Post Pill Party - The Mosh Pit !!

@ChinChilly I sometimes find Sunday nights dreadful for sleep too. Something about the FEAR of Monday maybe...

@sperr I hear you on the long cycles. I had a couple 45 day while settling back after BC and you just don't know what's going on. The fascinating thing for me was learning about the biology of it all that the extra length for me was always in the follicular phase but no matter what length my cycle is my literal phase is always 12/13 days. I'm such a nerd but find learning about this stuff fascinating and slightly appalling that we don't learn more about our bodies earlier. Feel like BC has a lot to answer for in distancing us from how our bodies actually work. Wow that was a tangent and a half.

Anyway meant to say I'm temping for the first time this month too but Brexit is killing me as my Amazon primes are now taking two weeks to arrive so it'll be CD13 before my BBT thermometer arrives so I'll be doing catch up. Need to read up about all the rules too and then oral vs vaginal etc. minefield!

@Elsie2021 I totally feel you with wishing time away! Need a better routine at the mo!

Both FF and Natural Cycles have pinpointed ovulation, so that's good! And managed to DTD O-1 and O day so crossing fingers I guess.

Thanks for tagging me ☺️ I’m still keeping up with you all most days and keeping my fingers crossed xx

Good Morning Everyone

Sounds like we’re all feeling a bit fed up! I wish I had some words of wisdom but I’m 6dpo in my first TWW and it is DRAGGING! Driving myself crazy and wishing the days away which I hate doing :(

Need to snap out of it and get more positive again!

Hope you all have a good day!

AF is finally showing her face! Never been so relieved in my life. Finally on to the next cycle (almost- still just spotting but at least it’s red now so I can assume full flow coming today). This was definitely my worst cycle, I’m not a symptom spotter and I definitely felt different!

This month, definitely on the temping!!! I already had FF as an app and a thermometer. People who don’t wake up at the same time every day what’s the converting thing? Also, if I have a glass or 2 of wine will that ruin my temp? I don’t drink during the week ever but I do like a Friday glass ( especially during lockdown when there is nothing else to look forward to 😂)

I’m also going to stop taking pregnacare this month just in case!! I have regular folic acid

I must have had 2 peaks last month on CB- if I move my ovulation date to when I felt a stabbing pain on the right hand side I should have actually started my period yesterday!

@Gracie2021 also I’ll give unorthodox a try, thank you!

@Gracie2021 it’s hard to relax and forget about it when you literally can’t do anything to distract yourself, noooo didn’t manage to get back to sleep FFS going to suffer for this later! My fitbit is telling me I’ve had 4 hours sleep 😴

@ChinChilly did you get back to sleep after? If you've already done Bridgerton (drool!) try Unorthodox. Binge watched it at the weekend and it was brilliant!!!

@TheDaydreamBelievers @ChinChilly @Emmgrem we've both been WFH full time since March and no change expected anytime soon. We're also in a bubble with my parents who live next door and are vulnerable so can count the number of outings in the last ten months on one hand. Good in some ways as no distractions but nothing to distract from the process either 😂😂🙈🙈 and then you're told "just relax and forget about it and it'll happen".....

@Moocher90 I find your OPKs fascinating. I get one over 0.5 then one peak over 1.0-1.5 usually in the same day then I'm straight back down again. Never seen so many high before. Slightly jealous tbh! Like I know I'm ovulating and it's grand but it's so hard to catch it as it's soooo rapid. Great to have that build up period.

@FlyingGiraffe queen of apps to be sure! I started on Kindara then moved to Premom when I started using the Easy@Home OPKs and then I moved my data to FF at the weekend to try parallel running the two for a bit to see if it would give me more insight. People seem to be obsessed with FF

@Moocher90 @abi555 @MissC07 @TheDaydreamBelievers I wish I had it to watch now seen as I’ve been awake since 4am AHHHHH Send help 😂

@abi555 @ChinChilly @MissC07 I also binge watched Bridgerton. The Duke of Hastings...what a hottie! I can’t wait for the next series....I hope there is one

@Gracie2021 i definitely agree that lockdown makes obsessing worse. Esp since my MMC I am so preoccupied with googling etc

@MissC07 @ChinChilly @abi555 love Bridgeton. I'm pretty sure it counts as a TTC effort given how hot the duke is. Can I get pregnant just by watching him? Probably

@abi555 I actually feel sad I’ve watched it all 😂

@MissC07 @ChinChilly OMG I loved bridgerton! Binge watched it in an entire day I think (didn't move from the sofa for about 12 hours!! Great day!)

@MissC07 The 12pm one today looks the strongest - I would say to test again tomorrow at that time after a 3-4 hour hold if you can. I don't think it's there just yet but it might be soon - the first time I used opks I gave up on cd13(lol!) because I thought they weren't working for me, and randomly did a test cd19 and had a super dark line it was so obviously the peak. I don't think you'll doubt when you get a peak. I'd get dtd just in case anyway! If you do it every 2-3 days you've covered all bases!

@ChinChilly Hope you managed to eat something else instead! Fingers crossed for peak tomorrow!

@FlyingGiraffe it was soo good slow cooked with the diced beef, the meat just fell apart. We were having pulled pork tonight I couldn’t face it the look and smell made me feel abit off 🤔 I’ll be powering through and DTD tonight I’ll kick myself if I miss my chance this month

Once my OPK had dried properly it was definitely darker than the last one so hopefully peak tomorrow

@FlyingGiraffe This is my first month temping and doing OPK's - I've attached my chart and my OPK's on both Premom and Femometer... I'm so confused!

@ChinChilly Fingers crossed the evenings just don't like us peeing on OPK's and things start looking up again tomorrow.

@Moocher90 Your OPK's are looking good 🤞

@FlyingGiraffe thank you!! I might buy another pack of 100 cheapies then get more expensive ones when I run out again if no BFP by then 👍

@ChinChilly Ooo, sounds nice with diced beef! I made it too hot again - DH was sweating! Haha! I hope you feel better tomorrow so you can dtd!

@MissC07 Have you been temping? It sounds like you could have had your peak when it was 75%. Do you have a pic of your opk tests?

@crabette I'm using the Clearblue opks too - really hope we both get our peaks soon! I'm on my 3rd day of flashing smiley now, after 3 days of blanks. Last month I got my peak by testing in the evening when I had a strong line on an IC. I think dtd every other day is the best way to go for now though!

@ElizabethP141 I have both - the Femometer LH tests and Clearblue advanced digital. I bought the Clearblue advanced digital because it tests for estrogen as well as the LH hormone so it's supposed to give you more high fertility days. They are quite expensive though!

@ElizabethP141 I would say it looks ok but I’m a temping newbie 😂

So 4 hour hold my OPKs are still faint, who knows what’s going on, worried now I’ve missed my peak overnight

Forgot to add photo 🙈

@ChinChilly

Yeah who knows but it seems to be working ok so I’m going to stick with it as same time for me was just stressing me out way too much.

NC app says I have “nice smooth curves with small day to day variations” 😂

This was last cycle, 2nd cycle off the pill (first one was really long). Apart from one really low temp (I think I fell back asleep and had my mouth open whilst it was measuring so should have excluded it) I think it looks ok?

CD16 today yesterday I tracked 1 OPk and it was 0 but today looking better. My morning OPk is always nearly non existent so never scan it in on premom.

I really hope ovulation happens soon!

@MissC07 I loved Bridgerton! I think I binged watched it over 2 days.

@ElizabethP141 I’ve never used the CB ones I only ever use the cheapies so I can’t help there! Interesting about you taking your temp whenever you wake up I set my alarm for it at the moment but it is abit of a pain