TTC February 2024 babies

[Hankthehonk]

Starting a thread because I don't see another one yet - I guess it is early for the potential Feb babies!
I'm on CD6 of 2nd cycle post miscarriage/6th month in total, ttc #2, due date would be around 2 February if we're successful this month.
Last month I was way too obsessive about testing, this month I'm really going to try to not let it take over my life - but let's see where I'm at in a few weeks' time. It's a busy month for me with a big work trip just after my fertile window then a family holiday when af is due so at least the tww shouldn't be so much of a drag.
Anyone else early in this cycle who will be trying for a Feb baby?

@Hankthehonk hopefully this is your month. Currently on cd8 think ovulation will be around the upcoming weekend. I’m not using any ovulation sticks or tests this month. After being abit hard on myself last month. I’ve decided to be a little laid back this month and hope for the best.

I think if my lucky this month will be due end of January start of Feb.

are u doing anything different this month to pervious months? X

Throwing my hat in the ring for this one. After a lot of back and forth over having a second we've decided feck it let's just see what happens.

With my first I got very obsessive about tracking and testing and apps and all that stuff so I've told myself this time I'm just going to track my cycle and hope for the best. (Although I have just added a pack of ovulation tests to my Amazon basket )
Best of luck to everyone!

@Farmgirl12 @BelBabe Welcome! I hope taking the laid back approach feels better for you for you both - and of course that this is a lucky month for all of us.

I'm going to do my lh testing and bbt tracking as I don't personally find that stressful and I want to be as sure as possible when I've ovulated.
It's the pregnancy testing in the second half of the tww that I got crazy about and which I really want to try not to do this month. At the same time, I don't want to be too hard on myself if I do cave and test earlier than I should. I think because last month was our first cycle ttc after our loss, I transferred my anxiety and emotions from that onto the ttc process. I was genuinely quite relaxed about it when we started trying and we got pregnant quite quickly, but perhaps unsurprisingly having a miscarriage has really heightened my desperation to be pregnant again, and my anxiety around it all.

I don't think there's much I'll do differently except hopefully not doing a thousand pregnancy tests and giving myself headaches squinting at faint lines 🙃

@Hankthehonk yeah the Tww is when I go bloody nuts, counting the dpo and wondering if I’ll show a dfp. So I thought if I don’t test ovulation then I won’t know dpo. So we will see how we go.

I’ve started using sea moss, it’s supposed to help with fertility and loads of other things too. So worth a try I suppose.

@BelBabe the obsessing is definitely the worst. I’m hoping this month will be easier because last month wasn’t healthy for me at all x

@Farmgirl12 I went bloody nuts as well, it's a bit of a relief to realise I'm not the only one. Apart from anything else I can't afford that amount of pregnancy tests every month!
I hate not knowing how many months of this are ahead of me.

Hello, can I join you? TTC cycle #5 for #2. Dpo 1.
I had a chemical back in Feb. Fingers crossed for this cycle!

Hi there

throwing my hat in too
if we conceive this cycle we would actually have the same due date!! Feb 2nd (according to apps so subject to change 😅)

be nice to get through the tww together.

all the best to everyone!

Hi! Fresh from a loss myself which seems to have happened quite early on and resolved itself. Started bleeding on Saturday and pregnancy test today was negative I think (still fooling myself with line eyes). Scan today confirmed no pregnancy nor evidence of one suggesting an early loss for me and I'm thinking perhaps Saturday was just the start of my period as it felt exactly like one.

So not sure if CD1 due to negative test or CD5 due to possible period! We shall see. Going to try not to be obsessive but know that will fail. Literally all of our close friends are pregnant too and I would have been due just after them.

@RegardingPersephone sorry to hear your news, it’s really tough coming back from a loss. At the time it really is hard. But it does get easier over time.

my sil had just had twins when I was having my miscarriage last year so I understand the huge sadness you are currently feeling with friends pregnant or new babies.

my husband keeps telling me that if we are meant to have more babies then it will happen. His words really don’t help lol.

how is everyone else doing? I’m currently at cd10 with ovulation probably around the weekend x

@Catchafallingstar7 welcome! It's nice to have a cycle buddy.

@RegardingPersephone I'm so sorry for your loss. If you get obsessive, don't be mad at yourself, I think it's hard not to be especially when loss is fresh.

@Farmgirl12 Oo you're close to dtd time 😂 I'm on cd8 but I have longer (30 or 31 day) cycles so fertile window isn't until next week, kicking off Monday or Tuesday.

I've just found out about an opportunity to go for my ideal job - it's in the same field, same money but for various reasons it's exactly what I want to be doing. But to move to a new organisation which I think has less good maternity provision (my current employer's is very good for the sector) feels a bit crazy when getting pregnant again is my top priority. And I'm not unhappy in current job either.
Then again, what if I don't go for the job in order to have a baby, then in a year's time we're still trying and I regret it?
At the very least, this unexpected new dilemma is giving me something else to focus on besides my cycle itself!

Hi everyone :) Can I join? TTC my first and I have PCOS. This is cycle 1. Got terrible heartburn today for the first time in my life but I don't think I've ovulated yet, so it's probably not pregnancy-related. Still hoping I might have ovulated early though.

@cth96 welcome! Have you already been tracking your cycles etc to get ready for trying? Are you tracking bbt and/or lh to catch ovulation?

Thank you! Yes, I've been tracking cycles manually for a few months but my periods are still irregular. I've only started tracking LH in the past couple of days so I don't have a baseline but it's really low this evening (0.16) so now I'm wondering if I'm likely to ovulate at all this month.

@cth96 It can jump up really quickly if you're someone who has rapid peaks- im like this! So don't be disheartened

Hello everyone!

This is my first month TTC and using OPKs to track my ovulation. I thought i was in the Jan 2024 baby club as i hit a 0.8 peak on CD11 and was 10DPO today with BFN.

Took a random OPK test today and hit peak of 0.98 and then a 1.01 so i suppose ive ovulated late on CD23! I think it may be the folic acid im taking as i've read it can slow down cycles.

Back to DTD all week and another TTW 🤦🏽‍♀️ GL all! Xx

@Hankthehonk dtd is underway, I thought maybe just to have less pressure we would just go with the flow, so it’s just been if we’ve felt like it/ not too tired. So hopefully we will carry on over the weekend and into the week too. X

Thanks @Farmgirl12 and @Hankthehonk. Just need to get that negative test now so it can all restart! Frustrating as I am very impatient.

@CherryTreats23 Welcome, and sounds like that was lucky catching your peak!

How is everyone doing? A few people in the fertile window now I think so hope you're all enjoying it 😅🙈 mine starts tomorrow (according to my apps, and last month's cycle at least, let's see if I ovulate on schedule).
Right now I'm feeling way more relaxed about it all than last month, which is a relief. May that continue right through the tww...

hi @Hankthehonk I’m entering the fertile week and already a little bit dreading the schedule because it’s so unromantic at times isn’t it?!

I do feel much more relaxed this week so I hope tww doesn’t make me crazy again 🙈😂

Think we are going to fully throw everything at it this month and then try and not think about it after that it’s becoming a bit all consuming.

good luck all 💪😍

Hey everyone, hoping to join your cycle gang! I am on CD5 but had a loss in April so its my first real cycle since. Also had a loss in November and took 3 cycles to regulate so I'm not going to stress to much this month. I will start OPKs Wednesday, ovulation is usually day 15 - day 16 for me. I have an early loss clinic appointment at the end of the month so I'm really just tracking OPK this month to have the details for that appointment. In general though the only times I have conceived is when I wasn't tracking so I think the relaxed approach works well 😂

@Catchafallingstar7 it can definitely be unromantic, luckily I find my sex drive goes way up during fertile week. Fitting it in is sometimes the trouble!

@BudgetBuster welcome and I'm sorry for your losses. Sounds like you are in a good, relaxed headspace though. Do you know what to expect at your appointment?

Hey, I'm jumping over from the January 2024 group. Trying to concieve baby 2 and this will be cycle # 7. DS was concieved 1st attempt last year!
I'm 10 dpo with a BFN on a frer. I know there's still a chance but I feel like im out especially with it being a frer.
If I concieve next cycle I'll have a estimated due date of 17th Feb

I'm trying premom ovulation strips this time as the clear blue digital is getting too expensive every month.

I hope this is everyone's lucky cycle 😆

Morning everyone. Looks like I’m not ovulating this month. LH levels started to rise to 0.5 two days ago. They’ve been declining again since, with a steep drop in LH and temperature today. Feeling pretty deflated.

Morning ladies

hope everyone is well.
I’m not being as neurotic this month as I was last. I think I’ll have ovulated either yesterday or today. So have dtd up and around these dates. So we will see what happens.

im gonna try and not symptom check or count days. Will hopefully just go with the flow.

im gonna try and keep as busy as possible these next two weeks and hope for the best.

where is everyone else in their cycles? X

No idea what to expect. I think it'll just be some blood tests on me @Hankthehonk