The Turkey Baster Gang (gobble gobble)

@Birchybirch @bigsweetpotato all three of us on CD9 today wooo (and all of us having mighty weird opk results lol) - fingers crossed cycle buddies! 🤞🏼

Ah massive congratulations @dinkboo! Definitely given me hope that one day I'll be in the same boat! I'm on cd9, and always assumed I didn't ovulate until later on in my cycle. Tried a cheapie opk yesterday for the 1st time, nothing. Tried today and its a low high of 80 odd %. Just done SI tonight, and will carry on testing and SI-ing for the next few days, oh the glamour! 😂 Got some cb tests too, so will try those tomorrow alongside the cheapie! Fun times eh!? X

@DinkBoo massive congrats!!!

@eloiseislost thank you for the info on the cb tests! I have been mightily confused as I have a static smiley on it but my cheapies aren't showing too strong a line... I don't know what is going on. only got a few left so I probably won't get anymore and will just stick to cheapies

I am CD9 so will be trying tonight hopefully! Hope everyone is ok x

@eloiseislost Things you never expected to be a positive development in your life!

This has definitely been my most obvious and most persistent symptom.

That and crying at Supervalu and other christmas ads, but that could just be tiredness and lockdown

@DinkBoo That's good to know, I've been burping and farting like a machine the past couple of days! 💨 😂

Just to add to everyone's symptom spotting fun, apparently constant burping is a very good pregnancy sign. Info courtesy of sonographer before she found anything.

Possibly one of the few which isn't a pmt/pregnancy common torture device.

@DinkBoo Amazing news! Have been thinking about you all morning. A little heartbeat!! How lush. Super congratulations 😊

@DinkBoo Doing a victory dance here!! 💃🏻 So happy for you! I hope you have a well-deserved relaxing evening. 💞

@primrosechill You are absolutely right, if something is stressing you out, there's no place for it in your life. Especially if it's pricey as well!
Best of luck, looking forward to hearing happy news from you and everyone here!!🤞🏼💞🧚🏼‍♀️

@DinkBoo congratulations that’s fab news!! 🥰 xxx

@eloiseislost thanks for your input - I think the bottom line is, even if I know to the second when my ovulation starts, it still doesn't guarantee a pregnancy so might as well do it every other day, hope for the best and stop stressing about the weird - and may I add, VERY expensive - OPKS! ;)

@DinkBoo YESSS! I'm so thrilled for you, must be such a relief

Thanks for all your good wishes, I was genuinely thinking of you all giving me a virtual hand hold whilst trying not to freak out in the EPU.

We have a bean with a heartbeat! . And either a collapsed cyst, or a bleed of some kind, or a lost twin (suspicion seems to be the latter).

I should be about 7 and a half weeks, but measuring 5.5 which I think I was more worried by than they were.

Another scan booked for around next week (my brain may not be back to fully functioning yet) to check up on everything. I may have to actually start believing I am actually pregnant (with obvious reservations about not counting chickens).

Thank you all again so much, you have no idea how much I owe to you all in getting to this point. I did a lot of lurking on the first thread

I hope from the bottom of my heart that everyone has their lucky month very soon.

And am now off to collapse in a big heap with a brew.

I only buy 20 syringes at a time 😂 am I being too hopeful? If no success this cycle I'll look into the applicators 😊

I did go a bit crazy with symptom spotting 😳 but I'm 9dpo and most of them have gone away so must have been just reading into it! I had more terrible cramps yesterday, the kind that make you gasp or stop mid sentence so I'm sure people at work think I'm nuts 😂 they're not entirely wrong! So I was hopeful I'd wake up feeling pregnant but nope.

@eloiseislost that's really interesting! I always knew they worked a bit differently to cheapie ones but didn't know in what way 😊

@MrsKin90 hope your not going to mad with symptom spotting (I’m the same) we have been ttc pretty much the same amount of time so I know what you mean about shouldn’t I know my body after all this time but every month seems to being something different and then the hopes go up! Fingers crossed for you. Re the applicators I really do prefer them (I also have a box of 100 syringes 🤣) I think they suck up just fine but do it slowly, I just push the bubbles out the top and off I go.

@Oilyoilyoilgob I have also been doing OPKs and I’ve had high for 4 days! This mornings one didn’t seem as dark as yesterday so I’m non the wiser but we have SI everyday since Monday just in case. Yesterday I had cramps and was bloated which is ovulation signs for me so I feel like I have but my bbt hasn’t gone up 🤷‍♀️ Not sure if I should skip tonight and so tomo but I’ll see how I feel!
How often are you SI? Do you always do it in the mornings? I do it before bed but then I always feel so gross as it all dribbles out 🤣 I never no how long to leave it before I go for a wee?!

@eloiseislost really well explained! @primrosechill I’ve never used a CB test I just stick with the cheap ones! Good luck! X

@primrosechill I'm not 100% sure on the specifics of this, but the CB digital sticks are not like normal OPKs because they measure two hormones against a recorded baseline. So the two lines are not test and control, they are both test lines for different hormones. If you look closely, there's a wee circle on top, divided in two and there's some dye in there as well. No idea exactly how it works, but I'm fairly sure you're not supposed to interpret them as a regular OPK.
Having said all that, I hated CB digital and switched back to OPKs because they worked just fine for me!

Hahaha @Oilyoilyoilgob we also have one of these 200 syringes boxes - in fact I think we might even have two because we ordered different sizes.

We bought these applicators: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07FT92XLQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s01?psc=1&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&ie=UTF8 To answer your question, @MrsKin90, I found the suction to be just as good on these. The only issue is that there were some extra air bubbles, so if you're one of those people who are super concerned about these, it might not be ideal. But yeah, the rounded shape was super nice compared to the syringe.

So my digital OPKs gave me a static smiley today (peak) - I am utterly confused because when I dismounted the test, the test line was nowhere near as dark as the control line! Same on the cheapie. I will continue testing on cheapies and if I get a darker line, I'm officially a CB non-believer haha. But I have also decided not too obsess about OPKs too much and just stick to the every-other-day approach - round two tonight!

@primrosechill I'll be interested to know when you ovulate! Fingers crossed for you! I looked at the vaginal applicators but couldn't believe they have the same suction ability 😂 do they?! I'm glad they're working for you 😊

Sorry, I’m CD8, not 8DPO duh!

Hello ladies! Love coming to mumsnet and finding plenty of posts to read from your lovely selves 🥰

@DinkBoo keeping everything crossed for you for positive news and so sorry you are going through this stress. Let us know when you know more! 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 & @eloiseislost look at that line!! Definitely getting nice and strong.

@MrsKin90 oooh 8DPO, exciting - but also totally nerve wrecking, I bet! Hope this is your cycle. ❤️

For everyone in the fertile week, good luck! 8dpo for me today, supposedly ovulating in 4-5 days but uber confused by digital OPKs and ao now I think it might be sooner. We inseminated last night and plan to do every other night. We got the vaginal applicators - I really like them!! The rounded shape is so much nicer and somehow the wider opening makes me hope that maybe there’s a smaller chance of sperm damage?? The things we get excited by while SI-ing 😂😂😂

@eloiseislost if you're working at home it isn't so bad! I think maybe telling someone might help it to sink in if that's what you want 😊

@Lori23TTC oh I'm okay thank you, over here in crazy-ville AKA Symptom Spotting Land. 8dpo today! Trying not to read into them but it's so impossible 😂 you'd think by now my head would learn.

@eloiseislost thank you for the link that looks yummy! X

@MrsKin90 thanks lovely... how are you getting on? Xx

@MrsKin90 Thank you, fellow NHS employee! You are absolutely right and I didn't for a moment felt I was being lectured! 👩🏻‍🏫
Our clients are in the ward because of incidences of violence and aggression, so I will speak to my manager immediately. Right now she's off with COVID, along with other staff, so the ward is in lockdown and only allows nursing and medics in and therefore I'm working from home anyway.
I honestly don't mind telling people, I'm terrible at keeping secrets anyway, it's just that I'm not sure I have processed it properly myself!