November 2025 — snuggly jumpers, sparkly skies, and fingers crossed for our BFPs 🎇💖

[Iris2024]

Moving on from TTC October 🎃

Here’s a place to share your journey for November. We are all on a journey, feel free to share your journey, your worries, your rants and thoughts on our TWW going into November 🤍

Im currently CD9 of a new cycle after my early chemical miscarriage and my hycosy procedure.

Morning everyone, start of fertile week for me today so i've got that positive feeling back again..i'll enjoy that whilst it lasts 😅
@Taysonic lovely to see a familiar name, even though I wish we were both long gone from these threads!! 💓

Morning everyone - is anyone else 5DPO?

Morning all! CD16 for me today. PreMom app is predicting today is ovulation but haven't had much luck seeing much of a LH peak with OPKs so god knows what is going on. Not holding on to much hope for this cycle as haven't been overly 'active' on the DTD front and feel a bit like I'm flying blind without knowing when ovulation is.

AF is currently predicted for 17th Nov. First miscarriage due date would have been 20th Nov and my birthday is 22nd... so... it's going to be an emotional rollercoaster whatever happens. Hormones all over the shop, I'm sure.

Yay for the positivity!! Sending you lots of positive and hopeful vibes too. Keeping everything crossed for you. <3

@thismonthsfad I’m 6dp5dt so I’m 11dpo equivalent. I’m trying really hard to stick to the test date my clinic gave me which is Saturday!

So far I’ve just had super vivid dreams, felt tired and some twinges in my stomach. Have you been symptom spotting?

Oh goodness, keeping ALL my fingers crossed for you - a whole added layer of anxiety post transfer. Fingers crossed you're able to hold off testing until Saturday - if you need any moral support, we're here for you!

As for me, after saying I hadn't really seen a peak in LH up until now, that line is definitely darker today! Will keep testing throughout the day but expect that it may get darker over the afternoon. Will take it as 'go' time either way and try my best... Wish me luck, ladies! 😅

I’m joining this month, TTC baby #1 after sadly having a MC last month. Sending baby dust to us all ✨

I'm so sorry to hear of your MC last month. If you'd like to talk about it, I'm happy to listen (or read, whichever is the most appropriate term to use!).

Here to offer gentle support and hoping to be able to tentatively celebrate some good news for you soon.

Funny how Saturday is the one day of the week that takes blooming ages to come around!!! Haha!
Oh wow that's interesting about your dreams! Is that a new thing? This is cycle 3 for me but I had a break last cycle so it was good to kinda see what my PMS symptoms are like without wondering if I could be pregnant. All of my PMS symptoms are also pregnancy symptoms like sore boobs, heightened smell, cramping... So I really can't rely on that DOH! lol..

Welcome @roots6 ❤️ you’ve found a supportive group of ladies, a few of us have experienced miscarriages and trying to keep positive and all hoping to get blessed again. Sending love 🥰

Hi and welcome. As a PP has said there's a fair few of us on here who have experienced losses recently. Hope you're doing ok x

Thank you everyone, it's nice to know there are people in similar circumstances. I have had a rollercoaster of emotions, and like I imagine all of you are - I'm desperate for our baby. Trying to stay positive ❤

I think I've ovulated yesterday or today, so I guess that's me waiting and see-ing for the next couple of weeks. Anyone else just starting the TWW?

We are going away for 2 nights without DS1 exactly at the time I'll be either testing or getting my period 🫣🤣

8DPO today for me. Obviously took a test this morning as I have no self control… stark negative of course 🙃 fingers crossed for tomorrow! Boobs feel bigger and getting tummy twinges but that could be PMS 🤷🏼‍♀️

@thismonthsfad i am 5dpo today!

when’s the best time to start testing?

Hi all ✨ sending positive vibes to all above recent commenters that are early in their cycle and going into their fertile week. I’m 12dpo today and another negative test - going to assume that’s me for this month 🙁 I was finding all the TTC stuff quite fun the first 6 months now I’m way past that point (started June 2024) it’s getting a bit exhausting each month and the hope starts to drain slightly. However, I am grateful for this community x

Everyone will likely say something different... and, some people have better will power holding off on testing than others! For me, I tend to think testing anything before 10dpo is probably not a very good indicator. After a couple of losses, I think I'm going to be a bit more 'protective' of myself going forward and would rather hold off testing until after my period due date and only test when it'll be a very obvious answer.

But, I know it'll be difficult to stop myself testing... or it has been in the past.

You'll hear all sorts of success stories of quite early positive results, but seeing the disappointment and confusion that evap lines/indents can cause... I'd always encourage people to hold off testing as long as they can.

@Taysonic I have absolutely no will power! I have two weddings this weekend and was hoping I’d have a definite answer so I could enjoy a glass or two if not but looks like it’ll be a couple days too early for AF
You never know it might be easier for you to hold off now as I it might be more harmful to test earlier. I’m sorry to hear about your losses🥹💕

Hey Ladies I was just wondering if anyone thinks this line is real or just an indent😣 I’ve not been ttc as i’ve started a new job and was holding off for 6 months (would be ecstatic if it did happen still though!) anyway thought i’d take a test as i’ve been really emotional and af is due in 4 days although I have irregular cycles!

Hi @amey44 I’m sorry but I don’t see anything there. How many dpo are you? It might be too early to test!

Sorry Amey, I can't really see anything either but I've not got the best line eyes!

I'm 1dpo today and counting myself out already. 🤣 Haven't DTD over the ovulation window at all, last time was Sunday so think chances are very very slim. DP and I were flip-flopping a bit on whether we felt ready to start trying again in the lead up to this cycle and I would change my mind several times within a day. When it came down to it though, I felt excited at the prospect of getting pregnant and it being a possibility so I was up for it... But wasnt 100% certain how DP felt.

In the end, I gave him all the biology information and told him it was go time, but that I was leaving the ball in his court.

We did not play any ball. 😅

So... I'm not holding my breath and certainly won't be eagerly testing. I feel a little bit sad about it and a bit 'meh' today but I also don't want to be the one pushing for this if we're both not ready to accept the risk of another loss and the impact of that.

Hi ladies, 13dpo today for me with another negative test and my temp has dropped by 0.4 so I am 99% sure I’m on my way out 😫 my period is saying in Flo that it’s due tomorrow. I’m deciding whether to have a break this next cycle, but I know I’ll still unconsciously be obsessing so another part of me just thinks I may as well just continue tracking haha.

another note, has anybody in this thread been referred and had investigations for recurrent miscarriages? I’m waiting to be referred but just wondering what to expect. TIA 💕

Sorry to hear about your BFN and temps dropping, I also track temps and use this as a guide for when AF is due.

I think having a break is actually a good idea! I had a break last cycle and I do think it was good for me because I was able to track my PMS symptoms without thinking 'is this a pregnancy symptom'.. Also, I completely reset mentally, I was starting to go down an unhealthy route with this by logging every symptom, my temps etc on chatGPT and getting it to forecast potential symptoms, testing dates etc for me.. I haven't done that this cycle and definitely won't in future because it was starting to take over a little.

I have an addictive personality type and am very 'faddy', hence my nickname 'thismonthsfad' lol so having a break was a good opportunity to reset physically and mentally ❤️

Ah sorry you might be out this month.

I've had recurrent miscarriage testing on the NHS, I think where I am works a little differently as I didn't have to wait for a referral. My EPAU just told me the info and got me to book in for the blood tests with them there after the appropriate waiting period post loss (which I can't remember how long it was but somewhere around 6 weeks I think). They also arranged a scan to check for the structure of my uterus.

Sorry to hear its not looking good for this cycle. Sending lots of love and hope that you're not left waiting long to be out of limbo and if it's going to come that AF arrives soon.

I haven't been referred to the recurrent losses clinic just yet, but in my area, our NHS trust does blood test investigations after a second loss. And I've had that. They did some blood tests for a variety of things (thyroid function, thyroid anti-bodies, pre-diabetic screening, prolactin, etc). I had to ensure these tests were done at least 6 weeks after I had last been pregnant. The fertility nurse rang me with the results, I didn't have to go in for an appointment.

Not sure if that helps, but that's the first stage of recurrent loss investigations that they do in my area.