Looking for a TTC buddy!

[Lorriella]

Hello! I'm needing a TTC buddy as I'm finding myself constantly over thinking things and it's driving my husband mad so would be great to discuss it with someone else in the same boat!

I'm TTC baby number 3. I came off the pill 3 days ago and I'm very impatient, want to get started right now! Anyone else in a similar situation want to buddy up?

Can I join in? Stopped BC in July but haven't really been TRYING trying iykwim, was quite happy to have a non-pregs christmas/nye but now want to get serious! The ovulation sticks are out and I've downloaded one of those apps.
One of the annoying things for me is my irregular periods since stopping microygnon, I've had really weird long cycles and light periods (previously had very regular 31 days cycle), on my period now and it feels like the most "normal" period I have had since stopping BC I.e heavier and with period pains!
Really took for granted how long it would take for periods to go back to normal, hoping this is a sign that is happening now.

Hi everyone can I join?
Trying to conceive baby number 1
Been off the pill since October but only really "tried" two months now. Christmas was awkward as my ovulation fell right on top of Christmas... whilst we were staying at my brothers.. on a creaky bed with family members in all adjoining rooms. Getting nervous that it hasn't happened right away, despite knowing it's very lucky to conceive quickly. I have endometriosis but regular periods since I was 10 with a cycle of 33 days and I know I ovulate as have used the clear blue indicator two months now. Could do with losing a couple of pounds so have been eating a lot healthier since Christmas... anything to help! Anyone else getting frustrated?

boyle hope your feeling a bit better tonight? I'm also 3 dpo... the wait is on!

Hi milliemanzi I really hope that's a good sign your cycle is getting back to normal.

NurseDoctor i feel your pain, we stayed at my parents for new year and was def gross DTD with granny in the next room. I find keeping busy helps with the frustration and planning nice things to look forward to other than BFP.

I'm feeling much better now thanks River although have done my teams end of year reviews today and made someone cry! Bad times! Don't think my grumpy ness helped oops. What are plans for the hen do that you're organising? Have they decided what kind of dress you'll he wearing yet... I'm hoping for bfp before we decide so it's easier to explain why I'll need bigger size haha.

Ok can't ... Pma from now on in , can't be kicked out!!! Haha. Think oh just isn't used to doing it so often! And probably just can't physically do it that often!! Still dtd 4 times in fertile window so not too shabby. Paris... Wow... That'll be exciting for her! Maybe not for you. Are they going for a reason of just nice trip? Be a testing day... And easier if you get that bfp I'm sure :).

Welcome new ladies! Looking forward to hearing more about how you're feeling and fx we can help each other through. Especially now I'm in tww hahaha!!!

Oops just scoffed a box of maltesers!

Boo - Congratulations!, :o) You must be so excited.

Really enjoying this thread, makes me feel reassured that I am normal after thinking I might have lost my mind.

This is month 1 for me and if anyone could see inside my mind they would think I have been TTC for years, I don't know what has happened to me since hogmanay (the night the DH and I decided all protection was out the window). Up until Autumn last year having children was so far down my list of priorities I often imagined just not having at all, it just wasn't what I wanted....WELL, I don't recognise me anymore!, Since Jan 1st I am like a woman-possesed. Life is all about my ovulation app, and marking DTD days and counting 40 weeks from those days and googling 5 door cars, trawling mumsnet and like many of you have said...Having phantom pregnancy signs after reading about them LOL - mere hours after the dance

Next AF is end of Jan :( dreading it.

Wishing you all quick and stress-free conceptions x

Hi Ladies...just checking in!

Boyle hope you're feeling better! This ttc malarkey really takes its toll!

MrsLOL Thanks! So excited but I always have that bit of me that says, "right you, calm the feck down for now!" too nervous to get too excited! Need to get these first few weeks out the way then I'm sure I'll relax and start worrying about something else haha. And I totally get that it feels like forever ttc! I had came off the pill in July, AF came back regular straight away but had probably only been 'really' trying since October and its only after the bfp and reading some threads on here that I realise I've been quite lucky to fall that quick.

Genuinely loved being part of these threads and they've kept me sane...well, semi sane haha.

Keeping my fingers and toes crossed for more bfp's!

Boyle I'm glad you're feeling better bet the maltesers helped? I'm not a huge fan of thr work crier I find it a bit weird. I've got a baby shower work lunch tomorrow for a girl who got pregnant at same time as me - she's got 5 weeks to go and I'm trying again. Not going to dwell on that too much though. PMA and chocolate all the way! I've been trying meditation before bed - sometimes it's nice to unleash my inner happy hippy.

My sister wants a weekend away up north so just need final numbers before we book. I've got a friends hen this weekend first though :)

We're going dress shopping at the end of this month and my sis knows we're trying so hopefully find something that will accommodate a bump if I'm lucky enough to have one by then... although DH is still holding out on getting a BFP in the next few weeks and having a tiny human in time for the wedding.

Hi millie and nurse & welcome

Sounds about the right time frame for your periods to be getting back to normal millie & the frustration days come & go nurse - they are well understood on this thread!!

'Educational' trip boyle ... To Disney land and the Eiffel Tower I hope she enjoys but will miss her terrible and the worry... Something else! Woooo! TWW so maltesers are allowed! I'm on the strict bandwagon so i hope you enjoyed enough for me!

MrsLOL you sound like me! I have a list of baby names in my phone I'm also due AF/BFP end of jan.. We'll be in TWW together should be easier if we vent to each other!!

boo calm the feck down hahahahaha!

Aww river you are very brave for tomorrow, hope it's not too hard. I have had to turn down a baby shower on OHs side this weekend. I am literally surrounded by pregnancy in my inner circle, and I just can't take anymore. As harsh as it sounds, I can only be around non pg people at the moment. So many of them are so oblivious to people struggling with ttc, they can be so inconsiderate and hurtful without meaning to be so taking myself out of the situation before I have a breakdown!! Haha

MrsLOL phantom signs contribute to he frustration! Last month I had terrible nausea that just had to be pregnancy related (not overheating chocolate related) and convinced myself I was PG. Made it so much worse when I wasn't .
Random question but how is everyone else dealing with alcohol thing? Don't drink often but scared to whilst trying to concieve just I case
Cantbelieve thanks for the welcome! I also have a list of baby names (on notes on my laptop) which thr odd person has noticed in lectures and commented on... Very embarrassing trying to talk my way out of that one.

Sorry for the typos, fat thumbs on iPad

cant what is it with babies everywhere? Everybody I know it seems is either pregnant or has just given birth. I'm so happy for them but it makes it makes my heart ache a bit.

I have a list of baby names on my phone too - they've been there so long I occasionally start to sort them into alphabetical order! And my list of the first day of every AF since February last year...

nurse I'm not a big drinker either, we live a bit farther out than our friends do & I don't like getting taxi alone, I've been doing extra weekends & overnights as it's relevant to a post grad course I'm doing and also I study at weekends so that gives me a few excuses not to go wild. If we have things at beginning of my cycle to go to I'll have a few drinks, if I'm on 2ww I'll mostly pass on drinking. Its hard to know what to do - I'm almost a year on and don't want to put everything on hold... I went to a wedding in October and stayed sober because AF was a day late. Got home at end of night and she had arrived

IfYouWere it's so difficult. I'm a medical student so have embryology lectures about fetal alcohol syndrome and how important the first few months are etc, it makes me panic the idea of drinking by accident, but as you say how much can you dance around it? And I guess certain times of month are without risk. I know plenty of people who drank at the beginning of pregnancy as had no idea they were pg, and they have perfectly healthy children.
Constantly being told to relax and when we stop trying it will happen. But how can you forget AND stop drinking and take frolic acid? Can't win!
If I open my Facebook page it's like a family album. Tonnes of bumps and babies everywhere, as you say super happy for them but makes me grumpy

By the way love the alphabetising!

Before trying I would go months without drinking anyway so I don't feel like I'm doing much differently - except take my folic acid.

It's hard not to obsess over it all when its the thing you want more than anything. I just keep thinking nothing that's really worth it comes easy and it'll happen when I'm ready. Stay positive nurse!

Morning everyone, wow so many new posts...will reply to everyone later...I need your opinions...so despite having this infection AF didnt arrive yesterday as she should have and instead I had terribly painful nipples all day (still are) which I have never gotten before. So I thought this is new, I'll take a test just in case.....and see attached...the faintest almost not there blue line...could this be a BFP??? I am so full of nervous, scared, excited confused energy. Any feedback would be fab X

Stir!!! Looks pretty good to me even if it is faint... How exciting. I'd maybe try another brand, pink ones are supposed to be more prominent (superdrug is pink lines). I really hope it's your time :) xx

Thanks so much Boyle, I'm just in a complete state about it, this infection gives me bad cramps that feel exactly like period pain, so my body is giving me mixed signals, it feels like AF is going to come but the painful nipples are telling me something else is going on.argh! Really need to snap out of it so I can concentrate at work x

River-that lunch is going to be tough but just try and focus on positives... I personally wouldn't have wanted someone else with the lime light at the same time as me so maybe next time will be your time!! Oh yes the maltesers helped although I now feel so so guilty for eating them because I'd lost 3lb being back on diet last week. Night up north sounds good, we're heading to Leeds or sheffield (from derby) so should be good.

Can't that sounds wonderful. Scary but great experience for her being away and having a great time! Well jel!

Mrslol you sounds exactly like me with the tww malarkey... Promised myself last week I wouldn't be obsessed and that id keep a clear head and I spent all this morning getting ready for work googling why I'm so bloated and felt like I couldn't sleep on boobies and tummy last night.., god help me!

Nurse I would be glad of the insight I think, for me I will find it so hard to give up wine, my favourite noise in the world is the glug of wine coming out of the bottle after a stressful day at work! Think if I knew more about dangers it might help warn me off!

More end of year reviews with my team today ladies, wish me luck!

Stir you'll be fine... Try and relax and enjoy that fizzy feeling that it could be your time, but on way home get another brand and poas again tomorrow! Easier said than done im sure!!

Woooohooooo!! That looks like a BFP to me Stir! Can I whisper congratulations?!

Well if this isn't a lucky thread, I don't know what is!! That's picked us all up this morning

Well, I was minding my own business along the M4 this morning on the way to work and there was a red BMW behind me all the way, he then undertook me and pulled in front of me. I was going to honk the horn and then I realised his number plate BFP !!!! It's a sign isn't it?! going insane haha

Oh and girls, I have no idea how anyone could get through the TWW or a BFN without a HUGE glass of wine... I would say most pregnancies are conceived when drunk anyway but it's all down to personal preference isn't it. Don't kill yourself over it!

Thank you so much Boyle & Can't...I was going crazy so brought a clear blue digital in my lunch break...BFP 1-2 weeks.....I can't believe it!!!!!!! Now the afternoon is going to drag until I can tell my DH he's going to be a daddy.

Good tip ladies, spoke to my doc and new pregnancy guidelines out last week tell you to take Vit D (100 universal units) a day alongside the folic acid we're all taking whist TTC & pregnancy. Start taking them ladies.

Stir that's great news! Congratulations!

Stir this is amazing congratulations!
Boyle love it, i'm pretty partial to a good glug also, can imagine being seriously good, getting fed up, having a bottle then finding out thats the one time i've managed to get PG, oh well!
IfYouWere you are very right there, when it's the right time it'll happen. I have a terrible tendency to obsess which really doesn't help. Babies seem to be everywhere recently!

Congratulations stir! Enjoy telling DH tonight. Thanks for the vit D info - my pregnacare vitamins have 10ug in them already so that's reassuring :)

I'm off the thread for TWO days and miss so much!

Stir Congratulations! That's fantastic news :) You must be over the moon?

Stupid phone wont let me read and write at the same time so sorry if I'm ignoring anyone, there's a lot to catch up on. With the drinking I'm not a massive drinker anyway - I figure I'll see how we get on and stop as and when I know something's actually going on.

Over in my camp, ovia and ovuview both saying AF due tomorrow on CD31. Been having stomach twinges/cramps for the past week so seems fairly likely. Was CD38 last month though which was v irritating so we'll see how I get on.