THE DINO CLUB #1

[Lila34830]

Follow up of the two following threads of TTC Baby number 1 🦕🦖

@Lila34830 Dont beat yourself up for testing early, as you said it shows that your timing of DTD was right so it was helpful to know. I think I’d like to know if it was me, even if it is a chemical, to know that something tried to stick. 🤞🏻 the next one sticks for you xx

@Lila34830 sorry to hear about your CP, your time will come! That egg just wasn’t the right one!

I am feeling deflated as thought could announce at Christmas to family, but AF is due on Friday and my BBT has been considerably dropping for 2 days so I know I’m out the game this month.

Going forward my outlook is going to try and not convince myself it will happen this month, that’s the most disappointing part!

We’ve got this ladies! xx

Thank you all for the nice words of support, it's true it does make it feel better when i know i am not alone, just needed a reminder. I will try my best to get busy and plan things ahead. I should definitely force myself to go back to the gym and go out more as i mostly work from which obviously doesnt help at all.

@KT199 I had a pelvic scan this time last year and it’s absolutely fine! Taking matters into your own hands. Good luck and let us know how you get on ❤️

Good morning ladies! ✨
Almost the weekend and we have some nice festive plans. We’re going to tag our Christmas tree at the farm and arrange collection for the first week of December and then top it off with a Christmas market and Fayre!

Whats everyone else upto?

Thanks @Toppstileslover! Knowledge feels like power when it comes to knowing what’s going on in my body!

Morning girlies,
Still testing a bit positive but having the biggest period ever, I'm usually a mild flow. Waiting for it to pass...!

@KT199 good luck for today, and I absolutely LOVE Christmas plans!
This weekend we are going to have a look at Christmas decorations and plan a February trip. We were thinking Mexico if anyone has any recommendation.

@Heartypandaa I wfh as well and it can be So lonely can it !! The gym saves me honestly. Gives me better mental health as well.

Thank you @littlebluu and @Positivity1234 🩷

Have a good day all !

Good morning gals! I could do with some advice. I’m into my two week wait, estimating day 2-3 PO (day 3 since LH peak).

It’s my birthday on Saturday and my parents have booked a meal in a lovely restaurant for me, my husband and themselves. There’s a an event in their local after which is always great fun so plan is to go to that too. We’d normally have a a couple of drinks and stay in theirs.

I am totally panicking at the thought of avoiding alcohol while with my mum. She is so perceptive and I know she’ll notice and ask questions, and likely guess why. She knows me too well as we’re very close. I’m not sure why the idea of this makes me so anxious, but it really does! I’d rather keep TTC private.

Does husband else get really stressed over these things??? As is obvious I’m totally freaking out, lol.

Aww happy birthday for Saturday! I hope you have a lovely time 🥰 I personally would still be drinking a couple unless I had a positive test! Or if you really don’t want to I’d probably say I’m on antibiotics for tonsillitis or something so it throws them off the tracks haha!! Xxx

Morning @ThisOchreTiger I would have a couple ! At that stage implantation would likely not have happened and placenta not formed to pass anything to your baby so I think you're safe !

And happy bday for Saturday !!!

You could always start planting the seed now if you say you’ve been to docs/dentist - last time I had to do this before my MC I said I’d got an infection in my tooth as I know the antibiotics they give you for that type of thing they say deffo don’t drink on!

maybe tell your parents you’ve been to the dentist today for toothache and that they’ve given you tablets, you can’t drink on them and it’s half way through the course so don’t want to miss any 🤷🏽‍♀️

Thanks for all the reassurance ❤️ I know that chances are it’d be totally fine to have a drink, but probably won’t because my anxiety and moods are all over the place 🙈 too early to be pregnancy related so it’s either stress or ovulation.
@HE93C I think I’ll do that, have a “doctor visit” today!!

Earlier posters who said your cycle acts up once you start trying are so right, normally I get like this the few days before AF 😭
Either way I’m going to relax and enjoy the evening. Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone!! ❤️❤️

I think I’m just behind you cycle wise as my ovulation is due Monday ish according to my app. I’ve started tracking my LH to see as I’ve struggled to find a peak previously.

I am slightly concerned that I’ve got some cramping on my left side - period pain like but I’ve had it very faintly for a few days and today it seems to have got worse. The only thing I’m worried about is it’s the same place where I had the pain when I miscarried 7.5 weeks ago - has anyone ever experienced similar?

maybe ovulation cramps or something but just overthinking.

@HE93C I actually felt ovulation on my right side the day I ovulated last cycle, which cd are you ? Could be that ??

CD9 today. I measured yesterday morning and was 0.18 LH and then this morning 0.8. Now I’m worried I should have tested last night in case I was coming to peak however, my readings were CD6 - 0.13, CD7 - 0.2 so the 0.18 yesterday on CD8 isn’t too out of the ordinary. I’ve had 0.11 previously as normal too so 0.8 today doesn’t sound too low.

I’ll DTD today just in case but I wasn’t expecting it till the weekend at the earliest, Monday according to the app 🤷🏽‍♀️ so confusing isn’t it!

@HE93C you might be rising or peaking ! If your base is 0.1 then 0.8 is definitely showing arise in LH.
I would DTD, there's still time :) also normally with LH strips you should test twice a day because your peak can be so quick and come down so fast , I hope this helps !

Morning ladies! And a happy birthday @ThisOchreTiger when it comes! I know how you feel my MIL is the same so I always try and have a "drink" in my hand when she approaches 😆😆

I genuinely think I'm out this cycle already ladies! I had such a short period (only 3 days) and Flo is predicting ovu for tomorrow but I'm still nowhere near LH surge - I'd been testing every 2nd day CD4-CD10 and it rose to .19 then surged on CD11 (Monday) afternoon up to .32 but I only tested once that day as .32 is still very low and I was expecting it to slowly surge from there, since then testing twice a day its dipped way down to .17 and back up sitting at .23 for the last 2 days, I get a very fast surge and short peak and so I fear it's all happened on Monday night and I've missed it 🤯🤯

I'll keep testing but I think due to having only a 26 day cycle, I've had a super fast ovulation and missed out!
I'm starting to get really frustrated with everything and it's almost making me resent it all 😔

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@littlebluu keep testing lovely don't despair, last cycle I ovulated something ridiculous like cd24! 🩷
It is so tiring though isn't it, the mental load is heavy .... I was saying this to my husband yesterday. It's a lonely journey even though it takes 2 to tango, it only takes one woman to actually feel, plan, calculate etc

Thank you 🥰
It really is such a load to carry, constantly thinking about testing and hormones and supplements and twinges 😅
I'm really ready to pack it all in and just try completely naturally for a few months, now I have a rough estimate of when I should ovulate. DTD isn't authentic anymore, it's all business and I really do think it makes a difference when it's approached naturally instead of scheduled in. I feel like just allowing myself to believe if it's meant to be our baby will be conceived naturally without tracking a million things - I know thats not how biology works 😆 But I feel like I need to think of it in that sense even for a couple of months to allow my brain a break from test strips 😅

I would have a few @ThisOchreTiger and not over do it as such, but equally it’s your birthday and if you want to let loose then do so! I’ve found that planning for the “potential” only makes it hurt that bit more if it doesn’t happen and I regret not doing what I’d have liked to in the moment as it clearly wasn’t for the greater good as I felt at the time.

Happy birthday for the weekend!!

@Lila34830 @littlebluu 100% I really don’t think men are really subjected to any of the stress and worry like we are, but also we don’t have to “perform” on demand like I am expecting my OH to do whenever I say we need to have sex today 🤣

@HE93C it could be ovulation, have you had any other signs it could be earlier like EWCM?

Apologies, I meant 0.08 🤦🏽‍♀️ typo!!

I did have a bit of CM earlier in the week but this is my first time tracking and I barely get any, and I think it’s more like watery than EW so it’s hard to know. I’ll do another test this afternoon to see if it’s increased since this morning but I really wasn’t expecting it for another few days x

Ahh you probably haven’t peaked then, but they could still be ovu pains in the lead up I guess.. Google does say some women feel the pain, but personally I don’t think I do.

Watery CM is a good sign your follicles are growing as watery CM normally is a result of estrogen rising which happens before you tend to get the EWCM at the point of ovulation 😊

Keep testing twice a day and I’m sure your rise will appear !

We’re quite close in cycles, my ovu is predicted for Tuesday! But from past cycles could be anywhere between mon-wed.

Thank you! I’m very new to all of the testing and tracking, when we got pregnant the first time when I miscarried, we had only just stopped using condoms, 4 weeks before our wedding and I thought “it probably won’t happen before the wedding” … turned out it happened within a week of stopping the condoms.

I think that’s why I feel so frustrated and impatient now 🤦🏽‍♀️😂

oh how many days is your usual cycle? I’m usually 26/27 but was 25 last month. Got my fingers crossed for us both for Monday & Tuesday haha!

Sorry you had to go through the MC 😔. Fingers crossed for a lucky cycle this month 🤞

The waiting is horrendous, I feel like times stood still but also moving so quickly, how is it almost 2025?! This will be our 4th cycle trying, so I’ve not done the testing very long either but I have a very unhealthy obsession with googling and trying to find out everything in my power 😂.

Mine are 27-29 days depending when I’ve ovulated, I’ve had one shorter cycle of 25 when I first had my implant removed last year. My luteal phase is 12 days 99% of the time. 25 is still considered a normal cycle length so don’t let that worry you😊 and a bit of variation here and there is also completely normal!