Feb Bus 2021 - no more TRYING to conceive, let's blimin do this!

[BubsNumber2inTheMaking]

Here we go again girls! 💕 Wishing you all so much baby dust for this cycle! 👶🏼
CD4 for me today, cycle #60000000 at least. 🤦🏼‍♀️ TTC bubs #2 since Jan 2020.
2 miscarriages, umpteen national lockdowns, at least a stone heavier 🙄 Let's do this 💪❤️

@organised5 what time of day are you testing? And are you holding your wee for several hours beforehand? I have a very small window of 'peak' so it would be easy to miss it x

@RHODXB good luck for when you test next. Thinking of you and keeping fingers crossed 🤞 x

@BubsNumber2inTheMaking my cycles are around 26-28 but still I wouldn't expect to see a line at CD5/6.
I have a feeling I'm probably going to stress myself out and scrap the OPK's and solely rely on DTD every other day.

Hey ladies! Hope you don’t mind me joining.

4th month TTC. Currently on CD12 and within my FW. Trying to take a more relaxed approach this month (easier said than done! 🙈) tried OPK one month but didn’t like them, wasn’t any benefit for me.
I do track my BBT daily. App says Ovulation is due Saturday CD16, Plan is to DTD every day from tomorrow to Saturday, then every other from Sunday. I think in the past I’ve missed ovulation because we stopped DTD on the day of ovulation but then it’s never accurate so want to make sure I try catch it either before or after the predicted date.

Fingers crossed! 🤞🏻

Hope you all don’t mind me jumping on.

TTC #1 since Feb last year, had an ectopic in the summer so this is cycle #5 since we were allowed to start trying. Got a positive OPK Sun&Mon, tracking BBT and after today’s temperature it says I ovulated yesterday. DTD 6 days in a row inc this morning 😂 time for a rest now I think 😂 Let the TWW begin!

@Twittwoo2020 I'm sorry about your ectopic.
We were the same, DTD every day in FW last month and totally tired ourselves out, I couldn't think about doing it again!! This cycle I'm doing the every other day approach as we were just doing it for the sake of it and it took the fun away.
Hoping it's worked for you 🤞🏼 enjoy your TTW and symptom spotting!! Good luck xx

@BWaiting you'll have a line all month, then it gets darker nearing time of ovulation. I've attached my record last month as an example of a tricky one to read! My cycle was screwed post mc but even still you can see a bolder line on the first green one (ran out of other brand). They are low level all month then on my ovulation day the test line is the same boldness as the control line. The following day the line has almost disappeared but stays visible. Does that help?x

@BWaiting thank you! Yea DTD that much can suck the fun out of it. Thankfully this month it didn’t feel like a chore and we managed to have fun. We are both working from home so we changed it up and stopped doing it at night as that’s when we felt exhausted and felt like it was a chore. Now we can just sneak off in the middle of the day or morning! Sure we will see what happens!

Best of luck to you too, hopefully your line shows up on your OPK soon if you still decide to do them!

@BubsNumber2inTheMaking thank you so much for taking the time to write this and send the picture, this is really helpful. Gives me an idea of what I should be seeing. I think I will try and persevere with it! Thank you.

@Twittwoo2020 ahh you're lucky, I remember the days when we could be spontaneous and it was so much fun!
I'm wfh and my husband doesn't get home from work till 7:30 and then I'm doing bedtime with my son etc, by the time we get any time together I'm usually so tired so DTD does feel like a chore sometimes.

@BWaiting no worries! OPKs can def be tricky at first but it does get clearer after a few goes. Good luck!xx

@RHODXB how are you getting on lovely? With my last pregnancy (I have unfortunately miscarried) but I didn't get a positive test until 3 days after AF was due and even that was such a squinter my husband couldn't even see it!

1dpo 🤣🤞🏻 oh its going to be a long 2 weeks!!! Anyone similar stage?! X

@MgW1 I am also 1 DPO 😂 last cycle I tried to exercise to take my mind off the TWW and lose some weight. It worked for the first week and a bit and I was achey from
Exercising so was a distraction but towards the end of the TWW I crammed all my symptom spotting into a few days 😂😂😂 we drive ourselves mad!

@BWaiting OPKs used to wreck my head and then I discovered an app called Fermometer which allows you to take a pick of your OPK and it gives you a % in low, high and peak so it’s much easier to tell when your in your best days. Might be handy for you if your not using something similar!

Eeek after my BFN on Sunday I was going to wait to test but caved today and I think it's positive. I think I'm in shock. Going to try and wait til tomorrow to test again, AF due on Saturday...

@Twittwoo2020 funny you said that, I was saying to DH this morning I didn't feel like this was our month so we should try and focus on being more healthy so did 20 mins Joe wicks which nearly killed me as I'm so unfit 🙈 think I'm going to try and focus on that still instead of stressing over if bean is sticky or not!

@sandsandwiches congratulations!!

@Twittwoo2020 I have started using Femometer this month, I like the idea of it doing the predicting for me on my strips. Let's see how i get on, hopefully I'll start to see it get darker next week

@sandsandwiches that looks like a strong positive to me 😍

@MgW1 I'm 5 days dpo so firmly in the TWW!

@MgW1 I'm 7DPO (I think!) When is everyone testing?

@sandsandwiches congratulations!! Did you have any symptoms? X

@sandsandwiches that looks a strong BPF to me!!! Congrats!! How many DPO are you? Sorry if I missed that x

[quote PrettyPinkPansies]@MgW1 I'm 7DPO (I think!) When is everyone testing?

@sandsandwiches congratulations!! Did you have any symptoms? X[/quote]
Gah, I have no idea when O was to work out my DPO! Going by the apps I'm 3 DPO but only had negative OPKs since AF finished.

Managed to hit post before I was ready then.

@Clapham4 @BubsNumber2inTheMaking... I'm using the cheap Boots ones. I may try the digital ones, good idea.

Testing between 7-9pm at night as that just happens to be the time I did the first one. Is there a better time in the day?

Congratulations @sandsandwiches !!! Such great news 😘xx

@organised5 that might be a bit late if you surge in the morning for instance. I think they say 'best practice' is to test twice a day - once mid morning and once 10hrs later, and hold urine for 4hrs beforehand. I never manage any of these things 🤦🏼‍♀️ so tend to test about 2pm but I do seem to only be getting one peak day so could be I only surge for a short period of time. This month I'm going to try doing 2 tests a day - maybe mid morning and late afternoon - just to see if i get a more obvious 'peak' x

Can't cope with this emotional roller coaster 🙈

No symptoms whatsoever which is why I'm so surprised. Hope things are still ok though 🤞🏽
I think between 10-12 DPO. I didn't really OPK properly this cycle but just DTD lots! Maybe that's what did it!
Good luck with the OPKs those heading into fertile week. Hope it's a positive month all round.