Warm Winter Wishes and BFP's 40 ++ TTC - Page 3

[amommyTTC]

Your chart looks awesome!! I just had a look, and lets hope for a nice recovery temp tomorrow from the dip, might mean implant! Who knows for sure though LOL. 

I am on the fence about my fertility, although my cycles are fairly regular my LP is very short, and I am not sure what this means as far as peri-menopause.. I would like one more little miracle, just not sure at my age if it is worth it to really keep trying. 

[siddal]

Thanks Mittens and Litmama!  Still in an impatient state of mind, but I'm working on it. 

And thanks Litmama for your thoughts on the Rainbows.  Sounds great!  I think I will try those.

Gumblossom and Skeemama, thanks for sharing your thoughts and stories on the vax.  I feel like the more info. and thinking I do about this, the better.  It does seem a confusing and variable thing.  Gumblossom, I have read online about some people only ending up needing one shot before they show immunity.  I can totally see why you would not want to get another while nursing, too.  Skeemama, she did not give me any statistics, and I do find myself wondering if I really need it.  I have never had the pox in 40 years, and I don't spend a lot of time around children.  I do come into contact with the public in my job (I'm an archivist) but ...I don't know.  It seems like maybe it wouldn't be that necessary. The g.p. I'm seeing on Dec. 1st to talk about this vax is also a new g.p. for me.  This appt. is primarily to establish myself as a new patient.  She was recommended to me by a friend, and I read on their website that she is a practitioner who embraces holistic/integrative medecine and she says "I don’t like to recommend taking medicines unless they are needed, but when they are needed I will explain why."  So that gives me the feeling that she will give it to me straight on whether I really need to get this vax or not.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.   and baby vibes!

[Mittens]

thanks Gumblossom! so after my temp dip at 8dpo, i had a spike at 9dpo, the highest temp on my chart thus far. don't want to get my hopes up too soon, however....... i can't stand the disappointment! but i do hope it's a good sign.....

[amommyTTC]

Can I just say that I had the pox when I was 30, after years of not knowing whether I had had them, and when I worked at Children's hospital in my 20's they did a titer that showed I had no immunity. Luckily my baby was 5 months old when I got them, I was so deathly ill, not an inch of my body didnt have a pock.. It was really something.. I was on heavy anti viral drugs and was incoherent with fever for about 4 days. I really wished I had gotten them as a kid LOL! 

That being said I had 4 children with no immunity, and thankfully didn't get them while pregnant. I don't know what I would do today if faced with the same issue, because back then they didn't have the vacc.. 

Hoping you get some good information about the vacc's and figure out what is right for you! 

[Kristin0105]

Mittens your chart is beautiful. A little bit of a slow rise but nice high temperatures now.

[amommyTTC]

Mittens your chart does look wonderful! Hopefully it continues on that trend! 

[alittlesandy]

Hi everyone! Just popping in to say hi and subscribe to this thread. I haven't had time to get caught up, but will soon. My little baked potato is now seventeen weeks!

[Mittens]

Thanks Kristin and amommyTTC, i appreciate the encouraging words!

[WaturMama]

Mittens that sounds promising! Fingers and toes crossed for you!

Siddal, that is such a a tough one. I'm glad you've found that doctor. I hope she gives you a satisfying answer.

Thanks for stopping in alittlesandy. Yay to 17 weeks!

AFM, I am having an aggravating week of unclear temps--those darn mid 97s that could go either way. I'd decided I had ovulated, but then yesterday I had ewcm, so now I think I didn't. I wonder if something about the time change and darker time of year has my temps wacky. Also I am pretty sure I had a chem pg last time maybe that did something, too.

[Gr8fulMama]

Hello all, I've been lurking in this thread for many months . . . I hope you are not easily creeped out by stalker-ish behavior like that 

I am 40, and will be 41 in December.  We have been trying for our second child for over a year - DS will be four in February and we were hoping to have them about 3 years apart.  I have always gotten pregnant very easily (I had an abortion many many years ago, had a miscarriage about a year before I got pregnant with my son, and my son was a happy accident) so to be trying for so long with no results has kind of thrown me for a loop.

I was seeing a TCM practitioner for about 3 months in the late spring/early summer, but it was very expensive and I couldn't keep going.  Although I am not getting accupuncture anymore, I have tried to incorporate a lot of their lifestyle advice (supplements, diet changes, etc).

I went to a reproductive endocrinologist today for my first appointment.  He seems pretty optimistic given that I have regular cycles and have gotten pregnant easily in the past, so that helped to give me some more hope.  I have 13 follicles visible in my ovaries today, and they are going to monitor my cycle this month to see how my hormone levels change and whether I actually ovulate.  My husband also has to have a semen analysis, which he is really not looking forward to.  I told him "tough cookies" and if I could push our son out with no pain meds and get blood drawn a zillion times to check hormone levels he can manage to JO in a cup.  

Anyway, I just wanted to introduce myself - I don't have a lot of close girlfriends, and none who could really relate to what I am dealing with, so I will probably drop in from time to time here for some feedback / support / insight.

I hope everyone here gets their BFP's for Christmas or sooner and am sending sticky baby vibes to all 

[gumblossom]

Hi Gr8fulmama, I sure hope we all get our Christmas bfp's too. That would be so wonderful.

Getting closer to Christmas is having me feel a little sad, as it was this time last year year that I was pregnant and I lost my little one just after Christmas. I'm trying hard not to get too sad. I know how lucky I am to have my lovely brood of children, so blessed, but still really sad that my little one couldn't be with us this Christmas. A healthy pregnancy is on the top of my christmas wish list.

Alittlesandy - I can't believe you are already 17 weeks. I'm so excited for you!

Waturmama, I'm sorry your temps are annoying you! I hope things are clearer soon. I think I'm coming up to O time, but there's no indication of it on the opk's yet. I just don't know what to expect anymore, but I'm feeling more relaxed about it. I'm trying to practice "detachment" - allowing the universe to work its magic without trying to force anything. I'd just like to be relaxed and have a truly lovely bfp just around the corner....

Sending blessings to all  for our future new pregnancies.

[WaturMama]

Welcome Gr8fulmama! Or welcome to the non-lurking world of here! I can relate to your story. We got pg with ds the first time we tried, pg again the 2nd time we tried, and it has been all m/c and chem pg since then. I hope you have a healthy pg and babe soon. I'll be interested to know what comes of the RE appointment.

(((hug))) gumblossom--those anniversaries are hard. It seems pretty tough to have it all wrapped up (so to speak) around X-mas. It does sound like you have a lot to be grateful for and I hope you get your wish.

I am coming up on the 5-year anniversary of when I got pg the 2nd time. I was so hopeful. Much more confident than the previous pg with ds, because I'd done it once. All was just as I planned and hoped with the timing. I can't believe it has been almost 5 years. We did take a break from trying for a year+ of that--so we haven't been trying that long.

My temp shot up yesterday. I thought I'd finally ovulated (and woke up dh super early to dtd just in case--he was so nice about it). Today I feel nauseous and have senso boobs. I am hopeful that actually that was a 2nd step up in a pg chart and that the temp that finally had me convinced I hadn't ovulated 2 days ago was actually an implantation dip. That scenario would have had me ovulating on CD15 rather than CD21, which would make much more sense with my recent history. I guess I'll know when I know, but it is good to have the possibility. I am friends with mild nausea.

[Shell77]

HELP.... I really need someone to help me make sence of all this... so I started my AF today :-( ... but this is my cycle... very normal and almost to the exact time! I have a 25 day cycle... I may bleed longer but I always ovulate 4 to 5 days after AF ends.. 16 day Luteal phase... Its so accurate me and DH BD everyday.. at least once.... I have 2 daughters 1 is 19years and 1 is 11 years.. So I know I can get pregnant.. its just been a long time... I really hope that Mirena IUD didnt mess me up !! I am going today to start taking Soy isoflavones , and I use pre seed , I take my pre natal pills everyday for the last 4 months... My doctor did tell me NOT to bd everyday ... to do it every other day .... so i will try that also .. DH will be majorly disappoined lol ... Does anyone have any thpoughts?

[Kristin0105]

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate today. Welcome to the new people.

Waturmama really hoping this is your month. What an awesome end to the year. We missed this month, really bad timing so I am just waiting for the cycle to be over and hope next cycle is better. I am bummed too because my temp. is nice and high, sensitive breasts the day after ovulation so it was probably a good egg and it was wasted. Oh well, can't do anything about it now. 

[WaturMama]

Happy Thanksgiving to those for whom it is Thanksgiving! I am thankful for you all.

Thanks so much for the wishes, Kristin, and sorry about the bad timing. I hope next month with be good timing with a happy result.

Welcome, Shell77. Maybe it's just my tired brain, but I'm not sure what you are asking about. Do you know why your doctor told you not to bd every day? My understanding is that that is the recommendations when the man has a low sperm-count, but maybe there are other reasons as well. How long have you been ttc?

[3surfboys]

Hello everyone!  Just wanted to chime in on the new winter thread.  For an update to the first page - I am 41 and will be 9 weeks preg tomorrow with an edd of June 30.

I do have some more comments/questions but will have to come back later. 

[gumblossom]

Congratulations 3surfboys! How has your pregnancy been?

I think I'm about to ovulate - all the signs are here. I sure hope to prove my doctor wrong - she said I couldn't get pregnant with low estrogen, because I wouldn't be ovulating. I got a clearly positive opk yesterday, and now nipple tenderness - which is a sure sign for me, so here's to catching a sperm!

Waturmama, I would love to see you get a bfp this time - perhaps we could be belly buddies? I would really like that

[WaturMama]

Wonderful news, 3Surfboys!! Sending good pregnancy wishes...

Gumblossom, I would love to be belly buddies with you! Love that plan. Unfortunately, I'm not feeling super hopeful. My symptoms aren't as intense as they usually are when I am pg. Though enough are there to give me some hope. I would love to be pleasantly surprised.

[skeemama]

Originally Posted by 3surfboys 

Hello everyone!  Just wanted to chime in on the new winter thread.  For an update to the first page - I am 41 and will be 9 weeks preg tomorrow with an edd of June 30.

I do have some more comments/questions but will have to come back later. 

Congratulations 3surfboys!!

Baby dust, baby dust, baby dust!!  

[Kristin0105]

congratulations 3surfboys how exciting.