Hello,
I’m another lurker - well, I joined a chat back in July when I first started TTC after coming off the pill, had every pregnancy symptom going and made myself stay away for a little while as I was going crazy 🙈
I’m 33
TTC#1
Cycle#5
Every month, I am hopeful, have the odd symptom - particularly sore boobs, then AF arrives and the cycle starts again. I also have never noticed (including up until now) the ‘fertile’ mucus everyone talks about!
This month, i used opk sticks for the first time (& a tracking app) I once again got sore boobs & slight cramping about 9 dpo which lasted 2-3 days. Sore boobs are normal for me since stopping the pill.
I haven’t taken a test up until now as I haven’t been late and was scared of the disappointment!
2 days before af due, I started to get some weird cramping. Some similar to menstrual, other like a sharp shortliived pain in a place I’ve never felt before. Slight back ache & weird hunger where I’ve needed to eat to stop me feeling nauseas. The cramps did get bad enough that I was convinced af was about to arrive. To the point I told my OH it is AF time.
Anyway, I am now 1 day late so nervously just took myself to Morrison’s and bought a £3.50 Morrison’s branded pink dye test.
I have my BFP!
I’m nervous and I’m praying it’s here to stay! I’m sorry for the essay (I haven’t even told my OH yet!) but I’ve been scanning these pages for months looking for answers & wanting to understand signs! So I hope this is useful and can bring a bit of hope to someone else (eg never spotting ‘fertile’ cm made me start to believe I wasn’t even ovulating!)
Best of luck to you all! Sending positive thoughts & baby dust! 😊