Two week wait...

[AnythingNotEverything]

Hello all!

I've been lurking for a few weeks since beginning ttc recently, so thought it was time I posted something!

I think I ovulated yesterday (and dtd) so will now have my fingers crossed until 7th feb when AF if due. Anyone want to keep me company?! I'm ready to obsessively symptom spot and look out for implantation pain!

As background, we've been careful on and off since November, but are active ttc this month. Trying to be patient knowing this could take ages yet! I already have a nearly 13 yo ds from a previous relationship.

Good luck to us all xx

[gillian1986]

WhenSheWasBadSheWasHopeful im hoping its symptoms too although im the same as you! I find symptoms that dont even really exist...! feel fine now but this morning i couldnt stop crying.... dont even remember what it was about but hubby was quite confused! haha!
anyway... thought the bloating had passed but i am SOOOO bloated right now on my lunch break i feel like my belly is going to burst! its been like this for a few days now and never had this before (normally when i feel bloated it passes within a few hours... not days!)

[Tinyflutterby]

Think my af should be due end of this week/weekend. Think there's a few of us due at same time? Feeling very emotional and burst into tears this morning, but then ttc is an emotional time so could just be that. Trying not to look for symptoms, but hard not to. Not planning to POAS until after the weekend, although may not be able to hold out that long!

[LoveLaughingLots]

Tinyflutterby We are almost in-sync - I burst into tears this morning too! lol

When you never know, it could be your month!

I'd love it if everyone on this thread of this months 2ww got a BFP! Remember to come back and let us all know! I need to pass my time with something...

LLLx

[Katnisscupcake]

Congratulations Anything - sorry I've been away from the thread since last week!!

So, think I'm out this month. Only 9DPO and last night had some (TMI) brown CM. Nothing since I would love to say that it might have been implantation bleeding, but I honestly don't think it was. And if it was, in my case any kind of bleeding is not a good sign.

I had implantation bleeding with my first PG and MCd at 5 weeks, then had DD and then last July bled from DPO13, came on DPO14 as normal, but then got a BFP a week later, followed by a MC. A very very confusing month.

So I associate any sort of bleeding with MC. Other than that, my boobs were sore last night and like you Tinyfutterby and LLL I cried too, but actually in the middle of the night when I realised that my boobs were sore and that it might mean that I'm PG, but also that I might have another MC!! . Clearly I'm losing it... LOL Have to say though, since about 4DPO, REALLY vivid dreams - all night!! So very little sleep...

AF is due Friday/Saturday so in sync with quite a few on here this week so I guess we'll all have to wait and see... I won't be testing early though... she says

[WhenSheWasBadSheWasHopeful]

Thanks lll you never know but I'm not holding my breath. Think I will do a test on thurs then I can forget about it.

katniss sorry about your mcs. I can understand how nervous you are feeling. I had 3 chem pregs last year (bled at about 5 wks). I really really want a BFP but am quite scared of it at the same time. I don't want to go through it again.

Best of luck

[AnythingNotEverything]

Hi all,

Just checking in to see how you're all getting on. Sounds like there are some ups and downs!

Thanks for your congratulations. I'm 5 weeks today and still getting used to it. Hoping this is a sticky bean!

I'll pop by soon to hear about some bfps hopefully ..

fx

xxx

[QueenofClean]

who's first?!

[LoveLaughingLots]

QueenOfClean me me me!!! Lovvvvvve pancakes! brown sugar and lemon please!

Ladies, opinion on exercise: I do yoga and I occasionally play netball, haven't played netball for some weeks but really want to play a match tonight. It's quite fast-paced, occasional contact, should I play or not??

LLLx

[WhenSheWasBadSheWasHopeful]

queen me too for pancakes, also lemon and brown sugar (I like to keep it simple).

lll the advice from GPs is that you are ok to exercise at the same level. If it was me I would go and play netball. Have fun.

[Tinyflutterby]

It really helps knowing other people are in the same boat with this and counting the days. Sometimes feels like I'm wishing my life away counting the days 'til ov then again 'til af. I'm too scared to even think of the outcome end of this week as it took 2 years to get pg first time.

LLL - yeah advice seems to be if you're used to the type of exercise already then its fine. Might distract you for a bit too which is always good!

[QueenofClean]

Bfn this morning. Tested as so tired. So just waiting for AF.

I think ovulation was effected as week I was due to ovulate I had a sickness bug :(

[QueenofClean]

[Katnisscupcake]

Hello all,

Someone suggest something to get me out of this depressive mood

I'm definitely out this month and feeling really low about it. No more spotting during the day yesterday but then at bedtime, just when I was starting to get my hopes up, some bright red in my CM.

No more today that's red, but just some very slightly brown CM. But that's exactly how the spotting started the few months that I got spotting before AF. Weirdly last month I didn't get ANY spotting so thought that I'd got through that stage since I started taking the Seven Seas Vitamin C Complex with Folic Acid.

Just really really down. I'm 39 in June and really worried that it's just not going to happen. Sometimes I wonder if it's worse if you've fallen PG quickly before (even if MCs have then happened) because you just can't understand why it isn't happening this time around...

So let's have a list of things to look forward to!!

Pancakes (thanks for the nudge ladies - pancake mix - with added sugar and vanilla extract - now in the fridge)
Half Term next week and I've got the week off (loads of wonderful days with DD - the local farm activity centre is opening on Saturday for the year and we are getting the membership - baby miniature pigs, lambs, goat-kids etc etc)
Lots of wine on Valentine's Day (although AF isn't properly due until Friday/Saturday so I should take it slightly easy just in case I guess...)
Rare Steak with Chips from M&S for our 'dine in for two' on V Day (Beef, not horse)

That's all I can think of for now... Hopefully it'll start to cheer me up.

How is everyone else doing?! Anymore BFPs??

[babyrose]

I got af this morning ( 2 days early), it's not very heavy which is not like me. Ive been taking folic acid for a few wks now so I don't think that would affect it. Got a bfn yesterday.

[WhenSheWasBadSheWasHopeful]

babyrose sorry af is here. It's so hard getting your hopes up each month only for bfn to show up again.

katniss sounds like a good plan for cheering yourself up. Hope you feel better soon.

[marshmallowqueen]

Ladies I have been lurking and I hope you don't mind if I join in as I need a slap round the face some advice. Have been TTC no1 for 3 years and have just been referred for IVF but am in 2ww, af due Sunday. I know it's ridiculous and totally unlikely I am up the duff particularly as I don't think we DTD at the right time but I have had mega mega sore boobs and , tmi alert , today on cd23 some light spotting. Also have had really bizarre dreams and waking up ridiculously early in the morning and some strange twinges and pains 'down there'. What do you think? Somebody slap me!

[Katnisscupcake]

Well marshmallow it does sound promising if you haven't had it before. I have the same symptoms but in my case I have had them a few times before so definitely not pg related in my case.

I've heard lovely stories of people finding out that they have fallen pg naturally when they start down the if route so I really hope that is the case for you aswell!

[WhenSheWasBadSheWasHopeful]

marshmallow big slap . They do sound like promising symptoms but I would urge caution re symptom spotting (purely based on my own experience).

Really hope this turns into one if those, about to have ivf then got knocked up accidentally stories. Fx for you.

[marshmallowqueen]

Thank you hopeful for much needed slap! And Katniss for sharing your experience and both for being positive for me You are of course quite right. I tell myself every month not to symptom spot but even after 3 years my hopes get up a bit each time. And tbh I do get sore boobs every month but this month it just seems earlier and more noticeable than usual. But really after 3 years I should have learnt!!

If by any miracle I do end up pg I will be sure to let you (and the rest of the world!!!) know.

[Tinyflutterby]

Katniss and Marshmallow - please do not give up hope, not all bleeding is a bad sign. I had implantation bleeding when I got pg, but because we'd been ttc for 2 years I shrugged it off as the start of af and went to bed with lots of painkillers (kicked myself afterwards).

I got exactly the same symptoms as PMT - sore boobs, cramps, twinges, over emotional etc. so it is very difficult to differentiate. Also I was a couple of months away from starting IUI (before they try IVF) when it hapenned.

For me I think a lot of it was down to timing, there were bad things going on with me while ttc such as stressful job, being made redundant, acute illness, severe weight loss, then I got another (less stressful) job and some helpful treatment for my illness and I seemed to turn a corner.

So a month into a new job I found out a was pg, but I didn't even care as I was so happy. Unfortunately I wasn't kept on when they announced redundancies after 5 months (surprise surprise), but again I feel it worked out for the best as by that point I had developed PSD and had to use crutches and was very uncomfortable sitting at a desk, so although it wasn't great financially I had lots of time to rest and look after myself.

Now we are back ttc again and I'm having the same problems as before, but am trying not to get worked up about it as I just remind myself how lucky I am to have one child and to treasure every moment I have with him and not waste his childhood worrying about another one who may never come along.

You can't help getting your hopes up each time and I guess its that hope that keeps us going.x

[honey86]

according to ff im 4dpo, af due 28 feb/1 march. been testing again today (couldnt help myself) neg for hcg neg for lh and neg for fsh so not quite sure what my bodys doing atm x

[WhenSheWasBadSheWasHopeful]

Hi all. I should have posted this yesterday but I am very very nervous. In a fit of insanity I did a clearblue test (one of the cross ones). I saw the faintest of faint lines.
Later on I did a first response, it's positive. I have a poor history re chemical pregnancies so I'm not getting too excited yet. Af isn't r em did till Sunday.

Best of luck everyone.

[honey86]

aww congrats when...

fingers crossed its a sticky h&h one this time xxx

[LoveLaughingLots]

When so happy for you!!! Seeee!!! Stay positive, forget the chemincal pregnancy stuff, look forward to everything you want coming! All the best xx

Honey a HCG test won't show up anything at 4DPO hun, so you may as well save the tests for now! LH may not show up anything either if it tests for LH surge (as opposed to just LH hormone, which we usually always have in our bodies anyways, so some of the more sensitive tests may still be +tive), not sure what FSH test is...let me know. I posted a link further up somewhere about when to test, have a look.

Who is POAS this weekend?

Hope everyone else is good!

LLLx

[WhenSheWasBadSheWasHopeful]

Omg I missed honeys post. Not even I, a massive poas addict, would try at 4dpo.
You need to wait for the blasyocyst to actually attach to the uterus and start producing hcg, the earliest this normally happens is 5/6dpo and then you have to give it a few days for the levels to go up. I've been really lucky getting a positive at 9dpo.