Thread 2. #Ttc1. We weren't supposed to start yet, but the starting pistol (penis) has gone off. Join our journey as we navigate the ovia boat, pissy sticks and symptoms spotting

Thanks to too many long days at work all in a row have only DTD once in the past week and pretty sure if i ovulated that we will have missed it anyway!! Not looking positive for this month. Will just have to leave work - it's clearly the only option

So I'm getting into Ovia. Not yet obsessing over food and drink entries etc but I am symptoms and dtd.
Just spotted my little dtd cheerleader. It did make me laugh! As do the emails "Did you have intercourse today". Anybody else giggling at the snippets it comes up with?

Bunch, runner - agree, it is so hard when people ask you about children. Talk about added pressure.

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Runner this is sounding positive no? Implantation bleed perhaps?

Sounds like you're having a hard time keeping it quiet from your sister. I have strangers telling me it's time to have babies or asking DH if we have kids yet. My DM is the one who won't get off my back though. We're buying anew car and even the guys at the showroom were prying.

I've spoken to my DF to get dM off my back suggesting that I would be heartbroken if they were on at me constantly and unbeknownst to them having troubles conceiving. Things have quietened down since. Maybe it's worth having this conversation with your Sister?

Runner that sounds odd re the spotting eh. No doubt you've googled it - does it say much?

According to ovia I've got five days till my fertile window, hmmmm

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Oh, forgot to mention, I stopped spotting yesterday evening... What the heck body???

Yeh Leo was very uncomfortable as I really wanted to tell her to F off. If she was trying to encourage me then she was going about it completely ass about tit!

Yay! For AF getting back to normal. Don't worry, you get used to the no contraception thing really quickly!

Rude, not ride! Too early in the morning for me!

Wow. Runner - how ride of her. Hope you're OK! Must have made you feel uncomfortable.

AF arrived last night which is good because hopefully my periods are returning to a more normal cycle length but I think this means that I'm unlikely to be fertile when we're away next month with all the time in the world to get started! Oh, well, we can practise! Never had sex without contraception (of some sort) before so seems a bit reckless!!!

Wow! So many posts, I look away for one day...

Shelb in increased sex drive when coming off the pill is perfectly normal. It usually reduces again after your fertile period. (And will hopefully come back after AF)

Can't remember what else has been said. My brain is too addled by tiredness!

I'm still spotting, I did one of my new internet cheapie pissy sticks but it was clearly BFN. I just wish AF would start properly so that I can get it over and done with.

Saw my sis today. Very irritated that she asked me if we were going to have children. I noncommittally said yes at some point. She told me that I best get a move on and then through the the day made comments like, if I want to have children I better hurry up, her friend left it late and ended up with a disabled child, fertility drops off mid thirties, the chances of me having a disabled child goes up the longer I wait, both her pregnancies were horrific so I'll probably have horrible ones too. Every time she said something I politely told her that if done my research and that we have a plan. I made it clear the topic wasn't something I wished to discuss but in the end I had to cut her off quite sharply to get her to stop. I expect this kind of behaviour from my sis but it was still bloody annoying

I had funny sensations last month....turned out to be indigestion. But it's good to be aware of what's going on! Strange that you've got EWCM again though Bunch...maybe it's an extended fertile window?!

Hana - sounds like you're undecided as to whether this is a good opportunity for you or not. If it's somewhere you'd like to work, and you've been invited for an interview, there's no harm in going along and finding out all about it to see if it's the right place for you. You can then quiz them about the changes....

Ni - are they £18 per ovulation test?!

I have news - I have been offered a job interview. I am not unhappy where I am, but I dont plan to stay longer than a year or two more; that not unusual as its very high staff turnover where I am.
However, if I were to get offered the job, then by the time notice is given etc, I could (if I'm lucky) already be pregnant when I start.
The job is where I would think I would like to work in the longer term, but, I did meet a few people who worked there a few months ago, who said it was a very stressful place to work as there were lots of changes. So, even if I were to be offered it, its no garantee I would be happier, plus there is always a bit of stress with a new job, not ideal when ttc, if I werent already pregnant.

Bunch - interesting, I get groin pain also, like literally in your groin like someone is pinching it?? I use to get it (according to ovia) during the time I should have been ovulating (although was on the pill). I've had it today also...

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Starky I agree. It's Baltic. I'm considering heating AND the fire tonight!

Ladies I'm very confused.

I've had groin pain for the last two days on and off. Not like my usual ov pain. I've just noticed I've got EWCM again. Just a week after I last had it. Why is my body being weird?! I'm going to attempt to entice DH regardless but I'm baffled!

Thanks ni. Oh yeah I saw them at the weekend, I can't believe how much they charge for this stuff! Ive just bought some off amazon for like 50p I imagine they will be useless but will give them a go until the novelty factor has worn off! Hmm day 18, it might be just around the corner hey if your last cycle was that long? Is this your second cycle? I'm really interested to see if anything will happen to me ovulation wise, i just can imagine my body will snap back after the pill for...

Hi purple! A few people describe a pulling sensation don't they...

Loving the frosty weather.

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Bunch - That's great news that things have improved and as you say, you don't need to add any more pressure. Things will happen when they happen

I like the lottery analogy Stark - it really is I guess!

Well, today is O day (is that the technical term?!) so I'm heading into the tww...lol! Starting to think about Christmas plans and how difficult it will be to avoid drinking if I'm upduffed by then!!

So cold...I'm digging out the hot water bottles later..

Shelb I'm using the clearblue digital test which is supposed to give you a heads up (a digital smiley face so no doubts!) before ovulation so you can dtd prior to O, but it's day 18 and I still haven't had a positive! That said I had a 32day cycle last month first month off the pill so I guess it could be any number! I've read great things about the test so I hope it'll give me a smile at some point! It's about 19 quid...but very easy to use so I thought id shell out for it. I'll let you know if it works!

Morning everyone,

Brr isn't it just Purple it's freezing!! I've got a nightmare of a house cleaning task ahead of me. It's a tip. I blame the kitchen fun. The two downstairs reception rooms are filled with doors, cabinet packaging and exploded polystyrene thanks to an obsessed dog.

As I was away a week of course DH didn't do any laundry and I have a mega food shop to do. I need this all in order by Wednesday morning as a friend of DHs is coming to stay until Friday morning when I then have 4 family members coming to stay.

Thankfully it'll keep my mind off the tww this week (however likely the chance is).

Aren't Monday's brilliant?!

Morning all

Brr it was bitterly cold this morning, to make matters worse ive started with cold/flu again grr only had it three weeks ago. I keep looking at my work diary thinking please one of these meetings cancel so I can just have a couple of hours to catch up on everything else. Sorry ladies Im in a bit of a moaning mood and it is Monday.

Ive been feeling a pullling in the left side of my stomach, im hoping its linked to TTC but maybe thats wishful thinking on my part.

shelb make the most of feeling frisky it will help when it comes to your fertile window but remember to enjoy it!

Ni sorry to hear you arent getting anywhere with the house hunting. Ours is taking longer than envisaged to process through unforseen circumstances on the vendor's side. We did think we may be moved by Christmas but have now been told its unlikely so our current house is still a mess with boxes.

runner I have to say since my window finished all I have had on my mind is testing, I have over a week to wait still but its there. Hope you are ok.

Morning everyone,

Ni - have you been using the cheapo piss sticks? After saying I wouldn't use them in debating buying some today slap me.

Runner - totally agree, you can see how you could become totally obsessed with it, and it really taking over, wishing time away. Are you still spotting?

Well - I feel weird three days off the pill. Cracking headache (but it expected that), I feel a little calmer I think (I'm normally quite highly strung), and TMI warning - I am frisky. Like notably more frisky! before my sex drive was pretty low, almost like a reverse version of your situation bunch, OH wanting it but not getting it.**
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Aw Bunch it sounds like things have been stressful... It's bloody hard to accept a no from the OH when we want to dtd for ttc! Could send a sane woman into a raving lunatic! Glad you guys talked though, and you know that you both want the same thing. Crossing my fingers and toes for you that you'll manage to coordinate dtd on your most fertile day!

Ladies, sorry but I can't make head nor tail of those ov stick pics...glad I got the digital one...no room for me doubting my eyes! Although I am still waiting for it to say yes! CD17 on an unknown length cycle (32 last time). Fingers crossed it's tomorrow! Hope to God I am ovulating this cycle! #soimpatient House buying is going nowhere so looks like we're going to have move to another rental place in the next few months before we'll manage to find a home to buy! Hate the idea of all that moving when I want to be nesting!

Sounds like you've had a really good air cleaning session Bunch I hope things go a bit more smoothly for you now.

I've come to the conclusion that unless you're extraordinarily lucky ttc is all about waiting patiently... Waiting for AF to sod off, waiting for fertile week, the two week wait, waiting to see if AF will show rinse and repeat yawn! Need a magic wand

Bunch - that sounds a like a good, relaxed attitude to take.

Leonie - I bought my ovulation tests (OPKs?) from access diagnostics, along with the box a cheap pregnancy tests! They are nothing fancy, literally just sticks, no casing, but I figured that as they weren’t 100% going to work I didnt want to waste a lot on then, plus they recommend using twice per day (at 10am and then I think 8pm, or something like that.