January 2WW!

[letiha]

Thanks so much. It does make sense, I'll just take it as I'm 10dpo and stop fretting and worrying about bfn at what I thought was 12 DPO

[meeks32]

Has everyone seen this stats spreadsheet? Very useful info! Remember to post your sway when you get a BFP and find out gender!

http://www.genderdreaming.com/forum/...ad.php?t=25157

It's the one atomic was talking about when she told me to drop acidophilus for TTC girl. Soy iso has great stats!

[meeks32]

Hey dream members ttc girl, two new threads for Feb.

2WW:
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-...girl-come.html

and

TTC Girl Feb thread:
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-...ry-2013-a.html

[SaraLou]

I am out this month too. The spotting I had at 8 DPO continued off and on and got red last night. Had a lot of cramping and fatigue yesterday (wanted to curl up in a ball). I was really feeling preggers! I never POAS because I'm only 10 DPO today. Why would my period have started 5 days early? It's never early :-(
Could it be because of my 1st month doing my boy sway? I was taking EPO from AF-O. Any ideas would be appreciated - thanks!

Fingers crossed for you True blue!

Hi Averysmon - it was my first month blue swaying last month and AF arrived early for me too. O on CD19 and then AF CD29 - I took EPO too. All my early pregnancy symptoms have dissapeared and I am convinved AF will arrive tomorrow as having some strange tummy aches for last couple of days. Tested today (10DPO) and had a BFN

ltester - going to start charting too next cycle

x

[Averysmom]

Thanks Saralou! How many days early were you? I'm concerned if AF is this early again I won't have enough time to implant. My cycle was only 21 days for crying out loud. It's still early for you though, dear - you could still get your bfp :-) keeping my fingers crossed for you. If not this month then maybe next month will be our month since our bodies will have more time to adjust to swaying. And better chance of successful sway!

[ltester]

Hi Averysmon - it was my first month blue swaying last month and AF arrived early for me too. O on CD19 and then AF CD29 - I took EPO too. All my early pregnancy symptoms have dissapeared and I am convinved AF will arrive tomorrow as having some strange tummy aches for last couple of days. Tested today (10DPO) and had a BFN

ltester - going to start charting too next cycle

x

I still can't believe all the pre-pregnancy symptoms I had that were completely in my head. I am trying to figure out what kept us from getting our bfp because I wasn't early, I didn't do any douching, I thought we dtd at just the right time. Hmm. The only thing I wonder is with the FR, is 12 days in a row too much for the little swimmers to replenish? I need to do some research on that, but does anyone have any thoughts on that? My husband is 42 this month, and I know abstaining is not a good idea in that case. How often is too much?

[meeks32]

I still can't believe all the pre-pregnancy symptoms I had that were completely in my head. I am trying to figure out what kept us from getting our bfp because I wasn't early, I didn't do any douching, I thought we dtd at just the right time. Hmm. The only thing I wonder is with the FR, is 12 days in a row too much for the little swimmers to replenish? I need to do some research on that, but does anyone have any thoughts on that? My husband is 42 this month, and I know abstaining is not a good idea in that case. How often is too much?

I would have thought fr for 12 days may be a tad much. Pm atomic about it though.

Just something to think about though, even while not swaying someone who is in perfect condition bd-ing at the correct time for ov, with no frequency tactics still only has 25% chance of getting pregnant.

So if you do all the same things as this month in a perfect world it could take you 4 months to conceive. Add in any age/fertility/timing issues and that's why doctors say perfectly healthy people often take a year to get pregnant.

Add swaying and I guess it's longer.

BUT with the opk-ing and temping we do you would imagine catching the egg would be quicker, despite the sway factors.

How long have you been trying?

[BabyGirl2013]

I still can't believe all the pre-pregnancy symptoms I had that were completely in my head. I am trying to figure out what kept us from getting our bfp because I wasn't early, I didn't do any douching, I thought we dtd at just the right time. Hmm. The only thing I wonder is with the FR, is 12 days in a row too much for the little swimmers to replenish? I need to do some research on that, but does anyone have any thoughts on that? My husband is 42 this month, and I know abstaining is not a good idea in that case. How often is too much?

I definitely think too much FR can make it difficult to get a BFP. We DTD 16 days in a row this past month and got a BFN. I was surprised b/c I have never seen a BFN before...always got pregnant the first month. And I know we timed everything perfectly otherwise (I didn't J&D or use any antiH or anything). My husband was taking Licorice Root this month though so I'm sure that added to lowering the sperm count too.

Also, I know Thorz had been trying a few months doing super long FR (16 days as well) and then she cut it out this past month and got a BFP. So I'm definitely dropping it on our next attempt.

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere on here that Atomic didn't think that frequency swayed all that heavily anyway.

I'd be curious to see what other people thought about FR from their own experiences. Are a lot of ladies doing this? Maybe its why we're not getting more BFPs?? Who knows. But like Meeks said even with perfect conditions its only a 25% chance each month. So maybe I'm overreacting! I just really don't want to see another BFN!

[black&gold]

I definitely think too much FR can make it difficult to get a BFP. We DTD 16 days in a row this past month and got a BFN. I was surprised b/c I have never seen a BFN before...always got pregnant the first month. And I know we timed everything perfectly otherwise (I didn't J&D or use any antiH or anything). My husband was taking Licorice Root this month though so I'm sure that added to lowering the sperm count too.

Also, I know Thorz had been trying a few months doing super long FR (16 days as well) and then she cut it out this past month and got a BFP. So I'm definitely dropping it on our next attempt.

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere on here that Atomic didn't think that frequency swayed all that heavily anyway.

I'd be curious to see what other people thought about FR from their own experiences. Are a lot of ladies doing this? Maybe its why we're not getting more BFPs?? Who knows. But like Meeks said even with perfect conditions its only a 25% chance each month. So maybe I'm overreacting! I just really don't want to see another BFN!

We did FR this month (I'm assuming BFN as everyone on here thinks my chart showed no O - I'm assuming from too much weight loss..) but we only did 7-8 days of FR and DH almost died. It was seriously hard on him and getting in attempts was stressful because his body was just obviously not use to the frequency. I asked Atomic about this and if I remember correctly she said it "COULD" sway 6% max.. as apparently lower sperm count in males sways roughly 6% - but you don't know how it will effect your DH.. his sperm numbers might drop but not as much as someone who's considered "low" sperm count if that makes sense (I'm all just speculating on this) Needless to say next month we aren't doing any frequency as I want more than one attempt, refuse to do FR again as it was just too much and abstain worries me about birth defects so I'm over it... and 6% isn't much at all - I'm kind of canning swaying all together since it's totally screwed me up. I got pregnant first month with both my boys and it's been 2 months now with BFN. So frustrating

[SaraLou]

Thanks Saralou! How many days early were you? I'm concerned if AF is this early again I won't have enough time to implant. My cycle was only 21 days for crying out loud. It's still early for you though, dear - you could still get your bfp :-) keeping my fingers crossed for you. If not this month then maybe next month will be our month since our bodies will have more time to adjust to swaying. And better chance of successful sway!

Last cycle was my first month off the BCP so not sure if this had something to do with it. Previous months (on BCP) my cycles were 31 days so I think I was 3 days early. My biggest concern was I only had a LP of 10 days. I've never tracked my cycles before so this shocked me a bit. I've got my fingers crossed for us next month AF still not here but tested negative again this morning (11dpo) so I think it's only a matter of time - perhaps me stressing about it has delayed it!! Or maybe I'm back to a 31 day cycle...

Grrr, so frustrating...I got pregnant with dd when on the pill so didn't even have to try so to speak. Plus I'm the healthiest I have ever been now (a stable weight, eating healthy, lots of sleep, little alcohol), you think it would be easy! Good luck ladies for next February and congrats to those with BFPs x