anyone else TTC baby no2!!!! 🍼

Yeah I’m doing alright. AF has stopped. I’m torn between ordering ovulation tests or just taking it easy and trying to stay relaxed?!

Got everything crossed for you! I try not to test early too as can’t stand the negative tests. Keep me updated on how it goes! Any symptoms? Xx

Yes similar here - I usually wait til 12 dpo to test or sometimes not at all depending on how I’m feeling. I then have a couple of days to feel sad but then day 1 of my period isn’t so bad as I see it as the start of another try :)

Aw that’s lovely that it was your first ever test you took! That must have been so amazing! I lost count of mine haha!

Hopefully it’s your month! 🤞 did you have any pre test pregnancy symptoms last time? I had a weird taste in my mouth on the Wednesday (which I think was about 10/11 dpo) and tested on the Friday and got a faint but obvious line. So now means I’m waiting to see if I get that weird taste each month even though I know you can have completely different symptoms for different pregnancies.

I’m now CD1 - onto cycle 4! To be honest I’m just hoping for less than 18 like last time 🙏🤞

@chelseaaaaaxxxx do you test early? What dpo do you start testing?

You too!

how you getting on? What CD are you? X

Ah I completely get it. 2 of my friends started trying around the same time as we did and fell instantly. I’m very happy for them but other part of me thinks why not us. And I know I need to manage my expectations as it’s only been 3/4 months but just makes me worry something is wrong.
but let’s stay positive.
onto 2027 babies 💜

V similar to lots of you - was instant with our first and we’re in cycle four for our second now. Our daughter turned 3 in Feb.

Cycle one and three were both “chemical pregnancies”/v early miscarriages which have been pretty wrenching, a real rollercoaster, and a little bit worrying, though bloods haven’t found anything wrong. But I know if we do get there again those first 12 weeks will be tough rather than joyous.

The second early miscarriage has messed up my cycle too. I’m on my fourth LH surge this month - body just isn’t ovulating (I track it with temperature on my Oura ring). Day 23 and I’ve hopefully JUST ovulated, fourth try lucky??

I did use it on its own at the very start but I had problems with my cycle back then so thats why I found it a bit off, sorry I wasnt very clear 🤣 i then seen on mumsnet about BBT and once I started that I kind of only used flo to add period dates into to keep it up to date, i try not to use opks too much, I never know when to just put the box away lol

I use flo too! It’s a good app especially once it has some months of data!

Its a big decision to make, you have to be sure you feel ready to go on the journey, or as ready as you are going to be! you still get the false hope that it might happen first go when you do start🙈 but we will get there, and everything crossed it wont be near as long for us as with our firsts 🤞

Yes I can definitely relate. I felt very happy for friends but sad for myself at the same time! We had a few very close friends all conceive and even give birth before we even got pregnant!
i was using the easy@home opks to track but in attempting to take a chill approach 😂 I’ve actually decided not to use them for now. But so far all it’s done is annoy me as I’m less sure when my period is due 😂

I use flo as well, its a very good app compared to others, i use it more so to keep track of my dates, my cycles would vary between 32 - 35 days, so flo wouldn't always be accurate for me that way. I mainly use Natural Cycles to keep track of my temps, i find this very useful as I like to see the trends, and can use previous cycles to compare where I am. Only thing with it is it will only confirm ovulation after its happened, but it does help narrow the window!

Sorry to hear it took you a while as well. It is such a strange head space isn’t it!
its also played on my mind as to when we started trying for #2. But I just wasn’t ready to start any earlier even though it probably would have been a good idea too I just mentally couldn’t face the heartache each month! But new year and all that - so we started in January.
Hopefully this time it won’t take as long for us!

I am also, its so hard to not analyse everything! I BBT so each temp has me overthinking everything trying to figure out what it means lol do you do anything to track your cycles at the minute?

I understand how u feel @Foreverhopeful92, with our first i felt the same, although i didn't have as long a wait as you, its so hard to be chilled about it especially as each cycle comes and goes, it can be very tough mentally, i know with me i was constantly googling bbt, supplements etc looking for answers lol

Thank you! We really do want 2 under 2 but he’s still feeding pretty frequently at the minute (although has jumped up 30 on the growth chart since weaning)