***August 2018 Testing Thread***

[IVW]

August is off to an amazing start

Let’s keep these ‘s coming

 

[violet13]

Yay go Violet!! Hope it's the start of your bfp!!x

I'm 5dpo and I'm getting a lot of cloudy ewcm. Like loads. Positive sign? I had a glob with my first but it quickly dried up during the 2ww.

Ooh could be Hun!! Try to stay calm and I really hope you get your bfp! I’m constantly looking at the test and it’s there I’m not mental as my hubby has said he couldn’t see it but he didn’t look tbh xxx

Men definitely don’t have line eyes like us girlies.

Congratulations

Thank you Hun no he’s in a mood cause our boys have been a bit testing this morning which honestly welcome to my life haha they are great kids but can have bad days like everyone else! So he needs to get a grip and not ruin my happiness or positivity I can see me banning him from delivery in all honesty. Baby dust ladies!!! Do I have to leave our thread now? I don’t want to yet xxx

 

[Laura butchers]

I got my bfp last month but love following the testing threads. August is of to a flying start already! Congratulations everyone who has had their bfp so far and fx to everyone still waiting test!

 

[HaylzDz]

Yay! Congrats violet! August is looking good! I’m about 9/10 dpo according to opk and tested this morning with a cheapie, bfn which I expected so don’t know why I did it! �� POAS addict haha. Will try and wait until Af due (tuesday/wednesday). Had some cramps at 5dpo and again early this morning but not sure that’s a sign of anything! Good luck to all, can’t wait to hear updates x

 

[KatD]

Congratulations night owl!!!! I am so happy for you!

FX IVW hope you're part of April mummies too with Nightowl.

Good luck lovely ladies!

 

[night owl]

Congratulations night owl!!!! I am so happy for you!

FX IVW hope you're part of April mummies too with Nightowl.

Good luck lovely ladies!

Thank you so much Kat, I’m so grateful for this new chance but I’m also a bag of nerves right now waiting to see if it sticks or not, I’d love for you to get your BFP this month too, Fingers crossed for everyone still waiting to test

 

[violet13]

Congratulations night owl!!!! I am so happy for you!

FX IVW hope you're part of April mummies too with Nightowl.

Good luck lovely ladies!

Thank you so much Kat, I’m so grateful for this new chance but I’m also a bag of nerves right now waiting to see if it sticks or not, I’d love for you to get your BFP this month too, Fingers crossed for everyone still waiting to test

Congrats night owl! Me too I’m nervous as hell. I’m testing again Monday I was going to Tuesday but I’m too i impatient to wait haha but it came up straight away so I need to calm myself and just wait. Fingers crossed for a sticky bean xxx

 

[night owl]

Thanks violet, Well I’ve just tested again this afternoon and I’m so happy with the line progression, it come up straight away and is a lot darker then yesterday so hcg must be rising ok, which is weird as I feel better today then I did yesterday! I might see you in the April mums thread then

 

[Kitana]

This is what I’m ‘worried’ about, i had literally just one glob, as you call it and it was like a creamy cloudy white colour and then literally that was it - nothing since! So if you only had that much on your first pregnancy, then it’s a small sign of possible success for me.

Every woman is different at the end of the day, but it’s so hard not thinking we should be getting all the signs and symptoms, when we could also have nothing and still being pregnant

We are all in with a chance - it’s the witch who decides at the end of the day.

Yes, like you said, every woman is different. I had one huge glob of cm at around 6DPO and dried up. I remember being so down after I tested my temp, it dipped at 11DPO, my CP was low and hard, I thought for sure that AF was coming since I had read that you cervix lifts into your body and is soft when pregnant. But that happened a week later or so! I did do a test later during the day since I had a terribly explosive temper while I'm a very positive and gentle person. It was so out of character that I decided to test amd got a very faint positive! So the glob you had might be a good sign! Not everything goes as we expect!x

 

[EmmaN27]

Congrats nightowl! X

 

[pupperino]

Yay! Congrats night owl and violet x

 

[Crumble]

Morning ladies, I should start my 2ww today finally and I am already impatient to know
Also we had a problem the last couple of BD....he couldn't keep his erection and became very stressful....and I am so down because is happened twice and on ovulation time, so I am feeling a bit down and my self-esteem is on my feet. It is embarrassing, sorry....but I don't have anyone to tell this
I don't know if can be that he is stressed (his ex-wife is bringing us to court and don't let us know anything about his kids) , if it is his weight (is over weight at the moment),if is because we are working a lot and not seen each other much and the TTC is became our "routine" during the past weeks, if is because he feels the pressure of the ovulation time for this TTC. I spoken to him, but no answer, he doesn't know what it is happening either and he became very nervous last night.
This morning I am feeling a bit down and not positive at all....I hope the previous BDes would be enough, but we missed the day before and my OD so I lost a bit of hope....

 

[IVW]

gutted.

Not even a glimmer of a line.

On to the next cycle, eughhh.

Fx to everyone else

 

[Akua]

gutted.

Not even a glimmer of a line.

On to the next cycle, eughhh.

Fx to everyone else

But you’re only 10dpo aren’t you? Maybe it’s just too early?! It’s not over til the witch shows!

 

[Jellybean86]

Hi peeps!

I put myself down to test on 5th, but I haven't even bought a test yet. I have felt slight waves of AF cramping since Friday and I think There's still a huge possibility it will start today or tomorrow...

Will keep you posted (I'm guessing the witch will come later today.... annoying)

Good luck to everyone this month, still hoping I'm in with a chance!

 

[night owl]

Morning ladies, I should start my 2ww today finally and I am already impatient to know
Also we had a problem the last couple of BD....he couldn't keep his erection and became very stressful....and I am so down because is happened twice and on ovulation time, so I am feeling a bit down and my self-esteem is on my feet. It is embarrassing, sorry....but I don't have anyone to tell this
I don't know if can be that he is stressed (his ex-wife is bringing us to court and don't let us know anything about his kids) , if it is his weight (is over weight at the moment),if is because we are working a lot and not seen each other much and the TTC is became our "routine" during the past weeks, if is because he feels the pressure of the ovulation time for this TTC. I spoken to him, but no answer, he doesn't know what it is happening either and he became very nervous last night.
This morning I am feeling a bit down and not positive at all....I hope the previous BDes would be enough, but we missed the day before and my OD so I lost a bit of hope....

Aw so sorry you’re feeling rubbish crumble, but I definitely definitely wouldn’t take the erection issues as any reflection on yourself, it really does sound like stress,we all laugh and joke about how happy our fellas should be that they are getting unlimited leg-overs during the fertile window but in real life it as a bit of a pressure to perform on demand for them, and when it’s a long term relationship the couple generally don’t have sex everyday or even every week for some, so fertile window where sex is happened everyday can feel a bit false and forced and it definitely affects the mans ability to ‘perform’!

You still have a chance with the BD that you have done, I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you, I thought I was out this month too as we only DTD once - 2 days before ovulation, because OH wanted to skip trying this month as he was too stressed from work and suddenly announced he didn’t like all the timed sex and pressure - so I didn’t try to change his mind or talk to him about it I just said I would accept a month off, and I think that done the trick as he spontaneously initiated a quickie one morning which turned out to be the luckiest quickie of my life - still haven’t told him about the BFP yet lol

Honestly I think your best approach here might be to give him some head space and see what happens the next time you have sex - whether the issues pop up again or not,it’s probably just a one off due to stress, men are rubbish at talking about these things too and sometimes I think they just prefer to see if they can sort things out in their own heads first - don’t let it get to your self esteem - it will not be any reflection on you x

 

[night owl]

gutted.

Not even a glimmer of a line.

On to the next cycle, eughhh.

Fx to everyone else

Nooooo!! oh I really wanted it to be your month! Hopefully it is just too early, we can never really know for sure how many DPO we are unless we have tempted x

 

[IVW]

gutted.

Not even a glimmer of a line.

On to the next cycle, eughhh.

Fx to everyone else

Nooooo!! oh I really wanted it to be your month! Hopefully it is just too early, we can never really know for sure how many DPO we are unless we have tempted x

I’m driving myself mad keep looking at it, thinking I can see something (defo won’t show on a pic) but for 10 dpo I would expect it to be a lot darker.

Suppose I’m not out fully until the witch shows up but I know she’s dusting off that broom of hers

 

[Akua]

Morning ladies, I should start my 2ww today finally and I am already impatient to know
Also we had a problem the last couple of BD....he couldn't keep his erection and became very stressful....and I am so down because is happened twice and on ovulation time, so I am feeling a bit down and my self-esteem is on my feet. It is embarrassing, sorry....but I don't have anyone to tell this
I don't know if can be that he is stressed (his ex-wife is bringing us to court and don't let us know anything about his kids) , if it is his weight (is over weight at the moment),if is because we are working a lot and not seen each other much and the TTC is became our "routine" during the past weeks, if is because he feels the pressure of the ovulation time for this TTC. I spoken to him, but no answer, he doesn't know what it is happening either and he became very nervous last night.
This morning I am feeling a bit down and not positive at all....I hope the previous BDes would be enough, but we missed the day before and my OD so I lost a bit of hope....

I think stress and pressure are both huuugeeee reasons why men can’t perform. And probably the fact that it happened once meant he was so worried about it happening again that he psyched himself out before he really started the second time.

I definitely wouldn’t take it personally. Maybe give the action a bit of a rest for a few days and try again when you’re not ovulating and when the stress has calmed down a bit and just see what happens

 

[EmmaN27]

I agree with the other ladies Crumble, sounds like stress and possibly pressure of it just got to him. Defo nothing for you to take personally, I would avoid asking him anymore about it and just be relaxed with each other. X