3dpo - anyone else?

Fingers crossed 🤞🤞
I’m in the same boat, it’s rare that my cycle is longer than 26-27 days so at most I’m only going to have 8-9 days for implantation to happen. Let’s hope those little eggs get moving! 😂

@Chocolateeggsarebetterthannormalchocolate looks like it to me 😊
I finally got my peak last night too, was starting to think it was never coming 😂

@Pleasestopjumpingonthesofa We had a month off recently and carried on tracking symptoms as usual and started using opk’s. I did find it helpful as hopefully going forward I won’t mistake sore boobs etc as anything new. Although if you’re already used to when you usually ovulate and what signs you get at what time of the month, then it may not be so useful if that makes sense.
@Chocolateeggsarebetterthannormalchocolate I’m cd 16 now and no peak yet although not used my opk yet today as my lines tend to be darker in the evening. My app was completely wrong too so don’t think you can pay it too much attention 🙈 Hopefully your cycle is a slightly longer one this month so would all be fine with the late ovulation 🤞

@Chocolateeggsarebetterthannormalchocolate I can't remember if this is your first month tracking, but in general the luteal phase stays fairly constant and if ovulation is later, your cycle will just be longer. E.g. if you have the "standard" (ha!) 14 day luteal phase, ovulating on CD14 = cycle length 28, if you ovulate later on CD20 then you're most likely going to have a 34 day cycle that time around.

If it's your first month tracking and you don't know your luteal phase then ignore all of that and I just hope you do have a reasonable length luteal to improve your chances 😊

Also if anyone else has had a break mid TTC (forced or otherwise) - I'm not sure whether to keep tracking temp etc or not. On the one hand data is always useful if only to stop me being totally convinced that a headache on 8dpo is a new symptom (hint: it's not) buuut on the other hand I know roundabout when I ovulate so maybe I just sack it off for a bit and at least enjoy some freedom from that.

Anyone had a break and felt that what they did WRT tracking was good/would in retrospect do it differently?

11DPO for me, whitest of all BFN this morning and the start of period twinges (I'm due on anywhere 12-14dpo) so I'm almost officially counting myself out - always that little bit of hope until you see red, but realistically I think I'm done.

That means surgery is happening for me in a month, meaning at least one and possibly two cycles down the drain due to that (not sure I'll be quite up for TTC 5 days after surgery! Plus probably not sensible for recovery). Pretty gutted to be honest and unreasonably angry at the world today, but off for a long run so hoping that will help shake out all the feelings. I hope everyone else has better luck!

How’s everyone doing?

Im on CD14 and no peak on opk yet, hope its soon as I’m getting impatient lol X

@Chocolateeggsarebetterthannormalchocolate Yeah it’s definitely been helpful to see when things are actually happening. Wouldn’t have had any idea about any of it otherwise. I think I’ve still got a few days if this month follows the same pattern as last.

@Pleasestopjumpingonthesofa
Thanks that’s good to know if we’re still in the same situation in a few months.

🤞🤞🤞🤞 Everything crossed for it to be a lucky month all round!

I found OPKs helpful, my ovulation was different to the assumption the apps made without it and we have to actively up our frequency during the fertile time so it's pretty vital for us to know when that is! My chemical was the month I started OPKs, impossible to say of course whether that increased my chances (did OPKs cycle after as well and nothing!) but I do feel it helped me after so long on the pill and not knowing my body's signs.

@CrazyKJ I believe things can be done for a short luteal phase (I don't know what though, sorry!) so might be worth chatting to your GP if it's something you can show them consistently happening for a few cycles via OPKs?

Hey 👋
@Chocolateeggsarebetterthannormalchocolate Love the optimism!

@Pleasestopjumpingonthesofa
Sorry to hear about your chemical, hopefully you’ll know which way things are going soon. Not easy to plan things when you feel like you’re in limbo 🤞

My opk’s are showing that I apparently ovulate quite late considering my cycle isn’t hugely long. Been doing some looking into it, and apparently if your luteal phase is slightly short as mine seems to be it can cause issues with implantation 😔 the things you read about it are mixed but it’s given me something else to worry about. Although I’m trying to be positive as at least I know I’m ovulating later now, we may have been missing the window before. Just gonna do it a lot once my lines start darkening and hope for the best 😂

@Chocolateeggsarebetterthannormalchocolate (I want Easter eggs now!)

Thank you. I can't quite decide which I want more but realistically either is a good outcome so I'm trying to focus on that. Yes, I was devastated. It really surprised me quite how hard it hit me, but I think hormones are funny things on top of the natural grief. I'm sorry you've been through it too.

Due 5-7th ish of April - bit hard to tell as last month's was unusual following the chemical so I think the estimate on my app of the 7th is probably later than usual based on that.

My surgery is booked in! If I get pregnant I'll just have to cancel it until after I give birth, but it's booked for early June at the moment.

It's also difficult as we're not telling anyone we're trying (well. I let slip to one friend!) but my manager knows about the chemical as I had time off work due to it. I would usually have told him about the surgery date by now but I'm going to have to fudge it in my catch-up as I want to give him some notice it'll happen but if I give him the exact date and then it can't go ahead due to me being pregnant I don't want it to be really suspicious to him why it might have got cancelled!

I wasn't here before, but I'm in my TWW now - so a week or two ahead of you I'd think! I'm 6dpo (ish - I think I peaked overnight which makes it a bit hard to judge). Cycle 5 of trying for baby #1, had a chemical on cycle 3 unfortunately. If I don't get a positive this cycle we have to put it on hold for a couple of months as I need surgery so it's either BFP in about a week or surgery in just over a month! Bit of a mind fuck as I desperately want to get pregnant again but also could really do with having the surgery so some days it feels like a win-win and some days it feels like a lose-lose 😂

Funny about your expired OPKs. Most other things I'd think eh, probably will work. But this is all so specific date-wise that like you I'd definitely get some in date ones!

@Chocolateeggsarebetterthannormalchocolatemy DS wont stop asking questions today and demanding a little brother

DH jokingly said i hope it takes us a while to fall pregnant so we can have fun trying, ive made my peace this cycle but the thought of it taking ages for us has disheartened me a lot!

@peanutForever isnt it crazy what our bodies do!! We took a month off ttc recently and I barely had any twinges, sore boobs etc yet the previous months when we were I had just about every symptom going 🙈

I hate the TWW, im pretty sure i know im already out but why am i feeling twinges! Why is my body trying to gaslight itsslf ahaha

@Chocolateeggsarebetterthannormalchocolate Yeah I get what you mean now, there’s loads to do in and around Dorset. Lots of lovely walks if that’s your kind of thing 😊 I probably wouldn’t go to Bognor unless we’re going to Butlin’s tbh.

@Michelle292 Sorry to hear you’ve got your AF symptoms. I also find all the negatives really disheartening. Might be worth giving opks a try if you’re not sure if you’re ovulating X