Waving the witch off and starting afresh.. Buddies welcome!

[DrMum83]

Wondering if anyone wants a buddy?
I'm ttc #2 (DD 13m)
Just finishing AF and embarking on cycle 2

Come shove 2 fingers to the back of the witch and let's count down to O and POAS psychotically in a few weeks...

I'm going all out this month with SMEP, pressed, EPO, OPKs....

Haha yeah exactly it's rank!! Yeah, he was probably drowning in red wine at the time but it all worked out ok haha!! To be fair I just had a small glass every night so I wasn't too bad. But the weekend came and I started spotting so I presumed I was out for the month and had about 5 glasses over the weekend, then found out I was pregnant on the Thursday! Whoops!!

I think if OPKs are working for you then there's not really any need to temp. I didn't get on with them last time but I think that was because I didn't really know what I was doing. Interestingly though temping can give you a bit of a clue if you might be pregnant. If you have a dip in the middle of the TWW and then it rises again it can show implantation. It happened to a woman on the May bus. I stopped doing it when I confirmed OV and I went in holiday but I did take my temp the morning AF was due and saw it was very high instead of low so that made me think I might be pregnant! I wish I just had a textbook cycle and all I had to worry about was DTD!!!

My family actually all moved over too not that long ago, which is lovely. I don't think I would have hacked being a SAHM without family close by. York is lovely though isn't it. I've been for a day a few times. Lovely by the river in the sun!! I'm just outside cooking away getting my vitamin D whilst DS is napping.

are you feeling positive about this cycle then?

Ha ha well I will definitely be having a drink when we are away, there's no question, I just wont get pissed!!

You might be right there Sunny, we'll see how this cycle goes. Fingers crossed. Interesting about temp being able to tell you if you might be pregnant, might be worth doing it just for that ha ha! But then I suppose you will have to do it for a while beforehand so you know what's normal and what isn't.

Aw that's really lovely that they moved and you have them nearby. Yes if I was to go down the SAHM route, we would need to move nearer to both parents for definite. Luckily mine and DP's live only a few miles from each other. York's alright isn't it! It is nice in summer having a nice walk or a drink in the sun. It's just not so good when it rains. And rains and rains!

I'm trying to think positive, but on the other hand part of my just expects AF so as to try and lessen the disappointment of another month passing and still no positive. I'm so aware that I am nearly 35 (dp is 35) and we want more than one child so time isn't really on our side. And we both want our parents (dp has both mum and dad but my mum is widowed, my dad passed away when I just turned 18) to still be able to enjoy having grandchildren and to be able to help with childcare which I know she will be delighted to but she is almost 70 so not a spring chicken!

Hey

So, opk positive tonight, yay! Not sure if it could still be a body fuck up as only just got bfn or what, and to complicate matters, I've got thrush (tmi) so checking cm but tricky. Either way, I'll try to dtd later. Tbh, I'd much rather watch Corrie (love it, I'm sad)

Jealous of your hol minty but how cool if you find out whilst you're away! I took tests abroad and got a positive resulting in my DD so hopefully you'll be the same I then spent two days trekking around Spain trying to buy more tests but they only sold them in pharmacies and you had to ask for them so chickened out take plenty with you!! You could easily have a baby at 35 and then a second at 37, that's still young. I've got a good feeling for you this month.

sunny glad you got to catch some rays, I bloody love nap time! So did you say you've ordered some OPKs? You are in for a pissy treat!

Love to mimi and ohno hope you're both ok

Yeah definitely have a few drinks minty, it's too early to have a real effect on any pregnancy and if you didn't drink and AF came you might be even more pissed off?! I would just refrain from getting shit faced perhaps?!

Well I only temped for half a cycle the first time until after I confirmed OV, and the second time from after AF until after OV the second time and it worked for me. It's quite easy to see on a graph if your temp raises and dips because a BBT is really sensitive so small differences look quite big. But it is a ball ache as well so maybe just see how you go!

Sorry to hear about your Dad, must have been very hard for you. Sounds like you'll have to get trying relatively soon after your first is born then if you want a couple in the not too distant future!! I've seen a few people on conception threads who are trying 6-8 months ish after giving birth! I personally would have rather rammed pins in my eye balls at that stage but each to their own!!

Thrush sounds grim DrMum, hope that clears up for you soon. Have you had a few positive OPKs then or is this the first time? Yes I live for nap time haha! Yeah I ordered them a few days ago so they should come end of this week to beginning of next week. Only got 20 though to see how I got on with them. Hopefully won't use them all up before I actually ovulate haha!!

Cd5 here, AF still present but dwindling. FW seems a long long way away at the minute!!

Hope you're ok ohno xx

Morning all waves

Just to let you all know that FRER's are buy one get one free in Boots!
Just ordered a 2 pack so get 4 tests for £10.49, am very excited!

Love a good bargain me!

Back later to catch up properly. X

Ooh that's really good isn't it!!! I thought I'd done well with 2 for £6! Have a good day xx

It is really good!! But I'm going to need a bigger suitcase for my hols! Think I might have to slyly install them in DP's case Have your OPK's arrived yet? I ordered another pack which came yesterday so I'm set for June if needs be. Have a good day too xx

Drmum hi lovely. Sorry about the thrush, bloody horrible, its so uncomfortable! It makes you want to scrat til you bleed! I hope it clears up pronto. Wow, so that's both you and Sunny who got BFP's whilst on holiday, this is very good news!! When you look at the ages like that I don't suppose it seems too bad. But we really do need to get cracking! Keep hold of that good feeling.

I hope Ohno and Mimi are both ok. xx

They've come! DS has just whipped off with them!!

Yay! They are exactly the same as mine , whip them back off DS pronto before he decides to flush them!

Haha yeah everything is at risk of going down the loo in this house! So if I expect to OV on CD22 should I start testing about CD16 ish and in the early afternoon to start with?!

Bless him! Yeah I think if that's when you are expecting to OV around, then CD16 is probs around when you should start with the opk's. Monitor your CM too obvs. Has the witch packed her bags and done one yet?

Yeah will be monitoring CM as well thanks. Only 10 days to wait !!

Pretty sure she's gone now. Probably start casually DTD from weekend and then do every other day from CD16 for as long as I think I might be fertile. If the vitamins give me a long cycle again that could be about 2 weeks or something! DH will be over the moon!!!

How many DPO are you now?

I don't even know why I said that about CM, you already know the game!! sorry dear.

Sounds like a good DTD plan. We dtd again last night, for good measure, just in case as still had a bit of ewcm! Well I aren't really sure if I ov'd Monday evening or Tuesday as had the pains both days, so could either be 2 or 3 dpo, today is CD15. Ovia is telling me to test in 10 looonnnnnnnnng days.

Haha don't be daft, it's good advice!! You presume people know these things but then I've read loads of stories about people who just DTD on Cd14 because that's when everyone ovulated obviously and then wonders why they don't get pregnant . So definitely shouldn't presume I'm not an idiot haha!

I'm so jealous of your lovely early ovulation!!! I like my long cycles when I'm not TTC but it's shit when I am! Good plan to cover some more bases to be on the safe side! Oh I've just downloaded Ovia today. Is it good? I'm just in the process of putting in all my past AF dates!

Ooooh thanks for the heads up minty - will defy stock up in boots now! When's your hol, next week?

Ha! You're on the OPK bus sunny! You're gonna love it. I've just ordered more too.
All v boring here, dtd every other day but I'm just so unsure as to what's happening, not even sure if I've ovulated yet, had intermittent positives for ages now. I'm so over this limbo shit!!
At least my bhcgs are consistently negative so if i get a positive it'll be a new pregnancy.
My DD was messing around whilst I was poas the other day and I was running her bath and she peed on the floor where there was a stray opk.. Ha! Maybe she's gonna be obsessive too when she's ttc. I wish I'd had my phone close to take a pic!

Hope mimi and ohno are good

I like to do my bit!! We fly on Sat 4th June Drmum but not til 10.30 pm, which is rather yuck, but much cheaper! And on the way back it's even worse, 2.55 am from Palma! I will have tested by then. Eek. I'm either 2 or 3 dpo and I'm feeling sharp twinges in that area

Limbo is a good word to describe it, you just want to know so you can crack on! Dtd every other day is probably your best way forward, then you're covered in every direction! Glad your hCg is consistently back to negative though, that's brill news.

I lol'ed at your DD with her opk!!

I bet the FRERs will sell out fast!

Great news about the consistent BFPs DrMum. Limbo land sounds a pile of shit though. How long ago was your MC now? How much do you pay for OPKs? I just got 20 as a test supply. Think they were £2.95 from Amazon. What time of day do you test? Laughed a lot about your DD POAS!!!

Bet it'll do you the world of good to have a holiday minty. I'm very jealous! Do you think you'll do a lot of symptom spotting this month?!

Do you get many symptoms with your BFPs DrMum?

I promised myself I wouldn't sit about googling conception statistics or anything mental this month but I caught myself doing it earlier. Such an idiot!!!! I'm going to try so so hard to be more relaxed this cycle!

Sorry DrMum, that's obviously meant to be BFNs. Clearly got BFPs on the brain!

You can just get drunk minty and snooze on the flights! Hopefully it'll be the last drunken nights for you fir a while!

Not really sunny - I think I do but it's so similar to pre-AF symptoms. The only slight difference is increasing CM and my OPKs around 8dpo are positive... testing opks at that late stage is weird, I know
I think I had the tablets for miscarriage 4 weeks ago tomorrow

Yeh, that's a good price for OPKs, those companies must be making fortune from women like us/nutcases. Lol.

If you like stats, have you seen 'countdown to pregnancy' site. It's amazing!!! You can spend hours on it!

Can I ask, would you count this as positive?

Haha why do you test with OPKs DrMum? I don't really get much sign of AF coming, unless I spot so it's hard to know what's going on really. Last TWW I convinced myself that I was having symptoms but I think it was probably tiredness!

I think I might have looked at that site last time I was TTC! Is the test line the one on the left? If so that looks darker than the control line to me so yeah I'd say positive?

Me and DH had a bit of a depressing conversation last night about what point we would stop TTC if I wasn't getting pregnant. I think last cycle being a bit of a mess has knocked our confidence for some reason. It's hard to say how you'd feel in a few months I think but I don't think I could bring myself to be TTC for a year or anything like that. So silly to be even thinking like that when really this (hopefully) is only going to be like cycle 1 seen as last cycle was so messed up. I don't know, TTC plays havoc on your emotions I think!!

Happy Friday everyone!

I've changed my username. So many SunnyDays about it was confusing even me!!

P.s. Can you tell I've got wine on the mind

Happy Friday lovelies

That's my intention, although not totally shit faced! not that it takes much Can't bloody wait, although DP can't find his sodding passport .

The opk Drmum as Sunny said, is the second line as strong as the control line? If so then I would say that's a positive .

Aaah Sunny MmmMalbec username changes confuse me, I get all muddled!! Although I am all in favour of a change every now and then .

In other news, going to collect my Boots order of frer's today! My plan is to hide them from DP and then sneak them into his case when he isn't looking if he finds his bloody passport that is!

Damn it I posted before I had finished typing! TTC definitely plays on your emotions, it's all very well saying (like we did at the start) all relaxed and no pressure, but that lasts, what? A few days!! It becomes an obsession. The pressure is immense when you want something so badly. But positive thinking all the way dear.

Drmum gosh is it 4 weeks ago? Should you expect a period around now then? Sorry if asking tmi but what cm are you getting?

I hope DH has managed to find his passport minty! Stressful!! Did you get your FRERs?! How many are in the stash now?!

I feel like you're the positive cheerleader this month. Thanks for that!! I've got my DTD plan in my head now for this month. Just need the next week or so to fly by! Yeah I hate people who say 'relax and it'll happen'. Such a load of patronising bollocks!

Haha yeah I fancied a change and the 'SunnyDays' thing was a new name for this time round TTC and based solely on the fact it was sunny when I rejoined MN! I kept seeing other SunnyDays on other threads so thought time to change!

Anyways hope everyone is having a lovely Friday!