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TTC and living overseas?

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MummyAbroad · 19/09/2010 02:02

Hola!

Anyone fancy keeping me company while I while away the rainy season afternoons hanging out on MN, peeing on foreign sticks and dreaming of the coveted BFP?

I'll even start a list...

MummyAbroad Costa Rica TTC #2

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milanomum · 23/09/2010 07:59

Hello! me too!

I'm (as you may have guessed) in Italy and have been since '99. I have a DD who is 2 and she was conceived the first month we decided to 'see what happens' but have been TTCing no.2 for about 5 months Confused

I was of course, all calm and collected for the first 3 months thinking it would happen immediately, but now I'm starting to panic just a little...it's all Google's fault.
I'm not temping or using opks because I suffer a bit when I ovulate but this is my first cycle with Pre-seed and pollen (not together obviously) and I'm on the usual multi-vits and follic acid.
I'm trying to avoid caffine (but failing) and drinking a wee bit less than i used to.

The ante-natal care over here is fab and childbirth is treated really naturally. So much so that there is no G&A and epidurals are only random! ho hum...

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MummyAbroad · 22/09/2010 23:00

Yep, you are making me look madder and madder,

I am on:

(pre ov)
evening prim oil
red clover blossom

(all cycle) B6
multivit
Omega 3
Folic Acid

and the odd bit of bee pollen (tastes more like bee pooShock , so not that often)

I am also taking temps, checking CM and CP and using OPK's (twice a day around ov) plugging it all into fertilityfriend.com whilst cross checking agains TCOYF.

Blush

and after all that I am still BFN and no AF today! Gaaahh!

I was going to ask if there are anymore overseas TTCers lurking out there, but I think I will have scared them off GrinBlush

Where are you on hols? Have something with an umbrella in it for me! xxx

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NoMoreChocBiscuits · 22/09/2010 20:47

I'm trying licorice, which sounds a bit odd, but i've read it can help rebalance hormones, so can't hurt I figure. Am trying to bump up the B vitamins too.

Hehe how funny you think I'm calm and relaxed! I think if this TTC lark goes on for much longer I'll need a straight jacket!
Still being on holiday with my parents and no DH means I can't do anyting about it til next week, so realx and eat to much it is Grin

How you holding up?

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MummyAbroad · 21/09/2010 00:07

Hi NoMoreChoc

Wish I had your calm relaxed approach! I am going totally slightly nuts at the moment, 11-13 DPO (wish i knew which) and still BFN. Cant keep off MN for 5 mins! This is my first real TTC effort after the mc, but as that was 5 months ago it all seems so urgent and important!

I conceived DS without trying too, and didnt bother doing a HPT until I was about 3 weeks late. What a difference this time!

Have you tried B6 for the luteal phase?

have a lovely holiday xxx

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NoMoreChocBiscuits · 20/09/2010 22:40

Sorry MA haven't abandoned you, just haven't been online much.

To answer your question. I don't both charting. Just keep a note of when my period is. I feel ovulation most months, so am able to work it all out from that. I seem to have a 9 day luteal phase. No idea what it was when I got pg with DS as we weren't actually trying Blush

Sounds like you've had a nightmare time trying to get sorted out after your MC!

Been back in Scotland for a year and a half. Was here for about that long before, then went back to NZ at 5 months pg, for a year. Am hoping to get back to NZ in 2 years, but we will see. Money is an issue for us at the moment.

Ohh how did your POAS go? I'm currently in the post AF pre ov wait. Bored!! Away off on holiday with my parents tomorrow though, so that should keep my mind off of everything.

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MummyAbroad · 20/09/2010 21:47

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MummyAbroad · 19/09/2010 14:42

Hello! (or should that be Och Ay!)

I think I have seen you about on some other threads. I have suffered MC (mmc) too. I know what you mean about going over the story everytime, I will give you the short version of mine...

Discovered at 14 weeks (baby measured 8) and then medically (mis)managed. 7 rounds of pessaries to expel products didnt work, but everybody thought it did. Told I had PCOS, then told I didnt. Then they found placental cells had regrown, told it was molar, had an ERPC (4 months after first finding out that there was no heartbeat) lab results showed it wasnt molar, still waiting for AF after ERPC (been 10 weeks now) have started TTC because I just cant wait any longer! (Sorry its not that short is it?)

I think part of my distress is and always has been never really knowing if I am getting good medical care or not(reading the above it doesnt sound like it, does it? Grin). Part of me always thinks, maybe if I was back home things wouldnt have turned out this way.

Costa Rica is lovely, sunny and friendly. Medical care is rubbish though so I have to spend all my savings on going private. Private hospitals are very fancy (lots of medical tourism here) but seeing lots of independent doctors is not very reassuring, I would rather be part of the NHS "system" IYKWIM

I am very sorry for your losses. Cant imagine what it would be like to go through this twice. How long have you been in Scotland? Do you get to go back to NZ much?

Got to go POAS now, am 10-12 days DPO Shock Grin

Do you chart? Have you checked your luteal phase is OK that way?

take care xxx

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NoMoreChocBiscuits · 19/09/2010 09:51

NoMoreChocBiscuits TTC #2 Scotland (from NZ)
MummyAbroad Costa Rica TTC #2

Vowed not to stray from my regular thread as the pain of having to tell about an early miscarriage on lots of threads was a bit much to handle, but I'm a long way from home and it's hard to explain how that feels to someone who isn't.

Have been trying for 2 months and have already had 2 early miscarriages. If I suffer another one I'll be back down to the Docs demanding my progesterone levels get checked.

What's Costa Rica like MummyAbroad?

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