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P to the M to the A! Thread #6, here we go!

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ArchiesMamaBird · 15/05/2017 19:55

So in the absence of our lovely founder Hippy, I've set up thread #6 to help us keep up the motivation and PMA.

Congratulations to all our grads, the rest of us may be slacking behind but we'll be there soon!

#bellasgirlgangforever

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Moo31 · 31/05/2017 08:24

Good luck ladies! Xo

ArchiesMamaBird · 31/05/2017 08:45

Thanks Moo Smile

Hippy I'm the same. I don't really have any symptoms apart from mild cramps every now and then. My LP has been 10-11 days for the last 3 months, and I'm 11dpo today. Checked my BBT this morning and it hasn't dipped yet so I don't think AF will be here today. But I'm fully expecting her to show her ugly face tomorrow at some point!

Magpie How are you doing cycle buddy?

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Hippychic18 · 31/05/2017 09:46

Thanks moo. How are you doing? Xxx

ArchiesMamaBird · 31/05/2017 10:36

Does anyone know anything about LP? Since October when I started using OPK's and tracking OV, my LP has been 14 days every cycle. But for the last 3 months its been 10/11 days.

The only thing that I've been doing differently is drinking RLT (but I've read that RLT is meant to lengthen your LP rather than shorten it). I've also been having acupuncture the last few months, and my cycle has become shorter, but surely it shouldn't have affected my LP?

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MissMagpie · 31/05/2017 10:55

I'm hiding Archies. 13 dpo. Nothing to report!

CakesALot · 31/05/2017 11:36

Hey ladies! I'm back in the land of internet connections! Had a lovely few days away. Really switched off. Officially in the tww too now. Again. Will catch up properly later.

Hi @Clara101 and welcome to the thread!

Hippychic18 · 31/05/2017 11:54

archies I don't know a huge amount about l/phase but mine tends to be 11-12 days, I'm sure 10 and over is fine. From what I understand acupuncture balances and regulates your cycle. Not sure this answers your question.

magpie #ihaveagoodfeeling. Eeeeeeek

cakes welcome back xxx

Xxx

ArchiesMamaBird · 31/05/2017 13:21

Hippy Thank you, it's always over 10 days so I won't worry too much. DH had his sperm analysis last week and he's just had a call from the doctors, they've booked him in for an appointment to discuss his results in 2 weeks. So now I'm obvs sat here thinking that it must be bad news because surely they would have just told him over the phone if everything is ok?

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Hippychic18 · 31/05/2017 14:23

archies try not to worry chic, I think it's standard for doctors to call you in and discuss results, I have to go back and talk to the docs about my blood tests too. U think with things like this the doctors know that people are keen to know the details behind the results and a call to just say all is ok wouldn't seem appropriate. I'm sure it's standard procedure to be called back

Xxx

ArchiesMamaBird · 31/05/2017 15:07

I'll try not to Hippy, DH isn't phased by it and said that it will be nothing. I wish he'd pass some of his #PMA onto me Grin

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ArchiesMamaBird · 31/05/2017 15:45

When's your BFP due Hippy?

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Dollydaydream2829 · 31/05/2017 17:00

Hi ladies,

Hope you're doing good and looking forward to the influx of BFPs over the next few days.

I just wanted to say archies - I looked into LP quite a bit during my TTC journey purely because I'd heard it can affect conception. I started spotting several days before AF fully started for me which meant that my LP was sometimes only 9/10days. I'd heard it could be a problem with progesterone but I think the main problems arose if your LP was less than 10 days. I was actually planning on researching ways to lengthen my LP for the cycle after I got my BFP. Thankfully, I didn't need to. So, I hope it reassures you slightly that I managed to conceive with a LP of anything between 9-11 days. I was so ecstatic on my successful cycle that my LP had lengthened by a couple of days and I'd had no spotting, that the fact I got my BFP was the cherry on the cake.
So I'm hoping the fact that you're not spotting yet, is also a successful sign! FX!

Ohb0llocks · 31/05/2017 17:15

Ladies, sorry I've been awol, I've got tonsillitis! And obviously I can't take anything but paracetamol and antibiotics. Woe is me.

Is there anything I need to catch up on?

Hippychic18 · 31/05/2017 17:41

Hi dolly how are you? I'm not feeling very hopeful so just bracing myself for she who can't be named visit :))

Hi ohb sorry to hear you've been poorly. Well you've missed a lot of but the short version is - a new Pma grads thread has been set up by dolly ... but of course you are welcome to pop on here too

Xxx

ArchiesMamaBird · 31/05/2017 18:48

Thanks Dolly, that has definitely reassured me 😊

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notparticularlypatient · 31/05/2017 20:38

I'm also reassured to hear that dolly. My lp has been 9/10 days after my mc, and it has worried me a lot. Good to hear from you, hope all is good with baby dolly!

Ah, I am so excited on your behalf, archies, hippy and magpie! Three potential bfps coming up! I'm checking mn obsessively for news from you Smile. Almost as excited about your bfps as about my own atm, and without the downsides of af and crash in the pma!

clara, thanks. I do hope that the ripe age of soon-to-be-41 will do the trick ttc wise Smile. We conceived DD on cycle five, but it felt like ages. I have also been a bit stressed out the last months due both to the mc and a lot of changes at work. How is the stress level for you now?

I had an appointment with a specialist yesterday, he works as a fertility doc at one of the hospitals in the city, and have a private praxis on the side. He checked my ovaries and the cyst I have on one of them. He was quite positive, and said that there was no need to worry about the egg supply at this point, as he could see quite a few follicles. But they also took my bloods to check the AMH (and another test that I did't ask what was, maybe FSH, will have to call them in a week or so), and I guess that gives an even more accurate estimate of egg reserve (or so I have heard).

I was quite relieved when we left. He advised us to try on our own over the summer, and then we'll try a couple of medicated cycles before we decide if we want to try any further interventions. He was also very relaxed about my short lp. What he said that I found particularly interesting (and maybe interesting for others) was that we should try to relax as much as possible. I have to say that this kind of advice have always annoyed me, like how are you supposed to relax when you really want something this badly and time is running out! But he said that he occasionally saw people going through unsuccessful IVF falling pregnant after stopping treatment and just giving up. He was quite honest and also said that there was no known medical explanation for this, but added that there is a lot we still don't know about the brain. I found that quite astonishing, not the least because this is in line with what my acupuncturist is advocating (in addition to putting needles in me, obviously). Having conventional medicine and Chinese traditional medicine taking the same approach was very appealing to me. As some of you might have guessed, I am usually more in the conventional medicine camp, if I have to choose. But in this case I will listen to both sides, and try to care a bit less. His advise was to not obsess to much about things to do and don't do, like have the coffee you want, alcohol in moderate amounts are fine, and have sex on day 10, 12 and 14, that works for most people.

For me I think it is important to think that it doesn't matter much if I fall now or in six months time. Even if I am older, I still have some time. That, I think, will help me relax. And that glass of Wine obviously...

Am so sorry about this rant. I just had to get it out there. I feel a lot better about it all, and just hope there is something there to take away for others as well. Clearly he is just one fertility doc, and they will probably all have different opinions. So I guess we just listen to what is useful to us (again, the wine and coffee...)

ArchiesMamaBird · 31/05/2017 21:19

Patient that's really interesting, thank you for sharing. And I'm so glad that you came away from there feeling positive. My GP also advocated relaxing, not using OPK's and just DTD every 2-3 days throughout the cycle. He said that he has 5 friends who had been ttc for ages and they all fell pregnant whilst waiting for their IVF appointments. Maybe it's because they just relaxed because they knew that they were going to get help if you see what I mean?

Anyway I totally know how hard it is to relax when you want to something so badly, but maybe we should all give it a go 😊

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CakesALot · 31/05/2017 22:16

Really interesting @notparticularlypatient and advice I often hear too and know has worked for others as well as me - DD was conceived on a cycle when we weren't technically trying and therefore probably a lot more relaxed. Stress and the pressure we put on ourselves can only be a negative thing. We should be promoting PMA and relaxation as the key! I have switched off more this cycle, we've only dtd twice and both times it felt like it happened naturally and was so much more enjoyable!

ArchiesMamaBird · 01/06/2017 06:42

I agree with that too Cakes! We didn't try for DS (hence why we were both in shock for about a week after my BFP 🙈). And we only really DTD once this cycle around OV time (which is why I'm thinking that I'm our this month) but it was so much more spontaneous and fun and felt like it was just us being in love again, rather than scheduled sex.

I'm also just going to throw it out there that the one time we did it around OV was on DS's bed because he was passed out on ours. So if we did happen to conceive on this cycle then that will be the story we tell our DC when their older 🙈

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CakesALot · 01/06/2017 07:20

😂 hahahaha!!! Oh @ArchiesMamaBird! The scandal!!! Brilliant! Needs must and all that. Ours will be on an air bed in a tent with DD sleeping soundly on the other side of a thin material partition!! Baby 'tent' it is then!

Hippychic18 · 01/06/2017 07:30

Morning ladies
Thanks for the information patient and I'm pleased your feeling more relaxed. I'm more in the alternative camp but definitely see this as complementary to traditional side. Well having tried all the dos and donts it just stressed me out so I'm taking a much more relaxed approach, I've cut back on coffee but if I fancy one I have one and that goes for everything else as well. I'm eating pineapple because it's really nice at the moment not necessarily to aid implantation.
I'm just thinking it will happen when it's my time and it's definitely helped this cycle.
Well cd27 here so knicker watch is commencing today ... feeling mildly crampy still but that's all so I guess it's the waiting game now. Good luck archies and magpie.

Xxx

Hippychic18 · 01/06/2017 07:31

cakes fx your camping trip worked its magic for you too xxx

OvariesForgotHerPassword · 01/06/2017 07:32

Can I join you please? :) I have stats and everything!

22, TTC#2, Cycle 1, currently 10dpo and BFN so writing myself off already Grin :(

Ohb0llocks · 01/06/2017 07:54

@Hippychic18 I'll have a look for it thank you!

Hippychic18 · 01/06/2017 08:57

Welcome ovaries of course you can join us - the more the merrier :)).

ohb the link is on dolly's post on page 6 of this thread :))

Xxx

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