The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Conceive when its just not happening (12m+)

bigzippy

:j congratu-bleedin-lations chickpea!! :T What brill news! :j


Tea, how are things with you now? I haven't had any pearls of wisdom to offer but I am thinking of you...

codemonkey

Congratulations chickpea. Hopefully your miracle will rub off on the rest of us.

onestep

Chickpea I KNEW it would happen!!!
Best news I've had in AGES!!!! Anything different this month??!
So so happy for you xxxx

chickpea

onestep wrote: »

Chickpea I KNEW it would happen!!!
Best news I've had in AGES!!!! Anything different this month??!
So so happy for you xxxx

Thanks everyone!

Onestep - Thanks xx!!

Things that may have helped:

-Tinkering with carbs in my diet. I went mostly low-carb/sugar free in Jan (and lost quite a bit of weight.)

Basically, I think Dr Dukan got me pregnant!

(Seriously, I think upping the protein component of my diet and reducing the sugar may have helped egg quality over last few months...then when I piled back on a few pounds in the USA during the 2ww maybe my 'eat (lobster'n'mac'n'cheese pizza..how can I refuse?), drink (quite a few frozen margaritas, oops) and be merry' attitude helped with implantation? I don't know, it's a thought. I'm going to put low-carb on the back burner while pg though (but will still try to avoid sugar). (I think it may be 12 months from now though before I can get back into the jeans I took away with me. I had planned some hard-core no carbing to fix the USA pounds on my return to Blighty which now won't be happening.)

-I read that someone - was it TeamLowe? - had taken Inositol which may have helped, so I took that for a week or two before we went to USA. It may have helped me too. It didn't do any harm anyway!

-I do not know when I OV'd this month - I quit my OPK habit a couple of months ago. (Maybe my ignorance helped with the elusive 'relaxation' that comes so highly recommended by the fertile world?) My DH AWOL with work CD8-CD14, so when he came back and we DTD CD14, CD16, CD18 and CD20 the timing must have been 100% right (by accident) for once. Luck.

-The main thing that may have improved my odds of conception though is a slightly complicated work situation whereby, as I said to DH - as a joke - a few days pre-BFP that this month represented our best chance of a BFP because if it happened, it would be majorly inconvenient and expensive work-wise. Sod's Law! Whatever the cost, it'll be worth it though...!

xx

Peonie

Congratulations pea.

jujugaboo

Congrats Chickpea - amazing miracle - here's to an easy 8 months x

tea_lover

Congratulations

good_vibes

*hugs* Tea, hope things get better for you

Congratulations chickpea

Still lurking

angeltreats

Congrats Chickpea x

cwtw

Fantastic news. Go chickpea :j