2ww: solidarity & symptom spotting

[PassTheAfterEights]

Anyone else in the 2ww?

1dpo cycle 1 post-mc, AF due 20/02 - last 2ww thread I was on got me through!

Trying to follow Kwick's rules for 2ww, no hot baths / cold veg etc, and not to react to every single twinge

Joining you ladies... going out of my mind 8dpo!

Congrats MamaL86!!

waves at @colourful86 Hope you're doing well x

Sorry to read @daisymalone been lovely to have your company and hope March is your month, enjoy that bath/cheese/wine HEAVEN! x

@vickywood3 don't want to raise your hopes but I'm sure I get symptoms that early - tiredness, weird and vivid dreams, headaches anyway. Backache and twinges by 6dpo and this time have had the heavy boobs too.

On which note - realise I'm probably about to waste £3.50 for anyone else at 7dpo - I cracked (SHAME) and used my last FRER just now, mid morning wee, and there's a ghost. Not so much a BF as a small skinny, but it's there. It's so faint IRL I doubt the pics will come out but here it is for anyone curious (sharpened one of the images in case it helped i know i'm a loon)

Not raising my hopes just yet and even if it's good news there's a long road ahead, less than a month since miscarriage, but FXXXX...

@PassTheAfterEights, the thought is that counts. At least you tried. And thank God for Uber Eats & deliveroo. Dh knows I am a bad cook, but my pancakes are from heaven

@weasledee, my mother once told me that she was sick right after dtd when she fell pregnant with my older brother. Maybe coincidence but she truly believes that was her first sign. Lol.

Not sure how to tag. @passtheaftereights - I have everything crossed that is your BFP and line should continue to get darker.

I don’t want to get my hopes up, but I can’t help it and still have my TWW 😫. Off to work soon so who le take my mind off it. Did anybody else get really early symptoms? And if so what? Xxx

Thank you so much ladies! Still can't quite believe it, feel I may need to pop out and get another test just to make sure! I'm still a little worried what my super light periods could mean in terms of this pregnancy but trying to stay positive and trust my body - hopefully it wouldn't have let me get pregnant unless there was a decent lining?

@PassTheAfterEights ooh I do think I can see a faint line! I'm going to have absolutely everything crossed for you and will be checking this thread for updates

Good luck to all those in the 2ww. Sending you all tons of baby dust and don't be too sad if you don't have many symptoms - I certainly didn't this time around!

@PassTheAfterEights I can't wait to see the postman tomorrow with my frer tests I'll be more exited by that delivery than valentines gifts 🙈 I can see the line on yours! Eeek that's so exciting, update us all tomorrow, want to watch it get darker!

2WW here. Have ovulated either yesterday or today, not sure which, positive OPK on Saturday and absolutely LOADS of CM. Like soaking through my knickers, daily pads just wouldn’t quite cut it so onto always regulars! DTD on Sunday morning and last night but he pulled out just as he was squirting (sorry TMI) because he had cramp. Felt like singing the ‘every sperm is sacred’ song from Monty Python at him! Think he still managed to get a teeny bit in though.

Anyway had of pain yesterday and last night a bit and have had some this morning too but it’s not been as bad as usual so whether I O’d last night and slept through it i just don’t know. Suppose I could take another OP to see what it says.

Good luck and baby dust to everyone!!

@MamaL86 - you've got a great line there!! Congrats!

@PassTheAfterEights I think I can see it - I inverted it and it looks as though there might be something there.

I've just had a really faint one too - any opinions??

The waiting is killing me on theses 2WW! It passes so slowly!!

@cookiesaurus definitely a line - fab news - hope the next one (/few!) are darker, it is so tense isn't it! I was driving myself nuts and happy to waste the test this morning just to relieve some tension but of course still driving myself nuts now. Have still got fairly pointed sharp pains / cramps in uterus which I didn't have before and aren't making me feel that confident. Slash terrified it's retained HCG from MC. Roll on the next few days...

Thanks @colourful86 can't wait for the postman on your behalf! Have good Mr. Amazon arriving tonight with a fresh batch but determined not to use til FMU tomorrow. Not sure how much is in the FMU / later in the day thing - my first test last bfp I tested FMU in a bonne maman jar then hopped straight in the car to boots for the FRERs

Great tagging ;) and thanks @vickywood3 hope work is helping. Good luck for a speedy few days also @Imnotposhjustquaint

@Jasmin93 flip some pancakes this way please!

Congrats to all the faint lines, here's hoping they get darker!

I'm way too early to test (only 5 DPO) so will need to wait until Sunday/Monday at the earliest. But I have had a constant dull, crampy feeling in my womb, like period pains, ever since 2DPO. I don't know if that's an early symptom or I'm just clutching at straws?!

@MamaL86 i reckon so, if your uterus wasn't up for it I don't think it'd keep trying to implant IYKWIM? You never know, might be what it takes to give the whole system a kick into action & you'll end up with lots of hormones and a very snuggly little bean in there!

@aaronpurrsir certainly could be a symptom - had it too and now quite pronounced. Just hope it doesn't mean anything bad! came with increased cm for me too.

Could murder a hot epsomy bath and 100% do not feel I should risk it :/

Work dis take my mind off it and I am at daughters dance soon - so I am gonna by to google to see if I am losing my mind, or you can get early symptoms xxx

@vickywood3 try not to focus too much on it! It's such a hard, long wait! I was symptom spotting all the time last month! Been better this month.

It's a crappy process as often AF & prep symptoms are similar! 🤞🤞for you x

Hello, can I join?!
Not sure if I'm in TWW yet as can't be sure when I'm ovulating but think I may have ovulated this weekend. I'm on month 3 of TTC (number 2, DD is 4), but last month was only 25days which threw me, hence not knowing when I've ovulated!

@cookiesaurus I know, you are absolutely right. I literally am thinking anything is a symptom. I need to stop ASAP - plus on a medical level, I absolutely know that it is to early to detect symptoms. @Rachie1986 it is my #4. I never had to try for the other 3, so TTC is new to me. Xxx

@vickywood3 I just find it so emotionally draining! I'm awake in the middle of the night when I usually sleep no problem!! 🙈

I've just poas!!

Hi @Rachie1986!

@cookiesaurus how did the poas go? How many days Dpo are you? X

Woke up at 2am and hurled myself out of bed as I had the overwhelming “going to throw up” feeling. I am not a sicky person! I never puke unless I’m really drunk

The symptom spotting continues!

@AaronPurrSir - I am so bad for symptom spotting. I have literally become obsessed with it and I know it’s not good. It’s like, bloated, nausea, cramps. burning boobs, oh dear I dropped a glass, gotta be a pregnancy symptom 😂😆

Hope everyone has a good day today and baby dust to you all x

@vickywood3 I’m getting a bit obsessed, which isn’t good! This is only my second cycle TTC. Last month I had no symptoms whatsoever so I’m clinging onto everything this month. I’ll only end up really disappointed when I get a BFN or when period arrives, but I can’t help myself.

Why do we do this to ourselves

So an update on my posts earlier in the thread...no doubt here!!

Thought I’d share my spotted symptoms in case it helps anyone.

I dried up almost completely - you usually hear about increased CM, I’ve been the opposite!
Horrible headache over the front of my head for 5 days solid.
Moody & emotional, but not extremely, just a little bit more than usual PMT.
Vague feeling of being aware of my womb but no real cramps or twinges.

It was all very mild apart from the headaches & if I’d got a BFN I’d not have been surprised as most of the ‘symptoms’ can be put down to being hyper aware & overthinking things! But you never know. Good luck everyone else!

I know @AaronPurrSir, why do we do this to ourselves. I have everything crossed for you xxxxx

Congratulations melamine!

Congratulations Melamine!