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Abbeh posted:They'll probably just say come back after a year of trying - at least that's what I've heard. Actually, he's referred me off for a heap of blood tests, an ultrasound and to check I don't have poly-cystic ovaries. He said if nothing turns up out of order from those tests, he'll refer me to a specialist. So at least something is happening and he didn't give me the brush off. I'm thankful to have a decent doctor.
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Well, I'm definitely DEFINITELY not pregnant. This is my first cycle after having my IUD removed, and I'm realizing that I'd forgotten what it is like to be a woman of childbearing years. My body is definitely rolling out all the red carpets (chuckle) to welcome me back to the land of fertility. I'm reminding myself that it's rare to get pregnant immediately, and that we weren't planning so much as no longer preventing it from happening. I smile, go on with life, and pretend that I'm not disappointed, but I am. Next month will be another missed opportunity. My husband will be out of the state on a business trip for the two weeks surrounding ovulation. We'll just have to see what happens in March!
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Abbeh posted:They'll probably just say come back after a year of trying - at least that's what I've heard. The "try for a year" thing only applies if you are cycling regularly. If you aren't your doctor should be taking steps to figure out what is going on. If they don't you should get a different doctor.
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I went to my doctor again today to go over my test results. My thyroid, hormone levels, blood sugar, kidney function and cholesterol levels are great. The ultrasound they did of my ovaries and uterus showed no signs of PCOS and everything looked normal. However, they noticed on the ultrasound that while there are follicles visible on my ovaries, none of them appear to be developed or in the process of releasing an egg. My doctor says this seems to be the cause of my missing periods, I'm apparently not ovulating. Since none of the other tests showed up anything abnormal that might be causing that to happen, he suggested that the reason could be my weight. My BMI is on the very borderline of healthy-underweight, so it's possible that my body is saying "well we're not in plentiful mode right now, so hold up on the eggs". So he gave me a choice of getting an immediate referral to a gyno/specialist to investigate further, or to try to gain weight and see if that makes any difference. I'm going to go off and put on 5kg, then give it a few months. He said if my periods don't start up again by May to come back again and he'll refer me. I'm a little bit bummed that right now I'm in the best shape of my life (I actually can see my abs for the first time ever) and now I have to undo all the hard work I put in to get them... but hey if this works it'll beat having to stress over/fork out for fertility treatments, right?
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bee posted:I'm a little bit bummed that right now I'm in the best shape of my life (I actually can see my abs for the first time ever) and now I have to undo all the hard work I put in to get them... but hey if this works it'll beat having to stress over/fork out for fertility treatments, right? Last I heard, in order to see your abs your body fat percentage has to be in the low teens to single digits right? You hear about this happening to extreme endurance athletes and gymnasts that diet excessively to get their body weight down. Also in people with anorexia. Maintaining a healthy body fat percentage to enable your body to not go into some kind of gonadotropin-releasing hormone deficiency doesn't meant you have to be a fatty unfit slob you know. An extra 5 kg is not going to undo every last shred of hard work you put in, unless your only metric of your fitness is how shredded you look. Once you're partway through your pregnancy your abs will be obliterated by an expanding belly, so the aesthetics of the abs thing sounds like a futile exercise (hur) anyway. What I don't get is that if your hormone levels are supposedly normal, why aren't you ovulating? Were they monitoring your hormone levels over a number of weeks? Also, ultrasounds are not foolproof either. People seem to think the transducers are magic wands that can see everything and anything, when in personal experience it's half dependent on the individual patient's body and half dependent on the individual operator's skill. Suboptimal imaging conditions could result in the operator missing a developing follicle. Or if they scanned you very early in your cycle there wouldn't be much evidence of a developing follicle either.
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Here begins the week in which I should ovulate. My cycle went crazy last month what with having the flu, and right as this one started my thermometer ran out of batteries. So, I took that as a sign to leave off obsessive tracking for a month or so and just see what happens. The cycles before that were very regular (ovulate on day 18, period starts on day 29), and while that is a rather short luteal phase, it isn't alarming yet. If I'm not up the duff by April, then I'll get a new battery in my thermometer and start tracking again.
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nyerf posted:What I don't get is that if your hormone levels are supposedly normal, why aren't you ovulating? Were they monitoring your hormone levels over a number of weeks? No, they just measured them once. My doctor said he suspects the reason I am not ovulating is because I'm bordering on being underweight, but he is not 100% sure. He asked me whether I wanted to try gaining weight to see if that caused my periods to start again, or if I wanted immediate referral to a specialist. As I'm 31 and I've only been off the pill for about seven months I'm willing to try eating more for a few months and see how that goes.
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First time I've posted in this thread, but the Internet isn't helping with the situation my wife and I just went through (and I guess still are). We started trying several months ago. About a week and a half ago my wife was feeling some pretty intense pain in her lower left stomach area. She assumed it was her period, due to it being about the right time for it, and she was bleeding. She thought it was actually a rather heavy one, but then the bleeding stopped, without the pain stopping. She figured it was just being somewhat irregular, so she gave it a few days. On Wednesday the pain became too much, so we took her to the ER. They take the standard battery of tests, and the nurse comes in and says, "Well, first off, your pregnancy test came back positive." This received a general, "...what?" from both of us. They said they would get us in to get an ultrasound soon. At this point we start getting very excited. I'm guarded because the pain she's describing seems abnormal for what I've heard of pregnancy, but hell, we've never had kids so what do I know? After about an hour they come to get her for an ultrasound. I'm in with her, and they keep looking, and looking, and looking. The nurses are talking less and less as they look. Eventually they say, "Well, looks like someone is hiding. We'll get you a full exam." Now we're worried. The full exam reveals what I've been worried about for a little while. She has an ectopic pregnancy. It was a fun two hours, where we started thinking of all the things we needed to get done, but now I'm just concerned with making sure she's healthy. We stay overnight in the hospital, when in the morning they come in and say they're going to have to operate, and soon (45 mins after they tell us). Two hours later they've cleaned about 2 cups of bloods out of her and say they had to remove a Fallopian tube because it ruptured. They say, according to her hormone levels, she was likely pregnant for 5-6 weeks. Now, there's a lot of emotions we're dealing with, but that's not what this is about. Mainly we're fine there. We're somewhat sad, but we didn't know there was any possibility she was pregnant that morning, and we're trying to focus on the fact that now we know we can get pregnant. My question is more about the future. She still has both ovaries, just one Fallopian tube. My initial thinking was that one ovary would still be there to send eggs down the remaining Fallopian tube while the other would have eggs for any egg harvesting we would potentially want done in the future. But the surgeon tried to explain to me that actually, both ovaries can use the same tube, and that the diagrams we've always seen aren't really how it works. I'll admit, I'm rather uneducated when it comes to this stuff, and I wasn't really asking further questions because I was more interested at the time in how the procedure went and when I'd get to see my wife. But this whole thing confuses me. Is this true? Can both ovaries use the same remaining tube? If so, how does that even work? If not, does the one ovary connected to the tube only produce an egg every other month? I apologize if anything I posted above is a stupid question. There's an awful lot I don't know, and Google is giving completely different answers. Mainly everyone keep saying how you can still get pregnant. I get that, I knew that already. My question is more about how everything is working there after this kind of procedure, and what this means for production...I guess. I should also point out that she's seeing the OB/GYN who performed the surgery for a follow up tomorrow, and she plans on having some questions, but I still felt the need to ask here.
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thrawn527 posted:My initial thinking was that one ovary would still be there to send eggs down the remaining Fallopian tube while the other would have eggs for any egg harvesting we would potentially want done in the future. But the surgeon tried to explain to me that actually, both ovaries can use the same tube, and that the diagrams we've always seen aren't really how it works. I'll admit, I'm rather uneducated when it comes to this stuff, and I wasn't really asking further questions because I was more interested at the time in how the procedure went and when I'd get to see my wife. But this whole thing confuses me. Is this true? Can both ovaries use the same remaining tube? If so, how does that even work? If not, does the one ovary connected to the tube only produce an egg every other month? The tubes are not really directly connected to the ovaries and don't completely envelop them. When an egg is released the tube actually kind of draws the egg into it in an active fashion. Which explains how an egg released on the surface of the ovary that's not particularly close to the end of the tube ends up in the tube quite reliably. And also how an egg released from the other ovary can occasionally wind up in that tube as well. It's not common and is not something to be counted on but it has been documented to happen (I can't find good information on exactly how often though). In general though, yes, you will be losing some cycles from this point on because the egg will be lost from that ovary most of the time. Just not as many as you would think. You should also remember that the ovaries don't take strict turns. Although on average a woman will ovulate from each ovary about 50% of the time it's not occurring in a strict every other month fashion. She could ovulate from one ovary 3 times in a row before she ovulates from the other one. She will unfortunately be at a higher risk of another ectopic pregnancy in the future. So one important thing to bring up with her doctor at the followup appointment is how they intend to follow her when she becomes pregnant again. Typically she should be monitored a lot more closely than she would be without the history of ectopic. Things like tracking HCG levels to make sure they are rising normally (they often rise slowly or go up and down with an ecoptic) and doing an early ultrasound or two to confirm that the pregnancy is in the uterus before it reaches the point of rupturing the tube. It's good to know what to expect now so that when you call to schedule things the next time you find out she's pregnant you are able to make sure the receptionist is setting up the right stuff. My doc sees you earlier if you've had a previous miscarriage for example, but you need to know to tell the receptionist that or they will just set you up for the standard first visit at 10-12 weeks. Other stuff that's good to know: even though you'll miss out on some cycles because of the missing tube your chances of getting pregnant again are quite good, it just may take a little longer than with both tubes. Also, once a future pregnancy has been confirmed to be in the uterus she won't be at a higher risk of any other complications with the pregnancy than normal (which basically means that the ectopic signals a problem with the tubes, but not one with the rest of the baby-making machinery). Hope this helps! Sorry you've had such a rough start to things.
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Ceridwen posted:The "try for a year" thing only applies if you are cycling regularly. If you aren't your doctor should be taking steps to figure out what is going on. If they don't you should get a different doctor. I think this is a pretty common misconception that the year thing applies to everybody. If memory serves, if you're over a certain age (I think 35?), it's more like 6 months. Probably a good thing to know, because it would be awful to find out that you should have gone to see your dr 6 months earlier.
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I am in the awful limbo stage right now. It's past ovulation, nowhere near early enough for a test to come back positive, and I feel really, really weird. Sunday I got carsick for the first time in my life. That night I had insomnia. Since then I've been exhausted even after three full nights of sleep and going to bed early. I've also had residual nausea, but not "oh god going to get sick I'm miserable" nausea, just a general "awareness" of my abdominal region. When I'm busy lecturing or building presentations or grading, I don't notice it, but as soon as I take a break it's right there to greet me. Every once in a while I have an "episode" I guess you could call it. I'll be doing something, and then need to sit still and take a breath for about ten seconds, then I can go on with what I'm doing. Lastly, and most annoyingly, my boobs have been "can't wear a shirt without a bra" tender. I've been sporting a pair of glass cutters since Sunday, and it hurts like hell. So, I'm either pregnant, or my body is a jerk that I am going to punch straight in the ovaries if my period shows up in ten days. I know it's only been four days of this, so I'm probably over-reacting, but it's so unnerving to not have any idea what's going on with my body. Time will tell, I know, I just needed to vent. My MIL is pleased as pie and convinced that I'm up the duff, and I'm trying very hard not to get too excited or too stressed out or too worried, and I'm failing on all accounts. This poo poo is worse than wedding planning, and it hasn't even really started yet!
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Heard this story on NPR yesterday and felt that everyone here would love this bit of knowledge.NPR News posted:A common vitamin supplement appears to dramatically reduce a woman's risk of having a child with autism. Full Article: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/02/13/171828067/folic-acid-for-pregnant-mothers-cuts-kids-autism-risk Good luck everyone!
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Spiffster posted:Heard this story on NPR yesterday and felt that everyone here would love this bit of knowledge. Makes me happy that I've been taking the vitamin for about a month now!
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Figured I'd make a post in here as I managed to finally knock my wife up :-D We'd been trying naturally since last May, and in December we went in to a fertility specialist. PCOS known in the family, so went through clomid and ovidrel which looks like it worked in the second cycle. Still kind of strange looking at the little test strips and seeing two lines one night. Mix of "oh god" and "wheee awesome" mixed together at the same time. Few more days of that and went in for bloodwork to confirm it. Last Friday beta levels of 334 and today it's up to 1452.... So things are progressing well. Next trip is early March for ultrasound for heartbeat.
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dietcokefiend posted:Figured I'd make a post in here as I managed to finally knock my wife up :-D FYI: It is surreal as gently caress to hear that heartbeat for the first time, and it only gets more incredible. Rocky sounded like a little choo choo at first. 
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Valdara posted:I am in the awful limbo stage right now. It's past ovulation, nowhere near early enough for a test to come back positive, and I feel really, really weird. Sunday I got carsick for the first time in my life. That night I had insomnia. Since then I've been exhausted even after three full nights of sleep and going to bed early. I've also had residual nausea, but not "oh god going to get sick I'm miserable" nausea, just a general "awareness" of my abdominal region. When I'm busy lecturing or building presentations or grading, I don't notice it, but as soon as I take a break it's right there to greet me. Every once in a while I have an "episode" I guess you could call it. I'll be doing something, and then need to sit still and take a breath for about ten seconds, then I can go on with what I'm doing. Lastly, and most annoyingly, my boobs have been "can't wear a shirt without a bra" tender. I've been sporting a pair of glass cutters since Sunday, and it hurts like hell. I hate that stage, it used to drive me mental every month gradually convincing myself I was pregnant then horrible disappointment when I wasn't. I would get all the symptoms too and then the first day of having a period would be spent in weepy wallowing. Every month for 7 months. I hope you are  But if you're not remember that's totally normal too and sometimes it takes a while, especially if you have been on hormonal contraceptive for a long time. Good luck!
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Not sure if this belongs in the pregnancy thread or here but here goes. My wife and I started trying to get pregnant in January and appears to be successful as confirmed by home test. We have an appointment with her GP this week but it may be a month before we get referred to an OBGYN (yay canada). Anyway our big worry is miscarriage because she has "mild" PCOS. I'm reading conflicting information online about the increased risk of miscarriage associated with this syndrome, some state as high as 45% which terrifies me, others say that causation isn't proven and those stats may be due to most PCOS sufferers being obese. She is a healthy BMI and pays close attention to what she eats but still it is pretty scary. Have any goons here had issues with PCOS and conception / carrying to term?
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I have PCOS and one kid, no miscarriages. For what it's worth, my mother has PCOS and had it so bad as a teenager that she actually had one of her ovaries removed and then went on to have five kids. My doctors were never worried about miscarriage because of PCOS after I got pregnant, but were worried that it might be difficult to impossible to get me pregnant in the first place.
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raaaan posted:I have PCOS and one kid, no miscarriages. For what it's worth, my mother has PCOS and had it so bad as a teenager that she actually had one of her ovaries removed and then went on to have five kids. My doctors were never worried about miscarriage because of PCOS after I got pregnant, but were worried that it might be difficult to impossible to get me pregnant in the first place. Thanks this is helpful. Were you on any medication when you got pregnant like clomid or metformin? I was reading that the later can lower the risk of miscarriage with PCOS. I'm doing way too much reading on this and can't decide if its better to not say anything and let things run their course or to tell my wife of all the possible ways to reduce the risk, and in turn, cause her to stress over the possibility even more 
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syg posted:Were you on any medication when you got pregnant like clomid or metformin? I was reading that the later can lower the risk of miscarriage with PCOS. I'm doing way too much reading on this and can't decide if its better to not say anything and let things run their course or to tell my wife of all the possible ways to reduce the risk, and in turn, cause her to stress over the possibility even more
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I was on metformin about 6 years ago for about half a year, before stopping it (I didn't stop for any reason related to the metformin, but because I had untreated ADHD and forgot to take them most of the time). Before I got pregnant I decided to crack down on my weight, lost 80 lbs to get a regular cycle back and got pregnant naturally within the year. A friend of mine has PCOS, is also non-medicated and got pregnant naturally, BUT didn't lose any weight and is considered high risk.
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Yesterday I had one day of cramps, and I just started spotting. Again, either pee tests will start coming up positive soon (I used up my exorbitantly expensive store-bought tests through sheer impatience. No test works that early, but I COULDN'T HELP IT, and now I am waiting on the $0.80 internet test strips), or I am the master of psychosomatic symptoms. I will be both unbelievably pissed and quite impressed that I managed to create that much pain AND bleeding with my mind. But, mostly, hoping I'm up the duff.
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Valdara posted:(I used up my exorbitantly expensive store-bought tests through sheer impatience. No test works that early, but I COULDN'T HELP IT, and now I am waiting on the $0.80 internet test strips) If you live near a dollar shop they tend to have dollar tests, until you can get your internet tests. I hope you see a positive test soon!
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Abbeh posted:If you live near a dollar shop they tend to have dollar tests, until you can get your internet tests. I hope you see a positive test soon! I've tried twice, and both times they were out of them. Also, going to the dollar store on Feb 13 is a terrible, terrible, terrible idea. This spotting is getting pretty heavy. Fingers crossed it's my body welcoming in a baby instead of getting rid of one. If it tapers off today, then I'll feel better.
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Valdara posted:Yesterday I had one day of cramps, and I just started spotting. Again, either pee tests will start coming up positive soon (I used up my exorbitantly expensive store-bought tests through sheer impatience. No test works that early, but I COULDN'T HELP IT, and now I am waiting on the $0.80 internet test strips), or I am the master of psychosomatic symptoms. I will be both unbelievably pissed and quite impressed that I managed to create that much pain AND bleeding with my mind. My wife used these... which were actually pretty sensitive in terms of when they started showing faint positives: http://www.amazon.com/Wondfo-Pregnancy-Test-Strips-50-count/dp/B004AOMAOG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1361382594&sr=8-3&keywords=pregnancy+test
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dietcokefiend posted:My wife used these... which were actually pretty sensitive in terms of when they started showing faint positives: Those are what I used as well. They gave me a positive 8 days after I ovulated. Pretty crazy for something that cheap.
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dietcokefiend posted:My wife used these... which were actually pretty sensitive in terms of when they started showing faint positives: I got a positive test 10 days after ovulation using those, though the line was incredibly faint at that stage I went out and bought a more expensive one just to double check.
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I am pretty sure that I am having a chemical pregnancy miscarriage. Nothing I've read about implantation bleeding matches this, and my cycle shouldn't start until Sunday. I've never had a 24 day cycle in my life. Far less excited now, but at least it's early. Could be crazy things going on.
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It still could just be your period. As soon as you start trying, your body likes to gently caress up your cycle no matter how regular it is and give you other weird symptoms because you're paying attention.
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Alterian posted:It still could just be your period. As soon as you start trying, your body likes to gently caress up your cycle no matter how regular it is and give you other weird symptoms because you're paying attention. Either way, I am not knocked up either at all or anymore. Guess we'll have to keep trying! My husband will be so disappointed at all the practicing we'll need to do... Edit: Posted this in the wrong thread again. Whether it was a chemical pregnancy or no, I don't care. It sucks balls and feels bad. Told my MIL that she is not going to be a grandmother this time. She was super supportive and then told me that my husband and I need to practice a lot more! We have a very open and trusting relationship with his parents, but having her telling me to go have lots of sex with her son was a little weird. Especially since with a week-long crampfest of misery, sexy time is the last ever thing on my mind. "Sex helps cramps!" I don't care! On the plus side, I'm no longer bone exhausted all the time and don't have trouble getting out of bed, my boob sensitivity is back to normal, and I still have a couple hundred thousand eggs just a-waitin' to become babies. I almost wish I could just turn off "paying attention to my body". After months of charting, I know how it does and does not behave whether I'm taking my temp every day or not. I just ordered a new battery for my thermometer, since it ran out at the end of Jan, and we'll re-start the process. Valdara fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Feb 24, 2013 |
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Valdara posted:Told my MIL that she is not going to be a grandmother this time. She was super supportive and then told me that my husband and I need to practice a lot more! We have a very open and trusting relationship with his parents, but having her telling me to go have lots of sex with her son was a little weird. I've told a couple close relatives that we are trying. When they found out that I failed to get myself knocked up this go round (  ), that was exactly what every single one of them said, including my husband. I personally assumed that we'd be "practicing" whether we conceived or not, and having people tell us to "practice" more is odd seeing as we already "practice" a lot more than most couples I know. It is all said in jest, but when we are trying, and failing, to conceive, it is the last thing I want to hear.
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A bit of unsolicited advice: telling people you're trying to get pregnant adds a huge layer of unnecessary pressure to the situation. It's so cliche but it's a cliche for a reason - the sooner you stop obsessing about it and allow yourself to just enjoy the process, the sooner it will happen (barring any fertility/medical issues). It took me 8 months to get pregnant, and the month it happened was the month I was only halfway paying attention to when I ovulated and we had sex just for fun, babymaking didn't even figure into it at the moment. Take the time to enjoy the anticipation and closeness with your partner, because things aren't gonna be the same once it happens, and the time passes SO QUICKLY. Savor what you have now and enjoy looking forward to what the future will bring.
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Schweig und tanze posted:A bit of unsolicited advice: telling people you're trying to get pregnant adds a huge layer of unnecessary pressure to the situation. It's so cliche but it's a cliche for a reason - the sooner you stop obsessing about it and allow yourself to just enjoy the process, the sooner it will happen (barring any fertility/medical issues). It took me 8 months to get pregnant, and the month it happened was the month I was only halfway paying attention to when I ovulated and we had sex just for fun, babymaking didn't even figure into it at the moment. I have to agree with this. It sounds so dumb, but it really is true in my opinion. My friend tried for two years to get pregnant, charting, you name it. The month she decided to say gently caress it and give up she got pregnant. I didn't even try, I just decided to stop taking bc and let whatever happen happen and eventually got knocked up. Stress can really mess with your hormone levels, and affect the sex drive and how you have sex...it can be harder to lubricate, orgasm, you name it..because all your concentration goes to making a baby. So try and breathe, and keep sexing. I know that is easier said than done, though. When you want something bad, it's human nature to try and prioritize and plan around it.
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Also keep in mind that if you are tracking, you shouldn't really be having sex more than every other day during your fertile period. It took me 3 years to get pregnant! The month I got knocked up was the month before I was going to start tracking again after taking a break to deal with my messed up thyroid.
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Conveniently, we haven't gotten so far as to get into charting, planning, and other un-fun ways of scheduling. I know what my cycle is, so I know next month won't happen, but that is about as far as it's gotten. We are just letting things happen and going from there. This will be a fourth child for me (I have three from my previous marriage), and a first child for my husband. Though we do want to expand our family, neither of us are rushed. It will happen when it happens, but when it doesn't happen, I tend to buy myself a half pint of chocolate ice cream, turn on my favorite movie, and fall asleep early. The next day, I'm right as rain and enjoying my first coffee in weeks. This is the first time a pregnancy will be intentional, and that inherently comes with a bit of contemplation. I know I shouldn't have told those that I did, but sometimes a girl's gotta have someone to talk to. My sister knows because we are best friends, and his aunt knows because she is also my massage therapist. It seemed important, from a medical standpoint, to let her know. jota23 fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Feb 27, 2013 |
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The month I got pregnant with Connor was the month I decided to take a break from trying because it was turning me into a nutcase (I burst out crying at my nieces birthday party). I purposefully didn't have sex for the week I was fertile which goes to show that a) fate has a sense of humour and b) I would be poo poo at using the rhythm method.
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So my wife and I have been trying for a second kid for about two years now and although we started seeking professional help about 6 months ago, they didn't perform a Kruger test the first few times. This time they did and it turns out it's all my fault. I asked the doctor if there was anything I could do to improve my terrible score, but he basically said "Don't wear tight underwear and avoid hot tubs." Is there anything that can be done to improve the morphology of sperm in any meaningful way? I've already cut out alcohol and have reduced (and hopefully on the way to quitting) cigarette smoking, but I'm not sure if there's anything else I can do to stop producing developmentally disabled sperm.
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Mar 6, 2013 23:23
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Eating a healthy diet of a lot of fruits and vegetables for the anti oxidants, losing weight, and exercise is suppose to help.
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Mar 7, 2013 00:41
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Alterian posted:Eating a healthy diet of a lot of fruits and vegetables for the anti oxidants, losing weight, and exercise is suppose to help. Well I decided to stop being a tub of lard already and have dropped 35 pounds and did so by not cranking fried burritos and beer into my face all day, but that's only been since about December first of last year. I'll see if that improves as my general condition does as well. Mulloy fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Mar 7, 2013 |
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