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Hi!

I feel like I could have typed your post a couple of weeks ago! Also ttc for first time, we are onto cycle 2 now. Last month I felt similar to you I don't think your crazy.. I think I was just tuning into every little thing as a sign or symptom now that we are trying! And surely that's to be expected?! PMS and early signs can be similar so you might not be out just yet! Were you on pill or anything before? I have also decided that my body is probably just settling down after contraception, I had sore boobs for days and thought I never get this I have to be pregnant? and although I was so sure we BD all around ovulation maybe I wasn't ovulating right then. Hope you get your BFP but if you are trying again next cycle I think you will be more relaxed I know I am, I have decided it might take a while and I can't control it so just going with it and looked at my cycles over the last few months and sometimes I was af was a little early so who knows maybe I'm ovulating a little earlier too or who knows when I am so increased the number of BD days either side of what I think is mid cycle! ! Also started to pay attention to CM more and think I might have ovulated D9/10 this month! But I think if I get signs or symptoms this time I won't be as hopeful and will be expecting AF and take it as a nice Very welcomed surprise if it doesn't! Good luck!! Hope your symptoms are hinting at a Bfp to come very soon and if not it is only month 1!

Thanks for your reply! I am so confused about it being PMS because it started two weeks before my period. I never get PMS more than. A couple days before AF is due. But, I changed my diet to be more TTC friendly, and I started drinking (whole) milk again. I'm becoming more convinced that I'm just lactose intolerant (I normally only drink almond milk) hence the nausea and maybe even the soreness?

I've always wanted a big family and I'm 34, so the clock is becoming more like a time bomb and I'm in total panic mode. I have other friends in their mid 30s who've been TTC for a year, and I'm amazed at their ability to stay positive. I don't feel like I can do this ....but obviously it's not up to me!

Thanks for the encouragement. Good luck to you, too!!

Again could have written your last post! I have family members that took a long time and last month I was like it's been a month how did they do this for so long and not go crazy! im a couple of years younger but with the way my job works we can only try for six months or so then would need to take a break so I was getting hung up on that too and the fact my mom had her kids much younger and a fairly young menopause I am aware that it's not as easy as maybe I thought for all those years of my 20s trying to prevent it! You could have ovulated earlier, some people seem to just know straight away I had a friend who kept testing negative and told her surgeon she was due surgery and she tested negative again but she asked them to use drugs for anaesthesia that would be safe in pregnancy and low and behold she was right it turned positive a couple of weeks later!

That's so crazy about your friend… At first I was so "sure" but I recognize that all of this could be wishful thinking on my part. It is amazing how people deal with this for so long… I am in awe of them. Not to say that it won't be me someday, too.

Lots of baby dust to you! I think that there something hard about starting… It's like you're testing it for the first time to see if it works. Maybe it isn't this all consuming every single month.

Knowledge is power, and is also dangerous. :)

Hi ladies

We tried for the first time, too this cycle.
Can't wait.

to all

I'm in the exact same boat right now - Holabebes, I see your original was posted three weeks ago. Did you ever get your BFP in that cycle?

Anna, this is our first time TTC and first cycle also, so nerve-wracking!

I'm 9-10ish DPO and have been having all the exact same symptoms for about 5-6 days. Two HPT have given me a BFN so far but it's still early - I'm dying for a BFP in the next four or five days before AF is due to arrive! I'll be POAS daily until my BFP or AF!

Hi firstbaby ... nope, got a BFN. I have a ton of symptoms and it was very weird. Everyone told me it was just PMS, but I don't know… I've been getting PMS for the last 25 years, and it had never been like that before. I am currently in another two week wait, and having weird symptoms again, this time I have decided not to test till AF is due.

Like, yes… Sore boobs and bloating, I can see how that could be either PMS or pregnancy symptoms. But on and off nausea and a metallic taste in your mouth? Weird. I actually think I may have been pregnant and then I just didn't "take" or I had a miscarriage. My period that I got was really painful. *shrug*

Luck to us both!