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!

Potentially yes kat I think I suck at stuff like this, runner is the one with the brains and info vis a vis knowing shit about cycles.

starky I think our cycles are very similar! Mine are around 33 days and I think I ovulated on 21st dec which was day 21 of my cycle. Going to test on 3 January according to ovia. Don't think it's likely though!

I actually had a dream last night I got a bfp and was terrified! Think it's cos I'm at my mums for Xmas and in my childhood rm so have regressed a bit!

Does anyone else have wobbles about whether they're actually ready for this?

I totally get that harriet I've been 13 mentally since Christmas eve! I regress especially when we stay over at my dps at Christmas because I get so silly about Christmas day. I'm terribly bossy about presents and I want to watch everybody open their gifts and I'm super particular about everything! It was lovely because Christmas day was just my immediate family. Boxing day was everyone else so I get a bit overwhelmed and over stimulated, I need some quiet time afterwards!

I'm still in a negative place regarding testing too, thinking that there's probably no point testing because it won't be my month, that I didn't ovulate etc, and because I have such a long cycle it's going to be a looooong wait till af!

But yeah, I had a 'fuck' moment the other day when I was like "am I enough of a grown up to be a parent?! Im 29, but if there was a big spider I would still ring my mum to move it, or if something scary happened I'd still want to fetch an adult!... But if I was a parent...I would BE the adult! But I like sweeties and being silly, I'm not an adulty enough grown up!"

So I will become the queen of pissy sticks this month, to see what's going on. If AF turns up earlier than expected at least I will be able to tie in the OPK results with that. Let's see!!! As its christmas and the mood is generally jolly I will keep drinking wine and dtd. I need to lay off the choccies and mince pies soon though I'm making my January diet much more difficult! Haha!

Kat I don't believe that ovulating early will have any impact on your cycle length. But you will be able to test before your AF due date.

Stark I have two step-children and still don't think I'm adulty enough to be left in charge of them. I like to play computer games and eat sweets and dance around the flat singing... But so does OH so I don't think being adulty comes into it.

harriet- yes I still think am I up to this? Will it affect me work wise? When I think about the labour I get scared, but it'll all be worth it in the end. I guess once the baby is here we have no choice but to be a mother and protect what we have created.

I'm home now after our holiday and will try to catch up with this thread and the old one when I'm not knackered! My period arrived right on time so I'm now on cycle #2 CD 6. Now that my period is gone the plan is to try at least every other day.

runner bubba it's weird isn't it!? I used to be a nursery nurse/TA, I know im capable of running round/entertaining/safe guarding a group of children. I mind my nephew fairly frequently. But the idea of being in sole charge/responsible of a person who I grew in my womb is still scary as balls! But it's a learning curve I suppose! There's no official manual of child rearing! I am very very glad I found MN before I become a parent though! It's a veritable mine of information! And as frightening and anxiety inducing as it is, I'm still really excited and looking forward to it all! I likened it to baking a cake with a new recipe, you start with the same ingredients, bake it and then when it comes out of the oven you still don't know entirely how it's going to taste!

leonie Get boning! Go forth and bang like a champ!

Cycle day 27 5days till pregnancy test first cycle trying. Lots of wind also never realised that was a symptom and very hungry but that could be AF or too much nice Christmas food around!

Ooh!! Ooh!!! Ooh!!!!

(If anyone is interested in my pissy stick progress.....)

Just got this today...
That's the darkest line I've got so far. And I'm on CD10. That would make sense wouldn't it!!! ???
So ovulation comes around 24hr after that +ve?

I posted the pic yesterday of the last 3 (DH made me throw them away as he wasn't happy with me waving pissy sticks around the house. No idea why.)

Can you get an increase in hormone at the beginning of the cycle and then a dip and then a bigger surge at ovulation?

Excited by seeing ANOTHER LINE on a pissy stick.

Woo hoo Kat, that's dark! I don't know about the surge point but if I were you I'd get DTD'ing asap!

Your pissy stick comment made me laugh. I refuse to throw away my BFP sticks and OH keeps complaining!

Already done that. Hurrah. dtd every other day the last week (and an extra today for good luck) couldn't be trying harder! Haha!

Looks positive to me Kat and if you've been dtd eod for a week if say you've got as much chance of a BFP next month as anyone

So when's the next pissy stick party? We haven't had one in a while

kat that's an awesome dark two liner! I've thrown away my ones from last week, but I had saved them all up till then! I hid them! But then, I hid a tiny tupperware of wee in my wardrobe last month so I'm not the yardstick to measure your crazy by!

I'm due to test according to ovia in 5 days, although I may hold off slightly longer! But I reckon we've got a few coming up this next weekend?

Yes I'm testing next weekend... Gonna be a longggg week, worried about drinking NYE now, think I'll stay on the soft drinks to be safe seen as I'm symptom spotting this month

13dpo and stark white negative again. Af is due tomorrow. I've got a cold, sore throat, am gassy and moody. I cried at the end of Home Alone. My lucky dh! Feeling out for sure now so I'll jump on the January bus now I think.

I have 7 days til test, cd22 now. Hopefully my ovia and cf was correct saying ovulation was last week as I've not really DTD since Xmas eve!
Wishing you girls all the best of luck xx

FX for everyone testing over the next few days.

I am roughly 5 dpo. But my cm this month has been next to none. I used the clearblue opk to detect ovulation. Usually during the luteal phase I have quite thick creamy cm but not time round .

Hello, can I hop on from the Dec bus? Bfn and af due in a few days so I'm surely out!
zazzles, 31, ttc#1, cycle 1, CD27.
Taking pregnecare, vitamin d, and next month using soy.

Hi Zazzles 😊 I'm thinking of using soy too. I've heard it strengthens ovulation so it makes conception potentially easier.

Hey snow :)
Yeah apparently you can either take it to strengthen the quality of the egg or strengthen ovulation - can't remember what days are needed for either way so need to re-look it up! Yay we're cycle twinnies

I'm 37 so suspect my eggs need all the help they can get. From my reading it's most effective taking it cd3-7 as it strengthens the egg the most? Dh and I are going to see a specialist in February if the next two cycles don't work. Neither of us want to waste time trying without getting all the tests done. My chart right now looks amazing apparently it's triphasic pattern, but I'm getting bfns. So clearly I'm not pregnant or it would show. Once af starts I'll be relieved to get going on cycle 2.

Ooh Soy? That's new to me! Must google!! my Google search history is hysterically embarrassing
Xmas holidays over and almost home to OH now... 2nd last day of fertile week so let's hope it's not too late if we dtd tonight (wasn't doing opks as I'm sure some family member would have spotted them! But have had no fertile CM so I'm hoping it hasn't happened yet! Although Ovia brought my FW forward a day after I entered some sort of symptom Xmas day Can't figure this malarkey out!

If Dec doesn't work I'll be joining next month Snow

littlebelle did you get a positive on clearblue?

Ni yes I had a positive on Tuesday but it was gone by Wednesday. I used the clearblue digital opk. My phone is Google is like that too!