Who else planning to start TTC this spring?

@Vio112 You could say you've noticed it giving your worse hangovers lately, so you're taking a break (or some kind of line).

AF seems to be coming on today, so Shark Week is on at last! 33 days...which I upon reflection seems to be my standard travel-based cycle adjustments.

I'm nerding out some and am putting together a "TTC prep" book order. Does anyone have any they'd recommend? I'm thinking about getting The Baby Making Bible (Emma Cannon), Taking Charge of Your Fertility (Toni Weschler), and The Impatient Woman's Guide to Getting Pregnant (Jean M Twenge). But it also feels like that might be a bit overly keen...also don't want the MIL to catch sight!

@mussie I'm a teeny tiny size 4-6 in clothes so I think they'll be seriously worried about me if I say I'm dieting 😂 good idea re decaf though! My sisters are the same build as me (petite and slim) and they went practically spherical when they were pregnant 😂😂 normal/biggish size babies growing in a tiny body. Yowch. 😳

@Vio112 the no wine can be 'a new diet'? I drank a lot less when I did weight watchers! And you can drink coffee while pregnant! As long as it's not more than 200mg of caffeine a day. You could always do decaf if you're worried about caffeine? As long as they don't see you make it/hear you order it 😂

Has anyone thought about having to give up coffee and wine? 😑 And how to hide giving them up? I'm def known to my family as someone who enjoys a big mug of coffee in the morning and a large glass of wine in the evening. I think it's going to be really obvious once I stop having them 😂

I have stopped temping. It was stressing me out before I've even started! I do get positive OPKs though so I will just use them.

Diet lasted a week 🙈🙈. However I am on track to clear my debts this month so May here we come!

@RLI1105 I know what you mean! I had a really weird cycle in November where I had a positive OPK on like the Sunday, then low temps until a high one on Wednesday, massive dip on the Thursday and back up on the Friday. Every day, I was like, what on Earth is actually happening?! Fortunately my other cycles have been more well behaved 😂 been doing it so long now that I have a better sense of whether a temp is reliable. If it's way off where I expect it to be, I just mark it as 'deviating' - it's usually because my sleep pattern was different or I wasn't well or something. Makes for prettier charts 😏

@Vio112 Welcome! I agree that folic acid seems to be the most important one when looking online. I've been taking the pregnacare ones and they seem to have everything in them!

So it me getting myself in a state the other day turned out to be for nothing (to answer your question @mussie !) I used the advanced OPK's this cycle and I got a 'high' on cycle day 16 and then my temp dipped again on cycle day 17 and I got 'peak' fertility. I'm now on cycle day 19 and I have had a big jump in temp so my money is on the fact I ovulated yesterday in line with my prediction.... as much as I like taking my temperature to look back over it later, if I wake up and get a temperature I deem to be too high/low for that part of the cycle I can be thinking about it all day!

Not sure why my smilies aren't working!? Oh well, stars are fine I guess ha ha

Thanks @mussie! I've made a conscious decision not to use opks/temping. I'm quite a control freak in many aspects of my life and I'm worried I'd psyche myself out of pregnancy. Just going to see what happens. If I had any troubles I would definitely go down that path though! Just using a calender to track my cycle so I have sense of when I'm likely to be fertile. Good luck everyone, can't wait to start trying!

@Vio112 welcome! Vitamin D is mostly important once you're pregnant, but doesn't hurt to start taking it anyway. The main thing is the folic acid.

@zinrepus hope AF doesn't keep you waiting too much longer!

@RLI1105 did you ovulate after all? It's so frustrating when OPKs and temps seem to contradict each other, and you have to wait days to find out what happened 🙃

AF is due either tomorrow or Friday for me. Hoping she arrives as planned 🙏 especially seeing as it's my first time using natural cycles as contraception. I'm really hoping it has worked 🙈

Hi I'm new, can I join? planning to start ttc for the 1st time in June. Taking folic acid and iron tablets atm. Didn't know about the vitamin D! Is that really important?

AF running a bit late for me this month. Double-checking Clue, it seems like I've got another day before I need to start fretting. 33 days well within the range of normal, 36 happened once two years ago. I forsee this being more than a bit annoying once we start TTC.

Why is it our bodies go weird when we want them to be normal! My clock work cycle had been odd for the last two. 😑
Hopefully is all regulates before June!
I didn't use ovulation tests last time but I did use prediction apps and they were a bit inaccurate! The month we hit the jackpot we decided not to use the apps and bingo! However that was probably just luck of the draw.

@Yorkshiredolls Definitely get on the wine! Hopefully your next cycle will be more regular!

@mussie I was thinking about Morher's Day too! That being said I had to remind my OH to get his mother a card so who knows if he would remember me!

@GingerRogers84 Welcome! That holiday sounds great! I love France. Enjoy all the wine!

I'm feeling a bit stressed this morning.... My last two cycles I have ovulated late at day 19 and I was preparing for that this cycle. This was going to be the first one we TTC and we were both really excited. I've been using the Clearblue advanced OPK's and they have been low for the past 4 days which would be in keeping with ovulating later on. This morning however I had a big jump in temperature and I think yesterday I had a bit of EWCM. I'm worried I ovulated yesterday and we have missed the boat.
It would be weird for the Clearblue to miss it completely I keep telling myself ( I haven't had a high let alone peak!) but I'm a bit stressed.
My OH has had nororvirus so we have only DTD early this week which would probably not cover us.
I would be gutted to be out already this month without even knowing!

Welcome @GingerRogers84 !

And glad your mystery is solved @Yorkshiredolls - enjoy the wine!

I'm hanging out with my mum this weekend for Mother's Day - lovely to think that in a years time I might be a mother or nearly a mother myself ☺️

mystery solved- AF is here. back to WTT and not feeling so guilty about all the holiday

Can I join?
We are looking at June for ttc baby no. 2!
I'm getting so excited but we have a lovely French holiday in June and I want to be able to enjoy the land of wine!
I've just started taking folic acid and vit D and am upping my fitness levels. I was a complete sloth during my last pregnancy! So I'm hoping being a bit more proactive now will reap benefits later on.

Another option is sometimes travel can throw off your cycle... Don't know how far you went for holiday, but it could be impacting things. Keeping fingers crossed for you!

gah no PTs in the local shops!! we don’t have a car to go further afield either so I’ll have to wait til tomorrow afternoon when we get home. AF still not here, so weird. Of course if positive we’ll be over the moon, that’s what’s brought me here but was ideally waiting til may/june time to TTC

Hope you get the result you want @Yorkshiredolls !

Yorkshiredolls best to take a test to put your mind at rest! I just went through the same thing last week, did a test on CD 35 which was negative and AF finally came on CD 40. No idea what the random long cycle was about. Maybe yours is the same? Hope you get the result you want!

well DH has rememinded me a couple of weeks ago there was a bit of fooling around before putting on some
protection . Oh bloody hell im going to have to go to the village shop and buy an overpriced pregnancy test before I can resume the holiday drinking again aren’t I🤦‍♀️

Anybody taking seven seas trying for a baby.. have you noticed any change in your cycles? it may just be coincidence but i’ve been taking then for about 2-3 weeks now and my period is now 4-5 days late. It’s now CD36 and period still not here. a little bit of spotting here and there. We’re on holiday in cornwall til friday and i just want it to come now. not taken a test I was just thinking each day oh today it’ll come. v. v. unlikely I’m pregnant. we have had unprotected sex but that was only 4 days ago when my period was due and spotting had started but other than that been very safe as not starting ttc til may. only thing i can think is it’s these vitamins!

@zinrepus that's so reassuring to hear. Glad it was a good appointment.

Had my appointment yesterday: GP, DH, and I all just having a chat about what to know about TTC. I've been getting anxious lately because I know we're still in a holding pattern and feel like I should be doing more. My GP was fab though! Told me that yes, I can lose some weight, but not to take the BMI recommendations as gospel. Some reminders about food generally, some specific exercise recommendations, and guidelines for when we're ready to go, what to expect in terms of weight during pregnancy, etc.

I also got to witness the hilarious conversation of my husband asking if he can do anything to improve his swimmers, to which the doctor basically said, "Your job is to make the delivery. Everything past that is support."

His main final point was to not get overly stressed about it. Read some, research some, but at the end of the day, do whatever comes naturally to you. Which...kind of dumb, but it was nice to hear a medical doctor remind me to mellow out about everything.

That said, I'm sure I will not even a little bit feel that way when we actually start, but the reminder is always helpful!