Time to begin TTC 2019!

Clinging onto hope...
Hope you ladies are doing good.
Cpt is abit cold and wet.

@cands my heart just broke for you reading your post. I was so sure you were going to get your bfp this cycle. One thing I have learnt is we plan and plan but God is the best of planners and I am sure he has a beautiful plan ahead of you. At least you have a plan of action in place already. I have to say I admire your strength and faith. You are one strong woman.



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Hi Ladies,


I have a lot of catching up to do it seems! I'm so sorry i have been so quiet.
So we went for transfer on thhe 17th May. Beautiful experience. I then had the dreaded 12 day wait till Beta. I didn't know it was going to be so hard.
I decided to do a home test on tuesday after that, and it was negative. i was so upset. the girl who i had transferred with got her positive, so my heart sank.

i then got the feintest of positives on wednesday so of course i was over the moon! It got slightly darker after that but not much.
The pressure got to me so badly as that girl went for her beta, and it was 61! so i thought ok friday i will go.
I went, and the two hour wait was absolute torture! Turns out... It was 9! So i was technically pregnant, but needed to repeat it on the 28th.

So I went on Monday, hoping like all hell it would have doubled. I waited and waited, and eventually at 10:45 the nurse calls.... and it was 15. Not a good thing. She said it should be much higher. I sat in the bathroom stall crying my eyes out! I just knew, it was over.

I then went on Wednesday for another test to confirm.... And it went down to 5. I had a chemical pregnancy with my two embryos i put back.
Ladies, the sadness has been intense. my husband hasnt been here this week, so it has been terribly hard. I am getting better though. I went to vitalab yesterday, and i have hope again.

SO Monday we go again. . he said that he would battle to find embryos that looked as good as ours. so it was not our babies. it was my lining that may not have been genetically 100% ok. so where to from here? we had a long chat about what could have happened and he then suggested that this Medicated cycle that we did, where i used estrogen and progesterone to improve my lining, did not make my lining 100%, only 95%. So now we move on to what he called a medicated natural cycle. i would have done a natural cycle where i let my body build the lining, but i dont have regular cycles, so i cant.
Anyways, how this works is after i have my period, he scans me, then for 5 days i take menopur - this starts to grow a follicle. the follicle releases hormones. We wait for the follicle to get to 18mm, then we trigger it to release. after that happens, he checks my estrogen levels to make sure they over 400, and progesterone is under 1.5. if my estrogen is too high, the lining wont be receptive to a baby.

So once the hormones are correct, then the babies will be warmed and placed back. i wll be given progesterone again before. I will also be given an intralipid drip, one a week before transfer, and one once i get pregnant. intralipid is a nutritious drip that keeps my immune system stable and happy.

so thats the long and the short of it. my period willl begin either sat/sun. i then go for a scan mon/tues depending on when it started. then i start my menopur. it can take about 2/3 weeks then transfer.

sorry for the long post!

xxx

Hello ladies,

I hope everyone is well and keeping warm, winter has officially arrived.

AFM CD27, waiting for the wicked witch with bated breath, she'll probably arrive tonight or tomorrow. I'm in Maseru, Lesotho for 2weeks from Monday with work (4th -15th June). I have been feeling so miserable about it for the past few weeks as I will be leaving my 2yr old behind, it really is not easy being a working mom, more so when you have to travel . This probably also throws me off of TTC in the next cycle as I might still be in Maseru during my O-days *sigh*, it would be nice to get that BFP this weekend, haha!

I've just been having the normal symptoms I get before AF arrives, so nothing new there, sore boobs, cramps here and there and sore lower back, we'll see. I'll update you guys on Monday. Luckily I have a weekend full of activities to keep me distracted.

A lovely weekend to you all, love and light!

Good morning Ladies

Sorry I've been so quiet, after a year long illness, my Nana died on Saturday morning and we have all been struggling the last 2 weeks while she declined rapidly and died. The funeral is next weekend so we are still in limbo dealing with everything. We live in a subdivision of my folks' property, and she lived with them, so we saw her every day. Now with her gone we are all taking a lot of strain. Also, Friday was the first anniversary of my MC, which was highly emotional for us all - but we made it a good day and had a little birthday party for "our baby in heaven" as my children know our Pearl

Welcome to the new ladies I haven't spoken to yet This group of ladies is amazing! So supportive and helpful and welcoming <3

A little FYI, I worked in natural health for 4 years, and did a lot of studying. Vitex is also knows as Agnus Castus or Chastetree Berry. It is a natural hormone balancer used for younger ladies (meaning it isn't really recommended for menopause symptoms - that's black cohosh or red clover) It assists with estrogen production, which helps with the process. It will also help regulate your period and assist with PMS symptoms. The two herbs I mentioned above for menopause symptoms are good for progesterone regulation, which is why they help with menopause

I am at CD 7 - AF was a bit longer this month than usual, and a bit more painful, but I haven't really been tracking faithfully with my Nana being so ill. We have had to push our TTC date back a month or so again, as we still haven't found a decent and affordable medical aid which allows home births. Both of mine were home births and I don't consider myself high-risk even though we had our MC last year. CM is watery at the mo, will track. Last cycle it was EW after my temp rose, so I will see how that works out this cycle and chart it.

Temping isn't too hard, but you need a thermometer with 2 decimal points - the only one I found was at Baby Boom and it's a Pigeon brand one. Very good quality too, and soft and bendy which helps if you use it for the kids. I think it was about R80-ish. You need to track it at the same time each day. Be at rest and don't eat or drink beforehand as this will affect your temp. I did it in the morning before I got out of bed, but not as soon as I woke up as then I was still very hot from sleeping. Your BBT only rises very slightly. I noticed my BBT is generally around 35,45-35,75 and when I O it rises to about 36.15-36.35 - Apparently, there is a reason changes in the weather affect me so much, I have a colder BBT than normal

Have a blessed day ladies <3

@babydreaming good luck hun. I'm feeling less crampy, a little moody but otherwise ok, just have alot of cm, have to keep checking coz it feels like AF arrived ??

@madie my gynae is at garden city as well, I could just be biased but the care that I received from the staff there was definitely something else.

@Nicola how you doing hun?

@cands did you do your beta yet hun? How are you?

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