Hi May, never heard of a cervical erosion? What is that? Sometimes I have a little spotting after DTD, so is that what you are referring to?Quote:
Originally Posted by maybeoneday
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Hi May, never heard of a cervical erosion? What is that? Sometimes I have a little spotting after DTD, so is that what you are referring to?Quote:
Originally Posted by maybeoneday
Got my immune testing results back. I have MTHFR. I am Meeting with RE this week to discuss further. I do know a few women that have it and have gone on to have healthy babies. I am trying not to get too nervous!
Mydream- what does that mean for you? What do u do about it?
Hi!!!!
I have been MIA for a over a week, house move = no internet...feel like i have missed out on so much!!!
My Feb and March attempts failed, didn't attempt in April, but back on the wagon for May and i am feeling really good about this month - hope im right!
Im actually thinking of throwing much of the stress inducing planning out the window, the temping, the charting, the opk's and just get DH to FR from CD1 for 10 days and then start DTD daily for about 4 or 5 days. Based on my charting for the last 3 months i Ov on CD 13-15 so i think that will cover it. Obviously i would keep up the diet and supps strictly.
What do you girls think??? Hindering or helping???
Im hoping maybe that it might help as it will be less stress, and as timing doesnt matter so much, do i really need to temp, chart and OPK?
Or am i affecting my sway by not being meticulously calculated about the timing?
The other downside is I wont know for certain when I have O'd...maybe just keep up the temping so I know once i have O'd but skip the OPK ?
Pls tell me your thoughts!
Tons of good luck and best wishes to all!!!!!! here's to lots of May BFP's :luck:
I think...what it means is I have to take high doses of folic acid, baby asprin daily and lovenox shots (once preg).. I am not completely sure. I have a few friends that have this as well and that is what they have to do. I will know more by the end of the week when I speak to RE.Quote:
Originally Posted by HopeandDreamG
Lassie- welcome back ! I think your idea is perfect ! Go for it...
I knew someone with this and did the same thing, had two beautiful babies, one girl, one boy!Quote:
Originally Posted by mydream
Mydream- sounds like me. I take lovenox daily when pregnant and baby aspirin daily ALL the time. I have thrombophilia. Its totally manageable. And instead of folic acid I take metanx my body metabolizes that differently.
Lassie- welcome back! I would skip whatever u think is going to b more stressful. I think the prob with not temping is just what u said that later it may cause stress wondering if you o'd. It's really a personal thing of how stressed this all makes u. I feel no stress at all temping first thing in the am.
CD13 and attempting with Preseed. I hope if we DTD through the weekend we will catch my O. No +OPK yet, but it normally happens around day 14 or 15 so we have to be like bunnies I guess the next couple days. I tel ya, my DH is wearing me out, but I have to say that the Preseed has made it more enjoyable!!!!
Kraisy~ Hoping the preseed makes all the difference for you and you have a BFP before you know it!!!
Thanks Hope!!!!! What cd are you on?
Man, I am just not losing weight like I did last time? I keep hovering, not losing! :(
I can SOOOO relate! I did great for the first 6 weeks or so, but the last 4 weeks I barely shed 3 lbs, and the last 2 weeks I haven't budged at all. I CANNOT figure it out, b/c I dropped from an avg of 1700 down to 1400 calories, and STILL the weight just clung on! Just put my attempt in, so I'm just worrying about maintaining now, but it has been highly frustrating. I want to say that it is O water weight... I googled "cannot lose weight around ovulation" and found that a lot of people struggle with it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena
I think my AF is due soon. I'm sure me wanting to eat every sweet thing in sight and I feel much hungrier in the morning isn't helping, but I still have been doing pretty good, all considering.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ribbons
I'm not being as strict as I was last time (in December/January) because I don't want a repeat. I guess I'm just going to have to be content with whatever happens. I mean, it's not make or break for me... I'm 26 and we may have a third child later on in the future, so we're happy with boy or girl... but I feel like I've invested myself in this so want to give it the best shot possible. If everything hadn't messed up in December/January, that attempt would have been AWESOME.
I just don't know that I can do that good this time.
I also cannot figure out how I even managed to lose the amount of weight I did... I was still chomping on chocolate as it was around Christmas! This time... it just does not want to budge.
Last time I literally ate a lot more stripped down than what I'm eating now, and while weight loss was amazing, my body didn't agree and my cycle grinded to a halt!
I've also not been drinking tea this time like last time... oh, dear. I need to get a move on and down some tea(s).
Doesnt it just though:) i felt the same way especially with clomid right!Making it more enjoyable =making babies remember!Quote:
Originally Posted by KraizyDaizy
Im so excited that this will be it for you Kraizy,,i just know it:)
I am def losing weight people are saying that they don't even recogize me, however my scale has moved MINIMALLY in the last month. For me I think its because overall I have lost 76 pounds. Holy Sh#$T. I was losing weight before the LE diet. Since starting LE I am down 26 lbs. I eat MAX 1200 cals and weigh more then most of you! Its frustrating but I think its the process of going down that matters even if its eeking off its the overall. I MUST beleive this! I did conceive a girl 10lbs heavier then I am and was in the process of losing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ribbons
Kraisy~ today is CD25. I have a few more days till AF is here! Should be here this weekend. My cycles are 28 days. I hope it is not different with the chemical bc I had AF till CD5 then spotted till CD12.
surgenea and ribbons - dont stress about the wieghtloss, if you didnt have too much to lose in the first place, then you wont be losing much at all...
i lost about 4kg at first, and was worried because i was looking sickly thin, and then the weightloss stopped and i have remained the same for the last 2 months.
Kraizy - im hoping for you so much! Glad the preseed is working for you :) I really hope this months the one for you!!
thanks for the advice, i reckon i will stick to taking and recording my temp - but not charting it and comparing it to other months, and other charts, and analysing to the enth degree - becuase thats the bit that causes stress (and the opks)
Lassie - Oh, I still have plenty to lose! Before the LE, I was just on the verge of overweight for my BMI... now I am somewhere comfortably in the middle. I was really hoping to get to my lowest adult weight but I'd have to lose at least 15 more lbs to get there. Oh well... not going to stress about it now, this might be my month.
It's funny how different ways of monitoring stress us all differently; I can't do temping b/c I still sleep with my little one and he makes it impossible to sleep more than a few hours at a time - I use OPKs and those are my least stressful method! :)
Good luck everyone!
I agree wtih Hope 150%...I think the process of losing weight matters more than a magic number. I only lost 5 lbs when swaying (and I still could have lost a ton more) but I was too anxious to get pregnant again fast and believed the act of losing weight would sway for me.
Now that I am pregnant with my DD, I wish I knew the magic thing that made her into a she, so I could share it with you all....wish I knew what things in my sway really worked to have tweaked the odds to the girl side, lol.
Auoara- nice avatar. Are u buying those for baby Lillian? Love it!!
I've probably lost a pound so far... I keep dipping in and out of 116-118, though.
My last attempt in December/January, I was down to 103 at the lowest... :(
It takes nooooo time at all to gain all the weight back, eh?!
UGH!
Oh well. *shrugs* My calories are above where I'd like them to be (pushing 1,600) and my fat/protein higher than I am comfortable with (fat: 36, protein: 42) today... so that won't help me lose weight. I've been trying to hover around 1,200 cal per day because being higher makes no difference.
I hope I can at least drop 2 pounds prior to ovulation, at the very least. I guess I'll just have to drop lower... don't know what else to do.
Suregena- it's so hard right. Maybe keep cals where u are And week of O drop to 1200. Just a thought. If I ate 1600 I'd gain if u stay the same or drop little by little this would work
Ok beware could be TMI ahead but... advice needed urgently! I have taken antihistimines to dry cm. Am due to ovulate either Sunday or Monday, waitin for opks to arrive and anyway just tried checking ph with what cm war there and it is clear with a little bit of white in it and stretchy like 3 fingers wide before it snapped. Question is, do you think this is my cm indicating early ovulation? Or had unprotected sex lastnite and both had big o so could it be leftovers? Did use lime tampon for couple hours afterwards. Please let me know your thoughts.
I get EWCM for about 4 days before I O then virtually dry up at OPK so given you are due to O this weekend, it could be early EWCM. The antihistimines would have helped to dry it up anyway and I wouldn't worry about the big O as I am not sure it is a deal breaker, so long as you are good on the diet and happy with the rest of your sway you will be fine. Good luck!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiesse
Hi KD, it is a condition of your cervix that is usually caused by a hormone imbalance. It causes spotting cycle round, very little CM and bleeding after DTD. I had one about 10 years ago and had to have it lasered (that was pleasant!!!!)Quote:
Originally Posted by KraizyDaizy
After consulting with the fab AS, I am not convinced it is the same thing and I may just have an irritated cervix due to the vitex and DTD. Am attempting this month regardless so have already got in a few attepmts and will hope to get in a few more yet!
GL for your attempt this month, we are virtually at the same point - will be stalking for BFP later in the month! xx
I think it is a great idea and exactly what I am doing this month. I started off totally obsessed with getting it right and as the months have gone on, I have dropped virtually everything except watching my diet and FR. To quote AS, you can't get your desired gender if you can't get pregnant! This is month 8 TTC for me now so am just rolling with it and praying for a BFP (a pink one preferably!!!) Good luck and hope this is the month for us all! xxQuote:
Originally Posted by Lassie1982
SPot on Ribbons! If you lose weight and stress in the process, the stress probably cancels out the weightloss ?Quote:
Oh well... not going to stress about it now, this might be my month.
Hope it your month aswell :)
And you are right - we all have such different stress triggers! For me, OPKS are stressful...mainly because i am anally retentive, I always have to do it at the exact same time, i stress about how long i have held my bladder for and need it to be the same amount of time for each test, which means i stress about what i have drunk...ergh - wish there was a switch for stress!
oh auroara i wish you knew too! I reckon by the time our kids are having kids, the 'sway' will be an official process that will probably come in a pill, or with a specially prepared diet delivered straight to your door (like the weightloss diets they have these days) LOLQuote:
Now that I am pregnant with my DD, I wish I knew the magic thing that made her into a she, so I could share it with you all....wish I knew what things in my sway really worked to have tweaked the odds to the girl side, lol.
kiesse - have you done an opk? would that help give you any clues? what about your temps? do you get a pre ov dip?
maybe - sorry to hear about the cervical erosion, fingers crossed AS is right about your current symptoms being Vitex and dtd related! Best of luck hun :) Will look forward you your BFP!! Thanks for your words - you are very right..you know oddly enough, the longer we are TTC, the more by Gender Desire just turns into Baby Desire...which is probably a good thing...whenever i see a little baby boy, i picture having another one...and whenever i think about the baby being a boy instead of girl, i dont feel that pang of 'disappointment' like i did a couple of months ago. Hopefully that feeling stays with me, in case it is a boy when we conceive..
Thanks so much for the info. I never heard of cervical erosion until I saw your post. We are cycle buddies for sure, but my cycle is about 28 days verses your 26. How long it your LP with a cycle that short? and I will be stalking you for a BFP as well!!! Many blessings!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by maybeoneday
Dear Lord, please watch over May and bless her womb with her pink dream this cycle. AMEN!
Goodness, 5 DTD days in a row...Lord, please let me be able to keep up with my DH, he is trying so hard to give me a baby this month. He is so into it and I guess it's because it's more than likely our last Clomid month and he is just wanting to finally get our daughter on the way for January or twins in December. My OPK's are starting to show the second line, so O is soon I hope LOL!!!
I was wondering if with Clomid is it just a chance of twins when you use it or can there ever be triplets LOL!!!
And what about the Super Moon this weekend? I am sure that is a major full super BOY moon!!! and that is just the time I am to O unless it happens today LOL!!!
Kraisy- so feeling positive for you this month! Yes with clomid you can get triplets!! I'm hoping for twins bc I know getting dh to go for a 4th is not going to be easy and I din know if my bod can take it. I think it would be awesome to have twin girls especially bc my boys are 16 months apart. I'm often asked if they are twins! It would be like two sets!! I'd be so done! And beyond happy :)
I need a new first meal idea. What's everyone eating?
My dream- are your attempts done? I know you hade positive opk a few days ago, right? Hope the 2 ww goes fast for you :)
I'm waiting for AF hopefully Sunday. Suregena you too any sign?
I wonder if the dosage has anything to do with twins and triplets? I am just on 50mg each day 5-9, so are those on a higher dosage more likely to have multiples?Quote:
Originally Posted by HopeandDreamG
I think higher dosage makes it more likely. Also days 3-7 more eggs but not as good quality is what I keep reading. Amari was 5-9 though!
Yeah she was, but she was on 100mg so I wonder if I even have a chance? I am on the same days, but with just 50mg, I think it's just enough for me to ovulate?Quote:
Originally Posted by HopeandDreamG
Of course there's a chance. Even without clomid. Our age too! There's a thread on here somewhere about risk factors like age, body weight, height. I fit EVERY one and still don't think it will happen so I know how u are feeling
I hope it happens for me (twins, not triplets LOL) I fit all the risk factors except that I am not tall or of African descent... and I don't eat many yams on the LE diet!! :D
I'm not on Clomid, but If I get a BFN this cycle, I'm going to look into soy on days 3-7. I'm with you Hope, my DH is on the fence about a 4th and that would just take care of it :)
I would like to read that thread. Do you know which one it is? or the link?Quote:
Originally Posted by HopeandDreamG
Here it is: http://genderdreaming.com/forum/gend...ing-twins.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by KraizyDaizy