TTC after 35

TWW Post for week 02/23

Welcome to this week's edition for the TWW!!!  This is for anyone who is entering the TWW this week or is in their TWW.

Where are you in the TWW?  When will you test?  Any phantom symptoms?  

QFTTWW:  What is your favorite flower? 

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Me(35) Him(35) Untied for life 4/1/2015.
TTC Our 1st since 8/2014
MC @ 7 weeks 5/2014
Me: DD#1 3/2000, DD#2 6/2001, DS 5/2003
BFP: 2/19/2015 EDD: 11/1/2015 IT'S A BOY!!!!

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Re: TWW Post for week 02/23

  • I am officially in the TWW.  FF says I am 5dpo but I think I am only 2dpo according to temps.  Guess we'll see what happens.  Not too hopeful about this month anyway as H has basically not wanted to have sex at all.  Oh well.

    I know it's cliche, but I really do like roses the best.
    <a href="http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/5677e2">My Ovulation Chart</a>
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  • I won't be in the TWW until the end of the week but good luck to everyone!

    @emsmama15‌ were you happy with your follicle count?
  • I am hoping to be in the TWW tomorrow or soon thereafter. Temp hasn't gone up, instead it has been exactly the same for four days. Good amount of CM today and yesterday. Felt the ovulation pains over the weekend. Even managed to make it home from my trip and feel like we had a strong chance of catching the fertile window.
     But OPK never got fully positive, just got darker then started getting lighter. This happen to anyone else ever? And I've tried the monitor, the smiley face digital opk, and the wondofos. So I'm starting to think either I never O, or maybe I'm missing the surge? I've been doing morning and afternoon. So we'll see.
    @emsmama15‌ you had your IUI right? How did it go.

    Flowers--hmm, i like tulips, as well as a lot of wildflowers that I don't know the name of.
    FX for this month.
    TTC #1
    me- 37, DH- 38
    Married 6.28.14, started TTC right away
    BFP Nov 2015, PPROM Feb 2016
    ER #1 May 2017, 15 retrieved, 10 fertilized, 3 day 5.
    ER#2 July 2017, 22 retrieved, 13 fertilized, 6 day 5/6
    9 embryos tested for pgs and pgd.  
    FET #1 9.29.17- 1 embryo-BFN
    FET#2 12.19.17- I embryo-BFP 1/1/18! Happy New Year to me! EDD 9/6/18
    Baby boy born 9.11.18- the love of my life!

  • I had my IUI. It went well. We had two promising follicles and an E2 level consistent with about 1.5 mature. Since I took another shot of Gonal F before I triggered, the NP seemed sure I had two at trigger. I'm happy. I feel pretty good about this month so fingers crossed. I'm 1 dpiui and post-ovulation. Flower - I love roses too...
    *** Child & current pregnancy mentioned ***
    Me - 41 (PCOS), Hubby - 43 (healthy)
    7/2013 - Sweet baby girl born (Clomid + TI)
    3/2014 - TTC #2, return to RE 7/2014
    12/2015: IVF #1 transferred two great looking embryos - BFP!
    First ultrasound: TWO beautiful little heartbeats!!
    Harmony: negative; level 2: babies look great and are boy/girl! :) 
  • @Dwmmwd‌ how often are you testing with OPKs? When I was using them, I'd wait till it started to get darker and then do three times a day. I'd often catch my surge in the late afternoon. Maybe you're just not testing at the right time to catch yours?
    *** Child & current pregnancy mentioned ***
    Me - 41 (PCOS), Hubby - 43 (healthy)
    7/2013 - Sweet baby girl born (Clomid + TI)
    3/2014 - TTC #2, return to RE 7/2014
    12/2015: IVF #1 transferred two great looking embryos - BFP!
    First ultrasound: TWO beautiful little heartbeats!!
    Harmony: negative; level 2: babies look great and are boy/girl! :) 
  • @emsmama15 - just wanted to wish you good luck!  Keeping my fingers crossed for you!
    <a href="http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/5677e2">My Ovulation Chart</a>
  • Thanks @suziq1978!
    *** Child & current pregnancy mentioned ***
    Me - 41 (PCOS), Hubby - 43 (healthy)
    7/2013 - Sweet baby girl born (Clomid + TI)
    3/2014 - TTC #2, return to RE 7/2014
    12/2015: IVF #1 transferred two great looking embryos - BFP!
    First ultrasound: TWO beautiful little heartbeats!!
    Harmony: negative; level 2: babies look great and are boy/girl! :) 
  • I'm 8 DPO and will prob test tomorrow if AF does not show up. I'm on CD28. No real symptoms... Boobs might be a bit sore but that doesn't mean anything.

    Favorite flower... Hmmmm.... Maybe daisey's
  • @emmasmama15 thanks for that. Hmm, maybe I'm not doing it enough. I was doing twice a day as I got closer to the likely O day. Maybe I need to do 3 times a day. Today temp went back down and cm increased. So maybe it just hasn't happened yet. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring any OPKs to work, so can't do any this afternoon. But I guess we know that it should be soon, so we'll just try to cover our bases. Does anyone else have the most uninteresting sex during the fertile window. Somehow it often feels so forced, it's almost like someone I don't know. Then in other times of the month it's great. It's so annoying.  
    Fingers crossed for you @rspalding001 and @suziq1978

    TTC #1
    me- 37, DH- 38
    Married 6.28.14, started TTC right away
    BFP Nov 2015, PPROM Feb 2016
    ER #1 May 2017, 15 retrieved, 10 fertilized, 3 day 5.
    ER#2 July 2017, 22 retrieved, 13 fertilized, 6 day 5/6
    9 embryos tested for pgs and pgd.  
    FET #1 9.29.17- 1 embryo-BFN
    FET#2 12.19.17- I embryo-BFP 1/1/18! Happy New Year to me! EDD 9/6/18
    Baby boy born 9.11.18- the love of my life!

  • Thanks @Dwmmwd‌ ! I actually got a faint positive this morning!!! I'm cautiously optimistic however since I had a chemical pregnancy last month. I'll keep testing through the weekend to see if the line keeps getting darker. Fingers crossed!!!!
  • Fingers crossed @rspalding001!  :)
    *** Child & current pregnancy mentioned ***
    Me - 41 (PCOS), Hubby - 43 (healthy)
    7/2013 - Sweet baby girl born (Clomid + TI)
    3/2014 - TTC #2, return to RE 7/2014
    12/2015: IVF #1 transferred two great looking embryos - BFP!
    First ultrasound: TWO beautiful little heartbeats!!
    Harmony: negative; level 2: babies look great and are boy/girl! :) 
  • @rspalding001 - yay!  Fingers crossed for you!
    <a href="http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/5677e2">My Ovulation Chart</a>
  • awesome!

    TTC #1
    me- 37, DH- 38
    Married 6.28.14, started TTC right away
    BFP Nov 2015, PPROM Feb 2016
    ER #1 May 2017, 15 retrieved, 10 fertilized, 3 day 5.
    ER#2 July 2017, 22 retrieved, 13 fertilized, 6 day 5/6
    9 embryos tested for pgs and pgd.  
    FET #1 9.29.17- 1 embryo-BFN
    FET#2 12.19.17- I embryo-BFP 1/1/18! Happy New Year to me! EDD 9/6/18
    Baby boy born 9.11.18- the love of my life!

  • 2pupsnokids2pupsnokids member
    edited February 2015
  • I'm now 1DPO, I had my IUI yesterday. It went well - DH gave them a really good batch to work from, and according to ultrasounds I likely ovulated on both sides. Any symptoms are due to the progesterone, which has made me headachy and RAVENOUS. I had two lunches today.

    As for flowers, I like Gerbera daisies. They just feel happy to me.
    Me: 38 DH: 40 TTC#1 (and likely only) since 9/13. Saw RE 5/14, SA good, AMH 2.36, FSH 7.2, estradiol 69.6 indicating good egg reserve. Using OPKs. First Letrozole cycle 6/14, a burst cyst and a BFN. Second Letrozole cycle 7/14, BFN. 

    Update 11/14 - had laparoscopy 10/28, good news is that my uterus and left tube look good, and they were able to drain the cyst on my left ovary. Bad news is that right tube and ovary have endo and scar tissue, so they're pretty useless.. Best news is that we finally have some answers and a path forward. Taking 7.5 mg letrozole CD 2-6 to put that good left ovary through its paces. 

    UPDATE 2/2015 - We switched to another fertility clinic, but fortunately we don't have to start all over. We're doing two cycles of Clomid plus IUI, if neither of those take, we'll do IVF in April, potentially with ICSI. (DH's SA has gone downhill, likely due to excessive exercise.) IUI#1 2/25/15....
  • 5 dpiui!  One week to go till beta day.  I'm going to the doctor today for the never-ending cold/cough/bronchitis.  I've been delaying because I'm not sure what they can do - I don't want to get a x-ray, I don't want steroids - but I just can't breathe and I cough all night, so I need something!!  I've been exhausted but I'm sure that's the cold - too early for pregnancy symptoms.  

    Hang in there everyone!!!


    *** Child & current pregnancy mentioned ***
    Me - 41 (PCOS), Hubby - 43 (healthy)
    7/2013 - Sweet baby girl born (Clomid + TI)
    3/2014 - TTC #2, return to RE 7/2014
    12/2015: IVF #1 transferred two great looking embryos - BFP!
    First ultrasound: TWO beautiful little heartbeats!!
    Harmony: negative; level 2: babies look great and are boy/girl! :) 
  • @kindershlitz - thanks! Did everything go well?
    *** Child & current pregnancy mentioned ***
    Me - 41 (PCOS), Hubby - 43 (healthy)
    7/2013 - Sweet baby girl born (Clomid + TI)
    3/2014 - TTC #2, return to RE 7/2014
    12/2015: IVF #1 transferred two great looking embryos - BFP!
    First ultrasound: TWO beautiful little heartbeats!!
    Harmony: negative; level 2: babies look great and are boy/girl! :) 
  • @emsmama15 dh's samples were great these two days. I also decided to do opks to check when my surge is (like u/s aren't enough lol). So timing is perfect. It was a lot more uncomfortable today. Not sure why because it was the same person doing it today. Must be the nerves. Now I'm officially thumb twiddling. ;)
    I'm excited to hear your betas!
  • I am 12 dpo, trying to patiently wait for 16/18 before testing. I found out last min the my luteal phase was 16 which is why I'm trying to be patient before wasting a test.

    Good luck to everyone
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