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!

@Bells20 Yeah I might go and get one and then maybe do it in the morning.

@GreenApplesYo I know I’ve always thought I would leave it at one. But think I’m worried incase i have a false positive! Guess my period is late though X

@jessi60 I think First response are generally quite reliable and your line is definitely pink, I really don't think it's a false positive!

Omg congratulations @jessi60 that explains a lot!! So happy for you and the most perfect Christmas present. Soon this chat will be all BFPs club (and me lurking around in the background 🤣)

@jessi60 The first day of my last period was 9th November, I'm 4 +1 today but my cycles are 34 days so that makes sense you are 5 weeks. So funny I found out nearly a week before you, yet you are one week ahead of me!
Amazing birthday present to your DP!

Rise of 0.01 getting there slowly. Will test again before bed

Nice one @Dex1521 - try not to drink much before bed, just tiny sips here and there. 🤞🏻 you'll get your peak tonight / tomorrow!! 😀😀

So due to working away the next three days I’ll not be able to test at my usual 12pm time frame.

Any other ladies here who haven’t been working from home do you usually just test on the evening when finished work? Obviously being so close to ovulation I don’t want to miss my surge as I want to keep my charts up to date will testing at 6pm then again at bed time be ok do you think?

Suppose if I get a higher reading again tonight before bed then a lower reading tomorrow evening I can assume I’ve ovulated?

Will still be able to track BBT however will be at 6am instead of 7am

Also @jessi60 please keep us posted on the announcement of PG to OH I’m eagerly awaiting the story of how you announce it and his reaction

I’ll definitely be a in his face screaming lol when my time comes

@Dex1521 Thanks so much! Aw don’t be daft you’ll get your positives soon! I mean look at me, I barley managed to dtd last month and it still happened. Still don’t know which one actually worked 🤣 hope having food poisoning won’t effect me too much. It cause miscarriages so that’s me worried!! I’ll keep yous updated when I tell him in the morning. We just sat eating dinner now, so hard not to mention it 😂😂

@PowerOfFlowers Aw really. That’s cute if we so close in dates. I’ll do the clear blue one in the morning and see what it says. I’m hoping it says pregnant 🤞🏼🤞🏼
Xx

@jessi60 my last period was 8th November and I'm 5+2 today so I think we're pretty close too! Hoping your CB says a big pregnant! The CB digital have a sensitivity of 10, much less than the test you used I think so you should be good!! No idea how you're managing not to tell OH you're amazing! What a lovely present for him tomorrow!!!

@Dex1521 with your temp I'd just use an adjuster and input what it would have been at 7am just for consistency. Not gonna lie I'd be tempted to bring a little pot with me to wee in and test away from home 😂 you could just assume you're ovulating now/tomorrow and wait for the BBT increase to confirm?

@PowerOfFlowers have you tried Shloer before? I've seen the word so many times now I'm feeling an urge to go and buy some.

@Bells20 that’s so weird you’d say that i found some plastic party cups whilst digging to the back of a cupboard and they’d be small enough to go inside a food bag and small enough to fit in my handbag but perfect size to pee in 🤣 so the thought definitely crossed my mind. Will take it for the hotel room and a handful of OPKs but depending on the bath situation at the office I’ll be in I could potentially do it during the day too I think. Definitely a POAS addict 😂

@Bells20 when you work your dates out online on the calculator it asks for your cycle length but I don’t really know mine. It was 28 days the one I did have. But then this cycle I had two peaks so I don’t know which one it was cause the second peak had me a 34 day cycle 🤷🏻‍♀️ Yeah there isn’t much online about the first response rapid tests sensitivity.. hard to find out. Someone said 100 which is abit mental.
God it’s hard not to tell him to be honest. Just hoping for good news with the digital tomorrow 🤞🏼 Or that’s my plans buggered lol.

I drank shloer last new year as I was on night shift lol, we did a celebratory drink when it was midnight lol. I preferred the red one! Xx

@bells20 I tried Shloer a few weeks ago for the first time as adult... it is not the sophisticated drink my 11 year old self believed it to be (my sister and I used to have it as a treat at Xmas and Easter when the adults had wine with their meals). I ended up diluting it with soda water. But I don't like sweet drinks too much anyway, I don't like fruity cider for example.

@Dex1521 I'd definitely be doing some sneaky party cup testing hehe! You can have a private poas party at work. Hopefully you'll get a nice temp rise to confirm ov anyway, but I'd be curious to see when the peak starts to go down 🙂

Oh by the way @jessi60 if you haven't done this already I'd be tempted to take the day after your 2nd OPK peak as the day of conception and then add 2 weeks. Eg if you ovulated 16 days ago then add 14 days, it would make you 4+2? I used the dpo on my app and added 2 weeks. The scan put me 1 day ahead of what I thought, but using my dpo + 14 days was basically right.

@Dex1521 that is the true spirit of a POAS addict there and I love to see it 😂

@jessi60 that's a really good point I'm basing mine off my withdrawal bleed so not a proper cycle, my cycle pre pill was 27 days so I just put that in but really who knows. I'm going for an early scan next week so hopefully they can give me a better idea! If you did a clear blue weeks indicator tomorrow it'll tell you how long it's been since conception I think so that should give you a better idea? 🤞🏻🤞🏻 for you tomorrow!

@GreenApplesYo I do quite like a fruity cider so maybe I'll like it. I just want everything to taste like wine really and am always disappointed. At least shloer doesn't pretend to be wine so don't feel like I can be too disappointed by that!

@GreenApplesYo Yeah in an ideal world I would love a reading of 1 or over tonight or a line darker than the C line so I can say I hit my peak tonight but if not I’ll hopefully see a temp rise in the morning 🤞 it is weird my peak is climbing up slowly whereas most others get a out of the blue higher reading then drops again from what I’ve seen

Does my BBT start to rise after ovulation I can never remember lol

OH MY GOD!!!!! @jessi60 yes!!! This is amazing news!!! Eeeek I'm so so so excited and happy for you!! Wow the BFPs are literally rolling in now!! This is definitely a lucky group we have here. Eeeek!!

Also had shloer at my work Xmas virtual drinks this week and now can't look at the stuff 🤢🤢🤢 even reading the word is making me wanna gag. Nausea is so weird, once you drink something you can never drink it again 😂😂 i have had so many one off drinks then had to dispose of the bottle to stop myself gagging since 🙄

@Dex1521 temp rise should happen 1-2 days after ov and can be sharp or gradual. hope you see yours soon 🙂

@AMS19 at one point I was just on cold water from the fridge with ice cubes in it. Glad I am feeling more normal now...

Is this correct do you think? I know people say the numbers don’t matter but it’s saying my peak was below 1 can that happen? Also if I did ovulate would it drop that low that quickly?

Suppose only way to tell I did ovulate will be BBT in a few days won’t it?

The attaching of a chart may help 😂

Hey ladies! Sorry I've been awol the last few days! Had to move house, and had af so didn't have anything exciting to report, but just sat down to all the messages and lovely to catch up and what you've all been up to! Beyond excited for all the BFP's! Deffo a lucky group🥰

@jessi60 congrats to you!!! This is amazing news!! Wow, I must admit when I was reading through I thought you are very strong willed not to have tested like a crazy person everyday leading up to now 🙈 looking forward to hearing OH's reaction :) xx

I'm now onto cycle 3, CD5 with Ov predicted for CD17- feels like forever away! But at least the lead up to Xmas should be a distraction. Had a nice chat to my mum about TTC over the weekend (blurted it out over zoom after a few g&t's) She told me I was conceived on cycle 3- probably TMI lol but maybe a good omen 🤷‍♀️🤞😅

Just had a 2/3 day af, abnormally short for me so not sure what that could mean but hopefully it doesn't have too much affect on ov🤷‍♀️

Anyone thought much about the covid vaccine and pregnancy? I work on a covid wars in the hospital and have just been reading up about it, it's not recommend to get the vaccine when TTC 😳 or they advice to wait 2 months after the vaccine before TTC! Very difficult to know what to do! 😔 xx

If anyone's online can you tell me whether we should DTD again tonight? 🤣🤣🤣Xxx

@jessi60 omg!! Congratulations!! After all that worrying over your OPKs and illness and not DTD enough and everything! 😂 I'm going to read back through your previous posts now when you would've been pregnant with no idea! You must be so relieved! ❤️❤️🙌

@DrS44 just keep DTD as much as DH will let you I say!

@Dex1521 I have no idea but I'd love to know what others think?! I don't understand the charting on premom. I think with the LH levels it just adjusts peak for each person as it understands more about your individual baseline level. Hark at me!

@Foxl2222 Nice to hear from someone else who's still going too! That initial waiting stage is long but exciting I think as you've got a whole new chance of possibility.

My OPKs have tailed off now it seems.. never got a peak or any progression really! Just low, high, low, high... and temps are just still properly random. Almost the opposite to how they should be- high in the first half of the cycle and now staying low in what should be the second half 🤷🏻‍♀️ Trying not to get worried but got to admit I've been Googling all evening! Guess the pill has messed me up but I'm sooo impatient it's annoying 🙄
AF will be due on Xmas day too if I have a normal cycle 🤨 so kinda hoping for an irregular cycle just to prevent that happening 😂

No worries, it is possible that the ratio drops so quickly if you have a rapid LH surge pattern. With this pattern, some women may only have elevated LH levels for an hour, so CD14 could be your peak if you have a cycle around 28-32 days. BBT is not the only way to confirm ovulation, the PdG test is also working to double-check if you have ovulated.