TTC’ers #2

[grumpycat]

Hi guys!

I need some advice as I can't ask anyone else right now not even my husband!

So after seeing @grumpycat said she took an OPK test and it came up high and then it followed a positive pregnancy test I thought I'd try my luck I took an ovulation test yesterday and it came up higher than I expected. Normally there's barely a line when I'm out of my fertile period. So I thought I'd take a pregnancy test, just a cheapie one. I saw the feintest line but I put it down to being an evap.

Anyway I've taken another this morning. First photo is from before I dipped it, second one is 3 mins later, third is about 6 mins later.

Advice?!!! What do you think? I'm trying not to get my hopes up...! I'm 10DPO.

Oh. I have no idea how to upload more than one photo so that's the last one!

that looks like a pretty good line for 10dpo!! Eeeek how exciting!!

Well, I caved and took a FRER 10dpo and unsurprisingly showed a BFN. I am exhausted.

10dpo is still so early though, implantation might not have happened yet

 

[Lola UK]

Hello friends! If you ovulate a week later than normal, is it normal to have a bit more aches and pains? I feel like I am ovulating a week late which is unusual, I’m having a bit of lower belly pain (I can’t describe it ) and I don’t normally have this when ovulating. I sometimes have an ache on the side I’m ovulating on.

I think I need to start tracking ovulation because I obviously I haven’t got a clue

 

[Marymoo13]

That’s 100% a line! Congratulations wishing you a happy healthy pregnancy

 

[grumpycat]

Morning everyone,

I said I wasn’t going test Again but obv i dis with FMU. There’s a slightly darker line there today. I have posted a pic but it’s not even squinter today! Do you think this could be the start of something? I’m now 5 days late but do we think I could have ov later than I thought? I have no tests left now so I’m actually going to wait until Tuesday as that will be 2 weeks exactly after when I think we conceived if I have ovulated later. My last AF a was 20th March x

I can see a v v faint like there, did you track Ov? If not there’s a chance you did O later and perhaps it’s still mega early days

 

[Clojo92]

Hope everyone is doing ok

question for anyone who monitors BBT - I was feeling so hopeful because mine has been rising since my peak, but now I’m 11DPO and it dropped significantly this morning. Does this mean AF will turn up in the next couple of days? Or would I need to see a few days of low temp before AF? Felt so sad seeing it low today am I thinking too much into it?

Could be an implantation dip? That would happen around a week post ovulation. How long have you been tracking? If you've only just started it may take a couple of cycles to see patterns and they way you body behaves in that time.

 

[Dipdab]

I said earlier in the thread that Amazon had FR tests for cheap - mine were fake!
Amazon have refunded me but on my test there was no branding or indicator on it. Not trusting the faint positive I got in this case but thought I’d make you all aware

I was going to buy some from Amazon but saw lots of the reviews saying there were fake! That’s shocking!

 

[Sunshinegal]

Girls I just want to ask a quick question.
AF was due today for me usually I’ll have some spotting the night before but all I had was a tiny wipe of pink, this morning I went to the toilet it looked like I’d started naturally I was fuming but I put a tampon in & felt like it was full a few hours after I changed it and it was empty, my second one of the day I’ve just taken out again was pretty much empty baring in mind I’ve had it in for 6/7 hours.
I felt a tiny pinching cramp on the right side of my pelvis yesterday afternoon in Tesco. Could that have been implantation? Or am I getting my hopes up and AF will have a proper go tomorrow

Usually my periods the heaviest on the first and second day only lasting 4 on average. TTC is the most confusing thing I’ve think I’ve ever done

See what happens today if nothing shows do a test. If you can hold out, I know it's hard.

Fingers crossed for you!

 

[JLXRD]

Are you using the pink clear blues or the purple? The pink ones don’t do flashing smileys - just the static smiley on peak day, whereas the purple ones do flashing ones the days leading up to your peak, then the static. Just clarifying this as I had the pink ones and read on here about flashing smileys and was so confused but the pink ones don’t do that.

Definitely the purple ones, I got them because I like the idea of the flashy smiley a few days before but I know some people go straight to the static one even on the purple (or only get the flashing one!)

Hopefully I ovulate soon or the purple ones are gonna get expensive

 

[Clojo92]

Hi everyone, this thread is so informative, I had never heard of monitoring BBT before. TTC is a complete minefield! Like others have said, we were educated that pregnancy could happen so easily, and taught all of the non-natural ways to prevent it.

Can anyone recommended a good thermometer for measuring BBT and a good “monitoring BBT for dummies” link to explain how to do it/what to look out for?

Usually BBT thermometers are advertised with an app to will help to track but here's a link to explain BBT further. I got a basic one from Amazon fairly cheaply!

 

[pinkstock]

So after I was a total blubbering mess yesterday I took a test. And then I took another. And another. And then my partner got me a digital as we’ve had some outrageous false tests the past couple of months. Turns out...I’m pregnant. 4 weeks 1 day by my dates. Crikey.

I just wanted to say that this has been the most incredibly supportive group and I have never rooted for strangers on the internet so much in my life. I don’t know what else to say as I want more than anything for you all to get your positives but thank you all for your kind words over the past few months, being on tattle really has meant so much more than just being a horrid troll (). You ladies are a top top bunch and I’ve got everything crossed for all of you

ahhh congratulations this is amazing news!

 

[Sallycinnamon_]

Thank you @grumpycat & @Dipdab
So far I have only been tracking period / ovulation on my iPhone health app so if it can be quite off I definitely need to track elsewhere.. I didn’t realise that!
It seems like a good step then would be trying premom app, ovulation kits and pregnacare. I haven’t measured cervical mucus so that’s something for me to look into now too.
My periods are luckily bang on regular so hopefully it’s just a case of me not getting my ovulation dates correct. Thank you so much for the starter advice. Trip to boots on my lunch tomorrow for my sticks and vitamins and keeping my fingers crossed for next month

Like others have said, depends how hard you want to go. Definitely recommend starting some vitamins.
OPKs may seem overwhelming at first but once you get used to them. Premom is probably the best app in my opinion. The longer you use the app for the more it gets to know you, so don’t necessarily trust it at first when it gives you an ovulation date. CM is a really good indicator, you’re looking for egg white looking mucous once you see that, start having sex

 

[Mathilderose99]

I’ve continued taking LH strips after my peak, just to be sure that I don’t get a second one, but the strips are coming up with zero, like hardly even a sniff of a line except the control line
Edited to say: obviously I’m glad so far there is no secondary peak but wouldn’t there be a faint line?!

Is this normal?!

I had the same as this too! no idea if its normal

 

[Dipdab]

Morning ladies. Anyone for a game of can I see a line or am I trying to convince myself of something not there? We opened another one to compare and definitely thought we could see something. Currently day 25, but my cycle varies from 24-30 days
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Looks like something is there! I would take another one tomorrow morning to see

 

[grumpycat]

Finally got my smiley face! On day 19!

yessss go girl

 

[Makeupaddict5]

I would keep trying for a few more days and see if it rises again.


Yes! The nausea is back again today and I have a banging headache

When I read what your wrote I also see it as positive but I don’t want to get your hopes up.

 

[calmyourritas]

Sometimes 28 days on the dot. Sometimes 40 days. I spoke to Dr as the long cycles were worrying me. Waiting now to go for an ultrasound of my ovaries to check theyre in working order. I read online about pill induced PCOS and that sounds realistic as my cycles have always been 28 days since I had my first period!

Do you recommend the ovulation tests? I’ve been winging it as we’ve stopped trying not to have a baby rather then actively thing to have one.

Mine have been between 29-32 but my last was 36 which I put down to my surgery last month delaying my body (you’ve got me worried now ) I’ve been on the mini pill for so long I hadn’t had a period in years so I have no idea about my cycle length or anything.

I found them useful to work out when in the cycle I actually ovulated (I honestly had no idea about stuff like this) and i was buzzing when I got my first peak fertility sign but they are expensive hence why I’ve ordered some cheapies to use. My Flo app tells me when I’m due to be ovulating and is a chance to get pregnant, so when that flashes up I start doing the ovulation tests until I get peak.

Feel like I have no idea what I’m doing but I’m going with it

 

[Clojo92]

I am not even joking, we thought last cycle we had done it too!
He kept asking me excitedly as I was a day late and I'm never late. Then he went and got a test (I don't test anymore I find it harder so I just will if period is late). I decided to wait until the morning and there it was... He was so disappointed, he actually showed it this time and said he really thought it was our month and was gutted. I'd said no way it wouldn't happen the whole time but even I had this hope creeping in, felt a bit excited.... So the upset after felt even worse. Because I felt such a fool.
Its happened before, will have random different symptoms one month. So now I just don't believe it. Symptom spotting doesn't work for me because my body just changes at random some months and it's always still been AF coming.

Well I hope they can give you some kind of answer. Makes no sense if one had told you it's that then another says it's not x

Thank you, I hope you get a BFP soon

 

[Sunshinegal]

It’s positive, I’m in shock

Congratulations, amazing news

 

[couldntthinkofaname]

Thank you all for your advice.
How often do you test?
I’ll try wait as long as possible

 

[calmyourritas]

So yesterday I wasn’t saying I hadn’t got a flashing smiley face yet this cycle on my ovulation tests - well today I got the non flashing peak fertility face?? Is it normal to not have any high fertility days and go straight to peak?