Anyone looking to start TTC in New Year?

[yoomoo]

Join here please! I’m still taking my pill at the moment but current packet runs out on 7th Jan so planning to start then but not really track anything officially. I’ve been reading up about conception vitamins and going to buy some this week to start taking after new year- does anyone have recommendations for particular brands?
Will be my first but partners 2nd, very nervous but excited at the same time. No idea what to expect but hoping to have some ladies in the same situation to chat to!

Hey guys, thought I would update you! Finally got my pregnant digital this morning! 🥰 congrats to all who have conceived this year and positive thoughts to all who are wanting to!

Congratulations @Spark27 & @rachTTC !!

@yoomoo strangely once my boobs stopped feeling like razors I didn't really feel pregnant 🙈 which did freak me out, but took another test yesterday afternoon and it's definitely much stronger

I had morning/early afternoon sickness with Dd until 8 months, so hoping this will be an easier pregnancy! 🤞

Congrats @Spark27 that's a fab line!

Congrats @Spark27

So many BFPs already! Congratulations to all of you! Hopefully a few more will be along soon!

Thank you. I'm excited, but kind of annoyed with myself for testing early. Now I'm worried the line won't get darker, or I'll get my AF anyway and have a CP. Why is it always worry?

Hit peak ovulation today , was quite pleased by this as was worried at 38 I might not ovulate.

Will be beginning the dreaded TWW tomorrow!

@alliejay81 don't say that! I'm about to turn 39 and have just come off the coil and am dreading whether I will or not. 🙈 Stood in the supermarket staring at OPKs today.... Wanting to know but not wanting to unleash the crazy
Good luck for tww

@hannah17381

I bought the digital clear blue ones - it took the subjectiveness out of it (I'd drive myself mad with water lines). Not convinced it will ever happen but you've got to be in it to win it! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Good luck!

@alliejay81 I agree those clear blue digital OPKs are so easy to use! Frustratingly though once you hit peak you can't retest that cycle. So I ended up using internet cheapies every day along side the digital ones. Then I could test twice a day with internet cheapies and also track the dip of LH which I couldn't do with the digital.

@charlesthekudu

I'm going to sound super thick here - sorry... what's the benefit of testing after peak? And why do you need to plot the LH dip?

I really need to do more research!

I bought some ovulation kits today currently on my period according to Ovia I'm fertile in 11 day's , congratulations to those who have been successful wishing luck to everyone else xx

@alliejay81 Good luck! My AF is looming and any day now but keen to get in the TWW again even though I hate it !

@loveandsparkles Good luck, I'm still tempted to get some but keep putting it off. I think I will order as soon as AF comes on Tuesday.

Thanks @rhirhibumblebee good luck to you too!

Thought I’d give y’all an update!!!!

Congrats to everyone else who’s had BFPs in the last few days and good luck to all of those trying and testing soon! ❤️

Morning all!

Excellent lines @Spark27 I’m sure you’ll be absolutely fine, keeping fingers crossed for you!

Great news @alliejay81hoping you are posting a positive test in a couple of weeks.

@lastonetime that’s a lovely strong line, hoping your sickness doesn’t return that’s my biggest fear being sick so I’m praying I only have nausea!

So I did a FRER this morning and it was negative, feel a weird mix of relief and disappointment. I don’t really want a September baby but at the same time felt a bit sad that I wasn’t despite having all of these symptoms. Still don’t know if I did ovulate a couple of weeks ago as didn’t manage to get the peak on the OPK. I did put that in and Ovia calculated I should test in 3 days so I suppose it’s possible I tested a little early?

Anyhow will do one of my internet cheapies again on Wednesday unless AF comes.

I hate the waiting, boobs feel like bullets my nipples could pick up a radio station and are constantly sticking out. Waves of nausea, thought I was going to be sick in the hairdressers yesterday: I just don’t know and I hate the unpredictability of it all.

Off shopping today with DSD for PE trainers! Have a lovely day all

Congratulations to all the BFPs!

I'm in limbo here. AF was due anywhere between 10 days to a week ago. I tested 10 days ago and got a BFN. I had pink spotting about 7 days ago. 2 days ago I thought AF had started but its minimal amounts of (Tmi alert!) brown/black blood.

I've not had this before and didn't have anything like it when I was pregnant with DD. Any ideas?

@DontGoJasonWaterfalls do you know for sure when you ovulated? Did you track it with tests or are you going by previous cycles (sorry, too many comments to look back through). It could be that you ovulated late and so implanted later than you would have thought. Things that I have read talking about implantation bleeding say it is usually shorter than AF, around 2 to 3 days.

10 days late for AF seems a long time, but if everything happened late it could just be taking time for hcg levels to get up. Are you going to test again?

Also, how regular is your AF? If your not too long off birth control you dates could be off as well.

I'm sure you are thinking all this anyway. Fingers crossed you know what's going on soon xx

@yoomoo BFN for me too !

@DontGoJasonWaterfalls Have you tested again? If not, maybe try and see? Like @Spark27 said it could be implantation bleeding. X

Congratulations on all the BFP's!! So exciting that it's happening so quickly for some of us!

I think (very much think) I had some EWCM this morning but only a little bit. Only finished my withdrawal bleed last weekend so probably too early but who knows...

Thank you @Spark27 and @rhirhibumblebee I've ordered some cheapy tests and they're due to arrive tomorrow. It's completely stopped now, only started late Friday afternoon 🤔 it's really bizarre. My cycles have been irregular in the past but not like this or to this extent really. I didn't measure ovulation this month either but probably will next month to get an idea of when I actually ovulate.

Congrats to the BFPs, fingers crossed for February to the BFNs. Anyone else strapping themselves in for the TWW? I quite like it until the PMT starts!

@alliejay81 yep! Though I'm still not entirely sure if I've ovulated... not been off the pill for long so still new to all the tracking...

@Ginger87 let's wait together then . I'd recommend clear blue, they are expensive but are so easy to use!

@ginger87 I'm new off contraception too. Never tracked before (never had to) and waiting to start is doing my head in!! Feel like I've not got much to join in with 😄

Hope everyone's doing ok! Congrats again to everyone with BFPs already! I'm due to ovulate at the end of this week / beginning of next so I think I'm going to try using OPKs today and see how I get on with those!