NEWBIE 🙋🏼‍♀️ TTC first baby - anyone else new to the journey?

[beckyBP]

Hey ladies,

Thought I'd start a new thread for anyone new to this like me 🙋🏼‍♀️

We're TTC after a change of plans when COVID postponed our wedding 🙄

Currently cycle 1 of TTC WITH AF due in 3 days.. I think I can feel it coming tbh.

Didn't use any form of ovulation tracker other than Flo (which I've used to track period for years) this cycle.

Thank you @HopefulFTM - it really doesn’t feel real at all. I do hope it sticks!

I’ve watched a few online but don’t want to go OTT as don’t want to jinx it? Is that weird?

Huge congratulations @hereforallthehelp can I ask.. did you have normal pre period style cramping (if that even is normal for you) before your missed period? Xx

Welcome @rachelgreensroom (p.s love the name) it's so tough isn't it! I feel a bit lost with the wedding stuff now if I'm honest! X

@beckyBP thank you! Yep and it’s almost like a dull ache there now, I woke up with cramps on Wednesday convinced AF was here! I have no idea what’s normal or not so I’m just trying to take a day at a time at the moment - eek!

So so exciting!! @hereforallthehelp

I just took a cheapy test (one that came free with my opks) and it was negative but I'm only 11dpo so not ruling out yet xx

@beckyBP eek! Keep me updated please, I had a very very faint line on a Waitrose cheapy 12DPO then waited another full day and the next morning got a BPK! Just going to do a digital so hopefully says the weeks!

Can I join?🙋🏼‍♀️

I'm cycle 1, having come off the pill after 8 years! I had my withdrawal bleed, then roughly two weeks later, lots of ewcm and positive OPK's! I'm about 10/11 dpo now and dying to do a test 🤦🏼‍♀️

Nice to see a thread for newbies! It's all very daunting and the shed load of information out there can be a bit scary x

@HeyDW96 of course! Welcome - it’s so overwhelming isn’t it? I’m not quite ready to go over to the Pregnancy thread yet! X

@hereforallthehelp well this happened today, guess I need to go to the pregnancy thread too! I'm still in shock!

@HeyDW96 EEE!!! Congratulations!!! How do you feel?! Xx

Wow @HeyDW96 that was super quick! Congratulations doll! Xxxx

@heyDW96 congratulations!!!

Another BFN for me this morning, 3rd one now. I can only assume that the light bleed I assumed wasn't my period was, in fact, my period. Not sure if I ovulated or not this month so perhaps have to wait till next month.

Keep the good news coming ladies 😊

I'm really shocked, I genuinely didn't believe it would happen as quickly as this! Very happy, but scared aswell, hope the next few weeks go okay!

Eurgh ladies.. I'm pretty sure AF will be here within the hour. I'm GUTTED! I had such a different last few days and things like the vivid dreams, early wake ups, change in skin I honestly thought this was it! 😫

@beckyBP ah I’m so sorry, I totally had that last month and I was late a week too!! Periods are the bloody worst (pun intended) xx

Awh @beckyBP sorry to hear 😩

I felt like that last month, I was so convinced, had been feeling sick, had weird cramps and loads of dreams about being pregnant but not got AF instead.

I’m at the start of another ttw now. Trying to be a bit more chill this month.

Now on my 3rd cycle of OPKs the app is popping up asking if I want a doctor’s consultation. Just to rub it in 🙄🙄 3 months isn’t even that long either!

@PinkPlantCase & @hereforallthehelp Thanks ladies it sucks doesn't it! Onto month 4!!

3 months isn't long at all.. the app needs to 🤫 😂😂

How’s everyone getting on? I’m 8DPO today and will test this time next week if AF doesn’t come.

I’ve been really good so far at not symptom spotting. Hoping I’ll be able to keep this up for the coming week 😂 I’ve only got one test in the house and it’s a clear blue digital. I’m hoping the fact they’re quite expensive means I won’t cave in and test early.

Hi ladies! I haven't commented in a while as I tried to take a back seat and not think about it all. I quit the apps, temping etc and look what happened!!!!

How are you all getting on? Sending you all so much baby dust xx

@PabsyPops Congratulations 🥳🎉🎉

Best of luck for your pregnancy! x

Congratulations @PabsyPops, that's a very clear result!

How's everyone doing? I'm feeling a bit blue today. I'm on CD 36 (no idea how many DPO - I did use OPKs this cycle but they were all over the place and I didn't get an LH surge like before, wondering if my CP last cycle has caused that) and I'm feeling similar to how I felt last cycle when I was pregnant (though I lost it pretty much as soon as I found out) - bloated, mild tummy pains, headaches for the last 5 days. I never normally get these symptoms before my period, and so when I got them last cycle I felt like I just knew I was pregnant. I couldn't resist taking a pregnancy test after work today, but no hint of a line whatsoever. My periods have been irregular lately so I don't know when I'm due on, I think my last cycle before my chemical pregnancy was 34 days, so I suppose I could have ovulated a bit later this cycle (because of the CP?) and it's too early for testing. Though surely if I have symptoms the hormones must be strong enough to be picked up by a pregnancy test!

I've started to really doubt myself now, wondering if these symptoms are just PMS (though it seems strange that I've never had them in my 20+ years of getting periods), and maybe the BFP I got last cycle was a false positive?! It was a Tesco one, and they seem to have a bit of a reputation. I suppose I'll just have to wait and see what happens this cycle.

Hope you're all alright and not going too crazy..!

Guuyyyyysss!!!!

12DPO 😁😁😁😁

Don’t really have any symptoms, at least if I have I’ve been ignoring them, last cycle I thought I had loads but really it was all in my head/PMS so I’d be weary of reading too much into them @Meg87, sorry to hear your having a rough time 😔

My periods due on Saturday so just have to keep everything extra crossed that it doesn’t arrive anyway.

Hi everyone, I'm TTC for our first baby since we've moved our wedding to 2022 for the 4th Time ( was supposed to be earlier this year!!)

I came off the mini-pill last weekend, has a withdrawal bleed for a few days and I'm now hoping I'm gearing up to ovulate, the OPK's I'm taking seem to be getting a bit stronger even though they are very low. I know it might take ages but I'm so impatient and am also obsessed with the idea of telling our families at christmas if we did get pregnant before then!

@PinkPlantCase congratulations! They look like good lines!

Congrats @PinkPlantCase! How exciting 😁

Hey lovelies, I'm just catching up on all this wonderful news!

Congratulations to @hereforallthehelp @HeyDW96 @PinkPlantCase and @PabsyPops - sorry for anyone else I missed, this is a lucky thread it seems!

I've not really been on here lately as we chickened out of ttc last month - got a bit of cold feet and so went back to good old contraception, slightly defies the point, but it has since confirmed we're definitely ready going forward, just waiting for AF to arrive in the next week and then fingers crossed the lucky thread continues to work its magic...

@Meg87 I really feel for you and it's such a nightmare when cycles play up - I had my first 35 day cycle last month and started to get quite anxious about forward planning, hopefully you're not out of the running this month, keeping everything crossed for you :)