All Aboard the February Bus!

[CoffeeTwo]

Well I'm just waiting for AF to show up and the timings mean I miss January all together. Anyone out there who would like to join me in trying for a BFP in February? :)

CoffeeTwo, 31, ttc #2, cycle 6, BFP due 10th February.

Babs you make me laugh, thanks for being nice. What baking goodies did you rustle up? I just ate two thirds of a cherry pie that cost me a quid off the market. With custard. I suspect the cat had a lick of my spoon when I nipped to the bog

We need you on this bus purdey....right at the back, being very very naughty.

Your advice is great and much appreciated. I'm not even bothering to buy any books.

Thanks Purdey! Now because I don't know which tests to trust I also use Clearblue Dual Hormone opk tests along with internet cheapy opks...from what I have seen in my past cycles I get a positive on the cheapy opk then the following day my first peak on Clearblue and second peak day after that...so maybe on second thoughts if we try dtd tonight, then miss tomorrow (which hopefully will be positive cheapy opk) and aim to dtd on first peak am, second peak am and day after that??? Arghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

I would like to jump on board. Jan was my first month ttc and I symptom watched like nobody's business. I had some really odd symptoms much unlike anything I normally have before AF and my mother told me she was one of those who has nausea within days so I thought maybe I was too. Tried not to get too optimistic but when AF date came and no AF just brown spotting for 2 days I couldn't help but feel hopeful. 4 negative tests and AF came along.

I am hoping feb will be the month but I am aware these things take time. I have been off pill over a year its just taken us this long to actually ttc as I wanted to have some time with my body getting back to normal after coming off as I was on pill for so long and suffered badly with AF symptoms.

Oh and bear in mind that the second of my peak days on Clearblue tends to be ovulation day!

oh yum. Love custard....made lemon biscuits. I'm crap with cakes, but you can't really cock up biscuits...

Hi everyone, I am a newbie and not even sure if I'm on the right bus! I am hoping for a bfp around the 6th February this will be my 3 rd cycle of trying. I made the mistake of telling a few people that I was ttc and I wish I hadn't, it's so frustrating when they keep asking ?? anyway- I had my coil (copper) out in October and this will be baby number 5 ( please don't think I'm greedy! ) please tell me if I'm in the wrong place!

Tessie, I hear you, sister. Trust the CBDM peak wotsits. I believe the point of two peaks is to have sex on both of them, is that correct? And you will ovulate the day of the second peak (two days after the cheapie positive)?

I am off to search Fertility Friends' chart gallery to see when sex was timed with CB fertility wotsits...

Childless, welcome. How old are you? It's strange how many symptoms we can magic up when we are desperately looking for some. I'm sorry you're so disappointed but you are right..these things can and do take time unless you're a reet jammy bastard It's nice to be in a gang of similar desperate symptom-spotters though, eh?

purdey, every bus needs a conductor! and we all love having you as ours :) And as for your own TTC, never say never! It only takes one follicle to make an egg, I'm sure your time will come.

tessie, if in doubt, shag! It's not going to do any harm to dtd every day...

Purdey of course i can,
Sorry i have got carried away and this is like a dissertation on my life !!!

i came off Yasmin pill a year ago, got my period straight away, cycles a bit over the place 18, 21 23 28 days, we decided to try last June so it gave me six months off the pill, i took Pregnacare in May/ June we started trying in June, in my tww i felt sick, stomach pains, extreme tiredness, a week and a half late period , convinced i was pregnant, boobs were so sore, but 7 BFN later and still no period, it eventually came was really heavy, i thought it was due to Pregnacare and hated it with a passion, i now think it was a chemical pregnancy, i can't remember if i was spotting before AF was due from Jan to June, i was just so pleased i started getting AF,
Cycles since July have been 24 or the odd 27 day, get spotting 4 to 7 days before period is due, i took low dose of vitamin b complex and evening primrose oil and seven seas ttc in November and Decemeber, that cut the spotting to 4 days, i decided to start taking Pregnacare start of January and vitamin b complex and cycle was 24 and spotting for 4 days, i am about to ovulate any time this week, i have been taking holland and barrett busy bee time release vitamin b complex , they are a really high dose to hope it stops the spotting
I went to the doctors in December about the spotting and she says it won't stop me getting pregnant and its prob just Yasmin getting out my system, she sent me for an internal scan which has come back fine, i cant be referred to fertility clinic until June when it will be a year of trying, but she thinks il be back before then pregnant, (don't know how she knows this , must have a crystal ball), i am at my wits end as i have a feeling its to do with progesterone - if these high dose of vitamin b complex don't work , then i don't know what else to do!!

sorry this is way to long a post!!

Hello, Ricicle, I don't think you're greedy. I found a shop today selling three Creme Eggs for a quid and I ate them all on the way to church (church is eight minutes away in a taxi). Now that's greed.

Have added some more people and fixed the info as requested. I'm limited to 6 images per day so will wait before uploading the new one :)

2WW starts today for anyone due Feb 8, 2015 so we have 18 people in limbo (myself included). I still have symptoms but I'm not convinced I'm not crazy yet!

Hiya I've been missed off the stats too :-(

34, ttc #1, cycle 26 (ish, probably, kinda lost count when it hit the 20's) bfp due Feb 18th. Thanks :-)

Lol! @purdey! If you find something you like you should indulge yourself ( a bit like me with my lo's) Really hate the 2ww, it sends me out of my mind. :(
I'm 38 and nervous that it won't happen this time, dh thinks we should be happy with what we have, so isn't as keen as me, and isn't interested in talking about it 24/7. So I'm happy to have found you all :)

Added victoria401 sorry I missed you!

babybump I will need my stats changing once AF arrives as my BFP date of 19th was based on me actually getting AF on time.

So bored of waiting!! Never wanted AF so much before! Been hovering on the boards for a few months now waiting to start trying. Our first month is here and our plan has already been put back 3 days before its even begun! Don't even feel due on any more either - though after a weekend of socialising I kept panicking that I would start and ruin dress/tights/friends spare bed so sort of glad it stayed away so I could enjoy myself!!

Hi, we have been trying to conceive for 6 months now with no luck. I'm always regular with my periods to the day and last 5 days, however last months was a day or so shorter than usual and lighter.

This month my period should have been Thursday but nothing..........I've taken a test each day and all are negative :-(

I'm going to make an appointment at the Drs but in the mean time Its killing me thinking something is wrong with me due to tests being negative......

On top of this 3 friends who don't want another/any babies have recently announced their pregnancy which makes me feel worse about myself too....

Any advice/ help or support would be greatly appreciated I'm 28 btw

I'm one of the 18 people due on the 8th, but I STILL haven't any sign of EWCM, no positive OPKs and no temperature rise...confused/worried?! Which actually probably isn't helping is it?!

Rainy, I, too, suspect it is a progesterone problem. I would love to see you charting so we could see when exactly you ovulate. I worry about 24-day cycles because they leave very little room for a decent luteal phase (unless, of course, you ovulate on CD10) Would you consider using opks? I would go back to the doctor and impress upon her that the spotting coupled with the short cycles are making you feel ill with stress. The very least she could do is the day 3 and day 21 blood tests which would prove one way or another if you have too low progesterone.

Do you think you could be brave and ask her for these two tests? All GPs do them, they are not something you wait to see a specialist for

Ibeka, DING!-DING! All aboard!

Right-o, Tessie, I found these charts which are interesting. They are all pregnancy charts using, I think, your opk. One conceived on the first peak day (when she also got a cheapy positive), another on the second peak day (with her cheapy surging the day before) and the last one conceived on the first peak day when a second peak failed to show at all - and her cheapy opk surged 48 hrs before ov...

I also found this chart which shows some poor lass waiting seventy-odd days for ovulation! Bless her, she's 23 years old and on cycle #1 of ttc but she certainly knew to have sex whenever she saw ewcm and to keep going until she got her positive opk. Hurrah! This is encouraging for those of you currently battling long and arduous cycles, no?

Purdey I am using a cbfm last month I got four days of high two peaks and then a high again, I am in cd 12 and this is my third high , I am hoping the high b complex is shifting ovulation along a bit,
My doctor did say she could give me the hormone test but I was not brave enough to go back,I know I need to, I will try and pluck up the courage , , thanks for your advice, and in put

I do have a basal thermometer I keep forgetting to take my temp, I think I will also try this too

Yes, yes, Rainly, love, go back to your GP. Don't be afraid or feel daft. Remember you pay national insurance for this kind of service. If this cycle mimics last month you can expect your second peak on CD15, right? This leaves only a nine-day luteal phase which includes four days of spotting (if, that is, the cycle is to be 24 days). A nine or ten-day luteal phase will not normally sustain an implanted embryo - the deficiency of progesterone causes the womb lining to fall away, minimally at first (spotting) and then full AF. Please go see your doctor...knowledge is power, my love, and armed with the facts you can get the help you need Progesterone suppositories are all that may be standing between you and your baby

Thanks for adding me to the stats babybump

Cd10 today and dtd tonight for the first of many times this cycle. This is my first cycle since stopping bf so really hoping it's a pretty normal one and not some long, hopes raising nightmare.
I don't think I get enough sleep to temp as dc2 is often up in the night and starts the day anytime between 5-7. I've also found OPKs a bit hard to get to grips with in the past so for now I'm just dtd eod until either AF appears or it gets ridiculous.