Over 40 ttc - winter baby dust for me!

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Here's our new thread ladies.

Thanks guys. I keep forgetting to temp but I’ll take your advice. Xx

@KateyA are you using cb digital tests? I am and I have found them to be accurate. I have always had a smiley face and then ovulation pains on the same day. I do try to dtd the evening before the smiley face too.

Happy new year everyone! xxx

Happy New Year to everyone and baby dust to all!

Happy new year all. May this board be empty in 2019! (as we'll all be on the pregnancy board instead )

Happy New year to you all! 🥂

Happy New Year and may we all get lovely baby bumps in 2019!

Happy New Year Girls! Still sat here drinking my earl grey 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Happy New Years everyone
Here’s hoping for a good dose of baby dust for us all alongside health and happiness
I’m off to bed... too tiered and sniffly to stay up tonight. Think the Xmas germs has finally caught up with me xx

Happy new year. Here’s to a lot of BFPs in 2019. Dodging the bubbly at the moment in the countdown :)

Happy New Year ladies 🍾 here's to lots of bfps in 2019 🥂 (embracing the drink til its pink theory 😁)

Welcome to newbies and Happy New Year to all of you! May this be a big baby year all round!

I definitely do drink till its pink haha
So I have started 2019 with a peak on my cbfm, cd12, early but great that the peak has shown this cycle. Looks like the vitex has certainly made some kind of difference so far. I have a good feeling for this year. Lets hope it brings luck to us all!

What’s CBFM? It’s not on my cheat sheet of acronyms

Clear blue fertility monitor :)

Gordon Ramsey's wife is pregnant and she's 44 ladies!!!!
Happy new year :) x

Ohhh just looked it up.

Do you guys recommend it or should I start without the technology and see how we go?

I never used anything other than opks once a month. Find out how your cycle is and see how easy it is to judge then go from there. You can spend a fortune if you aren’t careful. I spent a year doing opks taking vitamins etc etc and then get pregnant not even trying on a ‘got carried away’ moment.
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Thank you.
My cycle was pretty regular it seemed but after egg retrieval for freezing in the late summer it’s been less predictable.

I’ll keep charting for now.

And yep after spending nearly £4000 on unsuccessful (1viable egg now in storage) egg freezing in the summer I need to watch my pennies

@Cleo what are the benefits of taking vitex? Should I be taking it?

@KateyA I think fertility monitors are a good idea, but for me personally, I would rather invest my money in supplements and acupuncture. I wasn’t planning on doing this for a long time so decided against fertility monitors and charting. I know my cycle well and I know the indicators of ovulation, I have borrowed one in the past and it always confirmed what I already knew. We started trying in the summer, I conceived on month 3, but unfortunately it ended in a mmc before Christmas.

I’m still not certain how we will proceed, DH is away a bit in Jan, which I’m pretty sure will coincide with my next ovulation. But he does seem to be back on board which is good. Time is just so not on our side.

I did read something that suggested for over 40’s naturally might be better than ivf, something about the body being able to select the best egg at ovulation. It said that it wasn’t unusual for over 40’s to conceive naturally after going through failed ivf.

Karigan thats how we conceived in Feb/March. I gave up everything and entered a period of high stress at work. Came off SW, drank wine, ate sugary foods and low and behold a bfp! Sadly I mc but certainly made me re-evaluate my ttc approach.
Has anyone made any ttc NY resolutions? Im on the brink of booking a week's holiday in the hope I will have to cancel it 😁...and because I can't live my life on a 'just in case' basis anymore!

I’m sorry that happened. Wishing every positive vibe I have on this little bean and so worried about miscarrying :(

@KateyA why did you do egg freezing? xxx

Because unfortunately when I was heading to my 40th birthday this year my other half suddenly announced he wasn’t sure he wanted to be a dad.

I was heart broken and felt I needed to take control of the situation and that freezing might extend my options to buy some time incase I had to go it alone.

Very happily he realised he was just anxious about the idea and we worked through it and now he’s onboard.

However since it was all happening at the same time I went ahead with the freeze treatment... sadly I didn’t respond well to the meds and only managed to save and freeze one egg. I felt quite sad about that as it was a lot of expense and emotion to get no further on fertility wise.

@Karigan, how many weeks are you? I had a bad feeling about my pregnancy from before 5 weeks, but I think you said yours feels strong so that’s probably your reassurance at this stage? Otherwise all you can do is sit tight and try to get a scan at 6+ weeks. I would recommend having a scan. xxx

This cheered me up. She's 44! www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6544489/Gordon-Ramsays-wife-Tana-44-confirms-pregnant-couples-fifth-child.html