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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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TTC October baby 🍁🎃👻

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BiscuitLover3678 · 31/12/2022 08:41

Well here we are again, day 1 of new cycle. It’s been over a year now (I’d ducked out of these threads for ages). Finally going to start with some private investigations. But not for a few weeks.

Anyone got any fun ideas for this month?

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Smiffette · 07/02/2023 19:19

@Sineadf91 congrats I can see a line there too!

Jealousofchiliheeler · 07/02/2023 19:27

@Sineadf91 definitely a line, and it looks pink too! Congratulations!

Jealousofchiliheeler · 08/02/2023 13:01

Question for those who have already got their BFP, did you get any symptoms beforehand and if so roughly when?
I'm only 7dpo but I have been feeling much more fatigued today, did my normal run and it was a struggle to complete it and I'm still feeling drained now. Also odd metallic taste (although I've had that before and tests have been BFN). And I'm still bloated and have a dragging feeling in my stomach, like AF is due but that shouldn't be for another week.
All I remember from last pregnancy was feeling bloated at this stage, didn't get fatigue or nausea until around week 5-6.
Trying not to get my hopes up though at the same time....

Hankthehonk · 08/02/2023 16:07

@Jealousofchiliheeler I've not had a BFP so can't really help but it's good to see someone else in a similar boat of symptom spotting. I am 6 or 7DPO (I ovulated Wed so I think it's 7?) and my boobs are so tender that I wasn't able to do my usual (treadmill) run last night, to the extent I had to stop and go on a bike instead. But I did a 10k just two days ago and was fine. This was exactly the symptom that alerted me to my first pregnancy, having to stop a run due to sore boobs, which makes me more hopeful than I maybe should be at this stage 😮
I've also had some tingling lower back pain last night and this morning which now seems to be gone. I wondered if that might be implantation....but also wonder if I'm just bonkers.

JJ2023 · 08/02/2023 16:26

@Jealousofchiliheeler @Hankthehonk around 6-8 days DPO I had twinges/shooting pain/burning sensation and it wasn’t like anything I usually get before AF. At the time I was trying to not get ahead of myself but I know now it must have been twinges from implantation. I also felt a bit dizzy over last weekend and very tired as well.

Sending baby dust to you

buckingmad · 08/02/2023 16:40

Just starting my TWW. Due date would be 30th Oct so I've just snuck in to this thread 😂. TTC#2, first took 12 months to get my BFP so trying not to get too excited. I'm going to test end of next weekend.

Hankthehonk · 08/02/2023 16:57

JJ2023 · 08/02/2023 16:26

@Jealousofchiliheeler @Hankthehonk around 6-8 days DPO I had twinges/shooting pain/burning sensation and it wasn’t like anything I usually get before AF. At the time I was trying to not get ahead of myself but I know now it must have been twinges from implantation. I also felt a bit dizzy over last weekend and very tired as well.

Sending baby dust to you

@JJ2023 Thank you for your message, it is good to hear that you had such similar symptoms! My toddler woke up at 4am and when I got up to see to her I realised I had the back pains, then struggled to get back to sleep because of them. It was still there this morning but much reduced, I might not have noticed it if she hadn't woken me in the night! Guess I should be grateful...
Congratulations on your BFP, hope you are keeping well and the tiredness isn't too terrible.

Jealousofchiliheeler · 08/02/2023 17:11

@Hankthehonk glad I'm not the only one driving themselves slightly spare with this! DH just doesn't get it, he looks at me slightly baffled and says something well meaning but totally unhelpful like "just don't think about it and test once your period is late"! Then I glare at him and he retreats to his study in shame. I also had really tender boobs before but again not until week 5, then I couldn't even do stairs without crossing my arms. Had a few twinges on one and keep checking, but think that is actually making them more sore!
@JJ2023 thank you, I've also had twinges so keeping everything crossed that it's implantation too!

GingerJanee · 08/02/2023 17:26

Hi all!

I've been lurking for the last few weeks on here so thought I'd finally post and share my panics and line eyes!

Currently 9dpo (3rd cycle ttc), told myself I'd wait to 12dpo before testing but ofc I have fell at the first hurdle and have convinced myself I have a vvvfl. EDD would be 21st October - don't know why I do this to myself!

Jealousofchiliheeler · 08/02/2023 17:30

@GingerJanee welcome! Do you have a pic for us to check?

GingerJanee · 08/02/2023 17:49

I don't even want to embarrass myself posting it because in my heart I know this is one of them wishing it true moments, especially at 9dpo! Gonna hold out now for Saturday or Sunday and take another.

Still no lines whatsoever on Easy at Home - unsure if these are even overally sensitive but they came with my OPK tests!

Jealousofchiliheeler · 08/02/2023 17:58

Ha, no worries! Sending you lots of baby dust!

Hankthehonk · 08/02/2023 18:11

@Jealousofchiliheeler My husband is the same, he's just like "sorry your boobs are sore, guess we'll know soon enough!"
I don't understand how these days are going past so slowly, I'm incredibly busy at work and with my wee girl and yet somehow the weekend feels miles off. What day are you planning to start testing?

Bouncingbeat · 08/02/2023 18:25

Hello 8dpo and like @GingerJanee I think i have the faintest line. Does anyone know how you do that thing that shows like the negative of the picture? It sometimes shows the line clearer? The camera is NOT picking it up at all. 😂

Jealousofchiliheeler · 08/02/2023 18:41

@Hankthehonk honestly I'm not sure, we have a friend coming to stay overnight at the weekend, part of me is desperate to do a test by then but it will still be early, she'll know something's up if I don't have a glass of wine, so almost wonder if I shouldn't test so I can have a (small) glass and plead ignorance, is that bad?!
I also have my MiL staying start of next week, I don't think I want to know before then, in my last pregnancy she and my SiL really pissed me off by speculating that I was pregnant (because I wasn't drinking) before we were ready to share the news and then when we told them she said "oh I already knew" which was really deflating because she was the first person we told.
Anyhoo, my Flo app is telling me I should test in 9 days, which is WAY too long for me to hold out, by my calculations AF is due next Wednesday, so I think I'll definitely be testing by then!

Hankthehonk · 08/02/2023 19:34

@Jealousofchiliheeler Ah that's all complicated! Life eh. I've also got a night out with friends on Saturday and there's no way I could get away with not drinking so I'm hoping to have a couple of genuine gins and have lemonade masquerading as gin for most of the night. I'm trying to cut down drinking just because of ttc anyway but not telling most people about that, just two pals neither of whom will be there this weekend!
Sorry your in laws put a dampener on your announcement last time, you should test when you want to. The not drinking thing is too big a giveaway for me as well!
I think I'll be testing on Sunday, to be honest, can't see myself waiting much longer than that.

2021lady · 09/02/2023 06:33

10dpo and stark negative here.
Every month I say I won't test early I won't sympom spot yet I always do
I've lost hope now. I've got 1 more cycle of fertility meds left but after that I think I'm done
2 years of this heartache now :(

TTC October baby 🍁🎃👻
Jealousofchiliheeler · 09/02/2023 09:57

@2021lady sorry you're feeling upset, it sounds like it's been really tough. I don't want you to feel like I'm offering false hope, but at the same time I've never had an early positive from a blue dye test (in fact never had an early positive). These boards can be really supportive but it's easy to also think that it's normal to get a positive at 10dpo when that's not necessarily the case. Anyway, stay strong and sending you a big hug!

2021lady · 09/02/2023 10:55

Jealousofchiliheeler · 09/02/2023 09:57

@2021lady sorry you're feeling upset, it sounds like it's been really tough. I don't want you to feel like I'm offering false hope, but at the same time I've never had an early positive from a blue dye test (in fact never had an early positive). These boards can be really supportive but it's easy to also think that it's normal to get a positive at 10dpo when that's not necessarily the case. Anyway, stay strong and sending you a big hug!

Thank you i know this can be the case. With my daughter at 15dpo my test was a squinter. I sent it to my friend she said negative. So I've not idea why at 10dpo I'm stressing about it. But I do. I think cause I see so many early positives online it plays on your mind

Anyway I'll know in a few days anyway. Period is due Sunday so not too much longer to wait
And if my period comes then it is what it is

Mushroo · 09/02/2023 10:57

Think I’m out ladies! Had my usual pre-AF spotting today! Think I might have ovulated a day or so earlier than I thought.

On to next month!

ukMummyof1 · 09/02/2023 11:04

2dpo today, anyone with me?

LuckyYou13 · 09/02/2023 11:09

@buckingmad 4dpo over here and due date would be around 29th Oct if I get my bfp this cycle. I don't want to test early so I need to hold off testing until 19th 🙈 as if 🤣. Hoping to get some signs of implantation in a few days 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 Also TTC #2 (though will be my 3rd pregnancy) how old is your DC1? I have DS who is 2 1/2 ❤.

MummyBear2519 · 09/02/2023 11:17

Still no sign of AF so 3 days late apart from a single like pink spot on day 1. Test is negative but having pregnancy symptoms. No idea what is going on. Any ideas?

buckingmad · 09/02/2023 11:57

@LuckyYou13 DD is 18 months. I ideally would wait till she was 2 to start trying but it took us a year last time to fall pregnant so didn’t want to put off too long.

JD90 · 09/02/2023 18:57

I'm 8dpo today, trying not to symptom spot but my bbt jumped up again this morning exactly the same as it did with my last pregnancy (which unfortunately ended in a ruptured ectopic) so this is technically cycle 2 since we've passed the recommended waiting time afterwards. Though I have also noticed a total lack of my normal pms symptoms (get suuuuper ragey, cramping, nausea and super sore boobs for a week before) other than the sore boobs. So who knows, will just keep monitoring temp (and crossing my fingers it stays up, though knowing my luck I'm probably about to come down with something 🤣) and wait until probably Tuesday morning maybe Wednesday to do a test.