Destination conception ... route PMA.

[Hippychic79]

Ok so I am bravely attempting to set up a new thread for anyone tTC.
Plug in your stats ...
Share the highs of your journey
Limit the lows - yes it's a challenging time but being negative gets you down.
I'm thinking positivity breeds positivity and positive thinking gets positive results -
It may take some of us a little longer than others ... but does that matter? I think not.

New rules - instead of saying af due ... we say bfp due ...

So here goes ... my stats
Age 38
Cycle 3
Bfp due 14/02

Ooh might have to look in to acupuncture. Although since coming off the pill my periods are much better. Was 5 days this month but they've generally been only 3 and not too bad!

I'm keeping positive, but also not trying to get my hopes up as my fall was rather bad when AF came last month!

I'm not due until Friday so I'll try hold off until Wednesday at least. When do you think you will test? Any symptoms to spot?

Glad acupuncture is helping you Hippychic!

No sign of af, really think I'm not getting one this month. From past experience if it doesn't come along after around 30 days it can take several months - until my late 20s I never had regular periods, often went months and months without one. It's strange though, had all the signs I get around and after ovulation, but after a week they just disappeared. Thinking still breastfeeding isn't helping, trying to gently wean, but easier said than done with a toddler!

Hello everyone!

Today, a colleague brought her 6mo baby into work and let me hold her! It was so lovely and it felt as if my uterus was going to explode! I think it just puts the TTC experience into perspective - it's not just about temping and OPKs - it's about the little baby.

Anyway, I hope everyone is ok and not too worried in the 2ww.
Charley I'm due around the same time as you but I'm not sure I'm going to start testing until AF turns up. I just don't feel pg (unlike last month when I was symptom spotting like a crazy lady). Maybe thats a good sign?

Hippy I need your acupuncturist - mine charged so much in comparison!

Interested about the acupuncture ladies. I've been to see one specialising in fertility and am going to start with her once a week when I get my next period. I think just going will help my relax but I have heard many positives about it. Not as good value as your one though Hippy! My dh is away from D10-15 this month so not counting on anything this time....just continuing to be as healthy as I can. How do you all sleep- I think it's such an important factor for our mental wellbeing to get enough sleep and I think lots of us don't. I have been going to bed earlier and not looking at my phone as I think it winds me up and gets my mind jumping around the place.

Although I confess I do love reading positive stories of 'older women' conceiving ! What kind of age is everyone- I'm 38 but at times feel like I'm 48!!! Plenty of fertile years left in me!

I think acupuncture is amazing but I love alternative therapies, crystals, tarot cards, all that hippy stuff ... thus the name :)) I don't look like a hippy though ... I shower regularly, I don't smoke pot and sadly I don't grow my own veggies 😂
Baking - maybe acupuncture would help regulate your cycles post breastfeeding... although it can be pricey as I'm guessing your not in the south west? If you are - pm me and I'll give you the details of my acupuncture guy :))
I'm trying really hard not to symptom spot, felt a bit sick today but keep telling myself it's probably in my head ... I fell hard too the other month Charley so I know exactly what your saying!

Hi Salem - awwww how lovely ... a cuddle with a little baby... I like your positivity around it too. You're so right ... it's not all about temping and opks ... this a life changing experience and a little humans we will be bringing into the world ... some of whom will probably be members on here in 20+ years time ... wonder what the opks of the future will look like... hopefully they'll be bloody cheaper :)))
Xxx

Reference testing - I'm gonna try and hold off as long as possible ... famous last words ;) xxx

Thanks for the 🍷 And 💐 Ladies, I've never been so pleased to see her!! Just got to get through this week and then crack on ttc!!!

Happy Friday everyone. Xx

Blondie I had acupuncture for stress/ issue with my inner ear. It was really expensive but it taught me to relax. I enjoyed the sessions because I was really chilled out. I'm not sure it healed me but it did help. The lady I saw was a fertility specialist but I didn't get to see what she did in that field.
Sleep wise, I need at least 7+ hours sleep to even function but I think thats because Im a teacher so I can't have any time in the working day to not be alert/ constantly engaged! My DH can sleep for 4 hours and feel refreshed (what a weirdo).

Hippy I am sat here chuckling about robotic OPKs that cost 99p..... In our dreams!!!!!

Hi ladies,
Still no sign of proper AF today, still just brown spotting. I've still been having the most HORRENDOUS cramps to the point I've been doubled over at times in work today. It's too high up to just be period cramps, maybe a bit of constipation? (Sorry TMI) which is something I'm rarely bothered by. Feeling a bit sorry for myself but mainly cos I'm just feeling so lousy!
Glad you had a lovely spa day, defo will relax you!
I hope AF does come for you baking, sorry for the BFN!
Welcome blondie!
How are you Moo? Any sign of BFP yet?? Hope AF hasn't got to you!

Thanks Dolly, if you hadn't got a BFN I'd have said your symptoms sounded very promising, as was me in the early weeks of pregnancy last time round. Hope you feel better soon and af shows up properly very soon.

Thanks Hippychic, in the NW. I'm just hoping that once DS stops feeding, if we're still ttc, then cycles will regulate themselves as in the 2 years prior to conceiving him I was 30 days regular as clockwork. I've said to myself that if I'm not meant to conceive till he's finished feeding, that's what nature intended and will conceive when he and me are ready :)

Salem I'm exactly the same. Last month I was convinced but this month I'm not! Although I was happy I didn't have any of the usual back pain and then this afternoon I started to get a horrific stabby ache in my lower left side! Don't normally get backache until 3-4 days before AF and she's not due for a week.

Did you test today dolly? Sorry you're feeling so bad

I think I'm looking forward to pregnancy and focusing on it so much that it's not until a get a cuddle from a little baby that I remember that's what my focus should be

Yeah they definitely feel like symptoms but like you said barking, I've had a couple BFNs now so it's just a particularly bad PMS cycle. I just stopped taking Gedarel at the end of August so my body is maybe still normalising. The frustrating thing is that up until December, my cycles were VERY regular, no spotting before AF and barely any PMS symptoms and then the last two have been full on.
Your body is doing an amazing thing already baking with the feeding, it's probably saying to you 'excuse me, one amazing task at a time please'
Charley, I think we're all guilty of that! Losing focus and forgetting that it's a race and that it'll happen if we wait patiently! I'm a big believer of when it's meant to happen, it'll happen.... (Although trying to tell myself that 12 DPO with a BFN is tough! Haha)

Dolly - poor you :( I hope you feel better soon! Sorry about bfn :(
Unfortunately she reared her ugly head tonight. Staying positive for next cycle ... and the other positives are that I must be one month closer to being pg (right!?) and also I'm going to visit my cousin in a few weeks and she will have the fridge stocked with wine (must admit I was a bit worried about having to make a v early pg announcement - if I refuse a glass of wine she would know straight away!)

Charley and hippy and salem - don't deprive us of those 2 lines this month! Fx for you (and anyone else I've forgotten who hasn't bfn yet!)

Baking - that sounds so frustrating - hopefully things regulate for you soon! But dolly is right - your body is doing an amazing task!

Salem - I love the new baby smell! Sat beside my friend and her 3mo at lunch last weekend dying for a cuddle but she wasn't for giving him up! I keep saying to oh when I have my own I WILL pass him/her over for cuddles (and enjoy having free hands and a hot cuppa!)!

Blondie - I used to get about 6 hrs but since ttc I'm trying to be in bed for 11.30, read a book and lights off for midnight. My oh comes to bed between 2am and 3am most nights - granted he works 5 mins from home so gets up later than me but I don't know how he does it! Oh and I'm 30, nearly 31.

Sarah - I'm with you on that one - let's get through this next week / two and get on with ttc!!!

Oh sorry for AF moo. Super positive way to look at it though. Glad you have a nice wine filled visit to look forward too!

That's the spirit moo!! Just another step closer and another opportunity. ☺️ Xx

Excellent mindset Moo! I'm just keen for AF to start properly so we can be cycle buddies again! This one will be our one!

Thank you ladies! Yes dolly this month is our month!!

Moo - echo what dolly said ... excellent PMA / mindset. I believe everything happens for a reason and that it will happen when it's meant to... but it is so very hard seeing bfns and getting af. On the plus side - we are all still here keeping each other going and we are all one step closer to that bfp xxx

Happy Saturday lovely ladies xxx

Thanks ladies, know we've done well still feeding at 25 months and I still enjoy breastfeeding, but think it's time to start winding things up. At least yesterday avoided a feed at naptime by having a sleep in car and then offering a snack and beaker of oat milk as soon as we got in. Going to try that one today too :)

Keeping everything crossed for everyone still due a bfp this cycle and for Moo and Dolly this coming cycle!

Baking 25months!!! Wow, well done you!

I woke early sobbing after a bit very nice pregnancy dream. I won't spoil the positivity with details but you can imagine however it did result in another morning of not poas at least. I know I'm only 8DPO but last month I started about 6or7 because I was so convinced

Sorry that AF has arrived for some of you. PMA all the way and enjoy your freedom to drink wine in the meantime!

I just got a high fertility flashing face on my CB opk. I am CD 11 today. Last mo th had a high on CD15. According to Ovia my fertile week doesn't even start til Weds, so that's a bit out!

Dtd today and maybe tmrw too as Monday is never a good day with work etc. My peak should be earlier - next 2 or 3 days I expect. Seem to be having another short cycle.

Good luck missmagpie!! I do think opks are a good idea as quite often I think we'd miss ovulation when it tends to move around a bit!! Being the amazing creatures us women are we're not all text book so I think it's a good idea to monitor and not just assume we're standard like apps suggest!! Xx

Why have I spent the last 3 hours watching one born every minute 😫

I'm obsessed with that program Charley!! My hubby thinks I'm crazy but I think it's good to be prepared for what's to come!! ☺️ Xx