Intro - Hi All : )

SP128

I have been reading your posts the last few days and have learned so much.

A little bit about me.  I am 35 years old from Massachusetts.  I am currently on the last few weeks of summer vacation before school starts again. 

My husband and I have been married for a little over a month.  We are TTC#1 and this is our third month trying.  We were hoping for a honeymoon baby but no such luck.  If we did conceive the plan was to greet the child with "Aloha" when he/she came in the room.  We honeymooned in Hawaii.  Guess we spared ourselves from endless eye rolling.  Even though it's early on in the game, I'm a little nervous that we will have trouble conceiving.  It does behoove me when I hear about people who have oopsie babies.  I'm like, "I'm timing everything and still nothing, you look at your husband and you're pregnant??!!"

I have been off BC since 2/27/16.  The last three months we have been timing BD during fertile periods.  For this month, I figured I need to step up our game.  Preseed, Weschler's fertility book and a basal body thermometer will be delivered by 8 pm tomorrow so says Amazon : )  I also bought an opk kit that I plan on using. 

Happy Sunday

amberruka

Hello and good luck @SP128! I think I speak for most here when "oopsies" pretty much annoy all of us ;-)

Christina239

Welcome! And congrats on the wedding! I think that's one of the hardest parts - the not being able to plan! Or "the plan" just not going as planned! 

jennh75b

Congrats on your recent marriage!  Welcome and good luck to you!!

laurad75

Welcome @SP128!  I agree with PP you will find a lot of support in this community.  I am also in MA so the good news is that we are in a great place for fertility expertise.  H and I were also hoping for a honeymoon in Hawaii baby and it was really disappointing when AF showed up a week later. 

If you are concerned about conceiving on your own it may be a good idea to schedule a pre-conception appointment with your doctor.  That way they can start some testing to make sure you don't have any obstacles that may make getting pregnant more difficult.  Since you are 35 and have been trying for a few months already its the perfect time to make that appointment. 

Good luck to you and if you haven't already join us over on the Trying to Get Pregnant board.  It is way more active on a daily basis.  :-)

Aurora1973

Welcome @SP128!  Yes, like @laurad75 said, TTGP is a very active board that is so helpful.  Make sure to read the newbie thread that should be toward the top (not the one that is pinned at the very beginning; it's outdated).  Most of us use BBTs and track using Fertility Friend, which is an app that has a three month free trial for VIP.  If you like it, buy the app when they give you a chance at a discount.  It's much cheaper.

Stick around here, too...you'll get lots of commiseration from all of us "geriatrics"

artemis618

Hi @SP128! I'm not sure if I count as lurking now, but DH and I got married this past June and also hoped for a honeymoon baby.  I went off of bc toward the end of January and had really only been tracking AF.  Honeymoon did provide plenty of opportunities to BD - but I think maybe wedding stress plus the 15 hour international flight plus domestic flights once we got there (Australia) combined with 17 hour time difference made me O two days later - which I learned once AF showed up in July.

So for the next cycle I jumped on here, learned a ton, read TCOYF, got myself a Mabis (started temping on CD3), temped religiously, and got some Wondfo OPKs based on recs here, paid up for the FF VIP ($25 for the year - currently "paused" thanks to a heads up from BusinessWife) since I felt I got so much value from even the free version; I fully credit temping and paying more attention for (TW?)"working." No clue if it'll stick, but with me turning 39 in two months and DH being 41 it's encouraging.  I at least am a believer!

Best of luck!

hezzer78

Hello and welcome! Congrats on your wedding and good luck to you on your TTC journey!

SP128

Thanks so much ladies for the warm welcome : ) 

@laurad75 - I always thought that I needed to wait 6 months before contacting doctor.... I went for my yearly in March and told her we were planning on starting in July.   Perhaps I should give her a call to see what she says.  Sometimes I wonder if I'm even ovulating.

I grabbed the easy @ Home opk kit to hopefully try to figure it out.  Anyone have any experience with this brand? 

My package of goodies from Amazon was "delivered."  However, it was not. Amazon is going to send a replacement package.  Was planning on diving into that fertility book.  What was it about things not going as planned : )

laurad75

@SP128 I am excited for you to read TCOYF - there is so much great info in there. 

You went off the pill almost 6 months ago so there is no reason you can't make the appointment now just to get the testing started.  In my opinion, you want to eliminate any possible issues now rather than find out in 6 months that you have an issue that could have been treated.  I don't want to freak you out and make you think they will find something in the testing because they probably won't - 35 is just on the cusp of AMA and you just started trying.  That being said, I felt much more in control once my testing got done. 

Momifbysea

Welcome! I wish you the best and completely understand about hearing stories of oopsy babies!!!