@Hopetobeamumof4 I just wanted to say I was in your position a while ago.
I have 3 children with my ex husband. I’m 38 (soon to be 39). Have been with my partner for 4 years now. He’s younger than me by 8 years and has no children of his own.
I conceived my 3 children extremely easily, within 2 months of ttc each time. But I was 32 last time I was pregnant with my youngest.
We started ttc in September 2019, and amazingly fell pregnant in October. I sadly miscarried at 9 weeks.
I then went onto have 2 more miscarriages in the next few months. So for me it seemed I could still get pregnant but likely my age was the contributing factor to my eggs being old and just not sticking.
Thankfully I had a very supportive GP who referred me to a fertility consultant. We were seen within 6 weeks. This was in the summer of 2020.
I had blood tests done on day 3 and day 21, my partner had a semen analysis done, and I had scans to check my follicle count and overall condition of my ovaries and uterus.
All test results were brilliant and showed no reason for not being able to keep hold of a pregnancy.
I’d been tracking my ovulation with ovulation tests, but out of desperation bought an OvuSense monitor to track my ovulation more precisely using core body temp - I knew I could never stick to the routine of having to take my own bbt every morning at the same time etc, so this took the hassle out of it. I just woke in the morning and synced the monitor to my phone.
My cycles could range from 29 days up to 36. But I found I was ovulating later around cd22.
The fertility consultant basically said there was no more she could do for me as I already had children.
I was taking 300mg ubiquinol every day as it’s very good for older women ttc as it helps improve egg quality.
I also started taking the higher dose folic acid, and a higher dose of vitamin d.
I also decided to try soy isoflavones (like the natural form of clomid). I took it on days 2-6 and it brought my ovulation forward to cd14. Each cycle I took them my ovulation was at a more ‘normal’ time.
I went onto fall pregnant again. In that time between seeing the consultant and getting my BFP I’d read lots about aspirin helping to sustain a pregnancy. I tried to get hold of the consultant or my GP to ask whether I should start taking it. Sadly I didn’t hear back from anyone and unfortunately miscarried again before I could start on it.
I decided then that when we started ttc again after that miscarriage I would take aspirin as I felt I had nothing left to lose.
When we did start ttc again, I took 150mg aspirin from 1dpo. I got a bfp at 8dpo and amazingly the lines on my tests progressed brilliantly, and the bleeding never came.
I had a scan with EPU at 5+4 and we saw a heartbeat. They then started me on progesterone pessaries as a bit of a boost.
I took those until 16 weeks.
I saw my midwife at 9 weeks who checked with the consultant about me taking the aspirin. She said I’d done the right thing, and had I not already started myself on it, she’d have put me on it!
I’m now 28 weeks pregnant and all (so far, touch wood) has been perfect.
I fully credit the aspirin and soy isoflavones in getting me here.
I used to find it so frustrating waiting for ovulation and never really knowing at what point in my cycle it would happen, and therefore no idea how long my cycle would be!