26 amazingly wonderful BFP's so far!!
Snowlet BFP cycle 1 post m/c
ThreeFromDesire BFP cycle 9
IBelieveInEngels BFP cycle ?
Clever0110 BFP cycle 1
LucyFluff BFP cycle 2 (chem)
Lililly BFP cycle ?
RaRaZ BFP cycle 4
Liquidamber BFP cycle 4
Ginandstripes BFP cycle 4
MrsDinoRawr BFP cycle 3
Nicenicebaby BFP cycle ?
Hugglemonster BFP cycle 3
MrsRandom78 BFP cycle 1
MarlenaGru BFP cycle 1
VickyVix BFP cycle 2
CooCooCachoo BFP cycle 3
WifeOfGru BFP cycle 1
panicmechanic BFP cycle 11
Argyle socks BFP cycle 11
Girlsgotink
Cottonwoolforbrains
CurlyWurlyM6 BFP cycle 4
HannahC1989 BFP cycle 13
Jessieagain BFP cycle 2
MrsB2013 BFP cycle 3
Jaykay987 BFP cycle 2
39 Awaiting BFPs
Bloumer ttc #1 cycle #3ish? BFP 6th
Funkymonk 31yrs ttc#1 cycle 11 (cycle 3 post Mc) bfp due 6/7 Oct
Pocopearl ttc 2 cycle 2 bfp due 7 oct
Jessewalt Ttc #1, cycle 4, bfp due 8th October.
Charleslingus 31, ttc #3 cycle 4 bfp due 8th oct
sparklesandfizz ttc#3, cycle 1, BFP oct 9th
SuzB83, Cycle 9, BFP due 9th October
Rockstars12 ttc#1 cycle 2 BFP due 11th oct
Springtime26 ttc2 cycle 4 bfp 13th October
Stepawayfromthezebras ttc#1, cycle 2, BFP due 16th Oct
GnomieGrace TTC#1 cycle4 BFP due October 19th
Onelifeonechance ttc#1 cycle 4 BFP due 20th Oct
Flymo79 ttc#1 cycle 4 bfp due 21st oct
Fox82 ttc#1 cycle 11 bfp due 22nd oct
SazzyB ttc #1 cycle 1 due bfp 22nd October
ELR ttc#3 cycle 3 BFP due 24th Oct
fluffythelabcat ttc#1, cycle 3, BFP due 24th Oct
ItsSoFluffyImGonnaDie ttc #1, cycle 1, BFP due 24th Oct
Newlywed2013 ttc#1 cycle 1 bfp End of Oct ? 26th Oct?
Kemie ttc#1, cycle 8!! BFP due oct 26/27th
ExactlyWhat ttc #3 cycle 2 bfp 27th Oct
Mama31 TTC #2 cycle 4 BFP 27th Oct
JellyBeanDavey ttc#1 cycle #4 BFP due 27th
HalfPintLulu ttc #2 cycle 1 bfp due 27th October
NeuroticSweetTalk ttc#1 cycle 2 bfp due 28th oct
Sazzlehopes ttc#2 cycle 10+ bfp due 28th October
Newbie784 ttc#1 cycle 2 bfp due 28th oct
Hev19 ttc#1 cycle 1 bfp due 28th Oct
Flames40s ttc#4 cycle 4 bfp due 29th Oct
JoHull ttc#1 Cycle 2 bfp due 30th
SignoraStronza ttc#3, cycle 2 BFP due 30th oct
ImaginaryHat ttc#1 cycle 6 bfp 30th October
M33r ttc#1 cycle 11 bfp due 31st October
Jbiscuits ttc#1 cycle 3 bfp due end of October
Wineandchoccy TTC #1, cycle number 2, bfp due ?
Laravh ttc #1 cycle 2 bfp due end of October
MissVaughan ttc #2 cycle 3 bfp due ?
LittleBear01 TTC #1, cycle 6, BFP due 3rd Nov (long cycle - 37 days usually)
Lifehasafunnywayofhelpinguout ttc #2 cycle ? Bfp due ?
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Conception
Is the October party bus the luckiest bus ever?!?!
Choccywoccydodah · 20/10/2013 07:40
Ok. You asked for it. So this is long. But hopefully the details will help someone. If not, feel free to ignore this post (and sorry for the spam!)
So it's cycle 4. DH and I work long hours often away from home. This meant dtd regularly was very difficult for us. Im a bit obsessive about things, so started temping just a week after we decided to ttc. I used fertility friend website. Their initial lessons are really informative, and I started to track everything.
Cycle 1 39 days, not 100% when I ovulated but think we missed fertile window
Cycle 2 30 days, ovulated day 17, lp 13 days, think we missed fertile window
Cycle 3, 35 days, ovulated day 21, lp 14 days, dtd 8,11,13,15,19
Cycle 4, 33 days? Ovulated day 19, BFP (dodgy IC) dpo15, CB digi dpo 16, dtd 6,11,15,19,24
Although some months I thought we had missed the fertile window, I still religiously tracked my symptoms so I could work out what was "normal" for me. I have since learnt nothing is "normal" or consistent for me!
I decided to use opks in cycle 2. I used CB advanced digis. I used IC opks as well in cycle 3 and 4. But only once per day, with FMU.
First cycle using them: cd11 - low, cd 12/13 - high, cd14/15 - peak. Bbt raised two days later on cd17.
2nd cycle using them : cd9-12 - low CB and -ve IC, cd13-19 - high CB and -ve IC, cd20/21 - CB peak and +ve IC. Bbt raised on second day cd21. cd 22-25 - -ve IC.
3rd cycle using them: cd8-12 low CB and -ve IC. Cd13/15 cd peak but -ve OPK. . Cd15/16 -ve IC. No temp rise so decided to reuse cb digis. Cd17/18 - low CB and -ve IC. Cd19/20 - high CB but -ve IC, cd21/22 peak CB but -ve IC. Temp rise was cd19(same day as first high reading). Very odd.
I did think ff was wrong about my ov date and presumed for awhile I actually ovulated around cd24.
Symptoms (those that stand out this month as being different for me):
Dpo 2 lots of CM. bit like EWCM but way more than I have seen since starting to ttc.
Dpo 5 really bad stomach cramps. Sharp pains in left hand side. I thought these might be ovulation pains and my ov date was potentially wrong.
Dpo 6 really stiff neck and shoulder blades. Crunchy pain, as if I had slept in a draft but hadn't. I felt freezing. Hands like ice. Head felt really hot. Like I was going to come down with a flu.
Dpo 7 burning throat, feverish head only, needed to wee 4times in 3 hours, boobs inflated
Dpo 8 DH said I was boiling to touch. Had to push him away when he hugged me as shooting pains were felt through my boobs. 2 separate big "globs" of CM. about the size of 50p piece. Yellowy.
Dpo 9 blue veins appeared on boobs at night time. Small scratch on face won't stop bleeding.
Dpo 10 feverish head. Sore throat. Really really itchy left leg??! (Told you I logged everything! 
) nauseous and tired
Dpo 11 really really smelly wee! Horrendous! BFP dream. Blue veins on boobs, nauseous and tired
Dpo 12 burping when I woke. Really tired in afternoon and early evening. Really cloudy wee. Loss of appetite. Feeling Constipated (or going every hour), nauseous and tired
Dpo 13 burping when wake. Burping mid afternoon. Boobs feel tight around nipples (like they've been pumped up and need to be released). Really tired early afternoon. Dizziness. Slight ringing in ears. Loss of appetite. Stuffy nose. Feeling Constipated (or going every hour)
Dpo 14 snotty nose. Wee still really really smelly. Endless hunger. Really really sore nipples. Headache. Pain above groin when I standup after sitting. BFP dream. Feeling Constipated (or going every hour)
I had a lot of backache and headaches throughout. I was also really irrational and grumpy. I would do things and then laugh at myself for being so grumpy! Very odd mood swings! I also had a really calm confidence I was pregnant from about dpo5-dpo12 (I lost this towards the end as the panic set in!)
I took, pregnacare from the beginning.
I took 500mg Agnus Castus every day upto ov on cycle 3.
On cycle 4 I followed the vitex fertility diet. Im obviously not a doctor, so can't recommend it. I panicked at ovulation and stopped taking them all (apart from pregnacare) so not sure if it helped or not. Theres a few versions. I took:
1 Prenatal Vitamin Daily
1 Baby Aspirin Daily
1 50 mg B6 Vitamin in the morning.
1 B-50 Complex in the evening
Two Vitex, 500mg Capsules in the morning
Two Vitex, 500mg Capsules in the evening
If ttc again, I think I would try it again though. Though I would say its a high risk strategy with a high potential to mess with cycles. I think this might have caused my double peak on CB opks this month. I also had really bad ov pains which I guess might be linked. Not sure.
What I have learnt:
- don't rely on opks of any brand. They might be useful and might be working but don't rely on them.
- temping is the most informative thing you can do (though I appreciate this doesn't suit everyone)
- early hpt testing really doesn't work for everyone
- keep faith in your gut instinct!
FX the luckiest on this bus continues and results in a lot more BFPs. (And selfishly FX my bean is sticky!)
I came off the pill at the very end of December last year. I had been on it for 10 years....
For the first few months of the year we were kind of trying but I wasn't using OPKs or anything like that and my cycles were a bit unpredictable at first so, looking back, we weren't even really dtd at the right time of the month!
My first cycle was 30 days, then 29, then 31.... Then 35.... Then 48...!
So it was a bit weird and I was really worried that my cycles were just never going to settle 
Started using clearblue digital OPKs and got my bfp on the 4th month of using them - September!
- First month I got a positive on cd20
- 2nd month cd20
- 3rd month cd21
- 4th month cd20
By the 4th month I was already anticipating getting a positive OPK around cd20-21so we dtd on cd18, didn't actually dtd on cd19 (can't remember why but I remember I was annoyed that we didn't dtd!) and then in the morning of cd20 I got a positive and we dtd that evening....
The next day my DH was going away for a work conference and woke up at 4am to leave the house at 5am and wasn't back til the following night!
I was gutted that we didn't dtd on cd21 as it was the day after my 1st positive (and I did another OPK that morning and had another positive) but there was no chance we were going to dtd at 4am!
DH got back really late on cd22 so we didn't dtd then either and by that time my CM had become very thick and white so I knew I wasn't fertile anymore!
So actually the month I conceived, we only (around the time of conception) dtd on cd18 and cd20. Positive OPK was on cd20.
All in all, it took me from January to September to conceive so 9 months. But in reality it was 4 months of using OPKs and dtd at the right time because everything prior to using OPKs was a bit of a waste of time as we were definitely not dtd at the right time of the month.
DH and I have low-ish sex drives... Sometimes high but mostly low-medium and due to me working shifts and him often working away we don't really have "regular" sex... We have days here and there where we have lots of sex then sometimes a week or so with no sex at all! Works for us but made ttc tricky..... That's why OPKs worked for us cos we could focus our efforts around when I knew I would be fertile!
I would recommend SMEP to people as well.
Dtd every other day and use OPKs daily. Once you get a positive OPK, dtd on that day and for 2-3 consecutive days after.
Basically keep a regular flow of sperm inside you and once you get a positive OPK, double your efforts!
It really helps to KNOW your cycles though.
By my 4th month of using OPKs, I was noticing EWCM from about cd16-17 onwards and I was anticipating a positive OPK on cd20-21 and it came on cd20.
My luteal phase was always 14 days as well.
Ok need some advice ladies, as strange things are happening! think I'm still on the bus but only just!
So AF isn't due till 28th from my cycle and symptoms think ov happened 16th and we had dtd a few time upto the day before, so all looking good! Until last night had a fair amount of dark brown bleed, but then today nothing? I thought perhaps AF had come early but normally its very regular and doesn't stop like this?! So do i sit it out until 28th to test or not? Quite excited and a little nervous here, any advice appreciated!
We weren't planning on finding out but because of my health I've got to have a scan every 4 weeks so we kind of figured that at some point we were either going to see what sex it was for ourselves or that a sonographer would refer to the baby as a he or she Based on that we decided to just ask and now that I know I'm even more excited!!!!
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