No more Pill!! This is it!! Starting a JULY-AUG 2012 bus...

Thanks Clandy and Cauldron! I really appreciate the advice and will be popping down to Holland and Barrett asap! My DH has already been making me eat a bit more (been on a crazy strict diet!). Gosh, it is so exciting, it is the weirdest feeling though. I am really happy and (soppy though it sounds) it feels like mine and my DH's relationship is totally on another level now! I know we all wish for this and I know it rarely happens, but I really hope I become pg quickly! My mum is ill and I want her to be able to meet my baby! Plus, I am really impatient!!! I took my last pill on Sunday. Have you been off your pill for a while?

Oooh folic acid is good for babies spine development and has been linked to prevention of bafidia I think (happy to be corrected though)

Didn't realize women should also take zinc.... Best go and raid the cupboard god im gonna have a super baby at this rate, think I rattle as I walk with all vitamins

Hi wannabemum

With all the authority of someone who learned about this a week ago I can offer the following:

zinc supplements are good for egg and sperm production so you and DP can both take them
folic acid is good as it does something good to blood flow (not sure what!)
Count your cycle days from the first day of your period (called AF around these parts) and then calculate how many days to the day before your next AF. That's your cycle length and about halfway through is your ovulation. You are most fertile in the few days up to ovulation (I think)
You can use ovulation predictor kits (opk's) if you want to be more exact.

Definitely agree with Clandy that the best advice is to just relax and have lots of swi. Easier said than done sometimes though!

I haven't avoided anything at the moment - maybe someone else has some good advice on that front...

Oh it's so exciting isn't it dd1 was a surprise so new to ttc myself. It appears it is so much more than just swi!!

Totally agree that swi is so much better than just s

Firstly I would start taking folic acid asap, and possibly get OH to take some vitamins with zinc as helps sperm. Apart from that I wouldn't really stress about it unless nothing seems to be happening. If you have an iPhone you can get fertility friend apps that helps to chart fertility or can do it online if not. Also you want to be on the look out for ewcm which is apparently fertile stuff and an indicator that it is time to swi, but it's far more fun to just swi all the time and hope for the best!

Thanks all :) So, what do I need to know? First SWI last night :) Pretty darn good, probably because it was for that purpose!! Do I need to eat certian things? How do I map my fertility? Should I avoid certain things? Sorry to ask so many questions but so totally new to this! I feel great though, it is exciting but I am sure there will be some frustraiting times ahead! TY in advance!

Oh and BD is baby dancing so same as swi

Hello and welcome wannabe.

I agree with cauldron vino- always worth it just to be sure.

I wouldn't say this month is a total waste anyway because people can get pg from a missed pill so must be a chance even if it's a slim one iyswim

Vino, not that I know what BD is, but if it means the same as swi then I would ALWAYS have a go just to make sure!

I didn't realise I don't have "proper" fertility for the month coming off the pill - disappointed now! However ttc is doing wonders for my relationship with DP (not that we had problems to begin with, but its got even better!) so no real complaints here!

Sorry to hear you have AF Bosco. Have a cos you can...

Caffeine my thumbs are pushed for you (same as crossed fingers here in Germany)...

Welcome Wannabemum :) How very exciting for you! I thought I was going to burst when DH agreed to #3.

Can anybody help me with something please?
I got my smiley face on my OPK on sunday morning and BD sunday night with plans for last night and also tonight (just to make sure). Unfortunately, yesterday I was hit with an awful upset tummy and couldnt do anything other than pop immodium :( The thing is, my boobs were so sore yesterday which suggested to me I was at my peak fertile but I have had absolutely no EWCM at all this cycle. Do you think I have missed it or is it worth BDing tonight just to make sure?
Xx

Sorry Bosco :(

Welcome Pincent :)

As for me, have no idea what is going on, overdue AF, nausea but negative tests...

Bosco

AF due here on Saturday and I have a feeling she'll turn up too

Thanks Kirrin. Hope I am as lucky as you when we get down to it.

Sorry to hear about AF Bosco.

Hi wannabe! Nice to have another newbie here.

xxx

Hi :) I don't know if this is the right thread, but I have to say it to someone before I burst...my DH just told me that he feels ready and suggested I come off the pill!! Argh! I know it will take a while to get the pill out of my system, but hey! I AM SO EXCITED I COULD CHEW A BRICK!!! Sorry if this is the wrong place...I don't know about bus boarding and what it all means! Bit new

Oh Bosco Im so sorry :(
Big hugs to you. Xxxx

Fuckitty fuck, AF arrived

fuck

By the way pincent and cauldron doctors do prefer you to wait til you've had a "proper" period when coming off the pill before ttc, but, as pincent said, it's to make it easier to date the pregnancy..... Which is their problem, not yours :) if all else fails, a dating scan will do the same job - so i wouldn't be worrying about that.....

Welcome pincent I came off the pill after nearly 10 years, had a "proper"period 28 days later and was pregnant the next month so you never know!
bosco got my fingers crossed for you. I'm very impressed that you're managing not to test - I can never help myself. And you're right about AF coming just after you test - sod's law :) but at least it puts a stop to the "am I aren't I?"

Still havent given in!!! I dont know how Im keeping it together! I feel like Im getting my period though. I wa convinced at one point today but there has been nothing. I keep thinking if I do a pg test, and I get my BFN, sods law dictates my AF will come on two mins after I take the test!!!!

Good luck again to everyone!!! Heres hoping we will have a thread next year, celebrating our new babies!

Ok thanks pinsent - I'd been on another thread too where I had read something along those lines so it had me a bit confused...!

So far then hopefully I've had a fertility surge already when I came off the pill plus have possibly ovulated this weekend sometime. I'm daring to feel some (small amount of) hope!

DP keeps asking me if I think I'm pg. I can see that getting annoying quite quickly!

Sorry me again. Just had a bit of a search on-line and looks like you can use the first day of your withdrawl bleed to start charting. Seriously, what would we do without the internet?!

Sorry to cause confusion Cauldron. I am no expert at this TTC malarky as i am only just starting out, so please don't take anything i say as gospel. However i think that when you are on the pill you don't have proper periods, you have withdrawl bleeds. TBH i'm not sure if you can count this as part of your cycle or not as they are not real periods. However when AF comes next time, it will definately be the real thing. I think that is why doctors prefer you to wait until you have had a proper period before TTC so that if you get pregnant they can calculate your due date more precisely.
However i don't know about you but i can't wait til then. Plus i have just finished reading Zita West's Guide to Getting Pregnant and she reckons you get a fertility surge when coming off the pill so it is good to start trying straight away.

Like i say, i am completely new to this and there is so much information out there, some of it contradictory, that it is hard to know what is right and wrong.
I'm just going to go for it and hope for the best for the first cycle.

Thanks for that pinsent!

DP or DH is Dear/Darling Partner/Husband.

OPK is ovulation predictor kit

There is an "acronyms" link at the bottom of the page which has most of them listed...

What is this I'm reading about your first AF (Aunt Flow/period - for pinsent!) after coming off the pill not being "real"? Can I use it to predict my cycle or not? At the moment I am CD (cycle day) 16 I think, but am counting from the first day of my first AF after I came off the pill. I'm planning to note the first date of my next AF to work out my cycle length, then keep noting them to get an average.

Am I doing it wrong?

Welcome Pinsent

Good luck for tomorrow Bosco i hope you get you BFP.

AF is not due until 18th and i will leave it a good few days of being late before i poas, in the past i have been 3 weeks late before i have got a positive result.

Thanks Cauldron.

2ww was one of the few i have worked out, well at least i think i have. I think it's '2 week wait'.
I get OH (other half) but not so sure about DP/DH. I'm guessing it's something to do with husband/boyfriend/partner?!?
Also - OPK. Something to do with ovulation tests?

I like your idea of a thread for the men. I reckon my OH would love a place to vent about how i can turn every conversation we have around to babies... poor guy.

Welcome to the thread, pinsent!

If you find out what any of the acronyms mean, let me know!! I'm currently puzzling over "2ww"....?

Come and get opk obsessed with us.

It has dawned on me that all the DP/DH's should start their own thread about mad sex obsessed OH's who never leave their bits alone and are forever locked in the bathroom, peeing on various assorted bits of plastic...