So a little frustrated with the TTC. What can I say, I'm an impatient person (33 years old here, going on 34 in December). I thought I was preggos back in June because I felt sick, tired and moody. I wasn't preggo at all. Good luck to all you ladies this month. Praying for PPT's for all of you ladies.

@VeryKatie I like updates on TTC adventures! haha
I vote for taking the test before you leave that way you don't have to wonder and if it is positive, you can still celebrate with your husband before you go on your trip and if it's not then you know to prepare for your period.
I hope you get your BFP! Good luck! I'll keep my fingers crossed!

@VeryKatie Hope you have (or had if you're already there haha) a safe trip!

At the moment I'm not charting basal temp or cm. I also haven't tried an OPK. I decided to just see what the happens the first few months and then start seriously tracking fertility if I don't get pregnant.

@VeryKatie I now see that the rise in BBT indicates higher progesterone levels. I found a blog which explains all the hormonal stuff very well with graphs and everything. I found it on my phone, so now I need to find it and post it here.

I just downloaded it a few weeks ago. I really like it so far. The calendar is easy to use and tracks a lot of information, and they have some helpful easy-to-understand articles. The only thing I don't like is the community section since you have to select a response before you can read what others commented. Sometimes I want to know the answer also but feel bad making it look like I'm answering the question while just trying to get to the info.

I thought I might have been pregnant last week, even though we aren't trying...actively preventing to be honest. My period was 5 days late (yes I have been using ovia app for the last 11 months and its quite good at predicting my cycles) I had no symptoms of my period which was weird. I was thinking maybe I should take a test...bam. Period.

When we start trying though, I guarantee Ill be an obsessive symptom checker!

I also downloaded the Glow app. It's nice too but had way too much drama on there. I like the Ovia community more.

@Kirstie155 I still have no idea what to say to all that. I did read on the CDC site that once you have it, you're immune to it in the future so if it were me I would just go enjoy my vacation, get tested when I get back and go from there.

@VeryKatie I honestly can't imagine your frustration at this point with work (in general) and missing your fertile window. I really hope that that doesn't happen this month.

@puffbrat I would say that that is probably what is happening - which is super frustrating. Hope you get your period soon so you stop with the waiting and increased frustration!

Hi all. Not sure myself about how I feel about my vacation. Zika is scary. Hubby says we made a decision and nothing has changed, so stop worrying. We will just wait to TTC.

In other news, I swapped to a new doc cause I didn't like that other one the first time (only time) I met her early this year for a pre-TTC appointment. Maybe Im being too sensitive, but she kinda laughed at me for tracking my cycles and worrying about not being able to get pregnant like...'you're 32 (now 33!) don't even bother me with "cycle tracking' and blew me off. When I emailed her about ttc after Bahamas, she just said don't go, cancel vacation. bye! Which I realize is good advice, but she could have been warmer about it

I guess I was hoping for something like 'take prenatals, come see me first, lets talk about zika, congrats..how exciting!' something warmer. So I switched doctors online. Hopefully new doctor will be more welcoming to me.

In other other news...we used our new contraceptive method (sponge) when i was in my fertile window....and now I have sore boobs a week before my period. Apparently some people use them with condoms in their fertile window... for added protection and placement can be tricky the first time? I was pretty confident that I had it in right and followed all directions. Breast soreness might be because I kept grabbing them yesterday trying to see if they were really sore, or just my imagination, but today they are definitely sore. So now I am symptom spotting and thinking I got pregnant. This guy I was sitting next to yesterday smelled weird but very faintly, every now and then he would turn and Id get a gross whiff of him. Super pregnancy nose??!
I'm sure I'll get my period next week and all will be normal, but in the back of my mind...I'm super pumped with crossed fingers! Our original TTC month was October 2016! Obviously if I am, vacation might get cancelled, but... a bit of me is really hoping.

oh, forgot to add that I did take one of those 50 tests last night! Hahahaha, I knew it would be negative this early even if I am pregnant, but took it and hid it in the trash. Wouldn't that have been something though...I buy 50 and only needed one.
But, its too early ~10DPO and at night.