TTC October baby 🍁🎃👻

When's your AF due? Will you hold out?

Thanks all, it really hasn't sunk in yet. Ha, I know - thankfully it's taking the pressure off his SA hut useful to still know the numbers in case this one doesn't stick

Congrats @Midnight00 ! Love that your oh is having sperm analysis 😂
@Enigma85 SAME HERE! 8dpo and going crazy, also had the twingy pulley cramps a few days ago and a bit today in the same spot! I. Just. Want. To. Know. 😫 when are you testing?

Yey @Midnight00 Nice strong positive there!! Congratulations!

I reckon I'm approx 11 DPO. To test or not to test. I'll kick myself if this is all pms.

Hey guys hope you don't mind me joining I am on my 18th cycle ttc number 2
This is my second cycle using letrozole
I am due to ovulate this weekend
I am hoping and praying it works cause I am getting so fed up
Next period is due valentines day and I really hope it doesn't show.

Congratulations @Midnight00 that's so exciting!

I'm now 8dpo and going maaaaad. Had really awful twinges, pulling and cramps at 6-7dpo, felt awful, seems to have eased off now. I also had a proper mood swing and was in floods of tears, but I do tend to get that before AF anyway.

Congratulations @Midnight00 that's a fantastic line 🎉

Morning all.

Been watching and hoping for this month but thought we were out. Weird one this month; didn't manage to catch my peak, also had my day 21 bloods last week as in 37 and have been trying since the autumn. Result came back yesterday on nhs app. 92nmo/l progesterone and normal range is 30/65....

Can't believe the result I got this morning, possibly 11-13 dpo. Ironically DH going for his sperm analysis in the morning

@Jonesy88 hopefully yours will be a speedy 2nd conception!

Welcome @LittleMiss2023 if there's anything acronym wise you need explaining, just say and any one of us will fill you in :)

Hi all - mind if I jump in?

Im 31, and DH have decided to try for #1. Still learning all the lingo and acronyms and have spent days trawling these pages - so helpful!

I stopped the pill on 6 Jan and have been using ClearBlue ovulation readers - this morning we got our first flashing smiley. Tested again in the arvo and still flashing. Will be interesting to see how many days of flashing we get as I have seen on here sometimes people get flashing smileys for days!

Excited to be on the journey and hopefully can help each other through! 😊

@Hummusanddipdip sorry to hear you are struggling. Hugs. It took us years for DS and I feel those fears creeping in for ttc #2

Thanks @Mrsrobinsonx this was cycle 26, been trying for number 2 since November 2020. I had a full on sob earlier as this was in reality my last chance for baby to be born close enough to ds starting school for me to be on mat leave and do his school runs from September. It's the first month where I've actually been heartbroken over it.

I know it takes time, it took 3 years, several cms and 2 miscarriages to get ds. But every test they've done has come back normal and satisfactory, there's no reason for me to not be getting pregnant, I just don't seem to fall easy.

@Hummusanddipdip sorry to hear af arrived! How are you feeling? Have you been trying long? Hugs.

@SidSparrow sounds promising! Keep us updated with your tests! 🤞🏻

@AlbaGracie I ovulated about 4 weeks after I stopped my pill (mini pill) didn’t even have a bleed or anything before.
good luck x

Hi guys, jumping on this band wagon.
I'm 32 and TTC our first. Cycle 1. Currently CD16 but all my OPKs are consistently negative. Faint lines for the past 6 days and not getting darker 🙈
Came off microgynon after 12 years first week in Jan. I didn't realise it can take months to ovulate/get periods again after stopping. Wish I'd stopped sooner but what's done is done!
Hoping for a positive OPK soon 🤞and seeing all your BFPs to come ☺️

Do you mind if I join? I think I might be pregnant, although it seems early for symptoms. I reckon I ovulated about 10 or 11 days ago. Symptoms started yesterday. Felt sick in the morning, head felt fuzzy, and I felt tired. Today I can feel my boobs a bit sore. TTC no.3, miscarried last November at 8 weeks. I've not tested yet, and going to try and put off testing for as long as I can. With having a miscarriage recently and my being 41 I'm reluctant to get too excited, can only hope everything works out!

I’m late joining. This will be our first cycle ttc no. 2. It took us 3-4 cycles last time so hopefully will be similar but you never know.

I'm out 😭 AF arrived this morning.

I'm glad you're feeling good @BambiBooBoo I'm ok too, I think it's way too early for me to even have any symptoms so anything would be purely coincidental I think plus I take extra progesterone because of past losses so it really plays tricks on me! ah January is so long though...It's been 84 years.....

@Maxime34 - I can't place how I'm feeling exactly. Which is strange. Last month I was feeling desperate and deflated at not feeling any symptoms even tho I was symptom spotting badly.
This month, I'm feeling oddly calm, chill and quite happy. Which is strange for me as I'm a extremely bad overthinker/worrier. No symptoms yet tho...

But it really is feeling dragged out.
How are you feeling?

What are we on now?- 48th January??😂

How are you feeling @BambiBooBoo ? Hope you're ok! This tww seems to really be dragging it's heels this month. I think I didn't notice it so much over Xmas as it's such a fun time of year but January is just long long long.

@Jonesy88 thank you. It’s only our first month TTC so I’ll be ok if it doesn’t happen, it’s more that I think Id feel loads of guilt if it did happen! I know logically not a lot of impact, but I’m a worrier.

It’s so so tricky. Can’t even do dry Jan as sadly
itll be feb!

Might feign a new tooth filling and say I can’t have cold drinks as it hurts and nurse one glass of red wine….

@Mushroo if you were pregnant, that early on there wouldn’t yet be a connection if that makes sense - the egg is still embedding. So imo there isn’t a risk that way.
However alcohol does impact fertility in general so I do get your point- it’s up to you whether the guilt of drinking would outweigh the fun of it. Dry January bet maybe?

Does anyone have advice on alcohol / not drinking in the TWW? I’m due to ovulate around 28 Jan, and have a hen party the following weekend.

Itll be far too early to test and ideally I want to not drink at alll. However, it’s going to be so tricky, I don’t drive, we’ve got wine pre ordered for dinner, then a cocktail thing where get get given 4 cocktails each so it’s going to be really tricky to just pretend to drink and ditch them.

I also can’t use antibiotics as we’ve always joked how it’s the most obvious code in the world.

I could feign illness and not go but that seems ridiculous. Any tips / ideas welcome! Or am I overthinking it and having a couple is ok?

5dpo here too. No point testing until 10dpo as that's when I got the faintest notch on test with dd