TTC TWW October 2025 🫶🏻

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Here you are lovely ladies made an october thread for those interested 🫶🏻🫶🏻

Cycle day 13 for me, had a positive LH test and we have done the deed tonight. Going to go again on Monday evening as well. Our daughter is two and soooo ready and excited for baby number 2!!’ 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

Morning all - 11dpo today and another BFN on both non-digital and a digital CB ultra early so I’m definitely out now. Waiting for AF any day… good luck to you all this cycle!

Hey ladies .. I am back .. haven’t been doing bbt but have took opk over the last day or so and I’m so confused as I had the darkest I’ve ever had on ic but no smile on the cb .. usually when I get a dark ic the cb is a fixed smile -
many ideas ??

2 DPO here. Crossing my fingers and toes for the next week hoping to have a positive outcome this month 😅 I am a nervous wreck already though and only 2 days in to the tww 😂🫣

I'm thinking I should have gotten the CB digitals this month. I thought I'd give these easy@home with premom app a whirl to see if they were easier but the app keeps saying low despite the test looking pretty decent...albeit darker on the edge with slightly lighter area. They've been getting gradually darker over the last couple of days and this is this morning. I'm hoping this is peak or near enough. I'm cd14 today, with around 23-26 day cycles. We'll dtd and keep testing but will be getting CB next cycle if needed.
How is everyone?
Sorry I've been quiet - my shift pattern has been awful recently.

@MamaGeordie it is quite unclear isn’t it, I see what you mean about the darker edge but also being lighter. I’m using a combination of cheapies and CB digital. Wasn’t meant to start until tomorrow but I’m impatient 🤣 blank circle on the CB digital and I had to use a few of the cheapies as they all just kept appearing flooded despite being dipped for the recommended time 🙄

Hi everyone.
I'm 16-17 DPO now and got first positive last Friday. Have confirmed multiple times with other tests each day since but feeling disheartened because I never seem to get a 'strong' test line or much progression. I seem to get a darker line when I test in the evening rather than the morning. I confirmed with CB weeks indicator and Friday was 1-2 wks, and yesterday was 2-3 wks, which gave me hope. But lines still don't appear really strong and bold. It's causing me some anxiety!
Also no idea why stronger lines generally appear later in the day?

Any advice??

I think I read it somewhere that some people have more hcg in the evening
If the weeks indicator shows progress, I think that's all that matters 🙂do you feel any symptoms

@EmeraldPie stop testing and go and get betas drawn 😊i had the same thing,always darker in the evening...now 10weeks..

Hey! Thanks for the reassurance. Line is definitely stronger in evening but everywhere you read says the opposite! Symptoms began on the past few days - after the first positive test - menstrual like dull ache, slight lower back ache and tender/sore nipples, and some insomnia but that could just be anxiety.

I will do - thanks so much for the reassurance :)

Hey BlueEyes. I'm a fellow 37 year old "advanced maternal ager" 👋
How are you getting on now?

Fingers crossed for you! ✨️

I definitely can't help with CB but your OPKs look positive. Fingers crossed!
Did you carry on testing? Any changes?

The tww is brutal! Hoping for a positive test very soon for you 🤞

@MamaGeordiethank you! 4 DPO now and it’s still torture 😂

I've just tested again (because I'm clearly mad ha!) and it's lighter so either my urine is diluted or my LH is dropping. Surely that must have been my peak. I have some dull cramps this afternoon which could well be OV cramps 🤞
This whole thing makes waiting difficult so I dont blame u for testing early. I bought a big box of cheapies thinking they'd last me a couple of months but the way I'm testing they'll have to be repurchased next cycle 🙈🤣

@MamaGeordieI think it'me s just your urine more diluted 🙂I usually have the same, but I'd retest in the evening just to be sure!

The fact you're getting progression on CB digitals is good and a really positive sign.

Countdown to testing! 🤞

Fab, I'll test later on and try to hold as much as poss before hand as well. Thanks for the reassurance 😊

Thank you, I've just booked hcg bloods so really hoping that provides some reassurance

Fingers crossed lovely - I'm sure they will ✨️

Hello, lovely to connect thank you. I am now 7DPO and no new symptoms, will probably test around 10 days. I am just feeling a little deflated this week, I have had IUI procedure and sadly there are not many positive outcomes for women of my age and unmedicated. Losing all hope to be honest, that my eggs are just useless over 35. Just wish there were more success stories for my age band, this only my first try so I’m only at the start of my journey, but it’s a bit anxiety provoking to think what will I do when I run out of funds for cycles, I will be devastated. Time is running out. How are you? What stage are you at in this TWW. Sending baby dust ☺️

Could it be ❤️