TTCAL - w/o Oct 10

Re: TTCAL - w/o Oct 10

• maggiemadeit member

  October 2022

  During this baby loss awareness week, I just want to send a lot of love to all the women who have lost embryos, pregnancies, and babies, and to all of the women still waiting for their baby   
  
  
  Introduce yourself and anything you think is important: number of loss(es), when you had the loss(es), diagnosis/conditions surrounding loss, etc. We had previously tried July 2021- Feb 2022 with 2 losses, at 6  and 12 weeks, and have not been TTC since. I was going to check in on the TWW/TWO thread, but I just make more sense here. It's hard to talk about potential future pregnancy and TTCAL anxiety without mentioning triggers. 
  
  Status: O time, got a positive OPK yesterday and again this morning
  
  How are things going? What is something that you are struggling with and/or what is going well? I looooove my OBGYN. I sent her a message asking for some testing before my appointment and she called me after hours and chatted with me for 25 minutes. She offered to run the tests or to send me straight to the IVF clinic to get a full workup if that's what I wanted, but we want to try again on our own right now. She fully convinced me to jump back in to TTC and to take a relaxed approach. She reminded me that my body knew what to do, and to weigh the stress of additional testing versus the value of the information. For example, even if my FSH is high, it changes over time, and there's nothing I can really do about it, so knowing it doesn’t add much value, only stress. I know this wouldn't be the right approach for some, but for me, it is the perfect advice. I was also able to get in to see a local acupuncture practitioner this week who is very knowledgeable in fertility. Between my awesome doc, the acupuncture doc, and my therapist, I am feeling super duper supported, and the anxiety is fading (for now lol). We even had unprotected sex in my fertile window. As in, WE ARE ACTUALLY TRYING AGAIN! Never thought I would see this day, and my hopeful little heart could just burst. 
  
  Any testing coming up/any recent results? Appointment with my OBGYN in early November to make a more concrete plan, and also to give my husband an opportunity to ask questions and hear directly from the doc. 
  
  Questions? Not today
  
  GTKY: What's your favorite fall tradition/food/activity? I love to cook, so it's really all the fall foods. My kitchen is currently being renovated, and as soon as it's done I am going to make soooooo many soups and stews. 

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