April bus

[Proudmummy88]

AF arrived this morning Anyone else want to join me on the April bus. Sending best wishes to everyone
CD1
TTC#1 with husband. I have 3 children for previous relationship.
BFP/AF due 03/04/19

@mimicracra hello!! Hope you're well. Sending positive vibes to you. Very sorry about your mmc

Hi @Rubberyduck love the user name hehe. My husband was a bit like that with a Dec baby. My first as second child are Jan and Feb so he's like no way. But then I said don't care. If it happens I'd rather Dec baby over no baby. It's mainly I just want to try and avoid a big gap for my last baby as the other 3 are very close age wise.
Sending you all the best luck for you

Proudmummy88 I get ovulation pain quite a lot. Cramping, quite often a pinching feeling on one side. It can be for a few days around ovulation (which is an attractive feeling to have in my fertile period ). Now that I've been paying more attention, I had cramping/a bleed on CD9, and yesterday CD12 I had some cramping. We'll see what the next few days brings!

@deathbycats glad I'm not the only one. I thought I was going crazy. Hubby was thinking I was getting 2 periods a month with the pains lol. Fingers crossed it's both our months.

@Proudmummy88 I get ovulation pain as well. My OPKs were the darkest around then, not dark like a positive should be but dark. Im now in the TWW!! Keep me sane ladies. May have to get the OH to hide my tests🙈
Baby dust to all xx

Hopping on the bus please!

Cd 1 or 2 after about 5 days of spotting/v dark brown gunk 🤷🏼‍♀️

Cycle 10 (actually can't believe it's been that long)
Ttc # 1

Not a sniff of a pregnancy in that time.
Using opk (although had a break last month), conceive plus, but given up on acupuncture.

Feeling close to giving up tbh. All of my friends are pregnant/just given birth!

Hi @bunhead34, we use Conceive Plus too but I've stopped using OPKs as they just made me more anxious and I've given up on reflexology. Cycle 16 for me and cycle one on Clomid, trying to stay positive but it's hard, especially when it feels like everyone around me is pregnant or has just had a baby. Not sure of your circumstances but I'd recommend speaking to your GP if you haven't already. They don't generally refer for fertility issues until you've been trying for 12 months (6 months if 35 yo or over) but referral can take a while so no harm asking the question.

Oh I get ovulation pains too. And I am super ahem...excitable during ovulation time. Like a teenage boy shall we say 😲 but I am super nervous about ttc

@dragonmummy17 Yes, I've only been testing with the Clearblue in the morning, then using an internet cheapy when I get home from work. I'd forgotten that it says you can test more often after you get the flashing smiley! Will remember that for next cycle, although this is going to get very expensive very quickly. Argh!

@proudmummy88 Still on flashing smiley for 8 days in a row! My evening internet cheapies showed a stronger test line on 14, 15, 16 and 17 DPO (none were actually positive) but today on 18DPO back to nothing! So now I'm thinking I missed the LH surge or I didn't even have a proper LH surge... Can this happen?!

I feel like I'm doing this whole OPK business wrong to be honest. I'm writing this month off as a learning experience. Any words of wisdom for a total newbie?!

Hello! Can I hop in too?

I'm 32
CD1
Ttc#2
Cycle 3
AF due 19th April

Used the cheap OPKs last cycle which gave me a positive and I will use them again this month.
Good luck to everyone 🤞🤞

Jumping aboard, and wondering if @broodyaf would like to join us too?

Hmm. CD13 today. Yesterday had loads of EWCM - neg OPKs (tested mid afternoon and early evening). Today - fertile CM seems to have vanished, but sore boobs, and more cramping. Luckily DTD the night before all the EWCM. I'll give it a couple of days and then assume I'm in my TWW.

Hey @TulipsTwoLips

Yeah I might as well jump on, but I've a big ole negative head on me this cycle thinking why would it happen this cycle when it hasn't happened the past 26? 🤷‍♀️

Plus I'm CD7 today and I generally ovulate on CD10 and DP is on shiftwork so cant see us DTD much

Anyone else absolutely and utterly fed up to the back teeth of temping, tracking, POAS and above all, the laborious DTD chore?

As u can see I'm in a great mood today 🙄🙈

Please tell me someone else feels like this! Xx

@Broodyaf I was feeling deflated, my cramps are pissing me right off.... so I've stuck on some noughties pop punk, singing away and cleaning. I'm on annual leave this week so don't wanna be sat around thinking too much about ttc xx

@Broodyaf I am feeling exactly the same!
Only 2dpo, how will I get through the month?!

Hub is away for work this month so we might not even get to dtd at the right time 🤷🏼‍♀️

I've started Angus castus yesterday so maybe that will help, who knows.

I feel like my life is in limbo!

@Broodyaf yes me. I'm so tired from it all. Actually I'm just tired. Yesterday got a flashing smiley but too busy and tired to dtd so we will have to do it today. I don't even want to opk but its becoming a strange addiction
I also got ewcm today I think but it was more yellow than clear which is weird
So fed up of the constant stress of it all, the emotional rollercoaster, the fact that we mainly dtd to make a baby (or not as it turns out) and then we're too tired the rest of the time (and short cycles with days of spotting beforehand don't help either)
Its rubbish. But somehow I can't stop either and will be holding my wee to test this evening too just in case today's the day of the static smiley

Hello, room on the bus for one more?

TTC #2
32 years old
Cycle 1
CD6

Irregular cycles which I attempt to track with limited success so I have ordered OPKs which we used with #1. I think next week will be ovulation time to begin the TTC.

@broodyaf, me too! Although I've given up with opks as they just make me more anxious. We just dtd every two days. It's so planned now it takes all the fun out of it!

Thank God I'm not on my own in my way of thinking.

We haven't told anyone we're TTC and my DP doesn't get how frustrating/stressing the whole planning of the acts are, the grave extent of how unenjoyable the actual acts are, how much the TWW takes out of you, the anxiety and tension caused by the dreaded POAS from 8DPO (even though you've promised urself this month ur not going to test until the day AF is due) and the crashing disappointment when AF rears her ugly head once again!!!

It's actually ridiculous the amount of minutes (hours in total 🙄) per day I sit and think about anything and everything pregnancy/baby related, and the amount of money I have spent on conception tablets, OPKs, pregnancy tests, BBT charts and thermometer, pre-seed, reflexology sessions & God knows what else

And I feel what makes it so much more frustrating/time-consuming is the fact that I don't (am not allowed to) work and I have no kids, so apart from my gorgeous lil Shitzu, I have the whole day to obsess over everything and make myself more anxious/depressed

No joke ladies, I could go on and on here on this rant cos that's only a drop in the ocean
😭 😫

Oh broody 💕 I want to give you biggest hug. Having nothing else to focus on really is the shittiest thing. I'm trying to keep occupied by doing all the fiddly little jobs around the house, painting and sorting out bloody plastic tat are on the cards for tomorrow. Have you got any hobbies to focus on? Or maybe start something new that you've always wanted to try/do?
This month is a shit month for me as it will be 6 years ago I lost my sister to cancer....I always try and find something new to do around this time of year as I'm focussed and excited about that and don't spiral down the hole of sitting and thinking things over. Be kind to yourself lovely xx

Thank you @Peachyx2505

I had started going to PT twice a week but I'm going to pull the pin on it. 1/2 the time I don't go now, and I actually have got to hate it! I gave up the cigarettes on 1st Jan (another TTC effort) and I have put 1 1/2 stone! So the PT isn't even helping. I just get all anxious when it's coming round to the time that I should be getting ready to go.

No I don't really have any hobbies any more - tbh I have no interest in anything these days. All interest and motivation has gone out the window (as I sit her still in my jammies from yesterday!! 🙈)

Pressed send too quickly - so sorry about your sister Peachy xxx

Ur doing so well keeping yourself busy and ur mind occupied!! X

Aww thank you. Honestly it's just something I've learnt to do over the years.
How about an at home exercise dvd? There's loads on YouTube? That's my plan this month.
Do you go out walking at all? I know walking gives you more time to think but we go geocaching. We started before having DS so it's not just for kids 😂 I know plenty of adults who do it. It gets us out to new places and you have something to focus on xx

dragon sorry ovia is messed up for you too - I hope you've had success working it out for yourself!

Ovulation pains - I get these too, usually twice per cycle? Once about 4-5 days before I ov then when I ov. This month I had the earlier ones about a week ago and still no signs of the other ones so now I'm worrying I ovd early and missed our chance this month 🙁
Hopefully I'm just over thinking it! I feel like we should try one more time tonight just to be sure but I really really can't be bothered!