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Anyone ttc baby no 2?

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theladyintheyellowhat · 09/01/2012 20:08

Hi everyone!

Just wondering if anyone is trying for baby number 2?

I've been 'sort of' trying for two months, but this month am really determined! I think i'm supposed to ovulate this wednesday, so BD'd today, yesterday... etc!!

I have a 15 month old DD....

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HelloBear · 07/02/2012 21:19

bewler - I also have short LP, my cycle seemed to be completely messed up since giving up BF my DD in June. I hate having my AF and it makes it more expensive!!! So I have sympathy for you.

Anyone else not doing charting, OV sticks etc? We are not, just trying to keep it relaxed and DTD for fun Shock. Though saying that my DH did announce while cooking tea tonight that we have to have sex tonight! This is because I showed him my phone app and he remembered that I OV around now. Just have to find the energy now....

Brambule · 08/02/2012 10:14

Congratulations to all the BFPs and sorry to hear about the arrival of AF for others. I am now on 16dpo and feeling a smidge fed up. My LP is always so long. I've known for days from the stomach cramps and bloating that we've not been lucky this month so just wish AF would hurry up!

Idratherbe · 08/02/2012 11:29

Loving all the pregnancies happening around here, congratulations all round! I posted on here a few weeks back and have been lurking since... So by way of update me and mr IRB have been doing the deed blimmin loads but I'm not clear on when I ovulated. It could have been anywhere between 29th Jan and a few days ago but i suspect it was round about 1st feb. Anyhoo, I'm feeling roughly the same as when I was early early preggers back in December so I'm really hoping... Period likely due anywhere between 10th and 17th feb, last cycle was 1st post MC and 24 days but I'm a 28 day girl as a rule. On days 17, 19 and 20 I had really sticky CM with a tinge of brown so I'm wondering if that was ovulation or implantation spotting. I've never experienced mid cycle bleeding before so I don't know. Now my nips are v sore, waking in the night and getting period like cramps. Here's hoping - will be testing no earlier than 16th. Hold me to it!

Chunkychicken · 08/02/2012 13:13

Fingers crossed IRB :)

Bewler · 08/02/2012 14:01

HelloBear I breastfed my DD for a long time and my cycles seem a few days shorter than before....wonder if it has any connection? We are def not charting but did use OV sticks last month (didn't get a positive though!). We DTD so much though I'm sure we covered our bases but even if you do everything right I read that you only have a 20% chance each month Shock
My new hope is to be pregnant before DD is 2 in August and then I'll be pleasantly suprised if it happens sooner!

sunshinejanuary · 08/02/2012 19:02

ddas I tried the old stay away from Mumsnet but it didn't help stop to stop me obsessing! I am now seeing preggo symptoms everywhere, I am trying to stop myself testing until Friday when my period is due but I have a sneay feeling I will be testing tomorrow!

HelloBear I am not doing anything in the way of checking OV etc, this is our first month of TTC #2 and I am already getting het up enough without actually charting anything. I am sure a few months down the line i will be trying everything. I can't belive how neurotic trying is making me! Thank God for being able to whigne at Mumsnetters!!

Idratherbe · 08/02/2012 21:35

HelloBear I'm not doing anything swanky either, just good old fashioned shagging. That said i'm constantly eyeing up my pants just in case there's a story to tell Wink. DH is pretty savvy and I'm sure he knows when I'm ovulating as it seems to coincide with dramatic increase in boudoir action Grin. I've temped before but now we've got DS I'm nowhere near as good at organising and remembering.

stabiliser15 · 09/02/2012 11:44

Hellobear we're not doing anything like that.

I'm still trying to get to grips with what my cycle is - I took the pill back to back for years and years to do away with painful and heavy periods. I was taken off it when my BP rose a bit, didnt pay any attention to my cycle at all and conceived DD within 4 months of coming off the pill.

Took a different pill while BF and afterwards. Came off that just before Christmas and now trying to record things for a couple of months to try and work out what my cycle is, and then can target likely ovulation times more accurately. Cant help but hope I'll just get a BFP quickly before I need to get into all that!

ddas · 09/02/2012 12:59

Definitely seems to be a recurrent theme that those who have just stopped BF have noticed shorter cycles. I stopped breastfeeding a couple of months ago and cycles have def not been as regular as before and shorter.

ddas · 09/02/2012 13:12

recurring not recurrent

sunshinejanuary · 09/02/2012 20:08

Well, I caved and tested today although AF not due until tomorrow and BFN :( I am pretty sad about it (stupidly! As only first month of trying).

I am still BFing but ny DD is 25 months and I have had my period back since she was 9 months so I am pretty sure this will have no negative impact on TTC.

I am hopeing other ladies here are awaiting better news than I have this month!

HelloBear · 11/02/2012 22:46

Sorry to read about your post sunshinej, it is upsetting and so frustrating due to the total lack of control over the whole business.

Well think I possibly OVed a couple of days ago, SWI plenty so now just the wait. Trying REALLY hard to not think about it...but I went out and bought not 1, not 2 but 3 HPTs. Oh dear me Hmm.

When3Become4 · 12/02/2012 15:35

Hello, can I join (brand new username especially!). DD is 1yo (conceived v quickly in first month of trying). Now going for DC2... Am mid 30s, on the folic acid and swi :D

TheresAHuppoInMyHouse · 13/02/2012 12:04

Hello everyone, it's been a few weeks since I posted earlier in this thread ....

My update is that my period was due 3 days ago, it's never usually late ... we've been ttc since last July but I was bf til October so that may have scuppered the first few months.

I am trying to wait before testing ... just a few more days ..... but I will walk past a chemist's on my lunchhour which is in about half an hour! Will my willpower win??!

HelloBear · 13/02/2012 13:28

hippo you have a lot more will power than I have, though this time round I've promised myself no early testing. Have you any symptoms?

HelloBear · 13/02/2012 13:29

Ups sorry my phone corrected that to hippo rather than your name!

TheresAHuppoInMyHouse · 13/02/2012 14:35

Hello Hello (bet you've heard that plenty of times!)

The only symptom is being convinced that my period will start at any minute .... I've had many months of dealing with the disappointment when it arrives, so I feel very finely tuned to what it feels like! I think that pre-menstruation symptoms are pretty similar to pre-pregnancy symptoms. EG: sleepy to the point of knackeredness (but that goes with fulltime working, commuting and 15 monthold DD), slightly bigger boobs (could be period-related, could be my imagination), hungrier than normal (definitely just an excuse to eat loads of carbs, which I did for the whole of my pregnancy last time, love it!).

Reading back to a previous post of yours, the only 'trying' we've done is for me to know exactly what day my period started and is due. Then lots of shagging in the middle two weeks or so. In fact, this month it was mainly anygry shagging and making-up shagging as we had loads of rows Blush.

Bewler · 13/02/2012 19:45

Huppo...did you test? Smile

CheshireDing · 13/02/2012 20:22

DH and I are TTC No2 but as DD is 4 months and ebf it is looking unlikely to happen anytime soon :(

TheresAHuppoInMyHouse · 13/02/2012 21:18

Bewler No! I resisted! And still no period yet. Perhaps I will do a Valentine's day test tomorrow and the Bid Reveal could make this a memorable one for DP Hmm !!

Cheshire wow you are keen with DD1 at 4 months. Good on you! My periods didn't come back till DD was 9 months and ebf, but everything says you can get preggers before AF makes an appearance, so it's a good excuse for lots of sex (although 'lots' is a debatable term when you have a small, noisy, hungry DC on the scene?)

Bewler · 14/02/2012 09:41

Huppo I shall be lurking today hoping you get a nice Valentine's day suprise! Smile

I am in awe of people of TTC so quickly after birth....I was so wrapped up in DD the thought of another baby never even crossed my mind. I still think she is a baby at 18 months!! Its only when I hold tiny babies that I realise she's all grown up now! Grin My friend who has a 16 month old DS is due with DC2 today......she says labour seems like a walk in the park compared with the prospect of looking after the two of them. Her midwife asked if she wanted a home birth and she said no way, no-one is going to cheat me out of my night in hospital!!!Grin

Margie32 · 14/02/2012 11:26

Hi everyone,

Huppo, got everything crossed for you, hope you get some good news. Hello, I'm not doing any charting or sticks yet - I thought I'd break myself in gently but I'm already getting madly neurotic about TTC no.2 and it's only month no.2! So I'm sure I'll find myself in the ovulation kit aisle of Boots before too long...Smile

Is it possible that I don't ovulate until day 23 of my cycle? I seem to remember that when were TTC DS and I was charting my temp. that day 23 was the Big Day, but thinking about it today, it does seem very late. Anyone else a late ovulator?

TheresAHuppoInMyHouse · 14/02/2012 12:44

BFN

FFS!

Bewler · 14/02/2012 13:13

sorry huppo Sad

CheshireDing · 14/02/2012 15:35

Oooh fingers crossed for you Huppo :)

Well my theory with ttc so soon is that I will get the kack of sleep out of the way sooner if they are close in age and that (theoretically) they might be more likely to get along better.

There is no point getting an ovulation kit whilst bf I realise but does anyone know whether the temperature indicator would work whilst bf?