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April20|1472559307|4071403 said:Hi all,
Well, I'm still getting positive HPTs. I'm 11 days post D&C. The good news is they are fading. This is the only time I've truly wanted to see a negative test...... I really had almost no bleeding after the procedure. I've had a little spotting here and there and this morning I have some dark rust red heavy spotting. I'm hoping this is the last of it. The kicker of all of this is that I don't know that DH is on board with trying for a second. I think he will come around, but in his words we "never really talked about a second". He's right, but I just spent 8 weeks pregnant with what was supposed to be our second child. I cannot let go of it and I won't. I think he'll come around, but we need to talk through it I suppose. This isn't going away.
kama_s said:Yay, April!!!! I hope and have my fingers crossed super hard that this one is the stickiest little beany!
As for your husband, seriously, he isn't 15 anymore. He should know by now that unprotected sex can lead to pregnancy, and if he was so opposed to not wanting another pregnancy, then he has the same responsibility on his shoulders to prevent. Sorry if my tone is harsh, it just bugs me when pregnancy-control is left single-handedly for women to shoulder.
I use this app called Glow to track my periods (well, period) and am BD'ing on the days that it suggests. I haven't started tracking my temperature yet. I also bought the Clearblue fertility monitor, but I opened it on like day 6 after my period, and it was too late to start using it for this cycle. So if we don't get pregnant this month, I'll be using that next month to track ovulation.daintyG|1476231580|4085937 said:Hi, SMC! Glad you're back! Hopefully your next pregnancy will be different and more enjoyable. Are you charting or doing anything special to TTC?
SMC|1476291812|4086187 said:I use this app called Glow to track my periods (well, period) and am BD'ing on the days that it suggests. I haven't started tracking my temperature yet. I also bought the Clearblue fertility monitor, but I opened it on like day 6 after my period, and it was too late to start using it for this cycle. So if we don't get pregnant this month, I'll be using that next month to track ovulation.daintyG|1476231580|4085937 said:Hi, SMC! Glad you're back! Hopefully your next pregnancy will be different and more enjoyable. Are you charting or doing anything special to TTC?
I tried checking my CM, but I have no idea what to really look for, so that was a bust.
And TBH, there wasn't anything really wrong with my first pregnancy. I was healthy, the baby was healthy, but I just didn't enjoy the feeling of carrying extra weight and then worrying about taking it off. If someone could guarantee that I could have the same outcome with my second pregnancy as I did with my first, then I'd gladly go through it again. I was able to take off all the weight in 6 months, but it was not easy.
I read up on the Shettles method because I have a preference for a boy (I want one of each, but obviously a healthy baby above all), but couldn't use it this cycle because I'm not sure of my exact date of ovulation. Again, something I'll try next cycle.
What are you doing?
Wow, that is really involved! I haven't gotten there yet, but if I don't get a BFP this month, I'm going to break out that Clearblue fertility monitor and try that for a cycle. We just bought a house and am moving at the end of next month, so I won't be heartbroken if I'm not pregnant by then. There's so much to do!daintyG|1476311373|4086372 said:Cool! I've been charting on Kindara for about a year (before I was TTC). I tried Glow this month and like it alright. I don't like its charting features better than Kindara, but I do like that there's a message board on there to talk with people. I'm also doing OPKs. They sort of cause me to feel anxious if the lines aren't getting dark enough when I think they should.
I had trouble charting CM and CP at first. I have had to do a Google image search to understand the different types of CM (it helps). Even then, it was hard for me to learn. I didn't start getting EWCM until a couple of months of taking Vitex, so I understood different types of CM better after that! Same thing with CP; I had to keep trying to chart it for a couple of months before I got the hang of it. Even now, I feel like my CP charting is iffy.
In addition to Vitex and prenatals, I'm taking mucinex and using preseed during my fertile period to help with my CM. Last cycle, we BD every day of my fertile period and got no BFP. So this month I decided to go every other day. I didn't really have a choice because DH was gone the day I ovulated, but we were able to BD the day before and after.
As I'm a teacher, I tried everything I could to make my BFP happen in September so I'd have a May baby. I put a lot of effort and energy into it this cycle, too. If it doesn't happen for me this month, I'm going to back off of trying so hard.