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TTC cycle 4 August 2025

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TheMintCrab · 07/08/2025 09:50

I'm on day one AF today and my fertile window is set to be from mid - end next week as I have 25 day cycles. Wondering if anyone is in a similar boat and wants to keep each other company for this cycle?

Am also feeling like this cycle I want to get away from the endless testing and monitoring and peeing on sticks as it took over my mind this last cycle. I was really sure I saw a faint line on 8DPO and spent so much money on pregnancy tests these last few days. Has anyone else tried/is trying to just have a lot of sex around the right time and otherwise just leave the tracking/testing?

It's only been a few months and we haven't been super focussed (e.g. in June we ended up missing the fertile window because we had an argument and so were not in the mood over those few days). I'm not spiralling that there's anything wrong with us yet...I'm 33 and my partner is 34....but it feels like lots of our friends got pregnant super quickly. Even as I write this though, I know it's not true because my best friend admitted they had been properly trying for 5-6 months but she never told anyone so everyone has assumed it just happened out of the blue!

It's just hard to cope with the getting hopes up and then disappointment. I have a tendency to focus on negatives and don't want this whole process to be like that.

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MixedBananas · 07/08/2025 12:06

Hiya. I am 10DPO TTC baby No.3

I was 34 when I had my first and 37 when I had my 2nd now 39 and TTC 3rd.

I would just repax first 6 months then after that if you want try Sperm Meets Egg programme. You can use OPKs and BBT. I did that to conceive my 2nd as ny cycles were hectic and I have daaaaays of fertile CF.

Yes it can be disheartening but try to make the process fun. I had friends who fell pregnant right away and others who it took 10 years! I have had feiends who did IVF, ICSI, IUI and adoption. In the end the journey will differ and we need to remember that is there journey not yours.

All my mates got married and had their families in their 20s. I got married at 33 and before I resigned to be single and alone with no kids. My life was so different to my peers.

TheMintCrab · 07/08/2025 18:56

Thanks a lot for your reply - it is so hard to have perspective sometimes! I already feel better just being a bit further into my new cycle - I think it's also the hormonal element that makes it hard, I get SUCH bad PMS for the week before my period so when I feel that come on it, it seems to put the boot in a bit more.

Fingers crossed for you on this cycle <3

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