Go Rugby! So pleased you are feeling confident at 6+ weeks, as you say, hope the next 6 weeks passes quickly!
Really interesting to read that you had given up sugar pre-conception. Would you mind if I asked how far you pushed this - do you mean, say, giving up sugar in tea/coffee, or no biscuits/chocolate etc at all, or did you cut out all refined carbs (bread etc) too? I've read about studies where IVF success has been massively increased by high protein + low carb diets, so what you did sounds along similar-ish lines?
Beegee -
for AF but as pp said ^ it sounds like good news that LP has lengthened. I'd love to know whether you can ascribe this to anything too - acupuncture / supplements?
Ababs + Twinkly -
for your approaching due dates. What on earth is the 'best' way to deal with it - plant something lovely in the garden? It's so very hard indeed. Double good luck with TTC x
Kkmuppet - How exciting that you have a frozen embie! I've come across a couple of previously frozen kids since I had my DD, I find it mind-blowing, just amazing! Very best of luck with your frozen transfer - have you looked into anything to help with implantation - e.g. do your clinic recommend an endometrial scratch in the previous cycle, or acupuncture or anything?
InShock - so lovely to read your update - wow, you're comfortably into the second tri now! Hope it hasn't been too tough getting through early pregnancy with a toddler - did you have much MS? It is so very encouraging to read that despite 18 months TTC and a MC (must have been tough) to conceive your DD, conceiving this pregnancy sounds like it was a pretty effortless surprise!
Calibee - well you've hit upon the holy grail with boy/girl twins - many congratulations! Sounds like they've brought you a great deal of joy. Do I recall that you have older DCs too? Are they excited by their new siblings? Wonderful to read that although from donor eggs your babies feel every inch 'yours' - every post that I've ever read a mother write about using donor eggs says exactly the same, it seems to be a totally consistent message.
Irish/Freckles - I think I may remember you as Frecklefacedgirls? - I always loved your story about having your DC4 at 46 after multiple miscarriages - I think it takes courage to keep going. (I've 'only' had one MC - at 10 weeks having seen a heartbeat on an early scan and I was quite profoundly affected by it - changed my perspective on TTC/early pregnancy totally - and not for the better.) Anyway you were absolutely one of my thread heroes - at least until I sailed past the age when you conceived (weren't you 45?) with no sign of another BFP!
I remember many of the ladies you mention too, which on the one hand slightly scares me how long I've been knocking around these parts and on the other probably says a great deal for how lovely and supportive our little 'community' is. So I scrolled back a bit upthread and on the old thread (Twinkly kindly linked it at the start of this one) just to double-check that my memory's not failing along with my ovaries. And I do hope these posters will forgive my little summaries, but think they are worth repeating as are great stories ...
JBrd became Cloudjumper and lived up to her beautifully optimistic username by having a baby girl on 22 Dec (posted 23 Dec 2015). She said 2 weeks before her 44th birthday - what a magnificent present! I was beyond thrilled for her as hadn't she previously had a second tri loss, at 17/18 weeks due to T18?
Gum posted a lovely update on 27 Dec 2015 - sounds like she has a wonderfully blessed and rich life with her 5DCs and says she came to terms with not having her final baby. I would've loved that for her though. I do miss here posts! She asked after Calibee's twins too.
Greenlizard - posted a couple of photos of her totally scrummy gorgeous DS - he was conceived with donor eggs and she says exactly the same as Calibee that he is every inch 'her' adored little boy. Not surprisingly, as he looks like an absolute corker! PLUS she is pregnant again by an FET from the same cycle! She was 4weeks 6days at the time of her post on 25 February 2016. Greenlizard if you're still reading, I do hope that you're doing well with your pregnancy - wishing you all the very best.
For me - I have lately been bemoaning my limited baby-making options. Thinking about how it seems totally bizarre how my DP manages to get me pregnant first cycle (aged 43!) with our DD (33 months old now, my goodness), then 3 cycles to conceive the little boy we miscarried, then after many, many months of nothing at all and thinking it's all just down to old eggs we find that he's actually allergic to me! At least, he's developed high level of antisperm antibodies from somewhere.
I was hoping that the NHS allergy consultant he saw recently about his other immune issues (hives and episodes of anaphylaxis) would have some kind of magic answer but it was all a bit inconclusive - just plod on with the daily antihistamine and periodic courses of steroids. (Has some sort of follow up appt soon but not hopeful.) So it still looks like it would be ICSI or nothing for us to conceive. Someone posted an image of a bucket of baby dust a while ago - I think I need to go and have a long hard look at it!