rubleneesey - ovulation & blood

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JulieMom

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Hey what was your result for the month anyway? I'm sending well wishes your way!

Btw I happened to have blood in my ewcm this month (which has never happened before) and just had to find further info about it. According to the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility it is extremely fertile! Since this happened to me after you posted I just had to know more!

In Taking Charge of Your Fertility, Toni says in Appendix A:

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About 10% of women will notice that they occasionally have a day or two of spotting about midcycle, right around ovulation. In fact, they may even notice that the fertile cervical fluid (especially the eggwhite quality) is tinged with brown, pink, or red. This is a result of spotting mixed with cervical fluid. It is considered extremely fertile. It's usually due to the sudden drop in estrogen that precedes ovulation and is nothing to be concerned about. If anything, it is a good secondary sign to record on your chart. It's typically more common in long cycles
 
Hi Julie!

Thanks for the info! I started my period like clockwork on Sunday. I'm not sure what we are doing wrong. I have a 28 day cycle. I'll have to monitor it more closely. It is so depressing--waiting, then nothing, then trying again. Uh! My hubby did some research and he stated it's a myth that stressing over it causes infertility. (that's a plus).

Thanks for all of everyone's input. I'll try again this month and hopefully SOON I'll be an official member of this club!! (oh what a blessing that will be!!)

Denise
 
Hi Denise,

My husband and I will be TTC after my next period, too. I recently had a first-term miscarriage, which is disappointing of course, but made more so by the fact that it took 10 months for that conception to occur. Like you, we were timing things right every month, but just having no luck. The initial excitement of trying to conceive wore off pretty quick, and the process became fraught with negative emotions. I read in "What to Expect When You're Expecting" that women have an increased fertility within the first 3 months following a miscarriage, so maybe we will be luckier this time around. The whole problem with TTC is that it takes so long to know whether you've been "successful" or not. Argh! Oh well, it will happen when it happens.

I may pick up that book "Taking Charge of Your Fertility." Many women on this list seem to recommend it.

Good luck to you!
Sandra
 
Sandra,

Glad to hear you are TTC again. Hope everything has been going well for you. I am in my 3rd month of TTC. Since being off the pill my cycles have been about 36 days.
I have the book "Taking Charge of Your Fertility". It's very interesting and informative. I even bought the software to go with it. I'm glad I started following it, otherwise I would have thought I was pregnant the last two months with such long cycles, but it turns out I was just ovulating late.

Anyway, good luck to you!

Janna
 
Thanks Janna! I'm going to the bookstore this afternoon to check it out. I also bought an ovulation kit, called "Maybe Baby", that uses saliva to indicate ovulation. I'm getting up there in years - I don't want to wait another 10 months before even becoming pregnant again. Here's hoping....

Good luck in your efforts. And let's try to remember to have fun out there! ;)

Sandra
 
Hi and good luck to all of you. I tried getting pregnant for 6 months unsuccessfully. I bought the book taking charge of your fertility and began charting my basil temperature. the first month, no luck. The second month I realized that by day 20 of my cycle, no change in temp, so we continued focusing on trying. According to my charting day 28 of my cycle I conceived. As many of you probably know I am now the mother of a wonderful 13 month old. I actually posting here asking why it is so hard to get pregnant prior to conceiving.
 
thanks for the encouragement!

It's kinda funny my son was not planned AT ALL, and I was on BC!!! Now we have been trying for months and nothing, go figure! Oh well, it's all in God's hands anyway.
 
We decided to start a family in 1997 (had my last Depo in January 1997)... played around with Clomid (got it through my OB/Gyn... I will never do this again unless the practice specializes)... well, our first was born July 2000 without reproductive assistance.

In 2002, we were ready for #2. I miscarried in October 2002... and then the stress of TTC. We went through more aggressive infertility treatments... NOTHING!!!!! I thought I might implode if one more well meaning person told me to relax... it would happen... I kept thinking of my mom who wanted 6 kids, never used BC, and had only one child thanks to artificial insemination (ok, that is not very uplifting). Anyway, we finally welcomed our 2nd this past July. Don't give up hope and listen to your inner voice regarding the course you should take.

If anyone needs to vent frustration, disappointment, etc., I am only an email away. I wish each of you the best of luck with TTC!

Autumn
 
Thanks Autumn. This is only my 3rd month trying so I'm not getting too frustrated...yet. Although I think I was one of those people that just thought it would happen when I wanted it to. Obviously not the case. I'm 29 and would love to have children right away. My husband and I were married in January of this year.
Thanks for your support!

Janna
 
Thanks Autumn (I love your name, btw). We haven't officially started trying again, yet, but I will keep you in mind if things don't happen. My gyn actually told me that if things aren't happening soon, she would begin fertility treatments with me, rather than making me wait the full year that they typically recommend. I'd rather not go that route, so here's hoping we can do it on our own.....

Janna, we conceived our first child on our very first attempt, when I was 29, and I carried her to term. This made the 10 months of TTC for number 2 even more difficult, because we weren't expecting it. Keep trying! It's about all we can do at this point, isn't it? And you're right - 3 months is too soon to get concerned.

JulieMom, isn't it perplexing how easy it can be sometimes, and for some people, and how hard for others? I look at women who have accidentally gotten pregnant more than once and wonder "How??" It all seems like a crap shoot. One of these times we'll get lucky!

All the best,
Sandra
 
Janna & Sandra,

You ladies are welcome! Best of luck to you!

Sandra, I don't blame you for wanting to do it on your own. I think it is great your OB/Gyn is willing to be aggressive though... IMO, doctors meed to individualize care... not just follow the standard recommendation. Besides, 3-4 months of properly timed intercourse and no baby is different than 1 year of random intercourse and no baby. Just remember to do what you are comfortable with and ready to do.

Take care!

Autumn
 
>Sandra,
>IMO, doctors meed to individualize care...

I completely agree.

>Autumn

Autumn, Your Sydney and my Paris were born 10 days apart; my daughter was born on the 21st of July, 2000.

Take care,
Sandra
 
<Your Sydney and my Paris were born 10 days apart>

OMG, that is cute!

Hmmm, I need to edit my post (meed????? :).
 
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