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How Not to Feel Stressed by all this?

My husband and I want to have a son. We have been married 5 years, and together have 10 children from our previous marriage to others.

I have a tubal ligation, and so I have been undergoing IVF treatments for ovulation stimulation. Since I am pre-menopausal, my ovaries are having a difficult time producing more than 1 egg, even though many injections and hormones. To learn at the end of the process of hormones and shots that my estrogen levels are not up, and to face another cycle of waiting is so difficult.

Our doctor said it is very important to not stress out. I realize that stress is the opposite of "bliss," which is the heightened result of love and thus conception. How does one achieve bliss in our stressful culture? Worklife can be anxiety-filled and time at home can be too crammed with schedules and commitments. Where is the time for bliss? How can we edge stress out of our lives?

Kobbie

Am I pregnant???

My husband and I, have been trying to have a baby for a year now. My period is very regular.

On July 14, I was suppose get my period, but on that day I got a brownish spotting only and then on July 15 I had to change my pads 3-4 times with normal flow, red in color. Then it totally stopped on July 16 and till now as of July 20 my breast is still very, very sore and I have loss my appetite and I'm very tired but I can sleep well after midnight.

I took a PT last July 10--it was negative. I'm afraid to take another PT, I don't want to disappoint myself again.

Faye

My nose gives it away!

With my last two pregnancies, 10 DPO my nose is very blocked and feels stuffy when I sniff, I also get one or two nose bleeds around this time (this never happens to me) and then I KNOW!

Now I'm in the 2ww and feel very crampy, like af is about to start, but it's not due for 10 days, so I'm hoping that right around 10 DPO, I will be doing a lot of sniffing, to see if my nose is blocked! LOL.

Gaby

This is Taking Forever

My husband and I have been together for 6 years 9 months. We got married in Oct. 2005 and decided to start trying in Dec. 2005. So I quit taking my birth control pills which I had been taking for 5 1/2 yrs. Of course like many other couples we thought that it was going to be a piece of cake. Well, boy were we wrong.

We have now been trying for 19 months. My periods were very irregular, I would go 2-3 months w/out having one. So, I am on my third cycle of clomid 50mg days 3-7, and my Dr. put me on Metformin 1,000mg a day so that I will start my period each month. (I have been taking this for about 5 months).

So far I have ovulated each month that I've been on Clomid, I know this because I use the OPK around the time of ovulation. We start having sex about 3-4 days before ovulation, the day of, and a couple of days after just to be sure. I am in the 2 week wait right now and I am supposed to start my period in 6 days.

We haven't gotten pregnant yet, so we are hoping and praying that it will happen soon. I will definitely let you know if I am pregnant.

Baby Dust to you all and hang in there!!



Jill

ttc 1mth after comming of bc, spotting for 5 weeks

I'm ttc with what would be my 1st, recently came off bc.

Everything was fine up until I missed a few in may due to moving house. I started spotting brown but very light, I was still taking bc while spotting, then I got fed up as I didn't know if this was a withdraw bleed or af.

So anyway that’s when I threw out my last 2 packets. When it came to my 7day break weirdly enough the spotting stopped. Ahhhh annoying or what.

That week no spotting then after it returned light but with pains....I started to believe that during the missed pill I could of been pg but never thought about it and then I was told taking 3-4 bc pills for the 1's missed is like taking the morning after pill. Oops, didn't know that sorry, and then it came back so all in all I spotted for 5weeks.

Don’t know when af will come as my cycle is messed up but I believe I’m ovulating now so me and dh will be ttc as I've come off bc for good and would like to start a family of our own.

I pray for no af this month and another 9, maybe its happened already??? And also the fact that SOME couples have multiple births after bc would be great. FYI I’m 22 I have been working since I was 13. Worked in a nursery for 3yrs with 6mths - 5yrs and a youth club with 8-11yrs. I’ve worked in pathology lab clinical chemistry and currently work in renal & transplant.

Due to start uni to train to become a midwife in Sept 2007 yay I could be delivering your babies who knows.

I have always been maternal and cant wait to be a mom, what I like about these site's is the children are really wanted and are planned, accidents are ok I just don’t like the term accident.

I want to have my babies and be planning and expecting

All the best to you ttc'ers
Good luck and keep me posted

char