May 2025 TTC Support Thread

[KSmith94]

Here's the May thread, good luck ladies 🥰

I had my copper coil removed Monday 28th April due to ovulate around that day or 29th - we were having regular sex up until this point and have done since removal have got all my fingers and toes crossed for a BFP this month (trying to not get my hopes up to much with just having had the coil removed)

Sending baby dust to you all.🥰 Currently 5/6 dpo and finding it the longest wait ever.

@Ash2345fsimilar here - as in just had my copper coil removed (same day!) but not due to ovulate for a few more days yet!! Fingers crossed for us both

(And everyone else of course!!)

Fingers crossed for us all it is the longest wait ever isn’t it !!! I think it makes it worse because of how much you want it to happen.
@FlyHighSky72 have you had any symptoms post coil removal mine didn’t hurt one bit coming out I couldn’t believe it !

Hi everyone! I'm 9dpo today but still negative on tests. Having some "dull" or achey cramps but everything feels very similar to when I'm about to start my period... I fell pregnant last year and was the same for that pregnancy but unfortunately I had a miscarriage at 12 weeks.

I hate this part, constantly googling differences between period and pregnancy symptoms! Is a negative at 9dpo considered "normal"?!

@Ash2345fliterally nothing!!! I haven’t ovulated yet though…

Thanks for continuing the thread @KSmith94 👏🏻 best of luck to everyone!

@ttc25 totally normal to be negative at 9dpo. There's still time for a BFP x

Oh yes loads of time for a positive still absolutely!!! I’m just hoping the next few days fly over- I’ve got really sore boobs, bloating and some one sided abdominal cramps thinking it’s too early with it only being day 5 just hoping it’s not the usual pre period symptoms.

@ttc25 I didn't get my first BFP until 13dpo with my son so 9dpo definitely can still be too early

Sending all the baby dust to everyone this month, I'm only on CD9 or 10 atm myself

@KSmith94@SureLookthank you! It’s so hard to not compare everything to my previous pregnancies (I have a ds plus my miscarriage) and also compare against everybody else’s symptoms! Which is so silly!!

I know if I was giving advice to anybody else or offering reassurance I’d say to stop symptom searching and just let it be until the day you’re expecting AF but it’s soooo hard when it’s you having to take the advice x

Good luck @ttc25

I’m sort of regretting using OPKs - they’re really stressing me out! How can my LH be this low and going down

@FlyHighSky72i don’t know how useful this is, but I’ve read a lot that the actual numbers don’t really mean anything. Your peak is what is important and the app supposedly just uses the numbers in order to read it but they don’t actually mean much outside of your positive/peak! Your lines all look quite similar. I usually have lines like this (super low numbers) and then the next day it is positive!

Thanks @ttc25ill keep testing and see what happens! Just stressful to not to see it rise at all - making me think I might not ovulate. Premom app now saying I’ll ovulate Sunday. We shall see

@FlyHighSky72it is so stressful! What cycle number are you on? Last month was my first proper cycle since my miscarriage and I ovulated day 19!

@FlyHighSky72 I’m having the same issue! I always got a spike at 0.9 or 1. Something but mine have been around 0.3 / 0.4 as the highest around my predicted ovulation days (CD 14-16). I’m going to try testing more frequently, as advised on another thread as it is possible your spike / high could happen really quickly and then drop very quickly too. You could try maybe 4 tests a day during expected ovulation window perhaps? They aren’t cheap either eh

@ttc25this is cycle one for me CD14

Thanks @IndigoBluey- it’s worth a shot - hard with a job though 😂

@KSmith94 I'm on CD11!

@ttc25 I know what you mean. I tested early in March and was crushed when AF arrived. I didn't test at all in April and just ignored any "symptoms". When AF turned up I wasn't really upset. I think a negative test gives you hope it may still turn positive which adds to the disappointment. Also, interesting about the numbers on the OPKs not really meaning much.

I also find it hard to do the OPKs on the days I'm in work. I can really only do it at home!

Hi all, can I join please 😊 ttc baby #1, first month trying! Will take all the advice I can get 😆 been tracking my cycle for months now using ovulation tests, currently cd12 and expecting to probably ovulate on Sunday/Monday if similar to previous months. Nervous, excited and hopeful!! X

Welcome @TigerLily38 ❤️

Welcome @TigerLily38

Morning all! I’m 10dpo today, did a test with my first morning wee and I think I can see a very faint line… so hard to get a pic of it though! It could be evap line I guess but eeeeek! Fingers crossed!!

Hey, i hope I’m okay to join? I’m 12 dpo and got a very faint line but could be an evap line? it’s our 1st cycle TTC #2 and I’m just SO in my head about and it and unable to stop testing