35+ TTC#1 Thread 5

[BambiOnIce80]

New Year, new thread! 🍾🥂

Basically: a wonderful bunch of ladies supporting each other through the TTC journey when trying for a first baby after 35.

Here's hoping 2019 brings some BFP luck to us all!! 🍀🤞🏻🍀🤞🏻

Happy Valentines day ladies! 💕

Things are getting pretty damn exciting at your end @Pinkywoo! 🤩 I hope you're wedding dress is going to be able to accommodate a bump?! 😍

My standard stress dream @QuantumGirl and @79andnotout is that I'm rushing to the exam room to take my MSc exam and I haven't revised, so I'm freaking out - to the point that my rational/awake brain kicks in to remind me that I've already got my MSc to calm me back down 🙄 My other stress dream is trying to get to the airport/gate to catch a flight and constantly getting lost... Very odd how the brain works!

@VenusStarr and @Weathergirl1, hope you're both feeling better soon 💐

DP is on the third day of 12 hour night shifts tonight, so valentines day has been rescheduled to Saturday (when we're having another tasting menu and matching booze combo - yep, you may be starting to see a pattern! 🍛🍾🥂🍸😁). Due to DP (aka. the mortally wounded warthog beast 😴) being on night shift, I have had 2 pretty good nights sleep (last night I woke up within 3 hours of temping, which I think explains why it is a little higher today 🤔). My IC OPK's have also gone from totally blank BFN 2 days ago to close to a BFP today (yep - I've also hit the level of crazy where I've brought an OPK to work with me 🤪), so I've managed to cajole my boss into letting me work from home tomorrow so that I can leap on DP as soon as he wakes up 😈 It's CD14 today, so you we're right @79andnotout - this month is looking to be a normal cycle 🎉🍾🥂😁

... Just to clarify, I didn't tell my boss I needed to work from home because it's FW and we really need to get a shag in - I'm not at that level of crazy (... Yet 🤪) 😬

Eeeek @pinkywoo 🤞. How many days past ov are you?

Well we decided not to get anything this year as it’s all a rip off but I did end up wit a card and some flowers and we are going for an Italian tonight (any excuse to eat out).

I'm 12dpo @Carley32, just been to Boots and bought a digital test (10 bloody pounds!) for tomorrow morning, partly because I can't believe it could be true, and partly because DP has the worst line eyes ever but can't argue with a fancy pants digital!

May I offer a bit of science geeky advice @Pinkywoo?! 😬 🤓 Please remember to check the sensitivity of the IC's you've been using against the fancy pants digital before you POAS tomorrow and potentially set fire to £10! If the IC's that you're seeing a line on have the same sensitivity as the fancy pants digital, then you're good to go 💧👍 If the IC's are more sensitive (say 25IU, for example compared to the fancy pants digital 50IU), then maybe save it until Saturday when your hCG should have doubled again? The last thing in the world I'd want you to get is a false BFN down to the crap sensitivity of these fancy pants digitals.x

Agreed with Bambi! I feel like most of the posts where people are disappointed/confused by pregnancy tests are the digital ones.

FRERs seem so much more sensitive than most.

Thank fuck for science! I'm so glad you said that @BambiOnIce80, the three for a pound cheapies are 20mIU, and the digital is 50, that's not fancy pants! I was going to get a frer but Boots were out of stock

Yeah seems like digitals are best used for convincing your OH's who refuse to believe anything until it's spelled out for them, a few days after you've seen a line yourself @Pinkywoo. Save it for the weekend!

That's exactly why I bought it @79andnotout, I'll save it for Sunday when we both have a day off and use my last cheap one tomorrow to satisfy my poas addiction!

Phew @Pinkywoo 😪 Glad that was a help and not pushy! 😣 I never know if I'm being helpful or an over-stepping bee-aitch! 😥 Definitely agree with @79andnotout - I'd keep going with your IC's until the weekend (sounds like they're serving you well so far 🤞🏻🍀).

Well, I thought we weren't doing Valentines day until Saturday, but I've come home to a lovely bunch of flowers and a voucher for the tasting menu at Tom Kitchin's restaurant! 💐🍴😍 Feeling very lucky indeed 😊

Continuing with the luck (and TMI 😳), I'm pretty stunned by the amount of EWCM I'm rolling with this cycle! 😯 I've never had a tonne of it, but since the mirena I've had between barely any to zilch 🙄 Had a bit CD11-12 (way more than I have been getting), didn't notice any CD13, and then bloody loads of it tonight! 😮 I stood up to get off the train and thought I'd had some kind of unprovoked and freakish incontinence attack! 😳 Got home (at double speed!) and realised it was just epic amounts of EWCM! 😳 I don't know if it's because I've been clean from antihistamines for a few months, or the freakish short cycle kicking my system back into action or the soy isoflavones... definitely not a grapefruit in sight! 🤔 Whatever the reason, hoping it's a good thing!

Right, that't it @BambiOnIce80, I'm booking me and DP a tasting menu with matching wine somewhere! How's your partners diet going, is that out the window? Much like mine. ..

Tom Kitchin looks a bit like a young Simply Red. Poor lad.

Not pushy at all @BambiOnIce80, very helpful! Sounds like you need to make the most of all that ewcm tonight

His diet's definitely going slowly @79andnotout 😂 He's lost 2.5kg so far, which (given the amount of tasting menu's with booze that are being consumed 😁) is not a bad start 🙂 I'm actually a bit terrified of how the meal at the Kitchin may turn out... DP accosted him in the middle of the street when he spotted him last year - poor bugger looked terrified until he realised DP was actually a gushing fan! 🙈 DP literally abandoned the car in the middle of the road to go and shower him with adulation 🤨

Ha ultimate fanboy. I love it!

Last year I had one random cycle with shit tonnes of ewcm. Just one. It was really weird! Absolutely gunges of the stuff.

Hope you made the most of the freakish amount of ewcm @BambiOnIce80.
You are never pushy, only ever helpful!

@pinkywoo it is sounding very exciting for you. Good luck with the continued testing 🤞😊. I’m sure DP will see those lines soon enough x

@BambiOnIce80 nice prezzie on the Valentines front too 👍

Wish me luck, waiting for the GP surgery to open, am 4th in the queue!

Hope you all had a good valentines day. Ours was very low key, swapped cards and had pizza and a beer with a reduced 25p chocolate dessert from the co-op 😊

Good luck @VenusStarr, don't take no for an answer! 🍀

Thank you @Pinkywoo, am in at half 9 so am in Costa with hot chocolate. Feel a bit anxious. Worked it out this morning that since my scan before Christmas, I'm on my 3rd cycle - the joys of only having 25 day cycles!

Have you tested again this morning?

Just read my horoscope in the paper.... 'as Mars and neptune link today, it seems the situation that is giving you the most difficulty in your world will take you somewhere offering a new perspective of great value'. Interesting.

Disclaimer - I know horoscopes are twaddle but still.

@BambiOnIce80 sounds like stopping the antihistamines worked! The tasting menu sounds great, hope you both enjoy.

@VenusStarr good luck today! Glad that they got you in and you don’t have to wait much longer. Hope you’ve had something delicious from Costa while you’re waiting.

Had a bit of a long night. I hadn’t felt the baby move all day and at first I was chill about it, but started to get stressed late at night. We decided to call the hospital and they had us come in. Heard the baby’s heartbeat (for the first time) straightaway so that was really reassuring. She still didn’t move last night but I’ve felt some movement this morning so feeling reassured for now. Perhaps baby just wanted a lazy day yesterday!

@Kescilly glad everything's ok and you heard the heartbeat

I did the IC cheapie at 6 because I was too excited to sleep and look!!!

That sounds scary @Kescilly but glad you got checked and heard her heartbeat ❤️ hope you manage to get some rest today, you must be exhausted.

Yay!! @Pinkywoo so exciting, its happening! Congratulations 🎉

@Pinkywoo look at that line! How many DPO are you now? Any symptoms?

@VenusStarr I’m definitely planning on a nap today!

Success. He said he will refer this weekend and I can call on Tuesday to check. He said we should get a letter within a week or so and an appointment within 2-3 months. Feel quite emotional. I've got a hideous rash on my face that I've had for ages and he had a look and said it's stress related dermatitis. I just looked at him then his computer screen. He said that maybe once I get my referral it'll start to heal. It's associated with low mood and stress - double tick there.

Feeling a bit more optimistic that something is happening. He did say again that a couple of people he referred last year did get pregnant while waiting....Really don't think that'll be us.

He also said he'd spoken to gynecology and they said straight to fertility. They don't seem to think the fibroids are the issue and he said they may try chlomid. I just want yo try something, you know?

Can't wait to finish work today (am not even there yet!). Feel like I've been neglecting my self care recently and I need to start being a bit kinder to myself.

Sorry for the mega message! Glad it's sunny today ☀ feels like a lovely spring day 😊

No squinting required at that line @Pinkywoo!! 😍 Congratulations!!! 🎉 💐🎉💐 Has DP taken it on board now?!

Sounds like you've had a really positive start to the weekend @VenusStarr ❤️ Self care is super important, so power through today and get on it tonight!x

Sorry to hear you had a frightful night @Kescilly 😞 Must have been amazing hearing the babies heart beat and knowing all is well 😊 Maybe she's just a bit sluggish because you're poorly too?

I didn't get to take advantage of the EWCM last night because DP and I are working different ends of the day and our paths weren't due to cross until tomorrow 😕 I'm working from home today though and DP has been given strict instructions to shout me as soon as he's awake at 4pm so that we can get on it! 😄 Going to do an IC OPK at lunch time to see if I'm closer to a BFP (= game on 👍) or further away (= we've missed the boat this cycle 😞). Temp was a bit higher this morning, but we'll crack on anyway just in case we're still in with a chance 🤞🏻