BBTing our way to a BFP in September 🎉 cont.

[CatiaR]

Hi @hotmalibu94.

I’m good thanks, still bfn today at 11dpo but temps still high so we’ll see what happens.

@Ncl31 how are you today ?

the other thread got full so I started a new one 😊

I’ll add now all I can remember but keep adding who else I missed!
@pinkmarshmalloww@Huriya @thejollytrolleydolly @ginny93@MorningsideMaisie@Myna13

@hotmalibu94 sounds like you’re getting into your fertile week soon so that’s exciting! Fingers crossed for you this cycle.

AF arrived as expected this morning 😔

one more month to try this year, hopefully that is my month!

Awww so sorry @Roseberry22 take care of yourself. On to the next cycle, best of luck for it ❤️

I'm weirdly having period cramps - no where near due. It's all so confusing . I do wonder how much I just don't notice when not symptom spotting 🤔

@Roseberry22 sorry. Start of a fresh month. Let's all send the best luck vibes to this group - I feel it's a lucky group 🎉

A lot of people I know (including me) conceived over the Christmas period

@Hotmalibu94 @NLmum4 thank you both! I think the longer we’ve been TTC the less upset I feel each month as I’m just expecting it now. I’m forever hopeful it will be our month soon though!

Next fertile week is mid December so it could be the Christmas present we both so want!

@Roseberry22 Sorry about AF arriving 😔 Fingers crossed for next cycle, what a lovely present it would be!

I was looking at nhs website and says implantation happens 5-6 days after ovulation . I always thought 6 days was the absolute minimum but average was more than that ?

@NLmum4 I thought day 8-9 was most common! I had some awful cramps on 7DPO but no idea if it was actually implantation or if it was just hormones!

@Roseberry22 sorry to hear that! Fingers crossed for a Christmas baby this month!

I have had sore lower back last night and shorting pains in the middle and across my stomach all day today. I am either 5/6 dpo. I usually do get a sore lower back before period is due but not this early so I am hoping this is some good news however it probably won’t be!

@etaketak1991 ah interesting - and congratulations :) can I ask what was your first symptoms

@EK37
Iv got bit lower back ache too (as well as bit of AF cramping ). Let's hope it means something good 😊

Glad it helped @thejollytrolleydolly ! It takes a couple of months but I think you then get a feeling for whether a temp is right or not as well (like sometimes mine would be lower than I expected then I realised I'd been asleep with my mouth open before I woke up).

I had zero symptoms for my bfp - not sure if I'm just really ignorant to my body or what!

@NLmum4 To be honest, the only thing that I can put down as a symptom was I had creamy CM throughout the TWW, normally it goes watery a few days after ovulation. Sore boobs, nausea and even the strong cramps were all things I've had on non successful cycles too. Best of luck with this cycle 🤞

@NLmum4 I didn't have as many symptoms as I usually did through the TWW! My boobs were always sore from ovulation through to AF, so I still had that. Otherwise no discharge to speak of (same as every TWW). I was breaking out in spots and the night before my BFP I got bad af like cramps. Also my sex drive was non existent, like.... Gone. Sorry DH 😂 it's not made a huge comeback yet.

Anyway none of these things on their own screamed BFP to me, whereas on other months I had nausea, heartburn, cramps throughout 😂

@NLmum4 I was the same as everyone else my first BFP I just had lower back ache around the time af was due but nothing before and I tested positive on 16dpo. My 2nd BFP I just knew I was pregnant because it didn't feel like af was coming at all. I felt normal! When I'm due af I get sore boobs, dizziness, nausea, cramps backache you name it 😂😂

@ginny93 yes it absolutely helped! I think I'm getting the hang of it now! My temp has got higher every day since ovulation so I guess that's a good sign! 4dpo today! I don't know why but I feel like the tww is going much quicker this month and I don't feel stressed about it at all. Hoping that's a good sign... I've been a mess throughout the last few ones! Xx

I think this looks a bit better than my last chart 😂

@thejollytrolleydolly that looks good.
Here is mine also for reference- I think my temp went so high as wasn't feeling well so probably don't think this will be an accurate month for me for bbt.

@thejollytrolleydolly @NLmum4 your charts look pretty good! Mine is looking fairly similar too, temp today was a bit higher than I’d expect so keeping that one with a grain of salt since I woke up in the middle of the night as the pup needed to go toilet as she normally makes it all night long but she just got spayed so keeping a closer eye on her.

also some back twinges but that’ll be due to carrying said pup up the stairs as she can’t atm and she weights 18.5kg 😂

3dpo today and not much going on otherwise

@CatiaR @NLmum4 and Hank you for sharing your charts! It's nice to know they all follow the same rough pattern so I know my body is doing as it should be 😊 I've had 0 symptoms so far but I'm only 4dpo so I wouldn't be seeing any yet either. If I'm still not feeling anything in the next few days I'm going to take it as a good sign as I never get any symptoms with a BFP anyway 😂 fingers crossed for us all!! Xx

@CatiaR that looks like a great chart . Fingers crossed 🤞
What are the best most sensitive pregnancy tests - previously used frer but they seem to have been discontented apart from a few sellers on Amazon 🤔 they were the best when trying with my previous . Are there equivalents?

@NLmum4 I have gotten boots early detection as apparently those are good alternatives but can’t comment in BFPs as I’ve never had any yet but also never gave me evaps or indents whenever I used them always been stark negatives. What I have around is mostly internet cheapies and then boots.

@CatiaR thank you. I might stock pile the boots ones. I have done the clear blue early ones before and they seem to come up with a line no matter what 🤔

@NLmum4 not used clear blues before but from seeing around here evaps and indents are frequent let alone the price of them!

Damn this will be the longest weeks ever but not so much for TWW right now but dealing with the aftermath of my 1 year old Golden retriever pup being spayed. Trying to keep her entertained without physical activity is a massive challenge and even tho she rests most of the day before bedtime without fail she gets crazy zoomies that I need to desperately stop and then she gets bitey if we try and stop her! Finally got her into bed and she calms down 😩 need to persevere until her new chews come in and I can give to keep her more distracted hopefully since it’s something new!

@NLmum4 I had planned to get the boots ones (previously used first response too) but had a load of cheapie easy@home ones that came in with my ovulation tests and so used those and then did actually use clearblue once I had a positive on the cheapies. I found the easy@home strips actually pretty good, I had a shadow on there from 8DPO and by 10DPO it was a clear line!

Sorry for the waffling, in summary, I rated the easy@home and the clearblue were pretty good for me BUT I had already had a positive elsewhere when I took them (if that makes sense!)

@NLmum4 I really rate the boots early ones too. I have never had as much as a shadow on them when it's been a bfn when I've had false positives on frer 😫 they also sell early detection ones for £1 at home bargains if you want to do it cheap (they are what I have now 😂)

Is 5dpo too early for an implantation temp dip? I've had one by 1 degree today but could just be a fluctuation? 🤷🏽‍♀️ sorry im new to this 😂 xx