TTC keep sane. Hoping for April 24 baby. Part 2

[HelloMoon87]

Hi,

Continuing on from "dpo 1, tww keep sane" thread.

@pm24
@Tes004
@Doodlestar
@longingtobe23
@cth96
@Maybebaby12345
@JLN88
@missmae
@bookworm100
@rosecbrm
@MrsP20202
@FirstTim3Mummy
@BlossomTree123
@cosymama2020
@Boobag

Congrats to @pinkandredflowers and @Scarletthoping on bfps last cycle, hope all goes well in the pregnancy.

Here we go...

Great line progression @CinderRosie 🎉🎉🎉 very exciting!

And fingers crossed for your lines today @HelloMoon87 and @missmae 🤞 I read your posts on both threads and really hope this is the cycle for you both!! Looks promising!

Still no AF here and today will be CD36 which is the length my last was, but I'm actually 19DPO so I think AF is quite late now 😅🙈 had no symptoms at all apart from being tired all week (but I've 2 little ones and we've been out of routine). Yesterday morning I was certain AF was arriving as had cramping start but as the day went on it definitely felt more like those milder pregnancy cramps which are still enough to have you checking your pants every toilet visit!! 😂 I'm now fairly sure I probably am pregnant, which is a bit crazy! Would like to test today when I get home from holiday but might wait until tomorrow to buy a cheap test...have remembered I have a CB digital with weeks indicator left from a double pack last pregnancy but I usually only use one of them once I've got my BFP on a non digital test to save wasting them!

Thank you @GinAndBearIt90 ! Going to pop to the pharmacy to grab some tests, going to save my wee lol.
And have you tested at all yet?! that sounds very promising!🙏🏼

So great to see all these lines starting to pop up! Fingers crossed all continue to progress and we get more on the thread!

I'm 8dpo today, felt a bit (period?) crampy yesterday and trying to keep my expectations low. If like last month, AF would be here on Friday at 10dpo. Finding it hard to keep myself distracted and my mind on other things in the last couple of days though!

I keep strategising when I would test and which tests/where to buy (have none in the house). Need to keep my feet on the ground a bit somehow...!

Well… 11dpo. Boobs are starting to hurt and I have pains in my vagina?! Guess the test yesterday wasn’t faulty 🥹

@HelloMoon87 have you tested again?

@missmae this is defo positive congratulations :)

@missmae yes I tested this morning but I peed about 4 times last night as my toddler woke me every 2 hours 🤯 I was also itchy all over last night, apparently can be hormones.

I think it's a little darker but just a tiny bit. I got hold of 3 frers that I will use on dpo 14, 15, 18, as I know pretty much how things are going to end if I get faints then. Till then cheapies every day!

Awwwh congrats on the bfp’s. Feeling quite down today 10 days of flashy smiles and I started testing twice a day from the second day I got my flashy so feel like surely I couldn’t have missed it. Have been really good and DTD every other day even during period so if something did happen im hopeful we caught it. It’s just so frustrating not knowing if or when I ovulated, I had pains and also got ewcm from Sunday to Tuesday this week, but read that you can get that and still not ovulate. Fingers crossed for those waiting to test.

Sorry for long post just wanted to rant.

@ttcthoughts thank you! Not going to feel settled until I see a darker line tho and will probably do a digital! 🥹

@HelloMoon87 still see a line! I think if you didn’t have to get up to pee so many times it would deffo be darker! I’d test again later after another 4 hour hold?! Mines only a tiny bit darker today but they say 48 hours it doubles so I think it will be darker for us both tomorrow!🤞🏼💖

@Boobag oh bless you that sounds very frustrating. Do you normally have cycles like this with your opks? I’m guessing you don’t temp? I don’t use digital opks only the test strips! Fingers crossed you’ve covered everything. Have you done an opk today?

@missmae yeah exactly, I think when it's so early, it's hard to see it getting much darker day to day. For me, I've known how things will go dpo 14, so it's just keeping myself sane till then. Fx for both of us.

@Boobag urgh that is frustrating! But surely in 10 days SMEP would have covered it. Out of everyone who got pregnant last and this cycle, most did SMEP, so that encouraged me to do it this cycle and it looks like I'm pregnant (I am doubting myself every hour though). So, you've got a good chance! Keep doing the opks. Which cd are you?

@HelloMoon87 yes still very much on edge as it’s still early but hoping for dark lines for us both in a few days 🙏🏼

@missmae @HelloMoon87 congrats both!! Lines look really good!!!

I feel a bit more with it today, I felt so shattered yesterday, and I feel like there’s something going on in there but trying not to symptom spot!

@BlossomTree123 im surprised I really thought it was going to be stark white…

yes I get you, I was exhausted around that time. Yesterday was the first day I actually felt a bit more normal and awake lol! Keeping everything crossed for you!

@HelloMoon87 and @missmae those lines are definitely looking good today! Congratulations to you both 🥳🥳🥳

No, I haven't tested yet as I usually wait until AF is late. I've only had 2 recently since my last baby and they've been odd cycle lengths so I was holding out extra long just incase. If I get a BFP today/tomorrow when I test I suspect I may already be 5 weeks. We literally only DTD once, a day after my peak/ov pains, so I thought we were too late and was expecting to start properly next cycle! Will probably be a third boy that close to ovulation if it's positive 🙈

Thank you @GinAndBearIt90 oh so when will you test?! I’m excited for you I hope it is a bfp! So do you have 2 boys already? I’d love a boy 🥺🤞🏼

🙈🥹 frer is so much darker. Easyhome is also darker. I'm hopeful

Good luck tomorrow @GinAndBearIt90! It is great you're on holiday, so you're not mad obsessing like me 😂

@Doodlestar do you normally have luteal phase 10 days or did you ovulate earlier this cycle? I'd say there is no chance my line was a line at dpo 9. Also did you track with opks? X

I'm really surprised as well. I'm not even tired. No idea why this positive test is so different 🤷

Also does anyone know which side they ovulated from? On dpo 8, last day I had any twinges, I felt on both sides, so I don't even know which side to watch out for 😂

@missmae I think I will try and get a test from a supermarket this afternoon as we are going to be home shortly. Would rather just know now! Yes I've 2 boys and it's amazing 🥰 they are both massive mummy's boys 😊 would be nice to have a girl for a change but I could also easily see us with 3 boys. Would be very happy either way and we've already said we wouldn't find out until birth again for our final baby.

@HelloMoon87 it has been a great distraction! The weeks flew in there. And yes I definitely ovulated on my left side this cycle, the pain was very strong this time.

@HelloMoon87 aw wow!! That’s a dark line yay!! Congrats!! 🥹💖 I believe I ovulated my right side it was really uncomfortable this month. Also had right side twinges at 6dpo!

@GinAndBearIt90 ooo keep us updated!! 🤞🏼gosh I don’t know how you wait until birth, Im so impatient. I found out my last was a boy at 13+6😂no denying it! So I’d love to have a boy again. 🥹

@HelloMoon87 last month was 10 day luteal phase. That was the first I tracked, but from what I've seen it sounds like that doesn't vary as much between cycles. So if no period by Saturday, that will be 11dpo and I might test then at earliest.

I ovulated quite a few days later this month, based on opks and also bbt.

Couldn't hold off for the cheap test 😅 tested as soon as I got in the door 🙈😂 baby #3 wasn't messing around!!

Congratulations @GinAndBearIt90 ! Great to see this.

Ah massive congrats @GinAndBearIt90

Unfortunately the good luck on this thread hasn't rubbed off on me. AF arrived at midday. 😩 3 1/2 days late. Just long enough to have me starting to get a bit hopeful over the last two days. Took a test this morning and was well into 'expecting a second line' territory so was a bit of a gut punch when it was completely negative but at least meant I could mentally prepare for AF a little bit. Feeling pretty despondent right now. Hey ho. Back to CD1. If I'd not had the MMC I'd only be two months off my due date month 😔 Feeling quite low just now. Need to pick myself up, dust myself off and get back on it.