Testing around 21st May

[thinkingoutloud2]

Hey lovely mumsnetters,

Anyone else starting their TWW and want to join this thread and hold internet hands with each other? x

Hey @thinkingoutloud2 I'll be testing around then too (or a few days before in all likelihood 😂) positive OPK yesterday so assuming today as ovulation day 😊
I tend to have a slightly shorter luteal phase I think so usually only around 11 days between ovulation and day 1 of my period

Hey @thinkingoutloud2 I am due to test on the 23rd but planning to test on the 21st on 12dpo because I’m at a wedding that day and just can’t help myself (also may decide if I have a drink or not!!). I’m still in my fertile window so trying not to overthink it but know I’m going to find the 2ww so tough!!

Due to test on the 20th fingers crossed

I’m in. This is the first time I’ve acknowledged to anyone (other than DH of course!) that we are trying to conceive after a long time of tests and hoping in silence. Nothing obvious flagged up in blood tests or scans. Trying to conceive number 2. DS is getting on for 3. Does anyone else wonder if life is potentially all kicking off down there right now or is that just me? 😁

Great. Yes it's a very distracting time! I can't help wondering what's going on inside me - it's fascinating!

Hi guys, can I join - AF due 25th so slightly after you! TTC #1 cycle 10 with a MMC in October (was at the 12 week scan and stopped developing after 8 weeks) ended up having a D&C. Feeling positive about this cycle but I always am and then ends in BFN! My TWW technically starts tomorrow according to my app. How is everyone feeling?

Hello @Rellington21 . Sorry to hear about your MMC but it is so good that you keep feeling positive about it. I keep imagining I am having symptoms but at 5/6dpo that is unlikely. I did really feel that I could smell the wheat in my son’s breakfast cereal this morning though, but it is probably psychosomatic. Smell is how I found out with my son.
How is everyone doing and does anyone else have phantom symptoms?

Hi @Rellington21 - sorry to hear about you MC

@ZazuMoon I'm also majorly symptom spotting 😂 4DPO and just opened the fridge and smelt a bag of salad in the bottom drawer - I had a really heightened sense of smell with number 1 so I'm probably just noticing smells more because I'm looking for it

@Tropicana1 & @ZazuMoon thank you both!

I will be in the same boat as you symptom spotting in the next few days 😂fingers crossed for you. These two weeks are the worst I’m so impatient

hey all, I’ll be testing towards the end of the month. On CD 17 but don’t don’t know if I have ovulated yet because my OPK readings show that I’ve had continued l
smaller peaks after my main peak and I can’t work out what it means. Very frustrating.

Anyway, I’m cycle 1 of TTC number 2. My DD is 9 in July. I had an ectopic pregnancy last month. Back in the TTC game. I’m reallly bad at getting obsessed 🤦🏻‍♀️

Hey @Rellington21 sorry to hear about your miscarriage. I miscarried last December. Found out at my 12 week scan too, having previously seen baby and heart beat at 7 weeks. Also ended up having D&C after failing to miscarry naturally, and with the pills. Such a rough experience.

This is my first time trying since all that happened. I have 2 children, this would be baby number 3 for me if I'm lucky.

x

And hello to everyone else here 👋

No symptoms for me yet, but I keep googling details on early sensitive tests like first response - even though I've never been able to get an early positive! Don't want to waste my money this time!

Hello all, after vowing not to become as obsessed and on these boards all the time, since we decided to try for number 2 I'm back! This will be the first cycle me and DH have been TTC number 2, our DS is 2. We sort of half arsed it this month - I started off all breezy and relaxed, and then as soon as I got closer to ovulation started obsessing again. In the end I don't quite think we timed it all that well as by the time I ovulated we had both come down with colds/DS wouldn't cooperate by being awake all evening...

I think I'm 2/3 DPO but haven't bought any tests yet, figured I'll just wait until AF is late who am I kidding that's obviously not how it's going to go

@Tropicana1 Salad and cereal are not usually particularly heavily scented though 🤔 I’m encouraging the overthinking. I don’t know why I do it to myself!
Sorry to everyone else who has experienced pregnancy loss and let’s hope this thread brings some luck to some of us!
I too started out all breezy and ‘if it happens, it happens’ but now that it hasn’t happened I need to revert back to slightly obsessive tracking of my body throughout my cycle. It was only when I became more focused on tracking my ovulation properly that I conceived my first, which is the opposite of the ‘just relax’ guidance we usually hear. 🙄

@ZazuMoon I agree! But this is surely too early for any real symptoms! Same again this morning opened the fridge and it smelled very "fridgey" 😂

Has anyone had cramping pains? Not had implantation cramping before but it’s too early for period pain.
Hmm… fridges smelling ‘fridgey.’ 🤔

@ZazuMoon I've got some light cramping today too (we are so in this symptom spotting together 😂)

Ive had some light cramping today too. Felt mildly nauseous in the car, and headache.

Could be nothing - could be implantation - that's the fun of the TWW! 😂

So glad I'm in good company and not the only one. 👭

Hey all can i join please- testing around 18th/19th (af due 18th)

im 8dpo and had back ache and cramping on off since 5dpo on 5,6&7dpo i had light brown spotting and it was at random times when i wiped but cm has been dry since (sorry tmi) but from what ive heard people tend to get more cm before testing positive i also had a cold same days as spotting probably not even linked to conception but thats about it.

how is everyone feeling?

Yes, we all seem to have fallen down the rabbit hole of symptom spotting. It’s so annoying that most of the symptoms are very similar to PMT. 🤦🏼‍♀️
@Bonnie118 I read that colds are more common around the conception as the body suppresses your immune system from fighting implantation. But as OP says, it could be nothing. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oh that's interesting @ZazuMoon @Bonnie118 - hadn't read that about colds, had a really sore throat all day / a bit painful to swallow etc
Another "symptom" for me to attribute 😂

Hey can I join? Will be testing on the 19-21st! Currently 4dpo.
last time I was pregnant I woke up with a stuffy nose, not quite a cold, but it’s hard to tell this time round as it might be hay fever 😂

My symptom spotting has begun too! @Bonnie118 And @Cherrymarket I have a blocked nose as well and am 4dpo. Deffo could be my hayfever too 😂 slight cramping but I think I’m being over sensitive about any and everything

@Cherrymarket I think I should be testing around then too, although possibly having an implantation dip in my bbt chart today? (If that's even a real thing) so I will probably cave and test very early on Monday (9dpo) if my temp goes back up tomorrow

Yeah i think mine maybe hayfever related too🤣 so i stopped spotting 3 days ago and now ive started again today 9dpo, so weird as i never spot in between my cycle and im not due for another 6 days either so have no idea whats happening to me apart from that and back aches i feel normal