The Good Husband of TTC Drive (No1 Babies Detective Agency pt5)

Hello everyone

Well, my patience paid off. DH mentioned he hadn't booked his sperm analysis appointment last night and asked me to remind him this morning. He now has a date in a couple of weeks' time which means we'll have the results before the referral appointment.

Nomore Sounds like your appointment went really well and so glad you're not being kept waiting long.

Gilly I'm so impressed with your knitting. I've got a cross-stitch sampler I started last year for someoone and haven't finished yet - it's very slow progress.

Hello to everyone else. Am going to be away for the next week or so but would be lovely to see some good news when I get back! Fully expect AF to appear while I'm away.

Poppy Hope HSG goes well next week - will be away so look forward to hearing about it when I get back. Know what you mean about not being sure what results you want - part of me is hoping we'll find out what the problem is (as long as it's easily solvable!)

Nomore hope your appointment goes well.

Well, have left DH's semen analysis paperwork by the PC (subtle hint!) but will wait until Friday morning when he's off work before nagging gently reminding him to book his appointment. Gilly Hope it doesn't take you DH too long to get round to it - must be difficult when he's away from home so much.

Ready If you're lurking, hope your positivity is coming back. As Gilly said, we miss you

Gilly - k2togtbl - knit 2 together through back of loop - ie when you normally do a knit stitch you put the needles in through the part of the stitch that is over the front of the needle, and push the needle away from you. For this, instead put your needle in along the other needle and poke it out backwards after you go through 2 stitches (try it and it will be more obvious!) rather than knitting 2 together through the front where you effectively skip over the first and stick your needle in the second but then catch the first as well.

When I had HSG I would have preferred the consultant not to say 'there that wasn't too bad was it' to me afterwards - I don't think anyone should say that unless they've had the procedure done on them! I think that it affects different people differently, but quite a few people suggest having some ibuprofen 30 mins before.

Poppy Ds post dated HSG. Can't remember how long, but not too long.

Thanks will let you know - not sure what results I want. If there is a blockage at least a cause has been found, if not not sure what the next stage is. Will have to wait and see.

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Poppy hope HSG goes well.

Hello everyone -

hobnobs I attended the first clinic appointment on my own as DH was away working. I took all the results with me as it was at a different hospital. They didn't seem to mind at all.

I have just heard from my consultant and she's confirmed all the results are ok, so to go ahead with the HSG (next week). They have booked an appointment for my review with the consultant in the second week of April, alittle bit of wait but I can cope with that. All in all the service has been quite speedy, I was only referred in Jan and will have tests and HSG within 2 months and review in 3 months from referral.

will not be ttc for the next 2 months so feel alot more relaxed and decided to drink and do bad stuff.

Due to HSG can't ttc this month and had yellow fever injection which nurse told me not to ttc for 3 months after it. Does anyone else know how long you should wait??? I think I won't next month and that will give it 10 weeks which should be fine.

Anyway I'm off out now, will be sprinkling dust for BFP's to you all this week

Wow Nomore that is fast! Good luck for your meeting.

I am due on the 15th June, which sounds a lot further away than 16 weeks, given how fast the last 24 have gone!

Hi everyone

Thanks for the advice about hospitals / clincs. In the end, I choose the hospital near DH's work, largely as I work from home so have more flexibility plus it seems to have a slightly better reputation, though none of our local hospitals seem to be that great . (This is just the first stage - if we need to go down the route of assisted conception, they'll refer us on to a fertility clinic and will certainly need to look at the HFEA website then). Need to hurry DH into re-booking his semen analysis - at the moment I'm not sure that he'll have the results before I have the initial appointment which is a bit frustrating.

Mistlethrush Hope you got the quiet weekend you needed and that DS has been behaving himself.

Big wave to everyone else. It's a lovely day here - blue sky and sun (though probably cold outside!) Almost spring!

Gilly - no follow up booked as yet, so I'm a bit - don't know whether to phone the doctor to see if they did write the letter for me or what.

No, I'm definitely not anaemic, even though I'm vege. One great thing to eat is carob (you can buy it in a flour version from proper wholefood shops so you can add a teaspoon to breakfast cereal, yoghurt or milk or something) - it is a really good way of boosting iron and is very effective, much more effective than pills. I know this as I managed to get my levels up to almost normal in one week rather than the 3 they thought that it would take on the iron pills they gave me after I got discharged after 2nd d&c when I was border line needing a transfusion.

Nomore sounds a good clinic to choose, whatever the website was. I think HEFA would be better (heiffer!) under the circumstances.

I guess we were all just too busy to post over the weekend! We are re-decorating a couple of bedrooms in preparation for new baby (24 weeks now, how is that possible?) so am losing internet connection for long periods. Will try to keep up but in the meantime, hello everyone, and hope you are all ok.

Oh, and Nomore, congrats with the early appointment, its a shame you have to cancel but at least things are moving.

Hi all - still not feeling quite normal - more washed out than normal, and certainly with a shorter temper - and ds seems to be particularly good at winding me up. But OK.

Hobnobs - dh came to some of our appointments, but definitely I had to attend more times. Don't know what to advise you - perhaps you could query how long appointments take to come through after you've had the first one.

Hoping for a quiet weekend: could do with some extra rest. What would be really good was if ds sleeps as late over the w/e as he did this morning (7am!!!!). You have no idea how wonderful it is not to get up before then! Bet he won't though, more likely to be 5.45.

Hooray! Poppy I'm glad it's worked out ok.

I have a question for those of you who have been referred to the hospital for further tests. My GP suggested that my DH attend the first appointment with me but I wondered how likely it is that he'll need to attend other appointments. So far, I've had a Day 21 progesterone test which was fine and he's done (well needs to re-do) the semen analysis. Although she mentioned a laporoscopy, I've got no idea what other tests the referral might involve but would imagine that he will be less involved than me.

Am trying to decide between a hospital which is more convenient for DH's work but has 34 day wait for appointments and another one which has only 10 days. Not sure if the 34 days wait is symptomatic of delays in future appointments.

Hello again - have just realised that the units that my test for oestradiol were different to Zita Wests book. So I have used my calculator and thankfully it is 25, which I think is normal!! Hurrah!!! Am much relieved now

Can enjoy weekend without guilt over career and travelling in my 20's. God ttc does make you go through rubbish emotions. If this ever works I will never want a blood test again!!!!

Hope everyone is having a good day. Was cake day at work today so scoffed lots of naughty things, have officially fallen off the healthy wagon!!! It does feel good

Hello guys - have just got results back and am alittle confused. My blood results on day 1 were FSH 6.1, LH 6.3 but my oestradiol was 91. After looking on web this could indicate a low ovarian reserve! Can't seem to get a definitive answer anywhere, but am quite disappointed as there doesn't seem to be any treatment for it.

Does anyone know anything about this? Or have I just left things too late??? Feel quite down about it, wonder if I had my priorities wrong and should have tried before I was 30 ?!?! TTC really is the pits!!!

Well went back to see GP yesterday and she's given me a hospital referral (just need to negotiate my way through the NHS online system of "Choose and Book"). Typically, the hospital which would be most convenient has a longer waiting list though it's around a month which isn't too bad.

DH has been told he has to do his semen analysis again as it leaked He's adamant it was all properly sealed but as he was a bit stressed out by the whole thing, hopefully it will be easier the second time. Says he doesn't expect there to be any problem and that it's just a matter of time for us. Haven't got the heart to tell him that it is often a male problem. Typical male bravado! Will cross that bridge if we need to.

Great news about the appointment Nomore .

Mistlethrush Sorry it's not been a good month. I thought we were doing so well and DH very cooperative until a misunderstanding meant that he thought I'd ovulated a day ealier than I did, so he was off duty. By the time he got home from work late, he was far too knackered for anything. Resulting conversation all a bit stressful. It certainly puts its strain on relationships at times, all this TTC, doesn't it! Poppy Agree with you about all the efforts we have to go to being a bit weird. Suppose there's still a big part of me hoping it will just happen but at least we've agreed that we should press on with further tests etc in the meantime.

Hello to everyone else and have a good weekend.

hello guys - nomore glad your appointment is soon, it just makes you feel more in control when things move on.

MT hope you are feeling back to normal now after you A&E nightmare

I have postponed my HSG for two weeks. This means that I won't be able to ttc this month as it will be on day 19 or something like that. It is wierdly a slight relief at least I won't have the disappointment this month and have booked trip to NYC next month. So I can now really look forward to that and not have 'will I be PRG or not' in my mind. I've also decided to get all my injections upto date as I'll have 6 weeks before I could possibly get pregnant.

It feels quite good that after HSG will just do things because want to without the day count down in my head!!!

Hopefully my FSH results should be around Friday or early next week and can see if what quality eggs I've got! Never in a million years did I ever think I'd have to do all this to have a baby, what a wierd process this ttc is!!

I had a really strange dream that I was 9 months pregnant the other night and going into labour, it was strangly relaxed but a really vivid dream. Woke up quite confused Apparently in dream analysis it means I am going to get a financial bonus!!! Watch this space

Now am off to think of all the fab things I can get in NCY!!