May 2025 TTC Support Thread #2!

[Muddysocks1]

As suggested, because so many of us on the other thread, shall we have a little roll call?

Huge congratulations! ❤️

It's awful isn't it!! Especially if we're less dpo than we think then maybe the faint lines make sense, but if not then it's disheartening that it could just be evaps! I've just never had evaps on so many different tests and brands before?

@Kayleaaa yea exactly how I feel...hopefully that's it and our lines will get darker!!!❤can't handle another loss 😥

congrats to you @BGxxx

@BGxxxcongrats. ✨✨ Although this makes me think I should test at 8DPO (Sunday) even though it’s very likely pointless!!
@KayleaaaI’m sorry it’s so uncertain at the moment. FWIW I can see something too. I would keep testing.
@Ec2808based on what y put be said I still think you have time. I did think when I looked at your chart that ovulation could have happened much later but I am very much a novice who doesn’t know what I’m talking about so kept my mouth shut. I wouldn’t count yourself out yet my lovely, as hard as it is.

Thanks @Bas27will have to see
anybody else get to look at my tests ?❤️

I've just seen you got your bfp today! Congrats, I don't suppose you know if your bbt corresponds with your bfp, as in did you notice any patterns or anything?? Xxxx

Congrats @BGxxx

@YKM2829 good luck! Sorry I don't know anything about BBT.

@Chocolateeggsarebetterthannormalchocolate best of luck, keep us posted. You're still in until AF shows!

@Kayleaaa I'd say you're still in with a chance if AF isn't due for another few days? I'm the same as @Iris2024 I can see a shadow but no colour.

Sorry to hear AF has arrived @Iris2024 ❤️

@DownWithCremeEggs we'll be here waiting!

@jelliebean9 mine would also come and go in the lead up to OV. It wouldn't be constantly there.

@Ec2808 I can see something on the Premom test 🤞🏻

@BGxxx that's fantastic, congratulations! Fingers crossed for a sticky bean ❤️

Hi all, second cycle trying for #2. Currently 8DPO, BBT still high but had some spotting just now (pink, a few small clots). Do we think potential implantation bleeding? Period not due for another 6 days (and always always consistent!)

@NiftySheep definitely sounds like it could be implantation bleeding 🤞🏻🤞🏻

I’ll send you my chart! I don’t think it’s really shows much🤣

I had some pink implantation bleeding with my first pregnancy, it was around 7/8 dpo and just lasted a few wipes xx

Trying to work out if my aversion to eating sausage casserole leftovers is pregnancy nausea or the fact it tasted like shit 🤔

🤣🤣this made me chuckle. In the first trimester slums so this brought a smile to my face 🙈🤣

Yup it’s temp testing / you need a thermometer than goes to two decimal places (you can get them cheap on Amazon), either in your mouth or some people do vaginally! Needs to be roughly the same time every day (tbh for me that’s between 6-8am) and after at least 4hrs sleep, so do when you first wake up.
it’ll be lower in the first half, then rises when you ovulate. If you enter into an app like Fertility Friend it will advise when it thinks you’ve ovulated which is handy if you’re new to temping. If you’re pregnant temps will stay high, otherwise I don’t think you can tell that much from post ovulation temps unless they’re dropping consistently low or below the cover line.
the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility is amazing if you want to learn it all “properly”, but just getting a thermometer and using an app like fertility friend or premom is all you really need. On fertility friend you can log all sorts of other indicators like OPKs and cervical mucus which also feed into its analysis. I’ve done it for years and it’s easy once you get into the swing of it.. but it’s easy to obsess over charts (which is what I do every cycle 🤣) and sometimes they can indicate pregnancy but it’s hard to say until your period is pretty much due

This is my current chart this month, little triangles mean I took it out of the time window but I was using another app to begin with so all the earlier temps were ones I actually inputed at all at once! Didn't take temp yesterday as battery died.

Nice rise at the end!
this is my last cycle (just started a new one), lots of triangles where timing is a bit inconsistent 🙈 I don’t know why I had a random high temp just before ovulation on day 11, but you’re looking at the overall pattern not individual temps, so I discounted it

@Muddysocks1 yeah it's giving me hope but when I see the plummet I'll cry haha. Yours is a lot more consistent! I think I must just get extra sweaty around af 😂

Hi. I’ve just started doing mine and this is what I found out.
2 decimal places like people say.
In the mouth.
Take it as soon as your eyes open in the morning, don’t even sit up.

Hope this helps!

@BGxxx oh congratulations! Strong results for 8dpo, that must be reassuring ☺️

@Kayleaaa crossing my fingers for you. I could definitely see something on your test. One of those “it’s not stark white” results. When are you testing next?

@EmPeEf Thanks for looking! Honestly dont think I will again unless AF is late, so maybe tuesday? Might change my mind if symptoms seem strong!

Omg so I just went to the toilet and had some very very light bleeding. Like a couple of dots of pink. I've been a bit cramps for the past day or so too. So either my period is starting a week early or it's implantation bleeding?? I've never had it before so have no clue what it's supposed to look like.

@DownWithCremeEggs my implantation bleeding was light pink and only there when I wiped. Didn't last long either. How many dpo are you? Sounds promising!

@SureLook thank you! I'm 7DPO today. Keeping my fingers crossed!