Hey girls, i just got my faint line yesterday while i was 12DPO
I used to stay up late every night during my TWW reading all of your stories and hoping I’d get lucky this cycle and I did :)
I had a missed miscarriage at 18 weeks in May this year so I had two cycles after that, I just logged my periods with flo and have generally always had a strict 28 day cycle, made sure we were active during the fertile windows but with work and home stresses we were mostly every other day really
ive read alot of comments from people encouraging to ‘not compare’ symptoms,I do get this but id have been lost without being able to listen to other people’s stories of how they felt, so that’s why im writing mine now.
i tend to feel ovulation, this month it was an ache in my right side and pretty much as soon as the TWW started I began with cramps most days, it started just on my right side and sometimes in my back, mild but noticeable. One of the things I didn’t suffer with and still haven’t (even though I have by now in all of my pregnancies) is sore boobs, it’s just not happened yet for me.
i did get bloated around 10dpo and eventually was just full of wind and some of farts would wake my fella haha (constipation on and off too)
bare in mind I tested every morning and night from 6dpo and even the night of 11dpo I was still getting stark white results, but tried a different brand of test that same night and a vvvvfl shown, this test wasn’t even a sensitive one like the one step claim to be so I was baffled.
ive always been a cheap test buyer from Amazon (one step with the blue on) this time Around testing I wasn’t a fan at all, I had a gut feeling to trust the less sensitive and went to Tesco to buy a clear blue on day of 12dpo, a line shown right away, I trusted my gut on this and if I was to do it again, I wouldn’t rely on one brand and one batch of tests.
i also looked back on the beginning of my last pregnancy and saw that I got a result 3 days before my period then also, so don’t dismiss the test even if it says 6 days before because that didn’t work for me and I was pregnant.
because of what I’d read on here, I gave up hope on 10dpo but I could feel something different to my usual pre period symptoms and the biggest for me was cramping, I only get that the day of my period usually.
another good sign was a little pull pain in my right side if I rolled in bed, I’ve gotten that in all of my pregnancies so far.
but we’re all different so just trust your gut, some ladies don’t get symptoms at all, I was gutted and squeezing hell out of my boobs hoping to feel pain because they were so painful early on in my other pregnancies, so it’s bloody difficult
but I love these forums and I’m glad to have had them for those sleepless nights
I hope this helps somebody in their TWW and I hope you get your result, I’m so excited for you!!
Natalie