Anyone in TWW? Or TTC in January 2024?

[BeautyAndTheBump1]

I'm 1dpo and it's already dragging 🙄

Anyone else in TWW or TTC in January?

@Sarah452 oh my goodness !! Look at that! Got all my fingers crossed for the morning for you! ✨

@Sandwichesandwine Awwh I’m so sad to hear that for you , enjoy a glass of wine! Soon be your time sending love!

Sorry to hear that @Sandwichesandwine ❤️

I caved & took a test this morning @ 8PO… BFN!

Thank you ladies took more tests this morning, clear lines on both albeit faint (CB is hard to see on camera) 9dpo. Realise it’s really early days so don’t want to get too excited though! Fingers crossed to everyone who hasn’t found out yet!

So being new to all this , I thought you had to throw away the test after 3 minutes, so got on with my morning.
I then later read that you should check for up to 10 minutes on the instructions, whoops.
Checked the test again after around 45 minutes and it’s definitely positive so now I’m in 2 minds. I’m very aware that it could be an evap line however !! Will keep you posted either way 🥲

Ah congratulations @Sarah452 🥰🥰🥰 wishing you a happy & healthy pregnancy x

@Puddingpie1234 thank you! I don’t want to get your hopes up but I was 8dpo yesterday and the same thing happened to me yesterday morning ! I then did another test early eve (which is the one I posted yesterday) I just tried not to drink much/wee for 3 hours before taking it. Keeping everything crossed for you!!

@Sarah452 congratulations babe ! 😍!!!!

for everyone wanting to know about opks and pregnancy this was my opks when I found out I was pregnant with my son, you can see the test line steals colour from the control line, I did ask the midwife when I saw her and she explained to me that the lh strips if pregnant will show a positive as it can’t tell the difference from a lh surge to hcg but the lh strip does have to be as dark or darker then the control line to be a positive. A lot of women will get a surge before a period also but it won’t be as dark as the control line, hope this helps people :) I test with opks since my son as it’s just cheaper then roughly £8 for 1 pregnancy test if I get a strong positive on cheapie opks then I know to get a test

@Sarah452 early congratulations! Hope you see some good progression in the coming days!💞
So AF yesterday was an anti climax and nothing actually arrived. Its definitely on its way but ive never had spotting before my MC- she just arrived and that was it. Do I wait for a more steady flow before counting it as day one of next cycle?
@Puddingpie1234 fingers crossed for a good news update if you test again in the morning 🤞🏻🤞🏻
@MrsP20202 that's so interesting and helpful! (I just did an OPK to check I'm right about spotting being AF above and I am!) Xx

@BeautyAndTheBump1 that'sa very clear line congratulations and @Sarah452 congratulations fingers crossed for you both . Welcome to the newbies too. I'm 3dpo no signs or symptoms yet.

Sorry bout bold typing I kept changing it but it kept reverting. Technology not my strong point.

@Sarah452 that’s looking super hopeful congratulations!! ✨
I’m still getting a bfn. Not due till Monday but getting disheartened now 😂

Progression from 10dpo, 11dpo and now 13 dpo. I think i can count that as a BFP!

If anyone is symptom spotting, I had a really distinct and weird pain left of my stomach on 4dpo and very bloated.

My garmin heart rate and stress level has also been climbing! Usually i am around 56-59 and around 7dpo it went up to 61 and has stayed up.

Good luck to you all!

@Kofifi thats such good like progression! i tested on 16dpo and 17dpo for mine and they were so light to start with! i’m now 5 weeks today and patiently waiting for the midwife to contact me back with the booking appt, it was a self referral 🫣

@Kofifi beautiful progression 🥰 xx

@Racket81 everything crossed for you!!

@Kofifi love this 😍 congratulations!!

@mumto1girlie it was the same for my first (self referral) they didn’t actually get in touch until I was gone 8 weeks !! Pretty sure I was 9 and a bit weeks for my booking appointment and I think it’s meant to be at 8 weeks?!

@Sarah452 oh really? yeah i’m sure it’s supposed to be 8 weeks. i had an email to say if i haven’t heard from them by 8 weeks to ring and book! i had a MC last year and hadn’t had my booking appt but i had a scan as i was 9 weeks but lost baby at 5 xx

Is anyone using the cheap home bargains tests? Do the lines get quite dark. I'm worried mine are getting fainter

@siobhanmt247 i used a cheap home bargains test with my daughter in 2019 it made me panic because it never was dark but I then took a cheap Tesco one which was really dark I wouldn’t worry with the home bargains ones I think they are crap just for reassurance I never used the home bargain brand again xxx

@MrsP20202 thank you. I was wondering that. I guess there's a reason they're so cheap!

@Kofifi congratulations.x

I highly recommend the easy at home early pregnancy tests for cheap ones (£9.99 for 20 or 16.99 for 40) they picked up a positive for me yesterday at 8dpo (evening) and today 9dpo there was a clear line, I also have the cheap ‘one step’ ultra early from Amazon and the line on there is so faint it’s questionnable/looks like an evap, a clear blue early test also picked up a line today - not sure if it would have yesterday as line isn’t as bold as easy at home. I think the easy at home ones show the progression well too based on the reviews.

for anyone still waiting - my results will have shown early as I presume I must implant very early (I have a very short luteal phase of about 7 days) hence it probably picked it up so early. Just praying it sticks 🙏

I@siobhanmt247 the reviews for the cheap one step ultra early on Amazon say they don’t really show progression very well and to use another brand - I suspect they must be similar to the home bargains ones you have!

I'm in the tww which I really shouldn't be as definitely am as far away as being in a position to have a 2nd as you can be - DTD without protection ONCE (NYE/one too many etc) O was supposedly 5th Jan so thought we're fairly safe. Took nearly a year when TTC number 1 so had this self assured feeling it would be nearly impossible to conceive after one quickie.
But I think I ovulated before the app says. Because within days of that night my boobs were agony. They never hurt until a couple days before AF which is due 20/01. So I noticed immediately when my son hugged too hard and they felt bruised. They've since been getting bigger and bigger... they're never big. They sunk after DS. But now they're full and hard and I brush them accidentally just moving my arms so I'm overly aware without meaning to be. I keep thinking (hoping) of something else it could be? No reason for an infection so why would they suddenly be swelling and painful so soon before AF! If we're pregnant we'll embrace it but we're living with family right now so it means a whole upheaval and back to renting which we didn't want to do. Not the end of the world and totally our fault for being so silly! But a real eye opener as to how one time really could be all it takes when you're not trying 😳 I was quite excited when I first realised but now it's feeling quite scary!
(hope no one gets offended by this, I spent a year on here watching all the BFN and BFPs and SS during the TWW so I know it's hard when you're trying, just needed a head clear in a safe space)

Morning all. Congrats I see there’s been more BFPs!! This threads amazing. To anyone who hasn’t had theirs yet I hope you do soon 🥰.
Any advice ladies? I’m thinking retest tomorrow and see if it’s looking it’s darker. When I’ve done these test previously I’ve never had indents/evaps they’ve just been stark white?
what are your thoughts ladies? Am I just going crazy from lack of sleep from having a puppy terrorising me? 😂