BFP au Naturale

I was going crazy looking for symptoms the month before, and this time...there wasn't barely anything. I know this seems weird, but when I bd with my dh that month, I just knew that we conceived. I know...weird, but the truth. Felt different immediately after. I began having VERY VIVID dreams that I was pregnant. Every single night, and then I started to have pain in my armpits, not my boobs. Weird. I know. That was my only symptom. Then my hubby had a dream that I was pregnant too! I thought that it was too crazy. I tested only 9dpo and got a BFP!!! I didn't even think that I could test that early, but sure enough...I was preggo. So there's my story from 3 years ago. Hoping for a new story soon. :)

I hope that no one here thinks I'm trying to rub in that I got pregnant right away, and that it doesn't make you feel more discouraged. I'm just hoping to remind everyone that there's hope, and lots of preganancies happening!

I'm 22, and my husband is 28. We got married in December. We didn't want to get pregnant at first for financial reasons, but recently decided that we could handle a baby after all. We both want to have a large family, so we didn't want to wait too long to get started!

I've been charting since June, and was using NFP to avoid pregnancy at first, so I knew when to expect ovulation. We didn't worry too much about timing our intimacy, but we made sure to try to make a baby the night I thought I ovulated (I was pretty sure from the fertile mucus and cycle day) and the next day.

I didn't really have any symptoms at all until about 11 days past ovulation, and even those were minor and non-indicative. My breasts hurt more than usual, but not a lot. I was sleepy, but I was up late. The only reason we had to suspect I was pregnant was my temperature, which went up a little instead of dipping way down the day before I expected my period. The day it was due, it went up even more, and we knew I was pregnant that minute. I took a pregnancy test that afternoon (yesterday) just to confirm, and it was a strong positive right away!

We couldn't be more excited to experience pregnancy and welcome our new little baby into the world this November! I will continue to pray for all of you wonderful ladies desperately wanting a baby. I prayed to Mary, St. Perpetua, and St. Gerard to conceive, if you want to try them. :)

Ok. So Dh and I have been ttc for 4 cycles. 4 cycles I have been obsessed with reading these stories. I would look for any symptom I could find. I want to help other ladies searching for the same thing. So here I go:
1-4dpo Nothing
5dpo- Dull cramp in lower back, full quickly, bloated, sharp stabbing pain in bbs (randomly)
6dpo- Same as day 5, but with stuffy nose
7dpo- Bloated, stuffy nose, side of right bb sore, vivid dream and night sweats, mild heartburn
8dpo- Vivid dream, clump of cm, gassy, burping, stuffed nose, hot flashes
9dpo- BFN, super sore left bb, full yucky feeling in belly
10dpo- BFN, bloateeeeeddddd! Crabby and emotional. BBs feel full and pain on the sides
11dpo- Morning slight line on frer, night pregnant on digital!
I'm having a good sense of smell today and have heartburn and gas

I am crazy happy. We used Pre-Seed this month and I took musinex. 5 days before ovulation, let's hope this bean sticks! And symptom spot away! I did, tracked them all, and loa and behold......

1 dpo Heartburn, diarrhea, lethargy

2dpo Very vivid dream about baby boy and death of family member, heartburn at night, feeling warm, slight nausea after dinner

3 dpo Vivid dream last night, feeling warm, really tired, "let down" feeling in left breast, tooth pain, twingy cramps on both sides, terrible heartburn, slight chills, constipated

4 dpo Vivid dream last night about aliens, heartburn, mild, fleeting period like cramps-jogging

5 dpo Vivid dreams last night, woke up hungry, diarrhea around 2, heartburn, gassy, sore throat

6 dpo Vivid dreams, heartburn, overtired, crampy, slight pain in left boob, dizzy spell in bathroom, thirsty

7 dpo Feeling hot, thermometer making me gag, 99.2 temp in morning (8:30 after breakfast), bad heartburn, shoveling, heat flashes then chills, pooped a lot, pee feels hot, period like cramps at night :( Nausea before lunch that went away when I ate. Woke up hungry past few days, boobs hurting when I lift my arms

8 dpo Woke up hungry and thirsty, slight headache in morning, good mood, feeling hot, very wet cm, jogging, terrible heartburn, carsick driving home from wedding

9 dpo BFP!! Smu, immediately nauseous before eating breakfast, left boob hurting

Well I've been addicted to this site for a while now and promised I would contribute if my time ever came! I'm 27 and DH is 33. We have had 2 MCs about a year ago but I just got several BFPs yesterday and today (didn't believe the 1st one so went out and bought other brands - all positive! Lol I'm neurotic) so maybe this time he or she will stick!!!!

Charting, temping and such stressed me out so I just took $ tree OPKs a few days in the middle of my cycle this month. Truthfully I didn't even think it could've happened because we only BD without protection ONE TIME in my "fertile window" (then used protection other 4 days) but I guess it only takes once! Ack!!! The day that did it was two full days before I got a positive OPK.

Okkk here goes - it's long!! Hope this can entertain you girls while in the TWW!!! Baby dust and prayers for you all!!

Sorry for TMI in advance!!

1dpo - noticed some red spotting on underwear in am. Had very bad O days cramps the day before.

2dpo - a bit of creamy watery cm

3dpo - a bit of creamy watery cm, much more notably tired

3dpo - 6dpo - had the worst yeast infection (sorry TMI gross I know!) which I haven't had in years!! Ate tons of yogurt (ugh) and it eventually went away

4dpo - headache in am. cm lessens, still a bit tired, this was the day the crazy dreams started! I always have intense dreams but from 4dpo until now the dreams are so vivid and clear and I can't even shake the feelings the next day. MUST HAVE vegetarian sub! I'm not the biggest eater but this TWW I knew EXACTLY what I wanted and would drop everything to get it!

4dpo-7dpo - driest lips ever! Cracking and scratchy!

5dpo - headache in am. woke up starving with. No cm at all. Almost unnoticeable cramps, like AF is about to start but much less uncomfortable. Heavy feeling in uterus. Area from my hips to knees, - inner and outer thighs - felt sore and tired, like after a workout which was odd. Lethargic all day but in great spirits!!

6dpo - headache in am. no cm. This was the day symptoms really kicked in. Thirsty! Brown spotting in am, brown spotting mixed with red in afternoon and a decent amount of brown spotting at night. Thought it was AF showing up early but when i looked at the calendar it seemed much too soon - could it be from implantation? My skin looked flawless! Nipples started to burn and itch, specifically the right one. Breasts weren't tender even though I kept poking them to check lol. My lower back started to hurt today. TMI -but had frequent and loose bms all day when usually this time of my cycle I barely go at all. Had very mild waves of nausea. Moment of stupidity, tested with FRER = BFN (duh)

7dpo - No cm. thirsty today. nipples are on FIRE! Breasts definitely are not sore but nipples just feel hot! With my MCs I remember my nipples feeling prickly and painful but this time around they just feel like they have been burnt in the tanning bed lol idk how else to describe it! Skin is clear and glowy! Nauseous especially in evening. DH had tortilla chips and offered me one and I literally gagged from the smell (I'm not usually that dramatic lol). Started getting a weird anxious feeling all throughout the day. Kept checking my todo lists: bills paid, dogs fed, friends and family phoned, work completed--everything was normal and great but just felt as if something was off... Moment of weakness - tested with FRER = bfn

8dpo - no cm. nipples still crazy irritated and breasts are slightly sore. Skin still good! Woke up with that anxious feeling again and it stuck around all day. picked up some dollar tree tests and while there (lol I'm going to sound like a nut!!) I was wandering the candy aisle and saw this green "jumbo gummy worm" that was sooo realistic looking and gross I felt myself becoming sick in my throat. Nausea from looking at a piece of children's candy???? I knew something was up for sure! took a $ tree test and after an hour the slightest shadow of a line came up. Figured it was evap. Thirsty and really wanted a beer which is odd because I don't really like it... Tasted amazing! (oh well!) Couldn't stomach the thought of my favorite wine though!

9 dpo - tiniest bit of clumpy cm. thirsty! No nausea in am. Anxious feeling again! Low back sore, thighs tender again, nips still bothering me, breasts slightly painful. Skin is great. Very dark urine. take a $tree and again with the long awaited shadow line. Head to target and pick up some FRER in afternoon (6 day sooner ones) and bam! BFP in a minute!! It's faint but oh it is there!!! Took a few more of different brands - all ++++!!!

10dpo -headache. Brownish cm. wake up feeling hungover. MUST HAVE cereal!! On the 2nd bowl as I sit here typing :-) two BFPs this am! Hope this bean sticks!!!

I'm not here to tell you to "Just relax" or "It will happen when it's meant to" or my favorite "Stop trying and it will happen" God I hated hearing those things. Don't listen to them, I've been there too and I know how much they hurt. But I do want to give you some advice:

Ladies PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop stalking this site for symptoms lol. I'm just kidding but I am speaking from my own experience here. I obsessed every month for 13 months and compared my symptoms to all of the BFP stories on here and guess what???? When I actually fell PREGNANT I had no clue. There were no symptoms; no sore boobs, no metallic taste in my mouth, no food aversions, no CM, no nausea, no headaches, etc. (I even made an appointment with my doctor for Clomid). I realized that every woman is different and our bodies react differently to pregnancy. So please please please just because your symptoms don't sync with let's say "Mary's" it doesn't mean you are NOT pregnant. I think I had more symptoms all of the other months than 2 weeks ago lol.

But I will be honest with you, I am 5 weeks now and my nipples just started to feel sore and I feel a lot of stretching/gassy/cramps (exactly like period cramps). So yes you probably will get some symptoms but once again DO NOT compare yours to mine because you might be different. Ok so here is the rundown:

- O day I felt some tingling but I felt that before and was not pregnant
- 1-9 DPO no symptoms except I felt rundown and I couldn't finish my exercises (started 5dpo and on)
- I tested at 9 DPO in the evening with a cheapie and saw the faintest line.
- 10 DPO tested with digital and got "Pregnant 1-2"

Best of luck ladies and don't ever give up. Baby dust to you all <3

This was our third month trying, we've tried in August 2012, this January and this February to our big surprise we got our positive test. I've daydreamed about the moment that I could share my story with you guys and now I'm able to do that and if feels surreal.

:)
So I never really knew 100% when I actually ovulated, I had an idea but just wasn't sure, never really had lots of ewcm or watery cm so this month I bought evening primrose oil and took that cycle day 1 through cycle day 16. We also used Pre-Seed which is awesome by the way! And we b'd every other day from cycle day 8-18 which I think is what helped because we started early in the cycle and ended late! ;) one more thing I have to mention is I cut back on my caffeine intake and that I think also played a part.
I had NO symptoms at all only one night after ovulation I was exhausted and went to bed really early and slept 12 hours, I also had two vivid dreams about getting my BFP! I tested two days before my period with a dollar tree test and I have to say I seen the faintest shadow but I'm not impressed with those tests on march 2 Saturday I took a digital and it came up positive and said 2-3 weeks! I'm super excited, everything feels surreal I couldn't feeling lucky and happy!
Hoping all you ladies get your BFP it's the most amazing and life changing feeling seeing that positive.
BABY dust to you all!

I just turned 40 in December, DH 38. I have a DS 13, got pregnant 2 months TTC. And DS 3 took 7 months TTC. Went off BC pills in September '12 and had a chemical pregnancy in November. I noticed that my cycles and luteal phase seemed to be getting shorter, just by a couple of days and that I was having lots of luteal phase spotting. Started to wonder if my progesterone might be a little low. My husband and I had already decided that we would not seek any type of fertility treatment and that if it didn't happen naturally, it wasn't meant to be for us. We both felt already very blessed with our two boys and number 3 would just be icing on the cake.

So to the Internet I went and for the last two cycles I have been taking 100 mg of B6 with 500 mcg of B 12. Also 1000 mg Vit C and a baby aspirin daily along with my regular prenatal. My cycle lengthened to my normal 28 days with a 14 day luteal phase. My spotting decreased last month, though I still had it for 2 days.

So on to this month. I O'd on CD 14. BD'd on CDs 9,11,13 and 14. Used Pre-Seed. I believe in it! I also used OPKs and charted my BBT. During the previous 5 months I have symptom spotted like crazy. Cramps, sore bbs, chills, nausea, dizziness. This month I had almost no symptoms. No sore bbs at all. I had a little bit of cramping 10 and 11 dpo along with the tiniest amount of light pink spotting.

I got my BFP today at 12dpo with a FRER. It was somewhat faint, but no doubt about it. I have never tested this early before so I expect it will get darker in a day or two. It is definitely darker than the line I had with my chemical pregnancy at 14dpo, so I am hopeful.

Good luck to everyone! Don't lose hope!

DH and I have been trying to get pregnant after being married for 5 years. This will be our first child. I have been using ovulation sticks but decided to stop using them due to being fairly regular and starting to chart my temperature for the past 2 months. This month I didn't think we would be successful because I had a yeast infection due to being on antibiotics for 2 weeks for a sinus infection. I read online that the yeast was a hostile environment for the sperm so I wanted to try Pre-Seed. We used the Pre-Seed followed by a 7 day course of miconazole. I ovulated 15 dpo and got my BFP 2 days before my period or 12 dpo. Things that I did different this month include drinking less alcohol, eating pineapple after ovulation, Pre-Seed, Mucinex (for the sinus infection) and BD every other day instead of every day. I didn't have many symptoms, but my biggest clue was vivid dreams during the 2 weeks wait. I also was very thirsty despite drinking lots of water. It is important to note that I didn't see anything significant on my chart. Post-ovulation temps were 97.5-98.5. I sympathize with women who have been trying for a long time. Any length of time feels like a long time when you wanna expand your family.

We have been ttc for almost 2 years now. I have been diagnosed with low ovarian reserve and DH has less than 2% motile sperm. Our doctor gave us a 1% chance of ever conceiving naturally. We have done two failed ivf cycles. The second one resulted in a pregnancy, but I lost the baby at 10 weeks in January.
This month we are away on a trip and I have just got my bfp - au naturale! We can both not believe its true. I was tracking my cycle with temps an watching my cm, but didn't hold much hope. We were actually going home for round 3 ivf next month! Hopefully we don't need it now!

O day- VERY painful ovulation!
1dpo-4dpo- temp rise, nothing much else
5dpo- 7dpo- funny taste in my mouth, a bit metallic.
8dpo- cramps/twinges
9dpo-cramps/twinges again bfn
10dpo- very hungry! Bfn (at this stage I assume I'm out as I had a bfp by this point with the ivf cycle) feel emotional and upset all day.
11dpo- have a massage and test at 3pm- a very very faint line. DH is not convinced he can see anything!
12dpo- fmu- bfn, smu- still very faint but a definite bfp! Hungry and cramps.
13dpo- smu- bfp!

My period is due tomorrow. My temp is still up and DH and I are praying, hoping and begging that this is true and we are finally having the baby we are so desperate to meet!
Lots of love and hope to every one ttc.... Whether you've been trying for 1 month or 10 years, it is an emotional journey! Please pray for us as I will for you!