We all want a christmas/2011 baby please

[RachaelMac]

Ive finally got my very strong OPK today!!!!

Hopefully this month will be my month and il have a christmas baby. DH and myself have been BDing twice a day for the last few days and will again tomorrow too (just incase) lol in hope that at least 1 will make it ive also upped my EPO and carried on taking my vits.This will be our last month trying as after 19months weve been referred to the hospital (finally) for more tests.

Good luck for everyone!!

If anyone want to be buddies let me know xxx

 

[torilou]

I agree, its wierd to think that this is the last month to get a bfp for a baby this year, I know its 9 months whenever it happens but going into yet another year just makes it feel sooooo long away xxx

 

[torilou]

Rachealmac

Good Luck hun! Heres hoping this is your month! Im hoping mine will turn pos in next day or 2, finding it especially hard this month as Im not even sure what cd Im on, argghhh xxx

 

[McMummy]

Bradpittswife - When is your appt for? Do you have long to wait? At least now you can feel like you've got the ball rolling

RachaelMac - Good luck! With all that you'd def think one of them would catch the egg!! Looks like there are a few of us ovulating or hoping to ovulate around this week

ToriLou - Agree 2012 definitely sounds soooo far away!!

Lots of all round

 

[torilou]

Have just done another opk and its defo darker than earlier one today! Fingers crossed for me please girls its a pos 2moro!

 

[Tarkwa]

Thanks McMummy. I consider myself lucky that I don't have many friends haha: in a good way though - I have a few REALLY good friends!) so I don't have to put up with too much crap on FB. TBH I've stopped going on it since I've been on here, but have had a couple of nosey moments.

Re whining and moaning I know exactly what you mean and I'm totally with you on what you said above. As I've never been PG I know it will be at the forefront of my mind too when I get uncomfortable/sick/can't sleep/give birth(!) etc... and I hope that I won't be whinging to anyone and everyone about it. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure I won't want to feel like that but every time I think how long it's taken to get there I think that might help to ease the pain (at least I hope it does!!).
xxx

 

[McMummy]

Have just done another opk and its defo darker than earlier one today! Fingers crossed for me please girls its a pos 2moro!

Fingers crossed

 

[McMummy]

Thanks McMummy. I consider myself lucky that I don't have many friends haha: in a good way though - I have a few REALLY good friends!) so I don't have to put up with too much crap on FB. TBH I've stopped going on it since I've been on here, but have had a couple of nosey moments.

Re whining and moaning I know exactly what you mean and I'm totally with you on what you said above. As I've never been PG I know it will be at the forefront of my mind too when I get uncomfortable/sick/can't sleep/give birth(!) etc... and I hope that I won't be whinging to anyone and everyone about it. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure I won't want to feel like that but every time I think how long it's taken to get there I think that might help to ease the pain (at least I hope it does!!).
xxx

Yep yep yep I am sure there will be days when we've got huge bumps and we're fed up, uncomfortable, tired, sore & achy.... but the compared with the alternative of still TTCing or accepting fate & giving up on the whole thing.. i'll take the swollen ankles and sore back every time

Really hope this wee group gets some this month

 

[schoolteacher]

Good luck everybody! I can't wait to ov..
xx

 

[Xpecta]

Yeah I can't wait to OV either. I'm only on CD2

So, have any of you found out why its taking so long to get pregnant?

 

[schoolteacher]

Hi xpecta! Im on cd7 think I will ov cd15 but who knows as I have really irregular cycles. (last one for example I oved day15 got AF day32. However the cycle before that was61 days and I really don't think I oved!)
I have had the full range of blood tests-progestrogene came back low but when it was repeated came back normal.
My DH has low sperm count -he has had 2 sa's and it is improving but gp still won't refer us until he has had a 3rd sa even tho it's been 2 years!
What about you?xx

 

[Xpecta]

Oh my goodness! That just seems terrible! How do you deal with that?

Well... .... Apparently I was taking birth control for a year

Basically, I have chronic insomnia. It comes and goes, back in 2009 it was REALLY bad!! I would be up until my husband woke up for work. It was terribble!

So my mom gave me some Melatonin, its a natural sleep aid. So I started taking it and it worked WONDERFULLY!!! It was amazing!! So in July 2010, I was still taking it. Every night. But one night, I woke up and I was SO dizzy. Anytime I moved at all I felt like vomiting. So I started looking it up on the internet. And started coming across things that said it can cause infertility for the time you're taking it So basically I stopped that day! I was done.

Also, I only have one functioning ovary, so its compltely possible that I only ovulate every other month.

So in December, I got my BFP, but I lost my baby in January. Honestly, I am happy that I know I CAN get pregnant now, but at the same time, I wish I didn't have to find out that way!

 

[Bradpittswife]

Bradpittswife - When is your appt for? Do you have long to wait? At least now you can feel like you've got the ball rolling

RachaelMac - Good luck! With all that you'd def think one of them would catch the egg!! Looks like there are a few of us ovulating or hoping to ovulate around this week

ToriLou - Agree 2012 definitely sounds soooo far away!!

Lots of all round

My appt is April 12th- which feels like a lifetime away or alternatively not very far depending on my mood
I am convincing myself that he will send me away for a few months of blood tests and monitoring to see if I am ovulating as that way I wont be too disappointed!
Scary to think that if it doesn't happen this month it won't happen until 2012 like you we started trying in 2009 and thought it would happen fairly quickly after that- anyway best not start on that train of thought or I'll just depress myself!
Good luck to all you lovely ladies hopefully at least once of us will get that longed for news!
xx

 

[RachaelMac]

Thanks Torilou good luck for your o when it finally arrives or if it already has just try to keep positive!

McMummyTTC- youd think one would stick after all this time but nope not just yet lol Ive got my fingers crossed for this month, My OPK was back to negative again this morning so im deff in the dredded TWW.

Bradpittswife- Good luck for your blood tests hun. let me know how you get on!

Does anyone know when theyl be testing yet??? Mine will be around the 27th

 

[Liz5178]

I hope you ladies don't mind if I join you....I've finally convinced myself that after 15 months of trying, I belong in the "long term trying to conceive" section....I'm soooo hoping this is our month (ALL OF US) and we all get beautiful, healthy babies for a Christmas present

so do you ladies have any tips or tricks you can offer

 

[RachaelMac]

Hi Liz Welcome to the post! xx

Sadly none of the things ive tried have worked so far so i really couldnt suggest anything although if your not doing it already id suggest charting and opks together theyve been a godsend to my sanity! xx

 

[Liz5178]

i do use OPK's, I have not tried charting yet...I actually had one appt with a fertility specialist and she did an internal ultrasound and said she doesn't think I have a problem with ovulation (my appt happened to be on cd 11 so she pointed out a follicle on my right side that was 15mm at that time and told me that I would more than likely ovulate in 3 to 4 days)....she suggested I use the opk's, which I did and i got my positive on cd 14 (in the morning) and another on cycle day 15 (again in the morning) but then by cd 16, it was negative, so I'm assuming I ovulated on cd 15? I don't know, it's all so confusing, I really wish I could be be like all of those women that it just "happens"....the temping thing confuses me, I'm not sure what to look for if I do temp....

 

[Tarkwa]

I temped for a while (one cycle) but stopped as it was driving me crazy (not everyone's cup of tea). Basically, in it's simplest form you have a core temperature between AF and O'ing. After O'ing your temp raises slightly until AF arrives. If you are PG it doesn't drop back down again. It's not an exact science and no-one in the medical profession in the UK would ever recommend it (not proven to be accurate/significant enough).
I'm not sure about what day is O day, but I only get one day EWCM so usually count that. When I used a CBFM I would get two peaks (as standard for everyone) but never thought about what day to take it from - but I guess being one day out won't make that much of a diff.
xxx

 

[schoolteacher]

Hi xpecta
sorry to hear about your bad expereince with melatonin, what a thing to happen! How did you find out you only have one functioning ovary? I wonder if I don't always ovulate as some cycles I get an ov pain on the right hand side and some cycles nothing. (I have only recently started temping and using opks). However it could just be that I only feel the pain on one side and not the other!

RachaelMac-I don't think I will be testing until april 5th ish but goodluck and I will kepp an eye on u!
x

 

[RachaelMac]

Arrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!!! I am super stressed today!

Usually i get my positive opk then my temp goes up the next day! This cycle on the other hand nothing i got my positive opk on cd 15 with EWCM and im still waiting for my temp to go up????? Im not sure if this means ive ovulated on cd 15-16 or wether im still waiting for it to happen! Im so stressed and confused now. Will it happen today with it being CD17? How long am i supposed to wait before i deff no i havnt ovulated???

I just wish all this TTC was so much easier, ive always had a positive attitude even tho we get knocked back every month but this month i just seem to be so deflated and im realy struggling to carry on. ive asked DH if we can have a break next month as itl be 20 months that weve been trying and he seems to agree that we should back off it abit til we get our referal date with the FS. Half of me wishes i grew up on a council estate with no money and living on benifits and think its a good idea to actually go on jeremy kyle. But the other half of me thinks dont be such a *beep* everyone deserves to know the joy of having a child, i just having got there yet!!!!!

Anyway sorry for the huge rant im just really feeling it today, just wish i could hide under my duvet all day and not have to put on a happy face when im really not feeling it.

Baby Dust to you all still waiting for the big O. Hopefully this will be all our months and wel finally get our little screaming, pooping, puking bundles of joy xxx