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

CD1 today. It means my next period is due on Halloween. Hoping for a spooky BFP instead 😂 best of luck to everyone this month!

wow. Identical. I also ran out of sticks on CD19 and haven’t a clue how to BBT 🤣. Not so far being you I don’t think. My peak was CD18 (DTD), so ovulation assuming CD19 (29th October) so I’m 6DPO.

Is this your first cycle of baby 1?

Ahh thank you guys. Will do another in the morning and see!

I’m really surprised as I only had a few LH strips this month. I think my peak was CD15 (but annoyingly I ran out of strips after that so had no way of knowing for sure and I don’t do bbt!). We DTD on CD14, 15 and 16 (presumed ovulation day)!

I can definitely see something there! Try again tomorrow and see! But it looks promising?

when did you dtd and when did you ovulate! Do you use LH and Opks?

Oooh! I can see that! And I’m usually hopeless at this game

Morning all - decided to cave this morning at 8DPO and ????? Pics attached - trying not to get my hopes up but feeling hopeful?😱

Sorry @MyPeppyLimeBeari can’t see a line but I do use the line checker app sometimes lol. How many dpo are you?

@Mash0917how are you doing?

I’m so sorry lovely that must be so hard. X

Hey ladies,

hope you’re all ok. Going to catch up on everyone’s messages now but praying I see some BFPs. This month marks officially a year of trying. I have decided to book a private appt as the nhs waiting list is still almost 2 years.

I take it no one sees anything on these? Xx

@Mash0917 I’m so sorry to read that x

Oh I’m very sorry to hear that

@Mash0917 I’m so sorry! Hope you’re doing ok x

Thanks @Mash0917 it will be entirely dependent on your body and how you feel emotionally. I was ready to try again straight away but I did convince myself that I’d get pregnant again immediately (I suppose I was right but wasn’t prepared for the chemical) my only advice would be to test periodically/frequently on cheapy test strips and ensure that the HCG drops to zero. That way if and when you’re ready to start again you can be sure it’s a new pregnancy. I ran out of strips and stupidly changed brands and it added a layer of confusion in for me.

Tight hugs. We can do this. I don't even know when to start trying after having a miscarraige. :-(

Sorry to hear that @Mash0917- I was the same last month and now AF has arrived after a few positive tests so suggesting a chemical for me this month. Last night was pretty dark for me but feeling better this morning. On to cycle 7 💪
also sorry for the ladies who’s ov dates conflict with life - it’s very frustrating as the gaps between fertile days just seem to drag on and on, I feel you!

Hello ladies, so I'm going through a miscarriage right bow at 6 weeks 6 days. This was hard but it is what it is. ❤️ Just waiting for it to clear so we can go back to ttc.

I am so disappointed with our efforts this month, partner has worked a couple of evenings this week (unusual to get two in one week), I went out (even more unusual) and we just never seemed to match up. NC hasn’t confirmed ovulation yet, but it does think it’s been and gone, between that and the ovulation test. And we had sex once. So I already feel like it’s not going to happen this month :( At my age we can’t afford to skip a month but ideally I wouldn’t want to get pregnant next month either as new baby would arrive very close to other baby’s birthday. So I’m feeling really quite despondent today!

Hello!! Joining from the last thread! Feeling very frustrated, my ovulation lined up with a trip my husband has! So he’s away now! Has anyone any experience of getting pregnant where they were only able to try 3 days before ovulation?? Or am I already out this month 😂

That is very true!!!

Hope you call goes well 🤞🏻 Tbf my referral to fertility clinic was much faster than I expected and they suggested a treatment plan straight away

@Taysonic im always amazed at how you're able to think of things in such a logical way,
@Muddysocks1 sometimes I think you need to put yourself first and be demanding to them, im sure you'll not be the most demanding patient they've got by a long shot

Got a call with my doctor in a few weeks to discuss my borderline low progesterone & thin uterine lining, just really worried that they're not going to be able to do anything for me and will have to refer me somwhere which of course takes more time. getting frustrated because I swore I wouldnt let ttc take over my whole life, but its become my whole personality these days and its such a drain

10-12 days past ovulation and a BFN for me this month! Not surprised, we probably missed dtd on actual OD due to getting sick. I also have had no symptoms. So now I’m waiting for AF to come so we can move on the next month. Hopefully October will be our month 🤞

This is such a good way to look at it!! I know I need to find some positivity and distraction as think it might help.

Im feeling a bit frustrated with the fertility clinic process though. Had a brief phone review but need to do second cycle of meds and test progesterone to see if it’s high enough (I have borderline low progesterone so letrozole will hopefully improve ovulation and boost progesterone).. but the next appt I’ve got is after I finish the third dose. So I’ll do second dose (started this week), it might not work, and I’ll have to do another round of meds on same dose before it’s reviewed? I might ring and query it, but just hate feeling like I’m asking for too much or being demanding. Maybe if my progesterone blood test is a bit low they’ll contact me before the appt but I imagine they’re really busy so thinking maybe not. Just don’t want to “waste” another cycle of the dose or plan isn’t helping.. every cycle feels so long!

I feel you @Muddysocks1. It's coming up to the due date of my first loss earlier this year, and I REALLY had it in my head that I wanted to be pregnant again before that due date. But then, I had a second loss and now can't TTC again until end of October because of the ectopic treatment.

I had hoped a new viable pregnancy would negate or offset the anticipation of what I imagine will be a really difficult day/time period... but, if I'm really honest with myself, I think even if I was pregnant again, that due date will still be difficult and hard.

There's a VERY very small, tiny little chance that the timings work that I could become pregnant again before my original due date (20th November), but even if that happens, it'll be a highly anxious time and I'll be fearing and protecting myself from the worst.

I'm trying to shift my efforts into what I can do that I CAN CONTROL to make that time easier. It's my own birthday on the 22nd Nov so I've planned a big trip to London to hopefully fill the weekend with happy new memories that will be nice... but I think I'm also going to think about what time I need to myself, to just rest, reflect and allow some of the processing of those difficult emotions too.

We can go through it together.

Af arrived for me this morning so I'm going into cycle 2. I was fairly obsessive last cycle with it being my first so I'm hoping now I can settle in to being a bit more measured about things now I know what it feels like to be disappointed!

Left this lying around and my poor partner found it and got very excited, I’m quite offended that he’s not equally excited that he has to have sex today!