TTC FIRST BABY - Thread 11!

[FlapJackered]

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

Thank you for the list @stormtrooperjulian There really are lots of us here. Let's hope for plenty of good news in the coming weeks.

@TrashKitten10 I also take mine at 6 each morning (also a teacher and finding it SO tiring being back). I just take mine in the morning at the same time at a weekend. Even stuck to it over Christmas, which I feel I need a gold medal for! My husband wasn't too keen at first either but my sympathy level for that complaint was pretty low - it's not like they have to record and monitor and constantly analyse their bodies every day!

Oh god yeah @Jessikka it's so odd 😂

@Bettythecat looks positive to me!!

@Babytrain89 my cousin and her friends went to Budapest for NYE 2017 and said it was incredible!! I'd love to go one day! I think we're just going to book some time off together, even if we just stay at home, we don't see each other enough 😩

I've been temping the last few days, but haven't woken up at the same time or anything, just doing it as soon as I wake up. Sort of varied results but I'm doing it because I'm intrigued 😂 x

@Keyboard91 add a little lemon juice to water, it's much more drinkable that way. I hate water too and it's the only way I can drink it.

@Crossfitgirl not a slightest sign of AF. I keep checking every half hour. Other than that one tiny bit of brownish cm yesterday, absolutely nothing. I'm going mad. Luteal phase is supposed to always be the same, one month it was 13 days for me, all others just ten. The temp dropped on that 13th day too. Now it's 14dpo, and temp is still up.

@19Bee2 I get a noticeable amount of ewcm. They say that while you might not have much "show up", there still could be a lot inside. There are ways to check and it involves venturing deep up to your cervix.

@FlapJackered you using opks this cycle? I sure hope those isoflavones worked for you because side effects are crazy.

Ok I'm confused (doesn't take much especially with this TTC lark!) so apps show ovulation should've been 3/4th but OPKs were negative. Just done one and looks positive came up quickly as well.

I'm CD 16

Thoughts ladies? x

@19Bee2 I'll tell him you said to suck it up and stop complaining. Men definitely get an easy run of it don't they!

@Bettythecat That's interesting. No booze worries for us, we are pretty teetotal but it's definitely throwing off my chart when I'm temping even an hour off my normal time. Do you find your charts are still informative enough without weekend temps?

Just checking in and saying hi so I don’t lose this thread, hope you’re all well x

@mrsh497 would ignore the apps and go by the stick, how many cycles have you been tracking? x

@bettythecat that definetely looks positive to me x

@sunshine1987 don't track as such hubby doesn't want us doing full on planning and tracking yet. It's only our second cycle of trying so I occasionally do OPKS.
Maybe the cramps were ovulation pains?

@mrsh497 ahh in that case definitely ingnore the apps. They were getting my ovulation day completely wrong. I used to get ovulation pains and a lot of EWCM which was the way I knew x

Oddly my right boob is tender as well. Ignoring apps! There was me thinking OPKs didn't work and I didn't ovulate (dramatic!) x

@TrashKitten10 yes they are fine just with the 5 temps- I think the app just needs to be able to spot a pattern to predict things but then again you would miss one day drops or rises either way which can sometimes indicate implantation or af being on the way.... in terms of the timing Natural Cycles also says that you can still measure if you get up 2 hours late or early so you could still test up to 8am on the weekends which might make it more palatable and would mean you wouldn’t need to get up at 6am. It’s having at least 2.5/3 hours sleep before you temp that’s most key I think. Xx

@MrsH497 you may have ovulated a little later (or are about to!) my apps have never been right about my ov so don't go solely on that xx

@Babytrain89 yes to crazy hunger! I want to eat again within thirty minutes of eating. It's insane.

@Babytrain89 yes to the bad skin at ovulation, I noticed the pattern when I started tracking, I only get spots around O, none with AF which I thought was odd.

@Bettythecat I got a positive opk on day 13 this cycle and actually ovulated on day 17 (temp rise day 18 so felt like ages since the stick was positive!)

Any thoughts on this... bbt this morn 36.98 which for 6 dpo I was thrilled with... but I did think it was very high and I felt a bit hot so decided after I was up and doing things for a bit just to see if I had a fever (didn't feel unwell per se just so hot) and it was 36.1? I retook that 3 times and on a different thermometer and was all around 36.1-36.18! so why was my normal temp lower than my bbt?! I did wake at 3am and took temp 6.30am however the 3am wake up I literally just peeled my eyes to look at clock then went straight back to sleep without moving.. I'm confused!!

@Katbecool I've never known anything like it. Even if I have a big meal, an hour later my stomach is actually rumbling. Insane!

@Gemmajen I used to get little tiny spots on my chest and shoulders for AF,but rarely a face break out. Yet round ovulation the last 2 months I've just had so many spots on my face! Glad I'm not the only one!

Can I join the baby bus?!

Age: 34
TTC#1
Cycle: 6
CD: 21

Been feeling super tired. DTD lots around fertile window. Headaches and a bit dizzy. Thinking boobs getting a bit bigger.

Really hoping for some news this month, been getting a bit down everytime AF arrives! Fingers crossed for Sept baby!

@Random2468 I thought OPKs were a more accurate sign of ovulation than temp rise as temp can be affected by so many different factors but an LH surge Can’t be wrong unless you have PCOS or similar which means you might have high levels anyway... is that not right? Did you still DTD when you got your positive OPK just in case? Obviously you can still get a surge and not ovulate at all though. Could you get a false positive on an OPK? So many questions sorry it’s such a minefield but also strangely fascinating!! 😂

@Random2468 that’s happened to me before and I just put it down to other things. The temp in your house might be lower than your bed or you were particularly hot last night because of the temp in the bedroom or because you didn’t sleep as well as normal... I tend to take my temp readings with a bit of a pinch of salt because they just depend on so many different factors 😞 I would still take the high temp as your temp for today though and fx it’s a good sign 😘

Temp dropped below cover line this morning 😭. That's always been a sign of the imminent bitch on her way to ruin my life.

@KatBeCool that's not necessarily a sign!! Remember one of the ladies on here had their temp drop and then shot up the next day and they had their BFP! You're not out until AF shows

I spent last night watching the Great Sperm Race on YouTube 😂 actually quite interesting to watch, never realised how much our bodies try and reject them 😂 poor sperm! DH has been super horny this month, I don't know why, but we've had sex at least once every day since the 4th... actually really enjoying it 😂 but then also don't know whether it's best to tell him to maybe only do ever other day? But then we are being relaxed this month 😩 decisions decisions....

Sorry @KatBeCool forgot to add it's was @EltzBee that had the temp drop (how are you?!!) xx

@cupcakesandglitter did the programme say doing it every other day was best? I’d read somewhere that only makes a difference if the mans sperm count it low to start with? But maybe not! According to OPKs I am ovulating tomorrow so we did it last night and this morning and was considering tonight too but maybe that’s a bad idea?!

@Bettythecat oh god, it is so difficult!! See the programme said that every other day throughout the whole month is better because that way you'll hit the fertile period (but actually I don't think you always will because you could DTD the day before you ovulate but what if they don't hang around and the egg is released the next evening?) - But they mentioned that there's nothing wrong with doing it every day, but the sperm may not have fully regenerated so there may not be enough good ones. That being said, there's no harm in you still DTD this evening if you've already done it today x

@cupcakesandglitter- very good point! Think we will in that case...and maybe one more time tomorrow for luck 😂. Did another OPK this morning and even stronger than yesterday so don’t want to miss the boat. Am also trying the pre-seed lube this time round. He says it feels nice so that’s something if nothing else 🤷‍♀️ (Sorry TMI obviously but I think that ship has well and truly sailed for us all on here 😂). Feeling really anxious today as it’s our only “chance” this month and just know the TWW hits me hard. Come on BFP!!