TTC#1 Thread 5. The one where we actually got to January 2016! NOW you can start! TMI alert throughout.

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

Welcome, welcome! And may the pink lines be ever in your favour!

Post your stats, don't be shy, no symptom too gross to share! We are a Lucky thread with lots of bfp's and baby dust and PMA!

All okp'er and ic enthusiasts welcome!

Haha true ni! Thanks for the info ladies xx

Kat - I'm testing at the end of Jan too.

Such a long list of us. FX for everyone!

Updated list

Kat - due 13th
Belle
Stark
Choc
Lara
Elle
Bug
Drink
First
Sea 31st
Sampy?
Snow 25th
Ni 11th
Lisa- end of jan

Feb bus
Indi
Harriet- 3rd feb
Miley 2nd
Feef

Great idea on the list kat! It's so hard to keep track! I test tomorrow!

Added to the list! Now an ordered list!

Stark - yesterday
LillianFullStop - testing 9-Jan
Kat - due jan 13th
seacrown - testing 31-Jan
LisaTheGeek - testing 31-Jan
Belle
Choc
Lara
Elle
Bug
Drink
First

Oh oops posted the same time! please add mine for 9-Jan

Haha lillian that made me giggle! Yes according to ovia rand this thread I should have already tested. ...but we shall say the 12th, when af is actually due!

Thanks Kat and Lillian. Very helpful to see everyone lodged. My AF is due 23rd

listed not lodged

Sampy it is, AF due Mon 11th Jan

Big fan of a list! As if charting, temping, poas and listing symptoms is not enough to keep us occupied!

Congrats Space and DrWhy!!

Littlebelle I'm on cycle #2

Kat I'm on CD15, please add me to the list.

I'll be testing of af doesn't arrive 25th Jan

I don't have a date to test as have already had positives and negatives... sooo tomorrow I'm having a blood test. Should know next week!!

Ahh yey a list! Glad someone had the patience to do it. We need some link to update it. Shame we can't have some sort of spreadsheet 😂😂

Hello all! waves shyly We've been ttc for a good half year now, so far unsuccessfully. I've joined this thread for commiserations, tips, and support - the absence of a BFP is really getting to me and every month I'm just getting more and more upset and disappointed. My potential coping strategies are diametrically opposed: try to optimise each and every factor (OPK, no alcohol, very little coffee, timing dtd, taking my vitamins - check, check and check) ... or relax and worry less. (Ha! laughs bitterly)

So, here's for the New Year. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for all of you.

Welcome Cthulhoo and all other newbies!

I briefly thought about doing a test this morning....but after a quick squeeze of the breasts/oracles. ..I decided to wait!plus I had to go out and I need AT LEAST an hour of scrutinising after taking one I've decided.

Today's symptoms could be put down to a combination of having a mild cold and imminent af. I feel sickly and am snotty in my nose, not my attitude , I am smell sensetive everything smells awful minor, intermittent cramps, and lumpy tender right boob, although left boob appears to be catching up on the sore scale. I am exhausted. And the weepathon continues...I she'd a tiny tear because it's my dsis birthday next week and my dps are away (she is not in the slightest bit arsed, she will be 24...I think...yeah, 24...or thereabouts!) Second weepfest because I saw the local rescue whippet dog walking club.

Okay, some stats:

TTC #1, cycle 10, currently CD 3, quite short cycles of around 24 days. My age (39) isn't in my favour but I'm hoping the fact that I am reasonably fit, have never smoked and take all my vitamins (B6, D, folic acid, C, iron, zinc) helps shift the odds in my favour. I've cut down on coffee and have cut out alcohol.

Last cycle I've had a blood test done to check for hormone levels and apparently they were very low so I'm scheduled for another blood test this month at a slightly later time in the cycle to confirm (or not) the findings.
I'm almost hoping they'll confirm that hormone levels are (too) low, because then at least there's something that can be done and can be helped. I'm feeling quite helpless because there seems to be a limit of what I can do to improve my chances - it's out of my control and most of it seems to be a waiting game.

Cthulhoo do not fear! Yes this is a crazy, unpredictable journey...but now you're getting blood tests and medical intervention you will soon know more that you /they can do to help! I know it's frustrating, but don't lose hope!

Are you getting positives on Opks? And are you temping? Have you tried acupuncture for fertility? Supposed to be excellent! And have you tried pre-seed lube? The cervical mucus gets less as we age so that lube helps the tadpoles to swim! (regular lube can actually interfere with conception so don't use them!)

I'm using the ovulation testing kits which show fertile and peak fertility days (flashing smiley face and static smiley face ...). On those I reliably do get positives. I do seem to have a fairly short post-luteal phase of just over 10 to perhaps 12 days.

I did try temping but couldn't properly get in the habit of taking the temperature at the same time; I find the testing sticks easier to use. I've just recently heard of pre-seed lube. I will have to ask my partner what he thinks of it - so far we're not using any lube at all.

Hi all! I've been covertly observing this for a few days but then thought I'd join in since I am driving my self mad over-analysing every single bodily action!! I'm 27, came off Marvelon at start of December thinking I'd be super chilled about it. Then immediately began obsessing
I'm on CD 36 according to Ovia app, but have only had the withdrawal bleed. Now wishing for AF to come asap, so I can at least do some tracking. I've also just ordered OPK and thermometer so I can enter more data (which I seem to be obsessed with) and hopefully understand whats going on a bit....

Currently knitting a baby blanket and thinking now about making one for myself! Would be majorly jumping the gun tho! Not making me overly jealous as the person I'm knitting it for went through hell to get pregnant! But she is now due end of January!

FX it's hard not to get impatient for AF to come. I had a 77 day cycle last time (stopped Microgynon in May). My other cycles have been 33-49 days so far.
Hoping they will settle down soon!

thinking I'd be super chilled about it. Then immediately began obsessing

Ahaaaaa, just four short weeks ago I also thought I would be blaze and nonchalant about ttc, the madness comes to us all! and it really is a mind bender! Welcome skip . I've found one of the most irritating thing to be 'nothing to track' on ovia! Be a use if you've got nothing to track, you've nothing to go on! Why is my body doing this?! No answers!

Welcome newbies!

Interested in the point you raise about diminishing CM as we age, Ni. Does anyone else worry that they don't produce enough CM, especially EWCM. Never in a million years thought I'd be monitoring the moistness of my fanny so closely

I don't have an issue with arousal moisture if you take my meaning, so don't need a lube. I've read about Preseed but thought it was just a sperm friendly lube, rather than doing the job of EWCM. Also I think it does has a detrimental affect on sperm from what I've read, but only a slight one. Any mucus and/or lube experts in the house?

Dh has decided/accepted that his sperm is not that of a 21 year old at the height of virility. He is researching clomid, fuck knows how he stumbled upon that. He's listening to something via earphones about sperm production and keeps going "ooooh in a high pitched way....Well, I didn't know that!" I sense he is about to become the house expert on sperm production. His voice has the whiff of a man about to undertake a personal learning mission about it. He is going to become obsessed with his balls.

lara and ni I can honestly say, I never thought I'd be examining my fanny juice for levels of viscosity and translucency.