Cycle buddy wanted. Cd6 on 2/16

[proudwifey]

I may stop at the dollar store on my way home to pick up a few OPK's. I only have 2 left at home. I wanted to stop taking them because I think they add stress, but I'm just not going to be sharing my results and talking about ovulation with DH anymore. I think that stresses him out. Since we starting ttc, I must have said the word "ovulation" close to a million times to him. I'm just going to keep these things to myself for now and dtd without mentioning it.

 

[TexMel]

Haha! I think that's a great plan! My husband and I are very close and talk about almost everything in the world, but I have pretty much shielded him from OPKs and my temping and the word ovulation. He does somewhat know about a fertile window, but he doesn't belive me it is so short. That's why I had to just lay it out there in those words on Sunday night "tonight's the night, if you want to try, this is the last chance this month, so it is up to you."

I'm not sure how he has slept through my temping every morning so far, and I have the thermometer out in the open on my nightstand, but he seems oblivious about all of it. And I've tried to keep my OPKs in my bathroom drawer, not really hiding them, but not making him see them and think about them nonstop. He saw the box when it came from Amazon.

That's why I'm glad I found this forum and some amazing women to talk through all of these thoughts with, so I can conceal my overthinking and overanalyzing from him.

 

[TexMel]

I'm 5dpo and had a dip below cover line in my temp this morning. I have had constant cramping since o, which is not normal for me. Yesterday, I had a moment of slightly sharper pain like someone was trying to stab the left side of my uterus with a pen or something. But, it's been back to dull cramps ever since. Watery to slightly creamy cm, but more of it than usual. No symptoms other than that. Trying not to get my hopes up too much.

 

[proudwifey]

I haven't mentioned the word "ovulation" to my DH in days and it seems to make things better. However, I am nervous that I won't ovulate. I've been temping and haven't had a jump in temps. I also had 2 close to positive OPK's and very egg whitey cm a few days ago. I'm stressing about not ovulating, but stressing will cause no ovulation. Viscous cycle....

 

[TexMel]

It truly is vicious! You may just have a funky cycle this time like I did last time. I wasn't sick or stressed or anything, but I think I missed o, and then AF came 21 days late. I do not wish that on you, but it does happen to a lot of women every once in a while. And then the next cycle, it goes back to normal. I just kept saying, I just want AF to come so I can start over, like I wish my body had a "reset" button. It finally did.

I had a temp dip on 5dpo, and then a huge 2nd spike today (7dpo). I guess if it is still high tomorrow, I'll have a triphasic chart. Ff says that doesn't necessarily mean anything, you can have a triphasic chart whether you're pregnant or not, but more pregnant women tend to have them. So, I guess my chances are a little increased. No other new symptoms really. Just really trying to be patient. I had originally said I was waiting until the 13th, but I may give in and start testing on the 10th.

Here's a screen cap of my chart:

 

[proudwifey]

Yeah I'm hoping this cycle is just weird. I'm at cd22 and no ovulation yet. No temp rise. Very discouraging.

 

[TexMel]

I'm feeling discouraged today, too. No symptoms. I just don't "feel pregnant" if that makes sense. Blah!

 

[proudwifey]

A little update. Today, I had my first clear positive OPK. After seeing today's, I can now say that I have not had a positive OPK before. I am so overly excited. Finally, things are looking up for me. My husband and I never really fight, so of course we got into an argument this morning (not about anything ttc related). I'm hoping that by the time I get home from work, we won't be arguing anymore because the time is NOW! I did dtd twice yesterday cause I could see that the OPK's were getting close to positive.

 

[proudwifey]

Any update from you ladies?

My update is that I have had two-three days of really clearly positive OPK tests and have been dtd as much as possible. My temp has not risen yet so ovulation hasn't occurred. I feel like tomorrow morning, it HAS to go up!

 

[TexMel]

Yay! I'm so happy for you!!! Sounds like you are timing it all correctly and can't wait for you to be in the tww with me! 10dpo today. 2 BFNs so far! Not fully discouraged, will continue testing until AF arrives.

 

[TexMel]

Here's today's test. Not sure what to think!

 

[proudwifey]

Kinda see a faint line on the edited picture. Not that much though. You're so lucky to be in the tww! I haven't even had ovulation confirmed yet, although I really think it was yesterday. I dtd the night before, and twice the day before. Do you think I'm covered? Do you think I should dtd tonight? Or there's no point. I can't believe you're on 10DPO already and we started off the same.

 

[TexMel]

Sounds like you got it all covered just right! I'm so excited for you and glad you didn't give up!
Ovulation won't be confirmed until after the temp has shifted and stays up for 3 days.
I'm going on a road trip tomorrow through Monday and I really think I am pregnant. So I'm trying to find some fun way to tell my husband while we're on our trip.

 

[TexMel]

Hey girl! Any updates?

As you can see by my ticker, I am officially preggo! I ended up telling hubby the night before we left and it was so special. Then he acted like nothing was different while we were gone. It wasn't until after we got back and I got beaming positives on an FRER and a digi and left them on the bathroom counter for him to see that he started getting all excited.

I go in for my first scan April 2.

Here are my official BFPs:

 

[proudwifey]

That's so awesome!! Congrats!!! How many dpo were you when you got a decent faint line or a positive? When is your due date?

I'm only at 7dpo today. I'm trying to keep my hopes up. Last month at this time, I was already spotting that lead to AF. I tested this morning and . I'm not completely out for this month tho. However, I'm not feeling many symptoms other than some cramping. Did you feel any symptoms?

 

[TexMel]

Thanks!! My major symptoms early on were cramping and a lower back ache. Then starting about 7dpo, my nips have been at full attention 24/7. That's about all I've experience so far!

Got my first very faint line (the one on this thread) at 11dpo, and a much darker but still faint line at 12 dpo. I took the FRER and digi on Tuesday morning when I was 17dpo.

Don't feel bad about a bfn at 7dpo! Most beans haven't even implanted by then!!

 

[proudwifey]

What was your dtd pattern? Mine was 2 and 3 days before OD

 

[TexMel]

It was day of and day after, with about 36 hours between the 2.

 

[TexMel]

How's it going? Any updates?

 

[proudwifey]

Just finished AF. Waiting for a positive OPK. I don't think it's going to happen until the end of next week. I go away next Friday and I'm hoping my fertile window is while I am away so this could be really relaxing. How about you?