TTC FIRST BABY - Thread 11!

[FlapJackered]

Hi all, thought we needed to start a new thread!
@KatBeCool
@cupcakesandglitter
@MrsAW2018
@Crossfitgirl
@EltzBee
@TrashKitten10

Congratulations @Bettythecat!! Wow this has been such a lucky thread recently!

I wish some of it would rub off on me. Af is imminent (tomorrow going by O day, Wednesday based on previous cycles) and no sign of my usual pre af spotting yet. I always knew the chances this cycle were super low with dh away so much so why am I still torturing myself thinking "what if"?!

@AnnaMC214 it only takes the once! As my friend who has a baby boy as a result of a ONS last year found out. It upsets me it doesn't seem that easy for us who are all ready and raring however, I know there is enough babies to go round all of us 😊😊. It's just keeping positive when your really trying is bloody hard isn't it! X

Congratulations @Bettythecat amazing!! Such a lucky thread so far.
Well I started temping today. You ladies all raved about it and said how good it was. Is orally best?

@thumper59 I think it's the balance of staying positive whilst trying not to keep getting my hopes up that I'm struggling with the most. I have a nasty feeling that af will be late this cycle just to mess with me

Bettythecat a huge congrats!!!!!!

@AnnaMC214 I feel you. I'm trying to keep a reasonable mind but one side of my brain is like taking over with excitement and I know I'm setting myself up for disappointment but still can't help myself. At least we are all in this together so can celebrate and vent in equal measures and we all know what one another are feeling 💕 x

@DayDreamer1707 well that's good that you have support. I feel you in the babies everywhere. I'm feeling very envious, I am surrounded with babies/expecting people. Plus a guy in work is having a baby with his girlfriend and seems to think it's all down to his super sperm/fabulous male virility. He talks way too much about his own prowess. I may push him out a window by the end of the month

My AF is due next Monday but my FF app is saying I can test on Sunday.

@Bettythecat - congratulations!!! Wowee, wonder if we'll get any more positives this month?
@ValidUser - fx for a retest in a few days time I say
@cupcakesandglitter - I'd have said that was positive!

@cupcakesandglitter was this mornings test darker than last night? I agree with @DayDreamer1707 that it's not quite positive but just hours away. Keep testing today to confirm. If it starts getting lighter, I'd say you ovulated overnight as it's too dark for just a mid-cycle LH.

@Keyboard91 so they all refuse to do the blood test and insist that next step is the scan which they can't do until two weeks from now? That doesn't sound right. Maybe find another place and tell them you're already at six weeks? The wait would kill me.

@FlapJackered you don't have to DTD twice a day, hun. It's too frequent and doesn't leave enough time for your DH sperm to regenerate sufficiently. So even if there's a lot in volume, the quality is significantly diminished. It's one thing if you only dtd just this one day, you can get away with twice that day, but if you've been draining that man daily for the past two days, there's not much left, plus the sperm lives up to five days inside you so there is still plenty there. Three days of positive OPK is certainly long, it could be the isoflavones effect. Temp might take 2-3 to rise so I wouldn't worry yet. Did you have any slight dips?

@Bettythecat congratulations! Seems like we get a new bfp every few days here!

@cupcakesandglitter I am not sure DH is going to survive Dtd again! It had better work! 😂😂

@DayDreamer1707 I think it must be the Soy as nothing else has changed (except taking evening primrose oil). It does sometimes feel like our bodies are out to trick us doesn't it!
When do you think you will test?

@KatBeCool you're right! I just got carried away! 😂 we Dtd twice yesterday as I felt the ovulation pain last night and knew we couldn't Dtd this morning as DH had to leave early and I thought it would be too late this morning, but now my temperature still hasn't risen! 😩
So we dtd Saturday am, twice Sunday and then I think we had better tonight too. I had a slight dip today so hoping I am ovulating today as I think we won't be able to go again tomorrow. 🙈 I am sure it is to do with the Soy as nothing else really has been different. After all the bad effects of the Soy at the time I just don't want to waste this month by not getting all bases covered. 😬

@FlapJackered the dip usually means you ovulate that day or the next day (as I look back at my past charts). I felt some, I don't even know what to call it, some "stretchy" feeling yesterday, not what I usually feel when I ovulate but in the same area and the temp dipped today but opks are quite light although I had a quite dark but not positive one on Saturday. Saturday was only cd10. I don't know what my body is thinking. Virtual cheers to our unpredictable and weird bodies!

@DuchessofPemberley I say push him out the window for just being an ass anyway!! My AF is due Friday or Saturday...just felt horrible sick after eating my breakfast but that's probably just symptom spotting. Plus I've been trying to eat a lot healthier and started back up my exercise so maybe that's to do with the odd sicky feel I get. Are you going to hold our for AF?

@FlapJackered yes our bodies are our own worst enemy sometime. I would say keep testing and keep an eye on your temp and DTD anyway. I just want to POAS now but I will try and hold out for AF to come because I don't think it's happened this month.

@FlapJackered It does sometimes feel like our bodies are out to trick us doesn't it!

This with bells on! 😂 whenever I think I've finally figured it out some other new unexplained thing happens!

Hope you get your temp rise tomorrow

Ok guys, just want to check with you all if you think I've got my 21 day hormones blood test booked the right day, as you're all more in the know that me!
Positive OPK on Saturday 19th, presume ovulation on 20th... Usually a 10ish day luteal phase so due AF on 31st Jan according to Clue. I booked the test for this Friday (25th) to be roughly in the middle of ovulation and AF, do you think that's right? So hard to work out when to book it, especially with slightly shorter luteal phase!

@DayDreamer1707 I'm going to try to hang on until Sunday, the day before AF is due. I feel so nauseous that if this keeps up I can't wait any longer. Saturday at the absolute earliest, I have no tests in the house and will try not to buy any until Friday after work.

I hate the TWW, the symptoms makes it so much worse!

Thanks @DayDreamer1707 @KatBeCool @starkid I have logged it as positive because it's ever so slightly off - this morning was almost the same colour, but I did one an hour ago that's definitely lighter so I think my surge was overnight!! Not sure if I've actually ovulated yet because I'm getting sort of niggling pains around where my ovary is I think - so I've told DH to meet me at home first before we go out to DTD 😂😂

@FlapJackered I agree with Kat actually DTD either late tonight or tomorrow morning, and then if maybe do it once the day after (for good luck 😂) x

@starkid that sounds right to me! Xx

So here's a close up of the same test (within time limit). Still seeing something!

@DuchessofPemberley I am due on the Saturday actually and silly me bought loads of IC's 🙈. I have always said I wouldn't test early. Last time I got my BFP I had no symptoms beforehand x

@cupcakesandglitter happy banging for you and DH X

@cupcakesandglitter - thanks :) didn't want to have the test done pointlessly.

Someone please slap me. I think I am imagining symptoms and I am doing my own head in. Slight cramps on and off, feeling a bit nauseated after eating, couldn't actually finish my dinner and now getting a headache and I feel tired...maybe I am just exhausted after my big walk/hike and praying these are pregnancy related!!

Thanks for all your messages ladies!! Fingers crossed it all goes to plan now.

@FlapJackered to respond to you on your question about the Pre-Seed... I used it with the syringe and also as a normal lube "externally" lol.

I did have a few very slight cramping sensations low down in my tummy around 8/9 DPO which were so slight I thought I could be imagining things but now thinking it was implantation so you never know. So @DayDreamer1707 you never know- you might be having the same!

@Bettythecat I hope it is, had slight cramping yesterday which was 8DPO but I think I have reported that before in the past. Think I need to chill out but so hard when you want something so bad. Suppose I will just have to wait till AF arrives x

Congratulations @bettythecat!

I've booked my appointment to have my coil removed on the 31st, am due to ovulate that weekend so that means we are officially trying this cycle!

As I mentioned in my last post I won't be tracking anything (for now at least!) but I do know that I ovulate 14 days before my period due to experiencing ovulation pains a couple of times since being on the coil (copper so non hormonal).

I'm feeling quite anxious now I've made the appointment, it's all quite real now instead of hypothetical!

Urgh DH is really not into Dtd tonight. I don't think I have the energy to cajole him into it either. I feel like I have literally screwed us over by doing it twice yesterday. 😩😂
I may just have to hope I ovulated earlier today and have done enough with Dtd yesterday. So frustrating!!
Sometimes I wish I could just unscrew DH's cock from his body during fertile week, have my merry way whenever I want to then give it back to him after ovulation! 😂😂