TTC FIRST BABY - THREAD NO.8

@cupcakesandglitter thanks for this! The 2 I have done look like yours from the 6th Nov but I am only on CD6 so I can't be ovulating yet unless its coming close? But these lines do appear around 10 mins after I do the tests? Not sure what other symptoms to look out for either as I have never really looked for ovulation symptoms before 😕 . Hope you are feeling nice and refreshed after your lie in x

Catching up on yesterdays posts, it's been busy!

Glad your move went well @crossfitgirl and well done on christening the house already

So glad to be having a long weekend, don't want to go back to work tomorrow haha.

Fertility Friend still hasn't confirmed an Ovulation date for me. My temperature this morning back up to 36.9s which is what I was expecting.

@Rachael321 I'm in the same situation! Due on on Friday and still nothing with BFN... so frustrating, isn't it?😩

@Crossfitgirl, so it can disappear, that's good to know because I have only done 2 but left them and gone back 10 minutes later and there has been a faint line. I will make sure I keep an eye on it the whole 10 mins.

@RobynC19 that looks like a positive to me but I'm not overly sure. What times have you been testing?

Congrats @mrsof20118 !!!

@crossfitgirl great that the move went well and you managed to christen the house!! Not great about the tool situation! We don't really have that issue... ours is more he tidies up by squeezing everything in a cupboard, complaining he can't find anything, and complains about the mess of the cupboard and pulls it all back out again!! And last week it was my fault that he was running late cause he couldn't find a work t-shirt... that I "hid" by hanging it up in the wardrobe!!
Hope you get the tools moved!

I'm currently in no man's land! AF was due on Friday, still no sign of it and still BFN!!

Happy Monday ladies! Sounds like lots of good weekends all round. We had a nice chilled one with family. Just worked out if I ovulate when I think I will, we'll be away with friends. Who has some quiet sex tips?!

@Crossfitgirl congratulations on the new house! You know what they say, new house new baby sorry to hear your DH is being a pain in the arse now. Moving can be a stressful time.

@mrsof20118 congrats - amazing news!

@PurrMaid welcome! And sorry to hear about your MMC, that must have been awful. Here's hoping your cycle gets back to normal right away.

@FivexFive gorgeous kitty!

@RobynC19 the last one looks positive to me - but I'm a OPK noob!

@SullyWifey sorry to hear you're feeling under the weather - hope the hot bath and TV helped!

@cupcakesandglitter how long are your cycles typically? Mine are 34 - 36 and I started testing from day 8 lol. On day 10 now (I think?!) and it's going painfully slowly.

@DayDreamer1707 havent done any OPKs for a while but here was my last positive. I used to get a very faint line a few days before, which would gradually get stronger until the positive, then disappear almost straight after! Hope that helps. Xx

@gemmajen so sorry about your MC, I don't know about ovulation when HCG is still in your system but a few people on here had longer / different cycles for a while afterwards. I guess continue to temp and go from your symptoms. Did the doctors give you any advice at all?

Also, I'm so glad to hear the tools thing is not just me! I honestly thought it was just my DH that hoards tools!! Whyyyy do they need so many? And of course they are all too valuable to go in the shed/ car as they might get stolen... no they have to be in our living room!! Lol

Good Morning Ladies!!

Does anyone have pictures of their positive results using One Step?
I am currently getting a faint line but its not right away? I know it's not positive as it's way to early but just want to see what I am looking out for.

@GemmaJan I was in the same position as you just last week and got my BFN and then AF , it's and odd relief that things are normal and you do feel like you have some sort of control again over whats happening. I have done loads of research and saw that you can still ovulate even when you haven't got AF and you still have HCG in your system but unfortunately everyone is different. I used the MC as cycle day one and got AF roughly 30 days after, slightly longer than normal x

Not the start to the week I wanted, pesky positive line was still there on the test. Definitely lighter than last week, but no need for squinting. I don't suppose anyone knows, I'm getting conflicting reports, can you ovulate when there's HCG left in your system from MC? I'm monitoring BBT for the first time this month, pretty steady so far. Not doing OPKs as I've heard the HCG can give you false positives. On a normal month I'd expect to O at some point this week (sat 17th through 24th)( if 1st day MC was cd1). I guess there's no hard and fast rule. But just want the best chances of TTC.

@Crossfitgirl Tools! What is it with men and leaving them everywhere?! My DH used to trash the garage everytime he worked on the car or put up a bookshelf, we got shelving fitted to help, and lots of promises were made, but it was still a pig sty. Now we've got a larger garage and more space, so now he's collecting more tools to fill all the floor space! Makes me mad! And when you need something like a screwdriver or spanners can't find a thing. I despair! Luckily he's in the good books right now or I'd remind him he promised to clear the garage last week... Obviously that didn't happen

@PurrMaid we're in a similar situation, just over the med management. So started ttc again, just want to be pregnant! Fx for you. Hope we get BFP soon and they work out.

Started dtd, probably too early but practice makes perfect right? Hoping for a BFN tomorrow meaning everything is back to normal and I might actually have a chance of ovulating this month. Fx

@Crossfitgirl male logic is the worst! I hope he is grovelling soon!
Same as @FivexFive the first few sessions have got a bit over oily, especially with DH in control of the oil 🙄. It always leads to great sex and DH will never say no to a massage (unlike sex!) I don't know why I didn't think of it as a tool to get him to Dtd before!

@MrsMcNtobe that's great you got your static smiley! It's so tough when you're grumpy with DH but you know you have to Dtd isn't it! I just try and push the reasons I am annoyed at him out of my head for a while, easier said than done though!

Hey girls! Got my static smiley today after thinking I’d ovulated super early. DTD last 2 night but have been bickering all day so who knows if we’ll do it tonight 🙈

@FivexFive love the cat pic 😂

@Crossfitgirlmy husbands tools are the Bain or my life. Literally want to move just so I don't have to look at them anymore. The amount of arguments we have had over them 😂 so I feel ya!

I came down with horrible cough/flu last night and had to entertain the parents for dinner today, safe to say I'm tired!! Having a hot bath, then watching I'm a Celeb I'm bed!!

@PurrMaid welcome sweets xx

Hope you all had lovely weekend xx

@FivexFive I have to be apart of this! I feel weird not writing a lot but I don't know what to say! Xxx

@delilah7, it's understandable hun xx Sounds like things are moving along nicely and they're keeping an eye on you both which is good. Glad you're still on here, wouldn't feel the same without you :)

@FivexFive hey girl! I'm ok. Having some more blood to check HCG levels are increasing so bloody nervous! Then scan not this week, the week after as well as midwife appointment. Feels weird though as haven't taken a test since the first one when I found out, yet still worry am I still pregnant?! X

@Flapjackered, naked massages are the way forward! Although, yes @crossfitgirl, we went a little ott with the oil first time. Twas messy! Ah well :) Your dh sounds similar to mine in terms of putting stuff away. Each time we've moved (3) the FIRST thing he did was set up the stereo... Priorities

@Delilah7, how you doing hun?? Xx

Hi robync19 yes that's definitely a positive, so you'll be ovulating in the next 24-48 hours. Xx

@flapjackered he wanted to leave his 3 huge cases of tools in the middle of the living room for the sole reason to remind him to sort through them... despite the fact he is working away all next week so won't even be here to do it until the weekend! I asked him to put them in the spare room til the weekend and he refused, he told me to move them myself, but they are too heavy for me to carry up. I even said I'd remind him to do it next weekend if he just put them away! It's more annoying as for the past year (or more!), they've sat in the hallway in the way, and he knows how much I hated it and was so looking forward to NOT having to look at them all the bloody time now we have a bigger house! Anyway I got over it, then later he was talking to me and he decided I must still be in a mood because of my "tone of voice" when I replied... which is total rubbish as I wasn't even in a mood any more and my tone was totally normal!! Anyway. It's totally petty but he's just being really difficult now and doing stuff he knows will annoy me and arguing about where to put everything else. Stupid men!!

When he's redeemed himself, I will def try the naked massage though! That sounds amazing! Didn't you get oil all over though when you went on to DTD? Haha!