TTC FIRST BABY - Thread 12! [edited by MNHQ at OP's request]

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Oh god, can't believe we're on number 12! Current list - sorry if I've missed anyone!!

FlapJackered 30 Cycle 8
Bettythecat 30 Cycle 5
cupcakesandglitter 23 Cycle 7
Jessikka 28 Cycle 1
starkid 29 Cycle 5
MrsAW2018 24 Cycle 8
AnnaMC214 32 Cycle 5
TTC34 34 Cycle 1
ttc12019 29 Cycle 1
19Bee2 27 Cycle 1
Ember25 34 Cycle 4
BlueArtemis 24 Cycle 7
stormtrooperjulian 31 Cycle 6
MrsH497 32 Cycle 2
Tinag18 36 Cycle 2
MrsR16 25 Cycle 6
Random2468 28 Cycle 2
Jessikka 28 Cycle 1
BostonFern 34 Cycle 1

TTC#1 Grads......
EltzBee Cycle 6
Delilah7 Cycle 3
SullyWifey Cycle 11
MrsEG Cycle 6
MrsLBear Cycle ?
GemmaJen Cycle ?
Crossfitgirl Cycle 8
Bettythecat Cycle 8
Fivexfive Cycle?
Dogmum24 Cycle?
Scottslass55 38 Cycle 4

@KittieKath I don't find the lack of booze that hard but I'm not really one for drinking anyway. Hardest for me is no sugar in coffee... so I just don't drink it, only black tea. I've done it before in Oct 2015 and lost a stone of pure fat, and gained a little muscle too. I felt great for it then so I just keep thinking about that, it's only been since Monday so I'll have to let you know next week haha. If you need any tips etc I know all the rules on what you can and can't have etc but I got my 30 day written for me and hub by a nutritionist at a cost so it's all tailored to us but I could DM you it if you like?

@TrashKitten10 I've designated myself a little glass which I'll be keeping next to my bed... see below 🙈

@TrashKitten10

LOLs!! Maybe you can decorate it in nail polish and make it a feature?! 😎

@BabySquid wow, that is so generous of you! I would defo appreciate any advice at all... I am still working out what I can and can't have. Please do send over any advice at all - if you are happy to share it would be most helpful, thank you! 😘😘😘

P.s you lose a stone? 😍🙏 Losing weight would be amazing (I fit into barely anything in my wardrobe these days!) but getting up the duff is the number 1 objective for me. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

@TrashKitten10 haha we must be! I'm actually quite a smart lady but you wouldn't think so most days 😂 I'm feeling much better today Thankyou! So glad feel like a new woman!

@BabySquid I'm laughing so much, cracking piss pot you have there!

@KittieKath Haha, of course, to beat @BabySquid's arrangement I shall have to have a decorative piss pot, possibly bejewelled. Then place it on my bedside table too 😂

@thumper59 Haha that's so funny. My husband says I'm very intelligent and stupid all in one. He reckons my brain doesn't switch on for small tasks so hence the ditziness

@thumper59 you have plenty of time yet then. I will be going the gym tonight....and maybe even tomorrow 🙊

@Lozzlepop I always think that if we wasn't TTC would we even notice these random spots or is it just because we are more aware.

@TrashKitten10 I'm very posh and use the lid of one of my sprays 😂. I have obviously given it a good clean but I can then take it to work.

@MrsR16 Did you still DTD. I am hoping for another positive today so going to do another OPK on my lunch. Are you doing one today, you must being getting your surge today x

@DayDreamer1707 yes, managed to DTD yesterday! DH was very helpful considering how much I was aching! Haha 😂 I'll do another OPK when I get home and fingers crossed I don't miss my surge! It's awkward taking stuff to work - I work in a large-ish open plan office and it's obvious if I take stuff to the toilet with me! 🙈

Morning ladies! How are we all?
I'm 6dpo trying so hard not to symptom spot!

Have a good day x

@KatBeCool thanks good to know :)

@thumper59 I have my gym stuff with me and already I cannot be arsed going lol!

@MrsR16 glad you are alive lol hope you aren't too sore today! I wondered this too, think the One Step Amazon ones say to take the result after 10 mins so I will be doing that next month, glad to hear things are progressing in the right direction!

@DayDreamer1707 yes to #FitFeb! Deffo think its because we are more aware of every little thing and sit and over analyse!

@MrsH497 Morning 👋🏻glad that its Thursday and the weekend is nearing, Im 3DPO but feeling pretty relaxed atm check back with me in 9 days time lol!

@KatBeCool thanks for the point, I'd not seen that about sleep - I don't struggle but worth keeping in mind. Tbh my diet isn't great and I feel pretty run down most of the time so trying them out! Nothing cycle-influencing though.

Good luck with the Clomid!

@Nextchapter19 congratulations!

@thumper59 sorry to hear you're stressed -house stress is the worst, it's supposed to be your sanctuary. And particularly when thinking about babies, you want it ready! I occasionally spot mid-cycle, it seems to be one of those things, and if you're not long off of BC it can take a while for things to settle, just track and if it seems to be a pattern you can try the Drs

@TrashKitten10 that made me laugh quite a bit! Hope your bathroom has recovered. I'm about to start OPKs and that is my main concern - how to actually sample, from what I'm reading one should do them in the middle of the day... when I'm at work... how exactly will I get away with taking a chow main container in with me?! Does it matter a huge amount when in the day you take them? And can you just pee directly onto the stick like a pregnancy test, or will that just not work?

Keen to start them but not sure when -the packet says CD9 or 10 (cycle is 26 or 27 days long depending on how she's feeling!) - so that's tomorrow or Friday (let's not lie -i'm gonna do it tomorrow). I got 2 packs of 5 - I think I am going to have to get more.

But I've just downloaded Flo and it gives my O day as 12th, so CD13 which is earlier than Ovia had (14th, CD15) so that's confusing, now thinking should I already have started? #confused

TTC does funny things to you. A colleague brought in her 4 month old yesterday and he was quite unsettled and cried most of the time, and numpty here was just staring thinking "oh it all looks so wonderful". It didn't, it looked cross!

@TrashKitten10 yeah that's like me 😂

@DayDreamer1707 I'm going to pop home from work get changed and go do a class. Last year I was there 5 days a week but I appear to have started the year on the wrong foot 😂

@Lozzlepop it's just not the weather for it! 😂. If it was sunnier I'd bike to work, not in this weather though!

@PeacockingAbout I know, I should be thankful we have a lovely home I just wish it was completely finished and had new doors where new doors could be and bits of painting finished. Im going to do that Saturday! Yeah it's stopped today so far so I'll see how I go this month. Probably just my body still being a bit awol!

@Lozzlepop yeah, those are the OPKs I've got! They seem to be working at the moment thankfully!

@PeacockingAbout I started using OPKs this month (pack of 50 from Amazon haha!) and started testing on Saturday when I was on CD14. I only test in the early evening as I don't take them to work with me. Haven't had a positive yet, but it looks like I'll be there in the next day or so! All the instructions say to pee in a pot. I use the top of a Johnsons earbud container! 😂 also, I'm not sure Flo is the most accurate. I've just downloaded Glow and that thinks I'll ov on Saturday whereas Flo says today!

@thumper59 well I made it to the gym, got a feeling I am gonna be sore tomorrow lol

@MrsR16 yeah I found them really quite easy to use, especially if you take a picture of it and upload to Glow as it selects the correct "level" of negative or positive, I'm finding Glow really good so far although its still early days!

@Lozzlepop I've got a few hours left at work yet. I might just take the dogs for a walk instead 😂

@thumper59 same here, counting down till 5pm lol hopefully the OH is cooking tonight so I can out my feet up.

Well had another day of hyper/lively activity levels! Don't know if it is the isoflavones or something else, but it's a nice change from just yawning and being lazy all the time Not quite going to the gym like you lot, but I have been on my exercise bike rather than just ignoring it!

CD7, so going to crack out the OPKs from tomorrow and get BDing... And so begins another cycle, haha.

Nextchapter19 is so lucky conceiving first cycle.

@starkid how are you finding the Isoflavones?

Turns out with all my best efforts I went to sign on for a class tonight and my membership has been cancelled. Argh meant to not be in a contract, but I cancelled the day before my direct debit was due to come out. So they've took my money but cancelled my membership. I can't be arsed to ring them and mess about - I'm going to join one closer to home in March anyway if I don't get preggers this cycle. I'm going to just go power dog walks and do some at home work outs this month so I'm sort of joining in!

@Lozzlepop OH cooked last night while I napped it was ace waking up to tea being ready 😂 no such luck tonight though going to take the boys out ( realise how weird that sounds- I mean my dogs 😂) and come back and crack on x

@Lozzlepop - Yeah they've been fine, only noticed having more energy so far which may or may not be from them. They taste vile though 😂 On my 3rd day of taking them, out of 5.

Hi all. I have never wanted my period to arrive so much! Day 40 something of cycle now. BFN.
I went to my doctors today as I've had a couple of strange cycles in the last 6 month's (suspected not ovulating) but never this late. She was completely dismissive and I felt really patronised. She practically rolled her eyes when I said I'd been temping for a few months so could tell that I didn't ovulate in October.
Anyway, she said if I don't bleed for 3 months then they will consider some blood tests. Keep everything crossed AF arrives soon for me, please!

@Nextchapter19 Congratulations on your news. What a great surprise!

So I've had my surge and back to negative OPKs, so looks like I'm about to ovulate or i already have. Praying that we have cover it this cycle. Actually quite nervous this is our first proper attempt.

@MrsR16 have you got your positive yet?

@thumper59 has the odd bleed stopped?

@19Bee2 I hope it does arrive for you, must be so frustrating especially when nobody technically wants AF x

@DayDreamer1707 yeah thanks so far so good no more bleeding since last night. And then it was red but well mixed in with CM so it seemed. But no more today. I'm just about to do an OPK but I don't imagine it'll be positive just yet. X

@19Bee2 sorry the GP was so dismissive. You must be incredibly frustrated.

@DayDreamer1707 I got my positive OPK today, so also hoping we can do enough to catch the egg.
Incase anyone finds it useful, this is how my OPKs have progressed so far this cycle. Don't give up thinking you won't get a positive, as you can see mine has pretty much nothing until yesterday!

Negative OPK again. Fertile window starts tomorrow according to ovia but I very highly doubt it does 😂 will the app update as I enter more negative OPKs? I put in CM and it's come up saying I'll still be a few days away from fertile window judging by that. Gonna defo keep dtd regardless though!