Back to SQUARE ONE CD1! Anyone want to spend April with me?!

[Tee4me]

So AF got me this afternoon!! Trying not to get down in the dumps (although I just watched 'one born every minute' on catch-up and sobbed!)
Dusting myself off and hoping for better luck in April! A few stats:
Age-33
TTC-5th cycle
DC-1 DS (3.5 years old)
Anyone else at the start of their cycle and trying something new in the hope of a more successful month?!

[Parney]

It's so hard to relax isn't it? I've wondered about baby aspirin too? I need to get back to the gym, I've bought a countdown with slimming world so hoping weekly weigh ins will keep me on track too. Interesting about the fat cells and depo asks, fingers x that this will speed things up.

Remember and Songs, I'm going to try OPKs this month too. I've a sneaky feeling that I might become a bit obsessive though 😖

[Tee4me]

This is my understanding of the use of baby aspirin... a possible cause of miscarriage or chemical pregnancy is a sticky/thickened lining, which could make it hard for a fertilised egg to implant. I think aspirin helps this process and makes the lining more suitable for a burrowing egg. My sister had 5 mcs and the doctor recommended this while she awaited investigative tests, 5 weeks later she fell with my niece! I wouldn't take it if it weren't for the mc though, and even now I feel a bit apprehensive doing it without docs orders 😳😳😳 Does anyone else have better info than me about this?

[RememberToSmile1980]

Thank you for the info Tee. One of my friends also took baby aspirin after a MC and then went on to have a healthy pregnancy!

[RememberToSmile1980]

Parney
I didn't want to rely on the OPK's as I know it takes you to a route of obsession - but oh well! Anything to help track things better!

[Parney]

Very informative Tee, thanks for the links. What times do you use OKP when on the days you use two? I had tried 2pm a few days last month and got an almost positive one day then at the same time the following day it has faded. Makes sense to think that I might have got the positive had I been testing later as well!

The baby aspirin can't hurt especially if it was advised for your sister after her losses. Glad to hear her happy ending too.

I've already come round to the idea of a January baby, like you any time would be good.

[Mimilicious013]

Hello ladies, can I join.
Am on cd5 of cycle10 and cycles usually 26days.

My dd edd was 1January but she was born 19 Dec so am excited to get pregnant this month .if I am lucky my edd will be 31Dec .trying out everything I can this month (tired of unwanted af)

Baby dust to all ladies

[Tee4me]

On the days I do x2, I tend to do the first at 2pm (apparently the optimum time), then again in the evening around 7 or 8pm. I tend to find I start with a faint line which gets darker a day or 2 before I get my strong positive, so I'm lucky to get good warning, I know that's not true for everyone. I agree when you got the 'nearly positive', if you had retested later that evening you would have had the full positive! The surge would have finished when you tested again at 2pm the next day, so probably already ovulating. Looking at my temps in relation to my +opk over the last few months, I think I ovulate the day after.
I find that I am at my most relaxed when doing the opks (compared to how I feel in the 2ww), it doesn't make me feel too obsessed, just that I have something to focus on rather than wishing time away. It's the one time in the cycle when you know things are happening (assuming you don't have ovulation issues), so it's the only time I actually feel in control! 😊

[Tee4me]

Yay Mimilicious, so glad to see you here 😘 Hope we have better luck this month
Tee (aka TessWess!) xx

[broodypsycho]

Thanks, I do hope I get a bfp cos broody psycho by name, broody psycho by nature im not an early tester or symptom spotter though, I just hate everyone who is pregnant I've unfollowed a half dozen of people on face book. I wouldn't reply on opk either, check cervical mucus too. I've been doing that this month and I'm much more confident at identifying my fertile window

[ZoeNotAMumYet]

Hello, I am getting ready to TTC next year and mainly lurking and reading to learn what I can. I hope you don't mind me joining and following your journeys. :-) age 30 ttc#1Brazil nuts is a good tip! :-)

[broodypsycho]

I've heard brazils nut are good as well Zoe as well as pineapple for implantation. I wasn't going to stay ttc until January 2016 but so glad I stayed trying Mat 2015 and it's taking longer than expected..

[physicskate]

Confused over here - I use two BBT trackers - FF and ovagraph. One says ovulation, one doesn't. I don't see the pattern and was assuming anovulatory cycle. Guess I will just chalk the confusion up to the high fever I ran around the same time.

Bring on next month when we start to properly try! My poor husband, he really doesn't know what he's in for with me becoming obsessive (or maybe he already knows!)...

[Loki17]

I've thrown out the opks I'm just going to dtd as often as possible. At leat eod and every day that I have ewcm. This month's 'magic element' is going to be food - I'm completely cutting out wine and going on a health kick. If nothing else, it will help me lose the half a stone that needs to be gone by summer!

[Jod1985]

Hi everyone, can I join? I am not exactly sure what is going on with me ATM. Sooooo I got the mirena out last Wednesday. Haven't had any bleeding since (well a smidge when I wiped but would say that's from getting it removed). I didn't have periods while on the mirena so no idea what day of cycle I am on except I THINK I might have ovulated on Monday. The reason I think this is I had a stitch like pain in my right side and then the next morning lots of EWC. I have had sore boobs since Monday too. So I DTD Sunday and Tuesday this week. Pain was so bad on Monday I couldn't do it. I would be surprised if I feel PG before I even had my first AF. So I guess I'm just playing the waiting game. I might get AF or I might get a BFP in two weeks.
Here's my details;
Name; JOD
Age: 31
TTC #3 (youngest is just 3)

I have been taking a supplement with all my vitamins in including folic acid. I never heard of Brazil nuts or pineapple helping, heard zinc is great for men's sperm though. I take royal jelly too.

[Tee4me]

Agree with you Loki, I think my main 2 strategies this month is lots of DTD & good eating. Lots of veggies & berries. I might give up on monitoring BBT, now I have a rough idea of when I ovulate.
Jod, that would be amazing if you fell before even seeing AF!! Good luck with that, keep us updated if you have any signs!

[everdene]

I'm going to stock up on baby aspirin after reading about it on here!

My lovely friend has just told me she is prego again less than a year after her first DC was born - I am but also very hopeful I'll have my BFP before her second baby is here!

[ZoeNotAMumYet]

I think a healthy food month sounds like a great plan loki - count me in. I want to gradually cut down my coffee and wine until I have seamlessly quit them both, as these will be sorely missed. :-) What other foods are good for fertility? I would also like to start getting a bit fitter, maybe get doing some yoga. Everdene I can only imagine how it feels to have all your friends announcing pregnancy when you have been ttc a while. It must suck despite you being happy for them. For me atm it seems like baby fever with friends and family, it has been good for us as it made us realise we were putting it off for no good reason. We kept saying "in 5 yrs...In 5yrs" and suddenly I was 30! We had the chat after visiting a friend's newborn and realised there was no good reason to keep putting it off. We are giving it until next year to save up to be a bit stronger financially but other than that we are as ready as we will ever be!

[ZoeNotAMumYet]

Ah just looked back ever and see you are just starting ttc! So probably my comments were irrelevant! Sorry!
Good luck everybody. I hope you all get updiffed soon. So sorry Ask, it can take a while, I have a friend who took about a year to get her periods back but she did get back to normal eventually. Fx that you are not waiting too long.

[everdene]

Zoe this will be the first month we 'try' (hate that phrase!) but I have been waiting for DH to be ready/us to be in our own house since I was 28 so it feels much much longer!

[ZoeNotAMumYet]

I can relate, ever: we've been together 11 years and only just got ourselves settled! :-) Well it really is baby fever at the moment, just had two friend announcements in the same day! we are gonna have so many friends who can give us advice! And hopefully (via babysitting) practice!

[everdene]

I think it really is baby time for lots of our friends - so many lovely babies to cuddle!

[Tee4me]

How's everybody getting on? JOD any closer to figuring out where you are in your cycle?
I'm now on CD6, not bothered charting my BBT this month, so one less thing to obsess over, but the opks will probably be coming any day. I usually Ov CD13, so expecting to be busy towards the end of this this week!! 😆

[Jod1985]

Hi Tee4me, well I had quite strong cramps which started on Friday evening and they had me convinced that AF was starting on Saturday. So Saturday morning nada but the second time I went to the bathroom there was a little brown discharged when I wiped. I thought AF was starting BUT since then I have only had the brown spotting when I wipe and not every time either.
I guess it could be My cycle just trying to regulate, it could be AF going to show or as it was 6days Since I thought I had ovulated it could (likely wishful thinking) be implantation bleeding?
So I'm none the wiser. I did have implantation bleeding with both my pregnancies and cramping in the early days. I have tingly boobs and I also need to pee every 2 mins.
Happy humping this weekend!!

[Footprints1]

Hey ladies, would love to join in!
Trying since Jan
Age 38
CD3
TTC #3

Last month AF got me at 22dpo and was a massive 43 day cycle! Never ever happened before. Wasted lots of money on BFNs and felt quite deflated as I was so sure I was going to be pregnant after being so late.

Nice to chat to others trying, was on another post and a few got their BFP's so it is encouraging to see their symptoms and gain knowledge.

Hi Jod, recognise u from another post. Hope you get answers soon as to what is happening for u. Anymore bleeding? X

[Footprints1]

Haven't had a chance to read this thread from the start, but it will give me something to do later.. Hope to get to know you all this month. X