Preparing and TTC in 2023 - Thread 2

Sorry for your loss @CRbear .
Didn't want to read and run.

I’m so sorry for your losses @CRbear and @WolfMother326.

I am days away from starting medication again for IVF. So nothing much been happening here.

@CRbear I'm sorry for your loss. I'm currently going through one too. I am still in the middle of it but hoping go try again this autumn.

Sorry for your loss
I'm still trying but I only got my genetic results back in July to clear us to go ahead and get TTC again. It's a scary journey at times but we all have eachother right here for support

Sorry to hear about your loss
We just had a lose too

Will be trying again

Sending you all the luck

@CRbear so sorry to hear that my love. I can't remember when I first joined this thread but unfortunately I had a MMC in April (found out at scan that baby had stopped developing a month earlier) and then I have literally just had a chemical pregnancy this last cycle. So I am back to square 1 also and have my original due date looming rapidly at the end of next month and feeling a bit raw about it all. Sending you a big hug. Has your loss only just happened? I know that feeling of time being against you. I hope you manage to find time to process your loss and grief too 💕

Anyone still trying from this thread?

Unfortunately I miscarried at 9+4 so I’m back on this board. Not sure I’m ready yet but can’t really wait when it took us so long to get pregnant.

Next steps for me - await period coming back, get back on my conception vitamin regime, focus on healthy food and exercise.

@Mrsttcno1 that's amazing news! And absolutely, enjoy it, try not to stress! There's no reasons to think anything otherwise, try not to work yourself up about the what ifs and just be present in the now! Very exciting times ahead!

@Minnierose11 thank you! Yeah our first month of properly trying! I can’t quite believe it I’ve done 4 tests now but it still just doesn’t feel real! Obviously still very early days so I’m a bit worried but for now I’m going to stay positive! Xxx

@Mrsttcno1 oh wow!! Congratulations! That's amazing news!
Yes! Must have ovulated sooner as 8-9dpo to get a positive on a digital would be too soon! But all the same, amazing news!!
Was this your first month trying?? I can't remember sorry! Fingers crossed for you.

Many congratulations mrs!

An update from me today, so I must have got mixed up with my dates and ovulated sooner than I thought because after having to run to the toilets on the train to be sick this afternoon (literally never felt sickness like it), I went and bought a pregnancy test and …. Obviously very early days but for now I’m excited and hopeful for a sticky baby 🤍

DP had me do the 2nd test before he would believe it🤣

I’m really sorry @Hopingforno2in2023 thats so shit

I developed cold symptoms so they asked me to test CRbear :( This morning I can feel my ovaries responding to the lack of medication and it is devastating to think of those 8 eggs wasted. If I pay for the scans I had then I won’t lose one of the two cycles I have prepaid for. With the extra medication it should come to less than £500 I think. Have to have a withdrawl bleed and then a normal period and then I can start the testosterone again. I think it will be October before I get to this stage again :(

@Mrsttcno1 - second everything @Minnierose11 said. So annoying when all you can do is wait and see. Everything crossed for you!

@Hopingforno2in2023 oh no- that’s awful!! How did you find out- do they test you before each step? I suppose they want you in peak physical health. But they can’t leave all those eggs to just what disappear in you?! Is this at your cost too? I’m so sorry. You must be devastated!

Have had to cancel my IVF cycle today as I have COVID :(

@Minnierose11 thank you! so I’m CD25 today and ovulated CD17, I didn’t track BBT this cycle but will for next cycle! I’m pretty sure I did ovulate then because I had some strange/very unusual pains like a stitch pain, but without having confirmed by BBT I suppose it’s possible I didn’t ovulate so maybe it is trying again!

My period being near could be right, my app says I should be due Wednesday next week so possibly that! Someone else mentioned possibly pregnancy but like you say surely it would be far too soon for that given even an actual pregnancy test wouldn’t be picking it up yet?

I’ve got some tests coming today and if my period doesn’t come I’ll test next week to see! X

@Mrsttcno1 Hello, so this could be several things, firstly, depending how long your cycles are, it could be an indication your period is near, as levels can rise close to your period.
Or it could be failed ovulation the first time so your trying again. Do you track bbt? Did it confirm it the first time?
Or.... a small possibility it could indicate pregnancy?? Although would be a small chance given your only 8 days past ovulation..

Morning everyone! I’m really hoping someone on here may be able to explain this to me, as I’m so confused! I’m 8DPO today, and this is my OPK? Now I do know it’s not positive, but I’m really surprised at how dark the test like is and don’t really understand why it would be this dark? For reference, my app measures it at 0.6 and the last time I had a 0.6 was the day before my peak, so surely I’m not going to ovulate again now?!😂

Congratulations @CRbear !

Congratulations @CRbear!

6 weeks and 3 days to go !!

Congratulations @CRbear !!! I'm so pleased for you!! How exciting!!

Sorry for disappearing, CD1 today. But my cycles have proper levelled out now!! Peaked CD12 last 2 cycles, bbt confirmed, and 14 days luteal phase each cycle, and 28 day cycle.