Trying for a 2017 Baby

Sammy
I am sorry!
Whether you have prepared yourself for it or not - it is either way crappy! Having said that - i can also remember having cycles where I was so calm and content - almost already knowing the outcome and being fine with it. We learn to trust our "gut" or "instinct" - of if I may say so - the Holy Spirit in this fertility journey and sometimes experience that sense of calmness and peace that goes beyond all cognitive reasoning. It helps us to gain strength to move on towards the next potential cycle.

Liza
Fear - now that is another emotion we have all experienced. The fear of what if this is not the cycle......
BUT - you need to give your embies the BEST possible chance of welcoming them into your world. So....push the fear aside....rub your tummy and say positive affirmation ALL the time. You can do this - you are in the last stretch of this cycle. Hang in there!!! I have all my money on you now!

Nicola
No that is one thing that tends to stop after having endo removed - the pain during AF. During all my LAPS the pain just stopped for during AF for at least the first 6 months after the operation. So...you still having so much pain - I would definately go for a 2nd opinion.

AFM
CD11 for me. BD starts from tonight...... until CD17 - we feel very hopeful....

Good morning all

I hope everyone has a very blessed Tuesday

@Liza... Patience, patience, patience.... It's the one trait I DIDN'T receive any of! I wish I could give you advise on how best to get the time to pass, but I am CLUELESS and think I literally drove my DH crazy over the past 12 days since my IUI!

@NicolaF... Today I am assuming I am on CD1, so just a day behind you Will be able to confirm though around 10!

AFM.... Okay, so as of this morning, my AF arrived..... ON IT'S OWN!?! Something SERIOUS is up with my body! I phoned the FS when I got to the office and first spoke to the nurse because I was supposed to go test this morning (took a HPT earlier this morning and it was negative - so I have absolutely no expectations at this point)... the FS nurse advised that I STILL need to go and do my blood test. Then phone in at 10 and get the result. If it is negative (which I know it will be) then today is CD1 and I go in on Thursday for my CD3 scan and we start everything all over again.
It's strange, this cycle was a complete bust and my DH asked me repeatedly why I am so "calm" about it this time.... My only thoughts are, well from when my follies were being measured etc, I was uneasy the entire time knowing that my follies were no were near the size they needed to be, so in the back of my mind I was constantly worried and wondering how things would end up. Now that I know that this cycle is now past and I can start afresh, I feel almost "relieved"... I hope that doesn't sound absolutely terrible of me?

So at 10 I will phone the FS, hear my blood test results and book y CD3 day scan for Thursday morning

Hi Ladies

@ NicolaF i really hope you get the answers you need with your follow up. Its not nice if you feel that your in the dark!

@ Sammy any news?

@ Jooste enjoy the BD festivities!

@ Chanti good luck vir your ER today! Thinking of you and i know that everything will be great!

AFM the wait is getting to me .... I'm really trying to keep busy but i find myself always wondering about the "maybe". So today is 5DPT for me. My boobs aren't so sore anymore so i think the meds are leaving my system.
I had some cramps, hungry most of the time and back ache and last night and this morning some nausea. This could be so many things also just AF getting ready to arrive. I have seen no signs of IB although i know that not all women get it.

There is only one word to describe how i feel - FEAR!

Hi Ladies

Wow there's a lot going on at the moment!!

LIZA OMG I am soooooo excited for you...will say lots of prayers that you get your BFP this weekend please let us know!

SAMMY I am praying for a BFP for you too hun. Oh I know about the DH and their manflu!!! its like the world is going to end hehe!! xxx Also thank you so much for your last message...its been crazy our side so I didnt get a chance to reply but thank you so much xxxx

JOOSTE - Yeah I am really not convinced that there is no endo I wish there wasnt but I know there is! Thinking of you xxxx

CHANTI so excited for you too I pray you receive good news soon xxxx


Sorry to those I have missed I really need to keep more up to date!

AFM...I'm on CD1 (effing painful period) which means this month we will start TTC again. If i'm honest I am feeling really anxious about it. I think I just thought that after my op the endo would be removed and I would be nice & fertile and it would happen easy, but now we back to square one and am battling with the thought of knowing we prob wont fall preg soon & those awful period days when I just wanna lock myself away. But anyway we will give it our best go and I HAVE to try my best to not be disappointed when AF arrives. Doesnt make it easy knowing the in laws will be in the next room while we BD hahaha!!!!

Have decided to seek second opinion from an endo specialist here in Cape town, he is also a fertility specialist so he will be able to deal with everything all at once. The thought of going back to that other woman makes me feel sick, however I am going to go for my follow up (as long as it is free) so i can find our exactly WHERE she looked for my endo as I do believe she has missed it. Just gonna trust my gut on this one.

Lots of love & babydust to you all
xxxx

Sammy
Ha ha!!!
Oh...I would like that! The bright-nose-post-conception-sign!
Yes, that would make it a whole lot easier on all of us.

You sound a lot like me - analyzing it to the very last possibility and then preparing yourself for the dissapointment in an attempt to take it better once it does happen (and unfortunately no amount of preparation can prepare one for that absolute sadness and desperation if a cycle do fail)

I really hope that you get your BFP this cycle.

Chanti
Have you had your ER?? How many follies / eggies?

Liza
wHOOHOO!! I can remember that mixed feeling of scary/exitement during our IVF. The reality is...you ARE pregnant until proven otherwise. You know that TWO fertilised embies were placed inside your uterus - so technically you have conceived - it is just now for God and his mercy to take care of the rest - because no FS can go beyond that step of this process. I am rooting for you!

AFM
On CD10 today - we have a very strict BD schedule ahead of us. WHa hahha hahaaa!!!! No, but seriously - cannot miss out on this opportunity since we have been on such a high dose of Femara. So - we are going to give it our all.....

@Chanti... Goodness now you are asking me a difficult question. So basically I do not have a cycle EVER unless I get given Provera and Fermara etc at the correct times. So I cannot claim to have a 28 day cycle because I can honestly say I have only had 3 natural cycles over the last 13 years (since I had my son).... So let me rather try answer you this way around, and HOPEFULLY you can assist me because now my DH is sticking to his belief that perhaps I had some implantation bleeding, but I flatly refuse to even get my hopes up!

So this is how my cycle/IUI timing went:

25/10 - Tuesday - Took my Ovidrelle Trigger shot - but prior to this I had to have 4 x FSH injections because my eggs were on the small side
27/10 - Thursday - Had my IUI at noon

Therefore if I count it all out, today I am sitting at 13 days post trigger, and 11 days post my IUI
But I was doing OPK's and my LH surged 26/10 - Wednesday - so to me, that would mean I should ovulate within 24 hours?
Now DH and I made sure we were BDing every 30-36 hours prior to IUI and after IUI. SO even if my IUI wasn't successful, I was hoping to still conceive maybe after? Wouldn't that then mean implantation would only happen later? Sorry I am NOT very clued in with how this all works, but I am a very analytical person so now I am starting to wonder if maybe I am a late implanter, because my DH just reminded me that when I fell pregnant last year, I also had an IUI, and our FS sent us for a blood test 12 days there after and my reading was barely 25, which tells me that I hadn't built up enough HCG, which possibly could have happened because I implanted later than the norm? Even though that pregnancy ended the way it did, it was still a viable pregnancy because we got to see our angel's heartbeat...

Now after typing ALL of that out (from my heart)... my head automatically kicks in and tells me that I am being silly and am really "reaching".... My FS knows best right? If he says I either am or am not pregnant via my blood test on day 12 (which incidentally is tomorrow ) then I need to just trust that right? And if it shows that my HG is below , then I must just call this cycle a bust?

I was telling a friend of mine now, sometimes I wish things were SO much simpler. Like if a woman falls pregnant, then at the POINT of fertilisation or implantation, something physical must happen, like your nose must start glowing a bright colour, or your ears should start wiggling, or SOMETHING so that this 2ww nonsense and squinting at tests etc falls away

@sammy - these men really do turn into babies when they are sick! When is AF supposed to be due? I agree with Liza, it isn't over until AF arrives! ! Injections are done so happy!

@Liza - I am so proud of u for staying rested! !! Weldone!


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