Catching up - ttc after miscarriage part 3

[Annny27]

Setting up this new thread for all the lovely ladies who have been on the ttc after miscarriage journey. And also all the ladies who have had their bfps but still want to stay in touch:)

Will post this in the existing chat :D

Haha thanks everyone. Uterus successfully unconfused! Had a nice temp rise this morning, peak opk on Thursday and an epic breakout on my skin (which for once I don't mind 😂)- hooray for ovulation 🤗

Expecting AF in 10 days now.

Still debating what to do about my scan I've got booked on Monday. My husband thinks I should just cancel now. I think maybe still go just to check everything in there for extra reassurances it was just a random blip?

Have a lovely weekend everyone 😁

@SunnySideUp2020 glad you made it safely. Sorry AF arrived 😞 hopefully being with your family will be a distraction for you this cycle. Sorry it's not under the best circumstances tho. Sending your grandma all the best wishes 💐

@Leok83 I did say quite smugly to my husband that it was clearly the acupuncture that worked and his replay was 'or it's just coincidence' 😂 think he's still sceptical but more happy with me splashing out £90 a month, even if it's just the placebo effect. I'm definitely going to keep it up now. I feel I'm a complete convert after only 2 sessions. Wonder if he'll be convinced when/if I get a BFP 🤔

Good luck with bding this month. I know what it's like to be ships in the night sometimes and it becomes very practical and unromantic when you have to schedule in a quick 15mins as it's literally the only time you have 😂 so long as it gets the job done 🤷🏼‍♀️

Good Morning Ladies.

@SunnySideUp2020 glad you arrived safely but sorry AF has arrived too. Really hope your Grandma gets better but sure she is loving seeing you.

@Fizzl glad your uterus is now not confused. Let’s hope a reset will then bring your BFP next cycle.

9dpo here and am sure AF will be here in the next few days. Just don’t feel this is our cycle. Only glimmer of hope is that RHR has gone up this morning. So will see if that continues to rise or drops again just before AFs arrival. Determined not to test until 1st July if AF hasn’t made an appearance before then.

@Annny27 Yepp AF finally arrived for me yesterday after a 43/44 day cycle. Glad I can move on to the next cycle at last. Hoping this is the one! Hope you get your ov soon!

I've been researching "fertile foods" for my next cycle and plan to have "fertility smoothies" for me and DH each morning hoping it will help things along! Also going to get some cheapy OPKs and do twice a day and just keep going until it says peek seeing as I can't predict my cycles anymore 😂

@SunnySideUp2020 sorry AF arrived for you. Glad to hear you made it safe and your Grandma is stable 🤞🏻 she feels better soon. No doubt she will love having all her family around her

@Fizzl I love that your husband is still sceptical even though it seems to have worked 😂😂 it's a man thing! Haha

Morning, 8dpo for me. I’ve had lots of creamy cm all of this week and today when I’ve wiped it’s clear with a tiny tinge of pink? Almost like fertile CM which is weird! Also I’m so bloated this morning which I don’t normally notice this early on. Probably nothing to get excited about but have taken note!

Evening ladies, sorry I haven't posted in a while I've sort of been in and out in the back ground due to being extremely busy with work but also having the battle with my body of 2 af's every month. I know it's probably my body resetting but it's extremely frustrating. @Ejb86 I am so happy to see you're BFP what wonderful news. I've been trying to go through the threads to see how everyone else is doing. I hope you're all well and have been enjoying the sunshine. I'm on 3 week count down to the summer holidays now. Xx

Morning everyone:) its cd12 for me and I think I will be having delayed ovulation this month as nowhere near a such ewcm as I usually have - basically have had none! And Opks are low. So we will just see - hopefully bot too delayed haha!

@scrumdiddly123 that does sound promising! Think its sensible to be cautiously pessimistic about symptoms because we all have something every month that we think oooh is that pregnancy haha!

@Annny27 the glue rubbery stuff I usually class as sticky and its about to be ewcm. I wish my app had a "nearly ewcm" option haha

@SunnySideUp2020 sorry that AF arrived for you :( let's hope cycle 7 is the month for us!!!! Thinking of you and your grandma 💗

@fizzl what was the scan supposed to be for?

@ELM7 RHR increase is promising as well :) and not too long until you could test either! Good luck

@Ljm0101 2 AFs every month must be exhausting! But yes, some peoples bodies take longer than others to "settle" which is frustrating

@Nuggetlover27 yep cheap opks are the way forward! I use the femometer or one step ones from amazon

@Leok83 I tagged myself above when I meant to tag you 🙈

@Annny27 RHR dipped back down today so def not getting my hopes up. Just waiting for AF and then July WILL be my month I’ve decided (I wish it was this easy to just decide which month it was going to happen but going to try some positive thinking for the next cycle!)

Hope ovulation isn’t too delayed for you.

Morning everyone 😄

@ELM7 definitely need positive thinking. Our time will come I'm sure, just the wait and uncertainty of it all which can be frustrating!

@Nuggetlover27 fertility smoothies sound like a good plan. When I fell pregnant last year my staple breakfast was a smoothie. Could be pure coincidence and I wasn't actually doing it for fertility at the time but I've also read it can help. What will you put in your smoothie? We still sometimes have them now but not everyday, might need to convince my DH on this one!

@scrumdiddly123 that sounds like it could be a positive sign. Tentatively keeping everything crossed for you 😬🤞

@Ljm0101 2 af's a month sounds tough! Have you been to your gp?

@Annny27 hopefully your ovulation isn't too delayed! I feel your pain if it is, although I'm sure you won't. Think of it as your body is just ripening up a nice healthy egg 😉 (and hopefully you won't go over ripe like I did 😂). The scan was a private pelvic scan to see what was going on in there because of my lack of period. Now I'm fairly sure I've ovulated I don't know if it's worthwhile anymore or if I'm just wasting money 🤷🏼‍♀️

Hi @Fizzl I got telephone appointment and she just said that it can take up to 6 months for your body to go back to normal. It has been hard more emotionally than physically, I'm hoping that this month is different as my last af was 31st May. I haven't been OPKing because I was getting fed up of the low readings 🙈. Xx

Thanks @Fizzl and @Annny27, I’m getting more and more of an inkling that I might be pregnant. I had to stop eating my tea earlier as it was making me feel sick. I’ve gone from being constipated to having an upset tummy today and waves of dizziness even when sat down. Also was nearly sick this morning when cleaning my teeth which always happens when pregnant! Oh and my boobs are sore! I’ve taken a test not long ago and can see a shadow of a line but might just be in my head! I only have one cheapie left so will see what that looks like tomorrow 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Evening everyone, hope the weekends been good for you all!!

@SunnySideUp2020 sorry AF arrived, hope you are getting to spend some quality time with your grandma and she's doing ok.

@Nuggetlover27 sorry AF arrived for you too. Definitely sounds like you may have ovulated later than you thought then so good plan to keep going with the opks this cycle!

@Annny27 I hope ovulation isn't too delayed for you! Don't want to lose my cycle buddy either until we both have BFPs 😄! Ya that makes more sense to classify that blob as sticky cause it's definitely watery now, a lot more than last month for me but I've been trying to make sure I'm drinking a lot of water as think I failed on this last couple months where didn't have much CM! I think my opk is getting slightly darker, the lines visible now whereas a couple days ago it was just white so as long as all the ducks line up hopefully I'll be ov in a few days.

@Fizzl it's definitely a male thing..I'd say deep down he probably believes now but it's hard to let go of the scepticism!!

@scrumdiddly123 and @ELM7 almost there ladies! When are you both thinking of testing or are you waiting for AF to show or not first?

@Ljm0101 that's really tough on you, hopefully this cycle it's better for you.xx

@scrumdiddly123 I just crossed posts there, that sounds so promising!! 🤞 for you and it's such early days to even see a shadow on a test!

Thanks @Leok83, I’m so bad for testing early and now I’m driving myself crazy because I just want to know! AF not even due until Thursday! 🤦‍♀️
Hope you’re ok and had a nice weekend? Fingers crossed for OV this week!

Evening guys :)

@leok83 mm maybe because I am a bot dehydrated thats why I have not had much ewcm....Will drink loads tomorrow! my opks are dark at the moment (not positive but a definite 2nd line) who knows haha!

@scrumdiddly123 omg I really hope so!!!!! Let us know tomorrow 🤩 all the signs are there!

@fizzl yeah I would save money and cancel the private scan. They won't be able to show you anything only about cysts on ovaries if you did have any but I imagine you were scaned a fair bit at the epu which would have picked them up

@ELM7 love that attitude!! If I could have picked a month I would have picked 7 months ago haha!

Major TMI but if any of you need help getting in the mood for scheduled dtd.......watch 365 days on Netflix 🤣🤣 horrifically cringey and I didn't know what it was about before watching buts its very...um....steamy 🙈🙈🙈

@scrumdiddly123 have you tested?!

@Ljm0101 my neighbour is a health visitor and she told me 6-12 months is a perfectly normal length of time for things to get back to normal. It has taken me pretty much exactly 9 months to get my BFP after losing my girls at 16 weeks. Hadn't yet settled into a normal cycles, I think this was the first one where my body was truly ready. When I was out running, which I'd started a few weeks ago, i had a large hard blob of cm, twice. It was almost like a mucus plug I guess. At the time I wondered if that had been what was stopping me from conceiving. It could be coincidence, I dunno. What I mean to say is, give yourself time. I know it is easier said than done and how desperate we all are to conceive. I wish you all the luck x

Morning all

Thanks for the recommendation @Annny27 will have a look at these 2 OPKs for this month ☺️
Have you had any signs of ov yet?

@Fizzl hopefully they help things, I'm gonna have a mixture of the foods the internet recommends (not always wise to trust dr Google I know 😂) so pineapple, berries, spinach, avocado, citrus fruits. Willing to try it all haha

@Leok83 sounds like ov is any day for you now 🤞🏻

Sounds promising @scrumdiddly123 ! 🤞🏻🤞🏻!!

Thank you @Ejb86 that's really good to know, I keep telling myself it takes time but like you said it's hard when you're so desperate for something to happen. Like I said I've given up with Opk's this month and just seeing what happens. This is my first month where I haven't had 2 af's so that's been nice in itself. Xx

Morning! Yes I tested this morning and looks like a BFN 👎🏻 I woke up feeling sick and with a banging headache so my body really is tricking me if I’m not 😖 will add a pic of yesterday’s test to see what you think. Mr Amazon delivery man is bringing me two FRERs today and some more cheapies so will no doubt test again later! 🤞🏻

@scrumdiddly123 aw sorry it looks to be a BFN today..I can definitely see a shadow of a line there, I suppose it could be an evap but don’t lose hope yet and wait for the FRER!

I’m only CD13 and my OPK is looking like I might get to peak by tomorrow or even possibly ovulate! Never had it happen that early before!!cycle before last I got peak late on CD14 but otherwise i normally ov cd 16-17!

@Annny27 how’s your opk going?

Morning girls :) cd13 here as well - have had little to no ewcm this month! But am having quite dark opks, not positive but definitely high

@Ejb86 you have given us all hope in our bodies ability to take a bit of time and still be able to conceive :D

@scrumdiddly123 sorry it was a bfn this morning :( yes take a frer later or tomorrow!

@Nuggetlover27 no sign of ovulation in terms of cm but my opks look like they are darkening which is weird considering my lack of cm haha. When we dtd I will use some presseed to compensate!

@Leok83 thats definitely nearly positive how exciting:D have you had much ewcm? Attached is my opk from today

Have had some ewcm now which makes me happy and potentially could be ovulating soon :D

Ooo @Annny27 it's definitely going in the right direction 🙌🏻🙌🏻

@scrumdiddy123 I can also see a shadow, fingers crossed your frer gives you a clearer result.

I've been so tired this last week, keep feeling like I need an afternoon nap 😂 and then not being able to sleep at all at night. According to my Flo app I'm due af tomorrow but who knows with how my body has been the last few months. Xx