TTC - First time!

So we did the deed last night and I thought I would try the cushion under the hips trick to try to let gravity do it's job. I obviously fell asleep like that (the cushion was quite large) and as I woke up this morning to a very stiff neck and two numb legs so when I tried to get out of bed my legs buckled and I ended up in a heap.

I wish I had it on film but my pet budgie who had been let out earlier by my OH landed on my head and shouted 'man overboard!'

This TTC business is dangerous 😂

Well this is my 5th cycle off the pill but only the 3rd month I've been actively ttc. I've thought I could have been pg the first month and was a little bit like "oh 😔"
Last month though, I literally thought I was pg for defo! And was proper gutted when af came along. My body lied to me lol it gave me all the signs!!😂
So I'm the same, ignoring anything I feel!
And just cautiously hoping for the best!!👌🏼

MrsKerry, you HAVE to stay positive!! I'm all for trying not to symptom-spot and just going with the flow, but whether you believe you 'can' or believe you 'cant' you're probably right! (Law of attraction... google it!) obviously I'm not saying convince yourself you're gonna get bfp and then be disappointed but don't let yourself feel down chick.
I will defo keep you posted. I confused my opk lines and also managed to mis-time my FW by looking at 2 diff apps this month lol so my chances are pretty low! my options are:

1. I've either dtd 6 days before ov day
2. Dtd the night before ov day (I hope!)
3. Dtd 3days before and 1day after ov day

Another one here with no idea on temps sorry claire! With my limited knowledge though, your temperature line rising is a good sign I think?!

MrsKerry sounds like our cycles are similar! I'm 4 days out too and test not allowed til about 6th Feb! Wish I could just sleep til then! I've got a friend's birthday on sat 4th so I'm defo gonna test that morning with an early one coz it will obviously determine whether I drink that night or not 😂

Mrsjkerry

Did you manage to hold off testing or did you cave? I've got a load of cheapies to satisfy my POAS habit 😂 I just can't help it!

Quick question... Does this look like I could be about to ovulate? The OPK is significantly darker today than yesterday (not quite as dark as the control but very almost there). I'm rubbish at decidering these things!

Thanks ladies. Hope everyone is well today!

Fingers and toes crossed MrsJ.

TTC thank you! Me too but I won't be too upset if It doesn't happen this cycle. My body is probably too busy adjusting. I'll go for it full throttle next cycle

Do you think you'll hold out on testing mrsj or test as soon as you can? I'm dithering on what to do this month!

Thanks claire keeping my fingers crossed for you that it's one of either ovulating early or late, rather than not at all. Would be lovely to see you get a BFP this month!

mrsj it certainly looks like you had a fun FW . When is AF due for you now? My app is predicting the 9th for me, but as I'm ovulating quite early I'm expecting AF early too now (or not at all hopefully!).

Good news TTC

Fingers crossed it turns into a BFP!

My lines are still faint and washed out so I've either ovulated massively early as they were darker before, my hormones are going haywire, I'm still yet to ovulate (most likely choice) or I just won't this cycle. I've heard that's quite common after a MC.

Morning everyone, how are we all getting on? Anyone else with a positive OPK yet?

Got my "peak" reading on the CB dual hormone test today, so it's been a relief to know that I am actually ovulating. Just need to DTD again today and tomorrow and then it's into the loooong tww again!

Thank you. I totally thought I was pg last month though, symptom spotting all over the place lol so just gonna TRY and put it out my mind now and just do what I usually do at this time of the month... look forward to pay day haha x

That sounds hopeful Misty - FX for you, hopefully the tww goes quickly!

Me again! Ok I've just downloaded Ovia app to track my cycle. I've been using Clue for 5 months but because I had just started ttc at the time I first downloaded it, I didn't know my cycle length so have been basing it on the average of 28. Having started again with Ovia, and entered my actual cycle length which is 30-31 days (I've used 31 in the app) looking back over my last few months, I've hardly dtd in my fertile week at all! Or just once!
facepalm!
So with a new app and an updated and correct cycle length, it appears that I dtd on my ovulation day today! I thought I had missed it! Although my opk did show lines Thursday and Friday last week...
I may just be clutching at straws lol.
Roll on the next 2 weeks til I can test/AF arrives (hopefully not!)
Fingers crossed for everyone 

Thank you novice. I noticed it quite obviously one month, back in Nov I think. But since then, apart from the lines on the stick, I haven't had any solid hints! And without that stuff, I imagine the swimmers won't last so long so will defo look into that stuff!xx

Misty have a look at a lubricant called "pre-seed" if you think you might not be producing enough CM. We're using it properly for the first time this month (TMI but the applicator was a right faff to use!) so will see if it makes a difference, here's hoping!

Twisted that looks almost there! I bet it will either be positive in the morning, or lighter again if the surge happens overnight. Either way I'd take that as a sure sign of ovulating in the next day or so!

Welcome Misty yes, the lines on the LH tests have to be the same strength to indicate a positive (there or thereabouts). Sperm can last up to around 5 days, so they say the ideal time to DTD is the few days leading up to ovulation, and the day of itself. DH and I have DTD the day after I've had a positive OPK too, but I'm not sure if it's too late by then - always worth a try anyway I say! Good luck with this cycle, hope you get your BFP!

Thank You Twisted :) I just saw your pics and mine have been the same!
The darkest lines I had were morning pee on Thursday morning and we had dtd Wednesday night. Then I had lower tummy pain all day Thursday and Friday (my friend said this could be ovulation but I've never had this pain before... hubby went a bit ott when we dtd lol so I thought maybe I was just a bit tender/bruised. Sorry tmi!)
So if the egg popped out say Friday, we dtd Wednesday night, the swimmers may have hung around to meet it?
We also dtd this morning but egg would have disappeared by then I think.
Thanks for the advice and fingers crossed for us all!xxx