Post Pill Party - The Line Dance

[MissC07]

Swing your partners round and round (the bedroom). Grab a spot and put your best checked shirt on. We're all stepping together to create some seriously strong lines - Yee-Haw! Now let's get making some cowboys (and girls!) It's time to begin now count it in...5...6...7...8!

This is the 9th post pill party thread for women whose bodies are a bit out of sync post pill. So pull up a hay bale and share your stories of dreary delayed ovulation, fascinating follicular phases, lively luteal phases and terrific temp charts.

In the Line up already.....
@juno231
@Kay00
@Moocher90
@Emmgrem
@Nellieee
@TheHotelCalifornia
@ams19
@chinchilly
@sperr
@crabette
@LauraT94
@TheDaydreamBelivers
@cams50
@robyn101
@abi555
@tillybabs
@MissC07
@minipilling
@glow92
@FlyingGiraffe
@Elsie2021
@Gracie2021
@Flowers222
@MancMama39
@firsttimemumm321
@mrsmacmc
@MintGreenLife
@Ttcin2021
@Melissaq94

Please add anybody I've missed off!

@Kay00 thank you xx and I really hope yours picks up again tomorrow and it’s just a 1 day dip! Our bodies are the most frustrating....

@Moocher90 ah yes sorry I do remember you saying you'd gone df/gf - well done! It seemed to help @MintGreenLife a lot so fingers crossed your tww ends with a bfp also.

@Kay00 the temps are low overall but the difference between FP and LP temps is what matters and they're pretty spot on? Even the 4dpo temp is higher than the FP temps so I'm hopeful you're still on the right track 🙌

Hello all, congrats to those with lovely confirmed ovulation. @Moocher90 your chart is a beauty this month! As you'll all know, I'm still tracking but not trying whilst waiting on bloods results. Havent been using OPKs either as have run out. Unfortunately have had a few days of dodgy tum and broken sleep in a row and woke at 6am today jumping out my bed to be sick! Not sure how much the temps can be trusted therefore!

@TheDaydreamBelievers ohhh :( sickness bug or something? That’s the worst feeling ill. I hate being sick and the stomach pains from the muscles contracting. I hope my temps stay high and I don’t get an early AF!

@ChinChilly @Lovebug06 @Juno231
I was quite shocked when she called back to give me an update and say she would be calling them on Monday morning - our GP receptionists are very gestapoeqsue usually!

@TheDaydreamBelievers hope it passes for you soon. I hate being 🤢 too - no idea how I'll cope if I get morning sickness 😥

@Lovebug06 my wee Harry is a sook too pic attached to show his current position

@Juno231 @Moocher90 thinking back I think I was only gluten/dairy free for about 3-4 weeks before I got my BFP 💕 I also reintroduced both between weeks 14-16 of pregnancy too and so now eat anything and everything again, which is so lovely after 5 months without. No issues at all with either since reintroducing too xx

Maybe that doesn’t add up actually 😂 but it felt like I wasn’t gf/df for long at all before my BFP, maybe more like 6 weeks ☺️

@MintGreenLife I hope you are well! How’s the pregnancy going??

@Juno231 Ah okay; thank you for your help! Wow. Certainly sounds like there's more to it than just taking temp! Where is best to keep it then, on my bedside table I guess so it's handy? I'm abit concerned about timing it as I wake up different times each day. Even more so when I return to work in a couple weeks as my shift times always change!

@jt90 I set an alarm to take my temp at 6:00, I take it quickly in the dark with minimal movements then fall asleep immediately afterwards. Most thermometers will keep a record of the last temperature it took so you can record it later that day.

@JT90 I keep it on top of my phone so when my alarm buzzes it's the first thing I touch. I then hold it in my closed mouth for 4min (cause I sleep open mouthes)

@Moocher90 thanks for asking ☺️ I’m 22 weeks now. I’ve been having some extra scans to check my cervix length due to previous LLETZ, and one week it was looking like it had shortened and was close to the length when they would intervene, so was given progesterone pessaries to start, but a follow up scan this week showed it back in the green zone. Got another scan next week so hopefully it’s still looking the same. Was a bit nerve wracking but feeling better about it all now. He’s busy kicking away lots and all was well at my 20 week scan.

Hope you’re finding being gf/df ok so far? Xx

@MintGreenLife that’s good news and no intervention so far is needed! I think gf and df has made a difference as I wasn’t ovulating abit like your story prior to your BFP. It’s also stopped me from itching my lower legs so I do think I had a slight intolerance anyway but didn’t know. My temps in LP are looking very good as like yours were my FP temps are generally under 36.1 and temp at 6DPO is 36.54 so I know I’ve def ovulated. I’m going to continue to be df and gf and hope I get a BFP doing it! It is restrictive because you can’t just eat whatever u want but it will be worth it

@JT90 how varied are your shifts? If you can't take your temp roughly at the same time each day (even if with an earlier alarm and then going back to sleep) then bbt might not be right for you. You could still give it a go if you don't mind the £10 as potentially you could still detect an overall pattern. I keep my thermometer under my pillow :)

@MintGreenLife crazy that you're at 22 weeks already! Feels like you were here with us not that long ago. I'm glad everything seems to be going well and hope you won't need a cervical stitch - although if you do it's not the end of the world either if it keeps baba safe ❤️

@MintGreenLife wow your baby is kicking!! That must be amazing. Glad it’s going well and they’re monitoring you closely.

@Moocher90 great that ovulation is confirmed and the lp is going well. Hope it’s a long one!

@Kay00 can I ask a vitamin question? I just ordered the Busy Bee vitamins I think you recommended as I’d been taking B-50 before that. As these contain higher doses I think I should stop taking pregnacare too. So now I’d be taking the b complex which contains vitamin c, vitamin d, a probiotic, EPO to ovulation and uniquinol. Does anyone know if that seems fine? By stopping pregnacare I’m missing out on vit E, zinc and iron though? But I don’t want to over do it!

@mrsmacmc my boy has those little brown eyebrows and mouth too. He gets lots of lovely comments on them calling him handsome, I say he will get a big head soon
@MintGreenLife I've had LLETZ a few years ago, when it happens for me do I need to remind them straight away? Or do they start to look when you start to get a bit bigger. Not sure if that's a stupid question 😂

@Moocher90 I hadn't realised you had been waiting so long for ovulation! So so happy you are finally in your TWW!

@FlyingGiraffe @Juno231 great you have both ovulated! I woke up this morning with a temp rise so looks like I am 1 day behind.

@TheDaydreamBelievers oh no! I hope you feel better soon. Being sick is the worst!

@MintGreenLife I am so glad your pregnancy is going well!

@Cams50 yes, I take the Busy Bee too! I still take a prenatal vitamin, but as long as you're getting your folic acid anc vit D then you are probably fine to drop the Pregnacare

@mintgreenlife so lovely to hear from you, and to hear your pregnancy is going well 😊 and wow, he's kicking already 😍 thats amazing ❤

@Kay00 ok amazing thank you! That’s all I needed. Any excuse to keeping taking alllll the vitamins 😂

@Moocher90 definitely worth it! The only thing I noticed when I reintroduced gluten and dairy is my skin flared up and is still bad now. I had it quite bad I’m the first trimester, cleared up around 10-12 weeks, and then got back again around 18 weeks, but worth a few spots to be able to eat whatever, as felt a bit cheated being pregnant and having to be so restrictive!

@Juno231 it’s going fast and slow at the same time really! I feel better knowing I have the progesterone pessaries now. The scan on Tuesday should be quite telling, as they won’t put a stitch in any later than 24 weeks. I’d prefer not to have one as there is some risk involved, but like you say most important thing is keeping baby safe ☺️

@Cams50 I was surprised by how early I felt movement as I have an anterior placenta, but I’ve been able to feel his little kicks since 16 weeks. This morn I saw them from the outside for the first time 💕

@Lovebug06 it’ll come up in your first midwife appointment - the booking appointment at around 8-10 weeks. They don’t start doing the cervical length scans until 16 weeks though, and then every two weeks until 24 weeks. Interestingly in Bristol the consultant signed me off and said I didn’t need the scans, but when I moved to Herefordshire I had to redo the whole booking in process and the midwife referred me to the consultant who did want to scan me. Am so thankful that happened as I was close to the limit when they would intervene, and my consultant wanted me to start progesterone as a precautionary measure.

@Flowers222 thank you 😊

@Kay00 he seems to be rather active! Which is super lovely as so reassuring 💕

@Moocher90 so many typos in my message 🤦🏻‍♀️ Hopefully it makes sense x

@MintGreenLife glad everything is going well!

@Moocher90 it will be interesting to see whether the df & gf had effected your TSH levels!

I had my first ever OPK where the test line is darker than the control line last night, they’re normally the same colour as the control line.

@ChinChilly yes it will be interesting to see if they have gone down on their own!

@Moocher90 when is your next thyroid test? If they have gone down I may have to follow you in the GF/DF diet! Put my love of all things dairy to one side for the greater good 😂

It’s due on day 3 of my period x