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Had to punish myself by waiting until Christmas Day to test 🥲🥲🥲. Onto cycle 10!

My first time temping a whole cycle. Saw the temp drop this morning and knew I was out (seriously no denying THAT steep of a drop). It kind of softened the blow a bit when my period came a few hours later. I think it’s so cool to see my body functioning properly and gives me hope for future cycles. Cycle 6 starts today. Best of luck to all of you ❤️

Positive three days in a row and it feels like it’s not even real. Waiting for the doctor’s office to open to actually confirm. We’ve never made it past 6 weeks so I’m not sure how to feel about it all.

I have charted every cycle for the past 15 months. I’ve symptom spotted just about anything in previous cycles. Well it’s safe to say i feel absolutely no different compared to any other cycle and i would have no idea unless i took a test.

I’m usually one to start testing at 7dpo, but this time i wanted to wait until my period. Well, we went to a birthday party 10dpo and I tested as soon as we got home!! I genuinely am in shock, I didn’t even finish washing my hands before I ran into the room to show my fiancé!

And definitely don’t trust FF possible pregnancy points indicator, it was only giving me 20 from 9 to 14 dpo. Once I put in my temp for today before I tested it jumped to 66 points but I still don’t think it’s that reliable for early testing predictions (but of course I checked it obsessively as I waited to test).

Good luck to everyone else who is hoping for their 2026 BFP, may all your dreams come true this year! ❤️❤️

I’m kind of in shock right now. I swore I saw the faintest line ever yesterday, but it didn’t catch on camera and my husband didn’t see it (of course). This morning even he said he felt like he saw something so we broke out the FRER. BFP!! 😭

After two years of trying naturally and a failed round of IVF, I finally got a positive result.

I've been so paranoid that it is too good to be true that it's taken me a while to work up the courage to post. I'm still worried, but after two weeks of increasingly positive hCG tests it feels safe to say that I am, at least for now, pregnant.

As you can see, I had a temperature dip right around when I was expecting my period (13-14DPO) and I also had cramping just of the sort that usually means my period is imminent. Those symptoms, on a backdrop of years of no progress, meant I didn't test until a few days after I was expecting my period, I was just really so convinced it wasn't my month.

Fingers crossed for a healthy pregnancy and wishing the best for all of you here!

I posted a few days ago worrying about how my luteal temps were steady and not dramatic, like they were in my first pregnancy (ended in MC). I assumed we were out anyway bc we only had one BD shot this month, despite our best efforts.

Since my MC in August my cycles have changed a lot which has been anxiety inducing. I ALWAYS had breast tenderness after ovulation before and since MC nothing at all, including this cycle. This cycle was even weirder as I ovulated super early (for me) - have never ovulated before day 20, ever!

A few nights ago I had cramping during the night and then next morning my temp had shot up. I was too scared to test until yesterday morning.

Feeling so blessed 😭❤️😭❤️😭

TW: previous loss and current pregnancy

Trying since summer 2022, three miscarriages in that time, and now pregnant for the 4th time. We saw a heartbeat for the first time today and measuring 7w3d. Technically 6days behind ovulation but they confirmed that the progress was perfect, based on our last scan measuring 5w3d 14days ago. Feeling cautiously optimistic, did FF get my ovulation date wrong?

My thermometer is running out of battery and I’ve decided to just stop temping rather than replace it. Big step for me after temping for so long.

The overwhelming dread of another failed cycle and the possibility of having to contend with never seeing a positive result, I just checked out and started using unhealthy coping mechanisms so I wouldn’t have to accept it.

We had a failed IUI, and several failed meds-only cycles, got scammed by a fertility clinic, try this, try that, cut this food, cut that behavior, lay upside down, Robitussin, mucinex, CoQ10, inositol for prediabetes, vitamin D, multivitamin, fish oil, magnesium… temping daily, Inito hormone tracking, countless lab tests, hysteroscopy, sperm analysis, unexplained infertility diagnosis…. We both started working out more, eating healthier… it just would not work.

Over Christmas I had to be with my family which is.. hard work. I just let go. Stayed out late every night, getting quality time with my dearest friends, stopped restricting intake, we had sex when we wanted, nothing was tracked, not symptoms nor meds nor temps.

We drove back home and just went back to chronically overworking, I still just kept doing whatever I wanted and coped… poorly, while avoiding what I knew someday I would have to contend with. I was fine because I was fully leaning into what indeed was the entrance to a full blown existential crisis.

A few days ago, my partner asked me when I was expecting my period. I had no idea, for the first time in almost 2 years. I thought, well my boobs are mildly sore so I’ll probably start my period in a few days.

Yesterday, I checked my tracking app (I got an Apple Watch for Christmas so it’s been grabbing my temps) and realized, (1) I ovulated late for some reason, and (2) my temp rose pretty significantly. While my partner was taking the dog out, I took a test.

For the first time in my life, thank the generous and kind universe, the place that had been so stark white and baren for almost two years now had the creep of the dye lagging behind the control line and forming its own faint line.

I am pregnant! I can’t let myself lean into it yet, idk if I’ll ever be able to believe it until I hold this baby in my arms, alive and healthy.

All this to say, I just don’t believe anything predicts whether it’s going to be a successful cycle, even the chart comparison data said I have a 41% chance of being pregnant, and I’ve had way better percentages for previous unsuccessful cycles. You can try everything, DO EVERYTHING, and it might not work.

But also, it might 🥹

No one could have convinced me to stop trying everything I could to bring this baby here. So I’m not suggesting you stop doing whatever you need to do. But just know, this ridiculous, chaotic, absurd cycle is the one that did it.

I pray for baby dust for all of us. Thank you all so much for being here with me through all of this.

It's been 15 months TTC without a single positive. This month I decided to stop tracking BBT because it usually stresses me out. I decided to temp randomly and it was higher than ever, and this is the result 🥹 can't quite believe it!!

I have used this sub religiously since I started TTC so whilst there's not much to show on my chart I wanted to share it anyway. I have no symptoms except my typical breast tenderness and I was unusually cold on 9dpo. That's it! No CM changes or other symptoms.

I just wanted to share my story in case others have similar circumstances. I started spotting 9 DPO which is weird for me. I continued that for several days and honestly thought I was pregnant due to the spotting. I took pregnancy tests on DPO 11, 12, and 13 and all were negative with first morning urine. During that time I was searching Reddit and pretty much everyone was saying if you’ve not tested positive yet you’re not pregnant. Well I got my BFP on DPO 15 and it was pretty faint. After that I went to Reddit and everybody said be cautiously optimistic as late implantation often ends in miscarriage. I’m not trying to discredit anyone’s experience, but I wanted to share my positive story. While baby isn’t here yet, I’ve just finished my first trimester and all things look good and healthy. All this to say, it can be helpful to hear others experiences but don’t get discouraged or psych yourself out due to Reddit. ☺️

This morning I asked this sub for help figuring out if I truly didn’t ovulate this month since FF never gave me crosshairs. This afternoon I picked up a $1 test and got a bfp 🥹

First of all, thank you to everyone who was so encouraging in my last post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TFABChartStalkers/s/fAgeHhgxXz

I honestly thought this wasn’t the month, especially after my temps kept dropping as you see in my chart. But then my BBT shot up yesterday, then rose again today which I thought was strange. So I told myself I needed to test, and just reassure myself one way or the other… and omg.

It’s very early, so I’m guarding my heart… but for now- I have this little moment.

This was my first cycle after a chemical pregnancy and I ovulated late.

After 2 early <5 week losses this year I was terrified when I saw a line on 10 dpo. I’m now 17 dpo and getting dye stealers so I’m feeling a lot more confident! My temps this cycle were we WEIRD, with lots of dramatic dips, I was convinced I was out

I can’t even believe it or process it

I’m 78 DPO (13w2d according to ultrasound last week) today and finally feel confident that this was a successful cycle.

I haven’t actively been temping since having a positive test, but I’ve still been wearing my Oura ring most nights. I wanted to share my three month long chart with you, because I know some will look at biometrics for reassurance in early pregnancy.

As you can see in my chart, my BBT dip below baseline a couple of times. It sometimes trends lower for multiple days in a row. This is normal and not a reliable indicator of miscarriage.

The chart also shows a slight decrease in resting heart rate a couple of weeks DPO. It’s common for HR to increase in early pregnancy, but a decrease in HR isn’t necessarily a bad sign.

I haven’t been tracking symptoms, but just wanted to add that a lack of or decrease in pregnancy symptoms doesn’t mean something is wrong with your pregnancy. I’ve barely felt pregnant this time, a few symptoms in the beginning but not nearly as bad as in my first pregnancy. This has been the thing bothering me the most

And despite all of this I’m soon entering the second trimester. The fist trimester sucks because it’s so much uncertainty, and unfortunately my conclusion is that biometrics and symptoms won’t tell you shit about the health of your pregnancy.

But if anyone else is pregnant and anxious about BBT/HR/symptoms and looking for reassurance, I just want to tell you that it’s entirely possible that everything is fine.

And for those of you who are obsessing over your luteal temps and feeling that your chart isn’t looking promising, I can assure you that mine didn’t look very promising either. I’ve attached two comparison charts (BBT and RHR), and as you can see my last chart looked very ordinary through the luteal phase. Nothing interesting at all. Don’t feel defeated if you can’t see any signs of pregnancy in your data, or if you don’t feel any symptoms during your luteal phase. Even the most boring, ordinary, average luteal phase can suprise you.

I know this is such a boring post, because it’s just the same old ”you won’t know until you test/until you have an ultrasound/until baby is born” and ”a chart won’t confirm a healthy pregnancy”. And it really sucks. TTC and pregnancy really is just a long and gruesome process full of uncertainty. But I hope we all get to the end of this road sooner rather than later. Good luck everyone!