TTC first baby - thread 15

[starkid]

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!

@BabyO1988 I do temp. I'm guessing I'll ovulate tomorrow, possibly Saturday. I've had surges last for almost two days so I'll have to keep testing until it goes lighter.

@KatBeCool yeah I've tested today and going to until the surge dies off. My cb was a solid static too and that recognises other hormones so I think I'm ovulating today or tomorrow 🤞🏻 xx

Thanks for the thread @starkid

@KatBeCool that is one fab line 😂 no doubt ov is on the way for you! Happy BD 😂😂

Totally just posted this on the old thread and got mega confused when it said thread closed 😂

Hello! Just lurking and checking up on you all :-) Glad to see some recent BFPs, lots of positive OPKs, some upcoming holidays and pending job interviews!
@daydreamer1707 good luck with things and hope you don't feel too poorly. Stress makes things so much worse!
Those with cold type symptoms think it could be hayfever? I've been sniffling and sneezing past few days, but no actual cold!

Also... Pink glittery gender reveal.... Really???!!
I think when ttc the actual announcements are harder to take. The tacky gender reveal stuff you can kinda just laugh at! Literally everyone in the entire world must have announced in the months I was ttc. I secretly hated them all and wished nightmare babies and divorces upon all those smug pregnant acquaintances 😂

My SIL is one of those people that loves tacky, she offered me a smoke cannon to do a gender reveal (we were like HELL NO) and has also given me a baby notes folder with my name on it in pink glitter saying " (my name) 's baby notes" and a hand painted picture of a pregnant cartoon woman that looks vaguely like me, also in pink, there is now glitter all over wherever it has touched.

It's fucking terrible. But I mean the thought was there 😂

You've all got this all to come!!

Is anyone due to test anytime soon? Seems like a few of you are in or entering the tww? Fingers crossed for some more Christmas babies!!

@crossfitgirl, hey you! A cannon?! Well, that's... A thing that happens, I guess?! 😂 How are you feeling? Good and excited I hope?! Xx

@flapjackered, so chuffed your opk is positive, hopefully a sign is all as it should be? With them being darker, I wonder if you just have stronger hormones at the moment?? Wishing you happy sexy times during the peak!! 😃

Well, not much happening here. Had a work lunch and thought F it and had pate and brie, because why the hell not?! 😋 Might seduce dh tonight, for fun and to keep his swimmers... Swimming?! Considering taking opks from next week to see if I ovulate, but a bit torn. It will be good to see if my body is getting back to normal, but as we agreed not to try until I've had af, would I just be frustrating myself??

Anyone testing at the weekend?? My bro is popping the question on Sat... So excited!!! Xxx

I can't decide when to test 🥴. Will be 10dpo tomorrow. Only have ICs - refusing to buy a FRER as don't want the disappointment and then wait for AF to come and go so I can get back on it again. Started spotting on 11dpo and proper AF on 12dpo last month.

I've got a whole weekend working night shift on a labour ward so would rather not have a BFN then go to work.

There I was refreshing the last thread, thinking how quiet you were all being! Then noticed it was at 1k 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

@Lottiepink I do 3 opks (sometimes 4 😳) a day. One first thing, one at 3ish and one last thing. Normally it's the afternoon or evening one where I get the positive.

Go @KatBeCool !!! That is a beautiful line 😂 Now get Dtd, don't waste those sperm! 🐎

@Crossfitgirl tell me about it!! I wanted to vom a little bit. My mouse was hovering over the unfriend button! 😂 Only joking really, she is lovely but her gender reveal video is not! 😂
A smoke canon! That is brilliant, I would just agree and just set it off with just you and your DH!

@Fivebyfive2 thanks lovely! If I were you I wouldn't if you think they might stress you out. I wasn't going to but I found I was getting more stressed worrying if my cycle was going to be really long again, also I just wanted to get trying again to take my mind off the mc. I do feel much better now I know where I am, even though we have only managed to Dtd once in the fertile week.

@LikeTheFruit if you're using ICs I personally would wait until at least 12dpo. Even then it might not be accurate. They are much less sensitive than they say. When I got my bfp I had a good positive on the frer but the IC was still negative at 13dpo. Although if you fancy poas then don't completely trust a bfn.!

Thanks for the new thread @starkid! Yay more cycle buddies! I really should wait til Monday but I know I won't thank heaven for cheap tests.

@cupcakesandglitter, I think I'm 8DPO now, but I'm still going from predictions as I can't do OPKs at work and have a very variable wakeup time so will struggle with temping!

@BabyO1988 I bloody hope so! Not really stuffy nose, just shattered, and really tender all over. Sore back, breasts, head, legs, the works! But have also been in the office for 14/15hrs a day this week so that is more likely a cause!

@DayDreamer1707 I understand the slightly sad relief when AF arrives when you really want to be pregnant just not exactly this exact month x. Fingers crossed on the other three interviews!

@KatBeCool loving the BD schedule (you should print it for the fridge!) That's a great positive and hopefully the fact that its different to usual will be a good sign. Are the side effects the same this month as last?

My DH is definitely still finding every 2 days enough of a novelty that he's happily obliging! Morning is too far though, I don't wake earlier than I need to for anything

@CrossfitGirl, I am very disappointed you did not accept the cannon. Think of all the important announcements you now can't make. "And the moment you've all be waiting for... egg fried rice YES I've made my takeaway selection!". How does one announce the baby's sex by cannon anyway?

@FivebyFive2 exciting for your brother! Always get the pate is my motto.

@LikeTheFruit it might be kinder to yourself to wait, if you are more deeply impacted by the disappointment than the uncertainty. Personaly, I really hate the uncertainty, I prefer to have the possibility removed than be thinking "oh I might be though" so I test early.

I'll be testing Sat AM (10DPO) before I go and meet my newborn nephew as I'd find seeing him harder not knowing if I was pregnant, than knowing that I wasn't (even if I get a false negative I won't have been stressing in that moment)

Feeling all out of sorts this week though, really don't think I've got lucky but until I can test, I can't help but assign every niggle to being pregnant and feeling achy and tired, while much more likely to be being actually tired, is making me really antsy!

Thanks for the advice @FlapJackered @PeacockingAbout Think I'll wait till Tuesday then assuming AF doesn't appear before then - which I'm sure she will as I have no symptoms at all except pretty thirst but that could have been the hot yoga 😂

I’m 100% clinging on to hope and symptom spotting like cray... so I’ve been feeling slightly nauseous and getting hot flushes and waking in the night too hot. Still getting bfn on the ic and I’m cd 27 today. This is so stressful the whole process

Hi ladies, hope you are all well! I see lots of you are also at the stage of peeing on lots of OPK sticks 🙈😂 Went AWOL for a while there a things got crazy at work and home and I ended up going a few weeks without time off so I was basically just sleeping during any time I had! I see I missed BFPs though - fab news! 💖

I am now officially well into cycle 3. AF was only a day later than expected but I had ovulated so early that my 2ww end up a 3ww!!! It was so long! And then one of my apps even said it was too long to make future predictions 😂 Anyway, I suspect I ovulated early last month because my body was out of whack from being sick. I'm now on day 6 of flashing high fertility smileys on OPK this month and hoping for a static smiley peak tomorrow 🤞. Fingers crossed also for everyone doing OPK and pregnancy tests tomorrow!

@PeacockingAbout all good signs then! Fingers crossed for you! Hopefully when you test on Saturday, you'll get a good result 🙂

Thanks @starkid

I'm still lurking, sadly I'm now 31 ,😂.

@Lemonysherbet - I'll update for the next list. Are you still cycle 1 too?

Just checking in to mark my place
On this new thread. Am hanging on at the end of another tww and feeling pretty rough tonight, either signs that af is on the way or something better? Have taken start of next week off just in case! Good luck to all those
Waiting, testing, and bd'ing!

@starkid no but I'm not cycle two either, just to confuse you 😂 I'm pausing until post Zika country visit.

Thanks for the add @starkid :)

How is everyone getting on?

I'm feeling a bit confused because I'm CD4 now and my period was so light.. I barely had any bleeding yesterday only spotting.
I don't know if it's because I'm on night shifts but I'm very confused at a 2 day period!
It's usually 4-5 days, and while I've not got heavy periods, this is unusual. I had a BFN the day before my period on 11DPO so I don't think it could be implantation bleeding (and if it was, CD1 was reasonably heavy as usual for me)

@thosethreewords I had a pretty light period two cycles ago the last one was more normal again though. Our cycles and periods do change over time. Maybe if you have some cheap tests test again just to double check you aren't pregnant.

@orangeloo I'm definitely not really light anymore... I think it was a fluke and as soon as I said it AF announced she was going to stay a little longer. Back your bags and leave!!!

@thosethreewords ah the good old start stop start! Thanks AF haha.

I've booked an appointment to ask for 21 day bloods next week. I think my 3-7 days of spotting before AF may be down to low progesterone aah just one stress or concern after another. On the plus I'm glad it's Friday!! Have a good day all. X

Morning ladies thanks for starting the new thread @starkid. Well 2 days late for AF here and a super emotional wreck last night oh well let's wait and see!

@MrsH497 oooh. Test??

Happy Fri-YAY ladies! Very keen for this weekend! Has anyone any nice weekend plans?

Thanks @BabyO1988 - I hope so!

@LikeTheFruit the TWW makes you suspect everything! Hope the weekend shifts are ok.

@granddesigns sorry to hear you're feeling pants! There is something going round! When are you testing?

@orangeloo glad you've got an appointment in, hope you get some answers.

@MrsH497 good luck - are you testing?

Feeling pretty rough today. Sausage sandwiches and coffee to power through

@PeacockingAbout - very excited about the weekend here too! Any nice plane? I'm starting it off with a nice meal out tonight :) how are you, any symptoms at all? Think I'm going to do a cheapie test Sunday when 11dpo

@orangeloo - good luck with your appointment xx