*March 2019 Testing Thread*

[EmmaN27]

Congrats babylove x

 

[Linnett3]

Congratulations babylove! I love following this thread & have my fingers crossed for you all!

Do any of you take evening primrose oil whilst TTC? I took it when we decided for our third as I’d had the coil removed & read EPO could help get everything down there back in good form. I was fortunate enough to fall pregnant first cycle. No idea if it really helped or not but just putting it out there incase it did ?

 

[chattychar1990]

Congratulations babylove! I love following this thread & have my fingers crossed for you all!

Do any of you take evening primrose oil whilst TTC? I took it when we decided for our third as I’d had the coil removed & read EPO could help get everything down there back in good form. I was fortunate enough to fall pregnant first cycle. No idea if it really helped or not but just putting it out there incase it did ?

@Linnett3 - I use this from CD1 up until ovulation.
It helps regulate my cycles, the couple of cycles i didn't use it i had the longest cycles ever so it definitely works well for me, still not fallen pregnant though x

 

[Lollypop79]

Well. I’m going to put a shocker out there and say I got four BFPs this morning.

After thinking it was odd my overnight tampon was almost dry (been spotting over the weekend) I thought I would just do an ovulation test and if that was a blazer I’d do a cheap pregnancy test. Well blow me down it was positive, one FRER and a digital later and I don’t believe it.

Hoping this spotting is related to implantation and I’m not going to be back with bad news but for now I’m feeling super happy and excited.

I don’t want to go anywhere yet so I hope you girls don’t mind my hanging around.

@chattychar1990 please could you pop a BFP next to today’s date on the front page for me please?

Sending all of you baby dust! Xx

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Aww this is amazing. Congratulations. Hope this is the beginning of many more

 

[Sunflower1]

Can I have 15th pls?

 

[soffphie]

Congratulations babylove! I love following this thread & have my fingers crossed for you all!

Do any of you take evening primrose oil whilst TTC? I took it when we decided for our third as I’d had the coil removed & read EPO could help get everything down there back in good form. I was fortunate enough to fall pregnant first cycle. No idea if it really helped or not but just putting it out there incase it did ?

Personally, have read that EPO is something used for CM purposes. I havent read about it regulating you ovulation wise? Eg. Ive been taking it this cycle & no ovulation or positive yet! Im cd:19! I am usually a cd:16 ovulator so?

 

[chattychar1990]

Can I have 15th pls?

Your added to the front page Sunflower x

 

[Rainbow1234]

I take pregnacare conception and omega 3, nothing else x

 

[chattychar1990]

I take pregnacare conception and omega 3, nothing else x

Rainbow what does omega 3 do for you while TTC? xx

 

[Rainbow1234]

Rainbow what does omega 3 do for you while TTC? xx

It can help improve egg quality apparently but really I only take it because my pregnancy vitamins with my daughter were pregnacare plus and you got your pregnacare vitamin plus an omega 3 so I assumed it must be good for pregnancy/fertility x

 

[Kitana]

Woohoo congrats Babylove!! What a way to kick off the March testing thread!

 

[Rainbow1234]

Rainbow what does omega 3 do for you while TTC? xx

 

[chattychar1990]

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Oh wow thank you for this Rainbow.
I have been taking Vit E as that's apparently meant to help with Egg quality so maybe i might introduce omega 3. Not sure if i will be overdosing on vitamins though haha.
Is one omega 3 vit a day enough or is there a certain amount you have to take? xx

 

[Rainbow1234]

Oh wow thank you for this Rainbow.
I have been taking Vit E as that's apparently meant to help with Egg quality so maybe i might introduce omega 3. Not sure if i will be overdosing on vitamins though haha.
Is one omega 3 vit a day enough or is there a certain amount you have to take? xx

Yep I just take one, not sure if it’s my omega 3 or my conception vitamins but I’ve been taking them since my miscarriage in August and my cycles have reduced from 35 days to 29-31 x

 

[Maximus17]

Thank you everyone - your well wishes mean a lot, I know I haven't been here long so I do appreciate it.

@Maximus17 - here is my list of symptoms by dpo.

1- dpo: nothing out of the ordinary
2-3 dpo: light pink and brown cm (ovulation bleeding) and egg white cm
4 dpo: school glue type cm, cervix high, closed and firm, right pelvic pain, acne, sore boobs, gassy and a bit dizzy
5dpo: backache, sore boobs, gassy, more right sided pain
6dpo: crampy, boobs not so sore anymore
7dpo: pink spotting
8dpo: pink and brown spotting, cramps, bloated, feeling bleugh, sore boobs again, school glue cm
9dpo: I thought I had my period this day as it was red, not dark dark red, bright red but I just thought okay whatever and popped a tampon in.
10dpo: same as above but started thinking something was up because it wasn't flowing! I felt okay too, a bit crampy but not like full on AF crampy.
11dpo: Hardly anything on my tampon this morning, decided to do an OPK, blazer, cheapie, positive, FRER positive, hubby persuaded me to do the digi and there we go, BFP 1-2 weeks.

The only other thing is that I started to feel emotional like I did when I was pregnant with DD, like I just wanted to be with her on Thursday/Friday and felt sad I had to work. I was also sooooo tired, I just wanted to nap all the time - hubby even said jesus you want to sleep all the time.

Hope that's helpful for some of you.

@chattychar1990 thank you so much my lovely - YAS here's hoping I bring the BFP luck for the month! LET'S GO GIRLS!

P.S.

Also, just to say you can see the onestep cheapie from Amazon is the same darkness as the FRER - think I paid £10 for 25 tests - so well worth using those before spending money on a FRER to confirm. xxx

xx

Thank you
AF got me today. It was the worst af cramps ever, cried and cried , but all getting better now that it's here

 

[chattychar1990]

Thank you
AF got me today. It was the worst af cramps ever, cried and cried , but all getting better now that it's here

Sorry @Maximus17 - I was doubled over in pain yesterday too thank god it’s not as bad today x

 

[Kitana]

Thank you
AF got me today. It was the worst af cramps ever, cried and cried , but all getting better now that it's here

So sorry AF got you Maximus

 

[Mandy119]

Congratulations babylove

 

[Mrs_W]

Oh wow thank you for this Rainbow.
I have been taking Vit E as that's apparently meant to help with Egg quality so maybe i might introduce omega 3. Not sure if i will be overdosing on vitamins though haha.
Is one omega 3 vit a day enough or is there a certain amount you have to take? xx

In both my pregnancies I have fell first month after taking vitamin b6. It’s probably a coincidence but It really helped regulate my cycles.

 

[Sjf0709]

Just a quick tip ladies... my friend has started her first cycle of IVF and has recently had her transfer. The only advice they’ve given her in the TWW is to avoid caffeine if possible (just stick to what you’d be allowed as safe during pregnancy) and avoid hot baths (these can start off MCs). Not sure if everyone is aware of these? I consciously don’t have baths in the TWW and I’ve cut down on caffeine so I only have 1 cup of tea a day now anyway x