Self insemination - Any success stories?!

Hi @MrsKin90 I hope you’re well. It sounds like you’ve done everything you can this month so if your period arrives it’s not for lack of trying. I will keep my fingers crossed for you 💚
It’s bloody hard on the weight loss isn’t it? I got so (too!) skinny a few years ago for getting married but I’ve now piled weight on due to a tough few years and just not looking after myself. Lockdown has made me realise that I was giving all to my clients and work and nothing to myself. TTC is making me take healthier options so even a pound a week off would be great 🙏🏻😄

I’m going to keep tracking ovulation with the sticks, I’m due period in 9 days but finding out about womens ovulation in the last few weeks has been eye opening (like I said above I’ve been a crap person at this!) I just want to start getting to know my cycle in depth. If I did O over the weekend then at least we had two days of syringing! We used the onesmy husband bought then my stuff came Monday so we have 300+ syringes hidden in the house ha!
Think we’ll do it again tonight, might as well and it gives me 20 mins playing merge dragons in peace!

I hope everyone has some beautiful weather today, it’s gorgeous here in Yorkshire. Sending positive energy to you all on this journey. I’m ever so grateful to you group of lovely strangers 💚

@LuckyFlash congratulations that is fabulous news! Did you do it by insemination? Any tips you did differently?

Hope everyone else is ok xx

@Oilyoilyoilgob Thanks so much for your thoughts and kind comments. How exciting that you've done your first lot of inseminations! I can understand the fear of being pregnant and giving birth but lots of people do it loads of times so it can't be that bad can it?? (Or so I keep telling myself). Are you going to do any further inseminations/keep using OPKs until you catch your peak? Or is that it for your this cycle? 😊 If you did O over the weekend at least you would have a good chance of catching the egg.

@TurkeyBasterHopeItWorks reflexology sounds cheaper than acupuncture! I hate my feet (it is to do with feet isn't it?!) But will consider it! 😊 well done losing all that weight! I lost 2.5 stone with SW and kept it off for over two years and then since coming off birth control have managed to gain it all back (in less than a year!) And it doesn't feel fair at all. Sometimes I think we need to go back to basics!

I'm 13dpo today. My BBT is up but my resting heart rate on Fitbit is on its typical downward trend for AF and j have atrocious cramps and some spotting yesterday 😟 ah well. Couldn't have done more than we did this cycle given the circumstances we were lucky to have managed to try at all.

@LuckyFlash omg 🥰 I'm so happy for you! It's always such a good feeling when someone gets a bfp. Fingers crossed for the stickiest bean for you. Congratulations! Also hope you're having a lovely holiday (which I imagine even if you weren't you are now!) It's FRIDAY. I can't believe your got your BFP on Monday and kept it to yourself 😱

@LuckyFlash OMG just seen your post, that’s amazing news for you! Hoping everything continues to go well ☺️ Did you use the syringe method? Xx

@AdriannaP and @Carol1980 again, I’m really sorry to read up thread what’s been happening with you both. Sending my best wishes that you’re both ok and looking after yourselves. Reading these threads can be heartbreaking 🙁

@TurkeyBasterHopeItWorks hope you’re well. I’ve not heard of those sachets. I think I’m a shit ttc person as I don’t really know what’s going on 😂

I was due to ovulate last sun according to my period and Fitbit trackers, got ovulation sticks on Monday and they haven’t shown me ovulating yet. So I either missed it over that weekend or I ovulate early. Been doing them every day this week and now I’m papping myself that’s there’s something wrong with me. Anyway we did our very first syringe sperms on sat and sun and tues 😃 so we’ll see. I made sure to orgasm then went on games on my phone for 20mins, it’s quite nice relaxation time.

I do have huge anxiety around being pregnant and especially giving birth so starting this journey is one of trepidation to be honest. I’m very very scared of the thought of labour and being out of any control.

But then at the same time I want to be a mum and currently (and awfully) have been pleased that due to corona we haven’t yet seen a friends newborn as it makes me feel so shit, a failure. Especially when for this friend, it was unplanned due to an antibiotic failure and I feel awful at the feelings it conjures up. I’m normally so happy and giving but I felt really fed up to hear that. This is the only place I can say this without fear of judgement xx

Hi all,

@TurkeyBasterHopeItWorks glad to hear from you - fingers crossed for success in your next round of IVF!

@MrsKin90 you must be coming near to the end of your tww now? Have you tested yet?

I’m so sad to hear that it’s been such a tough week for some of you. I haven’t posted in a few days because I didn’t want to add to that feeling but I got my BFP on Monday (13dpo). It’s an odd feeling - Lots of excitement but also some anxiety that everything will go wrong. My family are joining us on our holiday tomorrow so I guess it will start to feel more real then when I’ve told them! I’ve only taken one test so I’m just hoping for the best until I see a midwife (not sure if that’s sensible or not as I see lots of people on here take multiple tests after their BFP)

Hope you’re all doing ok x

@MrsKin90 and @Carol1980 I’m ever so sorry to read about the loss of your parents. I hope you’re both as ok as you can be at this time. Just catching up but didn’t want to read and run over your posts xx

@Carol1980 to be fair we haven't looked at diets so maybe I'll look at that. He can't take pre-conception vitamins or anything else containing magnesium or zinc 😟 makes me nervous to let him have anything lol so currently just has a multivitamin that his doctor okay'd! Will look at diets too 😊

@TurkeyBasterHopeItWorks so lovely to hear from you. Will cross all my fingers and toes for you that the IVF round works 🤞🤞 let us know how you get on! Reflexology sounds lovely. Is it expensive? I wanted to try acupuncture but was too much of a cheapskate to pay for it 😳

Haven't tried proceive max, will have a Google out of interest. Hope they make a difference 😊

@MrsKin90 I have no idea to be honest.
My husband takes conception vitamins from vitabiotics x

I'm sure with a bit of googling there will be something online about certain diets or foods to eat x

Thanks @Carol1980. Will see!
Can they actually do anything for sperm issues?
Due to the medication he's on there's so much he can't have/take.

@MrsKin90
We got a lot off of a website called Dr Fertility to check my hubbys sperm a couple of months ago and it came out fine x you get two tests in the kit and its pretty simple to do x
I would try to get him to test as soon as you can as the longer you wait the longer it would be until he was able to get something for it etc if it's not a great result x

He doesn't want to do it yet 😔. Suppose it's a hard thing for a man to think about. He takes medication which can impact sperm though so we know it might be an issue... I'm trying not to press it and will wait for him to be ready I guess. If there IS something wrong with his swimmers, we'd not get any NHS help due to my BMI I imagine so we'd need to go private for help and can't afford to so in a way there's no point just yet.

@MrsKin90 you should do it now if it is worrying you? My hubby got his checked and he’s ok so I think it’s just life stresses and ttc stress getting to me so need to try and relax! X

@Lori23TTC I'm so sorry you've started spotting! 😔 I'm not far off of a year. September I think. We said we'd get hubby's sperm checked if no BFPs by the end of the year. Seems a life time away.

@MrsKin90 sorry to hear about your mum too.

I’m Nearing my period... I don’t know when I ovulated as we were having a month off tracking, needed to do it for only mental health as was really getting to me. Started spotting today so that’s me out. We go back to tracking this month. We have been trying a year now I’m not pregnant this month 😬 makes me feel sad. I am also trying to stay away from baby related gatherings! Just making excuses.

Hope everyone is ok x

@Carol1980 @AdriannaP I’m sorry to hear about your experiences these past couple weeks. I hope you’re both doing okay

@LuckyFlash @primrosechill AF came eventually. Kinda put me in a bad mood because I am normally so so regular, so got my hopes up ☹️
This month I’ve really not tracked, I’ve not pee’d on any sticks and we inseminated only once on my predicted ovulation date according to my period trackers.... probably not the best route to take but I just wanted a break this month, if for nothing else just so that my mental health was good as it’s putting me a bit down because it seems to be taking forever (and I know that just a few months is nothing in the grand scheme of things and for how long some people have been trying for)

How is everyone? Sorry for not keeping up with you all. Going to try and catch up now!

@AdriannaP that sound so hard, I can't even imagine. Sometimes I think you need to distance yourself from baby related stuff around you to protect yourself until you're ready, although it'll always come back around so you can't hide from it forever. Are you looking after yourself and talking to your DH about it? 😟

@primrosechill I'm 10dpo. My BBT and RHR on Fitbit are both following my usual pattern and I'm right where I was at last tww with both so that doesn't bode well really! Hoping, but hopes not very high.

Had my mum's funeral today so feel really sad, not sure how I'll be if/when AF turns up but hopefully I'll have some perspective from everything going on.

Hope everyone is getting on alright!

@AdriannaP you done as much as I could have done to stop the MC. You can't, even with all the will in the world, change what your body decides to do.
The way I look at it is, there's nothing wrong with us, so that means it was simply not a viable pregnancy x
Don't beat yourself up about something that you literally have zero control over x it was honestly not your fault xx

My friend has another baby two days ago - a day after my miscarriage. The whole day my whatsapp was full of congratulations messages on a friends group to her. I am so drained - physically and mentally.
Keep thinking if and how I could have prevented this. It’s just all too much.

Since I have TTC DC2, 3 colleagues have gone on maternity leave 💔 I skipped a virtual baby shower recently.

@AdriannaP im so sorry to hear that 😢😘

@Carol1980 sorry aunt flow arrived for you too.

I know exactly how you feel the girl I sit next to at work is pregnant and she talks about being pregnant all the time, I have to pretend that I’m fine talking about her pregnancy all the time, she got pregnant first go to! I’m like oh how lovely but inside I’m like why haven’t I in a year! I am happy for her but breaks my heart it’s not happening to me too.... x

@Carol1980 tell me about it! I'm sure we are just super sensitive to news like that at the moment but it does seem like everyone but me is pregnant at the moment...

@MrsKin90 how many DPO are you now? You are getting close to the end of the TWW, aren't you??