Over 40 ttc - Autumn baby dust for me!

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Here's our new thread, let's hope it's a lucky one!

Cleo, I think I'm going to start tracking ewcm. I'm quite liking the days from the ava. Something very reassuring about seeing it all! Mr shehata is a consultant who Treats women with high NK cells - his theory is that your immune system basically goes into overdrive and rejects the fetus. So he uses steroids to suppress the immune system. It's not scientifically proven and it seems most of the medical profession think it's total rubbish but he does seem to have a lot of success... Who knows but I thought I'd see what he had to say. The pills he suggested weren't specific to me - just general advice. I guess the aspirin is to help with sticky blood but I haven't actually asked him that.

Mellon great news:)

Rose it’s all sounding positive.

Cleo so are you saying your most fertile time is in fact before or after ewcm?

I’ve been looking into supplements for egg quality other than DHEA and ubiquinol. Does anyone have any experience with cassanovum (cassava root extract)?

Petra good luck with the less pressurised month. I always feel that I can be really chilled when I've got my proud and then when i feel that the fertile window is approaching I'm like a woman possessed!

Yes I have one little boy. I had him just before I turned 42. I was lucky - it was all very easy and happened pretty quickly. This time has been a different story 😱

Rose, try not to worry -it's hard I know. The worrying won't help. Lots of women have spotting in early pregnancy.

Mellon - great news on your scan. That's lovely to hear that everything is going well

Thank you @Taxgirl1, I’m so sorry for what you went through. The spotting continues, I just wish it would stop.

@DabofRouge - yes I took cassanovum for one month, the month I got my bfp.

Taxgirl- sounds exactly like my story. Pretty easy conception with baby #1 born just before I hit 42, but a MMC and no luck since then....it's frustrating because you just don't know if that first one was just a fluke, or did your fertility plummet in the year you turned 42....or is it just random rolls of the dice and we'll get luck soon!!?? Hoping for the latter!
So interesting about the EWCM. Thanks!

@Cleozeta I'm taking inofolic powder, progesterone pills 3 times a day. Estramon patches every day for lining growth. Prednisolon for implantation and till testing day. Vigantol for supporting implantation. All these were given by my doctor. I follow her lead

Mimosa - I find I ovulate about 2 or 3 days after ewcm has dried up. So an average cycle would be ewcm on cd 11 & 12 and ov on cd14 or 15. Both bfp's this year have been after using preseed the day before ov. We can only dtd every other day so timing can be tricky!

Taxgirl - did he test you for high nk cells? Or did he just advise based on chance? Sounds interesting and he may have a good plan for those with that issue but I'm guessing his tips probably won't benefit those without nk problems?

Rose - it's a really good sign that the spotting is staying as spotting and not progressing to heavier bleeding. I would have thought it would have done that by now if it was over. The fact that its staying as just spotting suggests it may very well be fine. Fingers crossed for tomorrow, bet it can't come soon enough!

Russkispy - wow I've never heard of any of those things! Sounds like your doctor knows her stuff and you are in good hands

Hi @Cleozeta interested in what you say re ovulation, i wonder if I'm the same as I get flashing smiley faces and no peak when have cm, how are you checking ovulation -opk's or temps?

@Rose68 hang on in there, not long, they do say spotting is very normal try not to fret too much - easier said than done. Good luck tomorrow.
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Dinah - I do cheap opk's, cbfm and temps (ava bracelet). I find that on the day of ewcm I get a mid-light line on opk and high on cbfm, then ewcm dries up after a few days and the line gets darker. Usually my 1st or 2nd day of peak on cbfm is ov day based on temps, but I have a slow rise.

@Cleozeta I wish I'd known about the Ava bracelet sooner, would've saved a lot of wondering, a bit late for me now. See I give up on opks when cm stops maybe that's where I've gone wrong.
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Hi all, sorry I've disappeared for while; have been madly busy! Fingers crossed Rose, hang in there!
Cleozeta im finding what you said about ovulation after EWCM has gone, very interesting. I think that's just happened to me in this cycle. I had EWCM and positive OPKs two days in row, but temps only went up 2 days later! So I could be anything from 7 to 9 dpo at the moment. I think we messed up timings too, pretty sure I'm not lucky this month.. nil symptoms.

Thing is @Cleozeta and @Ameliel you're much more in the mood when you have ewcm when it's all gone I'm ready to go- "right that's it for a couple of weeks"- lazy I know but without the hormones kicking in it's harder especially after you've put in a week's run. Will have to summon the inner sex goddess

Yeah thats why I have to use the preseed once the ewcm has dried up until after temps confirm ovulation. It's hard to get motivated though!

Dinah - definitely continue with opk's until you get a positive or until they start to go lighter or you may miss the boat.

The ava bracelet has been brilliant, I love seeing the data every day, and I suspected things were different last cycle as all the data kept rising. Would have been hard to tell that early with just temps alone

@Dinah99

Sorry message posted too soon # clumsy fingers! @Dinah99 I know exactly what you mean!

Thanks for all the messages ladies! I haven’t been feeling too good today, so maybe there is still hope. The spotting continues though.
I am going to the scan on my own tomorrow as DH is away on business. 😢

Evening everyone. Still lurking, and trying to reduce my obsessiveness over this ttc lark. I'm feeling surprisingly positive this cycle even though I should know better than to be too hopeful. Two friends who had losses in the months before me are both pregnant at different stages. Its reminded me that it can happen and I'm hoping I'll make it 3 for 3 soon. However I felt my age today at a training event. A young dad of 2 who I was seated near was promoting having kids early so that parents 'can get their lives back in their 40s'...🙄

@Cleozeta yep will give that a go then. Good idea re preseed. I'm getting a fertility blood screen done by medichecks just to check everything ok as I used to get peak on opk but no longer, so it's either later like you or it's not happening. Nhs won't do all the bloods so thought I'd give this a go, does LH, FSH, prog, estradiol, and other bits. I'm on thyroxine now and heard that can affect ovulation, hoping not. Right got to get frisky, time to get out of manky old baggy jumper and leggings. If I can do it you can @Ameliel x

@Rose68 good luck for your scan today - I’m thinking of you 🤞

Good luck @Rose68 xx

Good luck Rose x

Good luck rose, fingers crossed for you x