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2DPO The dreaded TWW begins!

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Cherub250 · 09/01/2016 10:15

So I'm on 2dpo and obviously 3 days in on the tww! Is there anyone the same that wants to be my tww buddy and compare notes? A little bit of back ground info on ttc... My OH and I haven't used contraception for two years now! However we haven't been officially 'trying'! There have been months where we haven't even BD around ovulation etc so technically this is our first month "Officially" ttc! I'm pretty sure I ovulated Thursday but we BD Tuesday evening, Wednesday morning & Evening, Thursday Morning & Evening & last night lol! Grin Today my CM has gone straight back to CWCM and that's it thus far! Any advice on getting through the tww, helping implantation? etc etc?

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KentCat · 15/01/2016 15:16

Hope you don't mind me joining. I'm 2 dpo, this is our first cycle trying so I'm not holding my breath but you still can't help but hope.

leoniethelioness · 15/01/2016 19:11

I'm on my second cycle and five days until my period is due. I've ordered some cheap pregnancy tests too which I hope arrive tomorrow. I'm thinking about testing on Sunday and every day until AF invariably arrives if they have arrived but I think it'll probably be too early... I just don't want to test and then pretend to be normal all day at work afterwards!

leoniethelioness · 15/01/2016 19:12

My official test day is Wednesday. No real symptoms other than cramps sometimes, creamy CM and my breasts are tender and nipples are really dry?!? I get most of these symptoms with my period.

ThePinkFlamingo85 · 16/01/2016 10:10

Hi can I join? Im 9dpo,been ttc for a year. Had a bfn yesterday, feeling fed up!

Norris88 · 16/01/2016 10:33

Ladies can I join? Cd25 and af due on Monday or Tuesday. I had a small bit of brown spotting earlier this morning is this too late to be implantation bleeding? Or is it af coming to town a bit earlier than usual but I've had no other tell tale af signs?

Brenna24 · 16/01/2016 10:48

11 dpo today. CD 24.

Big welcome to all the newbies Grin.

Norris, on my last pregnancy I had a 1 hour implantation bleed, bright red blood, on cd 26, between 2 and 4 days before I was due AF.

KentCat · 16/01/2016 13:04

Off to India with work today so hoping being so busy and in a new place will help the week go faster. I know we've only just started trying but already feel like I'm constantly wishing the days away to reach the next marker. Anyone else feel the same? Waiting for fertile days, then waiting to see if AF comes, then waiting for it to be over and then waiting for fertile days again.

My heart goes out to those of you who have been trying for some time

Brenna24 · 16/01/2016 13:50

Red spotting here. My normal cycles are 28-33 days with a LP of 15-17 days. This is a bit early for AF for me, but I suspect she is on the way. Sad

Norris88 · 16/01/2016 13:53

Thanks Brenna for your reply! It's stopped now was only this morning. Hoping your AF stays away! Feel like such an idiot for expecting ttc to be relaxed, I am analysing every single 'symtom!'

Brenna24 · 16/01/2016 14:32

I know how you feel Kent. We pretty much got on with life as normal last year but then I had a miscarriage. Now I feel like I daren't plan anything as if I get pregnant again I won't be wanting to fly in the tww or early pregnancy, DH is worried about me driving or going on trains too as the older ladies in Italy said that they used to be told not to do that as it was bad for the baby. Thus we can plan nothing ahead and can only do things spontaneously for the first half of the month. I am going stir crazy and we are only 3 months since the miscarriage. As a result, instead of being relaxed as I was last year, I am neurotically tracking everything and counting down the days until I know whether or not I can do stuff again. I don't think it is healthy at all for me. Oh well.

It only took 2 months last time without all the tracking and testing. This is our first possible month this time. Hopefully this time won't take too long.

KentCat · 16/01/2016 22:11

I know what you mean about planning. Luckily I don't normally travel with work this is a one off trip but we do have 3 weddings this year one of which is in Turkey. I keep changing the subject when friends ask if we're going as I don't feel I can commit. So silly I'm sure I'd be more relaxed if I just got on with life. It's just a number of close friends have had or are pregnant with their first and I really want to be going through it with them.

Nicki107 · 16/01/2016 22:34

Hi ya ladies, hope you don't mind me joining?!
Im also in the loooong tww! Af due on Wednesday...So desperate to test already, but know it is too early Confused

Cherub250 · 17/01/2016 08:15

Yay lots more ladies!! So today I woke up! I'm 10dpo! The last couple of days I've had next to no CM! This morning t's gone back to a fair amount of CWCM and my cervix seems to have buried it's self into the walls if you get what I'm saying!! I hope I'm still in! I have 30 internet cheap HPT but I don't want to get a BFN and be miserable for the rest of the day lol! Does anyone know why my CM would dry up then change to CMCM??

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Nicki107 · 17/01/2016 08:26

I am also 10DPO! Eek! When do you think you'll test? I'm exactly the same as you, don't want to do it too early Confused I have a little CM, but I never usually have v much. Sore boobs, had a little cramping...but then these are all period signs too Hmm This is our 2nd month ttc....Fingers crossed for you!

leoniethelioness · 17/01/2016 08:39

I think I'm out. BFN this morning with FMU. I'm on CD 27 of 29 so it's a bit early but I'm not feeling very confident of my chances this month. Wishing you all good luck - would love to see some BFPs on this thread!

Nicki107 · 17/01/2016 08:54

After looking through threads on here, the amount of women ttc and getting negative results, amazes me how some fall pregnant by accident....It's not as easy as it seems this whole ttc malarkey!

bobcat85 · 17/01/2016 09:57

It was AF which showed up early on Friday, boo. So I'm out this month.

Cherub250 · 17/01/2016 11:26

I think I might start testing at 12dpo Nicki! I know it's bad but i'm soooo impatient!! Fingers crossed for you next month Bobcat!! Fingers crossed for us all!! It is hard t imagine that it's possible to get pregnant by accident when the odds are so unbelievably against you in any case! Then people actually try and doing everything by the book and still not getting pregnant! I'm so down today, I think it's a sign of AF coming lol!!

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Brenna24 · 17/01/2016 12:42

We have a wedding in Hungary in June, Kent. Thankfully no date or written invite yet (just a verbal one last time we met up) so I am ignoring that one for now.

12dpo. Still tiny amounts of pink spotting about every second time I wipe after a wee. BFN this morning.

DH and I had a massive row last night and are still not speaking today. I was being a tiny bit unreasonable last night but since we have constant problems with him not listening to me at all when I have a reasoned argument and listening to others without question I got a mare on last night and just went and did my own thing regardless. He is furious and I am refusing to back down until he will actually have a discussion that involves listening to me and compromising. We are taking a friend of his out to lunch for her birthday today. I am hoping it won't be obvious. It is really stupid, every time someone says something may be bad for a pregnancy he is determined I should just stop doing that too for the whole week I may ovulate and the two weeks after that. I am now no longer doing yoga, climbing, running, cycling, driving. One of my friends died this week and in a way that is a good thing as he was totally against me going to see her in her hospice as it was an hour and 15 minutes away and I was struggling with just abandoning her for 3 weeks of the month. He is not getting the option about the funeral, I am fecking going. We were out to other friends (two sets) for dinner friday and saturday night. The friends on friday night know of the friend who died. I bumped into the wife during the day on the friday and she said she had told her husband to buy loads of wine for that night so we could let off some steam. I thanked her but said we were in our tww so I wouldn't be able to drink very much. We had a lovely night and I didn't actually drink at all. Same as last time we went there for dinner as were were also in a tww then. She knows about he m/c and it is not a problem having that conversation. The friends we went to last night know nothing about pregnancy, miscarriage, loss of friend or any of the other shit going on right now. It was a kind of tough night as they were asking all sorts of questions about how my climbing is going, where we are going on holiday this year etc. All the things you might talk about if you haven't seen anyone for a while. The husband is a major foodie and wine buff and always had different wines matched to each course etc. So I was 'driving' (all of about 10 minutes). I don't normally touch anything if I am driving but last night I made an exception of having less than a quarter glass of the three wines over the course of the evening and meal (5 hours in total) and making sure my tummy was well filled before I touched any of it. There would have been so little alcohol in my system that I was in no danger of being unable to drive home, even under the new laws. DH is utterly furious with me. We are scientists. He understands the concept of concentrations and how low the amount in my blood would have been. I am either having an implantation bleed or the start of a period this weekend. There is no placenta there. The baby is in no way going to be affected. He wanted to know why I didn't just tell them I was probably pregnant and then tell them I wasn't later. I cannot face the drama of going through that every month. So we can now rule out meeting up with anyone who may suggest a glass of wine during ovulation and tww. And if I get pregnant are we going to have a drama every time I eat a bowl of chips or a burger or anything less than macobiotic health food in case that too is bad for the baby? Right now I really do not want to be pregnant. He will not listen to me telling him how I feel my body handles things at all. But he will happily listen to anybody at work/home/on the street who says something might be bad and then announces I should stop doing that and is totally furious if I don't comply as 'it is better safe than sorry after all'. It is totally daft that I chose to make the issue over the wine. I like the taste but can happily go weeks without it. I just got to that point where I could not take another day of putting everything on hold just in case I may be pregnant by next week. I am far more upset about the restriction on movement/hobbies.

To make things worse I took the dog out for his morning walk this morning and was going to then get my car from the car park in our street to go and get some bread for breakfast. My ex had an affair with the mother of my godson and they bought a flat a bit further down our street. They now have a baby. She was only fecking in the carpark putting her baby in the car and I couldn't face barging past her to go and get my car, so I couldn't even get out for bread this morning. We are going to sell and move this year as soon as we have it confirmed that we both have contracts for the next 5 years as we can finally afford it. After 5 years of living in the same street as them. I am so fed up of worrying about leaving my house. The day I was miscarrying I left the house and bumped into the pair of them pushing their pram.

Today I am in bed crying my eyes out as I really cannot take any more of the shit that life decides to throw at me. Sorry about the wall of text. I am kind of stuck for situations where I can rant in real life right now. I am lucky really, I have a (generally) lovely husband, who just occasionally gets a bit blinkered, we have a good roof over our heads and payed off the last payment on the mortgage this month, we have jobs (probably) and food, a lovely if somewhat old and wonky dog and wonderful families. I am lucky. Having a family would be the icing on the cake.

Nicki107 · 17/01/2016 13:17

Cherub I'm not sure when to test, I only have one at home lol They're quite expensive aren't they?! So don't want to waste doing it too early. I told myself I'd wait until Wed to see if af shows up, then if not I'd test. But not sure I can wait Blush**
Really struggling with cutting down on the tea and coffee I drink, especially with this cold weather...need find a replacement warm drink without caffeine lol any ideas anyone?

bobcat85 · 17/01/2016 16:21

Nicki - take a look at Amazon for pregnancy tests as you can get lots cheap.
Also, I find herb teas like Peppermint etc nice as a replacement for hot caffeine drinks. You can get decaffeinated tea as well.

Nics107 · 17/01/2016 17:06

Bobcat- I had never thought of looking on Amazon. Thank you, I will take a look :) and I'll also look into the herbal and decaf tea.

Shemozzle · 17/01/2016 17:26

bobcat have you tested yet? Are you about 10-11 dpo now?

I'm 6dpo (I think, only used OPKs not temping) and have very mild cramps today.

Shemozzle · 17/01/2016 17:28

Oh, sorry bobcat Sad I accidentally read to the bottom of page 1 not page two. Best of luck for next month.

JES12 · 17/01/2016 17:31

AF due for me on 23rd! Trying not to get my hopes up too much