SQUARE ONE TO GRADUATES all aboard the fertile train, destination BFP 👍🏼

[LondonJem]

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Want to see your chart, symptoms and dtd dates for tips :) xx (possibly could have been buying your new coat that did it, was it a fitted jacket?)

Bet you won't b able to sleep now with all the excitement

Hey just think tee, you will get your Christmas announcement! Woo hoo

Ah thank you girls, I'm so happy
Yes I say all you ttc'ers go out and buy a new coat immediately!!
I'm afraid I don't have any wonderful tips on what we did 'right' this time, as the DTD pattern was much the same as previous months (incidentally was CD5,9,10,11,12) OD was CD12. All I can conclude is that it's pure luck! For me personally tho, it was my first normal (no clots) period since my MC in March, so feel like something wasn't right there for a little while. I'm sure the 2 months acupuncture I did in previous 2 cycles helped set me up with a good healthy lining. I'm wondering whether I go back to him in early pregnancy until in a more safer zone?! And also whether I keep up the baby aspirin!
Symptoms wise, only things out of the ordinary were the bloody nose 7dpo and that peculiar episode on Thursday evening when I felt all hot, nauseous, and like I had really painful trapped wind (without the wind!) @ 15dpo. Tiny bit of spotting but I still think that might have been the smear. God, can't believe I was pregnant while I had the scan and the smear!! DH is happy he doesn't have to do his sample after all!

Here's my chart Footy x

Oh congratulations tee that's amazing. I'm really really pleased for you. I stopped aspirin when I got my BFP. But kept on with vit d, folic acid and iron.

Oh my god tee a BFP!!! Massive congratulations!! I can't quite believe it !! It gives me hope it can happen after months and months of disappointment.

Ahhhhhh so happy for you!

Tee massive congratulations!!!!! So happy for you :) xxx

Just caught up as was in hospital all day but oh my gosh this has cheered me up!!!!!!! Wahhhhhhh!!!!!! Congratulations Tee!!!! I'm absolutely thrilled for you!!! Doing a happy little arm wave dance here!!

Sorry you are not feeling too good jod hugs and hope all is well.

Morning tee has the news sunk in yet?more tests ?

Happy Sunday everyone

Nice to see the words eh tee. At least you are not squinting at lines!

Funnily I bought a new coat myself on Friday. Which was quite fitted! So hoping the theory will work for me soon

Hope you feel better Jodders, you have had a tough ride with the pregnancy. hope u get to enjoy the last weeks xx

Cd19
No temp rise here still this is pants!
Got pills to bring on AF, but was holding out a few more days just incase I get a temp spike!

Oh Jodders are you ok? Can't believe how much you've suffered. This will all be a distant memory when baby is here.
Sorry Footy that's really rubbish for you. Hope the specialist can help with a new strategy perhaps?
Jem, I know soooo many people who fell around the year mark, stay positive it's definitely going to happen for you soon too. I think I must have relaxed more subconsciously going through those initial tests. Have you had any bloods taken yet?
Mimi it took me ages to get sleep last night, mind and heart racing! I won't be doing more tests other than maybe 1 more in a weeks time as the CB pack DH picked up included x2. Be nice to see the weeks indicator go up. I'm going to really try and not get paranoid/stressed about MC. That won't help or stop anything. I'm feeling calm and content this morning.
Already looking at dates, 12 weeks will be Christmas Eve and rough due date 6th July. DS starts school in the September. I really wanted them to have time together before he's shipped off for the day all week, didn't want him feeling he'd been replaced which is why I was stressing about the age gap.

Oh tee how exciting that'll be such a lovely Christmas announcement to make.

Hope you are right about the year mark. God I'm so desperate for it now. Will have ovulated by now. We DTD 11,12,14,15,16 and will again today for good measure. I feel totally negative and hopeless to be honest, it's just another wait now for my period. Got 21 day bloods on Friday so will try to focus on that xx

Jem I felt much the same as you this month. Completely hopeless and like I was just repeating the same 'useless' sequence of events. 2ww was as agonising as ever and as you know felt adamant AF was coming for me. Your bfp will be the most wonderful surprise. I feel like you've been on a similar journey to me, just a few steps behind... think you started ttc the month after me, then you did the rounds of acupuncture, and now going through initial fertility tests. Got my fingers crossed for your bfp in 2 weeks! x

Tee did u have change of cm this week at all? Your Christmas announcement will be so special!

Jem your dates look good. Looks like you are well covered.

I'm so frustrated Mimi with the clomid as its messed up my cycle. I did so well with the deeds and haven't even ovulated. This effort is draining me how you getting on?

Noting wildly unusual CM wise Footy, but as with everything else I did take note of what I observed and generally noticed it got a bit gluey and slightly yellow if anything. Not tonnes of it tho. If we weren't ttc I wouldn't have noticed.
Nipples and boobs feeling quite different today, getting some sharp pains and definitely more sensitive. The boobs can be trusted again!!

Waheeeeeeeey!!! What fabulous news Tee! Gave me shivers reading your post, I'm absolutely thrilled for you and your little family. How is your twin getting on in her pregnancy? You will have a little overlap and close cousin babie. The Christmas announcement too! So special!!! Your symptoms sound exactly like my experience! Buzzing!!! Enjoy it all!

Ah thank you Parney!! Twin is doing really well, due end of Jan so there'll be around 5 months between the bubs!! I can pinch some of her maternity wear too as I'll be so far behind
Yes I remember, your story always gave me a bit of hope even when I felt AF was imminent. You had usual cramps didn't you? When did those tail off, do you remember? I still have that familiar AF ache feeling... x

Back to square one. CD 1. Actually pretty relieved as I have my big meeting tomorrow to figure out what my notice period is. Hopefully leaving at the end of term, but will see!!

So not too many of us left, eh? That was 7 months, 6 cycles for me! Will be back soon to ttc, I'm sure!

I think the AF like cramps (different and stronger) lasted for a week after missed AF. The wind type pain and hot skin stayed until I was approaching six weeks. I remember panicking when I Lost my only pathetic symptoms! Have you told your sister yet? She'll have everything lined up for you! Such a feel good thread today. Delighted! Hoping for similar stories soon everyone!

Hi Kate, glad you got the news you wanted this cycle. Everything will fall in to place.

How frustrating footy Have you got a GP appointment to reassess next steps?

Tee hope you got some sleep! And getting lots of good symptoms the cramps must be unnerving but completely normal from what I've read.

Hope the meeting goes well kate please stay with us or rejoin when you are TTC again.

Mimi how are you doing? Is it just three of us left still trying now?

I'm day 18, I'm guessing 2 DPO. Had all the sex and the rest is out of my hands. Now to distract myself for two weeks...

jem looks like it's just us.here is hoping we get lucky soon. I am on another thread where almost everyone has their babies and most are heavily pregnant and it's me and one other still trying.

kate best of luck with the new plans and do stick around for the gossip.

foot am soooo sorry hun.l only took 2 cycles of clomid and hoping that it Jumpstart ed something. It's a nightmare this business of ttc.

parney hope you are enjoying your bump.

tee how are you this morning? You are so disciplined girl. I would have poa10s by now lol . have you shared the news yet?

Hope all the preggy moms are fine and fx to us remaining few.

Thinking of you today Nimisha, lots of love your way for this difficult day.

Fx for you all this cycle too Mimi, Jem and footy!

Thinking of you today also nim

Thanks parney
Thoughts with you too nimisha🌹

Thank you everyone. I'm back from the hospital and it all went really smoothly. I'm taking things easy for a bit, expecting a hormone crash in the next two days. I haven't let myself grieve much yet but in planning on having a good cry over the next few days.

It's funny but I thought of this one as my angel baby weeks ago so maybe deep down somewhere I knew it wasn't too be. I have a Pandora necklace and I'm planning to by a charm for the baby then I can keep her with me (in my head she was a girl). Maybe something with wings on it.

I'm going to go for it this month (as soon as the bleeding has stopped) and not wait for a natural period. Dh had been told! Previously all talk of fertile weeks was banned for me, well we did it his way for 6 months, now it's my way, targeted dtd, legs in the air and vitamins coming out of his ears! (Well OK, just some vitamin c and zinc but you know what I mean.)

So CD 1 here I go. Good luck everyone else.