POAS Anon Christmas Party 🌲🧑‍🎄 Ho ho ho-ws your line progression?! Thread 3

[AMS19]

@GreenApplesYo
@positivitytree2020
@jessi60
@DrS44
@PowerOfFlowers
@Bells20
@Dex1521
@Emmgrem
@Foxl2222

@CardioQueen just so you know where we are

Here we go ladies! The last thread was a lucky one so let's keep up the success on this one!

Hi @jessi60 I'll be 6+3, I did the same as @PowerOfFlowers and @GreenApplesYo. Got my booking appointment through a couple of days after self referring to the hospital. Mine is at 9 weeks so hopefully get my 12wk scan date soon after that.

Ah okay thanks. Yeah I’ll ring get an appointment though. I might pay for an early scan but might wait until I’m about ten weeks cause I don’t know if they will see much at 6 weeks. Heard too many people worrying afterwards and then it all been okay xx

I’ve just booked an appointment in. She said they do it between 8-10 weeks, I have no idea how to work out how far along I am though 😂 because it’s six weeks tomorrow since my last period. But then my test only said 1-2 weeks which I know is conception so you add another two weeks. Confusing! X

@jessi60 they will go off the first day of your last period right up until your 12 week scan. They won't change it no matter what you tell them! Even if a private scan dated you differently! So it will be 8-10 weeks form the first day of your last period/withdrawal bleed. If you haven't had a period/withdrawal bleed then it is a different ball game!

Okay so the date I’ve picked makes me 9 weeks from the date of my last period. Hope it’s right! 😂Thanks for helping @AMS19 xx

@Bells20 yes tbf my afternoon pee is much more diluted. But there's no way I couldn't have a drink all afternoon 😬🤷🏻‍♀️ I swear I don't drink loads. One glass with breakfast, one with lunch, maybe 1 green tea during the day and 1 glass with dinner. That's literally all I drink! Always been told I need to drink more and all of a sudden it's like 'drink less, dehydrate yourself' 😂😂
Remind me why you shouldn't use FMU with OPKs? That would be so much easier!

And this is why I can't trust premom and cheapies... just took 3 photos one after the next and got 3 completely different results 🙈 definitely looks low though, but that initial reading got my hopes up that there might still be a chance this month. Still getting watery/EWCM and convincing myself I'm still feeling twinges down there so who knows..
@jessi60 it sounds like you ovulated quite late in the end after your body trying a good few times in the month?

Omg hearing your stories of how to tell people on Xmas day is giving me all the feels!! I can't wait to hear how it goes. I did envisage telling DH on Xmas morning with a wrapped up pregnancy test if I fell the first month. I know a friend who put it in a Xmas cracker on Xmas day and filmed her family's reaction - it was so cute! 🥰

I totally didn't realise how they date your pregnancy based on your last CD1 of AF. I always used to worry about that if I ever got pg on the pill as I never had AF and took them back to back. Little did I know how unlikely it probably was to get pg just from missing one judging by this 😂

@Emmgrem I had the Wilko ovulation tests and used them for a couple of weeks and they were crap. They were little ones like the ones you have, not very wide and then the lines were always smudged so I bought the easy at home ones and they are a lot clearer and easier to read. Feel like the pre mom app works well with them.

I don’t know what went on that month to be honest🤣 On Cd 14 i had a high at 0.73 and then went it back down and the CD 20 I had one an in was 1.06 which is marked as the peak. So I’m assuming the second one was right. All very confusing! Xx

@Emmgrem you're right and tbh I feel like if you were having an LH surge it would happen regardless of whether you'd had a green tea or not lol I just repeat advice I see others give I don't actually know anything 😂😂 I feel like you're having real bad luck with premom, I know they're expensive but maybe the CB ones would work better for you! Hopefully you won't need them though as hoping for a BFP for you of course!

@jessi60 9 weeks is probably a great time for a scan! I would have preferred to have had mine closer to 7/8 weeks but was so keen for a pre Christmas one. Just hoping it's late enough to catch a heartbeat for little one!

@jessi60 Yes to be fair I did have the E@H ones but just ran out yesterday so I have a box of 50 on order now, and resorted to the one-step ones I had left over today.

@Bells20 I think you may be right so thinking of investing in the CB ones next cycle and getting a second hand monitor off ebay like some people have suggested. I think it will give me peace of mind after all the really random results that have no pattern!

But hoping I'll be like @Dex1521 and have a much more textbook second cycle.
To be fair I'm pretty chuffed that I've made it as far as CD22 without AF showing this time. If I can just get to a normal range, so what's that 26 days plus(?), I'll be happy.

However like you @DrS44 if AF arrives on Xmas day I'll be p*ssed beyond belief! But the silver cloud will be eating and drinking everything in sight with a great excuse

So turns out I read my thermometer wrong this morning. My temp went up this morning it didn’t dip slightly so that’s taken a bit of worry off my shoulders. Was getting concerned why it wasn’t rising very much but as you can see from the chart it’s gone up twice fingers crossed it does tomorrow 🤞✨

@Emmgrem honestly I’m not even upset with not getting PG on my first cycle it’s reassuring knowing when AF arrives your cycle is evening out. If you look at my chart above it’s a lot more “normal” than it was the cycle straight after the pill. So what I’m trying to say is if it doesn’t happen this cycle at least you have the reassurance that next cycle will be more uniformed - if that all makes sense 😂

I’ve been on the pill since I was 15 (had the implant for 3 years in between) but I think being BC that long just takes ages for it to completely leave you system and your body start up again

@Dex1521 @DrS44 @positivitytree2020 @Emmgrem what CD are you guys now? Can't believe it's only us left! This is great, it's got to happen for us soon! 🤞🤞🤞🙏

I've been slacking a bit with any tracking this cycle, been so busy. Managed 1 OPK test since period finished 4 days ago and haven't managed to start BBT tracking like I'd planned..but know when I ovulated last cycle so will just be dtd like mad things for the next 2 weeks or so to make sure we cover all bases😄

Love hearing all the graduates' plans for revealing, so exciting!

I'm CD7 now, predicted ovulation literally over Xmas day/Boxing Day! Next period date 9th Jan, a BFP then would be a sure way to lift the January blues 😂

@Foxl2222 I know how crazy there is so little of us left but hopefully we will all be graduates soon! 🤞✨
Tell your OH that all the DTD is you’re Christmas gift to them - kill two birds with one stone 😂

I’m CD 17 and 2dpo - took my temp this morning and couldn’t believe my eyes how high it was that’s the highest it’s been and all my cycles before that it never got up like this! My cycle is a lot more textbook this month which I’m hoping helps

Oo you’re right a BFP will definitely lift the January blues. My birthday is 4th feb and I’ve worked out I’d be between 9-12 weeks by then if it happened this month which would be so exciting but rubbish as I’d have to have my birthday afternoon tea teetotal 🤣 but I’ll live lol

Omg girls, I feel as excited as the grads probably were seeing their BFP hahaha.. I got CROSSHAIRS!! 🙌 This is a big deal for me!

I mean my chart still looks ridiculous but what the hell.. that means I'm officially in my TWW right?
Someone tell me to calm down.. @Dex1521 on your first cycle when BBT was random did you still get crosshairs?
And could they be taken away again if my temp falls below the line? I have such high temps anyway I can't see how much more they could climb! Or is it ok if they stay steady now?

This also means Xmas day I'd be 11DPO - so is that too early for a FRER? Would be a bit of a dilemma then as I'd want to drink, but if I got a BFP I couldn't really tell the whole family the same day as DH. Anyway totally getting ahead of myself!

Also not sure we covered ourselves enough? 🤷🏻‍♀️ DTD leading up ov and once the evening before as you can see, but not on the day of.

Yaaaay! Welcome to your TWW's @Emmgrem and @Dex1521 😆😆

@Foxl2222 I am CD15 now! 😄

Question for you guys - so I ovulated CD15 last cycle, it went up significantly the evening of CD14 and then peaked on CD15!
I know that the day of ovulation isn't necessarily the same every cycle, but I thought I'd be in or around the same again this month so have been working towards that.

So I've been using CB & IC since CD9. I've had the flashing smileys on CB the last 4 days which is good, and then this morning I got the static smiley indicating "peak".... but when I did an IC on the same urine it was giving me Low? 😂 Do the CB ones pick up on levels that maybe the IC doesn't??

Last month when I got the static smiley on CB, it was the evening of CD14, and I used an IC straight after to see if they were in line and the IC was quite high!

Maybe I just keep using the IC's throughout the day to see if it get's any higher? Once you get a peak on CB you can't use it again for 48 hours lol!

I also had headache yesterday, which when I look back at my symptoms last cycle I had the day before I ovulated!

Any thoughts appreciated! 😄

Yesss to TWW!! @Emmgrem I know that crosshair excitement! I got my BFP at 10dpo so definitely possible, just hold in mind that if it isn't positive it doesn't mean your not pregnant if that makes sense!

@positivitytree2020 that is so interesting!! Really makes me wonder about those people with really strange premom scans when they could have been ovulating all along! I know the CB ones also track Estrogen so maybe there's something about the combo of that and LH that the CB ones pick up on that cheap internet ones don't! Fingers crossed for a temp rise tomorrow for you!!

@Foxl2222 I'm CD 24 and 4DPO!
I think being busy helps not stress about it just keep DTD and see what happens 🙌🏼

@Emmgrem ahhh amazing cross hairs 🤣🙌🏼 jealous! They still haven't given me any 🙄😅

@jessi60 hmmm how strange! Well my bestie got negatives until 3 weeks after so maybe it was just something like that?

@DrS44 looking back at your last pic of your chart it looks like you need to record your CM and maybe a few other symptoms and then it will give you the confirmed crosshairs. It can't confirm them off temp alone apparently which is why yours are still dotted.

@Bells20 Ya the CB ones track estrogen, when it notes a rise in that it gives you the flashing smiley indicating "high fertility", then it keeps looking for a rise in LH which gives you the static smile for "peak fertility"... so it must have noticed some change in my LH levels!

Makes me wonder how accurate those IC are, like it literally gave me 0.2 low on the exact same urine! Unless the IC I used was just a dud!

Last month was grand coz they were both saying the same thing, now I'm totally unsure! 😂

Will just check with ICs again mid morning, afternoon & evening and see do I spot anything. I got an ovulation stitch last cycle so can keep an eye out for that too!

@Emmgrem I didn’t get crosshairs last month so I’m super happy you have definitely a good sign! That’s what makes me think I didn’t ovulate last month either as I didn’t have a rise of temp/crosshairs.

I was thinking of testing too on Xmas day but will only be 10 dpo so might try wait until atleast 12 dpo and also have no idea if I should or shouldn’t drink over Xmas and Boxing Day 😬 what would others do?

@Dex1521 I think it's probably personal choice, but the advice seems to be that it's ok to 'drink until it's pink' so as soon as you get that BFP probably a good idea not to drink haha but before then it's fine. There's some science about the embryo not sharing a blood supply with you that early so it won't cause any harm- not sure about the specifics of that someone else might know more. I had a few drinks during TWW. If you test Christmas Day and it's negative I think you're fine to have a few drinks but I personally wouldn't get wasted just incase it was then positive the next day!

@Bells20 that’s a good idea actually I might test Christmas Day and see what happens if it’s BFN I’ll retest after AF is due. I would only have 1 or 2 ciders anyways as for me Christmas Day is about food 🤣

@Emmgrem I know, I got excited when high readings appears too. But somehow using auto scan and manual scan would produce different readings. I contacted the Premom agents once and they told me to have clear background and good lighting (whatever）. But after I use a whitebackground and keep it as stable as it can be, readings seems better! Definitely test more to see if peak is waiting for you. Maybe there is a Chritmas suprise ahead.
Definitely love seeing you girls sharing. Now it's my time to test. No drinking..