Falling into Bajingo Juice: TTC #1 in our 30s - October 2011 - Page 13

[Ncat]

calpurnia7 - darn! I was very hopeful for you! AF finally arrived today for me too, looks like we're cycle buddies for now. Crossing fingers for next month!

lilacvioletiris - I think we're on the same cycle too! Well, similar at least. We can commiserate about AF together.

Thebyr - what a sweet man you have there! Why can't my guy be like that? LOL! I've managed to get him to take a daily multi-vitamin, but that's about it. Looks like things are going to work out with the timing of AF and your trip!

krunchyK, I hope the herbs and NAC will help you along too. Carrot soup - is this known to improve CM? I have so much to learn!

andaluza, I hope your week is improving. I'm sorry you had such a tough day earlier this week. I hope your temps continue to stay up!

CD1 for me today... I spotted for a whole five days before full AF arrived today. I was hoping the vitex and B6 would help with the spotting, but it's even more "spotty" than before. My temp finally fell to below coverline today so I'm counting today as CD1. I went ahead and ordered some more TTC stuff to try to tackle this month full force - a new BBT thermometer (so that will make THREE), progesterone cream, vitex tincture, and I'm planning on going to get some OPKs. Also I had read in one of the books I have that statistically, more babies are conceived in the colder months so I'm hoping to get lucky (haha) this fall through winter. I also extended my FF VIP membership by 6 more months. Also ordered some eco-friendly feminine products to try out for AF time, so hopefully that will make AF more... fun?? LOL! Hoping I see some EWCM and a longer LP this month.

Weekend's almost here! Yay!

[lilacvioletiris]

Ncat and calpurnia, I am definitely joining you in this AF cycle matching.  Too funny for a set of women who aren't even in close contact.  I starting having a light flow this morning.  I am sure AF will be here full force by this afternoon, just in time for me to conduct parent teacher conferences, yeah!

Looks like my O date is projected to be during Thanksgiving break.  That will be interesting as I am going to be with family sleeping on an air mattress.  I will just have to wait and see what happens.

[krunchyk]

Sorry to hear about AF, Calpurnia!  Your husband’s sentiment was so sweet.  Sometimes I get so fixated on what will happen during and after pregnancy that I forget to be present in my life right now. 

Ncat – I learned on a different forum that carrots improve cervical mucus.  It has something to do with the alkaline properties of the carrot.  However, I am not sure if cooking the carrots changes the alkalinity of the carrots, rendering them useless.  I do like carrots and came across a delicious sounding carrot soup, so I am going to make some this weekend.  It can’t hurt!

I too have a regimen. I take NewChapter Organics Perfect Prenatal.  I’m sensitive to multivitamins, and I like these because they don’t hurt my stomach and they don’t make me burpy.  Also, for some reason, they are half price at the organic grocer I frequent here in California.  The same vitamins were double the cost in Colorado.  All good things!  I also take a slew of other supplements to address the PCOS including Chinese herbs, NAC, Vit D, B Complex, Inositol, Multi-Mineral (1/2 dose), EPO/Fish Oil, and CoQ10. It’s a lot.  Inevitably, every four or five months, I get sick of taking all the supplements and I switch back to just the prenatal and fish oil.  I then read another compelling research article or personal experience about a supplement and then add it to the list. 

I can commiserate Lakeruby, my Chinese herbs are gag-tastic.  I’ve had a bad cold this past week and it has been especially difficult to keep them down.  Yuck. 

[lakeruby]

That is such a great way to look at it!  Good job DH.

 

Originally Posted by calpurnia7 

I wish it could be implantation spotting, but this is definitely not spotting.  It's all good!  My DH held me this morning and told me how beautiful he thinks I am and that he's happy this special time of us TTC'ing can last longer, the time when it's just the two of us sharing ourselves with each other.  And he does have a point, because after a baby comes all of that changes.

[Thebyr]

Cal7 *Hugs* - so sorry. You have a pretty comprehensive regimen. I do use the chia seeds for my acid reflux. NOTHING has worked this well in years. I love them. My friend found some in South Africa so I wouldn't have to deal with Customs. I might have to incorporate some of the things in your regimen.

Ncat - He is pretty sweet. :-)

LOL KrunchyK - me too - I try not to be too complicated.. but I always seem to be on some strange cleanse or detox.. where I have to stand on my forehead at 3 am every other half moon for half a year minus 1.25 months. I just want to be as healthy as can be.. why doesn't this industrialized world make that easy?

[andaluza]

Your dh sounds like such a sweetie, calpurnia7. Mine swings between that sort of sentiment and complaining that we should have started sooner. Interesting reading your regimen and that of Krunchyk. Thanks for sharing. I have been interested in the greens, but when I pick them off the shelf there is always some ingredient I am unsure of, since I'm trying to avoid things that I can't keep using in possible eventual pregnancy.

Ncat, I hope that the spotting gets under control soon! That must be very frustrating. Have you had hormone testing done to see what is causing it?

Lilac, that is quite interesting about the syncing cycles. I guess I'm just a little behind you all!

AFM, started feeling a UTI last night, and now I am pretty sure that k-y does have something to do with it. Also, my probable oncoming af, since the doc said that there was microscopic blood in my urine which could be from af (?), though I don't even see spotting. I was able to calm the symptoms quite a bit by drinking a ton of water, cranberry juice, and lemon and lime juice straight, since we have an abundance from our tree, so I wasn't expecting her to say I had a lot of blood. Now I'm just pretty tired and looking forward to some rest; I was waking up at the crack of dawn since last week and now we'll have an extra hour this weekend of blissful sleep.   I didn't temp this am because I woke up hourly to pee.

Happy almost Friday!

[Thebyr]

I think I might have mentioned this a few weeks ago or maybe that was in another forum - my doctor said - "when you start trying - stay away from K-Y. It can make concieving difficult." She mentioned that it sometimes causes a hostile environment for the sperm. She didn't say all lube - but specifically K-Y. So we don't use it at all - mainly because I'm allergic to that an spermacide (mostly everything really). Thought I'd share.

[andaluza]

Thebyr, I've heard that too and we use preseed to ttc and the time leading up and a bit beyond, but when I don't have any egg activity, we've been using whatever is handy.  Thanks!

[calpurnia7]

andaluza - Sorry about the UTI coming on - KY jelly is no bueno for me either.  My body can't tolerate artificial lubricants well at all.  Condoms lubricated with spermicide were the worst.  Without fail I would start getting a UTI.  Make sure to drink lots of water, and have acidic fruits: lemons, cranberry, pomegranate, etc.  Yogurt and a good, strong probiotic will help as well.

In regards to the greens supplement, mine is pretty basic.  It's all foods and superfruits.  I'll probably need to run the ingredients past my doctor when I get pregnant, but when I ran my regimen past her she didn't seem too concerned for TTC.

Krunchy - good to know about the carrots for CM!  I love carrots

Are any of your hubbies on supplements?  I'm thinking about having mine start taking folic acid and zinc.

[danadavis108]

Andaluza I'm so sorry about your UTI! I can think of few bodily afflictions more annoying and uncomfortable. A couple of years ago DH and I tried a new position and I had a bad UTI by the next morning. I now call it the $200 position since that's what it cost to go see the Dr and get meds. All the cranberry juice and probiotics in the world didn't help. I hope yours clears up soon.

[lilacvioletiris]

My DH and I both take a vitamin B complex with folic acid.  All the prenatal vitamins I have tried constipated me and I have no desire to be in that condition.  My doctor said it is the iron in the multivitamin that does it and the folic acid was the most important thing.

Yesterday was parent teacher conferences.  Having AF start on that day was "oh so fun".  Thankfully since I have decreased my soy consumption I haven't had the knock me out, vomiting pain like I did before I changed my diet.

[andaluza]

Thanks for the commiseration, Dana. I am taking pregnancy-safe antibiotics (just in case, since I sill have a little tiny smidge of hope against odds). I just have to say that the straight lemon and lime juice (I did mix it in a few glasses of water and cranberry juice, too) really made the annoying dull pain go away before I could get antibiotics. Wish I knew that in the past.

Lilac, sorry about af on what was undoubtedly a very long day. I am really glad that removing soy from your diet has had such an amazing effect. I don't eat it anymore as a main ingredient, like soy protein, but I don't avoid it if it appears as a flavoring. I don't know if it is the lack of soy or stopping caffeine, but I never get painful fibrous breast tissue like I always used to get around af. Some of us must just be more sensitive to these things. I've discovered the brand Quorn, which has soy-free protein products (but they do use wheat). Still not as versatile as some of the soy products on the market, but I've been able to integrate them into my diet occasionally.

My temp is still up, but probably because I'm fighting an infection....still bfn, but no spotting, either. Happy Friday!

[ericaf]

I would like to join this board!

My name is Erica, I'm 31, and have been trying to conceive since June this year. I did get pregnant the very first cycle, but had a miscarriage on August 1st @ 6 weeks.

A little background on myself... I've typically always had very regular periods. 31 day average cycle, but the past two cycles were 29 days (not sure if my body is still trying to regulate itself of what) I'm typically a very healthy person. Don't drink, smoke, healthy weight, workout 3x a week, butttt I was diagnosed with breast cancer last October. I had a few surgeries to fix that loveliness, and now I'm all fixed up! I didn't have chemo or radiation, thank Goddddd... just the crappy surgeries. I'm on no medication whatsoever, but I have been taking prenatal vitamins and fish oil for 6 months and just started taking extra B6 and B12 this week.

I was given the green light in October to try again (2 cycles after the miscarriage), but no dice (although we actually tried in the end of September too. I did wait to have one cycle before doing that). I just started charting so here is my link:

http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/35f26d

[krunchyk]

Welcome Ericaf!  

Andaluza - Don't lose hope! I used to get UTI's all the time, and inevitably it would escalate until I there was blood in my urine.  Sometimes I would see it when wiping (when it was outrageously bad), and other times my MD would tell me the lab saw it.  There is a good chance the blood your MD spotted is from the UTI, not AF.  I did not know about the lemon/lime juice treatment. Anything that staves off that pain is appreciated. Thanks for the tip. 

Several days ago I mentioned carrot soup.  I’ve included the recipe from Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes by Jeanne Kelley.  I also found a delicious carrot soup from The Pioneer Woman food blog here, but haven’t tested it either.  http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/10/carrot-thyme-soup-with-cream/  Enjoy!

Sweet Carrot Soup with Dill Gremolata (4-6 servings)

Soup:

3 T unsalted butter

½ cup shallots

2 lb Nantes carrots or other sweet carrots

1 bay leaf, preferably fresh

Salt

Gremolata

2 T minced fresh dill

1 T minced shallot

½ t finely grated orange zest

¼ t fleur de sel

Soup: Melt butter in heavy, large saucepan over medium heat. Add shallots and sauté until tender, about 3 minutes.  Cut carrots into ½ inch rounds, add them to the pan, and stir briefly to coat with butter.  Add 4 cups water and the bay leaf and bring to a boil.  Cover and simmer over low heat until the carrots are very tender, about 25 minutes. Remove bay leaf and discard. Using an immersion or standard blender, puree the soup.  Season with salt to taste.

Gremolato:  Combine all ingredients and sprinkle over prepared soup when ready to serve. 

[calpurnia7]

Welcome Erica!

[Thebyr]

welcome Erica!

[andaluza]

Happy weekend, everyone!

Welcome, Ericaf, you've been through a lot and I hope your bfp comes soon!

Thanks for sharing your experience, Krunchyk, I have gone through the same thing with this dr. before, she always wants to retest my urine after the infection is over and it's always clear. But, I do always get these around af, so who knows. My temp is still up and no spotting yet, but still bfn. I am not using "good" i.e. expensive tests, so I am thinking about buying a first response today if I don't see any spotting.  

[danadavis108]

Welcome Erica! I'm so sorry for your loss and about your cancer. It sounds like you've picked yourself up by your bootstraps and are moving forward with your life. I can't imagine how hard that must be. Your strength is admirable! I hope your stay here is short

[iixivboots]

Hi all, just checking in.

Starting clomid 50 mg tonight for the first time, CD3. I'm nervous about mood effects, I had terrible depression during PMS this month, really was happy to get over that. I'm also in the process of getting a referral to a fertility clinic after a false start.

Shout out to my teacher ttc homegirls, Tickletoes, cath and lilac. :) TT and cath, how are you? Haven't seen you around. Hope all is well.

[ericaf]

Thank you for all the welcomes, ladies!! Anyone else trying the vitamin B thing? I just started supplementing this past week with an extra 50 mg of B6, and B12... Although the smallest dose of the B12 I could find was 250 mg... makes me nervous. I don't want to be overdoing anything.

danadavis108... I'm trying!