trying for a baby

I am in my first long cycle off bc and yesterday I started experiencing some spotting 9 dpo. I am going out this weekend with friends and I was coming up with a bunch of ways to hide my "definite pregnancy." It involved having my husband fake a headache so we have to leave early. Well AF arrived...

First, thanks hubs, for the spoiler alert. haha!!! And so you guys know, he is totally making that giddy Conan face. And he has red hair & freckles. The similarity is uncanny. :P So. I will do the breakdown below, but since I kept you guys in the loop about the cysts, let me address that...

As the title states, the more I read about how to interpret the test strips, the more confused I get. I’m new to testing and test daily from CD 12 on (I have a 31 day cycle). I am able to feel something around my ovulation and my cervical mucus changes. Last cycle, I had these symptoms on CD 21...

I found this study, which absolutely blew my mind - it really highlights the variability in the timing of fertility signs vis-a-vis ovulation. Only a minority of participants had an increase in BBT the morning following ovulation. And a sizeable minority of participants (23%) ovulated before...

Edit: yesterday was the day, I definitely woke up this morning thinking it was the 15th This means it has also been over two years since trying to conceive again, with no positive results. Two years of invasive tests, exploratory surgeries, expensive ovulation kits, fertility doctors...

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Hello! Looking for some other thoughts/opinions. My husband and I have been trying on our own for 15 months now to conceive, and last month we had our first appointment with a fertility specialist (we are in Perth, Australia). After a cycle of tracking with bloods, and ultrasounds, which...

Hi ladies, hoping you can help with reading my blood test results while I wait for my Endocrinologist appointment. I’ve just received results stating my hydroxoprogesterone is 1.4 nmol/l - I’m not sure whether this is cause for concern. I’ve read that low results like this are tied to women who...

I started noticing the discharge in my panties and when i wiped was ever so slightly "dirty" looking on Saturday and AF isnt due til friday. Obviously this isnt definitive proof of anything but it does make me a little more hopeful then i was before. I was reading online that BFP usually show up...

Last week we found out that our sweet baby stopped developing at 6 weeks. I had a D&C this past Friday. My doctor recommended we wait one cycle until trying again, but stressed the importance of "getting back on the horse" very shortly after my mc bc of the higher fertility rate. I have no...

So, my husband had heart palpitations and blood pressure spikes using “Blue Stork” from Pink stork. I used the woman’s version and saw my O day come a few days early, but obviously we’re still here. So, I want to try something else for both of us. I’m not trying to break the bank though...

Hi! I’m on my first medicated cycle: 1. Provera - to induce period after 70+ days without one (bless, it worked!) 2. Letrozole 2.5mg starting on day 3 - for ovulation induction) Having preovulation symptoms (e.g. transition from creamy to very watery CM) and with today being day 5 after...

So this cycle I’ve come down with a cold for the past week, which has diminished our BDing as I haven’t wanted to get my husband sick, even though I’ve been having fertile CM (my cycles are super irregular from PCOS so it doesn’t always indicate ovulation) but we did manage one BD session on...

I've been doing IVF since 2019 and TTC since 2016 with ZERO pregnancy. I did stims in the beginning of cycle and got cancelled due to poor response. Today is CD 15 and I started spotting last night and this morning. The blood is brown and red but it's not a flow. I can only see the blood when I...

I froze my eggs several years ago as I was single and wanted a backup plan. When my partner and I decided to try, we thawed and fertilized my eggs to see if/how many embryos we’d get. We have 3 euploid (healthy embryo, we did PGT-A testing). We’ve been trying naturally for 9 months - so not too...

I’m looking for some insights into my sperm analysis results. I started taking Clomid on 12/17/2023 to address fertility issues, possibly related to my past exogenous testosterone use. After nearly 4 months on Clomid (110 days by the time of the second analysis), here are my comparative results...

Backstory: We just started TTC. I had my IUD out in August and the Dr. warned me that my periods might revert to their previous horribleness (think of the Shining...yah it was like that). So I keep getting BFN (period was supposed to start Saturday) and he tells me to take it easy because we...

Hello everyone ! I purchased some ovulation strips a while back and had been struggling with irregular periods (could have been due to stress , still not sure ) . Anyway I wanted to know if anyone has been through this or has any tips ? My las period was the first week of December . Then I...

I went to the emergency room last Monday afternoon (happy labour day!) with excruciating abdominal pains. E X C R U T I A T I N G. Turns out one of my Fallopian tubes had ruptured from an ectopic pregnancy (that was a fun 3 hour wait in the ER, with blood pooling into my abdomen.. super fun...

hello fellow TTC friends, my husband just received his SA results and we're absolutely devastated: 0.7 million/mL sperm (Severe oligospermia, normal is 20-200 million/mL) 2.8 million total sperm count (>= 40m is considered normal) WBC = "few" (normal is none or rare) 5% motile sperm (low) poor...