January Snowdrops +*+* Testing Thread *+*+ Ring in the New Year with BFPs!

[josephine3]

And also good point about the opks, make sure to dip the hpt first @jellybeanxx x

 

[jellybeanxx]

I dipped the HPT before the OPK because I remember the conversation on here about it recently! I still don’t trust it though as my chart and OPKs don’t match up with it

 

[josephine3]

@jellybeanxx was this first pos opk the one marked on your chart? It is odd!

 

[thencomesbebe]

@jellybeanxx I see that line!! I can see it on all your tests and it looks like it's getting darker!!! FX this is your cycle! Remember when we had that conversation because it was about me! And it turned out to be a real bfp! I'm so hopeful for you.

 

[Suggerhoney]

Another BFN I’m out. On to February testing. I’m so sad right now.
Am I even fertile anymore. Why haven’t I fallen since my miscarriage. It breaks my heart.
Congratulations to those with BFPs
And best of luck to those waiting to ovulate or to test.
Now the wait for AF just so so sad

 

[thencomesbebe]

@Suggerhoney I'm so sorry. I hope you get a lovely valentine surprise!

 

[xxmyheartxx]

Wishing everyone lots of luck for this cycle and for those who need hugs x

 

[Laurabub84]

@jellybeanxx Hoping you already have ovulated and if not you will asap and will have better confirmation with your temps. Even better if you are actually pregnant tho. I see that line. When will you try another one?

@Suggerhoney oh hun I’m absolutely gutted for you. I really hoped this cycle was going to be the one. I know by 10dpo if you’re negative you know you’re out. Im the same, but I’m still going to hold out hope for a later implantation and bfp. Sending you gentle hugs

 

[Suggerhoney]

Thank @josephine3. It’s nearly 9 months and for me it feels so long. I’ve never gone any longer than 3 months and not get pregnant. Ended is loss but was still falling every other month in 2020 when I was 40.
Now nothing for nearly 9 months: it just doesn’t fill me with hope at all.
Been crying again today. This part of the cycle always hits me the hardest.
Good luck for when you test.

@Laurabub84
I’m 11dpo love. And I’ve tested with 10mlU tests and absolutely BFN. So I know I’m out for sure now.
Kind of new it from 8dpo with the no symptoms but my chart gave me false hopes
Won’t be temping anymore. Will just stick to opks. I know I’m ovulating. And when I didn’t ovulate I didn’t get a peak opk. Only close but never quite.
So will Just stick to the opks. I was only using opks when we fell with our youngest. I was temping for 10 cycles and then on the 11th I decided not too and fell with him.
But I’ve not been temping every cycle this time around and had cycles where I haven’t been temping and it still be BFN.
But when I fell at the end of May I wasn’t temping: was just using opks. I fell with both my young sons in January so I’m hoping to fall next cycle which will be January still when I ovulate. But the testing won’t be until Feb now. Feels so far away.

I just think im too old love. It has to be old eggs. I just don’t get how I fell twice when we started trying. And now nearly 9 months with the miscarriage and nothing. I’m so worried. But it’s out of my hands.
I stay out the due date groups now because it’s just far to painful.
Really hope ure cycles are back on track now hon and a BFP won’t take long.

 

[jellybeanxx]

@Suggerhoney hope you manage to find something lovely to do for yourself tonight, TTC is an emotional rollercoaster and sometimes we just need to be able to take a breath, it’s so all consuming!

I’ve just tested again. I do think now that my body failed to ovulate and is trying again. This is darker than I usually get with OPKs and I have loads of EWCM so that’s a good sign. I can still see a line on the HPT (dipped before the OPK) but maybe these Wondfos just give shadows? I did one yesterday that had no lines though.
Why can’t my body just tell me exactly what it’s doing rather than years of guess work?!

 

[Nima]

@jellybeanxx this is a very dark shadow... fx for you, hope you get a bfp tomorrow

@Suggerhoney I'm so sorry. I don't know what to say. Just hugs.

 

[littlewitch]

@littlewitch that sounds so difficult, have you talked to him about it? Hope things improve for you both soon!

@Suggerhoney how were your tests this morning lovely?

@PinkCupcakes how have your OPKs been?

My temp dropped again this morning. I’ve also convinced myself that maybe there’s a line on the HPT today? I’m getting loads of cramping today and boobs are sore. So maybe I’m still about to ovulate? The OPK is positive this morning. I could also about to get AF. It’s like the most rubbish lottery. Who knows what will happen!

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I don't see anything on the Wondfo, jellybeanxx. That OPK really does look positive.

 

[littlewitch]

I must try and learn charts!
@littlewitch how many dpo are you? Good luck for testing time it's great when we all come up to it together x

I think I am 3 dpo today.

 

[littlewitch]

@Suggerhoney hope you manage to find something lovely to do for yourself tonight, TTC is an emotional rollercoaster and sometimes we just need to be able to take a breath, it’s so all consuming!

I’ve just tested again. I do think now that my body failed to ovulate and is trying again. This is darker than I usually get with OPKs and I have loads of EWCM so that’s a good sign. I can still see a line on the HPT (dipped before the OPK) but maybe these Wondfos just give shadows? I did one yesterday that had no lines though.
Why can’t my body just tell me exactly what it’s doing rather than years of guess work?!

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That OPK looks peak.

 

[NDH]

Oh jellybean I really hope your body is ovulating for real this time and you'll see a good temp shift tomorrow. It's been a frustrating cycle for you.

I'm 8 (or maybe 7dpo today). I've had to make a chart for my bathroom mirror to remind me what to take and when . I've always been rather loose with remembering to take all my vitamins and supplements so now with the antihistamine protocol being different things 3x a day I've divided them all up over the course of the day and set alarms to remind me.

 

[littlewitch]

3 dpo today. OPK for no reason.

 

[littlewitch]

Also, upped my HCG test stash. I keep saying that I will use what I have.
Maybe I have false hope, but after the chemical last cycle, I know I can at least GET pregnant.

 

[Suggerhoney]

@jellybeanxx
Think just gonna chill and watch a movie or something when the littles are in bed.
That opk looks peak to me love. Hope it’s ovulation then you have lots of time to get that BFP.

@Nima
Thanks. I guess all I can do is keep trying and just keep praying it will happen. I just want the baby back that I lost. I would of been giving birth at the end of Jan so me being out again this cycle just feels like a huge slap in the face.
Praying so much next cycle will be the one. But so so hard to stay hopeful.

@littlewitch
I did a opk at 4dpo. It was dark too which was odd.
Did one last night and it was dark. But nothing but BFN on the hpts. So gutted.
Hopefully won’t be seeing you in the Feb testing group and you get your BFP in a few days.
At least you know your still fertile so that’s a good thing.


Ladies if a women has a regular cycle and is ovulating every month and 30 to 32 day cycle. Does that mean she’s still fertile or not?

feeling so hopeless and defeated right now. has a huge argument with DH and I felt like storming out. I feel like because I already have kids I don’t have the right to grieve for the one I lost. And I don’t have the right to want another.

 

[elmum]

Interesting love.
Do you think the baby aspirin is ok to take the whole way through each cycle. Or only from like 7dpo?

sorry about all your losses love.
I’ve had 9 losses in Total.
My first babe I lost at 10+4 weeks.
Then I’ve had 7 chemicals, in 2020 I had 4 chemicals in the space of 7 months.
Then the the chemical in April and then the miscarriage in June.
Recurrent loss is extremely hard so I’m so so sorry you had to endure that. And then this awful later loss. It’s so sad and my heart goes out to you.
You have been in my prayers.
And so has @Laurabub84 and also poor @cheerios,

I took it all the way through with my rainbow who is now three yo. It didn’t seem to impact the lining or implantation.

 

[littlewitch]

@jellybeanxx
Think just gonna chill and watch a movie or something when the littles are in bed.
That opk looks peak to me love. Hope it’s ovulation then you have lots of time to get that BFP.

@Nima
Thanks. I guess all I can do is keep trying and just keep praying it will happen. I just want the baby back that I lost. I would of been giving birth at the end of Jan so me being out again this cycle just feels like a huge slap in the face.
Praying so much next cycle will be the one. But so so hard to stay hopeful.

@littlewitch
I did a opk at 4dpo. It was dark too which was odd.
Did one last night and it was dark. But nothing but BFN on the hpts. So gutted.
Hopefully won’t be seeing you in the Feb testing group and you get your BFP in a few days.
At least you know your still fertile so that’s a good thing.


Ladies if a women has a regular cycle and is ovulating every month and 30 to 32 day cycle. Does that mean she’s still fertile or not?

feeling so hopeless and defeated right now. has a huge argument with DH and I felt like storming out. I feel like because I already have kids I don’t have the right to grieve for the one I lost. And I don’t have the right to want another.

I would say that a woman with regular cycles and BBT evidence for ovulation is still fertile. There are so many elements to getting/staying pregnant; pH of the women, clotting factors, scarring, overall serum glucose, egg quality, thyroid function, abnormalities with embryo....
Getting pregnant and staying pregnant really is miraculous if you consider everything.