TTC First Baby! Anyone else?!

[Delilah7]

Hi Ladies.

Anyone else on their first cycle and TTCing?! I'm seeing all these beautiful posts about ladies getting pregnant and how they have bonded with people on here soooo, thought I'd make one at the start on my journey!

Congrats to all those of you with BFPs! Wishing you happy & healthy pregnancies.

I’ve been tracking my period and my cycles averaging about 29 days, last few have been bang on track with the app but I’m about 4 days late now. Did one test & it’s a negative, Trying my best not to get my hopes up & not to imagine symptoms. Feeling totally fine though!

Hey all, not posted for a while so catching up. Congrats for those BFP and sorry to hear about those BFN or AF which turned up a little later than usual.

I really thought this month was it for me, have had the bladder of a small child for days, so tired, sore boobs, but it would appear AF wants to turn up anyway! ☹️

So tonight is this kind of night... Ben, Jerry and my number one baby Neville 😭😭😭😭😭

Thank you @Delilah7 @ChaosMoon @CookieWaffle sorry to hear AF turned up. Onwards and upwards hey!

Hello to new members too 👋🏻

@Saraelle loving the B&J ice cream!! That’s me most evenings with 🍷 mostly gin 😂

I’m made the conscious decision to stop googling symptoms and taking OPK’s and just go with the flow I’m getting a bit sick of it all now. I’ve got a busy couple of months coming up with my business so I’m going to put it at the back of my mind and see what happens!!!

Keep me posted though ladies xxx 💕

Thanks for the support guys

@ErikaSt can I confirm what you mean by charting? All I've ever done is enter when my period comes hahaha but it's normally spot on the date anyways

@Delilah7 On Flo, you should see a plus symbol. You probably click this to enter your period. There should then be a list of options where you can record CM, symptoms, your mood, and if you use opks, the results.

When you click ‘more’ you’ll then see a graphs tab, this will summarise everything you’ve entered over the cycle so you can work out what’s ‘normal’, what’s common around certain times of the month etc.

That’s how I worked out we were trying too late. Ewcm was too late for me, I wanted watery which occurred in the days running up to ewcm.

@ErikaSt it's abit confusing as I don't take my temp or OPKS.....

I didn’t either @Delilah7, but I found tracking my cm helpful. Everyone’s different though.

@saraelle that looks like the perfect evening.

I tested this morning and got a BFN, my apps are contradicting each other again so it’s possibly still too early. As I keep telling everyone else though, not out until AF arrives.

Question for you all, has anyone has to do anything in prep for TTC? Coming off meds etc? (I don’t mean coming off the pill). I’ve spent 6 months weaning off citalopram, so even though we’ve only been trying for 2 cycles it feels like it’s been so much longer due to that. Just wondered if anyone else is feeling the same. X

@ErikaSt ah okay :) I could defo do the CM. When did you realise you were most fertile? I always think when it's the clumpy white clear stuff!

@Delilah7 our successful cycle was when we did every other day and I had watery. I think it’s because it’s easier for the sperm to swim through. They can hang around for 5-7 days, so I may have ovulated at ewcm but they were there ready for the egg. That’s why I think you could be lucky this time if you were dtd before ew. 🤞🏻

@ErikaSt I was and defo when I started to see some. Can I post a really TMI pic to you regarding CM? It's just abit in my knickers again but I never get a lot unless it's near ovulation etc

@delilah7 I googled different types of CM with pictures and it confirmed what I was seeing. That may help you?

@MrsA89 it helps but not when it's in my knickers haha

@Delilah7 ah that's a shame, it really helped put my mind at ease

@MrsA89 thanks though I do normally look at that!

@ErikaSt @Delilah7 I have a feeling im lacking CM or gettinh the wronh consistency at the wrong time. Iv taken evening primrose oil as apparently that contributes to cm and also tried pre-seed. I think for us its down to not dtd enough as we both are shattered by the time we get to bed

Is the ewcm right before your fertile week?

@EllaR1 I know that feeling of being too tired...

@EllaR1 ewcm is the week you’re fertile. So dtd a few days before is key. Nhs reccommends every other day in your fertile window, so don’t worry if you a miss a night. Dh needs a chance to replenish so you can get the good stuff. It’s no good the egg will reject it.

@Delilah7 please don’t send me a picture! 😂 If it helps, mine was really white and there was a lot of it. It looked different to me too which made also made me suspicious. How many dpo are you now?

@ErikaSt hahahahaha I won't! 7dpo

@ErikeSt the thing is my AF varies each month so when I enter my dates it then changes when my fertile days were so works out we dtd on the wrong days

@EllaR1 I had that, my cycles varied from 22-27 days 😏 the first 2 trys turned out to be too late, which is why I focussed on cm. It’s just finding what works best for you. I didn’t like opks, I thought they were quite pricey and it lets you know when your ovulating but really you want to try just before that so I didn’t really get it. I didn’t like the idea of basal temps because I thought I’d see how it went before getting too obsessed. The first month of trying felt really unnatural and clunky for us so we wanted to be relaxed about and still make it fun.

@Delilah7 Could be it. Implantation is 7-10 days.

@ErikaSt had no bleeding though!

@MrsA89 only thing i did in prep was changing some meds i was on which ended up not agreeing with me so I had to stop them altogether. Otherwise nothing else really. Taking folic acid now.