TTC for the first time

hi nessalina. If you think the app is out by a few days, but you recognise your ewcm, do you know if it shows around the same time in your cycle? Then maybe just continue dtd regularly around that time. I use clear blue fertility monitor, but not very helpful at the moment. Only first cycle and I'm not making any sense of it.

I'm having a bad time . Completely freaking out, said goodbye to the relaxed approach. I'm waiting for AF and have googled too much, now I'm petrified I'll be waiting for many months to get my first AF after stopping the pill and I'm scared I'm not ovulating. I'm trying to not think about it, but I just can't stop thinking the worst. Argh!

Hello ladies
I'm new here, TTC#1 and on our 3rd cycle, so hopefully forum will be a good outlet for the obsessing! I'm 31 & DH is 29, just married, and totally thought we'd be pregnant straight away, but doesn't seem to be that easy! Two of my good friends fell pregnant on their first month trying (rude!), so I think they used all the baby karma On day 11 and trying to DTD every other day as no idea when I OV. Been using a tracking app for period, but think from EWCM it may be out by 3-4 days so we've been missing the magic window. Not dabbled with OPKs or temp tracking, not sure if it's too much too soon? Is anyone else using & finding them useful?
Any who, I'll stop babbling, good luck to all this time around

Sorry about the BFN blueamber. I can't be sure that the symptoms were down to the Seven Seas vits but I'm not sure what else to put it all down to as I didn't change anything else last month. Perhaps it is just the TTC craziness making an early appearance and it was all in my head! Good luck for next month.

Hey blueamber sorry to hear about your bfn this month. My AF is due tomorrow and I daren't test. Far too scared. Will wait until the weekend. I'm such a scaredy cat, I have to admit. Need DH's support.

Sorry to hear about your BFN blueamber it's horrible when your cycles are messed up mine have varied from 28 to 43 days. I think I'm on for a BFN again this month too I'm on CD 27 and had a bit of spotting today. I was convinced this month would be the one - although that's no change lol. I'm not going to POAS until Sat though, although I'm sure AF will be here before then.

Hi cooper! I'm taking pregnacare and solgar, not both at the same time obviously. Never tried seven seas. So you think it was that that was giving you all those symptoms?

I'm on cd30 now and no AF yet so I POAS and a definite BFN. I'm just going to wait a week for AF to come. It's annoying, I hope my cycle isn't all messed up, I just want to know where I am!

Hello, I'm a bit new to this so please be gentle.... I'm 29 and hubby is 34, we are just in to month 2 of TTC and I'm a lot more obsessed with this whole thing than I ever thought I'd be! Wanted to check what everyone else is doing vitamin wise? I took Seven Seas Trying For A Baby for the first month and felt shocking - I genuinely thought I was pregnant as had never felt like that before - mid month cramps and back pain and loads of bloating / abdominal pain. Now started Pregnacare Conception as have taken other vits by that company before and been ok so figure it's worth a shot. Also got the hubby on the man version too which he is reluctantly taking although I think he secretly sees the stress starting to show with me so he's just going along with whatever I tell him to do... I do realise that month 2 is early days so apologies to anyone who has been going much longer and not had the result they want. Not told anyone in real life about TTC as don't want any additional pressure so its nice to have found a forum to vent all the stress on!! Good luck to everyone else! X

Not just for them! It's good for us to keep things fun as well.

Just had an office social and lots of Chinese was ordered. May have eaten squid (cooked). Not too good really for TTC is it?

How are you ladies doing at the mo? Much DTD to TTC? I hope so. Sometimes we just have to surprise our DH with affection so that they don't feel too pressurised when the 'peak' time arrives.

I can't watch programmes like one born, I just start weeping uncontrollably.

Hi Definitelysometime - lovely to meet someone else in the same situation as me!

Tea addict alas, no baby shows for me! Only got freeview and couldn't find it online. Oh well, maybe for the better, already spending way too much time thinking about babies and the such.

Hello everyone, may I join? I'm (just) 30, married and, like shoegal, am currently hanging out with AF before TTC from next week! Eek.

I've posted a bit on Waiting To TTC but I guess it's time for me to graduate! Be great to find some June TTC buddies...

So, AF arrived today, meaning that in a few days we can properly start trying for the first time ever!

Does anyone else feel a bit scared about the whole thing? I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm desperate to get pregnant and become and Mum. But I've spend the last 13 years trying not to get pregnant, and I'm in such a habit of taking the pill, I think I'll just find it a bit strange not to.

Downloaded an app to my phone where you can track AF and other bits to try and help me to figure out what's going on as I don't have the first clue about when you ovulate etc. Steep learning curve for me!

Thanks for the tip about lubrication unfortunately I need to use it every time so just bought some sperm friendly one! Pretty pricy for lube, hope the one tube will do! Lol

Hey ladies, sorry for the late reply. Long day at work.

Hello LucyCoco, shoegal and DisneyDiva (snuggles in).

So my lovely blueamber Home and health is on (sky) 241, and I think it is also known as discovery Home and health. We have the basic package, so the Discovery channels are not included usually. BabyBaby is on at 8pm on weeknights, and its like OneBorn, without too much of the gory bits. Although everyone on it so far seems to be having multiple births via c-section. It looks a bit dated, from maybe 2006-7. I only started watching it last week, and it might just fill my interests for the meantime until the next OneBorn series starts.....I do hope that they are doing another series.

Just thought, if you can't find it on freeview, look up maybe the discovery channel online or even youtube. I've done that for other programmes for channels that we don't have like the Amazing Race (totally addicted).

Hello! I'm new too (ish)

We are currently TTC#1 and I've been off the pill nearly 2 months now after about 10 years on it (although 3 different pills in that time). I'm 26 next week, hubby is 32 in a couple of weeks, I'm on my first cycle and on my 1st 2ww; 10 days left . I'll have to keep myself busy so I don't get crazy with symptom spotting.

shoegal at the top of the page there's a link called 'acronyms', most of them are on there. For those that aren't, as tilson said, googling usually helps!

teaaddict Home and Health channel? Don't suppose that's freeview is it? I need something to replace one born!

Hi to all the new joiners and welcome! Teaaddict thank you for the BabyBaby tip! I am going to check that out ASAP! Really loved One Born and am excited at the prospect of having an alternative. As for symptom spotting, I am really trying my best to refrain this month and so far, am doing pretty well ok. it has driven me nuts the last few cycles. Even taking my bbt every morning and reading into the dips and rises is annoying me! Im currently on CD21 but Im convinced this month was a no go as was using lubrication. But you never know.

Lucycoco I started off casual too. Lasted approximately 3.5 seconds before turning into babyzilla!

shoegal welcome. I didnt know any of the acronyms either, but just googled every single one I came across. You'll soon get the hang of it.

Hi everyone. I was hoping I could join this thread as my husband and I have now decided to start trying. However, I'm totally clueless when it comes to all of this, and the acronyms and everything render me completely lost!

I'm 28 and my husband is 34, this is the first time we have tried to concieve. I've been on the pill for 13 years, and have just stopped taking it. Waiting for AF and then should be able to get started next week.

Hello - another newbie here, I'd love to join you!

I'm 31 and I stopped taking the pill a month ago, no AF yet after the withdrawal bleed but haven't 'not tried' in the meantime.

My only worry is that before the pill (eight odd years ago) AFs were completely irregular and a dr about twelve years ago told me it was most likely pcos (though I didn't have blood test or anything then as wasn't trying to conceive). So I'll have to see if things are still irregular and might need a trip to the docs at some point, but that's part of the reason why we're getting started now, in case it might take a while.

So it was all very casual at first and 'let's just see what happens' but of course within hours I'd started combing MN for threads and info! :)

...forgot to add, if AF comes, I am totally murdering that half bottle of wine DH left in the fridge this fri night. Not drunk a drop of anything mildly alcoholic for ~ month now.

Hey ladies Bexta and emdotty, welcome.

Thank you Tilson and blueamber about the morning sickness thing. It turns out that I just ate too much and was feeling a bit queasy afterwards, so no real morning sickness. Silly me .

Totally exhausted myself on symptom spotting... never doing it ever again ...must be more patient.

Feel AF coming on, and DH is away for work for 2 weeks so will probably miss ovulation peak, am totally obsessed deep down but hey ho, life goes on.

In the meantime found a programme called BabyBaby on Home and Health channel, to replace my One Born everyminute addiction.

teaaddict I completely missed your earlier post. I am starting to you know what you mean, the symptom spotting. I started eating my dinner when my fork suddenly tasted incredibly metallic. I even made my DP lick it, who claimed it was fine. I got all excited then that it might be a symptom. And I wanted to take the relaxed approach, no spotting, no early tests!

I'm spending more money now! Getting all kinds of tests. At least the pill was free!

hi bexsta and emdotty!

emdotty it's up to you, it's ok to start straight away, but some people prefer to wait a cycle, because your first cycle after the pill might be a bit messed up (or it could be the first few cycles). This means that it's uncertain when ovulation occurs. I stopped the pill last month and ttc straight away, but I'm still not sure what my cycle was like!

I think also if you get pregnant the first cycle, your due date is a bit uncertain, because they base that on the first day of your last period, and a withdrawal bleed is different. HTH.