TWW - anyone??

[AROSE9]

Hi - I have just had my positive OPK & CB digital ovulation and expecting ovulation in the next few days. Weirdly I had stopped tracking for a while due to irregular cycles and just had an urge to test today!

DTD today and plan to for the next few days (sorry tmi!) but wondered if anyone else is on the TWW - it would be nice to have talk and share our experiences 😀

@Hopefulx @PrimarilyParented @MrsL22 I agree - stress free January it is! 11DPO and decided not to test this morning as I couldn't face another disappointment. Unsure whether to test tomorrow or just wait for AF to arrive (presumably Thursday), however hard for me to know as I have irregular cycles. What does everyone think? No symptoms either!

We will need to set up a new thread - love it our version of dry Jan 🤣

If no BFP this month I'm going to maybe not track at all and try DTD every other day and see if that works!

@Mrsrobinsonx welcome! Fingers crossed for you to get your BFP - there's still time! Is this your first time TTC?

@AROSE9 Thank you ☺️

No, I have an 8 year old and a 5 year old but didn’t really track cycles or anything with them.
This is cycle number 3 trying for baby #3. X

@AROSE9 I would say try and hold out until Thursday but it’s easier said than done 😂 how many DPO will you be on Thursday?

I’m 14 DPO today and BFN, AF is due today but she’s not here yet so then my mind keeps think oh could I be … 😂 I’m having an odd tww my boobs are so swollen but not sore at all and my temp is still up, usually the day before AF it drops back to my base line. Maybe it’s just going to be a few days late this cycle.. attaching a pic incase anyone has any thoughts?

I think we will do the same and BD every other day next cycle too. It can add pressure just doing it in our fertile days and makes the tww stressful! We can give it a go and see if it works 🤞🏽

@Mrsrobinsonx welcome lovely! Hope you get your bfp keep us updated when you test.

how is everyone else getting on?

@AROSE9 I would give it a couple of days and test again, although some women get their BFP by now it's not everyone who does so don't be too disheartened.

I think the whole DTD every other day instead of tracking isn't a bad idea as it's doable and hopefully shouldn't feel too much of a task. The testing religiously must add stress to the situation which won't help I'm sure. Fingers crossed you won't need to use this method though.

@Hopefulx if I was tracking my temps this month I'd be happy with those numbers, they look positive as still way above baseline so fingers crossed you get your bfp!!

I'm now 7dpo and not a sniff of a symptom, I've had the odd twinge a few days after ovulation like a sharp stabbing pain and then slightly crampy moments but nothing to really get me thinking much. Af is due a week today so plenty of time still however I just have a feeling it won't be this month. If I have the spotting for days before af again like the last couple of months I'm going to get to the docs for a progesterone test.

Hi everyone! I got my ovulation date wrong before - it ended up being a few days later, but I’m travelling and have been ill so no recognisable temp rise on my chart. I had an unmistakeable LH surge this time (over 2 t/c compared to 1.07) and my boobs got sensitive as usual so I’m swinging between thinking of course you ovulated, you know why your chart is weird, to you didn’t and it’s your own fault for not taking vitamins etc while away! First month I didn’t notice any CM in a while which adds to the mystery. Silver lining is we DTD every day up until the potential ovulation date, rather then just once before the false alarm one so that’s good. I’m feeling a lot more relaxed than I was. And I’ve read similar to what @Hopefulx shared and think it will help me wait to test!

To those of you who have had miscarriages and are waiting to fall again- whatever you’re feeling is completely reasonable! I’m sure you know that. It must be so tough. Thinking of you all.

and finally @Hopefulx - if that was my chart, and I was testing negative as you are at what should be 14DPO, I’d be thinking I might have ovulated later - day 21 looks like a candidate. My temp also drops the day before AF.

Still no sign of AF here after some very pale spotting last night. Trying not to get my hopes up but if it’s not here tomorrow I’ll buy a test after work. Can’t today as I’m working late and I still feel like AF is on the way and don’t want to waste money. My leuteal phase is normally only 11 days and my app says I’m 12dpo, but it’s also saying I ovulated on cd20 and i’m sure it was earlier than that or not at all as I had no cm at that point for sure.

Exciting @PrimarilyParented - all good signs!

I’m finishing AF today and then going to give it a week and dtd every other day (DH thinks all his Christ masses have come at once 😂)
Pregnancy is all around me with friends and family so it HAS to be my time soon 🤞🏼

@CRbear thanks. I’m trying not to get excited as I don’t want to be crushed when AF shows. On the flip side I keep thinking if AF isn’t here yet then we can’t have missed ovulation as we only decided to try for a baby on cd16 and I thought we might have. Since I’m now cd32 I don’t think we can have as I don’t have 15 day leuteal phases. I am so bloated today it’s crazy but have no other symptoms at all.

P.s. keep meaning to say I started taking pregnacare. Can that lengthen your leuteal phase? It has occurred to me that this might explain the longer leuteal phase too.

*prenatal vitamins not pregnacare.

I am too tired after Monday at work 🥱

@Sb86 @CRbear thank you! Yeah potentially I ovulated a little later, I definitely ovulated by day 22 as a blood test and ultrasound confirmed it. Will just have to wait and see I guess.

@PrimarilyParented I have the same question. This cycle is the first time I’ve taken prenatal vitamins and usually my luteal phase is 13 days exactly, I’m now 15 DPO and still no sign of AF - I don’t have any cramps or pms either which I usually get a few days before so I think it will still be a few days before AF turns up. I don’t feel pregnant either, so wondering if prenatal vitamins can impact luteal phase? Have you experienced the same @PrimarilyParented ?

@MrsL22 good luck! Hope this is your month! ☺️

@PrimarilyParented @Hopefulx If you both know you definitely ovulated I guess you just have to wait for either AF or bfp.
I am currently on CD32 which is quite long for me, but even though I got a positive opk I always wonder did I actually ovulate or not when waiting for my period 🙈
I use the seven seas tablets and haven’t noticed them changing anything yet x

@PrimarilyParented I read this online, but tbh a lot of websites say it doesn’t impact menstrual cycle. However you can have too much of a good thing, but most websites say that would only happen if you have been taking them for 3+ years. So think we should be ok!

I struggled with short luteal phase when we were TTC for first. Didn't notice any impact from vitamins. Putting on a little bit of weight and reducing intensity of exercise seemed to sort it out and made my ovulations more obvious too.

Still BFPs for me with good line progression. Keeping fingers crossed for the rest of you.

@apples24 congratulations!! So so happy for you. How many DPO are you now?

@Mrsrobinsonx i only took them for a few days to be honest and then noticed it made me urine bright yellow. Forgot for a few days and by that time my AF was due. So I guess I’m wondering if a few days was enough.

@PrimarilyParented i also don’t have any AF signs and that in part makes me sure I’m not pregnant as with my first I felt like my period was imminent for a week before finally testing. That being said it was a surprise and I’d taken the MAP so it could well have been the effects of that (which always made me have terrible cramps) as much as the being pregnant. Plus I guess all pregnancies are different. But the no symptoms really makes me think I’m not going to see a BFP.

I’m going to test tonight when DP gets home. He had a big work event today so I thought it best to leave until now to tell him I’m late and do a test. I’m excited and nervous all in one.

@Hopefulx sorry I somehow addressed to myself my reply to you. I am so dopey atm.

Thank you @Hopefulx - 13DPO today.

@PrimarilyParented how did you get on? It’s so strange we are exactly the same. I’m 16 DPO tomorrow (unless I ovulated later) then my app is saying but I have no signs at all AF is coming. Actually I say that, I’ve been eating like a right piggie today 😂 but I haven’t had any cramps which I usually get a few days before.

that is true, every pregnancy is different and you never know you could just have no signs. Keep us updated! 🤞🏽

@apples24 that’s amazing! Have you had any other symptoms other than the bfp? X

@AROSE9 how are you getting on? Did you manage to hold out and not test? X

@Hopefulx tested this morning 13DPO and BFN. I know I'm out. I've got an app next week for acupuncture as I've heard some great reviews. AF is due tomorrow but no symptoms and with my cycles I feel like it could never turn up!

How are you? Has AF appeared yet? Or BFP?

@Hopefulx it was a BFN which I wasn’t that surprised by. I’m on cd34 now and my cycles over the last year have all been 28-31days except for August which is always an outlier ever year due to holidays. So… either I ovulated late or I haven’t ovulated this month. If I ovulated late I guess I’m still in with a chance this month, but I just don’t know any more. I’m going to leave it another week and test again if my period hasn’t shown up by then.

@AROSE9 ah sorry to hear it was a BFN :( keep us updated with AF tomorrow and if she turns up. I’ve also heard good things about acupuncture, do you know what it is supposed to help? AF arrived for me this morning which I knew as my temp dropped down to my baseline this morning.. on to a new cycle, but feel a bit down today! Blaming the hormones.

@PrimarilyParented sorry to hear also it was BFN :( fingers crossed your still in with a chance and you ovulated later. It’s hard to still keep hopeful the more and more you get into the luteal phase

@Hopefulx it is hard to keep positive and I swing between thinking ‘I’m still in with a chance’ and ‘if I’m out anyway can AF just hurry up’. My boobs are killing me today and my favourite bra was so uncomfortable to wear - I occasionally get sore boobs, but rarely THIS sore. If I get them as a PMT symptom then the day they lessen in soreness is the day before AF starts, so at least I know have a marker for when to expect that.