1st month TTC unsuccessful - how about this sperm meets egg?

[AKcheer]

Hi guys.

A bit disheartened today as AF came and I was gearing up to do a pregnancy test this morning! This was the worst two week wait and I swear I actually thought I was pregnant. The symptoms omg...am I that crazy that I made myself think I was ! Who knows?

Me and hubby were trying to conceive for the first time last month but then on predicted ovulation day according to flo I couldn’t get jiggy with it as I got a UTI. Because the donkey in me lay in bed and didn’t have a wee after we did the deed! Has anyone suffered with this problem? Had to get some lovely antibiotics too...

So AF here now and it’s a new cycle so I read the sperm meets egg methodology. Has anyone tried it - where you start getting jiggy from day 8 and use predictor kits? Is it too early to start using the ovulation predictor kits? I’m 30 - been married since 25 and enjoyed my life and holidays with husband. It’s time now and I never thought this was so complicated!

Any advice and thoughts welcome - would be good to start this thread and have everyone talking about their journey this month and we will see where we are in a months time!!!

@akcheer thankyou, im really hoping these opks do work i used IC until i saw a rise and then cb for a 2 days and got my peak, a lot early than i thought i got my peak so maybe thats where ive been going wrong 🤞 hopefully the drive was worth it although i did get told off because i said i wasnt going to obsess over it this month.... after i was told i was like an impetuous teenager who had just lost there virginity last month (hence the uti) 🤣🤣🤣 who knew men didnt like sex 3 times a day 🤷‍♀️

Hey @Butterfly134 welcome! How are you? Oh amazing you will need to keep us updated! Fingers crossed it’s worked for you! What day of the cycle are you on?

@butterfly134 i have also used cb opks this month well a mix of those and ic as the cb can get quite expensive, have you had a peak yet?

@AKcheer @beck84 I’m on cycle day 15 and got my peak reading today! Before this I had 4 days of high. BD every other day this week and Going to BD today and tomorrow ladies. Fingers crossed it’s enough xx

Please don’t worry about it being your first, second or third month trying etc. I’m a healthy 24 year old and was trying everything with my partner - OPK tests and even have an app. Doing everything by the book - the one month I really stop tracking is the month I fell pregnant. 6 months it had taken. What will be will be, don’t stress, let it fall naturally 🙂

@Butterfly134 ooh exciting! That’s good news!! Could be your month. Fingers crossed!!

@LucyGrace19961 I will try not to worry! Thank you. It’s hard not to stress but I will try not too!

So guys the weirdest thing is happening. My period only lasted 2 days. WTF is going on with me and why is everything not normal anymore 🤦🏽‍♀️😭😭😭

@AKcheer it may be stress it could also have been implantation blleding though? I really thought i had implantation bleeding this month as bleeding started 5 days early and was only for a day but i guess it was just a weird af which we all get from time to time, its just we never realise them as we never track them like we do when ttc, i would wait maybe 5 days and do a hcg test and if negative put down to a weird af