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Planning for TTC & waiting for 1st period 🩸

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minnymilk · 25/09/2022 19:14

Wondered if anyone else is stopping their pill and fancies a thread for planning TTC and keeping eachother company while waiting for ovulation/1st period?

DP & I have decided to TTC baby 2. Our DS is 14m. He was conceived 1st cycle, within 2 weeks of stopping the pill, v lucky.

I'm still breastfeeding (3-4 times during the day, no overnight feeds now) and just come off cerelle. With BF in the mix no idea how long it's going to take for my cycles to return... I'm 37 so I'm hoping it's going to be fast!

First timers welcome too 🙂 when I got my BFP it was really handy and reassuring being on a thread with people who'd already had a baby.

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TI2411 · 28/10/2022 08:10

@TinkRose thank you! Feeling tonnes better today.
had a large amount of yellow tinged discharge after wiping this morning. Why is that a symptom of both AF arriving and early pregnancy?! 😩😂

TinkRose · 27/10/2022 20:38

TI2411 · 27/10/2022 15:52

@HoppingTiger i did another FRER the following morning and nothing! Not even a hint! 😔 my other half was convinced it was a BFP!
I am so poorly with a gastro bug, so will just wait the weekend out now.
Been off Cerazette for 2 weeks now and no withdrawal bleed yet

Oh no I’m sorry!
Hope you’re better soon.

marleyandme · 27/10/2022 20:03

That went well!
Came off the pill 25th September and still no sign of AF yet after a withdrawal bleed the week I came off. Hoping for something soon even though we're not trying til next year, I want a few months of regularity to find out what my cycle is like before we get there.
Glad I'm not the only one waiting!

marleyandme · 27/10/2022 20:01

Can I join? Came off the

TinkRose · 27/10/2022 19:57

Well AF has been very odd - 2.5 days, one of those felt like a period but the others have been more like spotting. To be honest even on the ‘full’ day I could have got away with only one pad for the entire day (obviously didn’t but it was definitely light enough)!

TI2411 · 27/10/2022 15:53

@HoppingTiger fingers crossed you can start charting now 🤞🏻

TI2411 · 27/10/2022 15:52

@HoppingTiger i did another FRER the following morning and nothing! Not even a hint! 😔 my other half was convinced it was a BFP!
I am so poorly with a gastro bug, so will just wait the weekend out now.
Been off Cerazette for 2 weeks now and no withdrawal bleed yet

Charlotte1256 · 27/10/2022 08:33

I’m planning to test next Thursday (3rd Nov) when I will be about 10/11dpo, I’m finding it so hard to resist though, I need the tests confiscating off me until then 😂😂 even though I know there’s no way it would even be showing positive now the temptation is real 🙈

HoppingTiger · 26/10/2022 22:58

So just after I posted yesterday, my period came. Exactly two weeks after the egg white CM which is hopefully a good sign. Going to get some OPKs ready for next cycle to see if /when I'm ovulating.

Any more news @TI2411 ?

TI2411 · 25/10/2022 15:32

Thank you @HoppingTiger 💕 I’ll test again in a couple of days. I’m still not convinced 😂

TI2411 · 25/10/2022 15:31

@TinkRose im so confused 😕😂

TinkRose · 25/10/2022 15:28

So with absolutely no cramping or any other symptoms of it coming whatsoever, it looks like AF is here!

TinkRose · 25/10/2022 15:26

TI2411 · 25/10/2022 14:07

I caved! Is this what I think it is?! The line seems too far over? Taken after 3 minutes!

I can see the line but it does seem very far over! Fingers crossed for you though 🤞🏻

HoppingTiger · 25/10/2022 14:33

@TI2411 I see it too. Fingers crossed for you. That would be amazingly quick!! Keep testing and see what happens.

TI2411 · 25/10/2022 14:07

I caved! Is this what I think it is?! The line seems too far over? Taken after 3 minutes!

Planning for TTC & waiting for 1st period 🩸
Planning for TTC & waiting for 1st period 🩸
Planning for TTC & waiting for 1st period 🩸
TI2411 · 25/10/2022 12:36

Supposedly 4DPO and my boobs are aching like never before. They feel so heavy and I’ve had itchy nipples too.

I didn’t stop my mini pill until the 12th October so could have ovulated straight away?!

my app (granted it’s not reliable in this situation) says AF is due 4th November.

im confused 😆
I had only been on the mini pill a couple of months so I’m sure it wouldn’t take long to get out of my system.

Sorry for that absolute rollercoaster of a post! 😂😩

TinkRose · 24/10/2022 13:05

@Skyla01 half trying is the perfect way to describe it! 😂

Skyla01 · 24/10/2022 12:41

I'm still waiting for a bleed, it's been about a month since I stopped the pill. Think I might have ovulated a week ago so will wait and see if AF shows up later this week. I've broken out in a few spots today (forgot about spotty face, the joys) so she might be on her way.

@TinkRose we're also meant to be waiting for the new year but kinda half trying just now.

Sparklythings1 · 24/10/2022 12:31

@TobySpaniel I would stop it sooner rather than later, it is taking my body a while this time to get back to normal and I’ve had two cycles where AF has arrived way too soon after ovulation for a pregnancy to be possible. I’m wishing I stopped a few months in advance

MilkyAndFluffy · 24/10/2022 09:20

I came off the mini pill 20th September, and still haven’t had a period yet - argh! I was using ovulations sticks from a few days after I stopped and got a positive result on 3rd/4th October which is exactly 2 weeks after I stopped taking the pill! I thought I was gonna be lucky and have a normal cycle straight away but I still haven’t had a period (I should have had one 2 weeks after ovulation around 18th October) but still nothing :( I’ve done 4 pregnancy tests and all BFN so it must just be my cycles messed up! Trying to decide whether to do ovulation tests again because in theory I’d be ovulating again in the next week but I haven’t had the period so don’t know if I will. It’s torturing me I don’t have a cycle sorted yet - wish id have done my research and came off the pill earlier to give my body change to readjust! Read all sorts of horror stories about potentially having PCOS or because I’m overweight so my mission is to lose some weight!!! Whyyyy is this process so awful on us girls 😭

reading all these is keeping me going… sending you all so much baby dust 💓x x x

Surreycb · 24/10/2022 08:44

Charlotte1256 · 21/10/2022 20:39

How is everyone getting on? Xx

My first AF arrived (since coming off the pill) approx two weeks after I ovulated. I got impatient earlier in the week so took an EPT which was negative. Hoping to get lucky next cycle :)

TI2411 · 24/10/2022 07:44

I’d like to join too! 😊
I took my last Cerazette pill on the 12/10. No withdrawal bleed yet! Started taking folic acid a couple of days ago.
TTC number 3 🙂

TinkRose · 24/10/2022 07:36

We said we would try after Christmas so if it happened before that it would be a bonus but of course now I want it to happen straightaway!

HoppingTiger · 24/10/2022 01:01

TinkRose · 23/10/2022 15:16

I had my withdrawal bleed after coming off my pill four weeks ago and honestly I don’t feel a hint of AF coming anytime soon!
I’m also not sure I’ve ovulated yet; I used to get very obvious ovulation pains and I haven’t at all. My plan is to wait for my period to start and then order some ovulation tests so I can track what’s going on.

I'm exactly the same other than some more egg white CM a week and a bit ago so maybe AF will come in a few days. But zero signs!

Nearly two months since I stopped the pill now. Glad I stopped it with a few months before we are hoping to start ttc. I think I'd have found it frustrating if I was wanting to be trying. Hoping to avoid august baby ideally but not the end of the world- healthy baby is all we want at the end of the day.

TobySpaniel · 24/10/2022 00:47

Please may I join! Just found this thread. I'm waiting to come off Desogestrel, as we are planning on starting TTC 1st December.
Hoping to avoid an August baby just in case it happens very quickly like DD1..
Feeling incredibly impatient! To be honest I'm really tempted to come off the pill right now to give my body time to reset but don't know if I'm rushing into it for the sake of it!

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