TTC May 2023 💖 Previous MC March 2023 (thread 2)

[Sez281]

Hi ladies, just thought I'd create a new thread for anybody that wants to continue.
@Jadeypie
@Westy22
@Freddie15VES
@fleur89
@Strawb28
@DmcinT
@HopeAndStrength
@xxcxdonxx
And @SnookyPook for if/when you feel like you might want to come back xx

Sorry if I've forgotten anybody, I realise most of you guys have had your BFPs and there's only a few off us left waiting, but at least you know the thread is here so come back and keep us updated with all your lovely pregnancy stories 😊 For those of us still here, hopefully it won't be too much longer 🙏💖 xx

@Westy22 ive done 2 sessions now...gona try and take a picture nxt time for my oh cos i feeli resembled pinhead last time haha bery weird having them in my head. its ace seeing all the needles in tho and she puts a lamp over my stomach. Always prods my belly and tells me to stick my tongue out. Always tells me i have low energy and bad circuation lol ...i do.lol The feet thing is because your feet are linked to the uterus so cold feet cold uterus.. she shows me her sucess storys too. Its nice how proud she is. Shes chinese so strugles tofind english words for things lol hw i got into bbt

Ooo really @Supertrooper101 do you have them at certain stages in your cycle? She's suggested I have them around ovulation. I've had the pins in my face before lol very strange. I've been sent a big questionnaire to fill in that talks about different deficiencies so I'm gonna have a Google later lol x

@Jadeypie thanks for asking. I freaked out a bit yesterday as my test looked rubbish.. however I'd forgotten that I'd woken in the night and had a wee a couple of hours before the test. I've done one this morning that I think is looking ok... Trying not to obsess about progression too much but it's hard. I'm not even past the timeline I had with the CP yet so all feeling extremely tentative. Just trying to keep as calm as poss and take one day at a time....

It’s really hard not to think too much about progression @SnookyPook , I’ve told myself if I get pregnant again ill
not test once I get a clear positive, will see how that goes 🤪
For what it’s worth, I think your lines look great. These early stage tests do depend so much on time of taking them etc.
I’m really delighted for you 💜

@Strawb28 wow 17 weeks that's after flying in! So glad you're through the worst of it now 🤗

@SnookyPook I can only imagine the anxiety, those lines look really good though! 👌

@Westy22 @Supertrooper101 you guys have convinced me to look into it when I get home. I'm a sock/slipper gal so hopefully my uterus is nice and warm 😂

I'm in Paris at the moment. My opks are quite dark but not at peak yet which I'm happy about. Although it's a boozy weekend as I'm here for the rugby World Cup so not sure if alcohol from the night before might mess with my LH levels 🙈 I don't have any ov pain or ewcm though so praying it doesn't happen till I get home to pounce on my OH 😂

@SnookyPook those lines look great 🥰❤️

sorry I haven’t been online much these last weeks, work is busy and I’m just head down to get through to Halloween😅

nice to see everyone’s updates🥰 and congrats @SnookyPook thats a nice strong line yesterday🤞🏽❤️ I’ve heard such great pregnancy success stories from acupuncture, it supposed to be great.

a little update from me… I’m almost 23 weeks now & time is definitely speeding up. We’ve had our 21 week foetal anomaly scan and all looked perfect so that’s a great relieve. Baby girl is kicking and punching away at me on the daily now so it’s nice to feel that and knows she’s doing ok. Apart from that im just on the countdown to Halloween break and then maternity leave 😂🙌🏽

always thinking on u girls and saying a wee prayer when I pop back in there’ll be some good news💙💖

@Sez281 enjoy the rugby and paris, I’ll be watching from home.. C’mon Ireland 🇮🇪🎉🤞🏽 I’d say the buzz is unreal. And fingers crossed for u that peak hits on the day ur home😂🤞🏽🤞🏽

Thanks everyone. Finding it harder to relax about it this time but just trying to keep positive. Before the chemical I'd had spotting too and not had that this time. Anyway, time will tell! 🤞🏻🙏

@Sez281 great that your peak is holding off for you! Hope the timing lands perfectly for your return to DH!

@DmcinT so lovely to hear your update and that baby girl is doing so well! Can't believe how quickly that's gone! Bet it didn't feel it for you going through it though!

Morning all... Pretty sure this is another early loss. I'd be delighted with these tests if I'd got them a week ago but I should be 5weeks on Tuesday so it's not looking great. I'm pretty sure I know when I ovulated as used opks and got a clear peak. My first positive was also almost a week ago. I just hope it doesn't all drag on too long. I'm really struggling at this point. This has been such a crappy year. MMC in April and then two early losses one after the other and right on my original due date month. I'm feeling really despondent right now. Sorry to be a complete downer on a Monday morning. Hope everyone else is ok. Looks like I'll be back to TTC again very soon. Although not sure I can take much more right now. 😞

@SnookyPook oh I am so sorry you are feeling like this! Do you know when you ovulated? I'm sorry if I missed that info but I know it has a massive impact

Hi @SnookyPook just wanted to send you some love and support with how you're feeling. It is no wonder given what you've already been through.
I don't want to give false hope but my tests for this pregnancy looked like that at about the same timescale, so you're not out unless AF appears.
Keeping everything crossed for you.

@HopeAndStrength oh really? They just don't seem to have really changed at all. I daren't hope and yet I'm hoping... as we do despite ourselves. 😌

Oh @SnookyPook I'm so sorry if you're right. I'm sure your ov dates are correct but as @HopeAndStrength says it might just be ok 🙏 I'm really crossing everything for you and hope that things work out but if they don't I don't blame you for being pissed off. You really have been through the mill and don't deserve this, especially this week of all times 😢 sending lots of hugs xx

@SnookyPook i’m hoping all will be ok but please know we are here if not. I can’t understand why this process is so cruel to us, it is so entirely unfair.
Your feeling are completely valid and completely relatable.
Hoping that you get some clarity in the next few days. Sending you lots of hugs x

@SnookyPook sending so much love either way but I would say mine were very similar between 4-5 weeks and I was freaking out that they all looked the same. My digital didn’t change to 2-3 weeks until I was nearly 6 weeks so 🤞🏽 Uve had a really really tough year and journey so far so I can understand why ur so cautious ❤️ I’m hoping for the best for u xxx

@DmcinT 🙏 thank you. I can't let go of a bit of hope still and hearing you and @HopeAndStrength had similar at this stage does give me a bit more. I think I just daren't hope too much. I called GP today and have asked if they will do a repeat HCG (they did it last Weds when I cheekily asked if they'd add it to a routine blood test) and progesterone check. Hopefully they will agree and do that in the next day or so.

Hope everyone else is ok. Sorry I've been a bit wrapped up in my own thoughts today!!

@SnookyPook just seeing your updates and I feel for you, I really hope that things are still progressing and you certainly shouldn't give up all hope yet. But I also understand why it must be hard to stay hopeful.
Fingers crossed that the GP will do the repeat HCG test for you, that would help a lot. Sending a hug x

@SnookyPook did your GP agree to do the bloods? Crossing absolutely everything for you. Hope you're doing ok x

@DmcinT Aww so good to hear that the 21 week scan went well, so exciting that you're over half way there now! ☺️ The weekend was great but obviously devastated over the match result 😭

I got home late last night. Feel absolutely awful🤧, just did a covid test but it’s negative. I’d say I’m just run down after the weekend. Luckily my opks haven’t got much darker so hopefully I’ve a few more days before peak as I can barely move never mind even thinking about dtd 🥴🙈

Hope everyone else is doing ok xx

Thanks everyone. So, still in limbo here but feeling ok. GP is repeating HCG blood test for me but not until Thursday. The Women's Health Unit (our local version of EPAU) has offered to scan me when I get to 6 weeks (a week today)... So if I make it that far, hopefully I'll have a clearer idea of how things are looking.... It's all feeling completely surreal now really but I actually feel ok. Will just have to see how it goes. 🤞🏻🙏

@SnookyPook that is great that you're getting the tests and a scan - although I know Thursday, and next Tuesday, must feel very far away to you at the moment. Will you keep testing in the meantime?
Glad you are feeling a bit better for the time being, what a rollercoaster

@Hankthehonk I didn't test today... I may do one Thursday morning before the blood test just to see how it's looking. I'm trying really hard not to obsess to much - what will be, will be... But yes, patience is hard!

Ah @SnookyPook I'm sorry your in a bit of limbo again, hopefully things turn out okay for you. It's good that your GP and EPU are offering support ❤️ I'll keep everything crossed for you.

Hope everyone else is good, I'm trying not to be on here everyday to keep the obsession at bay but I can't help buy check in on what's happening and how your all getting on. Starting to stress as I don't feel like I'm going to ovulate this month, I've not done any OPKs but I've not had any signs and I'm cd13. Trying so hard to calm myself 🤣🙈 just I've usually had some signs by now 🙈 not even really dtd tbh i feel like I've been super angry hormonal and it's bloody freezing so I've not wanted to 🤣

Hope you are doing ok @SnookyPook , the waiting for appointments/scans feels like forever. Keeping everything crossed for you.

If it helps @Westy22 , I get zero ovulation signs until the day before really when they all
appear at once!

Just a little update from me; I had my gp appointment today but i’m not really any further forward. She reassured me at least that it wasn’t anything I was doing/taking that caused the enlarged yolk sac and just to
keep taking my vitamins as usual. I should get my blood results early next week and she’ll contact me with any news. She said progesterone would need to come from a recommendation from the recurrent miscarriage clinic which was a bit disappointing. The month I got pregnant I had been doing seed cycling and taking progesterone friendly food and I’ve become a bit obsessed it’s an issue for me in keeping my pregnancies. I just really want an easy fix ☹️(as we all do I’m sure)

@Sez281 Hope you are feeling better in time
for your peak opk!