SMEP - feel free to join! :)

[danielasummer]

Hi everyone, just making this thread as it seems a few of us will be trying SMEP to TTC! Adding these lovely ladies in from another thread but I hope everyone feels free to join! All welcome :)

@Devgirl31 @fayy123 @NCON @MrsKJW19

Some stats about me:

TTC #1
27 years old, DH is 28 years old
Missed miscarriage in October 2019 at 7+2 weeks
Still in that cycle (no AF yet)
Long and irregular cycles, some anovulatory
Suspected low progesterone/hypothyroidism (I think this based on symptoms, not diagnosed yet!)

Hope we can all provide support for each other in this crazy TTC journey.

Feel free to introduce yourselves :)

@Littlepeas2 I'm absolutely useless! I've been hit hard by the morning sickness train and I'm basically a non person currently 😣

And where the hell is your period woman!

@ChampooPapi the sickness is good!! Your body is getting to work!! So so excited for you. Easy for me to say when I haven’t got to deal with sickness I know 😂
Oh champoo I do not know!! 10 days late now. I haven’t done a test since the one I did on Sunday because I’d much rather AF than negative but this is getting bloody ridiculous!!

@littlepeas2 it is ridiculous! It's a nightmare really, I'm just so sorry you are going through this. You must be absolutely sick and tired of this bollocks, I mean why?!

I'm hoping as I write this your celebrating cd1 and looking forward to another cycle 💪♥️

@danielasummer how are you doing lovely? I hope all ok your end. This is the thread I'm a part of (a very small part due to the horizontal 🤢 life I'm currently living)

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/3864914-due-around-25th-november-2020?msgid=95500452#95500452

The December thread is really busy and moves so fast, and what with more anxious pregnant women, comes obviously more anxious pregnant woman 😆

So that can get a bit much!

That link obviously holds behind it anxious pregnant women also, me included, but it is so much less intense when there are fewer posts so hopefully you'll come on there at some point.

I know it's early for you and even for me, but believing it's going to work out is all we have surly? The alternative is believing it'll go wrong and living in that bad place again.

We don't need to live there UNTILL it actually does go wrong.

If it does.

Which it won't 🌈👣

@Niisa hi lovely, sorry for the late reply! I haven't been posting at all lately the last few days as I'm just trying to keep my anxiety in check. How are you doing? Did you ovulate? How was your little party? :)

@Pixielou16 I'm really sorry AF got you.. you're doing all of the right things though with regards to supplements, BPA etc. We can't control many elements of TTC but the ones we can control, you are implementing. I really have my fingers crossed to you as I know the pain of AF coming. All I can say is that it WILL happen one day, maybe not this cycle or the next (hope I'm wrong!) but it absolutely will. When I'd lost all hope and had a fertility appointment booked for a tube checking procedure, I fell. The same can happen to you and I really hope it does. I hope you feel a little more positive x

@Shazzzzz aw thank you so much. How are you doing lovely?

@Littlepeas2 so sorry to hear AF still hasn't arrived! The only conclusion I can gather is that you ovulated much later than you thought, or you are indeed pregnant. Are you planning on testing again soon? Please keep us updated. I understand the annoyance of not knowing, as someone with cycles with 20+ day variability! So annoying!! We will be here for you either way x

@ChampooPapi hello, so sorry to hear you're feeling unwell! I hope you're being well looked after? Your eldest is old enough to make you tea and toast, isn't she? Thank you so much for that link x I've had a little read of it and you're right, people aren't as anxious/fast moving as the December 2020 thread! To be honest, I'm too scared to join either of them at the moment. I really can't believe I'm pregnant. I've asked my husband to hide my thermometer and I was so tempted to take another pregnancy test the other day but I stopped myself. I'm scared to post on the threads in case something happens again and I need to write the same post that I wrote on the May 2020 thread last year..so at the moment I'm laying low and taking each day as it comes, and will only believe I'm pregnant at the 12 week scan. I'm also going to expect the worst going into it and if it's happy news then it's a bonus. Probably not the best state of mind to be in and I am very hopeful, don't get me wrong, but I'm petrified. Luckily not feeling all-consumingly anxious like last time but I have my moments. Only DH and I know so at least he can talk me down, instead of my whole family giving their opinions etc like last time!

Have you had your date through for your 12 week scan? Do you have any other symptoms other than sickness? How far along are you now? Again, just so pleased we are on this journey together :) it gives me all the feels to know that we have had some seriously low moments but we will hopefully have our babies at roughly the same time! x

Hi ladies! Cycle day 1 here!! Just so happy that I’ve finally come on. The waiting knowing I wasn’t pregnant wasn’t great.

Hope you are keeping well in this heat!! I will keep you updated 😘 please keep me updated with your journeys too!! X

@Littlepeas2 hello lovely, I'm glad you finally know what's going on and can start a new cycle afresh. Very strange that AF took so long! My fingers are crossed for you this month xx

Sorry it's taken me a while to reply. I've been trying to avoid MN a bit as my anxiety has reared it's ugly head and I'm trying to stop myself from scrolling through threads, checking if people are going through what I'm going through. I will be on here every couple of days or so :)

Hope everyone is keeping well x

Hey ladies! How you all doing? Hope you had a lovely Easter!
Thankfully, I got my bfn this morning so this miscarriage is gladly truly over!

TMI but been having brown discharge which sometimes turns the teeniest bit bloody for the last 3 days. Not too sure what it is but I’m now CD20. Will wait another 3 weeks max before I call epu again as they said to call if AF isn’t back by 6 weeks. Will also take a pg test round about that time on the slightly off chance I may be preggers again! FC! Praying for you all xxx

Hi @Niisa i had a lovely easter forced myself to actually have some time off and spend it with family! How was yours?

@danielasummer @ChampooPapi and any other pregnant ladies... how are you getting on?

Ive been very quiet on here lately with work and the fact ive been putting off TTC, think im ready to start again now just waiting on AF to arrive 🤦🏽‍♀️

Hey @Shazzzzz all ok my end, just being really useless and feeble with my mega morning sickness. It's twins so at least that explains why it's the worst ever! What day post ovulation are you on? So nice to hear from you and that your back trying again, when in doors all the time why not! 😉

Waves weakly @Littlepeas2 , I'm being really crap at mumsnet at the moment so sorry I only just replied. So glad your a good few days into your AF now, this month is your month woman 💪♥️

@danielasummer now now, your talking to the anxiety pro here! I wish I could talk you down but I'm in overdrive with the worries, doubled by the magnificence of twins, such a blessing but suddenly every issue is doubled. My current stressing has been about the Harmony/nipt test that I can ill afford. But the last 24 hours the obsession that the NHS won't pick up the issues has filled my every waking thought. It's also hard to get in Devon currently because of covid so I've had to forgo the private hospitals I would definitely prefer to engage with on this sort of thing, and use ultrasound direct in Exeter. But it's the same test and they have to pass my information on to the midwive and hospital so I'll ignor the merch when I go into reception and just get it over with for the sake of sanity.

Those clinics just feel a bit wrong to me, and they are very obviously in it for the money. But I won't be able to enjoy this pregnancy experience without that test so booked in first week of May.

I phoned my midwife to see if they would do it for free as I'm expecting multiples but unless the 12 week scan reveals high risk, which wouldn't come back untill like 16 weeks, they don't do it.

It really just should be the nhs's standard blood test!

Anyway are you ok my lovely? Don't worry about responding soon or anything, just thinking of you and sending love ♥️ and hugs and a heap of my own whirring brain neurosis 🙄

Oh also how is your partner doing, he better be looking after you. This is a really odd time isn't it, with the covid as well it just makes the days seem so surreal and then ones trapped in ones head so much.

Also we will reach 1000 messages in a page or two so one of you ladies may have to take the torch from @danielasummer

@ChampooPapi Ohh waaaw! twins!! Amazing 💕

im around 10/11 DPO i think🤨 i havent been tracking to be honest!

Hi everyone! Congratulations @ChampooPapi, what great news!

Hope you are all doing ok ladies. I've been a bit quiet getting to grips this week with teaching online - new technology and me don't mix well!
This morning I had my first static smiley However, on the cheapy OPK there is barely a line at all! My app tells me I'm not due to ov until CD20, but today is CD14, so a static would make sense? I've been temping but can't really read the charts well yet, and I've had some EWCM - but I feel I can't really tell between EWCM, sperm and Conceive Plus/Preseed!

We have been BDing every other day anyway to cover our bases, but just wondering what you all make of it!

@Pixielou16 i would definitely listen to the smiley!

I dont think the cheapies are that reliable! When i used them i didn't ever get a line so i gave up! X

Thanks @Shazzzzz. Hubby has been informed that it's all systems go for the next few days Hope you are getting on ok!

@Pixielou16 excellent! Baby dust to you!! 💕

i got good news this morning 😊 really shocked if im honest as we have only DTD twice 🙈

Oh @Shazzzzz, that's incredible news! Congratulations! So happy for you You must have timed it perfectly x

@Pixielou16 thank you! Yes we must have as we was wasn't actually trying this month 🤣 x

@Shazzzzz maybe that's the approach I need to take!

@Shazzzzz congratulations wonderful news 😊. Xx

Oh my god @Shazzzzz that's brilliant! Congratulations 💜🎉 you must be absolutely over the moon!

@ChampooPapi @HE88 Thank you!

Gotta admit im a nervous wreck though😒 hopefully this one sticks 🤞

Keeping everything crossed for you @Shazzzzz. This is my 3rd cycle after mmc but 2nd cycle of trying. Xx

Fingers crossed for you too @HE88. The amount of BFPs recently gives me hope

Thank you @Pixielou16 going to give SMEP another go this cycle really couldn't be bothered with it last cycle but it worked for me last time I did it. Xx