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?

booboo what are we like?! Haha. Oh well. Shall we both hold off til Sunday and test again then? Do you have any symptoms for AF yet? Or anything unusual?

cantbelieve are you due to test soon too? I def wont be testing again til at least sunday if she doesn't make an appearance! I'm not really sure what my AF symptoms are because I've never really been looking for them before now haha. Only ones I'm certain of are the week leading up to it I crave sweet stuff, could eat my own body weight in chocolate and I sometimes have a wee day or two of the psycho bitch syndrome! But anything I've been feeling this week I've just been thinking "oooh..maybe pregnancy related" (stupid cow that I am!). I would say since sunday/monday I've had really sore nipples, only nipples not boobs, noticed they were veiny as well, monday and tuesday I was feeling all watery mouthed and nauseous so much so on tuesday night I never really got a good sleep because of it and yesterday I was peeing like a racehorse! Also yesterday and today I've had a lot of creamy/sticky cm (sorry I should have gave a TMI warning!). Few mild cramps here and there yesterday and today. Probably noticed all these things because I'm over analysing everything this 2ww though. But I've not craved my usual chocolate binge at all and kinda lost my appetite since the nausea thing at the beginning of the week. Again....99% sure all of this is in my head! I think I'll start a wee diary this time and try get used to what my body does through the cycle. Why do we do this to ourselves!! I've not posted much and only signed up a week or two ago but its really good having a place to spout off and know there's other people in the same boat and frame of mind as yourself

I'm due to test next monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday seems like a LIFETIME away! But that's when I would be due my period if I had a regular cycle... My cycles are usually 90 days long tho so it's anyone's guess really. But according to my CM, I ovulated around the 7th which was CD18... So if anything happened this month, I should know by the 28th. Got a girls night out this weekend, so will be making the most of it JUST incase...

Haha, sounds exactly like me. I also have the chocolate craving before AF but mine are so rare it's hard to keep track. Your diary sounds good!

Just back from my acupuncture appointment, feeling lovely and relaxed. Had needles in my scalp and my feet today which was different but nice. I hope this works, costs a bloody fortune!

Tell me about it. MN has saved me so many times since starting ttc.

I really hope you get your BFP by Sunday! Make this a lucky thread.

cant how do you find acupuncture? I'd love to try it but I'm too much of a wimp! Does it hurt?

Hi I'd love to join you ladies!

I'm 30 TTC baby #1 with hubby and believe my fertile window is next week. Hubby has been so tired/stressed with work we hadn't DTD much in the last few weeks, my sex drive is sky high but this k the cobwebs are starting to settle! Xx

MrsLowe I have the lowest pain threshold in the world! My OH has only got to try to get stress knots out of my shoulders and I cry! Haha.

I was really apprehensive about acupuncture but completely honestly - you don't feel it! I had them in my scalp and my toes today which was new, but barely felt a thing! Certainly no pain. And i really enjoy it. I almost fall asleep most weeks that in so relaxed and there's always a massage combined and at the end which is nice too, so far I honestly couldn't recommend it enough. I had it to regulate my periods. On day 49 of my last cycle (which is usually 90 days) I had my first session, 6 days later I had a period. I'm now 4 sessions in so only time will tell if things are going to be more regular. Fx!

Give it a go!

And welcome mrscrumbtious

This calls for a shopping trip. Something to get him in the mood! And a bottle of bubble as back up

OK, I am being totally irrational and need someone to talk sense in to me.

I'm quite worried about late AF. This seems odd for someone on a TTC thread I know, but hear me out. DH and I had specifically decided to hold off until Christmas as BIL is getting married in France in the summer so wanted to miss that. Now if it turns out my last period wasn't really a proper period and in fact I am pregnant, it would mean I am about 8 weeks....and would be due on BILs wedding day...

I appreciate there are so many low probability ifs in this, and I'm only cd35 after all, but I am know disproportionately worried about this. DH family are lovely but can't help but think they'd assume I'd planned it. Suppose the only way to sort it out is to poas and know either way. Can someone thinking much more sensibly than I am suggest other reasons for late AF?

Doh, excuse middle of the night typos!

Have you changed anything in your diet or increased your exercise? When I went on a health splurge a couple of years back my at ended up being over 10 days late! Stress and ill health could be another cause.

If you are pregnant though don't worry about what people are going to think, I bet that they will be far more happy for you than cross at your timing!

AF not at!

Not really, I've been really under it at work though so I wonder if that's had an impact? I've also only been off the pill for 3 months so I may just not be into a 'normal' rhythm yet.

It could be because you're not in a normal cycle yet, only one way to find out!

I've got horrible cramping pains in the right side of my groin that I would put down to ovulation pain but I'm only CD9! I took SI for the first time this month but I wouldn't have thought it would work that quickly! It will probably turn out to be wind

Could certainly be your rhythm but won't hurt to poas.

I used to think like you about timing of pregnancy etc. OH & I have been trying for months and have not told anyone, in the meantime, SIL announced her pregnancy and it broke me. I thought that I could not get pregnant while she was pregnant, so as not to steal her thunder. And then I realised that with mine and OH's fertility issues, we might never have children together so why the hell should I put her pregnancy before mine (she voiced her disapproval when I told her that we had been trying and she made it clear she didn't want me to get pregnant whilst she is carrying, despite me also confiding in her of our fertility issues).

But anyway, my moral of the story is... would you rather be pregnant at BIL wedding if that were your only ever chance to get pregnant? Or would you rather wait and never get the opportunity because you were too worried about what people would say? its all about perspective I guess.

Tet mrslowe SI can bring ov forward. How different is this from your usual cycle? Any other signs, fertile CM etc?

Hey...can I ask you ladies a TMI question? For those of you who check your cm? I dont usually check so I'm not sure what the norm is...If there is one! I'm def on cd27 and assuming I'm 11dpo and AF should be rearing her ugly head prob sunday. So here's the tmi bit...today I've noticed I have quite a lot of thick whitish cm, I don't remember having this previously but as I said I haven't been checking this before now. Thanks in advance for any help!

Can't I'm absolutely shocked by your SILs reaction - how selfish! Is she an otherwise rational human being or was this not so much of a surprise?

The laws of probability are stacked against us (using condoms, had 'period' in between) but there's still that niggling chance.... I didn't want to worry DH but think I'll have to tell him before I POAS. BILs wedding in France would be one thing but would also jeopardise our trip to China at Easter which we're due to pay final deposits on next week so better to know sooner!

Well aware this could be a he'll of a lot of fuss over nothing, just for some reason putting off poas in case AF comes. Won't change the outcome regardless of when I do it but not knowing still means the less complicated outcome is on the table!

Appreciate you're support can't, particularly given your own circumstances.

your not you're!

Yes definitely sounds like you're better off knowing either way manderley but seriously don't let other people concern you!

SIL and I became very close very quickly (our OHs are brothers) and it just turned out that she was a very immature 22 year old. (Nothing against young mums as I was one!) she decided to have a baby upon a friend having one (rolling my eyes) and conceived almost immediately (rolling my eyes again) She just has no life experience and apparently very selfish. This will be first grandchild on OHs side so she is pleased with herself for that. god, didn't realise that I'm still so bitter

booboo I am a CM obsessive but only this cycle. I had lots of fertile CM but for the first time ever (I would have noticed that much before). I am now CD24 and got some thick white creamy CM but not loads... I have noticed that I've had this previously but not when trying for a baby. I don't know if it's a good/bad sign but apparently you dry up if AF is on way.... Isn't it shocking how little you know about your body until you start looking for a reason! Quite ashamed at how uneducated I was. Especially as I already have DD!

Well....AF got me this morning! A day earlier than I expected but since coming off bc I've had 28, 29, 24 and 27 day cycles! I've decided I'll try and take a break from the crazy conception lady over christmas and just enjoy it. But I'll still be dtd....just gona try not over analyse it all lol. So I'm thinking just leave the wee diary I was gona try and keep about my cycle til after this one. Yip cantbelieve its shocking I'm 31 with an 11yr old and I apparently know nothing about how my body works!

Ah the bitch!! Did you tell Her she's not welcome?!

Yes I'm the same, not due til Thursday but if she shows her face for me, I'm going to see 2014 out woth copious amounts of wine & then start again in the new year!

This is ridiculous. I'm a 30yr old professional and am terrified of even buying one, let alone actually poas!

HELP!!! Advice needed... TMI coming up... According to Ovia app I have only just come out of fertile window, but today I have really sore nipples and my CM is like a clear jelly with blood streaks through it... Is it more likely that I'm ovulating now?! Or could it be a sign? Don't know what to think?!!!!

Ps... Can't... So sad that your sil was like that about everything, I'd be so upset. Just reading everything about not knowing your body and I'm ashamed I don't know more too but don't think I can face the whole checking my cervix thing... If CM isn't in my panties, it's not being checked haha.

manderley - buying them is the worst thing in the world!! Send OH!!

Oooh! Spotting blood is sometimes recognised as implantation but how far out of your fertile window are you? And how long were you in it?? Clear jelly sounds like fertile CM - as much as I love fertility friend, I'd listen to my body first.... And dtd just to be safe! Haha. And get in there and have a poke around! Could be worse, I've read some women on here get their hubby's to do it

I was really upset but hey, one day (when she grows up ) she'll feel forever guilty and won't believe how she treated me. Me on the other hand, clear conscience. I faked the congratulations and cheers so well so that she didn't feel bad, I even suprised myself!

Well...the results are in...BFN!

Kind of relieved as timing would have been crap.
Ironic how at any point from here on in, I'll be praying for the opposite! Now just to wait for missing AF.

(oh, and thank god for waitrose quick check!)