TTC FIRST BABY - New cycle, let's go girls !

[Lila34830]

Follow up form TTC BABY #1 - cycle buddies.
For all the girls trying to conceive their first baby !

Hi ladies! I've been quiet for a wee while but silently watching you all and your journeys (not in a creepy way) 😂

It's still early days for me in my journey of TTC but sometimes it feels like it's not meant to be! I religiously test using the LH strips and this is supposed to be my ovulation week, but if anything the lines seem to be lighter than ever! It's so annoying because I don't know if I've missed my peak or if it's still to come! Although I'm CD15 so I feel like I've missed it.

Although I've been quiet it's been nice to see all of you ladies chat and go through this together 😊

Morning lassies,

Feeling low today, 7dpo and absolutely zero hint of any symptoms. I always said if/when I fell pregnant I would know right away as I already have a very sensitive sense of smell and so I figured that would be really intense in early pregnancy 😆
And also this is usually when my mood would dip with PMS so I fear this low mood/short temper is the start of AF symptoms instead of pregnancy 😔

This whole thing is so tough going. I'm starting to wonder if I'm even tracking ovulation right. Does anyone experience CM after ovulation? I noticed some CD 18 /19 (ovu was CD15 apparently) and now I'm worrying incase I've miscalculated ovulation days - however it wasn't egg white consistency, it was thicker and creamy (total TMI I'm sorry if anyone is having bfast 😅😅)

I've posted a wee picture of my opk, for any advice you guys might have. It did peak and then dip again over the space of hours but I'm so confused (and disheartened) with everything that I feel I need some fresh eyes on it. (The very last stick is one I took when I was getting the CM and I was convinced ovulation was actually happening.) 😆

Thanks guys 🩵

Hey girl!

I feel exactly the same as you, not a sniff of a symptom, bar the bloating I get consistently same time every month.

It does look like you identified your peak. And CM is normal after ovulation yes, especially if it’s white/creamy as this suggests ovulation happened as increasing progesterone is what causes the change in colour/consistency. It is hard to know when you actually ovulated as OPKs only indicate it could happen. In relation to your surge you may just have a short surge pattern.

Hope this helps, but right here with you.

Hey girl,

Have you tested your LH 2 times a day in your predicted fertile window? It’s possible to miss your peak if you only have short surges (doesn’t mean you are any less fertile). But you still may have ovulated. Also, you may not have ovulated yet which is the most likely, considering you are predicted this week.. my strips can be so pale and negative on a morning to a blazing positive in the afternoon. Just keep testing is my advice and try DTD if you feel like it!

Thank you @KT199 that's defo put my mind at ease, we DTD all around those days so hopefully we caught it!
Another week left before we can find out tho 😆😆 Torture!

Hi @pastelpink0 , same for me this month ! No rise in LH, maybe you haven't been testing often enough ? (Twice a day ) so missed the peak ? I would keep on testing If you're cd15! My last (and only lol) peak was on cycle cd19!

Hey girl,
Ovu can happen 12 to 36 hours past LH peak so it could be that you had a late ovu after the peak ?
🤔
Idk what to believe anymore, this cycle has literally thrown all the unexpected things for all of us it seems 😂
Really hoping to see some positives this cycle guys !

Also @littlebluu your discharge if it's creamy would be caused by progesterone (I watched an entire gyno talk yesterday about hormones lmao) meaning that you actually ovulated ! (Sorry i hadn't noticed the consistency on my first message)

Here's what I gathered from this gyno woman's video yesterday girls if that can help:

• Egg white / thin transparent and slippery = fertile window
• creamy thick = progesterone rising after ovulation
• some cycles can be anovulatory = no ovulation
• when we say " period is late " period isn't actually late, it's the ovulation that is late most of the time. The literal phase rarely moves in length, but the follicular phase can vary widely !

It was so interesting xx

@KT199 thanks for the advice! I've been testing twice a day for the past few days but there's not much difference between them. We'll see!

Might DTD every other day to see if that will cover us

I will keep on testing normal and see what happens! I feel like we're constantly waiting around! Waiting for ovulation, the TWW, waiting for AF to finish... it's exhausting 🙈

Very helpful! I never paid much attention to my discharge before TTC, now I'm constantly analysing it non stop 😂

Hi guys first time posting here, this was our second month TTC, had everything going against us, both were exhausted the week I was ovulating, we DTD in the 4 days leading up to ovulation but not the day itself or day after, I suffer with reoccurring UTI's which I had read can affect TTC and we are both overweight. I'm 5 days before period due and just done a test mid day after drinking a litre of fluids and I got a positive. I am so shocked, wasn't expecting it at all, praying and hoping for sure but not expecting it. Just hoping everything goes well now and sending love and well wishes to everyone x

Right guys, progesterone came back below 1 so I did not ovulate. I guess I'm the first one to be out this month.
Disheartened and a bit upset but I know there's a solution to everything to hanging in there. I guess next step for me is probs a little ovulation boost. Will see what gyno says.

I'll still be reading you all until I get my period. I know that I do ovulate some cycle from recollection of CM etc, but likely irregularly ...

I really hope one of you gets a BFP, would cheer me up ☺️

Thanks girls,
@Lila34830 that is so interesting! Sp the people who are falling pregnant randomly without trying are the ones who must be horizontal constantly 😅😅 If everything is running late I suppose the trick is to DTD 22 days in a row 😅 just to think as much as we try to track it as an exact science it's also down to luck of the process and not knowing what's happening down there whatsoever. Mad 🤯🤯

Also welcome @Applecrumble9 👋 Hopefully a solid line for you soon 🤞
Can I ask, have you had much doctors advice RE overweight as I'm also overweight but as I'm only 2 months into my journey we haven't been for any testing or advice just yet. I'm curious just how much it affects TTC as I think the BMI scale is a load of balls tbh 🤣

Also @Lila34830 Sorry to hear that 😔🤗

Do you for this blood test every month to track ovulation?

Oh that’s not ideal 😔. Are they able to give you medication to help with that or do you have to go through a normal referral pathway? Tracking BBT may help you realise when you have/haven’t.

So sorry your feeling down, this journey is so hard. Xx

Thank you xxx No I told my GP we were TTC and asked for any advice and she didn't say anything re weight just to take Folic acid. I did get bloods done at that visit and all came back normal. I've always carried weight so I think this is just a "normal" weight for me, and I'm otherwise healthy. Agree with you on the BMI scale, if I was to get to my healthy BMI on the scale I have to absolutely starve myself (I've tried to get there in the past and it did not go well) so I'm just embracing life as I am xx

Aw I'm sorry to hear that! 😔 Hope you're doing ok x

Hi guys. I’m hoping to join your little tribe! My partner and I got pregnant in August (twins!!), I found out due to missed period as we had come off all contraception etc but wasn’t tracking anything. Unfortunately we had a miscarriage in September and lost both babies. I have had one cycle since the MC (12th oct CD1) so currently on CD17 of my (on average) 26 day cycle.

when would you all start testing? I did do ovulation testing but never really got a peak, the best I got was ever so slightly below the control like but I wasn’t testing religiously. We did however, have sex every day from CD9 to CD14.

Sorry for blabbering I was just trying to get out as much info as possible haha.

Sorry to hear that! ❤️

I'm really sorry to hear about your losses, we're all here for you if you ever need to chat.

I use the premom app which suggests what days I should start testing on, I start doing 1 test a day but as I get closer to my predicted ovulation I start doing twice a day, sometimes 3 a day.

Hey newbies 😊

@HE93C sorry to hear what you’ve been through, that’s so difficult. As @Itstime2023 has said, Premom is good for telling you when to test but mine is 5 days before the start of my predicted fertile window for OPKs.

@Applecrumble9 happy you’ve had a BFP! Congrats!! Hope you have a healthy 9 months!

Ahhh fingers crossed for you 🤞

I’ve had a few weird pains and cramps today around my uterus. Scared to let myself think it could be something, as I’ll be even more let down if it’s nothing. Trying to keep myself in a neutral head space!

Totally agree try and resist if possible! But stay hopeful too 🙌x