TTC FIRST BABY - THREAD 10!

Wow @GemmaJen that’s a very clear line for 8dpo! Congratulations!

Thank you everyone

@MrsEG 8dpo today as per ff, could be 9 maybe?

Congrats @GemmaJen!!! Have we had any other BFPs this New Year?

Sorry I have been so quiet lately, been trying to figure out what the best options are for us at the moment. I have begun applying for new jobs as my cycles are still all over the place. I am hoping I can get a new job soon and then hopefully I will have settled in my new role and my cycles will have settled down also so we can begin trying. I will still check in on your guys and we aren't exactly not trying....going to discuss things more this weekend when we are away. x

@gemmajen congratulations lovely! Definite line there xx

@GemmaJen congratulations! No squinter there 😂 x

@KatBeCool I hope so too! I have a lot of hope riding on them. I wouldn't mind if they brought ovulation forward a bit but there are a few people out there who say it completely messed up their cycle so I hope that is not going to be me. 😬 how are you getting on - what cd are you now?

Omg @GemmaJen that's a definite line! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! So so happy for you! 🎉❤️🥂xx

Can't quite believe it. Just hope this is a sticky one, got everything crossed 🤞

@GemmaJen ahh that's so exciting!! I have everything crossed for you!

@GemmaJen post a pic!! That's so exciting!

Omg! I did a test, another ic just to shut my brain up for the day ahead, but there's a line! I'm just freaking out! Just taken a normal test and there's also a line and darker than last month's wishy washy ones. It's still faint but there's no squinting needed. I can't quite believe it! I know it could all change, and I want it so much to be darker in a few days, but omg just so excited!

@Jessikka OMG he didn't! Men can be so insensitive at times, I bet he thought that would make you feel better?! I hope you let him know how helpful his response was?

@FlapJackered so interested in the soy tablets, fx for you, let us know how you get on. Your DH sounds awesome.

@stormtrooperjulian we're planning on going out to see friendstomorrow, I'm hoping it helps.

Thank you @KatBeCool, it's so hard to put things in perspective sometimes. I'm a planner and perfectionist and so impatient, not a good combo for this ttc malarkey.

@MrsEG I've been trying meditation and aromatherapy but I really struggle to control my thoughts, they just run away with me. I'll look into Headspace, how do you find it? Do you subscribe?

@thosethreewords I tried just giving myself little moments yesterday following your advice, to look on here or check my app. This worked well until lunch time and then it just snowballed from there. I ended up poas, yes at 7dpo because I'm a crazy woman! You'd think after last month's CP I'd learn. Anyway it was just an insensitive really cheap ic strip, but seeing the expanse of white teststrip did help calm me down. I can't make time for faster, I just need to be patient.

Thank you @AnnaMC214, it's good to chat to you all, I try and talk to my Dh, while he's excited to have a baby he doesn't understand my impatience to know what's happening. I'm all for knowing AF is coming but the uncertainty screws up my brain. He thinks it just peachy to wait till next week to test.

@Keyboard91 I had the same I felt the pressure DTD every other day or rather making sure that we did. Do you temp? Don't worry about not DTD for 3 days especially at the beginning of your fw. Have you ever used cb digital OPKs? I found them really useful to actually pin point the crucial days as my apps were so out when I didn't do either of those.
Don't worry about the rant we all have to have them when TTC as it takes it's toll physically and emotionally.
I work long days too and I just resigned to the fact we won't DTD on those days as I didn't want to make it a robotic exercise. You're allowed to be tired and fed up.

Just saw a post you said about OPKs. I was anti them in a way as I didn't want to try to hard but out of a 35 day average cycle to try DTD near o day was proving challenging without so I caved.

@KatBeCool @MrsLBear thanks lovelies. I needed to hear that!! I will keep positive and in the meantime I'm trying to also focus on the fact I wanted to give myself this year before I worried about it. Buuuut obviously that didn't happen. For work it would be slightly more ideal if I got pregnant before 2020 but I'd make it work if it took longer. So I need to chill out.
This is month one. Imagine what I'm going to be like subsequently!!!

@Keyboard91 yes back to work yesterday was a blow for me too - I was so tired and got a migraine afterwards 😩
I'm the same as you - I want to talk about it with DH all the time and not at all at the same time. He keeps saying "imagine if you're pregnant!" And I know he's excited but it just feels like a lot of pressure.
I know what you mean about getting frustrated when DH turns you down. DH rarely turns down sex because he has a higher sex drive than me (on contraception) but since I stopped and it's returned to normal, he's said no twice!
We are here for you to rant to. So rant away. I know I do my fair share of it. Hope tomorrow isn't too busy for you xxx

@Jessikka I laughed so loud I think people heard me outside, I had tears in my eyes. Next time ask him if your boobs look normal instead of putting ideas in his head. I keep picturing him talking to your boob. Of course he did it to cheer you up. Let's say it may or may not happened when DH "spoke into" my vagina to tell his sperms to meet the egg.

@cupcakesandglitter duration isn't as important as volume. There is no standard, but there are many things that are abnormal and nothing you mention strikes as that.

@FlapJackered I would be so paranoid. I bought some fertility tea this cycle, started drinking it when ewcm showed up and three days later ewcm was gone. I stopped drinking that tea so quickly. Ewcm came back but I ovulated a couple of days later if you remember me complaining. Hopefully the isoflavones do wonders for you.

@Syncope I used to use them but seeing as my surge always happened towards the evening, it became rather expensive to test several times a day and if you don't use it for 48 hours, it resets. I find the internet cheapies and temping more helpful.

Angelo signing in for another cycle! I'm a bit confused atm... I'm on CD10, DH and I just DTD for the first time this cycle (we've been like ships passing in the night since AF finished) at the weekend). Now according to my Clue app my FW should kick off on Saturday, but I noticed last night that I had EWCM. I did an OPK strip about an hour ago and it looks faintly positive, but does this all mean we should've started sooner this month? I've never used OPKs before so haven't really got a clue what they're all about!

Thanks @MrsR16 @Syncope maybe it's just a weird cycle - will keep an eye on it though, my boobs look like roadmaps!!! X

@FlapJackered what the hell is going on with us?! 😂 yeah I don't think doctors really think anything is massive issue which is annoying, I feel like I'm bugging them every time I mention something 😩 x

@Jessikka I'm sorry, that made me absolutely die laughing!! Men do have such a way with words, don't they?

@Keyboard91 if it makes you feel any better, I haven't managed to DTD with my DH yet this whole cycle! I'm on CD12... yay for being ill and then AF taking forever to bugger off(!) haha! You're in a better place than me hun. Chin up!

@cupcakesandglitter I am the worst person to ask about "normal" at the moment! I'm still spotting and have absolutely no idea what my body is doing at the moment! I think we all go out of whack occasionally. I'd just keep an eye on it Hun xx

First day of taking the Soy Isoflavones today, feel a bit like I am jumping off a ledge in the dark. Really hoping they don't mess up my cycle 😬🤞🏻.
I had a low moment this morning with DH as I realised I only have two more cycles before we hit a year of ttc, and he was going to be away for predicted OV day this cycle...he is now not going away and is taking the day off work 😂

@Syncope I use them and once had 14 days of high before I got my peak, almost lost the will to live and swore I wouldn't use them again (then used them next cycle 😂) I think it is due to your oestrogen rising before your luteinising hormone. Normally they rise at a similar time but sometimes not hence the ongoing flashing smiley.
I think it can also be when your body gears up to ovulate but then it delays for some reason. This happened to me one cycle when i was super stressed and I ended up ovulating really late in the cycle.

@cupcakesandglitter I am the same with af, I am just spotting with dark brown now on cd3. I am not sure if it's normal or not. I was on the pill for 12 years so just used to the 7 pill free days being quite heavy so it was such a surprise to only have two days of normal flow. I was worried and asked the doc and she didn't seem concerned at all.
I don't get the veiny boobs though.