Short luteal phase?

[JuniperandI]

Hi ladies

I have a short LP, about 9-10 days. Anyone else in the same boat? Have you managed to get pregnant with a short LP? Any advice would be very welcome!

@EmmRach I wonder what you’ll be by the 12 week scan then! Fingers crossed you get to miss out the sicky bit 😂 I think week 9 was about the peak then that was the worst of it over, it wasn’t as bad as I expected but that was a boy so who knows if the whole boy/girl difference thing is true.

I really do bizarrely feel kind of confident that I am 😂 it could just be stomach cramps today but it properly feels like something is happening in there! I was going to hold out til Friday at 10dpo but will no doubt be tempted on Thursday.. I have plenty of tests anyway 🤷🏼‍♀️😂

@BCxx eeee ok, I'll watch out for week 9 then!! As per my ovulation I think I should have been 7+6. So my scan showed 2 days smaller than when I tracked my ovulation. Which would have put my LP even shorter possibly!! Don't know if there is more science to that about a day or so for implantation? Anyway... we will see at the 12 week scan I guess!!

Long as you can be sure you won't be too disappointed on Thursday if it's a BFN. I got my (very faint!) BFP on 10DPO.

I'm rooting for you!! Xx

@EmmRach its all so complicated with the dates isn’t it? I think when you go for your 12 week scan you’ll get a definite due date based on the measurements and it won’t change after that. I think mine varied by about half a week last time but I’m sure I ovulated on cd20 that month so I knew nothing about short LPs then but I think I most likely had it then too.

No I don’t think I will be, there’s still a lot of hope at 9dpo, sometimes you may as well just do it if you have one and get your curiosity out the way even if it just says its negative then you can move on with your day and not obsess as much about it 😂 I’ll be disappointed if this isn’t the month but if it’s not I’d be testing again the first week in January and there’s obviously all the fun Christmas stuff between now and then so at least that kills the time!

@BCxx yeah you probably did!! Even more hope for those on this thread still trying. 🥰

I cannot wait for that scan. It can't come soon enough!!!

To be honest, a BFP first week in January would be ideal!! No drinking cover ups needed. No one will be out having fun without you etc. and you can give some much needed cheer and sparkle with your news in Feb! And you will know you made a Christmas baby!! So yeah... December or January. It's all great!! And if it's after that... well... we will think of some reason to be positive then too 🤣😅

@EmmRach excited for you for your scan! It really is an incredible experience. With morning sickness - I didn't have it terribly but definitely weeks 9-13 were the peak, and it eased off then. Fingers crossed you skip it entirely! I didn't actually get sick much but I had aversions to smells and coffee.

@BCxx I think I'll test Friday or Saturday, 9 or 10DPO. But to be honest I'll probably test with a cheapie on Thursday even though I know it'll be negative because I have no chill 😅I agree sometimes it's just good to temper your curiosity even if it's a BFN! With my first I got a squinter on a cheapie at 9DPO. I didn't know about FRER then but it definitely would have been positive. Not that that would mean anything for a second pregnancy because I know they're all different!

@EmmRach its like time slows down even more after you find out you’re pregnant 😂 It’s actually quite fun to hide it though, I remember being dying to tell people and my mum made a big thing of telling all these people and I never once heard from them when I was pregnant so I did think if this happens again I really won’t be in a huge rush to tell everyone other than close friends. Yeah totally, if it had been last month at least I could have told the odd person at a Christmas night out if need be to avoid drinking but now there’s no way I can tell people at like 5 weeks 🙈

@Mugascauld I’ve just done an ovulation test today after reading that someone’s showed it up at 6dpo 😂 no line even there and im walking away disappointed as if an ovulation test about a week before I should even be taking a pregnancy test is going to say anything 😂🙈 I cannot be stopped! But if they’re there you may as well use them eh 🤷🏼‍♀️ Hopefully this week goes in quick for us. I’m telling myself I actually just have Monday Tuesday Wednesday to get through since I can go to bed Wednesday night and test when I wake up!

Eee ok!! So we have two testers this weekend then. Sending all the baby dust and best wishes I possibly can for you @Mugascauld and @BCxx

Ok, another vote for week 9+ being a killer. I'll prepare myself! Thank you. Glad I have you ladies to give me info like this!!

Time has absolutely slowed down. I've never known a week go sooooo slowwwwly. So I'm also hoping this week speeds by for us all 😅🤣

@BCxx 5 weeks is v early isn't it. You're still processing the news yourself at that point. That'll be quite hard I recon. I think you'd just have to be 'poorly' and stay home. That's what I had to do this weekend. And I'm glad I did because from what my husband said I don't think I'd have gotten away with it at all!

For NYE we're having a party here. I've got the old gin switch out trick. And I've also bought a bottle capper (yet to try it to see if it works!) so I can refill cider glass bottles with the non alcoholic version. So I'll report back on that one. Because if it works. It's bloody ingenious 🤣 even if I do say so myself

Hi @EmmRach good to hear from you that all's well - I wanted to check in but didn't want to disturb! I'm with you on the tiredness front! I had to take this morning off work as I just couldn't think straight and needed another hour in bed - which isn't like me, I'm normally such an early bird. Glad you've not been hit by nausea yet! Time really is crawling by isn't it? I'm 6+2 today and not yet heard about my midwife appointment - just itching to get that in the diary! 2 weeks today to my early scan. Just really hoping all is well.

@BCxx It all sounds rather promising! I wouldn't worry too much about the negative OPK, I don't think they always show positive when pregnant, it's just that they do for some people. You're not out yet!

@DesertSnow yeah I was hoping that wasn’t a very good test to do anyway 😂 It seems like if it does the test has got mixed up. Just trying to hang on til Thursday now (to get a bfn and have to wait til Friday)! 🙈

@EmmRach thank you 😊 actually laughing at that. The having people to yours thing is sooo much easier then you’re in control and you also get to rely on the fact they’ll then be drunk so you really won’t have to go to much effort at all. I know, I think being ill could be my only option if I do end up pregnant or I phone and tell the place and say I’ll order a weird drink with a set name every time and just hope they don’t slip up with the drinks orders 🤣 I’ll cross that bridge if I get to come to it! Definitely feeling like this could be it though, the same small cramps today and almost a ‘heavy’ sort of feeling in there which is again exactly how I felt with my son but really don’t want to be imagining things! I don’t think I can be though because I didn’t think I felt this last cycle and it’s days too early for it to be AF cramps 🤔 we’ll just have to wait and see!

@DesertSnow is your date as per your period or your ovulation (with 2 weeks added)?
The tiredness is bizarre isn't it. What that tiny little grain of rice can be doing to your body already. But around our stage it's pretty much doubling in size every week. That's mad isn't it. The speed of that growth! 2 weeks!! Seems like so close but yet so far! 😅

Agghhh @BCxx I'm so hopeful for you. You must remember the upside though if it's a bfn on Friday / Saturday. Christmas fun and drinking and the possibility of making a proper Christmas baby. These are all good things too. Im definitely team December BFP but don't want you to be too crushed if it's not. Although it does sound like it could be!!! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

@EmmRach yeah I’m definitely giving myself this cycle and next to try and get a BFP before I allow myself to shed a tear or anything over it 🙈 I have been gutted each month but not crying level of gutted yet. I think it’s the fact I already have one that’s making it easier! We only tried for 3 months with my son but I do remember proper sobbing into my dinner one night when AF had arrived in cycle 2 😂 little did I know that was the date of my last period. Just need to hope this is it and if not drown my sorrows for 2 weeks before trying again! 🥂 have you thought as far as if you’d find out the sex or not?

@EmmRach date calculated by period but as I ovulated CD18 I'm assuming the date will be a bit behind. But if the scan is 8w2d by LMP then I should still be far enough along to see heartbeat if all is well. Fingers and toes crossed.
Yes it's crazy when you think about how it's been doubling in size - no wonder we're tired! 😅I've had a bit of nausea today - weirdly only goes away when I'm actually eating.

@BCxx Glad you're not feeling too down about it, it's still early days, and this thread has shown that a short LP isn't necessarily a barrier. It is a bit gutting each month, but as @EmmRach said, a December BFP would be lovely, an if not then any month you get one would be lovely in its own way really!

@DesertSnow yeah I’m still in the nice hopeful phase of the cycle though, we’ll see if that changes 😂 I do have to say though that I really do ‘feel’ pregnant, it’s like I can feel it in my womb so I will be astonished if I’m not this cycle. I’m bursting for a pee all the time as well in the last 2 days. If I’m not I will eat my own hat or whatever the phrase is 😂 (but not cry or sulk about it)!

@BCxx all your symptoms sound so positive! You have me convinced on your behalf 😂 I on the other hand have no symptoms whatsoever and feel just like I do normally when I’m a few days off my period. I had a sense the whole time during the TWW with my son, just like you’re describing. So I’m pretty sure I’m out but we’ll wait and see 😀

@Mugascauld they do say no two pregnancies are the same so I don’t think you’ll be out just based on lack of symptoms 🤞🏼 Today I’ve just had really quite sore cramps all day. I was feeling more positive about yesterday’s symptoms. AF had been arriving on day 28 but came 2 early last month which would work out as this Saturday this cycle. Now wondering if these cramps could be the makings of AF but really praying it’s just a painful baby settling itself down in there 😂😩 Realllly going to try and not be gutted if it’s not this month, got a Christmas weekend planned so that will take my mind off it at least

@BCxx keeping my fingers crossed for you and that the cramps mean something positive!

Im also due AF on Sat but still unsure what is going on with me. Spotting continued for 4ish days from last Sat but only really when on the loo. Seems to have slowed/stopped today which is when I’d be expecting it to start ramping up to AF. I’ve been full of the cold and yesterday had a dodgy tummy, with some mild twinges (barely even cramps). Have used some ICs which have been BNF.

I guess only time will tell - don’t think IB would last as long as this has. The spotting is probs just saving itself up to blast me with AF on Sat as planned!

@Sierra26 that does all sound really strange.. do you know what dpo the spotting started on? Some people can even get spotting from ovulation and it can take a few days to come away. Our bodies are so strange 🙈 I had a very vivid dream I took a pregnancy test too early last night but it was positive then woke up all confident at 8dpo that I should take one, it was one of those dreams where it takes a while to come back round to real life again 😂 I don’t think il be able to stop myself tomorrow morning though, even if it is just wasting a test for the sake of it 🙄

@BCxx mot really sure which DPO it started on as I failed to catch my peak (first month monitoring it and actually wondered if my body had skipped ovulating this month due to being on hols on hot climate, travelling etc). Anyway it was cd22 so potentially 8dpo.

I had that dream last month and was so sure it had happened! My friend had the same too. Must be common when it’s on your mind!

let us know how tomorrow POAS goes xx

@BCxx so, did you cave and test?? How are you getting on?

@Sierra26 I'm also 8DPO! Fingers crossed for you

I caved… not FMU and after a couple of coffee’s but I’m not imagining this am I?! Showed up straight away. Also had faint lines on a few cheapies. I had a bad evap on Clearblue last month so I’m not getting my hopes up!

Awwgghhhh maaaa gaaawwdddd @Mugascauld !!!!!!

That's a clear positive for me. No squinting required!!!

Congratulations!!!

Will reply properly for everyone else at lunch!! Just saw this quickly and couldn't resist a quick message!!!

@BCxx and @Sierra26 when are you two testing? Could this month be a bumper month for us for BFPs?? Got everything crossed for you both!!

@DesertSnow how you feeling? I'm still tired with only low level nausea. Can definitely cope with it all. I think the whole nausea going away when you eat thing is pretty common. Not good for the waistline though! Although my midwife this week told me "eat as you need, if baby needs a burger, baby needs a burger!!" 🤣
8+2 I recon you should be able to see a HB by then. So good timing for your scan!!
I've booked another (going to be so poor 🤣🤣) for the 22nd Dec. Just wanted that reassurance again before Xmas! I've got my '12 week' scan date for the 5th Jan. Although I'll be more like 13 then I think. Blooming Christmas. Haha

@EmmRach thank you! True to form I am panicking that an early pos at 8DPO is a bad sign! Though with my perfectly healthy son I had a very similar positive on a cheapie (i.e. an absolute shadow of a squinter which is what I have now on cheapies) at 8 or 9DPO so maybe I just implant early? Maybe I've short tubes or something😂 Not that I'm fully believing it even...

@Mugascauld ahhh congratulations! Definitely not imagining that! What dpo are you, 11? I caved obviously, only 9 dpo though so got the result I expected 🤣