POAS girls: Fertility super slueths 🔎

[TheBirdintheCave]

A new thread for our little gang :) Tag anyone I managed to forget!

@MrsJGrealish @happinessandrainbows @calimc83 @pangolin84 @theblueflowers @bringmearainbow @monsteramunch @bunnykins123 @curliegirlie @LuckyMoonstone @Indianna2006 @FfoxRedN

@MrsJGrealish I'm glad you got your digi! I'm still keeping the faith for you 🙏🏻

@bringmearainbow I'm ok. I wasted my last cheapie this morning so that I've got nothing left if the house to test with. Going cold turkey! 😂 Now I can just wait for AF to arrive and start the next cycle.

@TheBirdintheCave ooh cold turkey you're braver than me 🙊 I have lots of tests 😂 and will no doubt waste a few ic early testing! Had your temp gone back up?

@FfoxRedN Hey 👋 I took aspirin for my last pregnancy just gone. Never taken it before, did as much research as I could. My consultant and midwife were more than happy for me to take it. I took 75mg a day from around 6ish weeks, no earlier incase it affected implantation. Took it up to 38 weeks. Absolutely no harm done to me/baby in taking it. Although I never go to the stage of tests to see whether it would be beneficial I did find out I have a high red blood count which can indicate slightly sticky blood so was a no brainier for me xx

@MrsJGrealish Hope u are ok lovely. Sorry to hear about the covid. Great news you have a positive digi, praying this is your cycle xxx

@bringmearainbow Yep! Nice and high again :)

@TheBirdintheCave good sign lovely 🤞

Spotting has started with me ☹️ another cycle takes me to 23 December due date. Not sure if I'll go for it. I'll update when I decide. I'm actually ok I cried a lot Friday and Saturday. Tests don't lie. I'll keep following though want you girls to get your rainbows 🌈

Happy Mother's Day everyone❤️. DS2 came down and I've had covid pretty recently so hopefully my antibodies are high. I couldn't not see him Xx

@MrsJGrealish oh lovely I'm so so sorry 😢. Sending hugs, please keep us posted, it is still possible to spot, but I know when you feel in your heart what's happening it's hard to think of any other outcome. Just know we're here for you in whatever capacity you need 😘 xxx

@MrsJGrealish everything crossed for you. Spotting can mean something or nothing....really hoping it's the latter. Hugs xxx

@MrsJGrealish would progesterone be possible lovely? x

@MrsJGrealish ahhh lovely that's rubbish ❤️ I'll still keep everything crossed it will still be ok for you xxx

@calimc83 dr said no due to previous stroke..😢 but I do wonder how accurate that is if my progesterone levels are meant to go up but are failing. Something to think about if I try next cycle xx

Honestly thank you everyone for your support 💕

@MrsJGrealish really sorry to hear about the spotting, as others have said I'm hoping it's nothing. Big hugs from me 💕

@MrsJGrealish Sorry you're spotting 😢

I got my cross hairs on FF at last (by deleting the Premom positive OPK suggestion) and it's put O at CD32 rather than 31 so I'm definitely out this month 😭 With our age (I'm still not convinced our eggs and sperm are any good) the odds of anything happening are like 10% which may as well be nothing. So effing depressing. I should have just forced myself to have sex that last time. I KNEW we should I just couldn't be arsed to lie there with the cup in for half an hour 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️😭 I've ruined everything for myself.

@TheBirdintheCave FF has my ovulation a day too late compared with my OPKs, it's an app at the end of the day so there can be errors and I know it's done mine wrong, it seems to only put it day 12/14 depending what I play around with, but I KNOW it was day 13. Please don't think you've ruined it. Even if it's a BFN this month at the time you did what you felt you could. This journey is such a slog, that there are times you just can't DTD. It may also be that you did enough but this month it wasn't the right combination of your goods 🤣. The only real way to tell is to wait. If you're CD31/32 how many DPO are you now? Xx

@MrsJGrealish I'm so sorry about the spotting 😔❤️

@FfoxRedN 6/7dpo. Originally thought AF was due on the 26th but now I guess it could be the 27th. Sorry to be such a downer (again). It just feels like I've got no chance of ever seeing a positive again. I don't even think the IVF will work 😂

@TheBirdintheCave oh I totally get what you mean, I've got a positive and I still don't think it will equal a baby. We just plod on through in the hope one day it will happen xx

@MrsJGrealish oh love 😔 big hugs from me, hoping it’s just random spotting that means nothing, but it’s such a headfuck isn’t it 😞 xxx

@MrsJGrealish sorry about the spotting. Will be keeping my fingers crossed it’s something of nothing. Hardest thing is just to wait. The waiting is awful.

@TheBirdintheCave Like the others have said. You did what you felt you could. And when the journeys so long. It’s all you can do.

Big hugs to everyone 💐

@MrsJGrealish ahh shit..wonder if there's anything else u can try instead? x
@TheBirdintheCave Hope u are ok lovely 😘, please don't give up hope yet xx

@TheBirdintheCave I second everything that @FfoxRedN said. I have also had cross hairs on FF when I know I ovulated on a different day. It's an app and it guesses based on symptoms but actually it can never been 100% correct as everyone's bodies are different. Really hoping this is your month 🤞

@MrsJGrealish really hope it comes to nothing for you!!

@TheBirdintheCave it only takes one and they can live a while!! Everything @FfoxRedN and @bunnykins123 said!!

first monitoring scan tomorrow morning for this cycle, fully expect to see a few follicles growing then they panic about over response reduce the dose and everything stops growing….just telling myself one final go before ivf!

@Alexis7890 sorry if this is a completely dumb question and I've got this wrong but if this is last go before ivf can you just not bother about reducing the dose if they want you to and see what actually grows? If it's too many then not try this cycle. And if it's a good amount then go for it? I presume they then rescan you before ovulation to see how many have grown?

I'm CD8 today get to start poas later 🙈 honestly it feels like O is so far away and seems a bit silly to start now but if my crazy body decides it's going to have an early ovulation this cycle then suppose I have to 🙄 I've prepped DH told him that he needs to be ready for lots of action this month 🤣

@bringmearainbow yeah I am tempted to not reduce the dose and keep going on this one, there are only 2 follicles growing and 2 isn’t too bad, yeah they keep scanning me until either one is big enough to trigger ovulation with a trigger shot or they stop growing and the cycle gets cancelled (again). I won’t naturally ovulate so regardless of the outcome of the cycle, unless a miracle baby, we will get our ivf referral. You might ovulate early so no harm starting the tests!!

@Alexis7890 ahh I see makes sense. Yes 2 not too bad I would just go for it if it was me. It not like you have 4/5 growing. How often do you go for scans to check growth? True I don't think I will o early but better to be sure