Testing around 14th May

@Rosegold3112 I'm so sorry for your loss 💐

Oh please don't tempt me 🙊 I became an absolute woman obsessed from 8DPO last month and it just ended in misery when AF arrived. Plus I wasted SO many tests 🤣 doesn't help that my workplace sells PG tests.... lunchtime POAS became a hobby 🙃

@Amber17 I agree with pp, don't be so hard on yourself ☺️ I'm not worrying about cutting down on the good stuff just yet ☕️ & I love @JaneGnR88 advice "drink until the line is pink" ☺️

My DPs phone was charging upstairs the other day and he borrowed my phone to google something and blurted out "what on earth is an LH surge??" 😬🤣

I'm getting the weirdest tightening sensation all day. I can only describe it as what braxton hicks used to feel like on my DD but not painful; just tightening and pulling in a way that's making me a bit breathless. It's so hard to know are sensations coming from womb/bowel/bladder 😂 I'm out all day tomorrow so that should make 8DPO pass quickly!

@41andtryingforfirst @S0220 @catlady10
I love all the symptom spotting, feel exactly the same way!
When I was pregnant with DD, the first few weeks just felt like an awareness of my uterus, not quite a cramp but a bloatiness like AF was about to arrive for me. I did have a heightened sense of smell but I'm not sure when that started - I realised the smells that made me feel more nauseous around the 7 week stage were things I wouldn't normally be aware of smelling, but I think I was smelling more stuff earlier than that - bit of a subtle one!
And when I told some people later on they told me they had suspected because boobs bigger but honestly I'm not sure when that happened because to me it was kinda subtle and I didn't get any tenderness. My boobs now even more difficult to interpret because they are a different shape post bf etc.
I've also noticed that when I lie on my tummy i get that funny/unpleasant sensation I got from around the 18 week mark when uterus was starting to move up and out. My brain is definitely overthinking!

Haven't told husband posting on mn, he'd definitely think I was mad!

@41andtryingforfirst I had a few glasses of wine as well last weekend. I don't think it can do any harm at this stage!

I'm 5dpo today and don't feel anything really. I don't think I have a real chance this month, but in any case it's too early to know!

@catlady10 my DP doesn't know anything about Mumsnet and I'm not planning to tell him 🤣 He doesn't know either that I'm testing for ovulation, and about all the crazy things I'm googling during the TWW. He would be really surprised 😂

@Amber17 bless you, drink the coffee! It’s such a stressful time you still have to do what you can to feel normal and have a bit of joy!

I read once ‘drink until the line is pink’ 😅 probably not sound advice but it makes sense!

@catlady10 Yup I'm in that low pessimistic stage now. I'm either 4 or 5 DPO today, before ovulation I was feeling really good about it all and now I'm just expecting a BFN next week.

Maybe I'm just grumpy at the lack of wine and coffee in my life right now for what feels like no point! I have a lukewarm/cold latte on my desk that I'm trying to stretch out across the day so I feel less miffed at not being 'allowed' a second one.

@catlady10 I shall try my hardest not to be the bad influence 🤫 I feel like I'm the person who'd be sneaking donuts to a weight watchers though... I've been having some really mean evap lines every cycle since a loss in October though so I wouldn't believe a test anyways whether it be a bfp or bfn.

How long have you been trying for? Before my first I was convinced there was something wrong with me so I think it's totally normal to worry about it all. We're lead to believe that falling pregnant is so easy though and the reality is in fact often the opposite. All those years spent worrying about taking the pill at the correct time and then suddenly I've got charts and schedules and all sorts of equipment to try to time dtd right and still it doesn't happen 😅

Hi all, may I join please?

I don’t think I’m in with much chance this month but it is the first time I’ve caught ovulation but pretty sure we DTD too late due to me being away!

I’m about 6DPO now.

Wishing you all luck ✨✨✨

Welcome @Rosegold3112 !!

We must motivate each other not to test early! 💪🏼

Baby dust to you! X

@LemonZestDribbles This made me laugh!! 🤣 we are all crazy but at least we're in it together!

Out of interest what would CM be like if there was a little baby bean brewing??

I'm 4DPO today and feeling a bit low today if I'm honest. I feel like we Dtd at the right time but I can't actually start to process that I'm capable of getting pregnant so just feel like I'm set up to get a BFN when it comes to testing. Do any other first timers feel like this?

I'm trying not to think about it too much and keeping myself busy!

Hope everyone is okay xxx

Hi all 👋

Hoping I can join too. I'm 3dpo and just really happy to be having a normal length cycle after months of irregular ones! I'm sure the novelty will wear off the further into the 2ww I get. Hoping to hold off testing until at least 12dpo but I know how impatient I get. Baby dust to everyone 🌟

@LemonZestDribbles you are filling me with some hope as electric shock feelings are exactly how I would describe it! I don't remember having anything like this with my first though.

@Fifi1086 oh wow have a wonderful time! I've been before and going again in August. Hands down my favourite holiday so far. When do you go?

Also your CM sounds like mine!

@catlady10 my dh knows as I used with my first too. He just said "oh god not the crazy women again" 🤣

@Fifi1086 hope it stays away 🤞

@S0220 I had like electric shock feelings with my first 🤞🤞🤞

I'm only 2dpo so although I want to symptom spot a few things I shouldn't really 😅🤣

Same here @S0220 mine has mostly dried up with the odd (sorry TMI) snot like cm. I don't think this month is the month at all so just keeping everything crossed for a longer LP!

We are off to mexico and being honest I'll be a bit devastated to miss out on the all inclusive supply of cocktails 😂😂 but at the same time I'm 36 this year and we don't want to wait!

@Fifi1086 me too! But it's so hard not to symptom spot isn't it? I'm 8dpo today, still getting the twinges here and there and my boobs are feeling really sore and heavy. I don't really have much CM at the moment either and this seems to have dried up, so I'm thinking this doesn't look very positive 😔

How wonderful that you have a honeymoon to look forward to! Where are you going? 😊

@S0220 same here with the twinges and cramps but am also trying really hard not to symptom spot because I'll just upset myself when AF arrives 😭

7DPO today. Every other cycle I've got AF at 8dpo, so will see what happens. I'm very crampy and have really sore lower back, and am SO grumpy but all of these things could be AF on the way. It's not the worst in the world if it's not this month as I've a lot on work wise, and our honeymoon in July!

How is everyone doing today!

Thanks @catlady10. It's really bizarre, the sharp twinges carried on for most of yesterday evening. Definitely wasn't AF type cramps though.

How is everybody doing? ☺️

I've chosen to avoid DPs advice of avoiding MN, I love being on here 😃 I think he just hates the idea of me getting my hopes up too much!

@41andtryingforfirst Glad your awful meeting is over! ☺️

@S0220 Ive never been pregnant but I've spoken to lots of Mums who have said they felt like they got period pain as if they were about to come on their period but then AF never showed ☺️

Also spoke to a lady recently who got sent for an emergency scan to check for ectopic pregnancy because she was getting pain and it turned out to be implantation pain xx

@catlady10 ahh thank you. Keeping my fingers crossed for you too! For us all in fact.

My hubby doesn't know I post on MN...more so because he would absolutely tease me! He's always making jokes about me lurking on forums for answers for everything. So he would have a field day if I told him I'm actually an active poster 😂 I won't give him the satisfaction!

So does anybody here have any experience of implantation cramps/twinges? I never did with my first but I was just driving this evening and noticed 3 VERY noticeable sharp twinges right in the centre of my abdomen. I wouldn't say that they were cramps as such, but more of a passing twinge. Could this mean anything or do I need to stop being so bloody hypersensitive?! This is driving me nuts haha

Welcome newbies!! ☺️

{mention:Fifi1086}@Cat2hop@S0220 That all sounds promising doesn't it ☺️ I'll keep my fingers crossed for you all!!

I'm currently 3dpo so too early for any symptoms yet for me!

Here's a question.... has anyone else told their DP/DH/OH about being on MN?

My DP has told me he thinks it's unhealthy because I'll become obsessed in the TWW🤣 just curious about other people!

Hi, waiting for my peak which will Hopefully be in the next day or two 🤞🏼 will be testing shortly after the 14th as short cycles! Hope it's okay to tag along 👋🏼