Ttc#1 Thread the 4th. TMI club of January 2016. No symptom too disgusting to share!

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

We're on the 4th thread! Oh come all ye symptom spotters! And a fertile new year!

[Jamjar12]

Struggling a bit with all the photos of my friends and their newborns at Christmas. Plus the relatives questions about when I'm going to have one of my own. And the texts from friends saying 'this will be you next year!'.

Literally feel like AF is laughing at me right now :(

[firstgo1984]

I was a bit like that tonight coming to work and seeing all the christmas babies. Got a bit down that AF had arrived. Bleeding seems to have stopped this evening but that is not an unusual pattern for my periods. Here's to a shorter cycle this month. 77 days was ridiculous!

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

Fingers crossed for some new year bfp's! I'm sooooo full of gas! Omg! And I've not even eaten that much! And I specifically stayed away from greens!

jam sorry you're having a tricky day, and fingers crossed it will be us next year!

Awww guys, have a very merry Christmas! I hope all our baby mama's have had a lovely day and have been looked after, and I hope all us waiting for our bfp's next month have had an equally lovely day! Much love, happiness and baby dust! Xx

[Runner05]

Hello ladies,

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas.

Sorry for all the BFNs and AF

Stark how many dpo do you think you are? The gas sounds promising.

I had a lovely day, couldn't eat half as much as I normally would Christmas Day but I think that's for the best. I was in bed by 8:30 because I was sooooo tired and have woken up feeling like I spent yesterday at the gym!

Ovia pregnancy informs me that today I have a pepper corn sized tadpole with a beating hart in my tummy

Good luck to everyone TTC in January. Fx for new year babies for you all

[BunchOfBobs]

Morning all.

Sorry for all the BFNs and AF arrivals. . I had quite a painful Christmas, cramps were awful, still apparently completely normal but I think I may call the midwife today if they set off again. They've woken me up for the last 3 nights, that and trapped wind. Lovely. It's been hard not saying anything to family but no one has barred an eyelid and me not drinking- turned out to be quite handy when I had to drive a rather drink uncle home when a disagreement was threatening to get quite nasty. Christmas eh?!

Did anyone watch Downton?

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

I've not seen Downton yet! Or call the midwife! Was it awesome? Don't tell me! Ooh! That sounds irritating bunch you poor thing! I hope it settles soon, be kind to yourself and have a gentle day.

runner I honestly don't know know how many dpo I am, or if I even ovulated! It's possible I'm 7 dpo or thereabouts! I'm getting weird mild cramps and I'm gassy! But thats probably just having eaten too much yesterday! You poor thing too! You and bunch both sound so exhausted! I had two small glasses of fizzy wine yesterday and decided against any more! It gave me acid reflux because not drank for so long!

What's everyone doing with their boxing day? We've got family coming round! We're still at my dps! Two tiny dogs have just comee and climbed in bed with me!

[firstgo1984]

AF properly here now. Feeling less frustrated today. New cycle ans lota of knowledge of how to spot ovulation. Surely my next cycle can't be as long!!!!!!

39,33,49,77 that's the pattern so far post-pill!

[BubbaNo1]

I'm in the same position as you stark... Cramps, insomnia.. Itchy nips. But not sure if I even ovulated and if I would get symptoms so quickly. Ovia says 10 days till test time.

Hope everyone had a lovely Xmas! [santa]

[IndiX]

Hi girls,
Hope you had a very Merry Christmas!
So please tell me I'm crazy....
I'm about 7dpo same as Stark I think and have just taken a test, obviously it was bfn and I knew it would be but couldn't stop myself. I had quite a few drinks on Xmas eve and woke up in the middle of the night and started being violently sick ( I'm never sick like that when I drink, especially when I'm asleep) I'm also havnt been sleeping well and still feeling nauseous from the Xmas eve. I really struggled to finish my Xmas dinner yesterday without feeling like i was going to be sick (I did get through it though eventually- festive fatty here!). I hate myself when I start to symptom spot as it turns me insane.
Anyway, please tell me I'm crazy and to calm down. Have a lovely Boxing Day ladies xx

[Snowdog37]

Another bfn here but my temps are going up still, my normal temp is around 97 (I run cool) and this morning it was 98.43! The highest it's been all cycle so far! I'm cycle day 23 out of 25. You'd think I'd get a bfp if I was pregnant by now? At around 12dpo? I don't know what to think. Am still gassy, have got twinges of cramps especially in my lower back, in fact it feels on and off the last couple of days that I've strained my lower back a bit, it's a bit sore. I'm trying to be optimistic. I'm not out til af knocks at the door.

Hope you all have a lovely Boxing Day! I've had two or three glasses of baileys in the last two days, and enough food to feed the five thousand. Roll on weightwatchers in a week!!!

[harrietm87]

Hello all you symptom spotters! Hope you had a lovely Christmas!

I've just woken up

It's 8 days before I can test and I've been trying desperately to find a symptom to spot but absolutely nothing lol! I feel completely and utterly normal! I had lots of drinks yesterday because I figured even if I am miraculously upduffed it won't even have implanted yet.

Rest assured if I spot any symptoms I will let you all know!

Is anyone testing in 2015?

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

I've come home briefly for a cig I was getting irrationally angry, which is possibly pms or just lack of nicotine and an abundance of stress! Going back to dps shortly. I needed half an hour away! We had a power cut last night so there was an alarm going off ALL night so I didn't sleep well!

I think I'm on course for a test in a week or so, ovia has changed it from the 3rd to the 1st, but I'm not actually due on till the 12th, so will have to see what games my body plays till then!

[IndiX]

I'm not due on until 6th but ovia is saying 8 days until test. We will see what happens

[Bubbapup89]

Hey everyone how was your Christmas?

I didn't realise how quiet I was on here but took me forever to catch up and I barely speak!

Sorry about the bfns hope you all got merry instead

So my stats
Age 26
Ttc#1
Cycle Ttc 3
CD 9

Xxx

Just started temping and I use ovia and fertility friend to track.

[LanadelLol]

Hi everyone!
Hope you all have big fat bellies from the festive feasting like I do .
I have been doing an opk every day for the past 5 days but all are negative even tho I am supposed to be on my fertile week. No EWCM either so I think Ovia is at it. Also, keep forgetting to temp, every time I open my eyes, my first thought is to just try get back to sleep ha!
Hope the prego ladies are feeling much better now? X

[Pinklily1]

Hi everyone,

Lana Ovia was out by a week for me, I ovulated a week earlier than it said I would. I'd only had two cycles post pill so it was working on limited data I suppose.

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

I'm unbelievably tired, I could quite happily go to bed now! Have been full of pms today too, plus creamy cm gross and gas/bloating and constipation sorry the weather is wild here! At home though, so I'm happy and settled! That's Christmas out of the way! Had one small glass of champagne today and had acid reflux again so I'm staying off the alcohol for now!

How is everyone?

[Runner05]

Hello all,

There are lots of really promising symptoms going on so I've got my fingers crossed for a few new grads soon

Snow you've just reminded me. Just before I got my BFP I had pain in my back that felt like a pulled muscle but I couldn't for the life of me work out how I'd done it. Disappeared after a day or two and because it felt like an injury I discounted it as a symptom but you never know

So tired and bloated today but so excited to be 5 weeks and passed the milestone of my period not showing up. Was really worried it would this pregnancy thing is definitely exhausting and uncomfortable though!

[KatOnATinRo0f]

Hey everyone!!
I'm having issues with my OPK strips...
Used them a few days now - 2 days ago (Xmas eve) I did one about 12pm and got a darkish line (not as dark as the control) and tried again later on about 6pm and it was there but a bit lighter. This was CD7

Missed yesterday due to obscene consumption of Turkey and wine.

Today- CD9, did another one about 12pm again, and can't see any line at all... Pic enclosed- top oldest, bottom most recent.

Does a positive OPK indicate immediate ovulation or does it happen after. I surely can't ov on CD7?? I did notice an obv in CM and slight egg whitish ness around then, but not sure if a bit gluey and not eggy gross. Sorry everyone.
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Maybe I haven't ov yet and I just peed too close to the one I took today so was too dilute. This is the first month I've used these so not really sure if this is normal or not. I've been dtd eod since last Sunday so hopefully haven't missed the window.

My periods have only been about 2 days long and sorta all brown not red fresh iykwim so I'm wondering if that's not "enough" also...

Sorry for long post, and tips from resident experts greatly appreciated!
Kat x

[KatOnATinRo0f]

I didn't post the pic did I???

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

Oh runner I'm so pleased for you! You're most definitely preggers! 5 weeks down, 35 to go! It's do lovely! How big is your little bean now?

Ive been all over the shop and totally hormonal! I've got the weird low down cramps intermittently again too, feels like a few days before I'm due af, but I'm so far away from af! Like, nearly 3 weeks off af arriving! Now I want to ear crisps and dip!

[Runner05]

Kat it does sound like you might have ovulated early. It's not impossible to ovulate CD7 (14 is just average) but I would keep doing sticks for a couple of weeks just to make sure it wasn't a random raising in hormones and not actual ovulation.
One you receive a positive test ovulation should take place within 48 hours.

Stark that's all sounding positive have you got any ic tests? If I were you I'd be peeing every day just in case but then I'm a self confessed pissy stick addict!

[Runner05]

Ooo forgot to say. Baby is now tadpole shaped and about the size of a pepper corn

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

runner awwwww tadpole pepper corn! Awwww! I've got a few ic's knocking about, but I'd still only be at most 8dpo, I think it's more likely 6/7 dpo (dppo?...days past possible ovulation, cause I'm still not sure if I actually did) so I don't think any would pick up if I was preggers, it's too early I think? I think I'm going to try and hold off till at least next week. Still feels like I'm going to spontaneously start af!

kat I'd definitely keep doing the okp's all week just to see what happens, I read an article that said it's possible to ovulate early, that's why I like the okp's, at least it gives us some idea what our bodies are doing!

[KatOnATinRo0f]

So if I ovulated already I should be expecting this cycle to be much shorter than usual- as the post ov luteal phase can't be longer then around 14 days can it??