TTC first baby - thread 15

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Hi everyone, looks like it's time for a new thread! Thread 14 was lucky for some, so here's to lots more BFP's

@Jessikka 28 Cycle 3
@starkid 29 Cycle 7
@MrsAW2018 24 Cycle 10
@TTC34 34 Cycle 3
@19Bee2 27 Cycle 2
@MrsH497 32 Cycle 4
@MrsR16 26 Cycle 9
@Lola871 31 Cycle 2
@ValidUser 28 Cycle 7
@DayDreamer1707 28 Cycle 5
@Flapjackered 31 Cycle 9
@DuchessofPemberley 32 Cycle 7
@KittieKath 34 Cycle 6
@KatBeCool 40 Cycle 10
@MrsMcNtobe Cycle 6
@BabySquid 29 Cycle 11
@PeacockingAbout 29 Cycle 4
@Sleepyquest 28 Cycle 2
@Granddesigns 32 cycle 4
@Pinkfizz19 33 cycle 4
@Catlady31 31 cycle 1
@LikeTheFruit 30 cycle 3
@Jooloo11 32 Cycle 3
@Daisiesandpeonies Cycle 10
@LuckyPenguin 34 Cycle 3
@Lizzie198 30 Cycle 2
@Rachel59pink 26 Cycle 1
@Orangeloo 31 Cycle 3
@Lemonysherbet 30 Cycle 1
@Fuiseog 31 Cycle 2
@NKB88 Cycle 2
@Wildrabbit Cycle 2
@Essjayycee Cycle 1
@Hannah192 Cycle 3
@JellyBaby666
@LoMoon Cycle 6
@Hiddenfigure Cycle 1
@Jc88146 Cycle 18
@Kay98 Cycle 16
@Lottiepink 29 Cycle 12
@Bec18x Cycle 4
@Soda123x 32 Cycle 2
@Aimingfor2019 28 Cycle 3
@Lifesforlivingandloving 32 Cycle 1
@MotherOfShihTzus 33 Cycle 14
@Cupcakesandglitter 23 cycle 10
@LokiCat
@Baby01988 30 Cycle 4
@Pinksunset1 28 cycle 3
@TonightJosephine cycle 1
@Toobies1 30 Cycle 5
@Blackfriars Cycle 3
@rosehm 28 Cycle 1
@SophWolf Cycle 1
@Thosethreewords Cycle 3
@Smitch82 37 Cycle 1
@Fivebyfive2 30 Cycle 8

Graduates thread - www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/3527540-Catching-up-with-those-from-TTC-thread-3

Sorry if I missed anyone, and happy baby-making!

@ValidUser Blimey! I'm glad it's sorted, fx it happens for you straightaway xxx

@Fivebyfive2 omg 😂 I can't actually imagine using condoms again, I love not using protection and the thought of going back on birth control makes me feel sick 😂 good luck to your DH for next month - but hopefully having this month off might help you relax a bit more xxx

What day do most people ovulate? I know the internet days usually day 14-16 but wondered what reality was

@AysLon I usually ovulate CD13, but my cycles are short (24 days)

@Fivebyfive2 that's a great pipe dream! I get by on those and tbh, I can invent new ones as the cycles go by so I'm not going to deny myself that!

@MrsAW2018 See how you feel tomorrow. If you don't want to do OPKs, don't stress, you can always do them next month (but you never know, you may not even need to 👌) I'm using preseed and like it! It seems to divide people but I'm giving it a thumbs up.

I've had such a busy day with the babies (on the children's ward where I work) but even so, it's just been so lovely to see all the cute little faces. My broodiness level just keeps climbing... help!!

Also, my friend who had a whoops pregnancy has a 4 day old son now and keeps asking me for tips on how to stop him pooing so much and saying she sometimes wants to put him back in her uterus.
I think she's joking but...

@AysLon I've not settled into a permanent pattern of cycle yet as only stopped the pill December, but my cycles seem short and I seem to ovulate cd12

@peacockingabout eeeek congratulations to you! I checked back in at the right time. Xxx

@Lottiepink May I ask if you have PCOS or similar? Taking any fertility drugs? I have heard that affects tempting sometimes. Are your cycles quite regular or irregular? If irregular that will change date of ovulation too.

I seem to be on around 30-32 days but the 2 last months when we properly tried to TTC I've ovulated o day 23 and this cycle on 25. My period according to app is due on Sunday, which puts my luteal phase to 7 days only! Last month I got my period 7 days DPO so I'm really worried about short luteal phase

Age is also a factor of course, I'm 35 TTC for first baby!

@SunStruck no not got PCOS as far as I'm aware and no fertility drugs.. only thing I've changed this cycle is going on pregnacare vitamins. My cycles since ttc have been good all 28/29 pretty much with ov around cd 16 ( for around 8/9 cycles) then it's just these last 2 that seem to be later! Would you mind sending me a pic of your graph from NC at all please? I'll send you mine also? Can private message it if preferred. Be interesting to see someone else's from the same app ha!

It's strange that you ov has gone later too, that's my worry also with a later ov and shorter luteal 😫

@PeacockingAbout Fantastic news! Congratulations 😁

Also @ValidUser that sounds great, I'm really happy for you.

Sorry to anyone who had AF show up, and to @Jessika and all those enduring insensitive questioning! We have a family gathering (in-law side) at the end of April and a wedding mid-April and we'll know by both if this cycle has been successful. I know the questions that are coming! Very hard to endure.

I'm fairly sure that I am 4 DPO today, based on OPKS. (8 days of high, low the night of day 8 and morning of day 9, then peak the evening of day 9. The peak stays on the reader for two days, and I know it days not to check again but I did, and it was back to low - so it seems definitive?! The apps say I would have o'd based on that data the day after getting the peak).

Weirdly have had very intense bad cramps since 2 DPO. Like the months where AF arrives with an agenda, like she wants you to know who is boss. This is since 2DPO so it is too too early for it to be an implantation cramp, but also too early for it to be a period! So what are you doing, body of mine?!?!

They were so intense and sudden the morning of 2 DPO, so much so that even though I knew logically it couldn't be AF, I was freaked out that there was an actual red flood coming, and I asked a passing teacher to step back into my class for 2 mins so I could go to the bathroom! (Nothing, obviously!) Lasted about 20 mins then passed, came back that night, same pattern yesterday at 3 DPO (very bad last night!). Nothing this morning yet but I am very confused to say the least! Normally around Ov I feel a pinching to one side, which I did a few days before the cramps.

Wishing for microscopic x-ray vision to see what's going on in there!

Happy Friday, everyone! Hope it passes quickly and summons in a good weekend for all 😁

Thanks @AysLon, @Hannah192, @lemonysherbert, @Pinksunset1, @PinkFizz19, @BostonFern, @FivebyFive2, @Lola871 and @Fuiseog!

Good luck to everyone testing at the weekend!

@Pinkfizz19 Glad you've had a lovely time away Fingers crossed for you!!

I caved and tested this morning (11dpo)... bfn 😫

@Fuiseog it sounds like you have the ov day right. Someone did advise me that if you temp with the opk it will confirm your ovulation day. Sometimes when you get a positive opk, your ov day can be a couple of days later

@Hannah192 so sorry, I know it's a shit feeling. Fingers crossed for next month.

Im CD13 Cycle 2 still showing 0 on CBOPK so just waiting, there's a lot of waiting when TCC. I am lucky I found this thread my OH would think I am nuts if he knew I was thinking about dates and times this much ha ha. Wishing everyone a peaceful Friday.

@AysLon thank you. I hadn’t really had any symptoms so kind of expected it, but it’s always disheartening. Just feel like we had it covered so well this cycle, but I guess it’ll just happen when it does.
There is lots of waiting 😂 this thread is brilliant! Good for advice or just to have a good moan 😂

@Hannah192 I know what you mean, I feel like I need to stop hoping and expecting. I may start pretending psychologically that my morning vitamins are my morning contraceptive pill ha ha, might do be more good than all this waiting and wondering. I will just enjoy the sunshine today and whenever this body of mine decides to show positive on OPK I will be fed up by then ha ha

@Pinksunset1 fingers crossed they get to the bottom of it!
I am ok thanks, 7dpo and trying not to read into symptoms! I don't think it is my month though as I feel like my body is still a bit of a mess. It will be good to get onto the next cycle though!

@MrsAW2018 sorry you af was so rubbish. I personally find using opks less stressful than not using them as I hate not knowing where I am in the cycle. You could just start using them a day or so before your usual ov day rather than starting early? I would just do what makes you most relaxed though. X

@PinkFizz19 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

@Fivebyfive2 I know what you mean by being pregnant by Christmas. I had thought about that.🤞🏻
Also it's my birthday tomorrow and just trying not to feel too sad about it as I would have been 13 weeks and I had imagined I would be getting pregnancy related gifts from my family.

@AysLon I ovulate between cd19 and 21 usually. Pretty late which might explain why it is taking me so long!

@Hannah192 11dpo is still early! I didn't get a bfp until 13dpo.

@AysLon same! It’s a good way of thinking. What vitamins do you take? I have just been taking a folic acid but I’m thinking of getting (not pregnacare) but something a long those lines.
This weather is so lovely! Hopefully you get your positive opk soon 🤞🏼

@FlapJackered yeah that’s true. I’ll probably wait until Monday if AF hasn’t arrived by then and test again.

@Lottiepink absolutely no worries all, as a new user I can't send it here, how do I do it privately? Haha not a technical genius here!!

@Hannah192 Thanks, I'm hoping tomorrow morning when I check or Sunday morning- I shall update this thread as soon as I do LOL. CYCLE1 I took just Boots own brand Folic acid tablets. This cycle I am trying Seven seas Folic Acid with Vit B- I think it's specially for TCC. The packs are designed like your pill, I.e. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc etc so i actually feel like im on the pill when taking them!

I am only using the boot folic acid. I might give the seven seas one a go next cycle. I am C1 this time round so not expecting a BFP this month (although secretly hoping) only 7DPO (I think) but feel sick and achey. Think it is all in my head though as been feeling sick since I came off the pill in Jan 😂

It is DH's Birthday this weekend so planning a weekend of eating and drinking to take our minds off it all.

Fingers crossed 🤞🏻 for all taking tests or planning for the next cycle xx

@SunStruck thank you 😊 I actually have no idea 😂

I wonder if i post a pic of mine on here, Least this way you can see if yours looks the similar?

I have a feeling I'm gonna get a positive opk today, done one this morning and it wasn't quite dark enough, so will try later on 😊

@Lottiepink hey, thanks for the picture, it looks like your variations are pretty high? If you click on ' my cycle' on the bottom to the left of the app and scroll down, you can see what the app says about it and you get your average data there.

Mine also varies but usually during follicular phase the variations stay under the cover line, and during luteal above cover line.

I have to say I'm gobsmacked about how much baby dancing you are getting in ha-ha!!! Ours is mostly around ovulation. Maybe we are quite sad 🤣

@FlapJackered @Lottiepink @Hannah192 @PeacockingAbout Thank you 😊

Home now and really tempted to POAS. Officially on day 3 of being late following my last 2 cycles which were 27 days on the dot even nearly the hour. I hate the disappoint of seeing a BFN, I'd rather AF show her ugly head. What would you ladies do? Sit it out for a few more days? Maybe Sunday or even Monday (if i got to Monday that would be very late as cycle 1 was only 32 days and Monday would take me to 33 ) or face the music either way and POAS and possibly £7-8. Haha 🙃

@ValidUser Sorry I missed your original post. Glad everything went well and isn't as bad as first seemed. Sending you lots of baby dust for official cycle 1

@SunStruck thanks you for taking your time to look 😊

My variations On luteal and follicular are 0.15 so classed as very good? Normally are 0.12-0.14 though. What is your typical variation?

Hahaha 🤣 totally forgot that bit was on there 🙈 it's my favourite part of all this malarkey... even outside of FW 😆

@PinkFizz19 I think I would be too tempted if it was me, but I would only use the cheapies, until I had even the faintest line then buy the FRER's to confirm it ha!
Fingers crossed for you! Sounding promising though 😊