40+ TTC getting ready for the Holidays - Page 42

[msgoodbuns]

Juneau, I'm so glad to hear that you've had an uneventful pregnancy (with minor exceptions). Good luck with the birth and delivery. We'll all be thinking about you. Please let us know when there's a new sweet one in this world!

My, my, are we all at the start of new cycles, or what? New hope for the new year!

[reikibirth]

I wish you a terrific birth, Juneau... may I ask if there is an issue requiring a scheduled c/sec? However it goes, may you all be blessed!

[veganmama719]

Toni, I believe it is a repeat C for Juneau and there was a reason she couldn't go for a VBAC.

[kbhlmh]

My, my, are we all at the start of new cycles, or what? New hope for the new year!

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[msgoodbuns]

I try to be positive!!!

[WaturMama]

So sorry nicksmom and BelovedK. I know what you mean about the hope. I get a whole future plan. Each AF is a loss. But I decided last cycle I'd rather have the disappointment/grief along with the excitement and experience this thing fully than numb out. And I know and respect that others like to do it differently.

Also sorry to veganmama. How infuriating. It must seem like such a long week.

Juneau, I'm new here, but so glad you stopped by. It is very nice to hear about your 45 year-old healthy pregnancy self. Lots of good wishes to you.

AFM, I'm not in the coordinated cycles club. I'm on cd21 here, getting to be on the long side of my normal. I had another round of good ewcf yesterday and DTD w/dh, so am very hopeful an egg will drop soon. This morning ds woke me up at 4:00 a. I temped then, which was really early. It was 97.2, which I'm pretty sure means no O yet.

I'm having lots of left side ovary area twinges today, so I hope that's a wonderfully healthy egg getting itself to a wonderfully healthy swimmer.

On the subject of ovary twinges. I almost always have them on the left side. I checked my charts today. Had to go back to 12/03 to find twinges on the right and no others in over 6 years of recording that sign. Does anyone else have a more active side?

[ElliesMomma]

yes i have an active side and i've been wondering about it. it's weird. when it's the left side, it's really crampy for a long time around O and into the LP. then it goes away with AF. this month, musta been the right side b/c i didn't feel a thing. weird. i haven't been to the gyno since the 6 week post partem checkup (2 and a half years ago) and have an appt. this month to get checked out for all the regular stuff plus i figure questions like this (i.e., what's up with that)

AFMy cycle, i'm nearing the end of 2ww. i've felt mildly crampy like PMS for most of the LP and got a little paranoid last night when nursing toddler told me "empty" in reference to my breasts. i kinda panicked that what if i was pregnant, not that that's not the goal in all of this, i've been timing BD to suspected ovulation and all... just i guess i'm not ready to quit nursing! i almost took a test this morning just to be sure, but peed before i remembered it, and at this point, DD told me "full" (not empty") several times today (i ate a ton of oatmeal to make sure it was) and i'm thinking it was just "low tide" end of cycle low breastmilk.

it's pretty strange for me to be obsessing to myself about wanting to CLW... when i found out i was pregnant with DD, i didn't think i'd want to bf at all... now here i am on the other side of the coin totally.

i still do want another child though, and at 40... you know, i'd like it sooner than later for a lot of reasons.

but i also think that i'm personally going to be better off the less i think about TTC. this is a great thread for support in TTC. i just don't know about the roller coaster of timing intercourse each month and then wondering worrying waiting every other two week interval.

i guess i'm just feeling a little melancholy. sounds PMSy, doesn't it? i'll update when AF arrives or otherwise by the end of the week. thanks for listening!

[reikibirth]

Thanks for filling me in, Veganmama! I hope it all goes well for Juneau. Recovering from a c/sec is no fun. :P

AFM: Started spotting tonight, so I'm waiting for AF's imminent arrival. But it's taking its own sweet time. The spotting is brown so far, which is unusual. Probably the stress of moving. Does anyone ever really like the act of moving? I love where we're moving to, I just hate the moving! Ack.

[msgoodbuns]

Toni, I hear ya on the moving thing. I've been doing way too much of it all my life, but for some reason, I find myself moving again (as soon as I get things figured out). Always a good reason, but I hate the packing and the moving itself. Unpacking and settling in is so much easier and more exciting, b/c it is the start of something new and promising.

[Kristin0105]

Congratulations Juneau on your wonderfully uneventful pregnancy. Your little one will be here before you know it. Thanks for reminding us that it's possible to have a wonderfully pregnant 45 year old body.


Toni congratulations on the new house it sounds great. Glad it worked out for you.

Originally Posted by WaturMama

On the subject of ovary twinges. I almost always have them on the left side. I checked my charts today. Had to go back to 12/03 to find twinges on the right and no others in over 6 years of recording that sign. Does anyone else have a more active side?

Interesting, I almost always feel ovary pain on my right side. Occasionally, I get ovary twinges on both sides at the same time but generally it's the right and I have always wondered about it. My non-scientific conclusion has been it's a weird quirk of nature that I feel the ovary pain on my non-dominant side since I'm left handed. I had a theory as to why that would be at one point but it's 5:30 and I've been awake for an hour and I can't quite think clear enough to remember what my theory might have been.

Just to follow up on the Vitamin C question, based on what I could find on the internet it's apparently helpful up to 1,000 mg but over that it may make the vagina too acidic so sperm may not survive. Good to know since I was getting 2,000 mg a day through supplements not to mention what I was getting through my diet. So I dropped the extra 1,000 mg supplement I had been takingt. Not much I can do about the 1,000 in my multi. I guess I'll just watch what I am getting in my diet around ovulation. It is also said to be very beneficial for men.


AFM I am not in the coordinated cycles club either . It's CD20 and I'm 9 dpo. Just waiting for AF since it seems with all the Vit. C I was getting there was probably little chance of any surviving swimmers. This month I decided to try NPC after ovulation and my temps have been a little weird. I don't know if it was because of the NPC or because we were travelling and when we dh is teaching skiing I don't get as much sleep as normal or the stress or what. But my temps have been all over the place. I am trying to maintain optimism but it get's really hard. Especially, when dd asks when we are going to have a baby. Which is a weekly question. She now responds when I say I don't know if we will she says "well then let's adopt one that needs a family." She's so sweet.

Oh, can you update my age to 43 on the front page my birthday was Monday (she says reluctantly and in disbelief)

[kbhlmh]

Happy birthday Kristin!! According to The Infertility Cure, if you have scant CM you shouldn't take too much vitamin C either. I like your theory on the left handed/right ovary thing. I am right handed and tend to only feel my left ovary!

Toni - I hope AF stays away! (No time to check charts right now!) I hate moving. I have lived in this house for 11.5 years and it is the longest I have ever lived anywhere in my entire life!!

Ellies - TTC definitely is a roller coaster ride. For me, some cycles are more stressful than others. It seems like the 2ww is more stressful in the cycles that I feel hopeful.

WaturMama - I sometimes feel my left ovary, usually only after O. This is something that is relatively new to me (past year and a half maybe?) I think I have felt my right ovary only once that I am aware of. I guess that either my left ovary is more active or tends to get cysts. I just don't know.

MsGB - Good attitude!

[massaginmommy]

Updates to here (reikibirth and Kristin your changes are made)
AFM I am cd3
My insurance hasn't paid on my first round of claims I sent for acupuncture. Turns out they needed different diagnosis codes. I have 6 more visits to turn in as well. I need to make sure they are gonna pay before I start this years deductables. Plus with the crappy weather we have had I haven't been able to make it in to get treatment since before Christmas.
I am going to have to order my herbs online because I am out of them as well.

It finally stopped snowing here and now we have rain and warmer weather so it is cleaning up all of our yuck snow.

Juneau thanking for popping in to share about your pregnancy. You give us all hope.

[veganmama719]

Elliesmom, not all children will wean when you are PG. My DD did. She was nuring 7 times a day when I got PG with DS. She was 12 months. By 15 months (12 weeks PG) she had stopped completely. I was so sad.

DS, however, had STILL not weaned himself and he will be 5 in March. I am a big believer in CLW but this is getting a bit much! I was hoping the PG would get him to wean himself but he hasn't said anything about the taste being different. Certainly my supply is not very high, I could express a drop if you paid me. But he has only nursed twice a day for the last 18 months.

A few weeks ago I told him, "no more nursies in the morning". He asks occasionally but I just remind him and he says "oh yeah, I forgot". So he is just nursing before he goes to bed now.

I have NO idea how I am going to get him to decide it's time to stop.

So be careful what you wish for with the CLW thing, LOL!

[SunRise]

Happy New Year All!

It is hopping here! So much going on! Two new mommies (Juls and Juneau (almost). A couple of fairly new pregnancies!

reikibirth: I am glad you got the house! Neat how that lottery and illegalities all worked out in your favour!

I relocated my offices Dec 1 and yesterday the dsl and phones lines were finally up and running. It's been hectic.

I had my first acupuncture session yesterday. It was interesting and relaxing chunk of time. I got an abdominal massage, lots of oils and heat penetrated on me. Yummy, I will continue doing this just for that!

I decided to treat my feeling of depletion as opposed to fertility, although upping my energy and circulation and blood will help that. She said I was looking great and my uterus and birthing area was wide open. My kidney and spleen needs work and adrenals ... which is connected to energy, digestion and circulation. Ah, my tongue showed that I was a "thinker". She then brought in some herbs that she thought would be good for me, but wanted to get my body's opinion first ... she placed the herb on my body and held a crystal over the herb ... and surprisingly my body rejected two of her suggestions but was all over the nettles.

I will return next week but after that once a month (which is how she treats most of her clients)

May get to ttc in January (my partner in TTC lives / works overseas, but gets a month off in jan/feb).

massaginmommy: Are you feeling better since you have done acupuncture? Were you prescribed nettles? My spirits are already uplifted...but maybe that is because I am actually doing something about it! I had a cup of nettles this morning...I'm going to have to figure out how to liken up the taste of it! My acupuncturist drinks a quart a day! eeks.

Can you update my age...I am 42.

[Kristin0105]

Sunrise I love going for acupuncture it is so relaxing. I crave it I'd go twice a week if possible. I've had to give it up temporarily (I hope) and really miss it. I don't know if nettles are included in the herbs she gives me. During the follicular phase I take a tea she mixes from a long list of herbs all written in chinese, from CD12-14 (If I haven't already O'd sometimes I O too early) I take O support herb pills, and from CD14 until menses I take LP support herb pills.

I am wondering if I should start taking DHEA again. I stopped the end of September and my blood test results in the beginning of October revealed my DHEAS level was almost double what it should have been (oopps). But now it's been over 3 months since I have been off it and I feel like maybe my level is down and I should start taking it again. I guess I shouldn't until I get another blood test but I can't afford another one right now. I saw somewhere online a reference to a mail in blood test. Apparently, they send you the vials etc and you take the sample and ship it to the lab overnight. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing and is it reliable? It was a lot cheaper than the over $600.00 labcorp charges but it seemed like there could be a number of things that might go wrong.

[kbhlmh]

Sunrise - Glad you liked the acupuncture! I wish there was someplace close where I could go. I need to look into that. Maybe there is someone in our neighboring town.

Halifax - Lovely looking chart! Are you testing anytime soon?

[BelovedK]

I LOVE acupuncture I am thinking about seeing a TCM DR in my area, they specialize in fertility issues. The only problem is the money I am afraid I won't be able to afford anything other than natural, of course I hope it works this cycle, but I like the fact that there are other options out there. Insurance doesn't cover, so I may just have to accept...

[massaginmommy]

I was feeling better when going. I had more energy etc. I am not taking Nettles. I take Fertile Garden Blend, Eight Treasures and Ease Plus. There is no variation to what I take during my cycle. Should there be? I hear a lot of you say that you take something prior to O and somethign different after O.

[Pookietooth]

I've been doing CLW, and ds is almost 6. I have been limiting it, though, and now more so since I've been doing IVF drugs (so far just bcps and low-dose aspirin, but still). I think my supply is pretty low though.
Today, I go in for my financial counseling appt. for IVF. What fun! (sarcasm).

[Pookietooth]

Originally Posted by veganmama719

Whoo hoo Juneau!!!!! I cannot wait!

Me: went to my midwife appointment this morning. They have me down for NEXT Tuesday. I know this is not my error as I repeated the date back to her and put it in my calendar as I was on the phone with her. And noted that it was the week BEFORE my u/s. Grrrr. If I hadn't already had 2 babies with this midwifery collective I'd really be wondering about htem at this point, this is the 2nd time they have messed up.

Anyway, I rebooked it for Monday at 1 pm, right before my u/s at 3:20.

I am so sorry about the BFN and CD 1 Beloved K and Lynne. There are a whole bunch of you close cycle buddies now. Maybe it will be like the month that Juls, Juneau and Doulamomvicky all got PG at once, that would be great!!!

Sorry to hear they messed up the appointment -- you might want to talk with your mw when you see her.
I sure hope you're right about this being the month we all get pg. Wouldn't that be awesome! I've been a bit discouraged, feeling too old to get pg. Juneau, I am so glad you got pg at 45, it gives me hope for a miracle!