TTC 35+ Thread 4 Cougar and Silver Fox Club

[Sleeeeeepy]

Yes it's Thread FOUR! Baby dust all round!

Hello hello

Thank you for the welcome!

I'm just off to do another test to see of it changes!

Hi Ladies,

It's been a while since I've been on. I hope you are all doing OK. Popping on to say I have my BFP!! So to those ladies near/at/over 40. Dont give up! Our ovaries are golden xx

@JustOneMore39 awesome news!! So excited for you

Congratulations @JustOneMore39! We have a thread over on pregnancy board “old ovaries new lines” incase any of the BFP want to join us

@JustOneMore39 congratulations lovely news xxx

Im 7dpo but I know its not happened this month.
This os my 4th cycle after coming off the pill so im hoping im starting to get to grips with my cycle. I will start using my cb opks earlier the next cycle.
I've decided I will still use opks but im feeling more relaxed. Ill give it a year. If it happens then great . If it doesn't i have 3 fantastic teenagers 😬
Xx

@JustOneMore39 what lovely news!!!! Congratulations xx

@JustOneMore39 woooohooo congratulations! Thank you for the positivity! 💜

Huge congratulations @JustOneMore39

I think I get more excited about a bfp on this thread than any other I’m following. Love all the super fertile golden ovaries. Gives me lots of hope!!!

Congratulations @JustOneMore39 !! That's fantastic news!x

Many thanks ladies. Still early days but I'm feeling hopeful. I thought I would share what I did this month....if you are interested.

We followed the Sperm Meets Egg Plan - a few have talked about it before, and i can certainly recommend. It isn't just about timing of sex, it has lots of useful resources

I also put hubby on wellman fertility supplement.

And i took the supplement in the pic below. It is REALLY expensive. I ended up finding it on offer for about £30. But still.

But what I noticed, is that prior to this supplement, I was getting my LH surge on CD19 and for the month I didn't have much EWCM. But on this my EWCM increased loads and my LH surge was on CD16 which I think is a better amount of time.

I also listened to a lot in Ingefleur - the fertility homeopath on YouTube for what I could do naturally to try and make sure my oestrogen and progesterone levels were happy with each other.

I limited coffee to 2x per day. Drank more raspberry tea. I still drank alcohol, but this again was limited to a couple of drinks a couple of times a week.

I also focused on keeping a gratitude journal to try and affirm to myself that a 2nd baby would be amazing. But I tried to map a life where I had no more children, and what that would mean. It made the BDing far more enjoyable.

Hopefully we see some more BFPs over the weekend.

Let's go golden ovaries.

Thank you for sharing your tips @JustOneMore39 and congratulations!!

Congratulations @JustOneMore39!

@FridaKFangirl

More seriously, I'm assuming that I shouldn't be concerned that my last three cycles have been 26, 25 and 23 days? I seem to get AF on DPO 15 each time and was on the pill for 20 years until these cycles so I assume it might take time level out.

Bit of a long one ladies....Can anyone help?

I’m getting slightly worried that my cycles are getting shorter... CD7 today started testing yesterday and already got a flashing smiley, it was on day 8 last month...

I noticed that @selina37 mentioned getting unexpected smileys when dehydrated though and I did go out last night and had one too many (oops!)

I wonder if this could have affected the result?

I’m only 3/4 cycles off the pill though so could just be sorting itself out I suppose.

Does anyone have any experience of shortening cycles but with a steady 15 day luteal phase?

@FridaKFangirl im exactly the same. Only been off the pill since beginning June. Flashing smiley day 6 and 8 for me to xx

@JustOneMore39 thanks for the advice. Limiting coffee...the horror! Is raspberry tea supposed to help with fertility? Let’s go golden ovaries indeed!

@FridaKFangirl I’m the same too - according to the LH strips / CB monitor I usually ovulate day 10, 11 or 12, but sometimes It has been as early as day 9. So I get the flashing smiley quite a few days before that and I have had to start testing LH earlier and earlier otherwise the CB monitor misses it completely or I go straight to static smiley and don’t get flashing. Luteal phase seems consistent at 15 days as my cycles correspond with ovulation to be either 25, 26 or 27 days in length. So everything seems consistent if nothing else!
This month was a weird one for me with a double ovulation peak at CD10 and CD14. LH strips MUCH darker on CD14, which is later than I’ve ever ovulated according to the LH records since
I started recording over a year ago. I’m now on CD27 so I’m assuming the first peak wasn’t a true ovulation and the latter was the true ovulation - thus I’m expecting AF to show up in the next few days. My temp hasn’t dropped yet. I haven’t tested as for some reason I feel sure I’m not pregnant as this was such a weird cycle! I think we mistimed it for ovulation on CD14 as we DTD on CD7, 8, 9, 10, & then twice on CD13 (because I panicked over 2nd peak and told my DP we urgently needed to recommence!). So think this was mostly too early and we will have largely missed the second surge.
I asked my doctor if the “early” ovulation or shorter cycles were an issue and she said no. Don’t know if others have any more info on this?

Hey @FridaKFangirl yep, I'd had one too many when I got a surprise smiley. I just think clear blue opks are so expensive and there's too many variables, ie dehydration or too dilute urine. And they work out expensive as you have to use them just to get the baseline recorded.

If your cycle is regular it's probably best to work out your time ovulation day by counting backwards 14 days or so.

Btw... Clipper red raspberry leaf tea is lovely!

Thank you everyone for the reassurance! Much appreciated.

@Hayleywoody82

Im 7dpo but I know its not happened this month. This os my 4th cycle after coming off the pill so im hoping im starting to get to grips with my cycle. I will start using my cb opks earlier the next cycle. I've decided I will still use opks but im feeling more relaxed. Ill give it a year. If it happens then great . If it doesn't i have 3 fantastic teenagers 😬 Xx

You do have to start them quite early I think. I had a strange period stop for two days then it came back but I was still doing the opks, my peak came yesterday the day after my period stopped 🤷🏻‍♀️

We're going to try for a while then stop if it's not meant to be. It would be lovely but I need to remember how fortunate we are with great friends and family and a lot of love x

@JustOneMore39

Hi Ladies,

It's been a while since I've been on. I hope you are all doing OK. Popping on to say I have my BFP!! So to those ladies near/at/over 40. Dont give up! Our ovaries are golden xx

Congratulations!

@Highlandmama I've got my smear test next week 😳 not looking forward to it, but also feel like its a chance to check everything is alright down there!

@CC81 I'm 37 in winter, LO will be 3 soon after. But it took 9 cycles starting when I was 32 to conceive my LO so im feeling a bit anxious that it might not be possible and frustrated we didn't start sooner given we knew we wanted another one 😑 i have to remember that 95% will succeed within 2 yrs. I'd also like a small age gap, but clearly that's out of our control! So we'll just keep trying, and try not to get as obsessed as I did this last month 🤞 wishing you luck too!