Over 40 ttc - summer baby dust for me!

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Ladies here's our new thread!

Chat - yes that’s normal for a Woods order. It comes from overseas, possibly Switzerland. Sorry about your testing palaver.

Hi Mimosa! Glad everything has gone back to normal cycle-wise and hope you get your mojo back.

@Apple04 this is fantastic!!!
@BooseysMom glad you are feeling more positive and good news about DH change of career direction.
@Alibaba2 that makes sense have rellies in Switzerland time scale sounds about right.. x

Apple great news, congrats! Keeping everything crossed for you.
Booseys good to hear DH is feeling better and you're feeling more positive. Hope you will continue ttc, as Lets said if the lady in the video could do it there is hope for us all! Thanks for sending it Lets!

@Apple04 fantastic news xxx

Ooh Apple, fingers crossed this is it for you 🤞 Congratulations!

Ali - thanks. I’m having a break over the summer. We are a bit over ttc but not giving up completely.

I’m with you Mimosa!

@Letsdothis42 thanks for that clip, it really made me smile. How absolutely brilliant for them! The bit that made me smile the most is that he is 52. I worry enough about my age, but DH is 48...a young, fit and healthy 48 with boundless energy...but still 48.

@Apple04 have everything crossed for you. Really hope this is it for you.

Thinking of you all, ladies. We had our honeymoon last week but the timing was off. This week to the weekend will be the time to dtd. However, we both relaxed and feel happy so fingers crossed for a happy egg and lots of healthy swimmers!

Fingers crossed APPLE!! xx

Hi all - ooh - that's great news Apple! Fingers crossed for the next few weeks !
Had an emotional day today, my DS has his last day at nursery - starts school soon... I never thought that we'd get to him leaving nursery and he would still be an only child... it just really got to me today. Ug.
On a brighter note, DH is slowly recovering from his bad back and may be ok to DTD... it's been weeks now... here's hoping we don't damage it again!

Well it all seems quiet on here at the mo, but let's hope the hot weather doesn't disrupt the evening action for a couple of you.. glad DH's back is better @Hobbes39. I have great niggling on the R ovary side.. lots of ewcm and trying to manage every other day to dtd, where normally I would be stressing about dtd every day.. my ubiquinol has arrived.. they suggest 100mg per day but some of you have said 200mgs... advice please? X

@Chatbash72 I take 300mg per day and know of people on the infertility boards who have been advised by their consultants to take that much. Mine was also fine with it when I told him. I don’t think it can really harm you - it’s produced naturally in the body and is converted to other forms if not needed - all it does is give you more energy and act as an antioxidant 😊

@Hobbes39 I know you are harsh on yourself about the "ideal" age gap between you little one and ttc but my bro arrived when I was 14... I have a gap of 10 years with mine although diff dads and I have friends with 5 year plus gaps.. having had my youngest just finish his reception year I'm kinda glad I had no distractions so I could attend all meetings and parent bits for him.. try and not put to much pressure on yourself and enjoy that first year.. xx

Hi everyone . Definitely gonna give the ubiquinol a go.

APPLE - how are you? Keeping everything crossed for you

Mixed emotions here . After resigning myself to the fact it’s not ever going to happen I got a very (almost
invisible) line on a frer after being one day late. Allowed myself to stupidly get a little excited and tested this am and the line was fractionally darker but AF arrived about 30
seconds later . Definitely not implantation bleed either. Bugger

I should really take steroids at ovulation as I have on previous advice been told I have high killer cells (which can fluctuate) but don’t really want to to do that every month on the very slight off chance of being Pregnant but I’m sort of torn between wondering if the chemical is age related now or could it be killer cell related- oh what to do?!!

Been a while since I've been in the thread and I see that it's been a busy one!

I've been struggling with anxiety (about work mainly) so I've been shuffling about in RL rather than poking the internet a lot. I'm trying to get my positivity back so I shall send some towards everyone in this thread as well :)

Returning to the subject of poking... I had the joys of a HSG yesterday morning. That chuffing smarted. Didn't swear though The question rolling around in my head is... Do my partner and I still TTC this month or hold off until my next cycle? There doesn't seem to be a consensus even within the NHS. My hospital said wait until next cycle but reesearch shows a fairly even split in trusts that I've seen between saying nothing about it, saying wait until next cycle and saying just no unprotected sex before the procedure but can crack on afterwards. How very helpful bangs head up wall

I see Ubiquinol has been mentioned on this page. I started on 100mg a day and then up to 200mg but have recently (2 - 3 weeks ago) gone up to 300mg as well as starting a form of DHEA. Only on about 13 tablets a day overall though so not quite rattling yet

We've all gone a bit quiet. I'm hoping everyone is coping well and being gentle with themselves. Sending energy to you all x

Hi @Crivit

I had a HSG a few months ago (and yes it hurt like hell). My clinic had no problem at all with us continuing to TTC during that same cycle. Hope this helps you 😊

I'm ok! I'm in fertile week but my temps are a bit over the place but I'm trying not to read much into it! :)
Having a night off from DTD, it's just too hot!!

Hey ladies, my body decided to surprise me with a positive OPK, first one so far, so I'm, err... gonna be a bit busy.... :)

Go for it Cookie and Weasle! 😁

Crivit my clinic also said it's fine to dtd straight after HSG (mine hurt too and I nearly passed out afterwards, they had to wheel me out on a bed and monitor my blood pressure for good half an hour, awful!) but we manage to dtd 3 days afterwards because they saw during HSG that my egg was almost ready to go. It didn't work but I got a bfp in the next cycle (supposedly HSG increases fertility for up to 3 cycles).
Crivit can you tell me more about DHEA please? A friend mentioned it to me on Thursday and I'm looking into it. She also gave me a name of a doc who's recommended for IVF (she knows someone who's gone through 11 Yes 11! IVF cycles before coming to him, he figured out why her IVF was failing and she got pregnant with twins in the 1st or 2nd cycle with him). I'm feeling a bit more relaxed now having that name and knowing that if I don't get a bfp this cycle or next I will go to him and hopefully succeed.
I see quite a few of us are in the fertile week, nice to have company :) I've had high fertility reading on my cb opk for 5 days so should have peak tomorrow and then the wait begins.

Can I ask you guys - I am 14 weeks postpartum of my little angel baby, still no period and ttc. I am having pulling sensation over past few days. Did hpt and negative, any ideas? Am hoping for my rainbow but as 42 going to take time. How is everyone doing? Xx

My new little nephew arrived yesterday 3 weeks early and has thrown me for a loop.... I guess because my sis in law and I were trying at the same time... I am thrilled for them but feeling a little pang of jealousy.. not sure when we can visit but hoping that my mother is not around or that might tip me over my emotional boundaries which are stretch at the mo... am busying myself with the thought that I am ovulating ( well think as ewcm is no more that have ovulated and we managed to dtd every other day during the mucusy period.. nice !! )
Means that af is due whilst we are away... not sure if need to pack pads and a test to have both outcomes covered.. hope all are keeping "busy" 😉😉😉 we seem to ov and af in sync..
now some booties to crochet 🤦‍♀️

@Angelbabyollie could your ovaries be gearing up...

Sorry pressed send too soon.

We haven’t been ‘trying’ but just seeing what happens this cycle so only been monitoring ewcm rather than opks etc.

Hi ladies, sorry I’ve been quiet. I don’t really know what to say as I have no idea what’s going on with me.

After the whole what is going on saga from May I hoped I would get a normal cycle. I haven’t once things had taken their course. I’m now 3 weeks late. I think I didn’t ovulate until 2 weeks later than usual so didn’t bother until a further week went by.

Now though still no AF or a positive. I’m sure it’s not an anovulatory cycle as you would not believe how sore the girls are and there’s been plenty of ewcm. So once again I’m just sitting here wandering wtf is happening.
We haven’t been ‘trying’ this cycle but just seeing what happens