TTC#2 and SO EXCITED! join me

[MissMaternal]

I think I should join this thread if you ladies don't mind!! My daughter is 7 months old and I had an amazing pregnancy, labour and birth with her and I am SO excited because we have just started TTC #2! I've been broody ever since I gave birth!

I don't temp or use OPKs or anything like that, we just kind of try to DTD at the right time... I usually have normal 28 day ish cycles, even since birth, and my last AF was about the 14/15/16th August I THINK...so I reckon I'm roughly 5-7 DPO trying not to SS because I will go insane but I was very crampy/twingy yesterday...

 

[MamaMac123]

Hello everyone!

Welcome to MissMaternal! Your little girl is so cute! Exciting news that you're hopefully in the 2ww! When will you test?

Gardenofeden - I'm curious, since you've mentioned wanting twins and you've mentioned it again in your ticker...I'm wondering if there's anything you are doing specifically to try for twins? Do twins run in your family at all? Just curious as DH and would love twins! Hehe
As its looking like I may need to add soy or clomid to get myself ovulating its possible those could get us twins!

Hann - still so psyched for you!!! love seeing your new little siggy ticker!!!

Isaac - have an awesome holiday! And Hann is right...charts looking great!

Elt - my temps up a bit today too...but have a feeling its prob about where it should have been the past few days anyway....not at all high enough to get excited over. :sigh: still waiting...

Some sad news...my best friend (who got her a week or 2 ago) just miscarried last night so sad for her. I'm so scared of that happening.

 

[Hann12]

Hi Missmaternal - hope you get your BFP - not long to wait!

Mama - thats sad about your friend, I hate thinking about m/c - especially at the moment!
Your temp def looks pre ovulatory but FX it won't be long.

Elt - your temp could go up tomorrow and in which case you may have ovulated today?

IsaacRalph - hope you are on holiday now and not thinking about the 2ww

 

[gardenofedens]

Hello everyone!

Welcome to MissMaternal! Your little girl is so cute! Exciting news that you're hopefully in the 2ww! When will you test?

Gardenofeden - I'm curious, since you've mentioned wanting twins and you've mentioned it again in your ticker...I'm wondering if there's anything you are doing specifically to try for twins? Do twins run in your family at all? Just curious as DH and would love twins! Hehe
As its looking like I may need to add soy or clomid to get myself ovulating its possible those could get us twins!

Hann - still so psyched for you!!! love seeing your new little siggy ticker!!!

Isaac - have an awesome holiday! And Hann is right...charts looking great!

Elt - my temps up a bit today too...but have a feeling its prob about where it should have been the past few days anyway....not at all high enough to get excited over. :sigh: still waiting...

Some sad news...my best friend (who got her a week or 2 ago) just miscarried last night so sad for her. I'm so scared of that happening.

Hi there! Dh and I would definitely love twins. I've always wanted twins and they run in my family from what I've been told (apparently my great grandma had four sets of twins but none survived as it was back in the early 1900s). Since we were prescribed clomid to conceive our daughter I do still have it and have thought about using it but we won't actively start ttc for a while. The plan is to ntnp until af returns and then I will start charting my bbt again and then in may 2012 we will start timing our bding and take things more seriously. If after a few months of that we still haven't conceived I'll probably reach for the clomid since that will put abigail at about a year old and we want our kids close together in age.

 

[MelloYello]

Well ladies....still no sign of AF and she was due today. Not gonna get my hopes up tho. She may pop up tomorrow. Even tho I'm usually right on time or a day early. Just gonna wait and see what tomorrow brings. Still got a BFN this morning tho. Late implantor maybe? BBT's are super high....I'm talkin 100.02 high....is that even heard of? What do you ladies think? I'm a nervous wreck over here so I could use ALL the feedback I can get.

 

[Hann12]

Mello I think I saw on another thread that you said that you got your positive opk on the weds/Thurs (not sure due to time difference) so you would have ovulated on the thurs/Friday. This means today (weds) you would be 12/13dpo and if you have a 14 day LP you would be due AF tomorrow or Fri. That means that you may well not get a pregnancy positive until tomorrow, many women don't until the day their AF is due/14dpo. Jessica who got a BFP on here a while back didn't get hers until around 20dpo. As for the temps, yes that seems high, any temperature over 100 is high and could mean that you are sick or not taking it properly. If someone pregnant gets a temperature that high they are meant to immediately get checked out. An average pregnancy temp ranges from 0.5-1.5 degrees higher than average preovulation temps.

 

[MelloYello]

Mello I think I saw on another thread that you said that you got your positive opk on the weds/Thurs (not sure due to time difference) so you would have ovulated on the thurs/Friday. This means today (weds) you would be 12/13dpo and if you have a 14 day LP you would be due AF tomorrow or Fri. That means that you may well not get a pregnancy positive until tomorrow, many women don't until the day their AF is due/14dpo. Jessica who got a BFP on here a while back didn't get hers until around 20dpo. As for the temps, yes that seems high, any temperature over 100 is high and could mean that you are sick or not taking it properly. If someone pregnant gets a temperature that high they are meant to immediately get checked out. An average pregnancy temp ranges from 0.5-1.5 degrees higher than average preovulation temps.

I took the OPK but my Mom who is a medical assistant said they had to be equally dark and one line was faint. The high bbt.....I took my temp orally with a regular thermometer and came back 97.6. The high bbt alarmed me so I did contact my physician who did some urine and blood work but gotta wait on that. My BP was ok but I did have rapid heart rate. But he seems to think everything else seems fine. As for my AF is usually right at the 28th day (the 4th) or a day earlier oddly....ever since I was 13. But u may have a point. Not gonna test unless AF doesnt show tomorrow....thats the latest she's "suppose" to come. I planned to give her another day anyway. LOL

 

[banana07]

Hey Ladies

Welcome Gardenofedens and MissMaternal - Great to have some newcommers, there were only a few of us left here - All good of course because it means lots of BFPs!!!

Yellomello - Its sounding good if AF hasn't arrived yet - Hope your temps is ok and maybe just wrong. Do you feel unwell at all?? fx for you!!

Mamamac - thats so sad about your friend - was she trying long to get pregnant . I also have such a fear of it happening to me, my sisters best friend had a mc at 7 weeks last month apparently she was trying for ages What CD are you now??

Great to see your still here in full swing Hann!!!

Afm, AF has pretty much left the building, so onto the next cycle I'm CD5 now today don't usually O till CD19 so I've a bit of a twiddling my thumbs to be doing for the next 2 weeks! Worked out last night DH has the worst work shifts ever the week I'm due to O - I work 9am - 5pm monday - friday and that week he's working 5pm - 3am or 9pm - 7am - Disaster, we're going to have to get creative!!!

 

[banana07]

Am def doing preseed this month - have noticed from last 2 months I never have any ewcm, am fine while were in the act but there prob not enough for fertility. Going to order it online now - we live in a small town in the west of Ireland its hard enough to get OPK am sure they won't have preseed!! Am debating about doing BBT this month, is it worth it?? What does it tell you other than when you've ov which I know by the OPKs (I use the digi ones so i'm not guessing with lines etc...)

Might look into the Prog cream you used too Hann!!

 

[banana07]

K just ordered - preseed - 10 cheapie Ov tests and 3 Preg tests. Was going for my usual digi ov test but this going on longer then planned and starting to cost me a fortune the OPKs are costing me €27 a month then depending on how many preg tests €15 - €30 a month and I've just got the preseed for €19 (9goes). The IC Ov tests were €10 so I've spent €40 now instead of €60 - hopefully they work - I've Ov'd on CD19 last 2 cycles so hopefully it'll just be the same will do every other day from 14th anyway and the 3/4 days in a row CD18 - CD21.

 

[MelloYello]

Hey Ladies

Welcome Gardenofedens and MissMaternal - Great to have some newcommers, there were only a few of us left here - All good of course because it means lots of BFPs!!!

Yellomello - Its sounding good if AF hasn't arrived yet - Hope your temps is ok and maybe just wrong. Do you feel unwell at all?? fx for you!!

Mamamac - thats so sad about your friend - was she trying long to get pregnant . I also have such a fear of it happening to me, my sisters best friend had a mc at 7 weeks last month apparently she was trying for ages What CD are you now??

Great to see your still here in full swing Hann!!!

Afm, AF has pretty much left the building, so onto the next cycle I'm CD5 now today don't usually O till CD19 so I've a bit of a twiddling my thumbs to be doing for the next 2 weeks! Worked out last night DH has the worst work shifts ever the week I'm due to O - I work 9am - 5pm monday - friday and that week he's working 5pm - 3am or 9pm - 7am - Disaster, we're going to have to get creative!!!

I feel great. Don't feel sick or anything. i feel perfectly fine

 

[Jessicabaxter]

Hi ladies wow a lot going on I've been watching the thread keepin everybody in my prayers, congrats hann!!! Ladies I'm sure your day is coming, everybody's charts look good and wishing babydust to u all! Keep ur heads high! Went to get my ultrasound yesterday baby measuring 10 days smaller then should hoping everything ok

 

[Hann12]

Hi Jessica - I'm sure everythings fine - was that the 12 week scan? Are they going to rescan between now and 20 weeks? I know loads of people who had dates brought forward and back by up to 10 days so FX its all fine.

Banana - sounds like a good plan to me - you are all set! Personally I found temping really helped but its totally up to you whether you think it will. I used preseed for the first 4 months then this cycle I changed to conceive plus (conceived DD with it first time using) and ta da got the positive. I know loads of success stories with preseed but I think conceive plus must just agree with me more. Try that if you run out of preseed.

 

[banana07]

Guess it just a game of wait and see then so melloyello - all my fingers and toes crossed for you

Hey Jessica - great to hear from you, 10 days doesn't sound alot to me (but of course i'm not a professional!!) - I just can't imagine measurements can be that accurace look at the different sizes healthy babies come out anything from 5 - 10lbs. Maybe it had just took a spurt and will ease of growing for a while!! My friend was told her baby was 2-3 to big (scared the living daylights out of her!) but she had a perfectly normal 8lb. baby. Are they going to scan you again to see if anything changes??

Hann, I never heard of Concieve plus but all i've heard on these websites is preseed, preseed preseed. I'll give it a go and if no luck will try the other. Def think I need somethign in this department as I said i've never had the ewcm. Think I'll try one new thing each month so if no luck this month might try the temping. Hope the IC OPKs I got are ok, am just so used to the digi which just smiles back at me so no guessing!!!

 

[Jessicabaxter]

Ten days is a big diff when I absolutely can't be any less along as she said. I go back to the doc 27th guess they ll tlk to me then I didn't have time to wait to c her and ultrasound tech said she d tlk to doc. I should get another scan then or wk later. We ll c!! Babydust to everybody!!! I'm still stalking this thread!

 

[MamaMac123]

Hey everyone!

Jessica - good to see you're still stalking us sending crossed fingers, prayers as your way for your little bean

Mello - excited for you to test tomorrow! But echo what everyone else has mentioned...that temp seems much too high

Banana - glad your AF is about done. We've got Preseed too and honestly I love it even for not ttc! It's just great stuff

Afm - I feel crazy! Lol So last night after work I checked my cm and cervix...high, soft, open and quite a bit of Ewcm! But of course I had no opks! So told DH we best get to it just in case :hehe: Today cm is more watery/creamy (could be partially from bd last night) and I broke down and got a couple opks from dollar store...totally negative! Not even a faint line. Temp this am was same as yesterday. Basically my highest pre ov temp but look! Ff has given back my crosshairs! Wtf??? It's still trying to tell me I ovulated the same day it thought before. So bizarre! If anything I may have ov yesterday and just haven't done the full on spike up in temps yet? I dont know. My body frustrates me so much! I never got crosshairs in my last cycle and temps were all over the place. Why am I getting them now??

I went to pick up more Vitex this morning and started browsing other items. I found this one called estrosense plus (I think - don't have bottle with me) which has Vitex in it and other stuff and is geared specifically towards helping regulate cycles and hormones etc and helping fertility. I decided to buy that one instead and give it a go. I haven't taken it yet as I want to do a bit more googling on it before I do but I'm excited about it hopefully it helps.

 

[MelloYello]

Hey everyone!

Jessica - good to see you're still stalking us sending crossed fingers, prayers as your way for your little bean

Mello - excited for you to test tomorrow! But echo what everyone else has mentioned...that temp seems much too high

Banana - glad your AF is about done. We've got Preseed too and honestly I love it even for not ttc! It's just great stuff

Afm - I feel crazy! Lol So last night after work I checked my cm and cervix...high, soft, open and quite a bit of Ewcm! But of course I had no opks! So told DH we best get to it just in case :hehe: Today cm is more watery/creamy (could be partially from bd last night) and I broke down and got a couple opks from dollar store...totally negative! Not even a faint line. Temp this am was same as yesterday. Basically my highest pre ov temp but look! Ff has given back my crosshairs! Wtf??? It's still trying to tell me I ovulated the same day it thought before. So bizarre! If anything I may have ov yesterday and just haven't done the full on spike up in temps yet? I dont know. My body frustrates me so much! I never got crosshairs in my last cycle and temps were all over the place. Why am I getting them now??

I went to pick up more Vitex this morning and started browsing other items. I found this one called estrosense plus (I think - don't have bottle with me) which has Vitex in it and other stuff and is geared specifically towards helping regulate cycles and hormones etc and helping fertility. I decided to buy that one instead and give it a go. I haven't taken it yet as I want to do a bit more googling on it before I do but I'm excited about it hopefully it helps.

I know.....so I bought a new one. LOL Now things are back to normal. And Hann was right AF shouldve came today but still NO sign of the!! But still got a BFN. What do I do now?

 

[MelloYello]

Ok Ladies.....Hann was right AF was due today.....but still no sign of .....no symptoms of her or anything. Even lighter cramping than before. tested....still BFN. So should i just wait until I'm officially late and test tomorrow? S.O.S! LOL

 

[Hann12]

Mama - I don't mean this in a negative way but I don't think from your temps you have ovulated. I really think its still to come, it sounds like it won't be long with all the signs you have, its definitely getting there and your body is without a doubt gearing up to it. Mine was like that though - even last cycle I thought I was going to ov when at CD 12 I had the right cervix position and EWCM but then I still didn't until CD24! It can be misleading but the temps are the real truth tellers and I think you'll see a proper sustained shift when it happens. To be honest I don't know why FF is giving you crosshairs on that day, the only thing I can think is that your ovulation checker is not set to advanced but to one of their other predictors which is reading your temps funny. Check and see what its set to.
When do your opks arrive? I hope soon because I think you will ov soon -I think you are looking for temps in the range of 97.6+.
IssacRalph is very good at these charts so she might have something more to add and I might be totally wrong.

Jessica - I have my FX for you that all is okay

Banana - Its great that AF has left the building - you'll be BD before you know it! I think probably preseed and conceive plus are the same, its probably just coincidence that I got BFP with conceive plus each time! I did like preseed though. They are both expensive.

AFM - did another IC pregnancy test this morning, much darker line. Figured I might do them every few days just to see how dark the line goes lol! I think I also started to feel a bit sick today too but then again it might be in my head! I am definitely exhausted though. Really need my holiday!

IssacRalph - hope you are having fun!

 

[MamaMac123]

Mello- I'd just keep testing if no AF...do you have any of the cheapie Internet tests or dollar store tests? I'd use those until you see a bfp then confirm it with a fancier test

As was mentioned, someone in here didn't get her bfp till 20 days past ov! Everyone's different so if no AF just keep testing I say!