TTC after MC - June 2020

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I'm 31 TTC #1 after a MC in March this year, AF has just finished and I'm on CD6 and all ready to go for my 2nd full cycle.

This month I will be tracking with opks, CB connected, BBT and following SMEP plan.

Good morning ☺️

Lovely news on the house @Bellabubble, except the WiFi and 4G. Nice to have a forced break from tech though!

I’m with you @VP91x, I have typically, I think, been ovulating around CD22, which both my old apps have me at this month. However interestingly Ava has shifted my fertile window to start today, which means predicted ovulation on CD18 🤔. Obviously only my first month of data so I’m expecting that to move. Maybe OH has programmed it to show my fertile window being adjusted to last a couple of weeks 🤪.

Happy Friday to you all 💕 xxx

@VP91x temps are all over the place hence why I have the Ava coming, hopefully it will help next month x

@Dipsy77 hopefully AF stays away and you can test again in a few days. Have my fingers crossed for you xx

@MichT4 haha, imagine if they did that. Yeah it might move it again depending on your temp shifts. Are you just DTD every other day? So sorry I forgot if you said you were doing SMEP or anything xx

@VP91x I think sort of, but not to the letter and more by chance because I haven’t actually been tracking ovulation with the OPKs or anything. Last month we DTD a lot through the month, which was fun, but I’d get stressed if we missed a session or something so I think it wasn’t the right headspace. So far this month we are DTD every other day at least anyway, might have been two days in a row and then skipped a day, just when we want to. I think in the fertile window we might do every day, but no pressure, as long as a few days in a row near ovulation maybe.

Basically a long answer to no real plan 😂

@VP91x do you follow SMEP? Which day are you supposed to start the 3 day run? xx

Agree @Dipsy77 the bfn's are soul destroying. I had an awful day yesterday after mine.
Hopefully af won't rear her ugly head and you can test again. Xx

@MichT4 ah, to be honest sometimes it is so much better to not have a real plan as it can stress you out.

Yeah I done SMEP last month, and will try again this month. You do your 3 day stint from the day of your peak result on a OPK or static smiley on the CB tests xx

@Jazper sorry to hear you has a bad day, sending lots of love.
It’s strange isn’t it!? Think I’d rather AF turn up than see the BFN 😢 xx

Yeah @VP91x I think I realised I was stressing more about it last month than I’d have admitted. So this month I’m just going to go with the flow, I think generally we cover ourselves well. I will try to get 3 days around ovulation though. I wasn’t even thinking about it when we fell last time.

How’s the grapefruit juice? 🍈 xx

@MichT4 yeah that sounds like a good plan!

Omg, I'm just having it now and it's lovely!! 😍 I expected it to taste awful. Xx

@VP91x 😂😂 I’ve actually started to really enjoy it too!
You’ll have no need for preseed in a few days 😜 xxx

@MichT4 this is going to be my new breakfast drink! So yummy.

Haha, OH will wonder what on earth has happened😂😂

Last month I never told him I was using the pre-seed as I didn't want to stress him out and he would comment on how 'ready' I was 👀 I just acted like I didn't know any different haha. Xx

@Jazper how many days dpo are you ?, I'm just going to avoid the other FRER I have at all costs x

@VP91x Haha, your OH is going to have a confidence boost if you use both 😏 xx

@MichT4 imagine 💦💦😂

Hallo ladies, i am also drinking grapefruit juice now haha of course plum juice too 💪

@HopeForRainbowbaby cheers to the grapefruit juice!
I saw you said about plum juice, then didn’t you say also pomegranate? I couldn’t find plum but got Pom and it’s really tasty. I don’t even know why I’m drinking it though 😂 what does it do? X

Morning ladies, I've not checked in for a few days, hope you're all ok!

CD10 for me today, so time to start OPK! We were supposed to do SMEP again but DTD on CD6 and haven't since, so we'll go from today and hope for the best. Not really doing anything else apart from prenatal vitamins for me.

Saturday would have been the 30 week mark for my pregnancy so I've been a bit down this week which is kind of why we missed DTD on day 8. Oh well. Just got to keep going!

Thank you @MichT4, I felt the same about preferring af to show before I saw a negative test, but I just couldn't hold off any longer, the urge to test was all consuming.

@Dipsy77, I'm 12dpo today. I think? Well, 12 days passed positive OPK but in theory, I could only be 11 if I ov'd the following day. I don't temp as the sleeping pattern of my 4 year old is still quite irregular and she often comes in to our bed at various times in the night which wakes me up at odd times.
Thankfully, I don't have any more FRER's in the house now. I have ordered a pack of 4 from Amazon (on the recommendation of ladies in here, thank you all!) and they arrive next week so if af doesn't show by then I will test again.

Thank you @VP91x I haven’t heard anything yet. I got the letter to confirm my treatment was going ahead in March then a letter 2 weeks later cancelling it. Never had issues conceiving with my other two, I’m just putting it down to age now (I’m 35 next week) We have both had all the tests and they can’t find a reason for the infertility.

Got my static smiley this morning so fingers crossed!

@Jazper I am totally with you. Last month I was adamant I’d wait and I didn’t even have any tests in. I did manage to wait until 1 day late (according to apps) and went out and bought a couple of packs, I was convinced it would be positive. And it wasn’t. I was gutted.
So now I have some in the house, which I might have to get OH to hide, and again start my mission to not test until it’s really late this time 🤞🏼 It is so hard though 💕

@peonyrose87 sorry you find yourself at a milestone. I don’t think skipping a session will make any difference, just pick up where you left off. Enjoy the next few days of lots of DTD xx

Hi ladies I’m very confused and need some advice! So I did daily OPK from Sunday (left to right) and was sure I’d got my peak on Tuesday but tested daily since to be sure. Anyway...I usually get EWCM at ovulation time and have only ever used this as an indicator (first time with OPK) but didn’t get any this month at all until today! So now I’m very confused and wondering if anyone can offer some insight...DH will be pleased he’ll be getting some unexpected DTD tonight!

@MichT4 plum and pomegranate juice contain Polyphenolic antioxidants, which fuel your fertility by protecting the cell membranes of sperm and eggs from oxidative stress as I find on internet;) and yes they are delicious hehe

@elliew818 Tuesday looks positive to me . I don't always get ECWM. In my opinion you are 2/3 dpo

Does plum gin work too?!