Ttc oct 2024

[Nicola1988]

Hey everyone moving over from the ttc sept 2024 thread. Very light start to period today. Expect to start tomorrow with negative pregancy tests. Thought id dip my toes in and start a wee thread.

Little bit about me. Im 35 years (soon to be 36 in oct...a birthday bfp would be lovely) been ttc since jan this year. This will now be cycle 10 for me. I have a 8 year old daughter with my ex and had to have ivf/icsi to have her due to his low sperm count. My new partner and i have been together now 2 and a half year and would love to extend our family.

So far i have had day 21 bloods which confirmed that i am ovulating and waiting to hear back regarding his SA results.

Please feel welcome in joining this thread and sending postive pregnancy vibes to all 😍

@han311 thank you very much and wishing you luck too. What cycle are you on?

@coolsummer89 yes that's what i remember when I was ttc my second one. Every month I had all of the symptoms but then luckily one month the symptoms were real. So hopefully it's the same for you and this month is the month. Have you tested yet or when are you planning to test?

@Sabina93 we have always sort of thought we would try when she turned 3 and just so happened her bday was the day before O day this month! So here we are. I guess it's cycle #1! What about you?

@han311 Oh wow nice. I'm also cycle #1 😊so fingers crossed. Did you concieve your girl on first try?

I tested yesterday but absolutely nothing... AF is due on the 23rd so I know it's quite early to test but as I mentioned before I'm fairly sure I ovulated around cycle day 8-12. Would I see a positive test yet or is it still too early? I don't want to lose faith but it's so hard Xx

What cycle day are you now @HNM?

@CoolSummer89 I'm cycle day 18 Xx

Yea probably a bit early to be testing if you are only 6-10 days past ovulation. 10-12 days is when you are more likely to get accurate results, but obviously you’re not out until your period arrives

@Sabina93 aww how lovely would it be if we both got a positive on the first try :) with my daughter we were taking quite a relaxed approach, not tracking or anything but not preventing. It's hard to remember, although I tested the day AF was due so obviously I was hoping for it but I wasn't as obsessed as I am this time around lol x

Sadly I think that's an evap. It's too thin and the first picture looks broken. I wouldn't take that as a positive result. Use a pink dye test instead. You could still be pregnant but I just wouldn't trust that as a positive result. I have had many tests look like that in the past and was not pregnant. I won't use them again. Even the EPU at my local hospital told me not to use them due to people interpreting them as positive when they aren't and they cause a lot of heartbreak.

Thanks for the advice. I am lying in bed with nausea which feels exactly like I had with DC1 so I don’t even feel the need to take another test. Will just have to wait for a scan to see if it’s viable

@han311 Good morning, yes that would be great 😊 so how many days dpo are you and when are you planning to test? I should start testing next week but i think i will test this week anyway 😀

@JKDcot when are you planning on testing again? It's never safe to say if it's an evap or not because it might look like an evap but then you actually are pregnant and it was only the faint line for you. So to be sure I'd just take another test. Fingers crossed 🤞

@hnm I also think it's too early to show positive. I'd test again in the couple of days. But if it was me I'd be testing everyday like crazy 😀

I agree that @JKDcot should take another test to be sure. A pink dye one. Like I said I am not saying she is definitely not pregnant. But that test cannot be relied on. At 7dpo when she first took it was very early, and the test line was broken and thin. Which is an unclear result. I am not saying this to be cruel. I cannot tell you how many tests I have had look like that over the years and was devastated when it turned out I wasn't pregnant. I truly believe they should be taken off the shelves. Obviously she may very well still be pregnant, but I just think another test should be taken. Not a clearblue. But also if someone wants to believe they are pregnant based on symptoms alone and not retest that is also totally their choice. I honestly just want to try and save people heartache in the long run.

@JKDcot i think I knew with my last pregnancy that I was positive before the test. I had the same nauseating feeling. Told my husband to bring tests back on his way home from work. Keeping everything crossed for you 🤞🏻

Eeee it’s such a tense time isn’t it. Why does it have to be a two week wait! A two day wait would be bad enough 😅
i am 10dpo and BFN this morning. Losing a bit of hope but boobs still sore and had some crazy dreams. But think I am just looking into things tbh.
best of luck and sanity to everyone

I'm 8dpo today. CD24. Period due 18th / 19th. Feeling oddly calm , I think I've got it into my head that this month isn't going to be our lucky month - just have a feeling we'll be trying again next cycle.

Feeling totally normal at the moment except typical PMS - hungry, craving junk food and my boobs seem massive but that's not unusual at this point in my cycle!

@Sabina93 I think I'm 10-11dpo but I just went by my body's signs so I could be off. I have already been testing 😱 had another BFN this morning on a CB early with fmu. Feel like I'm out of the game although I know it might still be too early. When the test says it should be 96% accurate today, it's so disheartening. How about you?

@papersheet yes I know you didn't mean it in a bad way. It was not on my mind but I was just trying to say not to stress to much about it and just take another test to see if there is a faint line. 😊

@CoolSummer89 haha exactly 2 days would be enough. 10 dpo is still early. I got bfp at 10 dpo but it was very very very faint line. So you'll se tomorrow. Wish you luck 😊

@Pricklypickles maybe because you think you're out its gonna be opposite. I also thought im out and with e ery test i was taking I was like "i know its going to be negative again", but I've got positive so you never know 😊

@han311 oh im sorry and I know that feeling but because you were not tracking your ovulation you might be like only 7dpo or something like that and even at 10dpo you still can get bfn but then still end up with BFP a few days later. Will you try tonight or wait until morning? Maybe try frer?

@Sabina93 thank you lovely. Yes you're right, I could be off with dates. I will remain cautiously optimistic but just don't feel like it's going to happen, esp as symptoms feel like they've tapered off today too. I usually don't have any symptoms before AF so how I feel today is quite normal. I think I will do one more on weds and then if that's negative just see if AF shows on Friday x

@Sabina93 also I don't know where sells frer these days, I haven't seen them in shops for years. Do they have to be ordered online?

@han311 keep me updated when you do another test. Hopefully it's gonna be BFP 🙏

I think that when I was ttc my #2 I've ordered the first response from amazon. But I also had faint line on other tests that I took. Frer just confirmed it but I took a digital one anyway 😀

@Sabina93 when I found out with my daughter it was on a cheap strip test from Tesco the day AF was due. It was faint so I went to I think boots? And got a pack of 2 frer and did one and it confirmed. I don't think I've seen frer anywhere since, defo not in my boots when I went last week and not in Tesco. Hmmm. I will update when I test again

@Sabina93 and thank you for your positive vibes! Right back at you 🤗

It’s so hard to stay positive when the negative tests appear but stay strong, it will happen. Nice to have company during the waiting game!

I went to boots today and picked up a CB digital. I have one frer here already from a previous pregnancy and have some cheapies. So won’t use the digital until I’m 14 dpo unless my period comes before then.

I am feeling slightly nauseous but not sure if it’s in my head at this point. We shall see!