Good luck ladies! Im keen to try this month too, but i havent got the diet sorted yet. Hmmm hopefully I will get myself together shortly! Just getting over a cold just now and you know what they say! Feed a cold starve a fever! Oops!
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Good luck ladies! Im keen to try this month too, but i havent got the diet sorted yet. Hmmm hopefully I will get myself together shortly! Just getting over a cold just now and you know what they say! Feed a cold starve a fever! Oops!
There don't seem to have been any new posts since June but Hello to any other over 35 Mums/Moms or would be Moms/Mums looking TTC.
Still here... 1/2 dpo... :)
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Hi, I've postponed til October due to going on holiday. Still rubbish at diet. Starting 30 day shred tomorrow for bikini in 4 weeks :-S x
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Hi Little Lunasa and Mrs Incredible,
Little Lunasa, Keeping my fingers crossed for you - though I had to look up dpo! Still learning the acronyms:bigsmile:
Mrs Incredible, October is when I will be TTC too, hopefully we will all get some Spring/
Summer girls!
Hi girls. I started an exercise dvd one day and my legs are in agony past 2 days :-S Cant even walk down 2 stairs we have without being in agony. Got pain killers so start shred tomorrow.
Ooh to be in the 2ww already but it seems ages til I'm at that stage. FX for you.
Gl for ttc in october, are you doing le/got a plan from atomic? Really takes the stress out of swaying. You kind of hit the ground running instead of reading every post and getting more confused! Speak soon xx
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Ooooh sounds sore! I'm enjoying the couch potato part of my plan :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs_Incredible
Yes, am following LE as much as possible and am 6 dpo at the moment.
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Hi all, just stopping by. DH and I fit into the 35+ category. Makes me a little nervous as this is our first child we're ttc. With maternal years not on my side anymore, my concern is if it takes a long while to conceive the first (7 months so far including m/c) what if we decide to have another but 'run out of time'? :worry: I guess we'll be blessed if we have one eventually...
Hi Ladies. Another `geriatric` mom here! :) I just turned 40 and have 3 boys (my first boy is 23 and second 21) and then I had my little Aidan who is now 2 1/2. I thought I was done with babies BUT I am itching for another one and DH is happy to comply...so...
I secretly wanted a little girl for my last 2 pregnancies, but did not suffer from GD and I hope this time will be the same if I don't get the girl I soooo long for. I am tying my tubes when I have another one and that will be it, girl or no girl. Last chance!
Wishing you all lots of luck!
We all fear that but we see older mums conceiving all the time. A friend of mine is 44 and conceived recently after trying for 6 months. I also worry as I am now 40 and everytime I read something about pregnancy on your 40's they make it sound like a very bad idea or that it might not even happen! The secret is stay calm and believe your body will do what it's been designed to do. Good luck!Quote:
Originally Posted by bunnywabbit
Mrs Incredible said
“Gl for ttc in october, are you doing le/got a plan from atomic? Really takes the stress out of swaying. You kind of hit the ground running instead of reading every post and getting more confused! “
Mrs Incredible
congratulations on your work out – sounds like a toughie! As regards your question on Atomic’s sway plans, I am seriously considering getting a sway plan from Atomic. My only hesitancy is Atomic herself has (words to the effect) that the girl sway is about reducing overall fertility (as that sways girls) so if you are older it may be better to just get pregnant rather than worry about the gender. The other thing for me is the amount of dairy to be consumed. I like Milk but I have ibs and follow the Low Fodmap diet. So I basically drink lactose free organic milk and no yogurt or keffir as it is hard to get lactose free yogurt unless you go vegan and frankly I don’t tolerate soy. So with all that in mind I am still mulling it over. At the moment I am just trying to keep my blood sugar down and calcium and magnesium levels up.
Little Lunasa said ”Ooooh sounds sore! I'm enjoying the couch potato part of my plan
Yes, am following LE as much as possible and am 6 dpo at the moment. “
Keeping my fingers crossed for you Little Lunasa
bunnywabbit said”Hi all, just stopping by. DH and I fit into the 35+ category. Makes me a little nervous as this is our first child we're ttc. With maternal years not on my side anymore, my concern is if it takes a long while to conceive the first (7 months so far including m/c) what if we decide to have another but 'run out of time'? I guess we'll be blessed if we have one eventually...”
Welcome bunnywabbit I totally get where you are coming from I am 37 (38 in less than 4 months) and TTC my first child. It is difficult one. I want to sway because I always imagined myself with daughters and do want a daughter more than a son. Wow, I feel guilty saying that! But at my age I do wonder should I just aim to get pregnant as soon as possible and let nature take its course. I do so want a girl but I want a healthy baby of either gender most of all.
Your post about your posts made me laugh Aiden’s Mum good luck with your sway
Aiden’s Mum said” We all fear that but we see older mums conceiving all the time.. I also worry as I am now 40 and everytime I read something about pregnancy on your 40's they make it sound like a very bad idea or that it might not even happen! The secret is stay calm and believe your body will do what it's been designed to do. Good luck"
urgh the newspapers annoy me. I know they have to keep us informed and it is true your fertility declines with age. But I hate the undercurrent in much of the stories that some how older Mum’s are selfish women who choose not to have children when they were most fertile. It is usually so much more complicated than that and it is not fair we have extra stress when as you say we need to stay calm.
Yes, this is where I am right now. A DD would be lovely, but for right now just hoping for a non eventful H&H 9 months soon. I'm aware I am really quite... stressed (not sure if that's the correct term) - family 'differences', living circumstances, work are all part of it. Am trying to wind down, relax and enjoy myself - have some me time and do something I enjoy, just finding it very difficult to get the hang of it. I'm wondering if background pressures, even things I'm not even aware of thinking about are making it a little more difficult for me to conceive. Wondering if by letting my hair down and relaxing it may happen, maybe as a surprise. Would love to throw it all in for a month or so and go relax on a beach... :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by HopeSprings76
Have loosened up a little on the sway (still meat free, just dropped RepHresh and cut down on the antihistamines) Open to tried and tested R&R suggestions! Talking of which, has anyone tried reiki? Any good? :think:
I haven't tried Reiki Bunnywabbit, but I have heard Acupuncture is great when ttc. I am going to probably do a six week course before I start ivf. From what I have read it is good for relaxing Mums/Moms to be but also gets the blood flowing to the reproductive organs therefore making conception more likely.
I definitely think stress makes it harder to conceive so anything that helps relax us is great. Apparently Yoga and Qi-gong are particularly good destressers and obviously meditation. I do a little bit of yoga anyway but I think I will purchase Brenda Strong's Yoga For Fertility dvd too as it obviously worked for her. I am also trying to mediate even though I am not the kind of person who finds quieting her mind easy.
Have you tried anything out of the ordinary to help relax you during this time?
Haven't tried anything out of the ordinary, no. Reiki I heard was good as long as I ensure it doesn't do anything to help aid conception directly. Took a few days out of work recently just to do 'nothing' in which started out ok, but ended up sick toward the end.
Relaxation for me at the moment is difficult. MiL has recently left after been over for three weeks - no chance of relaxing then. Work is really hectic and has turned moreso from this week just finishing - I work at the local college and is enrolment time (four weeks worth), so can mean working from 08:30 until sometimes around 21:00. So very *not* relaxing. Am doing what I can to relax on the weekends instead, but DH is sick today, so been running getting meds, etc. in for him and have a appointment for him this afternoon at the hospital, so more tooing and froing... Funfunfun!
I'll get there - thankfully is a long weekend so can catch up on doing nothing!
Is there a special pink sway plan for women over 40? After 2 failed IVF's I Am worried about my ability to get pregnant at all at 41. i have 3 boys conceived naturally at the first attempt, but the last one was over 6 years ago. But, i would like to try for a couple of months to sway before i give up completely. Reading through the posts on swaying has utterly confused me. Are there a few basic things that I can do without overhauling my life?
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New and jumping in here...well, I have been around since day 1 but after so many mcs I dropped off--but the cause of these has been found, and dh and I are finally ready to ttc (I think...) and hopefully all my issues are behind me! Im 37 and my baby is 4.5 years old now, so heres to hoping I can still get it done and HANG on to it!
Baby dust to all, I( read through some posts. Looks like a nice group of ladies here :)
Is anyone still actively Ttc here anymore? I'm not sure where to post a hello ��
Anyway I've been Ttc on and off for the last four years with too many mc along the way. I'm am now back to fully Ttc now. I'm hoping and praying for a healthy happy baby, no swaying for me anymore now. I would love a baby girl but a baby is more important to me these days.
I'm now 40 eeekkkk how did that happen! And I have 5 children already so been blessed but would love at least one more!
I've just had my day 3 bloods and day 21 bloods done but waiting to get the results from our drs. I'm also thinking about paying to have my AMH bloods done but unsure how much extra info that's really going to be so waiting for the results of the ones I've just had done.
Well I wasn't here before because we have only just started ttc #3 but I fit in the over 35 category now. I don't know why going from 34 to 35 suddenly makes you feel so much older! Probably because it is always made out to be the age where your fertility suddenly drops (although I know it doesn't work that way!)
Good luck twinkle! 4 years is a long time and it sounds like you have been through a lot. Hopefully it happens for you soon :)
I conceived my last little girl at 35 and gave birth at 36, I felt ok with the age then, it was the goingn from 39-40 that's really hit me lol. I feel like it's never going to happen now, I will however try to prove to that 40 is still a good age ��. Good luck on your Ttc journey I hope it's a speedy one!
I just gave birth 2 weeks early at the end of October to my dd at 39 years old!. Valentines day last year i had a scan that confirmed my blighted ovum pg was gone, this year my dd was in a beautiful dress and part of a family gathering for my sisters birthday :) along with my 3 sons. Good luck to you all, i hope your dreams come true xxx
My fears are probably also based on issues with fertility when ttc my last two.. I had my first when I was 28 and had problems then so 35 seems imposible now.Quote:
Originally Posted by twinkle
I have friends however that didn't have their first until after 35 and had no issues at all. Everyone is so different!
Congrats on your little girl!
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It doesn't work that way though! Please don't buy into the "myth of 35" ladies - it says NOTHING for your individual odds, it's just the age at which across the whole population, more women start to have fertility challenges. Plenty of people go right on chugging up to 40 and even beyond.Quote:
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I feel so silly for panicking about my fertility when I was 36 and doing all this stuff that swayed blue because of that. I had 3 babies after taht and my last was conceived at 41!!
Oh and I can't quote this for some reason, but it is not uncommon for people to have fertility issues with their first and then it's like their body "learns" how to get and stay pregnant and they go onto have additional kids with no trouble at all. Having trouble TTC with one child doesn't necessarily always mean you'll have trouble in the future and it certainly doesn't mean you're going to have menopause early (unless you are diagnosed with DOR)
Bloods are in!
Day 3
Lh 1.1 iu/l
Fsh2.9 iu/l
Day 21
Prolactin 164 ml/l
Progesterone 1 now
Oestradiol 195 poml/l
Tst 0.83mul
Free t4 12.0 poml/l
Having day 21 repeated as it showed no ovulation.
I've googled too much and now worried the fsh is too low, it's saying a fsh too low is a indercation of pcos.
I answered in your other thread. Have you ever had any other symptoms of PCOS?? I doubt that's what is going on here unles you have other symptoms.
I've had a very quick google at the symptoms and no I don't seem to have other symptoms. My cycles are regular at 25-27 days not heavy. I have had a few longer cyvles like last month but on the whole regular. I don't have any excessive hair growth and the drs say my day 21 bloods were ok other than the progesterone was too low so no ovulation was detected but I knew that as I hadn't had a positive opk Andy temps didn't pick up ovulation untill day 30. I'm not sure if my free testosterone is normal as I haven't googled that but the gp didn't say it was. Just hope the AMH cakes back a reasonable number
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I agree with what Atomic says about your body "learning" how to get and stay pregnant. I work with a lady who tried for 9 years to get pregnant. They were just about to start fertility treatments when she found out that she was pregnant (at 31 or so) and that was 5 years ago. She just gave birth to her third child a couple of weeks ago and her second child is around 22 months old. They had no problem getting pregnant with #2 or #3.
Twinkle- hopefully you got good news on your AMH. I got pregnant easily with #1 and again with #2 (got pregnant three months after a tubal reversal). We tried for 18 months to get pregnant (only to have a M/C) and have not been able to get pregnant again. Originally my AMH came back undetectable and I did CoQ10 and DHEA to get it up to 0.234, but that is still very low and even with perfectly timed BD we still were unable to get pregnant.
I think women can go on just fine getting pregnant in later years, but my mother and grandmother had meopause early on (48 or so) so apparently I am just not one of the lucky ones. lol
Good luck to any of the more mature moms out there trying for their DG!
Hi ladies! I'm joining the club here as an Over 35 TTC. Glad to see I'm not alone :)
I'm 37 and will be 38 in September. I conceived my first son at 32, after a year and a half of trying, and my second son was conceived at 35, after 14 months TTC. I had some GD with both boys, not because I don't love boys, but I want a girl, too, and ours would be the only grand daughter on both sides as everyone else is done having kids. I was hoping to have her first and get it out of the way haha.
It's been a very difficult decision to TTC #3. We are in a comfortable place right now, and it's easy to look forward to days when I don't have to plan my life around naps and babies. We are financially capable of handling two, but three will be more of a guessing game. Plus, our ages aren't helping. It took us so long to conceive the boys that my DH is dreading TTC (over 30 cumulative months of BFNs can really kill the TTC excitement), and if it takes us that long again we will be pushing the boundaries of our age window when we would feel comfortable to have a new baby. It's not just being able to handle it in our 40s, but also how old we will be when this new babe goes to college.
But the dream of having three children, and possibly a girl, is pushing me more than the negatives. I had to really coerce my husband to try, and I'm not sure what he will feel if/when I do get pregnant because I don't think we're in the healthiest place right now. As it is, I had to agree that if we don't get pregnant without help within a year, then it's just the way things are for us and we move forward with our lives. Right now, I think to myself that I can handle it being in God's hands, but I hope that I can still be so fatalistic when month 11 rolls around :worry:
Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well (looks like mostly Purple and Twinkle have been checking in). I don't know much about AMH or FSH levels aside from what I've picked up from others, but I hope you're getting good news from your doctors!
Good luck and welcome!
I have heard that when they ask elderly people if they have any regrets about their lives, the number one was "I should have had more children." This has been something that tons of women have told me as well, because I have such an oddball family makeup, the two boys when I was young, then after 13 years, 2 more boys and then a girl (not remarried, same husband LOL). So many women tell me, "I really wanted just one more but my husband said no" or something along those lines. I just want to encourage you to listen to your heart and don't worry about your age - it isn't any more of a challenge than when I was younger. I feel like I wasted so much energy worrying about BS when I had my first two, that age and wisdom (if I have any) has freed me up to have more energy even though I'm older now. I just don't stress about stuff like I used to. :)
I think I am coming to the very real realization that this may be me. And it sucks! I 100% agree with atomic, for you ladies out there on the fence....JUMP!!! Soon it will be too late.Quote:
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OH sweets, huge ((((hugs)))).
Just spotted this thread. I'm 35.5 so I guess I should join your gang ;-). I certainly don't feel old yet!
I just found this thread too. I'm 39 and DH and I are thinking of TTC this Summer or possibly sooner. I feel so old sometimes and physically I feel old. I just get tired more. I hope I can handle 3 kids :) But, it's good to find this thread and see other women in the same boat.
Weeziewoozles im from london too!
Well I had my progesterone checked again this cycle and it was 79 so the Dr said im ovulating well on my own so that's a bonus! Now I just need to catch the egg! This cycle was really well timed but unfortunately no bfp yet, 11 dpo today so maybe not this cycle. How are you all doing?
That's great news Twinkle! AF just found me, so I'm looking forward to next month.
Welcome BlueDreams and Woozie! I refuse to admit we're old lol
Hi Ladies! I am hoping I can join here and remember to check in! I am 39 TTC #3. I am 12 dpo getting ready to start CD 1 :( anyday after 13 cycles. Man this is so hard and tiring. I just want this so bad and sometimes it just consumes me. I am going to try acupuncture and hoping it will help me relax and destress a bit.
Would like to say hello to everyone , and hope that I can join here.
We started attempting this month. I'm 39 and have 4 children already. 3 girls 12 11 and 4 and a son who's 7. Took a while for us to reach the decision to try for baby 5 because of my age - but here we are.
We are attempting to sway blue , but only been on diet 3/4 weeks. Feeling nervous as I'm not sure I've done enough , and also hoping that I'm not setting myself up for disappointment - and then if it does happen will I be able to cope with all that comes with pregnancy and babies.
Wishing everybody gets there dream babies x
Hello everyone, I hope your journeys are all short and we get a splattering of bfp very fast!
Well af found me agin this cycle too, I was really hoping that I had done it this cycle after my progesterone being nice and high but nope grrrrr. Another month and another egg fx anyway lol. I'm cd 4 today, this cycle seems to be going so amazingly slow.
Good luck with the blue away baby blue