TTC 2026!

[EmCha]

Hi everyone, I created the TTC 2025 thread but as we are heading into a new year, it only seems right to start a new thread. Anyone here going to be TTC in 2026? I started my journey earlier this year and after 9 months/cycles trying, I’m yet to see a positive test. Finding it difficult not to lose hope but hopefully 2026 will be our year. Would love to connect with others who are trying to conceive. It’s a tough journey but it helps to have a supportive group of women to chat to! ❤️ Good luck everyone, baby dust for 2026!

This was the first thread that came up on my mumsnet feed. Maybe it’s a sign. Trying to convince DH for baby number 3 🫣

Hello!
I am hoping to re-start our TTC journey end of this month and into 2026.
TTC for second child, started trying around April and fell pregnant on cycle 5, but very sadly ended in an early MMC a few months ago. I then wanted a break from it all for a couple months and now feeling more ready to re-start again and see how it goes! Going into my fertile window next week!
wishing you best of luck with it as well!

Hi all! I’ll be joining you all after my wedding in March, hope it’s ok if I follow the chat early for advice, and company 😊

My first ovulation/ TTC period falls on my honeymoon a few days after my wedding - I didn’t plan it that way! Just happens to be!

However, I’ll be 37, so trying not to get too excited as I am aware it may be a rocky road ahead. Trying to stay positive 🙏🏽 but realistic 😞

I’ve bought his and hers pre-conception vitamins which we are starting next week (Wild Nutrician) - not sure if anyone has used these before with positive success?

Forgot to add - it will be our first

One thing I recommend doing is some general blood tests to check your thyroid and iron levels, particularly ferritin. I have low ferritin - 18, the range is 10 to 291 so I’m on the low end yet still classed as normal! From my research, any level under 30 is linked to fertility issues so best to get on iron supplements sooner rather than later. I’ve been on ferrous sulphate tablets for a month now and so wish I’d realised earlier in my journey!

Rather than a fertility supplement where everything is in low doses, I take things separately. I’m on folic acid with vitamin d3, coq10 200mg, omega 3 and then of course my ferrous sulphate.

Hey all!
Ttc baby no2.
Stopped pill in September period only returned dec 14th.
Ovulation juat finished. O ly able to dtd once as with family over xmas so only one time we have been along aha! Managed on cd 13! So fingers crossed 🤞
Sending luck to all x

I'm currently 8dpo roughly, I had taken a break from ttc and just letting it happen if it does, no more tracking, stressing and obsessing over it. It's been 9 years of ttc #2 so we will see what happens. Hoping 2026 is our year but who knows.

Hey all!
Ttc baby no2.
Stopped pill in September period only returned dec 14th.
Ovulation juat finished. O ly able to dtd once as with family over xmas so only one time we have been along aha! Managed on cd 13! So fingers crossed 🤞
Sending luck to all x

There are 8 years between my 2DC. 2 year old and 10 year old.

We wanted a 3-4 year gap so we would get quality time with both DC. 1 ectopic and miscarriage before DC1 and another 2 miscarriages before DC2. We had breaks in trying, times we were just seeing what happened and phase of activity trying.

It will happen for you 🙂

I hope so I had ectopic 5 years ago and another last year which resulted in a tube removal and I have had 8 miscarriages also .so it feels like a second child is not on my side

Thanks for creating @EmCha I'd love to join you all. DH and I have just started ttc#2 (DD is 9 months). Currently on the CD2 having had implant removed on 4th Dec. Sending you hope for 2026 ✨

@RibenaCocktail Congratulations for your wedding, how exciting! I conceived DD just after I got engaged - I think it was all the love and joy in the air. Fingers crossed for you xx

@MadeWithL0ve wow that sounds like a tough journey, sending you strength for 2026

Hi all, im going to join here too. Hoping to start TTC in April after 2 previous losses (haven't been in a good place physically or mentally since the losses so giving myself till April to loose some weight and adapt a healthier lifestyle) currently have no living kids and I am very heartbroken and really longing for a baby xx will be nice to have others to check in with 💓

This is so helpful. My ferritin is 32 in recent bloods and GP has just said everything looks normal, do you need to be prescribed the ferrous sulphate? Thank you.

Hey thanks for creating the thread. TTC #1 since November last year, did fall pregnant earlier this year but unfortunately lost the baby. We’ve been trying for 7 cycles now without success. Really really hoping 2026 is our year, 2025 was so hard for a lot of reasons.

@RibenaCocktail One thing that I found works really well is if you post a screenshot of ingredients to chat gpt and ask it to analyse for fertility purposes it will tell you what’s good about it and if it’s lacking anything. I’m on some pills by Equi London which are reallt
good.

It’s frustrating with ferritin because of how big the range is. When it’s low, doctors don’t seem to care. A lot of GPs don’t acknowledge the link between it being low and fertility so you have to really advocate for yourself. I asked to be prescribed it and thankfully they did. However, it was cheaper to buy over the counter at the pharmacy but they still wanted to see my prescription before giving it to me. The higher you can get it, the better. 32 is still quite low. When people go through IVF they like it in at least the 50s I believe so defo try get on it if you can. 😊

Lovely to have so many of you on the thread already! I’m so sorry to hear about the losses some of you have experienced. Sending lots of love and baby dust to you all!

I’m feeling really low at the moment. AF arrived on Christmas Eve after tricking me being one day late. I was so hoping for a Christmas miracle so struggling a bit this month. Hoping cycle 9 will be the one! 🤞🏼

Thank you so much. Ill speak to my GP and check if they will prescribe it for me. Will try to increase it naturally too if I can, Im not a big red meat eater but will aim to get it higher. I have had 1 chemical pregnancy at 5 weeks and 1 mmc at 10 weeks so I am totally desperate for things to work out next time. I am longing to become a mam, like so many of us. It is a sad journey but I hope 2026 will bring all of us some good luck. If you have any other tips in regard to bloods/supplements or anything else I would greatly appreciate it as my GP hasn't said much at all and sometimes the Internet gives conflicting advice x

I’m so sorry about your losses. 💔

Coq10 is meant to be amazing! Proven to improve fertility rates. Good to get your partner on it too. My partner and I have been taking it for around a month now. Apparently starts to help after 3 months of taking. I’ve done so much research as just so desperate to be a mum too! 2026 will be our year. ❤️

Thank you so much! We had both been taking a general conception multivitamin at the time but I think the recommendations on this thread to take the more important ones in higher doses may be a better idea as when I look at the multivit now everything is quite low dose.
After the losses I stopped taking everything including Folic Acid as I just was not in a good place and couldn't think of anything fertility/conception related but I am giving myself 3 months now of healthy eating, exercise, meditation, yoga and vitamins in the hope that it will help us to conceive and more importantly for us to have a baby that sticks 🤞 I want to reduce my stress levels as Ive been quite stressed since the losses.
The very best of luck on your journey too and yes 2026 will definitely be our year xx

How's everyone feeling, is anyone in there Tww?

Hello!

Which COQ10 do you take? Is this Ubiqunol?

Thank you!

I’m not quite there yet - waiting to ovulate later this week, either Thursday or Friday!
How about you?

I have been TTC for the last 6 months, I am 35 with low AMH. It hasn’t been easy, but I hope I get there soon! I am currently ovulating and I have hit ‘O Day’ (we have done the deed) over the last few day, but quite unsure of something. I did an LH strip an hour away and the line has become less darker, is it still worth trying today?

I think 10dpo I stopped tracking this month just going off symptoms ect which I know isn't accurate I wanted a more laid back month on the run up to Christmas, plus the last time I stopped stressing over it I fell pregnant it ended in an ectopic though

Ubiquonol is best but it’s way more expensive so I have ubiquinone instead and taking 200mg. It’s from Holland and Barratt. Went with their own brand. Got a really good deal in the Black Friday sale and got 6 months worth!