TTC First Baby Thread 22

[MrsH497]

Thought the old one was getting a bit full so I'd start a new one. I'll attempt tagging as many as I can
@Larrydavid @Anny27 @cupcakesandglitter @flossy12 @DuchessofPemberley @ELW85 @Lemonysherbet @LokiCat @Lottiepink @Lozzlepop @MIW01 @whatsthecraic91 @ValidUser

If I've missed anyone sorry!

Welcome @HolliePurple your AF is due same time as me! I'll be waiting to see if she arrives on time and if not I'll test on Thursday.

Hi ladies, I am a bit worried though... Maybe I was getting too excited too early..?
Line is very faint and not any darker, even more fainter 48 h later...

Top rest- done on Thursday, Bottom test - today.

My symptoms are all still as they were all week.
Do you have any positive outcome stories for me so that I can calm down..? 😞

Line is a line- I know I am pregnant, no bleeding no abnormal pains, but I wonder why so faint at 22/23 DPO...

@sunnyFlover tests tend to dry darker than they first were within the time limit. So perhaps the first test was actually the same as the one today just its dried darker (i know mine looked way darker the next day!)

I cant say anything to stop you worrying but there really is nothing you can do now but perhaps you can book a 6 week scan soon to make sure everything's okay?

Hello @SunnyFlover have no experience with this myself but perhaps a call to GP surgery or similar for an opinion to see what options you have.

@MIW01 9dpo is still early so fingers crossed! So hard though isnt it as some women get theres as earlt as 7dpo so makes you want to test haha!!

@Anny27 I know! It just all seems so unfair sometimes 🤣🤣🤣 though am remaining positive. Have visited threads and read some experiences where people have been TTC for years and been through goodness knows what with miscarriages, medication and treatment and have had happy endings! So there is hope for us all yet!

@SunnyFlover as the others have said, hopefully the second test dries darker or could phone on Monday to get a blood test to confirm.

@MIW01 all good signs, weird isn't it how some months we don't symptom spot or get our hopes up and some months we totally do!

I've just had a glass of red wine (first one in 10 months) and now feel guilty 😩. Trying to tell myself that 1 glass of alcohol isn't going to make any different!

@kiza awh its hard to not feel guilty isnt it! I am not much of a big drinker but try avoid it during tww but it totally doesnt matter as long as you arent getting drunk in my opinion! (Baby isnt getting anything from you at that stage!)

@Anny27 me too, have never been a drinker but really fancied a glass of red me so bought one of those mini bottles and have only had about a third so a really small glass of wine.
Treated myself to some gorgeous ice cream so the guilt has shifted 😄

Morning all,

@SunnyFlover congratulations, I will keep my fingers crossed for you!

@Anny27 how are you doing? Hopefully you will hear back from the doctor soon, have you got a bit of time off work?

I got my day 21 bloods back, they were actually taken on day 25 but that was my 7dpo. Is that actually the correct thing to do you think??
Everything came back normal which is good. I asked for some of the levels but there's not much stuff on the internet to say what is normal etc!
DH had his bloods done too and a check up and got the SA to do, Just hard timing it to get it to hospital within the hour 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

Morning @Lottiepink I made a follow up phone call with my GP to go through each score of my blood tests as I wanted to know all of them so maybe you could try that?
I think the date your bloods were taken so found as you said it was your 7dpo rather than the average. Good news though that they all came back fine.
How's everyone this weekend?
I've been symptom spotting like a maniac 🤦🏼‍♀️😆 I'm 7/9 dpo and have been having lots of creamy/watery discharge which is unusual. Hoping it's a good sign 🤞🏼
@MIW01 are your symptoms still strong? Will you hold out till Wednesday or maybe test again?

Thank you @Kiza and @Anny27 I've also got really spotty all of a sudden and that's not like me at all! And I've got this vertigo virus still hanging around. I could just be run down but who knows! I've noticed more watery discharge and a distinct lack of the normal AF symptoms!

@Kiza I'm going to hold out and test on Thursday if there's no sign of AF by then! I wouldn't worry about 1 glass. I'm not really a drinker but allow myself the odd glass of something here n there.

Monday again 🙄

But the start of my fertile week so I’m excited!! Starting my CB digitals in the morning CD10.

How are we all?

@Kiza have you resisted testing again? How many DPO now?

@whatsthecraic91 good luck this week! 🌻

Supposedly pregnant 5w+4ish, still getting faint ( decent faint) positive results on early detection kits only... same line 4 morning in a row.
Going to doctor this afternoon and I am absolutely frightened... It consumed so much of my energy and worries, beyond my expectations when we first decided TTC. This is hard! And I am only in this 2 months.
Reading about is is draining, but if sit still and do nothing- would go mental too. I font know is it ectopic? ( but something would hurt surely, is it hook effect- I am doubting, I would feel sick as a dog with all those "undetectable high level" hormones, miscarriage- I didn't bleed...". So confused.
All the ladies, that have been going through this for months and even years deserve a monument... 😞

@whatsthecraic91 are you trying SMEP this cycle? I desperately want to retest as I'm getting myself ridiculously excited based on having lots of watery discharge for a week now! Oh the things we hang out hopes on to 😆 I'm 9/11dpo (still don't know exactly what day I O).
I'm going to dig deep and hold off till Friday... or maybe Thursday... or maybe Wednesday 😂

@Anny27 thinking of you today 💐
@SunnyFlover hope it goes well at the GP and you get a positive from a blood test.

@SunnyFlover thank you 🤞🏼 try and keep positive until you have spoke to the doctor and got a blood test done. I know thats easier said than done!! Let us know how it goes!

@Kiza yea we are going to try too! We have been DTD all weekend just for fun as we had a weekend off from DSS - it was really lovely just chilling together all weekend haven’t done that in a while!! But yes SMEP started properly last night! I’m a late ovulater CD17/18 so hopefully we can keep it up!!
Waiting to test absolutely kills me it takes all my willpower and DP hiding the tests 😂😂 fingers crossed for you!

Afternoon! @kiza So after building myself up to have the medical management today, i got to the hospital and they said that the doctor i saw on friday forgot to take bloods and they couldnt give me the tablets without making sure my bloods were okay.......so had the blood test today and back tomorrow for the tablets!

Been making using of my day off work by doing some sorting in the house haha

@Anny27 oh no, that's so frustrating for you!
@whatsthecraic91 wow that's a long fertile window- good luck!

@Anny27 oh no that’s annoying!

@Kiza I know tell me about it 😅

Evening ladies!

@Lottiepink for the SA I’m guessing DP gets to make his deposit, shall we say, at home? Mine is worried that he’s going to have to “spunk in a cup” at the hospital 🤣🤣

@MIW01 what CD are you now lovely? Any other symptoms?

@Kiza I would not be worrying about one glass of wine, I have drank before, it’s all about everything in moderation if you want a glass, allow yourself a glass ☺️

@SunnyFlover I hope you are ok and that you got some answers at the doctors, it really is such a nervous time the first few weeks, please remember at this early stage it’s really out of your control - I know exactly how you feel, be kind to yourself and try not to worry too much 💕

@whatsthecraic91 I’m a late ovulater too- day 18/19 here sometimes! If we do SMEP again I’ll be starting it later than day 8 cos I didn’t have the stamina last time and had to miss the last day 😂

@Anny27 that’s so frustrating 😔 hope they have you scheduled in first thing for tomorrow

How’s everyone’s Monday’s been? Mine wasn’t horrendous but it’s been so cold here today 🥶 feel like I’m getting sick and never got a chance to call the hospital at work today 😔 tomorrow is another day though! Xx

Hello @Lozzlepop sorry to hear you may be coming down with something and didn't get a chance to call the hospital! Today is CD27 so AF due tomorrow and had very mild twinges . . . Nothing like I usually get! Back ache when doing stable chores but that doesn't feel AF related. Am very spotty with huge boobs and bloated belly! CM very dry. So anyone's guess!

@Lozzlepop my other half had to 'spunk in a cup' in a side room at hospital... he said it was the most uncomfortable thing he's ever had to do! 😄
Are you far up north? Time to get the thermals out! Hope whatever you have doesn't fully develop and you can shake it off.

An update - no clearer at this point. Got few early scan images that are impossible to read ( for me). Doctor noticed a gestational sac but it seems to be still very flat and nothing can be seen inside of it. There is a corpus luteum cyst ( normal size) next to it, which apparently is a good sign... But the stage of the pregnancy doesn't really match the calculated time. Blood results will come in tomorrow, another test in next two days... Between now and then I just pray that my HCG levels start magically quadrupling... 😞 I broke dawn and sobbed all the way back home from the clinic.

The rest seems to be ok...

@MIW01 are you holding off to test? I have everything crossed for you 🤞🏻 Wrapped up in my dressing gown with a cuppa after a nice hot shower so hoping it doesn’t come to anything!

@Kiza oh really? Haha I’ll not be telling him that- I don’t think he’s be able to..... finish under pressure 😂 we live just outside Edinburgh, over the bridge so it’s been pretty chilly the last few weeks!

@SunnyFlover sorry you haven’t been given a definitive answer yet, where do they think you are pregnancy wise? Very early it can be hard to accurately date so don’t get too disheartened, whatever happens we are all here for you but I really hope everything progresses lovely 💕