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YIKES...Auroara is right...No RepHresh/Replens on Clomid...Just try to get preg ASAP and don't mess around w/that stuff at all! The diet is powerful and probably doing enough swaying for you!Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemissnaughty7
LOL...totally thought you were sprouting a little bean in there! NEXT MONTH!
lol OOTB hun you make me laugh, i wish i was and a pink one two lol, yeah thinking i may drop the rephresh too just what is its purpose if you have a low ph anyway does it do anything else ?
LMN7, here's the deal...While taking Clomid you never want to take Replens/RepHresh regardless of your pH. If I were you, I wouldn't even give it a 2nd thought and I know Atomic has said the same thing in the past.
If you weren't taking Clomid and your pH was still so low, you could still entertain taking RepHresh as semen raises your pH in there (your pH of 4.5ish will go up when he ejaculates) and the RepHresh would just bring it back down. Having said that, it takes some women a very long time to conceive while doing the diet + RepHresh + other swaying tactics.
3rd time lucky!! this was our 3rd TTC cycleQuote:
Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
ok hun im doing TBM too to add lime to my hubbys semen will drop this though if not pregnant in first month,
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh RF are you pregnant hun !!!!
yes!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by littlemissnaughty7
yay well done huni, can you please tell me your sway in a nutshell please this month, eeeeeek im so happy for u xxxx
my ph is low too -- in the 4's because of the diet, but it raises to 7 when i dtd and his sperm is in there. with rephresh, it makes sure your ph is always low and at 4.5 even with the sperm up thereQuote:
Originally Posted by littlemissnaughty7
OMG Rainbow that is soooo exciting!!! Congrats!!! You and dh must be thrilled! Yes please, do tell us your sway in a nutshell.
Oh my ladies, all this talk about rephresh is scaring me. I have always gotten pg 1st month trying with my boys but I was 22, 23 & 25 then......now I am 29 and my dh is 36 (almost 37) and I am a little worried it might not be as easy anymore. Eeek! Thank you for all your thoughts and info/experiences with rephresh. This will be my 1st month attempting with it. I was thinking of using it every 3 days as recommended and on the days we are attempting, using a tiny fingertip in the am (we will do our attempts 15 hours later in the pm) on the days in between the full app's. Maybe I should not use it the morning after the full app, but only tiny bit in the morning 2 days after the full app??? Maybe just stick to full app. every 3 days and no touch up?? I will only use a dab of sylk, not much at all. Tiny tiny little bit. Or should I drop the Sylk? And now you have convinced me, with all that I am dropping the j&d completely. Gonna lay there for 30 minutes after each attempt.
Hope&Dream -- I would gladly share my ivf experience with you. My opinion, stick to swaying -- its a lot of money and no guarantee's. Swaying is no guarantee's either but at least you are getting pg in the end and you are not throwing away ten's of thousands of dollars. If you only want another baby if it is a girl, maybe yes than try IVF - cause you will either not get pg, or get pg with a girl. With swaying you will end up pg, but it might be a girl or a boy. Most all pdg women who do ivf need at least 2-3 cycles to have success...and that's if they even achieve it at that point. So if you are gonna do it, be prepared to want to spend at least $40k if you really want to give it your best of best shots. You might get lucky, or you might be me. Message me.
pray for princess - I'd just use it every 3 days and not bother with the little bits before each attempt! I don't know about the sylk, I didn't use any.
my sway is here: http://genderdreaming.com/forum/tryi...tml#post137789
Congrats, rainbow! So excited for you!!!
ootb-Still waiting on AF too. I am cycle day 31 today I think. I wish it would start, I wonder if I never even o'd? When should yours come? I'm also trying to decide whether to start vitex and/or sp or not. so many decisions!
when did you get you +opk amari hun ??
littlemiss-I got +opk on Sunday evening, Jan 15th. I'm feeling a little crampy, so maybe it is on its way!
Amari~ I may have asked you this, but do you temp? This would help you see if you O'd or not.
Prayforprincess~ thats been my reservation spending countless amounts of money and not ending up with a pregnancy at all. Looking at your signature, I cannot even imagine the emotional ups and downs you went through with the whole process. I will PM u soon to talk :)
Feb's almost here (I know I'm a broken record, sorry) but I've been waiting since November to be able to even attempt again!!!! Almost there....
Congrats Rainbowflower!!!!! That is such awesome news!
first day of feb, and 10 pages already......lol... i have to catch up....
thank you!! hope we get more BFPs in here soon (perhaps we have some shy ones!)
huge congrats rainbow, 3rd time was lucky!!!
stickydust, and fingers crossed for H&H 9 months...:)
Re boys age differences.....
i have and 8 year old, a 5 year old, a 3 year old and a 17 month old.
there are 22 months between the youngest 2, and they get along really well.
there will also be a 22 month gap again with the youngest and this one.
my eldest however dosent really have anything whatsoever to do with the youngest.
but in saying that, my 5 year old, loves the youngest to bits and plays with him really well.
i know age gaps can be negative sometimes, but i think alot of it has to do with the individual personalities of the children.
my 5 year old is a real 'mother hen' type of person, he just loves babies and little cute things, which i guess is why he gets along with the younger ones so well.
my eldest is not like that at all, he prefers his own space, and would rather play video games by himself that go and play chasings with his brothers.
my younger brother is another good example.
sorry if this gets confusing.....lol
there are 6 of us, me, bro 1, bro 2, bro 3, sis 1, sis 2,
15 years difference between me and the youngest.
most of us were born really close together, but he had big age gaps either side.
now the brother im refering to is bro 2,
he was a middle child, 5 years between him and bro 2 and 5 years between him and bro 3.
there was 7 and 8 years between him and the youngest 2.
but he got along with them really well. played with them, hung out with them.
and even now, hes 23, and my boys love him to bits, hes great with them.
and he is their fave uncle because he plays with them, and watches movies with them, and brings them treats and stuff.
hes just one of those types of people.
so i guess what im saying is, try not to worry to much about age gaps, because i really do believe the person them self has more to do with it than age does....
I don't. I tried in the past but it just didn't work out for me. It was too stressful.Quote:
Originally Posted by HopeandDreamG
So excited for your time to be coming up soon!!! 20 days!!
AWESOME news Rainbow!!!! congrats!!!!!
I'm temping and really wondering when I'm going to o w/ SP and diet.
Speaking of diet...I'm getting worried b/c I'm losing weight so quickly. Anyone else going through this? I ate some beans and cheese and corn tortillas for dinner tonight just to give myself the extra umph.
DH says I look way too thin, my BFF too :( I think so also. Any tips on how you ladies are maintaining? Should I just add in more fat and protein? I'm the lowest weight EVERRR....let alone when TTC. Any tips?
I don't know that I have an answer for you, but I am in the same position. I've lost way more weight than I could hVe imagined, and am at a lower weight than my lowest weight as a teenager! Too thin. Personally, I've decided to drop the caloric aspect of the diet for the 2WW - ie, I'll eat any amount of whatever I'd like, except still not going to eat any meat. But instead of 1500-1800 calories, I'm letting myself eat to my hunger.Quote:
Originally Posted by KnockYourBallsOff
Knockyourballsoff and Jazzers-Yes, I went through this too! My weight wasn't high to begin with and I was losing way too much. I had to start to add whole milk yogurt and muffins and cake etc. to stop from losing too much. I also increased portion sizes and seemed to be eating a lot more than most of the swayers on here. I also had to incorporate a lot more dairy just so I could include some non-meat fat. I ended up eating a bunch in the 2ww to try and gain more weight b/c my dh was unwilling to continue if I didn't gain weight. GL!!
Can't make a decision-should I start Vitex? Should I start Vitex and SP? I am leaning towards just doing the Vitex and Pep Tea for the month I have off from TTC b/c the SP scares me a little, but I don't know, then I wonder if my T levels will be high? The only reason I am thinking of doing either of them is to sway. Anyone here just doing vitex?
Does anyone else find that they count and re-count days in the 2WW? I swear I've counted my DPO at least 4 times this evening, wondering when the earliest I could test is... LOL! Oh I forgot how slowly time can go when you're TTC!!
my gut feeling is that if you're going to do clomid again next month I'd give the vitex a miss this cycle!Quote:
Originally Posted by amari
that's what I did too - relaxed portions in the 2ww but more strictly counted it before OV.Quote:
Originally Posted by jazzers
Another BFN. Think I may be out this month. :( I'm out of vitex so probably should order some before AF starts...
Katie where have you gone??? Have you decided when your next attempt will be?
Sorry about the BFN Suregena. I hope next month won't be so busy for you and you will get a perfectly clear +OPK so you know what is going on!
Sorry about the BFN, suregena. Don't give up hope yet! :luck:
I've never done vitex or sp at all. Are you saying you wouldn't start it? I was considering doing vitex for the month I had off (Feb) from af-af and then stopping it before I start clomid again in march. AS said it was fine but can't decide. What is your hesitation? I am collecting all information b/c I am so on the fence! Thanks! Hope you are feeling well!Quote:
Originally Posted by rainbowflower
Sorry, maybe not out yet!Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena
yes, I'm saying in your position I wouldn't try it - it's another unknown that could make things worse since you don't know how you will react to it. Lots of people get great results with it, but for some it can really mess things up too. I think not knowing what it's making your body do could cause you more stress in the long runQuote:
Originally Posted by amari
feeling good thank you :)
It's CD9 and my last Clomid pill! Hurry up O get here already!!!!
sorry about the bfn suregena are you sure on when you ovulated ?
amari hun i took vitex 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off for the last 2 months and have stopped it about 3 weeks ago so i can do clomid next week, it made me ovulate both times (i havent ovulated on my own for ages, prob because im a size 4 us) but it worked for me, it made me O 15 days after the last pill 1st time, and 13 days after the last pill 2nd time, if i dont get pregnant with clomid in the next 3 months i will def be starting it again, not sure you should take it now if your using clomid again next month tho hun it may mess things up,
Nope, not sure at all! Had no clearly positive OPK.
Amari, I'm with Rainbow, where my opinion would be to not bother with Vitex because it is another unknown to your body, and you're already changing things a lot with the Clomid. Of course, do what you feel most comfortable with, and what makes you happy sway-wise, just my 2 cents.
Surgena, hate to hear about the BFN. How many dpo do you estimate yourself being? I always say it ain't over till AF shows up.
Hope N Dreams, it's February 1st!!!! YAY!!! Attempt month! Peony, I can't wait for your attempt too later this month, sounds like a lot of ya'll are O'ing towards the end of the month.
Dannikins, re: personalites and age gaps, I couldn't agree more. I think personality has a lot more of a factor than age gap. I love how you describe your second brother as loving to be around kids and being that kind of personality.
KD, so exicited about your last clomid pill! You better O soon and get that egg fertilized with a pinky sperm! heheh
KYBO and Jazzers, my weight just hit a plateau...I'm 5'4.5 and 110 lbs. I just stopped losing any more weight about 2 mos ago. No matter how many cals I eat (1000 or 1800!) I still weigh the same and the scale is stuck there. I've often heard Atomic say that you'll usually stop losing before you lose too much. If you still keep losing too fast though, just try to up those cals a bit while still trying to stick to the LE staples and that should do the trick. Hope this helps!Quote:
Originally Posted by KnockYourBallsOff