Some guy at the farmers market was telling me not to buy potatoes grown in America because they pump them full of radiation. Nice! I know 1 in 7 couples are suppose to have trouble conceiving...not sure where these people are in my life...but this seems like a huge number to me. I do wonder whether it can be related to food & lifestyle or perhaps it?s just that we are leaving everything later. Some nutritionist who runs Optimum Nutritionists in London claims that the fertility diet has a 80% success rate with couples struggling to conceive and she proved it by doing some baby race on GMTV ages ago. I was tempted to go and see them until I read that they tell people to limit their meat consumption and i have found i function much better when i have more meat in my diet.
Well done mr kitty - that?s great news he has got a promotion. I?m crossing fingers my husband gets one after the summer.
Welcome totally - sorry you find yourself here but you?re very welcome to come and join in. Tests you need are Day 2/3 bloods for LH/FSH levels. A day 21 progesterone test which should be taken 7 dpo. You should then get tests for thyroid (tsh levels), vit D, iron levels etc. GPs have a check list of boxes so just get the whole hog. Just make sure you are going onthe right days. My GP sent me off for bloods on Day 13 and she was in a complete muddle about when i should do progesterone. Yes and sperm analysis is important too. Do you know your luteal phase length?
mini - totally understand the avoiding friends thing. I am very selective as to who i speak to and see nowadays. It?s the pregnancies I cannot stand. The baby thing isn?t so bad for me as long as it is on a one to one basis. I am dreading one of my closest friends birthdays soon as there will be loads of little babies and several pregnant women. I am already panicking about it. But mostly I have disappeared off the radar for the last 18 months. I have avoided parties, hen dos and even some weddings as I just can?t face the questioning. I actually felt harassed at one wedding last year with the amount of interrogations. One girl told me she knew I was pregnant because i wasn?t drinking. I do feel like i?m in a rather sad, parallel universe. Of course things could be so much worse than not being able to conceive but at the moment this is just such a raw, relative experience.
mrsd - oh i don?t know how you can stand having a pregnant person come to stay with you. It?s not so bad if they?re not all smug and me , me , me. But if you?re going through IVF , I would have thought you would need that time for just you and dh. But obviously it?s difficult to tell what you will be doing then. It?s the smugness that is so awful and the self importance that some friends seem to radiate when they have a child. I just think us ladies on here will be so self aware when we finally get there and I bet we don?t feel that competiveness that all these mothers feel. We?ll just be overly grateful that it finally happened. I just cannot believe my friend when she discusses how much more advance her 6 month old child is than the other babies from her NCT group. Can you imagine what these women get like by the time their child is at school?!
Hi wine et al ? hope you?re all having good days.
I do find it quite scary how time is flying by so quickly. I remember being horrified that i had been trying for 10 cycles, now I am on my 27th and even 18 cycles doesn?t sound that long to me now. I?m about to enter my 3rd year of trying, I just can?t believe it, it?s such a joke.