October 2025 - Halloween 🎃, colder weather and hoping for our BFP’s

Oh Congratulations!!! So happy for you! Praying its a happy and healthy pregnancy. ❤️❤️

Morning everyone! After 15 months we have this! Last month was a chemical so hoping this little guy sticks!

Thanks so much lovely. Really sorry to hear about the miscarriages. It’s hard to stop overthinking everything and imagining what could go wrong but instead trying to enjoy the moment. X

I’m wondering if I should test- day 27 of cycle and temp is 36.98. Had retching in the morning for a week and still have CM but also it’s quite nice living in limbo as a bit of hope.

The line progression looks good to me. I was worried with my line progression last month and ended up miscarrying at 6+5 weeks. That being said, I know a lot of women who had slower line progression and have healthy babies now. The only way of knowing is doing the quantitative hcg blood works, have you asked your GP for bloodworks? And also, like overwork and Iris said, you are pregnant right now. Enjoy the moments! Prayers for a sticky bun for you mumma! ❤️❤️

I honestly don’t think you can use the lines to know how the pregnancy is progressing. The bottom one looks darker to me and they both look positive so I think that at least in this moment, you are 100% pregnant - congratulations!

Hi ladies, I need some advice as this is my first pregnancy and also first time TTC. I tested last Friday when I was 11-12 DPO on a sensitive test and got a light positive.
Since then I’ve made sure on a CB digital and also a couple of other cheaper and less sensitive Boots tests. All positive. But I’ve been concerned as the lines still aren’t overly dark. (Even sometimes with first urine of day). The lines do appear fairly quick within a minute but now I would be 14-15 DPO so thought I’d do a comparison with today and the test on Friday so a min 48 hour difference.
I am just getting anxious as I want to know the pregnancy is progressing as it should but how long does it usually take before the lines are very dark?
should I stop testing as it’s causing me stress? :(

I’ve attached photo. Top is 11-12 DPO and bottom is today 14-15 DPO.
thank you everyone. X

@Mash0917sounds like a plan!! Yeah im now second guessing myself about potentially testing on 9DPO. It feels a little early to be fair, it just happens to be a day off for me 😅 otherwise I’ll be testing midweek when I’m rushing around trying to get out the door for work.. but we’ll see! 😂 I love Halloween, so im hoping it’s a lucky month for us!

Sounds like a plan. I usually don't test till 10dpo. But let's tell each other if there is any symptoms. That's probably better than me going crazy overthinking.

@Mash0917ahhh yes let’s be buddies 🥳 I can usually tell when I’m O as I get O pain. But I starting doubting myself the past 2-3 months so decided I’d get strips and track it this month to make sure. Nothing surprising, I did lend up O as usual on day 12/13. And my O pain was actually really painful this month. Like much more painful than most other months. So if I didn’t have the Lh tests, I still would have known 😅

I am considering only testing early if I get symptoms beforehand. In my previous pregnancy it was actually really noticeable to me (boobs felt heavy/painful which never happens to me outside of pregnancy/breastfeeding) and I swear I felt implantation happen 😂🫣 I waited to test until something like 11dpo and got a pretty strong positive then.

I am actually off work next Monday when I’ll be 9DPO so that’s why if I do test early it will probably be then 😂 but yeah, if no symptoms, then I won’t, because I don’t like the heartbreak 😪

I’ll keep you updated if I notice any symptoms throughout the week. Might be better to voice it here instead of caving and taking early tests! 😅

@underthethree, Thanks. I usually track my opk with clearblue digital test. They are pretty awesome. But I can always exactly pinpoint my O day because I have endo, and my O day involves pain worse than period cramps.
We are cycle buddies, yey!! Let's encourage each other throughout the tww to NOT test too early. :-p

@Mash0917 so sorry to hear about your early miscarriage ❤️ great that you were able to track your OD and also dtd! Best of luck to you in this tww! ❤️ I am 2DPO (tracked Ovulation with strip tests for the first time ever this month). We managed to dtd 2days before, 1 day before, and day of ovulation. Was hoping to dtd once or twice more in the following 12-24hrs but it didn’t happen 😂 but I’m hopeful we have covered our bases with our efforts 😂

I think I might test at 9DPO but I’ll see closer to the time. Do you plan on testing early? I tested early 2 cycles ago, and found it upsetting getting negatives, so then I didn’t test at all last cycle, and actually felt better about it. But I think I’m ready to test early again this month 😂🫣 so we’ll see. It’s a rollercoaster.

Yess!! Great news. You can find your balance now. And start trying again when you feel ready! I'm happy for you. ❤️❤️

@Iris2024, I'm so sorry you are going through this. Can you see your gp to get some help with your periods?

Hello ladies, cheking back in after the early miscarriage on 1st October. I gave myself a little break from the stress of this to heal. It took me a week to bleed out and another week for my hcg levels to go down to negative. Until CD 15 there was nothing, not even the slightest lh surge. Then CD 16 I had a straight up peak fertility on the Clearblue digital opk along with ewcm, my endo cramps and all. It was a very strong and painful ovulation for around 24 hours and then the lh surge went completely down just as fast. We did manage to dtd twice in the meantime though, (we are on a romantic weekend away now, that helped. :-p) So here I am, on a very tentative 1 dpo. Anyone else on 1/2 dpo now?

I’ve been reading the conception board for a while now and thought I’d finally jump in and say hi!
It’s CD1 of our 5th cycle TTC baby 2. I know 4 months isn’t a long time in the grand scheme of things. It took 12 months for DS. I really thought last cycle was the one though until I saw my BBT drop 2 days ago.
I’m doing OPKs and BBT, both of which indicate I’m ovulating, but I’m going to switch to digitals this month, and try Conceive Plus as well. And also reduce caffeine and sugar!

Best of luck to those still in their 2ww!

Hi Lovely, we never got a postive test but showed my charts to our fertility expert and she confirmed it. Took three cycles for normality to return. The middle one was 41 days which was really scary as everything online said it was the start of the menopause.
I had another chemical on my last cycle but our fertility expert thinks this will be a normal cycle. I’m currently 8DPO according to my temperature and CM.
wishing you all the best- this is month 15 for us- it’s hard to feel hopeful but trying to cling onto hope.

Sorry to hear so many ladies this month going through a tough time, I’m 2dpo on the last cycle before our ivf starts and keeping everything crossed that this is our month, the thought of ivf scares me but that’s the next step for us, if anyone can share any positive experiences that would be great.

Could it be a missed chemical? I had that in March and had three very long cycles. It was only when I spoke to someone months later it twigged that’s what it was.