TTC Thread #2

[Daffodil21]

Continuing the original thread:

First time TTC - help please!! Any one else TTC for their first time? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/3914013-first-time-ttc-help-please-any-one-else-ttc-for-their-first-time

Tagging those in my tag list - sorry if I've left anyone out or tagged people who don't want to be tagged!

@AlisonLew15 @Bam27 @CEW19 @Dreaming101 @HJen22 @LennyAndToots @M4v3r1ck @Mrskcam @Rocky89 @SVC11
@TerryRose

And of course, our graduates:
@Peach1204 @Poppyismyfavourite @Summertime1992 I'm sure everyone here would love to hear how you're getting on!

CD21 for me, no symptoms and I've not tested in days!
I've been up since 1am with a UTI that came on super suddenly... 😩 trying to avoid antibiotics so I literally sat on the loo drinking water and weeing (TMI soz) for hours and feel super flushed out, so I'm so relieved!

If I still have symptoms tomorrow I will call my GP but normally I can shake them off within a day or so by doing it this way!

DH has promised he'll fetch me a mcdonalds later so I'm just living for that now 😂

@JTB123 oh, that does sound painful 😖 I do hope it passes soon and you can get back to normal. Never a delight UTIs!!

Here’s hoping the McDonalds is a little pick me up ☺️

What a coincidence @JTB123 I was literally about come online and mention that I can't stop peeing today! Lol I've gone to the toilet every hour since this morning and I haven't been drinking any more than usual (in fact I feel quite thirsty). If I'm not pg then honestly feel like my body is playing tricks on me because I never experience these symptoms normally. I think UTIs have similar symptoms but I'm not experiencing any burning/pain etc, just peeing every 30 mins. Hope you feel better soon btw!! McDonalds sounds yum!

@acaciablue not to get any hopes up but excessive peeing was one of my first symptoms when I was pregnant with my first. I was shocked at how early it started. Fingers crossed for you!!

@acaciabluebell sounds positive for you!! ❤️ unfortunately I have the burning so mine definitely isn't pregnancy bladder 😩🤣

Question for you gals.. so the reason I have this UTI is because since TTC (this is our first month) I have been going straight to sleep after DTD instead of getting up straight away and going for a wee like I've always done to prevent UTIs. 😩 any advice? Do you girls get up straight away and wee? Do you wait?

@acaciabluebell what @honeysun101 said. The reason I tested was because I couldn't stop peeing so fingers crossed for you! How many dpo are you again?

@JTB123 oh no that sounds horrible! I go to the loo about ten mins after dtd every single time without fail. I've only ever had a UTI once, and it was because I didn't go to the loo afterwards - that was enough to make me never neglect it 😂 plus I pee like a fountain anyway, so it just potentially saves a trip in the night 😂

@Rm20 you are so right. Going to fuck it and have a glass of wine tonight as been a pretty stressful week! Ovulating either today or tomorrow though so I feel that's ok

@Daffodil21 think I'm going to have to start waiting 10 mins and then going for a wee, surely that gives any little swimmers a chance! Fingers crossed for a BFP soon so I can go back to weeing straight away 🤣

@acaciabluebell this sounds positive, when are you able to test?
@JTB123 I second what @Daffodil21 says, I wait for about 10 mins and then pop to the loo. Never go to sleep without having been.

@Daffodil21 you have that glass of wine, sounds like you’ve earned it and wouldn’t expect it to do any harm. We need these little things to keep us sane 😄

Hi, I hope its OK for me to post on here. Not really used chats before and am new to Mumsnet. Have been ttc for 5 months now and feeling quite lonely and down after I've got cramps today - so thinking no luck this month either. Find it really weird that no one ever talks about this bit... how difficult the waiting is.

@Clara9 welcome hun, it can be a really lonely process and there are no filters here! 😂 x

Good to know, @JTB123! We aren't really telling people we are trying as it adds pressure, so is nice to have somewhere to chat about this stuff honestly!!

@Clara9 welcome to the thread! I never used chats before I joined this thread, it's been so good having people to talk to 💐 hope it helps you too.

Talking of no filters. Got lots of watery cm today... When does this normally happen in your cycle?

@SVC11 I feel like this is me right now!!! Altho Unsure if I'm getting it confused with maybe a small amount of EWCM?! I'm CD21 so assumed I'd be past that now, and altho I've not detected a positive OPK I think I've just missed it as I'm on the home straight to AD now as she's due in about 8-9 days x

AF not AD! 😂

Hey @Clara9, welcome to the thread! I’ve only been on here for a few days and joined for the same reason you did. Already it’s felt a little less lonely with all these lovely ladies to talk to. My OH and I have told 2 people that we are TTC so it is hard not talking about it when it’s literally our everyday life now. We are here if you need us.

@SVC11 and @JTB123 I read about this yesterday and it said if CM is watery before AF your in the luteal phase...apparently but if you google watery CM at any stage of cycle it has an answer for it all as it also says it happens before ovulation 🤷🏼‍♀️

@Rm20 yeah I'm deffo in my luteal phase I'm having mild cramps so I'm assuming AF is on the way but I've had a lot of watery cm which is weird cos I thought you dried up before AF arrived. Still no show but cramps are a little more this morning so maybe af will come this afternoon. Which would put my luteal phase at 9 days for 2 cyclrs in a row... If Af does come il look at improving me diet and trying to lengthen the luteal phase next month...

@SVC11 my CM was watery>creamy this cycle after O and I thought the same. AF didn't come and got a + I will keep my fingers tightly crossed for you!

Anyone had this experience with the CB weeks indicator tests... just used it and a little book came up on it meaning error. I'm so annoyed. I think I held it in my wee for too long. I wanted to compare this weeks to next weeks. I hate wasting money 😫

@SVC11 I’m the same, was never dry either and I think my luteal phase was about 7/8 days so I’ll be looking at my diet this month too. I had a little bleed on Thursday late morning which was very pink and gone right away after. Since then I’ve had cramps one and off but only dark brown bleed but only enough to mark a pad twice. Hopefully AF appears so I can just get it over with! 😔

Thanks @Rm20! Know what you mean, I'm optimistic and chilled out half the month and feeling crappy the other half. Wild not explaining to people why.
Learning lots already from the chat on here, although I think it will take some time to learn what all the acronyms mean! Its so weird, have been on an contraceptive with only a couple of gaps since I was 17 and now I'm trying to figure out how my periods etc. work at 30.

@Clara9 then we are virtually the same! I’m a pill veteran. Been on it since the age of 16/17 and I’m nearly 30! I think it’s easy to be worried and assume the worst when we can’t get pregnant right away. We think just because we are in late 20/30s that it’s a given that we get pregnant when not using contraception but it’s a whole more complicated than that. Our bodies have spent years having a manufactured period because of our pills. It’s time to let it do it’s thing and find it’s flow (if you like).

I have gotten so sick of beating myself up about this all the time. I hope you can too x

Morning!

Negative FRER this morning and a nearly positive OPK!!! 😩 which I haven't had all month so maybe I've just got my ovulation date soooo wrong but according to my apps I'm due AF in 7 days!

@ALew15 congrats! Did you get af cramps at all or no other symptoms... Did a frer yesterday and it was white as you like! Haha. See if af turns up I spose is all I can do...

@ALew15 I’m so sorry, I missed your message this morning. Congratulations, that’s great news.
@JTB123 the apps aren’t great. I got positive OPK a week later than the app told me I would ovulate. Best just doing OPKs and going from there.

@SVC11 we may just wait for AF arrival together ☹️

This is my OPK from this morning! The darkest I've ever seen it!! And I'm not CD 22.
Going to DTD tonight and for a few nights if poss and hopefully see it get darker, maybe my cycles are longer than I thought!