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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.

Fabulous Fecund Over Forties TTC: fertile,prolific,fruitful and productive. Hand over the bfp's and hand them over now!!

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hopefulgum · 05/07/2013 11:54

Starting the new thread for you wonderful ladies before I fly off into the sunset.

May this thread bring us the happy news we've all been waiting for. Grin

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Irishmammybread · 24/01/2014 12:21

Congratulations JBrd !
I know those first few weeks especially are fraught with worry (and you don't really stop worrying then either!) but as you say, today you most definitely are pregnant !! x
How are you feeling willitbe ? Hope everything is progressing well for you.
I've not been keeping up very well with the thread but welcome to the newbies and hello everyone else!

jass43 · 24/01/2014 16:11

OK, jbrd, I can hear you on the here-we-go-again feelings. Congratulations will be reserved for heartbeat moment and I so hope you will get there this time! for over40ies even with 5 consecutive mc there is 50 per cent chance left they were all just bad eggs. You are within the margins, so you might have caught this good egg now! you can have reasonable hope, I believe!

Grizzer · 24/01/2014 17:39

Great news jbrd lots of prayers & positive thoughts coming your way. Will you be able to have early scans & extra monitoring?

hopefulgum · 24/01/2014 23:46

Congratulations Jbrd. For today you are pregnantSmile

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Tadpole2013 · 25/01/2014 07:36

Now look at that! I'm absent for a few days and get welcomed back with a BFP, JBrd! Thanks Well done and, even feeling the worry with you, congratulations. You have deserved to stand on the table and let us fuss over you! Smile
I'm so thrilled! Seriously, you ladies make a grown woman cry!

calibee · 25/01/2014 08:22

Great news jbrd. A very anxious time ahead for you. X

Morien · 25/01/2014 09:16

Jbrd, I understand your worries...but that's brilliant news. I'll be keeping everything crossed for you Thanks

37+6 here (no, Diege, I can't believe it either!) and not a lot happening. I really thought I was going into labour the other evening as I started to have contractions, but fortunately they stopped - fortunately because DH was in London!

We've booted the workmen out (it's not quite finished, but what's left can wait; it's not like we'll be living in a building site now, which we would have been if we'd got rid of them any sooner) so life is going to be much more enjoyable now. Yesterday there was just one of them here, someone I've known for 10 years and feel comfortable around, so I finally got to sleep in, and when I did get up he worked around me rather than me having to work around him. And he didn't have the radio blaring so I could listen to my audiobook as I cooked!

Have a lovely weekend, everyone.

Grizzer · 25/01/2014 18:57

So I went from nothing on an ov stick yesterday to 2 lines the same today! Normally I get a faint line first but nothing this month - do you think that's ok? Either way we managed to dtd yesterday before we went to a work do. Only had about half an hour but wanted to squeeze one in in case we were too exhausted when we got back! Unfortunately that means instead of lying there after and letting everything go in the right direction I had to get straight up to get ready to go out. I know gravity helps but that's not the end of the world is it? Just having a mild panic as didn't really expect to get my 2 lines today. Will dtd tonight too so hopefully that will cover all bases.

notsoold · 25/01/2014 23:23

Jbrd congratulations today as you pregnant and here to a sticky, healthy lo...xxxx

jass43 · 26/01/2014 09:39

Grizzer, it is totaly OK to go to surge that fast, only do test today as well,cause the surge might intensify still - and the true OV day might be a bit fuether down the road.

JBRD,chow you doing?

jass43 · 26/01/2014 14:24

i have had a terribly weak second line today as well. I am 8-9 DPo only. Did an opk as well, they tend to have also from hcg lines earlier than hpt tetsts, and that was clearly a line, even with later sample than fmu. I only tested so early because breasts sore. Started prednisolone just in case. Hate it when it then goes back to neg in just couple of days, but can not leave it without help I can provide, can i? since I stopped running for blood tests every bfp I will now never know whether I have chem or false positives, but hey ho. few days will tell

diege · 26/01/2014 22:52

jass hold on in there. I know 'congratulations' is not really the right thing to say in the circumstances - I really hope it might be more fitting to say so in a few days/weeks.You are doing so well and I will have everything crossed for you xx
Love to all - on way up to bed but couldn't go up without posting after jass's news!

jass43 · 27/01/2014 06:11

Stll. a. line. marginally stronger (not much expected of course 9-10DPO). One more day of treatment for sure. i will see tomorrow. i would much prefer not to test daily, but since I do not want to do prednisolone unless there is still hope, i have to keep testing. Morien's internet cheapies this time round, bthw! maybe they are lucky.......

JBrd · 27/01/2014 09:20

jass Well, as you say, it is still very early day, I'm not surprised that the line is weak at before 10 DPO! But a line is a line... Have you tried a FRER or ClearBlue Digital? Fingers crossed!

I've got a doctor's appointment this afternoon, to get the progesterone started and the heparin injections going again. I wish that somehow more things could be done to make this a successful pregnancy, but I wouldn't know what else they can do at this stage Sad

diege · 27/01/2014 09:21

jass that's good news for now? It must be tortuous testing daily and scrutinising the line etc etc. At least you know you are doing what you need to do. Hand holding with you!
Quiet day planned here. Dh working from home so has gone back to bed Hmm
Hope everyone's ok - you ok gum?

diege · 27/01/2014 09:22

x-post jbrd

Morien · 27/01/2014 10:57

They are lucky, jass, they are! Keeping everything crossed for you.

DSis had her LO (little girl) during the night so I have a new niece!

NutcrackerFairy · 27/01/2014 13:09

JBrd and Jass congratulations!

I truly hope you have wonderful healthy pregnancies.

Thank you for sharing your stories here, it is so uplifting to hear that other 40 plus women are conceiving. Makes me feel it might just be possible for me too...

I just have a question about boring old blood tests and AFC... I have a good FSH level and AFC was 9 which is apparently supposed to be decent for a 40 year old. However my AMH was absolute rubbish at 0.9... Has anyone here conceived themselves or heard of someone 40 plus years with such a low AMH who still conceived a healthy baby?
I have had a consultation with a fertility Dr who said it was possible but not to leave it too long... and may be that with an AMH that low I may not ovulate every month.
Although he did say that my AMH might always have been low and so hasn't really dropped that much for me iyswim. And I have had two healthy DC, one at 35 yrs and the other at 37yrs so not that long ago... Although then had the miscarriage at just on 40 yrs old [6 days after my birthday] so I wonder if time has now just run out...

Anyway, sorry, didn't want to hijack the thread. Just wondering if anyone had any experience with this.

willitbe · 27/01/2014 13:21

Quick post to say, heartbeat seen on scan today. Measuring 6 days behind and have haematoma beside the sac, so given 50/50 chance, that is without taking into consideration the recurrent miscarriages!

Congrats JBird and Jass.

NutcrackerFairy · 27/01/2014 14:29

willitbe Thanks

All fingers crossed for you and baby. I can imagine how stressful this must be so be kind to yourself and take it easy as much as possible.

I think it's such wise phrase that is used here - Remember you are pregnant today. That is all you know now. I hope you continue on into a healthy pregnancy XX

RainyAfternoon · 27/01/2014 14:50

Hello, I posted here a few times back in September when we were TTC. I just wanted to update with the news I'm now 14 weeks pregnant. I was very scared of posting earlier due to previous miscarriages, and I also had a bit of a strange up and down reaction to finding out I was finally pregnant (even though I'd desperately wanted it), so I couldn't bring myself to say anything out loud. I had my scan last week and saw a healthy heartbeat on a 13 week old baby - very happy days! I got my downs risk results back today - 1 in 239 which I'm pleased with as my age alone risk is about 1 in 50. I've announced my pregnancy at work and I'm finally beginning to relax...

I wanted to say a huge thank you to HopefulGum who took the time to write a long post to me and gave me a lot of really helpful advice. I did take the supplements you advised and also got myself some acupuncture, and I'm sure it had an effect.

I'm so glad to read of the recent pregnancies - well done to you and positive vibes that they will be successful.

And good luck to those who are trying - hope the wait is not too long.

jass43 · 27/01/2014 19:43

Hopeful, see - we miss you here. anyway,someone soon needs to create a new thread, as we are coming close to 1000 posts. I do notk now how to, so leave it to those more used to this forum....

willitbe, heartbeat is a heartbeat is a heartbeat. I so hope it will hang on and the hematoma will bleed empty without taking the baby withi t. every day baby is stronger, more attached and grows a placenta which will be more resistant! can you do bedrest? I would try if circumstances allowed at all. best of luck!

Jbrd, get this progesterone and heparin going right now, If you have any leftovers from last time. It might help and never can hurt. I have clexane, but since I have never had a clotting issue, all clot tests are neg and have mcied about 5 times on clexane, I do not do it now. All the best! Bthw, I cannot try clearblue digital or FRER, they are noto n sale here, most pharmacies carry tests from last century, and supermarkets are only fighting to get the right to sell hpt and ov tests. They are selling, in some drug-vitamin-areas, but everybody only one blue-dye brand, which I find quite OK (costs close to 7eur, in comparison - a blood test back home costs 8!). I try to bring my tests from Estonia, but frer is not there as well, digis neither. However, there is a good selection of pink dye tests. And for progression i use internet cheapies, this time hpts, but have also used opk-s previously.

Rainyafternoon, all the best for the rest of the pg!

Nutcracker, my fertility doc says also all this fsh-amh business is not useful, as your own earlier ranges are not known. same, bthw, applies for progesterone levels to some extent. I have had several LUteal phase progesterone tests done, they never exceed 10, but I concieve (means ovulate as well) a few times a year, so obv. am ok. now no one knows whether when my pregnancies still used to go to term, i had better proge level in luteal phase. but I know that as soon as pregnant, my progesterone jumps sometimes to 50, sometimes even 100 - my doc thinks that I have always had that pattern and only prescribes progesterone as we cannot be sure of this hypothesis. Most likely my issue is immune related, but nobody knows for sure.....this unexplained thing really throws me. but since progesterone is quite harmless to femalebody, i am ready to take it. alongside vitex, B6, folic acid and coq10.

hopefulgum · 27/01/2014 22:10

Hello ladies,
I just wanted to whisper a tiny little congratulations to Jass. I know it is very early days, and I know your history, but I still have great hopes for a successful pregnancy for you.

And also big congratulations to RainyAfternoon. Such lovely news. I am glad my advice helped.

I have been reading the thread, but I think I may have to stop doing that for a bit. It is really nice to see others succeeding, getting BFP's, but it is bittersweet for me. I tried for so long, have been on this thread for years, and I am leaving without my THB. Seeing other members get their longed for bfps, and babies just reminds me that I didn't, so I think I may have to stay away.

I wish everyone all the best and I hope that you will have your dreams come true. Thanks

Rest assured I will probably still read from time to time as I do want to see how everyone gets on, but for now I need a break from it. Thank you so much for all the lovely support. It has been wonderful.

I spend my mumsnet time on the 5:2 diet thread these days. I am steadily losing weight, so that's something positive to report. I am also starting full-time work on Thursday, so won't have much time to think about the precious last baby I wanted so much (hopefully Sad )

Feel free to PM me too.

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diege · 28/01/2014 09:54

Oh Gum I'll be so sorry to see you go, and also very sad that you're at this stage Sad. I genuinely feel the ttc journey isn't over for you just yet but understand 100% why you feel the need to have some distance. I'll be pm-ing you!
Really hope the next few weeks bring some more reassurance for the newly pregnant. I was (just) pregnant this time last year and do remember the anxieties, albeit with far less reason for doing so than many on here. Love to all xx

jass43 · 28/01/2014 11:08

still a tiny line. But i am still 10-11DPO, so nothing big is expected. hpt-s show very little progress, but opk-s have good progression, as they are calibrated clearly for lower levels and made for level analysis. so, I am holding on to hope that these lines will take off. In pred thread there are currently quite a number of ladies on treatment, with high number mc, who are making progress. i admit that it helps me - even if all the medication is not what is helping, in years every one is able to find that one sticky bean....