TTC #1 thread 1 2019

[Waiting2bMum]

Hi Ladies,

Thought it would be good to start a 2019 support thread for all of us who are trying to conceive. Any one welcome, please join!
I will start:
Age: 26
TTC: baby no.1
Trying: 20 cycles with 2 chemical pregnancies
Currently: 2 ww, due on tomorrow with negative HPT's so far

Would be great to hear your stories and support each other along the way. Wishing you all baby dust☺️💐xx

@Waiting2bMum ooh fingers crossed for you for this month. I know I ovulated as I've got the usual post ovulation symptoms.... sore/sensitive boobs and nipples! 😩🙈 worst thing ever so uncomfortable

@MrsP4 thank you☺️and same for you too. Ohh really, could be a good sign. It's hard knowing whether it could be a pregnancy sign or not isn't it xx

@Waiting2bMum yes it really is! I always get it after ovulation for a few days, don't know if anyone else maybe interested but this month I've been taking these tablets that have been recommended by Luisa Zissman, she was told to take them by a fertility expert in the US and there's a lot of positive reviews
www.luisazissman.co.uk/?p=647
I can't say yet if they've helped me as it's only my first month taking them but for anyone else struggling it's worth a go! Xx

I'm in TWW but seem to have a long cycle this month as I'm on CD35 with 7days to go.

Hope it's okay if I join...

I'm 29 and this is my 7th Cycle ttc #1.

Had two BFN's on 10dpo and 11dpo so stopped testing and am waiting for AF to arrive (due Monday) but if my cheap internet pg tests arrive today i'll probably test again tonight. Could not feel any less confident...I think as the months go by, as much as I pray to see that BFP i almost expect a BFN everytime I do a test now. What an emotional journey this is!

That's great to know! Thanks for that👍🏻so I'm a week away from ovulation so thought I would try an OPK which are normally blank this early. I think I may ovulate earlier x

Hi all!

Is it ok if I hop on?

33
TTC #2
Cycle 1
CD 15

Just tracking CM at the moment and had loads of ewcm for 4 days after period finished so have no idea whereabouts I am now 🙈 Had a look back at my app from first pregnancy and apparently conceived on a ‘school glue’ day so who knows?! 😂

Good luck everyone 😊

Hey ladies, I am very new to all this but I wanted to see if anyone is having a similar problem. Or anyone that's been thought it.
Story time!
So I get married in October 2018. Because we wanted to have a baby I can off the pill 5 months before the wedding. I had two what seemed to be normal periods then they stopped I then went three months without a period. My doctor advisede to wait as I have pcos and this is very common. So I waited....I started getting some symptoms and still no period so I took loots of pregnancy test all negative!
In November 2018 I started to do acupuncture to help with fertility. 3 days after my first session I started my period after not having one for 4 months. It lasted for 12 days! 😫 The last day was the 22nd of December. For the last 2 weeks I have been getting period like symptoms and back pain...LOTS OF BACK PAIN!! I have take 3 of the strip tests and they all have a very faint thin line. I don't want to get excited but I have been losing my mind about this. 😂

Hi @TheatreMumma welcome☺️ooohhh that's interesting have you tried OPK or even a pregnancy test as may have been implantation? It was it a proper period? X
Hi@me2shaw2lee welcome☺️sorry haven't got much knowledge with your story, out upload a pic of your faint positive we have good line eyes on here!! X

@me2shaw2lee message below sorry it didn't tag x

@Waiting2bMum when I get an OPK like that I start testing twice a day definitely think you'll ovulate in a few days

Thanks @Waiting2bMum! I had a definite period - the aim was to wait until that period was over to start ttc. Expected the normal change in cm as cycle goes on but got the 4 days of ewcm as soon as period finished on cd7, which is really strange. Managed to dtd once during ewcm and once after but think we’re just going to keep trying every few days throughout cycle anyway as not sure cm is an exact science - especially as got pregnant outside of the ewcm period first time round. So i have no idea if I ov’d really early but if anyone wants to take anything from my previous experience - if you’re only tracking cm and not using OPKs just keep dtd just in case!! 🤞🏼

@MrsP4 really!!🙈🙈typical DP is away and not back until Sunday, hope it holds until then x

@TheatreMumma that's good to know. It's so hard to know our bodies as lots of things change through every different cycle x

@liveinhope100 sorry I missed your post a few come at once, welcome☺️fingers crossed for you, hope AF doesn't show and your not out until she arrives!! What tests have you used so far? X

Thanks @Waiting2bMum, i'd love to ask you how you cope with your feelings during each cycle and the tww? I find that as the cycles go on I really struggle to stay positive and now I expect a BFN each time I do a test. I wonder if its better to have this mentality or if it would be better to think really positive each month and say to myself 'this is the month'.

I used FRER both days and my pack of 50 (!!!) internet cheapies has just arrived so I might do another test tonight/tomorrow seeing as I have so many to use but am pretty confident im out!

@liveinhope100 well, where do I start🙈I am now on cycle 21 since coming off of the pill. I don't know if you read back but my cycles took ages to regulate and I felt dreadful stopping the pill. I had terrible withdrawal symptoms and didn't know much about my cycles as there where all over the place up to 50 days between periods some cycles. I started taking seven seas folic acid around March last year which made me feel great and my cycles are consistent. So don't really know whether to count the months before that as 'TTC'. I differ, one cycle I'm very positive and hold off testing and then if it doesn't happen then I think positive towards the next cycle, other times I just think why me, why can't it happen quick for me and feel really down. I have had 2 MC's recently, one in August and one in November. Obviously I was gutted when it didn't stick but when I look at it now I see it as a positive that something is happening. I feel quite positive this cycle and keep telling myself it can and it will happen to me. We all cope differently, there is no right or wrong way for how we cope, don't let any one tell you differently. It's your body and your mind, you do or feel how you want to😘fingers crossed for you and third time lucky for me🤞🏻💐x

@Waiting2bMum Wow what a journey you have had. I definitely think that is a good way to look at the MC's. As devastating as they must have been it must be nice to know that things are happening and it probably is just a matter of time. Thanks for sharing and for the advice, really appreciate it. FX for you, third time is a charm as they say!

Anyway if AF comes im ready for it as the next cycle will be the first one i'm going to take soy isoflavones and see if that helps me get my BFP :)

@liveinhope100 that's ok☺️it is difficult as all the time on Facebook I see people are getting pregnant or I hear of people that are and it does make you think how come it is so quick for them or why can they get pregnant and it's difficult for me. I just have to stop myself testing too early🙈🙈stay positive she isn't going to show for you!!

Just jumping in on a few of the convos. I never seem to get EWCM. Not that’s noticeable anyway, I remember vividly having it as a tennager but since I started TTC the first time, it was never there. I worried endlessly and googled my life away ‘can you get pregnant with no EWCM’. Maybe I do get it and don’t notice. Anyway, the point to my rambling is, the first time I got pregnant I had no EWCM. It was the third cycle and we had just starting using OPKs. We DTD on the day I got a static smiley on a clear blue.

For now, we’re just seeing what happens but I might use them if no joy after 3 cycles. I definitely can’t tell when I’m ovulating just via symptoms so I’m roughly going by the predictions on the Flo App and continuing throughout the month to make sure I’m not missing it. I always tell myself I’m not going to get too stressed about it, but here I am

@Sienna9522 hahaha I like the end but, we always tell ourselves not to get stressed or over think buttttttt...we do🙈I'm the same I don't get it a lot, a little bit but not too much to notice. If any thing (tmi) I'm bone dry down there😂🙈

@waiting2bmum hahaha I am too! Although I’m not as concerned give the fact my first child come from ‘bone dryness’ 😂

I'm also in the tww. According to natural cycles I'm 2po, but it normally takes 3 days for consecutive high temps for it to calculate. I've run out of folic acid and on your recommendation I've picked up some seven seas ones instead @Waiting2bMum.

I get really sensitive breasts and cramps around ovulation @Sienna9522, but had very little ewcm in the last few months. I've heard drinking water helps, but I have to go to the loo every half an hour. I already have a reputation at work for my weak bladder (always having to step oit of meetings) and now it's just ridiculous 😂 🙈

I'm 1dpo!

@LondonKez I get cramps mid cycle ish but I can’t predict it. This cycle I had cramps 2 days before predicted O on Flo and today (1 day after predicted O) so very confusing.

I’ve been on a bit of a health kick since the new year so I’ve been drinking around 2-3 litres a day, although this week has been a write off. I’ve not drank enough water and had way too many fizzy drinks.