Month 1, TTC #1

[CrazyCatLady75340]

Anyone want to join? I'm 34 and TTC #1. 2DPO and managed to only DTD twice as we were travelling for our honeymoon. Only using OPK's at the moment but may start temping in the next few months if no luck.

Hi everyone 😊 I'm on the last day of AF today 🎉 About 2 weeks until I ovulate so will start doing OPK tests in 4-5 days just in case I ovulate a bit earlier. Excited for this one, going to try and really go for it!

@CrazyCatLady75340 What sort of symptoms are you having? Don't worry about the tests, it's fairly well documented that people can see negative tests until after AF is late xx

Ahh, thanks and I hope so, but I don't want to kid myself either. Else if/ when I'm hit with AF I'll be gutted.

8DPO I had the worst stabbing pain in my lower abdomen. Literally stopped me in my tracks but was over in a second
Nothing on 9DPO
10DPO had a bit of spotting, nausea, back ache and weird abdominal pulling and pressure which still hasn't gone away now.

Here we are on 12 DPO with nothing but negative tests.

Totally get you @CrazyCatLady75340 ❤️ Those do sound like really strange symptoms! Have you been doing first response early response tests? Keep us posted how you get on the rest of this week. Any normal signs of AF appearing or nada?

Yes, it's strange! Hit me like a brick on Monday at 10 DPO and literally couldn't ignore it. I've been using cheap first response tests I found online, but because BFN I bought some proper FRER's which arrived today at 5pm. Naturally I used the wee I'd saved since 8 this morning like an absolute crazy person 😂

I've still got some spotting which doesn't seem to be amounting to anything (it was brown but it's now a darker red if I push down when I'm on the toilet, but doesn't seem to just be coming out itself. Sorry!) along with horrific cramps in my lower back. Usually with AF I'd get low abdominal cramps maybe an hour or so before, but I never feel it in my back at all.

I have some weird cramps in my abdomen but it's more to the left than low and central as it would be normally.

Really messing with my head!

@CrazyCatLady75340 wow those do sound like weird symptoms, I do understand what you mean though with not wanting to get your hopes up 😔 keep us posted.

@CatLady93 great news about AF nearly being over, fingers crossed for your next cycle!

I'll keep you updated! Thankfully I don't need to hide wee around my house tomorrow AM now the tests have arrived, so that's a bonus. So deflating though as I was so sure on Monday and thought I just needed to sit it out.

I'm starting to think that maybe it's a chemical and that's why it's not showing up, but not sure how quickly I would start bleeding if that's the case and If AF would come straight away, or when it's due on Friday?

@CrazyCatLady75340 sorry to hear you had a bfn it's always deflating I know I did one to early they other day but it was depressing I'm testing Friday

It's so hard to know isn't it @CrazyCatLady75340 ❤️ Get through the next couple of days however you need to and hopefully you'll have your answer on Friday one way or another!

Thanks both! I'll update you when I've got an answer, but who knows what's going on! At least Friday corresponds with my weekend and being able to open a bottle of wine if I need to 😊

Good luck to you both

@CrazyCatLady75340 Definitely do 😊 Aww yes exactly, the one perk of AF arriving! 🍷

Hey can I join? I'm 34 TTC for first time just on the TWW from month 1 (am on d11po) AF due Monday. Got some random symptoms (like all the early pregnancy ones) but think it's just because I have got so obsessed and so I think every little twinge is like oooo.

I had my implant removed on 10/8 and a bleed on the 30th for a few days but previous to that hadn't had a period for 5 yrs so couldn't tell you if it's pms or normal or what. The TWW is killing. Roll on Monday

Hey @Leibee87! Good luck with your first cycle. I’ve had the most normal periods for 20+ years and naturally this is the first one where AF has been followed by 4,000 symptoms 😂 good luck and let us know how you get on! I’m definitely out this month, but I still have nausea, extreme backache and twinges in my abdomen. So strange.

Welcome @Leibee87 and good luck with your first cycle!

I know what you mean about spotting every symptom, I had my implant out a few months ago and things haven't settled down properly yet. The uncertainty is so hard!

How's everyone doing?

I am due to ovulate in the next 3-5 days. I am SOOOO excited lol but also impatient.

My temps are still up and down and my ovulation tests are still negative 🙄 which is all making me more impatient... I want to see something is changing! I do have the start of fertile CM so that makes going for a pee very exciting! 😂😂 is it normal to turn into a freak when you are trying for a baby? My boyfriend is already shaking his head at me lol

Hope you all have good days! X

Hey! I would love to also join if it's ok? :)

I'm 28 and this is our first month tracking, peak should show in the next day or two, excited to see what happens!! :)

Keeping my fingers crossed for everyone trying.

PS: I am also obsessed with cats lol I think I'm in a good thread haha

@MrsYan I relate to you so much! Like 'ooooo I need a wee! Yay I can check my CM'! So silly 🤣 I feel like it's totally normal. Happy ovulating 😀 I've got about 2 weeks before I ovulate I think so twiddling my thumbs currently 😬😂

Hey @Peauela welcome 😀 I'm 28 too and this is sort of our first month, last month was a bit of a practice run 🤣 Cat lady over here too.. aren't they just the best 🤣🐱

@CatLady93 totally! Once we finally succeed with TTC I would be more than happy to proceed to cats -v- babies talks lol !!

Can anyone see this line? I have a few symptoms (nausea, backache and my boobs hurt) and what I thought was my period a couple of days early on Wednesday evening, but I got this today at 16 DPO. AF only lasted 1.5 days and had no cramping which was odd.

Oh my goodness @CrazyCatLady75340 ! I can absolutely see that.. have you got any other tests you can try? How do you feel?! 😱

I tried a first response which was similar with a shadow line, but long story short I drank a tonne of water before I did both tests. I went to the walk in clinic yesterday because of all the symptoms and they did a wee test there which showed not pregnant but protein in my urine and said I possibly had a kidney infection and cysts and to drink lots of water. I googled ‘reasons for protein in urine’ earlier and it came up with pregnancy so I did a test and got this. It’s weird because I 100% feel pregnant, but I’d expect it to be a lot darker by now. But then I did drink my weight in water 😂 saying that it didn’t come up on their wee test yesterday at about 7 pm. Symptoms are strange pulling and tugging in my stomach, sore boobs (which only started this afternoon) nausea, and backache. I did mention that I felt pregnant, but they dismissed it because I ‘wanted to be’. I’m going to have to just wait it out aren’t I.

@CrazyCatLady75340

I tried a first response which was similar with a shadow line, but long story short I drank a tonne of water before I did both tests. I went to the walk in clinic yesterday because of all the symptoms and they did a wee test there which showed not pregnant but protein in my urine and said I possibly had a kidney infection and cysts and to drink lots of water. I googled ‘reasons for protein in urine’ earlier and it came up with pregnancy so I did a test and got this. It’s weird because I 100% feel pregnant, but I’d expect it to be a lot darker by now. But then I did drink my weight in water 😂 saying that it didn’t come up on their wee test yesterday at about 7 pm. Symptoms are strange pulling and tugging in my stomach, sore boobs (which only started this afternoon) nausea, and backache. I did mention that I felt pregnant, but they dismissed it because I ‘wanted to be’. I’m going to have to just wait it out aren’t I.

I see something and I never ever see these faint lines!

I would wait and test in the morn with your first wee and see what happens. Do you know for deff when you ovulated? I think if can take up to ten days for a fertilised egg to implant (which that bleeding could of been) so you may of ovulated later and then a few days for it to implant? Fingers crossed for you!!

I'm not sure how likely I am in with a chance this month, we have only managed to DTD once in my fertile window (friday) I am pretty sure ovulation will be today or tomorrow though.

I didn't have any EWCM on Friday but I do today. Does this mean I won't be able to fall pregnant? (This is all very confusing at the beginning)

Hope everyone else has had good weekends. I'm drained, had drama all weekend and now just want my bed! X

Thank you! I did test ovulation and got what I thought was my peak, so I stopped testing.
Time will tell! It only takes the once @MrsYan.. good luck! Xx

@MrsYan I never get much EWCM at all so I don’t tend to attempt to track it! Xx