The October Bus - hoping for lots of BFPs and Summer babies!!

[Writerwannabe83]

Hi guys, just starting the October bus.

I'm almost 33, have a DS (2.5 years) and am now trying for DC2. I caught pregnant on cycle 1 but unfortunately had an early miscarriage and am now entering cycle 5.

My current situation is that DH has been changing his mind over the last 12 months to wanting to try for another, then not wanting to, then wanting to etc and it's been very difficult. We have now come to the compromise that we can actually try up until next August but if nothing has happened by then we stop TTC.

I'm on CD3 now, I usually ovulate around days 17/18 and have cycles of around 31/32 days.

Good luck to everyone!!!

That looks like a +ive OPK there me9an ! Happy DTD!

I got a positive OPK and strong pinchy cramps on the left of my lower tummy earlier. CD 11 so earlier than usual - Ovia lost her shit!

Warned DP that we've got to DTD but he's so tired from partying all night at his best pal's 30th that he has fallen asleep and won't wake up raging! We DTD yesterday morning so hopefully that's enough but he'll be lucky if I leave him in peace overnight...bloody bugger ruining my up-duffing plans!

Hie dixie and sugar

Cd8and yet to dtd hmm

bairn hope you manage to convince oh tonight.gl

Fx for u unicorns and writer here is hoping u get your bfp in a few days.

Gl dtd me9an
Gl haze1 on the step.l am a day behind you but after ttc so long dtd has become more of a tiring chore and we hardly get around to it.what a bummer

Morning girls!

Another shitty dip on my temp chart today. I've no idea what it means or whether I should be worrying about it but I can't help think it's something to do with my problems conceiving.

Good luck to this week's testers!

Keeping everything crossed that your temp rises again sk1pper

Thanks mimi it's nice to have a cycle buddy . I had a huge dip in temp this morning which I had last month a couple of days before ovulation so I'm thinking/hoping ovulation is imminent. No +ive OPK yet though.

Me9an that looks pretty close to me but you might find your test line gets darker than the control line if you test today. Doesn't happen for everyone but I usually get what you got then get an even darker line at next test. Either way get DTD and good luck!!

Sorry things are confusing for you sk1pper

I went for a wee three times last night, 11pm, 2.30am and again at 5.00am. I never wee overnight. And on the opposite end of the scale I've woken up really constipated this morning which I never suffer from.

I love crazy symptom spotting!!

Ovia says I can test in 7 days but I'm obviously going to start earlier than that

Thanks everyone!! Think you are right Purple it looks a little darker this morning. Managed to dtd last night and will aim to dtd again today.

Hi all, any room on the bus for me? Just chucked off September bus by af after long stay for 2 cycles. Cd 1, age 40, ttc #2 and next test date about 22nd October.

Oh and just started cycle 5...

Of course vanilla, welcome!

Writer I also have a test date 7 days from now according to Ovia, but going by my last cycle AF is due Friday so I will also be testing sooner! I don't go in for symptom spotting though as when I got my BFP with DS I had no indication whatsoever. I'm just trying not to think about it til the end of the week.

Hello vanilla Can I join too please? First month TTC #2, CD10, age 28. Not temping this time round because I got a bit obsessed with it last time, plus I have a 16m old who barely sleeps, so it is low down on my list of priorities first thing in the morning. But will start OPKs in a couple of days to keep tabs on that.

Oh sk1pper how confusing! Perhaps this will be useful data - it might just take a while to spot a pattern?

Welcome vanilla and captain - the more the merrier!

Thanks for the luck mimi - no response to my taps on the shoulder last night but I guess "honey, I'm sure I just ovulated" isn't what you want to hear when you're sleep deprived and hungover. Fortunately we're both at home today so maybe it's not too late

Well done me9an

nappingrabbit - do you have IC tests to start early testing with? Shall we be test buddies on Wednesday morning perhaps??

I do but am going to try my best to hold out til Friday. I'm pretty sure I oved on Tuesday night so I think that's the very earliest I'd get a positive. Any testing before that doesn't really tell me anything, will just drive me insane!

vanilla - hi, I remember you :)

So apparently as long as my temps don't go below the dotted line, it's fine. Someone on a different thread said the chart looked very good. I'm going to try and relax a bit now, sorry for the mild panicking.

In other news, the spot on my face hurts - even when I talk. Possible symptom? I'm just going to go for bad skin this time.

Thank you all so much for your lovely messages.

And I also just have to say that It is so nice to have such great support here and to be 'on the journey' with all you other lovely ladies ttc.... my friends all have children who are now starting school and I feel so left behind at times (pathetic I know!) I feel like I'm stuck behind and now I always will be a bit. I know some people go for years and years ttc and still no luck and I know I'm lucky that I've managed to get pregnant once in the last 18 months of ttc which means I can but sometimes this is just so frustrating!!!

Sorry to hear about the temp drop sk1pper, could be a 1 off.

I love the symptom spotting! I have one achey boob, a chin spot and a 4th day higher temp....it feels like bingo!

I'm loving all the symptom spotting! SO glad i am not alone.... AF due weds so if i haven't had anything by then i will test again. I have just organised 2 nights out next week though so actually not a bad thing that i am unlikely to be preggo then and i can have a couple of drinks.....
There's always a silver lining and all that.....

Just catching up with the convo. Found the spotty skin theory really interesting. I suffer from spots all the time. I'm assuming it's another PCOS problem. As if I don't have enough already. Anyway, the first time in my adult (since the age of 11) life I've ever had clear skin was the first 8-10 weeks of pregnancy with DD. I can't remember how long it lasted exactly but I was having a makeup trial for my wedding and she told me I had lovely clear skin. I looked in the mirror and literally couldn't understand what was going on. I didn't even know I was pregnant at this point. Also think it's amazing how you all know what your body's doing purely from your symptoms.

Buddub - I work in a massive office, there are often many pregnant women wandering around (most of who I don't know). Today I had to take check of myself as I saw an overweight woman, massively pregnant eating a big mack and drinking an extra large coke. I looked at her and thought, why does she deserve it and I don't, she's not even taking care of herself. And then I thought Jesus Christ, is this what I've become? Judging everyone's right to have a child. I really felt ashamed of myself.

I find myself fixating in how lucky my friends and colleagues who have children are and bring myself down wishing I had some too. I conveniently forget those friends who don't and all the other good things I have in my life. It's easy to get obsessed about it, isn't it?

Welcome, newbies, to our fabulous bus. Lots of bfps to come, I can feel it in my bones!

Does anyone else get horrible ovulation pains? I'm not sure if it happened yesterday or today but I'm feeling it. If it's today I can't bd with dh but we've done it everyday for the past 5 days so I hope it's enough

Oh sk1pper I think it's natural to think why them and not me. I went through a very sad phase a few years back of questioning everything, surely I must have done something to deserve all this bad luck. I'm sure we will both get there, keep positive!! X

Elles85 I get pains on and off for the whole fertile week. I'm going to say something quite controversial right now. We only DTD on the day I have a positive ov test. This is how I caught with my DD and with my miscarriage. The months we've done it every other day we didn't catch and I was sore to the point of tears. The point of my ramble is I can't just go by the pains because they start days before my positive tests.

MrsPositiveAttidude2016 - sorry to hear about the mc. I got a positive opk early Saturday and the pains started last night so I wouldn't DTD now either it's too painful

Hard to keep up with everyone whilst I am working so much. It's crazy at work atm - yesterday was 9 months since Christmas and it certainly showed on labour ward!

Loving everyone's symptom spotting. Fx for lots of BFP's. I am 5dpo - since 3dpo I have had so much EWCM, more than pre. Of course I have convinced myself that is also a symptom