Cheapie PREGO test my friend, and I took a cheapie opk right along with it that is almost similar to that ghost line. hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by rainbowflower
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Cheapie PREGO test my friend, and I took a cheapie opk right along with it that is almost similar to that ghost line. hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by rainbowflower
my first BFP with this one was the faintest little ghost line on an internet cheapie test (so faint it wouldn't show up in a photo) - so dipped a FRER in the same pee and got an obvious line on it!
pee on a FRER please!! lol
OMG I didn't know that!!! I wish I had one right now, but if we're patient.. in a few days I should have a line if I am indeed prego.Quote:
Originally Posted by rainbowflower
I can get 100 ovulation and 20 preg tests for under $20.
Hubby won't budge on FRER..however I did show him the ghost line yesterday morning and he's like "it's there, but you have to really concentrate to see it.. " nah you could see it easier, he was just in denial!
Well it's darker now.. so :P hahaha is what I will tell him.
I hate to freak him out at all though because then he will FOR SURE not BD next cycle.
Oh gosh is there something I didn't read before Taking Vitex!? Like the spotting and AF like cramps. .
I feel like such a TTC virgin :hair:
OMG did I miss a BFP in the middle of this post!?! AAA!! congrats!Quote:
Originally Posted by Irishmom
Brown spotting a day ro two after O is normal and "O spotting". Sometime the fluid that comes out with your egg has blood in it and that blood can find its way out. Since it's brownish, that's almost certainly what it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Babyy Love
If you're taking cran/baby aspirin, they can contribute to O spotting but some months you just get it randomly. I think I've had it 3-5 times in my life (never when swaying) just at various points.
Another possibility (again, if you're taking cran/baby aspirin, this can be likely) is that your cervix gets very open and soft around ovulation and it is prone to getting injured, and then if you BD a lot or check your pH, you can cause little owies that don't even hurt when you do it, but can cause a little bleeding, bright red, pink, or brown depending on how severe it is.
Don't worry too much about this, like I mentioned before I took the vitex for !!!2 weeks!!!! and I was not just a little bit pg either...I was a month pg at this point but didn't know because of the "AF-that-was-not-AF".
The baby at 3 DPO could not have absorbed anything anyway, and at 3DPO your corpus luteum was still going strong. AT 10 DPO the baby could have been implanted by that point and also a CL could be breaking down, so it's much riskier.
I did have more O cramping while on Vitex, but also baby aspirin/cran can cause O cramping to be very severe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Babyy Love
Butterfly, I've always heard if the line is there, then the line is THERE! Congrats, I hope it keeps getting darker!!!!
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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
I haven't had baby aspirin since about a month ago..I gave it up all I take is Folic Acid and just began Vitex when it arrived..I'm anxious now that vie gotten some sleep i'm hoping my lucky month is next month because I doubt I get a BFP with all the stress ive beeN experiencing lately
I'm so nervous to believe it though. Maybe I'm chasing an evap line that I ironically never get .. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Good luck tomorrow! I stupidly tested and not a suprise bfn appeared! I am going offline after Sunday I really need to think about things! I thought this whole thing of swaying was bringing me clarity but in fact I still feel the same! I know that because when I got the bfn I was deflated but while we were dtd I was literally afraid it would happen!
I wish I could afford and feel ok with ht... But I don't! I want it to just happen, but who am I kidding?!
A lot of soul searching and I may be back! Maybe with a new username:foreverindecisive!!!
But wait, did AF come? It's not over till she crashes the party! Maybe it's too early! With my second DS I didn't test until 2-3 days after AF was late, and even then... the line was barely and I mean barely there! Sometimes it takes 3-4 days to build up. So do me a fave and don't give up hope until then okay? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by coocoobananas
As for me, I feel bad I even brought up the ghost line. It isn't getting any darker at this point. But oh well.. I am excited to take Vitex again. I laugh at myself now because I even said to Atomic.. "I find myself just wishing that AF would come just so I can take Vitex again!" Maybe I got my wish ha ha ha :) Original AF was due on the 22 or 23.
I've been doing some thinking lately too, and I' know that hanging out here will only make me more swaysessed! So after this cycle is over I probably will take a little break and try to chill out too, and that sure isn't easy at all because I LOVE coming here and spending time talking to you wonderful ladies. And I will come back when I get my BFP.
I do know that we can do whatever we put our minds to, and I believe you can too! Maybe a break would be good though because relaxing is what will lower that testosterone.. I laughed the other day and I asked myself.. HOW am I supposed to relax without stress with two little boys!?!?!?! bahahahaha oh well. We do what we can right? Another good thing is.. I've heard only great things with tricking your body that you aren't trying to conceive anymore.. or ladies that actually give up and it finally happens! No matter what, just be positive, I do believe in the law of attraction, and until menopause happens..you have that chance to conceive!!! :)
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Originally Posted by Butterfly Spirit
Hmmm tricking the body that you aren't TTC huh you don't say??:suprise: and just how do you do that? Sometimes I actually feel like giving up or taking a very very LONG break from all this :hair:
Maybe we ALL need a spa day
If you don't go overboard on sway tactics that require a lot of attention, you CAN trick yourself into thinking you're not really even TTC. I didn't do anything that required any efforts on my part beyond following a diet and then taking vitex. I never had to stress about when to DTD or what jelly to use, etc.
UPDATE>>>>>>>>>> BFP LADIES MY BFP!!!!!!! Yes, pregnant and had a full blown AF.. I'm your proof! Hubby is livid and won't help me take a pic of it. I took another internet cheapie and this time there was a actual line you could see.. So I went to the dollarstore and got one of those cuz they always work for me..
IT'S A BFP AND I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :running:
Mama always WINS in the end hehehe . . .
Congrats! That's awesome:)
Attachment 2140
We have a great point and shoot but for some reason it won't take pics of tests very well at all.. But you can still see it! :) Today is Cd 31!
Hubby left the house, he's SOOOOO pissed.. hehe
I win, and I get my Christmas baby to top it off YAY! I hope it's my Princess! I was hoping to conceive in April or May since the Chinese Gender Calender says GIRL so We'll see!
coocoo, it will happen for you! KEEP up the Vitex!!!!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by coocoobananas
Thanks! It's funny cause I had had some vino last night and this morning I was thinking...what the heck did I write on that forum last night lol!!
Just got back from a baby shower for 2 baby girls...didn't even think about how I would feel til I got there!! Gagged back tears:( so scared to get pregnant and be the end of any dream if having that!
Just stay positive.. just keep trucking! You see how the vitex worked for me and I didn't even take it every day! It's just CRAZY to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by coocoobananas
Hi ladies, still bleeding so I'm looking for advice on progesterone shots and if I should stop nursing DS #2 or just eat more.. ?
There is no need to stop nursing, no matter what people will tell you, it's fine to nurse during early pg. I've nursed thru two whole pg (one with placenta previa and lots of bleeding) and both were fine.
I would talk to your doc and see about prog support.
Wow, thank you for sharing that, I was thinking about it and remembered a mom on youtube Lucy Eades and she has nursed all through her pregnancies too. I'm most nervous about not drinking enough, but I'm hoping the taste of my milk will change and DS will just stop anyway. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Here's a BIG Q..Do I keep taking the calcium, magnesium, and b-50 complex? I didn't yesterday because I wasn't sure.
I'm guessing you'll say yes take them but I have to make sure. :)
Hey ladies I just did some research today and found something hurtful to me because it completely changed everything.
Women who have the blood type O have trouble conceiving...PLEASE tell me this isn't true :sad:
No, that is complete and total utter nonsense. I am blood type O and have 5 children. Type O is the most common blood type on the face of the planet and if that was at all true, it simply could not be that the majority of people would have that blood type. Some countries, half of the people are type O!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Babyy Love
If you give me a link where you read that, I can check it out and see what exactly they're talking about. There are a couple variations of blood types that CAN make it more difficult to conceive - but it has nothing to do with Type O, A, B.
I answered via PM already but yes, keep taking them. You may want to gradually ease back on the cal and mag over a few weeks until you're taking a more reasonable amount.Quote:
Originally Posted by Butterfly Spirit
Ok I found the info and all it means is that of the small percentage of women who have trouble conceiving and seek fertility treatment, they are most likely to be Type O. There are women who have trouble conceiving who are Type A and B, and there are plenty of women out there who have absolutely no trouble conceiving who are Type O.
Please don't read too much into things like this. The number of rapes seems to rise with the amount of ice cream consumed and it doesn't mean that ice cream causes rape - it's just that they both go up in the summertime!!!
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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Lol there are a few links here's 1 [http://www.growingyourbaby.com/2010/...e-conceiving/]
Everyone kept asking the most dreaded questions for TTC couples "when are you gonna have babies?" "what's taking so long!?"
Well sometimes we ask ourselves that and we don't want to hear it from the people we love most also and then his mom kept asking our blood types..(yeah she forgot his! He's the youngest of 3 boys and Its been year since shes had to remember his blood type.) Well he asked me to research what blood types have trouble and the 1st I saw was women with type O have trouble TTC and I freak and even came across having too high of FSH and notice wheatgrass and Ginger root is said to lower it. I see wheatgrass is used by those TTC blue but what about ginger root? Thursday I will test my FSH and too low wouldn't be a bad thing would it?? I am also going to purchase a colon cleanse because a friend told me after 2 years she did and herbal colon cleanse and then conceived and blames it on the cleanse.
LMAO I told you ladies not to run out and get a colonoscopy prep. ;) However I did conceive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Babyy Love
Taking a whole bottle of miralax and overdose of ducolax is actually not good, but has to be done! I don't know how the herbal one works.. but maybe there's something to a colon cleanse and removing all the toxins.
I do recommend a thyroid test for all though!!!!
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Originally Posted by Butterfly Spirit
Lol well I tested for thyroids & everything is fine! & oopsy didn't know u said don't go coco bananas with that stuff but I DO need to relax I've been so neurotic & just erratic :hair: I'm scaring my hunny hmm I'm scaring me too :nails:
I do need to cleanse my system though because as a kid my mom used to make me drink the Epsom salt laxative which led to my gorgeous pimple free perfect skin in my teenage years and now I'm suffering because I can play connect the dots on my face & cleaning your system out can never be a bad thing right?
But that's NOT what the study really even says. Most women have NO trouble conceiving. They studied the tiny group of women who have had trouble conceiving and slightly more of them had type O blood than Type A or B. That is probably due to genetics (since most people of similar blood types have similar ethnic heritage) and is TOTALLY a coincidence - probably something like, more Type O's have PCOS and since women with PCOS have more trouble conceiving, they go to fertility treatments more often. But the Type O blood type most likely has nothing to do with it, it's almost certianly just a coincidence. Like I said before, I have 5 kids and Type O, my sister has Type O, my mom and MIL and stepmom all have Type O and none of us had any trouble conceiving.Quote:
Originally Posted by Babyy Love
If you're having your FSH tested, please don't do anything unnatural to try to lower it before testing. YOu NEED that information to be accurate.
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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
I will have that tested later I guess but I am going to have a hysterogram in which I'm nervous about. My doctor told me there's only 3 reasons left well 2 because she ruled out me ovulating but it's hunnys swimmers :bluesperm::pinksperm: or my tubes and I'm hoping it's neither but I might even be tracking ovulation incorrectly
I just wanted to let you ladies know that I have an appt for an u/s at a high risk clinic on May 7th! :)
They wanted to wait a week so they could possibly find a heartbeat. I'm SO excited!
The light brown cm returned but no fresh blood...
Good luck with your appointments ladies!!!
Ladies, I just wanted to tell you all that my bleeding, spotting, and then brown cm has STOPPED! Not a trace remains, even after making love last night to poor DH! Gosh, the last day was the 17th! I just didn't want to take any chances that I could lose what I worked so HARD for!
Hallelujah! I'm going in on Monday to get my blood drawn again though, just for my peace of mind!
Thanks for all the love, and concern and support you wonderful ladies have given me. I will keep you updated!
Well ladies it seems I spoke too soon. I started spotting again and this time I didn't waste time, I went to the ER.
They did an iv, hcg bloodwork, an ultasound, and transvaginal ultrasound, pelvic exam, and a rhogam shot.
NOT a fun trip. I've never had a transvaginal and OMG it hurts like hell when they look for your ovaries.
I am now cramping and I am not happy about it. Can anyone please tell me if you have had cramping after a TV ultrasound? And or... pelvic?
They found one sac of fluid, but they aren't sure if it's the gestational sac being it's so early, they think I am behind 5 weeks. Even saying that my bleeding is probably from implantation!
My hcg today was 500
and last week I "think" it was at 48
So anyways..When the doc did the pelvic he didn't see any blood at all.
Things look good. I just need to chill out! LOL but I'm kinda stressing over these crampies.
Yes, several people (a lot of the HT girls have to have transvag u/s) have cramping and even spotting afterwards.
Hmmm...praying for your pg - I don't like that you seem so much further behind that you were expecting, but it is good that HCG is rising.
Oh and if you're ovulating and egg quality seems good, then that means that any of the types of fertility issues that ~might~ be related to blood type are probably ruled out anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Babyy Love
According to my OB blood type has nothing to do with it. But I got way too drunk & ate so much meat..well I ate so much food period! Lol great time at a wedding yesterday I think I ate EVERYTHING & I mean EVERYTHING & I drank so much beer I woke up sweating heineken oh how vie ruined my diet :(Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush