33yr ttc#2 - buddies needed!!!

[Hopfl4bbynbr4]

Sorry it took so long today ladies! Dh is home and has been driving me insane all day I finally had a few minutes so I told him to find something to do for a few minutes while I update you all on my test for the day. I was very surprised to see a vvvvvvv super faint line that had pink in it! With that said, I can not for the life of me get it on camera! I'm also not excited about it yet either because I'm only 8dpo so it could go either way. The cramps are now all the way gone and my boob's are soooo sore (but that's normal for me) so now I'll just use the ic's for the next few days. I'll use one of my frer on 12dpo which will be on Saturday.

I haven't had a chance to read through the replies yet but I will as soon as I get a chance.

 

[curiousowl]

Ahhh, that's so exciting Hopfl! They say a line is a line! Fx it gets darker quickly. I almost feel like I see something but I'm on my phone so it's hard to tell.

 

[Hopfl4bbynbr4]

It's OK. I couldn't get it to show on any pictures lol

Excuse the old dirty scratched up ring. It's the first ring dh ever gave me when we were teens so it's pretty old lol

 

[towwife14]

That's so exciting for you! I truly hope that line gets darker for you every day!

 

[Hopfl4bbynbr4]

Thank you, Tow and Curious! Me too. I'm trying not to get my hopes up and get disappointed again. The disappointment sucks.

 

[happycupcake]

I'm pretty sure I have, I think my temps are a little out because of my weird sleep pattern and then being able to sleep properly randomly like that has probably changed things. I would imagine given I'm usually a light sleeper and I usually am woken by the children each night my temps probably don't fall hugely low. Then being able to sleep properly, I think perhaps my temps fell lower than usual for being more asleep if that makes sense? Because you would usually be reading the lowest temp on waking anyway, so I'm guessing the more sleep and better quality of sleep you have, the lower your temps would be since being awake or moving about increases them

That logic definitely makes sense to me!

Oh good! Sometimes things make sense more in my mind than they do actually written down or to anyone else lol

Kim, your photos are those you see it then you aren't sure then you see it. I think what's confusing my eyes is tiredness and also I think there's a reflection from your ring on them. When are you testing next? I so hope this is an early positive for you

 

[Hopfl4bbynbr4]

Happycupcake, I must have skipped over that post, sorry! I agree with Curious though, it makes perfect sense to me as well.

 

[curiousowl]

Hahaha cupcake, yeah, I totally get that! I forget do you temp orally? I know I have found that temping vaginally makes a bad night of sleep here or there affect my temps so much less. (I mean, hopefully there's no next cycle to worry about but just in case there is! And if you want to change anything, otherwise ignore me )

 

[JessyG]

Hope that test gets darker Kim!

Citrus are you any closer to ov today?

Cupcake, how long before you start testing.

Afm i am still a nervous wreck. 3.5 weeks ubtil our private scan, bricking it because my symptoms just dont seem as strong anymore. I dont have much in the way of nausea, yesterday morning then nothing all day the bloat is still there but i have extra tummy weight anyway so its difficult to tell. The aches have pretty much gone aswell. Very worried overall.

 

[JessyG]

I am a mess. I cannot stop crying reading and watching what happened in Manchester on Monday. My heart is breaking for the families of those who died and werr injured. I almost burst into tears when i had to drop my DD off at nursery and come into work. I dont want to me apart from her for a second.

 

[Sander]

Hopfl - how exciting!! Test again soon and hopefully it gets darker and darker!

Jessy - hi, haven't chatted with you yet but sorry that sounds so stressful! But I've heard symptoms come and go all the time so hopefully you are just lucky and have a super easy pregnancy!

It's funny because we haven't told ANYONE we're TTC so it's nice to have you all to talk to! Anyhow I feel satisfied with our first month, I had lots of EWCM and we BD'd several times this week including today when I had my typical lower back ache and horrible nausea that I'm pretty is the official O kickoff. Now we're into the TWW I've heard this can be so gruelling, and I'm totally one to imagine symptoms. Have any of you who've had previous pregnancies had symptoms before your period was due or was it earlier? Can't lie, I have my hopes up but I know it can take a year or longer. Anyhow just wondering what we can expect

Thanks and hope you're all doing well!

 

[citrusfruit]

Kim that's exciting! I can't make it out on that pic but I hope it does get darker tomorrow!

I got this today. CD16. We BD on CD14 and will again tonight to keep up every other day. I would bet it will still be dark tomorrow and the next day and I will o on CD19 like usual! But we shall see, maybe it'll be a day or two early this month.

 

[happycupcake]

Kim don't worry, I find I disappear for a few hours and there's about a million more posts here so it's easy to miss some lol

Curious, I do temp orally, yes. Temp went up today, I'm pretty sure I ovulated CD12 I'm used to having weird sleep so I'm also used to seeing rocky temps, so when little change happens it seems weird!

Jessy, I suspect I will start testing stupidly early like 7dpo because I don't learn lol!
I know these early weeks are scary and seem unpredictable but the chances of anything being wrong are SO much smaller than the opposite. Also, the way I see it is like this: at the start, hormones are adjusting and during your luteal phase progesterone is usually responsible for many symptoms that make us think pregnancy. So, the further into pregnancy you are, the more your body will be adjusting and getting used to the higher levels of hormones, which may mean symptoms are less prominent or disappear. Plenty of women with healthy pregnancies don't see symptoms, or see some then they disappear, or they may see all of them. Some people see lots of symptoms and something goes wrong, so symptoms don't tell you a lot. They are one piece of the puzzle. Little clues at the start, sometimes.
You don't have any pain or bleeding, and even if you did this doesn't mean something is wrong - I had pain, as in stopped me from walking pain, on one side during my fourth pregnancy (second child) and spotting/bleeding and he was fine, it was a cyst and the bleeding was put down to sex irritating my cervix.
Hormones will also be responsible, in part at least, for how you are currently feeling emotionally. With regards to your pregnancy and the tragedy that happened in Manchester. Before, you may have been better able to separate yourself to a degree, but pregnancy makes you so emotional, things are so heightened that things become harder to cope with. You aren't an irrational crazy woman, as of course this kind of thing could happen anywhere to anyone, but the best way you can show your respect for those who have passed and show those awful excuses for humanity they are nothing more than just that, is to carry on with your usual life. Ignoring them is the most harmful form of attack against terrorists, because they want your thoughts and focus, they want the limelight and the more we refuse and stick our fingers up at them, the weaker they become. So, say a prayer for those who have passed on and those who are suffering, but continue on in your life because you have a beautiful child to be happy for and another on the way

 

[happycupcake]

Sander - you probably aren't imagining symptoms in your lp, progesterone can cause many of them which can be annoying! This is probably why you feel nauseous immediately after ovulating, the fast increase in progesterone can do that. It can make it hard to tell the difference between usual lp symptoms and pregnancy symptoms, but listening to your body and learning what's usual for you in a regular cycle will help.

Citrus - that's a lovely positive OPK! Is it usual for you to see a few days of positives?

Will add my chart, although it isn't interesting and I didn't pee on it lol

 

[happycupcake]

I hope everyone else is ok

 

[annio84]

Kim, can't see anything but they can be so hard to pick up on camera early on. Really hope it gets darker for you.

Jessy, I know exactly what you mean. I can't stop thinking about it either and just kept crying yesterday

 

[Daisies11]

Citrus good luck with the bd, good you've agreed on a plan. Hope this is the month that catches the egg!

Kim, so excited for you! I hope it gets darker when you next test, keep us updated!

Jessy. I know how you're feeling re symptoms, I'm over analysing every little thing (or lack of!). How many weeks will you be at the private scan?

And I totally agree about Manchester. This world is so scary and it makes me so fearful for what my kids are going to grow up in. The worst bit is that there doesn't seem to be an end to it. If only someone had a magic wand to make the world a happy place!

 

[JessyG]

Daisies i will be 8 weeks and 2 days! I am 4 weeks 5 days just now my ticker is off slightly.

 

[happycupcake]

This is easier said than done, but the way to fight terror is by not showing terror. If everyone were able to switch off, they wouldn't get the reaction they desire, therefore their control lost and zero point in doing what they do. The reason they keep on is because human nature allows us, and even encourages us to play into their game. It's a natural response to fear a threat, but remove the fear, you remove the threat because the threat loses its point. Their only goal is to control people by instilling fear. The only way to defeat them is to do the opposite of what we currently do, but like I said this is easier said than done.
You can't force people like that to change, they have been brainwashed, probably from an early age, so they think their way is the right way and everyone else should conform. Since you can't change them, or the majority at least, I don't see any other way to beat them than to do the above.
ISIS are pathetic. They lay claim to many attacks but can't back it up, they can't prove they did it, so it's clear then why they do it. And the whole virgins after they die reward makes precisely zero sense, since you haven't any sexual desires in the afterlife. What would be the point? You can't reproduce and this is the primary reason we have those urges. Their whole little group is pointless! Their beliefs are illogical. They don't deserve media attention and the less we give them, the less we promote fear, the less power they have

 

[towwife14]

Hope all of you ladies are doing well. According to my chart and CM I'm entering my fertile phase today. We'll probably BD tonight and Saturday, as long as hubby doesn't bail out on me. Fingers crossed that he doesn't. Last night he sounded pretty sincere.
I really don't think he means to push me off or reject me. I like to blame it on his job. He owns a towing company/repair shop, so he works very long, strange hours. Some days he'll leave the house at 7am and not return till the following morning because he's busy.