PMA Express to BFP #4

Have any of my fellow grads had any symptoms yet?

Relatively symptom free here I think? Although my sleep has gone to shit, and waves of nausea. I'm moody too.

Bit worried that I've not yet been throwing up. I had HG during My pregnancy with DS so it's a bit unsettling that my head hasn't been down the throne yet! Saying that, 4 weeks and 1 day today.

Booked my first MW appointment for 18th April!

I can't tell if it's positive or not as the instructions say it negative but surely two lines mean positive?!

I give up guessing and just going to tell him it's time. We are at least speaking now but have a poorly toddler so that might be tricky 😆 love a good challenge!

Oo @Itsjustaphase84! So close. Any thoughts/feelings? I have zero symptoms of either af or pg at 9 dpo. Last month I felt like I got them all! Off away to the in laws in Surrey this weekend and not back until late Sunday so no testing temptation which is a relief!

I did it every other day from cd8 then once I got positive did it consecutively. I also did it even after the opks when blank for a few days extra as I think I ovd about 48-36 hours after my +ive in this cycle. Used that bloody many of the dam things thanks to late ov.

Aww I love this thread. Lovely flowers posted earlier. Love spring. I'm cd30, 12 dpo due tomorrow or Sunday xx

What do we think ladies? Time to move to daily or stick to every other night? Don't really understand the SMEP rules 😆

Sorry to hear you still have flashing smiley @bella could you try a different type of opk test? Surely other people except cb do them.

such positive stories and so reassuring, love that we're not all doom and gloom, i read another TTC thread the other day (whilst looking for this new one - not because i'd ever leave you lovely lot) and honest to god, it was sooo bad. they were essentially convincing each other that they were all infertile. #negativenancy #debbiedowners

i STILL have flashing smileys ladies... #whattheactualfuck ?? so flashing smiley on sunday, circle monday morning, then flashing smiley all bloody week! i was thinking of chucking them when i thought my reader was faulty and it gave me a wee bit of anxiety so i'm obviously not ready to give them up just yet. so, that's now 6 days of flashing smileys... not going to look too much into this as good old google had me at deaths door when i looked it up last night.

have my fingers x'd for peak so i'll get jiggy with it, na na na nananaaa 🎶 all weekend.

hope you all have a fabby weekend 😘😘😘

DD was conceived the cycle after my mmc. I had no idea when ov would happen, I just wanted to get back on the dtd wagon after an emotional time without worrying about anything else. We managed two goes then decided to give it a rest until af had been and gone. But she never showed up. It really is pot luck and sometimes, everything just falls into place. I think it's about finding the approach that suits you as a person whatever that may be!

That's a lovely PMA-filled story Dolly.
It only takes one doreen - no matter how often you dtd, so we should stop beating ourselves up.

Happy St Patrick's day ladies! Hope you are all gearing up for a fun filled weekend??
I am yet again, working. But something has to keep me out of trouble I guess!

That article sounds pretty sensible patient - it's so easy to get lost in planning and charting and DTD at exact O times etc that we forget that a couple of days before it is sometimes all that's needed. It's the bloody luck of the draw with a little bit of extra work from Dor & Peg. It really is a minefield. I really think you should work the relaxed approach hippy, like you say, last cycle really stressed you and that's a definite no no if it can be helped. I can't remember if I told this story but my good friends were trying for a baby for 3 years! Had done all the OPKs, charting etc and had done the clomid, fertility tests - unexplained. Then one month, they had sex ONCE, weren't charting, on a drunken night. And boom.... their baby is 10 weeks old now.

yes @MissMagpie i guess i just put the fresh stick in as it was displaying my last reading! ohhhh thank god as i thought that was £42
down the drain!

you're a ⭐️

@Supper16 this daffs are beaut! it's raining here in Glasgow, with very grey skies so i'm extremely jealous of your nice bright day! congrats on AF - so nice to hear someone
is welcoming to the witch

HAPPY ST PADDYS DAY LADIES 😘😘

Morning everyone, I just wanted to post because I'm happy - it's my first cycle after many years on the pill, CD80, and AF is here

I know I have a long way to go and maybe facing another long cycle but feel like I've crossed a major hurdle.

And it's Friday, and Spring has sprung. Here's a pick of my front daffs for all you ladies

Bella - when you eject the stick, the monitor does give the reading again for a minute or so, so that's probably why you got the flashing smiley. Then it resets and goes blank and you can put in the new stick.

Does that match with what you have had?

Morning ladies! Happy st Patrick's day 🍀 we are all shopping and having a days holiday today so sneaky drinking and maybe the luck of the Irish will prevail! Given we have a "strong Irish name" and my son is called Patrick it's a good day all round!

Happy St Patrick's Day!!

#maytheluckoftheirishbewithyou

Happy Friday everyone

Hippy I didn't use OPK this month and my bfp was a week ago now! And I'm officially a day late!

Sophsta I think DPO should be counted from the day after ov, I ov on Tuesday and recon I am 3 DPO today.

Hippy and Bella I think that as long as you dtd regularly (or cannot really control when to dtd) opks aren't necessarily useful. The studies on optimal dtd days also find that it won't increase your chances if you dtd on all your fertile days, the crucial thing is to hit one or two days before ov or ov day. So every other day is fine. The rest is up to eggy I think. According to the It starts with the egg book, we put too much weight on hitting ov and too little on nurturing eggy.

I have to add that for me opks are crucial as we don't really dtd that often and my cycles are all over the place. So for me this is less stressful than pressuring myself and dp to dtd every other day (would not happen anyway). Also, dp handles the pressure quite ok, so when I say it's peak day he usually goes with it. But the romance in not blooming I have to say

*put the fresh one in - autocorrect soz