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3dpo here 🙋🏼 Anyone wanna join me for the TWW?

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Beautifulblue · 13/09/2018 09:43

No symptom spotting for me this month & no testing until AF is due/late! Anyone in a similar place? 🤞🏼

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RanchoRelaxo · 13/09/2018 21:36

Hi guys can I join! It's my ov day today like a few other posters 😊
I am TTC #1 and on cycle 7/8

Beautifulblue · 13/09/2018 21:39

Welcome welcome @RanchoRelaxo

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RanchoRelaxo · 13/09/2018 22:25

Does anyone here know the actual rules of SMEP? Think it's having sex every night for a few night after a positive opk? Was considering doing this but never actually read up on how 😂

OneMoreWish · 14/09/2018 00:02

4dpo....

Nope I'm not even noticing the time go by lol

Mamabear12 · 14/09/2018 07:31

Anyone symptom spotting? Last month I was symptom spotting. This month I notice a whole lotta NOTHING!! Lol. Ive never experienced this trying and waiting period so it’s new to me. First time we dtd and it was like a casual try and I completely forgot about it. I didn’t think you could get pregnant trying once. I even bought my pads because I was fully expecting my period the next day and I was traveling. Then it was late. After a week it never came and I still can’t believe I waited to test until after a week! Last month, I started doing tests like 3 days after my suspected ovulation. Wasted a whole lotta money doing tests. This month I will try not to test until my period is due. It won’t be easy! But somehow I don’t feel pregnant and don’t mean to be a Debbie downer. I worry if I’m not ovulating or at least I have no clue when I do. I used to be so confident. But my cycles changed a bit with age. I am 35. I got pregnant with my first dc age 28 and second one age 29 (shortly before my 30th). Now I’m 35.5 and cycles aren’t clock work 28 days. Plus I’m not as healthy as I should be. I enjoy wine a few too many nights a week (never more then two glasses). But still. I should probably cut down to only one day a week when trying and obviously I would stop all together if pregnant. However, at least I’m not smoking. First time around I was a social smoker (smoked at least 3 times a week). But once I found I was pregnant never smoked again and never took it up again. Sorry for all the rambling!

Chocolate89 · 14/09/2018 09:05

Hi all, may i join? 😊 ttc #2 7dpo today and time is craaaaawling. Dh has gone away with his friends for the weekend and has made me promise not to go crazy poas while he is gone (he is v much the more sensible one of us). We dtd 5th + 6th, ov the 7th so fingers crossed that was enough! We kind of had burnt ourselves out at that stage because i usually ov on cd14, and this month it was 6 days late. So interesting to see when af shows up!

Does anyone know if our luteal phase is the same length each month??

Looking at testing next wed, 12dpo! Good luck to everyone!! ❤🤞🏻

Mseddy · 14/09/2018 10:01

It's nice to be at the exact same point as so many others :) surely at least one of us (hopefully alot more) is going to get a BFP this month!

My husband made it home in time last night for us to squeeze in one more shot! So I'm feeling pretty happy with DTD 0-2 days (I drove to where he was working away for the night Haha) and on O day :) I had some left sided cramps this morning so I think that even though I had a positive OPK Wednesday afternoon I've only just laid the egg now! So I might actually only be O day today. This worries me a little as I only had a 26 day cycle last month so I'll only have 10 days before AF is due! I guess at least that means there is no point in me POAS'ing until AF is due x

Mamabear12 · 14/09/2018 10:30

Wish I knew what day I ovulated this month. The ovulation strips I got were not very good. Or at least I wasn’t very good at taking them! I kept trying to pee on the stick so it wouldn’t always work. When I should have been dipping. We dtd only once and it was when my body showed symptoms of ovulation 2 days of ewcm and cervix very high up. So hoping we got it right.

JustLikeTheySaid · 14/09/2018 10:44

Mseddy for most women your DPO will stay the same it is your ovulation date that changes. So my cycle changes from anywhere between 25 and 38 days but I always come on my period at exactly 13DPO. So if you know how long between ovulation and period usually then you can work it out for this month.

Mseddy · 14/09/2018 10:50

@mammabear I don't know why we call it pee on a stick when it's really pee in a pot! Haha, I'm rubbish at it!!

@justliketheysaid that's good to know! I've only been off the pill since July and don't know when I ovulated last month so not sure! Fingers crossed I have enough time either way!

rollerskaterdata · 14/09/2018 11:03

@RanchoRelaxo we've been doing SMEP the last 2 cycles, link here: spermmeetseggplan.com

RanchoRelaxo · 14/09/2018 12:31

Thank you rollerskaterdata :) thought it was something like that, I could actually do that this cycle then if I dtd again tonight then skipped a day, brilliant 😀

rollerskaterdata · 14/09/2018 12:43

@RanchoRelaxo ooo hoping it works for you hun! We were meant to DTD last night as it was meant to be our last night for SMEP but DH was knackered and in bed by 8pm! Oh well, we DTD every other time we were meant to lol!

Ok so TMI alert...but I've been trying to keep an eye on my cervical position to better get to know my body and because it's an additional predictor for ovulation. Felt very SHOW on and before Ov day which is great. So I'm 4dpo today and I checked my cervix. Sorry TMI but when I withdrew my finger from my, ahem, lady parts, I had a bit of creamy, pearly, almost lotiony cervical mucus? Noticed a bit yesterday too, now I'm wondering if I have some sort of infection?! I've never noticed this before (but not really gone looking either!). Gah! I have no other symptoms to suggest an infection but I don't know why I have it when I think I'm normally dry as a bone after ovulation?!

Stormwhale · 14/09/2018 15:49

Not sure on that roller, but I do know it changes through the month so it could be normal, but you wouldn't normally know about it because you haven't checked.

I'm confused now. I was pretty sure I ovulated two days ago, but I now have ewcm! I think we will dtd again tonight just incase, then hopefully we have covered the whole fertile period.

Are any of you hoping for a boy or girl in particular? I would love another girl. Apparently the timing of dtd can determine it because girl swimmers are slow, but last longer and boy swimmers are quick to reach the destination, but die quickly.

rollerskaterdata · 14/09/2018 16:08

@Stormwhale you're probably right, I just hope it's normal because an infection is not something I need right now! If it was I'm guessing thrush but like I said no other symptoms and I hope it stays that way!

I had that last cycle, a random bit of EWCM 3dpo. Still don't know what it was 🤷‍♀️ we DTD just in case but alas it wasn't my month 😔

I have a little boy who's 3 and would love a little girl but I'd be happy either way!

Mseddy · 14/09/2018 17:07

@rollerskaterdata this is also TMI but could it be some left over sperm? Sometimes a day or two after if he's managed to get it right up in there (oh god this is really TMI sorry!) I get a little bit and it looks like you've described. X

rollerskaterdata · 14/09/2018 19:07

@Mseddy I don't think so, we haven't DTD for 3 days now 🤷‍♀️

rollerskaterdata · 14/09/2018 19:07

@Mseddy thanks for the suggestion though hun 😊 x

Beautifulblue · 14/09/2018 21:07

Well I've had a few to many 🍷 today... I'm breaking all the rules aren't I? Pahhh.. 1 life!

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Mseddy · 14/09/2018 23:01

@beautifulblue I've had gin! Had a big presentation to do at work and needed a little post nerves ahhhhhh haha. I respect the rule following! But I also think we have to live our lives :)

Stormwhale · 15/09/2018 10:32

I don't blame you guys for being on the booze. This ttc malarkey is stressful anyway!

We dtd again last night just in case. Now I'm surely in the tww!

I'm making it worse by watching videos of people announcing their pregnancies and I'm all teary. I just want it so badly.

JustLikeTheySaid · 15/09/2018 12:36

A big amount of creamy discharge today. Don't understand how as I've definitely ovulated and isn't that meant to be fertile discharge? Oh who bloody knows.

Mamabear12 · 15/09/2018 13:31

Creamy discharge comes after you ovulate before you dry up. The whole discharge thing is confusing to me.

Beautifulblue · 15/09/2018 14:47

During your period, the blood flow covers your mucus, so you won’t notice any. Days when you’re on your period are unsafe days.

After your period, you usually have a few days without mucus and discharge in your underwear. These are called “dry days,” and they may be safe days if your cycle is long.

Your body makes more mucus when an egg starts to ripen, before ovulation is about to happen. This mucus is usually yellow, white, or cloudy, and it feels sticky or tacky. You may notice it at the opening of your vagina.

Usually, you have the most mucus right before ovulation. It’s clear and it feels slippery — kind of like raw egg whites — and can be stretched between your fingers. These “slippery days” are your fertile (unsafe) days, when you’re the most likely to get pregnant.

After about 4 slippery days, you may suddenly have less mucus and it’ll get cloudy and sticky again, followed by a few more dry days — these are also safe days. Then, your period starts and the cycle repeats.

Hope this helps ladies. I always get some white/cloudy discharge in the days following ovulation!

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rollerskaterdata · 15/09/2018 18:50

@Beautifulblue wonderful explanation blue, thank you! Glad you explained as I was so worried I have an infection 😂

So I'm 5dpo, still cramping almost like AF cramps since 1dpo, ridiculously tired (slept 11 hours last night), stuffy nose this AM and nose of a blood hound apparently (I'm smelling smells no one else can to the point that my mum asked me today if I'm preggo because I can smell everything and she couldn't smell anything, despite also being sensitive to smells). It's extremely unlikely impossible that implantation has even happened yet so who knows what the hell is going on 🤷‍♀️

I've given up trying not to symptom spot, f*ck it! Life is too short and it's all part of the fun! 🤣 my body won't leave me alone anyway!