POAS Anon Christmas Party 🌲🧑‍🎄 Ho ho ho-ws your line progression?! Thread 3

@AMS19 I am good thanks. Back on furlough after spending December at work. But at least it's warm at home (office is a badly converted barn and is always freezing). Being home means it's easy to stay away from covid too, so not complaining although it was nice seeing my colleagues in Dec.

Pregnancy is going OK. I don't have any symptoms now except for tight trousers, I look like I've eaten all the cakes. It's not elegant haha 🙂

We'll all be throwing whole heaps of baby dust at you!

One thing with starting again @AMS19 is you have so much more knowledge than when you started the first time. I learnt so much from you in October / November that I genuinely don't think I would be pregnant now if it wasn't for you! I mean, I didn't know what opks and bbt was 😆 I didn't know anything! You've got this. And we are all rooting for you and here every step of the way with you.

I'm not too bad thanks. I'm 9 weeks tomorrow. Nausea has improved a lot and appetite has started to come back. Still very tired though, but I can handle that. Had a scan on Sunday and saw it and its heartbeat. It was a very surreal experience.

Hoping the next thread will be a very lucky thread with lots of bfps and good news for us all 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

@AMS19 hopefully your body will bounce back! Also when do we need a new thread? How do you know when we do by the way 😅 I was thinking this the other day and that you weren't here to do it 🤣🤣 I was like we are all lost without you 😅🌟☺️

@CardioQueen
Just did another opk and it's looking better🤞🏻

@AMS19 hello and so happy to hear from you! I've also been thinking about you, and hoping you are ok. Huge hugs ☺️☺️☺️

@AMS19 ahhh so nice to hear from you!! Really hope things go smoothly for you with TTC. I imagine in some ways it's a little like coming off the pill again in that it might take a while for your hormones balance? But obviously more nerve-wracking this time round. Have been thinking of you over the last few weeks.x

@AMS19 @Foxl2222 got a BFP the same day as @CardioQueen 👏🏻🌟😍😍

Ohhhh @AMS19 you've missed all of the BFPs! It's been wild! Isn't it fab about @CardioQueen 😍😍

Great to hear from you hoping you get back into things ASAP 🌟🤞🏻💛💛

@Emmgrem hoping you ovulate soon and get that BBT rise, really hope luck is on my side and this is my cycle 🤞

@DrS44 fingers crossed for you! cardio queen is definitely proof it can happen when you don't expect it too. Hang in there ☺️

@Greeneyedfairy @GreenApplesYo @AMS19 @jessi60 how are all you ladies haven't heard from you in a while. Thinking of you Ams19 and your OH and hope all is ok xx

@CardioQueen thanks that's really helpful! I've actually had a look at last months cover line and it was 36.2 so god knows what's going on! I'm defo all over the place! Also can't believe your OH has scabies?! How is he?

@Emmgrem Oohh yes I remember now we had similar late peaks didn't we 😭🙈 I think it just hit this month because I realise my time is tight and I was super optimistic 🤣 that's good that you've all the signs - I'm the same as you they don't seem to align with OPKs which is so frustrating!

Is anyone else who's TTC getting really pissed off with people asking if you're going to get pregnant? We obviously postponed our wedding again to 22 so everyone's like oohhh you gonna have a baby now before hand... I'm like ya ya cool hand me the pill that I swallow that makes me pregnant 🙄😅 the next person that asks me is getting the truth 🤣 yup been off the pill for 4 months and not pregnant yet thanks for asking 🙄 I'm surrounded by babies too 🤣 my Bestie is due any day now, my other friend literally just text with a pic of her new born and my other friend just added me into a group to get one of the girls baby shower presents 😅 it's actually inescapable! So all this talk of I'll just forget about it is basically impossible 🙄😅 I will try chill the fuck out though as the last thing my hormones needs is me to be all over the shop 😅

Thanks for all your support gals! Means a lot to be able to vent on here 🌟💛 my OH tries to be positive about it but I know it gets him down when I get down about it so I try not to say too much to him! So it's great being able to rant on here xxx but enough from me 🤣 I've about 40 papers to mark for Friday and here I am looking up BBTs and how to encourage ovulation 🤣🤣 xxx

@Dex1521 oh wow I'm loving your chart. Getting something textbook like that is my dream! You've done everything right so fingers crossed the luck is on your side too now!

@CardioQueen can't believe about the scabies! That's crazy. I've only ever heard of that in terms of outbreaks in care homes and things like that.
I think what happened with your cycles gives us all hope!

@DrS44 Sorry to hear how you're feeling and that it's all stressing you out a bit. I'm CD17 and absolutely nothing on OPKs. Literally 0.2 is the highest I've had all cycle so far 🙄 I didn't ovulated until CD20 last cycle and never got a high OPK so there's still time but last time I could see a few attempted LH rises by this point.
Feel the same as you about the pill and wishing I'd come off sooner so I knew whether that was the issue!
I think I will try the CB sticks next month if I still don't get a positive OPK this month. They just aren't working for me!

My temp is still down nice and low though and dropped today, plus I had ovulation pains last night and spotted EWCM so made sure to DTD. Just confused that my OPKs don't tally up with my other signs 🤷🏻‍♀️

@DrS44 those temps sound very similar to mine. Mine were pretty rocky (FF let me know this regularly) and fluctuated between 35.90 and 36.40, but the 36.40 days were when we had some really warm nights. They generally sat at 36.20 for follicular phase and then between 36.50 - 36.75 for LP. And after I got BFP they climbed higher to 37.05. I don't think there's much merit in keeping taking them after the BFP though, but it was a bit of a habit!

@DrS44 I know, it's been nothing like textbook for me! But thank you 🥰 there is definitely hope yet - I am proof!

Oh don't worry I am exactly the same - having full blown conversations with the dogs sometimes. Definitely get better responses when the words walk, biscuits or kibbles are thrown about though 😂 hope your little one feels better soon xx

Also @CardioQueen what were your temps like?! I only started temping this cycle at like CD19 and they've been around the 36.18 mark (other than this morning) so I'm presuming no ovulation as last month my temps rose above 36.5 after ovulation xxx

@CardioQueen ohh that's wild!! There's hope yet so 😅 god you had such a rough time of it - so glad you got your BFP!

Ya it's strange she's only ever been sick once before that was just bile... I know I'm the same I keep asking her how she's feeling 😅😅 as if she gonna talk back 🤣🤣 xxxx

Yes so I calculated my LP was 10 days from the previous 2 cycles which were 37 and 57 days respectively. This photo is from the cycle I got my BFP - I didn't persevere long enough in the 57 day cycle to catch my peak and I wasn't even using the OPKs in the 37 day cycle. However, I can calculate the LP in those cycles from ovulation bleeding and BBT.

So I did my first FRER at 12DPO, having expected a LP of 10 days and therefore AF to arrive at 11DPO. Gave her the whole day to show up, thinking "well Dr said I hadn't ovulated anyway so might not even make sense going based on 'expected LP'", then tested the next morning.

Aw little puppy. They get sick so much when they're young. Mine are like my babies, I always wish they could talk when they get ill 💕

Oh god I didn't even notice the CD day 👀👀👀 Jesus you persevered!! How long was your luteal phase then? And do you mind me asking when this was in relation to your BFP?

She's just 9months- and actually have no idea what made her sick. She didn't eat her brekkie either so not really sure! She seems fine in herself so I'll just keep an eye on her ☺️ xxxxx

@DrS44 awww bless puppy, do you know what made her sick? How old is she? Tbf our youngest dog is nearly 1 and is sick very regularly. He eats too much grass 🙈 (he has a balanced diet, he just likes eating everything)

Yes I think it's a good idea, lots of people fall by just DTD every other day and not bothering with OPKs. And I can understand why - you can see from my photo that it was CD38 for me, it was a very long and draining cycle. Not good for the mind really.

@Dex1521 yay for crosshairs!

@CardioQueen thanks so much that's really helpful! I think I'll do as you all suggest and just keep DTD every other night! This morning I didn't manage to take my temp because i woke up to my puppy vomiting on the stairs 😭😭 so had to jump up and check on her! She's ok now I think 🙈 I had a terrible nights sleep so I went back to sleep for 2 hours and took my temp at 8.30 so not very accurate. Did an OPK with FMU and it was a .3 🤷🏼‍♀️ but I don't think I'll bother later and take a break...

ANYWAYS enough about whingey little me! How are the graduates doing? What are yer main symptoms? Any crazy cravings yet 🤣 xxxx