excuse the quick post...
I just got my BFP! clearblue digital cd 25 (4 or 5 days before i was expecting af).
thanks for the advice earlier today girls
and here's the bit we all ask for - symptoms/what i did differently:
firstly, I bought a clearblue ovulation predictor. BUT !! i never got to use it - as i didn't know you had to wait till the first day of a cycle. I'm not going to ebay it just yet as touch wood i hope this bfp sticks. but fate or what!
secondly, i joined an expensive gym and decided to get back in shape (splutter!) but i'm sure the exercice helped.
i also stopped soya milk on my cereal as i'ed read the plant hormones can be a contraceptive effect. now have oat milk or rice milk and a high fibre muesli rather than special k - again, a very recent change (last month or two after years of special k & soya)
i tried the robitussin this month; and as i'd had a dvt (no genetic tendency, just bad luck) i had an aspirin on the days i was ttc (cd's 12 and 15 only this month - think i ovulated cd 13-17 sometime) - lots of ewcm as a result
what else .. erm, i quit smoking on december 30 and have only had a few since (some in april on holiday, and weirdly a couple on may 8th when on a company away day!); i don't drink much at all usually and fancied a ciggie when i'd had a wine or two that night
preseed preseed preseed - and legs in the air, though i've done those both four about the last 4 months at least.
been drinking lots of water and eating a hot meal rather than a manky cafe sandwich at lunchtime - less snacking. tried to cut down on diet coke.
dh thought it was quite a 'heavy load' if you get my drift so .. maybe he played a part too
and symptoms, of course..
WIND - tons of it - not as any i usually get, this was real trumpeting, and quite rank in the first few days after ovulation time
Teeth / gums - felt like i'd been biting down a lot - quite sore when they join -
bloated -= massively, like a balloon
constipated and windy when trying to go
implantation - only when i checked for cm did i find (in the middle of the night) some pink & brown bits, tiny feathery 'dry' stuff, with some cm. wouldn't have known if i hadn't checked . this was cd 22, my biggest sign as i never ever spot usually
and then needing to sit down in a stand up buffet lunch at work. v v hot and came over all funny. this was y/day.
two faint lines on a trueline low (15 hcg) test y/day night and first thing today. i wasn't sure if evap or if they had some pink but kept looking and when i saw digi clearlblues in tesco cheap 2nite i took it as a sign
finally, last but not least .. bleugh. been feeling so sick today, didn't fancy lunch. knew it had to be a good chance .. either that or i had a bug.. it was deep down, almost heaving, but knots in tummy. i've always wondered what type of nausea morning sickness is - perhaps now i know..?
oh nearly forgot, funny fluttering in abodomenll hard to describe, all over, like breaths coming up..
i hope this sticks, and just as much i hope all you lovely ladies who have been waiting like me (ttc since may last year, am 32) - get your bfp very soon. i'm so chuffed.
hope the info above helps
x