Planning for TTC & waiting for 1st period 🩸

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Wondered if anyone else is stopping their pill and fancies a thread for planning TTC and keeping eachother company while waiting for ovulation/1st period?

DP & I have decided to TTC baby 2. Our DS is 14m. He was conceived 1st cycle, within 2 weeks of stopping the pill, v lucky.

I'm still breastfeeding (3-4 times during the day, no overnight feeds now) and just come off cerelle. With BF in the mix no idea how long it's going to take for my cycles to return... I'm 37 so I'm hoping it's going to be fast!

First timers welcome too 🙂 when I got my BFP it was really handy and reassuring being on a thread with people who'd already had a baby.

@HoppingTiger it seems to often be random - my withdrawal bleed started 17 Aug and I’ve just got AF on 28 Sept.

And, I think it’s normal to feel that way!

It’s definitely AF! Going to start using OPKs after this…

Hello, please can I join? I’ve just found this thread 😊
I came off the mini pill after 10 years on Saturday 3rd September. I don’t know if I’ve had my withdrawal bleed as if I did it was very very light and only lasted a day?
I’ve been feeling so sick and tired this last week, pregnancy tests are negative just to rule that out so I think it’s the awful effects of coming off the pill.
Just waiting for AF to arrive hopefully soon so I know what’s going on!
xx

@MilkyAndFluffy I was on mini pill and last time round I didn't get a withdrawal bleed. Took a while for my cycle to get started and af appeared about 6 weeks later. It's probably different for everyone. I wouldn't worry about pregnacare too much. Annoying as it is I would try not to stress about it just now- not much you can do but wait at the moment.

@HoppingTiger it is random, different for everyone. Depends on your body's cycle getting going again. Hope you don't have too long to wait!

@Skyla01 yeah I totally agree I am definitely trying not to stress about it and I didn’t think I would obsessed this quickly! I didn’t educate myself before hand so I was expecting to bleed straight away - now the last week has felt like the longest week ever! Feel much better knowing you also didn’t get withdrawal bleeding from coming off the mini pill and that you AF took around 6 weeks. How are you getting on this time around? Is there anything you did or didn’t do last time you are changing this time?

@MilkyAndFluffy I didn’t think I’d become obsessed so quickly either, but here I am nearly 4 weeks in and every spare minute I’m Googling everything and looking on threads like this one 🙈

Hey @Charlotte1256 , fingers crossed you get your AF soon! I also felt very sick and tired the last couple of days but must be a side affect of the pill coming out my system! From what I’ve researched the withdrawal bleeding isn’t like a period so sounds like you have had it! Exciting times, I have my fingers crossed for you x

@Charlotte1256 last time I came off the pill I had lots of cramps for a few weeks, and I think I felt a bit sick and faint at times. Just not quite right. Not nice symptoms but kinda normal I think as the body readjusts. I remember taking a few pregnancy tests too, just in case. Some people do fall pregnant straight away though.

@MilkyAndFluffy main thing for me is not to stress and obsess! Last time TTC was horrible in that way for me, particularly as it took so long. So currently I'm calmly waiting for af and then once my cycle has settled down will get on to trying properly! Only been a week or so since I stopped my pill so might still be a while to wait. TTC is such a lottery though, who knows.

I’m the same! I swore I wouldn’t start obsessing over things like OPKs but I have them ready to go as soon as AF finishes

So it’s 4 weeks today since I took my last pill and still nothing!
I go on holiday in 2 weeks time so you just know my period is going to wait until then to arrive 😂

@Charlotte1256 sods law... But hopefully not! Hope your af comes soon and then the baby making can start on holiday, that would be better timing! Don't worry, things will get going soon enough. It just feels like such a looong wait at the start.

Any progress from anyone else? Still waiting for af here.

CD3 here! Once AF is done will get cracking…

Really hope AF hurries up for everyone else - it is so stressful waiting.

I'm 3dpo here so trying to patiently wait 🤪

@Mayfield87 ooh exciting you are already in the trying phase! I've just started my folic acid so all good to go. Just need a cycle now...

Still (impatiently) waiting for my cycle too… Hope everyone else is good! 🤗

I’m getting really fed up and impatient now waiting for a period! 😭🙈

Still waiting here too. But it took 6 weeks last time so at least I know it's probably still a bit of waiting to do.

Can I join this thread too? :)

three weeks ago I stopped the pill after taking it for a number of years TTC baby no 1. I had a withdrawal bleed straight away and having tracked my ovulation each day since then, found out today that I’m ovulating (wierdly getting lots of cramps on my left side which I’ve never really noticed before…) really excited for this journey!

Aww wish I’d seen this sooner! Same situation as me, my little one is 14 months too! Came off the pill mid August. I was going to just let the first cycle pass but ended up trying just on the off chance 🙈 I had a ridiculously long cycle (32 days). This cycle so far I’m on cd16 and no hint of a dark line on any ovulation tests. I’m just bored waiting 🙄

Hi, nice to have some more company!
@Surreycb that's great you are ovulating already, hopefully won't take you long to conceive. All very new and exciting especially when it is baby number 1.
@Sparklythings1 no harm in trying! Some lucky people do fall straight away. 32 days isn't that long for a cycle. What is your usual cycle length? I think last time I had natural cycles they were 30/31 days.
I've been off the pill for two weeks now but still waiting for a bleed or ovulation signs, nothing happening yet.

So I finally have an update!
5 weeks today since I stopped taking the mini pill and I’ve just started a period. I had no signs/symptoms leading up to it, I just went to the loo and it had arrived 🥲 and now I’m in agony, but it’s all positive news as now I can start tracking things hopefully xx

@Skyla01 it wasn’t to be last month but I tried not to be too gutted given I’d only just came off the pill. I didn’t ovulate until cd24 then AF arrived on day 32 so it seemed to be all over the place. Hoping this month is a bit more straightforward but no sign of opks even rising slightly yet on cd16 so could be another few days! I don’t really have a usual cycle length as I’m either pregnant or on the pill and never just letting my cycle do it’s own thing 😂

So thought I would update you guys- only been on the thread a little while but I got my BFP yesterday. Wanted to wish you all the luck in the world for your ttc journeys! 🍀❤️

@Mayfield87 aw amazing, congratulations! What dpo was that? How many cycles have you been trying? You must be thrilled 🥰

cd18 and my ovulation tests are only just starting to show a rise. I think tomorrow will be my peak and of course typically we fell out last night and he hasn’t spoke to me since coming in tonight 🤦🏼‍♀️😂 I tried and was way more forgiving than I would ever usually be but he’s staying in a huff over nothing. Just going to have to hope he’s came out his strop by tomorrow night 🙈😂