TTC baby no1. Looking for fellow crazy TTC friends!

@CAG14 our highlight will be fish & chips tomorrow too 🙌🏻 Hopefully at the seaside if it stays dry! I really get so excited about takeaways!

Well, I’m 11 dpo no symptoms and took a test this morning and def negative. Due period on Monday. Would you take that as a pretty definitive negative? I wana drink this weekend now as being told of possible redundancies on Tuesday and honestly just wana get drunk now! 🙈😭 I really hoped it would be a bfp this month as well, pretty gutted even though I knew I had literally not a single symptom. But def doing smep next time!

@CAG14 I always had a real hit and miss relationship with the IC opks - I’d get zilch on them and then a smiley on the CB. I think time of day definitely makes a difference and they do say start testing twice a day as soon as you get a smiley - I never bother with that mainly as cb is so expensive - although saying that on amazon a box of 20 were only £16 at the minute instead of £28 - bargain! Can’t even imagine how much money that company makes annually 😂

What’s everyone up to this weekend? Weather looks like it’s going to be nice so I plan on sitting in the garden and reading for most of it :-)

@LMA27 Or just could say you are hungover from the previous night?! That’s one I’ve used before lol. People are so bloody nosy aren’t they - I wouldnt dare say anything even if I did notice someone was drinking less or non alcoholic 😂

I remember once going to a hen party and it was seriously lame so I nursed a beer and then decided to just have soft drinks as it wasn’t worth a hangover - especially as I had to sleep on the floor. There was also a tiny hot tub where we were staying which I couldn’t be arsed with going in - so the whole night I had comments about ‘obviously being pregnant’ because I wasn’t drinking alcohol or sitting in a warm tub of everyone’s dead skin and germs lol - and this was before we even started ttc!

@CAG14 yeah probably a good idea! I could maybe just nurse one alcoholic drink so it looks like I’ve been drinking all night when In fact I’ve been downing the water haha but if AF arrives I’ll be drowning my sorrows!

Well that’s good news that it makes more sense why IC wasn’t dark until today but you’ve covered DTD both days anyway didn’t you so should be all good 🤞🏼 Do you feel better about it now?

@Mia1985x @Pippy20 @Stabal girls I didn’t know this about FMU and SMU, but I’ve never really got that far in this process, AF usually arrives.
As if this process isn’t confusing enough then we also have to think about the best time to take a pregnancy test, why is it so cruel.
if I ever get BFP I’m still going to disbelieve it anyway haha do we think SMU is the better bet?

Me and OH have just agreed to go for a meal 31st for a friends birthday with a couple of others, it’s the first tome we will have been out in what feels like forever. AF is due before then so at least I’ll know if I can have a drink, but now I’m worried, if I am pregnant how do I get out of the not drinking situation... But I’m thinking too far ahead how aren’t I 🤦🏼‍♀️

@CAG14 I have the femometer bluetooth one but it's really not necessary, they have a cheap one that you just enter the temperature manually to the femometer app after you've read it

@Mia1985x when I was pregnant my strongest lines weren't FMU. I tested twice a day over 3 days because I couldn't believe it and they were always stronger on SMU. But I do drink a lot of water before bed and in between FMU and SMU I wouldn't have drank as much so I dunno if that's anything to do with it. Plus I've said before my sleep is awful so sometimes when I waken during the night I'd go for a pee too so maybe not best to listen to me actually 😂

@Mia1985x I always wonderEd this, and when I was pregnant before I tested the day my period should have been due with a frer using FMU and got a strong positive almost immediately - then in the afternoon (because I didn’t quite believe it!) I tested again using a Tesco test and got a negative - I think it was probably a combination of the fact your urine is more diluted during the day and Tesco tests being a bit shit possibly! Because I still wasn’t quite convinced I then did two clear blue tests the day after - slightly overkill but I wanted to be sure 😂

@Stabal I'm with you on that, I find it utterly fascinating. Even though it is frustrating this TTC business.

What's everyones thoughts on FMU not actually being the best for pregnancy tests? I've read some interesting articles showing much higher % of positives early in confirmed pregnancies for not using FMU.

@CAG14 I'm excited for you to try the temping! I'm pathetically involved in studying charts, it's just so crazy to me how everything works. A lot of people just assume you get pregnant and don't think about all the background stuff going on in your body

@butterfly5291 that's s shame but good they got back to you and I'm sure you will get something appear in the future as they are doing them all the time. You can pick up basal thermometers on Amazon from about £6, I would def say it's worth getting one 👍🏻

@CAG14 that is so confusing but good to know so thanks for sharing. I have been temping for over a year now and taking this freak current cycle out of the equation my spike in temp has always happened either 1 or 2 days after the static smile on CB. It's definitely handy to temp and see if your body follows a pattern, you will get used to it quickly I'm sure.

Ive also wondered with the CB taking your first reading of the month as a 'base' and the following days being dependent on that initial reading, what if by the time you do your first CB your LH has already started to gradually rise. Could CB be looking for a bigger surge and that way miss it or show it alot later? Does that make sense?

I used to always not want to waste the expensive CBs so sometimes started them later than the recommended day but think this method actually hinders what they are doing.

@CAG14 ahhh that is incredibly frustrating. Do you think you'll try temping?

@butterfly5291 ic just means internet cheapie!

Sorry if this is stupid question but what does IC stand for?
I'm so impatient....I've still not had any signs I'm going to ovulate any time soon.

@Mia1985x femometer emailed back to say they have enough testers but will email in the future big anything comes up. Worth a try though!

@CAG14 actually laughed out loud at your message haha I totally know what you mean, I don’t use the fertility lube but everything else just made me laugh as I’ve thought the same before 😂 no one told me When TTC I’d be willing touching and examining my cm trying to figure out my cycle haha
You’ve DTD today and planning tomorrow so I’d definitely say you’re in with a chance and what @Mia1985x said does actually make sense.

@CAG14 I have had that happen to me before too. Now call me crazy but this is the reasoning I went with for it - so your IC is looking only for LH surge which they say is normally 24-36 hours before ovulation. However, the CB is detecting E3G as well and the static smile specifically indicates your peak fertility day. Therefore, you could technically get a positive strip with your peak LH but by the time the next day arrives your LH surge has happened but it is still your peak fertility day. Does that make any sense? Ive seen quite a few other people saying they have experienced this.

@CAG14 hmm that is strange... I feel like we should trust the cb opk rather than the ic due to how expensive they are, you’d think higher priced is better quality, but it’s weird they usually match up but not this month..
I’d say DTD anyway as you have a solid smiley, it’s detected something there so don’t waste it :) but again sorry for TMI but do you have any cm as this sometimes can indicate where you’re at in your cycle?