September TTC thread 💛

[Marvelftw]

Hi everyone, setting up a new months thread for those of us who already know we’re out for August. I’m going on to cycle 3. Hope this can continue to be a place where we can chat and support one another.

@MyPeppyLimeBear@CDD1992👀 you ladies have some kind of bionic vision 🤣. Tbh my period seems to be AWOL (I usually have very distinct symptoms the days before it starts and I haven’t had them at all) so I will keep an eye on it. Might not test for a few days now though because I’m getting a bit stressed! I think I’ve resigned myself the the idea that it hasn’t happened this month so don’t have an overwhelming urge to test!

Keeping everything crossed for you!! X

@Marvelftw I’m definitely guilty of overthinking symptoms! Today (10dpo) definitely feels like a classic pre-menstrual day. Bloating, gas, v mild cramps. It’s been useful to pay more attention to my body that usual, but I know from my first that I got zero symptoms, so have relaxed a bit and treated myself to wine in the bath tonight!

@overwork glad the weekend away was a good distraction! Work has been great and I haven’t even thought about it until just now which is a nice change. Hopefully the rest of the week will fly by. I looked into natural cycles after one of your earlier posts, and love the published research from it - this figure in particular is so interesting to me:

Showing follicular length by age. They analysed over 600,000 cycles and have some really interesting insights. Mainly that on average the luteul phase sits around 12.5days and this remains consistent as we age whereas the follicular phase length decreases over time. Overall suggesting that ovulation is later that the average 14days we’re told.

Sorry I’ve gone off on a tangent but as a 37yr old this data suggests on average a woman of my age is likely to ovulate day 15.5 of their cycle. Obviously I could just track to confirm but I’m finding reading about the data more fun 😂

Forgot to link the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41746-019-0152-7

I was taking after ovulation for a few months as my progesterone was low but sadly no pregnancy still

Oh that’s interesting!!!

I’m 33 and usually ovulate day 14/15 but the last couple of months it’s been earlier, day 12/13. Apparently shortening follicular phase can be linked to reducing ovarian reserve (which I guess makes sense with age) but hope that’s not that’s happening with me. I need to get my AMH tested again maybe - was surprised as fertility clinic didn’t do a follicle count before prescribing letrozole

@Iris2024sorry to hear your going through that, hopefully it happens for you soon,

I have had a couple of days of clear ovulation dishcharge but my tests say no, im
on day 11 so I’m hoping it’s soon. I have 2 cycles before our fertility appointment and really hoping I don’t make it, the body is a complicated thing

Please can I jump on this thread? It's our first month TTC our first baby and I'm on cd11. I'm trying to be relaxed (easier said than done) and not tracking ovulation - just DTD regularly. Im not naive to how long and difficult the journey can be but still feeling hopeful! Sending baby dust to everyone here

Hello, I’m joining too - not had a chance to read through everything yet though. I’m cd ~13 but last cycle was a chemical/miscarriage

@7nationbaby so sorry to hear this, fairly sure I’m experiencing a chemical this month. Good luck to you! X

@GladDenimGoose hello! I’m CD11 cycle 1 today too! Good luck 🤞. I’m due AF in 3 days so let’s see how it goes. Not optimistic this month as was sick over ovulation but you just don’t know. My first pregnancy we DTD once and I still don’t know when in my cycle that was. Definitely going into TTC2 a lot more informed!

I do feel very pre-menstrual today so definitely expecting AF to show up, I’ll just be annoyed if it’s late because of being sick this cycle.

@LaurLou22 I’m sorry, it’s so shit and there’s really nothing that can be said or done. I told lots of people this time and it was good in some ways to have people understand why I was being so crabby, but some of the stuff people said really hurt - like oh at least you already have kids

@7nationbaby I honestly don’t understand that sentiment. It doesn’t matter if you have no children, or a whole brood, losing a pregnancy, or a potential pregnancy not coming to fruition is still devastating, especially if it’s all you want to expand your family xx

So sorry girls, I think I’m spiralling 😫.
do these tests look like they’re getting darker? I’m still barely getting anything on the other strip tests but I realised these detect at 10 MIU and the others are 25.

Here’s hoping!!!🤞 good luck everyone ❤️

Welcome hun ❤️ I had a very easy miscarriage too last cycle. Had positive pregnancy test and digital and lost just over a week later. It’s shattered me but we’re straight back trying again just like yourself. Sending baby dust and hope we get it again ✨

@Marvelftw to be fair we are only on cycle 2 so I know silly to be disheartened! My cycle is all over the place being honest! how about you?

my period has been seriously light this round, I usually have a really heavy day where I almost need postpartum pads, but haven’t got that yet only one really large gush and spotting… could this still be implantation or is it going on too long I wonder… day 5 of very light pink spotting… never had it with my first pregnancy x

I’m also spiralling now because when I got my (or what I thought was my period) I did a test and negative, so I started to enjoy the all inclusive holiday we were on, which I had been avoiding drinking for potential baba… now the guilt will eat me if it was implantation…

@StayingHopefulx Oh it’s still very early days, but I do know how it feels to get those no’s after consecutive months. I’m currently in my 3rd cycle of trying again and it already feels like it’s been ages! My cycle has always been very regular but I do have a slightly shorter luteal phase. Don’t feel guilty if you find out you are pregnant and have been enjoying your hols. The baby will be way too tiny at this point to have been affected by anything.

@CityKity You’re not out until you’re out! There was someone in last months thread who got pregnant even though they had been feeling unwell over their fertile week.

@7nationbaby Welcome, sorry to hear about your loss.

@GladDenimGoose Hey welcome to the thread and good luck on your journey.

@LaurLou22 How many DPO are you?

Hey! Hope you guys don’t mind me joining. I’m on cycle 4, 3DPO. TTC #2.

Started on Conception Max tablets this month and feeling hopeful, LH peak has been more definite then the last 2 cycles I tracked and previously I have conceived both prior pregnancies (one loss) on cycle 4.

@StayingHopefulx maybe test again in a couple of days, I had some sort of bleed with my first and it wasn’t evident until I found out I was 16w1 at the 12 week scan 🙈

Good luck everyone! 🍀

Just checking in- ovulation in T minus 3 days 😂 I have DH warned that he will be needed a lot over the next few days 😂 best of luck to anyone else approaching OD soon!

Hi all!
Thanks for sharing your stories with us!

I had another gyno appointment yesterday. The endometrium is less than 3mm, up .6 since last time. Still too thin, suggesting ovulation/implantation is unlikely occur.
Yes I know, ttc without a cycle is madness!

I'm afraid I will need to wean completely in order to be able to get pregnant (without taking hormones). So frustrating when I am not ready to stop bf.

@underthethree I’ve just got a positive on my ovulation stick so will be busy over the next couple of days 😊good luck to you, let’s hope this is our month 🤞🏻

@Marvelftwi’m 13DPO today and period was due yesterday but I’ve been getting these stupid lines for a couple of days now and I just don’t know what to think. The other tests I do are either so faint you can barely see them at all, or there is nothing there, but these wondfo tests keep showing a line. It also seems that my lines are always darker in the evening and not the morning?

I know there’s very little hope now, I would have seen some sort of progression on other. Tests I think by now. But it’d hard not to test ‘just to check’ 😭 what I really need to do is lock the pregnancy tests away and wait for my period to start because I’m not doing myself any favours here..