Faith, trust & baby dust! ✨💕✨ TTC 12 months + 🤞🏼 On this rollercoaster together with a little love, support and giggles to get us by! 💕

[HopefulGlow]

Hi all!

We were getting to the end of the previous thread, so thought it’s best to start a new one.

A quick catch up I think mainly everyone on the old thread is as 12 months + TTC.

Newbies are always welcome.

Just sharing our journeys, supporting each other when possible, and having somewhere to moan and let it all out

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@xoJellyBean hi. Hope you're well! It's been a while since anyone has posted on here!

I'm currently 24weeks pregnant with my baby girl 💕

@Bubbles1995
how are you doing? Did you have a nice festive break and new year?

@LA9610
sorry it’s been a while again. I’ve been trying to distract myself. Nothing came from my procedures and we had our final appointment with our fertility doctor today.

apparently they now think I’m not ovulating properly (don’t know why I’m only just being told this) and my partners SA is worse than his first sample 🤦🏼‍♀️ So they have offered me clomid. He can get a few more tests but then it’s onto private, as they told us today we don’t qualify for NHS. Which I knew through reading our areas guidelines, but I wish our doctors told us this over a year ago when we started the investigations.

have I missed your due date?! Ahhhh so sorry if I have!! hoping you & family are well! ❤️

@xoJellyBean hiya! How are you doing? HAPPY NEW YEAR! I can’t believe it’s been so long between me posting. Sorry about that :)

updated above a little about my journey. It seems never ending right now 😅

@Lauralozzle
how is your IVF going? Sending you lots of positivity ✨

i just want to apologize to you all for being so quiet. I hope wherever you all are in your journeys you are happy & trying to stay positive 🥰✨💗✨

@HopefulGlow I had a down regulation scan 29th Dec, but I hadn’t down regulated so had to take a trigger shot to ovulate and wait for another bleed. I had my second down regulation scan today, which thankfully has worked. I start Stims tomorrow so it’s looking like early Feb for egg collection/transfer.

That’s so frustrating that they hadn’t said anything about ovulation and now they reckon you might not be ovulating properly. Also sorry to hear the SA was worse. Hopefully it’s a bit of an anomaly though.

Hopefully the Clomid helps. Have they just offered it, will your cycles be monitored whilst you’re on it?

@Lauralozzle thats frustrating about the scans. Glad you have February as a date now though. I bet you can’t wait to get the collection out the way.

how are you feeling about it?

yeah I was really frustrated but at least now we know. I just keep telling myself at least we have some answers.

they are going to do bloods and scans while I’m on it. I just need to wait for all the info and prescription to be sent to me now. They did say it might not work though due to the low results of the SA. But my partner has done some research and got himself some clomid too. I know they use it in other countries to help with testosterone and low count, so he said it’s worth trying while I take mine? So we will see if it works :)

how has it been taking the medication for IVF? No bad side effects I hope ✨💗✨

@HopefulGlow I’m okay about it. I’m quite excited to be moving forward, I think stims will feel much shorter than down regulation so it’ll feel like I’m making progress (hopefully). First stims injection tonight, so two injections overall. I’m looking forward to gaining some fridge space, it’s the little things lol! 😂

That’s good they’ll do bloods and scans whilst you’re on it. It’s worth a shot at least, and being monitored might help identify something.

@Lauralozzle i hope you got the answers you were looking for ❤️❤️ and you are doing well ❤️

I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted but I wanted an update for anyone who was looking at this thread.

After over 3 years of trying, testing and hoping, we finally got our BFP!! Due in August and I’m still in shock. Hopefully this gives hope to others doing through this difficult journey.

Thank you so much everyone for all your support and positivity.

sending you all baby dust ✨🩷✨

Huge congratulations @HopefulGlow wishing you all the best with your pregnancy 💕

@LA9610 Thank you so much!!

how are you and your little one doing? ❤️❤️

We are good thanks :) He turned one at the start of January and I went back to work a couple of weeks ago, seems like my year of mat leave just flew by so quickly!! Sad to be back to work but also kind of nice to get a little bit more adult time/time to myself whilst I am working.

Any sickness or anything to contend with? My DH is eager to have another one but i'm not sure I am ready yet, with him working offshore it's a lot on my shoulders, just feel like having 2 so close in age would be a lot to deal with but then knowing that these things don't just happen either makes it hard to decide 😂

@HopefulGlow Congratulations that’s excellent news.

@LA9610 How time flies! Such a lovely update.

Unfortunately I’m still very much on this rollercoaster of a journey. Looking to hopefully have our fourth transfer in next month or so.

@LA9610 wow! I can’t believe he’s turned 1 already, that’s gone so quickly!

I’m sure it’s a difficult decision, with knowing how long it can take but also not wanting them to be too young together. It’s a lot of work 😩

unfortunately I’ve been really ill. I have HG, and the sickness has been horrible. I keep telling myself I’m lucky to be in this position though 🥲 were you ok with yours?

@Lauralozzle thank you so much! We were really surprised. As we were still saving for IVF while my partner started taking HCG injections 3 times a week to try and help his levels.

i’m so sorry you are still on this journey. How are you holding up? I hope you still have amazing support around you.

Part of me wishes I told more people so they could have been there for us and known what we were going through.

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