I knew it!

[kyburg]

No, I didn't. I was hoping real hard the genetics wouldn't let me down. They didn't.

riverheart, the LH was 12.5. Plenty of estrogen, too.

Not too old. Not yet!

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[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

yay! I'm happy you got good news.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*relieved*

[ceolyn.livejournal.com]

So this just means you need to tie your husband up and do naughty things to him the next time you ovulate...and every month there after till you get the results that you're after. *winks* Oh, wait, rope's my kink, not yours...then I suggest you both practice the "I'm sorry, but I have to go home and have sex now." excuse on your bosses. Your's at least will likely get a laugh out of it.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Tie him up, yeah. It'll also involve the car, the freeways and a whole lot of spectators -

If I do manage a pregnancy out of this, it'll be worth the sniggers.

Big smiles!

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

That's terrific! I don't remember what my actual count was, but it was right where it ought to be, on all tests. The one other test I really need to have done, and that that OB/GYN wasn't able to do, is a Tay-Sachs screening.

Now if only we can get *jobs* so we can afford to start that family...good luck to you and unclejimbo. You are NOT too old.

[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

Hooray for you!!

I wonder whether doctors would do these tests on a woman who doesn't have a male partner to have sex with?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

If you're my age, they do. Too many treatments depend on these things working well enough to make conception happen - if the numbers had been over 16, it would be a dead giveaway to drop the whole idea.

I'm still in working order - onward!

[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

As a matter of fact, I am a whole year older than you are.

When I went for my most recent annual checkup in March, I asked my doc (an internist, not an OB/GYN) if there were any tests that could be done to determine whether I can still have children. He said there wasn't a doctor in the world who would do these invasive, expensive tests on me if I didn't already have six months of trying for a pregnancy under my belt. I don't know whether this is really true or whether he was feeding me some need-to-hold-down-the-spiraling-increases-in-health-care-costs kind of line.

I just would like to know what my reproductive status is. One disadvantage of my advanced age is that I have had many years of reading Dear Abby/Ann Landers/various magazine articles about couples who broke up because one partner wanted kids and the other didn't or couldn't. I don't want to lead someone on saying "yes, we can still have a kid" when I can't, and I don't want to get involved with someone who doesn't want any (or any more) kids and then suddenly feel depressed because I shut myself out of potential happiness.

Today's Washington Post had a rather pessimistic article about egg freezing. It speculates that Elizabeth Edwards must have used donated eggs to give birth at age 48 and again at age 50.

Sorry for all my rambling ... I should go back to my own LJ now!

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

A simple blood test is not invasive or expensive. Good grief.

In your case, simply trying for six months requires a sperm donor, and I doubt they'd be as nonshalant as just that over trying to get pregnant.

I think he was just being lazy, to be honest. He also sounds like he had some issue with women who didn't want to be baby factories in their twenties -

When I met Jim it was understood that both of us were older - and having our children, while it would be preferable, might not be possible. We like kids - and Jim is frankly too good with them to waste. How they get here is anyone's guess. Adoption is not easier than having your own - nor less expensive, as I am finding out.

*waves red flag* In my honest opinion, nobody should go into a relationship with the idea of Having/Not Having kids. You should go into a relationship for the relationship...those details should work their own way through. Kids should not "just happen" - unless you are prepared to be parents at any time, which I feel few people are -

Being fertile is really for a very small part of your adult lifespan, if you think about it - making that a requirement for being "available" is just plain nuts. Guys, back me up on this one -

You're in DC - shoot, call Johns Hopkins and ask for a referral to someone who'd be willing to do the bloodwork. One blood test, taken on the 2nd or 3rd day of your cycle. Tada. One tube, even.

That will tell you enough -