30 yo and TTC #1

[MgreenM]

Reggie- I hope you feel better!

Ginger - Welcome!

Dos- it always helps when your body is predictable!

As for me, I got hit with morning(ok, evening) sickness yesterday and I was crying uncontrollably. I tried Saltines and those were too salty ( I just didn't like it) and then toast this mornning (I don't really like bread to begin with) and I just didn't like it. Lunch was yogurt(they wouldn't make me eggs because it was lunch time) and that seems to have gone well. I just had some applesauce and am doing okay. I just feel so icky. Hopefully tonight I will sleep better. Tomorrow I go to the psychiatrist so we will see what he says.

Mgreen, my bestie is pregnant right now also, she is about 6 weeks.. they have been trying for a while, so i am happy for her. She is having horrible morning sickness as well, and she tried pretzels(of all things) eats a couple when she first gets up, and it seems to help her... worth a shot

I just don't do well with anything salty (although a light pretzel might be worth trying)...the only time I cook with salt is if I am baking and even then I don't use the full amount. Everything is staying down! I think I just need to figure out what will work for me and go from there. I am going to try frozen waffles too. It's only 7:15 and all I want to do is go to bed. I wish we had a tv in our bedroom...I don't get quality sleep on the couch. I don't think my morning sickness can be called "horrible" I am just being whiny about it. I am not good when vomit is involved...never have been! My pt. today started to vomit and I ran out of the room! It's one of the few bodily substances I can't deal with (maybe the only one). I thought about trying ramen too...

Does your friend know about preggy pops? I don't know where to get them, but my sister in law swore by them during both of her pregnancies.

 

[PDReggie]

Thanks everyone. I will not worry about it then. Hopefully, I will get some sleep tonight and feel better tomorrow.

Hope you figure out something to help with the morning sickness M. I've heard good things about homemade hummus. I'm not a huge fan of hummus. But they say the chickpeas are like saltines or bread with the plainess and you can do a recipe that has the amount of salt and other flavors you are comfortable with.

 

[DosPinkies]

Ginger is what my friend told me. Ginger altoids (if you can find them) and ginger hard candies are what she swore by. She said sometimes just smelling them calmed her stomach enough to eat solid food.

 

[curiousowl]

Hey ladies! I'm back from my vacation finally. We actually ended up extending it a day. It was a lot of fun and a great distraction from this frustrating, frustrating cycle so it's a little sad to be back home, even if it is nice to see my fur babies. As I feared FF did think that I'd ovulated so I ended up adjusting my temps for the time difference until my body figured it out. I'll be kind of curious to see what happens tomorrow morning. But my temps are still all over the place so I'm not sure whether that's been from staying at several different places or what. And as of CD22 today, still no even remotely positive OPK's so that really sucks Today's was the darkest so far but not even close. Crossing my fingers for tomorrow! It's getting upsetting seeing those faint lines day after day. Hopefully I'll either O soon or AF will show so I can just move on.

Congrats to you ladies who O'd! Thinking good thoughts for you all Timing looks good for those charts I can see!

RF, sorry to hear about the 1 year mark Keep us posted on the specialist.

M, my best friend who just had her baby swore by those wrist sea bands to help with nausea during her pregnancy.

 

[Babarooskie]

Hi there! 30 yrs and TTC #1 here! Nice to meet you...
Hubby and I are TTC and so far I have been feeling symptoms that I have never felt before: cramping, severe head aches, breasts a little tender, cold-like symptoms and I noticed a light pink streak when I wiped on Sunday (TMI? lol)

Since its my first time TTC, I'm so confused on how to chart and temp and I *think* I am 10dpo. I tested yesterday and got a BFN. If anyone can help out with advice/suggestions, it would be awesome.
Thanks so much!!

 

[RForReal]

Hey ladies! I'm back from my vacation finally. We actually ended up extending it a day. It was a lot of fun and a great distraction from this frustrating, frustrating cycle so it's a little sad to be back home, even if it is nice to see my fur babies. As I feared FF did think that I'd ovulated so I ended up adjusting my temps for the time difference until my body figured it out. I'll be kind of curious to see what happens tomorrow morning. But my temps are still all over the place so I'm not sure whether that's been from staying at several different places or what. And as of CD22 today, still no even remotely positive OPK's so that really sucks Today's was the darkest so far but not even close. Crossing my fingers for tomorrow! It's getting upsetting seeing those faint lines day after day. Hopefully I'll either O soon or AF will show so I can just move on.

Congrats to you ladies who O'd! Thinking good thoughts for you all Timing looks good for those charts I can see!

RF, sorry to hear about the 1 year mark Keep us posted on the specialist.

M, my best friend who just had her baby swore by those wrist sea bands to help with nausea during her pregnancy.

Have you used OPKs before? I know some women don't ever get a positive so you may just be one of the women who doesn't. Or any chance you missed the surge? Do you normally have long cycles? Hopefully it works itself out. I know traveling and changes like time change or stress can mess with your cycle. Good luck!

 

[RForReal]

Hi there! 30 yrs and TTC #1 here! Nice to meet you...
Hubby and I are TTC and so far I have been feeling symptoms that I have never felt before: cramping, severe head aches, breasts a little tender, cold-like symptoms and I noticed a light pink streak when I wiped on Sunday (TMI? lol)

Since its my first time TTC, I'm so confused on how to chart and temp and I *think* I am 10dpo. I tested yesterday and got a BFN. If anyone can help out with advice/suggestions, it would be awesome.
Thanks so much!!

Welcome! Certainly sounds promising! 10 dpo is still early, give it a few days and test again. Good luck!

 

[RForReal]

Mgreen - I know it isn't morning sickness but whenever I am sick to my stomach ginger helps or mint tea. Both are natural so likely are safe for pregnancy and I think mint tea is naturally decaf.

 

[curiousowl]

Have you used OPKs before? I know some women don't ever get a positive so you may just be one of the women who doesn't. Or any chance you missed the surge? Do you normally have long cycles? Hopefully it works itself out. I know traveling and changes like time change or stress can mess with your cycle. Good luck!

Thank you It's only my first cycle off the pill so I honestly just don't know. I have a paranoia that if I don't O this cycle it'll never happen, though I know that's not at all true. I kind of feel like it's possible I missed my surge since I wasn't doing my OPKs with a hold earlier in the cycle and then I've been traveling a lot so that might have screwed up my temps but most likely it's just the pill dragging things out. The only other time I went off the pill I had a normal length first cycle but no idea if I O'd.

 

[Babarooskie]

Hi there! 30 yrs and TTC #1 here! Nice to meet you...
Hubby and I are TTC and so far I have been feeling symptoms that I have never felt before: cramping, severe head aches, breasts a little tender, cold-like symptoms and I noticed a light pink streak when I wiped on Sunday (TMI? lol)

Since its my first time TTC, I'm so confused on how to chart and temp and I *think* I am 10dpo. I tested yesterday and got a BFN. If anyone can help out with advice/suggestions, it would be awesome.
Thanks so much!!

Welcome! Certainly sounds promising! 10 dpo is still early, give it a few days and test again. Good luck!

Thanks so much! I'm keeping my fingers, toes and eyes crossed!

 

[PDReggie]

Hey ladies! I'm back from my vacation finally. We actually ended up extending it a day. It was a lot of fun and a great distraction from this frustrating, frustrating cycle so it's a little sad to be back home, even if it is nice to see my fur babies. As I feared FF did think that I'd ovulated so I ended up adjusting my temps for the time difference until my body figured it out. I'll be kind of curious to see what happens tomorrow morning. But my temps are still all over the place so I'm not sure whether that's been from staying at several different places or what. And as of CD22 today, still no even remotely positive OPK's so that really sucks Today's was the darkest so far but not even close. Crossing my fingers for tomorrow! It's getting upsetting seeing those faint lines day after day. Hopefully I'll either O soon or AF will show so I can just move on.

Congrats to you ladies who O'd! Thinking good thoughts for you all Timing looks good for those charts I can see!

RF, sorry to hear about the 1 year mark Keep us posted on the specialist.

M, my best friend who just had her baby swore by those wrist sea bands to help with nausea during her pregnancy.

Good to see you again! Hopefully your chart is just having trouble with the temping. But it looks like you may O soon.

Hi there! 30 yrs and TTC #1 here! Nice to meet you...
Hubby and I are TTC and so far I have been feeling symptoms that I have never felt before: cramping, severe head aches, breasts a little tender, cold-like symptoms and I noticed a light pink streak when I wiped on Sunday (TMI? lol)

Since its my first time TTC, I'm so confused on how to chart and temp and I *think* I am 10dpo. I tested yesterday and got a BFN. If anyone can help out with advice/suggestions, it would be awesome.
Thanks so much!!

Nice to meet you. Good luck this cycle. I would agree to give it a few more days.

 

[lsd2721]

Hi there! 30 yrs and TTC #1 here! Nice to meet you...
Hubby and I are TTC and so far I have been feeling symptoms that I have never felt before: cramping, severe head aches, breasts a little tender, cold-like symptoms and I noticed a light pink streak when I wiped on Sunday (TMI? lol)

Since its my first time TTC, I'm so confused on how to chart and temp and I *think* I am 10dpo. I tested yesterday and got a BFN. If anyone can help out with advice/suggestions, it would be awesome.
Thanks so much!!

Welcome! Nice to meet you! Your symptoms sound very promising! GL! Hope the witch stays away

Hey ladies! I'm back from my vacation finally. We actually ended up extending it a day. It was a lot of fun and a great distraction from this frustrating, frustrating cycle so it's a little sad to be back home, even if it is nice to see my fur babies. As I feared FF did think that I'd ovulated so I ended up adjusting my temps for the time difference until my body figured it out. I'll be kind of curious to see what happens tomorrow morning. But my temps are still all over the place so I'm not sure whether that's been from staying at several different places or what. And as of CD22 today, still no even remotely positive OPK's so that really sucks Today's was the darkest so far but not even close. Crossing my fingers for tomorrow! It's getting upsetting seeing those faint lines day after day. Hopefully I'll either O soon or AF will show so I can just move on.

Congrats to you ladies who O'd! Thinking good thoughts for you all Timing looks good for those charts I can see!

RF, sorry to hear about the 1 year mark Keep us posted on the specialist.

M, my best friend who just had her baby swore by those wrist sea bands to help with nausea during her pregnancy.

Welcome back! Hope you had a good trip! Your ovulation might just be delayed due to your travels and the fact that it's your first time off your pill! Hope you get your ovulation soon!

 

[DosPinkies]

Hey ladies! I'm back from my vacation finally. We actually ended up extending it a day. It was a lot of fun and a great distraction from this frustrating, frustrating cycle so it's a little sad to be back home, even if it is nice to see my fur babies. As I feared FF did think that I'd ovulated so I ended up adjusting my temps for the time difference until my body figured it out. I'll be kind of curious to see what happens tomorrow morning. But my temps are still all over the place so I'm not sure whether that's been from staying at several different places or what. And as of CD22 today, still no even remotely positive OPK's so that really sucks Today's was the darkest so far but not even close. Crossing my fingers for tomorrow! It's getting upsetting seeing those faint lines day after day. Hopefully I'll either O soon or AF will show so I can just move on.

Congrats to you ladies who O'd! Thinking good thoughts for you all Timing looks good for those charts I can see!

RF, sorry to hear about the 1 year mark Keep us posted on the specialist.

M, my best friend who just had her baby swore by those wrist sea bands to help with nausea during her pregnancy.

I'm sure it's just screwy because of just coming off BC. I know that the first cycle off of it can pretty much do anything it wants...unruly and rude, I know. Just hang in there. Your body is just trying to adjust. It'll figure it out.

Hi there! 30 yrs and TTC #1 here! Nice to meet you...
Hubby and I are TTC and so far I have been feeling symptoms that I have never felt before: cramping, severe head aches, breasts a little tender, cold-like symptoms and I noticed a light pink streak when I wiped on Sunday (TMI? lol)

Since its my first time TTC, I'm so confused on how to chart and temp and I *think* I am 10dpo. I tested yesterday and got a BFN. If anyone can help out with advice/suggestions, it would be awesome.
Thanks so much!!

I agree with everyone that 10dpo is probably too early to know anything. Good luck! (Oh and btw, pretty much nothing is TMI around here. No such thing when TTC. )

 

[Gingerpoppy]

Hey ladies! I'm back from my vacation finally. We actually ended up extending it a day. It was a lot of fun and a great distraction from this frustrating, frustrating cycle so it's a little sad to be back home, even if it is nice to see my fur babies. As I feared FF did think that I'd ovulated so I ended up adjusting my temps for the time difference until my body figured it out. I'll be kind of curious to see what happens tomorrow morning. But my temps are still all over the place so I'm not sure whether that's been from staying at several different places or what. And as of CD22 today, still no even remotely positive OPK's so that really sucks Today's was the darkest so far but not even close. Crossing my fingers for tomorrow! It's getting upsetting seeing those faint lines day after day. Hopefully I'll either O soon or AF will show so I can just move on.

Congrats to you ladies who O'd! Thinking good thoughts for you all Timing looks good for those charts I can see!

RF, sorry to hear about the 1 year mark Keep us posted on the specialist.

M, my best friend who just had her baby swore by those wrist sea bands to help with nausea during her pregnancy.

I had three months where after my bc i was all over the place, one cycle lasted 41days! I found FertiliTea helped me! I drank it for two weeks, and my next cycle was totally normal! I even O'd on day 14 which before it either didn't happen or it happened during my period! Good luck!

 

[ladders]

Curious I was on bcp for 13 years before coming off last Jan to let my body readjust and took a couple of months to get into rythym but then I hear the first month off you are really fertile so could be a winner for you! With opks I found the line ones really difficult as my test line never got as dark as I thought it would so the digital ones take the stress out for me.

Found some interesting research whilst endlessly looking on Internet for ideas how to conceive, basically they said that the spermies need to go through some changes in the uterus before can fertilise an egg which takes approx ten hours, meaning that the day of ovulation is no longer thought of to be the best day to bd, the day before is. Interestingly they also found that the day before that also the same so the run up really important too. Means when the egg is released have spermies waiting there ready to go

 

[MgreenM]

I am feeling much better this morning! I slept really well!Only woke up 2 or 3 times and the first time it was DH coming home. I think I just ate something too heavy! We will see how things go. I wouldn't be surprised if I have issues with each hormone surge and then do better when things level out...Thank you ladies for all of your suggestions! I will keep them in mind!

Bab- welcome!

Owl-glad you had a great trip!

I hope everyone has a good day!

 

[DosPinkies]

Interested in opinions on this. This morning I woke up at normal time to take my temp. For whatever reason I decided to do a little experiment and take it 3 times in a row. I didn't move in between times....just took it, read it, and temped again. The results were strange to me.

1st - 97.33
2nd - 97.18
3rd - 97.16

Doesn't that seem to be a pretty significant difference between time 1 & 2? I mean it was a time difference of just 60 seconds and no moving. Weird, or is it just me? Oh well. I decided to go with the first temp since I'd normally go with my first temp. I dunno...wondering if any of my fellow tempers had thoughts on that.

Oh, maybe I'm just bored since school has been closed aaaaall week due to snow. Apparently my new hobby is temping experiments. I need a life. (;

 

[lsd2721]

Hey Dos, It's alright. I've done it too!! Except I didn't have much of a difference so I don't know. I have also tested every morning at the same time and sometimes I go back to sleep (to get some better sleep because my husbands snoring keeps me awake! ha) and when I do that for about an hour and wake up to take my temp again...it's higher...I've always wondered what the reasoning is but I guess it's just different temps at different times of the day.

 

[lsd2721]

Ugh. I need things to keep my mind off of this TWW!!! I am still sort of symptom spotting, not as bad as last time but like I'll notice a little cramp and go...oooh. Or had a thought yday that I might be going to the bathroom more often. I am still not quite as excited as I was last cycle (I was so convinced I was pregnant!!). I have been off the pill for a year now and I have never had sore bbs until last cycle so I just knew I had to be! The cycle before (where I had the chemical I never really had tender bbs). But I guess I am here analyzing again! I did so good until 5dpo!!! ugh.

 

[SoonToBePreg]

Welcome to all the new ladies.

Dos, I think the temp differences are weird. It's happened to me maybe once out of five times I tried that. I'd go with the first temp as well.

Mgreen, glad ure feeling better. I'll be looking to u for tips hopefully soon since ull be the resident expert.

Ladders and all...I recently watched "the great sperm race" on YouTube. I got it from another thread and it was extremely informative about the whole process that spermies go through to reach that egg. I'd suggest u check it out if u haven't already.