CD1 again, anyone want to join me??

@A1b2c3d4e5f6g7
Thankyou. Thats what im worried about 🤣 we will be exhausted. I normally get 3-6 flashy faces. Im not sure which one is right to be honest. We are looking forward to giving it ago though. This is cycle #8 for us x

@Fizzybelts yes I tried SMEP last month, did every other day until our first flashing smiley, then every day, but the flashing smileys kept coming!! I didn't get a solid face, and stopped testing after ten days of flashing smileys, so I'm not sure if we did it right. Did continue until CD 21, and it was a chore like @Dinomama21 says.

I think SMEP is a good idea though, and will use it next month I think

I've literally googled what SMEP and we did that unknowingly last cycle. Waiting for flashing smileys and DTD ever day then stopped 1dpo, so five days of DTD was honestly like a chore the 3rd day in!

I'm glad I found MN because ei was feeling crazy to! I accidently woke DP up early this morning rummaging trying to find the OPK stick half asleep, he wasn't impressed 😂

@A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 hey, did you use SMEP? I didnt know whether to DTD everyday from flashy face or when i get the solid face? X

That's hilarious. We got flashing smiley for ten days on the CB kit, so kept having sex every day with no peak, I just honestly didn't have the stamina to continue for the rest of the month. I think we did it twice in the last week. Hope its not the case this month, and I get a positive opk sooner!

Can I join please? A bit late to the party I realise! I’m on CD4 atm so a few days behind I think, but reading some of the messages on here is like a breath of fresh air - I am so glad to read that other people have done things like use opks without their DP knowing! Makes me feel less crazy!

That said, I told him the relaxed “try it and see” approach that we went for last month wasn’t going to work for me, so he knows I’m using the sticks this month, but I’m going to try to be subtle about it! Think SMEP is going to be too much for us so I think we will just DTD every other day from when I get high fertility on the clear blue opks to a few days after peak and hope that this covers us!

It’s such an emotional rollercoaster and only in the second month of trying! Really thought I had some faint early positives last month but then followed by negatives and AF so just have been evap lines. Determined to hold off testing this month but bet I crack in the end!

@Dinomama21 its so hard I agree! I was so relaxed before miscarriage end of last year, and now I am being ridiculous each 2ww! I am wondering though if its because I have waaayyy too much free time on my hands in the evenings and weekends what with lockdown etc 🙊

Thank you. I don't feel like that's the case here though, because last time I felt different - crampy, travel sick, sore boobs etc at this point. Now I don't feel anything really, except a lot of (tmi) cm. Just limbo.

@magnum99 I was doing the exact same 🙈 and I was the same with DS, was relaxed and not trying like with tracking etc.. just seeing what would happen without using protection. This time completely obsessive! I seem to be more laid back this month- not checking MN every 2 minutes, we'll see how long that will last when I reach the TWW!

@A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 oh gosh, thats frustrating, I hope AF turns up or you get a bfp- some don't get a positive untill 10 days after a late AF because they ovulated later than they thought 😊

Hi can I join also. I should match up cycle wise, CD 1 should have been 27th Feb, but I'm three days late. Negative tests, no symptoms. I'm now just waiting for period to arrive, then taking soy isoflavones days 2-6 next cycle, like I see some of you others are. Hopefully they work!
@AlexaPlayWhiteNoise I'm so sorry for your losses. I hope you're okay.

@Dinomama21 it is horrible, I was convinced I was pregnant, I was also planning things like how/when to tell the kids etc 🥲

Although I've got 2 kids I've never been like this previously. With DS I didn't think I could be pregnant due to lack of DTD, only did it once and it was straight after AF so thought there was no way. I was 7 weeks before finding out 🙈😂
With DD we weren't trying, we just stopped trying to prevent pregnancy, so totally relaxed and then like "oh I think AF is late, I'll do a test".

I'd love to be so relaxed about it all this time too but I want it really badly and I know my biological clock is ticking.

@Timetobeamummy I know the thought if having the Christmas period off is so lovely!
@Magnum99 it's horrible isn't it 🙈 I went 4 days thinking I was pregnant and planning thinks in my head, and was so excited, I'm definitely not testing early this cycle 😂 I say that now....

@Dinomama21 @LemonDrizzle44 my OH birthday is 19th December as well as his mum and brother very busy month. So I’m in the club that I would like to avoid Dec/Jan. However the other part of me feels like it might be the lucky month so I’m going to just stick with it. I’ve always fancied Christmas off work 🤣

@tulips87 I’m starting them this month as well CB OPKs my suggestion would be to start earlier and then can always adjust if needed after. I’m starting on day CD10 for a 31 day cycle.

that is so me! I am so relaxed the last few days because AF is here spent all weekend enjoying my favourite things Gin & Cake! In a couple of days I will turn into a difference person 🙈

@Dinomama21 I think I may have had a CP last month too. I did 2 tests which had questionable lines, unsure whether they were the faintest positives or evap lines. AF was late too so I think maybe an egg fertilised but didn't stick. Guess we'll never know.
Fingers crossed for this month x

@Fifi1086 @Dinomama21 @AlexaPlayWhiteNoise thanks! I will start tomorrow CD7.
I've been nice and chill since AF arrived, now here comes the obsessive woman in me again from tomorrow. I wish I wasn't that person but you just can't help it.

@tulips87 I bought the clear blue OPKs last month too (first time ever using them) and they advised to start testing from the day after AF stops, ill do the same for this month too, just incase. I got my static on CD13 but started getting flashing smileys on CD9, but everyone's different. Some people even test twice a day, in the morning and then later at night/evening. I just tested in the morning and was tracking my BBT.
@Magnum99 I was the same last cycle, completely obsessive with everything, I ended up having a CP, I drove myself crazy Poas and seeing them go fainter 🙈 I had a crap time at work last month too, and ended up being off for a week. But onwards and upwards, I'm feeling positive and going to plan lots of distractions this cycle, and no early testing 😂

@Fifi1086 I have a 26/27 day cycle.
Actually I started testing on CD10 last time and got nothing then a peak on CD12.
I don't want to waste the OPK's but I do want to hopefully see some flashing smileys before I get a static.

I've got a positive opk today (well, several it's a bit of a novelty getting a positive so I keep doing them!).

Everyone who was pregnant at the same time as me is also giving birth now and there's loads of newborns about. Ds2s due date is in a couple of weeks so that's hard. I won't be stopping either, I would have done previously to avoid a Christmas birthday but I don't mind anymore now.

I'll join too, AF arrived on Tuesday so I'm now on CD6, 2nd cycle.
I'm feeling quite deflated about it all at the moment, well not just about TTC, just had a crap week and struggling with work etc which has left me feeling flat and doubting everything I'm doing in life.
I don't want to end up getting obsessed like I did last month, I was addicted to POAS and got myself more upset by symptom spotting and convincing myself I was pregnant when I wasn't.
This cycle Im going to try to not test until AF is officially late.

Hi ladies, just hopping on here to ask for some advice please.

So I'm CD6 today and last day of AF.
I'm just wondering when I should start the CB OPK's?
Last cycle they arrived in the post very late, I started the OPK on CD 9 and had no smileys until an unexpected static smiley on CD12.
Should I start tomorrow? x

@Dinomama21 I'm a Christmas baby as are a lot of my friends. I have a lot of family early January and i feel it's a crap time for birthdays.
Although part of me doesn't want to stop trying. Will just have to see how long this cycle is. My cycles vary from 27-34 days.

@Fifi1086 @LemonDrizzle44
So sorry, its so hard seeing pregnanct woman and new babies, I keep thinking it'll happen when it's meant to ❤
I'm thinking the same with the timings, try this cycle and then a break for a few cycles, got so many family birthdays in Dec/Jan, including DS.