Conceiving and Pregnancy

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Clomid Again For Me

Well, I had my appointment with Paul Stokes, fertility specialist this week who confirmed that increasing the dosage of clomid up to 100mg had made me ovulate. I was so pleased about this that it took a bit away from the disappointment of another month of not actually getting pregnant (I got my period [...]

8Mar2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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Can t get Pregnant – Short Luteal Phase

Well here we are again, it comes around quick doesn’t it ? I have reached day 27 so far this month so compared to last months 26 day cycle and the previous months 25 day cycle it’s an improvement. My fertility guy has told me that I have a short luteal phase so [...]

24Feb2010 | Hayley Louise | 2 comments | Continued
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Having Trouble Getting Pregnant – are you stressing?

Are you having trouble getting pregnant and stressing like me? Signs of pregnancy keep occuring month after month but then I am never pregnant. So that’s it! This month I am not taking any notice to any of them. Sore boobs, stomach cramps around implantation time, mucus, feeling sick and any [...]

16Feb2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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Ovulation and Fertility – with Clomid

Ovulation and fertility is just not happening for us. I had my appointment yesterday with Paul Stokes my fertility guy who went through what had been happening over the last couple of Clomid attempts. By looking at my progesterone levels that he has because of blood tests, it seems that it’s not working [...]

29Jan2010 | Hayley Louise | 5 comments | Continued
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Clomid not worked again

To follow on from yesterday, I got my normal period this morning. I contacted my fertility guy yesterday who asked me to call him again today to let him know what was happening – whether it was still a light period and my temperature was still rising. I am going to give him [...]

28Jan2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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Am I Pregnant or not ?

Am I Pregnant or not? Every month you find yourself asking the same question – it’s starting to drive me a little crazy! I am on my second month of Clomid and I am now on day 27 of my cycle and to be honest up until yesterday, I did begin to think [...]

26Jan2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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Side effects of Clomid

As you all know I am on my second month of Clomid, well the side effects are a nightmare. To be honest, I didn’t realise that they were related to the Clomid the first month, but this month it’s confirmed it. Prior to ovulation I feel drained, exhausted and I need a lot [...]

25Jan2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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Ovulation on Clomid – On my 2nd month

Just thought I would do a quick post about where we are at with trying for a baby. It’s just not happening at the moment. My fertility specialist, Paul Stokes has found out that I don’t ovulate every month so he started me on Clomid about 6 weeks ago. I am now [...]

12Jan2010 | Hayley Louise | 3 comments | Continued
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Trying to Conceive Poem

As you all know we have been trying to get pregnant with a brother or sister for Harry and Sam for a while now. I came accross this poem a few days ago and thought I would share it with you:
I wished upon a star…
I closed my eyes and prayed,
I threw a shiny penny,
into [...]

3Jan2010 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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When am I Ovulating ?

I had an appointment with my fertility specialist this week for a scan which was to confirm whether or not I would be ovulating this month. I turned up on time only to be told that he was running a bit late (he always is) and if I wanted to I could go and [...]

26Nov2009 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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HSG Scan

I had my HSG scan today – I was really nervous. The scan would tell me if my fallopian tubes had any blockages. My appointment was at 10.20am which gave me time to do the mad school run first and then drive the 30 minutes to the xray and imaging place. They
were [...]

19Nov2009 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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Period and Pregnancy

Ringing Paul today, I got my period last night.
Its hard to not get down about the fact that I cant get pregnant and keep positive. My heart goes out to any woman who does not already have children and is going through this. Much as I really and truly want another child to complete [...]

11Nov2009 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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I Cant Get Pregnant – Fertility Appointment

As you all know I cant get pregnant at the moment. Well, I had an appointment a couple of days ago with a fertility specialist, Paul Stokes here on the coast. He looked at all my test results and said they all looked ok. The amount of ‘lazy sperm’ that Buster has [...]

10Nov2009 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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Gender Prediction Quiz

Results for the Gender Prediction Quiz that can be found at my Baby Gender squidoo lens (look away now if not seen questions yet – stop peaking)
1)girl
2)girl
3)boy
4)boy
5)girl

4Nov2009 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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Male Infertility Test

Buster had a male infertility test last week and we expected there to be no problem as to be honest we had been focusing mainly on me. We had to wait 2 days for the results. When he went back to talk about the results with our GP he was told that he [...]

31Oct2009 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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Period and Pregnancy

I know in a previous post I have put that I would wait until the 25th October to do a Pregnancy Test, well I have aready done one. The night before last I started to have the stomach cramps that are associated with my period, then sure enough an hour later came the period. [...]

15Oct2009 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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Symptoms Of Implantation

Just wanted to do a really quick post (in the middle of morning rush) because I am sure that I ovulated about 10-12 days ago and then yesterday morning I dont know if I had some symptoms of implantation ? I know that I ovulated on my right side and I had a pain [...]

13Oct2009 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued
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Conceiving A Girl – too hard!

Swaying the odds in favour of conceiving a girl proved too much for me. Have you ever tried to influence baby gender?  I did but it didn’t get us anywhere.  As you all know I have 2 boys so I thought that next time around it would be nice to sway the odds towards [...]

3Oct2009 | Hayley Louise | 0 comments | Continued