Anyone TTC and fresh off the pill

@LittleRa I had bright yellow urine too and it was linked to one of the vitamins in my Pregnacare preconception supplements! I changed from those anyway and it stopped.

@mintgreenlife It was our second cycle of TTC but the first month after I’d had a proper AF. We have been very lucky.

@LittleRa it's highly possible you could have ovulated, sure as your DTD every other day you wouldn't have missed it if you did :)

Hmm I've not found that personally from folic acid, what else are you taking? I just take folic acid and vitamin D, but I've been taking vitamin D since the start of the year now. Maybe if you're taking a lot of supplements all of a sudden your body just needs time to adjust?

Morning :) @ZRS86 Oh wow I'm so pleased for you! Did you conceive first time? Such brilliant news xx

Yep we've decided to TTC now :) a few things changed - we were hoping the update from Boris on Sunday would help us work out what we were doing, but no such luck. Then I got AF on Monday. As we were waiting for my first natural period before TTC anyway, I hadn't really wanted to throw trying to decide anything about that into the mix too, as read it can take a while to come back. But then I got AF and after Sunday being no use we decided we would just go for it and hope the wedding etc would slot in some way or another.

Thanks for the replies about ovulation after withdrawal bleed. I haven’t tracked any ovulation symptoms or used OPKs or anything, I’ve been on the pill for around 6 years since I had my DD (and was on for over 10 years before that!). I didn’t want to get too obsessed with tracking symptoms too early on ha ha just to try DTD every other day, but I didn’t know whether this first month would even count or if I had to wait until after a natural period.

As far as symptoms go, since coming off the pill I’ve had some constipation and bright yellow (like nearly neon!) urine. I think they could be to do with the folic acid and vitamins though?!

Hi @MintGreenLife. I spoke to you on another thread about vitamins and things but you hadn’t decided whether you were going to TTC then. We have a new date for our wedding next summer now but are still hoping for the ceremony on our original date in July if we can. I got a BFP this morning which is very exciting so if it sticks, I will have a baby at our wedding next year!

Hi @LittleRa. I came off the pill in March and had my withdrawal bleed and then I ovulated after that and had my first normal period about 30 days after the withdrawal bleed. I didn’t track ovulation but had EWCM and all the signs pointed to ovulation so I think you can.

@LittleMissBlatherskite we are thinking of doing the exact same! If proper 'wedding' can't go ahead this year, we were hoping to still have the ceremony on or around the same date, and then the wedding party a year later, ideally on the anniversary. Hopefully a baby or bump will fit in with all of this!

@LittleRa I came off the pill on the 7th of April, breakthrough bleed from the 11th-14th, then got first natural AF this Monday just gone (11th of May) and I think I possibly ovulated during the first cycle after stopping my pill. I wasn't using OPKs at this point, but tracking CM and got EWCM around half way through my cycle, so you may ovulate :) generally advice is that it could take a few months for your cycle to regulate, but that doesn't necessarily mean you won't ovulate. Some women get pregnant straight after coming off the pill. Of course I can't say specifically whether you will or not. Have you been tracking CM or anything?

Does anyone know whether it is likely I’ll ovulate this month, after having come off the pill and had a withdrawal bleed, now on CD 15 if counting from start of withdrawal bleed. Or is it a totally lost cause until I have another period? We’ve been DTD at least every other day since what would be CD 6. I just don’t know whether to count this time or if it totally doesn’t count? I’m not using OPKs or anything like that yet.

@KatieG200394 Thank you!! I hope everything works out for you too. Very exciting year ahead!

@MintGreenLife I definitely need to find and join that thread! We're waiting to see what happens with the COVID restrictions and TTC. OH would like us to be married before any babies arrive, if we were lucky enough to get a BFP in the next few months I think we'd have a very last minute intimate wedding and a big party on our first anniversary. If we haven't conceived by the time restrictions are lifted we'd probably stop TTC for a little while and plan the big dream wedding.
It's so difficult to predict or plan anything ATM. We're just going with the flow.
Fingers crossed that your September wedding goes ahead!

@LittleMissBlatherskite I'm in another thread 'New to mumsnet, TTC cycle 1 club' and there are lots of us in there in the same situation and have all come to the same conclusion to start TTC instead.

Do you have any ideas for when you might rearrange the wedding to? My OH has asked a few times now when we might be able to have the day and every time I try and work it out it gets so complex as all depends on when we conceive and how pregnant I'd be happy to be on the day! I'd rather just go with the flow and see what happens, but he's keen to pencil a date in...

@LittleMissBlatherskite sorry to hear you've had to postpone your wedding, but exactly, I think its quite exciting that there may be a baby bump or a baby at the wedding when they do get to go ahead, good luck to you too hope everything re wedding and babies works out for you soon ☺ xx

Hi all
@KatieG200394 @MintGreenLife I'm in a similar situation as both of you. Our wedding was planned to take place at the end of June, but has been cancelled. We had also intended to start TTC #1 as soon as we were married, but no idea when that will be able to take place now so we've decided not to postpone TTC - I could always squeeze a baby bump into my wedding dress

I came off Cerazette in January after 10 years, my cycle returned to normal in 2 months. I missed the May boat (CD21), so am awaiting AF to arrive (20th/21st) and then we'll begin TTC.
Good luck! 🍀

@Luxc90 thanks so much, it's a shame but hopefully things will work out one way or another, just not in the order we planned but that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things :)

@Gizzy23 Hi I’m good thanks! Yourself? I know I was super lucky! Hoping for it to be the same this time around but don’t think I’ll get that lucky again! Only been off this pill for just over 2 weeks though so who knows!

Hi all
Still new to posting on here. I came off the pill (Brevinor) in January. Had withdrawal bleed then first period 19th March then next on 30th April. Still trying to work out best times to try. Not using tests but tracking using female health tracker on FitBit. Saying my fertile window is in 3 days. DH and I TTC DC1.

@Rainbow1808 - I was wondering if AF would come back with vengeance 😂 but luckily so far no super painful cramps. Hopefully it's not too long for all of us ttc, fingers crossed for all of us! I'll definitely keep everyone updated 🙂 I've been driving myself mad with symptom spotting 😓

Anyone else suddenly (since being off the pill) got super visible veins on their boobs (sorry tmi) even through their nipples? As well as over my Chest, neck, lower abdomen. Is this a sign of AF? Or did I just not notice them before 😂

@L4yl4 Hi! I’ve not found it too bad! A lot of painful cramps at the very start that made me feel like I was going to have the worlds biggest period but they have calmed down now! I’m going to be so impatient whilst ttc With DC1 I got pregnant straight away after stopping the pill so I’m not used to all this waiting around and symptom spotting x

@Gizzy23 - were you on the combined pill? I'm not sure how much it differs from being on the combined one compared to POP (Cerelle for me), I think the idea is that potentially we are fertile as soon as we stop taking it so really just waiting for AF to arrive so then I can track cycles. Actively TTC now despite not having had AF or withdrawal bleed. (Sorry tmi) We've been DTD each time I've had EWCM, though I doubt I'd be lucky enough to have caught so early as I've only been off the pill for 4 weeks! Fingers crossed for both of us that AF shows up soon!

@Rainbow1808 Hii, how are you getting on being off Cerazette? I too was on Cerazette many years ago before they switched it over to Cerelle although I'm pretty sure it's the same thing! No worries about tmi here, I think we'll all be discussing CM, AF, DTD 😂

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Sorry that was meant to say conceived DC1 within 5 days of stopping the pill

Hi thought I’d join in TTC DC2 and came off the pill on the 28th of April. So far, no withdraw bleed but a lot of ewcm. Presumed this was ovulation so just went with it and DTD a lot Currently having thick CM (sorry tmi) on and off so no idea what’s going on. No symptoms really, apart from the ones I make up in my head and think I’ve got Conceived DC1 within literally 5 of stopping! That was the combined pill though, I’ve just come off the mini pill (cerazette) so don’t know if it makes a difference Good luck to you all! Xx

@Gizzy23 Hi! Absolutely no idea when AF is due. Been off Cerelle 4 weeks exactly today, didn't have periods whilst on it so no idea where I would be in my cycle. I wondered if EWCM was just withdrawal from coming off the pill, or a sign that AF is coming. I've heard so many conflicting stories! Similar to you, also had cramping (though really light, barely painful) and some twinges so don't know if that was ovulation pains at the same time as EWCM! Though I've had what I think is a EWCM on and off since 27th April! 😖 no idea what my body is doing. The OPK's I've done haven't been dark enough to be positive either 🤷🏽‍♀️