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TTC- First timers
If you are TTCing for your first baby, please gather here.
Lets share our frustration... well that is the least we can do besides trying :-)
all other, moms, please share your TTC#1 experiences.
(Accidental parents -> you are lucky)
How many months have you been TTCing
Myself: 7 going towards 8
I am soo frustrated, sooo jealous when someone talks abt their kid/expected baby...
I feel like it is such a long/unpredictable process....
Is it just me? or everyone (or most of them) sail in this boat??
Lets share our frustration... well that is the least we can do besides trying :-)
all other, moms, please share your TTC#1 experiences.
(Accidental parents -> you are lucky)
How many months have you been TTCing
Myself: 7 going towards 8
I am soo frustrated, sooo jealous when someone talks abt their kid/expected baby...
I feel like it is such a long/unpredictable process....
Is it just me? or everyone (or most of them) sail in this boat??
I have been trying to conceive going on 2 years. And boy is it frustrating!! I break down everytime AF comes. It's really hard not to. Just found out my brother's wife is pregnant with her 5th child, my brother's 4th. Lol I'm like, everyone except me huh? I didn't even tell her congrats yet because I just can't deal with that right now. It sounds selfish, but being around pregnant women is hard emotionally. I am 27 and waiting for child number one after trying for like 24 months straight. AF came today so I'm faced with a big fat NO at the beginning of 2013. ***** to pieces.
also i was working with my hubby today and about cried because i got mad at him because nothing he did was right and i had to stop myself from breaking down right there...horrible. and i almost cried over a commercial for a type of yard care mower thing because of the growing family on it.... XD
DH and i have been trying for a year and a half. period is 4 days late. havent tested yet(dont want to waste more money on neg results). where do i begin lol my bbs are bigger(hubby even noticed). they are heavier and my bras feel weird. i'm eating 3 times my usual amount but feeling sick a little after. i had stringy stretchy discharge the day after my expected period. it stretched almost 3 inches. now its just really watery. i'm 4 days late as of today and am wondering if this could be our month. any advice is very welcome. my bbs are also tender and running is not an option!! hurts so bad. nipples are not sensitive though but the tips are red. im just so confused because i notice every detail. something i have found really weird is i get wore out really fast. just thinking about walking somewhere with a little distance tires me out. and my heart rate goes up when i move a certain amount or after i eat. i dont think i'm urinating more but idk for sure...also i'm constipated which is super rare for me! tmi i know but whats not tmi about this site lol. i had light cramps off and on. i would feel a few cramps then it would stop for several hours and do it again and then stop for the rest of the day. hasnt happened but maybe 4 times.
hello everyone,
I am new to the forum's but I saw how supportive everyone is and thought I would post on here. My husband and I are trying for baby #1! I am super excited and nervous. We have been ttc for almost three months. I am hoping this is the month! I am feeling pretty nauseous this morning which could be in my head or it could be a good thing! Wish me luck!
I am new to the forum's but I saw how supportive everyone is and thought I would post on here. My husband and I are trying for baby #1! I am super excited and nervous. We have been ttc for almost three months. I am hoping this is the month! I am feeling pretty nauseous this morning which could be in my head or it could be a good thing! Wish me luck!
this is our 8th month ttc but the last two have proved fairly hard as he is away on work in england while i'm here in ireland very frustratin for us both as we really want a baby but i guess its hard right now.. Hope is really being lost and i wish it wasn't oh well our time will come xx xx
Hi ladies,
I was actually going to start a post on this until i looked furthur back.
Ok so me and my partner have been together 5years. I got pregnant 4months after being together in jan 05 only to have a miscarriage at 7weeks, so i didnt get preg again until oct 2006 but i didnt know i was actually preg i was admitted to a&e with serious cramps and a lump in my stomach only to find id had a ectopic preg that had bust so unfortunatly i had to have my right tube removed,
so i got preg again nov 2008 only to have another 'suspected' ectopic my hcg was rising but only slowly nothing was confirmed on scan so they gave me methotrexate so that if it was it wouldnt rupture again in my good tube,
so due to all my previous we was reffered to ivf i was suppost to be starting my first round oct18th 2010(my birthday)we were awaiting MP and told to take a routine preg test to my utter shock bfp, unfortunatly i started bleeding at 5w6d a sack was seen on scan but the day later my bloods had halfed so was told to expect to miscarry this seems to have been dragged out soo bloody much i went for my last hcg test 17dec and it had only gone down to 67 im actually due to go back weds 5th jan i bled for 5weeks its been a real pain but !
I feel totally obsessed with the fact of being pregnant i cant get it out of my head since this last miscarriage now im not sure if its my hormones that are up the wall but this seems so unfair!
I thought it was only me feeling like this,i feel like its taking over my life im only 25 and people will say youve got years yet but i honestly dont see it like that every year i dont sucessfully carry a pregnancy im a year older! arggghhhhhh!
I was actually going to start a post on this until i looked furthur back.
Ok so me and my partner have been together 5years. I got pregnant 4months after being together in jan 05 only to have a miscarriage at 7weeks, so i didnt get preg again until oct 2006 but i didnt know i was actually preg i was admitted to a&e with serious cramps and a lump in my stomach only to find id had a ectopic preg that had bust so unfortunatly i had to have my right tube removed,
so i got preg again nov 2008 only to have another 'suspected' ectopic my hcg was rising but only slowly nothing was confirmed on scan so they gave me methotrexate so that if it was it wouldnt rupture again in my good tube,
so due to all my previous we was reffered to ivf i was suppost to be starting my first round oct18th 2010(my birthday)we were awaiting MP and told to take a routine preg test to my utter shock bfp, unfortunatly i started bleeding at 5w6d a sack was seen on scan but the day later my bloods had halfed so was told to expect to miscarry this seems to have been dragged out soo bloody much i went for my last hcg test 17dec and it had only gone down to 67 im actually due to go back weds 5th jan i bled for 5weeks its been a real pain but !
I feel totally obsessed with the fact of being pregnant i cant get it out of my head since this last miscarriage now im not sure if its my hormones that are up the wall but this seems so unfair!
I thought it was only me feeling like this,i feel like its taking over my life im only 25 and people will say youve got years yet but i honestly dont see it like that every year i dont sucessfully carry a pregnancy im a year older! arggghhhhhh!
Hi misszinke
I experienced a m/c a few months ago (without realising I was pregnant). I have irregular long cycles like you. During my unusually painful bleeding, I instinctively reached out for the HPT and it showed positive. At that time it was already a confirmed m/c. What I want to point out is that your HCG will not immediately drop to zero upon a m/c. For me, it took a week for it to return to zero after my D&C, so do not take a positive HPT as an assurance of the pregnancy still being viable (total about a month after the first onset of bleeding in my case). Please go for a scan at your gynae. It is the only way to confirm if the little bean is still there.
Sorry if I sounded a bit too negative. Do not despair as there are mothers who bleed during early pregnancies who went on to have healthy babies, though I was not one of them :(
I experienced a m/c a few months ago (without realising I was pregnant). I have irregular long cycles like you. During my unusually painful bleeding, I instinctively reached out for the HPT and it showed positive. At that time it was already a confirmed m/c. What I want to point out is that your HCG will not immediately drop to zero upon a m/c. For me, it took a week for it to return to zero after my D&C, so do not take a positive HPT as an assurance of the pregnancy still being viable (total about a month after the first onset of bleeding in my case). Please go for a scan at your gynae. It is the only way to confirm if the little bean is still there.
Sorry if I sounded a bit too negative. Do not despair as there are mothers who bleed during early pregnancies who went on to have healthy babies, though I was not one of them :(
Iam ttc this is my first time tryin and aNd iam 12 days late and iam sore. Aand my back hurt and I was sick and tthrowing up and fill sick and white discharge like milk but thick and iam. Sore
Hello Ladies!
I've never posted on a forum about my infertility and TTC. I thought I would join in and see how it feels/helps my spirits. I am now 32 and my husband is 29.
Hubby and I have been trying to conceive for 2.5 years. :| We started to try in January of 2008. After 1 year of TTC, we took matters into our own hands. It's too heart wrenching to just "keep trying" and wonder why it's not working. I have long cycles, anywhere from 30-38 days. Usually it's about 32. But it's never clockwork. I tend to ovulate around day 20-23 of my cycle. (I am NOT a 14-28er, that's for sure!)
February of 2009 we started testing:
Jan: semen analysis (Two of them, not superior results, but not destitute either)
February: I have a 42 day cycle, have a period, and then within two weeks, I had another period, even though it was lighter. That had never happened and I still don't know what that was all about.
March: 10 treatsments of Accupuncture and Chinese herbs.
April: tube dye test (Open tubes, few!)
May: HSG tests (They notice a fibroid in my uterus)
July: Failed IUI :(
August-December: we take it easy and stop testing and spending $.
February 2010:
Myomectoy on February 2nd (Fibroid removal). During the surgery, the doctor said that he had NEVER seen an endometrial lining that was so THICK in someone who didn't have endometrial cancer. Now they believed me when I said I had VERY painful, Heavy, Long periods.
March 14th: Period.
April 15th: Period.
May 20th: I have a period.
June 23rd: I put a tampon in, to "catch my period" (day 35 of my cycle.) Take it out later that day, and it only has a small amount of brown discharge. Hum, interesting. Ok.
June 24th. Same as June 23rd.
June 25th: Negative pregnancy test. :( No bleeding or nothing for the next few days.)
June 28th: it's now day 40 of my cycle. My hopes are UP! I rarely take pregnancy tests because the period always came, but for the second time in my life, I made it to day 40. I took a Digital HPT Clear Blue Easy that morning and it said: PREGNANT. I about passed out. I couldn't believe it, and in fact, I didn't believe something like this would happen to me. We've never been pregnant.
June 29th: I am at a store, and I feel "wet" down town. I rush to the bathroom, and there is the brownish blood and pinkish red blood, on my underoos. :( I panic. I worry. It can't be! I go home and clean up and put a tampon in. That night I pull it out and it wasn't totally covered in blood. It was like that dark blood, and slightly brown, like the start of my periods. Not "gushing" yet.
June 30th: Feeling great, no blood, no brownish stuff, nothing! Feeling positive again.
July 1st: Afternoon, I go to wipe and it's brown/pinkish, sort of light red. I get crampy that night. I feel bloated. I have loose stools, all things that happen when I am on my period. However, the flow isn't GUSHING yet, like it usually is withing 24 hours of "starting my period." It's more that 10-12 days passed "implantation bleeding" by now, right?
Today: July 2nd. I wake up and pull the tampon out and it's about 75% covered, but not in heavy dark blood. Cramps are still present but not too bad. I took another pregnancy test (First Response) this morning around 5 am and the second (pregnancy line) was VERY FAINT, but it was there. They say if you can see ANY kind of line, then it's positive. Hum? :\
Can anyone relate to this? DO I take ANOTHER pregnancy test in a few days? Maybe a digital one? I am bleeding, but not heavily like I usually do. I feel mild cramping. It feels like I am on a period, but I don't have heavy bleeding and I still am showing a positive pregnancy test. I don't want to get my hopes up, if this isn't what the pregnancy tests are telling me.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story. It ***** suffering in silence!
XOXO
V
I've never posted on a forum about my infertility and TTC. I thought I would join in and see how it feels/helps my spirits. I am now 32 and my husband is 29.
Hubby and I have been trying to conceive for 2.5 years. :| We started to try in January of 2008. After 1 year of TTC, we took matters into our own hands. It's too heart wrenching to just "keep trying" and wonder why it's not working. I have long cycles, anywhere from 30-38 days. Usually it's about 32. But it's never clockwork. I tend to ovulate around day 20-23 of my cycle. (I am NOT a 14-28er, that's for sure!)
February of 2009 we started testing:
Jan: semen analysis (Two of them, not superior results, but not destitute either)
February: I have a 42 day cycle, have a period, and then within two weeks, I had another period, even though it was lighter. That had never happened and I still don't know what that was all about.
March: 10 treatsments of Accupuncture and Chinese herbs.
April: tube dye test (Open tubes, few!)
May: HSG tests (They notice a fibroid in my uterus)
July: Failed IUI :(
August-December: we take it easy and stop testing and spending $.
February 2010:
Myomectoy on February 2nd (Fibroid removal). During the surgery, the doctor said that he had NEVER seen an endometrial lining that was so THICK in someone who didn't have endometrial cancer. Now they believed me when I said I had VERY painful, Heavy, Long periods.
March 14th: Period.
April 15th: Period.
May 20th: I have a period.
June 23rd: I put a tampon in, to "catch my period" (day 35 of my cycle.) Take it out later that day, and it only has a small amount of brown discharge. Hum, interesting. Ok.
June 24th. Same as June 23rd.
June 25th: Negative pregnancy test. :( No bleeding or nothing for the next few days.)
June 28th: it's now day 40 of my cycle. My hopes are UP! I rarely take pregnancy tests because the period always came, but for the second time in my life, I made it to day 40. I took a Digital HPT Clear Blue Easy that morning and it said: PREGNANT. I about passed out. I couldn't believe it, and in fact, I didn't believe something like this would happen to me. We've never been pregnant.
June 29th: I am at a store, and I feel "wet" down town. I rush to the bathroom, and there is the brownish blood and pinkish red blood, on my underoos. :( I panic. I worry. It can't be! I go home and clean up and put a tampon in. That night I pull it out and it wasn't totally covered in blood. It was like that dark blood, and slightly brown, like the start of my periods. Not "gushing" yet.
June 30th: Feeling great, no blood, no brownish stuff, nothing! Feeling positive again.
July 1st: Afternoon, I go to wipe and it's brown/pinkish, sort of light red. I get crampy that night. I feel bloated. I have loose stools, all things that happen when I am on my period. However, the flow isn't GUSHING yet, like it usually is withing 24 hours of "starting my period." It's more that 10-12 days passed "implantation bleeding" by now, right?
Today: July 2nd. I wake up and pull the tampon out and it's about 75% covered, but not in heavy dark blood. Cramps are still present but not too bad. I took another pregnancy test (First Response) this morning around 5 am and the second (pregnancy line) was VERY FAINT, but it was there. They say if you can see ANY kind of line, then it's positive. Hum? :\
Can anyone relate to this? DO I take ANOTHER pregnancy test in a few days? Maybe a digital one? I am bleeding, but not heavily like I usually do. I feel mild cramping. It feels like I am on a period, but I don't have heavy bleeding and I still am showing a positive pregnancy test. I don't want to get my hopes up, if this isn't what the pregnancy tests are telling me.
Thank you for taking the time to read my story. It ***** suffering in silence!
XOXO
V
You all are in my prayers!
Hopefully, it works out for each and every one of us.
I know GOD will not disappoint us :-)
baby dust baby dust all over!!!!
Hopefully, it works out for each and every one of us.
I know GOD will not disappoint us :-)
baby dust baby dust all over!!!!
I hope that was implantation bleeding.
Have u checked with your doc yet?
What did (s)he say????
Baby Dust!
Have u checked with your doc yet?
What did (s)he say????
Baby Dust!
Hey Ladies!
Went off BC in March, trying to concieve since then. It feels like forever! I know it hasn't been that long. Started having regular periods right after going off pill, using OPK and seem to ovulate at the same time every month. Been BDing as much as possible around that time, but sometimes its so hard with husband working and being tired. I'm on day CD 13, no positive OPK yet! Baby Dust to all!
Went off BC in March, trying to concieve since then. It feels like forever! I know it hasn't been that long. Started having regular periods right after going off pill, using OPK and seem to ovulate at the same time every month. Been BDing as much as possible around that time, but sometimes its so hard with husband working and being tired. I'm on day CD 13, no positive OPK yet! Baby Dust to all!
hello ladies...
We are on our 10th month trying... i have had 2 false positives and im sooo frustrated... this month af was supposed to come on the 17th and is still nonexistent, hubby came back a month ago from a deployment in haiti and we started trying again after 3 months of him being gone... we really havent been stressing it lately just kinda letting it happen since i have had 2 let downs already.... dont wanna go through a 3rd one... i took a hpt last week and it was positive.. im going to the doc on tuesday to get a blood test done... but i do have a question and i hope i dont gross anyone out.... Yesterday after intercourse when i wiped i had blood mixed with semen... which was realy weird.. i thought it was af since it was kind of enough to think so... but then woke up this morning and nothing!!! absolutely no more blood showed up... not when i wipe not on the pad... just no blood at all... before last night the last time we had intercourse was sometime last week.... could that have been implantation bleeding?? or what else can explain it?? im very frustrated and like most of u just see ppl convieving all over... i just wish this is our month...
Baby dust to all!!
We are on our 10th month trying... i have had 2 false positives and im sooo frustrated... this month af was supposed to come on the 17th and is still nonexistent, hubby came back a month ago from a deployment in haiti and we started trying again after 3 months of him being gone... we really havent been stressing it lately just kinda letting it happen since i have had 2 let downs already.... dont wanna go through a 3rd one... i took a hpt last week and it was positive.. im going to the doc on tuesday to get a blood test done... but i do have a question and i hope i dont gross anyone out.... Yesterday after intercourse when i wiped i had blood mixed with semen... which was realy weird.. i thought it was af since it was kind of enough to think so... but then woke up this morning and nothing!!! absolutely no more blood showed up... not when i wipe not on the pad... just no blood at all... before last night the last time we had intercourse was sometime last week.... could that have been implantation bleeding?? or what else can explain it?? im very frustrated and like most of u just see ppl convieving all over... i just wish this is our month...
Baby dust to all!!
Hi everyone. My husband and I have been ttc for going on 6 months now. I was on BC for 10 years and went off of it at the end of Dec 09'. I wasn't prepared for what an emotional mess this process was going to be. All myblife I was told how easy it is to get pregnant and now I see how hard it really is. I'm 26 and my husband is 27. I at this point have decided to assume I'm not pregnant until I am proven otherwise. I am on cd15 and usually ovulate on day 19 or 20. Fingers crossed but not getting the hopes up. Good luck to you all. I read once that your odds go up if people you don't know prey for you. So you will all be in my prayers and I hope I will make it into yours. Baby dust to you all!!
We have been TTC for about 3-4 months now and I get my AF on July 6-8 but I'm hoping I don't baby dust to all of us :)
Hang on- is a nose bleed anythin to do with pregnancy...? probably not.. haha so hope its my month!!
TTC for 5 months this month, god its depressin when it just dosn't happen! You go through school everyone telling you about trying to prevent pregnancy but damn, its not that easy either!
Have irregular Periods after coming off nuva ring, but i think this is my month... had a few weird symptoms... Headaches, tiredness blood noses, abdominal cramps... i donno, could all be in my brain! But i also feel relaxed, not that depreate worry about TTC... haha fingers are crossed anyway! :-)
SSBD to everyone else Trying too!! :-D
Have irregular Periods after coming off nuva ring, but i think this is my month... had a few weird symptoms... Headaches, tiredness blood noses, abdominal cramps... i donno, could all be in my brain! But i also feel relaxed, not that depreate worry about TTC... haha fingers are crossed anyway! :-)
SSBD to everyone else Trying too!! :-D
ladies,reading your experiences is rilly eye opening.For those still i the 1st year of ttc pliz don't stress so much,i know of pple who have got pregnant in the latter months.it will happen.jus kip the faith all of you.
i'm in 2nd month trying,ovulating soon so i hope it happens this tym otherwise i'll start getting a bit worried but not stressed.but i think letting things do naturally is the best way,ie if you don't have any medical fertility issues.
anyway,praying for u all who r ttc and those with bfp's congrats!
i'm in 2nd month trying,ovulating soon so i hope it happens this tym otherwise i'll start getting a bit worried but not stressed.but i think letting things do naturally is the best way,ie if you don't have any medical fertility issues.
anyway,praying for u all who r ttc and those with bfp's congrats!
Hey all,
I am not sure what to DO! :(
Pls help.
27, Been married for 4 yrs now. We were on precaution (condoms) for the first 2 years. And last year I had a large ovarian cyst removed. 3 months ago my USG showed that I was ovulating properly. Been trying which ever month possible since 6 months as someimes we miss my fertile dates (husband's meeting, stress etc).
Since last month my DH is on motility drugs (for 3 mnths). He is overweight but the doc doesn't ask him to lose weight?
My AF showed up today and my doctor has given me some ovu stimulating tabs and suggested another USG S for ov study. If I am ov properly then she suggested IUI. Do you think IUI is needed b4 my DH completes his course? Should I go for a second opinion? We haven't even tried for one complete year. I am confused.
Frustrated!
I am not sure what to DO! :(
Pls help.
27, Been married for 4 yrs now. We were on precaution (condoms) for the first 2 years. And last year I had a large ovarian cyst removed. 3 months ago my USG showed that I was ovulating properly. Been trying which ever month possible since 6 months as someimes we miss my fertile dates (husband's meeting, stress etc).
Since last month my DH is on motility drugs (for 3 mnths). He is overweight but the doc doesn't ask him to lose weight?
My AF showed up today and my doctor has given me some ovu stimulating tabs and suggested another USG S for ov study. If I am ov properly then she suggested IUI. Do you think IUI is needed b4 my DH completes his course? Should I go for a second opinion? We haven't even tried for one complete year. I am confused.
Frustrated!
I guess in your case its good that you got your period. Yeah, there are many sites that can tell you your most fertile days if you are strict about your charting. No need to waste money. It can be put to better use, may be for your baby :-)
I cried yesterday because I didnt want to start all over again..... so this is not my month either. Hmm.... I am 10days behind you in the cycle.
Good Luck &
Keep me posted.
I cried yesterday because I didnt want to start all over again..... so this is not my month either. Hmm.... I am 10days behind you in the cycle.
Good Luck &
Keep me posted.
hey there!! yep, had my period! lol it was last week and lasted about 3 days this time, so i am counting down the days, and actually started charting, but when my "free" month is up you have to start paying money to chart on the site, and i dont have the money to do it, so we will see what happens, but i have found some websites that tell you good chances of conceiving, and both of the websites have the same days so we will see what happens :) but today is CD 9 - i dont quite understand all the vocabulary yet, but hopefully these days work out
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