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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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Any older mums ttc (late 30s)?

359 replies

sideways · 27/02/2006 15:57

I was just wondering how many of the ttc people were in their late 30s or 40s.

I am 38 and started ttc this year. It would be nice if we could support each other.

OP posts:
Caribbeanqueen · 27/04/2006 16:29

Hi maisie, I don't do charting, or temperatures, or calculations of any kind really! Maybe someone else can advise you on those.

Hmmm, maybe that's why I'm not pregnant Wink.

maisiemog · 27/04/2006 19:47

Well I actually made a cross on the calendar, on the day my period started (never before done). Wot now???
So I suppose I have to make a stab at when I will be ovulating - groo it's all so graphic!
I'm going to start taking agnus castus, anyone else?
Might as well get some idea of how things work.

Original poster
sideways · 28/04/2006 18:20

Last month I did actually take an ovulation test 10 days after my period started and I got the two lines. So now I am just going to assume that that's when I ovulate, as I am very regular.

No knowledge of agnus castus, sorry.

OP posts:
TwoToTango · 28/04/2006 18:56

I was 35 when ttc my dd. Took 12 months and I was always very regular.

jabberwocky · 28/04/2006 19:00

Hi, just checking in with you all, and can't remember if I listed my grapefruit juice before. I drank at least two glasses a day during ovulation week.

Good luck everyone!

TuttiFrutti · 29/04/2006 09:56

Jabberwocky, why does grapefruit juice help?

jabberwocky · 29/04/2006 10:45

it helps your cm. I'm trying to remember if it helps you create more, or thins out what you have, but anyway, it is supposed to help and certainly can't hurt. I have no idea what was the trick for us, but we did get pg on the second month.

TuttiFrutti · 29/04/2006 18:03

Thanks jabberwocky, I will add it to my long list of new foods to start buying!

maisiemog · 29/04/2006 22:43

Ok so I'm supposed to take cough medicine and drink grapefruit juice and take agnus castus and dp has to take zinc.
Is there anything else?
With the ovulation test, what do you recommend? I have seen strips for sale on Ebay, has anyone tried?
Thank you

MumToH · 29/04/2006 23:15

Hi - just picked up this thread while looking through, hope you don't mind a gatecrasher?? :) I'm 40 (last December), have ds aged 5 (just) and been thinking for the longest time about whether or not to go for baby no 2. Think I've decided (it's been driving me mad, I'm never normally this indecisive!) that yes I would like baby no2. However, dh is not too keen - he's very resistant to change, and if it wasn't for me we wouldn't be married or have ds no1!! Not sure how he'll feel (he kind of knows it's been on my mind) and truth told, I'm a bit scared of broaching it with him. He's poorly at the moment (I've got another thread going on that!) so I'll definitely leave it until another time. Good luck to all of you who are ttc or have just conceived - it really is wonderful!! BTW, my mum was 42 when she had me - my older brother and sister are 18 years and 13 years older than me!! I think I was a bit of a surprise - although mum always said I was a gift from god -aah!!

jabberwocky · 29/04/2006 23:40

Here is what I posted earlier on in the thread:

  1. pre-natal vitamins
  2. omega 3's
  3. B12
  4. low dose aspirin
  5. evening primrose oil
  6. 6 days before ovulation - cough syrup (the expectorant only kind)

and it looks like I did leave out the grapefruit juice!

maisiemog · 30/04/2006 14:24

Thanks Jabberwocky - sorry I forgot you posted that. Blush

jabberwocky · 30/04/2006 18:08

No problem! Good luck Smile

MumToH · 30/04/2006 22:53

Jabberwocky, it all sounds quite complicated! When I was ttc with baby no1 all I did was take folic acid for 3 months!! The cough medicine one sounds the strangest, but I checked the link earlier and it actually makes sense in a weird kind of way.

I will def be trying these things out - I think I'll need all the help I can get!! Smile

jabberwocky · 30/04/2006 23:21

Hey, when you get to be my age (41) it all gets complicated Smile Like I always say, If you're 16 and unmarried you can get pregnant just looking at a guy the wrong way. When you're of "advanced maternal age" everything's got to be just right plus a little luck!

lemonstartree · 02/05/2006 16:54

Hi all, I am 41, 42 in Dec and about to try for No 4. I know Im mad and Im so so lucky to have 3 healthy children, but we just so want another. SO deep breath and off we go again. I have has 3 m/c in the past (1 between ds1 and ds2; and two between ds2 and ds3)I know how hard it can be....

ShouldKnowByFriday · 02/05/2006 23:37

How are you feeling jabbewocky?

jabberwocky · 03/05/2006 13:34

Kind of queasy most of the time, but ginger tea helps a lot. I'm hoping this doesn't last too terribly long, but I know every pregnancy is different (not much ms with ds) so have resigned myself to it for now.

posyparker · 05/05/2006 16:51

Hi, I have posted on and off over the last couple of months. I am 39 and have been ttc for 8 months. Just wanted to say that I got a bfp yesterday! I really want to wish all of you the best of luck.

I was religiously taking EPO with grapefruit juice and Boots Expectorant Cough Mixture in lead up to ov. I also identified that I had a short luteal phase, 7 days, thanks to MN. This increased to 14 days over the last 2 months. It may be down to the HUGE amounts of vitamin B6 I was taking (600mg per day), although it may just have changed all by itself. I had to buy this off the internet as you can only get 10mg tablets in the shops now.

I also had day 21 prog test done last Friday, came back as 23, so I was told I could not have ov'd (they like a level of at least 30). Just goes to show that science isn't always right.

Here's to you all, wishing you loads of babydust and good luck!!

maisiemog · 14/05/2006 14:17

That's great news Posy I hope it all goes swimmingly. I kind of know what you are talking about, and it sounds like all the research paid off for you, good work!
Smile

Angsthase · 15/05/2006 12:51

Sorry haven't posted here in a while. Hope you're all doing well.

ERPC after missed mc last week, so back to square one for me. Sad. Well at least it proves I can conceive even at the ripe old age of 38!

Posieparker - that's great news on your BFP. Smile Here's hoping there'll be more of those on here soon. SmileSmile

TuttiFrutti · 15/05/2006 14:23

Bad luck Angsthase - what is ERPC? I'm 38 too, and hoping everything is still in working order! What I don't like about ttc is the endless waiting - why does a cycle have to be as long as 28 days???

Angsthase · 15/05/2006 14:32

Sorry Tutti Frutti - ERPC is what they do in hospital if you don't want to wait to mc naturally (which could have taken 4 - 6 weeks in my case), used to be known as a D&C.

Well I'm now waiting to get a cycle again! Got to wait until my op "symptoms" (don't want to give you TMI!) have gone before I can even have sex, let alone start ttc. Just want to move on before my body's ready to I guess - always like me to be impatient AngryBlush

TuttiFrutti · 15/05/2006 18:41

Thanks Angsthase - you poor thing, it sounds horrible. Let's think lots of positive thoughts for the month(s) ahead.

NotAnOtter · 15/05/2006 18:45

I have just had my fifth - in february and would like one more ( hope that does not make me sound like a rough old woman in a shoe- really i am not!)
Anyway i want to leave a reasonable gap between these two but not leave it too late - i was thinking conceive age 40 deliver 41?
have not read whole thread but does that sound too old?