July Bus to BFP land - Part 2 (and it's not even July yet!)

[TheGrandHighWitch]

Hello Ladies. Just starting this thread in anticipation of the other one running out of room as we were at 972 posts at the time of writing this:

Current stats afaik:

Foscar, Age 32, TTC#1, Cycle 1, BFP due 26 June
cinnamongreyhound, Age 33, TTC#3, Cycle 1, BFP due 30th June
Notoasthere, Age 29, TTC#2, Cycle 1, BFP due 2 July
TheGrandHighWitch, Age 29, TTC#3, Cycle 2, BFP due 3rd July
SurreyBunny, Age 34, TTC#2, Cycle 6, BFP 3rd July
MrsExtraOrdinary, Age 34, TTC#2 (DC6), Cycle 6, BFP due 3rd July
lp2014, Age 28, TTC#1, Cycle 1, BFP due 5th July
Nordicmum, Age 39, TTC#3, Cycle 8, BFP 5th-6th July
BrixtonBunny, Age 26, TTC#1, Cycle 1, BFP due 6th July
Mulberry82, Age 32, TTC #1, Cycle #1, BFP due 7th July
Cpt1sock, Age 33, TTC#3, Cycle 2, BFP due 8th July
MrsGingerbread, Age 32, TTC#1, Cycle 4, BFP due ???
PickledPorcupine, Age ??, TTC#1, Cycle 2, BFP due 8th July
Rainbow, Age 31, TTC#1 Cycle 3, BFP due 9 July
junkfoodaddict, Age 35, TTC#2, Cycle 1, BFP due 9th July
Choccywoccydodah, Age 34, TTC#2, Cycle 10, BFP due 10th July
Pompatrol, Age 35, TTC#2, Cycle 2, BFP due 11th July
Scottishbride, Age 33, TTC#1, Cycle 3, BFP due 11th July
MrsI86, Age 28, TTC#1, Cycle 2, BFP due 11th July
Teadrinkerandatinker 20 TTC#1, Cycle 8, BFP due 11th July
Mistywillow, Age 32, TTC#1, Cycle 3, BFP due 12th July (ish)
Treacle, Age 24, TTC#1, Cycle 5 (mc cycle 4), BFP due July 12th
Ifallelsefailsdrinktea85, Age 28, TTC#1, Cycle 7, BDP due 12th July ish
Stepawayfromthezebras, Age ??, TTC#1, Cycle#12, BFP due 12th July
Aprilray, Age 33, TTC#1, Cycle 7, BFP due 13th July
KittyVonCatsington, Age 33, TTC#1, Cycle #8, BFP due 13th July
Kurama, Age 26, TTC#1, Cycle#23ish (5th on clomid), BFP due 14th July
laurano81, Age 32, TTC#2, Cycle 8, BFP due 14-16th July
Wineandchoccy, Age 33, TTC#1, Cycle 9, BFP due 15th July
Brummiegirl15, Age 37, TTC#1, Cycle 3, BFP due 16th July
Toothachereturns, Age ??, TTC#3, Cycle 5, BFP due 17th July
Chillipopcorn, Age 26, TTC#1, Cycle#1, BFP due 17th July
XBlueberry88x, Age 26, TTC#1, Cycle 16, BFP due 17th july
Becter1985, Age 28, TTC#1, Cycle 3, BFP due 17th July
Kimswan1985, Age 29, TTC#1, Cycle 2, BFP due 17th July
Sunshinesaz86, Age 28, TTC#1, Cycle 1, BFP Due 17th July
MaMaPo, Age 36, TTC#2, Cycle 2, BFP due 18th-19th July
LadyNovember, Age 25, TTC#1, Cycle 2, BFP due 19th July
lavender20, Age 29, TTC#1, Cycle 3, BFP due 20th July
Spinningirl10 ttc#3 cycle 12 bfp due July 20th
theonewiththenoisychild, Age 27, TTC#3, Cycle 2, BFP due 20th July
sparkle17, Age 29, TTC#1, Cycle 2, BFP due 21st July
Name ??, Age 33, TTC #1, Cycle #2, BFP due 23rd July
gennibugs, Age ??, TTC#1, Cycle 8, BFP due 26 July
BlueSkyGirl30, Age 30, TTC#1, Cycle 1, BFP due 26th July
ChandlersFarang, Age 31, TTC#1, Cycle 4, BFP due ~ 28th July
1moretime, Age 29, TTC#2, Cycle ??, BFP due 28th-30th July
Siarie, Age 26, TTC#1, Cycle 1, BFP due End of July
Skippingthroughthefarm, Age 20, TTC#1, CD28 BFP due ???
MaybeILina, Age 31, TTC#1, Cycle 5, BFP due ???
MissMrsMummy Age 30, TTC #1, cycle 6, BFP due in a couple of months
Fattycow, TTC#?, Cycle ?, BFP due ??
Mrscog, TTC#2, Cycle 1, BFP due ??
1moretime, TTC#?, Cycle ?, BFP due ??
EnglishGirlAbroad TTC #1, Cycle 10 (1after 2nd mc) BFP due ??

AF just arrived :

BlueSkyGirl30

Can I just say a few words to the unlucky ladies who've experienced recent losses. I've had losses myself and so has my mum. Poor mum had 4, before finally getting my sister. The first at 12 wks, then 16 wks, 8wks & 12wks. I think her take on it is very relevant here as she was childless during the losses, mine came later.

I asked her recently about them and whether she thought about them and the people they might have been. She said she did but if she hadn't lost them she wouldn't have had us. Well she wouldn't have had me, I was the only planned one. She said it was such a sad time, if only someone could have given her a snapshot of the future, that she'd eventually have 3dc and 6gch. She's still amazed by it all and says being a granny is a privilege. It took her 18 years start to finish to have her dc. The happiness of having the dc she had far outweighed the pain.

This road is short for some and longer for others. I wish you all as happy a destination as she found.

Lovely message, MrsE. Xx

Too bloody right MrsE How wonderful your mum and you sound

All of us have a future person just waiting to be made. Just wish they would hurry up!!!

Aw MrsE you just made me cry. That is a beautiful way to see things

That's lovely MrsExtraOrdinary! I'm so sorry for all those that have suffered losses, I can only imagine your pain but there are lots lovely times ahead I'm sure :)

Ahh MrsE that's lovely. What a tough time your Mum must have had before you came along.

Hi everyone, i have been lurking on this bus so far, but seen as it is the 1st today i thought i'd give join in this evening. Just looked at the final update from the June bus and there were 17 BFP''s.

I have been at the boring part of my cycle as just getting into DTD territory now. It is funny how at the start of the cycle that you kind of reset yourself. The stress, anxiety, anticipation of the 2ww dissipates. I can imagine it will build again soon. I'm on CD 10 now, i have started to use CB opk's. No smiley faces yet.

Congrats on the BFP's ladies! Great start.

MrsE that is wise words there. x

Thank you MrsE, we can always rely on you for wisdom and encouragement :)

Hi sparkle :)

Night girls, xx

mrse that is no nice LINDA so good to hear from you!!!!
welcome to the new posters and fx for everyone this month.
ive been having some really weird dreams weird for me that is lol the past few days and im hoping i ov tomoro if i havnt already so thats attack dh tonight and tomoro break on thurs and back fri and sat lol
Ive filled in that form from clear blue fx i get in lol

SO nice! stupid auto correct...

Evening all, congrats to the BFPs and good luck to anyone testing in the morning :) think I'm due to ov sometime between tomorrow and Sunday. DTD last night but break tonight! Must get back on it tomorrow!

Me too kurama!

Another day another poas tomorrow!

oh and its not ttc related but these are so cute i think anyway and hopefully will be past of a new tattoo
yes the 9 tails fox is where my username came from i love him so much lol

Thanks MrsE! Your mum is a wise lady. That's exactly how I try to see things. Inherently I'm ever the optimist. I saw a quote on Pinterest that said 'it's just a bad day, not a bad life' - I try to remember that when it all gets a bit much. I want babies so much that I will not give up until I get there. Those babies will be so wanted and so loved. Im so lucky in so many other aspects of my life, a baby really will be the perfect icing on pretty spectacular cake.

I was totally lying when I said I'd be taking a step back from the forum, you're just all so lovely I can't not read everything everyone is saying!!

MrsE that's a fantastic way of putting it! I hope that those of you who have suffered losses will be able to look back on these horrid times in the future and be able to feel something like that.

Hugs back to everyone for being so lovely, I am feeling massively better now, I was a working today (just finished my shift and a few cheeky après work drinks and am now sat in my hotel room catching up with you ladies).

Does anyone know anything about either bringing forward ovulation in a cycle or extending luteal phases? On my last cycle I ovulated on day 18 and then had a 26 day cycle so only had 8dpo before AF arrived. I'm worried this isn't long enough. I've read about taking B6 and evening primrose oil, I just wondered if anyone had tried this at all?

Fx for everyone POAS this morning!

blue you are on the go early!

Morning all - I can already tell that first tri tiredness is going to kick my arse, especially with an up with the larks toddler! I'm launching a new breastfeeding support group today - feeling nervous and nauseous in equal measure!

Hello everyone - I lost the new thread, even though I only posted on the old one once or twice.

I haven't read this whole thread but spied some positive tests in there - hearty congratulations!

So I am working out that I know NOTHING about conception or ttc. What's the recommendation re: how often to have sex during the fertile period? We have been enjoying ourselves every 2 days (though missed yesterday - will have to be more focused/both in the same place tonight) but I wonder if this is enough.

Also, when do people usually try a test? With my daughter I tested a full week after my period was due, as I didn't really believe I could be pregnant. Not sure what I'd do if I were late this time.

I had a work meeting the other day which devolved into a conversation about fertility. My colleague is embarking on what must be her 6th (at least) cycle of IVF, and I mentioned all my friends who are having miscarriages and ectopics (another friend miscarried - though v early - last week). I am so much more pessimistic this time around. (It probably doesn't help to see how OLD I am compared to most of you!)

Ah. This is all very ME ME ME but I shall buck up and get on with my otherwise pretty wonderful life, and perhaps at some stage another little person will come and join it.

Best of luck to all of you!

Hey mama

Over a normal 28 day cycle, with ovulation around day 14, you could conceive having sex every other day during your fertile period - eg day 10-20 without testing for ovulation etc

You could adopt the every other day method, test for ovulation, then dtd every day from your positive opk for 4-5 days. If you aren't sure where in your cycle you ovulate then temping or opk testing will identify it for you

Some people can test and get a + result as soon as 7dpo, but usually you can test from 10dpo, although results are more likely to be reliable from 12dpo

Thanks, notoast - that's helpful.

Does everyone use OPKs then? Am I missing a trick by just trying dumb luck and assuming my iPhone app (which, let's face it, doesn't know me from Adam Eve) can tell me when I'm fertile? Maybe I will see how this month goes and consider it for next month.

I think af is coming :(

MaMaPo I haven't used opks but this is our first month of trying so still time to turn to it! I'm worried my cycle is irregular now :S I know what you mean, I feel really pessimistic as well. We have friends doing IVF and who have miscarried too and that makes me feel like it will take forever and be difficult, or friends it has been super easy for...but I still think it will be difficult because if it was easy for them, we must be the ones who might need help! I'm not a negative person but have convinced myself of this with no reason or evidence

Morning all!
blue, i have a short luteal phase too but not keen on trying those things.
The doctor wasn't concerned. I thought it might've caused my miscarriage but she didn't think so.
There is also progesterone cream you can use to help it along.

Temp still up today. Those 2 temps must've been rogues. Messed up all my charts though. or I ovulated the other day which I'm refusing to believe
6 dpo today :)

Another IC bfn for me this morning. Had some cramps last night and felt what I thought was af starting when I went to the loo it was just quite a bit of creamy discharge.

Morning

Notoas, good luck today with your breast feeding support group, great idea. I was told to bottle feed with my dd when she had problems latching on but I persevered and got there in the end!

Cd 9 here, will be poa opk today

Noto good luck today! I wish it had been invented when I started out being a mummy. Even at 18 I was determined to ebf but there was no support in 1998. I got there in the end though. If I get a bfp I'll have to pick your brains. After a year of bf with each baby I think my left boob decided to go on strike last time. I could never get as much milk from that side as the right.

It such a special bond.