Relaxed TTC June/July/Beyond

Wow, congrats SophieBear! Don't be worried about lack of symptoms - plenty of people have no symptoms til at least 6 weeks, so don't read anything into it. Hope things go really smoothly for you!

So at 10dpo after no symptoms and only temp dip at 4dpo I woke up this morning and got this...

I'm worried because aside from some mild weird feelings and veiny boobs I've had no symptoms so far... Also I read about the risk of chemical pregnancy when testing earlier which had worried me. AF due on wed/Thurs.

Bloody hate the tww too! Just beginning it now, and I can already tell this one is going to feel like an age. Have injured my foot so can't even distract myself with exercise, so will have to throw myself into tidying the house or something! Hopefully in two weeks I'll have a tidy house and a BFP!

Double nothing and cokes sounds good :)

I'm still 8 days from expected AF but having rotten cramps the last few days and just generally feeling yukky. Don't have any pregnant feeling but then again last time I didn't either. Bloody hate the 2ww :/

Thanks Trying. I'm a little nervous. I think it's the could be / couldn't be, that's killing me the most. My mate knows we're TTC but I really don't want to tell her before I've had a chance to tell DH and we test together. Doesn't seem fair on him to not be the first to know. Guess it's double nothing and cokes for me tonight! (Awesome idea by the way!!!)

Oh TTC - why you play so many mind games with me!!

Don't worry about having had a few drinks last week, Lemon - even if you are pregnant it probably wouldn't have even implanted by that point, plus plenty of people have no idea they are pregnant til much later so don't beat yourself up at all.

If you don't want to have a drink tonight just make up an excuse like having to drive somewhere, not feeling well (sounds like that is true!), trying to be healthy, taking some medication that doesn't go well with it, or pretend you have a double something with coke but just order coke! Or you could tell you best friend even? For what it's worth I'm not avoiding alcohol completely, I'm just having the odd one. I've also discovered that mocktails can be a good coverup and cranberry and soda is actually not bad. I'm not a big drinker anyway so I'm lucky in that respect though. Hope you get your BFP!

AF due tomorrow. We only DTD once and it was after my fertile window according to Ovia. Thinking it's highly unlikely but I've felt queasy all day. Threw up when I got to work this morning. No other symptoms but I'm shitting bricks. I was put drinking last Friday night. :-/ Will POAS on Saturday if no sign of AF. She's usually pretty regular. I'm out tonight with my best friend. Won't be drinking a drop. How am I going to explain this one...

Thank you , I have woke up today feeling flu symptoms so maybe that's why it's late :( if no AF today I will maybe test tomorrow. I am also extremely constipated ( lovely I know ) so again another reason why they haven't appeared .

Thanks for your help X

Thanks Eva30, Trying and Cosmicbird!

I really wish I had sage advice for people re ovulating, testing and whatnot but I had to WhatsApp my friend a picture of my test to ask if it was right

I know User it's so unfair...put weight on when you go on the pill and put on some more when you come off...😩

I need to get off my bum and up my activity while cutting back on my food. Have a wedding in July that I'd like to be a few pounds down for so that's my first motivation right now.

The trouble is lemon I already do loads of exercise and I am being good with my diet so I was secretly hoping I was going to drop a few pounds half a stone with zero effort when I came off the pill as I put on 4/5 lbs overnight when I went on it. It would be just my l luck that I put on weight when going on the pill and coming off for a double whammy!

Best to test on day period is due. Apparently "real" symptoms don't kick in until around the six week mark due to hormone level...this was certainty the case with my first. Good luck- hope you get your bfp soon!

Congratulations mightymoosh!

RM90 are you sure when you ovulated? Maybe you ov'd later than usual or even not at all, so your AF would be later arriving then? Maybe give it another 3 or 4 days and test again if still no AF?

Hi all ,

I have been off the pill for around 5 months now . We have not been TTC rigorously but have just thought we would see what happens , each month I have been a bit disappointed when AF appears however it has taught me how to correctly count me cycles. This month however I am now 4 days late. AF was due sat morning and still has not came , I took a test on sat night which was negative and have repeated a test again today , which was also negative :(
I have been experiencing slight cramping on and off but more so on Friday the day before AF was due I had terrible cramps which is why it has caught me by surprise that it has not turned up. With my negative test again today I am a little disappointed , think I have got it into my head over the past few days that I could be pregnant and so has my partner. What could be causing my periods to not be showing up with these negative tests ?

Thanks

Eva thank you! I will do a test Monday if a BFN I will retest at the end of the month. I just want to know why I could sleep for England, feel sick daily and throw up each day an I'm slowly turning into a salad vinegar crisp xx

Congrats themightymoosh!
moosmummy everyone is different but Ovia says test 14days after ov. I am impatient, I usually test from 10dpo until 13dpo, when it finally sinks in that it's not changing from a bfn to a bfp!

Congrats themightymoosh! Sorry to hear you have had such a difficult time lately but hope things go nice and smoothly from now on

Ladies when is the best time in your cycle to test (please don't laugh lol! My first was completely unplanned!) for the last few days I'm been sick, bloated as heck (probably something totally unrelated) and literally wanting to live off salt and vinegar crisps. Which is why I was asking on a previous comment about how long it took everyone to conceive. I'm probably overthinking things with the change of weather and maybe I just like salt and vinegar crisps now lol. Do I wait til I would be due AF? Yeah I sound really dim lol

Another who hasn't posted in absolutely AGES. Third thread already, that's pretty impressive! I'll have a read through if I get the chance...

I think we got to two cycles of properly trying, having had all sorts from illness to bereavement to the bloody cat not coming home one night putting the kibosh on it all. I was convinced my fanny was broken (dramatic? Moi?) and bought myself a pregnancy test and a load of biscuits to cheer myself up when I had another BFN. It was only blimmin' positive wasn't it?

So 4+2 according to dates and just filling time until that magical 12 weeks when it's fine

Congratulations to all the other positives, you must be thrilled!

Hi all I haven't posted in ages but have been lurking

Congrats to all the ladies getting a BFP! Last month was our first month of not preventing and I secretly thought at the back of my mind that bam....it would happen straight away! Was a little gutted then when AF actually came early but then again that meant my dates were a bit out for FW last month.

Think I'm just finished FW this week and we have had a lot of practice this month so fingers crossed

Usernamegone I am with you on the putting on weight - since coming off the pill I've gone up about 7lbs and it's really starting to get to me so gonna book a new programme in the gym as I feel all soft and flabby right now I've had a very hectic social life the past while which doesn't help! But I keep thinking that when I hopefully get pregnant I'll be reining it in big time so need to make the most of it while I can!

Ah sorry to hear of AFs arriving :(
I know nothing about the coil!
I'm cd20 today and least 3 dpo, maybe 5 or even 6dpo but going with 3!!! Noticing some different things happening this cycle than previous, trying not to read into them because my cycles have all been mad the last while!

Apparently the copper makes the environment inhospitable and the sperm don't survive.

Jenny, sorry AF arrived. Better luck next cycle x

Af turned up this morning (3 days early!). Gutted but trying to keep hopeful that it'll happen soon. Joined the gym again so hoping getting fit & losing weight might help with ttcing.

I hope so lol. Really random question but how does the copper coil work? I always thought you needed hormones for a contraceptive to 'work' I know totally ignorent of me. X

I was given that option when I had my coil fitted 5 years ago but didn't want the extra hormones, so chose the none hormonal one despite being told I'd have heavier and more painful periods (definitely true). I also believed that having the Mirena would mean when I decided I wanted to TTC it would take longer to become fertile after its removal. But when I had my coil out in March, I was told by the gynaecologist that, like the copper coil, you are in fact fertile straight after its removal. Wished I would have known that years ago haha x