Feb 2017 bus is ready to go! TTC this month? Hop on.....

Morning! Hello to other newbies! Fox and glitter!

Said to the OH last night about telling him when I'm ovulating... his reply "is that not like 10 days after your period" ha! Must know more than I give credit for.... 😂

So AF arrived bang on time yesterday, actually rather cheery at this given there was no FW DTD done, so I affirmed my cycle has normalised after 18 years on the injection/implant/pill. Useless apps put my FW starting next Friday so I am going to sit back and enjoy growing my leg hair for another week before the DTD sessions start again! (Boobs also enjoying not being repeatedly squeezed to "check" if they hurt too ha!)

OPKs, conceive plus and early tests all stashed up and ready

Already dreaming up a white Christmas with a 6 week old in tow, ffs.

I don't really talk about it too much to my DH so we can remain 'relaxed' about it all. In secret however, I'm peeing on sticks, stalking the MN conception boards and obsessing over everything. Time drags so slowly when you are TTC!

It's a lubricant that's mean to make the best environment for the sperm to swim and it sorts the ph inside you to the best levels for sperm to live apparently. I don't have any problems with dryness and I've never actually used lube before but I never get EWCM so thought it might be worth a shot!

Hello can I join??

Name: Glitter
Age: 26
TTC #1
Cycle #1 (officially)
CD #9

Lurking and waiting for fertile window first month trying opks and been using Ovia for a while to monitor periods and let it try and learn my cycle ... DTD the last couple of months in FW according to to Ovia but AF always arrived, so not convinced Ovia is correct hence opks

Baby dust to all xx

I'm off to bed now ladies!
Thanks for all your messages and support!
Apologies if you think I'm overdoing if a bit on this thread 😂🙈 I'm just excited and looking forward to sharing our journeys, don't mean to be too spammy lol.
No doubt I will be back on here tomorrow eve after work (and possibly in the morning and on my breaks lol)
Baby dust ✨✨✨✨

Omg Charley how fab that your fella is like that!! I was one of those who who ran straight to the toilet afterwards to get rid of everything haha. Now I put a pillow under my butt and go to sleep 😂
What is conceive plus chick?

Started fw today. My dh has become obsessed. We've just used conceive plus, did it in the recommended position and then he lay with his legs on the headboard so I would do the same! Not sure if he's panicking about nothing happening yet or if he's freaked out after my little meltdown when my last period came.

Just read through the posts, baby dust to everyone.

Roll on AF, I'm ready for the Feb bus!

Xx

That's lush Rose :) I wish my hubby was as excited as yours lol 😂 he's just going along with everything with me I think haaa.
I'm the same as you, dtd on what I think are my fertile days last week and am waiting for the next 13 days so I can test/af arrives 🙈

Re telling my dh if I'm ovulating, he asks to see my opks! He's was the first of us to get the baby bug.
Me & my mum are November babies. Although I suppose mine could still be October if I got a bfp this cycle.

Hi Zeb!! Ooooh exciting!! Welcome :) xx

Love to join in!
New to the thread and forums all together. It's refreshing to hear I'm not the only 1!
TTC #1
Cycle 5
CD15

LH surge yesterday and all ovulation symptoms today. Fingers crossed for November babies!

Hi something!!
This is a fun bus and I've only been on if 24 hours!!
Bestest of luck all!!xx💗💙

Hi Fox!! 💁🏼welcome chick.

Lol Pingu that's what we are all relying on I reckon 😂😂
And a healthy dose of libido, don't get me wrong, but mostly science and pee 🙌🏼

Hopping on!

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Trying to conceive number 2, have been off pill about six months, now time to get serious about conceiving! Must be something about the New year!

AF due end of this week, zero chance of being on Jan bus so hopping on for support through Feb.

Good luck everyone!

Xx

I'd love to join if that's alright?
19
Cycle 1
2DPO
TTC #1

"gonna rely on science and pee"

Amen to that Misty, it could be the motto for this group

I agree, as if trying to read all this isn't confusing enough!
So sorry about your mc chicks. Fingers crossed this will be your month xxx

Carlotta

I have been wondering if it was the MC hormones making the OPK so dark but it has got significantly lighter recently. A week after MC though? I have had other ovulation symptoms though... Weird. I just want a normal regular cycle that's easy to predict. I have never had one and probably never will! Urghhhh.. How are you? Hope you are holding up ok!

*Misty
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Thankyou. It would make sense that whether control the lines are dark or not that they and the test line need to match... I'm just confused why the control lines vary so much on the different OPKS. Makes comparing them much more difficult! I guess it's just the amount of dye.

Hi Claire!
In my limited knowledge of opk, I think unless the lines are the same colour, it's negative for ovulation. Whether both lines are light or dark, I've no idea, just that the LH indicator line has to be equal or darker than the control line.
I may be wrong!
But over the last few months, I've been thinking wow, my timings must be spot on coz I'm ovulating when my app tells me I am (because I've been seeing 2 lines, although LH line has always been paler than control line... I just saw 2 lines and was like YAY!)
That was til last Thursday when I tested in morning pee and found both lines very dark and identical in colour! Which made me think hmmm how is this so much darker... looked into it and found the above... unless both lines are same colour, you're not having the LH surge.
We always have LH in our system so there could potentially always be 2 lines every day of the month. But the surge which happens just before ovulation is what makes the lines darker and marching in colour and I think that's what we are looking for!
Aside from that, it's just picking up the normal LH that's in your system.
I THINK... please anyone feel free to correct me!!x

Claire88 I think I did, I had EWCM exactly a week after and ovulation pains, I didn't test as couldn't bare thinking about the whole thing but I'm pretty sure that's when it was x

Does anyone have any idea why my OPK's are coming out so washed out? Usually they have a very dark one or two lines and the two I did today look very faint (both!). Have I got a dodgy batch or is this normal?

Here's a pic comparing two days ago and today...

Surely I couldn't have ovulated a week after the first day of a miscarriage! I'm so confused....

Thanks in advance!

Ps Lexi I'm a November baby myself! So would be fab to share my birthday with a lil babe 💗💙

Hi Lexi! Get stuck in chick, I dunno about you guys but my friend who is my sole confidant about my ttc (she has a 1yo and has been very helpful to me so far) must be getting fed up about my constant ttc chat so it's so lush to come on here and share stories and babytalk constantly haaa.
EM I did a pg test every day for about 4 days and even when af arrived I did another a couple of days later coz I was so convinced I was pg. so this time I'm literally not gonna give in! One of my apps says 13 days to test, and 13 days I shall wait!!👌🏼
So I say now..... ask me this time next week lol