Yogurt pot yuppies, sexy basters and UFO discs - part 3

[eloiseislost]

Starting yet another thread on self insemination before our second one locks down!

Welcome to THE most supportive group you could wish for if you’re starting or you are already on a self insemination journey.
Remember, nothing is TMI and you are not alone. 💖

Calling the usual suspects, in no particular order (and sorry if I missed anyone 😊):
@ComebackQueen
@Makingnumber2
@Janefx40
@AdriannaP
@MrsKin90
@primrosechill
@bigsweetpotato
@Sydney1986x
@Bluey18
@Birchybirch
@Lori23TTC
@Cathie102
@Labrat3
@DinkBoo
@Oilyoilyoilgob

Let it rain BFPs!!! 🐣

@eloiseislost wow what fabulous news on all fronts! A proud mummy to be to a little girl! 💕
Can’t wait til we are all over on the graduate tread together 😊

@primrosechill sorry to hear you’re feeling overwhelmed. I think that’s totally normal to be honest with something like IVF- it’s a lot to take in and I know others on thread have spoken about it being hard to accept that that is the route they may need to follow. Just be kind to yourself and keep sharing how you’re feeling on here and with friends and family who support you IRL. Sending you lots of calming vibes xx

@AdriannaP what dose of aspirin were you advised to take ? X

@eloiseislost
Awwwww a baby girl x I'm totally bias, my daughter is the best thing ( apart from my hubby) that has ever happened to me ❤️ I'm so excited for you and so glad that the harmony test has come back with good results x
Take care with moving house but once your in all the effort will totally be worth it ❤️

@AdriannaP omg I'm such a fud !! Saw that you have already said you take 150mg per day 🤦🏼‍♀️

Hello ladies. I hope you are all well! I have been thinking of you all and will catch up with how every one is doing now. I came off the thread as I got a BFP but have also had continuous bleeding since which turned me into a train wreck. Was prescribed cyclogest which seems to have done it's job as I had a scan yesterday, baby is measuring 6+5 which is only a day out and I saw a heartbeat. Also a haematoma which seems to have been the cause of all the bleeding, which is a relief.

I just wanted to thank you all for the amazing support on here. I was in a very lonely place when I joined and felt so ashamed but you ladies were an absolute godsend. I hope you all get your BFPs very soon xxx

Thank you so much @Oilyoilyoilgob @Makingnumber2 @primrosechill ❤️

@primrosechill I’ve got everything crossed for you! I think at 4dpo you are bound to have all the normal symptoms so don’t read into that!

@Bluey18 huge congratulations 🥳 🥰. What wonderful news. That must have been so incredibly stressful, it must be such a relief to have identified the cause and know all is well with the little bean ❤️.

@Bluey18 congratulations! 🎊🥳🥰 so thrilled for you! What a stressful time and so happy baby is well! Hope you join us on the graduation thread!

Lovely to hear from you @Bluey18 and congratulations again! Sorry you've had such a nervewracking few weeks with the bleeding but am so pleased to hear you've had a great early scan and I hope everything keeps progressing well for you and baby now .

Also just noticed we are into the early 900s on the amount of messages on the thread. Does it lock off at 1000?
Might be worth thinking about names for the next thread??

@Bluey18 congrats that's excellent news x wishing you a long and happy pregnancy x

Right ladies I'm in need of some advice ????

So I commented the other day that I started AF here is my current situation.....

If it's AF then I'm cd 2/3 today. My AF is pretty predictable with regards to what actually comes out/ happens etc. I get a light / medium flow, the whole gushing feeling, especially first thing in the morning and probably go change my pad about 3/4 times a day but it's not in anyway a full pad.

At the moment I'm bleeding, but it's only when wiping...it's bright red but has fertile CM mixed in to it...the proper stretchy stuff. I've checked my cervix and it's actually so far up I can almost not get to it and it's super soft.
Feeling that something wasn't right I took another test and the line is still there, in fact it's coming up on the IC within a minute with extremely diluted pee. I've literally been peeing like I've drank 16 gallons of water !

On top of this I've began to feel a bit sick, nauseous really and can't bring myself to eat anything right now.

My cycle dates are usually 25/27 days, more often than not it's 26 days. I started bleeding on CD23 so a few days early and by that stage I got a faint line, the line has gotten darker but not control line dark, might do a test in the morning to see if FMU makes a different 🤷‍♀️

My question is....wtf is happening !!!!

I've narrowed it down to one of 3 things.....

1 just a really really really f'up period
2 it was actually twins and the bleeding is from one ?
3 ectopic ?

Thing is I have no other regular pregnancy symptoms ? My boobs are fine, I feel sick and a bit icky, generally exhausted ( I've wanted to proper go to sleep twice this afternoon) and peeing like a racehorse !!

If it's my normal period then it should be finished by tomorrow.

My wonder is, with previous early MC my HCg dropped almost immediately but I'm still getting positive results ?

@Makingnumber2 I hope you enjoyed your drink last night before starting your supplements! Good for you enjoying a chilled Saturday night ☺️

@primrosechill sending you lots of luck for this month 🤞🏻 I think you’re handling everything so well. Big hugs to you.
I don’t want to be glib and say ‘but think of the baby you might get at the end of ivf’ because tbh when my husband is saying that to me it makes me feel murderous! We covered this in therapy and our therapist hit the nail on the in regards to wanting to be heard about the worries/stress regrading starting and hormonally and mentally going through it. So I think you’re taking a really brave step.
Whatever the outcome, and I hope it’s a baby for you, we will all be here for you if that’s the path you go down ☺️

@Bluey18 congratulations again, and what a relief to read you’ve had a lovely scan and found the cause of the bleeding. I hope everything now calms down for you and you have a safe and healthy pregnancy 💖

I’m 9/10 dpo, like last month unusually for me my boobs have been very sensitive and painful. So no longer a bfp symptom obviously but now I’m wondering why they are like it 🤔 after last month mentally not being great (as for the first time I was very sure after all my symptoms) I’m chilling out and doing my usual compartmentalising and will just wait and see.
We have huge renovations in our back entrance hall and utility and I’ve really enjoyed having a project to focus on 😃
I have acupuncture booked in advance for the next three weeks, a massage booked for next month and continuing to just try and be a bit nicer and calm my stress down. I’m determined to let my body know that it’s a safe space for a baby!

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend 💚

Thank you ladies for the kind wishes.

@Carol1980 You poor thing, how frustrating! With my current pregnancy, I've had bleeding/spotting through out but never enough to fill a pad and I did get nice progression with my lines so I would say all you can do is keep testing. Anecdotally, I have one friend who thought she was 7 weeks based on her last period, but at an early scan measured 11! Her "period" had been implantation bleeding which was heavy enough to fool her. I've also had chemicals in the past but in those cases the line was always faint and usually disappeared when bleeding started! I don't know what to advise except to continue testing

@Oilyoilyoilgob
Yeah the boobs thing has thrown me for a loop these days too !!

I used to always get tender boobs, sore at the sides like clockwork every month, then I breastfed my daughter until she was 2 and I've only recently had the pain at the sides before AF come back ( she's 3 1/2 now!)

I used to use it as a definite AF symptom but this month...well I started getting sore boobs at the sides as usual but I was cd16 (5dpo)

I'm actually wondering if it's just my age !! Maybe my reproductive system has just though nah mate, I've been doing the same song and dance since you were 11, scratch that I'm done !! 🤣🤣

I've got my fingers crossed for you x have you any other symptoms this time round ? X

@Bluey18
Part of me wants to believe that actually I'm still pregnant and it's just a bleed x

This is going to a weird question.....the bleeding that I'm having has no clots at all, like I said it's minimal but it's mixed in with egg white stretchy CM ??

Obviously I've googled the whole egg white cm during AF and got zip !!

@Carol1980 I would think the lack of clots is a good thing. My bleeding had neither clots nor ewcm so I'm not sure, sorry. I'll be keeping everything crossed for you ❤

Hi @Carol1980 I’m skimming through messages so sorry if someone has already said this, but could it simply be implantation bleeding? The fact that it’s only when wiping could suggest that! Keeping everything crossed that this is indeed a bfp 🤞🏼

@Bluey18 excellent news 🎉 but so sorry you have been having such a nerve wracking start - this pregnancy thing is so stressful for some!

@Oilyoilyoilgob @Bizawit thank you for your kind words, I actually teared up a lot. In many ways I actually feel like I’m going a million miles per hour at the moment (work has been super busy) so I haven’t even been able to give IVF the attention/weight it deserves - but then again I think maybe in a way that’s better? I do have a tendency to stress and maybe if I had more time to think about I would just get really anxious. Nothing about ttc is how I imagined it would be - not the method, not the mc, not the amount of time it takes - so I guess I just have to embrace that this is another unplanned unknown and that hopefully I’ll come out pregnant - and maybe wiser? - on the other end.

Big love to you all! xx

@primrosechill hi x thanks for your message x

I've had my bfp 🤦🏼‍♀️ I thought at first it was Implantation bleeding but it's gone red, but I'm still getting BFP 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ stronger than what I got the day before the bleeding started x it's mostly bright red too which is why I was convinced it wasn't implantation x
I'm so sorry if I'm bugging you all with all the messages ! I feel like a bit of a tit to be honest x

@Carol1980 don’t feel like a tit haha!

There are so many possible reasons for the bleed, from implantation, through twin pregnancy and to chemical pregnancy. I’m pretty sure that unfortunately if it’s the later you might still get bfp for a few days while your hcg levels go down - but I am going to cross everything that’s not the case. Maybe avoid POAS for at least 2-3 days not to drive yourself crazy? I know it’s so much easier said than done...

Hi @Carol1980 gosh that does sound very strange.
I agree with what some of the others have said- if your line is getting darker still, then this could be an implantation bleed, or even caused by a haematoma like Bluey had.
I would test again in 2 days and see if the line is darker again or not. I will be keeping everything crossed it's implantation bleeding!! Hope the wait to test again doesn't drive you too mad. I know how hard it is to resist POAS!

@Makingnumber2
I'm so confused !

Took an IC this morning and still a decent line but again not control line dark. Really should have used a different one though as I keep getting the same line with the same darkness as the previous one.
The spotting seemed to have stopped last night before I went to bed and again not much when I got up this morning but by this afternoon it was back again !
It's still not heavy at all, not clots that I can see and still no gushing as usual with AF.

I'm going to try doing a hold for a few hours tonight and test before going to bed and try not to drink too much !!

At this stage I'm getting annoyed as just want it to start properly if it is AF...likewise if it isn't it's unlikely that the EPU would even entertain me and my doctors are a bit of a nightmare to get an appointment just now so it's just a bit of a waiting game 🤨

I'm so sorry you're in this horrible limbo @Carol1980. I really hope you get an answer one way or another. It would be driving me mad too! Keep us posted on how things develop x

Carol1980 hope everything goes the way we want it too (bleeding stops and HCG tests get darker 🤞).

Bizawit - congratulations lovely ❤️

Just shoving my head in to say hey.
CD24 for me today. Got a positive OPK yesterday so hoping I'm ovulating today.

Who is in their tww now??? I have my fingers crossed for everyone!

@MrsKin90
No changes, still bleeding when wiping ( now on day 5 of the red when wiping a s despite having positive tests the lines are all the same darkness so I'm thinking low rising hcg in which case I will likely MC in a few days, my cervix is still high and soft but still getting red spotting so I'm guessing my body is just talking it's sweet ass some !!

Just want it over with so I can start again on my next cycle, every month counts when your 40 and counting 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

That's great news about ovulation !! Hope the baby making goes well this time round x

@Carol1980 I'm so sorry 😕 it's bad enough without it taking the piss. I'll continue to wish that it all works out for you, but know it's about being realistic for your own mind. I hope you're not kept in limbo too much longer. Sending you lots of hugs and love.

We SI'd yesterday and not sure when we'll get to now so just have to wait and see if my BBT goes up tomorrow.