TTC #2

[NattyPeer]

Currently TTC number 2 and struggling after getting pregnant fairly easily with number 1 (on cycle 3)!
Thought I'd start a thread so we can all support each other. Anyone else on their TTC journey for number 2? I am currently on cycle 7 and have ruled myself out already as negative pregnancy test at 10DPO. Each month I convince myself that I am pregnant! Experienced a chemical at cycle 3 😩

@LemonBitter how strange as I took OPK today and not peak yet when I should have been today! Should I do another later?

@HRHXO heyyy and welcome! I haven’t but it only takes once doesn’t it! Do you do BBT?

Hey @HRHXO look at my last post a few mins ago - deffo possible. Good luck ☺️

That is so weird @NattyPeer... yeah I'm going to try not to drink too much over the next few hours and then do one maybe 6 or 7pm?? Have you usually peaked by this time of day? Last two cycles I was 10.45 and 14.45 but today at 3.45 it was low 🥴

@NattyPeer no I don't BBT I wake up so much in the night with my toddler I don't think I'd be any good at it and I find it quite confusing. Hoping to play it cool and not stress too much about it this cycle but I know what I'm like lol

@LemonBitter oh wow just read your previous post in this thread, that gives me hope thanks! I think we timed it well but idk if we will be able to do it again, think ovulation is today.

@LemonBitter Yeah usually every month I just do one in the morning and I get a peak! Weird! Bodies are strange 🤣

Should you do it on ovulation day too? I get so confused haha

So strange... well the premom app says twice a day in fertile period and keep going after your peak so I reckon so! Are you gonna do another one?

I have done another and it’s peak now! Have you done another? So yeah I didn’t realise about DTD days after the peak dunno why 🤣🤣

Ohhhh that's great @NattyPeer .. I'm tempted to do a third.. sorry I meant keep going with the tests even after you think you've had it so you are 100% sure it's your peak..

I've had a fluey type thing this week. I'm wondering if that affects ovulation. Bloody typical as this is one of the only fertile windows we've had time to DTD at the right time and no peak 😭😭

@LemonBitter illness definitely can delay ovulation annoyingly! I’ve had it happen several times. On occasion I’ve even had the easy@home OPKs start to darken as expected but then get lighter again and then a week later the real surge has come.

@HRHXO welcome! Have you only just started ttc #2 or are you a few cycles in? My little one is 14 months but I’ve already been trying since January.
Also I’ve read loads of past posts where people have conceived after only dtd once so definitely possible

Eughhhhh @Mummio92 I think it has - still faint OPKs.. can it stop ovulation completely that cycle?

Im gutted as its the first cycle in ages where we are able to DTD on bloody day 14 😂😂

@LemonBitter Technically, I don’t think it could stop Ov because if you don’t Ov, you wouldn’t have a period so it would still be the same cycle if you see what I mean. What’s more likely is that your follicular phase (pre ov phase) will just be longer- you’ll probably need to keep doing daily OPKs until they start to rise. Or if you monitor CM then keep looking out for ewcm which will be there on your most fertile days.

(It is possible to have a bleed without ovulating which is not technically a menstrual period but a bleed from drop in oestrogen, but that is much more unlikely than your ovulation just being delayed a bit)

@Mummio92 it's just cycle 1 TTC baby no2 and to be fair I'm not in a massive rush because things are tough with our 21m old at the moment he's had back to back nasty illnesses, croup, whooping cough now chicken pox so I'm bloody exhausted but we are 33 so don't want to wait too long to have a second baby. I'm trying to stay relaxed ish for the first couple of cycles but we will see how that actually goes lol x

Thanks @Mummio92 that's really helpful and helping my panic a bit 😂

I've usually noticed EWCM and none yet so maybe this virus has hit me more than I thought... was assuming it was hayfever for a while but I'm getting a lot of fluey symptoms and shooting pains 🤦🏼‍♀️

Jealous of your holiday coming up - somewhere sunny and relaxing?!

@HRHXO relaxed is a good way to be!
I’d always wanted a 2 year age gap but we started trying sooner because it took quite a while to get preg last time.

Sorry to hear it’s been hard-going recently, can really relate to that, can’t remember the last time the baby was completely healthy!

@LemonBitter no worries, definitely still chance this month but frustrating when you think you’ve dtd at the right times!

I’ve read that ewcm is the most reliable indicator of being fertile so that is likely quite telling.

We are going to Italy which will be lovely I’m sure, but I won’t go so far as to say relaxing with a toddler in tow 🤪

@HRHXO that sounds really tough, I found toddler stage harder than baby with all the illnesses!

Thanks @Mummio92 ... still no peak this morning, I have no idea what's going on 😩 Italy sounds great.. holidays with a little one deffo a different vibe though 😂😂

@LemonBitter how are you getting on? Any luck with the ovulation tests?

Hey @NattyPeer ☺️

So I kept testing and no peak - I got 0.58 on CD 13 and usually peak on CD 14 so I'm wondering whether I peaked overnight and didn't catch it on a test? Mine tend to go up and down pretty quickly. I carried on testing and they were all lower than 0.20 so I don't really know how else to explain it 🫤

How are you getting on?

I guess it’s not impossible that you peaked overnight but I’d take a guess that actually your body attempted to ovulate so produced more LH and made the sticks go somewhat darker but then illness prevented it.
Keep testing daily as my peak has been delayed 7-8 days when ill before.
I only knew from BBT monitoring otherwise I’d have also mistakenly thought I’d had a quick overnight peak too.

@LemonBitter
Hopefully the attachment works - I’ve added some pics from May where you can see I had a high OPK reading on CD12 but then was ill and didn’t ovulate so it peaked again on CD19

@LemonBitter illness certainly does play a part! I agree with @Mummio92 keep testing!

I am doing ok thank you hun! My BBT is all over the place so not sure I have been doing it right 🤣🤣 only started this month!

@NattyPeer BBT can take a fair while to get into the swing of! Don’t be concerned by erratic temps, the only thing that matters is that you get an obvious rise after ovulation (3 temps higher than the previous 6).
So you can see in my chart- the temps are up and down loads but once ovulated they rise above the cover line and stay that way

@Mummio92 do you take it at the same time every morning? What’s the one in red vs the one in blue?!