TTC December part 2

@AlleycatMarie 8million to 22million! We wanted just 15mil to meet normal range! He did it by life style and vitamins (could have also just been a rouge test/ sample) but I like to hope that if he can improve his stuff.. I can improve mine! I just need some quality eggs 🙈

It’s been ups and downs the waiting / finding and I agree hospitals are extremely slow. My GP didn’t understand why we had to wait and repeat OHs tests however, I am so grateful that we did!
Use the extra time to prepare as best as you can 🤞🏻
we will be heading to IVF clinic in the summer if we don’t get there naturally before 🥰 scared but excited as it’s just one step closer in my mind!

Hi all. 7dpo for me today. Obviously POAS because I can’t control myself and obviously a stark white bfn. My BBT has been ridiculous this cycle, all over the shop and really low for me. Barely a thermal shift. I actually did a progesterone test because I was convinced I’d not ovulation but it came back at 35, so very likely I’ve ovulated.
I don’t feel lucky this month. Really wanted a Christmas baby called Holly 🥲

@lottieb92 that’s amazing that his sperm count increased!!!
We’ve had tests and nothing found so far. Thought I wouldn’t get ivf based on age, but our doctor has said we are eligible for 1 go, which is amazing! It’s just such a long process though and it got delayed because we switched hospitals (not our choice) and since they don’t communicate with one another they want to repeat all the tests 😢 xx

@TunnocksTCake when I realised I was out at the start of this month I thought I’d create a new thread because it seems to be lucky, but then realised I was going to make the end of December in the next round 🤣🤣🤣
Go for it and see if you can keep the good luck going. If it works then I will definitely be starting the Feb 24 thread 🤣🤣🤣 xx

@AlleycatMarie thank you for keeping the faith but I am out and on to try for a 2024 baby! Feels weird. I might start a new thread, I swear thread starters are always lucky!

Best of luck for everyone still waiting!

@Floralsandsmiles I think it’s vit b6 but I may be wrong. I take b complex to cover all bases.

6dpo today. Boobs are ever so slightly tender by that’s normal for me

@AlleycatMarie its a tough old time, glad you’ve got distractions around you!
I always find it soooo up and down when I’m in the TWW 😞 highest highs and excitement to just misery and full depression.

Yes we have been for testing, all my bloods came back totally fine last year. DH sperm came back low count - since have had his repeated and they’re totally normal!
so that was great; then I had internal scan and they spotted I have PCO, so likely PCOS.
frustrating, as I wish I had that scan months ago, but I have since started Inofolic Apha which has great reviews and I have upped my vitamin game / diet tweaks 🙈

I won’t qualify for NHS ivf as we have a child together (7.5 years old!)
Next steps are waiting for laparoscopy NHS - and if not pregnant this cycle I might book a private HyCosy to see if I have tube blockages 🥲
Sorry long story haha …How about yourself?

@Natty83 I know and it always seems to be when you aren't trying or giving the least pressure/effort that it seems to work out positively.

Glad your tests are getting darker, must just be the hcg levels double in the evening for you.

I'm alright thank you, OH has been great and we're going to keep trying from this cycle. They say after a CP you are pretty fertile and I've seen lots of positive stories about trying after a CP. at the same time I'm not going to put any pressure on us though incase it doesn't happen xx

I thought the notifications from the other thread had gone quiet! 👋

5dpo here, I think… I have the same issue as some others here in that OH really feels the pressure. We only managed once at the right time and once when he couldn’t finish. On the recommendation of someone on another thread we now have him on magnesium and maca root. He’s nearly taking as many vitamins as me! 😆
I like the analogy of our ticket being in the draw though! We’re going to be away on holiday next week and I’m fully expecting my period to arrive though.

@Angelselevenx it's so hard because I always look for a pattern and there just doesn't seem to be one, there's so much dumb luck involved. Like this month we only dtd once and I had the flu, and eating so many cough sweets my blood sugar must have been all over the place, so why did that catch when in the last three months I'd been eating right etc and we'd been exhausting ourselves trying for every other day?
The lines on the ICs are getting very gradually darker, not as much as some I've seen posted but moving in the right direction. I'm staying away from the FRERs/digitals etc, a bit scarred from the 2 negatives. Consistently though I'm fainter for fmu and stronger in the evening, which is weird.
How are you? xx

@lottieb92 it’s so hard when you’ve got nothing to distract yourself - time goes even slower!!! Dh is away but mil is coming to stay for the long weekend so I think that will distract me!!
I totally get what you’re saying about the end of year thing. I keep thinking how 2023 will be another year where a baby doesn’t arrive. We’ve been ttc for 2 years now. It doesn’t help that my team at work have had a spate of pregnancies and everyone keeps joking about sitting on a certain chair.
Have you been for any testing? Xx

@emmatcc1 that looks like a good sign to me!

My temps went up again could this be a good sign or is it normal. Also I have been waking up covered in sweat and my boobs have been sore but they usually get sore just before af and I still have 6 days to go.

@Natty83 thank you, maybe I'm just overthinking it trying to find answers 🫣.

I normally have 31 day cycles, cd1-cd8 is my period (I've always had long periods), cd21 ovulation day and then period comes cd32/cd1 so everything is classified as normal and regular.

How are you doing? how are your tests looking this morning? Xx

@Angelselevenx I've had a look at my app and on average I get my period on 12dpo so I think that means 11 days LP? Does it start from the day after O? but not always, sometimes it's 11dpo or 13dpo and there's 1 cycle I got it on 14dpo but that cycle was a chemical.
I have had 1 successful pregnancy, he's 18 months now. So it is possible, took us a couple of years to get him but no way for us to know if LP was a factor xx

@Mummyme87 that's reassuring to know. Yeah I do I have a vitl supplement subscription and have coQ10, Omega 3, a mineral supplement and a fertility multivitamin with all the usual zinc, magnesium, folic acid etc in there

@Angelselevenx I have a 12day LP and have had two children successfully. I believe 11days is okay. Do you take supplements? I think it’s vit B that lengthens LP

Thank you @Daniki.

Just out of interest does anyone else have an 11 day luteal phase and gone on to have a successful pregnancy? I've been non stop googling as you do, wondering why and what ifs and whether it's because of my LP or anything to do with me. I know there's never any answers for CP really but I do wonder. They say short LP is 10 days or less so I'm over that threshold but only just.

Hey ladies i recognise some of your names from other threads im in, hoping I can join as we're in the same TWW and I'm driving myself bananas testing early 🫣 not sure when i ovulated as I didn't want to do the whole opk thing again but AF due the 14th and I'm testing negative. I know I used to ovulate early in cycle like day 9/10 but this cycle going my CM it would of been day 14 so hopefully still in with a chance 🤪
Congrats to all with positives, good luck to all still waiting and sorry to read what you're going through @Angelselevenx ☹️

@AlleycatMarie im off work (Easter hols for me) the whole TWW so I knew I had to motivate myself some how 🤞🏻 I am a little exhausted though now 🤣

so many announcements around me these last few days I’m trying to keep from spiralling into jealous mode … been TTC for so long and with December being the last month for 23 baby, I think I’ll feel all kinds of weird knowing id be trying next time for a 2024 baby! As we’ve been wanting this since 2020…

ah well what can we do ey! 🥲

@lottieb92 🤣🤣🤣 i hope the 2ww spurs me into some cleaning to take my mind off things!!!

4dpo… cleaned the sofas and stairs… painted fence yesterday, whatever next but keeping my mind off it 🙈

So sorry @Angelselevenx 🤍 sending love and positivities for next month!