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

[hunni12]

Congrats august!!

dtd with OH a minute ago, went to the bathroom and had some water faint brown spotting not much tho. Guess we irritated the cervix...oops lol

also for laughs me and OH were sitting in the car outside the house when a cat jumped on the hood of my car and started coming towards the front window trying to ge to me...needless to say I hopped out and ran lol

 

[bluefish1980]

OMG. Just had another panic moment with soft cups.

Warning TMI!

We DTD last night so it popped one in right after. I left it in over night but I just tried to remove it........ OMG. I couldn't reach it!!!! I tried all the tricks I used the other day but nope, could only touch it, not hook it. DH had already gone to work!!!

In the end, I had to use something to hook it. So gross. I don't think I can use them anymore. It's a shame because I like that it keeps all the in but the stress afterwards isn't worth it.

Maybe they should include a hook in the pack! Or is it just me?!?!

 

[Mintastic]

Eep Blue - glad you got it out. I am sure it isn't just you but like I said before we obviously have very different anatomy. Do you already have kids?
My...space up there...isn't so far back that I could ever lose anything up there. Or my fingers are just long? Who knows.

 

[bluefish1980]

No kids yet. We are TTC #1.

Think I have a Large space LOL. It got suctioned in and that was it! Of course, it could be I have short fingers. Which I think I do f

 

[KrissyB]

Aww Blue! *hug* That kind of horror story is my worst nightmare (and why I just can't bring myself to use softcups)

AFM - I made it through yesterday without spotting! Which is an official record for me - and I will fully endorse Vitex for anyone thinking about it because it's clearly doing SOMETHING. Today I had a temp dip.... which could mean A. AF is around the corner (but normally I spot for several days before she shows) B. Implantation dip (Please oh please oh please ) or C. just a flukey temperature with no significance whatsoever lol.
Boobs are still not fitting in my bra and I jumped a little when I got in the shower today because they were so sensitive to the water. Also I'm retaining so much water my engagement ring doesn't fit, and both my rings (yellow gold) left black marks all over my fingers last night which has never happened before (don't think I've started any new lotion or soaps and the rings themselves had no marks/dirt). Again any changes COULD just be a result of the Vitex changes though.
Fertility friend expects me to get AF tomorrow, Thursday at the latest... so let the saga continue! lol

 

[DandJ]

Blue- Your experiences are making me nervous to try softcups! I think I have short fingers too but I haven't reached far enough up there to touch my cervix to see if I can even touch reach it at all.

 

[hunni12]

Im feeling pretty down ladies....why do dreams taunt us. Had a dream last night that frer was pos and i did a digi and it popped up pregnant 1-2 weeks..sigh a girl can only dream

 

[misspriss]

Blue - that's crazy! I've always felt like they were in danger of falling out they came down so far. I had to really hook those suckers behind the pubic bone or they'd pop right out! Sometimes my bell-shaped cup gets pretty far up in there, but never so far I've worried about getting it out! Crazy!

For everyone else that is worried, don't be! Tons of women have perfectly un-scary experiences with them and it's not such a risky thing that it isn't worth trying. We used softcups when we conceived DS! And we will be using them next cycle if we don't get it this cycle.

Krissy - FX'd it's B or C (really hopefully B!) I know what you mean about the water hitting sensitive boobs. When I was pregnant with DS, I had a really hard time getting a shower because our shower was TINY and it was hard to get out of the water flow, at least, at nip level, and the water pressure was *great* so it really hit those sore nipples!

AFM, I had some mild insomnia last night. I did have to get up to pee, but I took some meds right before bed that you take with a full glass of water, so it doesn't really count. I got up and went to the gym this morning (after sleeping in 30 minutes!) so I had to cut my workout short. I feel like I pushed myself a bit too far, but it's only the TWW, there are some things I don't do (alcohol, meds not safe for pregnancy, etc), but exercising isn't guaranteed to cause any problems, so I'm not so worried. I just take far longer rest periods that a normal person would, and listen to my body and not go TOO far. Let's hope it works out!

 

[misspriss]

Aw hunni no reason to feel down, perhaps it is an indicator of something coming?

 

[hunni12]

Who knows...i put a liner on and it has some yellow stuff in it. Looks almost like pee but its not

 

[bluefish1980]

Although I keep scaring myself I really want to keep using them because I've heard such good things about them.

I don't mean to scare anyone else. They really are comfy when in, I can't feel it at all. I just struggle to remove it.

Could I be putting it in too far? I've been putting it just behind my pelvis bone.

Hunni - those dreams are horrible. I always wake up so hopeful/ excited and then it's ugh, reality'

Krissy - those symptoms sound good to me! Good luck x

 

[macydarling]

Super confused. Woke up today and I'm having a lot of EWCM on CD 8?! The hell? Does this mean I should start OPKs now instead of CD 10? Confused...

 

[bluefish1980]

If you're anything like Hunni this cycle, get testing!!!!

Ok ladies. (Yes, me again!) you may remember last week I posted what looked like a faint yet I hadn't even ovulated yet. Well, I should've ovulated yesterday or today according to OPKs. However, just because I have loads of HSG tests, I took one for fun (yes, I am an addict!!)

Anyway, this funny line came up within the time window. This is a different test to the last one. Any ideas?

 

[Mintastic]

Macy - yes start OPKs now!
Blue - not familiar with that brand and not sure what I am looking at... I see half a pink line and then a white line. Where is the control? Can you label with arrows?

 

[bluefish1980]

Mint - not sure how to do that as I am only on my phone.

I think I took it at a funny angle.
The control line is on the left and then the test line is half pink and half nothing. Although in real life it looks like light pink rather than nothing.

 

[misspriss]

Macy, start the OPKs! I get fertile CM for like 7-10 days before I ovulate, but I'm BF'ing.

Blue, I see a line but it's only a half line, what's up with that?

 

[bluefish1980]

Mint - are these any better?

Misspriss - that's what I mean. It's weird. But it came up within the test time.

 

[bluefish1980]

Or this...

 

[misspriss]

Do you have any more tests? maybe from a different batch?

 

[Mintastic]

Yeah that is super weird Blue. I would definitely try a different type of test after you hold for a few hours.