After two years of trying we got our BFP!

I just saw how another poster decided it would be helpful to post details of what worked this time around and what early symptoms she experienced so I thought I would do the same in case it is helpful at all to anyone.

I’ve tried everything- this app, OPKs, charting, basal temp, pre-seed etc...my husbands sisters are Italian and all have 3-5 kids and thought I was nuts haha!

I finally listened to them when my husband told me that all the pressure was ruining the experience for him and giving him performance anxiety. I know it was really hard for him to be honest about this because he didn’t want to come off as unsupportive but ultimately it was what I needed to hear.

I promised him and myself that I would take it down a notch and go back to basics. I had been tracking so long that I realized I actually had a natural sense now of when I was fertile, by just checking my CM and going off that.

Well it worked!!!! Sex became fun again, we did it all month, whenever we felt like it, but I secretly knew when I had eggwhite CM that it was time to step it up...one night we jumped into a pool with all our clothes on, drove home in towels giggling and worrying about getting pulled over, and had sex in the drivers seat in the driveway!!! I hadn’t done that since high school....ha.

Well imagine my surprise when I noticed that night was also my predicted ovulation day in this app...

I took a test 2 days before missed period because we were going out of town and it was negative. I cried a little but shrugged it off and said “next time”. We went away and it wasn’t until we were flying home that I realized I

was two days late. When we got home I rushed upstairs and IT WAS POSITIVE. I always thought I would tell my husband in some adorable way but NOPE I ran into the driveway frantic and screaming and crying. He was like “what’s going on”?! It was surreal. We drove to the drugstore and bought 4 more tests to be sure.

Anyways moral of the story is, learn about your body and your fertility but don’t go so overboard that you guys get stressed out and it ruins your sex life. Even if you have been trying for years like I have you can still hit the reset and get back to basics.

For the record the only symptoms I had was one day a few days after ovulation I had quite a bit of milky discharge that I had never experienced at that stage in my cycle. It was like flowing out! I looked it up and it’s called leucorrhea.

Otherwise there was this one day at the printer at work when I randomly started crying and was confused as to why!

But no cramping, no sore breasts, no nausea.

Good luck to all, don’t lose hope, and be kind to yourselves!!!!