Over 40 ttc - winter baby dust for me!

[Orchid222]

Here's our new thread ladies.

Could you be having an anovulatory cycle?

@KahFen..welcome to the group and thanks for your lovely msg. So many different walks of life on here and you have an interesting story. Good luck x

Welcome @TulipsTwoLips... 41/42 is nothing!..I had DS at 41. You have a good chance. Good luck x

Excuse the thick question cleo but what are the signs of one? :)

@Loopyloopy I'm 41 now with a 5 month old DD and have been having irregular periods and hot flushes since well before ttc. Roughly since I turned 40 so don't worry too much! Funnily enough I conceived DD once I was fully relaxed on holiday.

Peanut - I also think it makes a difference to be relaxed, I conceived my second DS while on holiday and my recent pregnancy, the month we conceived, I ignored everything that had been stressing me out, where as the previous month I couldn’t sleep around ovulation time cause I was so stressed by it all.

Welcome to the group new ladies!

Congrats Cookie. Awesome news!!

So my faint positive turned into a negative the following day and my period has now started. I knew it wasn't looking good for the point in the cycle when i tested. In fact had i not used a high sensitivity test i probably wouldn't have even known about it which seems really strange to me..

Onto the next month then! I am going in for a baseline scan on Friday to see if i can start ivf stims before christmas closure, fingers crossed. DC was ivf baby so hoping to repeat the cycle!

Im sorry Weasle i don't have experience of your symptoms but i do know that hormones have a massive impact on how my body reacts each month x

@Rose68 I wish i'd tried relaxing sooner! Had been ttc for about 3 years whilst doing a stressful and very mind occupying day and evening job!

Had my second scan today. Still 7 follicles, 6 on the left and dominant and have grown up to 13-16mm and the right is only one and around 11mm. Starting Orgalutran tonight, to prevent them from premature bursting. Next scan on Friday and flying home/to the clinic on Saturday. Trigger is on Sunday. Egg collection is still scheduled for next Tuesday.

Good luck Russkispy!
Critter forgot to reply yesterday- I have my down reg scan tomorrow and going from there.

@Snowie3 so sorry xxx

Snowie- sorry about the test turning negative and af arriving and good luck with the scan, let us know how you get on. There are quite a few of us now going through ivf, fingers crossed it works for us all!

Oh @Snowie3 I'm so sorry x

Thanks @peanutbuttercrumpets! I'm in a stressful job with night shifts at the moment, which I'm sure is not helping. I go back to my usual job soon, so things may happen then.

Weasle - the symptoms I found were - annoyingly - pregnancy symptoms. Cramps, extra cm, tiredness, nausea, mood swings, no period.
Nature can be an arse.

Snowie - sorry to hear you had a chemical. I had one last cycle too, so I understand how truly gutting it can be.
On the plus side, we got pregnant, we can do it again.

@Letsdothis43..haven't heard from you for awhile..how are you?

@Snowie3..sorry to hear about your chemical x

Good luck @Russkispy!

Please could I ask how much uniquinol people are generally taking? I was taking 200 the month I got preggers (before that nothing), I have just ordered 100 cause 200 is out of stock.
I got the vitamin d spray & I don’t like it, mint flavour... grrrrr should have got orange.
Good luck Russkispy & Presh!
We are off to Edinburgh for a romantic weekend away.
xxx

Thank you @BooseysMom and @Rose68 ! Enjoying your weekend! Flying home on Saturday but for different reasons. Although it's very cold and snowing already and Christmas market season started. See how my little one reacts to Christmas trees and lights. Look forward to it.

Rose - I was taking 100 before my 1st mc the 200 until my chemical, thinking of upping it to 300, it starts with an egg book recommends 300 for 40+
Enjoy your weekend away.

Russkispy - good luck!

Thanks Cleo, fortunately I have ordered a large pot of 100, so I’m guessing it’s okay to take 2 or 3 a day. Thank you x

Rose I've been taking 300 for as long as I remember. Didn't seem to make any difference but hopefully it'll help for ivf

300 here too, plus 50 that was in my preconception vits, so 350. For the last month I was actually on 500 as couldn’t get hold of 300s.

What brands do you all use? It's so expensive!

@Rose68 I am 300 ubiquinol too. Although sometimes I run out of money and go to 200 for a week until I have money for new lot. Such expensive little brown pills! I imagine they are cheaper online but haven't sourced them there yet. Have a lovely weekend in bonnie Scotland :)

@Snowie3 that is so rough. I feel for you. I had one of those a couple of cycles ago. Really not fun. The higher the hope the bigger the fall ... but if we didn't have hope or belief we would achieve very little. I hope the scan goes well tomorrow. Sending strength.

I got my Vit D spray from Holland and B today ... it is on offer at the moment my lovelies so get on down!! No idea what flavour it is though! Hmm ... earwax?!!

I did some data crunching the other day ... turns out I have ovulated later than I thought according to the temps this month. Interesting!

Also ... I only just realised that sperm don't need two days to get to the egg like I thought (doh!) ... they can do it in 45 mins if they are fast. I had assumed it is too late to do the deed on day of ov or even day before. What an absolute charlie as my grandad would say! So unless my man has Duracell type sperm that just keep on swimming and live for 3 days plus then this month probably isn't going to happen as we did the deed a bit too early! Lol!!

I am finding it really quite funny how little I know .... but I am learning. Learning feels good. Should never have dropped biology in year 9! :)

Had scan today. 3 follicles seen but 2 quite small and only 1 really progressing. So worried in case it is too late. I'm only turned 40.