TTC May/June - may the eggs be ever in your favour

[CycloGoose]

A continuation from previous threads. All welcome! We've had some lovely graduates and there's some of us been here for a while. Join us for rants, ovary pep talks, motivational memes, poas addictions, freak outs, chill months and good old compassion.

May the eggs be ever in your favour!

@kaylsd
@minthumbugs
@iloveoreos
@Kitty0389
@els10

And many more - I'll post link in the old chat!

@Mousey3 awes that's good to hear! We are going to head to the animal park thing as it's dog friendly so I can't wait to see our mable try to chase after various animals 🤣🤣🤣🙈 we are going to spend a day in mablethorpe too as I found it quite fitting that it's our poochs name in the title :') going to make the most of it as it'll be nice just to go away from home! Xx

@Aries491 I feel like this TWW has flown for you hunny! Good to hear you've got the heavy guns in from the frer point of view, good luck for Wednesday! I know it's hard not to resist for the temptation of early testing so we wouldn't judge either if you wanted to do it before then :)!

I had a lovely weekend ended up going out into town with two of the girls from work, saw a live singer in a bar which was so nice to watch as it was a snippet of reality pre covid life! Spent way too much money but it's worth it for the good times! Did you have a nice weekend? Xx

All poofed out before even going to the seaside this morning 🐾

@CycloGoose wishing all the luck today with your scan sweetpea ❤️😘🤞🏻

@kaylsd not really been a full two weeks with my short lp I suppose lol! I will be happy if I get to Wednesday without AF or testing...and it results in a BFP lol we can dream :)

Sounds like a great weekend and with the past year who cares about spending money!! I had a meal out with family on Saturday night which was lovely, proper sense of normality xx

[quote Aries491]@kaylsd not really been a full two weeks with my short lp I suppose lol! I will be happy if I get to Wednesday without AF or testing...and it results in a BFP lol we can dream :)

Sounds like a great weekend and with the past year who cares about spending money!! I had a meal out with family on Saturday night which was lovely, proper sense of normality xx[/quote]
@Aries491 I'll look out for it don't worry darling good luck for Wednesday if i don't have much chance to say in here before!

I have one happy camper in the back right now for her jollies! Talk soon lovely ladies 🥰💖

Have a great holiday @kaylsd !

Photo is terrible but there was a little heartbeat 😃

@CycloGoose Yay! 🎉👏🏻 xx

@CycloGoose

Have a great holiday *@kaylsd* !

Photo is terrible but there was a little heartbeat 😃

Shook my phone upside down at this caravan with not even 3G signal but this has made my morning! Congratulations sweetheart over the moon for you, finally real now happy graduates day ❤️❤️❤️

@CycloGoose I think it's a great photo! And so lovely to hear the heartbeat 😊

AF arrived this morning - the first time I think I've been happy to see her as it means my hycosy can go ahead! 😂

Morning everyone how are we all? Happy Friday as well!!

I caved and tested on Wednesday to be met with a BFN! my cycle this month is a bit confusing, I had a static smiley on cd20 so assume I ovulated either cd21/22 at the latest. Flo app was still predicting a 30 day cycle which is in line with my usual but fitbit pushed me put to a 34 cycle with AF due tomorrow. No sign of AF yet, had maybe a day or so's worth of very light spotting with no real AF cramping. Going off O date i would be either 13 or 12 dpo today but not done another test yet, thinking if no sign of AF tomorrow then will try again. Why are our bodies not lovely and regular haha!! 🙃🙃

Good luck @Aries491 fingers crossed for you! I didn't ovulate until like cd 28 the month I got bfp so it's not impossible 🤞

Thanks @CycloGoose how are you doing?
I never used opks before so this was my first month, apps predicted cd16 so was surprised it was later but least now i know! Hopefully she doesn't rear her head lol, this spotting seems to have dried up (bad choice of words lol) as well so who knows what that was x

@Bookbug92 wooop good timing for you with AF least that's one less thing for you to worry about!

@aries491 happy Friday back to you too! Doing well plodding along no changes with my long cycle life, actually enjoying abit of time out with the TTC things but looking forward for things ahead :) our bodies are the worst for giving us mixed signals all the time not working when they should behave themselves 🤣🤣🤣 fingers crossed you was an late ovulation 🥺🤞🏻

@cyclogoose hope your okay sweetheart and everything’s going smoothly for you so far 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Hope everyone else is doing okay! Just got back from caravan with the inlaws.. didn’t kill them surprisingly but that’s because me and hub and mable did our own thing apart from one night with a bbq with them.. the weather was beautiful for 3 days like being away and I’ve gone a lovely brown colour now :) mable loved the attention from kind strangers and even some gave her treats and the chip shop gave her free sausage! In her element, attached pics for show 💁🏼‍♀️ excuse my cheesy smile but I was in ore with our family photos together, it shows abit of my personality than a username now and again 🥰❤️

@Aries491 I definitely wrote back to this but it's disappeared!

I never ovulated at same time each month so poas frenzy it was. I quit doing it in the end and just relied on my OvuSense.

Spotting could be implantation but I don't want to get your hopes up either as I did also just get some random short periods and periods with a few days of spotting and then full flow. I'll keep everything crossed though XXX

Omg @kaylsd Mabes' tongue! 👅 Bless! Sounds like you had a lovely time despite being stalked by the crazy in laws! I'm so glad and so happy you got the nice weather ❤️

Of to see midwife this afternoon! Excited/terrified.

So much love xxxx

No worries @CycloGoose :) i have a feeling I don't either but as was my first month really tracking I don't fully know yet so will keep tracking if AF arrives. I'll have a look into OvuSense as well.

Oh I know I don't want to get my hopes up either, I do get spotting sometimes before a period but its usually heavier and different colour and not really got bad cramps either which is unusual for me as I usually get a day or 2 of bad ones.

Good luck with the appointment this afternoon!!😁😁😁 xxx

And @kaylsd those pics are fab! Glad you had a nice time and got some good weather. I'm glad you're enjoying time off TTC and focusing on everything ahead that's great :) our bodies are the worst but they're ours haha! Xxx

@CycloGoose good luck for this afternoon sweetheart 🥰 can only imagine how much of a nice feeling it will be coming across your first midwife appointment! I hope everything goes well for you xxx

❤️ xxx

Lovely holiday pics @kaylsd! So jealous - would love a holiday round about now!

How was your midwife appointment @CycloGoose?

I had my consultation today to discuss results from my scans and blood test and DP’s SA. It was super interesting. She said we have excellent results. I have 41 follicles according to scan and amh which is apparently really good. DP has lots of sperm and it looks healthy. I told her I ovulate around cd18 giving me only 10 days of LP, and she said that it’s very common for people who have lots of follicles to ovulate later. She doesn’t think the length of my LP would be a problem, but she’s sending me a prescription for progesterone pessary that you use in your LP to lengthen it. I’m pleased to have something to try because I just can’t square up having excellent fertility with still not being pregnant after 10 months TTC! But anyway she said try for 2 months with the pessary then if we have no joy she’ll do some IUI with some light hormone stimulation to make implantation more likely. Feels good to have a roadmap ahead.

Has anyone tried the progesterone pessary? Any good??

Have a lovely Friday night all xx

Wow @PaleGreenAndBrightOrange that sounds really exciting! I begged for a progesterone pessary but never got one. I took a load of supplements to try and improve my LP instead. I also tried to improve my egg quality with supplements and staying away from certain chemicals a little bit like it suggests in it starts with the egg. I didn't go overboard and it might have been pure coincidence but my temp rise on OvuSense the month I got bfp showed such a difference in egg quality (according to some research). Really hope the pessary works for you.

Appointment was all fine thank you. I wasn't totally impressed with the lady. I knew more about covid vaccine guidelines and when nuchal scan was possible etc so left me feeling a bit 🤷🏼‍♀️ Obviously stuff she is much more knowledgeable about lots of stuff it just wasn't what I needed help with.

@PaleGreenAndBrightOrange wow your appointment sounds really positive! 🙌🏻 And you've come away with a solid plan in place. I'm afraid I have no experience with progesterone pressures, but do you mind me asking how old you are?

I had my hycosy yesterday and it went well, the only uncomfortable bit was when they did a saline flush prior to the dye, they didn't give me any warning and just whooshed the whole lot in! (Or that's what it felt like!!) But my tubes were all clear so that's very good news 😊 however DP's SA wasn't as good as our GP told us, as despite having a great count the morphology was only 1%. He's been taking Proceive for men for the past couple of months (the SA was in March) and he's scheduled for another SA in 3 months time. Has anyone got any other suggestions for how he can improve this?

@Bookbug92 I'm so glad to hear everything went well with your procedure sweetheart! GPS lack of understanding when it comes to fertility really annoys me as the insight can be misleading so I'm sorry to hear you had mix communication with the results, in terms of the what to take my hub has been taking proxceed the last month which is meant to be really good to improve parameters for SA however I'm wondering if my hubs sample was inaccurate in first place as we didn't have sex in 3 week as I was bleeding constantly and we wasn't informed from the doctors that he should have how to put it 🤔 emptied prior to the analysis at between 3-5 days before for most accuracy.. did your partner do this also? Sending hugs over, what's the next step for you guys?

@PaleGreenAndBrightOrange that sounds so good and structured for you guys to have abit of a roadmap to where you guys are at and what can be helped at the end of it if things don't work your way with the new treatment regimes ❤️ fingers and toes crossed it doesn't come to IUI for you guys 🤞🏻😘

@Bookbug92 I’m 33 now. So great to hear about your hycosy going well! Suggestions for improving sperm: I googled this and found a great article with all the options. We opted for the ashwaganda root supplement as it’s been proven to increase sperm count by 170% or something. Not sure how to improve morphology. FWIW my DPs results came back as 3% morphology which is under the desired 4% but they said it’s not a concern as his count makes up for it. So I’m wondering if your DP can increase his concentration the morphology would be less of a concern?

Here’s the link: www.healthline.com/health/boost-male-fertility-sperm-count

My period is due today - month 10 TTC - and I KNOW we DTD loads around ovulation because I saw my ovulating ovary on the scan ready to go! So I was super disappointed to get a BFN today.

Does anyone know if they can get any indication at all of the health of your tubes from a regular scan? I’m just wondering why no one from the fertility clinic mentioned at what point you’d try a HyCoSy. I mean there’s no way I’d want to pay for IUI with blocked tubes! Totally pointless. But maybe they could see that the tubes are showing no signs of being blocked and that’s why they didn’t mention it? Private clinic in case that’s relevant.

@kaylsd thank you! And I completely agree, GPs seem so clueless and also uncaring when it comes to fertility. I've only had my hycosy and bloods etc because I work in a hospital in a neighbouring county and they've taken over my care! My GP told me to contact a gynaecologist and arrange my own laparoscopy back in March time and that was our last communication 🤣

I think my DPs SA was the opposite to your DHs - he only.. abstained for 2 days rather than the 3-5 they suggest as I got peak on my opk 😂😂 his count was good at 51 mil per ml but obviously the 1% morphology is a worry. Thanks so much for sending that link @PaleGreenAndBrightOrange, I'm def gonna look into the root supplement! Did AF arrive in the end? It's so disheartening to see that BFN, especially when you know you DTD as much as possible around ovulation, it's so frustrating. I'm not sure if they can see how your tubes are just by regular ultrasound, have you asked Dr Google? 🤔😅 but I think I would request a hycosy prior to IUI as like you say you wouldn't want to spend all that time and effort to then find you have blocked tubes!