We started trying properly last month, and inevitably my husband was away during the key few days! Unsurprisingly, my period arrived bang on time so now we're onto cycle number 2.
I'm being very impatient about conceiving and it seems to have been forever already (I know, I'm being a crazy person!) but I think part of that is having taken pregnacare since April, even though we were still using contraception then. I guess I'm just not very good at not being in control... I've had to seriously educate my husband too - he seemed to be convinced that we could get pregnant at any time of the month, and that it would inevitably happen immediately! He didn't realise that it often takes months even for healthy couples.
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So, onto cycle number 2! Anyone else quite new to this game?
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karategirl · 02/09/2017 17:44
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karategirl ·
02/09/2017 18:55
Hi Dragons. So sorry to hear about your loss, and hopefully you'll have some better news soon.
I get really paranoid that I won't be able to conceive because I've never had a pregnancy scare during all the years I was trying to prevent it... I have absolutely no reason to think this other than my own negativity.
Now that we've decided to go for it, I just want to be pregnant now ! My husband's step brother and his girlfriend are due in January and I'm irrationally jealous and almost angry because I had always assumed that we would have the first grandchild on both sides of the family. 
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DragonsandDungeons ·
02/09/2017 19:55
Yeah similar thing here although I'd only been on contraception for 6 months. I'm tracking my cycle to get a better indication if ovulation. So far I had EWCM yesterday.
I'm hoping it's at least CD11 before I actually ovulate but 
karategirl ·
03/09/2017 10:13
Hi MrsJones17, Stee1 and Sictransitgloria.
Glad to hear there are others in the same boat in terms of impatience 
.
I'm not temping or doing OPKs at the moment, but expect I will start to if nothing happens in the next couple of months. I'm just using the estimated dates on my Clue app, and keeping an eye on my CM (and level of horniness! 
) to work out ovulation.
Having been on hormonal contraception for 12 or 13 years, it's made me realise how much it was messing with my mental health. I'm so much happier since I had my implant out - has anyone else had a similar experience?
I spent £40 on Pregnacare conception vitamins on Friday! 3 for 2 in Boots, and I figured that I'll be really miffed if it takes a few months and I end up buying 3 boxes at full price, whereas if it happens really quickly I won't care about the extra money spent. I then realised that you could read the boxes through the carrier bag, so I had to shove my coat in there too as I don't want my colleagues to know that we're trying!
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