Overabundant October 2WW

[Kelbear]

Serenity my fingers are crossed that you have a little sticky bean making itself comfortable.
Dreamsister I hope you get good news at your next scan that everything is going ok and you get to see your bub.
Xx hoping to hear you get a bfp in the next few days, you too robin. Hoping all those still waiting to test get their bfps.

I need advice from those of you who have gotten their bfps. What did you do different in your bfp cycle? I am getting to the point where I am now on a time limit to get my bfp and don't know what part of my sway to ease up on or drop to increase chances of pregnancy in the next few months. Currently I am doing the le diet (upper limits as breastfeeding DS still twice a day), exercise, one attempt (don't think I can get DH to do e3d or even e4d at the moment), coffee and daily alcohol (only after DS has had his last feed and won't feed for another 12 hours). Should I drop the coffee and/or alcohol or try to add in an attempt or loosen up on the diet even more? I still want to increase my chances of a girl but also just really want to be pregnant asap. Or do I need to consider stopping breastfeeding DS? I was considering weaning him in a month or two once he turns 1 but know breastfeeding sways pink too. Any advise would be appreciated.

[ME MOM]

Kelbear I'm sure the ladies here with bfps and Atomic can help you or give you some advice. Lots of luck to you!! I don't feel I know enough about swaying to help you, have only learned about things this summer. I have been eating pineapple core this month 1-6dpo because I've seen soooo many bfp charts (on my Kindara app) where ladies said it helped them with implantation. It doesn't have to do with swaying, but just thought I should mention it. FX to you!

I'm cd23, 11dpo and AF is due today. My temp came back up today, and since my hpts are not 100% and we have another holiday coming up and my doctor's clinic will be closed from Friday until Tuesday I decided this morning to get a free beta HCG blood test done at my neighborhood health clinic. It was a decision I made this morning on my way to work because I don't rely on my hpts too much and don't feel like waiting the whole long weekend for AF or just not knowing and giving each little cramp or back ache too much weight..
The results will be available online this afternoon but I will be looking at them tonight with dh.

[Dreamsister]

Thanks for all your supporting words.

Kelbear: I don't think I am wise enough to give you advice. You better ask Atomic. You know your body best. I can relate to the feeling of being drained by LE diet. I have noticed that all the empty carbs is not good in the long run. I don't have the same amount of energy as I had back in January where I began swaying. If I where you I would eat more healthy carbs (vegetables, beans ect.) and maybe give up the alchohol or reduce it to one or two times a week. The cardio is very good both mental-wise and for your egg quality, so if you have time stick to this part of the sway (though it is extremly time consuming and can cause stress if you have to fit it into a busy everyday life).

This limbo land where I am right is so exhausting and I can so much relate to all your ladies previous posts about giving up swaying.

I keep thinking back and forth whether a forth baby is a good idea, whether I should stop TTC'ing if this pregnancy does not work. DH is not fond of a forth. He cooperates to make me happy, but I prefer we stop now. I am also worrying about how a baby will affect the harmony of our family. DH has sleeping disorder and needs tranquility. Our boys ( age 6, 9 and 10) are so good together, they are best friends and we can do all kind of funny stuff together as a family because they are so close in ages. In many ways our live has finally gotten easier with more freedom and space. I keep doing pros and cons in my head. At the same time I cannot let go of the dream of one more child and the titel 'mother of four'.
I feel my strength fail and I am sick of this situation I have put myself (and DH) in.

Well whether this BFP fail or not I am right now enjoying that I am allowed to have early breakfast, snack and drink tea :-)

[Kelbear]

Memom thanks for your support, I love pineapple so may give this a try. I hope you get good results from your blood test, I will keep looking for updates

Thank you for your advice and support dreamsister. I really hope things work out ok for you, limbo is a terrible place to be in. I hope this bean is a healthy sticky one for you.
I plan to keep up the exercise as I find that is helping my mental well being. Alcohol is probably the only part of swaying that is easy as I enjoy a glass of wine with dinner and find it helps me relax but I can reduce it to a few times a week if this would help. I have to give it up once pregnant so I may as well get used to that again

[momamia4]

Kelbear, how long have you been swaying? I would do e4d and drop coffee and alcohol. If you know you're ovulating, I don't see any reason to stop breastfeeding unless you really want to.

Me Mom, FX for a bfp for you!!

Dreamsister, I know what you mean about family harmony. I think of the same thing. My kids are 15, 13, and 10. We have a really nice family dynamic. One of my big factors to continue ttc is that my boys keep asking for another sibling. It's like somehow they know that there is still someone out there waiting to be a part of our family. They don't know that I'm swaying. DS1 has been asking for a sister since he was 3. It's been a long 12 years of not being able to give that to him. Unfortunately, only you know when it's time to be done trying. I keep telling DH to stop bringing up a new sibling with our kids. I feel like he's leading them on as I'm at the point where I just don't think it's going to happen unless we adopt a baby. So far, DH hasn't been too keen on that idea but maybe now that we've been trying for so long he'll consider it. I really hope your pregnancy works out for you.

AFM, my temps are really ambiguous. It's annoying. I think I'm actually only 1dpo today and not 2. I didn't get a peak on my CBAD until a day after my +opk with the Wondfos, so I'm not sure what's what. I was hoping for a big temp jump today but it totally didn't happen. :/

[GirlieCat]

Kelbear, I would try every 3-4 days starting as soon as AF is over and going well past ovulation (I would say go all the way till AF or BFP). You can do e3-4d and then still do one attempt at +OPK if you want to add another attempt.

Good luck to those testing soon!!

[foxtrotmama]

GirlieCat I just saw your signature change for the first time and I almost squealed like a little girl.

Why does the 2ww have to be so long?

[Girlieplease]

Serenity my fingers are crossed that you have a little sticky bean making itself comfortable.
Dreamsister I hope you get good news at your next scan that everything is going ok and you get to see your bub.
Xx hoping to hear you get a bfp in the next few days, you too robin. Hoping all those still waiting to test get their bfps.

I need advice from those of you who have gotten their bfps. What did you do different in your bfp cycle? I am getting to the point where I am now on a time limit to get my bfp and don't know what part of my sway to ease up on or drop to increase chances of pregnancy in the next few months. Currently I am doing the le diet (upper limits as breastfeeding DS still twice a day), exercise, one attempt (don't think I can get DH to do e3d or even e4d at the moment), coffee and daily alcohol (only after DS has had his last feed and won't feed for another 12 hours). Should I drop the coffee and/or alcohol or try to add in an attempt or loosen up on the diet even more? I still want to increase my chances of a girl but also just really want to be pregnant asap. Or do I need to consider stopping breastfeeding DS? I was considering weaning him in a month or two once he turns 1 but know breastfeeding sways pink too. Any advise would be appreciated.

I agree with some of the others I would add attempts by moving to e4d or e3d. I tried one attempt at positive OPK, then moved into e4d's after that same cycle as I was often not sure when I ovulated. I did not get pregnant, so I moved to e3d's as I was finding lack of success quite frustrating, I had an attempt on the Tuesday pm and was due to attempt on the Friday pm but on advice from the ladies I opted for Friday am, so not quite e3d. I thought I was ovulating on the Friday but the ladies on here subsequently looked at my chart and think I ovulated on the Thursday, so possibly if I had left it to pm, might have been too late. I got pregnant with the attempt on the Friday. I suppose what am saying is one attempt never worked for me, think my attempts were always a bit off. Hope that helps x

[GirlieCat]

Haha- I know it is so soon to put it as my signature, but I just couldn't help it.

Hope the wait is worth it this month Fox and your little bean is making its way down to its new home right now. Looking forward to closing out October with several more BFPs!! The waiting never ends does it...waiting to ovulate, waiting for BFP, now after BFP- waiting for first scan, then first trimester over to announce, then gender determination....guess the TTC journey is meant to build patience to prepare us to deal with baby and kids. FX!!

[mummy2boys]

Hello everyone, I've been lurking here following for a while but this is my first comment. This is our first month trying, I've been using opks for 3 months and not had a positive but just got a blazing one now! Unfortunately though, hubby is away till sat. Does that mean no chance this month? x


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