Click on a ticker you like. It will take you to the site. Put in your dates and copy the code into your signature.

 

[dancareoi]

Jenn, follow crystal's advice about ticker. Mine are done on lilypie.com and it tells you how to do it and add onto a signature too.

Kim, welcome to our group, wow to reading whole thread, that must have taken all day. This time last year I was pg with number 4 with about 5 weeks to go, she will be 1 in 3 weeks time!

Sorry about your losses, but now you have a diagnosis of what the problem is, hopefully this will give you a sticky beAn.

I didn't have any obvious problems, but used progesterone and clexane up until 28 weeks.

I also had acupuncture and was advised by him to eat proper butter from grass fed cows, so I switched to Kerry gold.

He also told me to eat spinach, kale, brocolli, beetroot, at least 2 eggs a day and good pieces of steAk, not overcooked. All this was to help my blood quality.

Becks, I won't say don't worry because you are PARL, worrying is what that means, you know that from being PARL before.

As you know all pg are different, so try not to think too much about that. I didn't really have any symptoms with Caitlin and didnt start sickness until about 8-9 weeks. I used to get up every morning and worry why I wasn't feeling sick!

Sending big hugs your way xx

 

[Oasis717]

Thank you Lisa I don't know what I'd do without you ladies to turn to, I did another ic tonight and it was slightly darker again so slowly but surely with these ICS I seem to be going the right way and not fading away, I was concentrating so much on trying to get pregnant I'd forgotten just how scary the after bfp is xxxxxxx

 

[dancareoi]

Getting pg is the easy part compared to parl and 9 months of worrying!

I know we have people we can talk to in our lives, but sometimes its easier to come on here where we can say exactly how we feel, where everyone here also knows exactly how we feel

 

[Oasis717]

Definitely, I'm glad I've got you all, I prob should stop temping, its dropped today and everything I've read said you shouldn't keep temping after bfp but with Brooklyn it just climbed and climbed at first not dropped xxxx

 

[Alien73]

Jenn, follow crystal's advice about ticker. Mine are done on lilypie.com and it tells you how to do it and add onto a signature too.

Kim, welcome to our group, wow to reading whole thread, that must have taken all day. This time last year I was pg with number 4 with about 5 weeks to go, she will be 1 in 3 weeks time!

Sorry about your losses, but now you have a diagnosis of what the problem is, hopefully this will give you a sticky beAn.

I didn't have any obvious problems, but used progesterone and clexane up until 28 weeks.

I also had acupuncture and was advised by him to eat proper butter from grass fed cows, so I switched to Kerry gold.

He also told me to eat spinach, kale, brocolli, beetroot, at least 2 eggs a day and good pieces of steAk, not overcooked. All this was to help my blood quality.

Lol, it took me over a week, with some reading every day. I had initially just read the last couple of pages, so I knew several of you got your rainbows, and then started to read from the very beginning, so it was amazing to see all your journeys and how you got to where you are today.

I am following Paleo/Primal pretty much, so indeed grass fed steak, butter and plenty of eggs; I just have some issues getting organic greens where I live, so I feel I am a bit short on those. When I switched to this diet first time last year, I actually fell pregnant about 1 month into it - and we weren't careful one single time (we def weren't ttc back then). Good to hear this worked for you as well, so maybe it wasn't a coincidence after all…I also started acupuncture prior to last month's IVF and actually have an appointment tonight; I love it, it really relaxes me, unless the Dr wants me to feel more energetic, so sometimes after the session I have this crazy need to walk for at least half an hour to release the energy, so I really think it works to some extend

What time into the pregnancy did you start the Clexane? In the IVF cycle they started me 12 hours after embryo transfer, so i am wondering if I should mirror this in a natural cycle by starting day 5, or right after ovulation as without the transfer procedure, no risk of bleeding …


Good to hear the line get darker slowly but surely Becks!!! I got some supposedly 10mlU ICs as well, but they are green handled, so I was wondering if they didn't get me 25 mlU ones instead…. anyways, they are waiting for some serious POAS for this month, lol.

 

[Oasis717]

Thank you, I'm not a fan of ICS I've had some dubious "positives" with them which of course were false! I'm not sure why I'm still using them as they are just making me panic! Did one this morning at 7, same line as yest then just did another and stark white, ive only got a couple left thinking I might chuck them, just read Robin Williams is dead, can't believe it xxxx

 

[crysshae]

Yeah, we started hearing about his passing yesterday evening. So sad.

I think that batch of ICs you have must not be good at all. At least you know you had a positive on the other tests. I think I would be going crazy and have to go into town early. Lol.

 

[Oasis717]

Its terrible I started watching him way back in the Mork and Mindy days! Bless him, I thought he was genius xxxxx
I had all stark whites in the ICS til about fri/sat when there were shadows, I must of done about 20 since sun lol, all with a faint line getting ever so slightly darker apart from that blank one this morning and this was a new batch from a new seller, I have two left and once they're gone that's it! Never again lol, I know the wait from Sunday has been torture! I wish I hadn't done one of the two pack on Saturday, funny how that was a BFN then the next day a positive, I am so wondering what it would look like now! Xxxx

 

[crysshae]

I watched Mork and Mindy too. Love that show!

I hope it's nice and dark tomorrow.

 

[Oasis717]

It was great wasn't it! Dh had never heard of it lol only times like that am I reminded of the age difference! I hope it is too roll on tomorrow xxx

 

[crysshae]

Lol!

We have that in my marriage too but in the opposite way. DH is 12 years older than me, so he'll say "remember such and such", and I'm like "Uh no...I would've been 5 then".

I thought as we got older people wouldn't think anything of our age difference, but he said just yesterday one of the guys he works with asked him "Aren't you 52? How did you do that?" Lol.

 

[Oasis717]

Lol sometimes I say stuff and he's like no I wasn't even born then! Xx
The wait was killing me so I walked to asda and bought a twin pack of their brand tests and.......another v faint pink line, I know its not as sensitive as the SD one I did Sunday but I was expecting a little darker, so now I'm more worried than I was before, great idea Becks! Xxxx

 

[crysshae]

Oh goodness. Have you used those in the past? Do they usually get darker before AF is due? If not, should be nothing to worry about. And with afternoon /evening urine, it may not be as concentrated either.

 

[dancareoi]

Lol sometimes I say stuff and he's like no I wasn't even born then! Xx
The wait was killing me so I walked to asda and bought a twin pack of their brand tests and.......another v faint pink line, I know its not as sensitive as the SD one I did Sunday but I was expecting a little darker, so now I'm more worried than I was before, great idea Becks! Xxxx

You may remember this as I have written it a couple of times.

I did the clearblue digi tests with the weeks and I did one that should have said 3+ but still said 2-3. I panicked like mad and went straight out and bought another pack.

Luckily showed 3+ and I didn't test again.

All these tests have variables and we analyize everything so much.

Lets see what SD brings tomorrow (bet asda one not as sensitive!)

Kim, I was under a mc clinic and they put me on clexane from 7 weeks, injecting once a day in stomach up until week 28!

Where are you based ? Uk or US?

 

[Oasis717]

Thanks ladies, I think I'm getting on dhs nerves obsessing about lines, although he's far too nice to say so, the asda test is 15 miu and the SD is a 10 miu, I don't think the asda tests get darker until about 16/17 dpo looking on count down to pregnancy, this seems to be going the same way as my cp in march all of these tests are just faint faint lines, maybe I'm being daft but I can't help but worry, if this isn't it I swear next time absolutely no early testing and no ICS, you ladies are my witnesses! Lisa I remember that well that must of really worried you xxxx

 

[josie1234]

Blimey Kim, well done at perservering on reading the thread.

Yes very sad about Robin Williams, I loved Mrs Doubtfire. Always seems to be comedians that suffer from depression.

How is everyone else? Just caught up on last few pages. Stop peeing on those ICs Becks lol.

AFM - granddaughter is out of hospital and now at home. Can't remember if I told you she was in the neo natal unit. Where these tattoos pics? Mine is on 23 Aug, I can't wait. Sooooo excited.

 

[Oasis717]

They're all gone now Jo lol I won't be getting anymore! Xx

 

[Oasis717]

Oh yes forgotten bout the tattoo pics must take some! Xx