July 2ww and ttc thread 2018

[shinay]

jgojah: thank you. Working out everyday is so hard though. I was doing 3 times weight training per week for my boy sway, but had hard time maintaining that. [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106] for how committing you are. I wish you lots of pink dusts and bfp soon.

HGmama: awww I am sorry that AF came (big hugs). I hope you have good news this cycle. Maybe you can ask atomic like someone suggested and she might be able to give you ideas to improve your conception chances without affecting your sway much.

Babygirlwishing: i am sorry that you had mc before, but congratulating on being pregnant again. I hear you about keeping secret. I am so thrilled and super excited that I wonder how long I can hide it. I wish you a smooth and easy pregnancy.

Noemi: aww how lovely it is that you get to see the little one. I hope 2 weeks come by quickly so you can see your baby again with heartbeats [emoji173]I am like 3w 3 or 4 days so I am pretty much 1 week behind you. Doctor probably wont see me till 8 weeks. As for symptoms, I am the same, have been sooo hungry throughout the day recently. And if I dont munch on sth, my hands will start shaking. I have also been feeling dizzy and light nausea. I dont like this feeling at all. I hope we both wont have bad ms. I pray for smooth and easy pregnancy for all who are pregnant and those who will be soon!!!

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[Pbn3]

Hgmama I'd just make the appt and see what happens. I wouldn't mention swaying at all, but I would say you've been tracking your cycles and using opks to optimise your chances to no avail. Are you hoping for clomid or femara? If you're ready to just get pregnant you could try smep this cycle before seeing someone?

I know this sucks so much and I'm sorry af arrived [emoji17]

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[strawberrybella89]

It's so hard! I've been on the diet all year and I've had a few too many cheat days myself [emoji23] but I just take it day by day and do my best! Lose the breakfast first it's the easiest to drop and maybe just have coffee ? As for working out you just have to find something fun! I got extremely bored on my treadmill and switched to blogilates and I love it!

Bleh I fell off the wagon! Motivate me..

June was my first month at TTC and I swayed pink, very nicely for 2-3 months before June. I had a weird cycle and a BFP followed by a flu. So I used that (and largely self pity) as an excuse to cheat the past 3 weeks! I'm still eating lower calories, but stopped exercising and started snacking and eating cereal for breakfast etc. I need motivation to go back to the diet and exercise!
For all the long time swayers, how do you do it? It's so hard to get back on the wagon and incredibly easy to fall off!

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[Heart desires pink LP]

It's so hard! I've been on the diet all year and I've had a few too many cheat days myself [emoji23] but I just take it day by day and do my best! Lose the breakfast first it's the easiest to drop and maybe just have coffee ? As for working out you just have to find something fun! I got extremely bored on my treadmill and switched to blogilates and I love it!

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What's blogilates?

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[atomic sagebrush]

No, you do NOT need to tell your doctor about swaying and in fact you shouldn't. They will simply seize upon that as a reason you have not conceived and do NO investigation even though swaying should not be preventing most of you from conception (we have average 3 months to conception) as long as you don't cut back too far and you drop sway tactics over time. There could very easily be something that is wrong that a doctor can fix with a pill but they won't do that if they assume that you're doing something that may harm your chances of conceiving.

HG, I have tried and true methods for boosting odds of conception that have helped all but a handful of people conceive since 2010. I am more than happy to help anyone up their chances of conception but please go off what I say and not others, even though they mean well they just don't have the same level of experience I do. We are hitting a moving target between swaying pink and conceiving and it takes minor adjustments sometimes to make that happen. No one wants to toss out a sway boosting odds of conception when there are ways to BOTH keep swaying AND boost odds of conception.

It is not enough just to eat more nutrients. Remember, there are blue swayers and people who are not even swaying and eating tons of nutrients and still don't get pregnant. Sometimes people think "oh I need chicken and prenatals" when neither of those things even ups your chances of conceiving. What we may need is calories overall and fat, and then to ditch any extraneous sway tactics and adding attempts properly, not just willy nilly. Just eating more nutrients and having more attempts is not enough (because many times the way people add attempts doesn't even boost their chances of conceiving anyway.)

Ladies, it's literally impossible for me to keep up on these threads. I WANT to help anyone who is struggling but I cannot always read every question in these threads. Sometimes you're not going to get the same advice that I would give in them. So if you need help, please start a dedicated thread just for yourself where I can help you one on one and not in a long thread where lots of people are asking lots of questions and everyone's situation gets all confused as to who I'm answering and what questions I'm replying to.

[atomic sagebrush]

What's blogilates?

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It's a fun exercise program on Youtube that I recommend for both pink and blue. She has cardio exercises that are good for pink and then more muscle building stuff that's good for blue.

[gafan]

hgmama, I am sorry about AF. And I get it about financial stress- insurance is such a pain.
My doctor didnt say anything about 3 months average to conceive after a d&c. she said that if I hadn't conceived within 6 months to call her, not to wait a year because I'm 39. I just called to set something up because it's been 5 months. I agree with pbn about not mentioning the sway yet. And I strongly suggest you talk to Atomic, she's doing some things with my diet and attempts to increase the odds of pregnancy while maintaining a girl sway.


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[gafan]

CD22 for me. FF hasn't marked probable ovulation date yet, probably because I had so many differences in my charting. I am neatly certain I ovulated and will try to wait until the end of next week to test.
staying on the diet has been harder than before - solidarity with those of you struggling to stay on it!

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[Linni]

I tested twice a day. Earlier in the afternoon it was almost positive and then after dinner it was a blazing positive! We decided to have our attempt then.

I’m pretty sure it was ewcm but not 100%. I was DRY the entire cycle and then the night of our attempt there was some. It’s so hard because the clomid gave me all sorts of weird symptoms that aren’t the norm for me. My breast are never sore before my period even though that’s common. I’m chalking it up to clomid.

My LP is usually around 12 days, but was as short as 9 a few months ago after losing some weight.

I really appreciate your input!!

The same with me....since the LE diet my LP was very short, 8-10 days

Did you already manage to lengthen it though?



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[ABC.2606]

Guess who showed up? [emoji26] CD1 for me
Needing advice from those who asked for help from their doctor. Sorry for all the questions and word vomit that is about to happen. At what point do I ask for an appt? Insert eye roll from those TTC >6months. Big hugs to you. I'm sorry. There are a few factors that play into me wanting to get pregnant in the next two cycles. Our insurance year. It will cost thousands of dollars out of pocket for a third "year" in a row if I don't have a baby by June 30, 2019. I'm getting depressed. My doctor said that nearly all of her patients that try get pregnant within 3 months of a d&c, get pregnant. So I'm feeling like the odd ball- again. My cycles are a little unpredictable and seem to be getting shorter again. My LP was only 10 days and I've read that 10 days or less could be a progesterone issue. Am I unreasonable to even be worried at this point? My every thought, spare moment, food choice, etc for the past 7 months has been trying to have another baby.

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Are you thinking with seeing your doc you may want to get Clomid/Femara? I can tell you my experience & how I ended up on Clomid. I had an early m/c last August after conceiving on our 2nd month TTC. I met with my doctor after that and told him we'd been trying "for a few months" (technically true since we started in July!), that I have super short cycles and that my LP is normally 9-10 days (all true!). I told him I felt like something was "off" with my cycles/hormones (even though I conceived my two boys w/ the same LP!). He agreed to do basic fertility testing over my next cycle but made it clear he would not offer any medication until he did so - so I had to wait that cycle out in terms of TTC. So he tested my AMH, FSH, estrogen, and post-O progesterone. All of those came back normal - although, my progesterone on CD21 was at the very low end of normal. So I think it was the combo of borderline progesterone, very short cycles/ LP and my recent m/c that made him lightly suggest that I could try Clomid if I wanted to. Because I wanted it for swaying I jumped on that offer right away! But yea so I got Clomid even though we get pregnant easily and I don't have PCOS, and I do think it helped my cycles in terms of producing a "better" ovulation and thus more progesterone post-O. In your case, if your cycles are getting less regular, you have a short LP and you had a miscarriage recently maybe your doc would be open to trying something, but if she's like my doc she may make you jump through a few hoops first (ie testing). As far as the LP, 9-10 days technically is long enough - but like atomic told me in the beginning of my swaying process, with that length of an LP you still may be a good candidate for a med like Clomid b/c it is a good treatment for short LPs.

I never in over a year of swaying, TTC-ing, 3 miscarriages, fertility testing, and then recurrent pregnancy loss testing with a Reproductive Endocrinologist told my doctors about my swaying. I can't imagine telling them all I was doing (dieting, alcohol, coffee, etc) to try to get a girl would have gone over at all well with them and I'm sure they would have told me to drop those things as they were likely harming my fertility. I did however at one point tell my RE that I had lost a lot of weight over the past year and asked if that be a factor in my m/cs and she said no, not at all. But yea I wouldn't bring that stuff up either. I think outside of our community here it would be really hard for most people to understand all the things we'll put ourselves through to get a girl - even though we know that nothing atomic recommends here is dangerous and she's done her research on what is safe and what's not in terms of swaying!

I'm sorry you didn't see a BFP this month - I'm really bummed about that as well!! Hang in there, as I was told over and over by those on here, your sticky bean will come!! That sucks about the insurance stuff - such a freaking pain and so insanely expensive!!