Thread 12 TTC#1"Trying is the fun part" said by nobody ever who's actually trying.

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

Symptom spotters, tww - ers, slightly hysterical hormone laden ladies! Regs, lurkers, intermittent posters! Our raison d'etre is 'am I pregnant?'

Thread 12. Welcome!

We do not judge, we enjoy TMI, we i encourage waiting to poas nobody listens and all the grossness you can find from a group of intelligent, articulate ladies.

Post your stats and add your dates. We have a register thanks to kats stats I have been dubbed the resident piss stick queen and if you don't test, you get a Starky's Star

We don't have rules as such but expect to be talked down from the ledge with kind and well meaning but firm words if you get too hysterical. But most importantly don't convince yourself your pregnant in the tww

Huge congrats moggy!

Any symptoms other than POAS dreams?

I know Jem, I just want mine now too!

Congratulations Moggy!!

Temp drop here so think I'm out as predicted. Meh 😒

congratulations Moggy !!
Happy Birthday Blue !
fx kwick

best wishes to all oldies and newbies....

So for my sanity, i am still opk-ing just to try to decode my cycle
this month:

cd10: positive (dtd)
cd12: food poisoning (in case being ill messes things up)
cd16: negative
cd18: negative (today)

so it all seems sensible. No idea when AF is due..... could be anytime from cd25-38 .....

i'm still feeling bloated and crampy, achy back, but as much as i would like to wishfully think..... it must be recovering from illness.

looking at my diary .... i think my problems are just lack of dtds!

hep my approach is as much DTD as poss for as long as poss - most likely to catch eggo when she does cruise by. Appreciate this is not always possible and especially when you have food poisoning. If you got one in the day you got a positive OPK that sounds like a good chance to me. Fx

Congratulations moggy 🐘💐👑🍼🍰🌹👍😁

Moggy that's awesome!! Congratulations!

I'm so happy for you.

Tell us again what your strategy was last month?

Thank you all! Best bit was telling dh in bed this morning, I was a bit worried that he was going to be totally unphased because he is one those really laid back types but he said 'really?! Really really really?!' And had a big smile on his face

thanks jem

I ov earlier than i was expecting, and then got ill so was really ... not in the mood!

I will certainly be trying earlier next month (fx i won't need to ...)
I am trying to tell myself, that i failed other months, just cause i got the timing wrong....

Bless your DH moggy :)

hep day 10 is quite early isn't it, I get so fixated on day 14 but we are not robots! thank goodness for opks

Congratulations moggy!!!! Brilliant news and sweet of your DH

elle I think girl and OH thinks boy. You have a long wait as I don't think we're finding out sex! Sorry

jem yes, it really caught me by surprise.
i plan to opk every other day, just incase is was a fluke reading and i actually have a later lh surge? (ok unlikely, but as last cycle was 38 days....)

my main frustration is now the waiting ...... i am not a patient person.....

thanks for letting me ramble!

Argh I was so sure that I ov'd on Monday as I've been cd16 for the past few months but I've just got a really really strong positive on an opk so I guess jumping on DH all weekend was a waste! Now I'm going to struggle to get him to keep going.. Annoying as I thought we had given it a really great shot. Just want to go back to symptom spotting!

Cailler it not necessary a waste. The little swimmers can live up to 5-7 days i think. fx for you.

the joys of irregular cycles ....

tiny looking back at ovia we dtd 4 times in total during ISW (EOD), when I noticed EWCM we did it 2 days in a row (first time I've ever noticed EWCM). We did ramp up dtd throughout the month generally, but to be honest I think we have just been very lucky and managed to catch the egg this month. It is a total jackpot isn't it.

Thank you Hep - will keep all my fingers and toes crossed. I thought my cycles were settling down.. nope! I've heard of people getting two surges in a month if your body tries to ovulate and then tries again a few days later so you may get two if you keep OPKing. Waiting is the worst!

Oh Moggy congratulations! Your post about your hubby really made me go 'awwwww' as well - I have to say, telling the DH is something I'm so so looking forward to if when it happens to me :)

Happy birthday blue!

Just catching up...

Beautiful pic miley thanks for sharing
Happy birthday blue hope you have a fab day
Congratulations moggy
Fingers crossed your hard works paying off kwick

Hope everyone is well ☺ x

Oh starky sounds like you don't need to rely on Opks anymore your husband is totally finely tuned in to your body, that's a skill right there! haha

Feeling quite crampy looks like the witch will appear shortly 😠

Telling the DH - yes something I massively fantasise about too. Not sure if would rather wait to test when he's with me or do it alone and get to tell him...

Speaking of telling, would you tell anyone else in those early days? I don't think I would for a few weeks. But perhaps after a month I bet I would be tempted to tell very close friends and possibly mum and dad.

Thing is mum would find it almost impossible to not tell her sister my gran etc etc etc!

I've been thinking about that, Jem. I know I'm rubbish at keeping secrets and I'd feel so excited I'd want to share early. I have one friend who has solemnly promised not to say a word if I need to eeeee with anybody (or just rant) and I know she'd be true to her word, so I'd be tempted to tell her - probably also my parents and siblings after a month. Everybody else can wait until the 12 week scan ...

I was going to wait and tell the dh in a more special way at the weekend but as I got that job offer I needed him to know asap so we could discuss options!

kwick thanks for your HR reminder, you are totally right if I moved jobs now I would lose out on some maternity benefits so think sensible thing to do is probably to stay where I am. Boo hoo But only another 8 months until I can leave thank god!!

A few of you asked about symptoms. To be honest I don't think I have many. I did have a lot of pinching/pulling on my left side inner hip bone about a week ago, and its still there sometimes. It's not painful just a bit uncomfy. That's what made me think perhaps it had happened this month.

No booby changes.

A few normal pms type symptoms like being grumpy, lower backache for the past few days

A bit dodgy in the digestive system for at least a week - bloated, burping, but that's not completely unusual for me so hard to say if its a pg symptom or not!

Hope that's a little bit helpful for some people

Hi moggy thanks for that

i am very tempted to get a frer for use at the weekend. I have backache and bloated/fullness-feeling that won't go away. It can't still be the food poisoning. I can't eat big portions of food without being uncomfortable.
my boobs are stubbornly normal....

or, i have eaten too many beans recently, i need a new bra, and i need to start going to the gym again ....... probably more likely .....

yes i know i said i wouldn't test until AF due ......
(and i have run out of ginger tea )

Had my oral surgery today very grumpy ! Glad now I have AF as no guilt about taking painkillers