Anyone due to get BFP/AF at Xmas?

[madeleine85]

The pressure is on... in the TWW and AF is due right around Xmas. Spending the holidays with my in laws, and both wanting to drink through the holidays/not drink as in the TWW. I’m also dreading a little bit of feeling down if I get AF right at Xmas. If anyone is looking for a TWW companion/obsessor here I am ☺️. Good luck, and hope you all get your Xmas present 🎁 BFP from Santa 🎅🏻. Xx

@madeleine85 YES!!!! I am due AF on 25th! This is cycle number 8 so I’m really really hoping it happens soon. I’m sure there will be a bit of chatter around Christmas about babies etc too… kinda already dreading that as our families don’t know we are trying. We can keep each other company xx

I’m due before Christmas (19th at the latest), but I’ve been late before and didn’t get a BFP, so it’s possible I will have to wait until Christmas for AF or to test. 😬

I’ll keep my fingera croased for you!!

Yeah I think I will be in this boat. I had a tfmr last month and no period yet, I have no idea when it will come but I expect somewhere around Christmas time. I would love to be pregnant again but I’m not in the right headspace for OPKs and cycle tracking so I’m just trying to not think about it. I’m hoping Christmas will distract me a bit!

Yep this is me! Due around the 23rd, and with AF normally lasting about 5 days it will take me right over Christmas. Currently 5DPO and praying I get my BFP after a year of trying! Don't want to be tearful over my turkey dinner

Good luck ladies, really hope Santa brings you all BFP's! xx

This is me, af due on Christmas day. If af does come I hope it's a day or two early so i don't have to awkwardly explain to the in laws and their friends why I'm not drinking. Much easier with my own parents who don't drink

Same here! I also hope AF comes a bit early as eventhough I will probably test from 8dpo (I know it's too early but I can't help myself 🤦‍♀️) you can't be sure until she comes and I would like to have a couple of drinks and not worry.

I'm also spending Xmas with extended family so don't want to have any awkward conversations. Though at this point I am thinking of just telling people. I know it's taboo but I'm not sure why really.

@Janey3090 I think my AF is due the 23rd too, but that's with a 10 day luteal which might be longer so it could be a xmas AF. Like @cocoforbes and @Frida9I am hoping it comes earlier so that I can enjoy myself and not symptom spot/drive myself crazy, but my body does what it wants it seems. Hoping we all get BFPs, or an early release to enjoy xmas! For some reason I am definitely symptom spotting this month, managed not to last month, guessing it is because of the xmas effect... I'm also visiting a friend on my way back from the in laws who has been unsuccessfully TTC for years, so it wouldn't be a bad thing if it were negative, I think I would feel really guilty as she knows we just started trying recently. They also drink a lot of wine and have good stuff :)

Me too! I think I'm due around 23rd/24th though my cycle was 5 days longer last month so could be a few days later than that. Already feeling a lot of pressure in the tww and dreading testing so close to Xmas. At least we can drown our sorrows if it's bad news, but fingers crossed bfps for us all!

Me! 🙋🏻‍♀️ I'm due sometime between 20th and 23rd. But after 26 cycles I am fully expecting to be able to drink over xmas and have not put my hand forward to be designated driver just yet 😂

I'm due on the 25th - this could be the best or worst Christmas present Mother Nature gifts me. Cycle #6 hoping this is the one 🤞🤞

Yup due Christmas Eve, cycle 10. Hard to imagine this one will end any differently than the last but I know I'll be extra devastated anyway. It's so hard!

Yes :( I tested last night and had two lines. Three more tests negative! So sad!! X

@Loukate29 I can't see the control line on that test either, are you sure you dipped it for long enough?

Hi ladies, I’m new here although have been TTC for 10 months now. Had an early m/c in March and nothing since. AF is due on Christmas Day so trying to patiently wait and see what happens. How are you all getting on? The TWW is such a difficult time, but I’m finding it harder than usual in the run up to Christmas, I feel like I just can’t relax and enjoy anything until I know

@Chasingrainbows1518 welcome! I think I’m the same re holidays. 3rd cycle here, first I had horrible pill come down symptoms, 2nd one some cramping but largely symptom free... not sure if it’s bc this one is Xmas, but I’m symptom spotting like crazy. I’m dpo 4/5 and have had a ton of back and af type abdominal cramps, I am so cold I had my hands jammed literally into my car heater earlier, I have horrendous heartburn (no changes to diet and I’ve only ever had it when 3rd trimester pregnant). I think I’m convincing muself I’m pregnant as I tried everything this cycle (coq10, epo and pre natal supplements), pre seed and a period cup after fw dtd to keep those swimmers in for the night. I was really sick during the fw so I should set my expectations that I’m likely not pregnant and it’s just progesterone, but I’m clearly insane 😂. Good luck for this cycle!

Welcome @Chasingrainbows1518 so sorry to hear about your loss ❤️

I also had an early mc back in July but I'm cycle #3 since starting to try again as we had a break to get married.

@madeleine85 it's so hard not to symptom spot especially this Xmas month! Sounds promising, I really hope it's your lucky month! I'm 6dpo today I think and I had some mild cramping yesterday but I'm pretty sure it's meaningless as it's too early for implantation.

What are coq10 and epo for? I'm taking pregnacare, vit D, fish oil and cranberry tablets. I also just bought calc flor as I heard from another thread that it promotes a healthy uterine lining but I haven't started taking it yet.

@madeleine85 I agree that those symptoms sound promising 🤞🏻

I am approximately 9 dpo today and yesterday, for the first time ever, had a little random spotting which has now completely gone. Don't want to get my hopes up too much but it's not normal for me at all so I am wondering if it could have been the infamous implantation bleeding. I didn't test this morning but may test this afternoon just for the fun of it! AF not due until Monday though.

Ooo exciting @LondonladyTTC let us know how it goes this afternoon!

I'm also live in London 😊

How is everyone?
I’m finding it harder to think of much else right now!
Going to test on the 21st I think at around 12dpo with a frer. Last time I was pregnant I had no symptoms other than AF like cramps for the week before my positive test. this month I’m not experiencing that so that sucks but I do feel verry tired, my body aches and I have a funny tummy so hoping these may be good signs but who knows.
When is everyone planning to test?

Hi ladies, do you mind if I join you? I am due AF on the 25th. This is our 10th cycle, but first post a fertility consult. We have had 1 MMC and 2 CP's in that time frame. I am on cyclogest and double dose folic acid. It would be amazing to get a BFP as my due date was 21 December. Really trying hard not to test.

@Hopefull1981 welcome! Sorry for your previous losses, and sending good luck for this cycle.

@cocoforbes COQ10 is for cell regeneration and has been shown to help fertility and egg quality, EPO is to help create ECWM to keep swimmers where they are meant to go/stay alive. The EPO should not be taken after ovulation though, only before. Lord knows if any of this actually works, when I had DD I wasn't even taking vitamins, but i'll keep taking it to help chances I guess.

@LondonladyTTC thanks, I've had these types of symptoms before my first month post pill, so fully aware it is probably progesterone and i'm just crazy :). Your's however sound very promising. I've never had implantation bleeding, but that definitely sounds like it could be. Good luck!! I read that after implantation bleeding your body starts producing HCG so to expect 3-5 days before BFP if it was that. Just a FYI so you don't get yourself down if it is negative, but obviously sending over big hopes that it is a huge positive. x

Yes this is me! Af due on 24th and I'm 4dpo today. Cycle 6.
When is everyone testing?

@Pinkyflipflops I think I am one day ahead of you. 5 DPO today, but luteal usually 10/11 days. I should be 10 dpo on the 22nd, premom says I should test 12 dpo on the 24th. Last cycle when I POAS at 11 DPO I wiped straight after and there was AF, such a waste of a FRER. I am traveling to my in laws and get there on the 22nd, so I'd like to know one way or another by that day, but my body never does what I want :). When are you testing?

Can i join in girls 👋
I'm 9dpo and since monday and ive had horrendous sore boobs, I'm stuggling to even wear a bra 😔 anyway the devil got to me and i went morrions and got their own brand early detection test and it's negative so I've well and truly pissed myself off and I'm assuming its pms but seriously I've never jad boobs this painfull before.