TTC March/April/May 2015?

[girliedreamz]

Hi all! Tentatively stepping into this thread...

I'm coming off back-to-back miscarriages and trying to get healthy and ready to TTC again this spring. I started TTC in Feb 2014, so a lot of the women I first swayed with are already holding their baby girls. It gives me hope...but I totally feel like I'm starting over. Hoping this spring is my time!

Will two pregnancies (and a chemical in between) this year, I've put on a lot of weight, so I'm already starting to diet a bit in order to lose some. VERY modified pink diet...closer to fertility for me at this point but trying to keep calorie son the low side. Also trying to exercise most days—elliptical indoors or walking outside with the kids if it's warm enough. My main focus is just making sure I'm making as healthy eggs as possible and testing to make sure there aren't any other underlying causes for the mc's. I'm 38, and this is probably the last try my dh and I have in us, so I'm putting all my eggs (old as they may be. ha!) in one basket!

My dh has been a less than helpful participant in my past two sways. At first, I really had to convince him to even TTC at all! But after the losses, he really has seen how much this means to me and he's totally on board the baby train.

We're planning 1 attempt since that is how I got preg that last two times. The first time I think I was ovulating sooner than I though, so it took me 4 months to get a BFP. Ugh! The month we fell preg, it was when I gave up and started doing every 4 days. So, I'll be watching my cycles closely in the next couple of months to make sure I know when O comes.

[momamia4]

Welcome, girliedreamz!! I really hope you get a super sticky little pink bean on your text try! I have had several mc over the years and I know exactly how hard it is to come back from. :Hugs!: Have you talked to atomic about maybe starting Myo-Inositol? From what I've read, it helps with egg quality so maybe it'll help you have a sticky bean?? I would definitely talk to her about it. She put me on it because I have Insulin Resistance but I know it is used for other things, like weight loss. Worth a shot IMO anyway.

[VegMom]

Ahhhh I've been a silent lurker forever and I'm excited to jump in!! I'm Carmen, mama to two wonderful boys. My husband and I always said that we wanted two and were content with our little men for quite a few years. I delivered a baby boy as a surrogate in October of 2013 and the experience was absolutely wonderful. Not long after the delivery, my husband suggested we add another to our family. I was shocked and healing from a difficult delivery so I said maybe later. It was around this time I first heard of swaying and have scoured every inch of the site since. We have decided to start trying in March for a daughter. I'm planning a thorough but relaxed sway, because in my heart of hearts I think that the right soul for our family will find its way to us... But that doesn't mean I'm not going to give it a fair chance! I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you!!

[momamia4]

Hi VegMom! I've been a silent lurker for a long time too. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who does that, lol! FX we're all successful!

[momamia4]

Ugh! It's so cold today! I couldn't stay out for 45 mins. I guess I'll have to switch to workout videos until I can get a treadmill. The only problem that I have with those is that they stress me out because I have horrible rhythm, lol! Not to mention the fact that I have to move everything out of the way before I can even start. Such a drag!!

[Blue-Blue-Pink?]

Welcome vegmom and good luck with your sway! Silent lurking is totally ok here
Will you include exercise?

Welcome girliedreamz and good luck to you too!

Will be nice to have a support group so we know we are not alone in this!

[VegMom]

Welcome vegmom and good luck with your sway! Silent lurking is totally ok here
Will you include exercise?

Welcome girliedreamz and good luck to you too!

Will be nice to have a support group so we know we are not alone in this!

It's SO nice to know and feel like I'm not alone. I am including exercise, as the evidence make it too hard to forgo. I'm struggling though because I'm a yogi through and through. I was an avid runner (running 25-35 miles per week) when I was bitten by the yoga bug and now I spend 10+ hours a week on my mat. I know that I should be doing 60 minutes of cardio 5-7 days per week, so I think I'll compromise and turn my yoga practice more meditative. That way I'll be decreasing my muscle mass, getting my cardio in, and decreasing all my Martha-ness too

[Blue-Blue-Pink?]

Sounds good vegmom, me too thought the exercise route was to promising to not do it, so I'm running or walking or hometrainer every day now for 60 minutes

[momamia4]

How is everyone doing today? I supposedly get to find out when my tubal reversal surgery is going to be scheduled for tomorrow. I am excited but freaking out at the same time. The whole idea of the surgery is making me nervous. It doesn't help that my mom had a tubal reversal about 25 years ago and her surgery/recovery was horrible. She keeps telling me that it's going to take 6-8 weeks for me to recover and I'm going to have a huge 10in scar like hers. It's not helping. Hers was complicated because they also took out her appendix at the same time (I guess when they opened her up, her appendix was close by and about to rupture so the dr made the incision bigger and removed it). I keep reminding her of the appendix thing and she claims that isn't why hers was so bad. Anyway, I just want to get the whole thing over with and move on to ttc. Sorry for my little pity party. I'm done now. I promise!

[momamia4]

Holy Cow! I just got the official date of my tubal reversal! It's going to be on Feb 23rd which means that we won't have our first ttc attempt until the end of April/beginning of May. I can't believe it's finally about to happen!