15dpo BFN withdrawal method

Guys it finally arrived today! And my god I feel horrendous, full blown hot water bottle tearful cliché over here.

@JMPB we'll just have to keep eachother sane until summer, I'm so ready too but I know deep down better to wait until OH is too and we can be excited together. What supplements are you taking in meantime?

@ToeBeans24 will be living vicariously through you though! So exciting 😃

I got my period Saturday about 10 days late & I honestly wanted to cry 😂🙈

I know logistically we need to wait till summer, and DH isn’t quite ready yet, but I so am and want it so bad 😬

hope everyone’s ok :)

Still no AF here 👋 ... though definitely negative test this morning.

Just sat around now feeling nauseous, achey and jmpatient!

@ToeBeans24 Still no sign! Genuinely quite shocked now, tomorrow will be CD38, cycle never been this long. Like was something up with the moon recently to make us all so late or what?!

I even felt nauseous the whole day today, so I'm starting to see how heartbreaking TTC must be - my hopes would totally be up right now if we'd been DTD properly. As it is, I just know I can't be, so just annoying me a bit now and worried about poss underlying causes. Hopefully just a one off.

Didn't get to shop in time today, so will go buy one in the morning. Will update you anyway!

I track ovulation. 5 months officially trying but we used withdrawal method for 8 years prior and rhythm method for several months.

4 days late. Well I guess I can only keep trying and see how it goes x dh has booked a lot of holidays all the way up to August so I guess I have that to look forward to..

I got my period today x

Nope. DP Jumps out more enthusiastically during fertile period maybe, but that's it. We did use condoms initially but after no scares with withdrawals it kind of fell away.

Often people get pregnant with withdrawal method from round 2. If the male hasn't cleaned and urinated to clear the urethrea, then residual sperm can be present.

I used withdrawal method ever since DC was born. Never got pregnant once, until we stopped withdrawing.

So long as you don't double dip, it can be quite effective.

CD35 and still no sign of AF...

I'm actually annoyed at the thought of now needing to waste money on a test I know will be negative anyway, I'm just so sure!

What a weird month

Hey!

it took us just under a year last time, but I don’t know if I was ovulating every month as my cycles were all over the place, and I was getting high OPK’s but never a definite positive so I wasn’t even sure I was ovulating. The one month I got a positive OPK is the month we concieved. Though I didn’t start tracking until we were 6 months in.

This month I got a blazing positive OPK about when my period should be due, better late than never I suppose!! We just decided to track and check I was actually ovulating after last time.

I was on microgynon before my first pregnancy and have been on gederel this time around xx

Hey 👋
we are also currently using the withdrawal method in preparation for TTC (hopefully by summer) I keep going through periods of being petrified that I might get pregnant now, then the next secretly hoping it happens 😂

we have dd who is 18 months, and we ideally wanted to wait until she was 2 to start trying, but I’m sooooo broody it’s ridiculous 😂 it took us almost a year to fall on with her so I’ve come off the pill to try get my body back in sync, and to regular cycles before trying for number 2 :)

Phew! Now you can start properly, that's great.

I'm still waiting... CD33 too! Twinning again

A little tip - for some odd reason, ovulation test strips detect pregnancy earlier than even first response pregnancy tests do. As long as you're def not ovulating at that time (& therefore that is what's causing the positive, obvs) then they'll detect pregnancy up to a week before any HCG test.
I discovered it myself. I mistook an ovulation test for a preg test and was initially over the moon before realising it was an ov test. I'd already ovulated that month so I knew it wasn't that. I was baffled. It was a thick, solid line. 4 further ov tests positive. So I took a pregnancy test and nothing but 3 days later I'd the faintest of lines on a first response. Then with every passing day it got stronger! Googled it and yep, they do.

@ToeBeans24 I got married at 22 and used withdrawal method exclusively from 2015 to early 2023. Did not use a single condom in all that time even on fertile days and of course no artificial contraception. This was with daily sex in my early 20s. Never got pregnant. Then started ttc last year, dont actually remember which month but has been quite a while now.

AF is due today but still hasn't come but i notice v slight spotting in CM when i went to the loo. will tell you later if i haven't conceived for sure. i tested negative on the early pregnancy tests.

I don't know if i am really good at withdrawal method or am actually infertile