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35yrs + and trying ✨🫶🏼

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SCK2024 · 04/01/2025 19:31

I am now 37 and have one beautiful 10yrs old boy, my partner has 2 boys 9 & 13yrs.

I bought the Hertility kit online, not yet opened it… I was going to give this cycle my last attempt before investigating 🙃

We got pregnant a year ago but due to personal circumstances we both decided to not go ahead, this I carry so much guilt over 🪃

Now we are both ready and settled in our careers and home but now it has taken nearly 6/7cycles.

today I got my 1st + ovulation test, so beginning our January TWW.

what is everyone else’s story 🌟

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Mummysparrow · 06/07/2025 20:49

5dpo and had some thick white discharge. Not sure if that means anything or not.

Mismatc · 06/07/2025 12:27

@SCK2024 11DPO today and bfn, AF due tomorrow or the next day. How are you doing?

ByJollyZebra · 05/07/2025 11:58

Keeping my fingers crossed that we see some positives this month 🤞♥️

We're going to struggle to conceive naturally with the results as they are 😞 just waiting for more tests to see if we can improve things.
Feeling quite crappy but trying to cling on to the fact that the doctor just said very low chance, not impossible x

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SCK2024 · 05/07/2025 08:44

Mummysparrow · 04/07/2025 20:38

I am in Banbury and my hospital appointment is on Coventry.
3dpo for me and trying to be chill 🤣
8dpo is Still early to get a positive. Are you using cheapies?

Yes cheapies - easy at home tests.

yet to test this morning 9dpo, still in bed.

im surprised nhs isn’t the same there as it is here? But exciting nether the less that it’s all being sorted!

I think if my AF arrived I’ll have to cancel my hycosy a 2nd time 🫠 I only bleed max 3days so, not sure if they they will still let me do it if it’s bare minimal or not?

@Mismatc ehen is AF due? X

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Mismatc · 05/07/2025 05:59

I’m 10dpo and bfn, I don’t feel pregnant so I think I’m out. I’ve been so tired this tww and borderline sicky (but I get nauseous when tired) so I had a small amount of hope but I think it’s just the 5-6 hours of interrupted sleep per night from my 16 month old causing exhaustion

Mummysparrow · 04/07/2025 20:38

I am in Banbury and my hospital appointment is on Coventry.
3dpo for me and trying to be chill 🤣
8dpo is Still early to get a positive. Are you using cheapies?

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SCK2024 · 04/07/2025 20:30

Yes be cheeky! @Mummysparrow
whaere are you in the uk?

dpo8 bfn

  • easy at home.
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Mummysparrow · 04/07/2025 19:59

My NHS referral to infertility clinic came through this week and wasn't until march 2026 😳 so I am gonna go the self funded route via NHS and pay £240 for the consultation appointment and I got a new appointment through today for next Thursday 🙌 much better than march 😁
I will be 9dpo so I may ask for a cheeky blood test to see if I am pregnant 🤣🤣

curliegirlie · 03/07/2025 14:14

FRERs show earlier than other tests and also get brighter more quickly. But the Boots early pregnancy tests are similar and almost as good.

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SCK2024 · 03/07/2025 11:08

DPO7 - bfn - I know it’s early but I’m doing them daily 🙂

symptoms - none other than needing a wee more.

x

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SCK2024 · 02/07/2025 16:25

@Mummysparrow @curliegirlie
I know!!!

Least we should be sorted when we are all moved in it may happen! Hoping before Xmas!
it’s the whole chains 🫠🫠🫠

Hycosy is on the 10th June

AF potentially due according to FloApp 11th!

when I arranged my appt I did it so I had my test when I came off my period!

Will have to wait and see if I need to re arrange or a hopeful cancel as might have some luck in the oven cooking 😄

Fab! Thanks for the link! I may purchase for the next maybe cycle!

I personally think frers are rubbish tinnnnnyyyyy lines to read and not even bright.

my easy at homes have arrived! 🎉

Ill restart in 2 days 😆 I’ll try to wait !!!

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curliegirlie · 02/07/2025 15:46

🤣 it’s nuts isn’t it. Even when you know full well it won’t show anything because 6dpo is the earliest day for implantation, and nothing would be visible for at least 48 hours after that, there’s always a naughty voice going, “well maybe you ovulated earlier than you thought!” etc etc. But that’s what cheapies are for, not FRERs 😉.

Here’s the link to the Pregnacare I was taking. No idea whether it made the difference. I’d also tried the (even pricier) Conceive Plus tablets for a while earlier on in this TTC journey and they did very little…

https://amzn.eu/d/dlocSAB

Mummysparrow · 02/07/2025 12:55

@SCK2024when is your hycosy?

Oh God, selling houses and buying is super stressful. I don't plan on moving again for ages after my last move

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SCK2024 · 02/07/2025 12:52

@Mummysparrow
im excited for my hyscosy just to be flushed & heighten my chances also hoping there aren’t any problems of my AF doesn’t arrive.

in the middle of us both selling up, suppose that’s a tad stressful too!

x

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Mummysparrow · 02/07/2025 12:51

@SCK2024so easily done. You get impatient and just hope that there is a inkling of a line 🤣

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SCK2024 · 02/07/2025 12:50

curliegirlie · 02/07/2025 10:31

@SCK2024it’s not karma. Different actions feel right (or are important) at different times - you need to give yourself a break 🫂 12 months always feels like a shitty milestone but just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it can’t still happen naturally. My TTC stints were 16 months, 12 months, 3 years, and this last one after my last MC was just 3 months. You never know what’s around the corner. It’s great that you’re plugged into the NHS fertility investigations. This time round I also took Pregnacare Conception Max (the ones where you take 2 of the green tablets and an Omega 3 round one), which contains DHA, inositol, and CoQ10, which are meant to be good for us oldies!

do you have a link or photo?

I was foolish and did a frer at dpo6 today 🤦🏻‍♀️
I wasn’t expecting two blazing lines, ppl must think I’m made of money, but I was V inpatient 🫠😂

I know implantation is 6-12 Dpo but I have my easy at home being delivered today! 🤞🏼

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Mummysparrow · 02/07/2025 10:37

@SCK2024ohbthays good you have distractions. It is needed isn't it. Annoyingly I am on our of hours with work until next Tuesday so I can't really book anything just in case I get a call.
I discard any symptoms I get the first 7dpo as I have had strong symptoms before and they disappeared at 7dpo and got a BFN so I try to only symptom spot after 7dpo.
This is month 13 after loss for me so I feel you, I really do. It's so hard. My GP has sent off my fertility clinic referral and when the clinic receives the letter I am going to call them and go private. This means I will get an appointment in 2 to 3 weeks rather than in 6 months time

curliegirlie · 02/07/2025 10:31

@SCK2024it’s not karma. Different actions feel right (or are important) at different times - you need to give yourself a break 🫂 12 months always feels like a shitty milestone but just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it can’t still happen naturally. My TTC stints were 16 months, 12 months, 3 years, and this last one after my last MC was just 3 months. You never know what’s around the corner. It’s great that you’re plugged into the NHS fertility investigations. This time round I also took Pregnacare Conception Max (the ones where you take 2 of the green tablets and an Omega 3 round one), which contains DHA, inositol, and CoQ10, which are meant to be good for us oldies!

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SCK2024 · 02/07/2025 08:01

Thankyou!
I’ll give that a try if I’m not lucky this cycle 🫶🏼
I do too! I have a girls brunch this weekend and Oasis the weekend after 🫠🫠 least I’ll be distracted.

Do you have any symptoms currently?
We have been trying just over a year 🤦🏻‍♀️ it’s tough!
we conceived when we wasn’t planning and sadly decided differently at the time … it feels like karma 😓

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Mummysparrow · 02/07/2025 07:54

@SCK2024 I think I paid about £75 with thriva for the AMH test. I had a couple of other things checked at the same time. It says about signing up to à subscription but you can cancel it easily after the test.
thriva.co/i/M3V4ACM7JE8 this code will give you £30 off.
I hate the first week of the wait as I get symptoms but they never lead to anything 😞

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SCK2024 · 02/07/2025 07:38

Mummysparrow · 01/07/2025 21:11

@SCK2024recommend either hertility or thriva for AMH checks. I have a discount code for thriva if you wanted it.
I am thinking of doing some tests with fertilysis if I don't get a positive test by the end of next week

Thankyou that would be amazing!
I paid for Hertility once but returned it, can’t remember why I did though?
how much is it on thriva?

I feel different this cycle
Dpo 6 today.
I hope my mind isn’t playing tricks on me!!
Last day or two I’ve felt a dull full feeling, not bloated, a little back ache yday evening too.

its ridiculous… but I do have frers spare at home 🤦🏻‍♀️ also have easy at home being delivered today at some point.
AF due in 7 days … should I shouldn’t I? Xx

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Mummysparrow · 01/07/2025 21:11

@SCK2024recommend either hertility or thriva for AMH checks. I have a discount code for thriva if you wanted it.
I am thinking of doing some tests with fertilysis if I don't get a positive test by the end of next week

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SCK2024 · 01/07/2025 18:55

I started folic acid this cycle also, but I may look into others and also request a private amh test x
hycosy next week if AF doesn’t show 🤞🏼

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Mummysparrow · 01/07/2025 18:24

Ovulating today for me so starting the 2ww tomorrow.
Had my results from day which have suggested I need some more probiotics so I will get on that but no ureaplasma which is good

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SCK2024 · 01/07/2025 18:17

Only DPO5 today but felt low mid dull ache all day and emotional.

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