TTC FIRST BABY - New cycle, let's go girls !

The dino club is growing 🥰
@Lila34830 i think your symptoms are promising 🤞🏻
@pastelpink0 you are the baby dino of the group then haha
@Nay34 hi thank you for sharing this about nutrition, yes i had made a lot of changes on my side (cutting off processed food, fries, using only avocado/olive oil, cut off margarine, no deep frying, reducing sugar intake...) i am now trying to reduce gluten but it's so damn hard. In the other hand my DH is not as committed as i am so 🤷🏻‍♀️!

Update: had 5 days of ewcm 0 positive LH tests, glad it's over now. Last night i had abdominal pain in one side,(still do) hurts when u cough, no idea what my body is trying to me and starting to be worried 😣. Honestly i dont think it can be ovulation by now cd24! Any thoughts ?

@Toppstileslover did your boss succeed with her own egg at 45?
I’ll be calling the GP after Christmas to refer me for tests. If something is wrong I’d better find out as soon as possible, at my dino age 😅

28?! Get out of here you fraud 🤪😂

Interesting! I really do need to make more changes to my diet. I'm not the worst but I could be doing more.

If anyone has any recipes or tips for a better diet/lifestyle they'd like to share, please do!

I'm only 28, don't kick me out of the Dino club 😂 I thought 28 was still young enough to start TTC until i started Googling a few months ago! I'm not as young as I thought I was 😂

Has anyone else changed their diet at all?

I've eaten so many blueberries I'm going to start turning blue before long!

But in general I have just been eating healthier, cutting down on chocolate and such like ☹️ 🍫

My sister sent me this which I thought was a simper reference as there's so many lists out there!

The dino mum club! 🥹 🫶🏻 🦕 🦖 🪨
We can do it ladies xx

Omg girls 34 is not dino you silly muffins. I am going to be 37 next week @Clara202 so officially in advanced age with you. My father in law is a gynae though and he says actually to 40, if you have good fertility, you are usually okay. The issue is people who don’t have good fertility don’t realise / start trying until it’s too late, then years pass and it does make things difficult. Which is why we have started the testing process early (I also had a private scan last year). Husband does need to do his sperm test though as anatomically I look okay. Can’t imagine him doing one 😂 Hard to know egg quality + ovulation without further tests though which is a big thing.

my old boss was having IVF at 45 with a sperm donor and had a baby so there’s hope for us all!

anyway!

@Lila34830 last month I felt like I had loads of symptoms and had the 5 day late period. This month I have no symptoms (apart from being upset on Monday but that was life!)

AF due in 5 days so at least my window of waiting is coming to a close. Usually it’s clock work on the 10th but think later cos of the previously late period!

sending 🌟🌟🌟🌟 to those waiting 🩷🩷🩷

Hi welcome 👋
I'm relatively new on this thread as well.
Hope your journey goes well and doesn't take too long but I'm sure we'll all be here to support you for as long as needed!

So here for the dino mum club someday soon 🪨🤞🦕🦖

AF is due tomorrow, I'm feeling cramping so might be out for this cycle.
I don't mind, what will be will be.
Let's see though.

@Lila34830 its just a number in many ways, unfortunately not so much biologically though😂 I’m going to try really hard to get pregnant just to wave the flag of hope for all my dino subjects 😂

Is anyone here older than me (38)? Or do I get to wear the queen dino 🦕 crown? 😅

Morning ladies! I don't have much to say this morning other than, I've been reading back through the posts from the past couple of days and I just love what a helpful and welcoming space we have here to chat and ask questions without judgement.
Long live the dino club 🦕

Thanks for all the info @KT199 and @Lila34830 . It is very helpful and doesn't come across as condescending. This is all new to me - I naively thought you could get pregnant at any time during the month until quite recently!!

My friend said the Mira was fantastic, though the sticks are so expensive. My plan is just to DTD as much as possible over the next fortnight and learn more about tracking in the meantime - if nothing happens this month I'll maybe look for some Black Friday Mira sales!

Good luck today everyone, fingers crossed for you all and looking forward to updates!

According to the clearblue app we can test tomorrow but that seems really early. Might wait until Monday (AF due the Thursday)

I haven’t used the advanced monitors no! I did look at the mira, but it’s very expensive. I thought if I was still on this journey at month 7/8 I may purchase, but also the refills each month are sooo expensive too so I’m unsure!

I use the CB advanced ovu which gives a flashing smiley, then static.. not sure if it’s worth the money.. it’s meant to be good as it indicates the opening of your fertile window as detects oestrogen rise, followed by giving the static smiley once your LH rises like the one your using. I use the OPK strips alongside it once I get flashing as I test it least twice a day (usually around CD10/11) to make sure I catch my LH surge as I may miss it without as I have had a few shorter surges less than 24hrs!