AUGUST buddies~ Symptom Spotting, Girl Talk & POAS party!

[Deal9027]

ladies! Just trying to catch up on BNB since I took a vacation from work & BNB for almost a week!!

As for Mucinex I took it last month because I produce little if any EWCM and I do think it helped some but it also could have potentially caused me to O a couple days later than the month before but I don't know that for certain. You just want to make sure you get strictly Guaifenesin with no other active ingredients. I found Kirkland Muscas Relief on Amazon which is just Guaifenesin and it was super duper cheap compared to picking up Musinex off the store shelf!

 

[macydarling]

Welcome MK! Hello again to all the lovely ladies! Im playing catch up.

I havent experienced O spotting before so that would be interesting if it is! I have cut wayyyy back on my running and just doing super easy workouts. Im still on my "stress free" kick in ALL areas of my life not just TTC. Let's hope it helps.

 

[fairyy]

Macy, I also think it was ovulation spotting.

 

[macydarling]

Thank you for the encouragement! Hopefully it was since we BD'd.

Anyone else under the weather? My sinuses feel like they are about to explode and my throat is sandpaper. Yuck.

 

[curiousowl]

Just getting over a cold here macy, it's awful! I think all the vitamins I'm taking for TTC helped though. I didn't get as sick as I normally do. Feel better soon!

I'm having some (sorry, TMI) darkish CM so hoping it's related to implantation or something. Not even really enough to call spotting. And apparently my boobs were only sore this morning. I'm just going to assume I slept weird with that one.

 

[sweetbliss89]

Well DH backed out of BD tonight. I'm so angry. I tried twice today with no luck. I know he's tired, he had 24 hour duty yesterday so he didn't sleep at all until 9am when he got home this morning and he only slept until noon so I get it but I can't help but be angry. I'm only CD 10 so hopefully this doesn't mess it up. I'm just so... ahhhhh! Why couldn't he just stick with the plan we made this morning when he got home to start today, cd 12, and cd 14.

 

[jumpingo]

Well DH backed out of BD tonight. I'm so angry. I tried twice today with no luck. I know he's tired, he had 24 hour duty yesterday so he didn't sleep at all until 9am when he got home this morning and he only slept until noon so I get it but I can't help but be angry. I'm only CD 10 so hopefully this doesn't mess it up. I'm just so... ahhhhh! Why couldn't he just stick with the plan we made this morning when he got home to start today, cd 12, and cd 14.

aww, i'm sorry. similarly, last night my husband said to me, "when did this become a chore?"

hang in there - it's still early, right?

 

[Mintastic]

Ugh... If I could tell 19-year-old me that I would ever be trying to convince a man to have sex with me rather than sleep or lie on the couch she would never ever believe me.

 

[Bug222]

finally at cd1! bring on the August cycle!

 

[jumpingo]

Hmmm jump, sorry. But if your cycles are normally 30 days that makes some sense. Time will tell in any case! I have definitely seen FF give back crosshairs so you never know.

whatdya know, i put this morning's temp in and the crosshairs are back. FF is surely going to drive me insane

managed to get my husband in bed last night, just in case, but i think i'm already in the TWW.



now i need opinions on testing...

here's my Chart
and here's my predicament:

FF recommends testing at CD29 (19DPO?!), which is aug 7th and AF is due aug 9th.

my family is coming to visit aug 2-10th. i won't be able to test (or temp with any regularity) during those dates but at the same time, there will likely be drinking...and they will KNOW something is up if i don't have a beer with everyone. my husband and i are also having a big party on the 9th with our friends in japan to celebrate getting married (our wedding was in the states).

do i just wait until the 11th to test and act like nothing is any different? drink til it's pink?

or, it seems like 19DPO is a long time...do i test on aug 2nd (14DPO) and is that too early? or, if it's positive, is that too early to tell my family?

(can you say chronic over-thinker?)

i don't really want to tell my family that we are this actively trying. they know we both want kids and now that we're married, i'm sure they assume to a certain degree, but probably just assume we are NTNPing. it would make my life much less stressful for them not to know any more than that.

what would you do??

 

[jumpingo]

Ugh... If I could tell 19-year-old me that I would ever be trying to convince a man to have sex with me rather than sleep or lie on the couch she would never ever believe me.

Mint! SO TRUE!

 

[Tui]

Jumpingo, I got a bfp at 9dpo so its not too early. You can always use the old "I'm on antibiotics" line, or a sponsored dry week for some charity if you don't want to risk it.

 

[curiousowl]

That's a hard one jump! That was me last cycle. I tested early (12dpo) because we were going to a wedding and got a faint line and then spent the next 5 days obsessively testing and crying in the bathroom at our friend's wedding because I knew I was miscarrying. I didn't drink, one couple who we were at the wedding with figured it out (we hadn't told anyone we were trying), and I started bleeding the next morning.

We're going to another wedding this month around testing and so even though I'd like to wait until 17dpo to test I'll be testing at 15dpo. At that point I feel like at least I know the line should be dark on an FRER, unlike at 12dpo. If I were you I might feel inclined to test at 14dpo with an FRER and if it's negative just drink until it's pink, then test again on the 11th if I hadn't started AF. I don't think I'd tell my family that early but I also don't know if I could hold it in if I was around them and knew. (Which will be the case if I'm knocked up this cycle!)

I'm an over-thinker too if that's not obvious, lol!

 

[jumpingo]

curiousowl,

thank you so much for replying i tend to guess that most people who are on TTC boards at all lean toward the over-thinking type but it's nice to get it out there!

the more i think about it, the more i think i won't be able to resist testing on 14DPO so i guess then i have to just hope it's either very negative or obviously positive. one of those squinters might be my fate though, now that i've said it!

 

[jumpingo]

Jumpingo, I got a bfp at 9dpo so its not too early. You can always use the old "I'm on antibiotics" line, or a sponsored dry week for some charity if you don't want to risk it.

thanks tui!

unfortunately, my parents are both in the medical field, so the antibiotics excuse doesn't fly in my house wish it did though!!

if it gets to needing an "excuse," i might just have to say that i'm cutting back since we are hoping to get pregnant sometime soon. and pray really hard that they don't push it any further

 

[Tui]

Jumpingo, I got a bfp at 9dpo so its not too early. You can always use the old "I'm on antibiotics" line, or a sponsored dry week for some charity if you don't want to risk it.

thanks tui!

unfortunately, my parents are both in the medical field, so the antibiotics excuse doesn't fly in my house wish it did though!!

if it gets to needing an "excuse," i might just have to say that i'm cutting back since we are hoping to get pregnant sometime soon. and pray really hard that they don't push it any further

Doh ! Best to be as honest as you can I guess. I think you will have a really good idea if you test at 14dpo. My 15dpo test, the line stole the ink from the control!

 

[canadabear]

Hi everyone. Have read everything but phone acting up so need to type fast.
Freaking out wanting to poas but trying to wait just a few more days!! Saturday morning bring on the

 

[Tui]

Good luck canadabear x

 

[Bug222]

good luck Canada!! Lots of babydust to you!!!

 

[bluefish1980]

Jump - I had a similar situation. On my hen night AF was late. I hadn't done a test but I was unsure what to do.

In the end, I drank non-alcoholic drinks without anyone knowing. I had non-alcoholic cocktails, vodka and coke (without the vodka) and no one knew!

Canada- good luck! Fingers crossed for you!

AFM - officially CD2 nothing to report.