TTC 2024 Babies 🍼🤰🏻🌟🍀🤞🏻💕

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New thread for those of us now trying for the first babies of 2024, may we all be lucky this month!

I'm CD1 today of cycle 6 ttc my second.
Had a chemical at the end of February and lots of illness in March so revved up to give this month all I've got!

@Savvy21 not yet - hoping it'll be Thursday based on last cycle. Would be ideal with SMEP timing as we've got a 30th birthday party on Saturday and DH is not super keen on having to DTD on Sunday after that

@Annie1295 fingers crossed that your cycle is the same. Mine is all over the place which does not help with my I'm not in control feeling haha.

Hi everyone, first time posting, read through a few pages but a very long thread! I came off the pill in December and started ttc May. Feel like its getting me really down now, partly as it was my 29th birthday recently and I was so optimistic I'd already be pregnant by now. We were so excited the first cycle and now just frustrated. Using Natural Cycles to track but my cycles have been 39-52 days long, with the most recent the longest so seems like it's getting worse! Now on cd 18 but if it follows the previous cycle I'm potentially ~20 days from ovulation still. Checked the calender in app and it's predicting only 2 ovulations between now and Christmas 😭 Before coming off the pill I'd been on it since age 16 so I think my cycles were more normal then, but I didn't take much notice.
Anyone else's cycles took this long after birth control to get back to normal or gone to see gp before 1 year ttc with abnormal cycles?

@Jess780 Welcome! I've not had the long cycles but I'd go to your gp sooner rather than later to get the ball rolling. You could probably say that you've been ttc since December ... do they check? They can't check can they? Really?

@Jess780 sorry to hear you're feeling sad, I came off HBC (the patch) in December 2022, thought I'd also be pregnant by now as we started trying in February this year and nope, had a chemical pregnancy in April and nothing since.

I've actually just got into the doctors to have my bloods checked which I think checks things like thyroids etc but it's a start. My doctor also said it's 2 years before you can get investigated now, not sure if that's just my area or not. I'll end up doing private testing if nothing happens between now and June next year though x

@Jess780 welcome and sorry to hear you're feeling down

Static smiley on Clearblue today so hitting the final stretch of SMEP. DH will just have to make Sunday work even if he's hungover 🤷‍♀️

@careerchanger123 2 years seems really long to wait 😳 the NHS guidelines say initial checks at 1 year but 2 years until they'll refer for ivf. I've heard horror stories of long waits for fertility specialists though, maybe some areas are saying 2 years ttc for any testing to try limit who they even add to waiting lists. I'd also be willing to go private for some but hopefully it won't come to that.

@Savvy21 I'm thinking I will say December as a year if nothings happened by then as I'm clearly very impatient! The only way they would know could be from last order of contraception but I got that privately and people could have stopped immediately after getting a fresh prescription too. I'll wait out until Christmas see if my cycle gets better or if I do get pregnant by then but probably good to get the ball rolling sooner rather than later. It did take me 7 weeks to get a non urgent app at my GP last year!

@Annie1295 my DH loves hungover sex, I couldn't think of much worse! 😅

@Jess780 fingers crossed it happens before Christmas for you and you don't have to deal with GPs and waiting times and all that!

I agree I can't think of much worse than hungover sex but luckily I don't drink anyway so at least one of us will have the motivation to keep going

@Jess780 welcome! I hope that things happen for you soon.

im currently on 6DPO, no symptoms of anything happening. Testing on Monday 🤞🏻

@Babyhopeful23 all the best for Monday!

@Annie1295thanks! i really hope I can force myself to wait until Monday!

SMEP has finally defeated us. Last day of the three in a row but couldn't do it. I think we'll just do tomorrow morning and then call it a day for this month 🤷‍♀️

@Annie1295 we couldn’t do it either. Poor hubbies 😆

@Babyhopeful23 it ended up being four days in a row for us because my OPK was positive on CD13 and I only got home at midnight last night. We managed to still do it then but I think all of it just got a bit too much. We'll do tomorrow for good measure but then don't think we'll bother on Sunday

@Annie1295 It’s not easy and for us personally it’s too scheduled. We will be giving it a miss next month and try a gentler approach.

@Babyhopeful23 yeah it's a lot. Will see if we need to still do it next cycle but really not sure about it

Ovulation confirmed on Friday. We DTD -1dpo, -2dpo, -3do and -5dpo so hopefully still in with a chance even though we didn't manage to do full SMEP. Now just counting down the days for the TWW 😫

@Annie1295 i hope it’s your month, sounds like you both gave it your best.
I couldn’t wait until tomorrow to test and have had a negative test 10DPO. It’s probably the most negative test I’ve ever seen. I’ve zero symptoms and know this has been another unsuccessful month.

@Babyhopeful23 I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully it'll work out for you soon! Maybe taking a more gentle approach will work

Hi everyone, new to this thread but wondering if I can have some advice.

I have relatively regular periods (cycles are between 26 and 29 days and have been for a while). Struggling to conceive no2 for 4 mo already and I feel incredibly deflated. DH has low motility and low morphology (but for both, only just, it's borderline). His sperm count is fine.

We've been DTD every other day since my period finished (so CD6,8,10) . I'm CD11 and Opk aren't particularly dark (it's on 0.26 today and usually my peak is around 0.8-1) but I when I went to the loo earlier and as I wiped I noticed that I have CM like egg whites... should we DTD again tonight or wait until tomorrow as originally planned?

@wishingforbaby2 I'd go for it! Prob means you'll ovulate tomorrow or the following day so I'd maybe do it tonight leave tomorrow and go the following night?

Probably a stupid question but does anyone know if your post ovulation bbt jump is higher if the egg is fertilised? I'm 3dpo and the jump this cycle has been higher than it usually is (usually it jumps to about 36.4 from 36.1 and this time it's gone up to 36.57)

Probably just TWW delusions but I was wondering if that could be a positive sign

How's everyone getting on?

AF 2 days late, but spotting a lot since Monday (I always spot before AF but I'm never late, sometimes early) and BFN 🤷‍♀️ I know it's the spotting I get before AF but confused as to why it's late. Typically it's the one cycle I didn't track my ovulation 😂

@Daniki oh no sorry it's been confusing! Hopefully AF doesn't come and your test turns positive