starting the tww

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Anyone want to keep each other company ?

I'm 3dpo and it feels like forever already!

Hi girls,

Hoping to join this thread and get some advice please :-)

I’m either 10-12 DPO (my two apps say different things) and wasn’t expecting AF until at least Thursday as my cycles for the past 4 months have been well over 30 days (last was 38 days). Today is CD29 and I woke up to a temp drop and when I wiped brown spotting. This then went to pale pink after 20 mins and seems to have totally gone now bar a few pinkish streaks. I’ve been a bit crampy for the past 24hrs and felt like AF was coming so wasn’t surprised to see temp drop.

I assumed AF has shown her face as I’ve been getting BFNs all weekend on my cheap strips, but now I’m trying to desp cling onto some hope this could be implantation? I normally never spot before my period arrives and it arrives with a bang so this is weird. That said, I haven’t had a normal cycle since I came off the pill in April so maybe this is just another new normal 🤦🏼‍♀️

BBT charts attached for those who are interested xx

hi @chocoholic88 and welcome! If you're about 10dpo this is pretty much bang on for implantation, timing-wise, so the spotting could feasibly be that. You're still early-ish for a BFP so don't despair, if I were you I'd wait a day or two more just to see if AF does turn up, then try a FRER. I mean, you could do one now, and I can't swear I would be able to resist it, but you'll get a more decisive result if you wait.

I don't temp so am rather impressed by your graphs but I can't pretend to know anything about that!

@Els2130 if you're only just back on the pill after a break then honestly I'd put cramping down to your body adjusting. Could be anything really. I think it's unlikely you're pregnant although of course the pill is only truly effective when it's taken correctly.

And hi all, I'm tentatively optimistic... I think we timed TTC right this month; I'm about 10dpo and have really sore boobs and feeling a little nauseous. With my other pregnancies one of my first giveaway signs before testing is waking up super early in the morning but that hasn't happened this time.
However - and close your eyes now if you don't want to hear about my cervix!!!! - it's very high and soft which I think is a good sign, and I've had a lot of stretchy, opaque-ish CM. I'd love a BFP for Christmas but that's a lot of pressure to put on it really.

@Els2130 - I would agree with the other posters that it’s incredibly unlikely if you only missed one pill and you’ve taken it for more than 7 days, but if you feel concerned you should take a pregnancy test in a few weeks. I would imagine it’s nothing though.

@ladycarlotta - your signs all sound promising! When do you plan on testing? I feel a bit silly as I managed to really get my hopes up yesterday that is was implantation bleeding yesterday as I also started to get really bad waves of nausea in the afternoon. Woke up early in the morning and took a cheapie and then an FRER and both as white as a sheet so think I just need to accept I’m out and hope that AF hurries the F up so I can get on an enjoy Christmas. Baby making is such an exhausting rollercoaster of a ride….will have to hide the tests I took this morning because I told DH my period arrived yesterday so he’ll think I’m nutso if he sees then in the bin 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

@chocoholic88 oh bummer, sorry it's not your month 🙁 it really messes with your head doesn't it? Everything's a symptom and it feels like you can never just get off the ride because there's always next month to try again.
I think I'll wait a few more days to test. Trying to preserve my mental health before Christmas but I may cave. I'm in a cafe right now - ordered a flat white but now it's here I feel quite 🤢 at it which I did with my daughter too. Of course if I am pregnant my challenge is to stay pregnant which has always been the hard part for me. But there's this bit of me that's convinced this will be the one, I'll get a BFP, I'll carry to term, I'll never have to do any of this again. So I need to manage those expectations...

@ladycarlotta - I think we’ve all got to keep a little bit of that optimism otherwise this whole process would be even more emotionally draining and crazy making! I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you for that Christmas BFP and that it’s a sticky one!

After getting a positive test on a digital 4 days ago my mental health has declined. After my loss in November I don't know what to do to draw my attention to something else. EPAU are seeing me next week. I'm nervous every time I go to the toilet. I keep taking the weeks indicator hoping it changes to 2-3 weeks as I'm roughly 4+1 today and it's still showing 1-2. I have one more test I'm using tomorrow morning and after that I'll wait for blood tests. I can't keep doing it to myself but I can't stop 😫😫

oh, @hannabanana2021, I really feel you. This is horrible on the mental health. It's the not knowing. But remind yourself that 1-2 is totally accurate for 4+1, given margins of error. I know it's almost impossible not to put yourself through it all but please be kind to yourself. What will be will be. So far nothing is obviously awry, and while I know the total powerlessness can put you in a total spiral, it also means that nothing you do or don't do is going to alter the course of this, so try to find the Zen in it. Please be kind to yourself. You're doing all you can x