PMA Express to BFP #4

morning all

it's fri-yay whoop whoop 🙌🏼👐🏼🙌🏼👐🏼
put your hands up in the air, put your hands up, IN THE AIRRRR 🎶

well, i'm still on a flashing smiley BUT i think my test reader is fucked!! last few nights iv forgotten to take the pissy stick out (my bad)
so when i take it out and out and out the fresh 1 in this morn, instead of the wee test symbol appearing it went straight to flashing smiley! i took it back out, it flashed for say a min or so, then went blank. put it back in and the test sympbol was showing. as iv done IC OPKs throughout this flashing smiley WEEK and nothing has shown on them at all, i think it's faulty altogether.

just gonna stop pissing on expensive bits of plastic this cycle and see what happens. iv turned into a Happy Hippy overnight hehe

hope you all have a great friday! have we any BFPs due, i honestly cannot remember AND lost my screenshot of salems last list 🙈

Also when do you count your post ovulation from? (See, definitely not calming down ?

Happy Friday every one!

My husband is slightly dubious about me tracking my ovulation so I get the whole relaxed thing. In fact he's already told me to calm down about it which obviously I haven't as has anyone ever calmed down just because they were told to?

Oh thanks dolly so basically it was like every 36 hours?! Sounds like a good plan to me!

Hold out cakes. I know it's so hard. But the let down is worse. Hold off until 11DPO at least. That's like my go to day. Where testing is made acceptable 🙈 Lol

Ditch the OPKs Hippy I say. DTD with DP if and when he fancies it and see if you strike lucky. It does all get a bit technical sometimes and all we really need to do is have lots of sex and have fun!. An a baby will arrive st some stage right?!

#PMA #yesitbloodywill

You're so right ladies. I'm not normally an early tester because I always think if it's negative then I haven't gained anything, I could still be pg or still not be. Damn the people who invented home pregnant tests! You shouldn't be allowed to buy them until you can prove af hasn't been when she should've! I'm off work tomorrow for some me time,what a treat!! Will go out and distract myself.

Go for it @Hippychic79. Listen to your body and read the signs and get some dtd in if the mood strikes. If the opks have stressed you out this month then see how you feel without them. I really thought I would use them this cycle but got muddled from the start and my response to that sort of thing is to ditch it! I'm all for an easy life!

#happyhippyhumping #notonegativenancy

Hope AF stays away for you Phase. Or like you say, if she's coming, she hurries up and then goes away quickly.

Bella I had about 4 flashing smileys then switched to using the other Clear Blue tests that just say low or static smiley as I was just waiting for my peak. I used a load of tests this month thanks to a late egg! So annoying. It had better be worth it ;)

Cakes don't do it!! (Obviously you can if you want). I am a BFN phobe so don't have the problem of wanting to POAS when it's a pregnancy test. I'd rather wait to see if AF turns up. But if you can face the possibility of a white space because, and only because, it's too early, then go for it. Or buy something nice for yourself for the price of a test. Cake? Nail polish? Wine?! (When I got pg with my DS I was really late and as I thought I might be pg after a year of trying, I had a glass of wine the night before I was going to test in case I couldn't have another for ages!! Lol!).

Hippy there definitely is a lot of stress caused by ttc and especially monitoring ovulation and dtd according to that. You could always try a relaxed month and see if it makes you more relaxed. Just listen to your body and dtd it when you want to.

#negativenancy #debbiedowner #yourenotwelcomehere

(apart from the odd moan here or there)

@Hippychic79 go for it it chic! if it's getting to you then totally break away, we need you as our Happy Hippy not NN or DD above #PMAmotherfuckers

as much as my brain is mush with OPKs i'm still ok with it but give me another couple of cycles and i might turn into a Happy Hippy too, throwing caution to the wind, peeing on everything APART from sticks, sounds sooo freeing ✌🏼 & ❤️

Oh and phase FX for your BFP this weekend! Hopefully AF stays away!

anna I did EOD in my successful cycle. Only difference was we did it in the morning one day and then the evening the next day of what I thought was my positive ovulation time so that was technically every day but felt like EOD?

cakes I tested at 11dpo I think and I got a very faint line so I wouldn't waste a test if it was to just give you a false negative? Although those apps did the same with me too! It makes the urge even more real!!

Hippy I think there's a lot to be said for a relaxed cycle! Like you say, all the couples who manage to get pregnant and don't track, they must manage it without focusing on OPKing and such like! Are you gonna use preseed again this cycle?

I need talking down ladies. Found myself plotting to purchase a frer tomorrow and test. I'll be 9dpo. They have a sodding calculator on their web page that tells you when you can test and the feckers told me tomorrow. What?! I will resist and stick with my Monday plan. Must. Be. Sensible.

@BellaMoon I'm cheering your Peggy on. #hurryuppeggy

thanks ladies for the reassurance regarding my super fucking late peggy. still not here, just POAS at 6pm. still flashing smiley.

@AmandaP86x hope you found the details you needed. i'm going to go back and read it all again as it does get all a bit muddy in my brain as we read sooo much! i thought flashing smiley meant guaranteed static smiley soon but that's not the case, there is a chance that you can have a flashing smiley (estrogen rise) without the necessary egg release. it's only when the LH surge happens that you get the static smiley. it isn't positive to have an egg released without an LH surge but that doesn't always mean an OPKs will pick up your LH surge! it's a total mind fuck!

@Moo31 yeah you could be completely right, i was naive to think all cycles would be the same. thanks for sharing so i know i'm not the first woman in the history of making babies to have this happen (it can feel that way when i'm a bit miffed)

@MissMagpie as above, thank you. were you 5days with flashing smileys? i'm on day5! i think we started as cycle buddies too. damn that late egg, dunno who my new buddy will be!

@Anna2006 thanks for the luteal phase info. good to know that my luteal phase last cycle should at least stay the same (14days) so 🤞🏼 i peak soon.

there's always a silver lining to this late peggy malarkey, longer without AF - yaldy!!

sorry if iv missed any news - will scroll back as i eat my tea 🍴 🥘

Fingers and toes crossed very tightly! We want to fill the boards with lots of BFP!!

I'm trying EOD sed this cycle? What do the rest of you do? We've mixed it up a bit but last few times done every day and nothing. So back to EOD which worked the first time we got pregnant!

It's that relaxed state that no longer exists..

Oooh I actually don't mind RLT. I have it in my Amazon basket ready to order if she arrives. Funny the af symptoms have worn off today

Oh that's crap phase if you think it is AF symtoms. Holding out isn't sometimes the best way though.

So frustrating when it doesn't happen quickly again isn't it. Then realise how lucky you were the first time! Some people get no quick goes. Dam luck of the draw!

Patiently waiting for FW to come around. But I've managed 2 cups of raspberry leaf tea past two day.

Xx

I want to say I am but I can't face bfn. I'm due Sat/Sunday. If she isn't here I'm testing Monday. Although I do have af symptoms and I'm like just bloody hurry up so I can move onto Fw

Bella - I think you said this is second cycle off BC. I came off BC in August, first cycle was around 30 days, second cycle was 41! I was convinced I was pg even though the tests were saying I wasn't. I wasn't opk'ing then so I can't tell you when I ovulated but maybe this is a pattern i.e. 1st cycle off BC normal, 2nd cycle longer than normal? Hope you get you static smiley soon!!

I never thought I would be happy to be sick but same as you dolly I am taking the morning all day sickness as a good sign that my bean is growing nicely. I was actually laughing as I was retching this morning! That happiness might wear off by week 12 ... I also weighed myself this morning and I have lost 4lb! In 2 weeks I have googled and apparently it is normal as you become more conscious, eating more healthily and also my appetite has definitely gone and all I want is plain stuff. I used to snack all evening and wouldn't go without supper and I don't do any of that now. Probably also coupled with the fact that I am off chocolate for lent!

Who is testing over the weekend????? Fx!!!!

I'm feeling good, just super tired and aches!

Been a bit of a moody fucker too if I'm honest 😂

Nice one @Ohb0llocks!! Progressing nicely! How're you feeling?

@EMHW123, something not right there. Great plan to see the doctor and get some bloods done. I hope the vag region starts behaving itself! Xx

I'm doing good thanks hippy - just patiently waiting for my midwife appt to come through. Still feeling nauseous a large majority of the day and so exhausted but I'm taking those as good signs that the little bean is growing away nicely in there hopefully.

Good news about your AF lengthening a little bit. My AF only ever used to be about 3 days too - one heavy day, one medium and one Light and because I spotted for a few days before I properly started, I started to get worried that it would be a problem. I either got VERY lucky or something happens to all our brains during the TTC process that makes normally rational women start to doubt everything!!

amanda I've never used those ones, I only ever used the cheapies but as hippy said, you're hunting for the smileys

Congrats ohb - any symptoms yet??

EMHW sorry you're having a stressful time of it. Could it be a one off short cycle? I've been told you can have one or two random cycles outwith your normal, every year? Either shorter/longer or without ovulating etc? This could be your random cycle too bella? Although there's a chance you maybe missed testing it if you didn't start til CD 12 and you got a positive CD 11 last month? Or am I mixed up? Did you DTD before you started testing?

Oh great hippy I'll have a look sorry I'm
So stupid lol xxx