Our first month ttc our first

[rosiej95]

As soon as AF disappears, which will be soon 🤞 me & my partner will be ttc :)
I've been keeping an eye on my cycles for a little while using the flo app & have been taking pregnacare.
Is there anything else we should know or do to help prepare ourselves? :)
Exited to go on this roller coaster of a journey & as no one knows of our plans would be lovely to hear off people ttc too :) xx

@rosiej95 exactly!!

Hope this TWW is nice and speedy for you. How are you feeling?

I think I ovulate either today or tomorrow. I'm not tracking this morning again. So far we've DTD every other which included last night and going to try and do a 3 in a row now!

Xx

Thank you ladies!! Touch wood, all day yesterday he felt completely normal again and he’s woke up this morning feeling the same so let’s hope this is the end of it!!

@rosiej95 aww fingers crossed. You’ve deffo covered yourself for this cycle, gone on you! Time for your body to do it’s thing now 🤞🏼🤞🏼

@beckyBP Aww that’s the worst. Just take a breather and re focus your mind just think at least when you do fall on she’ll have been through it first and can tell you the gory details!!

@Amy259 ooo you’ll have to let us know if it’s any good so we can give it a go!
Also, quick question for ya and for anyone else that might know too, my cycles are 4-5 weeks long, and I used clear blue digi kit last cycle and got my static on CD 24 which was quite late in my cycle but it was a 35 day cycle, so this month I’ve been tracking temperature and LH strips instead of digital, I’m CD18 right now so in my mind it could be another week before I ovulate yet, but according to my premom app as of this morning, I ovulated 4 days ago? I’ll attach a picture or two if it’ll let me. What do you think? I suppose it isn’t impossible it could just mean that I’m having a 4 week cycle this time, and I only tested once a day on the 2 days I was supposed to ovulate, because I didn’t think I’d be fertile at all those days, so could I have missed the LH surge if it was in the late afternoon maybe and gone by the following afternoon? I don’t track CM but I’m racking my brain now and I don’t think I’ve noticed any changes. Should I keep temping and tracking LH at least for another 7-9 days to see if it comes later like last month or is it fully done now?

If it’s done now I’m gutted just as DH finally feels better and is ready to go and my app tells me this morning it was 4 days ago! typical!! 😂😂

Orange line is my LH levels and blue line is my temp

@meganlea I would say you definitely haven’t ovulated yet - the app is guessing because you’re just in the early stages of using it, so it’s putting you as ovulating 14 days before it predicts your next period. When you keep entering your LH strips and they eventually peak, the app will fix itself and move your fw and ovulation date to the correct time. Then next month (if there is one!) it’ll be better at getting the prediction right xx

@rosiej95 hope the next week or so isn’t too much torture for you!!

@beckyBP enjoy your weekend of dtd 😂😂

@Amy259 aw I really hope that’s the case, up until I entered my temperature this morning it had my fertile week as next week. Fingers crossed I haven’t missed my window this cycle then and now DH feels ok again we’re ready to go 😁😁🥳. Might test twice a day from now on though 1pm and 5pm to make sure I don’t miss it! Thank you lovely xx

@meganlea yeah your temps do seem to have risen, but unless you spiked really really quickly it doesn’t look like youve ovulated. And I’d be even more confused if you ov on day 24 last month and day 14 this month.. I’m not an expert by any means but I’d say that was pretty unlikely!! Yeah keep testing twice a day now, I bet you’re yet to ovulate 🤞🏻

Have you done anything different to affect taking your temp? Warmer room, later cause it’s the weekend, broken sleep, wine..?

@Amy259 yeah it was the temperatures that were concerning me, I haven’t drunk anything alcoholics since temping as I didn’t want it to affect me but I do have anxiety and some mornings I wake up a bit panicky for no reason it’s very rare but this week I’ve been like that for days and when I get panicky I get a really warm so maybe it’s that and a lot of broken sleep too, waking up through the night and taking me a while to get back off so I don’t think my temps are 100% accurate anyway.

@meganlea yeah if I have a night of broken sleep my temperature is all over the place. I saw this link on a chat ages ago and saved it because sometimes I wake up at like 5am randomly and I don’t have time for another 3 hours unbroken before the alarm, but you’re supposed to do it at the same time every day. So if I end up taking it at 5am (because I haven’t moved yet and I’ve just woken up from 3+ hours unbroken) I use this and plug the altered temp into the app and it keeps it all making much more sense xx

www.whenmybaby.com/basalbodytemperature.php?fbclid=IwAR2pHMhwJwsrs7McuRmqd5kB7Ce4XkHxNM-4drbCHvEFEU3oBcRHwJA7tmc

Aww that is brilliant thank you so much! That will be a life saver in future. Added to me favourites now thank you. Will use it from now if it happens again and hopefully it will start to look a bit more consistent on the chart xx

2ww is dragging so much 😂 7dpo & feeling a bit crampy apart from that 🤷🏼‍♀️ nothing new to report. AF due in 7 days, I'm going to try and hold out until Sunday to test.
I'm back to work in a few days so hopefully that'll keep me from testing 🙈

How's everyone else doing? ☺️

Hi, hope you don't mind me joining this thread.

I took my last contraceptive pill on 27/10 and I'm now waiting for my first real AF to start my TTC journey.

How are you girls doing?

Hi @Katelyn99
Welcome to the crazy journey 😍
How are you feeling? ☺️

@rosiej95
I'm excited and impatiently waiting to get started!
Me and my OH have been waiting for this for a few years now and it's finally the right time.
I already feel like I've been googling non stop to educate and prepare myself 😂

I hope the 2ww goes fast for you!

Hello everyone 👋

We’re trying for our first and we’re going into our second cycle of ttc. Like others have said, the BFN after our first cycle was disappointing and I naively thought it would be easy to conceive if we did everything you’re “supposed” to do.

Onwards and upwards though! A Christmas BFP would be so wonderful but trying not to get my hopes up! 😬

@Katelyn99 the first month I think is really exiting - it's all new & you don't know what to expect 😍

Hi @Sakomondo it is brutal Isn't it. Hopefully you get your bfp soon ☺️

Well... I'm 9dpo today
I've ordered a test so will hopefully be with me tomorrow but I think I'll try and hold out until 11dpo because I won't finish work until late tomorrow.

I've had a bit of cramping, I'm massively bloated & my nipples are sensitive...
All af symptoms too but apart from that litrally nothing else 🤷🏼‍♀️ can't help but feel a little hopeful tho 😕

@rosiej95 I’ve got my fingers crossed for you! I guess you’re testing tomorrow so let us know what happens!

Tested this morning bfn.. 😞 AF due on Monday

@rosiej95 sorry to hear that 😞 Hope you’re not too disheartened. Just got to stay positive and know it will happen when the time’s right. It’s so hard though, hope you’re okay.

@rosiej95 urgh that’s so annoying. I hope it’s just late implantation for you!!

Hi all, quick update, DH is still on and off with pain in his groin/testicle area, he went back to the Drs just now, he’s been prescribed another but different course of anti biotics (I’m praying they don’t affect TTC but I’ll read the labels when he’s home lol) and they’re referring him for a scan on down there just for his own peace of mind they don’t suspect anything, he’s getting stressed over it. We DTD the other day and he isn’t in pain with sex so we’re good to go in that area.
But anyway, shock horror, I’ve had brown CM today so AF should be here tonight/tomorrow if not then this weekend 100%. Which is crazy because my cycles are usually 5 weeks! And I’m only on CD23 today? Must be my health kick that I’ve been on that’s brought it down to a normal length! Anyway, a bit gutted because it confirms I completely missed my O day I predicted CD24 and apparently it was around CD11-12 and explains why my temps surged around CD11 onwards lol. But I’m taking a massive positive from this that if AF comes tomorrow, I don’t have to wait over 3 whole weeks to get into my fertile week again so fingers crossed I get another 23-24 day cycle and I will be testing for my LH surge 3 times a day from CD8 onwards and using the temp calculator you gave me which has made my temps look more stable so thank you so much !! @Amy259

Wow @meganlea that’s crazy!! Such a big difference in cycles. But yes less waiting about which is lovely - I’m jealous 😂 brown spotting definitely not implantation? Glad to here DTD hasn’t been affected by your OH’s pain but sorry that he’s still suffering, that’s rotten. Fingers crossed the new antibiotics help!

@rosiej95 sorry about your bfn 😔 it’s no help right now, but try to remember how quickly the disappointment moves on to being ready to try again when af comes! It’ll pass and we go again ♥️

@rosiej95 sorry doll! Although, you're not out until AF arrives!

@meganlea sorry your OH is still suffering. That's so frustrating for you both. Seems like you've got a plan and you're on it though. Well done

I'm roughly 6dpo now. DTD a fair amount in lead up and two days over when I think ovulation was. Then OH had a REALLY stressful week so no more DTD since. Hopefully that hadn't ruined chances and I ovulated when I thought I did.

Hope everyone's ok! Happy Friday xx

@Amy259 yeah definitely AF I’ve been crying at Greys Anatomy all afternoon haha.

@beckyBP aww it sounds like you’ve covered yourself anyway just frustrating having to wait. It’s so hard not to wish your life away whilst TTC!!

Guys if it’s just a day of brown CM, would you class that as CD1 or would you wait until you get red? I’ve never been sure on this one!

@meganlea I hope so. Had to know when you're not tracking though 😕

I was exactly the same., was never sure what classes as day 1 and it's the first full day of flow so I'd say no! Xx

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Hey all, just wanted to quickly message to say I've been doing some research as to why my cycle jumped from 35 days down to 23, and the 23 day cycle the only thing I did differently is that I started taking the vitamins that DH takes every day, on top of the seven seas that I was already taking. The vitamins are Vitamin C chew tablets and Vitamin D (on the back it says they're vitamin d3), they're both from aldi and pretty cheap. I googled the relationship between Vitamin D and the menstrual cycle and there's sooo many studies showing not only does it reduce PMS symptoms, but sometimes duration too, that's if you have a Vit D deficiency which I could have had. And apart from being emotional and having cramps, I had no other PMS symptoms, and every month without fail I get these killer headaches and I didn't get them at all this time. It could be a fluke like, I'll see how long this cycle is and if it's around the same number of days, I'll know it wasn't just a one off. But might help people who's cycles aren't regular and haven't been diagnosed with anything like PCOS / other hormone related conditions. @Amy259 might be worth a try see if it will shorten yours! xx

And I am well aware every time I post on this thread it's nothing short of a small novel so I do apologise girls I just have a lot to say and no one in the real world is on the same page so I just unload everything here haha x