TTC 1st Baby - Thread 17!

[MrsEG]

Hi everyone! I’ve started a new thread as we are dangerously close to 1000 posts in the last one! I’ll add a link to it now :) Here’s hoping it’s a lucky one!

@Crossfitgirl thanks for popping by - nice to hear from you. I miss my fellow essayist .

@purplefig yeah, I know CM can be very iffy.
I've given up on 'TMI' - we pretty much discuss everything here 😂

@ELW85 thank you! it is such a relief when it finally shows up!!
I'm going to try and keep busy for the next two weeks to stop myself from symptom spotting (wishful thinking..)!

@Tashdreams welcome! So sorry to hear about your mmc. I hope everything settles down again soon so you can get back to TTC again. We're all here to support one another (and it really helps hearing when someone else is in the same boat as you! I always feel so crazy with the ttc obsession).

@ELW85 ah thank you 😊
I’ve really struggled with ovulation sticks, the lines just don’t seem clear to me at all - I’ve seen some people talking about smiley faces on sticks being easier to read, can anyone give me some advice please?

@Tashdreams Clear blue digital ovulation sticks. These give you the smiley face when your LH surge is detected. So that's your cue for baby making time :) There's two types - pink pack which gives you your two most fertile days and the purple pack which gives you 4 most fertile days (This pack has flashing smiley face) I've not tried the purple one yet but the pink ones good. I'd recommend it. Hope that helps :)

@Crossfitgirl you are, of course, right.

Think I may just be lashing out against my tubes by weeing on stuff. 😂

Hope all is very well with you!

@meenabeena thanks - I’ll take a look, although currently on day 45 of my cycle I think I’ll wait until next ‘month’ 🤷‍♀️ to try them. Thanks again 😊

@ValidUser anytime lovely!!

@purplefig yes its deffo good to get away and recharge the batteries, I think the OH would have been up for going to Vegas but we done NYC at Christmas so not really wanting another full on big holiday this year just need to have a relaxing break away in the sun.

@LokiCat exactly- get me to the beach!!!

@Tashdreams No worries x

@Lozzlepop omg we did Xmas in NYC last year. Isn't it so awesome?! 😁

@Meenabeena It was amazing, it was our 4th time each but 1st together, going at Xmas was just something else!

@Lozzlepop @Meenabeena oh I want to go NYC at Christmas so badly!! I've been before and it was one of my favourite holidays, but I'm sure it must be so special at Christmas.

Hi everyone!

Huge congratulations to @MrsEG and @DayDreamer1707 !! Definitely getting on the pineapple core!
Fingers cross for you @ValidUser That there's still time for a BFP.

Decided to buy to Pregnacare his and hers pack as ran out of boots own folic acid and vit d tabs. Taking first one tonight and excited to see the neon pee 😂😂

I'm CD 15, we were in Prague over weekend for bday and DTD fri/sat/sun. Hoping will help as was v relaxed and just generally having a loverly time. Usually ov between days 16-18. Did OPK last night which was neg. Have what looks like ewcm and feeling pretty frisky so think ov is coming. No ov pains yet though. Going to go for a pilgrimage for pineapple and Brazil's on way home from work 😂😂

LikeTheFruit

Haha welcome to the club! I had it for breakfast again today 🙈

@ValidUser I can’t see anything on these tests, but you are still so early!! FX for tomorrow’s - I’d tell you to wait a few days but I know you won’t!!

@Tashdreams Welcome :) So sorry to hear about your loss, you’re in good company here. I had an MMC in Jan and just got my BFP a few days ago. Still very early days so cautiously optimistic at the moment but rest assured it will happen for us all! I used the Cb digital ovulation tests, they show flashing smiley faces in the days leaving to ov, and a solid smiley on ov day. So there’s no second guessing!

@Crossfitgirl Hello again lovely and thanks! I’m too nervous to venture to the grads thread again just yet, but 🤞🏻 see you over there in a few weeks ha! Gosh I can’t believe you’re so far gone already where has that time gone!

@LikeTheFruit Thanks! I feel like I should have gotten shares in Del Monte at this point 🍍 haha!! Glad you enjoyed Prague it’s absolutely one of my fave places to go for a city break. Such a lovely place!

@Lozzlepop oh yeah totally, sometimes you just want to chill the fuck out! I love a city break, but you often end up coming back more exhausted than when you went.

@LikeTheFruit welcome to the pregnacare neon wee club - it's a niche place to hangout hahaa.

Have a nice evening everyone! I'm just back from a beach walk with the dog which has totally reset my batteries.

@likethefruit sorry for jumping on your thread but just seen the pregnacare bits neon pee comment - it was like a sudden eureka moment for me! 😂 I’ve been taking them for 3 months now since my MMC & hadn’t even put 2&2 together for the bright pee, so thank you!! 😂😂

What’s the pineapple theory? It helps with ttc? Loving that idea!

@ValidUser I can maybe see the faintest faintest hint of something on the dark one. I'm currently living vicariously through you as I'm 4ish dpo (I don't track properly) and had an urge to POAS this morning but managed to hold out!! It's ridiculous isn't it, I knew it was too early but wanted to anyway 🙄

Fingers crossed for you in the next few days.

@PaintingOwls I'll give anything a go at this stage 🤣🤣

@MrsEG Thanks, it's was an absolutely gorgeous city. Loved it, would love to go back. If we're lucky this cycle there is a chance we may have conceived in a wine spa 🙊

@purplefig I'm going to be very disappointed if it doesn't have the expected effect!

@Tashdreams you're very welcome. I've not taken any yet but there was lots of chat here in the last week about bright pee!! There's a theory that eating the core of the pineapple help with conception. I'll give anything a go!!

Just regarding the pineapple. Is it only the core you eat? And just before ovulation? I absolutely hate pineapple... but will try 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

Thanks all you wonderful ladies!! Hoping for my BFP on Thursday when I'm due AF.

Just so people know I only really DTD once when I had EWCM on around CD9, I haven't had this since trying after my MMC. I actually think that not trying helped 🤔. Easier said than done of course. I agree with @Crossfitgirl everyone is so different you can never know what will work for one person and what is right or wrong.

@MrsEG are you now officially late!! Weirdly I just had a feeling that I could be. Had weird pains in my boobs and constant but light cramps. I'm not having a lot of CM too.

@ValidUser you aren't, like I said I just had a feeling, but I tested when I was around 12DPO. Just give yourself more time and FX

@Lozzlepop and @FlapJackered We have agreed to wait till Thursday when AF is due but I can't help but pee on the IC. I have so many 😂

@lottiepink considering the pineapple thing too! Watching with interest... 👀

So I’m convincing myself I don’t ovulate. I did one cycle of Clearblue digis before we started trying out of idle curiosity and I never got a static. I was testing with fmu as suggested on those but maybe I shouldn’t have?

I’m now on cd16. Feeling damp but not much ewcm. No sign of anything on OPKs, although my Flo app reckons I don’t ov until cd18, so I suppose there’s still a chance. I have a 32 day cycle.

Does anyone know how common not ovulating is if you don’t have any signs of PCOS?

Think I’m going mad

@DayDreamer1707 I'm actually due Thursday too! PMS hitting hard now. Either way, once I have my repeat HSG next week, if they can't clear my (remaining) tube it'll be straight to IVF, which is its own kind of exciting!

Congrats @DayDreamer1707

Fingers crossed for you @ValidUser

Hooray for your first smiley @ELW85 - enjoy the next few days!

Hi @Tashdreams Sorry to hear about your MC. I'm with you on the lack of patience and calm!

@Dollywilde -no idea but that's def a qs that's occupied me

Currently off on hol and trying to distract myself and not symptom spot...

Just popped back on here for a little stalk and @MrsEG so many congratulations!!! How exciting! I have my fingers crossed for a fast and uneventful first 12 weeks for you!

@ValidUser I swear I can see a squinter of a line on your first picture 🧐 maybe I'm just going stir crazy from being housebound post op 😂 but I'm sure I can see something!

@dhalia123 ah thank you, it’s just the unknown isn’t it?

Has anyone else experienced anything similar in terms of irregular cycles post MC?
My first visit from AF was 28 days post MC so I thought we would be back on track but I’m currently at day 45 of the next cycle, did a test fri just in case, which was negative. Just feel a bit in limbo.
It took a long time for my hormone levels to drop, I was still having +ve test results 5 weeks after the mc, into this cycle.
Very confusing!

@FlapJackered just playing catch up from this morning. Glad to see you back :)
What CD are you? I think last month we were similar
Anyways, glad to have you back x