The month of valentines, pancakes and lot’s of BFP’s! 🤞🏻❤️

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Hi Everyone,

I thought I’d start a new thread for February following the January one.

About to start month 4 of TTC after a MC last month.

The months seem so long with a TWW thrown in but then I also can’t believe I’m about to start cycle 4! (I know that isn’t a long time for some of us and that makes me feel sad, TTC is so unfair at times)

Anyway, feel free to join if you’d like to get through February together! X

Oh also i keep getting shooting pains in my breasts but I have got implants in and that may be why 🤷‍♂️

@Diamondbabe Congratulations that's a great line for 9dpo :D
@Tinkerbell098 Good luck :)

AF arrived today 😕 even though I've been getting negative tests a little part of me was hoping the pelvic pain I've been having was really severe implantation 🤣

Congratulations @Diamondbabe !! That's a great line for so early on 🎉👏🏻

@Tinkerbell098 hope alll goes well with your scan tonight! How long have you been ttc for if you don't mind me asking? Were the private tests expensive ?

@TheBirdintheCave thank you :)

@Mariabombia sorry AF arrived. It's the worst! We've been trying for about 14 months now (possibly longer as have lost count now). The initial consultation was £225, for AMH and HSG it's about £500 (so bye bye bank balance!). We've waited to hear back from the NHS fertility clinic for 6 months now, so since we haven't, we decided to go private. I'm 36 now, so didn't want to hang around as we are still trying for our first. But once all the investigations are done, the private clinic can then refer me to the NHS clinic for treatment if we want to go down the IVF route. Would like to try for about 2 years before we do that though.

@Tinkerbell098 thank you so much for sharing! Apologies if you've said all this before but this thread can be hard to keep up with.

Did you get any tests with the nhs initially? I've been referred for an ultrasound with nhs but not sure how long it'll take.

So after ultrasound and bloods, you then get HSG X-ray? Do you know what test is after that? Or is that it? Sorry for the million questions .

Bless you, I hope the investigations go well and you can start your pregnancy journey soon lovely.

Hello all, I haven't written on here for a few days but I think I may have got my BFP today, I had a faint line yesterday but it's a little darker today I'm 9dpo I think...

@arianasky congrats!! I can definitely see those lines 😍🥳

@babydreamin thank you 💕 I'm being cautious as I had a CP begins of January so hoping this one sticks and I'll be more excited in a few days 🤞🏻

@arianasky fingers crossed it sticks and please update us!🙏✨

@Mariabombia hey lovely, no worries at all, I find it hard to keep up as well. It's ok, ask away! MN has been a great source of information for me, so I'm pleased to help out in any way.
So, I rang up GP July time last year, when we first realised we may be having problems. She ran all the routine blood tests (Day 21, thyroid, prolactin, etc), even checked for diabetes. Aug, OH had his SA done, at which point she referred me to the fertility clinic as there was no obvious problem and said that a referral can take ages so by the time I hear back, it would be about 1.5 years of TTC. I think it depends on the Trust as to how long it takes to get a first appointment and she said it could even take a year (it's been 6 months now, with nothing back from them). She referred me for ultrasound back in Nov as I requested it, and I've got my appointment for this evening, so that's taken another 2 and a half months. Think the backlog for ultrasound is crazy at the moment, so I think that amount of time was actually ok, considering. So that's all I've had done on the NHS.
Yes, in terms of other tests, it's just AMH and HSG left to do, to make a diagnosis. I'm not sure what the waiting times are for an HSG on the NHS, but it's pretty much immediate if you go private. With my age, I don't really want to be hanging around, especially if any surgery is required, I need to know now. Which is why we have considered getting the remaining tests done privately.

@arianasky that's a beautiful line for 9dpo! Sending you all the luck in the world it'll stick this time. Update us please xx

@arianasky fab lines for 9dpo!! Cautious congratulations lovely

I’ve bought more FRER 😬🥴 will test again tomorrow. With DS2 I got the faintest of lines on 10dpo and a proper line on 11dpo. Praying to every god

Thank you @MummyMe87 and @Tinkerbell098

@Tinkerbell098 I have everything crossed for you 🤞🏻💕

@arianasky such good news I really hope this one sticks for you! Would you mind sharing what worked for you this month? I think i am out again. Love hearing your stories.
@Mariabombia ah good old AF, sorry to hear that. Fingers crossed for next month. I am feeling more positive about spring approaching.

@RosyappleA of course, so this month I took the advice of warm feet from this thread 😂 I've had cosy socks and slippers on all the time haha! I take coq10 for egg quality and seven seas TTC vitamins and I've taken baby aspirin that I got in Tesco from O day as someone said it can help so hopefully it does 🤞🏻 apart from that nothing different at all

@arianasky can def see those lines!!! Really really hoping this is your month. I've just bought a test to do in the morning but I really think I'm out, just a feeling the AF is coming!!!

I've just caved and tested and it was invalid grrrrr

@Purple29 ooh how exciting hopefully you get a BFP and AF stays away 🤞🏻

I checked my test this afternoon and it's gone darker. I know it's after the 3 minutes but there was a line prior so who knows? I can only hope :)

@arianasky congratulations!! I've taken most of those measures this month along with vit c and using conception cup so hopefully will work for us too 🤞🏻

@Diamondbabe that most definitely isn't an indent! Try again in the morning, I'm sure you'll get a darker line xxx

@arianasky thanks for thot, keeping the fluffy socks firmly on might even sleep in them😂. Did you track ovulation if so which days did you cover? I think i need to be more strategic next time as i am running out of steam by the time i ovulate! I even took a week of work as I knew I couldn’t handle it!

I see a few of you mention about having chemical pregnancies what are those? Is it that you get a positive and then nothing happens? Do you then get your period later?

We sort of did the @Purple29 method I think.

I got my static smiley on the 24th, I had an old CB ovulated which was only an empty smile or a static smile no flashing one.

We had sex on the 20, 22nd, 24 and 25th Jan.

I wanted to do it on the 26th too but we were a bit done by then.

I do think we'd before the ovulation date makes a difference.

It's hard to know if it's just luck and would have a happened anyway.

Hope it sticks!

@Natalie2304 fingers crossed for you 🤞🏻 how many dpo are you?

@RosyappleA haha 😂 so I had a static smiley on CD19 but a peak easy@home on the 20th so not 100 percent which day I ovulated but I DTD CD16 CD17 CD19 and CD22 around O time

@Diamondbabe a chemical pregnancy is a miscarriage that happens before 5 weeks

@arianasky thank you do you know by bleeding? I have read pregnancy tests still show as pregnant if you have a miscarriage so I'm guessing it's not from still doing those. Thankfully had one other pregnancy and all was great and had a healthy boy who's now 14 months :)