Too many threads and looking for friends to go through the TTC journey

Hi ladies I'm back! Sorry that I've been MIA recently! The short break really helped!

@MrsH0692 A huge congratulations from me!!! So happy for you.

I hope everyone is doing okay? My current situation is that this is my 4th month trying now and like @Vikki90 said surely the % of conceiving is increasing now. Im due af on Sunday and I have no urge to test early so I'm just waiting for AF to arrive. I've booked in for a blood tests on Monday to make sure everything is okay (which I was surprised about as drs usually don't allow this unless you have been trying for at least 12 months).

that’s a good way of looking at it @eithne.

@Vikki90 My husband likened the increasing percentage chance to flipping a coin twice and getting heads both times: try it - sometimes you'll do it first time, sometimes you'll drop the coin, sometimes it takes lots of attempts. Eventually it will probably happen.

I hate not being on the pill. Proper periods are kind of disgusting. I adjusted my CD1 to yesterday on my app because what I assumed was AF ended up being 2 days of spotting. Yesterday was definitely AF. Onwards to the next cycle!

@peachypetite mines due from Saturday onwards. Ready to get it out the way then onto the next cycle, all I keep thinking is surely I am getting into the higher % of chance to conceive as been trying for 4/5 months now...!

Started spotting today. Assuming it’s period starting (due weekend)

@peachypetite I have done that the last few time’s I have spotted too...Although sometimes I spot up to a week before 😒
Least if it’s AF showing up your only a few days away from ovulation again...every cloud. X

Thanks @Vikki90 😁

I feel sick and headachey tonight but I think it’s just because work has been very stressful. Got a bit of spotting too which I am going to assume is period as the last few months I’ve talked myself into it being implantation.

@Swife on to the next one! 🤞🏻

@peachypetite I had pains yesterday that have gone today so mines just around the corner to! On the positive we are away next weekend so I have a few wines, every cloud 🤨👍🏼

Mine should be due in a few days. I haven’t been symptom spotting at all this month. I am fully expecting period. It’s because I actually know when I ovulated and don’t think we dtd close enough.

Welp... I'm out this month 🥺. Af just started. Good luck to the rest of you ladies 🧚🏽‍♀️.

@EithneBlue I agree with your positives, shorter cycles means closer windows and more opportunities to get pregnant so head up and on to the next one! For me mine are 42 days around average which is more frustrating as I will ovulate less and harder and more expensive to work out when I am ovulating. I rang my doctor who has asked me to book in for bloods on day 2 when AF arrives so she can run some tests (lucky that I have had the same doctor since being a child and they are very good with me) I am 30 soon and I have been on the pill since 16 so I have the same worries but I am sure they are just worries. But age is just a number and people get pregnant in there 40s so we have plenty of time! 👍🏼

@WednesdaySpinner lovely, do love the lakes! We are hoping to go in summer this year to do some fell walks. Did your GP offer you any tests? Not sure how long you have been trying and whether that’s something you would want to look at if your early into your journey.

@peachypetite I had the same feeling and guess my gut was correct as well! Make sure hubby is around the same sort of day you got peak last month and am sure it will be your month! 😘

@eithne short cycles is a good thing. My last few have been 28 days. I’m 32 too. It’s weird but I always had this feeling I’d be someone who wouldn’t get pregnant fast. A lot of my friends and cousins got pregnant either on honeymoon or within a couple of months of getting married.

@Vikki90 we went to a hotel near Kendal the first night and then off to Ullswater for the second night we were so lucky with the weather too, it poured down on the Saturday when we had indoor activities planned and the Sunday was dry and sunny so that we could get out and about.

Congratulations @MrsH0692, what exciting news to come back home to!

AF has finished now for me and so I'm ready to try again this cycle. @eithneblue I'm not sure if this will help or not but I ended up going to the GP about my irregular cycles. She said that your cycles can vary up to 10 days in length and be classed as 'normal' and reassured me how rare it is for someone to have a cycle like clockwork every month. It's so hard isn't it because we don't talk about these things much in real life and so you assume that you must be the odd one out. Also I think that we are the same age, I had it in my head that I would be 32 and having a baby and by this rate I will also be 33 and still not pregnant. It's hard when you set yourself milestones and then they pass and you are no further forward, I get it completely!

Got up this morning to follow Ovia's advice. Opened the test stick before I peed. Wiped, HELLO AF on CD25: no brown spotting beforehand, just straight up AF. Stuck the stick in the pee cup anyway since it was already open. Definitely not pregnant.

@Vikki90 Actually, I thought my cycles were levelling out but I'm not so sure - according to OVIA since coming off the pill they've been 28, 26, 28 and now 25. So, you know, somewhere between 25 and 28 days.

The positives of this:

1. I can drink at the hen party I'm going to next weekend.
2. Shorter cycle means fertile window is brought forwards and more DTD :)

The negatives:

1. Not knocked up yet, will now be at least 33 before I have a child.
2. My cycle is confusing.
3. Point 2 is leading a little bit of my brain to think "what if this means I'm infertile?"

@MrsH0692 aww I bet your mum is over the moon 😊❤️ Thanks, me to 🤞🏻

@peachypetite @eithneblue how long are your cycles? Nice to be in sync with people I suppose then we can support each other through the next month. And hopefully get 3 positives...Xx

I guess the sooner it comes the sooner you can start next cycle. Sigh.

@peachypetite - I'm due on Thursday(ish) - normally a day or two variation in my cycle but roughly then. Absolutely 0 symptoms of anything except a slight cold this month: not even PMT. Ovia suggests testing tomorrow so I expect I shall POAS to find nothing of interest.

@Vikki90 I know what you mean. My cousin is pregnant and I congratulated her but haven’t been in touch much because i don’t really want to have in depth discussion about how she’s feeling etc.

@Vikki90

I’ve told my mum, as just was too excited not too. Haha. But it is nice to speak to people who know how nerve racking it all is!

I really hope you get your BFP soon 🥰 xx

@peachypetite yeah I am the same, I don’t have mine up either. I don’t feel different or anything. Hard isn’t it, I found out a friend was pregnant the other day and I am happy for them but then I want to cry inside that’s it’s not me. But it’s not over until AF arrives so we are still in the ‘game’ let me know how you get on x

I felt emotional yesterday. I guess at least this month I don’t have my hopes up whereas last month I was soooo hopeful. This journey is horrible :(

@MrsH0692 aww bet it doesn’t! Well we all here to talk to in these early weeks as I can imagine it’s quite lonely at first with it being a secret (if you are keeping it quiet)

@peachypetite I am due on this week or next week, my cycles are unpredictable. When are you due? Do you feel it coming! ? X

Anyone else due their period this weekend?

@Vikki90

A lovely feeling, but doesn’t feel too real yet! Hasn’t fully sunk in. How are you getting on? Xx