ttcing #2

[changedname]

Ok, I'm not quite ready yet but we will probably start trying around Christmas. I'm thinking of going back on my ivf diet again now as it takes 3 months to take effect.

If you are planning on trying for another baby.. At what point will you back to the RE? Or wont you?

[linz]

We're planning to start trying when the babies are around 2. I'm assuming I will go back on the pill or something to prevent since we don't want 3 close together (if we were having 1 this time I wouldn't have done anything to prevent).  So I told H we would try on our own for a few months and if nothing we'll go straight to the RE. Last time I had PCOS so without metformin I wasn't ovulating on my own and wasn't getting periods. My Dr had said that could change once I had a baby but I never asked my RE's thoughts on that.

We have 7 eggs frozen and as much as I don't want to go thru it all again, I'd rather go straight to an FET then try an IUI knowing that last time it turned into IVF. At least I won't have to go thru the ER again.

[ecinereb]

We've already talked about this but we're not trying but not preventing either. I don't know if we'll go back to RE ever but definitely if it's not happening I'll go back to acu. I'm just going to take it as it comes for now but I'll probably start tracking cycles once I'm done BF and get AF back just to see where we're at.

[starburst604]

Because of my age (39 when I deliver our first), my RE doesn't want us to wait long to see her for #2. She said to maybe just not prevent after I finish nursing, but to definitely see her by the baby's first birthday. Gulp.

[speyedr]

We have talked about #2 and want to start ttc now but my OB wants us to wait a year, which puts us in April. We are not preventing currently. We just will have to wait until next fall to start back into treatments most likely as we did IUI's with my OB and don't have an RE close to us.

[krystee]

We are thinking of not preventing starting at 15 months and then going to an RE when he's two if we need to. We'd probably only do a few treatment cycles. If they don't work, we'll be OAD. (This all might change once we're parents and have a better idea of what it's like!)

[azurely]

We've been talking about this too. I'll discuss it with my OB at my post-partum appt, but I think I'll probably go on the pill for a year or so. It seems crazy after everything we went through to get pregnant, but we really don't want Irish twins or two under 2.

When we are ready to TTC again, probably when this baby is close to 2, we'll try again ourselves for a couple months, but will go straight to FET with the RE if it's not happening. We have three frozen embryos left, and if those don't stick, we'll probably go through another IVF cycle. If that didn't work, we'll probably look into adoption, rather than put my body through multiple IVF cycles.

This is all subject to change after the baby is born though, of course. I'm 31 now though, and would like to be done having babies by 35, so we can't wait too long to jump back into it.

[luv2rn4fun]

We won't be trying or preventing for the first 5 or 6 months. When C is 6 months we will actively start trying. Honestly, I'm hoping for an "oops" baby after all we went through this time (but who knows how possible this is since I will hopefully be BF). I need to talk to my RE and see what she recommends as far as baby aspirin, etc. Otherwise, we will try on our own and hopefully be successful within 6-8 months (3 pregnancies all achieved around 6 months of TTC).

I brought all this up with my OB at my last appt and she laughed at me. She said to just get through this one and see if I like him before making any decisions! I totally agree with her but also know that DH and I want another baby and prefer that they are close in age. If we hadn't had so much trouble this time around we would wait a little longer but are willing to take our chances of having two under 2. I will also be 32 1/2 when C arrives and would like to have both kids by 35 if possible.

[degal99]

I "have time." So we're comfortable waiting until DD is around 2 to try for the next. We'll probably just go straight to the RE since we had good luck.

[whiskeyandwine]

I took my insurance on COBRA in August 2014 and it lasts 18 months so I have it until Feb 2016. It covers IF txt.

We are due in May. I think I will go back to the RE as soon as possible. Not ideal to have my kids super close together, but I am paying OOP for my insurance specifically for this coverage...

[busterpup]

We immediately went onto treatments when we started for #2. We did that in July 2012, so it took two years of treatments pretty much every cycle (there was one m/c in there, too) for this one.  I'm at 15 weeks, so hopefully this one is sticky.

[hainesherway]

At this point, I'm undecided if I will go for #2, or just be one and done. I've always wanted to have 2 but now that I'm 37 with my first (DH is 42), I'm in the camp of "let's wait and see how it goes". If I decide I want a second child, I won't wait long before going back to the RE.

[mae141]

I am scared to even think about it. I really don't thanks that I could handle treatments again, but I'm afraid to say that I want to have another baby because what if that's the only way to have another. But I really do want to have another. I don't even know.

[KaraOrNot]

If you would have asked a month ago, when we first found out about that there may be something wrong with the baby and the stress of it all, we both would have said we are done. But now that we have him, I think we both would consider another one. It is so complicated now, though. He has a chromosomal disorder and a congenital brain malformation, so we would have to see a geneticist before considering trying again. Plus the stress of trying again, possible treatments, and the possibility of something like this happening again? As much as I want more children, I don't know when/if we will try again. I guess it is to early to think about this (10 days in and he isn't even home yet), but it has been on mind.

[lo]

Dd is 3 months and we are preventing until she is 6 months because I wantto ebf until then. Ideally I would like to breastfeed until a year, but I know a lot of women's milk dries up when they get pg. Soo, if I'm not pg when she's a year old, then I'll finish up nursing and go back to the RE.

[changedname]

Oct 10, 2014 18:37:28 GMT -5 mae141 said:

I am scared to even think about it. I really don't thanks that I could handle treatments again, but I'm afraid to say that I want to have another baby because what if that's the only way to have another. But I really do want to have another. I don't even know.

I feel the same as you mae.