April 2021 TTC - let's chat :)

@Tryingandhopeful Hope you are doing okay.

@tothemoonandback21 so sorry about the darn evap. Gutting to feel hope then get BFNs. Thanks for sharing. I did break and do a test with FMU today. Obviously BFN. I also have cramps that I get before AF and have been super moody which feels like PMT. TTC PMT is so much worse! I hope you are able to give yourself time to be sad and disappointed then next is a month of success 🤞🤞

@Puppymamababymama Well done on keeping yourself distracted. Definitely better for mental and emotional health. Hope you can keep going and AF never arrives! 🤞

@purpleskyssssss good on you DTD every other day. Hopefully this will cover all bases. 🤞🤞

Hope everyone is doing well, I am CD 20 and still no peak ovulation yet. On clear blue ovulation been getting high for last 9 days but on cheapies not even reached a high reading yet so not sure what's going on! Last month I got peak on day 14 still following SMEP and DTD every other day and using pre seed so we will see

@tryingandhopeful sorry to hear about this. I've always heard it increases is more important than the number itself. Hope everything turns out okay for you

@timeandtidal I'm 7DPO and I've been good about not thinking about it too much but I have a feeling I'm going to want to test on Monday at 10 DPO ugh the wait is hard.

@tothemoonandback21 I know some woman won't get a positive until a week after AF is due so there may still be hope. Hope you are doing okay ❤️

@Tryingandhopeful really sorry to hear you're having to go through this extra worry. I'm glad to hear the pain is subsiding now, that's got to be a promising sign surely... and agree that it's so silly when everything gets calculated from LMP, your workings make perfect sense! Hope you can do something nice for yourself today, will be thinking very positive thoughts for you tomorrow. X

@Timeandtidal hang in there and let me be a cautionary tale to you, I tested way too early this week and got my hopes up with what must have been an evap line (or chemical maybe as it had colour? Not sure)...BFNs since and AF due tomorrow. 😔 I've told myself I won't test early next cycle but realise I'm probably kidding myself! Good luck🤞🏻🌟🍀 x

@Tryingandhopeful So sorry you've got this to worry about but fingers crossed everything is going to be fine. They have to take it seriously at EPU but hopefully just being cautious and like you say they may have date wrong as you ovulated late this cycle. Sending positive thoughts your way. And thanks so much for your helpful advice!

I've been keeping an eye on the thread ladies and hope you're all doing well. I have been a bit quiet trying not to obsess in 2WW. I'm 8DPO so will hold out as long as I can before POAS. I ordered two FRERs so I expect I won't last long.

I have all of your wisdom to help me start properly tracking my Ov next month at least, if I need to 🤞 so that is making me feel better. 💜

Thanks @purpleskyssssss I know I need to stop with the Googling and reading people’s threads about low hcg!!!

Yes @tuxedocat I just need the number to go up 🤞🏻🙏🏻 Yeh I have no idea but I’m assuming that’s what the lady at EPU is going by! I will mention about my ovulation date when I speak to them again Friday!! They said they hoped to get the results back by the afternoon but if not will have to wait until Monday, and just realised Monday is a bank hol so I’m going to try and see if they can get the results ASAP as I am going to be a nervous wreck all weekend otherwise! The pain has subsided now so not sure what that means! I can’t get the thought that I might be having a ectopic pregnancy out of my head 😩

@Tryingandhopeful sorry to hear that! No advice either! Just the same as @tuxedocat got my fingers crossed for you!!

Google really is the worst aswell as much as you know it won't help it's hard to resist having a look but it really is all the rubbish stuff you will be noticing, hope all goes well!

@Tryingandhopeful I know that they say the number is not as important as long as it doubles, BUT if you do think you are earlier than you are (dating from LMP seems so odd sometimes if you know roughly when you ovulate) then that looks to be favourable! ESP if you O’d almost a month after your LMP!

Got my fingers crossed for you xx

Thanks @tuxedocat!! Feeling a bit crappy, my pain is still there but it’s not severe just a mild discomfort. Trying not to worry but easy said than done!! Also way too much googling!! I came across this

Pregnancy week Standard hCG range
3 weeks 5–50 mIU/mL
4 weeks 5–426 mIU/mL
5 weeks 18–7,340 mIU/mL
6 weeks 1,080–56,500 mIU/mL

Now I’m thinking the EPU lady has got me at 6 weeks + 5 due to my LMP which was 12th March which would match with what she’s saying about my levels being low for that time! Based on the chart I should be over 1000 in week 6! However I know I ovulated late in this cycle and my app, bbt and OPKs all put ovulation on 9th April which makes me 4+5 weeks! So it’s in line with the chart! Ahhh just don’t know what to believe! But from what I’ve read I can’t do anything until I get my second number back and compare and only hope it’s doubling as expected!!

@Tryingandhopeful I’m so sorry to hear your news, I’ve no advice but didn’t want to read and run. Hoping you’ll have some better blood results on Friday. How are you feeling?

Hey guys I hope you’re all ok!! So update from me. I had some pains in my lower left side and in my left foot late last night. I rang 111 who referred me to A&E and I had my bloods done. My hcg came back at 388, I spoke with EPU this morning and she said they are very low for what they would expect but I’ve got to go in for another blood test on Friday. She said if the levels haven’t increased then we need to make a plan moving forwards 😔😔 feeling so worried and anxious now!! Has anyone else had this experience before? Everything I read relates to it being an ecotopic pregnancy 😩 fearing the worst right now

Morning all, you may have seen it already but have just found this useful decision aid on the vaccine from the RCOG for those TTC/pregnant...sharing in case helpful 🙂 x
www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/guidelines/2021-02-24-combined-info-sheet-and-decision-aid.pdf

Thanks @Mumofboys20122017 ❤️ I'd heard that about the colour thing too...hmm I guess only time will tell! 🤞🏻x

@Mumofboys20122017 Aww, I'm ok thanks! I don't really have any symptoms I was feeling tired and had sore boobs but that seems to have passed! Just hoping I'm lucky to not have them and nothing is wrong! X

@Tryingandhopeful Thanks for the advice on calculating my DPO, really useful - I got my solid smiley on 16th, app says 17th was ovulation day and I have a luteal phase of 14 days so I think that makes me 8DPO..? Re the jabs I was also due my second dose of the AZ last week but have postponed while TTC, need to think what to do about it if I'm out this month.

Plot twist: When I said I got another BFN this morning, I had actually checked at 3 mins (stark white) then put it down thinking it was too early anyway and got distracted by my preschooler. When I went to put it in the bin 1 hour later, this is what I saw! Can anyone who knows about evap lines tell me what I'm looking at here please??! I have no idea when it appeared, between 3mins-1 hour after testing 🙈 but it looks blue... Also I used the other test from this pack yesterday and it was still stark white an hour after testing (I remember showing it to my husband then to check there was no line). I now can't test until my next Amazon delivery on Weds, which is probably for my own good! 😬

@Tryingandhopeful I've not had any dozes yet. I decided against it when we started trying so I'll probably wait until I've had the baby until I get it. It's really personal choice I think but I don't want injected with something that albeit has been trusted as safe for now, into my body at such early stages of pregnancy. I just don't have a good feeling about it. My friend who is pregnant is the same. Not sure if that's my anxiety though as I'll probably get it once baby is here.

@Tryingandhopeful I see, that was the first of me using them. Looks like I've got my dates correct then lol. Just hoping implantation didn't take too long as I have early scan at the weekend so hoping I'll be 7 weeks as I'm worried anything less I won't a heart beat!

@Mumofboys20122017 aww ☺️ that's cool! How are you feeling? X

What do you guys think to the new update on Covid vaccines? I’m due my 2nd pzifer dose next week and not sure if I should wait until after first trimester!! Would you have it done?

@Hxoxox yeh so you may have peaked on 27th/28th/29th April when you didn’t test and then ovulated either 29th/30th/31st 😊 OPKs will come out negative even on ovulation day as it only detects the LH surge which is before ovulation

@Tryingandhopeful that's what I thought but if people are saying it can detect up to two days I thought hmm strange. But yeah I'm meant to be exactly 6 today! ☺️

@Hxoxox you may have ovulated on 29/30th March! Your peak may have been those days you didn’t test! That would work out with timing as you got your BFP 2 weeks later! So that would make you about 6 weeks this week?

With regard to the OPK's I've been trying to figure out when I ovulated. The app said between 27th-29th March would be my peak. I took OPK's W/c 22nd March up until the Friday night 26th and had no smiley faces! Surely the Friday night one would have been high. Anyway I ran out of tests so I thought then found one on the Tuesday 30th and took it and that was negative too. I am pregnant though and got a positive on 13th April so either the kits couldn't pick up hcg or I've ovulated later which means I'm not as far on as I thought! I'm so confused lol x