TTC buddies Baby #1 - anyone ?

I know right, I'm trying to tell myself that I won't test until the day my period is due, but I have irregular periods so I'd just be going off the day that Flo app tells me.

I highly doubt I'll wait that long though lol

So I didn't realise that we were meant to stop ovulation testing after our peak, my static smiley was on Saturday, then Monday and Tuesday I had an empty circle and this morning I have EWCM and the test is a flashing smiley?!

Has anyone had this before, is it just because I shouldn't be testing?

I think I'm 4-5DPO but this is all getting so confusing lol

@Lila34830 @continuallyconfused @HeartyPanda @HopefulSS I wouldn’t say in a dino just yet, I’m 30 but but no idea on what my body would say 🤣 I’ve never had any kinds of tests!

@HeartyPanda love seeing other peoples positive stories too, it definitely gives me hope!! I think that’s why I symptom spot too as it lets me hope I could be pregnant!

I just hate that with every negative I start to worry we may have some form of fertility issue, which so early in our journey is crazy!! But I am very much a negative Nellie at times! When I have these thoughts I have to remind myself there’s help out there and one way or another it will still happen for me.

@HopefulSS 100% agree with you with the timescales thing I’m 6/7 today and I’m hung up on feeling like next week is still SO FAR away to test, but come the weekend I know I’ll start to feel better! Just gotta get through the work week!!

@HopefulSS you are definitely not alone - I'm impatient at the best of times never mind waiting for 2 whole weeks!! I'm keeping ok thank you, glad to hear you're hanging in there too! How lovely it is that we have this space to vent and talk with people in the same boat x

We are on the same DPO as I think I'm 4 or 5.
I've had cramping the last couple of days, a headache and feeling generally a bit down.
Unsure if that's anything or just symptom spotting :(
This TWW is painful!

@KT199 gosh I can just imagine! Longest 2 weeks ever!
thank you!! We tried once last month when I was nowhere near ovulation so we knew we wouldn't have a chance of conceiving that month... but that didn't stop me second guessing every little symptom! It's just typical that so many symptoms of ovulation are also symptoms of early pregnancy haha

Glad I'm not the only one feeling old! I just keep stressing that I'll be 37 before I have a baby. I'm now thinking I wish we'd started earlier but need to remind myself that for years I wasn't sure and I wouldn't have had the life I had if I'd had a kid earlier!
@HopefulSS I haven't had any tests done yet. I had a scan for a cyst a couple of years ago and the sonographer said my follicles and everything looked very good for my age so I took that as I had time but as you say we've all been told the old clock is ticking!
I've had a few friends get pregnant without even trying at 37/38 so was hopeful I'd be one of them but doesn't seem to be the case.
Years of birth control seemingly for no reason 😂

@HeartyPanda @Lila34830 yeah I also love seeing other peoples bfps as it gives me hope!! I am only cycle 3 including one early loss and I can't take a bfn though lol

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@HeartyPanda haha we are the dino geriatrics 😂😂😂

i feel like reading positive stories and seing the BFP of other ladies, been looking for some old threads,it makes me so happy, anyone like me?

32 dino here aswell haha love our new nickname

Ok I love this. There are 3 dinosaurs 🦕 on here 🥰 me included and I have no children either!! Anymore dinos on this group?? 😂

@KT199 also I agree I find the first few days of the TWW easy, as I know there's nothing I can feel and I'm just grateful to be potentially pregnant. But I get to 5dpo and my inner psycho comes out and between 5-8dpo I feel desperate. Then 9dpo to about 12dpo I realise the end is in sight and I can try again soon if it's not worked. And then about 13dpo to 14dpo I google every symptom of a late BFP or anything else to make myself feel better that af is not going to come even though I know she will. Lol!! It's an insane journey 😂

Hey!! I mean I am alive that's all I can say haha the impatience and waiting and not knowing is doing me in but I suspect I am not alone!!! How are you feeling?

Hey @pastelpink0! Yeah the TWW is no joke, and I don’t think it gets easier or you get more used to it either. I do feel like I’m out of the woods as I get towards 8/9DPO as I know the end is near, and you can test if you want to.. but that first week DRAGS soooo much!! But it least in the first week you can try switch off from your body as “symptoms” aren’t symptoms of pregnancy.

Good luck with your first TWW, try keep busy and look after yourself!! Feel free to check in any time and we will be here to listen, chat and hopefully help! Xx

@KT199 god it's a minefield!! I don't know what I will do. Part of me wants to test Sunday the other part thinks May as well wait until I've missed my period. But that's a week from now and that feels like a year!!!! Defo don't do Sunday morning if you have Sunday plans.... Monday afternoon could be better :)

Hey! Ah it's lovely to hear from you. I am 35 trying for number 1 too & I also feel like a total dinosaur. I know my AMH is on the lower side too so I know time is not on my side. It wasnt horrifically low just borderline so I know I need to conceive relatively quickly if I want more than one! Nothing like the body clock ⏰ ticking away in our heads 🫣 I have been hopeful that we will get lucky before Xmas having a chemical on our first cycle of not actually "trying" where we only had sex one on ovulation day, but now on cycle 3 and like you not enjoying the process at all. I don't have any symptoms whatsoever and it's making me feel like I am out for the month. Which fills me with dread!! X

Hi everyone 👋🏻 @HopefulSS @Lila34830 @slothbat @KT199 @HeartyPanda @continuallyconfused (hope I haven't missed anyone).

Just popping in to say I hope you're all doing ok mentally/emotionally! I know everyone says TTC is stressful but I didn't realise how much it affects you straightaway... this is only our first month trying but already its getting to me!
Thinking about all you girls in the TWW 🤞🏻