CD1 ttc after loss carry on thread #3

@UrsulaSings123 so glad you're feeling a bit more.relaxed this month. Sounds like you've had good coverage over ovulation so fingers crossed for you! When are you thinking of testing?

Work is busy so trying to juggle that alongside broken cars and catching up on washing now that machine is fixed! Never ending but I won't care when I'm at the airport Friday morning 😂

I'll be entering fertile week from mid holiday which is nice timing, but I have low hopes given this is essentially cycle 1. Will just have to see what happens!

@ThelastRolo20 hope you enjoy your holiday! I'm sure you're well in the throes of pre holiday organisation and packing. My mind goes into overload trying to think of everything!

@samilicious never heard of those supplements! Sounds interesting!

Hi everyone feels like I've not been on here for ages but in reality it's only been a few days! I'm 4dpo today and been feeling much better this time. I don't feel the almighty pressure of the first month post MC desperately wanting to be pregnant. The days don't seem to be dragging as much and I've tried to focus on other things. We DTD literally every day up to peak and then the day after peak, and now wondering whether we should have done it the day after that as well 😂 I'm not feeling particularly hopeful this month for some reason, I feel like I know its not going to be positive. Next month I think we'll try every other day then 3 days when I get a peak, which is what I said I'd do this month haha but got carried away leading up to it worrying we wont DTD enough and subsequently couldn't be arsed to do it on the 3rd day. Ah well.

@Ladyinpink1 sorry about your negative test... are you having any investigations at all? I'm wondering whether to go to the GP if I get negative this month but I'm not really sure what they would be able to do and whether they count the time pre-MC or whether that 'starts the clock' again. Not that I think there's something wrong (fingers crossed) but maybe might feel like I'm doing something towards getting that positive that I'm not already doing.

@samilicious that is strange, I think if I've learned anything from the past year it's that nothing really makes sense with cycles and TTC 😂when I had COVID it lengthened my cycle by a week. I'm never regular with it though.

I'm around CD12 now so at that stage again where I feel hopefully.

@samilicious I had a lovely weekend thanks ❤️

COVID can definitely shorten cycles. I'm pretty clockwork at 28 days and had a 21 day one last year when I had it!

Does anyone take Ashwagandha? Has anyone ever used Wild Nutrition? They seem like a more spenny version of Together Health IMO but there's a really good review on there about their fertility stuff

Also if you find any threads like that let me know! Been actively trying since July/August now and my longest before was 8 months which is laughable now considering how stressed I was. Going to have a look into L-Arginine supplement too

@ThelastRolo20 wooo can't believe the day is finally here! So excited for you genuinely, feel like we've all been on the countdown together. How was Taunton?

@Ladyinpink1 I'm with you on exercising and eating more healthily this cycle. I know they say having weight around your middle is bad for fertility and main place I put it on these days. Just ordered a fake Apple Watch off Amazon that had good reviews as I put my real one through the wash twice in the last week and it won't come on 🫠

@13lucy I thought the same about exercise, but the short cycle this month has really thrown me. I'd been doing HIIT 3-4 times a week for about a month. I was really enjoying it and my AF has been a bit heavier this cycle which makes me think thicker lining. But then shorter cycle so messing with hormones? 🤔 haven't been sleeping well, been working loads at night and also had Covid this week so could have contributed to short cycle this time

@jellyfish2 not long now! 2 weeks will go by quickly xx

@Ladyinpink1 thank you ❤️ if it's not Thursday it's still too early maybe? But if it does arrive I'll be with you - understand about wanting to find people who are in the same boat as you. Same way I tend to join groups where people have had two back to back MMCs x

My weekend has been lovely thanks, definitely on count down to Friday (apart from the 2am alarm clock!)

@Ladyinpink1 sorry that you've got a BFN - I really feel for you with it being so long and you're always so supportive to everyone on here. It's strange with the period flow stopping, especially as I've never had it before. Good to know it's happened with you too! Does it happen every cycle or not?

The TWW is definitely the worst part of my cycle and I end up in a tearful mess around the time of AF! I actually felt worse at that time than I do today on my original due date. I've been trying to keep busy and kind of ignore it because as much as it is a date that will forever be in my mind and could have been something very different, it isn't and I am where I am so trying not to dwell on it. I've not mentioned it to DH as I don't think it will help him (he likes to look forward), but I am wondering whether he knows.

@UrsulaSings123 yeh BBT isn't very fun! It's the first thing you think about every morning which gets a bit all consuming. I've managed to get to a point where I'm not too stressed about it for the first couple of weeks of my cycle but then it gets a bit intense for the rest of it! Thinking I might just do another couple of cycles with it and then look at stopping it. I just want to have all the data I can about my cycles and it has helped in the past where I think I've hit LH peak but then haven't ovulated, otherwise I think I'd have missed it!

@samilicious I've been running 3 times a week for a couple of weeks now and it's had a huge impact on my mental health, hopefully it will help things physically too! Starting to think I may as well get back to running/sport as otherwise I'm putting my life on hold for something that might not happen. In my head I thought I could deal with it for a few months until I got pregnant again but that was wishful thinking! I think as long as your body fat doesn't get low and you're getting the nutrients you need then exercise isn't a bad thing. How much HIIT have you been doing? Mindfulness is going well thanks and I've been doing yoga most days too - definitely feeling the effects of spring and being more active/feeling happier generally!

@ThelastRolo20 woohoo 🥳🥳 keep us updated! I can't wait for mine to arrive..another (almost) two weeks yet.

@Ladyinpink1 sorry about the BFN, when is AF due? Are you going to test again today?

After 3 veeery long months AF is here! I'm finally cycle day 1 and back to TTC! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

@samilicious we're going away next Friday, but we're also away this weekend seeing family in Taunton. AF due Monday/ Tuesday but I'm having some mild cramps so may come tomorrow. Tbf that would be ideal as it would be finishing when we go away!

Can't believe I'm finally coming up to our TTC cycle....

@Ladyinpink1 thank you for your kindness the other day ♥️ I think I that's why I wanted to rant about it all on here cuz I knew you guys would get it. Just feel like life has been so stressful with one thing or another since we had that TFMR and it's just not getting any easier no matter what / how hard I try :( been so relaxed previously when I've conceived, don't feel like I'll ever be relaxed again. Hopefully a holiday will sort it. Sorry you got a bfn - how are you feeling about it all?

@UrsulaSings123 glad you dtd at the right time the other day and thank you for your reassuring words! Totally with you on the speeding car life thing. It's my birthday soon and I really wanted to book a hotel by myself for the night 😂 to watch tv and eat uninterrupted, but can't do that as we've hired a cleaner and that's the only day she can start so got to be in

@13lucy I've read about taking that L-Arginine supplement and doing exercise to increase blood flow. I feel like the HIIT I've been doing is maybe too intense though, with this cycle being shorter as it said extreme exercise can cause that. Need to get walking more regularly and focus on step count but put my Apple Watch through the wash a second time today and it barely survived the first 😅 so not sure how to track steps/sleep now. Thinking of you and big hugs this weekend ♥️ forgetting to temp is a great step in the right direction! How is your mindfulness going?

@ThelastRolo20 I'm back on Vinted! For myself now though 😏 when is it you go away? Hopefully your af came at a normal enough time like you said

@Ladyinpink1 ahhh sorry it was negative. It's so difficult not to test even when you know it will 95% likely be negative, even if you are indeed pregnant. Could you just do opks and no bbt? So kind of track but just tone it down a bit. Or do another cycle with no tracking at all and then start tracking again if it doesn't work?

@Ladyinpink1 I am just constantly busy anyway it seems 😂I often feel like my life is like a speeding car I don't have a brake for. I am seeing a few friends this weekend as well as the usual family roast we have on a Sunday. I also have a spa day booked with my mum a week on thurs so that will be nice, then she is staying the weekend. Then the usual work work work! I'm going to try and focus my mind on other things this month as otherwise it feels like the time is going soooo slowly. Yes it's like walking a line between feeling hope and not allowing yourself to hope too much isn't it. Just because it's taking some time doesn't mean it's impossible, but I can understand you feeling that way. Even when I don't want to feel hope so I don't get disappointed, I still do, I don't think you can help it.

@ThelastRolo20 hope you have a nice time with your family, that's a nice place to visit

@13lucy I hope you have some time to look after yourself this weekend. Do check in if you need to. And that's good your gp is supportive, sometimes just feeling like something is being done makes all the difference. I started doing BBT last cycle after my MC and I quickly saw how obsessed I got with it and how it affected my mood! I stopped doing it after only about 2 weeks and I'm glad I did from what others have said about feeling better not doing it.

@Ladyinpink1 oh that's really good to know thank you. I am just going into the TWW now and it's the WORST part of the cycle by far. I honestly find it so hard to think about anything else other than the possibility of being pregnant, it really does my head in. Less than a week to go for you isn't it? I'm really crossing my fingers for you.

@Ladyinpink1 I like to think I'm single handedly propping up the economy with the amount I'm buying 😂

How are you getting on? I'm currently pit- stopping on my way down to Taunton to see family x