TTC 35+ Thread 6 Cougar and Silver Fox Club

[M4v3r1ck]

Hey ladies, setting up a new thread! 😃 Hope it works! 🤪

[M4v3r1ck]

@Marvellouslymadmum no, it's not! Every morning is a crazy new data point for me! 🤪 Just trying to be patient and wait for AF! Has your MC bleeding stopped now?

@Yumcoffee amazing this is so helpful, thank you! 😍 She's posted a couple of free chapters too and I've just had a quick read - really interesting and reassuring! 😃

@Kitekat81 I feel you, the TTC journey is such a rollercoaster! 😘 Where are you at cycle wise now?

[DawnWW]

Hi all, does anyone mind if I join in? I'm fairly new to this site but 37 and been TTC for 7 months with #1. Worried because of my age, a previous miscarriage which led to PID and fiancé who took years to convince his son with ex wife.

Now 4 days late for AF but negative tests. Usually spot on with dates (been using Ovia app) and been having stomach cramps and pains that I thought was AF for a week. No idea what's going on.

Been looking at all your advice - I never knew I should be taking any other vitamins (I take a preconception one from wellwoman but that's it). Will trawl through post and try to find which else I should take. This group and site seems so supportive which is great as I feel so lost with it all.

Apologies for long post xx

[Marvellouslymadmum]

@M4v3r1ck yes it was nowhere near as much as last time but I've heard it can be different each time 🤷🏼‍♀️ was expecting a lot more tbh but happy that it's not!

Hi @DawnWW I recently had a 53 day cycle with all bfn so know how it feels to have to wait! Just try abs relax (easier said than done) and leave it a few days to a week between testing if you can 🤞🏻 for you

[thislittlebird]

@Kitekat81 tell me about it honestly, I thought this is more follicles than I was expecting, and of course now I’m convinced I’ve got polycystic ovaries or something but I think they can just be numerous as well, maybe my follicles are feeling youthful. Hopefully they’re decent quality too.

@DawnWW that happened to me in December. I got a weird 5 day late period and was convinced it was The Month. It was not The Month, AF was just being a dick.

On the vitamins from...I started taking Omega 369 and EPO this month for the old EWCM because I was lacking in it, also drank some grapefruit juice and pomegranate juice, and I don’t know what worked but it seems one or a combo did because I do think I had more of it/for longer this cycle, which was good.

[thislittlebird]

And I should also say hi to @DawnWW, sorry jumped straight to the chatting lol

[Marvellouslymadmum]

On the subject of vitamins I'm taking the pregnacare conception vitamins (and so is dp) and wondered if I should be taking anything else on top of that?

[Loladoodle]

I’ve done quite a bit of research re Ubiquinol, based on that I changed to the kaneka Ubiquinol. It’s expensive but I’m upping my game now that we are cycle 11. Also from I’ve started it I have so much more energy! It’s pretty noticeable so that’s a benefit regardless.

[Loladoodle]

Welcome @DawnWW and good luck!

[thislittlebird]

Ubiquinol is used for egg quality isn’t it? I haven’t tried that yet

[Marvellouslymadmum]

@Loladoodle that's brilliant thank you, and that's still ok to take alongside the pregnacare? I know some vitamins you can have too much of so I'm wary lol

[Marvellouslymadmum]

Is it this one?

[Fredsmama]

Hi girls, would you mind if I tag along. Just turned 37 and ttc #2. First son was sadly stillborn May 2019 - took 11 cycles to conceive. Fortunately our rainbow took 5 cycles and is now the most gorgeous 7 month old boy 🥰
Cycles are shorter now though only 25 days 😬

[Fredsmama]

@Marvellouslymadmum I used a soft cup when I got pregnant with my little boy. We got pregnant on our fifth cycle and I had only used the cup for that cycle and the one previous. Hubby has low motility. I don’t know if it was the cup or just coincidence. Can’t hurt to try!

[Marvellouslymadmum]

@Fredsmama hi and sorry to hear about your first son. That's what I'm thinking about the cups, my dp was told he had low motility many years ago too so thought it worth a shot

[Fredsmama]

@Marvellouslymadmum thank you. I think on my part it was out of sheer desperation for a baby, I was petrified it was going to take another year to get pregnant. I used it after we had dtd and kept it in overnight. I also dosed him up with wellman vitamins and high dose of vitamin c. We are both back on vitamins too.

[Marvellouslymadmum]

That's what I've been doing at the moment, I'm just trying to find out where my cycle is with tracking using opk and bbt after a mc

[Happyhappy37]

@Fredsmama welcome and really sorry for your loss. Good luck.
I also have a 25 day cycle

[Fredsmama]

@Happyhappy37 thank you!

[selina37]

@Fredsmama @Happyhappy37 I'm a 24-26 day cycle girl myself too!

[Kitekat81]

Welcome @DawnWW and @Fredsmama and good luck to you! My cycles are usually 25-28 so also on the shorter side. As long as you are ovulating after day 10 and have a luteal phase of at least 10/11 days I think it's all good 😊

Very interested to know how you ladies get on with soft cups / ferti-lily. It's one of the few things I haven't tried, just seems such a strange thing to do! But if it works I will try anything 😄

@M4v3r1ck I'm on CD 15, think either 1 or 2 dpo. So into the tww, guzzling my pineapple juice 😂 Not very hopeful this cycle as definitely did not dtd enough, only once possibly twice around the right time. But you never know, so much of this is just pot luck! 🤪

[Happyhappy37]

Does a short Cycle affect fertility?

[Fredsmama]

@Marvellouslymadmum sry to hear about your mc. It a horrendous thing to go through.
I’m just using clear blue opk, last month got a static on cd 12 so was all biz, this month just stupid bloody flashing smiles for 5 days on trot from 12-17 so gave up testing. Just want AF to come so can start again lol.
@Kitekat81 - def not the most romantic thing to do when trying for a baby lol but Id have tried anything , haven’t done it so far this time trying for no2 but ain’t ruling anything out
Good luck in your tww !!

[Kitekat81]

@Fredsmama do you put it in when you are still in bed, before you stand up, or do you get up and walk to the bathroom and put it in there?? Do you leave it in overnight, or just for like an hour and then take it out?

[Kayeyeem]

Well that's me out this cycle. AF arrived Monday 😣
@Fredsmama sorry for your loss 😔 welcome to the group.
@Kitekat81 does pineapple juice help conception?

[Fredsmama]

@Kitekat81 I just went to bathroom and put it in, back to bed and slept with it overnight took it out next morn .