Hoping for a BFP October/November

[Purple29]

Hi all just creating a new thread since the other one is almost full!!! Really really hoping this is our month, but not hopeful, DH is away with work for most of my FW and only comes home the day before I think I will ov. I've also injured my back!!!

OK, AF is officially late - should have arrived yesterday. Last two cycles have been 23 days exactly. I am hungry like all the time. Cramps have reduced and not constant, now and then the odd twinge. Hormones definitely not settled. I'm determined not to test again til Saturday, if still no AF by then, because I'm starting to obsess about it and need to stop.

@CheeryCupcake that sounds very promising though! Everything crossed for Saturday!

That sounds promising.
AF is officially due tomorrow for me. I felt a heavy dull ache this morning as if AF was going to arrive. Nothing yet, but I’m sure it will.

sounds promising for you…. Fingers crossed

@CheeryCupcake I had the same yesterday at 9dpo but mine was just a pink jelly blob when I wiped which was weird!

I guess it could be implantation bleeding if it's stopped? With my previous pregnancy I had a little bit of fresh blood on the tissue when I wiped around implantation time 😊 best of luck 🤞

Hey everyone 👋🏻 I'm 2dpo on Cycle 2. Feeling like I could be in with a chance this month as we've dtd every other day through my fertile window, and got a positive opk on cd12. Now to try and distract myself for the next 2 weeks!

@ScaredSally @Ncl31 @TulipVictory Thanks everyone :) I've had 3 BFNs so far, so I suspect I'm probably just clutching at straws at this stage, but it's not over til AF arrives, right? 12/13 dpo today.

Hi everyone, hope you are all OK?

Can anyone help me understand the numbers with the ovulation tests, please 🙏.
It is my first month of tracking. I'm using premom and the easy@home kit. The app is telling me that I should be entering my 5 fertile days in 2 days time, I haven't tested yet today as its a little early still , but yesterday my reading was 0.3. The test I did 2 days before that was 0.21. It's registered them as low.
How high does this number need to reach over the next couple of days in order to confirm ovulation? X

Keeping everything crossed for you @CheeryCupcake

6dpo today, I've woken up a few times in the night with a bit of cramping and nausea and just feeling off....? I'm also bloody tired 😴 will keep an eye on things and make a judgement on whether to test on 10dpo...

@ScarletDreams over 1 will go to peak usually, if I go above 0.3/0.4 I know I’m heading up the way and will peak in the next day. While you’re using it I would ignore the fertile days the app is telling you and go purely by the sticks. In my experience it has put my fertile days as way too early every time, it doesn’t even seem to update them after one month of realising I ovulated later than that 🤔 it’s good for once you reach your peak though and mark in ovulation, it then updates

So AF is definitely here. That’s two months in a row (after coming off the pill) that my luteal phase (time from ovulation to period) has been 7 or 8 days long. I’ve looked it up and a luteal phase of under 10/11 days is too short to sustain a pregnancy. One of the main causes seems to be stress and I’ve been stressed beyond belief the last two months 🤦🏼‍♀️ Don’t know how to get it down by next month though

@ScarletDreams I agree with @Sparklythings1 the app seems to be off for my fertile days so I just go off the sticks. I’m on CD16 atm and haven’t had my peak yet, highest has been .49 but I missed a test day on Sunday so 🤷‍♀️

Just going to keep testing and try to DTD more regularly and see how we go. Feeling a bit knackered by it all so might stop the OPKs next month and just try to be more regular with DTD.

Hope everyone is doing okay! Xx

@Sparklythings1 if you've just come off the pill it takes an average of 6months for your hormones to balance to a normal cycle so that could be affecting your lut phase

Could have written this myself - spotting started for me on 9 dpo and was so light so I had my fingers crossed it was implantation. However period definitely arrived this morning👎 I was wondering about the luteal phase thing so interesting to read your research @Sparklythings1... not sure how to reduce stress when I'm now back at work and my 11 month old has chicken pox... but will work on it!

@Sparklythings1 @thelma57 thanks for the help, I have tested again today and it is reading 0.7. I'm cycle day 8 . Looks to be going up fairly quickly so hopefully I get a reading above 1 soon

Looks promising @ScarletDreams !

Faint line on a covid test this morning 😫😭 think that'll make me out this month 😭

Just wanted to say thank you so much for your replies about how you all track ovulation! There are lots of ideas there that I hadn't even heard of! So if we are out this month I will definitely be looking to get premom and those ovulation sticks with the decimal point scores seem right up my street! Thank you again all 💓

@Sparklythings1 I have read that the preconception vitamins by pregnacare and seven seas can extend the luteal phase for some people? May be worth trying them or swapping to the other brand if you've tried one or the other?

@ScaredSally yeah I did think that would probably still be having an effect on it too! Last time I had one long cycle, one short (24 days) then on the third it worked so keeping everything crossed for the same again

@Butterfliesandroses yeah I wondered about that too, I’m on pregnacare but had used seven seas at the start last time

Aw @kizzy97 i hope you don't come down too bad with it!

I'm taking pregnacare before conception vitamins too @Sparklythings1 @Butterfliesandroses we are hoping to get our rainbow 🌈 baby soon as I had a miscarriage 12 days ago I was 5 weeks and 2 days we have been dtd every 2-3 days we was going to do the deed this morning but our 4 year old is off school with a tummy bug but we did the deed on Friday night and Monday night and I am due to ovulate on Saturday as I am getting clear wet discharge with a bit of white in it so 🤞we get our rainbow 🌈 baby soon as sperm can live up to 5-7 days xx

Looking forward to scan tomorrow. Hoping for the best. It's not until 5.30 though.

Just felt sick in car on way to work. Also got a nose bleed and now feeling very hot despite being freezing cold on the way here. My body is messing with me today. DH worried about nose bleed and blood pressure due to previous preeclampsia. I'm watching for swelling though. That was the first symptom last time.

Hope everyone is ok. Sorry for those who got AF. It's shit time but goodluck for next cycle. Took me a while with DD to catch. I'm cramping a bit more today but hoping for best.

I think AF is around the corner for me. Dye tomorrow and I can feel niggling cramps already.
just want it over and done with so I can start tracking with OPKs again.
I’ve downloaded Premom and bought the easy@home sticks with a thermometer so this will be my first cycle of tracking BBT too.
Im not sure what I should be doing other than tracking before I get up in the morning.