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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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2023 TTC 35+ Part 5

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VixFromThe6ix · 22/09/2023 19:33

Hi lovelies,

New thread!!

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Fullofconfusion · 22/10/2023 19:14

JustTrying1 · 22/10/2023 18:28

I feel you @Fullofconfusion . It took me 4 months for AF to arrive and I had a range of 'symptoms' especially in the 2 months running up to my first AF visit.

It’s so frustrating!

it took 6 months or more for AF to appear last time I was TTC. I don’t remember the sore boobs but I do remember a ton of other random symptoms. I did have hugely painful boobs once pregnant though. Will hold off another week and then test…maybe 🙈

JustTrying1 · 22/10/2023 19:07

Haha! I never watched call the midwife! I think given the look on DH face right now while I'm watching OBEM, if I suggest call the midwife he might go play on his Xbox or something 😂

Bumblebee413 · 22/10/2023 18:56

@JustTrying1 the thing I find really weird about One Born Every Minute is that it’s so heavily edited that bizarrely I think Call the Midwife seems more representative of the life of a midwife/ birth 😂 Although obviously sliiightly dramatised!

JustTrying1 · 22/10/2023 18:28

I feel you @Fullofconfusion . It took me 4 months for AF to arrive and I had a range of 'symptoms' especially in the 2 months running up to my first AF visit.

Fullofconfusion · 22/10/2023 17:59

@El1988 i see a line on the second test. Everything crossed.

CD31 on my first cycle coming off the contraceptive pill and slowly driving myself crazy. I know it took ages to have a proper period last time but I have such sore boobs which I don’t usually get. I also have a bit of an uncomfortable abdomen. I’m thinking it’s probably AF coming but also thinking it might be an idea to test 🙈

JustTrying1 · 22/10/2023 17:56

I wish I could join the gym. I've got weight to lose but I've recently been diagnosed with a condition that worsens when I sweat and it can be really painful so I have zero confidence when it comes to the gym or exercising at all - which is the polar opposite of where I need to be

FigandHoney · 22/10/2023 17:20

Thank you @catson. That's reassuring to hear. Wouldn't call myself fit. But working on that

Catson · 22/10/2023 17:15

@FigandHoney I was at the doctor getting a load of tests as I felt so fatigued, and everything came back fine. They did my blood pressure too and mine was on the low side. They said that for a fit female under 40 they would actually expect it to be on the low side of normal

FigandHoney · 22/10/2023 17:07

@El1988 I can definitely see a line on the second test. And I am not good at seeing squinted. I would try and get hold of a frer if you can. Not sure if you can order them on amazon in Germany. For now though congratulations!! Hope your line gers darker and this is your sticky bean.

@catson that's a beautiful line!

This was a lucky thread for quite a lot of people!!

Decided to start going to the gym today. I want to get myself as healthy as I can. And hopefully that will help with my fertility. I really am dreading having to ttc again for a tear and a half. It's so bad for my mental health.
I have also been absolutely shattered this wwwkend. Makes me wonder about my various levels of things.
When I started at the gym today they measured my blood pressure and said it was a bit on the low side.

JustTrying1 · 22/10/2023 16:32

Oh I missed your posts sorry @El1988 ! Congratulations 🥰
Weve had quite the collection of BFPs lately on here ❤️

CurlyWurly1991 · 22/10/2023 16:20

@El1988 congratulations to you !!!

JustTrying1 · 22/10/2023 16:15

Help. I'm sat watching one born every minute 😂

CurlyWurly1991 · 22/10/2023 16:12

@VJFord damn right. Then there’s the carrying the baby, birth, breastfeeding, night waking ….

Catson · 22/10/2023 15:55

@happytobemrsg If you want to pm me your insta or FB I'll follow you on there and we can keep each other sane!

happytobemrsg · 22/10/2023 15:31

We might be @Catson 🤣🤣

Catson · 22/10/2023 15:18

@happytobemrsg mine are 26 days. Are we the same person 😂😂😂

happytobemrsg · 22/10/2023 15:07

@Catson my cycles are 27d too so I altered it on the NHS site to get 27th!

Catson · 22/10/2023 15:04

I know, so similar aren't they @happytobemrsg! My first proper cycle of roughly tracking ovulation too. It's 29 June I think, until the scan tells me otherwise anyway! Although if I alter it to my average cycle length it's 27th June too! I know NHS just assume standard 28 days so not sure whether to tell them the right date for my last period or say it was a couple of days earlier so the dates match, at least initially?

happytobemrsg · 22/10/2023 13:06

Can’t believe how similar our journeys have been @Catson ! Massive congratulations to you!! What is your due date?

Angelsrose · 22/10/2023 11:52

@El1988 I can definitely see a faint line on the 2nd picture but not on the clearblue test. Perhaps test again in 2 days? Best of luck to you.

Angelsrose · 22/10/2023 11:49

Fab line @Catson ! Congratulations, very exciting!

Catson · 22/10/2023 10:38

Did my last frer this morning. Cd29

2023 TTC 35+ Part 5
Catson · 22/10/2023 10:14

@El1988 for 11dpo they're great lines. Defs hold off 48-72 hours before testing again, if you can 😅

SnookyPook · 22/10/2023 09:57

@El1988 I see faint lines on all of those!! Good luck!

El1988 · 22/10/2023 09:36

@Catson thank you for the reply (I’m freaking out here with happiness and then thinking I’m kidding myself and then happy again and kidding myself again, it’s a little cycle) but sadly I live in Germany and everything is closed Sundays so I’ve no hope of getting another test - what I have is what I have… 11DPO and actually with my MMC I found the natural cycles tests the best of the cheaper ones…