February 2025 TTC Support Group Part 2!

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Part 2!

Link to previous thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/conception/5248789-february-ttc-support-group?page=40

i found the easy @ home ones quite rubbish tbh. You can see how dark my line is on the frer but it’s still vvf on the @ home ones. Fingers crossed for you! And yes @Mumzydarling12 ill be due 18th/19th too according to my app ☺️.

praying the little one stays put @Lemoncello823 🤞🏻🤞🏻❤️

Praying its implantation bleeding..Think I'll monitor and if goes away will order a FRER tomorrow.. 🙏

Ok so I think I may be massively overthinking this.. but I ate a bit of cucumber and instantly felt nauseous. Thought I was going to start heaving but stopped it. Still feel nauseous and a little light headed 🥴 I really hope these are good signs but don't want to get my hopes up 😩🙈

I’ve got my fingers crossed for you! This was one of my first symptoms when I was pregnant with my daughter, sat down to eat and the second the food was in my mouth was sick! X

@Mrsttcno1 oh it could sound promising then! I think I'm only roughly 9DPO though so wasn't expecting any signs this soon? You'd think with having 2 DC already I'd know, but I'd never really paid any attention really those times. Plus my youngest is now 8 so there's no way I'd remember what I felt then! We've decided I'll definitely test this weekend and just keep our fingers crossed! X

It could definitely be a good sign @woodpeckersounds I think I was about 10dpo when I was first sick so not impossible! My daughter is nearly 10 months old so those nauseous days still feel very fresh in my memory, fingers crossed for you! X

Oh thank you @Mrsttcno1! I really hope so, I'll keep you posted! These next few days are going to feel soo long! 😅

I wasn’t sick as such but with my DS I tested on 6dpo and thought I saw a faint line but honestly such a squinter, the next day I went to eat a ham toastie (so nothing extravagant) and I litterally couldn’t take a bite I just didn’t want to eat it. Took a test two days later so 9dpo and there was the line still faint but noticeable! So definitely a good sign 🤞🏻 x

@Mumzydarling12 @Littledot2 thank you soo much. So great to have people to talk to about this as very much keeping to myself and DH just doesn’t get it and he says just wait and see 🥲

@Lcc5261 oh wow ok, this could be very exciting then! I'm trying so hard not to symptom spot but there's so many other potentially good signs so I'm feeling very hopeful! Thank you and @Mrsttcno1 for replying and giving me some hope! X

Anyone seen the thread "How long did it take to conceive your second child" and wondering how on earth so many of these replies were first try... What 🤯 blows my mind how the human body works 😔

I have just read that thread @Littledot2 ! This is our first month trying for our second child and having saw so many other threads of people trying for 6+ months I had already accepted it isn’t going to happen quickly but that thread has made me think actually it may not be as unlikely as I thought! Time will tell

Me again! Took a test just now and the line looks darker. Still bleeding lightly. Is it normal for urine a chemical pregnancy for it to get darker?

Both my first and second children were conceived first month of trying, now we have been trying 6 months for the third!

@Mrsttcno1 Good luck for the first month!! 🤞It goes to show you're in with as much chance the first month as any other 💕

@carolinep3 wow twice! How lucky is that 🥹💗 Do you mind me asking, on those times how much did you DTD? Like every other day for the whole month, just a handful of times? Wondering if we're not doing it enough or if it's complete luck of the draw 🙈

In got my positive on friday at 10DPO and have been lightly bleeding ever since. More pink spotting now. I have been testing daily and tests have got very dark. I’m hoping it’s just implantation and maybe yours is too?

Probably luck of it. First two I made DH dtd 17 days in a row!
Tried that with third and hasn't working so 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sounds like we are in a similar boat, I'm 11DPO, had sore boobs for over a week, been bleeding lightly for a couple of days. I'm due AF on Friday, really struggling to tell if she's coming almost a week early or if it could be implantation!

Hate the limbo! Have you tested yet? I've just seen the easy at home ones I'm using are out of date in a few months so now thinking the negatives are due to this🤣 clutching at straws!

I'm really struggling with the tww this time. I feel like I've already counted myself out as we only DTD early on (cd 8 10 13 15) and I never got that positive OPK so I've no idea if I even ovulated. Chatted to DH last night and he said sticks etc just making me worry and we should just try every other day again next time (we did that last cycle from cd10 to cd20) but I'm worried I'm not ovulating and I won't ever know?
Like you @carolinep3 we conceived ds1 the first month (we weren't even 'trying') just still in the honeymoon period of our relationship haha! So this time round it's hard. Sorry for the long moan just not easy today.

You could track bbt to check for ovulation or ask if you go could send you for Progesterone test one month to check?

Possibly but I imagine they will say try for longer or do OpKs for longer first? We've been trying since September properly and I'm under 35

Just want to say that I know how you feel! 9DPO today and got a so white you could see the white no line today. Don’t think we dtd enough in my fertile window (dh has a low libido), and now have ruled myself out this month. DD was a cycle 2 baby and it felt so easy! This time I think I’m obsessive with it, probably because unlike last time I know how wonderful a baby is. Keep trying to tell myself I’m not out till AF!
All this is to say, I’m finding it mentally more difficult this time too. Take it easy, hopefully we’ll get there soon
Also, I think you can buy progesterone test strips? They’re more expensive than the LH ones but might be worth it for you to check you’ve ovulated?

Hiya, I’ve been following this group a little while and this is my first time posting. I’m TTC my third and am on the second month but finding it mentally so much harder this time around. It’s reassuring to hear others are finding it hard too and it’s common to feel this way. I was lucky with my previous pregnancies, I think it took 2-3 months for both. This time I feel so stressed and obsessive with it all and seem to have a very negative outlook on it, which is not like me! Any tips on how to “go with the flow” a little more? I’m 34 so feeling the time pressure more this time.

@Miffy1994 sorry to hear you’re also feeling the mental strain more this time. You are defo not alone!!

Thanks for sharing it is good to have others who get it! I guess as you say not out until AF appears. That's interesting re progesterone strips I might look into that. And poss try temping next month