🙈🤣 Who wants to symptom spot with me.. 🙈🤣

[printedlace]

Hi all,

So I'm actually strangely calm about the TWW at the moment, which is unusual for me!

We had a chemical pregnancy 2 months ago and since then I really try not to symptom spot as I try and protect myself from disappointment.. but I thought it might be nice to follow each others journeys during the TWW and keep each other motivated and positive!

So here's my story:

-TTC for 7 months, first baby!👼

• had a chemical pregnancy 2 months ago💔

Currently 6 DPO:

• cramping in lower stomach; AF type pains
• constipated like MAD 😬😳
• boobs are very tender (especially areola's and nipples)
• very veiny boobs!
• I actually woke myself up from a deep sleep last night as I was dizzy?! How does that even happen 🙃🤣

🤞🏼 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

Haha a TT definitely isn’t so family friendly!! I will come back and update you xx

I’m feeling really odd today. My stomach is what I’m noticing the most. It’s almost right, particularly down the sides to my back. I’m getting a bit of pinching or cramping at times very mildly. I’m not sure if I’m just bloated and now I’m struggling to sleep on my side? I just want to know already because I feel like a donkey with a carrot being teased!

Hello!! I am on cycle 3 ttc our second child. Had a chemical last cycle, so I would love to get a bfp and for it to stick! Today I am 12dpo and have been testing negative so far. I have 3 different apps that are predicting af to start 3 different days. Two say at the beginning of the week, 1 says the end of the week. So... 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I have had a lot of the normal symptoms like cramps and backaches. I am a mom of an almost 1.5 year old, so I am always tired! One thing that happened today that confused me was my breast leaked. 😳 I haven't breastfed in over 5 months. And when I was breastfeeding, I had a low milk supply so leaking didn't really happen. So. Weird. I have Googled it and apparently that is just a thing that can happen? Never happened to me before today, that I can remember. Hoping it is maybe some crazy pregnancy sign! 🙏🙏🙏

Well... that was short lived. I’m crampy and the spotting is back. I think this is AF. Definitely giving myself a couple of months off and try and think ‘if it happens, it happens’, then get back into it after our trip! Will be back to check how you get on though.

@Noo3833 ahh it could be a good sign of implantation! I know what you mean about feeling as though you're being teased! For me it feels like the possibility is so close yet so far..

Fingers crossed! Xx

@ImpatientMama welcome! 👋

Ohh sounds promising! It's so hard isn't it, waiting for AF / a BFP.
You're only a little way ahead of me - AF due 22nd so I'm 12DPO today. Xx

@Twiggywinkle13 sorry to hear 😢 but keep positive and enjoy that trip! ❤️

To update you all - 12DPO today and received a BFN this morning on a FRER 😢💔

Slight cramps last night and (my eyes could of easily of been playing tricks on me- or it was just dark urine from dehydration) there was this ever so slight reddish tinge to the area on the toilet roll that I wiped with. My cervix has dropped low and is becoming hard. Still no discharge/cm

@printedlace oh no 😓😓😓 I'm so sorry to hear that 💔 roll on next cycle where we can try again xxx

@Hayes178 sorry to hear that, too ☹️ next year will be our year! Xx

Sorry to hear that @printedlace 🙁 Would it definitely show up on 12DPO or could that still be a bit early? Same you for @ImpatientMama as I saw you tested at 12DPO but it came back BFN yet you’re having symptoms? (Welcome btw 😊)

Sorry for the naive questions over here - learning so much but there’s still so much to learn! Hoping to test at 12DPO on Tuesday xx

Awww sorry @printedlace
But 12dpo may well still be too early. Can you try and test again in a few days time, ideally when AF is due? Thoughts and love 💕 to you xxx

@Rice1992 I think the trouble is, early pregnancy symptoms are the same as PMS 😢 so it's near enough impossible sometimes to tell the difference! The female body is so cruel sometimes xx

@WicketBasket I keep hoping that perhaps I'm just too early to tell, but then again I'd have thought by now, FRER would have picked up a faint line 😢😢 xx

AF still isn't here.. this time last month AF arrived on 12DPO with a vengeance 😩😬 got the cramping though so I don't think she'll be long!

Keep strong @printedlace! You’re not out until AF shows herself. Cramps can mean AF but they might not. Just wanting to keep a positive spin on things for you

Please keep me posted. I was feeling generally ok as hadn’t been having my usual pre AF cramps but they seem to have started now so feeling a bit low. Fingers crossed 🤞 there will be good news for all of us xxx

@WicketBasket very true- she's not here yet but been out driving tonight and I'm getting sharp stabbing pains in my thighs (NEVER had this before) and waves of intense stomach cramps so I think she will make an appearance soon..

Bless you - sorry you're feeling low, too. I guess we all wanted to desperately to be able to give our DP's the best possible gift over Christmas 🥺 xx

Cervical mucus has increased slightly, it's feeling more 'wet' inside, slight excess cervical mucus but not much. Since giving birth to my daughter my cervix has ALWAYS felt open, I was even scared at one point she had done damage and ripped it (if that's possible?😂), but this time I can definitely feel that it is closed. I can feel the indent where the opening of my cervix is quite a big hole that's pushed shut. I'm hoping this is all good news 🤞🤞 I had slight cramps yesterday I'm hoping that could be implantation which has triggered slightly more cm and my cervix to close and go higher, softer again (although not as soft as the early days of post ovulation).

I know deep down my period is probably going to come in a week or so, but here's to false hope 🥴 xx

@printedlace still praying your AF is a no show and you're pregnant 🤞🤞🤞 xxx ❤️

Looks like I spoke too soon anyway, I've had no discharge since the slight bit yesterday and I have a feeling I've dried again but I'm scared to check.

T-minus 24 hours until I am going to test and I’m getting so impatient now. I know I could test today, but I wanted to wait out until 12DPO. I woke up really early this morning after having a dream about the test and it coming back positive - it felt so real! 😩 My dreams never mean anything in reality but I’m hoping this one does! One more day of work to go and then I can either chill out with a large gin or two or in the knowledge that I’ve got a BFP!

I’m so confused and a tad concerned. All my symptoms have died down yesterday and today so far 🤦🏼‍♀️ It was quite a lot before but now it’s minimal?!?! I miscarried last year so I’m scared the same thing is going to happen again 😞

Okay guys so I thought I was out. Thought AF was on her way. Cramping has completely gone now.. and I'm due on tomorrow. Absolutely no spotting either! Usually by now I'd be in agony 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️