TWW Buddies..

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Hi,

Currently trying for DC 2, already have a 2 year old DS.

I should have ovulated today 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Anyone else entering the TWW? Due AF 7th Jan but will probably end up testing a couple days before 😄

What day does everyone usually ovulate and how long are your cycles? I’m around day 17 on a 29 day cycle

@Pitstop1986 @Downtherabbithole83 three amigos ! My DH definitely gets invested in the testing

@T4Opal I’m usually around day 17/18 30-33 days.

I've been having butterflies in my lower stomach for about half an hour now, it feels so weird!

Supposedly AF is due tomorrow, has any of you experienced this before?

@CloudyVenus is it not just pms cramps if AF due tomorrow?

@MrsL22 I never get this feeling with AF cramps as they are are different for me and this doesn't hurt just feels really strange. I may not even get AF tomorrow as I've been super ill recently and concerned it has thrown everything off

My cycles are usually 26 days, ovulating around day 12. This cycle was only 24 days though but it’s my first one after tfmr so a bit messed up I guess… still ovulated around the same time though.

Sorry to hear you’re also on CD1 but at least we’re all in it together.

I’m going to use opks again and hope for the best 🤞might try a little less dtd this time and see what happens as covering every possible time obviously didn’t work this cycle (and exhausted my other half 😂)

I'll be away just before ovulation this month, so I'm going to have a month off testing and tracking. Due to ovulate around the day I fly home so hoping that if we DTD on the run up it'll be ok to miss out ovulation day

What brand of vitamins is everyone using? For the last 6 weeks I've been using women's Proceive. I'm wondering if this caused the spotting that I had a few days ago, as I usually never get spotting. Thinking about changing to a different one this month. I used Cytoplan's Pregna-plan before, so may go back to that unless someone else has a better suggestion.

I also take an omega 3 fish oil and Obtibac probiotics

On one of the other threads I’m on, someone was talking about starting pregnacare and it making their cycles longer. Though with the vitamins in them I’m not sure it should affect anything like that…

I take the seven seas ones because my sister gave them to me and I love anything free! I’ve never taken anything until after my positive test before.

I’ve been taking a general multivitamin plus folic acid but today I’ve been and bought pregnacare for pre-pregnancy in the hope that it helps? Not cheap though and wondering whether any supermarkets do their own version of these fancy ones 😂🙈

Just found this forum, I’m 10dpo I think today but bfn. I literally feel like I’m going crazy, this month I was so sure it was the one.
light pink cm 6dpo, mild cramping and backache the last 3 days which I never get before AF. I’m due on Monday at 12dpo as I ovulated 2 days later than normal.

Hi @Mrsrobinsonx 👋🏼
10dpo still relatively early so fingers crossed you get your BFP this time!

@MrsL22 Hello ☺️
I suppose it is but when you see others getting clear lines at that stage it’s hard isn’t it.
Maybe TMI but after we had sex at 6dpo it was pink tinged instead of white when I wiped but nothing since, and then again today same thing happened - pink when I wiped only after sex? Seems strange to me but don’t want to get my hopes up.

That does sound promising! Keep your hopes up lovely 😊

strange one but I seen someone else make reference to DTD when and how often do you do it either side of ovulation? thank you!!

Pregnacare didn't lengthen my cycle. It helped me getting pregnant

@Emmamoo89 thats promising! I’ve just started pregnacare today

@Mrsrobinsonx that sounds promising for you. I got my BFP this cycle and one of my first signs was a super sensitive cervix! I’d wait until a couple of days before your missed period to test if you can to save any false negatives x

@Mrsrobinsonx I had the same thing with DC1 so looks promising, fingers crossed!

I don't know what's going on with me, no AF and a very, very, only visible in the right light line on a different brand of test (2 types now) but not getting any darker so whilst it's there I'm not holding out much hope but who knows!

With DC1 AF was like clockwork and I immediately got a strong positive, with DC2 I didn't know until I was 8 weeks because I'd not had AF since stopping the pill 6mo before and all tests were negative until that point! 🤔

Sorry if this is TMI but I’m stressing…

So not sure what’s going on with my AF… bright red/pink blood on a wipe yesterday which would normally lead to heavy bleeding later in the day but instead stayed very light and went almost brownish very quickly and by late afternoon it had stopped altogether! Wiped this morning and there is one tiny spot of brownish cm but nothing at all overnight.

Have no idea what this means for my cycle this month and whether it’s linked to recovery from my tfmr in Nov and therefore my ability to conceive is affected by whatever’s going on as I never had this in my cycles before: regular as clockwork and always straight into 2 or 3 heavy days.

@TTC5yearsx
Oh congratulations!
is that what it could be? Honestly I’ve no idea, all I know is I never spot between cycles usually only the day before AF is due or when she arrives.
My app says I’m due on tomorrow but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s more like Wednesday as ovulation was slightly later this month. X

@DancingNancies
Oh really? I don’t remember much from my last pregnancy, was about 6 years ago 🙈
So you’ve had a faint positive but not getting darker? I actually had the same thing in October and was told it was a chemical pregnancy. I got faint tests on a Monday, then by Wednesday they got darker but not much. And then 2 days later started spotting and came on my period.
Hopefully it will work out for you! X

@Mrsrobinsonx I think that's the most likely outcome, unfortunately. Just going to wait for AF now - if she's not appeared by midweek I'll test again but no point torturing myself with faint lines every day until then!

I've only had 2 periods since I stopped the pill in August so not 100% on timings either - such a pain! 🙄😂

@Downtherabbithole83 I had pretty much exactly the same with my period yesterday- started of dark brownish bleeding, but not enough to even half fill a pad, then nothing from early afternoon, maybe just a couple of spots when I wipe.

I've decided to stop taking the Proceive as I read the side effects and they can be breast tenderness, spotting in between periods and heavier/lighter periods and I don't need extra symptoms when I'm symptom spotting! I may just strip it back this month and just take folic acid and vitamin D

@DancingNancies let's hope the test starts to get darker 🤞

My periods have been super light since having my IUD removed! Never enough to fill a pad in one day and only last 2-3 days of more brown-ish spotting.
This period has seemed slightly heavier though and constantly when I wipe nice fresh red blood (as nice as that can be 😂🙈) so I’m kinda enjoying that and hoping it might mean my body is better prepared for a pregnancy (next month 🤞🏼)
Concerned after reading that pregnacare has been linked with cycle changes in other women but all the research (teacher brain) suggests this is purely coincidental. So I’m going to try it anyway as I’ve heard a few people say they fell pregnant quickly after starting.
I’m going to try and not symptom spot this month. I’m not going to stop logging on my apps everyday and just take a little pressure off. I may or may not do OPKs around ovulation time but I’m going to just DTD as often as we like and take care of myself - a little R&R - focus on something else like a regular exercise routine or something.
DH and I want a baby soooo bad - I’m starting to question whether that is what is holding us back.