TTC chat thread 4

Hi everyone! I was on the previous chats but me and OH decided to pause TTC for a few months after my chemical and as my cycles went really out of whack!!! They’ve normalised now so going to focus on timings a bit more! Was beneficial having ‘time off’ as I really got in tune with my ‘classic’ symptoms pre AF and post AF and around ovulation etc. so hopefully won’t overthink certain signs this time! Felt like my head was going to explode!!!

ovulation is probably going to occur this weekend so will see how we get on with DTD!

would love a little update on everyone as I see a few familiar names here! :D

@MrsCristiano OH no, planned visit or are you not feeling well? Hopefully will settle down, it's horrible having erratic bp!! xx

@alwaysseeingstars actually in the surgery as we speak. Bp reading high so I'm having to rest and they'll do it again. 4 dpo today

@MrsCristiano hey lovely, I'm doing ok thanks other than constantly exhausted! Luckily no morning sickness yet as I'm not sure I could cope with being this tired, working plus throwing up!! I only had to reduce the ami so far, so reduced it from 50mg to 25mg.. it's been just over a week and I've had 1 migraine and about 3 headaches, but all have been mild. My blood pressure seems to be all over the place so I'm wondering if that's causing the headaches rather than reducing the ami? So hard to tell as they took me off the bisoprolol and other things only a couple of weeks prior to the ami! Got to update the obstetritican today so will see what she says.
How are you doing? xx

@alwaysseeingstars hi hun hope you are keeping well xx I wanted to ask if you've had any migraines yet since stopping the ami xx

@MrsCristiano I'm thinking ovulation is today, can feel something! So I may try entice DH to DTD again tonight, he's been feeling a bit rundown the last couple of days so I don't want to force it haha.

@MamaSJ15 yes!! It's a nightmare when that happens! But yay for a dye stealer. I usually get one dark one then the next day a dye stealer. It'll change again tomorrow when hopefully they will drop xx

This is mine below xx

@MrsCristiano but premom has now changed ovulation day to two days ago? Is that because I've not had a lower test to show the peak yet?

@MrsCristiano had a dye stealer on this mornings test 🤦🏼‍♀️ even more confused now, how is ovulation getting later?!

@MrsCristiano 😂 I don't blame you, I don't think I could do SMEP. It is good that you DH said that though! I'm thinking my cycles are back to 28 days (at least it was last time) which means I must have a short luteal phase, considering today is ovulation day and it's CD18.

@canonlyhopexo I like being quiet too..im such an introvert 😅. Talking to patients in work drains me..I fell asleep for an hour there. If that had happened next Sunday I'd be like defo pregnant. The ways I trick myself

@MamaSJ15 cycles are usually 27 days but I usually ovulate earlier (CD11) so it a wait and see month. 2 things I'm not good at 🥲

@Alice1608 @MamaSJ15 I could barely look at DH the end of SMEP month. I remember telling him pretend I'm someone else. It didn't work for him which I should be glad of 😂

@MamaSJ15 aww OK, thank you and sorry to hear of what happened to you too, glad you are trying again and hope you get everything you wish for xxx

@Alice1608 I think implantation can occur between 8-12dpo usually. I'm sorry to hear of the traumatic birth. We did too with our DD, I had a reaction to the induction, put us both off having another for a couple of years.

@canonlyhopexo I know that feeling 😂 yeah we're about the same, Feb/March time. We tried for a brief spell last year and had a chemical. Decided to take a break then started again this year and had a miscarriage in June (I think it was June). Cycles have been all over the place since then but seem to be going back to a bit of a routine now. Oh it really does doesn't it!!

@MamaSJ15 he was 3 a few weeks ago 💙 ohhhh yes and even if we have a quiet night usually I just wanna chill out alone and enjoy being silent 🤣 we've been trying since March so not that long really but every month feels like a year when you're not getting the outcome you want right.

@MamaSJ15 when is the earliest on implantation? And not long but its taken 12 years to pluck up the courage to do so after a extremely traumatic pregnancy at birth at 25 weeks. Xx

@Alice1608 ah so too early for implantation then. How long have you been TTC?

@MrsCristiano that's good. How long are your cycles usually?

@canonlyhopexo yeah totally different second time around isn't it 😂 how old is your son?

@MrsCristiano @MamaSJ15 we conceived that way the first time and had our son but it was also about 8 weeks after a laparoscopy. We haven't tried it like that this time around as of yet but thinking of giving it a go again but we find we don't have as much time 😂

@MamaSJ15 mines on the decrease thank god. 0.4 something today. No more timed DTD...til next month🙄

@MamaSJ15 yes I'm beginning to think it's all I'm my head! Cramping started at 5DPO and has been now and then and then today was stronger resembling AF pains. Xxx

@MrsCristiano I did another this evening and it was almost as high but not quite so premom has marked this morning's as peak. Will do another tomorrow and hopefully I can stop then! Not sure we can actually be bother to DTD again 😂 thinking I'd ovulate around cd 14 meant we started fairly early and were not ones for DTD that often haha.

@canonlyhopexo we started off by no tracking and just DTD when we felt like so it was a bit more natural but it turns out I've been ovulating later than I thought (only known since doing opks) which means we've been missing the window 🤦🏼‍♀️ but if you know when you'd ovulate then something like that I'm sure would work well. But I do think that doing it too much wouldn't necessarily have the desired effect, the man would need sufficient time in between to 'restock' so starting too early may not be helpful.

@Alice1608 unfortunately it's so hard to know. I think I've mentioned before that I had one cycle where I had so many symptoms and was convinced I was pregnant but was definitely not! As someone mentioned it could be implantation. But at what dpo did the cramping start?

@canonlyhopexo I did the SMEP method once. Got pregnant it was another chemical 😭 less is more in my book

@canonlyhopexo maybe, who knows!😫 And no spotting as of yet, but keeping an eye out! It feels like my monthly cramps now, but it's never this early before AF. Xxx

@Alice1608 could be implantation cramping!? Any spotting or anything? It's so cruel that both things have similar symptoms ☹️