The Hopeful Hearts Circle 1 - December 2025🎄💖

[Iris2024]

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Welcome to a wishful December 🎄🤍💞

@LifeonMarssamazing news for you! The best Xmas present! 🥰 how long had you been trying? Xx

AF arrived for me this morning. Going into cycle 10 since miscarriage but cycle 14 since ttc. Got my follow up fertility appointment Tues for .y results and hopelly having partners DNA frag results back x

Congrats @LifeonMarss !! What an amazing news!

@ChaE05 sorry to hear. I hope the appointment will bring you the answers you need

Amazing news @LifeonMarsseverything crossed for a smooth pregnancy journey for you.

I’m just waiting for my peak. My app says I should be ovulating today but I think it’s a day or 2 early. Will test again later.

@ChaE05hope you get the answers you need. It’s always rough when your period arrives when you’re hoping it won’t

Congratulations @LifeonMarss ❤️ what a Christmas present. How long have you been trying?

Sorry AF has shown @ChaE05 ❤️

Im CD4 - AF arrived 🥺😭 Feel really low this evening and keep crying! I feel like all odds are stacked against me as I feel it will never happen. How happy & relieved I felt catching in August for it just to be taken away. I think this time of year is the most hardest time when your TTC.

Really sorry @Iris2024 that feeling of it never happening is such an awful one! I said to my husband yesterday, I usually find xmas so exciting but this year I just can't get to that point. Its seeing all the "babys first christmas" posts that do it for me, especially when I remember saying last christmas "oo that might be us next year" its really rubbish isn't it. Give yourself time to feel that way though, it's totally valid ❤

I should be ovulating today I think, and we've timed dtd perfectly this month, which of course means in two weeks time i'll be even more gutted..and three days before christmas, how fun that will be 😆

Huge congratulations @LifeonMarss - keeping all fingers crossed for a sticky bean. You must be thrilled!

Sorry you're out @ChaE05 - hope you're feeling alright.

And you too @Iris2024. <3 I think it's okay to allow ourselves that time to be upset and to grieve. It's hard, and bottling up those feelings aren't good for us. Do what you need to do. Feel what you need to feel. And then see how next cycle goes.

It feels kind of cruel that you only have one shot a month, doesn't it? What a weird system. Who designed this?

I'm 5dpo today. It is DRAGGING. I feel like I should at least be in the testing window now. Trying to keep myself busy and occupied - but it's that constant thought at the back of my mind all the time. I really do hate the two week window.

Oh @Iris2024I hope you’re ok. I’ve had cycles like that too where I feel totally hopeless. Be kind to yourself.

I think I’m 1dpo although I’ll admit I’m a bit unsure this month. I had a darker line on my LH strips on cd18 pm and cd19 am but only registering 0.7 so expected it to go up again on cd19 pm but it went right back down to 0.2 which appears to be my baseline level and 0.2 again this morning on cd20. Is that a big enough rise to have ovulated? I’ve had some EWCM and a bit of painful stomach so maybe ovulated yesterday. Who knows 🙈 it’s at times like this that I think I should be checking temperature too! 😅

So at the moment I’m going with 1dpo and we have dtd the past 2 days so hopefully we have hit the right window. Has anyone else had low LH levels? I think I’ve only ever caught it over 1 once or twice and I’m wondering if this is a concern or if I’m just useless with the strips!

@Iris2024 I'm so sorry. That sucks. I agree with you @Taysonic , someone told me "nature is well made" and I had to laugh.. Is it? Is it???

@LuckyDuck93 I cross everything I have for you, for a Christmas miracle.

I am arriving at the end of my 2ww (I can test from Wednesday). I thought I'd be more excited but I dresd it a bit. As long as I don't test, at least there is a chance that I am pregnant. I am getting quite anxious.

Hey @Iris2024 - I missed you tagging me in this group but definitely joining now! Sorry AF has arrived again for you. 😥

Nice to see some positives for people in this thread though!

I'm cycle 12 TTC my second (I have a little boy who is 22 months old). I have had 4 chemical pregnancies in that time so I'm just starting recurrent miscarriage investigations privately, nothing has shown up yet but lots more tests to do for me and my husband.

Currently MAYBE 2 or 3 dpo but I didn't use OPKs this month, just tried to DTD vaguely around when I usually ovulate. So not feeling hopeful, I'm just over the whole thing!! Will try not to test for pregnancy this month until AF is due to avoid the stress and heartache (which is very unlike me, I'm usually an 8dpo onwards tester!).

Hi @Fullofconfusion - my OPK scores don't tend to go very high. I think this month I had a few that were 0.8+ but not over 1. I didn't test multiple times during that period though so it's likely I just missed whenever the actual peak was and caught either side of it. Try not to worry about it too much - it's probably more likely you've not caught the actual peak than it being a sign that LH levels aren't high enough to cause ovulation. Especially if you are seeing one major peak and then it tails off.

Keeping fingers crossed for you @Allmywishcometrue - hopefully you'll be out of limbo one way or another soon. I very much hope it's good news. But I know exactly what you mean about wanting to still have that chance of hope... My background on my phone is a picture I had ChatGPT create for me when I was TTC after my first MC earlier this year and it says Hold onto Hope.

Nice to see you @charlzz! I think I'll be in the same camp as you this month - going to try holding off on testing as long as I can. I know the date I test won't change the outcome in the longrun, but it's the emotional rollercoaster of it all that's so hard to handle.

@LuckyDuck93 Ive woken up with a little bit more of a better mind space. I’m just finding it harder this month leading up to Christmas for some reason. My fertile window is mid December and then AF is due around New Year’s Eve! I don’t want to be going into 2026 sad 😩 At least we’ve all got each other and I hope you get blessed news soon.

@Taysonic You’re right, I think I’ve bottled it all up since the pregnancy slipped away from me and for some reason it’s all coming out now. I really hope we are lucky again soon my love ❤️

@Fullofconfusion Thank you 🙏 this group keeps me going. I’m no expert on LH tests but the test line needs to be as dark or darker than the control line.

@Allmywishcometrue I hope you get good news this cycle and sending you so much baby dust and love ❤️ ✨

@ChaE05 I feel exactly the same as you, I feel helpless, hopeless, less of a woman and over it! Sending you so much love ❤️

@Iris2024 I think it's because when a holiday (or event) is coming,we can't help but telling ourselves that "I will probably/might be pregant by then" and plan accordingly and when that event come and we"re still not pregnant, it hits us in the face harder.

Also, I don't really care about Christmas, I just want a baby child to have a magical Christmas. It makes it harder for sure.

I didn't mean for my post to be such a bummer 😂

I mean we just need to learn to enjoy things for ourselves. It's quite consumming to test for the ovulation, wait 2 weeks,do a pregnancy test, recoblver, start testing for ovulation again.

Maybe it's good to take a month off once in a while and put ourselves first.

@AllmywishcometrueI think this thread is a safe space for us all the share how we’re feeling. I hope you’re ok.

I found last Christmas particularly hard as it would have been my baby’s first Christmas and I I was expecting to be making so many memories. big events always hit harder. Turning 40 was another one for me as I’d said I wouldn’t try past 40 and yet I’m still trying

I am trying to see the positives this cycle- I am CD7 with AF due just after Christmas. So hopefully that means I will be very busy and distracted during the TWW for once… Plus I can have plenty of wine and cheese over Christmas.

@lepoissonM wine and cheese at Christmas is always the positive! The only thing getting me through 😆

@LuckyDuck93also I’m going home to France for Christmas so we will have all the good stuff!

This sounds delightful! Enjoy that wine and cheese!

I'm 7dpo today. The desire to begin testing is pretty strong despite knowing it's too early and I'll just end up feeling sad. I don't know why it gets to such an obsessive feeling so quickly.

What do we think? Is this just a horrible indent 😢 I definitely see the second line just not sure if it's a positive. I think it's lacking colour and I know frer are a nightmare for indents

@Ttcbabyward It's hard to tell, I don't really see it. How many DPO are you? Can you buy some simple pink dye test?

The photo quality is terrible! The second line is definitely there just unsure if it's an indent. 9dpo evening so will definitely test again Thursday/friday FMU for hopefully a more reliable result

@Ttcbabyward very hard to tell as the quality has been ruined, often happens on here unfortunately :( fingers crossed for you though !!

as for me I’m 8/9dpo today (leaning towards 9) BFN for me! So negative in fact I can’t even try to gaslight myself into believing there’s a hint of anything 😂

I promised myself I wouldn’t test till at least 12dpo and I broke that promise and now Ive hurt my own feelings 😂

trying to remind myself it’s okay and there’s still time. The implantation window isn’t even closed yet so I don’t know why I’m so down about it !! I’ll be spending today nursing my emotional wounds 😂