Magic dust for 2021 5month+ crew continued

Oh no @AKcheer I'm so sorry, why on earth do our bodies play these tricks on us! Late AF would send anyone a bit loopy, I'm not surprised you're feeling low. I'm back at work Monday too (from home...), on the last day of AF today I think. Fertile window looming... It's a bit like groundhog Day, TTC in T4!!!

Last month I ovulated on CD 17 and AF arrived CD 27. My app is predicting ovulation for CD 13 but I think it will be more like 17 again, so will do the LH strip tests just to keep track of it, and start to DTD frequently from next week.

Don't know what came over us today we decided to go for a run ... If you can call it that! It was a run / jog / walk / keel over kind of event but good to get out haha, we had the best intentions!

Huge congratulations @Lynne425, what exciting news for 2021 :)

@Rose2108 I've been trying since July and tbh I just took a relaxed approach this month - didn't do opks and didn't take any vitamins!

Only thing I did do was try having pineapple core (it's not that nice) for 5 days after ovulation as some say it's supposed to help implantation but looks like it may have worked 🤞🏻 xx

Oh wow @Lynne425!!! 😍 Congratulations!! What a fab start to the new year! I'm so pleased for you and glad this group is getting some magic dust!! Hope you continue to feel well, keep us posted. Can you also remind us, how long you been trying, whether you did anything diff this month? Etc? Would be super helpful and might give me some hope!

Hey @Kirby173 we have missed you, I was wondering where you got to. Good news re the drs, hopefully it won't get to that and you'll get good news soon.. I find the second week of the TWW the actual worst, so hope you are okay. I'm toward that end of AF now, so will be going into cycle 7 I think.. feeling hopeful for a new year and new opportunities. Let's face it, it can't be worse then 2020.

Some good news is my husband has been offered a different job for 6 months which is usual office hours! So we won't be contending with shift work and stuff, that might help.

@AKcheer the wait for AF goes on forever doesn't it, gutted you got a bfn... I was feeling positive for you!

Well I went for a walk for 2 hours earlier and for snowed in and then came home and took the decs down, the house feels bare!! X

Hey @AKcheer
I'm 10dpo I think - my IC was negative this morning but I decided to do a FREF and got my faint BFP 💗

However I've had no symptoms at all until today (unsure if it's just me over thinking about it) but had some nausea and bloating!!

🤞🏻 for you tho - your not out until AF arrives so don't loose hope xx

Happy New Year Ladies 🎉💗

What a start to 2021 for me - let's hope this is the start of all the BFP for us all

Baby dust to you all (and let's hope this sticks and I get to meet my 2021 miracle in September) xxx

@AKcheer @Rose2108 thank you, so relieved that the house move has finally happened, it took nearly all of 2020 haha :)

@Kirby173 good to hear from you, how are you?? I’m 5DPO like you. That sounds positive about your doctor and good to know you have that option. Keeping my fingers crossed for you this month though :)

Hope you all have a lovely NYE and that 2021 is a happy and lucky year for us all xx

Hi everyone!

I stopped getting notifications for this thread but checked out of curiosity and it’s still going which is amazing!!! I hope you all had an amazing Christmas?!

@AKcheer did AF arrive and have you resisted doing a test yet? I know what you mean about people falling pregnant right away nightmare isn’t it?! How are you feeling?

@Rose2108 I love your positive spin on this so much 😍 absolutely look at the positives! How are you?!

I’m struggling to go back through the pages on the thread for sole reason so sorry if I have missed a few of you but just wanted to let you know I’m still here with you all!

How are the rest of you doing?! Where is everyone at right now?

I am 5DPO at the moment but honestly not holding out much hope this time around. I don’t know if you remember too but I spoke to my doctor after having irregular bleeding and she has no concerns at all and said if we are still unsuccessful TTC and the bleeding continues her the next few months she will put me in for blood tests to check everything. Gives me a bit of a goal to aim towards I guess xx

@AKcheer oh I'm so sorry to hear you're feeling down, I totally get it. I'm on a rollercoaster each day and TTC makes it more stressful. I'm keeping everything crossed your symptoms are not AF. Thanks for the tips on the supplements... And the nuggets 🤣 I love it. I keep seeing the KFC advert for the gravy burger and it's tempting me so much!

If AF does arrive... these are some things I have thought in the last 48 hours:

• can get sloshed on NYE
• one month closer to getting a BFP?!
• my future baby obvs knows the world is going to shit and doesn't want to be made just yet ...

Yep, I am losing my mind, but this oddly helps!!

I think I do normally eat all the right things - always eat my 5 a day, pulses / grains / chia seeds, oily fish once a week, and barely drink. But I reckon the last 2 week's it's been more like chocolate, crisps and wine!!! So need to sort that out...

@Lynne425 ooooh the velvetiser! The dream! That's all you need for NYE. We are gunna make a Mexican Feast and some cocktails I reckon. Sorry you got a BFP but there's still hope!!

Honestly ladies it's so hard being stuck at home all day and TTC. Going into an office for 12 hours a day and being constantly busy with social plans and family things just seems so foreign now. I used to crave an early night or a Sunday at home and now I'm sick of the sight of my sofa lol. I'm worried at the end of all this loads of people are gunna have bad social anxiety and stuff! It's gunna mess with people!

I bought a Barbour winter coat in the HoF sale, but have been good otherwise... Except now I'm gunna have to look on Selfridges! Lol. I'm so glad we went to Morrisons this morn because looks like the news is gunna say the lockdown is getting more strict... Not sure how T4 can get any worse...

@AKcheer aww I'm loving your updates on Costa and McDs lol. Unfortunately I'll not get any of those for a long time - I'm in the middle of nowhere in central Scotland so stuck in lockdown 3.0 for another 2 weeks at least!!

However I did treat myself to the hotel chocolat velvetiser so I'm enjoying amazing hot chocolates at home ☕️🍫

I'm just gonna have a quiet one this NYE as we aren't allowed to mix anyway!!x

Hey all

I'm 8dpo and decided to do an IC this morning and as expected it was a BFN

Dunno why I done it - know it's far too early! I think it's because I'm soo bored with nothing to do in tier 4 except go a walk but we have snow so don't really fancy it

How's everyone else coping with the TWW?!xx

I'm pretty sure @AKcheer; I had one day of v light bleeding, one day of heavy bleeding, and one more day of light bleeding yesterday. Will see what today brings but what I imagine will happen is today or tomorrow I will be really heavy; this seems to be my period pattern now! It's just really strange, I don't know whether it's the seven seas ttc tablets but in the last 3 months my AF has been like this, whereas is always used to just be heavy for first 3 days and then light for 2. It's anything from 1 - 3 days before AF properly arrives.

I'm not gunna lie it's midday and I'm still in my pyjamas 😂 done some sales shopping and a list for the supermarket, that's about the highlight of my day!

Yes @JLP256 I think it's normal to worry, my husband used to smoke and now he vapes and I wonder if this is affecting his fertility levels. He did make a comment about trying to give up next year, bless him. I am sure he thinks about this stuff to but just doesn't talk about it! How exciting you have a new house to make a home throughout this madness.

Oh gals I'm keeping optimistic for you all!! X

Hey @AKcheer this month is going ok thanks! I moved house a few weeks ago and then I think with that and all the lockdown drama my mind has been off TTC a bit more than usual...still frantically tracking dates in my head though haha. Trying to keep busy too. I’ve not used OPKs this month which has been quite nice, having said that the only other month I didn’t use them I had a weirdly long cycle and missed ovulation 🤦‍♀️😂 I also don’t like testing too early because I can’t handle the potential disappointment of a BFN!

@Rose2108 sorry to hear that AF has arrived but glad you are keeping positive. I’m the same as you with the worrying...I’m tempted to look into private tests in the new year (if my GP isn’t helpful) because I’d sort of be ok just waiting for it to happen if I knew nothing was wrong and that it was just a matter of time + luck!

Hey ladies 😊

Well @AKcheer it's definitely AF, which makes my cycle 26 days and AF arrival 10 days after ovulation, so not too bad as some months. But still not as long as I would like and might indicate a progesterone deficiency. I'm gunna sort out my diet next month and start being more active and hope my body will sort itself out after a period of lazyness and snacking! I'm kind of used to this spotting before AF now and I suppose it's better than being late with no BFP!! I'm fine this month, I feel like my family have been quite stressed about covid (can I just say that I love how we never talk about this stupid pandemic in this group and can we keep it this way!!) And I feel so much for my friend who has just had a baby and has so much anxiety about going out and people holding the baby etc... It would be lovely to be able to get pregnant soon but I can't explain it, each month I am okay with it not happening yet. I'm sure that will change ! It's more the worry that's something is wrong... And we will try for a year and then find out we couldn't do it naturally.. I don't know why I have this worry it's probably irrational 😩

Hi @JLP256 your Christmas sounded like the same as mine! I went for a long walk with my brother today which was nice and it's nice to talk about anything but ttc! Lol.

Well I'm officially out this month then ladies, keeping everything crossed for the rest of you!! Keep us all posted pleeeease x

Hey, hope everyone had a nice Christmas. Mine was very quiet, mostly just eating and drinking!

On CD17 now and I think 2DPO. Not much to do at all for the next week so hoping I don’t go mad in the TWW!

How are you all feeling? Anyone planning on testing soon?

That's lovely @AKcheer, sounds like such a fun day! We would normally be drinking and dancing in the kitchen but I was in bed by 10.30 both days 🤣 no gyms open here... And it's raining cats and dogs! My hubby has drink quite alot the last 2 days, I think it's his coping mechanism for being in lockdown! He's such a social butterfly.

Well last night I started spotting. This is so odd and seems to be a regular occurrence in the last few months. It's just when I wipe some darker coloured discharge, which normally lasts 2 days and then leads to my AF. So I'm out pretty much! Will keep an eye on it today but I'm pretty certain that's what this is. It's this short luteal phase issue I have, I think I might spk to the GP next year, as I start spotting between 8 - 10 dpo most months and this never used to happen.

I don't test early as I am tight and those tests are expensive haha. What about you?

Merry Christmas to you gals too! It's been quite odd, only way we could describe yesterday was flat! Dinner was delicious and we facetimed family etc but was just like any other day really.

I decided to drink a few bucks fizz but nothing stronger. I'm 9DPO today. No symptoms whatsoever, just the usual waiting game for another few days. AF not due for another 5 days and I have absolutely zero plans ... Save me from tww hell!!

My AF is due on NYE now, shifted with my bbt charting, so either I will be black out drunk or celebrating a BFP?! Knowing my luck I'll be late for no reason at all! I'm gunna start a new book and might even have a doze on the sofa. Hopefully you lot in different tiers are having more festive times x