January TTC Support Group 💚

Can anyone give me an idea of a smart watch that will record your temp in the morning? I’m not good at remembering lol

i’m so sorry for your loss and sending you all the baby dust 💫🌈

hello joining this thread as hoping to conceive and welcome a healthy baby into the world 💫
i had a ecptioc in february and lost my right fallopian tube at 7 weeks.
was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and started medication in may

then in had a miscarriage in nov at 6 weeks which i feel was due to my thyroid level being high 😞
i have a repeat blood test early jan and really hope i can start the journey again. Also hoping to lose a stone after christmas. I have started to have decaf tea and coffee.
Currently taking aspirin, levothyrine (for my thyroid) and pregnacare conception tablets
i’ve ordered some ovulations strips and currently on cycle day 2 ( first period since miscarriage)
any advice welcome ☺️

Oh @KittyFantastica you have had such a tough year, I am going to use my Christmas wish for you to have to the best 2025, whatever that might look like.

Feeling good over here. It's ovulation day today and we DTD 1 and 3 days before ovulation. My husband is out tonight but we might try tomorrow before my mum arrives for Christmas, but we'll see how stressed I am 😅

Also just had a call with the fertility hospital and got all our appointments booked in for the new year. 2025 is the year SOMETHING is going to happen, I can feel it ✨

@HNM sorry to hear about your CP. Those tests look great though so everything crossed for you!

We’re not going to track this month. My CP bleeding is calming down so think I’ll just have a regular length period by the looks of it which means my fertile period will be whilst my partner is on holiday so he’s said at least that’s worked out well for us because we’ll be able to dtd loads to give ourselves a good chance. It also means my period will be due again on my first day back to work from maternity leave 😂

Thank you @Wondergirl1111 He really was our little star baby. He was beautiful, and every day is a traumatic nightmare without him. I should be 32 weeks pregnant now; enormous and hosting Christmas from the sofa. Instead, we're not celebrating Christmas at all and we're tracking ovulation (I've been pregnant 3 times this year, and no living children).

George's pregnancy was an absolute dream until it ended, things were going so well, so had finally we let our guards down (after 2 early losses) and tried to enjoy it. We can't do that ever again now. If I do ever get pregnant again, I'll be high risk and likely to have a repeat of last time... so not the happiest thoughts to be tracking ovulation with.

My cycles have been 28 days, 30 days, and 23 days since I gave birth, so a bit varied. It was 26-28 before. I wasn't tracking the first cycle because I was told it would likely take 6-8 weeks for my period to return, however, I had a TVU on day 16 and already had a corpus luteum on my right ovary, so I'd ovulated just two weeks after having George. I didn't track the next two either, just kept up with Clue and Premom. My smart watch auto-saves my temp every morning at 6am, so that should hopefully confirm OV, but I don't know whether I'll track this month. I might do as hubs will be going to visit his family between Christmas and NY, and that's toward the predicted end of my fertile week!

Wow what an amazing story - thank you so much for sharing - I always think it's so positive to hear real life stories about how different all our bodies are and the different ways we can get BFPs.
I'm so sorry to hear your pregnancy ended in loss though - that is truly heartbreaking and must have been so so tough. Sending love x

Never peaked twice no!
Though it was a flashing smiley cd8 - only got my peak today at CD10 so that feels a little more positive as my Flo app is now predicting I'll ovulate on CD13 so only one day early...

I guess every body is different - some surge quickly some surge slowly? Opks are great but have potential to be crazy makers I think! Hope your testing goes well this month x

Same as me - I'm just a few months into trying though! Really relate to the science experiment comment! Ha! I've actually been a bit more relaxed about it this time but slightly annoyed at myself because I think the science experiment obsession last time helped it happen so quickly!

Also had a C-section - I had never heard it increased risk of miscarriage, is that true?

Your tests look great!! Congratulations lovely they look theyre definitely heading in the right direction xx

@HNM oh honey, of course only natural to not get your hopes up after what you have been through. These tests look really convincing though, so I hope it's the start of a happy and healthy 9 months. Congratulations!! What a nice early Christmas present.

Hello ladies. I've been keeping up to date with this month and also the November/December group. I joined the October TTC group and had a very surprising positive pregnancy result, unfortunately it ended I a chemical and a trip to the EPU. I started spotting the day after my period and my tests weren't very strong so I wasn't feeling too hopeful. I then gave a little update on the November group and decided to just stalk the December group and not actually put a message on because I was started to get a little anxious and was feeling frustrated overwhelmed.

I thought I was completely out for this month - I think I ovulate at the beginning of the month as I always get EWCM and ovary pain. We didn't really have an amazing month for actually having sex that much and I was getting symptoms that I thought were my period about to start. It didn't start on Tuesday and my cycle is always 27 days, so I did a test Tuesday night ( after lots of water drinking). I thought it would definitely be negative and then I'd just know then that I'd be waiting for my period but I had a faint line. I tested Wednesday morning and had a more convincing line. Obviously I've then tested loads so the tests from top to bottom are,

Tuesday night
Wednesday morning
Thursday morning
Friday morning (I also got my Clearblue 2-3 weeks that morning with the same sample, I did this test very very earlier in the morning and my urine wasn't as strong as the other mornings I'd say)
Saturday morning
Sunday morning

Obviously these tests have dried and I feel like the bottom test in the darkest? The tests had much more colour to them when they were initially done. The last picture shows the colour as soon as I'd done the most recent test this morning - it came up immediately and seems quite strong? In just looking for some reassurance really as I'm obsessing over the tiniest little thing after the chemical in October.

Do you think these look ok? I'd really like to do another Clearblue digital weeks to see if I can get the 3+ but maybe next week sometime as I'm scared it's too soon? I'm tempted to do another strip test tomorrow morning too. What do you think?

Sending baby dust to all, I've been following all of your stories. Sorry for the huge message, these thoughts have been in my head since Tuesday night and I've just got it all out! Xx

Apparently I am ovulating in 9 days but will confirm this with Premom strips. I would love to join!

Good luck everybody.

Welcome @CockerMum and hello again @Marie1990x ☺️ wishing you the best of luck this cycle!

@CockerMum i’m glad your AF seems to have been quite regular since having the coil out. I had mine out back in May this year so I know it’s a bit strange getting used to all of the hormones again!

@Marie1990x I hope ditching the tests helps you this month 🤞

Oh 100%, I don’t think there’s been a month yet where it hasn’t got out of hand 😂🤦🏼‍♀️ x

Hi all! Hopping over from the December thread.

Sorry to see so many familiar names from the previous thread. Fingers crossed a nice start to the new year with many BFP’s 🤞🏻!

I was going to have a break from it all, but thought I’d make my spot for when I inevitably change my mind and go crazy 😅.

If going by the past few cycles, I should be entering fertile week on Christmas Eve and predicted ovulation 29th Dec.
I’m not going to use OPK’s this month and just go with the flow and see what happens. I’ve wasted far too much money on tests over the last 2+ years so about time.

Jumping on this thread!
TTC first baby for both of us, Mirena out 1st November, AF came 5 days later and again 28 days after that, so we will see what next month brings. If I have got a 28 day cycle then we have a well timed holiday over my fertile window in Jan. Going to not do OPKs next month but maybe after that.
Good luck all!!

ahh thank you! it’s good to have reasons to not be able to test, other wise it can get out of hand🤣

Hello all!
Thought I’d join you here. Starting to try for #2 this month, currently CD7 so probably ovulating just after Xmas. Excited to start trying again but know I’m going to drive myself a bit crazy with all the testing/treating it like a science experiment like I did last time.
Had a section with DD so also a bit apprehensive about what that’s done to me and the miscarriage risk increasing, trying not to let my anxiety get the better of me though.

Sorry to hear you haven’t been well 😕 hope you feel a bit better by Christmas! I don’t think i’ve ovulated yet but i’ll be away in the TWW which will force me not to test until AF arrives or i’m late!

That’s really good, i’m glad not tracking has really helped you feel more relaxed and positive!

I’ve been so tempted to stop using OPKs and I might do it in the new year if we’re not successful this month. My cycles vary a bit in length but my ovulation signs tend to be the same so I think i’ll be able to predict without anything from now on.

Everyone says relaxing improves your chances, so maybe this will be your month 🤞

Anyone else 5DPO?
been so ill with a cold/cough whilst doing night shifts & fed up of wondering if I’ll get a positive this month. I’ll be 9DPO Christmas Day and absolutely not testing early as I don’t want to ruin my Christmas!!!!!

Thank you so much! My partner is being amazing and I’ve told some friends so have a great network x