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
. 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
. 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
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...)