First month TTC

[Pixiedust018]

Hi ladies,

I’m new to this and would really appreciate your help. This is my first month TTC. I’m currently on CD4 so still middle of my period. Just wondering what helped you all conceive in your first month of trying and any tips you have. I have clearblue OPK ready and have been tracking my cycles for a which vary from 27-34 day cycles with 2 random 45 day cycles one of them being my last cycle.

Anyone else TTC this month?

Thanks in advance x

Aw thanks and welcome @Aprilfox and @EllisRoses

I'm watching a drama series on telly and gonna turn in for an early night soon.

I also have a DH who is convinced it'll happen for us in our first month TTC. Told him we would be very lucky but let's see!

Thing is I often pee in the night and I've read you're supposed to check in the morning to let your hcg build up? Ok I'm overthinking now girls. Sorry 😅

Oh and @Aprilfox - you sound much like me, I totally get you. So much in life (Well my life anyway) I have been able to control or at least make more certain through careful planning and prep - but this, you really can't - other than doing what you are doing getting to know your body, when you ovulate etc. I'm trying to see it as an experient with allowing some uncertainty and letting nature take its course, in my otherwise very certain life! I'm a project manager and so used to solving everything with a spreadsheet and scheduling tools - my DH has already asked whether I've made a pregnancy spreadsheet

@Aubyone I'm the same as you - everything I do is in a spreadsheet and formula of some kind - even my Christmas list gets a complicated one 😂 but this is sooo out of our control no matter how much we plan for it! 🙈

@Aprilfox

Hey! I think I'm going to dtd every other day until I get my static then I'll do it every day for 2 days... I'm doing the ovulation test the same time every day and only doing it once a day as I'm trying to not get obsessed and stressed over it 😫

I have PCOS and with my first I struggled to conceive for ages. Until I downloaded natural cycles, and I got pregnant within 5 weeks it might of been a fluke but it worked so well last time I subscribed again today. I wanted to just relax and less it happen but I'm too much of a control freak too!!!

Welcome ladies, the more the merrier!
Thanks @Aprilfox glad I'm giving people hope, I feel like a right lucky cow to be honest. DH keeps going around making pew pew pew noises and calling himself the one shot wonder 😝
@Kittysw things are sounding really promising for you, when is AF and when will you test?
@RadDarwazeh sending positive vibes for tomorrow, what time roughly will you test? I've got everything crossed for you 🤞it says on the tests to use your first wee if testing before AF is due but if its the day she's due or after, any wee is fine. I'd had about 6 by the time I got hold of the clearblue!

Phew thanks for the info @PineappleSun it'll be on my AF due date which is tomorrow. Now I know if I need to piddle in the night I can! I have a two pack in case I accidentally flood one!

Haha pewpewpew 🤣

@Aubyone @Hallie91 haha it's hard not to have a strategy of some sort when you're a control freak. I started off like 'we're just casually TTC' but within a week had ordered a 50 pack of OPKs, a basel thermometer, weird baby lube that you shoot up your foof with a nozzle, and learnt more about my internal workings than I have over the past 31 years. Even my sister who's been TTC for two years didn't know what a luteal phase was.

Go hard or go home is my general attitude to these things

@RadDarwazeh everything crossed for you!!

[quote Aprilfox]**@Aubyone* @Hallie91 haha it's hard not to have a strategy of some sort when you're a control freak. I started off like 'we're just casually* TTC' but within a week had ordered a 50 pack of OPKs, a basel thermometer, weird baby lube that you shoot up your foof with a nozzle, and learnt more about my internal workings than I have over the past 31 years. Even my sister who's been TTC for two years didn't know what a luteal phase was.

Go hard or go home is my general attitude to these things

@RadDarwazeh everything crossed for you!![/quote]
@Aprilfox 😂 this is exactly what I did, I haven't bought a thermometer yet but it is sat in my Amazon basket 😅

@Aubyone Completely my cycle is so chill normally.

@PineappleSun I'm due AF today or tomorrow so I'm not late yet and will test on Wednesday if AF doesn't arrive tomorrow I think. I have already tested last week Wednesday and Sunday I think it was I can't remember now but they were both BFN.

Good luck @RadDarwazeh let us know how you go. Hoping for a BFP for you :)

@Aprilfox I have been looking at all of the stuff you mentioned but trying to resist ordering it and as I said to @shannonl26 trying to have a "chill" month next one if this month isn't the one. I'm still laughing at myself saying have a "chill" month.

@Aprilfox @DizSquiz @Aubyone 😂😂😂 I did the same. We talked about trying and I'd said let's start in spring or summer and he was like no I want to start now... tests ordered within the hour 😂

On a diff note - does anyone else bloat from BDing everyday? I might not be pregnant but I look it right now 🙈

Girls

@RadDarwazeh YAYYYYY! Congratulations! 🙌

I am shaking @Hallie91 I haven't told DH yet

@RadDarwazeh congratulations!!! 😀❤️

@RadDarwazeh Yayyy amazing!!!! Congratulations!!!!

@RadDarwazeh amazing news! This is wonderful! 😍

@RadDarwazeh congratulations!!! Absolutely thrilled for you, how are you feeling?

So I’ve scrolled back through the whole group and that’s two wonderful announcements!
@PineappleSun @RadDarwazeh ♥️
Finally getting the hang of how this site works! 😂

If anyone has any time could or would someone explain to me the ovulation kits, how they work etc? And any other tips would be amazing.

What a great, supportive bunch of women!

@RadDarwazeh absolutely amazing news! How are you going to tell him? So exciting!!

@PositiveParrot I'm so clueless! My strips are stuck in the post but no idea what to do when they arrive. I'm seeing people out on readings like "is this 1.2?" And I don't understand how they're reading it! 🙈🙈

@Hallie91

That's exactly why I got the digital ones 🤣🤣 I would be hopeless at doing the strip ones 🙈

I'm going to do another test tonight as I got a flashing smiley yesterday (high fertility) apparently.. then dtd every other day until I get my static!
I have a good feeling about this month 🤞🏻 first time I have actually ovulated (I think) since November! 😀

@emilyylouise ah great news re ovulating for first time! Sending you some baby dust!

I've only got the app to go off atm. My standard is textbook 28 days so I think I'm due to ovulate on Friday or Saturday. But as we're not sure we've just been BDing every day since the 14th. Defo can't do that every month 😂😂

*my cycle - don't know how I typed "my standard" it's early 😂

@Hallie91

I know the feeling... my OH is so tired bless him 🙈🤣