Anyone else trying for DC3?!

[LittleTipple]

Can't quite believe I've just written that title...after a lot of indecision DH and I have decided to see where fate takes us. So we're not obsessively trying, but I know generally when I ovulate so we'll DTD around that time. Tbh we're still not 100% convinced we'd cope with three, but sometimes you have to take a leap of faith.

I've been thinking about it constantly and our ages mean it's now or never. We adore our 2 DC's and if that's what we're meant to have we'll be very happy, but if fate has other ideas, we're up for the challenge!

About to start AF and then off we go

@LittleTipple thank you :)
I'm so glad I found this thread. It's been hard to find others in a similar position.
When I tried to vent before I was told to be grateful that I had two. As though I'm not :/

I did test today. There may have been a ghost of a line. Or dust. My husband said no.

@Taylor22 you never know, maybe a squinter that will progress- fingers crossed.

We are very lucky to be in the position to try for DC3, but sometimes we still need to vent. Feel free to do so on here!

Period is here.. explains the bloat and why I’ve been eating like a pig today. Onto next month. This months silver linings.. cycle was 33 days, more normal .. didn’t have to wait on for ages to be disappointment.
I maybe able to book us a holiday abroad for Easter.. you can travel at like 7 months pregnant right?!

Yes I think it's around 36 weeks you can fly until if there are no complications.
Sorry to hear AF got you x

Sorry to hear about AF @Wingingit3211

Everything crossed for next month

Hi all

CD1 for me today, after ovulating CD30 (if I count the first miscarriage bleed as CD1). I have PCOS too, so I feel your pain wingingit - my cycles can be anything from 24 to 80 days, tracking is a nightmare

But, back on track now and with this as my first proper period since we conceived our eldest, hopeful everything's in working order and we'll get lucky with a sticky bean. Baby dust to all!

Hey @BlackRibboner good luck on this cycle!

Today was test day and it's a BFN so onto next month
I'm just waiting for AF today and the excuse to eat a lot of chocolate.

Sorry to hear it was BFN @Taylor22. Enjoy ALL the chocolate!

@BlackRibboner gosh it must be so frustrating to have such irregular cycles. Happy CD1 - onwards and upwards.

I'm 12DPO if I did indeed ovulate this cycle. I am having some symptoms, mainly being stitch/pinchy feeling alternating between left and right side for the last few days, plus tingly boobs. I've also had a few vivid dreams involving water and baby animals, which is my number one pregnancy sign. However, I still don't feel overly confident and think what I'm feeling is my body adjusting post miscarriage. Anyway, planning to test at weekend if no AF before then.

Good luck everyone who is waiting to test. I realised I was counting my days wrong, as I tend to spot before my periods 2-3 days and apparently you do not count the days you spot. This explains why my ovulation day was a lot later then I thought (I was counting 3 spotting days). When I take those days away, ovulation is spot on! Lets see what happens this month.

AF arrived today. Which is fine because it was a day late me and DH made the most of an extra free night. So that's put me in a positive mood.
Plus we're both home for my fertile days this month which hasn't happened in ages so we have a battle plan....

Which involves Netflix, Guinness, wine and a takeaway.

Ladies I'm in absolute shock...just tested and BFP! I got an urge to test but thought being the afternoon it would be too weak. Instead it came up 2-3 weeks. I didn't even think I'd ovulated. Cried when I saw it, but now I'm just a bit numb. I def got a negative test after the miscarriage, so assume this is a new pregnancy, but there's a part of me that thinks it can't be true. Don't know if worth going to gp, as they couldn't see anything this early anyway. Please send positive thoughts into the universe. Baby dust to all xx

OMG @LittleTipple congratulations!!!
I would call the GP now and explain your situation. See what they say and maybe request a referral to EPU?

This is amazing!

Congratulations @LittleTipple! Sounds like a new pregnancy to me - I don't think it's uncommon to catch the first cycle after a pregnancy. I would ring the GP, even though it's early days, as they may want to do an early dating scan just to check. Sending lots of positive vibes your way xx

Taylor22, sorry to hear about AF, but glad you have plans for this cycle! I'm CD3 now and already keen to get going, but have to wait for AF to stop and then begin the (long?) wait for ovulation . . . Fingers crossed for us all this cycle

Great news @ LittleTipple!

Congratulations 😊

I’m CD10 today & DP is finally back tomorrow. It’s highly unlikely I’ll ovulate for another week or so at least but we might as well try!

Congratulations @LittleTipple !xx

Congratulations @LittleTipple!

Get cracking @LatteLover12

Your battleplan sounds pretty good to me! @Taylor22

I’m 3DPO and can’t wait to start symptom spotting because it will speed things up, at least.

Congrats little tipple!
So I thought my period was coming, still not properly here. Tinged discharge atm (sorry tmi!) I’m in pain and emotionally , just want to come. Going to go to the drs this month, something isn’t right, my cycles are all over the place :(

I say something .. we know what it is but I’m clealry not ovulating so it’s tkme to action!

Congratulations LittleTipple! Exciting news.

I am hoping we dtd tonight. Its frustrating, as my dh doesn't have a high s drive, so I can't be sure. We were supposed to try a few times this month, but so far haven't. I have not really made any efforts for this and neither has my dh. Also, I have not really been checking every day those ovulation strips like I was supposed to. I get distracted and busy with other things so hoping we didn't miss ovulation...

BTW have any of you thought if third time around gets extra lucky and you end up with twins :) My best friend went for a third and now she is pregnant with twins! We have another friend who was in her late 30s when she began her family so had her kids back to back and went for a 3rd at 39....she got twins! So 4 boys 3 and under! :) Apparently if you already have kids and are over 35 your chances of twins increase. I know this chance is still so very small. But interesting as we know 4 couples who got twins the third time around.

@Mamabear12 fingers crossed for you for tonight!

I'm a bit worried about the possibility of twins, as DD and DS are twins so for me there's an even higher chance of having them again! I absolutely love having twins as my first two, but not so sure about 3 and 4.

@RandomUsernameHere are there any other twins in your family besides yours? How old are your DD and DS?

I’d love to have twins. I’ve not-so-secretly wishes both of my previous pregnancies were twins. There are boy/girl twins on my mum’s side and and boy/boy twins on FIL’s side. We recently upgraded our car in preparation for a third car seat (as the older car was starting to give us problems). I had a last minute panic when we agreed to move forward TTC and asked DH about twins and not getting a 7seater 😂

I think your chances of twins increase if its coming from the mothers side. So it does not increases chances if your DP has twins on his side of the family. The reason is, fraternal twins (born from two separate eggs) can run in families when women tend to ovulate and produce two eggs at a time. Identical twins are apparently just random...so everyone has the same amount of chance of having identical. I suspect chances of twins increase with age, as your body starts releasing more eggs to hopefully ensure more offspring. Would be interesting if someone on this board gets pregnant with twins!

Also, hoping it works out...but my dp is grumpy from a day with the kids. They were tantrums etc and the youngest was stung by a wasp. Yesterday, they had two parties and lots of candies, which tends to leave them cranky...even the next day as they bring candy home and ate some in the morning the next day (they snuck it!). Arghhh. Wish my kids were better behaved! Crossing fingers.

@Bubblemumma1 there are no other twins on my side of the family at all! So it was a complete shock when we found out we were having them. There are some on DH's side, but as @Mamabear12 says this shouldn't make a difference to our chances of having them. DD and DS are 4.

And yes, twins can be completely random. My friend has no twins in her family....but she is having them now! However, if someone on the moms side has twins, more chances to have twins. My neighbours mother had twins and she had twins. My friend growing up has twins in her family and she had two sets of twins!!