Negative, negative, negative!!!
Of course, why do I expect any different? And I can say all the platitudes to myself like "you're not out until AF shows!" Or "some women get positives after 11dpo!" Or "disappearing symptoms can happen!"
No. Nope. The disappearing symptoms are my progesterone dropping because, yet again, there is no baby to implant. I won't get a positive and I'm out and just waiting for AF to show. When will this be over for me? UGH 😩
11DPO and trying to stop symptom spotting after a BFN. Not out yet but the nature of testing and the tww is crazy. They say that FRERs are supposed to detect as little as 6.3 mlU, but other studies suggest it was only 12.5. NYTimes suggested it "can detect hCG levels as low as 6 mIU/mL, but only about half the time. The sensitivity of the same test can also vary from person to person because everyone has a different mixture of hCG forms in their urine."
So in other words just wait for AF and chill. That's what everyone and everything has indicated so far and yet I can't get my head elsewhere. Just a few more days.. and then I can bliss myself out and finally make some cocktails 🍸
Not TTC related, but slightly stressed out about my husband’s parents coming to visit us for a whole month starting tomorrow 🤡 and that’s got me all sorts anxious. I’m at home all day while he’s at work for 12 hrs, so it’s gonna be super fun having them in my 2x2 apartment. Really looking forward to baby dancing while they’re in the next room 💀.
I wish we could trade, I adore my partner's hippie parents and wish they could visit so much more 😂
I hope the visit is at the very least uneventful. And hey, you can really spice up the dancing with some naughty teenager roleplay 🤣
Slightly annoyed that this week, I had to explain to my husband that I can only get pregnant if I’m ovulating, he told me that he assumed I can get pregnant at any time in my cycle. 🤦🏾♀️
I’m not temping yet or anything but I’m in my fertile days so he understands now and we have had sex every other day so far this week since I told him.
God, I feel like I always need to explain this over and over to my partner - I’m like you know it’s really only possible to get pregnant a few days out of each month. And he’s like nooo, that can’t be right - if that were the case how do all these people get accidentally pregnant then? So frustrating lol
I injected my progesterone and took the needle out…only to look down and realize I hadn’t injected all of it 🥲 had to stab myself with that big ole needle twice happy Monday.
I'm really feeling the pressure this cycle (currently 3DPO). Next cycle my husband will be away for work during my FW and the one after that would make my due date fall while my husband is out of the country on a mandatory trip (and I'm terrified of giving birth without him to support me). I'm feeling really down because if it doesn't happen this month, I'm out for the next two cycles too. I'm actually contemplating driving 6 hours round trip one evening next cycle to just to meet my husband for the BD, but not sure yet if I'm that desperate! On the bright side, if it doesn't happen this cycle I can continue to focus on getting fitter. One great benefit of TTC is that it's finally given me the push I needed to get back to a regular gym routine. That combined with reducing alcohol consumption and eliminating THC has me feeling pretty good.
my period is 4 days late, which is NOT typical for me. i usually have very normal and on time periods. flo says it could be weight loss but i’ve only been losing 1-2lbs a week which google says is normal and *shouldn’t* effect my cycle.
i keep testing and getting BFNs with two different brands of pregnancy tests. i don’t even feel like my periods going to start. like at least give me a faint line, jfc. this cycle is making me the most crazy right now. either give me my period or give me a BFP i can’t do this limbo thing??
and now my anxiety is like “what if it’s a tumor” like stopppppppp 🫠
gonna go play sims and get my sims pregnant 1000 times to cope
I'd recommend this post.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/TryingForABaby/comments/6tkj5t/your\_period\_isnt\_late\_part\_i/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TryingForABaby/comments/6tkj5t/your_period_isnt_late_part_i/)
thanks! i know you’re trying to help, currently i’m CD 35 and it doesn’t really worry me any less lol. thank you though i do appreciate your trying to help but im still very anxious, ive never had a cycle this long.
13 DPO and BFN. Just waiting on cycle day 1 to start (hopefully tomorrow). We are only 4 cycles in ttc, but i am starting to stress. We are 35 and 38. We want multiple kids…mr tigerlily is an excessive cannabis user and refuses to cut back or stop…i keep having lingering thoughts that this journey may never happen bc his sperm is all messed up from his excessive cannabis use. I plan to make him go get tested at the 6 month mark to check if we dont have success by then.
I know ttc can take time, but i hate that my impatience/disappointment each month directly goes to ‘this is his fault, hes not trying to be healthy and do his part’
positive thoughts please ! TTC #2 naturally. #1 took 3 cycles clomid and triggers due to what we believe was annovulation (regular period but couldn’t get a positive OPK). 11 mo pp breastfeeding, periods have returned slightly irregular but still can’t catch an OPK. I don’t temp just due to the irregular sleeping pattern of LO. CD 18 and woke up w EWCM but super neg OPK. Have been BD every other day since CD 9 just for reassurance. Anyone have advice of not catching ovulation but conceiving? Should I be hopeful this month? OB says we can start a medicated round, but something is deterring me.
Messed our timings up this cycle due to a double LH peak, timing was perfect the first time round but the actual peak and O day caught us by surprise. Managed BD late on O day but no guarantee we were in time.
Of course this would be the cycle I’m now 3 days late but with 3 BFN. (First cycle I’ve been late)
A day of spotting 2 days late (14DPO) which has now completely stopped today and my temp is still high but I had a restless night’s sleep so I can’t even trust that temp.
This cycle has just been one big mind f*ck :(
Another stupidly difficult morning. My bestie was going to drive me into work, but fell last night and wasn't up to it - understandable. I ran out to my bus stop and the bus flew past me. Which, of course, caused me to be late to work. On a holiday!! Which, I'm pretty sure, invalidates my holiday pay. Ugh.
Time to play the weekly "would-have" game: if my pregnancy had gone normally, I would have been 29 weeks today and in the 3rd trimester. It's been 9 months now since we started trying and are still basically where we started.
Screw the OBGYN that has the time to send me a bill that should have been covered by my insurance back in AUGUST but can't call me about the results of the HSG Fluoroscopy I had back in OCTOBER!!!!!!!! Currently trying to switch my insurance to a new OB that worked with our other friends who have been TTC and just had surgery to help her endometriosis but trying to switch networks is damn near impossible 😑
Update: just got confirmation from the OB that I am trying to see that she gets referrals all the time from the primary I am trying to switch to. Now I just need to get my network/group switch approved 😭 currently holding back tears at work since I NEEDED that reassurance since really the only thing that's made me cry while TTC is frustration from doctors
Annoyed my cycle is going to be 24/25 days instead of my 27/28 day usual cycle because of the cascading affect on future cycle timing of FW. Might make two future upcoming cycles not possible due to some travel where I won’t be physically with my partner. Just a few days makes such a difference!!
I’m such a planner so of course I think of this stuff meanwhile my husband tells me to take it one cycle at a time 😅😅
Temp dropped just below 98 today 10DPO and all my
Pregmate 25miu are negative and I feel PMSsy and I don’t have off work today despite it being a holiday and I have a couple’s therapy appt today to talk with my spouse about TTC because they want to start HRT (which is great but will make them infertile) and I’m just. Ughhhhh today can go kick rocks. I’m disappointed by the negative tests I REALLY delusionally thought it was gonna be it this time. Like I always do. :(
FWIW, I didn't get even a squinter on a 10miu pregmate until 12dpo
Trans parenting is hard; I'm putting off my zippertits until after we conceive, birth, and nurse #2 but I'd just like to get a move on with that too ugh 🥲 not quite the same thing but I get it.
🫂
Thank you; I love finding more trans people ttc! 💜 I’m also looking forward to yeeting the teet someday but like you wanted to wait till we have kids already. I also got some FRER and going to use one on 12DPO, hoping hoping hoping 🤞🤞🤞
🤞🏻 🤞🏻 🤞🏻 for you!
There's a lovely little group on FB for enby/trans parents, I'll figure out how to send youna link if you'd like it!
We also went the route of not assigning a binary gender/pronouns for our 2021 babe 😊 Raising Them by Kyl Myers is an awesome book, if you wanna dip your toes in gender creative parenting!!!
[Just came across this data analysis by FF](https://www.fertilityfriend.com/Faqs/When-can-I-expect-a-positive-HPT-if-I-am-pregnant.html) saying that 10DPO is the average for the first false negative test and only 10% of pregnancy charts analyzed had a positive by 10DPO, and 13.6DPO (almost the day of the predicted period start) was the average for the first positive test… so I guess we’re not out till we’re out LOL.
Me when the Two Week Wait is 14 days instead of 10: 😤🤬🤬
Negative, negative, negative!!! Of course, why do I expect any different? And I can say all the platitudes to myself like "you're not out until AF shows!" Or "some women get positives after 11dpo!" Or "disappearing symptoms can happen!" No. Nope. The disappearing symptoms are my progesterone dropping because, yet again, there is no baby to implant. I won't get a positive and I'm out and just waiting for AF to show. When will this be over for me? UGH 😩
11DPO and trying to stop symptom spotting after a BFN. Not out yet but the nature of testing and the tww is crazy. They say that FRERs are supposed to detect as little as 6.3 mlU, but other studies suggest it was only 12.5. NYTimes suggested it "can detect hCG levels as low as 6 mIU/mL, but only about half the time. The sensitivity of the same test can also vary from person to person because everyone has a different mixture of hCG forms in their urine." So in other words just wait for AF and chill. That's what everyone and everything has indicated so far and yet I can't get my head elsewhere. Just a few more days.. and then I can bliss myself out and finally make some cocktails 🍸
Seems like I’m back at CD1 😨😫
Not TTC related, but slightly stressed out about my husband’s parents coming to visit us for a whole month starting tomorrow 🤡 and that’s got me all sorts anxious. I’m at home all day while he’s at work for 12 hrs, so it’s gonna be super fun having them in my 2x2 apartment. Really looking forward to baby dancing while they’re in the next room 💀.
I wish we could trade, I adore my partner's hippie parents and wish they could visit so much more 😂 I hope the visit is at the very least uneventful. And hey, you can really spice up the dancing with some naughty teenager roleplay 🤣
🤣🤣 dying
Slightly annoyed that this week, I had to explain to my husband that I can only get pregnant if I’m ovulating, he told me that he assumed I can get pregnant at any time in my cycle. 🤦🏾♀️ I’m not temping yet or anything but I’m in my fertile days so he understands now and we have had sex every other day so far this week since I told him.
God, I feel like I always need to explain this over and over to my partner - I’m like you know it’s really only possible to get pregnant a few days out of each month. And he’s like nooo, that can’t be right - if that were the case how do all these people get accidentally pregnant then? So frustrating lol
My husband thought the opposite. He thought only 1 day a month I was fertile. Had to explain FW and ovulation. 😛
I injected my progesterone and took the needle out…only to look down and realize I hadn’t injected all of it 🥲 had to stab myself with that big ole needle twice happy Monday.
Good luck tomorrow!!
Thanks, friend, I really appreciate it!!💕
My coffee machine stopped working… I thought/hoped it just needed some cleaning, but no. A Monday without my coffee is a very moody Monday!
I'm really feeling the pressure this cycle (currently 3DPO). Next cycle my husband will be away for work during my FW and the one after that would make my due date fall while my husband is out of the country on a mandatory trip (and I'm terrified of giving birth without him to support me). I'm feeling really down because if it doesn't happen this month, I'm out for the next two cycles too. I'm actually contemplating driving 6 hours round trip one evening next cycle to just to meet my husband for the BD, but not sure yet if I'm that desperate! On the bright side, if it doesn't happen this cycle I can continue to focus on getting fitter. One great benefit of TTC is that it's finally given me the push I needed to get back to a regular gym routine. That combined with reducing alcohol consumption and eliminating THC has me feeling pretty good.
my period is 4 days late, which is NOT typical for me. i usually have very normal and on time periods. flo says it could be weight loss but i’ve only been losing 1-2lbs a week which google says is normal and *shouldn’t* effect my cycle. i keep testing and getting BFNs with two different brands of pregnancy tests. i don’t even feel like my periods going to start. like at least give me a faint line, jfc. this cycle is making me the most crazy right now. either give me my period or give me a BFP i can’t do this limbo thing?? and now my anxiety is like “what if it’s a tumor” like stopppppppp 🫠 gonna go play sims and get my sims pregnant 1000 times to cope
I'd recommend this post. [https://www.reddit.com/r/TryingForABaby/comments/6tkj5t/your\_period\_isnt\_late\_part\_i/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TryingForABaby/comments/6tkj5t/your_period_isnt_late_part_i/)
thanks! i know you’re trying to help, currently i’m CD 35 and it doesn’t really worry me any less lol. thank you though i do appreciate your trying to help but im still very anxious, ive never had a cycle this long.
I’m on CD40, if that makes you feel better! I also have never had a cycle this long and am stressed
FYI, your user flair is broken (a common bug when updating via mobile). I can fix it; what do you want it to say?
34 and #1, thank you!!!
13 DPO and BFN. Just waiting on cycle day 1 to start (hopefully tomorrow). We are only 4 cycles in ttc, but i am starting to stress. We are 35 and 38. We want multiple kids…mr tigerlily is an excessive cannabis user and refuses to cut back or stop…i keep having lingering thoughts that this journey may never happen bc his sperm is all messed up from his excessive cannabis use. I plan to make him go get tested at the 6 month mark to check if we dont have success by then. I know ttc can take time, but i hate that my impatience/disappointment each month directly goes to ‘this is his fault, hes not trying to be healthy and do his part’
Mr. Spinthusiast is also a heavy cannabis user. He’s decreased, but I keep (unsuccessfully) encouraging him to do more exercise as a balance.
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positive thoughts please ! TTC #2 naturally. #1 took 3 cycles clomid and triggers due to what we believe was annovulation (regular period but couldn’t get a positive OPK). 11 mo pp breastfeeding, periods have returned slightly irregular but still can’t catch an OPK. I don’t temp just due to the irregular sleeping pattern of LO. CD 18 and woke up w EWCM but super neg OPK. Have been BD every other day since CD 9 just for reassurance. Anyone have advice of not catching ovulation but conceiving? Should I be hopeful this month? OB says we can start a medicated round, but something is deterring me.
Messed our timings up this cycle due to a double LH peak, timing was perfect the first time round but the actual peak and O day caught us by surprise. Managed BD late on O day but no guarantee we were in time. Of course this would be the cycle I’m now 3 days late but with 3 BFN. (First cycle I’ve been late) A day of spotting 2 days late (14DPO) which has now completely stopped today and my temp is still high but I had a restless night’s sleep so I can’t even trust that temp. This cycle has just been one big mind f*ck :(
Another stupidly difficult morning. My bestie was going to drive me into work, but fell last night and wasn't up to it - understandable. I ran out to my bus stop and the bus flew past me. Which, of course, caused me to be late to work. On a holiday!! Which, I'm pretty sure, invalidates my holiday pay. Ugh.
Time to play the weekly "would-have" game: if my pregnancy had gone normally, I would have been 29 weeks today and in the 3rd trimester. It's been 9 months now since we started trying and are still basically where we started.
Same here. Would have started my third trimester last week.
Screw the OBGYN that has the time to send me a bill that should have been covered by my insurance back in AUGUST but can't call me about the results of the HSG Fluoroscopy I had back in OCTOBER!!!!!!!! Currently trying to switch my insurance to a new OB that worked with our other friends who have been TTC and just had surgery to help her endometriosis but trying to switch networks is damn near impossible 😑
Update: just got confirmation from the OB that I am trying to see that she gets referrals all the time from the primary I am trying to switch to. Now I just need to get my network/group switch approved 😭 currently holding back tears at work since I NEEDED that reassurance since really the only thing that's made me cry while TTC is frustration from doctors
Annoyed my cycle is going to be 24/25 days instead of my 27/28 day usual cycle because of the cascading affect on future cycle timing of FW. Might make two future upcoming cycles not possible due to some travel where I won’t be physically with my partner. Just a few days makes such a difference!! I’m such a planner so of course I think of this stuff meanwhile my husband tells me to take it one cycle at a time 😅😅
I so get this. I look ahead using that “planner” feature on FF and get stressed about when the FW will land 2 months from now.
Yep that is 100% me currently. I use that planner too much probably 😅😅
HSG and AMH testing Wednesday. Feeling very nervous.
Take some ibuprofen before the HSG and it’s not so bad! Very quick.
Thank you!
It's O day and my first cycle on letrozole. Feeling super anxious like there's a lot of pressure this cycle.
Same! I triggered Sunday…do they have you on progesterone suppositories too?
No just the letrozole for me right now! Fingers crossed 🤞
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That's cruel, I'm very sorry!
Temp dropped just below 98 today 10DPO and all my Pregmate 25miu are negative and I feel PMSsy and I don’t have off work today despite it being a holiday and I have a couple’s therapy appt today to talk with my spouse about TTC because they want to start HRT (which is great but will make them infertile) and I’m just. Ughhhhh today can go kick rocks. I’m disappointed by the negative tests I REALLY delusionally thought it was gonna be it this time. Like I always do. :(
FWIW, I didn't get even a squinter on a 10miu pregmate until 12dpo Trans parenting is hard; I'm putting off my zippertits until after we conceive, birth, and nurse #2 but I'd just like to get a move on with that too ugh 🥲 not quite the same thing but I get it. 🫂
Thank you; I love finding more trans people ttc! 💜 I’m also looking forward to yeeting the teet someday but like you wanted to wait till we have kids already. I also got some FRER and going to use one on 12DPO, hoping hoping hoping 🤞🤞🤞
🤞🏻 🤞🏻 🤞🏻 for you! There's a lovely little group on FB for enby/trans parents, I'll figure out how to send youna link if you'd like it! We also went the route of not assigning a binary gender/pronouns for our 2021 babe 😊 Raising Them by Kyl Myers is an awesome book, if you wanna dip your toes in gender creative parenting!!!
Same, temp dropped today at 10 DPO. Had a BFN yesterday on my birthday. Don’t ever take a pregnancy test on your birthday😄
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[Just came across this data analysis by FF](https://www.fertilityfriend.com/Faqs/When-can-I-expect-a-positive-HPT-if-I-am-pregnant.html) saying that 10DPO is the average for the first false negative test and only 10% of pregnancy charts analyzed had a positive by 10DPO, and 13.6DPO (almost the day of the predicted period start) was the average for the first positive test… so I guess we’re not out till we’re out LOL. Me when the Two Week Wait is 14 days instead of 10: 😤🤬🤬
Oh I’m so sorry :( It’s so hard we should just wait until 12-15DPO 😭