TTC- First timers

[SantanL]

If you are TTCing for your first baby, please gather here.
Lets share our frustration... well that is the least we can do besides trying :-)
all other, moms, please share your TTC#1 experiences.
(Accidental parents -> you are lucky)

How many months have you been TTCing
Myself: 7 going towards 8

I am soo frustrated, sooo jealous when someone talks abt their kid/expected baby...
I feel like it is such a long/unpredictable process....
Is it just me? or everyone (or most of them) sail in this boat??

[Minigingerbread]

Hi misszinke
I experienced a m/c a few months ago (without realising I was pregnant). I have irregular long cycles like you. During my unusually painful bleeding, I instinctively reached out for the HPT and it showed positive. At that time it was already a confirmed m/c. What I want to point out is that your HCG will not immediately drop to zero upon a m/c. For me, it took a week for it to return to zero after my D&C, so do not take a positive HPT as an assurance of the pregnancy still being viable (total about a month after the first onset of bleeding in my case). Please go for a scan at your gynae. It is the only way to confirm if the little bean is still there.
Sorry if I sounded a bit too negative. Do not despair as there are mothers who bleed during early pregnancies who went on to have healthy babies, though I was not one of them :(

[keykey91]

Iam ttc this is my first time tryin and aNd iam 12 days late and iam sore.           Aand my back hurt and I was sick and tthrowing up and fill sick and white discharge like milk but thick and iam.    Sore

[misszinke]

Hello Ladies!

I've never posted on a forum about my infertility and TTC.  I thought I would join in and see how it feels/helps my spirits.  I am now 32 and my husband is 29.

Hubby and I have been trying to conceive for 2.5 years. :|  We started to try in January of 2008. After 1 year of TTC, we took matters into our own hands.  It's too heart wrenching to just "keep trying" and wonder why it's not working. I have long cycles, anywhere from 30-38 days.  Usually it's about 32. But it's never clockwork.  I tend to ovulate around day 20-23 of my cycle. (I am NOT a 14-28er, that's for sure!)

February of 2009 we started testing:

Jan: semen analysis (Two of them, not superior results, but not destitute either)
February: I have a 42 day cycle, have a period, and then within two weeks, I had another period, even though it was lighter.  That had never happened and I still don't know what that was all about.
March: 10 treatsments of Accupuncture and Chinese herbs.
April: tube dye test (Open tubes, few!)
May: HSG tests (They notice a fibroid in my uterus)
July: Failed IUI :(
August-December: we take it easy and stop testing and spending $.

February 2010:
Myomectoy on February 2nd (Fibroid removal).  During the surgery, the doctor said that he had NEVER seen an endometrial lining that was so THICK in someone who didn't have endometrial cancer.  Now they believed me when I said I had VERY painful, Heavy, Long periods.
March 14th: Period.
April 15th: Period.
May 20th: I have a period.
June 23rd: I put a tampon in, to "catch my period" (day 35 of my cycle.) Take it out later that day, and it only has a small amount of brown discharge.  Hum, interesting. Ok.
June 24th. Same as June 23rd.
June 25th: Negative pregnancy test. :( No bleeding or nothing for the next few days.)
June 28th: it's now day 40 of my cycle.  My hopes are UP!  I rarely take pregnancy tests because the period always came, but for the second time in my life, I made it to day 40.  I took a Digital HPT Clear Blue Easy that morning and it said: PREGNANT. I about passed out. I couldn't believe it, and in fact, I didn't believe something like this would happen to me. We've never been pregnant.
June 29th: I am at a store, and I feel "wet" down town.  I rush to the bathroom, and there is the brownish blood and pinkish red blood, on my underoos. :(  I panic. I worry. It can't be!  I go home and clean up and put a tampon in.  That night I pull it out and it wasn't totally covered in blood.  It was like that dark blood, and slightly brown, like the start of my periods. Not "gushing" yet.
June 30th: Feeling great, no blood, no brownish stuff, nothing! Feeling positive again.
July 1st: Afternoon, I go to wipe and it's brown/pinkish, sort of light red.  I get crampy that night.  I feel bloated. I have loose stools, all things that happen when I am on my period.  However, the flow isn't GUSHING yet, like it usually is withing 24 hours of "starting my period."  It's more that 10-12 days passed "implantation bleeding" by now, right?

Today: July 2nd.  I wake up and pull the tampon out and it's about 75% covered, but not in heavy dark blood.  Cramps are still present but not too bad.  I took another pregnancy test (First Response) this morning around 5 am and the second (pregnancy line) was VERY FAINT, but it was there. They say if you can see ANY kind of line, then it's positive. Hum? :\

Can anyone relate to this?  DO I take ANOTHER pregnancy test in a few days? Maybe a digital one?  I am bleeding, but not heavily like I usually do. I feel mild cramping. It feels like I am on a period, but I don't have heavy bleeding and I still am showing a positive pregnancy test.  I don't want to get my hopes up, if this isn't what the pregnancy tests are telling me.

Thank you for taking the time to read my story.  It ***** suffering in silence!

XOXO

V

[SantanL]

You all are in my prayers!
Hopefully, it works out for each and every one of us.
I know GOD will not disappoint us :-)

baby dust baby dust all over!!!!

[SantanL]

I hope that was implantation bleeding.
Have u checked with your doc yet?
What did (s)he say????

Baby Dust!

[oliviathorne]

Hey Ladies!

Went off BC in March, trying to concieve since then. It feels like forever! I know it hasn't been that long. Started having regular periods right after going off pill, using OPK and seem to ovulate at the same time every month. Been BDing as much as possible around that time, but sometimes its so hard with husband working and being tired. I'm on day CD 13, no positive OPK yet! Baby Dust to all!