7 months ttc (cont of 6 months ttc)

[Twinkletoes85]

Hi ladies,

Following on from our 6 months ttc thread, for anyone wanting to join in it’s just a group of us who have gone past the 6/7 month mark ttc looking to chat and support each other. All welcome 😊

thank you @fifol are you on month 6 or 7?

There is a lot of messages on here today 😀 and yes, I'm directly spending a lot of time scrolling through 🤣
I think maybe men and women are just different. I want to know everything so I can fix it or move on from trying while OH would rather know nothing and just see if it happens. I'm in my TWW now but if af arrives, I'll be more pushy about the 2nd sperm test. Hopefully his vitamins have helped.

Hi I found you all! Just marking my place until I can come back on tonight to catch up. Hope everyone's well! 
Thank you for setting up @Twinkletoes85

Great to have found you all again..Must catch up on this properly later.
@Hoping41 with you BBT you will find that your temp stays high if you conceive, but drops a day or two before if AF is on its way. I have attached the chart from when I conceived with my daughter to show you. As you can see we only DTD 3 times that month (my OH was sick on day 13 and I was so disappointed so when we got the bfp it was a big surprise). I find temping is really good because you can see when you ovulate.

@PinkFlamingoGirl due today!

@Annny27 that's awful but sound like you are staying positive fair play to you. I'll be coming into cycle 8 of ttc if af starts today.

Ergh yet another friend of mine is pregnant almost immediately! So fed up! Took everything not to cry when DH told me today. It’s so difficult to be happy for people when you’re in this position, I’m so bitter about it! 😫

Found you all! Hello - marking my place so I can keep up with this thread! :-)

Today I'm cycle day 16.. no Peak yet. Getting pretty fed up with two weeks' of High and no Peak yet!

Just hoping this tags some of the other girls from the last thread (don’t know if it works!)
@Aokbaby @mummyofzog @fez148 @missgoldilocks @curbsidephrophet @dsc1

@jessmcg so sorry AF arrived for you, buy glad you are feeling ok about it. Good.luck with the tests too. I have been noticing I have very little EWCM too, I thought it was because I was ovulating early though and possibly then not enough oestrogen built up. When do you usually ovulate?

@Annny27 welcome to the tread and so so sorry about your miscarriage.

@Fifol really hoping AF stays away for you. If you are worried about your temp, I would ask the GP for a TSH test (thyroid test). Just say you are feeling tired etc. You should be able to get that straight away as its not strictly fertility related so you don't have to wait the 12 months. If your thyroid is fine, I think low pre ovulation temp shouldn't be an issue as far as I know.

@posy1 thank you for attaching that graph it’s really interesting to see.

I didn’t stick out temping long enough first go but I think I’ll start again now as it seems to be a pretty reasonable indicator!

@Nat4392 I’m sorry to hear that, it’s very hard not to be bitter (and then you feel worse because of that bitterness). I really hope your time comes soon then all the sadness and difficulty you’ve been though will be in the past!

I was having another chat with my OH at lunch and he admitted he’s feeling the pressure (he’s quite laid back so I knew he was a bit fed up but I didn’t realise how much so). I’m going to try ease off him a bit and talk about other things until I have to mention my next fw.

@Posy1 thanks so much for the graph. That’s really interesting to see. Does that mean your actual ovulation day was day 15 as that’s the last ‘low’ temperature?
@twinkletoes my OH is the same. He’s stressed because he is a fixer and he can’t fix this. I don’t talk to him at all about it out of the fw. I just didn’t think he was stressing because he wasn’t talking about it - like I would do if stressed.
Hi @Annny27 sorry to hear your story. Welcome to the thread 😀

@Tilly1403 Sounds the same as us! He’s being sent the pot in the post and then he’s got to do the test on Monday and then we’ve got to rush down to the clinic and drop it in! I’m going in anyway that day though as I cracked and decided to get an ultrasound just to see if anything is going on. Never done any of this clinic stuff before but I’ve never had any tests on anything in my life and I think it might be time! Also booked in with a naturopath / herbalist who I’m meeting on Saturday over Zoom to see if I can do something natural to support my temps / lack of EWCM etc.

@Posy1 I’m a late ovulator and I still don’t get it! I’m usually CD 17 or 18 and still nothing. I spoke to a family friend about it (she’s a GP & gynae) and she said not to worry about it, but to be honest I think it’s linked to the low BBt and I hadn’t told her that bit. She also didn’t know that I’ve been trying for my now 10th cycle! So yes. There are ways you can improve it though apparently - lots of water (done that), Evening Primrose Oil (I had a bad allergic reaction!) and a few other things. I’ve bought a supplement online so that’s my next port of call now.

I’ve just bought a thyroid testing kit of medichecks after all the chat on here. I must be careful not to make that website my new amazon!

@Hoping41 the app usually works out your ovulation day for you. The day before ovulation you usually have a temp dip (but this doesn't always happen) and the day after ovulation your temperature rises above the coverline (which the app also works out for you). I find it really useful, but taking your temp at the same time every morning is a bit of a faff. I'm usually consistent at taking it around ovulation, but not so good the rest of the month.

@Annny27 welcome to the thread. I'm so sorry about your miscarriage, sending you all the luck in the world for this cycle.

@Nat4392 and @PinkFlamingoGirl I know the feeling. Seems like everyone around me is announcing pregnancies a d births etc. Definitely doesnt help with the 5am anxiety night sweats about it. I think another thing that is worrying me is that me and my OH both work at home due to coronavirus and our offices being shut. That means it's so easy for us to schedule testing and DTD, if it doesnt happen before we're due back in the office most days (around August) then what chance do we have if it's not working now?

@KK251289 yea I know what you mean. We’ve got all this free time to DTD and lie horizontally afterwards and nothing! God knows what it’ll be like when we have to go back to work!

@nat4392 exactly right! I'll spend the whole day in the office panicking. I'm only on cd6 and I'm already counting myself out this month and I dont know why!

Totally agree with this ladies!! I'm stressing how we will find the time when we are back to work again!! So much more flexibility WFH and timing DTD. How did I find the time in December, Jan and Feb! 🙈

And there is no stress at the moment - except the stress of ttc! Maybe this will be the month for all of us!!

Hi everyone. Sorry for the random message but something odd has happened. Obviously had bleeding when I wiped this AM, so thought AF was here. Popped in my cup (sorry if TMI) and was surprised all day that no bad cramps like normal but thought that maybe as I’d had some the past few days it was them. When AF comes for me she arrives in full for be on her first day if you know what I mean... anyway, took out my cup. Nothing. One tiny bit of brown and one little red dry clot. Again sorry if TMI. I’m going to leave it overnight and see if she comes, but WTF??? The body is cruel? What could this mean?! I don’t want to get my hopes up, so I’m choosing to believe that she’s just decided to play a game with me. I had a small temp dip this AM, but not below my cover line (for those who temp), but I thought probably enough to be AF, plus there was a bit of blood so I just presumed. Hmmmmm. I’m probably overthinking this.

@jessmcg how many dpo are you. If temp is still above cover line, it sounds hopeful. Are you going to test?

Hmm that is weird @jessmcg. It could be spotting in the lead up to AF. Did you do anything different (supplements, seed cycling, pineapple etc) that might have altered normal AF? Or could be implantation spotting (although have heard this is rare). How many DPO would you be if it's not AF?

@Posy1 @seafrontsky I’d be 13DPO I think? Didn’t do anything different this month that would affect my cycle I don’t think? I did start taking Symprove every morning but I doubt it’s that. I think my body is playing tricks on me. I’ll wait a bit and I think if it’s still not here in the morning or at least tomorrow afternoon I’m going to test Saturday morning. I did a test yesterday at what I thought was 12DPO and it was a BFN, so I’m probably still out I think.

Hmmm that is weird @jessmcg
I have spotting before AF comes on fully that sounds a bit like that and always give me hope to cling onto (even though I know it's AF). If you don't usually spot then that could be a sign of something else? How you feeling otherwise?

What's the deal with pineapple? I've seen folks on other threads taking about it but what is it supposed to be good for?

I'm starving and tired and lethargic! I was the same yesterday too. I'm only 3dpo so I know it's not anything pregnancy related but I read a post on here that said you have a drop in oestrogen after OV which can make you irritable etc! I did not know this and it makes a lot of sense!! Not sure if that's why I'm hungry too or if I'm just plain greedy 😂😂😂 xxx