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Katyfootballmomma- he answered my prayers!!! Take a look at my pic on my page! 10dpo today!

Hello ladies! I'm here again too. I stayed off of the site to recenter and reevaluate and came back to so many BFPs on the Oct. board! So ecstatic for you all!!

AFM, CD6 and waiting for the last bits of AF to leave. I'm taking a new approach this month. I did some pretty extensive research and am almost positive I've been estrogen dominant since the birth of my first in 2016. It would explain why my pregnancy in Nov. didn't stick as well. I bought some progesterone cream to try this cycle and am going to focus on getting healthy and balanced instead of 100% getting pregnant. Besides, like you lovely ladies said... Getting pregnant has little to do with me and everything to do with God allowing it to happen. HE is the author of life! I'll do my part and if he chooses this month to be it, then - awesome!! If not, he is still good.

Baby dust all around!

Congratulations of the positives ladies!
Katy and all the other ladies, lots of baby dust to all of us.. hopefully this is our month :) ( my transfer is due this month..). Have been lurking around, but just wanted to send across some positive thoughts!

@SheRiskers. That's what ai thought too. I had my daughter March 2016. May was my last abundant creamy cm after ovulation and ever since then my cycles were all messed up and I hardly had any creamy cm. I bought progesterone cream as trial and error and now look; I'm pregnant. Getting the cream is by far the best thing I did. What brand did you get? Once you start using the cream you can't stop taking it till I think 16 weeks but I'm not sure exactly. Good luck. I'm sure this one will be it for you.

@SheRiskers @dragonfky23 can I ask what led you to the conclusion you needed progesterone cream and were estrogen dominant? I'm in the process of trying to decide whether to get progesterone cream.

@neomasie. In my last reply, I lacked the creamy cm after ovulation and then I used to spot before my period and I never used to spot. I did a lot of Googling and looking for answers. It took one month to finally decide to give it a try. The only down fall is that you have to continue taking it till a) your period comes and then stop or b) get pregnant and still have to take it till it is safe to stop. Why do you think you need it?

@dragonfly23 @neomasie I just got the lavender scented Now Solutions kind to try this month. I've been trying to adjust my hormones ever since my April 2016 baby and nothing seems to work. I haven't lost the baby weight, my libido is garbage, I get irritable much more quickly, tired all the time, and seem to have blood sugar regulating issues. It's like 80% of the "symptoms" of estrogen dominance and the only thing I haven't tried. Lol

@dragonfly, can I ask what your routine was for application? I'm waiting until after O to start since that's everything I've read. Did you start earlier? How much did you use? I've read you shouldn't stop until the placenta takes over too... But are you continuing the same kind of cream even though most of them say not to use if you're pregnant?

to all my mommas to be..may this month be ours and ours alone! for all of us!

@SheRiskers. That's one symptom I forgot. My sugar always seem to drop and I am not diabetic. I bought Emerita Pro-gest cream lavender. I use a dime size amount twice a day (morning when I wake up/evening before bed) and I put it either on the inside of my arms, behind my knees or on the chest/neck area and I just change locations on the body. Like in the morning I will use on my forarms then at bed I put it in a different location. Then switch locations the next day. I find the lavender scent very strong so think the next tube I buy will be the original. They also came out with single serve (48 packets) and that will take the guess work out figuring how much to use but I am not sure what is more beneficial (last longer) thst way one doesn't have to buy so many tubes.

@SheRiskers @dragonfly23 spotting before my period is a symptom I've never had, before having my daughter in October. My periods are like clock work and normalized after only 2 cycles post the late term loss. everything else is back to normal but there's now this random spotting 1-2 days before my period. I also have spells of dizziness which I attribute to a low blood sugar during the tww which I've also never had. But those aren't the reasons I considered the progesterone cream. I considered it for lining issues. I wanted to build up my lining after the loss. But if those are some of the potential estrogen dominance symptoms it's worth having a discussion without my Fert Spec over. Thanks for your replies ladies! I really appreciate it.