****December Testing Thread**** 23 BFP's

[tulip11]

Finally got crosshairs on FF feeling more hopefully today. Still cramps and mild random pains in breasts. May test this weekend FF says I am DPO 14.

 

[koj518]

yay tulip!! Good luck this weekend!

afm - I'm with the other ladies. I tried OPKs for the first time this month and they're totally taking over my life. Its like the crack and cocaine for poas addicts.. haha. I'm pretty sure I got my surge on cd13 but not totally clear since I used cheapies to test. next month, I'm gonna get couple smiley face ones.

Question for those who use OPKs, how long do you test? Once you get a surge, do you stop??

 

[garfie]

Koj - Test until you get a negative hun then stop and wait you will be in the TWW - keep yourself busy and then begin testing on HPTs



Good luck to all the other ladies



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[SMGP]

yay tulip!! Good luck this weekend!

afm - I'm with the other ladies. I tried OPKs for the first time this month and they're totally taking over my life. Its like the crack and cocaine for poas addicts.. haha. I'm pretty sure I got my surge on cd13 but not totally clear since I used cheapies to test. next month, I'm gonna get couple smiley face ones.

Question for those who use OPKs, how long do you test? Once you get a surge, do you stop??

I started testing on CD 8 I think..got my first positive on CD 19 (I have 33-35 day cycles). I got two positives on CD 19 (Sunday) and two on CD 20 (Monday) (took a third on CD 20 and it was negative). We BD on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I wish we would have on Monday, I was so exhausted on Monday, I just couldn't do it even though I really wanted to. But, we did it the two days before I O'd and the first day I got a positive...so hopefully that was enough.

Once I got my first negative, I stopped testing.

I know what you mean about being addicted to them! Some days I was taking 3 or 4 tests!

 

[koj518]

Oh wow... I am wayyy off today. I just realized it was Mimzy who said she's testing this weekend, not tulip! hahaha.

Good luck to you both! haha

thanks garfie and SMGP! since its my first month testing, I just don't know when to stop.. haha. SMGP, sounds like your surge lasted a while!! Mine was very short lived..

 

[SMGP]

Oh wow... I am wayyy off today. I just realized it was Mimzy who said she's testing this weekend, not tulip! hahaha.

Good luck to you both! haha

thanks garfie and SMGP! since its my first month testing, I just don't know when to stop.. haha. SMGP, sounds like your surge lasted a while!! Mine was very short lived..

I hate the internet! I am reading so many different things! I heard that your most fertile day is the day AFTER your first positive, which would have been Monday..and of course, we didn't BD. I have also heard that sometime the LH hormone will still show up positive if you have already O'd if you had a huge surge! So I have no idea what to believe anymore!
P.s. It is my first month too! I went a little psycho some days! It's okay though! We can all be cray cray together!

 

[chartay]

Ooo!!! Everyone's temps are looking good!!! Fingers crossed for more s!!!

 

[Twag]

GL Twag. 11dpo for me to. I usually spot brown one day before AF hoping have nothing this month. When you testing?

Yeah I always spot brown for 2 days before but nothing as of yet!
AF is due tomorrow but I will hold off testing until Wednesday if she has not shown until then as I will then be 16 dpo!
Sore boobs at the sides and they feel huge! Also still have the lower back ache!
I dunno

ladies

 

[chartay]

GL Twag. 11dpo for me to. I usually spot brown one day before AF hoping have nothing this month. When you testing?

Yeah I always spot brown for 2 days before but nothing as of yet!
AF is due tomorrow but I will hold off testing until Wednesday if she has not shown until then as I will then be 16 dpo!
Sore boobs at the sides and they feel huge! Also still have the lower back ache!
I dunno

ladies

Fingers crossed it was implantation bleeding!!

 

[Twag]

Thanks do not feel that hopeful though but then I guess I can't be too disappointed then can I

 

[tulip11]

Thanks do not feel that hopeful though but then I guess I can't be too disappointed then can I

 

[Mimzy3]

Oh wow... I am wayyy off today. I just realized it was Mimzy who said she's testing this weekend, not tulip! hahaha.

Good luck to you both! haha

thanks garfie and SMGP! since its my first month testing, I just don't know when to stop.. haha. SMGP, sounds like your surge lasted a while!! Mine was very short lived..

I hate the internet! I am reading so many different things! I heard that your most fertile day is the day AFTER your first positive, which would have been Monday..and of course, we didn't BD. I have also heard that sometime the LH hormone will still show up positive if you have already O'd if you had a huge surge! So I have no idea what to believe anymore!
P.s. It is my first month too! I went a little psycho some days! It's okay though! We can all be cray cray together!

some people have VERY long surges mine stayed positive for along time. I ended up just not testing anymore because it was driving me crazy!

 

[JustWant1]

EEEK I feel like OPKs are making me crazy!!! I got a + on Wed, Thurs, and today! Never had + OPKs for so long - although I usually stop taking them after the first +

Don't know what to do, we did the bd on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. DH is getting burnt out on it being scheduled. But now I am wondering if we should again today!!

I feel so strongly that this is our month for baby #1!!! Just want to make sure we get it!!

Well GL to all you lovely ladies and hoping we all get our +

 

[SMGP]

Does anyone check their CP? I know it isn't a way to tell if you're pregnant or not, but what is everyone's patterns? I didn't know too much about this when we first decided to TTC and I checked mine this morning and it was super low, like RIGHT there then a few hours later, it was so high I could barely reach it! Then it dropped down a little bit and now, it is up super high again! And how do you know if it is opened or closed? I know you're suppose to start tracking it after AF leaves for the month....so I wouldn't know what to base mine on today. I am 5-6 DPO and I have read things that when you're pregnant it goes up high and when AF is about to come, it drops, and I have had both in one day! Just don't know what to think!

 

[Mimzy3]

Does anyone check their CP? I know it isn't a way to tell if you're pregnant or not, but what is everyone's patterns? I didn't know too much about this when we first decided to TTC and I checked mine this morning and it was super low, like RIGHT there then a few hours later, it was so high I could barely reach it! Then it dropped down a little bit and now, it is up super high again! And how do you know if it is opened or closed? I know you're suppose to start tracking it after AF leaves for the month....so I wouldn't know what to base mine on today. I am 5-6 DPO and I have read things that when you're pregnant it goes up high and when AF is about to come, it drops, and I have had both in one day! Just don't know what to think!

It can change positions in one day, thats why they say it is best to check at the same time every day and in the same position. I have also been trying to find when is the best time to check it but haven't had any luck. When I check mine in the morning it is what I would call medium and then in the afternoon it is high. They say go by your finger, first knuckle-low, second knuckle-medium, all the way in- high. And they say after a bowl movement is the best time to check cm but not your cervix because that changes the position as well. Let me know if you find something saying when is the most accurate time to check!

 

[koj518]

Does anyone check their CP? I know it isn't a way to tell if you're pregnant or not, but what is everyone's patterns? I didn't know too much about this when we first decided to TTC and I checked mine this morning and it was super low, like RIGHT there then a few hours later, it was so high I could barely reach it! Then it dropped down a little bit and now, it is up super high again! And how do you know if it is opened or closed? I know you're suppose to start tracking it after AF leaves for the month....so I wouldn't know what to base mine on today. I am 5-6 DPO and I have read things that when you're pregnant it goes up high and when AF is about to come, it drops, and I have had both in one day! Just don't know what to think!

It can change positions in one day, thats why they say it is best to check at the same time every day and in the same position. I have also been trying to find when is the best time to check it but haven't had any luck. When I check mine in the morning it is what I would call medium and then in the afternoon it is high. They say go by your finger, first knuckle-low, second knuckle-medium, all the way in- high. And they say after a bowl movement is the best time to check cm but not your cervix because that changes the position as well. Let me know if you find something saying when is the most accurate time to check!

I never check at the same time everyday so mine's all over the place too. Here's a great website https://www.beautifulcervix.com/ (extremely detailed... maybe more than you asked for.. haha)

Mimzy - LOOVE your ridgebacks!! gorgeous!

 

[chartay]

You know what, just in case anyone else is curious, here were my symptoms leading up to the BFP.

1-2DPO: ovulation cramping
3-4DPO: nothing, or just too stressed to notice, my dad went into the hospital (he's out and just fine now )
5DPO: INSOMNIA!!! But when I did sleep, holy cow! The Dreams!!!
6-8DPO: insomnia and dreams still, back pain like you wouldn't believe, af-like cramping, frequent trips to the bathroom
9DPO: all the same as 6-8 except no more af-like cramping, but now quick, sharp twinges down low & towards the front above the pubic bone starting that evening (I think this was implantation)
10DPO: same as 9, but twinges ended early that morning
11DPO: I KNEW something was up, but didn't want to get my hopes up yet
12DPO: tested with a faint positive; odd stretchy twinges in my abdomen, boob tenderness
13DPO: stretchy feeling increased, and so did boob tenderness (on sides, bottom, and nipples)
14DPO: NO AUNT FLO!!!, and same symptoms as 13
15-18DPO: same! And now Matching pink lines on a FRER which I NEVER got with my last two pregnancies

General symptoms now: frequent bathroom visits, hard time sleeping, back aches, cramping, increased cm, exhausted (probably from lack of sleep), food aversions, starving but I eat and want to puke, and wonderful pregnancy brain. i.e. I think of something upstairs, go downstairs to get it, get downstairs and forget what I was going for. So I go back upstairs, remember, head back down and I have forgotten again. Oh well, I suppose at least I am getting some exercise

Hope that helps everyone!


Good luck everyone!!! :dust

 

[ClandestineTX]

I'm about to lose my mind, here, and thought maybe some of you ladies may have some insight. I had ovulation spotting Nov 25th, so I likely ovulated Nov 25th or 26th. I was "scheduled" per prediction calendars to ovulate on Nov 24th, so presumed my period would be late as a consequence.

I've had nothing really remarkable in the way of symptoms, other than brief cramping the night of 9/10 DPO. This morning (12/13 DPO) I had light, watery brown spotting. Wasn't sure why my period would be showing up 2-3 days early, given the apparent ovulation delay, but I had accepted it. The spotting nearly stopped before lunch, but then it came back slightly heavier after lunch, and has been progressively going away since. I no longer know what to think.

Thoughts???

 

[koj518]

thanks for posting your symptoms chartay!!
I'm 2dpo today so I'll be watching out for those symptoms!!

Clandestine - that sounds really promising!!!!!! another girl on another thread had the same thing this cycle and she got her BFP yesterday, 4days after her missed period Good luck!!!

 

[FaithHopeLov3]

I know I am not "supposed" to test until the 12th, but I'm due this weekend and I caved.
I finally figured out how to upload my pictures so one will follow..
Here is the situation: I took a test yesterday and it was positive. V faint positive, but there none the less. I even showed dh because I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me.
Then this morning, I took another one and it was negative.
What's going on?!?!!
https://s1283.beta.photobucket.com/user/faithhopelov3/library/
k it's darker in person.. the pic doesn't do it justice