Ovulation/TTC continued

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@Aims1991 @CShandy01 @hoola23 @MrsRosaline @plantbasedlondoner @LittleDoveLove thought I'd best start a new thread before it stops letting us post given we're almost at 1k! 🥰 x

Have I forgotten anyone!? X

@CShandy01 you sound so in control this month! Love it!! Defo the best way to be!

@hoola23 I think it's seeing those blank white spaces on pregnancy tests, think there's only so many a person can take 😂 that and I genuinely spent a fortune month 2 on tests...like it was ridiculous. At least this way it's all vague and I won't be on countdown!

How are you feeling today chick? Better?

@hoola23 glad you're feeling better hun! Laundry and MAFSA sounds like heaven! What a lovely Sunday!

@CShandy01 that's brill fertile week is almost over! Annnnnd relax! Xxx

@CShandy01 it's actually the worst feeling isn't it! We doing a no testing month again? Last month was hard when I got to 11dpo🤣🤣
Feeling a lot better thank god!

@hoola23 oh yeah no testing for me for sure!! No OPK's or early testing 🙂🙂 that's my aim for a while actually. Xx

Hey everyone. I'm on CD28, and still no ovulation! Maybe it'll come soon, or maybe my period will just arrive. Who knows 🤷🏻‍♀️

Would love to do no testing again @hoola23 ... i just need to actually get fertile again 😅

Morning all, I am CD5 and period is over so now the fun begins 😅 My aim for this month is to chill a bit more but DTD more regularly (every other day throughout) and track EWCM but no OPKs etc. Starting to have friends ask us if we are TTC as it comes up in conversation in your 30s but it is quite nosy and I am a bad liar... I don't love everyone knowing as then it puts the pressure on and they expect news! We have kept it to ourselves for the most part as I don't need that additional stress.

@plantbasedlondoner totally understand where you're coming from chick. It's always the assumed thing of you're supposed to be having kids in your 30's. Drives me nuts when I get people going "are you going to give your daughter a sibling to play with?" I have actually said before no because we've already got a cat and I don't want a dog in the house 😂😂 their reaction was priceless.

I literally only DTD when I thought I was fertile, and that was purely from tracking CM. So I DTD CD 12, 13 and 14. I know full well CD 10 and 11 I didn't ovulate because my CM was still quite creamy then, so hoping I hit the right time this weekend. Cannot be arsed doing it for the sake of doing it anymore, it was driving us both mental. I was lucky that this weekend seemed to hit potential ovulation.

Let the TWW commence!! 😨😱😨😱

All of you on the no testing train have serious willpower 💪🏼 I stupidly ordered some FRERs which arrive Thursday... Friday I'll be 8DPO & I already know I'm going to cave & then be disappointed when it's negative😬 why do we do this to ourselves?!

Hope you ladies are all well & had a good weekend!

@CShandy01 oh I can't give up the opks just yet! I will think about it next month though. Defo no early pg test though for me too! Going to start the DTD tonight, couldn't face it yesterday! Only just starting to feel a bit normal today!

@hoola23 glad you are feeling a bit better today, being ill is rubbish but hopefully you will be 100% soon.

@CShandy01 that is absolutely hilarious! I had a friend who shocked all the nosy parkers who kept asking when they were planning to have kids by saying "right now we're just practising" 😂

This month I decided to up the DTDing since we have been way too erratic until now and my cycles do vary by 2-5 days every time so can't always predict ovulation. I also find the less regular we are, the easier it is to say "we'll do it tomorrow."

Having family over for a meal soon so need to shove all the OPKs, prenatal vitamins and tests in a secret drawer!

@plantbasedlondoner thanks hun. I'm off work this week so that's a bonus too! Defo feeling loads better

Bit concerned about ovulation this month! I did an opk on cd5 which said high and also had ewcm that say but now all my opk have been low and like stark white! Could I actually already have ovulated!? Surely not!

What day are you on @hoola23 ?

That sounds weird @hoola23 how long was your cycle last month? Maybe you've just go a peak and trough type of month when it goes up and down until peak?

@hoola23 I always get a few days of high after AF then a day or two of low sleep before my peak.

Hi could I possibly join the conversation? I'm currently on 6/7 dpo. We are trying for our 3rd and final baby and got caught pretty quickly previously but i just have a strange feeling we won't be so lucky this time round although we are only on our 1st cycle ttc. Finding it hard to resist testing although iv found in the past it takes a while for my tests to show bfp.

@plantbasedlondoner that sounds like a good plan for DTD 🙂🙂 I do think that if you're head is really in the game and you actually want to do it then it deffo helps.

@Oliver5 welcome!! I know how you feel -
I got caught with DD literally right away. This time it's proving not so easy. This is cycle 5 for me and I'm probably about 1dpo although I genuinely haven't got a clue since I didn't actually test. I'm purely going off EWCM, which I had yesterday afternoon and now all of a sudden my CM is super creamy and thick and not stretchy. I am refusing to do any type of testing (both early FRER and OPK) as I found it too stressful in the end.

@MrsRosaline im cd8 today which I know is early but why your lh be high a few days ago and now zilch?!

@Aims1991 oh good to know! Maybe I'm the same. I don't normally test until cd9 normally!

@hoola23 I test from the day AF is away. OH still taking his vitamins so I'm glad

I feel I'm setting myself up for a fail this month, I'm normally so laid back and don't test in the TWW but I have build my hopes up just now and I have no idea why.

@hoola23 because CB tests for two hormones. So it's possible your oestrogen was up, but not your LH. I presume CB is what you were using? X

@MrsRosaline no these were my cheapies so they only test for lh and then you take a picture and it tells you high, low or peak so that's why I was confused!

@Aims1991 how come?! What cd are you now hun? X

Hmm strange. I've been testing the last two weeks and my LH has been up and down, but certainly no peak. So I guess it can fluctuate before it surges! 🤷🏻‍♀️ Hope you get your peak soon 🤞🏻 xx

@MrsRosaline I hope your AF arrives soon! What a crazy month for you! Xx