Continuing conceptions and follicling ahead of Feisty, Fabulous Forty somethings

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Hello world!

heave bonk

Besides I hope we're NOT like nuns.... no babies made that way...

Don't panic Captain Mainwaring Hippy. Am sure all well.

Right, about to make bread/butter pudding. Calorific catastrophe!

quiet congrats for rainbow, I hope this one's a sticky one for you

Comiserations rowing, I had high hopes for your defrosted embies, but best of luck for Hungary

Good news on the falling hcg hairy, must be such a relief after all you've been through

I've been keeping up with you all, sorry not posting so much as mostly reading on my phone. Hoping this month is going to be a really good one for lots of lovely BFPs... waves to all.

Oh, and still chuckling at the teenagers with their braces... reminds me to remind DH to book DSD's orthodontist appointment!!

Hang in there Hippy, one day at a time. As for the silly stats, it's my third pregnancy this year... and I'm beginning to believe it could well be third time lucky. Ten and a half weeks, and scan today was good. Big relief. DH particularly likes the scan picture that says in the corner EDD 1.1.11. Roll on the nuchal scan (with hopefully good results) so I can start to relax.

Oh, and Lia, I had lots of early symptoms this time, though I was trying my best to ignore them... tiredness, sickness... wouldn't advocate early testing, but fingers crossed for you! Good luck with consultant and scan too

alba big about the scan. So the EDD is 1.1.11 now is it! That's a great one to remember. I think mine will be 7.2.11 which reminds me of 7 to 11 the times the shop used to be open (I know it's not as flash as your EDD - I'd just be happy to get there .

jolly give us a bit of that there bread and butter pud pls.

hippy - well doubling is something, but entering double numbers is something else.... I am sitting with pregnancy 12 (three live births). I really don;t want to get to 13!

Sorry rainbow I know you have been through so much and I didn't mean to sound like I was complaining.

It's just that for so many years I'd just had the 2 pregnancies - it's odd. Can't believe this is your 12th pregnancy!! - how are you doing. Is your head still buried in the garden??

No hippy, go ahead, I do not worry about it at all, I was not meaning it to sound like it did, blame the old pregnancy hormones that I seem to have for most of the last two years !!!! I am not that concerned about it, I am more ambivelant (how is that spelt???!) about it than anything. It is only when I go to the early pregnancy units that I get reminded. To be honest it is getting to the point where I am surprised if I have a month when i am NOT pregnant! how weird is that! It is weird to go up from two to four, I had two children then m/c then third child, so I do remember what it was like. So please forgive me if i upset you there

Hippy hugs Rainbow - cos we're both worried we upset the other ahhhhh .

Great news about the scan Alba

Hippy Sex talk at 10, I can't imagine. I bet all the girls said, I'm never doing that!

Alba is everything OK?

Hairy thinking of you?

Gum how was the trip?

Linda how are you still, still hanging around? Hope all is well.

Rainbow Thinking of you.

Rowing how are you and what is the plan, Hungary I heard do you have embies there? I hope they are lucky ones for you if you do.

Feeling more normal. Hubby had a wobble and felt stressed about adoption but all OK now.

I am taking Agnus Castus for periods but open to a miracle. Held a lovely 11 month old baby today. So cute but I am not as baby mad as you would imagine and was eventually happy to put her down so I could drink my nice hot tea!

Sorry too tired for lots of posts. You all know who you are what you are up to and I wish you all 100% luck and sticky vibes and good eggs, and AF when you want it and NOT WHEN YOU DON'T.

Love to all.

Hi to everyone!

Big congratulations to Hippy and (shhhh!) quiet congratulations to *Rainbow".

DP and I are taking the plunge and going for IVF. Bless him, DP has been very good about it all (he is bl**dy lovely and I'm so lukcy to have him). Everything (blood supply, condition of womb, hormone levels etc, etc) good/very good (and I'm delighted about this) except egg reserve which is very low (of course it is, I'm 45, for goodness sake!). Have been told expected success rate of one cycle with donor egg would be 50% but only 5% (max) with own eggs. So....... we're going for own eggs!

DP is not really interested in donor egg route and willing to take the 5% chance option. In essence, it all hinges on the quality of the (very few) eggs that are left. I have what is potentially a misplaced sense of optimism about this. I got pregnant with DD when I was 39, with only one SWI during fertile window and I expect the odds of that aren't much better than 5%.

My main concern is how I'm going to explain going AWOL from work for hours at a time while I go for scans, egg retrieval etc. (Only started my job 3 months ago so can't tell my boss what I'm doing). Really stressful.

Was all set to start this month but period came 5 days early which meant DP's blood tests done wouldn't be ready in time plus he will be away on business for a whole week at exactly what one would expect to be mid-cycle (altho' last month I ovulated on day 8 so who knows!!). Felt gutted about this initially but have now accepted it and as DP says, we can still try for a natural conception this month and go for IVF next month.

The IVF I'm using is "modified natural cycle" which means the clinic will take the one egg I ovulate and work with that. They will give me drugs to encourage and control ovulation but due to the low numbers of eggs available they won't be giving me loads of drugs to stimulate multiple eggs as that probably wouldn't work anyway.

Best wishes to you all for this month.

xx

Frosti, it is great to hear from you.I am very excited about your ivf, and I am glad you are going for your own eggs! Lovely.

Hairy glad the numbers are dropping.

Rainbow, I can't imagine how hard it must have been having so many miscarriages. I really hope this one is the one.

Alba, great news about your scan, how nice.

Italian, lovely to hear from you. I had a lovely weekend away, not exactly relaxing with a toddler, but really nice to catch up with friends.

I heard from my sister today and nothing has been resolved.Her lover says he won't tell his wife, but might leave her in the future, but in his own sweet time, her hubby wants nothing to do with her, and she's tried twice to go to an abortion clinic, but hasn't got there yet.She says she will tomorrow, but I no longer believe anything she says. Although I don't like the idea of a termination, I do believe it depends on the case, and in her case, she really shouldn't be having a baby right now as she has left the four children she already has because she couldn't handle it...in the end, she'll have to live with her decision. Thank goodness she is having some counselling today, she needs it...

My initial excitement about Oing and AF has gone, because I should have Oed by now, and it just isn't happening...Blah,humbug! I've just used my last opk and my microscope shows no ferning at all. Bugger. However I'm swi - ing, so whatever will be will be. Maybe I'll O this week, maybe in 2011...

And to make matters worse my DH is wavering, so there is no mention of SWI at the mo. However he isn't one to turn it down, and he knows there is always a risk.

basically, I'm the one doing all the ttc and he's just supplying the sperm. Having said that, he is fine about another baby, just not with the whole "ttc" if you know what I mean? So I just keep it all to myself.

And what's even worse...I have to do his tax return this afternoon. Now, that really sucks!

super news for Alba, very at your supercool EDD, actually at ANY EDD!!

Lovely to hear from Frosti - bloody good on yer girl, well impressed.

Oh Gum, what a mess for your poor sister (and therefore for you too).

Hippy the BB pud was ok (Waitrose recipe) but reminded me just how much bad (yummy) stuff must be in shop bought ones!!!! And I was using up wholemeal crusts, so was ultra healthy (??!!).

Hi to all x

Frosty - so good to hear that things are looking good for you, I hope you get a super egg when you go for retrival. 5% chance sounds good to me!

Alba - I too think your edd is super cool!

gum it is wierd to SWI when only one is intending, my dh has been like that for months now. I, in all honesty, have not been as pro-active as I should have been either. But it is great when ov catches you out at just the right time. At least you have the tax return to distract you this afternoon ! Also I have very good friends of mine emmigrating to Aussie in a couple of weeks time, do you mind me asking which part of Australia you are in?

Italian - good to hear you are feeling ok with your decisions and you are doing ok.

hippy - hope you are not panicking today, I am trying to super-relaxed "who cares if it works out or not" route (failing abismally at it of course! ). But today the line on the test was a little smidge darker, so going the right way so far.

woop woop rainbow x

Gum, I know what you mean too, my DP is just the same, fine about the swi but just goes vague when it come to ttc.

I'm in the middle of all the blood tests etc and when I told DP that if everything ok with me, which admittedly is pretty unlikely, the next stage would be tests on his swimmers oooh you should have seen his face

Alba very glad to hear everything going well, very cool EED! And Hippy lovely you have a date now too

Rainbow, so many rm must make a bfp into such a mixed blessing, really hoping this is the one.

Rowing where are you? Miss you on here, more to the point, hoping you are ok? What's the plan re Hungary? By coincidence I'm going there next week (but work not ttc).

Looks like the back to Italy escape plan might be coming together, just got to hope they can offer decent money and that I can get some answers from the doctors before we go.

Oops nearly forgot welcome to mschutney(really like the name btw)

Morning . I have read through everything but have forgoetten most of it already! Very bad night with ds up 3, 4 times, and then a bloomin' magpie going crazy on our window ledge at 4am..At work at the moment, so just a quickie.
Rainbow oh I do hope things go well; a darker line is def progress in the right direction!
Hippy Great EDD . My dd3's birthday is 7/11/05 and I always remember it by thinking of the old 7/11 down the road too
Gonepearshaped good luck with your results; lol at Dh's face at his possible investigations. I can just imagine it
Gumblossom sounds like you've got a lot to deal with at the moment. The sister situation sounds horrendous. Hopefully the couselling session may do some good? I'm with you too on the wavering dh - mine is happy too about the prospect of another baby, but gets quite 'pressured' when it's 'the time'. I have now resorted to saying (on pos opk day) that it's a faint line so technically a neg, to take the pressure off! Is that too naughty?
Hairy great news on dropping levels, you must be relieved. I can't stop fiddling with my brace - is that normal?

Big wave to everyone else, sorry not to name check more but boss hovering. CD 19 here - a few cramps here and there to report but am not being fooled by body this month and will NOT test until af at least 5 days late.

LOL Diege it's perfectly normal LOL I couldn't leave mine alone and I loved using the inter dental brushes on it LOL

Feeling better today - albeit tired - and bleeding is less, so maybe the acupuncture worked.

Fingers crossed for Monday's test!

Logged on to have a read whilst eating my lunch. The talk is of denatl brushes for braces what have i told you kids???

Haven't got time to name check everyone. i like yuor style italian - i like the general sweeping hope you get AF if you want it and don't if you don't etc approach. V. clever.

i have to just say that my EDD of 7/2/11 is only based on the calculator on MN and did not come from anyone in the medical profession. I am not seeing Gp till next thursday by which time i'll be 6.5 weeks and will ask her for a scan (gulp - that is gonna be hard).

frosti try not to stress about the whole 5% chance thing. When we went to see the consultant after my MMC he said given our ages and my endo he would give us a 5% chance of getting pregnant again (he said it would have been less but we had recently had a pregnancy). Anyway 3 cycles later and I got my BFP which I'm sure is a much higher percentage chance but i can't do the maths. So he was being cautious and guessing low.

Give it your all and we'll all be behind you 100% - that is a definite figure you can count on .

Hi Hippy! I remember being where you are re: waiting for gp appointment and requesting a scan after my mmc 2 years ago. It does make everything feel scary, sort of takes you outside of your little bubble. I did go through the stage where I thought what the hell, I'll just wait for the 12 week, but so glad I insisted on an 8 week 'reassurance' scan. I really do feel everything will be fine for you (pyscic vibes again).
Hairy I have brush-envy Mine are the clear invisalign aligners and as such just require rinsing under a tap, which feels very unsatisfactory considering all the gunk that gets caught up in them..I might treat them to a bit of toothpaste tonight

Sorry been AWOL so long - was off on holiday and had in-laws staying for 6 weeks (love them dearly but 6 weeks is too long to have anyone as a guest!)

Oh my God - Hippychick! Sounds like you are up the duff! Huge congratulations my dear.

Off to scan back for more news.... I keep meaning to catch up but the longer I leave it, the more pages there are to read (stating the bleeding obvious I know) so just thought I would plough back in. There needs to be a precis function for lazy slackers like me!

I'm 25 weeks today and off for my check-up with the doctor this afternoon.

Love to everyone and sorry not to name check.

Thanks all for kind words...

Hippy, word of warning on early scans -- chances are, unless you have the kindest GP in the country, it'll be no to an early scan. I paid for mine.

Google carefully (GP was no help with recommendations for how to get private early scan either), there's a huge difference in prices between all the private scan clinics.

rainbow, fantastic news about line getting darker

I'm getting excited for all of you on the 2ww now, not that I want to encourage any early testing, just excited for you all... sending lots of throwing up and feeling dreadful vibes

hello everyone again

We're off to get my bloods done and MrChutney's swimmers off for a test on the 21st so hopefully we'll know more by the end of June.

I'm lucky as MrC is nagging more than me to get things done - I've had my head in the sand for ages trying to convince myself everything is ok. He's of the view until we know if there's anything wrong we can't do anything about it. I hate admitting he's right

The 21st seems a long way off still!

omfg I am so angry with myself.

I made a mistakle with my appt and got ready to go yesterday only to discover I should have been there Tuesday

Gotta wait 2 more weeks now. I am so stupid, I had it in my bloody head for weeks, I've waited 10 wks for this appt that I thought was the 10th.

aaaggghhhhhh

and breathe.

Ok my continued imaginary symptoms are No boob soreness yet, normally have some by now if RTD is imminent.

bit nauseous on and off

keep getting really hungry, you know that stomach nawing one?

err that's it

Oh Lia what a shame - sorry about that

Quick wave as am running late. Lovely to see TFLS and AdT pop in
x

lia how awful for you. lets hope you turn out to be preggers and can say stuff it to the appointment .

alba When we went to see the Gp after the MMC she did say if i got pregnant again she would get me an early scan. Also the consultant that i saw after the MMC wrota a letter to her suggesting that if we were successful again it would be really good for us to have early scans (plural).

So I will be surprised if she says no when i go next week. But then again, this is the NHS. I will not be able to wait for the 12 week scan, so one way or another i'll get one (dig deep in your pockets DH).

The last 2 weeks has gone so quickly - hoping the next 34 do too!!