POAS Anon 👩‍🎓 University of the BFP: Students, Grads and PhDs! 👩🏽‍🎓 Thread 4

[GreenApplesYo]

@PowerOfFlowers
@positivitytree2020
@CardioQueen
@AMS19
@Dex1521
@DrS44
@jessi60
@Foxl2222
@bells20
@Greeneyedfairy

A new thread for 2021, with all the luck of the Irish 🍀💚

@Panda368 forgot to say. I've been trying since October. This is my third cycle so not long but feels like forever, we are trying for baby no.1

[quote Dex1521]**@CardioQueen I think I'm well past the stage of insane 😂 I don't even feel anything now when I do them - next chat will be "POAS anon and counselling the mad women called Dex" 😅 [/quote]
Dex1521 can I just say...

I don't even feel anything now when I do them

Classic addict! Hehe I wonder how you can get a bigger hit 🙂(probably best not to find out).

Enjoying all the messages on here this afternoon @AMS19 I think your lunch looks tasty even if it's not nuggets 🙂really hope that test line keeps fading, but asking Dr sounds like a good idea. Hopefully you shouldn't have too long to wait for your period now.

Just went to collect my joggers from M&S but think I will need to send them back, they are tight on my tummy. Argh! I think maternity trousers would still be too big though.

@CardioQueen it made me smile when you said your boobs have never hurt before. After a few months of pregnancy I think I could be approaching a... C! Haha 🙂 Quite enjoying bigger boobs, even if tight waistbands are annoying.

Preparing myself for tomorrow I'm gonna she FRER rather than the CB test and should I use FMU or wait until tomorrow evening after a 3hr hold? What did the grads do when they got their BFP? I'll be 10dpo too

@Dex1521 I got stronger results in the afternoon/evening than I did with FMU. First kinda-BFP was on a cheapy in the evening about 8pm. I wasn't expecting to see a line at all as I was testing so early, it was the faintest shadow. The kind that if you see someone post it on here you'd think it was probably nothing. I did most of my tests in the evening, except for a couple in the morning which were fainter than the eve ones.

I did a lot of tests. Haha

Just to confuse you @Dex1521 , I had the opposite experience to @GreenApplesYo. My FMU tests were always stronger, went to work one day and forgot to test in the morning, tested when I got home about 6pm and the line was more faint even though I hadn't drunk much, but then dark again the following morning. I also tested a lot 😂

@Dex1521 FMU does tend to be recommended too 🙂

You could always use your FRER in the morning and do an IC in the evening just to scratch the poas urge.

@GreenApplesYo @Bells20 I definitely feel like I need to do 2 tests now 😂 if my one with FMU is stark white I think I'll leave it and test 11dpo to give it more time but if there is a shadow or faint line I'll retest around 5/6pm

@Dex1521 sounds like a plan 👍

Omg you guys all this talk of chicken nuggets and I've been able to think of nothing else all afternoon during the longest meeting of my life! 😋😅

@Dex1521 I would defo use FMU as that's recommended universally for pregnancy tests. Although if you did implant today at 9dpo you'd be unlikely to see anything on a test so soon, so again don't get too disheartened just incase you've had a later implantation 🤷🏻‍♀️
I'm so excited for you!! I won't be able to sleep to come on and check in the morning.

@CardioQueen @GreenApplesYo I love the chat about boobs getting bigger. I've been waiting all my life to get pregnant just for that side effect-feel like I never went through puberty 😂

@Bells20 Oh wow about all the blood tests! I'm a bit weird at 30 but I've actually never had a single blood test in my life 🙈 The thought of it makes me feel squeamish too so I've never looked forward to that first experience of being pregnant alone!

@Panda368 That's encouraging your story about rhythm method for preventing. I've been so lax with my pills over the years I was always worried there was a fertility problem as I've never got preg- but now I realise it's much harder than 1 missed pill!
So you're not going to test early like Dex then? I was thinking of testing either Sunday or Monday but I'll be 10/11DPO by then.

@strangerontheinternet Congratulations! Amazing news! Hope your baby dust rubs off on those of us still to go ✨

@DrS44 Hope your temp goes up again tomorrow and you get your crosshairs (if you're using FF now?).. I reckon a 0.2 shift looks pretty likely it's happened!

Oh my god I'm so lost 🤣🤣🤣

@Emmgrem yeah I think I'll be ok but I'm kinda nervous to test now as I know tomorrow I could potentially see something. I'll still be hopeful though until AF shows. I've definitely been a bit better with POAS this month that last 😂 no as many tests have been wasted lol

Just scrolling through TikTok whilst waiting for tea to cook and look 😜 is this a sign or what. For anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about. People on TikTok make 4 or so videos and whichever pops up on your page first is apparently your "prediction" 😂

@Dex1521 I'm so so excited for you!!! Come on body, let's crack on with our first BFP. Please don't forget about me ladies when you all graduate!! 😂

@AMS19 aw we could never forget you! I'm not joking I wouldn't be where I am without you 💖 plus you'll probably end up graduating before me knowing my luck 😂

Aww @Dex1521 honestly this is such a lovely little group!! We help each other ❤ 2021 is going to be a good year for all of us! Xc

The dull ache I had this morning until about 11am is back but it's not all over this time it's on the right hand side. I had a similar pain last cycle but on the left at 7dpo so definitely prepared for the worst this cycle 😕 still trying to stay positive though

So annoying if it doesn't happen this cycle that I seem to get AF cramps around the time of implantation

@Emmgrem I'm about 7 dpo i think so i dont think i will do anything until friday or saturday when i will be at 10 or 11.

Will also see if i have any more symptoms.

My fiance asked our toddler tonight "would you like a baby brother or sister?" And got a VERY firm "No! No baby brother, just Bin" (he calls himself bin)

🙈 things could get interesting!

@Dex1521 I love a good sign! Remember when @jessi60 got the stork charm 😂 I hope the dull ache is a good sign!

@AMS19 Yasss I love that we're all so supportive here. 2021 will be the year we all end it with babies or preg🤞✨

@Panda368 Oh bless your little one!! He'll change his mind once it becomes a reality. It will be so special. Eee you're testing just before me then!

I went for a 7km run this evening and after 2km I got aches down below like pre-AF type cramps. I nearly had to stop and catch my breath. It went away a bit further into the run, but worries me for a second about raised heart rate or strenuous cardio in the TWW. But I'm trying to do 30 mins of cardio every day in January and I'm sure lots of others here do much more regular exercise than me. Still couldnt help googling if it would affect implantation 🙈

Praying for that bfn @AMS19 🤞🤞🙏

Best of luck tomorrow @Dex1521 will be thinking about you! Sending you lots of love and baby dust☘️🙏🙏

I feel like I'm in the 12 week wait now! Just kind of waiting around to see if I will get morning sickness, or any sort of indicator that I'm actually pg 😂 no other symptoms other than pure exhaustion 😴

When I spoke with my GP yesterday he asked if we had been trying for long..I told him we conceived in 3rd month of trying and he was like "wow, that was very quick, that's lucky" so thought that might be reassuring if your worried, it's quite normal for it to take a good few cycles... but it will happen ☘️☘️☘️

@Emmgrem I read that strenuous workouts can decrease progesterone! I do spin workouts and I've stopped! Now only doing low intensity stuff just in case 😅🙈 I don't know how reliable that is but in my case where I feel as though I don't have great progesterone levels anyway I'm not taking my chances! Hopefully it wasn't that! Xx

@Dex1521 hoping I wake up to a BFP from you 💚

@positivitytree2020 oh yes I remember now!! Mine have only been 7/8 days 🙄 have you stopped all vits this cycle?

@Emmgrem @jessi60 genuinely lolled remember the stork incident!

Thank you!! Just off to bed now don't think I'll sleep with the excitement 😂

@Emmgrem I hope that TikTok video was my lucky sign haha. I forgot all about jessi getting the stork charm!

@foxl2222 it's so funny you said that about the 12 week wait, I literally said exactly the same thing on a miscarriage thread this morning. How after a miscarriage there is no such thing as the TWW because a positive test means absolutely nothing anymore. It just because the 12 week wait because you won't believe you're gonna stay pregnant at all until you get to at least 12 weeks!