TTC first baby cycle one! Anyone else out there?

[rosesandponies]

So.... first baby 🤞🏼🙏🏽🤞🏼🙏🏽 Meant to be ovulating tomorrow. Main challenge atm is keeping things fun with the husband and not making him feel like a baby making machine 😂 How’s it going for other hopeful first time mummy’s?

@Delilah7 so exciting! Hopefully your good luck will rub off on us! We will miss you here when you leave us for the pregnancy boards! 😢

@ProseccoBee - we just talked about it and didn't have a good reason to wait, also my sister is having issues conceiving and it has made us realise that it may not happen if we leave it too long. However I did agree with DH that we would just stop trying to prevent it rather than actively try...three months later and I am poas as much as I possibly can in a cycle, got two temping apps, we are both taking fertility supplements and I am jumping on him throughout my fertile time! Super chilled out about it! 😂🤣😂 oops!!
I do feel my ovaries ache when I see a baby now, compared to a year ago I wasn't even sure I wanted children!

OMG I’m so behind! @delilah7 congratulations!!!!! I’m so happy for you 🎉🎉
Seriously given me hope as well as I’m using Flo and Ovia - both of which are telling me I’m out of fertile period but defo think I’m ovulating - boobs are sore, loads of CM and cervix is soft (I think haha)

Thanks @crossfitgirl @flapjackered I’m going to give it til after this cycle and then get some OPKs I think 🤔

@Summerbab @FlapJackered I'm not leaving!!! I'm staying on here with you guys! 😂 thanks for all your support! yes defo keep an eye on Flo defo helped me!! 4th cycle!

OMG!! Huge congratulations @Delilah7!! I'm so happy for you. Fingers crossed for some more BFP's this month! X

@PixieDust2 thanks lovely!!! Keep faith! X

@delilah7 yay!! Congratulations ♥️♥️

@Hcna23 thank you!!!

It's now dawned on me about miscarriage etc :( so now I feel very scared x

@Delilah7 don't be scared - chances are higher that a miscarriage won't happen than it will, you're young and healthy 😊 Happy to hear that your whole family is celebrating the good news!

@delilah7 ahhhhhhh so happy for you!! I've been waiting all day to reply to this as I saw your photo just at the very end of my lunch break and didn't have time to read all and respond!! Congratulations!!! I feel a bit like we all got that BFP right here with you, this thread has been so close and supportive, it's so lovely to have such fantastic news to see!
I'm sure it will be a happy healthy pregnancy :-) I'm gonna download flo now!
Xxx

@Crossfitgirl @rosesandponies you guys have honestly been so amazing. Flo was defo right so! Can't knock her. I'm super duper excited my grandads still here so I can tell him I'm so emotional about that xx

@proseccobee I also got married last year, also 30 and ttc first baby, I wanna join the little club! Hehe! There's a few of us around the same age and life stage in here, must just be at that time. I'm same as @flapjackered in that we just decided to stop trying not to get pregnant, but it's very hard not to try though once you come off the pill! I am in cycle 4 now, cycle day 9, currently just gone into my estimated fertile window, @delilah7 has given me extra motivation to get down to it this week 😊😊😊 using up that baby dust! Xxx

Good ones to look into are vitamin D3, omega-3 (DHA/EPA), CoQ10 (water and fat-soluble form for better absorption on the body), and a pre-natal to cover your nutrient bases. If you don't eat a lot of meat, you should considering adding extra iron and B12.

Gosh so many of us are 30! We wanted to wait until we had a home of our own - been saving for years - and were in a position where my income isn't essential. Tbh we just didn't feel a huge sense of urgency until about 6 months ago - and we were meant to be taking it easy TTC and 'just going with the flow' but I'm sooooo not 😂

@Crossfitgirl it'll happen darling 😘

Yeah we were similar in that we decided to not obsess over it and just try by not actively preventing it. However when I say not obsess over it I mean my OH! Although this is the first proper month I’ve tracked everything with clue since January. I just have an irrational fear that we are going to be one of those couples that struggle. My best friend had to have IVF and one of my sister in laws had IVF two rounds before she was successful and the other sister in law went through all kinds of hell with eptopic and miscarriage and stillborn that I somehow feel that this bad luck is genetic and bound to happen. Don’t get me wrong I’m an upbeat happy person in real life but internally I can’t help but stress about it and god bless my OH he thinks that we’ve got loads of time and itl just happen which it might but I’m a planner and I also like to think the worst case scenario to soften the blow hahah so now that we’ve got house and wedding sorted this is my next thing to focus on. God I sound a bit crazy thinkingsaying all that don’t I? But ahh so pleased there’s other people to chat to!

@rosesandponies I set out to be relaxed about it but failed massively!! We bought our house and had a big holiday to Florida both in May so we started 'properly trying after that'
I'm 29 and want to get pregnant before I'm 30 🤞

@Delilah7 oh my gosh congratulations! So happy for you! This has 100% made my day and I’ve never even met you 😂 love this group! Hope the baby dust spreads through the group 😍

@ScientistTTC thanks darling!! I'm over the moon.
So looking forward to hearing all your updates. I'm not moving to a pregnancy board. I'm fine with my
Little groups 😍

OMG! @Delilah7 congratulations! Watched your journey from the beginning. I started TTC the same time as you and I'm on my 2ww, fingers crossed this is a lucky month for us all😃 xxx

@sachabloom hi lovely!!! Thank you. Keep going it'll happen hun! Xxx

@sachabloom how long to go til AF is due? FX!
@proseccobee omg I am exactly the same. I think all those things, it's not just you that thinks the worst- I think it's normal to worry! I keep thinking god, all my friends are popping them out like it's nothing, and I feel like I will be that one that struggles. I really know what you mean, I have a feeling that just because it's me, it won't happen straight away. My OH is convinced he has a low sperm count because he smoked a lot of weed as a kid! But then you just don't know - i know lots of people that have struggled and lots that haven't - and generally its the ones that dont seem as bothered or maybe dont take care of themselves as much that do end up finding it easy! I guess it's just the luck of the draw and you have to try enjoy the process as much as you can.
@themagictorch I am 30 and have said I wanna be pg by the time I'm 31! There's definitely no relaxing, even when we try to relax we're always thinking in the back of our minds, is it my fertile time yet, when is the tww gonna be over...I think it's what women do best!

@Crossfitgirl not until next Sunday! I've been getting cramps since ovulation, no idea what that might mean but I am really hoping this is the month!

I've ordered some FRER but I am going to get DH to hide them for a week or so haha!

How about you? Xx

@sachabloom I am currently cd10, due to ovulate cd11 or 12 according to flo and clue, although I'm not sure so trying to track a positive OPK by doing 3 poas a day. I never got a positive last month, only faint lines around cd16, so I either didn't ovulate or it was very late... Also wondering if I should just have sex more in general, in the middle 2 weeks of my cycle, rather than trying to pinpoint, because I think we've been DTD at the wrong times. We just dont usually do it a lot!
Had sex on Wednesday so I'm aiming to initiate again tonight and either tomorrow or sunday! I do feel more up for it at the mo, so may be it's a sign!
What's everyone doing sex wise at the moment? Anyone going to try a different strategy this cycle?

I am exactly the same @Crossfitgirl @ProseccoBee I literally could have written your post Prosecco. Hopefully it is all irrational and we will have a bfp soon!

@Delilah7 so glad you're going to stay with us! You will have to keep us updated about how the pregnancy is going! 🤰

@Crossfitgirl - I have just finished AF so we haven't for a while but I am going to try SMEP this month. I am not sure we will manage it as it is a lot of sex and we would normally just have it a couple of times a week then when I get the positive opk we go 2 or 3 days in a row.