TTC #1, Cycle 1. Anyone In?

@sailorcherrie 118 days!! You must have just been going crazy! Now a normal cycle will hopefully just fly by for you 😊

@Mipha, how helpful to buy tests that actually have tests! 😂 sorry about your BFN, but it could just be too early! Fingers crossed for you.

I’m CD20 now, hard to keep my mind from wandering to when I can test haha. Gonna try to just wait for AF.. can’t crack too early in my first cycle!

@sailorcherrie I think that if you change reader you will automatically go back to low fertility for at least the first one as it is assessing your baseline. I would be tempted to test again tomorrow and if no flashing smile then try again next month.

So... new reader and dipping in the glamorous pee cup rather than POAS I'm back to negatives? 🤔

My first cycle after coming off Cerelle in November was 35 days - then I had 118 days before my next AF. So the "Clue" app must be just as confused as me...

Should I give up on the ovulation testing if I get 3 days of negatives? Just keep testing and trying every other day till I see a peak smiley? Keep testing and trying till I'm through the "fertile window" that Clue predicts? Keep testing and trying till AF so I don't miss my real fertile window?

@Mipha have you got another test to double check if AF doesn't arrive? I'm a "bright side" person so here's hoping you've maybe just tested a little early.

Went and got a packet of tests that contained tests! BFN. All those pre-af symptoms were trying to tell me something! 🙈😂
Hopefully AF will at least be on time and my cycles will be looking nice and regular.

@howiseverynametaken I don't meet their criteria which I can understand and am grateful for. I'm going to be a big enough drain on the NHS throughout this pregnancy as it is!

@sailorcherrie do you mind me asking at what stage the sex is visible by u/s? We really don't want to know but I can interpret ultrasound and studied a fair amount of time (12 long, tedious months!) studying embryology at uni, so I can know that if I see the right (wrong!) view, I'll be able to tell. I'm also going to be having scans every 4 weeks from 12 weeks onwards so there'll be plenty of chance for me to accidentally find out

@orangekitkat13 what are we like?! 🤪

@NotMaryWhitehouse haha!! Oops yeah that would be pretty bad! I have a plastic cup that I keep hidden in the bathroom!

@orangekitkat13 @sailorcherrie me too- the trick is not to leave said cup hanging around and bung it straight in the dishwasher so it doesn't get used for anything else! 😂

@howiseverynametaken much better, thank you!

@sailorcherrie I use s cup, so much easier, none of this trying to aim rubbish!

Hi all, have been reading over the past few weeks but have had my parents visiting DP and I so most of my time has been taken up acting as a tour guide...their first visit to our new city!

Hello to everyone who has recently joined! @Leonora94 good luck with your BD! @jemimafuddleduck how are you managing not testing until Friday? @AnotherOriginalUsername I hope all is well at your scan. Can't believe EPU didn't offer you a scan though. @NotMaryWhitehouse how have you been going with the folic acid? If you are still getting nausea, try taking them just before you go to bed. @sailorcherrie I have used the CB OPK for the last 2 months. In month 1 I got 5 flashing smilies then my solid one, in month 2 I got 4 flashing before my solid. Can't believe you have to buy a new one, must have been heartbreaking to see that come up!

I am now 4DPO and even with visitors we managed to DTD 4 times (albeit silently!) so I keeping everything crossed! I have a few days off work coming up and it's going to be soooo hard not to be POAS every day!

Well... that'll be a new clear blue kit from Tesco tonight...

Deliberately held a widdle in from 4.30am so that it was the "longest sleep" wee for the OPK and clear being that bursting did not mixed well with POAS - the wee book of doom "this holder can not be used again" has appeared!

Frustrating! I hope this doesn't throw everything out of whack starting again on a new tester (nevermind the bloody price!)

Little cup of pee for dipping from here on in - oh the glamour of TTC haha!! If it wasn't hard enough doing temperatures and fighting with those tests when you're half asleep!

@jemimafuddleduck haha!!!! Ok fair enough, not that helpful then!!

@jemimafuddleduck no I really don’t know! I had a Mireya for about 4 years and didn’t really have periods at all, and was on Nuvaring or the pill before that so it’s been a long time! I have a vague memory of them being about 25-26 days but could be wrong. I also never had any positive OPK (think maybe I was doing it wrong) and never saw any EWCM. I did see my CM change from watery to more sticky around CD14 so that could be it? Who knows!

LOL at your husband’s explanation of your cramping!!

@jemimafuddleduck sounds sensible, at least your DH is being helpful. I have painful boobs and back, if I moan to my DH he says 'you might be pregnant' that's not helping!

@AnotherOriginalUsername that sounds stressful! Hope everything is just fine ❤️

CD18 for me here, no idea when or if I ovulated so just hanging around waiting basically! Had a busy weekend with friends and had to practice my fake drinking skills to minimize intake haha.. good way to pass time though!

@AnitherOriginalUsername Hoping everything is ok with your scan ♥️♥️

@jemimafuddleduck I'm going to hold out till at least Friday morning I think.

@sailorcherrie thank you - I phoned my local EPU today and I (fortunately) don't meet their criteria for a referral so will be booking a private scan tonight. We're going to book for Sunday 29th so I'll be 8 1/2 weeks then, and it's just before my first midwife appointment the following Tuesday.