Nursing Mamas TTC March - Page 3

[babygrey]

Zwitteron- hugs for your frustrating cycle. I wish I had words of wisdom to offer you, but I don't. Just wanted you to know that I'm sorry you're dealing with it.

MamaFern- I'm holding my breath for your tests to arrive!

Finnigans- FX for your bfp so soon!

Samanthavv- FX for you. KUP

Yubariver- hooray on the + opk! How exciting!

AFM, exasperated here. Was supposed to have an HSG/uterine venogram done this week. Doc had to reschedule. The next opening was MARCH 23rd. ugh. That feels like forever from now. Plus, bc of the risk of interrupting a pg, they want us to abstain from ttc this month. Gah. I know I said we were probably going to, but we were hoping maybe I'd get one O in early this month and then we'd be due late November/early Dec-ish. (tho, whoever suggested a New Year's baby- that'd be FANTASTIC this year 1/1/11! What a great bday!)

Honestly, I don't know if we're going to abstain. I think I'm going to watch my chart and if there's a chance I'm pg when the study time comes around, then deal with it then... Doc'll probably be cranky with me, but certainly could run a blood beta before the study- they're just worried that they will interrupt a not-yet-implanted pg. I'm tired of putting medical tests in front of life. I want to put life first, tests second. ESPECIALLY when the test was all lined up for a good time in my cycle and it is not my fault she cancelled. I mean, what if we abstained and the test got postponed again?!? (also, to own my issues- some part of me scared to death about the test- it is to check whether my tubes/uterus are scarred and blocked due to my endo and pelvic adhesions that I had removed in the fall. So scared.)

*oh, and I forgot to say thanks to everyone for your thoughts on my LP. I am already taking B6, started in December. I'm also taking Vitex, started it at the same time. I'm taking 100-150mg B6 (complex) and 500mg of Vitex. Think I'm going to consistently take 150mg B6 as long as it doesn't touch my milk supply and consider upping the Vitex, tho, when I tried that last month, I got bad headaches. It might just be a waiting game. Any other wonder-cures for LPD?

[rcr]

zwitterion - I have had no luck with nightweaning either, and like you, DS puts up a huge fight when I try. Howevr, DS has been completely day weaned (from 6am to 5 pm) for about a year now, so I consider that weaning enough. If he did night wean, I guess we would only nurse in the evening after I get home from work. I have not slept a full night for 2 years, and would love to get more sleep.

AFM - I have EWCM, and my monitor says the peak is tomorrow! DH is driving home (he lives and works out of state most of the week) tonight just to BD, and then driving back. ugh. A few times when he has done this (it means almost 6 hours on the road for him) he has not been able to "perform" - poor guy (although at the time when this has happened, I somehow can't manage to be as symphetic as I probably should be). Hope all that driving is not for nothing tonight.

Finnega, you're not out yet.

[SoCaliMommy]

Samanthavv~ Welcome to the group.fingerscrossed you get a +

[littlebearsmama]

Please put me on the 2WW list. Thank you FF says no O detected, but I know that's not right. I know exactly when I O'd cuz I felt the ovary pain while I was cutting onions for dinner, and I thought to myself "Dang, that smarts!"
So, I'm definitely feeling inhabited....lots of fatigue, slight nausea, cravings for carbonated kombucha, and a chronic case of clumsiness. If I'm not expecting, then I'm definitely out of my mind! Oh, and my son has been carrying around his "The new baby" book for two days now! Maybe all of those orange light meditations to my Spirit Baby are going to pay off!
P.S. Silly me, I got a BFN at 6 DPO...way too early, but I just couldn't help but try.

[Samanthavv]

I did the same thing! Took a test at 5dpo! lol they were calling my name!

[finnegansmom]

Originally Posted by littlebearsmama

Silly me, I got a BFN at 6 DPO...way too early, but I just couldn't help but try.

Originally Posted by Samanthavv

I did the same thing! Took a test at 5dpo! lol they were calling my name!

Ummm yea. I've been testing since 6 DPO as well. I'm 9 DPO and still getting BFNs. I'm trying to not test for 3 days. "trying".

[Tara2]

Just checking in. Our newest plan for ttc is either beginning in June, but possibly as soon as April - next month! EEk! I am so excited! I wish i could explain this to you better, but I can't even explain it to myself! That ideally I wish DS to be around 3 or much closer to 3 before a new baby comes. If we ttc next month and conceive, he will only be like 26 months when the baby comes. DD was exactly 2 when DS came (they almost have the same birthday! and only a few days before mine) and it was tough.

Jeez, I already went over this, didn't I? See, mulling repetitively even on this board is not good. TTC, or even planning or thinking about it apparently drives ya a little batty. LOL. Anyway, the part I can't explain is the contradiction between understanding due dates and gestation, so timing according to ideal spacing is good. But life never turns out how you plan anyway; it's not like I can make a baby asking for like fries at a drive thru window. "I'll take a shake with that order." Plus I want DS to nurse as long as he wants, but I found tandem nursing a big energy suck, so would prefer to give each babe his own exclusive time at the breast, weaning in their own time. Maybe it's my age, and I feel the clock. And maybe we will want even one more baby if we succeed with #4. It's possible. I always saw being done at a certain age, so there's that too. If I have one soon, and another in a couple years, I will have reached my quota as well as my limit and in my age deadline too. Better get crackin'! So here's my dilemma: ttc as soon as we're able, or wait...wait...wait until the more ideal time. See, if we don't succeed at first, I will be glad for starting sooner. But if succeed the first month out, I will be wondering why I didn't wait a bit longer. It's a toss up, because who knows how fertility is this time around? We're both older now.

Anyway, two is tough to discipline cause they are still so much of a baby. But (as DD attempts to throttle DS as I type) 3 has its own challenges! It probably depends on the children in question, the family, and their karma to determine the 'best' sibling age spacing.

I can't seem to say my dilemma in plain words. The contradiction between knowing I would rather have a certain spacing, but being able to try sooner and just really, really wanting to start ttc and have a baby now! Hehe.

Gotta run, they are taking books off my shelf now...

[finnegansmom]

Babygrey ~ Does vitex give people headaches? I've been taking it about a week and I have headaches....I was going to blame the maca but I've been taking that for almost a month now and I've read it actually helps with hormonal type headaches...

[Samanthavv]

Does anyone use countdown to pregnancy? It's a really great site! Here's my tww so far!

http://www.countdowntopregnancy.com/...er/ticker1.gif

Anyways, I'm starting to feel a little bummed. Like, I really think I'm pregnant, but now I'm thinking I'm scared about how I'm going to manage it. :-s I'm chickening out, I think... except you can't really chicken out of being pregnant. I'm really not sure if I want a bfp or a bfn... And I don't even know which one I want more. It changes from hour to hour. :-s Gah. I wish I could just KNOW already so I could figure out and plan my life!

[babymango]

FINALLY!
My ovaries have ended their strike. On CD 33!!! It was about time! I got + opks, much more ewcm, a soft high open cervix and O pains. So im pretty sure its the real thing this time.
That would make me only 1dpo today... So no testing until friday next week. That seems SO far!!
Last time I knew I was pregnant from the moment it happened. we had BD'ed 3 times around O and im sure i know which one did it (i know its not really possible, but thats how i feel lol). This time, i dont really feel anything. maybe im just too tired? Maybe im just relieved i've actually O'ed? Maybe this isnt our cycle? Or maybe this whole "I knew i was pregnant" thing is just baloney! LOL
So after all that back and forth, all the insanity and the anxiety, I finally am ready to move to 2ww!

[wembles]

Originally Posted by peaches' mom

Totally off-topic, but Wembles, I think we got married the same day (same year even)! Dec 27, 2003.

Yep! We lucked out and got the one spring-like day (seriously, 60 degree temps) during the middle of winter in Nebraska!

[Logan]

Im spotting

8 day luteal phase.....I so wasnt expecting this. I thought I at least had a chance

Any chance it may be implantation? No AF yet....Or am I grasping at straws? I have cramping, but I had it before, during and after ovulation this time. So god knows what up with my body.

[babygrey]

Logan- don't lose hope yet. It could be implantation. I just had the same thing happen, tho. Mine was coming. FX for you. How old is you LO?

Finnegans- yes, I've heard and IME, Vitex can cause headaches. It indirectly raises progesterone, and increased or fluctuating progest levels cause headaches for some women. Myself, I'm VERY progesterone sensitive. In my BCP days, I couldn't even take a mini-pill w/o rip-roaring headaches and I tried low-dose bio-identical progesterone after delivery to ward off ppd and I couldn't handle it for more than a week bc of the headaches. FWIW, I actually take the headaches a good sign that the Vitex is doing what it is supposed to...

[finnegansmom]

Babymango ~ I didn't always know it right away. With #1, I had no idea at all (we were TTA) with #2 we were super TTC so I was wishing it so badly... Just because you don't feel you're pregnant certainly doesn't mean you aren't!

Logan ~ . Do you normally spot? it very well could be implantation....especially at 8 DPO.

Babygrey ~ Do the headaches go away? Like will my body get used to it? They aren't good headaches. How long did you take vitex before you noticed it working? do you know take it Post O? I've heard it can delay O. I'm also taking Maca.

AFM ~ I tested again this morning - 10 DPO and it was super negative. I'm discourage and feel AF-esque. I'm getting these weird pinchy cervix type cramps. I want AF to show if I'm out but I don't want a super short LP (again). I think I'm going to try preseed next cycle.

[Logan]

Still no Could just be a messed up cycle cause its the first PP. I have never had anything like this in my life, never spotted once. I dont usually have this before AF, it usually just comes straight away. So I still have some hope

[finnegansmom]

Logan ~ Do you have a chart to share?

[rcr]

Sorry Logan (if it is AF)

DH drove 3 hours to get home to BD last night, and could not get an erection. Arrrgh! then we decided that we would get up super-early - aroung 4 am - to BD before he headed back to work (another 3 hour drive), and he still could not! He is going to try to come home after work tonight to try again. Today is the peak on my monitor, and we have tried 3 (and failed) three times to BD in the last few days (all involving very long drives for DH). He has had problems with this before, but never this bad. I think the stress of TTC is getting to him. He just started Maca and Fertilaid, and said that he thinks that could be it. No way - right? This was after his very poor SA.

[SoCaliMommy]

Updated List To Here


Logan~ Hope it's not af.


babymango~ fingers crossed for you.



I tested and though i saw a faint line but didn't get a picture til after the time limit when i looked again and saw this 13dpo bottom only used auto fix

[finnegansmom]

Originally Posted by SoCaliMommy

I tested and though i saw a faint line but didn't get a picture til after the time limit when i looked again and saw this 13dpo bottom only used auto fix

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I see a line on that. Totally.

[rcr]

Originally Posted by SoCaliMommy

I tested and though i saw a faint line but didn't get a picture til after the time limit when i looked again and saw this 13dpo bottom only used auto fix

I kinda see it too, but it is so faint, I am not really sure.