40+ and TTC September, come on over!!

[Velveteen]

Let's start a new thread for a new season!
CD 4 for me...

[fortunategrrl]

thanks for the new thread velveteen!

cd 23 for me. ovulated early so i think we missed it. but a girl can dream, eh?

[Mom4tot]

Hey Velveteen

Let's see, CD 13 for me. Tonite or tom. night, that is the question? :LOL

Thanks for the new thread.

[Kokomom]

Hi all-
Haven't posted this summer because we took a break from TTC. So this month is a go to try again. We left off with doing acu for help with LP in May, was great but did not help. The last few months I have been gaining days and in August we had a 13 or 14 day LP (I was counting sorta). I almost thought I might be pg but am still very happy that now we can actually try and have the time needed for implant. So....thats my story. I will try to read the older posts to see what has been going on with everyone.

Just to share what I will do to boost my chances-
I am giving up caffine
Starting up yoga at least 5-10minutes a day
Assorted teas that help (hopefully)
EPO and B6
OPKs

It always helps me to see it writing so thanks for letting me share. Hope to get to know you all better on our journey

[Kokomom]

Hi all-
Haven't posted this summer because we took a break from TTC. So this month is a go to try again. We left off with doing acu for help with LP in May, was great but did not help. The last few months I have been gaining days and in August we had a 13 or 14 day LP (I was counting sorta). I almost thought I might be pg but am still very happy that now we can actually try and have the time needed for implant. So....thats my story. I will try to read the older posts to see what has been going on with everyone.

Just to share what I will do to boost my chances-
I am giving up caffine
Starting up yoga at least 5-10minutes a day
Assorted teas that help (hopefully)
EPO and B6
OPKs

It always helps me to see it writing so thanks for letting me share. Hope to get to know you all better on our journey
Oh and CD 4 for me too.

[nanmama02]

thanks for starting us up again Velveteen. I've got nothing new - cd 7 but the cycle before this one was only 17 days. I'm watching closely for signs of o - ewcm, cramps, attitude :LOL but nothing yet. and of course tonite dh starts his 3 nights on overnight at job 2. so hopefully it won't be til after the weekend. maybe LABOR day?? how appropriate that would be. hee hee. hey one other sign I have is dh is like a horn toad when I'm about to ovulate. As if his hormones can smell my hormones. He'll even ask me if I'm o'ing cause he's so "distracted." Any of your dh's like that?
Welcome back to school - mine start on the 6th and 7th - and we're all ready, I think! I always mourn the end of summer - I hate winter. Don't know why I live in the north east although right now I'm thankful for not living on the gulf coast anymore.. prayers to all of you who may have experienced any fallout, and to those who are living in that hell right now.

[mamaov4]

Yay,
Thanks Velveteen!
To answer your previous question I am a novice charter..this is my first tracking a cycle from start to finish. I have always paid attention to CM since highschool (I had a teacher in a parenting class talk about it way back then) funny/scary to think how long ago that was!So- I started to notice the differences back then-I was about the most innocent teenager ever so I didn't do it for birth control reasons but just for curiosities sake.

Anyway,I have heard about TCOYF in reference many times but never bought the book myself. I have always TTC the day of first sign of surge because my cycles can be short & erratic and I'm paranoid I'd miss O if I waited for a super dark line (and sometimes my 1st positive is darker). I did wonder though if any of the advice or theories changed as you hit your 40's or if the strength of the line had any bearing on the quality of a given ovulation. The way the tests vary it's probably hard to tell. I had thought about the fertilty moniter but didn't want to shell out the money. Is it a one time only cost? How exactly do they work?

Speaking of surges...I am at day 10 and am pretty sure I am there (did OPK this afternoon).

So I guess I(we!) will do my usual day of surge romancing!

Good luck to everyone and please give me strength to not test until period is actually due this time. I have a horrible testing habit I need to break.

Take care,
mamaov4

[nanmama02]

Mamaov4: maybe if you think of this: save the money you would have spent on all those pg tests and put it toward the price of the predictor! using that, you will be less likely to feel the need to test before af is due.. maybe?? I have the benefit of working at the birth center where my kids were born so I can have all of the pg tests I want! Yet I'm more likely to put it way off, since my period is so unpredictable these days.. when I want to bring it on, I take a test and inevitably I get it the next day!
hang in there!
have fun with the bd!

[hopeful130]

Wow - I'm having trouble with all the names that have the word "mom", "moma" or "mamma". Sorry, I'm a bit thick but I keep getting confused at to who is who.
Thanks for the new thread Velvet. Makes it a bit easier I'd say.
Me - I'm on day 18, officially in the 2ww - don't feel a darn thing. I'm still doing acupuncture. I'm also doing a parasite cleanse that my acupuncturist said to do. Already did a liver cleanse.
That's about it for me so far. I don't do the opk's so I can't answer any questions about them. I can feel "o" coming and I do temping which usually tells me I'm right. I seem to always "o" on day 11. Now if I could only get the eggo. And I don't mean the waffle.

[mamaov4]

moms'o'plenty

yeah, you are right. I may start signing off a little differently,after all I am more than just a mom, right?
mamaov4 (aka hmmm...chocolatefiend....artistwithouttime...dog walker in paradise....lapsedveggiehead...I'll keep thinking...)

[cheesedreams]

Hoping for AF

I'm still here hoping that AF will return this month after 20 mo of bf'ing. I'm feeling more crampy, possibly like I'm close, but I know that it can be like that for a while. One book compared it to "Cloudy skies with no rain." Oh well.

I'm still slow with the ttc abbreviations. I wish there was an on-line translator to speed up my readings!

[nanmama02]

Cheesedreams: try here:

http://www.mothering.com/discussions...ad.php?t=23262

[fortunategrrl]

has anyone here done "the chlomid challenge"?

after my tests came back, my doctor recommended trying "the challenge" as our next step.

[GeemiesMommie]

I'm waiting for AF for the next course of gonadotrophin injections... Did the last round in July, unsuccessfully. Septmeber 2 years ago, I conceived my tiny baby girl, so maybe September is lucky for me. :

[polka123]

cd 22 & 10 dpo

Checking in.

I'm not hoping for much this mo/ as we were gone part of it & didn't pay attention much to my cycle.

I'm to start all the testing for IUI next cycle but not really excited.
DS turned 2 YO the last 1/2 of August & that was a blast.
I feel like the TTC issue is taking away from him at times.
anyone else feel like that

(((((((((hugs))))))))) & for all of us

[hopeful130]

Polka - I feel like that all the time. My daughter is 15 now and my son is 11 and I become so afraid that I'm missing how important my time is with them. The are growing up so fast. I know that everyone says that - I just didn't realize how true it is. My daughter used to be such a mommy's girl. Tonight she passed up "mother, daughter night" to spend the night at her girlfriends. I can't believe she ditched me. She used to jump for joy on those nights. So, yeah - I feel it all the time.
Fortunategirl - I did the clomid challenge. As I'm sure you know, it gives them a better idea of how your "ovarian reserve" is holding out. Anything below ten is said to be acceptable. They want to see if you can keep the numbers down after you do the clomid. I think mine was 6 before clomid and 7.5 after. So I was o.k.

[mamaov4]

perspective...

Yes,
I definitely agree that TTC can take attention away from the family that you already have. Particularly for us, as we more "mature" women know we have a ticking clock at the least and often complicated fertilty issues.

Last weekend I talked with a lady at a neighborhood music festival, we hit it off & chatted for sometime.Her 10 year old son Zach was playing with my 11 year old Nick.When talk turned to family I learned that she had lost her 12 year old son last fall. It just hit me like a ton of bricks, I offered condolences of course- but as it was a night out,diversion for her & we had just met conversation quickly turned to other things. Since then I have found myself thinking about her frequently and am working on truely counting my blessings-

My son Max had several serious kidney infections a couple of years ago,with hospitalizations,MRIs and exploratory (minor) surgeries to look for a physical cause.
He is stable now, and it may have been a maturation thing as he would have a UTI which quickly progressed to Kidney infection. The whole urinary tract & bladder have so many things that can cause trouble if something is just a little out of whack. Being a boy it is more unusual and sometimes quite serious. He has been just fine over a year now and in his case no concrete cause was ever found.

Anyway, I realze just how lucky I have been. Yes, I have had multiple miscarriages but I have 4 wonderful children. We were lucky enough to have access to a fantastic children's hospital& coverage when we did have a serious problem.I am well aware that this is not always the case in the U.S!

The horrible situation in New Orleans and elsewhere has been on my mind as well. My kids and 2 other families we are friends with had a bake sale for hurricane relief on Friday. We just camped out with our table outside a high end (and friendly,neighborhood since 19340) grocery store. In about 2 1/2 hours we raised 236.00! It was great because the neighborhood has people who can give a lot and also lots of college students,elderly and others who can't donate a big check but can throw a few dollars in a coffee can. I think when people see kids doing something positive they are even more likely to get into the spirit. Many people just gave money without buying and one really nice and cute(shame on me I could be his mother) college age guy paid 20$ for a rice crispy treat which earned him big "WOW, THANKS!" from the kids.I have had such an urge to do SOMETHING(like go down with a truck)that it was a relief! And the bonus was that we couldn't have afforded to personally give that much money. I guess this is another long-winded example of feeling fortunate.

Anyway, life does go on as we TTC and sometimes I need to step back and enjoy my life as is.

Hopeful, I have had that little rejection thing too....my boys deciding to play at a friends rather than take a long nature walk- and I am having to lure my 9 year old back to our book clubs...luckily my 11 year old is such a book worm & fan of the coffee shop treats on our dates that I still have him. I guess it is a natural thing...they have to be able to leave home some day so we must (sniff) become a bit less important. I'm sure your daughter hasn't given your dates up for good though..and she will remember them all her life.

Polka,
Two year olds are so much fun! My daughter Helena is 3 and sometimes I think a big part of my contiuning to TTC is the feel of her little arms around my neck. When I was trying to conceive Max (Nick was 1) I had a had a miscarriage before Nick's pregnancy,bled with Nick for weeks and then miscarried before I got pregnant with Max. That time was so stressful in some ways even though I had this wonderful child. It sounds like you had a great birthday, they are good celebrations of life aren't they? And a 2 year old is really starting to get the idea that a birthday is something exciting, if not precisely what it is!

Well as I have for ages here I should stop now. I do agree with Nanama that I should consider the fertility moniter. Right now though I am going to try to chart and not test for a couple of months then reevaluate everything ion a few months!

Good luck to everyone, I think I have hit O as my temp went up .3 this morning if I'm up a bit more tomorrow I should know for sure.

Take care,
Lisa,mamaov4

[mamaov4]

Bringing up the thread for Numnumom!

Here it is!

[cheesedreams]

fertility monitors

Since I'm new to this, I don't know much about fertility monitors. Are there certain brands/types that some of you would recommend?

[Numnumom]

Hey! Here y'all are! I found it! I will c&p my post to the other thread here. I want to respond to this thread, too. So much to say, and so little time............
Caren