Come wait with me - July onwards

@LA7887 hmmm those tests look a bit like they could be a dodgy batch tbh, that one from yesterday the line has no colour it looks like a very solid and bad evap line to me... And the one from today looks damaged... I would wait and get some different tests 🤞

@HavinKittens @CurlyWurly1991 thanks both.

Same tests.

I'm just gona sit back and wait a week, see what happens. What will be will be. I've attached the test from yesterday, I just took it cause it was there. Didn't expect anything from it. X

@LA7887 something seems off if you got a strong positive yesterday - at 6dpo? I don’t think it’s possible, I’m sorry, I know false positives are rare so could it have been an evap? Give it a couple of days maybe and test again… fingers crossed for you.

Good evening,
Need to borrow some eyes. I had a very strong positive yesterday (although was on CD16), judging by ovulation tests I think I ovulate early CD9. I didn't believe the test so decide to do another, which obviously wasn't strong but I think I see a shadow.

I asked my friend and she looked in person and believes she sees a shadow too.

Thoughts?

Thank you in advance :)

Ps: I know it's a bit of a squinted in the photo

@CinderRosie I think it’s deff possible, I’ve read it can happen 12 hrs after peak which is usually say 24 after the start of the surge.

@CinderRosie think you're right, I'm sure I read it can also be timed from start of your surge (e.g. 36hours after start of lh surge, not sure what the exact timings were)

I'm CD14 and got static smiley/positive strip OPK this morning. Flo has updated to say ovulation is tomorrow but I'm sure my O happens quite soon after my peak, is that even possible? I just get the feeling I ovulate on that day rather than 24-48 hours after my positive. Regardless, AF is due on 14th July as it always comes 2 weeks 1 day after my positive OPK.

@fleur89 oh and congrats on your first proper period 👏🏼

@fleur89 thank you so much for the super detailed response. Just keeping everything crossed for now and trying to get out of my irrational depressed state brought on my a BFN on 11dpo 😅

1DPO here 😅 really glad to know that I O'd on CD15 and keeping everything crossed.. we DTD CD10,11,12,13 so hoping for slow but strong and healthy girl sperm haha

Officially CD1 today, AF has finally started. Bought some grapefruit juice and it tastes disgusting don't think I can stick with it 😖 I've bought agnus castus and selenium supplements so I'm hoping they will help with cervical mucus. I already take a load of other supplements which have helped a lot with my tiredness and mood, I was deficient in iron, vitamin D and folate but they're good now

This should be totally fine. I do CrossFit and regularly lift up to and around my body weight, also have a clingy 16 month old (although she's slight at 8.5kg). I continued doing CrossFit and other lifting throughout my previous pregnancy but toned things down to 60-70 percent of my normal weights and stopped flinging weights over my head. While ttc I don't expect any reason to change habits, although I tend to take it a bit easier in the TWW (less plyometrics though, don't change how heavy weights are)

@Vic231 no they never did. I remember getting bloods done around 5 weeks and waiting for a call at work… listening to a voicemail from the EPU saying the HCG had in fact doubled. Then at a later stage I went to an early scan there and saw a heartbeat. Tears of relief. My daughter was born full term healthy etc.
However I didn’t have any cramping and it was stop/start red flow without any clots.
I did wonder if I had a CP last month (though didn’t test early so can’t know). That time I had stringy clots, AF cramping and some very early symptoms I’d started with just vanished. AF was only a few days later than expected. From my reading on it these things can just go either way and there’s no way of influencing the outcome, I’m so sorry it’s absolutely awful. TTC is such a rollercoaster isn’t it.

just seen that FF has advised me my test date should be 11 July (18dpo) - didn’t get a bfp til then with my first so that is going to be a long wait. Should know by early next week anyway if AF shows and temps drop etc.

@ttcthoughts unfortunately I'm not 6 weeks until Monday, I'm ok to wait though as what will be will be and I'm still bleeding at the moment x

@CurlyWurly1991 thank you lovely 🤍 did they work out what the bleed was in the end? And did it all go ok afterwards? x

@Vic231 sorry I missed this. It’s torturous. I was back and forth to the EPU with my first over weeks 4-7ish, as I had a lot of bleeding. I hope yours settles and everything is ok xx

im 7dpo today, my temps are getting higher and my chart looks like a mountain. I think this is my usual pattern although don’t have many charts to compare, so will at least have a ‘baseline’ temps chart if nothing else this month. Holding out to test until Monday earliest (11dpo) but will probably know anyway by then if my temps drop.

BFN this morning at 11dpo and feeling extra crushed :(

@Vic231 I found it even worse the unknown! But I really do hope everything is ok. Tuesday is such a long time to can you not get a private over the weekend

@ttcthoughts can't quite believe it as in, I had a lovely BFP and now I'm in limbo!

@ttcthoughts thank you lovely. I'm ok, think I'm hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. Really appreciating the work distraction at the moment as it allows my mind to focus on other things for a bit. I just can't quite believe it and so awful how quickly things can change x

Ive heard so many good things about acupuncture for fertility . I’d written it off because I went about 9w pregnant desperate for a cure to all day nausea … didn’t help but then I suppose it couldn’t have really! Don’t know what I was thinking, I was desperate and that nausea put me off TTC for 10 years 😂
Im getting quite a few cramps, grumpy and fatigued today at 6dpo. Don’t have much of a comparison of what an ordinary cycle is like because I haven’t been tracking or paying much attention until recently. I’ve also probably had quite a few Anovulatory cycles that are being helped with agnus castus at the moment.

Oo yes love a little natural remedy to help ! Will be picking up some pomegranate juice 😅 im also taking agnus castus this month. I had a lot of acupuncture to support my IVF and it worked first round 👍🏽might also look into having some more sessions ! There will be an influx in acupuncture appointments thanks to the thread haha

Probably overthinking this but is lifting a 12kg toddler ok? She's starting to have toddler tantrums and is also in the stage of 'pick me up' 'put me down' 'I want to walk down the stairs myself' 'actually changed my mind' so I spend half of my day lifting her and putting her down.

Does that have an impact on conceiving and staying pregnant? Should I avoid? (Because you know they say to avoid lifting things when pregnant)